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News & Cast Updates(News section last updated January 20, 2026)Irish Film & TV Award Nominees(1/20/26) IFTA CEO, Áine Moriarty, commented: “What a superb lineup of Nominees this year shortlisted for Irish Academy Awards. This incredible showcase of work reinforces the fact that Irish talent is truly amongst the best in the world, working both in front and behind the camera across the globe. We look forward to rewarding their work and achievements at the Ceremony on February 20th.”INTERNATIONAL ACTOR Leonardo DiCaprio, Appian Way Principals Board Urgent Documentary ‘The Lake’ Ahead Of Film’s Sundance World Premiere(1/15/26) Appian Way principals Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson, and Phillip Watson have signed on to executive produce The Lake ahead of the documentary’s world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.The film directed by Abby Ellis (Flint’s Deadly Water) investigates “a looming environmental nuclear bomb” in the festival’s backyard: “Beneath the drying lakebed of Great Salt Lake lies a toxic reservoir of heavy metals – arsenic, lead, mercury, and more – poised to become airborne, endangering the millions of people living in the metropolitan region of Utah called the Wasatch Front.” The Lake, from Sandbox Films, Ibis Films, Little Monster Films and Cranium Productions, premieres on the opening day of Sundance next Thursday, January 22. Abby Ellis and Fletcher Keyes produce the film which explores the potential catastrophe in Utah “and the bold scientists and politicians working to avoid disaster.” “Blending the mystical and the pragmatic, The Lake pushes beyond traditional environmental storytelling,” notes a release. “This isn’t just about saving a lake—it’s about reckoning with our own complicity. The film asks: What is your role when catastrophe looms? Where do the lines get drawn—and who dares to cross them? And in the film’s most arresting moments, it asks the ultimate question: Can we save ourselves from ourselves?” In a statement, director-producer Ellis said, “I was drawn to this story because Utah is my home, and the stakes couldn’t be higher, but it was the characters in our film who captivated me. For over three years, I’ve felt every bit of hope and dismay that comes with watching people fight to save something you love. The experience has been both frustrating and scary, but at the same time, inspiring.” Ellis added, “What’s happening in Utah is a microcosm for so many environmental stories around the world. Having the support of Appian Way and Leo, Jennifer and Phillip will only help enhance our reach with this incredibly timely and relevant story, and we are thrilled to have them join our incredible team.” The film will be represented at Sundance by William Morris. “Abby’s work resonated with us instantly, and we knew immediately we needed to be a part of the journey to bring this powerful film to Sundance,” commented Davisson, Appian Way’s president of production. “It reflects the ethos of Appian Way and our desire to support important and urgent environmental stories. We hope audiences not only respond to this pivotal documentary but also look inward and work together on sustainable solutions in their own communities.” In addition to Thursday’s world premiere, The Lake will screen on Jan. 23 in Salt Lake City, and on Jan. 28, 29, and Feb. 1 in Park City. “An environmental nuclear bomb looms in Utah,” writes the Sundance festival program. “Two intrepid scientists and a political insider race the clock to save their home from unprecedented catastrophe.” The festival continues, “Urgency emanates from this sober record that local Utah filmmaker Abby Ellis logs in human history — a chapter of monumental ecological and social consequence unfolding in our shared home. Intertwining the inextricable fates of the Great Salt Lake and the millions of people who live, work, and travel surrounding it, Ellis achieves an existential scope that is both terrifying and motivating, wrought with divinity and doom. Balancing beautifully the perspectives, burdens, contributions, and challenges of Utah’s top political leaders, agricultural providers, and scientific thinkers, The Lake captures the intricate complexity that binds these communities together. In tackling this epic tale about the power and responsibility of knowledge and how to disseminate it, Ellis is a responsible, constructive steward of her lineage both as a Utahn and an environmental filmmaker.” Along with DiCaprio, Davisson, and Watson, the film’s executive producers include Jessica Harrop, Caitlin Mae Burke, Chai Vasarhelyi, Anna Barnes, Jimmy Chin, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Heather Kahlert, and Rachel Crane. 