Jodie Turner-Smith Remembers Her Late Grandfather In Loving Tribute: ‘Rest In Peace’

Joe Otterson TV ReporterA new live-action series about Casper the Friendly Ghost is in development at Peacock, Variety has learned.The potential series hails from writer and executive producer Kai Yu Wu, with UCP and DreamWorks Animation set to co-produce.The series is described as a horror/adventure show that reimagines the origin of Casper in a coming-of-age story that explores what it means to be alive. When a new family arrives in the small town of Eternal Falls, Casper finds himself entangled in a mystery uncovering dark secrets that have been buried for over 100 years.Wu has previously written for shows such as “Hannibal” at NBC as well as “The Flash” at CW and “Deception” at ABC.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAs the Cannes Film Festival will announce its Official Selection on Thursday, Variety is starting to get a slightly clearer picture of what 75th edition will look like, though fewer titles than usual have leaked. Led by Cannes’ artistic director and general delegate Thierry Fremaux, the selection committee has been flooded with late submissions and is now in the thick of deliberations.Most surprisingly, according to two well-informed sources, there will even be a David Lynch feature film which has been completely off the radar and stars Laura Dern — either as a cameo or a supporting role — along with some other Lynch regulars.We already know the sun-dappled celebration will land several high-profile films from U.S.

Wilson Chapman editorAfter hopping back on the Holiday movie train last year, CBS’ is taking it full steam ahead in 2022. The Eye network is expanding its presence in the lucrative holiday-themed film genre, ordering three new holiday themed projects set to air this December: “When Christmas Was Young,” “Fit For Christmas” and “Must Love Christmas.”“When Christmas Was Young” is described by CBS as a music-themed film set in Nashville, focusing on a music manager who attempts to secure the rights for a Christmas song that a failed singer-songwriter wrote years ago.

Al Pacino: Oscar winner, acting legend, “Shrek” fan.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk won’t be joining Twitter’s board of directors as previously announced. The tempestuous billionaire remains Twitter’s largest shareholder.

The Ultimatum is the latest to take over the streaming service, and it's arguably the most chaotic one yet. The premise: Six couples at a crossroads in their relationship agree to swap partners for a few weeks to…learn stuff? We're still not sure—but regardless, at the end the contestants must decide if they'll break up for good or get engaged. Naturally, viewers want to know what happened to each couple. That includes Shanique Imari and Randall Griffin.

Nothing quite says Easter like a giant cookie bowl stuffed with Creme Egg, Kinder Bueno and Mini Eggs does it? These are the sweet treats that have sparked queues at the Batch'd bakery stalls inside Manchester Arndale and will open this week at the Trafford Centre too.

A mum has issued a heartfelt plea after footage emerged online of a horror car crash that killed her daughter. Paige Rice, 22, was a passenger in an Audi S3 when it crashed head on into a Mercedes taxi inside the Queensway Tunnel, in the early hours of Sunday, October 17 last year.

Supermarket shoppers have praised Aldi for a £35 Specialbuy thanks to advice given by Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis last week. Last week, the ITV This Morning finance expert advised people on how they can stay warm without turning the heating on.

Better Call Saul is returning for its sixth and final season. The season will include some familiar faces from Breaking Bad and is expected to be released later this month.

EXCLUSIVE: Ashley Blaine Featherson-Jenkins, one of the stars of Netflix’s Dear White People, is launching her own podcast series.

Casper the Friendly Ghost is coming back to television in a brand new incarnation reminiscent of Riverdale‘s darker interpretation of the Archie comics. Peacock is developing Casper, a live-action, horror/adventure series, which reimagines the origin of Casper in a coming-of-age story that explores what it means to be alive.

Rachel Sennott (Shiva Baby), Ayo Edebiri (Big Mouth), Marshawn Lynch (Murderville), Ruby Cruz (Castle Rock), Havana Rose Liu (No Exit), Kaia Gerber (American Horror Story), Nicholas Galitzine (The Craft), Miles Fowler (Winning Time), Dagmara Dominczyk (Succession) and Punkie Johnson (Love Life) have signed on to star in Bottoms, an upcoming high school sex comedy that Emma Seligman (Shiva Baby) is directing for MGM’s Orion Pictures and Brownstone Productions.

