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Gossip Girl and Buffy The Vampire Slayer, has died at the age of 39.The news was reported by the New York Post on Wednesday (February 26), with police confirming she had been found in her New York City apartment. No cause of death has been disclosed.Trachtenberg gained her major breakthrough as a teenager as Dawn Summers, the younger sister of Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Buffy in the cult WB series Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Michelle Trachtenberg, the actor best known for film and television roles including “Gossip Girl” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” has died. She was 39. She was found unconscious and unresponsive in her Manhattan apartment, according to the New York City police department.

Tatiana Siegel In late January 2024, Barbara Broccoli attended a performance of her stage musical “Buena Vista Social Club” at the Atlantic Theater in New York. The longtime James Bond producer and gatekeeper was joined by three top Amazon MGM Studios executives — Jennifer Salke, Courtenay Valenti and Julie Rapaport — for a night that also included dinner and shop talk. For months, Salke’s boss, Mike Hopkins, had spearheaded discussions with Broccoli about Bond’s future at Amazon.

Daniel Doperalski Michelle Trachtenberg starred in “Harriet the Spy” at just 10 years old, and went on to appear in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Gossip Girl,” “Ice Princess” and “Eurotrip.”Trachtenberg started acting at just 3 years old before joining Nickelodeon’s “The Adventures of Pete and Pete.”She joined “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” as Dawn Summers in its fifth season as Sarah Michelle Geller’s younger sister, and was on the show until it ended in season seven.On “Gossip Girl,” she played mean girl Georgina Sparks who often sparred with Blake Lively’s Serena van der Woodsen and Leighton Meester’s Blair Waldorf.She went on to appear in popular films including “Ice Princess” and “Eurotrip,” then returned for the “Gossip Girl” reboot in 2022, which proved to be her final role.She died Wednesday at the age of 39. Michelle Trachtenberg’s first starring role was in “Harriet the Spy,” where she played the young sleuth from the popular novel.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic On the page, the character of Harriet Welsch, the inquisitive and sharply judgmental preteen at the center of Louise Fitzhugh’s novel “Harriet the Spy,” is a little tough to take; her habit of writing down mean observations about her classmates is, rightly, seen by her peers as rather harsh. It works — Harriet learns valuable lessons about tact, and grows a great deal — but the role would seem like a tricky assignment. Michelle Trachtenberg made it look easy.

now have news worth raising a martini to: The gang is about to reunite for A Simple Favor 2—Another Simple Favor—an .Here’s everything we know about the film.The logline teasing the follow-up promised audiences would “see the return of Stephanie Smothers (Kendrick) and Emily Nelson (Lively) as they head to the beautiful island of Capri for Emily’s extravagant wedding to a rich Italian businessman. Along with the glamorous guests, expect murder and betrayal to RSVP for a wedding with more twists and turns than the road from the Marina Grande to the Capri town square.”So Emily, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison the last time we saw her, is not only a free woman once again but has had enough time to meet and secure a new husband? Well, this is, after all, the same cinematic universe in which characters fake their deaths, falsify their identities, and drown their long-lost twins so…maybe we shouldn’t be that surprised.

Andrew Scott tells me over the phone in his lilting Irish accent. It’s a little over two weeks before the actor, who was just in Berlin premiering Richard Linklater’s upcoming “Blue Moon,” will head to Austin to attend SXSW, where he’s curated a lineup of his favorite shorts as part of a campaign with Redbreast Whiskey.

J. Kim Murphy The independent-focused Los Angeles Festival of Movies is preparing for its second edition, unveiling the first wave of its coming line-up for April 3 to 6. The fest, co-presented by Mubi and Mezzanine, will kick-off with an opening night screening of Amalia Ulman‘s south-of-the-border satire “Magic Farm,” starring Chloë Sevigny, Simon Rex and Alex Wolff as an inept documentary crew that ends up in the wrong country after embarking to profile an Argentinian musician.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Netflix subscribers streamed more content than ever in the back half of 2024 — and the second season of Korean breakout hit “Squid Game” was the biggest TV show on the service. The streamer’s customers watched more than 94 billion hours on Netflix in the second half of last year, a 5% increase year over year, according to its latest Engagement Report sharing what people watched on from July to December 2024. “Squid Game” Season 2, despite premiering on Dec.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is heading back to the wilderness.

EXCLUSIVE: QC Entertainment, the company behind Get Out and BlacKkKlansman, has completed the Victoria, BC shoot on horror film The Casket Girls with four major additions to the cast: Mike Colter (Evil), Raúl Castillo (Smile 2), Matt Frewer (Perry Mason), and Thomas Lennon (Reno 911!).

EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to The Assessment, a sci-fi thriller starring Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina), Elizabeth Olsen (His Three Daughters) and Himesh Patel (Station Eleven), which will be released in theaters on March 21, after world premiering at last year’s Toronto Film Festival.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nisha Pahuja is partnering with major NGOs to launch a global gender justice campaign inspired by her acclaimed documentary To Kill a Tiger.

EXCLUSIVE: Lauren McQueen (Here) has been cast as the female lead opposite Jack Patten in MGM+‘s upcoming series Robin Hood.

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has picked up North American distribution rights to Fire Of Wind, the latest feature from Portuguese filmmaker Marta Mateus. 

Attack On Titan fans will be able to catch the conclusion to the show on the big screen, as it has been announced the film will screen in UK and Irish cinemas on February 26 and 27. The film will include a brand new post-credits scene.The final chapters of the highly acclaimed anime series will be shown as one movie, titled Attack On Titan: The Last Attack, for a limited run on 26th and 27th February.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic “Pink Floyd at Pompeii — MCMLXXII,” the rock band’s 1972 concert film/documentary, will revisit theaters with a restored version that is coming to Imax and other cinema screens starting April 24, followed shortly by a first-time stand-alone release of the soundtrack as an official live album on May 2. Trafalgar Releasing and Sony Music Vision are bringing the film back into theaters, to be seen in a 4K digital remaster created from the original 35mm footage.

Netflix is removing several titles in March of 2025, including a selection of movies on the first of the month!

Isabella Rossellini has signed on for a new project.

We have some first look photos from Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick‘s A Simple Favor sequel, titled Another Simple Favor!

Naman Ramachandran Universal’s “Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy” continued its box office dominance in the U.K. and Ireland, bringing in £6.8 million ($8.7 million) in its second weekend, according to Comscore. The highly anticipated fourth installment in the “Bridget Jones” franchise has now reached $34.6 million, maintaining a firm grip on the No.