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Actor Julia Stiles makes her directorial debut with romantic comedy Wish You Were Here. Here, have a trailer and a synopsis.

Julia Stiles made her name in hugely popular films like 10 Things I Hate About You, Down To You, Save the Last Dance and The Prince and Me. She went on to star in indie dramas like The Business of Strangers, before starring opposite Matt Damon in the Bourne franchise. In recent years she has appeared in films like Hustlers and, most recently Heather Graham’s Chosen Family. She has also worked on the small screen, starring in Amazon Original comedy series The Lake.

Now? She makes her directorial debut with romantic drama Wish You Were Here.

The cast for the feature includes Isabelle Fuhrman, Mena Massoud, Jimmie Fails, Gabby Kono-Abdy, wirh Dirty Dancing star Jennifer Grey and Frasier actor Kelsey Grammer.

Stiles directs from a screenplay she co-wrote with Renée Carlino,...

The official trailer for Julia Stiles’ directorial debut, Wish You Were Here, is here!

The story follows Charlotte (Isabelle Fuhrman) as she struggles to find meaning in her seemingly ordinary life. After an unforgettable night with a stranger ends abruptly, Charlotte’s quest for answers takes her on an emotional adventure that leads to a life-changing revelation.

The film features Mena Massoud, Jimmie Fails (The Last Black Man in San Francisco), Gabby Kono-Abdy (Baker’s Dozen),Jennifer Grey, and Kelsey Grammer.

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The upcoming romantic drama, based on the best-selling novel by Renée Carlino, also co-wrote the screenplay alongside Renée. It hits theaters on January 17, 2025, and will be available on digital platforms starting February 4, 2025. Watch the trailer below!

Wish You Were Here Trailer...

“Wish You Were Here” is a new romantic ‘dramedy’, directed by actress Julia Stiles, starring Isabelle Fuhrman, Mena Massoud, Gabby Kono-Abdy, Jimmie Fails, Kelsey Grammer and Jennifer Grey, opening January 17, 2025 in theaters:

“…leave the everyday world behind to take a chance on true romance. Now, when the perfect night with a perfect stranger ends suddenly the next morning, ‘Charlotte’ searches for answers and meaning in her disappointing life until she uncovers a secret that changes everything.”

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I am starting to question if Lionsgate has an under-the-table deal with Kleenex because, after watching the studio’s Wish You Were Here trailer, I think this movie will make people cry. And not just a little; I’m talking about Niagara Falls, Frankie. Niagara Falls. Wish You Were Here offers an intimate look at Julia Stiles‘s feature directorial debut. In February, the Golden Globe-nominated actress-turned-filmmaker told Deadline she’s “been looking for years for the right story to tell” as a director, and she’s finally found it with an adaptation of Renee Carlino’s best-selling novel of the same name.

Here’s the official synopsis for Wish You Were Here courtesy of Lionsgate:

“Julia Stiles makes her directorial debut in a brilliantly warm and romantic film based on the bestselling novel, Wish You Were Here. Isabelle Fuhrman, Mena Massoud, Jennifer Grey and Kelsey Grammer star in a...

"Do you believe in soulmates?" Lionsgate has revealed the official trailer for a new romantic drama movie titled Wish You Were Here, marking the feature directorial debut of actress Julia Stiles after directing some TV eps previously. This is set for a release in theaters at the end of January 2025 before it's available to watch on VOD after. The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Renée Carlino, described as a second chance love story about a young woman who reunites with a soulful artist after their magical one-night stand. A woman searching for a spark finds a whirlwind night of romance with a man only to discover he is terminally ill and commits to helping him spend his last days living life to the fullest. Wish You Were Here stars Isabelle Fuhrman, Mena Massoud, Jimmie Fails, Gabby Kono-Abdy, Jennifer Grey, and Kelsey Grammer. A sweet...

It feels like it’s been a minute since we’ve heard from Julia Stiles. While she has consistently been acting, the last role to really break through with her was in 2019’s “Hustlers.” Well, it appears she’s ready to take a stab at directing, with the upcoming drama “Wish You Were Here.”

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As seen in the new trailer for the film, “Wish You Were Here” is a romance about a woman, Charlotte, who is dealing with the aftermath of the perfect night with a perfect stranger that ends suddenly.

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After starring in hit films ranging from “10 Things I Hate About You” to “The Bourne Identity,” Julia Stiles is ready for the next phase of her artistic career.

