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…

“The thought of leaving my obituary to chance is completely unreasonable to me.” So says Harriet Lauler (Shirley MacLaine), a very successful retired businesswoman who needs to control everything. So she goes to her local newspaper’s obit writer (Amanda Seyfried) with a plan: Lauler basically will co-write her own…

The 24th Hamptons International Film Festival closed Sunday with Oscar hopeful American Pastoral and announced its award winners at a ceremony in East Hampton. Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov’s Glory took the top prize for Best Narrative Feature, and Sony Pictures Classics’ The Eagle Huntress collected the trophy…

Kristin Davis, Eric McCormack and Oscar winner Shirley MacLaine will headline Hallmark Hall of Fame original movie Christmas Angel in Training. Davis (Sex and the City) stars as Eve Morgan, a workaholic who, upon her untimely death, finds herself tethered to her guardian angel (MacLaine) and learning to become a…