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London-based Noah Media Group is joining forces with Paris-headquartered Federation Entertainment on “Arsène Wenger: Invincible,” a feature documentary portraying the French soccer pioneer who changed the landscape of the English Premier League.

“Arsène Wenger: Invincible” is being directed by Gabriel Clarke, the British filmmaker whose BBC docu “Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans” was part of Cannes 2020’s Official Selection, and is co-directed by Christian Jeanpierre, a well-known sports journalist.

French pay TV group Canal Plus has commissioned the documentary which is set to be narrated by Wenger himself. Spanning the U.K., France and Japan, the feature-length documentary will also feature key figures from Wenger’s career, and interviews with some of the biggest names in world football, as well as from the Arsenal soccer club’s team of 2003-2004 which Wenger managed and to this day remains the only Premier League side to go an entire season unbeaten.

When Lifetime asked iconic indie filmmaker Allison Anders to direct the network’s “Beaches” remake, the director found herself in an interesting position: She’d never seen Garry Marshall’s 1988 melodrama.

“In fact, I can say this to IndieWire — I was like, ‘Well fuck no, I haven’t seen “Beaches.” That’s everything my generation of filmmakers was against,'” Anders said.

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Nonetheless, she decided to check out the original, and found herself deeply surprised by Marshall’s depiction of the decades-long bond between Cc (Idina Menzel in the remake, originally played by Bette Midler) and Hillary (Nia Long in the remake, originally played by Barbara Hershey). “I feel like the messiness is what was appealing to me, and that they endure through that messiness,” Anders said. “I mean, that’s the key, the endurance of the friendship.

Jaycee Dugard is finally ready to leave her painful past behind her. It's been nearly six years since Dugard was rescued after being kidnapped and spending 18 years in captivity. Dugard, 35, opens up about her new life in her second memoir, aptly titled, Freedom: My Book of Firsts - and People has the exclusive first look. "I am so much more than what happened so me," Dugard tells People in this week's issue. "[The book] is about who I am now and the many moments that go in creating the life I now live." Freedom will highlight both the triumphs and struggles Dugard...

Jaycee Lee Dugard has been free for just six years after spending nearly two decades in captivity. Now, she's opening up about her new life of freedom in her second memoir, aptly titled Freedom: My Book of Firsts, Simon & Schuster announced on Tuesday. Dugard was kidnapped in 1991 by Phillip and Nancy Garrido when she was 11 years old. She was held for 18 years in lean-tos and tents behind the couple's home in Antioch, California. Freedom, which is set for publication on July 12, will highlight the "joys that accompanied [Dugard's] newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own." "There...

Jaycee Lee Dugard has been free for just six years after spending nearly two decades in captivity. Now, she's opening up about her new life of freedom in her second memoir, aptly titled Freedom: My Book of Firsts, Simon & Schuster announced on Tuesday. Dugard was kidnapped in 1991 by Phillip and Nancy Garrido when she was 11 years old. She was held for 18 years in lean-tos and tents behind the couple's home in Antioch, California. Freedom, which is set for publication on July 12, will highlight the "joys that accompanied [Dugard's] newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own." "There...

Joan Crawford in 'Mildred Pierce.' 'Mildred Pierce' review: Very entertaining soap opera Time has a way of making some films seem grander than they really are. A good example is Mildred Pierce, the 1945 black-and-white melodrama directed by Casablanca's Michael Curtiz, and that won star Joan Crawford a Best Actress Oscar. Mildred Pierce is in no way, shape, or form great art, even though it's certainly not a bad film. In fact, as a soap opera it's quite entertaining – no, make that very entertaining; and entertainment is a quality that can stand on its own. (The problem in recent decades is that cinema has become nothing but entertainment.) In the case of Mildred Pierce, the entertainment is formulaic and rather predictable – but in an enjoyable, campy sort of way. Unbridled Hollywood melodrama Now, what makes Mildred Pierce a melodrama is something known as the Dumbest Possible Action – Dpa for short.

A Stolen Life: Lamarque’s Debut an Entertaining, Borrowed Premise

Identical twins and their cannibalistic tendencies have long been a fine cinematic tradition of the dramatic or thriller genres. Classic titles from Brian De Palma, a pair of Bette Davis headliners, Olivia De Havilland, Viggo Mortensen, those Parent Trap films, are all examples of the same actor playing identical twins, many of them featuring narratives where a less successful twin wishes to usurp the identity of the most prized of the pair. Of course, this generally leads to a morbid atmosphere. If writer/director Jenee Lamarque brings anything new to this idea it’s that she turns this scenario into a romantic comedy, and with sometimes winning results. Of course, this tactic of re-tooling elements of film noir for modern romance isn’t quite revolutionary either (see 90’s films like While You Were Sleeping or Mrs. Winterbourne), and there...

