Susan Backlinie, the stuntperson and actress who as a young skinny-dipper out for a nighttime swim off the coast of Amity Island became the shark’s first victim in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, has died. She was 77.Roger Corman, Giant of Independent Filmmaking, Dies at 98 Backlinie died Saturday at her home in Ventura, California, her convention agent, Matthew Templeton, told The Daily Jaws website. Backlinie was a nationally ranked swimmer and professional diver who had performed as a mermaid and worked as an animal trainer when she was hired at age 28 to play the skinny-dipping Chrissie in Universal’s Jaws (1975). “I didn’t want...

It was all about mothers at the top of this week’s pre-Mother’s Day Saturday Night Live.'SNL' to Mark 50th Anniversary With a Live Primetime Special (on a Sunday) The variety show dispensed with its typical topical cold open for one that featured SNL castmembers sharing moments with their moms. Kenan Thompson kicked off the show, appearing on the Studio 8H stage with his mom because, he said, “it’s “Mother’s Day in about 29 minutes,” which, she declared, meant there was still “plenty of time to buy a gift.” “With so many upsetting stories in the world right now, we thought we’d take a...

Roger Corman, the fabled “King of the B’s” producer and director who churned out low-budget genre films with breakneck speed and provided career boosts to young, untested talents like Jack Nicholson, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme, Gale Anne Hurd and James Cameron, has died. He was 98.Al Onorato, Casting Director and Talent Manager, Dies at 88 The filmmaker, who received an honorary Oscar in 2009 at the Governors Awards, died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, his family told The Hollywood Reporter. “He was generous, open-hearted and kind to all those who knew him,” they...

Al Onorato, who handled casting for such TV shows as Bewitched, The Partridge Family, Police Story and Fantasy Island and represented Mark Harmon, Kristin Chenoweth and others as a talent manager, has died. He was 88.Bob Ellison, Emmy-Winning 'Mary Tyler Moore Show' Writer and Expert Joke Fixer, Dies at 91 Onorato died April 21 in Los Angeles, his nephew Chris Onorato announced. Onorato founded the Casting Society of America (then known as the American Society of Casting Directors) with Mike Fenton and Joe Reich in 1982, and he received a lifetime achievement award from the organization in 2019. Onorato won the CSA’s Artios...

Swiss performer Nemo has won the 68th Eurovision Song Contest, beating Croatian artist Baby Lasagna, who finished second, in what was perhaps the most divisive competition in its history.The Ultimate London Pub Crawl, According to Matthew Rhys The nonbinary singer, representing Switzerland, won with their track “The Code” collecting 591 points from a combination of music industry juries in each participating country and the global public. Croatia placed second with 547 points at the event in Malmö, Sweden and Ukraine third with 453 points. Rounding out the top five were France and Israel with 445 and 375 points, respectively. Eurovision was back...

Over the nine years that I’ve been contributing to KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, I’ve been asked the same question over and over again by people who recognized me from the channel: “What is Sam Rubin really like?” The short answer is simple: With Sam, what you saw was what you got. As exuberant, enthusiastic and charming as he was on camera, that’s exactly how he was in person too.Hollywood A-Listers React to Sam Rubin's Death: "Your Professionalism Was Unmatched" And what a talented professional. After 33 years as the face of entertainment news for KTLA, he had the job down, and...

Chris Pine is opening up about not landing the role of Ryan Atwood in The O.C. due to his bad acne at the time. Chris Pine Says 'Poolman' Was the "Best Thing to Ever Happen to Me" Despite Negative Reviews In Welcome to The O.C.: An Oral History, which was released in honor of the show’s 20th anniversary, casting director Patrick Rush revealed that the Star Trek star did not get the lead part in the Fox show because of his skin problems. During an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast ahead of the release of Pine’s directorial debut, Poolman,...

Perhaps one of the most impressive aspects of John Krasinski’s upcoming film, IF, is the all-star voice cast he lined up for it. Bradley Cooper Producing PBS Documentary About Family Caregivers The multihyphenate stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Friday to discuss the project, and the late night host couldn’t help but ask about how the writer-director managed to get major stars to sign onto the project. “I gotta say, the most yeses of my career was on this movie and the fastest yeses because they all love the idea of imagination, going back to your childhood,” Krasinski...

Wilhelm Schmid learned long ago that the best way to get a new A. Lange & Söhne watch to a city teeming with collectors of the coveted German luxury watch brand was to strap it on and deliver it personally. Well-Timed: The Best New Chic Watches to Give for Mother's Day, From Cartier, Chanel and More “There’s no way in today’s world to ship a watch quickly from Geneva to [our headquarters in] Germany to America and wherever we might need the watch, so I carry them on my wrist,” Schmid, who has been the CEO of A. Lange &...

Bob Ellison, the two-time Emmy Award winner who wrote for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and served as a game-saving creative/script consultant on Cheers, Wings, Becker and many other comedies, has died. He was 91.Roger Corman, Giant of Independent Filmmaking, Dies at 98 He died April 8 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his business manager, Malcolm Orland, told The Hollywood Reporter. “He was a sweetheart and so good at what he did,” Orland said. Ellison came from the world of variety shows, where he wrote and/or produced several specials that starred Julie Andrews and Burt Bacharach. He also co-developed the...

