EXCLUSIVE: Star of stage and screen Catherine Zeta-Jones has signed with UTA in all areas. Zeta-Jones won an Academy Award or her role as vaudevillian murderess Velma Kelly in Rob Marshall’s adaptation of Chicago and earned a Tony Award for Lead Actress In A Musical for her role as Desirée Armfeldt in Stephen…
“No one likes a pretty girl who expects big things to happen to her,” says Vicki Ellis a renowned and ruthless pageant coach played by Catherine Zeta-Jones in the new trailer for the dark comedy Queen Americawhich debuts on Facebook Watch on November 21.
In the new 30-second trailer, Zeta-Jones tries to whip Samantha…
UPDATED with new premiere date:Catherine Zeta-Jones’ new Facebook Watch series Queen America will premiere Sunday, November 18, The date originally was announced as November 21.
The 10-episode scripted series stars Zeta-Jones as Vicki Ellis, a renowned and ruthless pageant coach in Oklahoma. Her reputation is at…
Facebook Watch is rounding out its series regular cast for Queen America, its upcoming dark comedy series starring Catherine Zeta-Jones. Belle Shouse (A Million Ways to Die in the West, Secrets & Lies), Teagle F. Bougere (A Night at the Museum, The Pelican Brief), Rana Roy (Life Sentence, Switched at Birth), Isabella A…
When talking to Deadline’s Pete Hammond at our annual The Contenders Emmys event, Catherine Zeta-Jones made it clear that she loved — nay, “relished” — playing drug queenpin Griselda Blanco in Lifetime’s Cocaine Godmother. Not because she enjoyed playing a drug lord, but because of the layered character
"This…
Facebook has given a ten-episode straight-to-series order to Queen America, a dark comedy starring Oscar winner Catherine Zeta-Jones in her first U.S. TV series role, to run on new video platform Facebook Watch.
Created by Meaghan Oppenheimer (Fear the Walking Dead), Queen America marks the first series order for…
In Lifetime’s Cocaine Godmother, Catherine Zeta-Jones plays the drug queenpin Griselda Blanco, one of the original "Cocaine Cowboys" who pioneered the drug trade between Colombia and the US in the 1970s and '80s. Blanco wasn’t exactly a stellar role model for good, but as the Academy Award-winning actress told…
The California Court of Appeal will hear arguments today over whether Olivia de Havilland can proceed with her lawsuit against the FX Network and Ryan Murphy Productions over her portrayal in the FX series Feud, depicting the rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.
The Oscar-winning actress objected to her…
For Catherine Zeta-Jones, playing a Colombian drug kingpin in Lifetime movie Cocaine Godmother: The Griselda Blanco Story was transformative both physically and spiritually.
Describing her pursuit of the role as an “obsession” at TCA on Sunday, Zeta-Jones said she’d really tried to embody the famously brutal…
Catherine Zeta-Jones hit the Croisette today to talk up her Lifetime original movie, Cocaine Godmother. The film is directed by Guillermo Navarro and is based on the life of Miami drug lord Griselda Blanco (Zeta-Jones), one of the original "Cocaine Cowboys" who pioneered the drug trade between Colombia and the U.S. in…
Lifetime has given the go-ahead to the original movie Cocaine Godmother starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and directed by Guillermo Navarro. Based on the life of Miami drug lord Griselda Blanco, Cocaine Godmother will go into production this year and premiere in 2018 on Lifetime.
Blanco was living in Queens, NY, when she…