Fred MacMurray movies: ‘Double Indemnity,’ ‘There’s Always Tomorrow’ Fred MacMurray is Turner Classic Movies’ "Summer Under the Stars" today, Thursday, August 7, 2013. Although perhaps best remembered as the insufferable All-American Dad on the long-running TV show My Three Sons and in several highly popular Disney movies from 1959 to 1967, e.g., The Absent-Minded Professor, Son of Flubber, Boy Voyage!, MacMurray was immeasurably more interesting as the All-American Jerk. (Photo: Fred MacMurray ca. 1940.) Someone once wrote that Fred MacMurray would have been an ideal choice to star in a biopic of disgraced Republican president Richard Nixon. Who knows, the (coincidentally Republican) MacMurray might have given Anthony Hopkins a run for his Best Actor Academy Award nomination. After all, MacMurray’s most admired movie performances are those in which he plays a scheming, conniving asshole: Billy Wilder’s classic film noir Double Indemnity (1944), in which he’s seduced by Barbara Stanwyck, and Wilder...

Paul Henreid: From lighting two cigarettes and blowing smoke onto Bette Davis’ face to lighting two cigarettes while directing twin Bette Davises Paul Henreid is back as Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of July 2013. TCM will be showing four movies featuring Henreid (Now, Voyager; Deception; The Madwoman of Chaillot; The Spanish Main) and one directed by him (Dead Ringer). (Photo: Paul Henreid lights two cigarettes on the set of Dead Ringer, while Bette Davis remembers the good old days.) (See also: “Paul Henreid Actor.”) Irving Rapper’s Now, Voyager (1942) was one of Bette Davis’ biggest hits, and it remains one of the best-remembered romantic movies of the studio era — a favorite among numerous women and some gay men. But why? Personally, I find Now, Voyager a major bore, made (barely) watchable only by a few of the supporting performances (Claude Rains, Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominee...

No matter what you might believe, acting well for the camera is no easy endeavor. The techniques involved might boggle the mind of even the most seasoned stage actor. Once you have experienced the craft for yourself, you might even forgive some of those screen stars you hate on with an undeniable passion. (Except Kristen Stewart. God, she’s atrocious.)

But what’s an even more daunting and rewarding task than playing a film character well? Why, playing two of course. And twins, no less!

Here’s a look at the 10 most convincing performances of one actor playing twins.

10. Bette Davis in A Stolen Life (1946)

In A Stolen Life, the characters of Kate and Patricia Bosworth both have Bette Davis Eyes, because, well, they’re both played by that queen of early 20th century cinema, Bette Davis.

The movie finds the multi-Oscar-winning actress playing an artist and her cold-hearted twin...

Best Laid Plans: Piterbarg Gets Double the Mortensen in Debut

Argentinean director Ana Piterbarg nabs Viggo Mortensen for dual roles in her debut, a slow burn identity thriller, Everybody Has a Plan. Mortensen, having appeared in three previous Spanish speaking features, is a fellow countryman of Piterbarg, having spent his childhood in Argentina. The resulting collaboration may be disappointing to some, as this is a simmering, psychological thriller that banks mostly on constant discomfort and a slowly building menace that permeates the narrative, but this only serves to make the film a unique, fascinating, noir-tinged exercise in the swamps.

Agustin (Mortensen) stars as a doctor in Buenos Aires, who we quickly learn is in a floundering marriage with Claudia (Soledad Villamil). They are about to adopt a baby, something that Claudia is apparently passionate about, a plan that has been gestating for some time. But it turns out that...

These days, Jaycee Dugard rides horses. Working with the animals is therapeutic, even confidence-boosting, she says. "You have to be very sure of yourself when you're riding," she tells ABC News's Diane Sawyer in an interview airing Tuesday (6:30 p.m. Et). "You don't want to have any doubts in your mind because they'll sense that." It's a motto that seems to have a deeper meaning for Dugard, who was kidnapped in 1991 when she was 11 years old and held captive for 18 years by Phillip and Nancy Garrido. Related: Jaycee Dugard Appears at First Public EventHorseback riding was on a...

The clever initial gimmick of the classic TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer was, of course, the contrast between the idea of a chosen "vampire slayer" and a would-be vapid high school girl named Buffy. And I don't think I'm going out on any great limb to say that a big part of the reason why the show worked was because the actress who played Buffy, Sarah Michelle Gellar, was terrific — a fact that allowed her to perfectly create the contrast between her airhead look and sound, and her smart, kick-ass performance.

