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In an interview with TODAY at the 2023 Book Bonanza — the charitable festival she founded with her two sisters in 2018 — Hoover said she was shocked when she was told that Blake Lively had been cast as the female lead, Lily Bloom.“I didn’t believe it,” she told the outlet. But it was a good surprise. “I have been obsessed with Blake Lively since ‘Gossip Girl’ days — I’m just a huge fan of hers, and of course of her husband,” Hoover said.

Israel-Hamas war. Sources reportedly told Deadline that Barrera, 33, was let go from the Spyglass Media production due to “her Instagram stories which have been perceived as anti-Semitic.”The actress started posting about the conflict last month, writing in one Instagram story, “I too come from a colonized country” beside a Mexican flag logo.

wrote on her page along with a series of photos of her looking elated about her upcoming role. Meanwhile, Grande, 28, posted a screenshot of herself and her “Wicked” co-star receiving the good news via Zoom from the film’s director Jon M.

tweeted Variety’s Matt Donnelly on Tuesday morning. Big bro Thanos has been played by Josh Brolin in “Avengers” and “Guardians of the Galaxy” films.Styles rumored casting in “future Marvel films” comes ahead of Nov.

Axios reported, citing a 2017 study.The researchers concluded that Hollywood is not only influenced by Chinese censors but by cultural preferences, as well.The study, “Impacts of Chinese Colorism on Hollywood Castings” published by Johns Hopkins University, looked at 3,000 films between 2009 and 2015 and discovered that the flicks made after 2012 showed an 8 percent increase in the number of light-skinned actors in starring roles.That means that “for 1 of every 3 films in this category, the film went from having 2 out of 3 as very light-skinned actors, to having 3 out of 3 very light-skinned actors,” which the study’s authors termed “light-skin shift.”The shift happened in summer blockbusters and action movies that the Chinese government