2026 Dorian Awards Nominations(1/14/26) The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, GALECA will annouce the winners on Thursday, March 3 at the 2026 Dorians Film Toast, the group’s first in-person event in Los Angeles since its 2020 toast held just as the pandemic hit.FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE YEARRose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A24)Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme (A24)Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)Jessie Buckley, Hamnet (Focus Features)Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)Michael B. Jordan, Sinners (Warner Bros.)Dylan O’Brien, Twinless (Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions)Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value (Neon)Amanda Seyfried, The Testament of Ann Lee (Searchlight Pictures)Tessa Thompson, Hedda (Amazon MGM Studios) Online Film Critics Society Award Nominations(1/12/26) Comprised of nearly 300 voting members from around the world, the Online Film Critics Society was founded in 1997. Members include writers from outlets such as Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Slant, Paste Magazine, AARP, and Sight & Sound.Best Actor: Best Actress: Best Ensemble & Casting: BAFTA Awards Longlists(1/9/26) As ever, all may change dramatically when the full list of nominations is announced on Jan. 27 (minus the Rising Star award nominees, which are unveiled on Jan. 14). Then it’s over to the BAFTA Film Awards ceremony itself, which will take place Feb. 22 at London’s Royal Festival Hall with Alan Cumming on hosting duties for the first time.LEADING ACTOR
Actor Awards Nominations 2026 (Formerly SAG Awards)(1/7/26) Final voting will take place from Jan. 14 through Feb. 27 at noon PT. The 32nd annual Actor Awards, presented by SAG-AFTRA, will stream live on Netflix on March 1.Cast Ensemble in a Motion Picture Male Actor in a Leading Role Cast Ensemble in a Drama Series Cast Ensemble in a Comedy Series Female Actor in a Drama Series Male Actor in a Comedy Series Female Actor in a Comedy Series Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn & Benicio Del Toro To Receive Hammond Cinema Vanguard Award At Santa Barbara Film Festival(1/6/26) Three icons of cinema — Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro — will receive the Hammond Cinema Vanguard Award together at the 41st Santa Barbara Film Festival next month. Spotlighting their work in this year’s awards favorite One Battle After Another, written, directed and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson, the actors will receive the award, which was recently renamed after longtime friends and collaborators of SBIFF – Deadline’s Pete Hammond and Madelyn Hammond – on Monday, February 9.Pete Hammond will be moderating the tribute for the award, which recognizes the trio of actors for their contributions to the much-honored film in which they star alongside Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor and Chase Infiniti. Their acclaimed roles as Bob (DiCaprio), Col. Steven J. Lockjaw (Penn) and Sensei Sergio St. Carlos (Del Toro) have helped catapult the film to the forefront of the awards conversation this season. One Battle After Another is the most nominated Golden Globes contender with nine, including individual noms for DiCaprio, Penn and Del Toro, and it just won three Critics Choice Awards including Best Picture. It has also been named Best Picture of the Year by the Gotham Awards, The National Board of Review, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the New York Film Critics Circle and other groups. “This is by far the most exciting tribute in SBIFF history,” Durling said. “These three artists individually have regaled us with exemplary and unforgettable performances, and together, they have made one of the best films, One Battle After Another. Let’s rejoice.” From Warner Bros. Pictures, One Battle After Another follows Bob (DiCaprio), a washed-up revolutionary who exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off the grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa (Infiniti). When his evil nemesis (Penn) resurfaces after 16 years and Willa goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her as father and daughter battle the consequences of his past. DiCaprio is an Oscar-winning actor, producer and activist whose career spans more than three decades. He has received seven Academy Award nominations, six BAFTA nominations, 13 Screen Actors Guild nominations and 15 Golden Globe nominations, winning the Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA for Best Actor for his performance in Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu’s The Revenant. DiCaprio has earned acclaim for roles in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Wolf of Wall Street, Inception, The Great Gatsby, and Django Unchained, as well as through his long-standing collaboration with director Martin Scorsese on films including The Aviator, The Departed, Gangs of New York, Shutter Island and Killers of the Flower Moon. He began his film career in the early 1990s with standout performances in This Boy’s Life and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, earning his first Academy Award nomination for the latter. In addition to acting, DiCaprio co-founded Appian Way with Jennifer Davisson, producing acclaimed features and impactful documentaries focused on environmental issues, including Path of the Panther, Yanuni and Virunga. In 2021, his foundation unified with Global Wildlife Conservation, combining to launch Re:wild, which works with over 600 partners in more than 80 countries to help protect more than 35,000 species of wildlife