Robin Williams: Celebs Rumors

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Voice acting is equally as important as on-screen performances, even though Hollywood doesn’t seem fully aware of it yet. From the envious Lucille La Verne’s jealous Queen from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves” (1937) to the whimsical magic of Robin Williams’ Genie in “Aladdin” (1992), there have been countless contributions to the acting form; all conveyed through the passion of a talented performer’s tone. In honor of Walt Disney Co.’s 100th birthday later this year, Variety ranks the animation powerhouse’s 13 best voice-acting performances, including their subsidiaries, such as Pixar.

co-DC Chief Peter Safran just told Cinemacon attendees that the Warner Bros Sundance acquisition, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story is getting a September theatrical release.

Actor Gene Hackman was seen out on a dinner date in New Mexico on Thursday, using a cane to walk and holding the arm of his wife, Betsy Arakawa.The couple dined at Pappadeaux’s Seafood Kitchen in Santa Fe, where the legendary actor has lived since the 1980s.Earlier in the day, Hackman, who turned 94 in January, was spotted grabbing a cup of coffee and an apple pie from a local Speedway store.Ever the outdoorsman, he sported hiking pants, a checkered shirt, gray vest, a cap and shades.Although the “Unforgiven” actor and Arakawa, a 62-year-old pianist, got married in 1991, they’re rarely seen together in public. The pair was last photographed 21 years ago in a much more glamorous setting — on the red carpet of the 2003 Golden Globe Awards.At that glitzy Los Angeles ceremony, Hackman received the Cecil B.

Gerald M. Levin, the former CEO of Time Warner who helped oversee its calamitous merger with AOL, died Wednesday in Long Beach, CA. He was 84.

Robin Williams called him every week to cheer him up while he was filming his 1993 Holocaust movie, “Schindler’s List.”Spielberg’s friendship with Williams stretched back to “Hook,” the 1991 flick that Spielberg directed and featured Williams as an adult Peter Pan.Spielberg opened up about “Schindler’s List,” and several other topics, in a wide-ranging interview in the Hollywood Reporter to talk about the 30th anniversary of the movie, which was filmed in Krakow, Poland, in 1993.The movie, which won seven Oscars at the 66th Academy Awards in 1994 — including Best Picture and Best Director (for Spielberg) — told the story of German industrialist Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories.“Robin knew how hard it was for me on the movie, and once a week, every Friday, he’d call me on the phone and do comedy for me,” Spielberg said.“Whether it was after 10 minutes or 20 minutes, when he heard me give the biggest laugh, he’d hang up on me.”Neeson also remembered Williams’ Friday phone calls to Spielberg.“Steven would tell us afterward the sorts of things Robin would say,” Neeson recalled. “Once he started a riff of ‘I’m not a Nazi, I’m a nutsy,’ all this sort of s – – t.”Williams, the comedically brilliant “Mork & Mindy” star and Oscar-winning actor (“Good Will Hunting”), died by suicide in 2014 at the age of 63.Spielberg said that shooting “Schindler’s List” took its toll on him, emotionally.“The hard days were beyond my imagination and the easy days were never easy,” he told THR.

“Lisa Frankenstein” didn’t come to life at the North American box office in its first weekend in theaters.The horror comedy written by Diablo Cody and starring Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse earned $3.8 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.It debuted in second place on a very slow Super Bowl weekend, behind the spy thriller “Argylle.”Matthew Vaugn’s “Argylle” got first place with only $6.5 million, which brings its running domestic total to $28.8 million in two weekends. The $200 million production is Apple’s first major theatrical flop.Universal Pictures oversaw the North American release for the streamer, where it is playing in 3,605 locations.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Matthew Vaughn’s spy thriller “Argylle” emerged victorious over newcomer “Lisa Frankenstein” in a moribund box office with both films struggling to show signs of life. “Argylle” claimed the No. 1 spot again with $6.5 million from 3,605 North American venues, marking a steep 62% decline from its disappointing debut.

William Earl Pauly Shore‘s performance as Richard Simmons is seeing the light of day, just days after plans for a feature film biopic were announced. A 10-minute short film starring Shore, titled “The Court Jester,” premiered at the Cabin in Park City on Friday. The event isn’t an official Sundance Film Festival screening, but was certainly positioned to draw in festival goers.

Over the last year, Pauly Shore has taken note of viral memes comparing his visage to that of fitness icon Richard Simmons, willing a feature biopic into existence — and now, one has coalesced, Deadline has learned.

Jennifer Lopez insists that her husband, Ben Affleck, is all good despite often getting photographed with a variety of facial expressions in public.“Ben is doing alright. You don’t need to worry about Ben, let me just tell you,” the 54-year-old actress told Entertainment Tonight during the 81st Golden Globes red carpet in L.A. on Sunday.Late last month, Affleck hilariously went viral when photos of him and Lopez Christmas shopping with their moms surfaced.

