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On July 2, Amazon launched “Heads of State,” an action-comedy film starring Idris Elba and John Cena as the respective leaders of the United Kingdom and the United States. But the viewership data indicated that this was no traditional two-hander. Representatives for Priyanka Chopra Jonas, who plays a senior MI6 agent and the film’s third lead, used AI tools including …

Mostaque had answers for all of this, but investors lost confidence anyway. Four months after the article came out, VCs from both Coatue and Lightspeed left the board of directors, signaling they no longer had faith in the business. By the end of the year, the company’s head of research, chief operating officer, general counsel, and head of human resources …

Veteran stuntman Ronnie Rondell Jr, who was set on fire for the front cover of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here album, has died, his family has said. Rondell Jr, who performed in a host of Hollywood films, including How the West Was Won, Ice Station Zebra, Twister and The Matrix Reloaded, was 88. He died at a care home …

Ronnie Rondell Jr – who was famously set alight for the front cover of Pink Floyd’s iconic Wish You Were Here album cover – has died at the age of 88. The Hollywood stuntman and actor died on 12 August at a care home in the US state of Missouri, according to an online obituary. Rondell was involved in the …

Quentin Tarantino is happy to pass directing duties to David Fincher for Netflix’s highly anticipated “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood” sequel. During a recent interview on “The Curch of Tarantino” podcast, the two-time Oscar winner said he passed on directing “The Adventures of Cliff Booth” because the idea of his final film being a sequel “unenthused” him. “I love …

Dan Tana, the sometime actor and former maitre d’ who opened the namesake Dan Tana’s Restaurant in West Hollywood in 1964, has died. He was 90. The eatery, which became a Los Angeles institution, hosting actors and various industry figures, announced Tana’s death in a Facebook post on Saturday, saying that he had “passed on.” “We all know that he …

Los Angeles — Los Angeles has no shortage of architectural oddities, such as the Hollywood sign, the Watts Towers and the space age Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport. Now, L.A. can add one more to the list: a newly constructed five-story residence for the dearly departed. Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s new vertical Gower Mausoleum towers over the sprawling grounds that …

Dan Tana, who opened the iconic West Hollywood celebrity hangout Dan Tana’s restaurant in 1964 and ran it until selling in 2009, has died. He was 90. The restaurant released a statement, saying, “The great Dan Tana has passed on. We all know that he created a very magical place. Our beloved little yellow house will forever feel his presence. …

Gal Gadot was certain the live-action remake of “Snow White” was “going to be a huge success,” she told a group of interviewers in Israel in a wide-ranging interview published this week. But then the events of October 7, 2023, took place, and “what’s happening in all kinds of industries and also in Hollywood, is that there’s a lot of …

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