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Molly Ringwald gives birth to twins

14 July 2009 2:21 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Actress Molly Ringwald has given birth to twins Adele Georgiana and Roman Stylianos in Los Angeles. The 41-year-old actress and husband Panio Gianopoulos welcomed their new son and daughter on Friday, People reports. The couple already have five-year-old daughter Mathilda Ereni. Ringwald rose to fame after starring in hit '80s films including Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty In Pink. She is currently (more)

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The Secret Life of the American Teenager: Molly Ringwald Welcomes Twins

13 July 2009 4:28 PM, PDT | From buddytv.com | See recent BuddyTV news

After her onscreen daughter said hello to motherhood on The Secret Life of the American Teenager, this time it's Molly Ringwald who is, once again, saying hello to babies - not just one, but two. The Breakfast Club star gave birth to twins Friday in Los Angeles, as reported by UsMagazine.com.

The twins - daughter Adele Georgiana and son Roman Stylianos - is the latest addition to Ringwald's family, previously composed of just husband Panio Gianopoulos and 5-year-old daughter Mathilda Ereni.

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Ringwald A Mother To Twins

13 July 2009 3:01 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actress/singer Molly Ringwald is celebrating a double bundle of joy - she's given birth to boy and girl twins.

The former Breakfast Club star, 41, and her husband Panio Gianopoulos welcomed the babies into the world on Friday.

The tots are Ringwald's second and third - the couple also has a five-year-old daughter, Mathilda, reports People.com.

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Molly Ringwald Talks The Secret Life of the American Teenager

22 June 2009 8:58 AM, PDT | From MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news

The 80s icon and star of the ABC Family series talks about the new season

The Secret Life of the American Teenager will premiere its second season on the ABC Family network on Monday, June 22 at 8 Pm Et and one of the big reasons the show is getting a second season is the invovlement of Molly Ringwald on the show. Ringwald held a conference call to discuss the new season and here's what she had to say.

What do you think it is about the show that makes it so popular, and did that popularity surprise you at all?

Molly Ringwald: Well, it's always surprising when something turns out to be such a big hit like this. I mean you do all these projects and you hope for the best. You really never know what's going to strike a chord. I just think that people just really like the characters.

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Ally Sheedy And Meat Loaf Star In Hallmark's "Citizen Jane"

18 June 2009 2:05 PM, PDT | From icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news

Brat Pack alumna Ally Sheedy and hit making rocker Meat Loaf are among the headliners of Hallmark's upcoming true-crime drama "Citizen Jane." Slated for a September showing, the television movie also stars Sean Patrick Flanery ("The Dead Zone") and Nia Peeples ("The Young and the Restless").

Based on a true story, "Citizen Jane" follows the empowering tale of one ordinary citizen's extraordinary efforts to counter injustice and hunt for a killer. Sheedy ("The Breakfast Club," "St. Elmo's Fire") plays an average woman unwittingly caught in the knotted aftermath of a ghastly murder.

Meat Loaf (née Marvin Lee Aday) is best known for his "Bat out of Hell" hard rock album trilogy. The musician's acting credits include "Rocky Horror Show," "Fight Club" and "Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny."

"Citizen Jane", a Hallmark Channel Original Movie culled from a James Dalessandro book, premiers Saturday, September 5 (9/8c).

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Johnny Five is Alive Again!

4 June 2009 5:58 PM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

The Hollywood remake machine is at it again and it would seem that none of our favorite 80’s films are safe. Karate Kid, Footloose and The Breakfast Club were all recently announced as remakes and now we can add Short Circuit to the growing list of iconic 80’s films slated for a remakeover.

Dimension Films is moving full steam ahead with Short Circuit and they have chosen writer Dan Milano to prep a script. David Foster, who produced the first Short Circuit, is back to produce the remake and will work alongside Ryan E. Heppe and John Hyde.

 

For those too young to remember Short Circuit, the story was about a group of five advanced robots created by Newton Crosby (Steve Guttenberg) for the Us government, as replacements for military Special Forces. After lighting strikes robot number five, he becomes “alive”, calls himself Johnny Five and flirts with Ally Sheedy

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Cult of the Week: The Ancient Mystic Order of Homeroom

1 June 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | From SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news

Art imitates life. Until art gets so thoroughly processed by focus groups and marketing departments that it wins an MTV Movie Award. Then, art turns into product, which is imitated by the single-brain-celled form of life that spends a small fortune of its parents’ money texting in random strings of consonants to PunchMuch. And it’s these creatures that feed off the circle of high school films imitating life imitating art. And what they shit out is what becomes the next film in the cycle. High school cinema mainly relies on a very simple premise; teen life is entirely driven by social hierarchy and tribal culture. By transforming high school into a cross between The Warriors and Abercrombie and Fitch ads, films like The New Guy and Clueless depend entirely on this compartmentalization of social circles. Which is, of course, complete and utter bullshit. I have lurked in several high schools while trolling for dates,

