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Gary Oldman, onetime star ofDracula, is still bloodthirsty: The actor and his manager Douglas Urbanski have signed a book deal with Simon & Schuster/Atria for a vampire novel calledBlood Riders. Per a press release,Blood Riders, will tell the story of a mysterious man fleeing a curse in a town that the gold rush left behind. We have always wanted to write a story of vampire cowboys, set in the Wild West, the gold rushand we have had these characters and this story kicking around in our heads for years....

First, as a caveat, let me be clear that Im not an Oscar prognosticator. The first is Gary Oldmans portrayal of Winston Churchill in Joe WrightsDarkest Hour. The film follows the pitbull British prime minister during one crucial month in the early stages of WWII. Jack English / Focus Features That would be May 1940, when the countries of Western Europe are falling like dominoes to the Nazis. Hitlers invasion of France means that his next stop is Britain....

Nick Denton stared at the six jurors before him and prepared for the worst. Hogan sued in his hometown court in Florida, secretly backed along the way by PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel. Three days later, on March 21, jurors tacked on another $25 million in punitive damages. Credit: Fred Lee/ABC via Getty Images (Gawker has appealed.) The sum was enough to force Gawker Media, and Denton, into bankruptcy. A billionaire tech entrepreneur had managed to crush one of his industrys most persistent critics....

Journalist Gay Talese regrets saying he disavowed his latest book,The Voyeurs Motel. How dare I promote it when its credibility is down the toilet? Let me be clear: I am not disavowing the book and neither is my publisher. Credit: Lloyd Bishop/NBC If, down the line, there are details to correct in later editions, well do that. I said, I cant go along and support this book.' It was a mistake on my part....

YA master Gayle Forman, author ofIf I Stay,will release her first book for adultson Sept. 6. CalledLeave Me, the novel follows a seemingly perfect magazine editor Maribeth Klein who suffers a heart attack. It felt like the time to write a novel starring people my own age. Credit: Writer Pictures via AP Images Now, EW has your first look at the coverandan exclusive excerpt right here. Shed left her cell phone, her computer pretty much everything else at home....

But the end of the wait for the next chapter is finally in sight. EW can exclusively reveal thatGears of War 4will launch globally Oct. 11 on Xbox One. But not Horde mode. He wouldnt talk about that. ROD FERGUSSON:It was an interesting process. We felt like human-on-human conflict was not aGearsgame. You have to have a monster to be aGearsgame. So we felt like that was a problem. And you end up with the Roger, Roger robots, right?...

If you select links we provide, we may receive compensation. In the press, they were saying, This changes everything. Now theres going to be so many female sports movies. This proves once and for all that womens sports movies can be huge successes. And there were none! The ratio of male to female characters has been exactly the same since 1946. A longtime advocate for equality on film, she founded theGeena Davis Institute on Gender in Mediain 2004....

If you punch links we provide, we may receive compensation. Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez are going overboard. MGM is producing alongside Pantelion Films and 3Pas Studios. Credit: Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images for Fashion Media; Hector Vivas/LatinContent/Getty Images Faris has starred on the CBS comedyMomsince 2013, and she also hosts the podcastAnna Faris is Unqualified. She previously starred in films likeThe House BunnyandWhats Your Number, andOverboardwill mark her return to film....

KISS frontman Gene Simmons came under fire Tuesday when hecalled Princes death patheticin aninterview withNewsweek. Late that night, he apologized in a note posted to Twitter. I just got such s from my family for my big mouth again, he wrote. Credit: Rachel Murray/Getty Images I get angry at drug users because of my experience being around them coming up in the rock scene. A law enforcement official told theAssociated Pressthat his death was beinginvestigated as a possible drug overdose....

Read words from Wilder and Radner on one another, ahead. “I had been a workaholic. I’d taken on job after another for ten years. Kevin Winter/Getty Images Gilda Radner inIt’s Always Something “When Gilda arrived, I thought she looked radiant. She was calm, cheerful, sensitive.” Two-and-three-quarters years, I thought that she would make it. Bill Polo/AP And I would say that to her, and she said, ‘Really?’ And I said, I’ll find – ‘Right now, I’ll exchange life spans with you....

When you hear that Gene Wilders in the audience, you just are terrified. He came backstage afterwards. We sat on this couch, and Ill never forget it as long as I live. Credit: CBS Corden said he tried to get Wilder to appear on the sketch. Though he was turned down, Corden still remembered Wilders polite refusal. In the history of people saying no to things, it couldnt have been nicer, Corden said....

Not only that, its hard to know where to start among the sure-fire classics. Where else can we start except the beginning…? He was in serious trouble. AP; Courtesy Everett Collection; 20th Century Fox/Everett Collection; Courtesy Everett Collection Help!Why are you laughing? Wilder wanted to keep the audience guessing about whether Wonka was lying or telling the truth. The actors' earnest innocence sells it. Courtesy Everett Collection Alas, it leaves the brokenhearted doctor trying to drown his sorrows in Woolite....

I wanted to make it a happy ending. Its all because they saw Willy Wonka, he told Osborne. Sometimes its someone whos 12 years old, sometimes its 21 years old, sometimes its 34 years old. Credit: Paramount Pictures But they want to have it signed. Wilder was already twice married when he met Saturday Night Live veteran Radner on the set of 1982sHanky Panky. The pair wed in 1984, just five years before Radners death, of ovarian cancer, in 1989....