Lucy Lawless: Last News

Renee O'Connor, who starred as Gabrielle in the popular fantasy series Xena: Warrior Princess, has made a rare appearance on social media, 23 years after the show ended.The 52 year old actress is now working as the founder and artistic director of House of Bards Theatre Company; located in the Arts District of San Pedro, California. She surprised fans by popping up on Instagram where she interviewed fellow actress Rachel Levy about her experience in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Writing in the caption, Renee said: "Thank you, Rachel Levy, for coming to share your experience creating the role of Puck, for the House of Bards Theatre Company’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Roberto Orci died at his home in Los Angeles on February 25, and the tributes remembering the late writer-producer followed.

Peter Sarsgaard and Ben Chaplin are two of the stars of this week’s new release, September 5. The film, from director Tim Fehlbaum, tells the story...John Magaro and Leonie Benesch are two members of the ensemble cast of Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5.

Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its...Alien invasions and stories set within the landscape of a post-apocalyptic world are incredibly popular. Whether it be A Quiet Place,...Ryan Kruger’s debut feature Fried Barry was a wild ride that has, in five short years, already amassed a respectable cult...The filmmaker's version of the horror classic hits cinemas this week.Charlene Aldridge is a homegrown talent who has appeared in multiple British productions over the years including No More Lights in...Co-directors Tim Rutherford and Cody Kennedy have spent a decade creating their feature debut, The Last Video Store.

Fans of Sandman, Good Omens, Coraline, American Gods, and more are devastated this week. The beloved author responsible for those works and many more has been accused of truly horrific behavior towards women. In a bombshell Vulture exposé, 

Naman Ramachandran Disney’s “Moana 2” dominated the U.K. and Ireland box office with a £12 million ($15.2 million) debut, according to numbers from Comscore, marking a strong start for the animated sequel. The film led a robust weekend that saw Universal’s “Wicked” holding strong in its second frame with £8.3 million, bringing its cumulative total to £28.5 million.

Kevin Sorbo pissed off Lucy Lawless, and now Hercules is once again suffering the wrath of Xena.

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and Lawless in its spin-off Xena: Warrior Princess.In recent years, the pair have clashed over their opposing political views over Twitter/X. Now, Lawless has shared a scathing anecdote from the period the pair worked together.“In his defence, I personally witnessed a time when Kevin Sorbo stuck up for a black man. against white people,” Lawless wrote on her Twitter/X account earlier today (August 10).“The NZ summer, Feb 1995 when my character Xena was introduced into my husband’s show ‘Hercules the Legendary Journeys’.

EXCLUSIVE: Gersh has signed 3 Body Problem‘s Jess Hong for representation in all areas.

K.J. Yossman Kaleidoscope Film Distribution has unveiled its Cannes slate, including George Michael documentary “Portrait of an Artist.” The company is also repping global sales rights for Lucy Lawless’ directorial debut “Never Look Away,” a documentary about photojournalist Margaret Moth, and “Forked,” a documentary about celebrity chef Susan Feniger. “George Michael: Portrait of an Artist” features copious archive footage as well as interviews with Michael’s close friends and colleagues including Stephen Fry and Stevie Wonder.

Joe Leydon Film Critic The thin line between cheating death and chasing it appears to have been smudged, repeatedly, by maverick video journalist Margaret Moth, the subject of first-time filmmaker Lucy Lawless’ fascinating documentary “Never Look Away.” At least, that’s the impression we’re left with at the end of this compact yet complex portrait of a singularly and aggressively unconventional war correspondent who inspired equal measures of admiration and anxiety among her friends, colleagues and lovers throughout her 20 years of assignments in the world’s trouble spots — Baghdad, Sarajevo, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Zaire, you name it, she was there — for CNN. Something of an enigma even to those closest to her — “I never fully understood what was ticking inside of her” is a comment typical of responses by interviewees questioned by an off-camera Lawless — Moth was fond of proudly proclaiming, “I live life to the fullest.” But it was a life she repeatedly risked by going places, doing things and recording wartime horrors with such little regard for her own safety that a CNN teammate warned her: “There’s only so much Russian Roulette you can play.” It was also a life that she more or less reinvented herself to portray.

The Sundance Institute has released the lineup for the 11th edition of Sundance Film Festival: London. 

EXCLUSIVE: Acorn TV, the streaming service aimed at Anglophiles, is getting a new look.

EXCLUSIVE: Sundance documentary Never Look Away, the directorial debut of actress Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess), has been sold by XYZ to Greenwich Entertainment for all rights in North America, and to Kaleidoscope for all rights in UK.

Gregg Goldstein When you’ve spent the most memorable years of your career battling gods and single-handedly defeating an army, what’s left for a warrior to do? For “Xena: Warrior Princess” star Lucy Lawless, the answer was making her directorial debut with a doc about a fellow New Zealand icon, daredevil CNN war camerawoman Margaret Moth. Her spellbinding feature, “Never Look Away,” which premieres Jan. 18 at Sundance, was selected for the fest’s World Cinema Documentary Competition.

EXCLUSIVE: Acorn TV is going Under the Vines for a third time.

Spartacus creator Steven S. DeKnight is expanding the franchise once again with a new series currently in development at Starz. DeKnight will serve as showrunner and executive producer of the as-yet-untitled project.

Lorde says she was forced to delete an Instagram post as it broke New Zealand election rules. The 25-year-old – born Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor – renowned as the country’s biggest pop singer, withdrew a message to her 9. 5 million Instagram followers, which she had used to back Labour councillor candidate Efeso Collins in the Auckland mayoral race.

Joe Dante is slamming Disney for what he sees as a case of plagiarism.

J. Kim Murphy It’s official —the Minions are back.Universal’s “Minions: The Rise of Gru” is setting off fireworks at the Fourth of July box office, projecting a $129.2 million opening over the four-day holiday weekend.

Lightyear,” a film that sometimes falls into that old Pixar trap of being too smart for its own good.The Minions, on the flip side, are not Mensa candidates. They’re stooges.The story exists, for the most part, to put them into a bunch of silly situations.Kevin and Bob go full-on “Catch Me if You Can,” dress up as pilots and fly a commercial jet to California … with plenty of turbulence.They meet Master Chow (Michelle Yeoh), a San Fran acupuncturist who moonlights as a kung fu expert and teaches them her martial art — in “Rocky” training montage style. Dumb, dumb Otto, meanwhile, takes to the open road on a motorcycle and visits the World’s Biggest Banana.He’s also a hopeless romantic, and briefly falls in love with a rock with googly eyes glued on it.“Rise of Gru” is better than the previous Gru-less flick because the Minions make the most sense when serving a lame-o villain.