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Blumhouse, Morgan Creek, Universal and Peacock this week had an early and not cost insignificant shut down for the holiday on The Exorcist, the David Gordon Green-directed continuation of The Exorcist. Sources cited an unspecified health issue involving Leslie Odom Jr., who stars alongside Ellen Burstyn…

NBC’s Law & Order: Organized Crime is welcoming Ellen Burstyn home during its second season when she’ll reprise the role of Bernadette Stabler, mother of Elliot Stabler (Chris Meloni). She returns to the franchise as a guest star nearly 13 years after she won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama…

Universal Pictures and NBCUniversal's streaming service Peacock, in partnership with Blumhouse and Morgan Creek, have closed a reported $400 million-plus deal to purchase worldwide rights for a new Exorcist franchise that will see Ellen Burstyn reprise her role as the mother of a demon-possessed child. To be directed…

EXCLUSIVE: Showtime is round out casting for the Roosevelt family on its upcoming anthology series The First Lady. Oscar, Emmy and Tony winner Ellen Burstyn, (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore), Eliza Scanlen (Sharp Objects) and Cailee Spaeny (Mare of Easttown) are set for recurring roles on the series starring Viola…

The combined age of the key cast of the new comedy Queen Bees is so astronomical I can’t count that high. Ellen Burstyn is 88, James Caan is 81, Ann-Margret is 80(!), Loretta Devine is 71, Jane Curtin is 73 and Christopher Lloyd is 82. All of these actors have had stellar, awards-laden careers, and this new film…

Vanessa Kirby’s harrowing and incredibly challenging Pieces of a Woman role earned her an Oscar nomination on Monday morning, and in response, a self-deprecating Kirby drew attention to all the bereaved women who helped her research her character of Martha, a woman who loses her baby at birth. She also paid tribute to…

Back in 1971, when Ellen Burstyn was first catapulted to movie stardom with The Last Picture Show, she received a letter. "It was from a young man in Texas who told me that he was suicidal," she says. The man wrote that he'd decided to see one final movie before he killed himself: The Last Picture Show. And that her…

One of the most intensely personal entries in this year's festival season saw Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó and his writer partner Kata Wéber draw on their own private life for Pieces of a Woman, in which Vanessa Kirby plays Martha, a first-time mother whose daughter dies in childbirth. Ellen Burstyn co-stars as…

Vanessa Kirby won the SIlver Lion Best Actress prize at the 2020 Venice Film Festival for her searing and intensely raw performance as a woman whose life is torn apart after losing her baby in director Kornel Mundruczó’s gut-wrenching drama Pieces of a Woman. It begins streaming today on Netflix. This is a tough, not…

Vanessa Kirby, who has two movies at the Venice Film Festival, today hit the Lido to talk about Kornél Mundruczó's Pieces Of A Woman. The film tells the story of a couple whose home birth goes devastatingly wrong, resulting in the loss of their child, and deeply explores the mother-daughter relationship. Ellen Burstyn…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winners Ellen Burstyn and Emma Thompson are among the ensemble cast for coming-of-age fantasy-drama movie The Lost Girls, a female-fronted take on the classic Peter Pan story by J.M. Barrie. Livia De Paolis (Emoticon ;)) is adapting, directing and starring in the film, which also will feature Thompson…

Ellen Burstyn and James Caan have been set to star in Welcome to Pine Grove!, a romantic comedy set at a senior-living center. Michael Lembeck (Tooth Fairy) is directing a script by Donald Martin. Astute Films, which is co-producing STX’s upcoming Taraji P Henson-Sam Rockwell pic The Best of Enemies, is producing and…