Chaplin

Comedy legend Charlie Chaplin’s daughter and actor Josephine Chaplin passed away at the age of 74. According to Variety, a US-based media outlet, Chaplin died on July 13 in Paris, according to an announcement from her family. Born on March 28, 1949, in Santa Monica, California, Josephine Chaplin was the third of eight children born to Charlie Chaplin and Oona O’Neill. She began her career on screen at a young age in her father’s 1952 ‘Limelight.’ She is survived by her three sons; Charlie,…

Josephine Chaplin, the daughter of Charlie Chaplin and his fourth wife, Oona O’Neill, died on 13 July in Paris, her family said on Friday. The actor, who starred in films including Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s The Canterbury Tales, was 74.Josephine Chaplin was the sixth of 11 children fathered by the comedic screen legend and the third of eight with O’Neill, an actor and daughter of the Nobel prize-winning playwright Eugene O’Neill.Chaplin met O’Neill in 1942 and married her the following year. According to the Chaplin Office,…

Oona Chaplin, seen here on Game of Thrones, will lead the Avatar 3 fire tribe.Image: HBONo, you aren’t experiencing déjà vu. Back in 2017, news broke that actress Oona Chaplin, granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin and veteran of Game of Thrones, was cast in James Cameron’s sequels to Avatar. At that time, we even heard that her character was named “Varang.” But time passes, sequels are delayed, and now that Avatar: The Way of Water is making truckloads of money in theaters, we finally know who Varang is and when she’ll…

Avatar: The Way Of Water has been breaking box office records since its worldwide release on December 16. Now, writer-director James Cameron and producer Jon Landau have revealed their plans for the upcoming films in the franchise, which will be released in the coming decade. Jon shared that new cast member Oona Chaplin will play a Na’vi leader in the third film, the fourth will contain a big jump, while the fifth film will be set on Earth. (Also read: Avatar The Way of Water box office: Film emerges as highest-grossing…

John Leonetti understands how to scare an audience. The veteran cinematographer shot some of the most memorable horror films of the 2010s, including Insidious, The Conjuring, and Insidious: Chapter 2. This partnership with James Wan, who directed all three of those films, led to Leonetti stepping into the director’s chair for Annabelle, which grossed over $255 million on a $6 million budget. Leonetti’s not-so-secret strategy for success involves using as little CG as possible, which the stars of his latest movie,…

It’s hard to even imagine. A world ravaged by climate change. People totally consumed by technology. Mega corporations in control of everything. Robots performing menial tasks. Wait, did we say “hard” to imagine? We meant we’re literally living it. The “it” being Wall-E, Pixar’s 2008 Oscar-winning masterpiece co-written and directed by Andrew Stanton.The tale of a lone robot left to clean up the Earth who finds himself on an intergalactic adventure to protect the future of the planet wowed audiences when it was released…

Tom Chaplin’s third solo album, ‘Midpoint’, released with BMG, is a diamond. Multi-faceted, reflective and sonically sublime; I long for a week-long road trip with nothing but these thirteen tracks for company.  Whilst the title track currently jars with me – I get the concept, and I love the ‘Midpoint’ video, directed by Lucy Bridger and starring Niamh Cussack  – I have no doubt I will eventually reconcile with the vocal difference Chaplin presents in the first part of this almost five minute story of dealing with…