and half a billion acres of the wild. Penn is a two-time Oscar-winning actor, filmmaker, and author whose career spans more than four decades. As an actor, he has received five Academy Award nominations, winning Best Actor for Mystic River and Milk. Over the course of his career, he has been honored by the Cannes, Berlin and Venice film festivals, as well as the Golden Globes, SAG Awards and major critics’ groups. His extensive filmography includes Dead Man Walking, Sweet and Lowdown, I Am Sam, 21 Grams, The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life, Carlito’s Way, The Game, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High. As a filmmaker, Penn has directed features including Into the Wild, The Indian Runner, The Crossing Guard, The Pledge and Flag Day and co-directed the Emmy-nominated documentary Superpower. Through his company Projected Picture Works, he recently produced September 5, which earned PGA and Golden Globe Best Picture nominations and an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay. A longtime humanitarian and civil rights advocate, Penn founded CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort) in 2010, which continues to provide disaster relief worldwide. He also also received the Modern Master Award at the 2002 SBIFF when he was on the awards circuit with I Am Sam. Del Toro is an Oscar-winning actor celebrated for a body of work defined by range, intensity and critical acclaim. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic and received a nomination for Iñárritu’s 21 Grams. His portrayal of Che Guevara in Soderbergh’s Che won him the Best Actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival and Spain’s Goya Award. Del Toro’s extensive filmography includes The Usual Suspects, Basquiat, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Sicario and Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Inherent Vice, Snatch, Sin City, Things We Lost in the Fire and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, as well as television work such as Escape at Dannemora, which earned him an Emmy nomination. Recent projects include Netflix’s Reptile, which he also executive produced, Soderbergh’s No Sudden Move, and Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme. The Cinema Vanguard Award recognizes actors who have forged their own path, taking artistic risks and making a significant and unique contribution to film. Previous honorees include Adrian Brody & Guy Pearce, Paul Giamatti, Colin Farrell & Brendan Gleeson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Carey Mulligan, Laura Dern, Michael B. Jordan, Willem Dafoe, Casey Affleck & Michelle Williams, Rooney Mara, Eddie Redmayne & Felicity Jones, Martin Scorsese & Leonardo DiCaprio, Amy Adams, Jean Dujardin & Berenice Bejo, Nicole Kidman, Peter Sarsgaard, Christoph Waltz, Vera Farmiga, Kristin Scott Thomas, Stanley Tucci and Ryan Gosling. The 41st Santa Barbara International Film Festival will take place February 4-14. Australia’s AACTA International Awards Nominations(12/18/25) Winners will be feted during the 15th annual AACTA International Awards ceremony on February 6 at HOTA, Home of the Arts on Australia‘s Gold Coast.AACTA International Award for Best Lead Actor in Film AACTA International Award for Best Actress in a Series London Critics’ Circle Film Awards Nomination(12/15/25) The winners in all categories will be announced at The May Fair Hotel in London on 1 February 2026 during a ceremony hosted by Mark Kermode.ACTOR OF THE YEAR – Sponsored by Cinemadix 2026 Critics Choice Awards Nominations(12/10/25) The 31st annual Critics Choice Awards will be handed out on Sunday, January 4, at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. Running from 7-10 p.m. ET/PT, the ceremony hosted by Chelsea Handler will air live on E! for a second year in a row and also will air live across USA Network.BEST ACTOR BEST ACTRESS BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION 83rd Golden Globe Award Nominations(12/10/25) Winners will be announced Sunday, January 11 on CBS and Paramount+ during a ceremony hosted for a second year by Nikki Glaser.Best Performance By a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Best Performance By a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Best Performance By a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Best Performance By a Female Actor in a Television Series – Drama Best Performance By a Female Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy Best Performance By a Female Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television Best Performance By a Female Actor in a Supporting Role On Television One Accolade After Another: Leonardo DiCaprio Is Time’s Entertainer Of The Year(12/10/25) Another battle won. Time magazine said today that Leonardo DiCaprio is its 2025 Entertainer of the Year.The 102-year-old mag honored the Oscar winner and seven-time nominee for his acclaimed performance in One Battle After Another, the revolt-themed actioner that has become filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson’s highest-grossing movie. DiCaprio, who won the Bast Actor Oscar for 2015’s The Revenant, is back in the thick of the awards races for his