Cate Blanchett shares she is ‘serious about giving up acting’ as she teases Hollywood retirement: ‘I mean it’

Cate Blanchett shares she is ‘serious about giving up acting’ as she teases Hollywood retirement: ‘I mean it’

Cate Blanchett might be leaving Hollywood sooner rather than later. The “Black Bag” actress, 55, discussed her next career moves in an interview with Radio Times set to be released on Sunday, April 20. She insisted she is “serious” about leaving acting behind because there are “a lot of things” she would rather focus on … Read more

Elijah Wood reveals ‘Lord of the Rings’ salaries were surprisingly low

Elijah Wood reveals ‘Lord of the Rings’ salaries were surprisingly low

Not so precious. Elijah Wood recently revealed that the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, which made a huge profit from 2001 to 2003, did not end up in a big pay day for the cast. “Because we weren’t making one movie and then renegotiating a contract for the next, it wasn’t the sort of lucrative … Read more

Moviegoers addicted to ‘Novocaine,’ extracts $3.9M on opening day

Moviegoers addicted to ‘Novocaine,’ extracts .9M on opening day

“Novocaine” took the No. 1 spot at the box office on its debut in theaters Friday, earning $3.9 million, according to The Numbers. The action comedy, which the Los Angeles Times called “brutal yet weightless,” stars Jack Quaid, the son of Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan, as a bank exec who can’t feel pain. The … Read more

Fall TV preview: 13 hottest TV shows to watch in late 2024

Fall TV preview: 13 hottest TV shows to watch in late 2024

Get out your sweaters, and prepare to drink pumpkin spice lattes.  Fall is almost here, as September approaches.  Autumn of 2024 is a booming TV season, filled with must-see shows.  Big name stars such as Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell and Billy Crystal all have new projects coming out. TV mainstays such as Joshua … Read more

Cate Blanchett says Queen Elizabeth’s husband Prince Philip asked her to fix his DVD player

Cate Blanchett says Queen Elizabeth’s husband Prince Philip asked her to fix his DVD player

Cate Blanchett experienced some technical difficulties when she met Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II. The Oscar-winning actress, 55, was a guest on “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” on Wednesday, August 7, and said that during a visit to Buckingham Palace, the late Queen Elizabeth’s husband asked her if she could help fix … Read more

‘Borderlands’ review: Cate Blanchett video game disaster is the worst movie of the year

‘Borderlands’ review: Cate Blanchett video game disaster is the worst movie of the year

movie review BORDERLANDS ZERO STARS.<br>Running time: 102 minutes. Rated PG-13 (intense sequences of violence and action, language and some suggestive material). In theaters. Sometimes when a job doesn’t work out, the former employee will omit that short-lived work experience from her resume. For Cate Blanchett, that erasable gig is the unspeakably terrible new movie “Borderlands.”  … Read more

Cate Blanchett claims ‘no one got paid anything’ for ‘Lord of the Rings’ films

Cate Blanchett claims ‘no one got paid anything’ for ‘Lord of the Rings’ films

It’s a dangerous business, Frodo. Cate Blanchett claimed that the actors in Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” film trilogy made a poor salary, despite the franchise having grossed nearly $3 billion. The 55-year-old actress made the confession on Tuesday’s episode of “Watch What Happens Live,” when host Andy Cohen asked her which film … Read more

10 hot blockbusters to see this summer

10 hot blockbusters to see this summer

There may be no #Barbenheimer, but the 2024 summer movie season is finally heating up. Thanks to the domestic box office success of sequels “Inside Out 2” ($469 million) “A Quiet Place: Day One” ($98 million) and “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” ($165 million), theater chains can heave a sigh of relief. For now. There … Read more

Esthetician Georgia Louise’s favorite flares, freeze tools and fancy sneakers

Esthetician Georgia Louise’s favorite flares, freeze tools and fancy sneakers

New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you buy through our links. She’s come a long way from her tweenage skincare savant years when she freely dispensed facials to school chums in her native England. Little did they know that Georgia Louise Vassanelli would go on to count such legendary … Read more

Cate Blanchett, worth $95 million, slammed for saying she’s ‘middle class’: ‘Compared to who? Jeff Bezos?’

Cate Blanchett, worth  million, slammed for saying she’s ‘middle class’: ‘Compared to who? Jeff Bezos?’