Sunday night’s Golden Globes Awards.Damon was sitting at his table without his tux jacket on, chatting away during a commercial break, when Affleck approached and put his arm around his old friend. Damon, wearing a custom Giorgio Armani suit, gave Affleck a big bear hug as they both smiled broadly.Damon was seated next to his wife of nearly two decades, Luciana Barroso, at the time.Affleck and Damon, wearing matching tuxedos, later presented the Best Director – Motion Picture award to Christopher Nolan for “Oppenheimer.”Nolan directed Damon in the big-screen blockbuster starring Cillian Murphy.

Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal paid emotional tribute to Robin Williams during the 46th annual Kennedy Center Honors this month.The View host was honouring Crystal at the ceremony – which took place earlier this month but aired Wednesday (December 27) – when she took a moment to remember the late actor, who died by suicide aged 63 in 2014.“I want to acknowledge the person who should also be standing here with me is our brother Robin,” Goldberg said as she paused to gesture at the empty space beside her.Redirecting her attention to Crystal, she said: “You are my family, you’re my big brother, and you have no idea what an honour it is to see you get your due. I love you.

first gave a tribute to the comedian at the event, before honoring the “When Harry Met Sally” star, 75.“I want to acknowledge the person who should also be standing here with me is our brother Robin,” she said as she got choked up.She then pointed to an empty space next to her where Williams should have been.The “Ghost” actress then gave a sweet speech about Crystal, calling him her family.“You’re my big brother, and you have no idea what an honor it is to see you get your due,” she said. “I love you. You’re a mensch.

Jessica Chastain has revealed that she feels regretful over missing out on the chance to thank Robin Williams for her career success.The Oscar-winning actor opened up about her upbringing and entry into the arts thanks to help of a scholarship, paid for by the late actor.Speaking on The View, Chastain reflected on being raised by a single mother through financial difficulties, before going on to become the first in her family to get a college diploma with Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting from Manhattan’s Juilliard School.“I received the Robin Williams Scholarship,” she shared. “It was a beautiful thing, because every two years it would be given to a student and it paid for all of my schooling, it paid for my housing, it paid for me to be able to go home for Christmas and see my family”.She added that the “generous” grant also covered books and food.

Addie Morfoot Contributor How does a McDonald’s manager with three young children end up becoming a cult leader who believes she has birthed the entire human race, been reincarnated as Jesus, Joan of Arc, and Marilyn Monroe and is spiritually connected to late actor Robin Williams? Hannah Olson’s three-part HBO docuseries “Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God” attempts to answer that question. The series, which is currently streaming on Max, begins with Colorado police discovering a mummified body lying on an enshrined queen-sized bed, wrapped in a sleeping bag decorated with Christmas lights.

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Robin Williams back in 2013.On the most recent episode of The Kardashians, the reality star had her fashion sense critiqued by her 10 year old daughter North West.While looking back at some of her previous Met Gala looks, Kardashian asked West what she thought about the floral Givenchy maternity dress she wore when she was pregnant with her back in 2013.“I really don’t like that one,” West said, while fellow reality star Scott Disick chimed in, “Nobody liked that one.”Kardashian, who attended the event as her ex-husband Kanye West‘s plus one, previously said she cried “the whole way home” after social media trolls compared her floral dress to a sofa.Williams — who died the following year — also made fun of Kardashian’s look by posting side-by-side images of her in the dress and himself as Mrs. Doubtfire.

Hellooooo!”Robin Williams improvised so much on the set of the 1993 comedy “Mrs. Doubtfire” that production ended up shooting two million feet of film by the time the movie wrapped. “Early on in the process, he went to me, ‘Hey boss, the way I like to work, if you’re up for it, is I’ll give you three or four scripted takes, and then let’s play,’” Chris Columbus, 65, told Business Insider.

Robin Williams was known to be a talent in improvisation and Mrs. Doubtfire director Chris Columbus is opening up about working with the late actor.

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immortalized by Robin Williams in the 1987 film of the same name, wasn’t a creation of Hollywood. It was inspired by the true story of DJ and Air Force Sgt.

ended on Wednesday, Nov. 8. SAG-AFTRA won protections on a range of issues from pay to health benefits – but the most controversial issue was zombies.

Helen Mirren‘s American Cinematheque tribute has a new date.

the genius of Robin Williams, when he died in 2014, and they won’t question the genius of Perry, who died Oct. 28 at the too-young age of 54 — and created comedy gold for 10 years as a shining star in the “Friends” firmament along with Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Courteney Cox and David Schwimmer.Perry was at the head of that supersized comedy class with his wisecracking Chandler Bing, one of the most indelible characters in television history.

