Ava Gardner: Last News

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent The dream child of 10 Basque businessmen who hoped to prolong San Sebastián’s summer season into late September, the San Sebastian Film Festival was born on Sept. 21, 1953.  Presented by bullfighter Mario Cabré, who romanced Ava Gardner, and comprising just 19 films, won by “La guerra de Dios,” directed by Rafael Gil., rescued from a potential Republican firing squad by Luis Buñuel not so many years before. Fireworks, bullfights and quayside parties regaled the film week. From that first edition remain the beauty and gastronomy of San Sebastian, a Belle Epoque resort boasting the spectacular white-sand Concha Bay, steep-backed hills, an old quarter of higgeldy-piggeldy streets and a trio of three-star Michelin restaurants. 70 years later, San Sebastián still stuns.     

Freddie Mercury, Elvis and Ray Charles are few of the cultural superstars who were once the focus of biopic films, and they certainly will not be the last. Oscar-winning film director Martin Scorsese is once again drumming up chatter surrounding himself and Academy Award winner and film frontman Leonardo DiCaprio.The "Shutter Island" actor is rumored to play Frank Sinatra, one of the most highly regarded American singers of all time, in an upcoming biopic by Scorsese.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Martin Scorsese fans might have experienced a bit of deja vu afterVariety exclusively reported that a Frank Sinatra biopic is one of two films the Oscar-winning director is planning to shoot back to back. The other is a movie about Jesus, the director’s second after 1988’s “The Last Temptation of Christ.” But it’s the Sinatra biopic that has long been a white whale of sorts for Scorsese. Per Variety’s report, Scorsese’s Sinatra movie is eyeing his longtime muse Leonardo DiCaprio to star as the crooner — and the actor’s “Don’t Look Up” co-star Jennifer Lawrence to play his second wife, the famous Hollywood actress Ava Gardner (who factored into Scorsese’s “The Aviator” and was played by Kate Beckinsale).

prepare to embody Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and to keep her project alive, Oscar winners and look poised to play two other silver screen icons in their very own sweeping biopic: crooner and his second wife, Hollywood bombshell Ava Gardner, in a new drama from Martin Scorsese, no less.Lawrence and DiCaprio—who previously costarred in a very different awards contender, playing cranky astronomers in Adam McKay’s 2021 satire Don’t Look Up—are attached to the new film, per , though its future is still uncertain. (Sinatra’s daughter Tina, who controls her father’s estate, has reportedly yet to give her blessing to the forthcoming release.)It should, however, get greenlit, as there’s no shortage of material that’s ripe for retelling: Gardner, known for being impossibly glamorous, free-spirited, brash, and outspoken, had previously been married to Mickey Rooney and then Artie Shaw, before tying the knot with her third husband.

Martin Scorsese is reportedly set to work on a Frank Sinatra biopic with longtime collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio, according to sources.Variety reports that the Killers Of The Flower Moon director is looking to film the project back-to-back with an adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s 1973 book Life Of Jesus. He is said to be seeking DiCaprio to play Sinatra and Jennifer Lawrence to play his second wife, the actress Ava Gardner.The film has already attracted interest from major studios.

Famed director Martin Scorsese is working on a Frank Sinatra biopic, and he’s looking to reunite with one of his favorite stars, Leonardo DiCaprio, for the picture.

Tatiana Siegel Mark Twain once quipped, “Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind it, it doesn’t matter.” When it comes to Martin Scorsese, age certainly isn’t making a difference. After landing 10 Oscar nominations for last year’s historical crime epic “Killers of the Flower Moon,” the 81-year-old director has mapped out his next several projects.

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Sharon Stone has revealed the identity of a film producer who told her to have sex with her co-star.The Total Recall actor originally shared the story in her 2021 memoir, The Beauty Of Living Twice, but did not include the names of those involved.Now, speaking on Louis Theroux’ podcast, Stone revealed that Robert Evans, the former head of Paramount Pictures, who produced films including Rosemary’s Baby and The Godfather, suggested she should sleep with her 1992’s Sliver co-star William Baldwin, to better Baldwin’s performance.She explained: “[Evans is] running around his office in sunglasses explaining that he slept with Ava Gardner and I should sleep with Billy Baldwin, because [then] his performance would get better.”“If I could sleep with Billy,” she explained, “then we’d have chemistry on screen and save the movie. The real problem was me because I was so uptight, and not like a real actress who could just fuck him and get things back on track.”She added: “The real problem was I was such a tight-ass.”Stone, now 66, criticsed the casting of her Sliver co-star, comparing him to Michael Douglas, with whom she starred in the 1992 movie Basic Instinct.

More than 30 years after starring together in silver screen flop Sliver, Sharon Stone and Billy Baldwin are recalling unhappy memories about making the movie.

