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Margaret Riley, the respected agent, manager and Lighthouse Management & Media partner who served as a producer on the Fox News drama Bombshell, has died. She was 58.

Riley died Tuesday at her home in Brentwood after a private battle with ovarian cancer, her friends Lainie Becky and Matthew Weinberg told The Hollywood Reporter.

Riley was a talent/literary manager at Brillstein Entertainment Partners from October 2006 through March 2016, when she joined Lighthouse Management & Media, which had just been launched by founder and CEO Aleen Keshishian.

“We are devastated by the loss of our colleague and friend Margaret Riley, who was a passionate advocate and champion for artists,” Keshishian said. “We share our deepest condolences and love with her family, friends and clients.”

Riley’s current and former clients over the years have included actors Mark Ruffalo and Bridget Moynahan; CSI creator Anthony Zuiker; directors Susanna Fogel, Stella Meghie and Rj Cutler...

Exclusive: Joe Tippett has boarded Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, a film adaptation of the short story by Stephen King, which writer-director John Lee Hancock, a young boy living in a small town, who befriends older, reclusive billionaire, Mr. Harrigan (Sutherland). The two form a bond over books and an iPhone, but when the man passes away, the boy discovers that not everything dead is gone, and finds himself able to communicate with his...

Even tantalizing glimpses of 20th-century Anglo-Irish modernist Eileen Gray’s most iconic designs, including scenes shot in the seminal E-1027, a seaside villa she built for her former lover Jean Badovici on France’s Côte d’Azur, fail to compensate for the rest of the treacle comprising “The Price of Desire.” Essentially a recounting of how envious Swiss architect Le Corbusier effectively undermined Gray’s artistry and for many years obscured her place in the design pantheon, this tedious 2014 production from Irish multi-hyphenate Mary McGuckian (“Man on the Train”) receives a belated digital and on-demand release via Giant Pictures on June 2.

Gray’s remarkable life, talent and legacy receives more inspiring treatment in “Gray Matters,” a companion documentary helmed at the same time by Marco Antonio Orsini, available on iTunes.

“It’s the price of desire,” quips the collector queried about the unprecedented $28 million she pays for Gray’s sensual...

The Irish 20th-century polymath doesn’t get the film treatment she deserves in this borderline risible production

A biopic of the architect and furniture designer Eileen Gray (1878-1976), The Price of Desire will be screening at some venues as part of a double bill with Gray Matters, a documentary about the polymath Irish designer. This docudrama taking on her life, loves and career highlights is sometimes borderline risible, but even so, one can’t but fail to be impressed it got made at all, given the subject is really mostly of interest to design geeks and those fascinated by intellectual property law.

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Out with the winter whites and in with the shades of gray! Silver's non-metallic, neutral cousin is this season's must-have hue. You may have noticed that stars like Kim Kardashian, Olivia Munn and Olivia Palermo have been layering the smoky color for monochromatic looks in recent weeks. We'll we've been admiring this trend for quite a while now—and we know we're not alone. So this shopping guide is for anyone wanting to add more of the tint to their wardrobe. Because this holiday season: Gray matters. Sequin Dress Satin Bra Satin Briefs Trapper Hat Penguin Socks Giambattista Valli Book Body Con...

• Naomi Watts (The Impossible) is in talks to join Matthew McConaughey and Ken Watanabe in Gus Van Sant’s Sea of Trees. Van Sant teased her potential casting at Cannes, where he hopes to shop the film. The drama follows an American ex-pat intent on taking his life in Japan’s Suicide Forest (or, the Sea of Trees) until he runs into Watanabe’s character — a fellow lost soul — and they both decide to find a way out of the forest together. Watts would play McConaughey’s wife in segments told in flashback. She currently has three movies in post including Birdman,...

We’re just hours away from the series finale of Breaking Bad, titled “Felina” and we are still in the dark about the fates of many of our characters. No one should expect a happy, warm-hearted send off, but we’ve got our own theories and expectations of what could happen tonight. If you’re not caught up, then please click on one of our other articles because everything else is for those who just want to see how it all ends. Consider this your final warning, and remember Walter White (Bryan Cranston) is the one who knocks. (Breaking Bad art by Bill Sienkiewicz)

I’m Glad I’m not Jesse’s Boy

Most viewers believe that Brock (Ian Posada) is still alive so he can be used as leverage to force Jesse (Aaron Paul) to work. In the penultimate episode, Uncle Jack (Michael Bowen) turned to Todd (Jesse Plemons...