Mathew Rhys is Welsh by birth. But the Emmy-Award winning actor and star of the upcoming Babak Anvari-directed thriller, Hallow Road spent a good portion of his life in and around London’s West End.Eurovision: Switzerland Wins the Most Divisive Song Contest In Competition's 68-Year History He moved to the capital city at the tender age of 17 to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and fell in love with the local pub scene not long thereafter. More than three decades later, the actor — who’s married to Keri Russell, star of London-based Netflix series The Diplomat — has had plenty of time to...

“An OnlyFans Page for my feet?” Dear Remy, 'Star Wars': Sigourney Weaver in Talks to Join 'The Mandalorian & Grogu' I was in a movie that had a very languorous shot of my feet. During shooting, I thought nothing of it, but now I have found that there is a grim corner of the internet that discusses my feet at length, to the point where, when you enter my name into Google, it autocompletes with the word ‘feet’. I am by no means a precious person. I would happily take part in a comedy roast. But there’s something about this fascination with my...

If traffic holds up, Wes Ball’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes will succeed in opening to a solid $52 million to $56 million domestically for a first-place finish. Friday’s haul was $22.2 million, including $6.6 million in previews.'The Fall Guy' Writer Drew Pearce Talks That A-List Cameo and the 'Mission: Impossible' Death He Considered The Planet of the Apes franchise has always been a big player overseas, and the latest installment is opening around the globe timed to its North American release. Hopes are for an $80 million international launch. The 20th Century and Disney movie is the second event...

Details are slowly coming in about Amazon Prime Day 2024, which returns for another two-day shopping event this July.The Best Extended Spring Sale Deals on Amazon's Fire Tablets and TVs, Kindle E-Readers and More Amazon announced earlier this month that Prime Day will be back for its ninth consecutive year, with thousands of deals online over a 48-hour period. Want to shop the best Amazon Prime Day deals? Here’s what we know so far. SEE LATEST AMAZON DEALS HERE When Is Amazon Prime Day 2024? Amazon has confirmed that Prime Day 2024 will take place this July, though the exact dates have yet...

Dutch Eurovision contestant Joost Klein has been disqualified ahead of the competition’s Grand Final on Saturday night.Eurovision: Switzerland Wins the Most Divisive Song Contest In Competition's 68-Year History The performer was sent home after an allegation of intimidation was made to Swedish police by a female member of the production crew. In a statement, the organizers of the event said: “While the legal process takes its course, it would not be appropriate for him to continue in the Contest. We would like to make it clear that, contrary to some media reports and social media speculation, this incident did not involve any...

Hollywood A-listers took to social media this weekend to honor Sam Rubin, the beloved KTLA anchor who died on Friday. Sam Rubin Remembered: Reporter Who Filled in for KTLA Legend on Day He Died Pays Tribute (Guest Column) “Your professionalism was unmatched by your kindness and humanity,” Viola Davis wrote on Instagram. “I will miss your presence on The Red Carpet. God bless your loved ones. Godspeed.” Rubin was a popular entertainment anchor on KTLA-TV’s morning show, and appeared across Hollywood at award shows and red carpet events. He died of a heart attack on Friday at age 64. “KTLA 5 is profoundly...

Zayn Malik said this week he regrets not taking time to appreciate his time with boy band One Direction, adding that he’s “able to be happier now.” Louis Tomlinson Says Harry Styles Romance Rumors "Irritate Me a Little" “The main thing that I always feel bad about when I look back over my life is not enjoying the band enough,” Malik said on the Zach Sang Show. “I feel like I just took things too seriously, you know? I’m grateful that I’m able to be happier now. I can actually enjoy things and own my own perspective a bit, you know? Like,...

Sci-fi legend Sigourney Weaver has gone up against face-hugging aliens and squared off against colonizers on lush green planets, but she has never faced stormtroopers and galactic bounty hunters.Noah Hawley Explains Why 'Prometheus' Isn't "Useful" for His 'Alien' Prequel Until now. Weaver is in talks to join the cast of The Mandalorian & Grogu, the first Star Wars movie to go into production since 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau is directing the feature, which is expected to film later this year. Favreau, Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy and Lucasfilm chief creative officer Dave...

The third installment of Danny Boyle’s 28 franchise is coming. 28 Years Later will release in summer 2025, Sony Pictures announced Friday. Cillian Murphy, 'Kin' Season 2 Among Irish Film & Television Awards Winners The film, directed by Boyle with a script by Alex Garland, will be a follow-up to 2002’s 28 Days Later and 2007’s 28 Weeks Later. When news of the film first made headlines earlier this year, there were also reports that Boyle and Garland hope to launch a new trilogy with this installment. Boyle and Garland will also produce, with original producer Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice...

Law Roach has a great memory. The stylist said on Wednesday that his longtime client Zendaya still hasn’t donned looks from the “big five” fashion houses after they initially refused to dress her early in her career. Zendaya Flexed Her Fashion Power Wearing Two Looks on the Met Gala Red Carpet “I would write [to] the big five… and they would all say no,” Roach, who has styled Zendaya since she was 14, said during an appearance on The Cutting Room Floor podcast. He clarified he was referring to Chanel, Saint Laurent, Dior, Gucci and Valentino, who consistently told him, “Try...