The beloved actress makes her directorial debut on the upcoming film “Wish You Were Here,” which explores the way a fleeting romantic connection can start a ripple effect that leads to massive change in an individual’s life.

An official synopsis for the film reads, “When the perfect night with a perfect stranger ends suddenly the next morning, Charlotte searches for answers and meaning in her disappointing life until she uncovers a secret that changes everything.”

“Wish You Were Here” is adapted from Renée Carlino’s 2017 novel of the same name, with Carlino co-writing the script with Stiles. The film stars Isabelle Fuhrman, Kelsey Grammer, Jennifer Grey, Mena Massoud, Jimmie Fails, and Gabby Kono-Abdy.

While “Wish You Were Here” marks Stiles...

Zoe Saldaña is set to receive the Spotlight Award at the 27th annual CDGAs (Costume Designers Guild Awards).

This honor recognizes an actor who embodies a long-lasting dedication to excellence, with particular respect for the impact of costume design. Past Spotlight Award winners include Angela Bassett, Andrew Garfield, Charlize Theron, Glenn Close, Kerry Washington, Cate Blanchett, Naomi Watts, Amy Adams, Anne Hathaway, Halle Berry, and, this past year, Annette Bening.

“Widely known for powerful roles which captivate audiences, Saldaña can inhabit a costume and make the character come alive no matter how elaborate or otherworldly,” read an official press release. “From Neytiri in the ‘Avatar’ films and Gamora in the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ franchise, Saldaña embraces being immersed in her costumes. For those respective roles, Saldaña worked with 2023 Cdga Career Achievement Award honoree Deborah L. Scott and 2017 Excellence in Fantasy Film winner Alexandra Byrne and 2013 Cdga Career Achievement Award honoree Judianna Makovsky.

Pink Floyd tribute act Brit Floyd have announced an extensive 2025 Wish You Were Here 50th anniversary tour.

After an initial announcement of North American shows, the tour has been expanded through August. The stateside outing will now run from April 10th in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, through August 27th in Columbia, South Carolina. The tour is highlighted by a show at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado on June 5th and four West Coast dates in July featuring Pink Floyd producer/collaborator Alan Parsons.

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The previously announced dates already on sale, while a Live Nation ticket pre-sale for the newly added shows begins Thursday (December 12th) at 10 a.m. local time using the code Joy. General ticket sales start Friday (December 13th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.

The tour will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of one of Pink Floyd’s most beloved and successful albums,...

Peacock has announced the lineup of movies, TV shows, and live sports that will be available on the streaming service in December. The Peacock December 2024 schedule includes The Day of the Jackal season finale, Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story, Laid, Paris & Nicole: The Encore, and Speak No Evil.

You can deck the halls with Peacock’s lineup of over 300 holiday titles and new Hallmark programming hitting streaming next day. Peacock also has an exclusive gift for fans of The Office when The Office Superfan Episodes: Season 8 arrives on December 12. Revisit the beloved comedy with extended laughs and never-before-seen antics from the Dunder Mifflin gang.

The streaming service a gift for Premier League fans as well. Following its successful launch during the 2024 Paris Olympics, Peacock’s Multiview feature will kick off for Premier League matches starting on December 4.

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David Gilmour was a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday night (November 7th), where the legendary Pink Floyd singer-guitarist was asked by the late-night host about the long-running theory involving the album The Dark Side of the Moon and the movie The Wizard of Oz.

Thanks to the “Dark Side of the Rainbow” theory first widely publicized in a 1995 article by Charles Savage in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, it is believed that if you start Dark Side of the Moon at the exact moment the MGM lion roars at the beginning of The Wizard of Oz, the music syncs nearly perfectly with the scenes in the classic film.

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That has led some people to think that Pink Floyd intentionally recorded the 1973 album to sync with the 1939 movie, a question Fallon asked Gilmour during his appearance on The Tonight Show.

“Well,...

All it takes is one guitar note piercing through a pitch-black arena — one note dramatically reaching heavenward, as if it’s waking up — to recognize the guitarist. As soon as David Gilmour struck the introductory high E of “5 A.M.,” with only a soft red light and some even softer synths accompanying him, the packed audience at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Monday cheered. The lights slowly faded in, Gilmour’s famous slouch came into focus, and all of the weepy notes he could coax from his...

Lionsgate has renewed its long-standing film slate deal with Grindstone Entertainment Group after signing new agreements with Grindstone president and CEO Barry Brooker and principal Stan Wertlieb.