Kourtney Kardashian has replicated her sister Kim Kardashian‘s Met Gala look for Halloween.The eldest Kardashian sister, 44, has posed in Kim's floral long-sleeved Givenchy gown designed by Riccardo Tisci and shared the stunning pictures to Instagram. Kourtney showed off her blossoming baby bump while wearing the dress that Kim wore while pregnant with North in 2013. The mum-of-three , soon to be four, captioned the series of images "Freaky Friday" and her fans went wild for the reference to one of her sister's most iconic looks.

Vanity Fair about her life growing up as the daughter of the star of The Shining and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.She recalls that she left mislaid a journal, only to later have it returned with a note from The Godfather actor which read, “Dear Lorraine, you left this in my driveway, love, the fat man next door.”Brando and Nicholson starred together in the 1976 Western film The Missouri Breaks, the only time the two screen icons appeared in the same movie.Lorraine, 33, whose mother is the actor and model Rebecca Broussard, is currently working on a feature film about an exotic dancer who married a Ponzi scheme money lender and has to start her life from scratch again.She has previously directed a series of short films, and has made appearances in a number of films, including Something’s Gotta Give with her father, World’s Greatest Dad with Robin Williams and Click with Adam Sandler.She joked that growing up with such a famous father has led to a number of interesting encounters. “I believe my parents had a full-blown party in the room at Cedars-Sinai because adults are constantly coming up to me saying, ‘I was there the day you were born.’” she said.Jack Nicholson, who has won three Oscars for his roles in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Terms of Endearment and As Good As It Gets, effectively retired from acting in 2010, following his supporting role in the Reese Witherspoon and Owen Wilson romantic comedy How Do You Know.Nicholson, 86, is now most commonly seen courtside watching the Los Angeles Lakers.

Amanda Abbington has shared a moving twelve-word message with fans after she was forced to pull out of the show due to medical reasons. The actress, who proved popular amongst viewers, broke her silence on Instagram after it was confirmed she would not be performing on Saturday night.

Strictly Come Dancing's Amanda Abbington has broken her silence after pulling out of Saturday's live show.

An actress has pulled out of the Strictly Come Dancing live show on Saturday night “due to medical reasons”. Former Strictly professional Janette Manrara announced the news on BBC Two spin-off show It Takes Two, telling the audience “we have some breaking news” that Amanda Abbington would not be taking part in the episode.

A long-gestating medical drama that’s inspired by the late neurologist Oliver Sacks has been handed a series order at NBC.

Robin Williams’ longtime friends have recalled his heavy drug use, saying his addition to cocaine made him a “monster.”The beloved Hollywood sweetheart died by suicide in 2014 at the age of 63.But before his acting career blew up, Williams was a stand-up comedian who struggled with a severe addiction to drugs in the late 1970s and early 1980s.In fact, Williams’ pal Allen Stephan reveals in Vice’s “The Dark Side of Comedy” documentary series that the “Mrs. Doubtfire” actor couldn’t go on stage and perform without cocaine.Revealing one conversation he had with the late actor at the time, Stephan remembered, “He said, ‘Know anyone with any blow? I have to go on and I can’t go on without any blow.’ And I sat down and said, ‘I’m going to help you.'”“He goes, ‘You have blow?’ I go, ‘No, are you out of your f–king mind? You’re Robin Williams!’ And then I think after that he wouldn’t get high when he had to perform.”The late actor’s longtime friend, Mike Binder, remembered Williams’ reaction to “a gram of coke” during the pair’s outing in Hollywood in the ’80s.“Robin said, ‘Let me take that.

Angelique Jackson The American Cinematheque awards, scheduled for November 4, has been postponed due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike. Helen Mirren was previously announced to be the recipient of the 37th American Cinematheque Award, with Kevin Goetz and Screen Engine set to be honored with the Power of Cinema Award, presented by Hill Valley. The new date for the annual awards ceremony, held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, will be announced in the coming weeks.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor It took a village of creatives at Disney Animation to pull off “Once Upon a Studio,” the animated short that celebrates 100 years of stories and magic. Iconic characters like Snow White and Peter Pan feature alongside Robin Williams’ Genie in a cast of 543 characters from more than 85 feature-length and short films. And it all came together without any artificial intelligence involved.

Robin Williams‘ iconic Genie character from Disney’s Aladdin is back with some new lines!

When will the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike begin to affect 2024’s theatrical release calendar? Well, it won’t be this coming winter, as Deadline reports that Focus Features adds another new release to their distribution schedule. And as February releases go, a new film penned by Diablo Cody will surely do well in theaters then.  READ MORE: Diablo Cody To Write ‘Lisa Frankenstein’ Starring Cole Sprouse & Kathryn Newton “Lisa Frankenstein” is Cody’s first screenplay since 2018’s “Tully” and the directorial debut of Zelda Williams, daughter of the late, great Robin Williams.

Ryan Reynolds was just honored with the Robin Williams Legacy of Laughter Award and the late comedian’s family was there to help honor the actor!

Zelda Williams is horrified by the “disturbing” use of artificial intelligence to recreate her late father, Robin Williams!