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Barrel chested and 6 feet 2 inches tall, Jones was a dominating presence whether on stage, on screen or merely by sound

Each season of the series will be based on one of JK Rowling's seven books

As part of the restructuring, Netflix will combine its small and mid-sized picture productions units, cut a few jobs, scale back its output to ensure high quality titles and centralise decision-making

Ted Lasso is developed by Jason Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Brendan Hunt and Joe Kelly

Multiverse dramedy "Everything Everywhere All at Once" emerged as the big winner at the 95th Academy Awards, taking home the coveted best picture trophy along with awards for its star cast --Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Yeoh became the first Asian woman to win the best actress trophy, while Brendan Fraser returned to centre stage with his best actor award for his role as an overweight reclusive professor in "The Whale". Filmmaking duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known as the Daniels, won for both directing and original screenplay for "Everything Everywhere All at Once". "Naatu Naatu", the peppy, foot-tapping chartbuster from SS Rajamouli's Telugu blockbuster "RRR", created history by becoming the first Indian track to win the Academy Award in the best original song category.

The movie claimed seven awards overall, including three of the four acting Oscars for stars Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis

"Everything Everywhere All At Once" came in the Oscar favourite, and it's winning like one, too. Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis all won acting honours while the filmmaking duo known as the Daniels, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert won for both directing and original screenplay. Yeoh became the first Asian woman to best actress, taking the award for her lauded performance in "Everything Everywhere All at Once". The 60-year-old Malaysian-born Yeoh won her first Oscar for a performance that relied as much on her comic and dramatic chops as it did her kung fu skills. She's the first best actress win for a non-white actress in 20 years. "Ladies, don't let anyone ever tell you you're past your prime,: said Yeoh, who received a raucous standing ovation. In winning best director, the Daniels both 35 years old won for just their second and decidedly un-Oscar bait feature. They're just the third directing pair to win the award, following Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins ("W

The actor bagged the honour for his comeback role in the film 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'. The actor made history as the first Vietnam-born actor to win an Oscar

In the film, Curtis portrays tax inspector Deirdre Beaubeirdre as well as the character's alternate-universe counterparts

Indian climate change documentary "All That Breathes" could not register a win at the 95th edition of the Academy Awards, losing out to Daniel Roher's "Navalny". The Shaunak Sen-directorial was nominated in the segment alongside All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Fire of Love, and A House Made of Splinters. "Navalny" is a documentary film that revolves around Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and events related to his poisoning. The award was presented to the team of the American production by actor Riz Ahmed and musician Questlove. "All That Breathes" is a Delhi-set documentary which follows two siblings, Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad, who have devoted their lives to rescuing and treating injured birds, especially black kites. The critically-acclaimed film previously won the 'World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary' at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and the Golden Eye award for the best documentary at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. This is the second upset for India

Wide acclaim for his portrayal of Tevye helped make him, according to one newspaper, Israel's most famous export since the Jaffa orange

Mirisch served four terms as president of the Academy, from 1973 to 1977, as well as 15 years as an Academy governor

David Crosby, the brash rock musician who evolved from a baby-faced harmony singer with the Byrds to a mustachioed hippie superstar has died at 81

Gina Lollobrigida frequently described as one of the world's most beautiful women

It's the fastest a film has made that much since Spider-Man: No Way Home a year ago, according to a statement from Disney on Wednesday

The much-awaited sequel to the 2009 Hollywood blockbuster has performed beyond expectations on day one

Hollywood star Henry Cavill has found his next big acting gig -- series adaptation of miniature game "Warhammer 40,000". The news comes a day after Cavill announced that he will not be returning as Superman for future DC films. The actor also exited Netflix show "The Witcher" recently. According to entertainment news website The Hollywood Reporter, Amazon Studios is negotiating a deal with the game's producer Games Workshop. Cavill is attached to star and executive produce the series adaptation of the popular science-fiction fantasy. In "Warhammer 40,000", players enact battles using miniature models of warriors and fighting vehicles. It is set in the distant future, where a stagnant human civilization is threatened by hostile aliens and supernatural creatures. The models in the game are a mix of humans, aliens, and supernatural monsters, wielding futuristic weaponry and supernatural powers. No writers or showrunners are currently attached with the project. Cavill most recently

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Avatar: The Way of Water, a follow-up to the 2009 hit movie, was cleared for a Dec. 16 release date, raising the earnings potential for one of Disney's biggest films of the year

Hollywood star Chris Hemsworth says he will take "time off" from acting after learning he has a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer's disease. The Australian actor, who is currently promoting his Disney+ docu-series "Limitless", told the Vanity Fair magazine that after doing an episode on death and mortality, he realised the importance of spending time with his family. "I want to sit and be in this space with a greater sense of stillness and gratitude. And then you start talking about kids and family and going, 'Oh my God, they're getting older, they're growing up, and I keep slapping another movie on top of another movie.' "Before you know it, they're 18, and they've moved out of the house, and I missed the window. It really triggered something in me to want to take some time off. And since we finished the show, I've been completing the things I was already contracted to do," Hemsworth said. The 39-year-old actor shares daughter India, 10, and eight-year-old twin sons Tristan and