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Infected Hits DVDs May 19th Plus Details

14 April 2009 12:00 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Santa Monica, Calif. (March 9, 2009) – Gil Bellows (TV’s “Ally McBeal”), Golden Globe nominee Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club), Golden Globe and Emmy-nominee Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet, Death Becomes Her) and Maxim Roy (A Woman Hunted) star in the sci-fi thriller Infected, debuting on DVD May 19 from Genius Products and Rhi Entertainment. Ben (Bellows) and Lisa (Roy), disgruntled reporters for The Boston Daily, are looking for stories to match their ambitions. They find the story of a lifetime when the mayor is assassinated-not by a crazed gun nut, but by a terrified man desperate to stop an alien invasion of “infectious” proportions. Starting in the highest echelon [...]

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Infected Infects DVD May 19th!

13 April 2009 12:39 PM, PDT | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

It Won’t Kill You … It Will Become You. Infected! Golden Globe® and Emmy®-Nominee Isabella Rossellini, Judd Nelson, Gil Bellows, and Maxim Roy Star in the Sci-fi Thriller Debuting on DVD May 19!

Santa Monica, Calif. (March 9, 2009) – Gil Bellows (TV’s “Ally McBeal”), Golden Globe® nominee Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club), Golden Globe® and Emmy®-nominee Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet, Death Becomes Her) and Maxim Roy (A Woman Hunted) star in the sci-fi thriller Infected, debuting on DVD May 19 from Genius Products and Rhi Entertainment. Ben (Bellows) and Lisa (Roy), disgruntled reporters for The Boston Daily, are looking for stories to match their ambitions. They find the story of a lifetime when the mayor is assassinated—not by a crazed gun nut, but by a terrified man desperate to stop an alien invasion of “infectious” proportions. Starting in the highest echelon of government, the infection is quickly spreading. To stop it,

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[DVD Review] Morgan Stewart's Coming Home

7 April 2009 11:44 AM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

I watched Morgan Stewart’s Coming Home a scant three days after I saw Adventureland, and I could not help but be struck by the similarities between the two. Both were aimed squarely at the teenagers of their times, both aim for some degree of profundity (though this means something really different to each set of filmmakers) and both feature a budding romance between a geeky young man and a free-spirited young woman. I was as surprised as anyone to find that I liked Stewart a whole hell of a lot more.

Jon Cryer, the man who spent the better part of his popularity trying to recreate the success of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (a film that he did not appear in), portrays Morgan Stewart, a young hellion who (according to the back of the box) has been kicked out of 10 prep schools in the past seven years. After his latest incident,

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Proud Grandfather Sheen Reveals Estevez Wedding News

23 March 2009 3:05 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actor Martin Sheen is preparing to welcome yet another new addition to his family - his son Emilio Estevez's son Taylor is to wed his longterm girlfriend this summer.

The marriage news was broken by Sheen, who became a grandfather again earlier this month when Estevez's brother Charlie Sheen's wife Brooke gave birth to twin boys Bob and Max.

And now there's some more happy family news.

Discussing his grandkids, Sheen says, "One of them is getting married this summer in Spain... Taylor, who's Emilio's eldest child."

Taylor, 26, is The Breakfast Club star's child from his relationship with ex-model Carey Salley. Estevez and Salley also share a daughter, Paloma, 23.

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Ringwald To Pen 40-something Book

25 January 2009 5:28 PM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actress Molly Ringwald is writing a new book about life as a 40-something.

The star, who became the face of many 1980s teen movies including Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club, turned 40 last year and realised it's such a significant age, she's writing about it.

Ringwald, who is pregnant with twins, has struck a deal with publishing house HarperCollins and her untitled literary debut will hit stores at the end of 2009.

The actress says, "It's not just about 40, but people of my generation catching up and what that's like, and how you have to re-identify yourself at that age in a culture that's pretty youth-driven.

"Once you've been 40, you've been through a few car wrecks and there's a lot on interesting stuff to examine."

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Ringwald Pregnant With Twins

24 January 2009 6:05 AM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actress Molly Ringwald is preparing for double trouble - she's expecting twins.

The Breakfast Club star, 40, has announced she is pregnant with a boy and a girl, according to People.com.

The tots are due in August.

She already has a five-year-old daughter, Mathilda, with husband Panio Gianopoulos.

Ringwald, who currently stars as a stressed mother in U.S. network ABC's sitcom Secret Life, will have her pregnancy written into the show's storyline.

