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Julia Roberts's daughter Hazel Moder contemplated wearing her iconic Oscars dress to a high school dance. The actress famously donned a vintage Valentino gown to the Academy Awards in 2001, where she was presented with the Best Actress prize for her performance in Erin Brockovich.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent A trio of French films, the melodrama “A Family for 1640 Days,” political thriller “Goliath” and comedy “Adieu Paris,” are set to be released in the U.S. by the New York-based company Distrib Films. Both Fabien Gorgeart’s “A Family for 1640 Days” (“Une vraie famille”) and Edouard Baer’s “Adieu Paris” are represented in international markets by Le Pacte. “A Family for 1640 Days,” winner of the top prize at last year’s American French Film Festival, revolves around Simon, a six-year old adopted boy who is about to reunite with his biological father. The movie stars Melanie Thierry (“En therapie”) and Lyes Salem. Distrib Films is planning to release the film in early 2023 and have it play at festivals.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Julia Roberts broke the glass ceiling for A-list female movie stars when she commanded $20 million for 2000’s “Erin Brockovich.” Until then, no woman actor had been getting as much pay as male counterparts such as Tom Cruise or Tom Hanks, who ruled the ’90s box office alongside Roberts. In at the A+E and History Channel’s History Talks in Washington D.C. on Saturday morning, moderator Gayle King asked Roberts about the negotiations tactics she employed to gain equal pain. “I didn’t feel so boxish about it, but I felt like, ‘Come on,” Roberts said. “Which is my nature — not to be all up-in-arms about something, but to say, ‘Come on. Let’s get real. Let’s be fair.”

EXCLUSIVE: UK sales firm 101 Films International has acquired worldwide sales rights (excluding North America) for drama feature Marlene, and will launch sales in Toronto this week.

Friends forever. Julia Roberts missed her family while filming her upcoming movie Ticket to Paradise, but George Clooney was there to help her cope.

BAFTA, Golden Globe and Emmy as well as being nominated for an Academy Award for his role in Murder on the Orient Express back in 1974 and Erin Brockovich in 2000. Described by film director Sam Mendes as "one of the greats - a brilliant, beautiful, big-hearted, life loving delight of a man", Finney spent the last month of his life in London's Royal Marsden hospital, which specialises in cancer treatment. "Albert Finney, aged 82, passed away peacefully after a short illness with those closest to him by his side.

Eric Roberts is speaking out!

Laura Dern (Jurassic World Dominion) and Liam Hemsworth (Poker Face) have signed on to star in the film Lonely Planet, which Susannah Grant (Unbelievable) is writing and directing for Netflix.

Marilyn Manson as her alleged abuser in the trailer for Phoenix Rising – watch below.The actor and activist detailed her experience while romantically involved with Manson for a two-part HBO documentary, set to be released next month.Last year, the actor publicly accused Manson, her former partner, of abuse, claiming that he started grooming her when she was a teenager and “horrifically abused me for years”.The musician has denied all allegations by Wood and allegations by others, claiming that his accusers were “cynically and dishonestly seeking to monetise and exploit the #MeToo movement” by launching a “coordinated attack against him”.The film also follows Evan Rachel Wood as she works towards the Phoenix Act legislation that she co-authored and lobbied for.Watch the trailer for Phoenix Rising here:The film was directed by Amy Berg, who Wood approached in 2019 to work on the project.Speaking to Variety, the director said of the original plan for the documentary: “It wasn’t about Marilyn Manson and his whole world. This was about an Erin Brockovich story.

A determined Turkish mother takes on the authorities in Rabiye Kurnaz Vs. George W. Bush, Andreas Dresen’s drama that takes a light approach to a moving true story. 

Julia Roberts shared a birthday video for her niece, Emma Roberts. Julia shared the clip on her Instagram, featuring the two blowing party horns in slow motion.Emma Watson has a funny response to Emma Roberts mix upEmma Roberts looked beautiful and chic at the premiere of ‘Spencer’A post shared by Julia Roberts (@juliaroberts)Julia’s video features herself and Emma looking straight at the camera. The two are wearing paper hats and are blowing on party horns, all dramatically set to slow motion.

Although she grew up in the shadow of aunt Julia Roberts‘ acting career, Emma Roberts has paved a path all her own. Speaking with Tatler for the outlet’s March 2022 issue, Emma shared how she’s never actually felt the pressure to emulate her aunt’s career — despite what people may think. “I never aspired to be her. I love her so much, I love her work, but I’m just doing my own thing,” Emma, 30, told the publication.

Emma Roberts is opening up about being the niece of Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts and the pressures put on her to live up to her aunt’s career.

A new two-part documentary about actor Evan Rachel Wood and her decision to publicly accuse Marilyn Manson of abuse is set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival later this month. It will then air on HBO in the spring.Titled ‘Phoenix Rising’, director Amy Berg says that the film was originally about Wood’s emergence as an activist working to improve legal protections for survivors of domestic abuse.

EXCLUSIVE: Nashville and The Princess Switch star Sam Palladio has signed with UK agency United Agents. He continues to be repped by Gersh and Authentic Talent and Literary Management.

Showtime has given a pilot order to Coercion, a drama written and to be directed by Susannah Grant (Unbelievable, Erin Brockovich). Sydney Chandler (Don’t Worry Darling, Pistol) has been cast as the lead in the project, inspired by the life of Rebecca Bender, a national leader on and survivor of sex trafficking. Wiip is producing.

Julia Roberts, 53, has been wowing audiences for over 30 years from her breakout role in 1990’s Pretty Woman to more recent hits like 2017’s Wonder. Besides critical acclaim (and an Academy Award win for 2001’s Erin Brockovich), Julia’s film career also brought her love! She met cinematographer Daniel Moder, 52, while the pair worked on her 2000 comedy The Mexican, and the couple got married in 2002, and together they had three children together: Hazel, 16, Phinnaeus, 16, and Henry, 16.

Erin Brockovich, Pretty Woman and Notting Hill. Though Roberts has been a key player in Hollywood, away from the limelight she lives a more quiet, private life.

Erin Brockovich, Pretty Woman and Notting Hill. Though Roberts has been a key player in Hollywood, away from the limelight she lives a more quiet, private and stable life.

Katey Sagal is breaking her silence after ABC decided not to renew “Rebel” for a second season. 

In Rebel, ABC/ Disney Television Studios’ freshman drama, we revisit a new version of a woman we’ve seen on screen before: Erin Brockovich. Starring Katey Sagal as Annie ‘Rebel’ Bello—a character loosely based on who Brockovich is today—the show follows the renegade underdog advocate as she negotiates the takedown of all things corrupt.