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Dakota Johnson described the making of “Fifty Shades of Grey” as “psychotic” in a new cover story for Vanity Fair magazine. The actor became an international star after being cast as Anastasia “Ana” Steele in the three-film franchise, but she said making the trilogy became complicated in part because of “the author of the books.” That would be E.L. James, who maintained creative control over the film adaptations.

“I signed up to do a very different version of the film we ended up making,” Johnson said. “[E.L. James] had a lot of creative control, all day, every day, and she just demanded that certain things happen. There were parts of the books that just wouldn’t work in a movie, like the inner monologue, which was at times incredibly cheesy. It wouldn’t work to say out loud. It was always a battle. Always. When I auditioned for that movie, I read

Ethan Hawke has signed on to star in Pedro Almodóvar’s next film, “Strange Way of Life,” (“Extraña forma de vida”), a half-hour Western.

The Spanish director will shoot the short before making his English-language feature debut, “A Manual for Cleaning Women,” with Cate Blanchett.

Hawke stars opposite Chile’s Pedro Pascal, who portrayed Oberyn Martell in “Game of Thrones,” in a film which will be “another exercise of freedom in the line of ‘The Human Voice,’” said producer Agustín Almodóvar.

The short will be shot in English. Set up at El Deseo, the Almodóvar brothers’ Madrid-based production company, “Strange Way of Life” begins with a man, Silva, riding on a horse across a desert to Bitter Creek. He has come to visit Sheriff Jake. 25 years earlier, the two men worked together as hired gunmen.

Silva comes with the pretext of re-encountering his friend from youth. They celebrate their re-encounter.

“True Detective” Season 4 has officially been greenlit at HBO, with Kali Reis now set to star opposite previously announced lead Jodie Foster.

The new season of the anthology drama was first reported as being in the works at the premium cabler in March. Titled “True Detective: Night Country,” the season begins when the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, and the six men that operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers (Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Reis) will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into

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Mary Mara, an actress known for roles in ER, Criminal Minds, Ray Donovan and Law & Order, has died. She was 61.

In a report published Monday by the New York State Police, officials confirmed that Mara’s body was discovered in the St. Lawrence River in Cape Vincent, N.Y. on the morning of June 26. The preliminary investigation suggests Mara drowned while swimming.

According to the report, there were no signs of foul play. Mara was transported to the Jefferson County Medical Examiner’s Office where an official cause of death will be determined by an autopsy. The investigation is ongoing.

Mara starred in a myriad of television and film projects, making her debut in the 1989 television movie, The Preppie Murder. Mara’s television credits include roles on E.R., Law & Order, Ray Donovan, Nash Bridges, Lost, Shameless, Nip/Tuck, The Practice, Gideon’s Crossing,

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It's been a hard-knock life since Cameron Diaz stopped acting in 2014. So it's a good thing the actress is coming out of retirement for the upcoming Netflix film Back in Action, a fitting title for the star's return. Cameron's Annie co-star Jamie Foxx, who will also appear in the film, broke the news by leaking a phone call between him, the actress and Tom Brady. "Cameron I hope you aren't mad I recorded this, but no turning back now. Had to call in the Goat to bring back another Goat," Jamie tweeted June 29. "@CameronDiaz and I are Back In Action—our new movie with @NetflixFilm. Production starting later this year!!" So what exactly did...

Well, this isn't the Pitch Perfect ending fans were hoping for: Anna Kendrick and Bill Hader have split, Entertainment Tonight reports. The Twilight alum and the Barry actor's breakup comes just five months after E! News confirmed their romance. "It's been going on for quite a while," a source told E! in January, "but Anna's kept it really on the Dl." At the time, People reported that the stars had been together for over a year. They were so on the Dl, in fact, that not much is known about their relationship—Bill, 44, even declined to comment on his romance with Anna, 36, during a March interview with The Hollywood Reporter. As...

Joey King got the best birthday gift ever. The actress couldn't have been more excited to find out she'd be starring with Brad Pitt in the action flick Bullet Train—which premieres August 5—on her 21st birthday. But the now 22-year-old exclusively told E! News' Daily Pop that the news came at a not-so-convenient time. "I was so drunk when they called me to offer me the role," she revealed on June 29. "I was already just freaking slammed, I was hammered, and they wanted to talk numbers. And I was like, 'I can't do this right now. I am drunk as hell.'" The Kissing Booth star certainly knows how to have a good time, and she had just as much fun while...

Adele's recent date night with Rich Paul was a slam dunk. The "Easy On Me" singer attended Kevin Love and Kate Bock's wedding—held at the New York Public Library—with her sports agent boyfriend by her side. Adele and Rich—who were first spotted together in July 2021 at a NBA finals game—were dressed to the nines at the glitzy Great Gatsby-inspired June 25 wedding. Also in attendance to celebrate the nuptials was another famous pair: LeBron James and Savannah James. For the event, Adele wore a long black, off-the-shoulder dress detailed with tulle sleeves. She paired her gown with black heels and accessorized with a simple small black clutch....

Social media users are calling foul on Andrew Bogut's recent tweet about Kendall Jenner. The retired basketball player appeared to take a dig at the supermodel following her split from Devin Booker. "With the 2022 @NBA draft completion yesterday, one big name has yet to find a home. Which team will snap up @KendallJenner??" he tweeted on June 24. "Solid talent, versatile. ?? marks around team culture + habit of endless self promotion. Doctors will need to do medical as body has been banged up."  Several social media users criticized Andrew for the comment. "This is an awful way to speak about a woman," one Twitter user wrote. Added...

