January 13, 2015 / Movies
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We have to assume this is just a coincidence, but now Zooey Deschanel is expecting a baby — as is her older sister and fellow actress Emily Deschanel.
The actress was in Chicago to talk about the film, in which she portrays Taya Kyle, the wife of the famous U.S. Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, nicknamed “Legend.”
Key members of the successful team that turned “Gone Girl” into a hit film — actor Ben Affleck, director David Fincher and possibly author/screenwriter and Chicagoan Gillian Flynn — will reteam to remake the Alfred Hitchcock classic thriller, “Strangers On A Train” for Warner Bros.
It’s official. We now know who are the first announced performers for the upcoming 57th annual Grammy Awards.
No question about it. Hollywood is sure buzzing about the announcement Tuesday of the Directors Guild of America’s motion picture nominations — more for who was left off the list.
On the heels of Amazon winning a couple of Golden Globes for its “Transparent” series, comes news it is expanding its television portfolio by teaming up with Woody Allen.
It may surprise some people that Ann Curry still has been on the NBC payroll — following her unceremonious dumping from “Today” back in 2013. However, the peacock network veteran is leaving NBC News after nearly 25 years.
The Chicago-based sketch comedy collective will now be presenting its “high-concept comedy experiments” at iO Theatre.
It will be a one-night-only event, but it promises to pull the curtain back on “Allegro,” a largely unknown musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Ken Prestininzi’s “Cookie Play,” now in its world premiere at Trap Door Theatre, is such a repellant and predictable piece of political claptrap that the temptation was not to write about it at all.
This thing called buzz, I just can’t fathom it. I’ve seen thousands of movies and …
Chicago improvisers came out in droves Monday night to celebrate (and lovingly rib) late iO Theater teacher and performer Jason Chin, who died last Thursday at age 46.
Molly Sims has compiled some of her tips for looking and feeling great in her new book, “The Everyday Supermodel: My Beauty, Fashion, and Wellness Secrets Made Simple.”
The road is lengthening. The Steppenwolf Theatre production of “Airline Highway,” Lisa D’Amour’s Broadway-bound play …