The new deal, set to run through 2027, will cover upcoming releases like action-thriller Alarum, starring Sylvester Stallone and directed by Mike Polish; Dito Montiel-directed Riff Raff, starring Jennifer Coolidge and Ed Harris and recently acquired in Toronto; Wish You Were Here, Julia Stiles’ directorial debut toplined by Isabelle Fuhrman, Kelsey Grammer, Jennifer Grey, and Mena Massoud; and prolific genre director Brian Skiba’s The Gunslingers, starring Stephen Dorff, Nicolas Cage, and Heather Graham.

Lionsgate last re-upped its near-17 year deal with Grindstone in 2020 and before that in 2017.

“Our relationship has been a model of success for nearly 20 years because Barry and Stan anticipate and understand what the market wants and needs in a way that has been consistently profitable for both of our companies,...

Lionsgate has extended its deal with Grindstone Entertainment Group through 2027.

Lionsgate and Grindstone count a near 17-year working relationship in what is a 700-title content library.

Among Grindstone’s recent releases are the thriller Fall, Damaged, with Sam Jackson and Vincent Cassell; How the Gringo Stole Christmas, starring George Lopez, Desperation Road, Manadrome with Jesse Eisenberg; and Lamborghini with Frank Grillo, Mira Sorvino and Gabriel Byrne.

The new agreement includes such upcoming releases as action-thriller Alarum, starring Sylvester Stallone and directed by Mike Polish; Riff Raff from director Dito Montiel starring Bill Murray, Jennifer Coolidge, Pete Davidson, Ed Harris, and Gabriel Union; Wish You Were Here, Julia Stiles’ directorial debut, starring Isabelle Fuhrman, Kelsey Grammer, Jennifer Grey, and Mena Massoud; The Gunslingers, starring Stephen Dorff, Nicolas Cage, and Heather Graham; and Fall 2 from the Spierig brothers. Other future titles are Hotel Tehran with Zachary Levy and Liam Neeson, The Beast in Me...

A simple acquisition can have a whole lot of narrative or let’s just say a darker narrative behind it. While it’s not uncommon for huge multimedia corporations to buy catalogs of legendary bands at staggering sums. However, when Sony acquired Queen’s music catalog, for $1 billion the entire music industry was left shocked.

Queen | Credits: Koh Hasebe; Distributed by Elektra Records | Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons

A resurfaced Instagram video is making rounds on the internet. The user initially started by informing the public about the above-mentioned acquisition. But soon, the video took a darker turn when he detailed why Sony allegedly made this shocking move in the first place.

Sony’s Alleged Reasoning Behind Buying the Entire Queen Catalog

Not just the music catalog, but Sony also acquired several other rights excluding live performance revenue (this Brian May and Roger Taylor will retain) for an impressive $1 billion as reported via HitsDailyDouble.

David Gilmour kicked off his Luck and Strange world tour Friday night at Circo Massimo in Rome, Italy. The set featured six songs from the new album, multiple guest appearances by Gilmour’s daughter Romany, three tunes from 2015’s Rattle That Lock, and 12 Pink Floyd classics.

Prior to the tour, Gilmour generated headlines all across the world by saying he had an “unwillingness to revisit the Pink Floyd of the Seventies,” and would instead play only songs from his era fronting the band in the Eighties and early Nineties. But...

David Gilmour is set to kick off a limited tour of London, Rome, Los Angeles, and New York (get tickets here) later this week in support of his new album, Luck and Strange. As a warm-up, he played a pair of live dress rehearsal shows at Brighton Centre in Brighton, England on Friday (September 20th) and Saturday (September 21st).

During the first concert, Gilmour debuted several songs from the new LP, including “The Piper’s Call,” “Between Two Points,” and “Dark and Velvet Nights.” More than half of the set was made up of classic Pink Floyd material, including many songs he hadn’t played since the mid-2000s.

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Besides performing The Dark Side of the Moon song “Breathe (In the Air)” for the first time since 2006, Gilmour dusted off cuts from The Division Bell like “Marooned” and “A Great Day for Freedom” for the first time since 2004 and 2006, respectively.

Incubus kicked off their 2024 “Morning View + the Hits Tour” in Detroit, Michigan over the weekend, where they played their 2001 album Morning View in full. The tour comes on the heels of Morning View Xxiii, a re-recorded version of the album that arrived back in May.