Spoilers for those who have not seen the episode yet.

The penultimate episode of Breaking Bad may not be as intense as the groundbreaking Ozymandias, but it takes its time building towards the finale while examining the devastation Walter White has left behind him. He’s in a very precarious state, wanting revenge against Jack and his gang but being in a very powerless position for him to do anything about it. For the first time in a long time, we saw shades of Walter White rather than Heisenberg.

It’s interesting though the full scope of what he’s done and the ramifications for his family still haven’t hit him yet. He thinks the phone call from the end of last week’s episode will be enough for Skyler to escape the justice system, but Saul rightfully tells him sooner or later the government will go after her.

Only one more after tonight. Let’s do this.

“Granite State” picks up seemingly where “Ozymandias” left off, with the red minivan pulling into a vacuum warehouse. It’s not Walt who gets out, though, but Saul (how did we not see that coming last week?). His guy, played by Robert Forster, starts processing Saul, setting him up with a Nebraska driver’s license, and lets him know he’ll have to lay low there for a while before starting up his new life (his face is on billboards, after all). In a break with Forster’s character’s usual protocol, he’ll be waiting with another in-process client, Walt, who doesn’t look to be taking his situation particularly well, as he paces and writes furiously on a legal pad.

After commercial, we’re back with a stonefaced Marie as she’s driven home, transported by federal agents (DEA?...

Sneak Peek actress Heather Graham ("The Hangover III") in "Maxim" Magazine's June 2013 issue:

Graham started off acting in commercials, followed by a starring role in "License to Drive" (1988), followed by a breakout role in "Drugstore Cowboy" (1989). She then took a number of supporting roles in "Shout" (1991), "Six Degrees of Separation" (1993), "Swingers" (1996) and TV series "Twin Peaks" (1991) and its prequel "Fire Walk with Me" (1992).

In 1997, she starred as 'Brandi/Rollergirl' in "Boogie Nights (1997), followed by "Bowfinger"(1997) and "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" (1997).

Graham has also starred in various indie films including "Committed" (2000), "Say It Isn't So" (2001), "Anger Management" (2003), "Mary" (2005), "Gray Matters" (2007) and "The Hangover" (2009).

Graham can currently be seen in the 2013 feqatures "The Hangover Part III", "Compulsion" and "Behaving Badly".

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek Heather Graham...

Great news, gay cinephiles! LogoTV snapped up a compelling catalog of gay movies and has made them available for free online streaming! (Sorry international folks, we only have U.S. distribution rights, so like so much else these days, these are geo-blocked.)

Now these are small indie films, so while they all have gay storylines and most feature cute male casts, not all of them are cinematic gems. But hey, on the whole they don’t suck!

Some of them are actually pretty good. In fact, we count five that made our reader ranked list of the Top 100 Greatest Gay Movies: Eating Out 2 (#85), Adam & Steve (#79), Eating Out (#56), Boy Culture (#36) and Latter Days (#5).

In Latter Days a young and promiscuous gay man sets his sights on seducing his Mormon missionary neighbor. The resulting affair changes both their lives. The film stars Wes Ramsey and Steve Sandvoss and also has Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a supporting role.

Amy Fine Collins, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, is taking her story about her lifelong fear of driving to Hollywood. Variety is reporting that Dignity Film Finance has picked up the rights to Collins' non-fiction book .The God of Driving: How I Overcame Fear and Put Myself in the Driver.s Seat (with the Help of a Good and Mysterious Man).. Sue Kramer, who wrote and directed the 2006 romantic comedy Gray Matters starring Heather Graham, is attached to helm. The God of Driving features Collins as a main character and begins with her being absolutely petrified by the idea of getting behind the wheel of an automobile. She eventually decides that she is sick of being scared, and after "becoming captivated by her instructor" she not only learned how to drive, but became "obsessed with the automotive world." The book was first published by Simon & Schuster in 2011. For ...