portrayal of an washed-up ex-revolutionary who now exists in a state of stoned paranoia — until his former nemesis (Sean Penn) resurfaces after 16 years. And the battles begin. “I’ve been thinking a lot about how often there have been truly original story ideas like this, with no link to anything historical, no past characters, no genre, no vampires, no ghosts, no anything,” DiCaprio told Time of why he cares so deeply about One Battle After Another (see the full interview here). “It was somewhat risky for the studio to take this on, and what they’re banking on, I think, is the appeal of Paul’s storytelling and the sort of fierce originality of his process.” DiCaprio on Monday added a Golden Globe nomination to his already-impressive list of laurels for the film. Last week, he scored a Critics Choice Award nom to go with a National Board of Review win, a Desert Palm Achievement Award from the Palm Springs Film Festival and other hosannas. One Battle also is up for Best Film at the Globes and Critics Choice Awards to go with wins at the Gotham Awards and NBR and from the Los Angeles and New York Film Critics and more. Time will reveal its Person of the Year on Thursday and its Breakthrough Artist and Athlete of the Year on Tuesday. AARP Movies for Grownups Award Nominations(11/19/25) AARP on Wednesday announced nominees for its annual Movies for Grownups Awards aimed at championing films and TV achievements that appeal to the age 50-plus readers and membership of their organization.The annual MFG Awards ceremony will take place January 10, 2026, at the Beverly Wilshire. Alan Cumming, the Tony- and Emmy-winning host of the The Traitors, will return to host. Best Actor Best Documentary Best Actress (TV) Leonardo DiCaprio Set For Palm Springs Film Festival’s Desert Palm Achievement Award(11/18/25) It could be one awards show after another for Leonardo DiCaprio this season, and the Palm Springs Film Festival is out in front of it. The One Battle After Another star is set to receive the 2026 fest’s Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor.“In One Battle After Another, Leonardo DiCaprio delivers a riveting and emotionally charged performance, embodying a man pushed to his breaking point in the face of relentless adversity,” said Festival Chairman Nachhattar Singh Chandi. “Across his career, DiCaprio has continually redefined what is possible in screen acting — bringing emotional depth, artistic integrity and fearless commitment to every role.” Written, directed and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another follows Bob (DiCaprio), a washed-up revolutionary who exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off the grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti). When his evil nemesis (Sean Penn) resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, with father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past. The Revenant Oscar winner and seven-time nominee DiCaprio has been getting strong reviews for the film. One Battle After Another has grossed more than $200 million worldwide since its late-September release, far outpacing any other Anderson-helmed movie after scoring his best opening weekend domestically and globally. Watch the trailer here: Since launching his screen career in the early 1990s with This Boy’s Life and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, DiCaprio has become one of the world’s biggest movie stars — solidified by his lead role in James Cameron 1997’s behemoth Titanic. Along with his close ties to director Martin Scorsese on films such as The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, Gangs of New York and Killers of the Flower Moon, the actor has starred in features including The Wolf of Wall Street, Inception, The Great Gatsby and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Django Unchained. His upcoming films including Michael Mann’s Heat 2 and Scorsese’s What Happens at Night with Jennifer Lawrence. The Palm Springs International Film Festival launched in 1990 in the desert city east of Los Angeles, and its 2026 event runs January 2-11. Its film awards will be handed out January 3 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Actress Eva LaRue's 12-year stalking terror retold in new Paramount Plus docuseries(11/14/25) Former CSI: Miami star Eva LaRue is reliving her 12-year stalker nightmare in a new Paramount+ docuseries – My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story – that debuted Thursday.Speaking to Fox News Digital, the 58-year-old actress described the ordeal as “psychological terrorism.” “You become your own prisoner,” LaRue said. “Your mind is constantly in absolute terror mode, so you’re thinking about every possibility. You are living in a prison of your own making.” The actress and her daughter Kaya Callahan, 23, decided to share their story to put the spotlight on what she calls an “epidemic” of stalking. “Being stalked really rewires your life,” LaRue told Yahoo! “I don’t think you can ever go back to the innocence of thinking or feeling like you’re safe. That innocence is stolen.” LaRue’s nightmare all began in 2007 when she got a letter via her manager and publicist threatening graphic threats of rape, torture and