Incubus intended to have their 20th anniversary Morning View celebration in 2021, but the pandemic had other plans — instead of the full-fledged tour they’ve now finally embarked on, Incubus held a special livestreamed performance at the house that Morning View was recorded at in October 2021.

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The group also commemorated the album with a hometown performance at the Hollywood Bowl last fall, where Lizzo appeared as a guest to play flute on closing track “Aqueous Transmission.” They previously brought their 1999 breakout LP Make Yourself on tour to celebrate that album’s 20th birthday in 2019 — now, it’s Morning View’s turn.

The...

The Sony Pictures sequel “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” made headlines as it rolled through a succession of Florida locations in late February and early March, with reports of crews “spark(ing) buzz” filming on the A1A Highway in Fort Lauderdale, fans catching a glimpse of stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Brickell, and traffic tie-ups in Miami.

“If you look at the trailer, you’ll see anything that has to do with the beach is all us, with the stunt scene that they did on Ocean Drive in Fort Lauderdale,” boasts Sandy Lighterman, film commissioner for Broward County (Film Lauderdale) and president of Film Florida. “That was because we made it so easy for them.”

One of the reasons the presence of the latest “Bad Boys” movie was such big news is that while Florida has a wealth of TV production courtesy of Spanish language networks Telemundo and Univision,...

Exclusive: Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins (Freud’s Last Session) has signed on to star in Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess, the latest film from director Nick Cassavetes. Billed as the first-ever major Hollywood production to shoot in Antarctica, the film also has Shia Labeouf (Padre Pio) in talks to star and will enter production in November.

Scripted by Daniel Barnz and Ned Zeman, Bruno Penguin is based on a Vanity Fair article from the latter which tells the true story of adventurous Swiss photographer Bruno Zehnder, a superb artist who spent the last 20 years of his life in Antarctica photographing Emperor penguins. He was obsessed by them – their kindness, the way they lived, their deep levels of affection for one another. Bruno spent his life trying to learn how to communicate with them and over time, the colonies grew to know him and return his fondness.

Incubus have released a re-recorded version of their 2001 album, Morning View. Stream it below.

In a recent interview with Consequence, Incubus vocalist Brandon Boyd spoke about maintaining the “burgeoning legacy” of the original album while revisiting it for Morning View Xxiii. “A lot of people love this album the way it is — it’s not like it’s broken,” he said.

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However, the band wanted to capture how the songs have “morphed and changed” over the past few decades. “They’ve evolved out into totally different arrangements and then made their way back to the original arrangement — we’ve been playing them that long at this point,” he explained. “On the re-recording, you can tell it’s the same song, but there are different embellishments.”

Starting in late August, Incubus will perform Morning View in full on a US arena tour with special guest Coheed and...

This summer, Incubus will perform their blockbuster 2001 album, Morning View, in full on a US arena tour with special guest Coheed and Cambria (get tickets here). As a preview, the band played “Wish You Were Here” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday night. Watch the replay below.

Along with the celebratory tour, Incubus are releasing a newly re-recorded version of the album, officially dubbed Morning View Xviii, this Friday, May 10th.

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This past weekend, Incubus played the BeachLife Festival in Redondo Beach, California. Read our live report here.

Incubus 2024 Tour Dates:

08/23 – Detroit, Mi @ Little Caesars Arena ^

08/24 – Rosemont, Il @ Allstate Arena ^

08/27 – Philadelphia, Pa @ Wells Fargo Center ^

08/29 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden ^

08/31 – Boston, Ma @ Td Garden ^

09/03 – Tampa, Fl @ Amalie Arena ^

09/06 – Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory ^

09/07 – Austin, TX @ Moody Center Atx ^

09/09 – Denver, Co @ Ball Arena ^

09/12 – San Francisco, CA @ Chase Center ^

^ = Morning View performance with special...

David Gilmour announced the first dates of his Luck and Strange tour last week, but he told Uncut that it’s going to be a very different tour from his previous ones because of an “unwillingness to revisit the Pink Floyd of the Seventies.” He went on to explain that he was willing to play Floyd songs from the Syd Barrett period of the Sixties, and his own era fronting the group in the late Eighties and early Nineties.

The “unwillingness” to play Seventies Floyd songs wasn’t explained, but...

David Gilmour is planning to promote his upcoming solo album, Luck and Strange, with a rare tour. Just don’t show up expecting to hear Pink Floyd hits like “Wish You Were Here,” “Comfortably Numb,” or “Money.” In a new interview with Uncut, Gilmour said he has an “unwillingness to revisit the Pink Floyd of the Seventies” and would rather focus the set around his new album and other periods of Floyd’s history.