Kourtney Kardashian is sticking by her husband’s side after a trip to the hospital. According to TMZ, who was first to break the news, Travis Barker arrived with his wife at West Hills hospital Tuesday morning before being taken by ambulance to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for additional care. According to TMZ, sources say Barker was admitted due to pancreatitis, likely caused by a

Ali Wong is quite literally confronting her past in the trailer for Prime Video's YA series Paper Girls. In the preview, the comedian, who plays the adult version of Erin Tieng, stumbles into the kitchen and meets three preteens. "Who's there?" adult Erin says, holding a stick and wearing her pajamas. "What are you doing in my house?" The younger Erin, played by Riley Lai Nelet, replies, "What are you doing in my house?" And then the realization hits them: They're the same person. The preteen Erin has time traveled to 2019 from 1988, making for an awkward encounter. While adult Erin keeps muttering, "This isn't real," the...

There's no need to make any plans the rest of the year, because Peacock just announced the 2022 premiere date schedule for all of their original series. Several dramas, comedies and kids titles are hitting the NBCUniversal streaming service in the coming months, including season two of the thrilling YA adaptation series One of Us Is Lying and a Pitch Perfect spinoff dubbed Bumper in Berlin. True crime fans will be particularly pleased with Peacock's lineup, as it includes a wide variety of bone-chilling series. Take A Friend of the Family, for example. Based on the riveting true story of Jan Broberg's multiple abductions—which you might've learned about in the Netflix documentary...

Meghan Markle wants to end the social stigma surrounding miscarriages. In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe V. Wade, the Duchess of Sussex reflected on the "deeply personal" experience of losing a child—and the importance of speaking out about it—in a candid conversation about the future of women's reproductive rights published by Vogue on June 28. "I know what miscarrying feels like, which I've talked about publicly," Meghan told journalist Gloria Steinem. "The more that we normalize conversation about the things that affect our lives and bodies, the more people are going to understand how necessary it is to have...

New details regarding Mary Mara's death have been revealed. The New York State Police confirmed to E! News on June 29 that the ER star's cause of death was asphyxiation due to water drowning. According to authorities, there were no signs of trauma on her body and the death was ruled an accident.  Three days earlier, on June 26, Mara was found dead after a suspected drowning incident while swimming in the St. Lawrence River, according to a New York State Police press release. She was 61.  Soon after Mara's death, her manager spoke out about the actress who was best known for her recurring role as Loretta Sweet on ER. "Mary was one in a...

Morgan Wallen went from being in a “pretty dark” place to the happiest he’s ever been over the last year. The “You Proof” country singer emphasized that gratitude is currently a “real big” word at “the top of my vocabulary.” “I’m probably [as] happy as I’ve ever been. I can honestly say that,” Wallen told radio host Storme

The future of The Hills: New Beginnings has been written—and Brody Jenner is certainly pleased with the outcome. When the reboot was cancelled following season three, "I was so stoked," Brody recently told People. "To be honest, yeah. It just wasn't the same experience. It was very stressful. There was a lot of manipulation involved. It was just a lot." According to Brody, the show MTV originally pitched him, Whitney Port, Audrina Patridge, Spencer Pratt and more was very different from the show they ended up filming, with the group under the impression that New Beginnings would feature the Og cast, as well as new, younger cast members. "I was...

These new High School Musical: The Musical: The Series guest stars are exactly what we've been looking for. Jesse Tyler Ferguson and JoJo Siwa have joined the cast of the Disney+ series for season three, which premieres July 27. Jesse, fresh off his June 12 Tony win for Take Me Out, will play Marvin, an old family friend of Nini (Olivia Rodrigo), according to the streamer. The reigning Grammy winner for Best New Artist, who appeared as a series regular on the first two seasons of the show, will appear in a limited capacity in season three. It marks just Jesse's second TV role—after a guest spot on The Good Fight in 2021—since he wrapped 11 seasons as Mitchell on Modern...

It seems as if it was just yesterday that a red-thong-clad Channing Tatum was steaming up our screens. But it's actually been 10 years since the release of Magic Mike, Steven Soderbergh's slick tale about the titular charismatic stripper who dreams of opening his own business and takes an aimless college dropout under his wing. Of course, even the bromantic plot was a distant second to the eye candy, moviegoers not exactly flocking to theaters in 2012 to see the title character's custom furniture. (Surely if this film was made now Mike would just have an Etsy store.) Rather, Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Joe...

Cristin Milioti and William Jackson Harper are checking into The Resort for a not so relaxing vacation. In the first trailer for Peacock's The Resort, Cristin and William play Emma and Noah, a couple celebrating their 10-year anniversary while on vacation on the Yucatan Peninsula. At first glance, it seems like a relaxing and romantic way to mark this marriage milestone—at least, until Emma finds a flip phone in the middle of the forest. The burner belongs to Sam Lawford (Skyler Gisondo), a guest who went missing 15 years ago while visiting the Oceana Vista resort with his mom, dad and girlfriend. He isn't the only one Mia, though. Around the same time, a girl...