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British actor Laurence Fox has lost a libel case with two men he called pedophiles on social media after they had called the My Son Hunter star a racist. On Monday, the High Court in the U.K. deemed that Fox had defamed Simon Blake, a former LGBT charity trustee, and Crystal, a drag artist and former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant, on Twitter/X in October 2020, when he called them pedophiles over an escalating row over Black History Month. The Guardian reports that the spat on X started when Fox…

Image: NetflixNetflix just confirmed that Laurence Fishburne has been cast to star in The Witcher season four. The Matrix and John Wick franchise star joins as Regis, a character introduced in Andrzej Sapkowski’s novel Baptism of Fire. He’s described by Netflix’s announcment as “a world-wise Barber-surgeon with a mysterious past who joins Geralt on his journey”Films That Inspired John Wick 4 | First FandomsFishburne shared in the official announcement, “I’m very excited to be joining the cast and look forward to exploring…

The biggest tragedy of Truman Capote’s altogether tragic life was that he never got to write Answered Prayers, the novel of high society shenanigans that he and the rest of the world knew would be his masterpiece. He envisaged it as his response to Proust’s À la Recherche du Temps Perdu, but squeezed into a single volume and set mostly in postwar New York city.The main characters in Answered Prayers would be a group of high-society women whom Capote referred to in real life as his “swans”. They included Babe Paley, Lee…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeEmilio Estevez has recounted the time Laurence Fishburne saved him from drowning in quicksand.Appearing on The Jennifer Hudson Show this week alongside his father Martin Sheen, Estevez recalled the incident which happened in the Philippines.Estevez had been visiting his dad on the set of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film Apocalypse Now, when he and actor Fishburne were both…

Laurence Fishburne saved Emilio Estevez from drowning in quicksand when they were both 14 years old. The actors were on location in the Philippines for Apocalypse Now. Estevez was not in the film, but his father, Martin Sheen, was. At the time, Sheen would travel with his family on long shoots in faraway places, so that they could remain close — physically and emotionally. “We’d only known each other a couple of days,” Estevez said of Fishburne on The Jennifer Hudson Show Tuesday, where he made…

Emma Roberts and veteran Hollywood actor Laurence Fishburn are set to star in science fiction thriller ‘The Astronaut’. According to the latest report in Deadline, an upcoming sci-fi film will be produced by A Quiet Place (2018) producer Brad Fuller. The Astronaut will be directed by debutant writer-director Jess Varley, who has previously written and directed segments in the sci-fi horror anthology film Phobias. She has also directed a 2017 horror short film titled ‘Mother’. The film’s production will start later…

Image: NetflixThough the future of Netflix’s The Witcher is in an....interesting (if somewhat uncertain) place at the moment, its past couldn’t feel more sure of itself. Later in the month, the fantasy series is receiving another prequel in the form of Blood Origin, which aims to tell the story of the very first Witcher and show how the world of The Continent became filled with monsters and beings of other races that have become a part of Geralt of Rivia and his allies’ lives in the present day.The Witcher: Blood Origin |…

Duncan Laurence has released the romantic ode to true love ‘I Want It All’, which is available via Capitol Records to stream and download. Laurence wrote the track with his fiancé, songwriter Jordan Garfield, and producers Leroy Clampitt (Dua Lipa, Justin Bieber) and Paul Phamous (Frank Ocean, Nick Jonas). “In finding love, I’ve always wanted someone who would stick around after the honeymoon phase. Someone who would love me for the good and bad, the highs and lows,” explains Duncan Laurence. “I’d grown tired of…

Screenshot: NetflixEven if The Witcher hadn’t been a bona fide hit, the prequel series Blood Origin would have had us watching the minute it announced Everything Everywhere All at Once star Michelle Yeoh was cast as a lead. And with this new look at Netflix’s Blood Origin miniseries, we’re even more all in... because it’s frickin’ Michelle Yeoh.Segment of Challenger Space Shuttle Found at Bottom of Atlantic Ocean01:05Star Wars: Shatterpoint Announcement TrailerWednesday 1:23PMSummoning power, fantastical landscapes, and…

To many people, Duncan Laurence will be best known for bringing Eurovision victory to the Netherlands back in 2019 with his song ‘Arcade’ (which has since found viral success on TikTok). Since then, he’s toured across Europe, released his debut studio album ‘Small Town Boy’ and been a coach on The Voice Kids Belgium. Now, as he prepares to release new music, he’s been out on the road including a headline show at Lafayette in London last night. Dressed in a loose double-breasted black suit and backed by his…