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In her latest film, Billie Lourd drew from some personal inspiration for a beautiful mother-daughter story. While attending the movie’s Toronto International Film Festival world premiere on Friday, the Last Showgirl actress explained how her role in the Gia Coppola movie reminded her of late mother Ca…

Billie Lourd paid tribute to her mother, Carrie Fisher, seven years following her death with a touching tribute about the emotions of grief. “It has been 7 years since my mom died (but who's counting?? Me, I guess?) Every anniversary brings a different iteration of my grief,” Lourd shared in a social…

Seamus Lyte, the UK agent to the late Carrie Fisher, has died at his home in Los Angeles of glioblastoma. He was 54. The founder and Managing Partner of Seamus Lyte Management passed away peacefully last week with his husband of ten years, Andrew Wishart, by his side. His death followed a…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first chance to see the late Carrie Fisher in her final role before she passed away seven years ago. “Are you the witch?,” asks an incredulous Kiera Milward as she encounters Fisher’s enigmatic Hazel in the fantasy drama in a Tuscan forest. “The witch, or a witch?” responds the…

EXCLUSIVE: Carrie Fisher’s last movie Wonderwell is finally getting released after a “perilous” seven-year journey to screen. The Star Wars icon, who passed away in late 2016 just six weeks after wrapping on the fantasy movie, leads cast alongside singer and actress Rita Ora (Fifty Shades of Grey)…

Better late than never is how the saying goes. Mark Hamill celebrated her Star Wars co-star Carrie Fisher late last night on Twitter for her posthumous induction into the 2022 class of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Hamill wrote, “I congratulate and salute all 38 new #HollywoodWalkOfFame honorees-Welcome to the…

Actress Billie Lourd took to Instagram to empathize with those who have lost loved ones due to the pandemic while honoring her late mother Carrie Fisher on the fourth anniversary of the Hollywood icon and Star Wars legend’s death. "Sending my love and strength to everyone out there that's missing a loved one they've…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit.  Well, it is all just about over but the counting, and in fact, I would guess PriceWaterhouse accountants have even finished that at this point. What that means is two numbers crunchers out of everyone in the whole world are now looking at every…

Making a Star Wars movie can be a thankless job. Reviewing one can be too. Rest easy, I will not be revealing any spoilers about Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker — and there would be a lot of them — but instead I am taking on the central questions for the final chapter in the nine-episode movie series: Does it work…

CAA partner Bryan Lourd has gone the unusual route and issued to Deadline a statement on behalf of himself and daughter Billie Lourd disavowing Carrie Fisher: A Life On The Edge, an upcoming book by Sheila Weller published through the Farrar, Straus and Giroux imprint Sarah Crichton Books. This came after the family…

J.J. Abrams explained to D23 attendees today, how the late Carrie Fisher will be included in the upcoming Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. "The character of Leia is really, in a way, the heart of this story. When we were talking about this story we realized we could not possibly tell the end of these nine films…

Director J.J. Abrams is out and talking about his new Star Wars film, The Rise of Skywalker, and one big reveal is that the new film will feature a significant appearance by Carrie Fisher, who died in December 2016. Abrams promises Fisher’s appearance will be seamless in the new film, which is set for a December…