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Danny Glover, Matt Dillon, Danny Pudi and Michelle Mylett joined the cast of American Dreamer, the Paul Dektor-directed dark comedy that has just gotten underway in Vancouver. The actors join Peter Dinklage, Shirley MacLaine and Kim Quinn on the Ted Melfi scripted film. Dinklage, David Ginsberg, Quinn, Melfi and…

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Dinklage and Shirley MacLaine are set to star in American Dreamer, an indie which has been set to begin production March 15 in Vancouver. The film is written by Academy Award nominee Theodore Melfi, and will be directed by award winning commercial director Paul Dektor. American Dreamer is produced by…

Tony Charmoli, a leading television and Broadway choreographer and director who won three Emmy Awards from the 1950s through 1970s and worked with stars from Mitzi Gaynor and Shirley MacLaine to the costumed characters of Sid & Marty Krofft’s Lidsville and, later, Justin Timberlake and Beyonce, died August 7 at his…

EXCLUSIVE: The Lincoln Lawyer and The Infiltrator director Brad Furman is to direct Oscar-winner Shirley MacLaine in People Not Places, about a sprightly woman in her twilight years who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a local homeless man, while struggling to mend a troubled relationship with her son. Bleiberg E…

From The Trouble With Harry and Irma La Douce through The Turning Point, Terms of Endearment and PBS' Downton Abbey, the career of Shirley MacLaine has just won the actress AARP’s annual Movies For Grownups Career Achievement Award. AARP The Magazine made the MacLaine announcement today. The Oscar-winning actress (for…

Presenter of the  46th Annual  American Film Institute Life Achievement Award Shirley MacLaine  told recipient George Clooney on Thursday night at the Dolby Theatre gala that ,yes, maybe he was too young to get a “lifetime achievement award” but that she observed he was a very “old soul”  so it was okay. As someone…

Shirley MacLaine drew some laughs tonight while accepting a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas Film Awards. After being introduced by Richard Linklater — founder of the Austin Film Society, which presents the annual awards on the night before SXSW starts — she quipped that “Austin should build a wall around…

EXCLUSIVE: The first trailer for the live-action version of The Little Mermaid from Conglomerate Media and Kingsway Productions has just been released. This is not Disney’s film, but is based on the famed fairytale from Hans Christian Andersen and stars a solid cast: Shirley MacLaine, Downton Abbey‘s Poppy Drayton…

I have just two words for The Last Word: Shirley MacLaine. The legendary star is back with a leading role worthy of her talents and she lets it rip in this amusing, and ultimately touching, film about an 81-year-old divorced woman determined to control her own departure by creating her obituary while she is still…

When The Last Word director Mark Pellington saw his cast read through first-time screenwriter Stuart Ross Fink’s script for the first time, he new their film would be something special. Starring screen icon Shirley MacLaine, Amanda Seyfried, Anne Heche and AnnJewel Dixon, the movie that just bowed at the Sundance Film…

Shirley MacLaine, who had been with ICM Partners for more than a decade, has left the agency to sign with CAA. The actress-author, one of the longest working actors in Hollywood, just had her latest movie premiere at the Sundance Film Festival: The Last Word, a comedy that also stars Amanda Seyfried and was directed…

EXCLUSIVE: Harriet Lauler (Shirley MacLaine) is a successful retired businesswoman who needs to control everything — including her obituary. So she hires young local writer Anne Sherman (Amanda Seyfried) to pen her life’s story. When the initial result doesn't meet Harriet’s high expectations, she sets out to reshape…