Veteran comedy and animation scribe Jon Vitti ("The Simpsons," "The Larry Sanders Show") has been hired to pen the script for the 3D animated feature based on the "Angry Birds" app at Rovio Entertainment and Sony Pictures.

"Star Wars: The Clone Wars" executive producer Catherine Winder has also joined the feature which has scheduled a July 1st 2016 release date.

Meanwhile, Dignity Film Finance has optioned Vanity Fair special correspondent Amy Fine Collins' novel "The God of Driving". Sue Kramer ("Gray Matters") is set to pen the script and direct the comedy which aims to start shooting in Spring 2014.

Source: Heat Vision...

Film production and finance company Dignity Film Finance (Dff) has optioned the novel "The God of Driving: How I Overcame Fear and Put Myself in the Driver's Seat (with the Help of a Good and Mysterious Man)," by Vanity Fair special correspondent Amy Fine Collins. The novel was published by Simon & Schuster in 2011. Dff, headed by President Maggie Monteith, is fully financing the feature film production based on the novel. Sue Kramer ( Gray Matters ) wrote and will direct the comedy. Jill Footlick ( Greetings From Tim Buckley ) will produce and Marina Grasic ( Crash ) is executive producing. Casting is currently underway with the project set to start shooting in Spring 2014. Sales will launch at Berlin 2014. .As a writer/director, I was completely captivated...

Sometimes, two ladies make out with each other in major motion pictures. Other times, they not only make out with each other — they simulate sexual intercourse with each other. And because the Internet exists, each of those instances is easily accessible to everybody with a computer, context-free. I know, right? And some people claim to be "pessimists?" (laughs to himself.)

A ranking of such scenes is an inexact science, but we've created a surefire formula at NextMovie: Which do we like the most?

Gentlemen (and ladies), start your history deletions!

15. Kate Beckinsale and Frances McDormand, 'Laurel Canyon' (2002)

Dr. Christian Bale is engaged to Kate Beckinsale. There's a colleague of Bale's who wishes to have carnal relations with him. What's worse (better?), that colleague is Natasha McElhone. Beckinsale is jealous of this, so she does what any vengeful person would do in that situation: kiss her fiance's mom (Frances McDormand...

Gwyneth Paltrow flashed a smile yesterday when she arrived at Lax. The actress is back on the West Coast after logging time in La just last month. During the interim, she stopped in NYC to be honored by Columbia University. Gwyneth wore Victoria Beckham and Burberry Prorsum to attend the school's Gray Matters Spring Benefit Luncheon last Wednesday at the Plaza Hotel. Next, Gwyneth's kids Apple and Moses were the center of her attention when she stopped over in London for a bit. Now that she's back in California, Gwyneth can spend one-on-one time with her husband Chris Martin. Chris and his band Coldplay are in the middle of a string of shows in La that brought out a range of famous fans like Molly Sims and Stacy Keibler. View Slideshow ›...

It's time for another stab at that old tale of star-crossed lovers and squabbling families by way of New York City. No, not another "West Side Story."  Instead of singing teen gangs, "The Locals" will take a crack at updating the story of Romeo and Juliet "by injecting a Jewish/Italian twist."

So, kind of like "West Side Story" but with more guilt and food and less singing and knife fights.

Shirley MacLaine has already signed on to star in "The Locals," and Alan Arkin and Vera Farmiga are currently in talks. One might imagine MacLaine as the boisterous matriarch of one family and Arkin as the squabbly, perhaps heroin-addicted grandfather of the other, but where does Farmiga fit into this? Only time will tell. Farmiga has an especially busy schedule lately, and "The Locals" is set to start production soon in the boogie down Bronx.

Writer/director Sue Kramer's first film,...

How many times can Hollywood re-adapt William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet? Sure, the story itself is timeless and successfully weaving drama around two star-crossed lovers is simple, but earlier this year we had a movie in which the Bard's play was reenacted with garden gnomes. So what will be the next on-screen representation of the Capulets and Montagues? Why, Jews and Italians, of course! Deadline has learned that Vera Farmiga and Alan Arkin are both in talks and Shirley MacLaine is attached to The Locals, a new adaptation of Romeo and Juliet with a "Jewish/Italian twist." Sue Kramer, who last wrote and directed the Heather Graham/Bridget Moynahan/Tom Cavenagh comedy Gray Matters in 2006, is both helming and scripting the project. When explaining why the two groups should work together in the film, Kramer said, "These two cultures have so much in common: love of gab, love of food,...

