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Bridget Jones’s Diary and No Country For Old Men are among the films leaving Netflix UK in January 2024.The streaming platform removes films and TV shows every month, as licensing agreements to host them on the service expire.For the first month of 2024, the Bridget Jones trilogy is one of the main casualties – with Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason and Bridget Jones’s Baby all leaving the platform on January 1.Elsewhere, The Gentlemen from director Guy Ritchie is leaving on January 3, followed by Drive starring Ryan Gosling and Paranormal Activity. You can check out the full list of confirmed removals (via What’s On Netflix) below.January 1A Wedding For Christmas (2018)Acrimony (2018)The Age Of Innocence (1993)The Bank Job (2008)Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason (2004)Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016)Christmas Wedding Planner (2017)Christmas With A View (2018)Daddy Day Camp (2007)The Divergent Series: Allegiant (2016)Dragons: Dawn Of The Dragon Racers (2014)Fall Of The Krays (2016)Full Out 2: You Got This (2020)Good Burger (1997)Halloween (2007)The Heartbreak Kid (2007)I Am Jonas (2019)Jeff Dunham: Unhinged In Hollywood (2015)Labyrinth (1986)The Last Castle (2001)Love Life (2021)Maid In Manhattan (2002)Merku Thodarchi Malai (2018)Mom And Dad (2017)The Ninth Gate (1999)No Country For Old Men (2007)Power Rangers (2017)Puriyatha Puthir (2017)The Raid (2011)The Raid 2 (2014)Rise of the Krays (2015)Sanju (2018)Taramanu (2017)The Truman Show (1998)Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Tough Love (2014)The Uninvited (2009)War (2007)Warrior (2011)Watchmen (2009)Werewolves Within (2021)Wrong Turn (2003)January 2DreamWorks Happy Holidays from Madagascar (2005)Hellboy (2004)January 3The Gentlemen (2020

Brent Lang Executive Editor Despite the box office success of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Elizabeth Banks’ “Cocaine Bear,” female directors are not getting the same opportunities in Hollywood as their male counterparts. At the same time, major studios, which pledged to reexamine their employment practices in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, fail to produce many films from people of color. That’s the stark findings of a new report by USC Annenberg’s Inclusion Initiative, which calls the entertainment industry’s pledges to support inclusion “performative acts” and “not real steps towards fostering change.” It’s the second report in as many days to find that despite some important box office milestones for female filmmakers — “Barbie” was both the year’s most successful film and the highest-grossing movie ever directed by a woman — studios still give their highest-profile gigs to male directors.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent The French box office jumped 19% in 2023 with an estimated €1.3 billion ($1.4 billion) grossed from 181.2 million tickets, according to Comscore France. Unlike in 2022, when the top 10 was exclusively dominated by U.S.

With the arrival of 2024, you might be considering giving up alcohol and leading a sober lifestyle as a new year’s resolution. You wouldn’t be alone, either!

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are two of the most talked about celebrities in Hollywood. The couple’s 2021 reunion dominated headlines as fans were thrilled to see “Bennifer” back together after nearly two decades apart. However, their second shot at love has been filled with rumors about possible tension in their marriage.

While he’s not as well-known as some auteurs, writer/director Scott Frank is one of the most well-regarded and respected writers and filmmakers in Hollywood. There’s a terrific new profile in the New Yorker that puts a lot of his stature into context with tons of quotes from friends and admirers like filmmakers Steven Soderbergh and Tony Gilroy (“Michael Clayton,” “Andor”) who have solicited and offered to Frank over the years.

MONDAY AM writethru: Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and he’s delivering the motion picture industry a $9 billion-plus year at the domestic box office, a feat many thought was unimaginable with the lack of a mega-tentpole over the holiday, coupled by a Q4 impacted by the double strikes. The numbers were compiled from Comscore data and Deadline calculations. Comscore called 2023 at $9.03 billion yesterday.

Ian Ziering got caught up in an altercation with a group of bikers while driving down Hollywood Blvd on Sunday (December 31) in Hollywood.