Revenge is a dish best served cold, and it doesn’t get any colder, literally or figuratively, than the bitter portion ladled up in Robert Eggers’ merciless yarn of medieval vengeance, The Northman. This seriously nasty and violent tale comes across as an intense labor of love on the part of the American director and his Icelandic co-writer, the poet Sjón; there’s scarcely a moment of softness, sentiment or relaxation here, just fierce and ferocious determination to fight and prevail in an unstintingly harsh environment. For the most part it’s an enthralling immersion in a forbidding time and place, enhanced by an immoderately attractive cast and saddled only by a dramatic sameness that settles in after a while and gradually diminishes the film’s impact.

Kathy Lamkin, who held her own opposite Javier Bardem’s terrifying Anton Chigurh as No Country for Old Men‘s Desert Aire trailer park manager, died on April 4 after a short illness, her family tells Deadline. She was 74.

Kylie Jenner first announcement that her second child with Travis Scott was no longer named Wolf, it seems like they still haven’t decided on a name for the two-month-old.It has been nearly four weeks since the Keeping Up With The Kardashians alum shocked fans by revealing that her second child was no longer named Wolf as they initially announced following his birth on February 2.While a lot of supporters were confused about why Jenner would announce that they were changing the baby’s name without revealing his new one, it’s starting to make a little more sense now as Kylie seems to drop a hint that they’re still in the process of picking it out.Kylie Jenner joins sister Kendall to support boyfriend Devin Booker at Phoenix Suns gameKylie Jenner shows off her post-baby body in a sizzling all-black lookKylie Jenner returns to social media and introduces the newest addition to their familyOn Sunday, April 10, the Kylie Cosmetics mogul and her 4-year-old daughter Stormi attended the birthday party for Khloe Kardashian’s daughter, True Thompson. In addition to a myriad of posts shared from the festivities, Jenner showed off the goodie baskets given to all of the cousins, with one being for “Stormi” and the other simply labeled, “Baby Webster.”This post from Jenner got fans thinking: Could this two-month-old really not have a name yet? Or is the whole family working to keep his new name a secret until they make the big reveal?This hint from Kylie comes two months after the reality star and Scott welcomed their second child together.

Walker Scobell, who stars in Netflix’s The Adam Project, has been cast in the titular role of Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

Will Ferrell has rounded out the all-star cast of the Warner Bros film Barbie centered on the iconic doll line starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. America Ferrara, Kate McKinnon and Simu Liu are also on board with Greta Gerwig directing. Robbie is on board to play Barbie with Gosling set to play Ken. It is unknown who Ferrell will be playing.

With the high-profile, starry revival of his American Buffalo opening Thursday on Broadway, playwright David Mamet seems to be doing his best – or worst – to make headlines. The latest: The conservative Mamet told Fox News’ Mark Levin last night that “teachers are inclined, particularly men because men are predators, to pedophilia.”

Peacock is exploring more stories ripped from the headlines.

CBS is keeping it festive by ordering three new original holiday movies to air in December.

EXCLUSIVE: NBCU Academy and NBC News’ documentary division, NBC News Studios, have set Damon Davis (Chain of Rocks), Stephanie Wang-Breal (Florence from Ohio), Eric Juhola (The Queer Beat), Set Hernandez Rongkilyo (unseen), Brett Story and Stephen Maing (Untitled Labor Union Documentary), and Rebecca Landsberry-Baker and Joe Peeler (Untitled Muscogee Nation Documentary) as the participants for their second annual Original Voices fellowship.

Glamorous, starring Fuller House’s Miss Benny, was previously in the works as a pilot for The CW. It has now been handed a series order at Netflix.

Ben Stiller is keeping it all in perspective. The director reconciled with his wife, Christine Taylor, over the course of the pandemic, and couldn’t be happier about the direction his life has taken.“I’m so happy where I’m at in my life and the fact that we're even able to be here together doing this right now, all those things are now not taken for granted,” Stiller told ET’s Denny Directo. “The whole last few years have been a time for everybody to kind of get in touch with a lot of that.” Stiller, 56, and Taylor, 50, announced their split in 2017, after 17 years of marriage, but neither officially filed for divorce.

Legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola is putting together a high-concept drama, “Megalopolis,” and has been courting all sorts of actors such as James Caan, Oscar Isaac, Forest Whitaker, Cate Blanchett, Jon Voight, Zendaya, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jessica Lange. After Isaac reportedly passed on the project, Coppola has been seeking a new lead actor and there is something of an update from an unlikely source.

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Jodie Turner-Smith and Joshua Jackson are bringing the heat with their latest photo shoot. On Monday, the actress shared a series of photos on Instagram, from her and her husband’s date night at the 27th annual Critics Choice Awards.The photo carousel led with a picture of Turner-Smith, wearing nothing but a headband, and posing on a balcony while Jackson — who is fully dressed in a tux — stands behind her and covers her butt with his hand.

Joshua Jackson and wife Jodie Turner-Smith stepped out for a stylish date night at the 27th Critics’ Choice Awards on Sunday at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.

Jodie Turner-Smith got the giggles with husband Joshua Jackson!

Joshua Jackson and wife Jodie Turner-Smith stepped out for a stylish date night at the 27th Critics' Choice Awards on Sunday at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.However, the star was solo when he spoke with ET's Lauren Zima, and explained that for his wife, going out to the star-studded gala was something of a «work holiday» for Turner-Smith.«This is just a normal Sunday for her,» Jackson said of his super stylish ladylove.The pair, who tied the knot in 2019, did get a chance to spend some quality time on the carpet — but would have been joined by their little girl, Janie, if she'd had her way.The couple's adorable daughter will soon be turning 2, and Jackson said she's definitely already talking up a storm.«Oh yeah, she's talking! So when we were leaving to come down here today, she was like, 'I come work? I come too? I come too,'» Jackson said with a laugh.So does that mean the couple have a potential actress on their hands, following in her parents' footsteps? According to Jackson, he thinks his little girl is destined for something even bigger."[Being an] actress is gonna be too small for her" Jackson shared. «She's gonna rule the world.»As for the potentially big night ahead for him, Jackson said he doesn't have a speech prepared in the event that he takes home the award for Best Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for TV, for his role in .«Honestly, as I was on the way over, I was like, 'That might have been an oversight. That might have been like too Canadian modest. Like, 'Oh, I’m not gonna win this thing, I don't have to prepare anything,'» Jackson admitted.

Jodie Turner Smith and Joshua Jackson left fans swooning this week when the Dawson's Creek actor told his wife that she had "never looked bad a day in your life".MORE: Jodie Turner-Smith rocked the best floral handbag for summer in NYC with Joshua JacksonThe sweet exchange came when Jodie, who was in Paris for fashion week, tweeted: "So happy Paris fashion week is over so that paparazzi outside my hotel can’t catch me looking like [expletive] anymore."WATCH: Jodie Turner Smith and Josh Jackson give peek into their home life for J Crew commericalIn response, Josh wrote: "Why are you lying on the twitters? You know you’ve never looked bad a day in your life.""You two are the epitome of adorable," commented one fan while others called them "husband and wife goals".MORE: Joshua Jackson's baby stroller has gold wingsSHOP: Jodie Turner-Smith's fierce look is new age Anne Boleyn - and fans are obsessedThe loved-up pair recently starred together in a Christmas commercial for the fashion brand J Crew, and they made rare comments about their personal home life."Josh is an excellent - and one might even say extravagant - gift giver, which is perfect because my love language is receiving gifts!" Jodie shared, as part of the campaign, adding: "The best present was the first time he told me he loved me, right before Thanksgiving." Josh sent this sweet messageJosh and Jodie welcomed their daughter in April 2020, and although they prefer to keep their private life private, they have both talked about parenthood publicly and had plenty of compliments for one another in the process.When asked by People magazine what she thought of being a first-time mother, Jodie said: "It's everything.""He's an amazing partner and an amazing dad," the