“[Other decades] might be better represented,” he said. “I mean, at least one from the Sixties. The one...

Surprise! Julia Stiles is now a mom of three!

In a new interview published on Wednesday (April 3), the 43-year-old 10 Things I Hate About You actress revealed that she and husband Preston J. Cook quietly welcomed their third child together five months ago.

Keep reading to find out more…“I’m kind of like a bundle of emotions, because I have a 5-month-old baby and I went into directing my first movie,” Julia shared with The New York Times about her directorial debut Wish You Were Here.

“I didn’t really talk about it,” Julia said of her third pregnancy. She didn’t reveal the baby’s sex or name.

“I think that actually being a mom is really great training for being a director,” Julia explained. “You have to think 10 steps ahead but also be in the present moment. You have to be good at time management. You have to...

Exclusive: Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated actress Julia Stiles has wrapped production on her directorial debut, Wish You Were Here, based on the bestseller by Renee Carlino. The cast includes Isabelle Fuhrman (The Novice), Mena Massoud (Aladdin), Jimmie Fails (The Last Black Man in San Francisco), Gabby Kono (Magic Carpet Rides), Jennifer Grey (A Real Pain) and Kelsey Grammer (Frasier).

Adapted for the screen by Stiles, the film tells the story of Charlotte, a woman who finds herself in a rut, searching for a spark that seems just out of reach. After she has a whirlwind night of romance and imagining a future with a man named Adam, he ghosts her. But when Charlotte finally discovers that Adam is terminally ill, she helps him spend his last days living life to the fullest.

In a statement to Deadline, Stiles shared that she’s “been looking for years for the right story to tell” as director,...

When Brandon Boyd thinks back on the spring of 2001, he’s amazed he wasn’t more stressed out. His band, Incubus, had just broken through with 1999’s Make Yourself, and their hit “Drive” was climbing the charts. “In retrospect, we probably should have felt more pressure to make a great follow-up record because we have this hit single right now,” Boyd, 47, tells Rolling Stone. “That didn’t even enter our minds. We were just like, ‘This is crazy! A lot of people are listening to our songs right now. Let’s make another one!

Leland is best known for directing ’Wish You Were Here’, ’Land Girls’ and TV series ’Band Of Brothers’.

Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson have heralded their collaborations with leading UK director, writer and actor David Leland who died on December 24, 2023 at the age of 82

Brosnan thanked the filmmaker, best known for directing Wish You Were Here and The Land Girls, for giving him his first professional acting role in Tennessee William’s stage production of The Red Devil Battery Sign.

“It was the thrill of my young lifetime to be cast as McCabe, working with David and Tennessee. David will...

British director and screenwriter who enjoyed huge success with his 1987 hit film Wish You Were Here

Grittiness and compassion were the twin hallmarks of the writer and director David Leland, who has died aged 82. He scripted a clutch of uncompromising films that launched the screen careers of Cathy Tyson, Emily Lloyd and Tim Roth. Leland’s writing was distinctly British in flavour but without the parochial sensibility that might have limited its appeal.

His early draft of Mona Lisa (1986), an underworld thriller about the relationship between a sex worker (Tyson) and her driver (Bob Hoskins), was tougher and nastier than the finished film. Leland shared the screenplay credit with its Irish director, Neil Jordan.

From Wish You Were Here to Mona Lisa and The Big Man, he was determined to shine a light on those marginalised in society albeit using his quirky sense of humour

David Leland was a master of understatement with a social conscience and wildly wicked sense of humour, arising like his friends the Pythons from our everyday humdrum British universe in the 60s and 70s.

More than 40 years ago I saw the astonishing Made in Britain. The film that made Tim Roth – who played a violent skinhead – a star, was written by Leland for the producer and director Alan Clarke. It was a a biting attack on rightwing Thatcherite policies and it is just as relevant to today’s brutal system.

David Leland, a director of stage and screen whose filmmaking CV includes films such as Wish You Were Here, Personal Services and Land Girls, has died. He was 82.

Born in 1941 in Cambridge, Leland initially trained as an actor at the Central Speech of School and Drama and had many stage credits before moving into direction at the Crucible Theatre. That began his collaboration with Alan Clarke in 1981. He wrote Made In Britain, which Clarke directed and featured the first screen role of Tim Roth. In 1986, Leland and director Neil Jordan co-wrote the screenplay for Mona Lisa, which starred Bob Hoskins.

