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Carmel Dagan Staff Writer Michael Gambon, the Irish-English actor best known for his role as Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore in six of the “Harry Potter” movies, has died, Variety has confirmed. He was 82.

It’s become tradition for each “Mission: Impossible” to feature bigger, wilder stunts than the previous film, and the upcoming “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” is pulling out all the stops in the stunt department.

the panel on Twitter after it ended.“Their F1 movie sounds incredible. They’re creating an 11th team and filming on track and on event from Silverstone to the end of the year,” Buxton said, referring to the racing circuit that’s home to the British Grand Prix.“The car has been designed by Mercedes and is already testing,” he continued, adding that British racecar driver Lewis Hamilton is “in daily communication and is advising on storyline and script to ensure it’s the most accurate racing film ever made.”Buxton, who’s known for his commentary on the Netflix series “Formula 1: Drive to Survive,” added that Kosinski is using John Frankenheimer’s 1966 film “Grand Prix,” which starred James Garner, as “his biggest touchstone.”“Both he and Jerry are determined to make the most accurate, most impressive race movie anyone has ever seen.

Albert Brenner, a production designer and/or art director on such films as Bullitt, The Turning Point, Pretty Woman and Backdraft who racked up five career Oscar nominations, has died. He was 96. The Mirisch Agency told Deadline he died December 8 in his sleep.

Dame Angela Lansbury, best known to a generation for the series Murder, She Wrote, and who won children's hearts as the voice of Mrs. Potts in the animated movie Beauty and the Beast, has died aged 96.  In a statement to the BBC, Lansbury's children confirmed that she died in her sleep just five days before turning 97.

Angela Lansbury, whose 75-year career in entertainment spanned big screens, small screens and the stage, died Tuesday in Los Angeles at age 96.

th century and a decent chunk of the 21st, Angela Lansbury did it all — drama, comedy, musical, stage, screen, warm, terrifying — and she did it brilliantly.Born in London in 1925, she fled the Blitz in 1940 and came to New York to study acting. By 1942, she’d signed with MGM in Los Angeles and immediately appeared in three films that remain classics to this day: “Gaslight” and “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (both of which earned her Oscar nominations) as well as “National Velvet.” She was anything but sweetness and light during her years at the studio, playing the yin to Judy Garland’s sweet yang in “The Harvey Girls” as well as the unfaithful Queen Anne in “The Three Musketeers” (1948), but she ultimately felt disappointed in the roles offered her and dissolved her contract in 1952.The rest of the decade involved having children, doing some stage and TV work, as well as roles in a smattering of films, the most memorable being “The Court Jester,” “The Long Hot Summer” and “The Reluctant Debutante.” But Lansbury’s screen career burned hot anew in the 1960s, since her level of poise and intensity made her a favorite for filmmakers who cast her as characters older than she was.

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks has identified its next two strong series contenders. The company is opening writers’ rooms for Seconds, a radical reimagining of the cult classic with a female lead at its center, and psychological horror story The Devil In Silver, envisioned as the first installment in a potential anthology franchise.

Carmel Dagan Staff Writer Henry Silva, an actor with a striking look who often played villains and had credits in hundreds of films including “Ocean’s Eleven” and “The Manchurian Candidate,” died of natural causes Wednesday at the Motion Picture Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif., his son Scott confirmed. He was 94. One of Silva’s most memorable roles came in John Frankenheimer’s classic thriller “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962), in which he played Chunjin, the Korean houseboy for Laurence Harvey’s Raymond Shaw — and an agent for the Communists — who engages in a thrilling, well-choreographed martial arts battle with Frank Sinatra’s Major Bennett Marco in Shaw’s New York apartment.

A growing number of consumers are defying the media maze by paying a visit to their neighborhood movie theaters. It’s simpler to buy a ticket than re-subscribing to Netflix or Disney+.

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is in early development on an untitled H.G. Wells project from Wes Ball’s OddBall Entertainment, under its Paramount Players label.

cute. And “Val,” which premiered on Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival and will be released by Amazon, certainly has lots of cute moments of Val Kilmer and his siblings growing up in Southern California.But those are the tip of the amateur-video iceberg in this film from directors Leo Scott and Ting Poo.

In the wake of Emmy-winning actress Jessica Walter's death, Hollywood stars took to social media to share memories of the Arrested Development and Archerstar. Walter died on Wednesday at her home in New York, her daughter Brooke Bowman, a Fox executive, confirmed.

Actress Victoria Racimo, who starred in John Frankenheimer’s 1979 horror sci-fi film Prophecy and Mike Nichols’ 1973 The Day of the Dolphin, died Nov. 29 in Williamsburg, Virginia. She was 69.

Michael Lonsdale was a French actor whose notable roles included Hugo Drax, the villain in the 1979 James Bond film “Moonraker.”Lonsdale’s acting career took place largely in Europe, where he appeared in dozens of movies, TV shows, and stage productions. Yet he worked with legendary U.S.

Michael Lonsdale, who starred as the mad villain Hugo Drax in the Bond film Moonraker and the dogged detective in the Fred Zinnemann-directed crime thriller The Day of the Jackal, has died. He was 89.

Fans can’t get enough of Quentin Tarantino’s movie reviews.

Dave McNary Film ReporterLewis John Carlino, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and playwright known for writing and directing “The Great Santini,” died on June 17 on Whidbey Island in Washington state, his family has announced. He was 88.Carlino received an Oscar nomination with Gavin Lambert for best adapted screenplay for the 1978 drama “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden,” based on the novel by Joanne Greenberg.

Sonjia Warren Brandon, founder and president of Commercials Unlimited Talent Agency, died on May 8 in Los Angeles of natural causes. Brandon's daughter Treva Brandon Scharf announced her death, noting that her mother did not wish to have her age revealed.