Miami Herald.The “Half Baked” actor alerted the man to security before scolding the audience and walking off the stage, shaking his head disappointedly, the outlet added.The venue’s policy is that “device and electronics free, per the artist’s request,” meaning anything that could be used to record Chappelle’s set should have been out of sight for the duration of the show, according to Hard Rock Live’s website.Fans are required to leave their electronics, such as cellphones, smartwatches, and cameras, secured in Yondr neoprene pouches to prevent noisy guests from recording the performance.Chappelle has not addressed the incident, but fans expressed their frustration over the rude fan’s behavior. “Few things make you more misanthropic than going to a theater.

So many of Nicholas Sparks‘ books have been turned into movies, but The Notebook is arguably the the most popular to get a big screen adaptation.

Austin Butler landed a highly coveted role in Hollywood when he was cast to bring Elvis Presley to life in Baz Luhrmann‘s biopic Elvis, and he faced stiff competition to book the Oscar-nominated role.

Whether you consider it a year to remember — or one you’d rather forget — 2023 was packed with a plethora of surprises and wild characters from Hollywood to DC.

Sean “Diddy” Combs, Axl Rose, and Jermaine Jackson have also had suits filed against them in the past months over alleged sexual assaults.

Christmas is history, but there’s still some holiday celebrating to be done. New Year’s Eve festivities are being broadcast across the country Sunday, December 31 from Puerto Rico to Los Angeles to the famous Times Square ball drop in New York City.

It’s been 13 years since Christina Aguilera showed us how to burlesque and made her acting debut in Burlesque.

Ethan Shanfeld In Hollywood, 2023 was a year defined by the “Barbenheimer” box office craze and the dual strikes that shut down the industry for months. Taylor Swift and Beyoncé dominated live music, and translated their blockbuster world tours into moviegoing events that bolstered the fall box office. Artificial intelligence became Hollywood’s next hot button issue, and the outbreak of violence in the Middle East divided the industry.

Tom Cruise.Waddingham has been filming scenes alongside the actor for the concluding instalment of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, which will arrive in cinemas in 2025.The actress and TV presenter had plenty of praise for Cruise when he was brought up in her appearance on ITV series James Martin’s Saturday Morning on Christmas Day.Having spent “five intense days” with Cruise on the USS George HW Bush fighter carrier, Waddingham told TV chef Martin: “I have to say, I have a real problem with anybody that goes at him now.”She continued: “He is without doubt one of the loveliest and encouraging, positive and inspiring human beings I have ever met. Isn’t he gorgeous? I have no time for anyone saying anything about him.”Despite Cruise being held in high esteem in Hollywood, he has faced controversy over his off-screen behaviour throughout the years.In 2005, he made headlines after jumping on the sofa during an appearance on Oprah Winfrey’s chat show to declare his love for then girlfriend Katie Holmes and, that same year, labelled the practice of psychiatry “pseudo-science” in a quarrel with Matt Lauer.He has also faced particular backlash over his longtime association with the Church of Scientology.

Jeremy Allen White is the talk of the town in Hollywood, currently nominated for two Golden Globes with season 2 of The Bear. The actor has a unique look, but there was another great actor before him with a strikingly similar face- Gene Wilder. With the help of clickbait, this resemblance has led to rumors that the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory star was his grandpa.Wilder, also a Golden Globe winner, was born June 11, 1933, and passed away in 2016 at 83.

Kelly Clarkson stronger.The singer, 41, got candid about her early work struggles, including the time when she left her Fort Worth, Texas, hometown to audition for a little show called “American Idol.”On a recent episode of her eponymous talk show, “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” with guest Kevin Bacon, she revealed that she had to sleep in her car after her apartment burned down.“I actually moved out to L.A. with some random person I did not know,” the “Miss Independent” crooner said.“Really?” the “Footloose” star, 65, inquired.“Yeah, she just needed a roommate. I was like, ‘I’ll do it,’ and I moved from Texas to L.A.

Brooklynn Prince had her big break in the 2017 movie The Florida Project and she has become an in-demand actress in Hollywood with roles in films like The One and Only Ivan, The Mash King’s Daughter, and Cocaine Bear.

Colman Domingo is a celebrated superstar in Hollywood, but we almost never got to see his talent.