Billie Eilish in Talks to Make Movie Debut With Sarah Polley’s ‘The Bell Jar’

The project from Focus Features adapts author Sylvia Plath’s classic novel.

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Taylor Swift Fans Could Get Vancouver Concert Ticket Refunds From StubHub

Consumer Protection B.C. investigated sales practices by the resale platform before reaching a deal to make Swifties eligible for full compensation if obstructed views were not disclosed in ticket details.

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Season two of The Lowdown is adding an Oscar winner to its cast.

Tommy Lee Jones has joined the critically acclaimed FX series from Reservation Dogs showrunner Sterlin Harjo. Details on his role in The Lowdown are being kept quiet for now.

Jones is the second new addition to the show; Betty Gilpin (Death by Lightning, GLOW) was previously cast, joining returning star Ethan Hawke.

Season one of The Lowdown followed citizen journalist and self-proclaimed “truthstorian” Lee Raybon (Hawke) as he worked to uncover corruption in Tulsa, Oklahoma, focusing on the powerful Washberg family and its patriarch (Kyle MacLachlan), who is running for governor. 

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Kate Winslet will join Andy Serkis’ Middle-earth epic The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum in what has been described to Deadline by sources as the female lead, although the role has not been disclosed.

Serkis and Peter Jackson spent most of last year coaxing Winslet to appear in the film, which means uprooting to New Zealand to shoot her scenes in the film from late May through to October.

It’s a country she’s familiar with, having shot Jackson’s 1994 movie Heavenly Creatures there.

Oscar winner Winslet will join a cast that includes the return of Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins, Ian McKellen as Gandalf and Serkis as Gollum — roles the three have been associated with since Jackson directed them in 2001’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and the subsequent series of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit features based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s celebrated collection.

The new film follows Aragorn’s perilous quest to capture Gollum before the creature can reveal the Ring’s location to Sauron. The story, much of it developed from Tolkien’s footnotes, is set between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring.

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And today, season 7 of Virgin River hits Netflix. All 10 episodes all at once!

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