Leland then wrote Personal Services, which was directed by Terry Jones and followed the true-life story of Cynthia Payne, who ran a private brothel.

Payne was also the subject of Leland's next film his directorial debut, Wish You Were Here, which chronicled her teenage years, starring Emily Lloyd.

While his next two films,...

Emmy winning “Band of Brothers” director David Leland, who was also a prolific writer with over five decades in the industry, died Sunday at age 82.

The news came from his longtime agency Cassaroto Ramsay & Associates on Wednesday.

“Our beloved client writer/director, David Leland has passed away. We will miss his incredible talent and warm spirit so very much,” the agency said. “Our thoughts are with his family at this time.”

Leland, born in England at the height of World War II, trained as an actor and stage manager before establishing himself as a screenwriter and director. Among his most popular films are the 1983 cult classic “Made in Britain,” 1986’s Golden-Globe and Oscar-nominated “Mona Lisa” with Bob Hoskins and 1987’s “Wish You Were Here.”

Leland was renowned for writing two films about British suburban madam Cynthia Payne, 1987’s “Personal Services” and Cannes Film Festival hit “Wish You Were Here,” the...

The British film-maker also wrote the landmark TV play Made in Britain, starring Tim Roth, and won an Emmy award for Band of Brothers

David Leland, the director behind popular 1980s hit Wish You Were Here and writer on a string of acclaimed British films including Made in Britain, Mona Lisa and Personal Services, has died aged 82. His agency Casarotto Ramsay and Associates said in a statement that Leland died on Sunday surrounded by his family. They added: “He is survived by his wife, Sabrina, his four daughters, his son and his six grandchildren … all of whom he loved almost as much as Arsenal football club.”

Born in 1941, Leland initially trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech of Drama, before becoming part of the breakaway that led to the creation of the Drama Centre in 1963. He secured small roles in 1970s films such as John Mackenzie’s directorial debut One Brief Summer,...

David Leland, the British writer, director and actor whose credits include “Wish You Were Here,” “The Borgias” and more, died on Dec. 24, according to his agents Casarotto Ramsay & Associates. He was 82. A cause of death was not revealed.

Leland cut his teeth in theater, where he directed the world premiere of Michael Palin and Terry Jones’ “Their Finest Hours” and gave Pierce Brosnan his first opportunity to act on stage in the British premiere of Tennessee Williams’ “The Red Devil Battery Sign.”

A distinguished film and TV screenwriting career followed, including “Made in Britain” (1982) directed by Alan Clarke and starring Tim Roth; “Birth of a Nation” (1983) by Mike Newell; and Neil Jordan’s Oscar, Golden Globe and WGA-nominated “Mona Lisa” (1986), featuring a BAFTA-winning performance by Bob Hoskins.

Leland made his directorial debut with “Wish You Were Here” (1987), which won him the BAFTA for best original screenplay, and the film...

David Leland has sadly passed away.

The theater, film and TV star died at the age of 82 on Christmas Eve (December 24) surrounded by his family, his agency confirmed to Deadline.

He is perhaps best known for writing Personal Services, directed by Terry Jones and starring Julie Waters, and Wish You Were Here, which he also directed.

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He won the BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay for Wish You Were Here, which also won the Fipresci prize at Cannes that year.

Later on, he served as the co-showrunner of Showtime series The Borgias.

Pierce Brosnan starred in the staging of Tennessee Williams’ The Red Devil Battery Sign at The Round House that David directed.

“David Leland holds a mighty place in my heart. I was just out of Drama Centre where David was also an alumni. It was the thrill of my young lifetime to be cast as McCabe,...

David Leland, the veteran British theater, film and TV writer and director best known for his 1987 debut movie Wish You Were Here, has died. He was 82.

Leland’s death on Christmas Eve was announced by his longtime publicist, Casarotto Ramsay & Associates.

Born on April 20, 1941, Leland initially trained as an actor at the Central Speech of School and Drama and had many stage credits before moving into direction at the Crucible Theatre.

Leland worked with such British talent as Michael Palin and Terry Jones and directed the world premiere of Their Finest Hours. Pierce Brosnan got his first opportunity to act on stage in the British premiere of Tennessee Williams’ The Red Devil Battery Sign at The Round House, which Leland directed.

“David Leland holds a mighty place in my heart,” Brosnan said in a statement. “I was just out of Drama Center where David was also an alumni. It...

