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The opening day of the Venice Film Festival was dominated by Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Lots of red carpet glamor with a slew of movie stars from Monica Bellucci to Catherine O’Hara. Michael Keaton had fun all day pointing his iPhone at fans and filming them. Beetlejuice-themed cosplayers scattered around the red carpet area and up to the press room. Winona Ryder wore a dress aligned with the film. But the very young crowd went crazy for Jenna Ortega, aka Wednesday Addams, who arrived in stunning red. Lido-mania has arrived.

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The Venice press is infuriated by the shortage of junkets: they moan that there are few if any authorized interviews. Mariam Schaghaghi, a German journalist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, asks Alberto Barbera about this directly during the press conference. Barbera, however, said he is not aware of the situation, explaining that decisions regarding the...

Sigourney Weaver has support from loved ones at the 2024 Venice Film Festival!

The 74-year-old actress was honored with the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement during the festival’s opening ceremony on Wednesday (August 28) in Venice, Italy.

Sigourney was joined at the event by her child Shar Simpson and their partner Nemo Allen.

Shar, who is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, works as as an adjunct assistant professor at the Digital Storytelling Lab at Columbia University School of the Arts, according to Pink News. Shar is Sigourney‘s child with husband Jim Simpson.

During her acceptance speech, Sigourney joked that the award will now be traveling with her forever, saying it will be “sitting next to me on the plane, it will be next to be in the gondola and my husband will have to get used to having it in bed with us.”

Fyi: Sigourney is wearing a Chanel dress.

Actress Sigourney Weaver, 73, has revealed that she is keeping her hopes of becoming a grandmother “in check” because her only child is “ambivalent” about starting a family. The ‘Alien’ star said her only child Char, 33, who is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, isn’t sure about having kids with the “world being the way it is”.

As per Female First UK, Sigourney told Saga Exceptional: “Well, I try to keep those feelings (about becoming a grandmother) in check because my offspring is very ambivalent about all that, with the world being the way it is.”

Sigourney shares Char with her husband Jim Simpson, who she married in 1984.

However, the ‘Avatar’ star is a proud aunt to nephews and nieces who now have children of their own, but the actress feels sad that they all live quite far away.

“My wonderful family of nephews and nieces are far away and now they all have children.

Hollywood actress Kate Winslet is poking fun at Tom Cruise after breaking one of his impressive records. While filming ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’, Winslet famously held her breath underwater for seven minutes and 47 seconds, reports People magazine.

The actress, 47, recently spoke with USA Today about training for her latest movie, and the moment she officially broke Cruise’s previous record after he lasted for six minutes while shooting ‘Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’ in 2015.

Though Winslet said that Cruise hasn’t reached out to her since she broke his record, she shared a message for him with the outlet: “Poor Tom.”

“I mean, I don’t know Tom at all – I’ve never met him in my life – but I’m sure he’s getting very fed up of hearing this story of how I broke his record,” she joked. “I loved it, though … I was amazed how good...

The Dark And The Wicked, IFC Midnight title Rent-a-Pal, horror thriller Stoker Hills starring Candyman’s Tony Todd on slate.

Heading into the Cannes virtual market, The Exchange has picked up a trio of new genre titles including The Dark And The Wicked from The Strangers director Bryan Bertino.

Also new to the slate are retro thriller Rent-a-Pal, and horror thriller Stoker Hills starring Tony Todd from the Candyman franchise.

The Dark And The Wicked was due to receive its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival in the Midnight selection before the event was postponed.

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Katherine Waterston is sprawled on the floor of her dressing room. "I hurt my back a few days ago," she explains, slightly embarrassed. "It's not as bad as it looks, trust me." Waterston is backstage at the Good Morning America studios in Manhattan, having just appeared with a handful of her Alien: Covenant costars to stump for the movie on the morning-show circuit; right now, however, she's half-prone, half-sitting on the ground, and well aware that she resembles a vulnerable tangle of limbs stuck in the middle of an advanced yoga position.

Billy Magnussen joins his previously announced chums - Kristine Nielsen, David Hyde Pierce and Sigourney Weaver - for a reading of Noel Coward's A Song At Twilight. The Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike friends are reuniting for a benefit performance to kick off the 20142015 season of The Flea Theater. The performance will take place on Monday, September 15. A cocktail reception begins at 6 pm followed by the reading at 7pm and then a talkback with the actors. Flea Artistic Director, Jim Simpson directs the event at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center 199 Chambers St.

Few movies can boast a real-world impact, but "Gorillas in the Mist," the biopic of slain primatologist Dian Fossey, is one of them. Released 25 years ago (on September 23, 1988), the film alerted the world to the plight of the endangered Rwandan gorillas that she'd spent 20 years studying, prompting charitable efforts that have helped preserve the primates and conserve their habitat.

But as familiar as Fossey's story is (thanks to the movie), there's still much that remains shrouded in mystery, from the identity of Fossey's killer to how Sigourney Weaver was able to ingratiate herself with Fossey's own gorillas during the filming. Here's the details behind the film, including the hardships involved in making it, which gorillas were fake, and what became of the poacher-threatened primates after the movie crew left.

1. Producer Arne Glimcher and Universal had acquired the movie rights to "Gorillas in the Mist," Fossey's 1983 best-selling memoir. Glimcher traveled to...