Cate Blanchett has some fans in an uproar. The Oscar winner, 55, received backlash online for saying at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival that she is “middle class.” Blanchett is worth $95 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. Cate Blanchett at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. AP The “Ocean’s 8” star made the “middle class” … Read more

How this ex-drug addict became a millionaire artist painting portraits of Brad Pitt and Lady Gaga

How this ex-drug addict became a millionaire artist painting portraits of Brad Pitt and Lady Gaga

Lincoln Townley has gone from a seedy life of drugs and strippers to doing portraits of Jody Foster and schmoozing with Michael Caine. Celebrity paintings by Townley – besides Foster and Caine, he’s captured  the likes of Brad Pitt, Samuel L. Jackson, Muhammad Ali, Lady Gaga, Matt Damon and others – sell for hundreds of thousands … Read more

Here are the best movies to watch on New Year’s Eve — yes, ‘The Godfather Part II’ counts

Here are the best movies to watch on New Year’s Eve — yes, ‘The Godfather Part II’ counts

The countdown to 2024 has officially entered the homestretch. Your party plans are made and your outfit has been selected. Now, all that’s left is to curl up with a good movie and wait until the clock strikes midnight. But with the millions of festive films currently circulating on all streaming services, picking the right … Read more

Michelle Yeoh makes emotional visit to dad’s grave with her Oscar: ‘So much love’

Michelle Yeoh makes emotional visit to dad’s grave with her Oscar: ‘So much love’

It was an emotional homecoming. One month after winning the Best Actress Oscar for her role in “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” Michell Yeoh has taken the statuette to her father’s grave in Malaysia. The 60-year-old shared a snap to her Instagram page on Wednesday that showed her visiting the burial ground for Qing Ming … Read more

Inside ‘stealth wealth’ style: How the rich secretly telegraph power

Inside ‘stealth wealth’ style: How the rich secretly telegraph power

When Gwyneth Paltrow paraded more than $25,000 of designer gear at her eight-day ski crash trial last month, there wasn’t a double G, interlocking C or Medusa head logo in sight. Instead, the Goop founder donned a series of understated luxury looks in salubrious shades of bone broth and protein powder.  Enter the era of … Read more

‘Tár’ director reveals why Oscar-nominated movie might be last of his career

‘Tár’ director reveals why Oscar-nominated movie might be last of his career

“Tár” director Todd Field says he may never make another feature film — despite rave reviews for the recent Cate Blanchett drama, which he also penned and produced. Field, 59, got candid about the next stage of his career in a recent interview with Cinema Scope, revealing that it’s “highly likely” he’s done with directing. … Read more

Michelle Yeoh wins Best Actress at Oscars 2023: ‘Beacon of hope’

Michelle Yeoh wins Best Actress at Oscars 2023: ‘Beacon of hope’

Michelle Yeoh is taking home the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in “Everything Everywhere All At Once.” Yeoh, 60, is the first Asian woman to win in the “lead actress” category, making history. She is the second woman of color to win in the category, following Halle Berry for “Monster’s Ball” (2001). In … Read more

The biggest Oscars controversies of 2023: ‘Whale’ fat suit, Slap fallout

The biggest Oscars controversies of 2023: ‘Whale’ fat suit, Slap fallout

The 2023 Oscars, airing Sunday, March 12 at 8 p.m. on ABC, won’t be the starriest of all time, but there are still plenty of controversies swirling around Hollywood’s biggest night.  From getting over “the slap” to totally unexpected nominees crashing the party, here are the biggest scandals going into the 95th Academy Awards, hosted … Read more

Oscar predictions 2023: Who will win vs. who should win this year

Oscar predictions 2023: Who will win vs. who should win this year

Oscars night is here, and award-season behemoth “Everything Everywhere All At Once” looks like a shoo-in for Best Picture — but everything everywhere else this year is anybody’s guess. Here, Post critic Johnny Oleksinski picks who will win and who should win at the 2023 Academy Awards Sunday March 12 at 8:00 p.m. ET on ABC. Best … Read more

Oscars 2023 has a $56.8M price tag — here’s how it all breaks down

Oscars 2023 has a .8M price tag — here’s how it all breaks down

The Academy Awards offer a chance for Hollywood to show off its glitz, glam and gold. And it can cost a pretty penny for celebrities to attend the evening in style. The 2023 Oscars ceremony itself has a staggering $56.8 million price tag, according to a report by WalletHub. It’s apparently a boon for the … Read more

Michelle Yeoh in hot water over ‘forbidden’ post about Oscars nominee Cate Blanchett

Michelle Yeoh in hot water over ‘forbidden’ post about Oscars nominee Cate Blanchett

Michelle Yeoh narrowly avoided a slap on the wrist from the Academy. Yeoh, 60, was in hot water Tuesday for possibly violating the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “References to Other Nominees” rule after reportedly posting a photo of a Vogue article, which suggested Blanchett doesn’t need a third Oscar. The “Everywhere Everything … Read more