British director and actor David Leland has died aged 82, according to his long-time agency, Cassaroto Ramsay & Associates

The theater, film and TV star passed away on Christmas Eve (December 24), surrounded by his family.

Leland’s career spanned over five decades. He is known for writing two films about British suburban madam Cynthia Payne, the BAFTA-nominated Personal Services in 1987 and the Cannes Film Festival hit Wish You Were Here.

The former was directed by Terry Jones and starred Julie Walters, while Leland directed the latter himself, with Emily Lloyd starring.

Leland won the BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay for Wish You Were Here and the film won the Fipresci prize at Cannes.

He is also noted for serving as co-showrunner of Showtime series The Borgias and for giving Pierce Brosnan his first stage opportunity in the British premiere of Tennessee Williams’ The Red Devil Battery Sign at The Round House, which Leland directed.

Although there hasn’t been any official word put out, British psychedelic rock band ‘Pink Floyd’ have been shopping their recorded-music catalogue and other assets for several months, seeking as much as 500 million, according to the Financial Times, with both major music companies and investment firms as the top bidders.

But sources say that an explosive new interview with founding member, main songwriter and stakeholder Roger Waters – in which he makes extensive remarks about Israel, Ukraine, Russia, the U.S. and other political matters that one could politely characterise as controversial – is giving at least one potential buyer cold feet and seems likely to lead others to rethink their positions, reports Variety.

For years, Waters has sounded off about politics in the press and at his concerts, most controversially Israel’s policies. But the new interview in Rolling Stone raises (or lowers) the bar considerably.

During the interview, the former...

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When it comes to Lakeyah, everything she does is big. There are only big rollouts, big announcements, and big moves for the 21-year-old rapper repping Midwest hip-hop. Lakeyah - newly signed to Motown Records (in addition to Quality Control Music) - is gearing up to take over the summer airwaves. With the release of her single "I Look Good" and a new collaboration with Latto, the Milwaukee native is ready to show the world the tricks she has up her sleeve.

"I'm representing from Milwaukee all the way to Ohio, and I love that for my city . . ."

"It's so much growth in the music," she tells Popsugar of her upcoming summer project. "I stepped out of my comfort zone for sure, as everybody can see with my new single I dropped ["I Look Good"] . . . I wanted to work with a lot of different and big producers, creative people, and...

Pink Floyd have reunited for a one-off charity single to raise money for Ukrainians affected by Russia’s invasion. “Hey, Hey, Rise Up” features vocals by Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the Ukrainian band, Boombox, who recorded himself in full military gear singing the folk song, “The Red Viburnum in the Meadow,” to the empty streets in Kyiv’s Sofiyskaya Square.

David Gilmour was so moved by the performance that he called Nick Mason, bassist Guy Pratt, and keyboardist Nitin Sawhney and organized a recording session last Wednesday that featured video of Khlyvnyuk projected on the wall.

On last Friday’s 11th episode of “RuPaul’s Drag Race 14,” the bottom seven queens that failed to impress during the “Snatch Game” were thrown into the storm of a “Lipsync Lalaparuza Smackdown” to determine which of them would be sent home. Over the course of the night, the seven queens faced off in six lipsync head-to-heads. Because that many performances in one episode is a treat (think: gold chocolate bar sweet) we wanted to know which of the six was Your favorite. Scroll down for the complete poll results, which are mostly inconclusive as it would appear we as an audience are split!

See‘The Pit Stop’ for ‘Drag Race 14’ episode 11: Monet gets ‘lipsync guru’ Silky Nutmeg Ganache’s opinions

In the first round, Daya Betty bested Jasmine Kennedie after choosing the one song from the list that she thought she could embody the emotion of, “Respect.” As Daya suspected,...

Pink Floyd will release a “restored and re-edited” edition of their Pulse concert film, which documented the band’s gargantuan Division Bell tour, next year. The film will be available on Blu-ray and DVD on Feb. 18.

The film documented the band’s Oct. 20, 1994 appearance at London’s Earl’s Court and features a full performance of The Dark Side of the Moon. The band’s core lineup for the concerts featured guitarist David Gilmour, keyboardist Richard Wright, and drummer Nick Mason.

The upgraded film previously featured in Pink Floyd’s...

With a new HBO documentary revisiting the infamous Woodstock ’99, a new generation is learning about one of the most calamitous festivals of all time.