The answer is: Three. That’s three sequels to “Avatar”. All shot back-to-back-to-back, apparently. Or at least, that’s according to “Avatar” star Sigourney Weaver, who let the info slip out. Also according to Weaver, the first of the sequels will begin production as soon as this Fall. In an article by Showbiz 411 about Weaver’s upcoming political show on cable TV called “Political Animals”, the conversation immediately switched to “Avatar”, which is where Weaver dropped the bomb. Then she films “Avatar” 2, 3, and 4 with James Cameron. That’s right: they’re making three sequels to the blue 3D phenom all at the same time. Weaver says she has no idea how long it will take, or how it’s going to work. “I just show up,” she said. If “Political Animals” is renewed, USA will have to wait until all that’s over. And it’s not like Weaver is...

Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman ("Seminar"), and Noah Robbins ("Arcadia") are set to appear in a reading of Hamish Linklater’s "The Vandal" on Tuesday, April 3 at The Museum of Jewish Heritage. The reading is a benefit presented by The Flea Theater, and will be directed by The Flea’s artistic director – and Weaver's husband – Jim Simpson."We are delighted to have an artist like Hamish share his gifts with The Flea," said The Flea's producing director Carol Ostrow. "To have luminaries like Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman interpret his work will mean an unforgettable evening of theater.""The Vandal" is set on a frozen night in Kingston, NY, where a woman (Weaver) who's lost everything tags her name on Death's door. "The play is about how we live and the stories we tell ourselves when we’re haunted by the people we’ve loved and lost," said Linklater, who is currently appearing in.

Sigourney Weaver is set to reprise her role in the 9/11-themed play The Guys as part of a 10th anniversary tribute to those who lost their lives in the horrific terrorist attacks.

The Alien star will return to the stage to play a journalist who helps a fire captain memorialise the men he lost at Ground Zero.

Weaver first took on the role in the months following the 2001 atrocities and the actress is eager to revisit the production, so she can again honour the fallen.

She tells the New York Post, "(At first everyone enjoyed) being together in a room for an hour and a half and being allowed to think about what had happened... Once the lights go down, you are open in a way you are not open when you are watching the news or reading the paper. You can think about things and have emotions and disagree and experience what's going on in the world in a more personal way."

The Guys will be staged at the Museum of Jewish Heritage for a two-night run, beginning on Wednesday.

Weaver's husband, Jim Simpson, will direct.

London, May 2 – Actress Sigourney Weaver values her real life achievements more than her reel-life success.

The Avatar star, 60, who has received three Oscar nominations and bagged two Golden Globes, believes managing her family – daughter Charlotte, 20, and filmmaker hubby Jim Simpson – is more challenging.

“I think most of my life changing experiences have been as a parent and as a wife – for a mother, just getting your child through the school system is a heroic job, and when I think of my life, I don’t.

Sigourney Weaver's most "life-changing" moments have been as a parent and wife rather than as an actress, she has revealed. The award-winning actress, who is married to filmmaker Jim Simpson and is mother to 20-year-old Charlotte, told The Mirror that her perfect day off would be spent with her family. She said: "I think most of my life changing experiences have been as a parent (more)...

Sigourney Weaver has credited her husband Jim Simpson with keeping their 24-year marriage stable - because he handles her fame with "grace."

The Alien star married the theatre director in 1984 after just two months of dating, and they have a 19-year-old daughter, Charlotte, together.

Weaver admits it was love at first sight for her, but it's taken a huge amount of effort on Simpson's part to keep their relationship on track.

She says, "We met at a theatre festival party in 1983. I asked him to dance and he said, 'No.' I was crushed. Later he agreed to a date and two months after that we got married. He is a strong man to be married to someone famous, you have to be.

"He handles the fuss with grace. I get far more attention than him, but it's clear for both of us that his work is as important as mine."...

Sigourney Weaver has insisted that she is still happy after 25 years of marriage. The Avatar actress has revealed that she still can't believe how fortunate she was to marry her filmmaker husband Jim Simpson because he was exactly what she was looking for, Contactmusic reports. The 60-year-old said: "I'm in shock, and happy. I remember making a long list of what I wanted in someone - and I lost the list, but I found the guy. I think I knew him when I saw him. I had to ask him out. He was much too shy to ask me, I was a (more)...

NEW YORK -- ESPN Classic is going to put an old spin on a new game. Though better known for showing key games from the annals of sports history, ESPN Classic is going to televise nine Wednesday nights of live college basketball beginning Jan. 5. The first is West Virginia against Villanova at 8 p.m. EST. The games, under the banner of "Turn Back the Clock", will have a decidedly retro on-air look, circa 1979. "We're taking the graphics back to our early days of ESPN," ESPN Classic exec producer John Dahl said. Retro also extends to the sound: Early ESPN announcer Jim Simpson will return to do the play-by-play, and analysts will include former coaches and others.

Ghostbusters stars Sigourney Weaver and Bill Murray have teamed up on the New York stage to pour their hearts out about the September 11 terrorist attacks. Weaver's character, a journalist helping a fire captain, played by Murray, writes eulogies for eight men lost in the rubble of the World Trade Center, destoyed by terrorists, in new play The Guys. The play is directed by Weaver's husband Jim Simpson.