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Stephen Saito Writer-director Nastasya Popov finely threads a needle in her debut feature “Idiotka,” dipping into the chaotic life of Margarita (Anna Baryshnikov), an aspiring fashion designer with a barely functioning sewing machine in the tight-knit Russian district of West Hollywood. Margarita seems as much a work in progress as the eternally under-construction house she lives in.

Maika Monroe is signing on for an upcoming film adaptation of a Colleen Hoover book.

John Legend is celebrating the anniversary of his debut album by going on tour!

Carolyn Giardina AI startup Voia is coming out of stealth mode and introducing its developing visual effects pipeline. “We have built this for artists, by artists,” says CEO Avner Braverman.

that she and Timothée Chalamet have “a lot” of sex in Marty Supreme, which was her first experience with an intimacy coordinator because she “did not know [they] existed.” And honestly? That tracks.“There’s now something called an intimacy coordinator, which I did not know existed,” Paltrow told the magazine. “I was like, ‘Girl, I’m from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera’s on.’” Turns out, Paltrow was more comfortable filming without the intimacy coordinator than with.“We said, ‘I think we’re good. You can step a little bit back,’ ” she said.

Gal Gadot is celebrating a special moment with her family by her side!

Katcy Stephan Gal Gadot‘s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony Tuesday was disrupted by sign-carrying demonstrators on both the pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel sides. Several dozen protesters showed up just before the ceremony was due to get underway, with the pro-Palestinian protesters holding signs that read “Heros Fight Like Palestinians,” “Viva Viva Palestina” and “No Other Land Won Oscar.” As with the “Snow White” premiere early this week, the area on Hollywood Boulevard was tented off, and fully not visible from the street, but that didn’t deter the protesters from coming out and causing significant disruption.

Todd Gilchrist The first time Gal Gadot visited the Hollywood Walk of Fame almost two decades ago, she had a premonition of her future in entertainment. “Between Madame Tussauds and the Hollywood stars, I remember walking there for the first time when I was 23 and seeing people dressed like superheroes,” she remembers. “And they had Wonder Woman there!” On March 18, Gadot will be there again, and this time she’ll receive her own star.

This month sees the return of Guy Ritchie to the small screen, after last year’s pot crime comedy series spinoff “The Gentlemen” (already given a season two greenlight), with his latest London gangster effort “MobLand” and a new high-profile addition has been named to the cast ahead of the March 30 debut on Paramount+. British actress Janet McTeer (“Ozark,” “The Old Man”) has been tapped to play a dangerous underworld figure as revealed by The Hollywood Reporter after recently being in the mix to join the “Harry Potter” reboot series alongside John Lithgow and appearing in the satirical thriller “The Menu.” READ MORE: ‘Harry Potter’: Janet McTeer In Talks To Play Professor McGonagall In Upcoming HBO Series, Paapa Essiedu Close To Deal To Play Snape McTeer’s character, Kat, is described in the report as “as charming as she is violent,” and “Crime bosses from London to Beijing are anxious never to cross swords with her.” She joins a seasoned cast that already features Tom Hardy (“Taboo”), Helen Mirren (“1923”), and former James Bond actor, Pierce Brosnan (“Black Bag”).

Alex Ritman The Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight sidebar competition has revealed the poster for its upcoming 2025 edition, featuring a painting by one of cinema’s boundary-obliterating cult heroes. From “Spring Breakers” director Harmony Korine, the painting features two blurry faces in red and yellow, which Korine introduced as “Twitchys” “The characters in the painting are called Twitchys,” he said in a quote on the competition’s social media pages.

Saw XI is reportedly being delayed due to what one of the writers on the film describes as “intra-squabbling” between the producers of the film and studio Lionsgate.Beginning in 2004, the Saw films have defined an era in horror, following the exploits of serial killer Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), who tortures his victims by trapping them in deadly ‘games’ based around psychological choices. While interest had dwindled with previous instalments, 2023’s Saw X was a box office hit, prompting an 11th film to go into production.In 2023, Lionsgate pencilled in the film for a September 2024 release, but the studio ultimately delayed it by a year to September 26, 2025.

Jack Dunn Tracy Morgan had to be wheelchaired out of Madison Square Garden during a New York Knicks game Monday night after the comedian appeared to vomit on the floor while sitting courtside, multiple outlets have reported. During the third quarter of the game between the Knicks and the Miami Heat, a 10-minute pause was taken in order to clean something off the floor. The cause of the delay was Morgan, a New York native and one of the Knicks’ biggest celebrity fans, who reportedly vomited on the hardwood.

Alex Ritman The ongoing Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni saga is set to be explored in a swiftly-made documentary from ITN Productions. The 90-minute “He Said, She Said: Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni,” which is unlikely to be the only doc to emerge about the still rumbling legal battle between the actress and her “It Ends With Us” director, will premiere in the U.K. on Channel 5 Monday night.

Naman Ramachandran China’s box office remained steady over the March 14–16 weekend, with “Ne Zha 2” continuing its dominant run at the top of the charts. The Cococartoon release grossed RMB 148.3 million ($20.6 million), pushing its cumulative total to $2.064 billion, according to Artisan Gateway. The animated juggernaut continues to lead the market despite being in its seventh weekend of release.

The White Lotus's Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan) in —big spoilers ahead—when she betrayed her friend and cheated on her husband. And even though we saw it coming, it didn't make it any less troublesome or disappointing to watch.“[This storyline is] going to spark a lot of conversation about female friendship and what it is to be a woman in the world,” Carrie Coon (Laurie) told Glamour at the start of the season.

Rihanna is stepping out to support her man!

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter If Hollywood is looking to 2025 to reset the movie theater business after a tough five year stretch, it’s not off to the strongest of starts. Original films like “Novocaine,” “Black Bag” and “Mickey 17” are failing to draw sizable crowds, while sequels in once-reliable franchises such as “Captain America: Brave New World” and “Paddington in Peru” are falling drastically short of their predecessors. Attendance is expected to pick up in spring and into the summer, as “A Minecraft Movie,” “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning,” “Jurassic World Rebirth,” “Lilo & Stitch” and other blockbuster hopefuls land in theaters.

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Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Eric Schultz knows his way around the White House. He served as deputy White House press secretary during the Obama administration from 2014 to 2017. It’s one of the reasons that he now frequently consults on Hollywood projects about Washington.

Married at First Sight Australia groom Ryan Donnelly's secret acting career has been revealed during his stint on the hit dating show. The reality star, who is currently appearing on the 12th season of the match making experiment, has starred in a Hollywood movie and an iconic TV series. Ryan was spotted on the streets of Sydney just last month as he filmed for a new blockbuster alongside Teen Wolf star Dylan O'Brien.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Be careful who you add to your lease. That’s the takeaway from 1992’s psychosexual thriller “Single White Female,” a classic of squirmy suspense that featured Bridget Fonda as a freshly single Manhattan-ite who has the misfortune of picking a clingy and awkward woman (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to be her roommate while she recovers from her breakup.