Woodstock ’99 was supposed to celebrate the 30th anniversary of “peace, love and happiness.” Instead, the Rome, New York festival earned the infamous distinction of “the day the Nineties died.” There were tons of contributing factors that made the fest the anti-Woodstock: Organizers trying to wring every last dollar from festivalgoers from exorbitant ticket prices to costly water bottles, a festival site built atop hot tarmac in late-July heat,...

Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best songs.)

Tiera featuring Breland, “Miles”

Singer-songwriter Tiera flexes her melodic and vocal muscles on the easygoing new single “Miles,” a duet with the shapeshifting singer Breland, of “My Truck” fame. Rather than trunk-rattling country-trap, it’s...

“Forget money, I’m focused on dignity and loyalty.” Those were the disturbing words spoken the other day by my favorite agent who, alas, is facing the prospect of going out of business.

Fortunately, the agent in question is French and fictional; she works for Ask and is portrayed in Call My Agent!, the hit show that began its fourth and final season on Netflix this week. Talent agents and their entourages have pitched and connived their way on TV before, but the French show has found a binge following, even among Hollywood’s besieged tenpercenters, as Variety used to call them.

Faced with strikes and streamers, the agenting community has had to make some bold moves, redefining corporate goals and expanding job descriptions. Agents are now even repping politicians and their causes as well as actors.

The “Resurrected” version of New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders’ final solo LP Que Sera Sera — released as part a Record Store Day exclusive — will be reissued once again with additional outtakes and live tracks.

The first disc in the 35th-anniversary three-cd box set boasts the “remixed” version of Thunders’ album, plus two songs left off the album and six outtakes from the album’s studio sessions. The second disc collects 18 live recordings from the era, taken from Thunders’ European tour stops in Geneva, Amsterdam and Lyon, France. The third...

The more emotion-driven a TV series or movie, the more important the soundtrack. And boy is Normal People, the Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s wildly popular novel of the same name, driven by the emotion of its characters and world.

Normal People follows Marianne and Connell’s complicated relationship as they move from being teenagers at a small town in western Ireland into young adulthood at Dublin’s Trinity College, and showrunner Ed Guiney, directors Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald, music supervisors Juliet Martin and Maggie Phillips, and editor Nathan Nugent have done an impressive job crafting the music landscape for this world.

“We were trying all sorts of tracks ourselves,” said Abrahamson, who mentioned Martin, Phillips, Nugent, and himself as the chief collaborators in the process. “So, as well as the work that Stephen Rennicks, the composer, was doing, it was just, again, a very organic kind of collaboration.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Carly Rae Jepsen has kicked off 2020 with break-up post-mortem “Let’s Be Friends.” She released her fourth album, Dedicated, in May.

“Let’s be friends/Then never speak again,” she sassily declares with her brush-off lyrics over a strutting guitar melody. “It’s cool, we can just pretend we’re friends and never speak again/See you soon, hope we can remain good friends.”

In an interview with Clash Music, Jepsen revealed that she would be interested in releasing a Dedicated Side B,...

My Top Ten Oscar® Submissions for Best Foreign Language Film includes Darkest Horse: from Slovakia, ‘The Line’You know how, when you finally see a movie you really love, all things seem possible? How a great movie transports you to a new reality? Without that experience, normal life seems drab and dreary unless you use other means of transcendance, like hope, art, music, dancing, religion or drugs.

Have I yet raved about any of the 25 foreign language submissions?

Yes, but it was a long time ago when it won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, that I was so enamoured Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi’s Of Body and Soul (as I was with her previous film, the 1989 Cannes Film Festival Camera d’or winner, My Twentieth Century, which was seen by about a .02% of the population). But that was way back in February.

I would put my body...

Pajiba on the staggering popularity of Adam Sandler movies on Netflix

EW super cute unseen photos from the production of La La Land (it's on DVD very soon)

THR a Richard Gere profile on the new indie phase of his career and why he isn't in the big studio pictures anymore

i09 a tour of Marvel Studios with peeks at all six movies in various stages of production

The Guardian on the making of the wonderful British comedy Wish You Were Here (1987) for its 30th anniversary. God, Emily Lloyd was sensational in that. Remember her? The '87 Oscar Actress lineup was special but I still missed her there.

Tracking Board Bill Condon who did the James Whale biopic Gods and Monsters is in talks to direct Universal's remake of Whale's Bride of Frankenstein. Shouldn't he feel queasy about this as a fan? 

Awards Daily on the TV Drama Series Actress race.