After a successful if not stellar stint in the movies, Gellar has returned to television.

Boy, has she returned to television! I thought her new show Ringer was the best new show of the year, and she's terrific in it — a complicated role that requires her to be in every scene and play two different roles as twins (at one point,...

Kidnap and rape victim Jaycee Dugard's heartbreaking memoir A Stolen Life is breaking eBook records.

Over 100,000 copies of 175,000 sold in the book's first day on release were snapped up by users of electronic libraries like Kindle and Nook. That's a new one-day eBook sales record.

The tome details Dugard's abduction in South Lake Tahoe, California in 1991, at the age of 11, and the years she spent captive in the backyard of convicted sex offender Phillip Craig Garrido, who fathered two children with his young prisoner.

There are currently 425,000 copies of the book in print and publishers at Simon & Schuster are racing against the clock to make more available.

Spokeswoman Tracey Guest tells USA Today newspaper, "We're reprinting and shipping at the fastest pace possible to meet high demand for the book."

Also selling well is the audio version of the book, which features Dugard reading her own story.

In her new memoir, "A Stolen Life," kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard describes the loneliness and torment she faced during her 18 years in captivity.

Dugard revealed in an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer that she was ready to move on, and in order to do so, she needed to confront her nightmare. "Why not look at it, you know, stare it down until it can't scare you anymore?"

During the interview, a tearful Jaycee spoke about her two daughters,...

Kidnap survivor Jaycee Dugard's interview with ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer on Sunday was one of the most watched programs on the network, bringing in 14.8 million viewers. The 31-year-old survivor talked about her 18-year ordeal of abuse and torture at the hands of Nancy and Phillip Garrido.

Watch the full interview!

When asked why she never tried to escape with her two daughters, Jaycee explained, "I've asked myself that question... the mind manipulation, plus the...

Some 14.78 million people watched Diane Sawyer's Sunday interview with Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped, raped and held prisoner for 18 years, in a special two-hour edition of Primetime — the biggest summer viewership for a newsmagazine in seven years.

The California woman's story is a compellingly harrowing tale: Just 11 when she was taken by Phillip and Nancy Garrido, she repeatedly was abused and gave birth to two children as a result of rape. Now 31, she has written a memoir titled A Stolen Life that's being published Tuesday ...

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In her very first television interview, Jaycee Dugard told Diane Sawyer she felt she needed to speak out about the nearly two decades she spent as a captive of sex offender Phillip Garrido. Over 15 million viewers tuned into the Primetime interview to see Jaycee Lee Dugard talk with Diane Sawyer about her life as a hostage to Garrido and his wife.

Jaycee Dugard, Source: ABC News

“I didn’t want there to be any more secrets,” Jaycee Dugard told Diane Sawyer of ABC News. “I hadn’t done anything wrong. It wasn’t something I did that caused this to happen. And I feel that by putting it all out there, it’s very freeing.”

At the height of the interview, nearly 15.7 million viewers had tuned in to the special Primetimetwo-hour special to hear Dugard’s story.

Jaycee Dugard said she had to face what had happened to her head on to deal with it.

It has been nearly two years since Jaycee Dugard was rescued 18 years after her abduction by a sex offender, but the 31-year-old's incredible story of survival is just as moving and powerful. Diane Sawyer agrees. "Everything she says makes you stop and examine yourself and your life," the news anchor, whose exclusive interview with Dugard aired Sunday on a two-hour ABC Primetime special, told People for the July 18 issue. "She will astonish you." Asked if Dugard was emotional during the interview, Sawyer, 65, said she saw "lots of different moods, and when she goes back in time, you can see it in her eyes,...

Jaycee Dugard, the kidnapped little girl who spent 18 years being held captive by Nancy and Phillip Garrido, is finally breaking her silence after being rescued two years ago.

Dugard chose to tell her story in a new memoir, "A Stolen Life," and in conversation with ABC News host Diane Sawyer, to air this Sunday.

"Now I can walk in the next room and see my mom," Dugard told Sawyer about the simply joys of her freedom.

Diane Sawyer knows much of the country's attention has been on a particular story this week, but she has someone else's to help tell.

The veteran, much-honored journalist and weeknight "ABC World News" anchor spends two hours of the network's primetime Sunday (July 10) on Jaycee Dugard, abducted at age 11 in Tahoe, Calif., in June 1991 and held prisoner -- and abused -- over the next 18 years by Phillip and Nancy Garrido, who were given life sentences last month for the kidnapping and sexual assault of Dugard.