Sharon Stone has finally revealed the pair’s identities. The “Basic Instinct” actress told Louis Theroux on his podcast that the filthy producer was onetime Paramount head honcho Robert Evans and the actor was William “Billy” Baldwin, brother of Alec Baldwin.

Titanic in her outfit for Leonardo DiCaprio’s 49th birthday party.The actor was seen dressed for the Beverly Hills party on Saturday (November 11) with a supersized blue gem necklace hung around her waist, which some fans have assumed is meant to resemble the Heart of the Ocean diamond featured in the 1997 film.In a comment on Fashion Bomb Daily’s Instagram post showing Beckinsale’s outfit, one user wrote: “But I thought the old lady dropped it into the ocean in the end?”A post shared by Kate Beckinsale (@katebeckinsale)Another user wrote: “The heart of the ocean is what I see. It’s cute and unique.”Beckinsale’s outfit, however, might be a reference to a necklace featured in 2004’s The Aviator, a film she starred in opposite DiCaprio.

Kate Beckinsale was photographed at Leonardo DiCaprio‘s birthday party in an outfit that has everyone talking!

’s 49th birthday bash in Beverly Hills over the weekend.On November 11, stepped out in a black minidress positively dripping in oversized gems, including a string of crystals across her chest and an enormous radiant gem modeled after a sapphire hanging from waist. Of course, she wore real diamonds, too, including a pair of statement earrings.

EXCLUSIVE: Emily Mann, who directed Daphne Rubin-Vega in the 2012 Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, will re-team with both the actor and the playwright in December with an Off Broadway revival of The Night of the Iguana co-starring Tim Daly.

Linda Lee Sylvander, known during her acting career as Linda Haynes, died July 17 in Summerville, South Carolina at 75, with he death recenty coming to pubic attention. No cause was given by her family, who said she died “peacefully”

Sophia Scorziello editor Linda Haynes, who appeared in films including “Rolling Thunder,” “Drowning Pool” and “Brubaker,” died July 17 in South Carolina. She was 75. Her son Greg Sylvander reported her death on Facebook.

Naman Ramachandran Birmingham Rep will co-produce “Sinatra The Musical,” the first official musical based on the life and career of Frank Sinatra, with Michele Anthony, Bruce Resnikoff and Scott Landis for Universal Music Group Theatrical, and Tina Sinatra and Charles Pignone on behalf of Frank Sinatra Enterprises.  The team behind the musical includes two-time Tony-winning writer Joe DiPietro (“What’s New Pussycat?”) and Olivier-winning and three-time Tony-winning director and choreographer, Kathleen Marshall (“Anything Goes”). The musical begins on New Year’s Eve, 1942, where a skinny 27-year-old Italian American singer is about to step onto the stage of New York’s Paramount Theatre and give a performance that will change music history. As Frank Sinatra’s career suddenly skyrockets, he struggles with balancing the love of his wife, Nancy, against the demands and temptations of being the most popular singer in America. But when he begins an affair with movie goddess Ava Gardner, his records stop selling and the press turns against him, sending his career into a tailspin. Driven by his devotion to his family, Sinatra stages the greatest comeback in showbiz history.

Jamie Lee Curtis got emotional while attending her hand and footprint ceremony at the legendary TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Wednesday.The Halloween Ends star, 63, teared up at the event while sitting next to her husband Christopher Guest, 74, and was later comforted by her True Lies co-star Arnold Schwarzenegger, 75, as they reunited 28-years after their action flick was released.  The cinema icon was also supported by other A-list friends including her Halloween franchise co-star Kyle Richards, 53, and actress Melanie Griffith, 65.

Rafael Cobos, the co-screenwriter of Alberto Rodríguez’s Goya best picture winner “Marshland” and “The Plague,” one of Movistar Plus’ most ambitious series ever, is getting his own show.   Moving into production on July 18, “El hijo zurdo” stars María León, a stunning 2011 San Sebastian best actress winner for “The Sleeping Voice,” in a series which Cobos describes an “emotional thriller.”Movistar Plus’ newly announced original is not only written by Cobos but co-directed too in the directorial debut of the Seville-based scribe. A six part, half hour drama, “El Hijo Zurdo” is scheduled for release first half of 2023. Movistar Plus Internacional is handling worldwide distribution.

'It was enormous' Frank Sinatra's secret weapon for seducing womenLinkElvis and June Carter: Son suspected affair 'Johnny Cash was jealous'LinkAs the press openly mocking reports from the set of Brando's performance, tensions escalated. With both actors refusing to speak to each other, Sinatra sent one of his (possibly Mafia-linked) henchmen to pass on messages while Brando sent Fiore. Brando's devotion to method acting and love of multiple takes, plus his notoriety for fluffing lines, was openly mocked by Sinatra who called him "Mumbles.