murder. The letter was signed by Freddie Krueger, referring to the serial killer in the movie Nightmare on Elm Street. “It was the most heinous, most deplorable, most sickening, most terrifying threats,” she told PEOPLE. “And then he began leveling them against my little girl.” Following that the letters kept coming with one coming to her home saying: “I’ve finally found you.” At the time LaRue was a 40-year-old single mother to a then five-year-old daughter in Los Angeles having previously been married to John Callahan, her on-screen husband in All My Children from 1996-2005. “The letters escalated in violence and sickening details pretty immediately,” LaRue told Fox News Digital. In her case, the stalker mailed his letters from different post offices, making it difficult to trace his location and forensic tracing was far less sophisticated. Even if partial DNA was recovered, it might not match anyone in the system. “This stalker was not in a national database,” LaRue told Fox News Digital. After a brief moment of security when she remarried in 2010, to businessman Joe Cappuccio, the stalker returned with threats also going to Cappuccio’s office and that marriage ended in 2014. STALKER CALLS DAUGHTER’S SCHOOL In 2019, the stalker called Callahan’s school, claiming to be her father with the New York Times reporting he called the school 18 times. Sadly, this was the breakthrough needed as the threats were sent through the mail and crossed state lines, so the FBI got involved looking for forensic evidence that could tie them to a suspect. When usable DNA was recovered from one of the envelopes, the feds used a genetic genealogy database to uncover a list of the suspect’s relatives, leading them to a small town in Ohio, WRAL.com reported. James David Rogers, 58, was arrested after his DNA was pulled from a discarded Arby’s straw and in 2022. Rogers pleaded guilty to two counts of mailing threatening communications, one count of threats by interstate communications and two counts of stalking. He was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison and was released in 2024. “After stealing our peace and sanity for 12 years, he gets three-and-a-half years,” LaRue told Yahoo! of the disappointing sentence. “And we get life. We get a lifetime sentence of fear.” Still, LaRue’s next cathartic act is developing a scripted drama based on how the FBI pioneered the forensics genealogy technology that solved her case. “I already have a (show) treatment,” she told Yahoo! Actress Eva LaRue and Daughter Kaya Callahan Were Stalked for 12 Years: 'Sickening, Terrifying Threats'(11/11/25) (people.com) Her Hollywood dreams were becoming a reality. Already known for appearing on the classic soap opera All My Children in the 1990s and 2000s, Eva LaRue saw her fame blossom when she became a member of the cast of CSI: Miami in 2006.That season, her hit prime-time series was one of the 10 most-watched scripted shows on TV. But LaRue’s dream job threatened to turn into a nightmare when she began to receive disturbing mail from an anonymous fan. Sent to the actress via her manager and publicist, the graphically violent letters contained threats of rape, torture and murder and were eerily signed “Freddie Krueger,” after the villain of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. At first LaRue, then 40 and a single mother living with her 5-year-old daughter Kaya Callahan in Los Angeles, thought the hate mail might just be a twisted prank. But then three more obscene letters from the same sender arrived within a week — and it became clear she was being stalked. “I am going to instill fear into every part of your life,” said her antagonist in one of his messages. True to his word, the stalker grew increasingly menacing in his letters until he began to target her daughter Kaya as well. “It was the most heinous, most deplorable, most sickening, most terrifying threats,” LaRue recalls. “And then he began leveling them against my little girl.” To keep her daughter safe, LaRue had security cameras installed at their home. It would take authorities more than a decade to make the letters stop with the arrest of a suspect in 2019. In the intervening years, mother and daughter moved three times to avoid being located. But with each move, their stalker was able to find the new address. LaRue avoided reading all but a handful of the dozens of letters, and she protected her daughter by not telling her about the letters for years. Now they are experiencing the terrifying ordeal again by appearing in My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story, a Paramount+ docuseries premiering on Nov. 13. “Because my mom kept so much hidden, I didn’t know much about it,” says Kaya, now 23, of filming the docuseries. “It was like reliving it and yet experiencing it for the very first time.” A model before she landed her first acting gigs, California native LaRue had her big break when she was cast as Dr. Maria Santos on All My Children in 1993. She married costar John Callahan, who played her onscreen husband, and together they welcomed Kaya before divorcing in 2005. When the Freddie Krueger letters started arriving in 2007, they weren’t addressed to LaRue’s home. But then one day she checked the