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Timothee Chalamet has revealed that he spent a 'joyous' five months in London shooting the much-anticipated Wonka prequel. After spending a lengthy time in the United Kingdom in 2021, the actor, who plays a younger version of the chocolatier, said he feels like 'an honourary Brit.' Timothee said that this is his 'favourite' film he's appeared in during his career so far on Friday.

In the midst of two strikes from the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and SAG-AFTRA, Warner Bros. is considering pushing three of its biggest movies out of this year into 2024. Dune: Part Two (November 3), Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (December 20) and The Color Purple (December 25) are among the new 2024 dates being examined by Variety. Both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA have ruled that members of a strike company are forbidden from promoting any new venture by a hit firm.

Many actors in director Franco Zeffirelli's stunning 1968 film adaptation of Romeo And Juliet, including young British actors Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting (left and inset) were praised as the beautiful faces of a new generation of Swing Sixties cinema talent, particularly when they appeared in a tense nude scene that bared his buttocks and breasts. They gave an electrifying performance as the star-crossed lovers, who not only managed to sum up the youthful and rebellious spirit of the time, but also touched a chord with generations of teenage audiences by demonstrating how young Romeo and Juliet were in Shakespeare's play. The film received Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Director, as well as a coveted award for best actor and Best Director, according to respected U.S. film critic Roger Ebert, who described it as the "most exciting film of Shakespeare ever made." Despite nearly five years since its inception, Hussey and Whiting, now in their seventies, are suing Paramount Pictures for damages reportedly "in excess of $500 million" (£415 million) for suspected sexual assault, negligence, and, moreover, the specific scene. The pair deny Paramount of sexually assaulting them and selling nude photographs of adolescent girls in a lawsuit filed in Santa Monica Superior Court last Friday.

Ana de Armas (top left), 34, appears in Blonde, which has already sparked controversy over de Armas' accent, despite being accused of the NC-17 rating plus fan complaints. Catherine Hicks (top right) was nominated for an Emmy for Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980) and Michelle Williams received an Oscar nomination for My Week With Marilyn (2011). However, the majority of actors who attempted to take on the movie icon's on-screen reciti from critics and a lukewarm reception from viewers. Mira Sorvino (bottom left) and Kelli Garner (bottom right) did not fully understand the role because of the pressures that came with being the legendary icon. Poppy Montgomery idolized Marilyn as a girl and her mother told her it was the role she had been 'preparing for her entire life'

In an evocative behind-the-scenes montage from Lea Michele's Funny Girl auditions, she displayed her vocal chops. Beanie Feldstein, who received a rash of stinging reviews and has been replaced by Lea, began the new Broadway revival of Funny Girl in April. Now, ahead of Lea's show on September 6, the revival's Twitter has a glimpse of her interpretation of I'm The Greatest Star, a song inextricably linked to the show's original leading lady Barbra Streisand.

Lea Michele provided a first glance of herself performing in rehearsals for Broadway's revival Funny Girl. The 35-year-old actress sang Don't Rain on My Parade for the first time ever today.' Lea Lea took on the role of Fanny Brice from actress Beanie Feldstein.

Jane Lynch will be leaving the new Broadway revival of Funny Girl three weeks earlier than expected. Although she had intended to leave September 4, the actress told the Hollywood Reporter that she had already had a planned holiday from August 15-23. She would have been out of the show on September 1st, so she could have travelled all around the country to Los Angeles for the Creative Arts Emmys. As a result, the producers decided that rather than asking Jane to return for just one week, the 62-year-old could leave the company at the end of this week.