We have a few bits of casting news to bring your way this afternoon. First up, Shirley MacLaine has signed on to director Sue Kramer's (Gray Matters) indie The Locals which also has Alan Arkin and Vera Farmiga in talks to join. Per Deadline, The Locals will seek to place the timeless Romeo & Juliet tale in a contemporary setting and will feature a "Jewish/Italian twist." Kramer penned the script for the film which will be co-produced by her Bella Films moniker alongside Grow Pictures and Curious Pictures. Production on the pic is set to begin in the Bronx this fall. Next up, Variety reports that Prom's Nicholas Braun has been added to director Akiva Schaffer's (of The Lonely Island and Hot Rod fame) comedy Neighborhood Watch. Braun joins a cast that already includes Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Rosemarie DeWitt. Watch is written by...

Dimension Films has set the release date for Apollo 18 a “found-footage” horror movie for September 2, 2011. The film is also known as “Apollo 18 - A Missão Proibida”. Apollo 18 is directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego (Nómadas), produced by Timur Bekmambetov (The Darkest Hour) and will star Llyod Owen (The Cinder Path) and Warren Christie (Gray Matters). Apollo 18 takes a look at found footage from Nasa's abandoned Apollo 18 mission, where two American astronauts were sent on a secret expedition, reveals the reason the U.S. has never returned to the moon. There have been tons of new found footage entries into the world of horror lately with many that are just ok. Maybe Apollo 18 will bring something new to the genre? I guess we will just have to wait and see. Dimension has hit the...

And the winner is……St. Louis!

Independent filmmaking thrives here and we’re lucky to have such a top-notch cinema-related event planning group like Cinema St. Louis to organize an event like last week’s Stella Artois St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase at the Tivoli Theater. After Thursday night’s final film, an awards party was held in the Duck Room at Blueberry Hill.

Congratulations to all the winners……and here they are:

Best Film (Narrative Feature): “Joint Body” by Brian Jun

Best Documentary Feature: “Give a Damn?” by Dan Parris

Best Actor: Mark Pellegrino “Joint Body”

Best Actress: Libby Bibb “All Those Yesterdays”

Best Supporting Actor: David Martyn Conley “Bedlam Street”

Best Supporting Actress: Julie Layton “Bedlam Street”

Best Actor In A Comedic Role: Doug Jones “Sudden Death!”

Best Actress In A Comedic Role: Michelle Davidson “Ready to Pop”

Best Juvenile Actor: Caden Self “Hidden Treasure”

Best Juvenile Actress:...

Cinema St. Louis, our city’s non-profit cinema-related event planning group, will presenting its 11th annual St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase which begins this Saturday, August 13th at the Tivoli Theater (and ends with a party on the 18th at Blueberry Hill). The showcase, sponsored by Stella Artois Beer, is a chance for St. Louis-based filmmakers to show off their art. All of these films were written, directed, edited or produced by St. Louis natives or those with strong local ties. The 16 film programs that screen at the Tivoli from Aug. 14-18 serve as St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase.s centerpiece. The programs range from full-length fiction features and documentaries to multi-film compilations of fiction and documentary shorts. Many programs include post-screening Q&As with filmmakers. Watch for more coverage of this important local event here at We Are Movie Geeks.com over the coming days

Here’s the schedule:

Saturday, Aug.

Cameron Diaz’s Bad Teacher has found the apple of her character” scheming eye as Justin Timberlake has been cast in the lead male role. Directed by Jake Kasdan (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story), Bad Teacher centers on a “foul-mouthed, gold-digging seventh-grade teacher who, after being dumped by her boyfriend, sets her sights on a colleague (Lucy Punch) who is dating a substitute teacher, who also is the scion of a watch fortune.” According to Sony Pictures’ press release Timberlake is the watch fortune scion (which is one of the under-utilized jobs in many role-playing games).