"I want to make sure that I let her speak straight," Sawyer tells Zap2it of the first interview with the now 31-year-old Dugard. "I let her speak to the camera and let her reach everyone. She doesn't need my help. When she comes on the screen and talks, she's the one you'll remember. She's the one with the rich, multidimensional lesson to teach.

"She...

Jaycee Dugard will break silence about her years in captivity on ABC News' "World News Tonight". The network has scored the first interview with the 31-year-old victim of kidnapping and sexual abuse. Diane Sawyer will conduct the exclusive interview, which is set to air in July before the release of Dugard's book "A Stolen Life".

Dugard stole media's attention with her tragic story in which she was kidnapped from her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991 at the age of 11 by Phillip Garrido. She was sexually abused and held captive for 18 years, before returned to her family in 2009. Dugard gave birth to two children fathered by Garrido during her years in captivity.

Last week, Garrido was sentenced to 431 years to life in prison while his wife Nancy was sentenced to 36 years to life in prison. Dugard did not attend the sentencing hearing but her mother, Terry Probyn, read a statement by Dugard.

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Jaycee Dugard, the California woman who was abducted as a child and held in captivity for 18 years, will break her silence about the ordeal in an exclusive TV interview with Diane Sawyer.

Multiple news organizations had been trying to secure an interview with Dugard and, according to 'The New York Times,' ABC signed a deal earlier this week.

A spokesman for the network said that "Dugard will be asked about the extraordinary and heartbreaking story of her captivity [and] her reunion with her family," adding that the interview will air shortly before her memoir, 'A Stolen Life,' is published on July 12.

However, exact details of when the interview will air, and on which show(s), have not yet been announced.

 

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Jaycee Dugard is about to tell her whole painful story. Dugard, now 31, who was kidnapped at the age of 11 by Phillip and Nancy Garrido and held captive for 18 years, during which time she bore him two children, will publish her memoir, A Stolen Life, on July 12. The publisher, Simon & Schuster, says the book will detail "the full story of her ordeal" from her 1991 abduction to the present. Related: Jaycee Dugard's Kidnappers Plead Guilty"In her stark, compelling narrative, she opens up about what she experienced, including how she feels now since she was found," the publisher notes. In addition to the hardcover and e-book,...

Ann Blyth, Zachary Scott, Joan Crawford in Michael Curtiz's Mildred Pierce Mildred Pierce Review Part I Mildred Pierce was adapted from a novel of the same name by James M. Cain, who wrote Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice. The adaptation was credited to Ranald MacDougall, though Catherine Turney (Of Human Bondage, A Stolen Life) and novelist William Faulkner were two among several uncredited writers who contributed to the project. Given what I’ve read of Faulkner’s melodramas, it’s no surprise this was right up his alley. Mildred Pierce also has a fine soap-operatic score by Max Steiner, with just enough gravy in the right places to make the silliness entertain. The cinematography by Ernest Haller (who won an Oscar for Gone with the Wind), and the editing by David Weisbart are solid if prosaic. The lack of a real "vision" in classic Hollywood films...

On this week's clip joint, Spoom does a double take on the best film clips featuring identical twins

Identical twins or "multiples" as I believe they're more correctly termed, in a slightly unsettling, Minority Report sort of way, hold – for me, at least – a unique fascination. Can you imagine having someone who looks exactly like you hanging around all the time?

Actors probably wouldn't mind though. Any actor who loves themselves – and, if we're being honest, that's probably the majority – would give their right arm to play identical twins. What better way is there to show your range, your sheer, awards-worth versatility, than appearing as two different people in the same movie? Plus: double screen time! You do the maths.

No wonder they've proved popular fodder for the cinema, then – as Matt Lucas's Tweedledum and Tweedledee double-act in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland reminds us. So in honour...

The first two episodes of NBC’s new “before-they-were-famous” retelling of the Camelot story aired back-to-back last night, and it was a little like watching the Bette Davis movies A Stolen Life or Dead Ringer: one twin was good, and one twin was evil.

Okay, so how gay was that reference?

The point is, the first episode of Merlin, “The Dragon’s Call,” was terrific: fast-paced, well-acted, and funny, with lots of cheeky references to the fact that they’re basically giving King Arthur and company the Smallville treatment.

The second episode, “Valiant”? Not so great. But more on that later.

In the opening narration of “The Dragon’s Call,” we learn that, “No young man, no matter how great, can know his destiny. He cannot glimpse his part in the great story that is about to unfold. Like everyone, he must live and learn.”

Which isn’t how I feel at all.