mail and found an envelope with the familiar scrawl. “I have finally found you,” the letter inside said. The stalking became more invasive in 2019 when Kaya, who was by then 17 and aware of the letters, was called from a classroom to the school office. The receptionist explained that her dad had phoned and said he would pick her up outside the building. Kaya texted her mom to see if it was true, and LaRue called her ex-husband to confirm. When he replied that he wasn’t even in Los Angeles, it clicked: The stalker had learned which school Kaya attended and was impersonating her father. LaRue immediately drove to the school to get Kaya. “It still feels like a jump scare,” she says. Later that year DNA found on one of the letters finally led to a breakthrough, and Ohio resident James David Rogers, 61, was arrested. In 2022, he pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges and was sentenced to 40 months in prison. “It was very freeing,” recalls Kaya. “I just felt like I could live a normal life again.” Still, LaRue says she took part in the docuseries to advocate for stronger laws to protect victims of stalking. “It’s not just celebrities — all of us can be targeted through social media,” she says. “We want to help everybody who’s being stalked and instill some hope." Eric Preven Dies: ‘Reba’ & ‘Santa Barbara’ Producer Was 62(11/11/25) Eric Preven, a writer-producer on the sitcom Reba who produced hundreds of episodes of the daytime drama Santa Barbara, worked on several other shows and was a Los Angeles journalist, died November 8 in Studio City. He was 62.The local news outlet CityWatch LA confirmed the news, writing, “It is with deep sorrow that we at CityWatch LA announce the passing of our longtime contributor, Eric Preven, who died suddenly on Saturday of an apparent heart attack.” Preven got his start as an assistant producer on the NBC soap opera Santa Barbara in 1988 and later became an associate producer. He was promoted to coordinating producer in 1992 and served in that role until the following year. He launched his writing career on the Fox sitcom Partners in 1995, penning three episodes of the series starring Jon Cryer, Tate Donovan and Maria Pitillo during its single-season run. From there, Preven moved to writing episodes of the NBC comedy Boston Common from 1996-97, the 1996-98 ensemble comedy Something So Right — who first season aired on NBC and second on ABC — and the short-lived Fox sitcom Holding the Baby. By the late ’90s, Preven was writing for The WB dramedy Popular, co-created by Ryan Murphy and starring Leslie Bibb and Carly Pope. He penned about a half-dozen episodes and produced two others from 1999-2001. In 2002, he joined The WB comedy Reba as a consulting producer about halfway through its freshman season. He was upped to supervising producer for Season 2 and also wrote a pair of episodes before leaving the show in 2003. His final credit was as a producing on the 2009 telefilm A Year with Freeway Rick Ross, about the notorious Los Angeles drug kingpin. Preven also was well known in L.A. for his civic activism, often calling out local politicians on such issues as spending, transparency, homelessness policy and municipal reforms. He ran a longshot candidate for mayor in 2017, taking part in a candidates’ debate that year. Preven is survived by a brother, Joshua Preven; a sister, Anne Preven; his parents Ruth and David Preven; and children Isaac Rooks Preven and Reva Jay Preven. Luke Barnett & Barbara Crampton Thriller ‘Teacher’s Pet’ Heading To AFM With Quiver & AMP(11/11/25) Teacher’s Pet starring Luke Barnett and Michelle Torian will be on sale at AFM with Quiver handling North American rights and AMP launching international sales.The film’s story follows a brilliant high school senior who is days away from escaping to Yale, who must outwit her malevolent new English teacher when he becomes obsessed with her. As he reveals his sinister past, Clara fights a treacherous battle of wits for survival. The official synopsis reads: When brilliant but isolated high school senior Clara’s English teacher dies mysteriously, a charismatic replacement arrives who takes a disturbing interest in her academic potential. As Mr. Heller’s mentorship turns to dangerous obsession, Clara uncovers his horrifying secret identity and murderous past. Now trapped in a psychological game with a predator who’s eliminated anyone standing in his way, Clara must use her understanding of Heller’s twisted psychology against him before she becomes his next victim. Some lessons are worth dying for – others are worth killing for. Noam Kroll wrote and directed the film. Producers are Sheldon Brigman, Richard Handley, Noam Kroll, Kayli Fortun, and Brian Hanson. Exec producers are Sheldon Brigman, Luke Barnett, Charles L. Bunce, Kelby Thwaits, and Russ Dewolf. The film also stars Michelle Torian, Clayton Royal Johnson, Kevin Makely, Sara Tomko, Drew Powell, Alexe-Anne Godin, Alexis DawTyne, and Barbara Crampton. Morning Show Appearance(11/8/25) CBS MorningsAIRING Nov 11, 2025 Actress Eva LaRue Talk Show Appearance(11/6/25) Live with Kelly and Mark - SyndicatedTuesday, Nov. 11 — EVA LARUE chats with the hosts ‘CSI: Miami’ Alum Eva LaRue Recalls ‘Freddie Krueger’ Stalking Her for Years(10/25/25) (tvinsider.com) (Trailer) CSI: Miami fans may remember the case of Eva LaRue’s stalker, but now the TV star is speaking out about that harrowing 12-year saga in the new Paramount+ documentary My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story, streaming on Thursday, November 13.A trailer for the doc features excerpts from the letters LaRue’s stalker, who used the pseudonym “Freddie Krueger” in a seeming reference to A Nightmare on Elm Street villain Freddy Krueger. (Coincidentally or not, LaRue’s filmography includes a guest appearance on the 1980s TV spinoff series Freddy’s Nightmares.) In one excerpt, the stalker threatens physical and sexual violence against LaRue and her daughter, Kaya, now 23. “Those words and those threats were absolute psychological terrorism,” LaRue says in the trailer. LaRue says that playing DNA analyst Natalia Boa Vista on CSI: Miami was the “pinnacle of [her] career” and that being on a primetime series “was a different level of celebrity.” But with that celebrity came a lot of fan mail — and the menacing messages from “Freddie.” “My worst fear was that everything that he said in those letters could become a reality,” LaRue says. “The letters were coming fast and furious. … I just remember being absolutely terrified.” Kaya is also featured in the trailer, saying she remembers seeing her mom break down in tears. “At 12, that was devastating,” she says. “Your one job as a parent is to keep your kids safe,” LaRue explains. “Like, that’s it. That’s your freaking job. And I was feeling like I couldn’t do my job. I couldn’t do my job.” Eventually, LaRue had to take matters into her own hands, she says. “I did start sleeping with a weapon under my bed,” she reveals. In September 2022, an Ohio man named James David Rogers was sentenced to more than three years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of mailing threatening communications, one count of threats by interstate communications, and two counts of stalking, according to The New York Times. Court documents showed Rogers’ stalking behavior started in March 2007 and continued until his November 2019 arrest, during which time he mailed around three dozen handwritten and typed letters with threats, the newspaper reported. My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story, Thursday, November 13, Paramount+ Appian Way Developing Biopic Of Young Bela Lugosi For Universal; ‘Ed Wood’s Scott Alexander And Larry Karaszewski Scripting(10/15/25) Appian Way Productions, the production company of Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson, has teamed with producers Alex Cutler and Darryl Marshak to develop a Universal Pictures biopic of Bela Lugosi, the Hungarian star of stage and screen who originated the iconic role of Dracula both on Broadway and in the classic 1931 Universal horror film, multiple sources tell Deadline.Reps for Universal declined comment. While insiders stressed that it’s very early days on this project, the backstory is interesting, as it came into Universal as a pitch around two years ago and quietly has been gestating ever since. The script is by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, writers of Tim Burton’s Ed Wood, which won Martin Landau an Oscar and other top honors for his portrayal of Lugosi at the end of his life. Unlike that 1994 classic, the new film will focus on a younger Lugosi, capturing his meteoric rise to become one of cinema’s most enduring and recognizable figures. The film chronicles his immigration from Hungary and rise to stardom, both as the star of Dracula on Broadway in the late 1920s and its 1931 Hollywood adaptation, as well as his precipitous fall after declining the role of Frankenstein, which went to his future rival Boris Karloff. While Lugosi never could escape the role of Dracula, it cemented his place in history as the cornerstone of the pantheon of legendary monsters from Universal, which still is celebrated today. With Halloween fast approaching, there can be no better time to revisit the works that made Lugosi a star. Davisson, Michael Hampton and DiCaprio will produce the new Lugosi project for Appian Way. A pair of the town’s most celebrated screenwriters, who are widely known for their “anti-biopic” narratives, Alexander and Karaszewski have written some of Hollywood’s most indelible award-winning roles for actors, with projects like The People vs. Larry Flynt, Man on the Moon, Big Eyes, Dolemite Is My Name and American Crime Story, for which they earned multiple Emmys and PGA Awards, as well as a WGA Award. Most recently, they penned the script for a biopic about The Grateful Dead, which is set up at Apple. Industry veterans Cutler and Marshak are a pair of first cousins who have been working toward a Lugosi film for many years, beginning when they were teens. Marshak, who went on to become a talent agent, worked with DiCaprio early in each of their careers. Most recently, Appian Way has produced Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-nominated Apple pic Killers of the Flower, starring DiCaprio, as well as titles including The Featherweight and Queen of Bones. As an actor, DiCaprio stars in One Battle After Another, the critically acclaimed