Along with Timberlake Molly Shannon and Eric Stonestreet (who plays Cameron Tucker on the hilarious Modern Family) are also joining the cast, which also includes (as we reported last month) Jason Segel as the school’s gym teacher and John Michael Higgins as the principal.

Filming begins this month in Los Angeles. Hit...

A few weeks ago when it was announced here that Anna Faris had been cast as the non-animated lead in the new live-actionish movie version of Yogi Bear, I wondered what the hell happened to Ranger Smith. Well here he is! He.s being played by Tom Cavanagh, a guy who.s never been in anything that wasn.t utterly forgettable. If you know him at all, maybe it.s as the lead in the wholly awful Heather Graham movie Gray Matters in which she victimizes her brother by lezzing out with his wife behind his back. Some Tom Cavanagh.s playing Ranger Smith and he has no particular qualifications other than that he does, rather strangely, actually sort of look like him (I think it.s the ears). Well this is the Yogi Bear movie, what the hell did you expect? Robert De Niro already did Rocky & Bullwinkle, he...

There is only one place to interview the cast and crew of The Hangover … Las Vegas.

Need more from The Hangover?

I also interviewed Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms.

Click here to watch that on Kptv Fox 12.

We all love Rollergirl. And while Heather Graham has had some hits like Boogie Nights and Bowfinger, she’s also had some misses like Gray Matters. It’s safe to say The Hangover falls into the “hit” category. I sat down with Graham to talk about her role in the flick.

With everyone trying to find their funny moments in this film, who would you stay stood out behind the scenes?

I think everyone was really funny. You know a lot of comedians are really serious off the camera.

When you do a comedy, what do you hope to get out of it compared to a drama?

I think it’s...

Andrew Hollander, who has done a number of comedy scores including Waitress and Gray Matters, is doing the music for upcoming Lindsay Lohan comedy Labor Pains, according to his agency, Evolution Music Partners. Also starring Cheryl Hines (who is also the director of another upcoming film scored by Hollander, Serious Moonlight) and Chris Parnell, the film is about a woman who pretends that she is pregnant in order to avoid being fired from her job. Grand Army Entertainment produces and Lara Shapiro directs for release next year.

Molly Shannon has been tapped to star on NBC's comedy pilot The Mastersons of Manhattan, while Ving Rhames is set for ABC's one-hour pilot Football Wives.

Additionally, Jayma Mays has landed the lead on ABC's comedy pilot Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office, Samaire Armstrong and Zoe McLellan have joined ABC's drama pilot Dirty Sexy Money, Chi McBride is set to co-star in ABC's drama pilot Pushing Daisies, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe has landed a lead in ABC's comedy pilot The Call, Nestor Carbonell has been cast in CBS' untitled Cynthia Cidre drama pilot, Yara Martinez has come aboard Fox's drama pilot The Apostles and Jennifer Esposito has been cast in ABC's comedy pilot Sam I Am

Mastersons, from NBC Universal TV Studio, is a serialized soap revolving around two socialite sisters (Shannon, Natasha Richardson). Shannon will play the younger sister who is on trial for murder.

Shannon next will be seen in the feature Grey Matters. She also stars in Mike White's Year of the Dog, which premiered at last month's Sundance Film Festival and is slated to open in April.

She is repped by ICM and manager Steven Levy.

Wives, from ABC TV Studio, focuses on the wives of professional football players. In the pilot, directed by Bryan Singer, Rhames will play the GM of a football team.

Oscar-winning actress Sissy Spacek and co-star Alan Cumming have transsexual sex in a controversial new movie. In Southern Comfort - not related to Walter Hill's classic 1981 film of the same name - the 54-year-old actress plays Robert Eads, a female-to-male transsexual who falls for Lola Cola, a male-to-female transsexual, played by Cumming. Carrie star Spacek, who wears a prosthetic nose and a beard in the movie, is delighted with her new role, reports website Pagesix.Com. She says, "I'm thrilled, but it's going to be hard. I'll do the best I can. If I go down in flames, I can throw away all of my men's clothes." X-Men star Cumming, is equally enthusiastic: "It's such an amazing, tender love story, and a great challenge. We've got to do sex."...