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Molly Ringwald Expecting a Daughter...and a Son!

23 January 2009 6:45 PM, PST | From E! Online | See recent E! Online news

We're assuming Molly Ringwald thinks blue is just as pretty as pink. The Breakfast Club princess is expecting twins—a boy and a girl—in August with hubby Panio Gianopoulos, People reports. The new additions will give the couple their first son and a second daughter. They're also parents to 5-year-old Mathilda Ereni. According to a rep for ABC Family, Ringwald's pregnancy will be written into the plot of The Secret Life of the American Teenager, in which the former '80s teen sweetheart plays the put-upon mom of an expectant teenager.

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Molly Ringwald Announces Her Pregnancy With Twins

23 January 2009 2:54 PM, PST | From icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news

Molly Ringwald, teen star of such film classics as Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club, and Sixteen Candles has announced that she is expecting twins in August. Ringwald plays the mother of a pregnant teenager on The Secret Life of the American Teenager.

It will be the second daughter and first son for Ringwald and her husband Panio Gianopoulos. The couple have a 5-year-old daughter. Shailene Woodley who plays Ringwald's daughter on the show says her pregnancy came as exciting news on the set.

On Secret Life, she plays a woman dealing with her husband's affair, her mother's Alzheimer's and her 15-year-old daughter's unplanned pregnancy. A spokeswoman for the show says Ringwald's pregnancy will be written into the show.

Secret Life airs on Monday night on ABC Family.

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Molly Ringwald Expecting Twins!

23 January 2009 5:40 AM, PST | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Molly Ringwald, who plays the anxious mother of a pregnant teen on The Secret Life of the American Teenager, is expecting twins of her own, the actress tells People exclusively. It will be the second daughter and first son for Ringwald, 40, and husband Panio Gianopoulos, 33. They have a 5-year-old daughter Mathilda Ereni. The babies are due in August. Secret Life's second season airs on Monday nights on ABC Family. A spokeswoman for the show says Ringwald's pregnancy will be written into the storyline. Her pregnancy came as exciting news on the set, says Shailene Woodley, who plays Ringwald's daughter on the show.

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Sundance Review: Adventureland

20 January 2009 11:40 AM, PST | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news

After Superbad you might think director Greg Mottola is out to make his way as the new Judd Apatow, but what he really wants to be is John Hughes. Mottola's latest film is Adventureland and though it involves youngsters drinking and smoking and swearing, it couldn't possibly be further from the raunch-com realm of his previous, McLovin-powered film. Adventureland seems to want desperately to be The Breakfast Club or 16 Candles, or maybe it simply wants to live in the same space those films in, right down to its setting back in good old 1987. It's about early twenty-somethings lost in summer break between college and doing the sort of crummy job college kids tend to do when they're not in class. James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) takes a job at Adventureland, because he's desperate for cash and because without any prior work experience, no one else would hire him. Stranded in Pittsburgh's

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Producer Ned Tanen Dead At 77

6 January 2009 1:31 AM, PST | From Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news

Ned Tanen, who served as president of both Universal and Paramount studios, died Monday in Santa Monica at age 77, Daily Variety reported today (Tuesday). With Russ Regan, Tanen founded Uni Records in 1967, focusing initially on the psychedelic sounds of the mid-60s. After moving into film production, he brought to the screen such Universal films as Smokey and the Bandit, Coal Miner's Daughter and Melvin and Howard. As an independent producer (Chanel Productions), he turned out the brat-pack hits Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire. Moving to Paramount in 1984, he greenlit such films as Planes, Trains and Automobiles and The Untouchables.

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Legendary Producer Tanen Dies

5 January 2009 11:12 PM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Former president of Universal Pictures Ned Tanen has died. He was 77.

The Hollywood producer passed away on Monday from natural causes at his home in Santa Monica, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Tanen took the helm of two of Hollywood's biggest studios and presided over a string of huge box office hits.

In his time at Universal, from 1976 to 1982, Tanen oversaw two record box office years for the studio, with the release of Oscar winners On Golden Pond and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.

He left Universal at the height of E.T.'s success, but quickly took on producing roles on a trio of Brat Pack films: The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and St. Elmo's Fire.

He took on the head role at Paramount in 1984 and continued his stellar box office record, with hits including Top Gun and Ghost being produced by the studio under his watch.

After leaving the studio, he finished his career with producing credits on Guarding Tess, Cops and Robbersons and Mary Reilly.

Tanen started his career as a talent agent and worked with entertainers such as Neil Diamond, Elton John, Bill Cosby and Olivia Newton-John.

He moved into movies, and was propelled up the ladder after spotting the potential of huge successes Jaws and Animal House.

He is survived by his partner, Donna Dubrow, two daughters and three grandchildren.

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