film from Paul Thomas Anderso that has grossed more than $138 million worldwide since its debut last month. Said to be circling Michael Mann’s Heat 2, which has just moved from Warner Bros. to Amazon MGM’s United Artists, he’s also recently entered talks to star opposite Jennifer Lawrence in What Happens at Night, a new Scorsese Apple pic based on the novel from Peter Cameron. Alexander and Karaszewski are represented by CAA and Entertainment 360. Appian Way is repped by LBI and Hansen Jacobson Teller. Cutler & Marshak are repped by Michael Sherman at Eisner Law. Leonardo DiCaprio Pays Tribute To “Dear Friend” Jane Goodall, Reveals His Last Words To Her: “We All Must Carry The Torch”(10/1/25) Following Jane Goodall‘s death at 91, Leonardo DiCaprio is paying tribute to his friend and continuing her legacy.The Oscar winner called Goodall “a true hero for the planet, an inspiration to millions, and a dear friend” after they served together as United Nations Messengers of Peace since his designation in 2014 and recently executive produced the movie Howl together. “Jane Goodall devoted her life to protecting our planet and giving a voice to the wild animals and the ecosystems they inhabit,” he wrote on Instagram. “Her groundbreaking research on Chimpanzees in Tanzania transformed our understanding of how our closest relatives live, socialize, and think—reminding us that we are deeply connected not only to Chimpanzees and the other great apes, but to all life.” DiCaprio continued, “For decades, Jane traveled the world with tireless energy, awakening generations to the wonder of the natural world. She spoke directly to the next generation, instilling hope, responsibility, and the belief that every individual can make a difference. She inspired millions to care, to act, and to hope. She never stopped. My deepest condolences to her family.” Inviting his followers to “join me in honoring her legacy” by supporting the Jane Goodall Institute and other conservation groups, DiCaprio concluded,”My last message to Jane was simple: ‘You are my hero.’ Now, we all must carry the torch for her in protecting our one shared home.” TThe Jane Goodall Institute announced that the primatologist died of natural causes while on a speaking tour in California. Goodall was 26 in 1960 when she traveled from her native England to what is now Tanzania and ventured into the little-known world of wild chimpanzees. It was the start of more than 60 years of groundbreaking work in a male-dominated field. She emphasized the need to protect chimps from extinction while redefining species conservation to include the needs of local people and the environment. Most recently, Goodall teamed with DiCaprio on Howl, a live-action film about a dog and wolf’s survival journey told from the animals’ perspective. Martin Scorsese Sets ‘What Happens At Night’ Next; Leonardo DiCaprio & Jennifer Lawrence Star With Apple In Talks(9/18/25) Director Martin Scorsese has committed to his next film, and he’s got Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as his leads. They’re eyeing a January start for an adaptation of the ghost story novel What Happens at Night. Deadline hears that Apple Original Films is negotiating to finance and produce with Studiocanal, which has developed the script.This comes as the DiCaprio-starring One Battle After Another is set to bow next weekend, amidst rapturous buzz and reviews for the Paul Thomas Anderson-directed film. Apple makes a lot of sense as the landing place for the new film. The studio was behind the Scorsese-directed DiCaprio-starrer Killers of the Flower Moon, and has first-look deals with Scorsese’s Sikelia and DiCaprio’s Appian Way banners. Patrick Marber penned the script to What Happens at Night after Studiocanal acquired rights to the Peter Cameron novel in the spring of 2023. At the time, Scorsese was only meant to produce the adaptation as he percolated other possible follow-ups to Killers of the Flower Moon. DiCaprio had also been weighing several projects including Damien Chazelle’s Evel Knievel biopic but ultimately those projects went away and the pieces fell into place where the film has three Oscar winners above the line here, including Lawrence. The dream-like story follows a married American couple who travel to a small, snowy European town to adopt a baby. They check into a cavernous, largely deserted hotel where they encounter an enigmatic cast of characters including a flamboyant chanteuse, a depraved businessman and a charismatic faith healer. Nothing is quite as it seems in this strange, frozen world. As the couple struggle to claim their baby, the less they seem to know about themselves and the life they’ve built together. Scorsese and DiCaprio tackled this kind of sleight-of-hand material in their hit adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel Shutter Island. Lawrence was most recently seen in Die, My Love opposite Robert Pattinson, with Lynne Ramsay directing and Scorsese producing. The film premiered at Cannes, where Mubi acquired it with plans for a November release. Stay tuned as the distribution deal gets wrapped up, and Scorsese casts up those other eccentric character roles. 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