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Words cannot describe the impact John Hughes has had on Cinema. His movies have impacted a generation of teenagers and fledgling filmmakers. How many times have you seen ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ being played on TV, or heard “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” from ‘The Breakfast Club’ on any 80s radio station? He defined the 1980s and 90s, and his teen comedies are still analyzed and discussed today. He also brought many actors that we now know and love into stardom, as many of the child and teen actors in his films became pop-culture icons. Without him, the coming-of-age drama would be drastically different, and with that, let’s take a look into how important Hughes was to American Cinema.

Breaking the Teenage Stereotype One of the most defining and most charming aspects of Hughes’ films is his focus on young people and their personal growth. In real life,...

Emilio Estevez’s storied Hollywood career was nearly cut short before it even began, but thanks to the impulsive bravery of a lifelong friend, he was saved from a perilous situation. As an extra on the set of Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now, starring his father Martin Sheen, Estevez befriended a young Lawrence Fishburne. During a break in the Philippines, the two took a leisurely boat ride down a nearby river. As the boat drifted too close to the bank, Estevez offered to get out and push it back to the center. But as soon as he stepped out, he began sinking into the river muck like quicksand. Without hesitation, Fishburne extended his hand and pulled Estevez back into the boat, saving his life. All that dancing with death for his extra work to be cut from the final film.

So what kind of life did that turn out to be?...

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In our Q&a series Popsugar Crush, we get to know some of our favorite celebs' more intimate details - from their ideal first date to their most romantic gesture. This month, we're crushing on "School Spirits" star Milo Manheim.

Milo Manheim is playing dead. Literally. In the actor's new Paramount+ series, "School Spirits," Manheim embodies an '80s jock à la Emilio Estevez's Andrew Clark in "The Breakfast Club," ruling over his high school hallways with equal parts charm and vapidness. The twist, though, is that Manheim's Wally is deceased - long deceased. Wally is one of a handful of ghosts trapped in the afterlife. And while he's seemingly made peace with being confined to the bleachers and reliving his football heyday, Wally is forced to buck up in the first few episodes of "School Spirits" that are now streaming: he must...

Andrew Roy, who has overseen international coverage for the BBC, is joining CBS News as vice president and London bureau chief.

Roy will start May 3 and oversee all coverage out of Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. His hiring comes after previous London bureau chief Andrew Clarke exited the network in March after 37 years.

Roy was at the BBC for 34 years and covered wars in Somolia, Iraq and Afghanistan, along with other news events. He has been head of foreign news at the network for eight years, with responsibility for BBC TV, radio and online, and managed several hundred employees in bureaus around the world. He previously served as head of BBC World News Channel, with oversight of news, business and sports programming as well scheduling, product launches and talent management.

He’ll report to Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, executive vice president for newsgathering for CBS News. They worked together...

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Dexter Fletcher, director of Elton John biopic Rocketman, is set to tackle Paramount’s reboot of classic TV franchise The Saint.

The Saint, and its exploits of Simon Templar, is readying a return with the shiny new halo that is a reboot movie; a notion that just became a lot more real with the appointment of highly-sought director Dexter Fletcher to the picture.

Studio Paramount has officially hired Fletcher to direct its remake of The Saint, according to Variety. The production will see Fletcher – who’s enjoying newfound momentum from acclaimed Elton John biopic Rocketman – work off a script by Seth Grahame-Smith, adapting the classic antihero spy-thief franchise of author Leslie Charteris’s 1928-1963 novels, which, after early film versions, were famously adapted for U.K. television as the 1962-1969 ITV series, The Saint, which starred a future James Bond, Roger Moore. The series managed to be a contemporaneously-rare global hit,...

The United Nations Development Programme (Undp), Finch and founding partner Mars, Incorporated today announced an initiative aimed at transforming the lives of animals across the world by asking advertisers to contribute a percentage of their media spend to conservation and animal welfare projects.

Video: Sir David Attenborough introduces The Lion's Share, a simple way to make a powerful difference

The initiative, a fund called The Lion’s Share, will see partners contribute 0.5 percent of their media spend to the fund for each advertisement they use featuring an animal. Those funds will be used to support animals and their habitats around the world. Mars is the first advertising partner in The Lion’s Share.

“Animals are in 20 percent of all advertisements we see. Yet, they do not always receive the support they deserve. Until now,” said Lion’s Share Special Ambassador Sir David Attenborough.

“The Lion’s Share shows that by making a small difference today,...

Mezco’s new Living Dead Doll of Beetlejuice, the sometimes lovable ghost with the most, will be ready for showtime between October and November of this year. Also in today’s Highlights: details on the free release of Horror Hotel The Movie on Amazon Prime and DVD cover art and release details for 6 Plots.

Mezco Presents New Beetlejuice Living Dead Doll: From Mezco: “Beetlejuice, “the ghost with the most”, is back and ready to bring his unique blend of horrific hilarity to your home.

Tim Burton’s Academy Award winning film Beetlejuice not only introduced the title character but forever branded his garishly colored, surrealistic antics into the collective minds of moviegoers. In one of the film’s most memorable scenes, Beetlejuice transforms into a highly stylized nightmare carousel. As a hellish band of bizarre creatures encircles his head, his arms transmogrify into mallets. Now, this moment is forever captured...

Don’t you forget about Molly Ringwald. Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t!

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of John Hughes’ 1985 classic, The Breakfast Club, stars Ringwald and Ally Sheedy attended a special screening at SXSW (a digitally remastered version of the film will also be released in select theaters from March 26-31). Which seems like the perfect opportunity to find out what our favorite detention-goers look like three decades later:

Molly Ringwald as Claire Standish, the “Princess”

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Ringwald starred on The Secret Life of the American Teenager until 2013, lent her voice to the villainous Dark Princess in 2014's Rainbow Brite, and will next appear in a reboot of another ‘80s classic: Jem and the Holograms.

Ally Sheedy as Allison Reynolds, the “Basket Case”

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Sheedy had a multi-season stint on Psych, where she played serial killer Mr. Yang until 2013, and most recently appeared in the off-Broadway production “The Long Shrift,” directed...

Outside of his stint as James Bond, Roger Moore's most iconic other role was that of the well dressed Simon Templar, the titular hero of the 1960s TV series "The Saint".

Today, The Radio Times reports that ITV is planning to reboot the franchise with a pilot being ordered for a modern day incarnation of the series. Leslie Charteris created the original novels that inspired the series which produced 118 episodes and was popular in over sixty countries.

Ed Whitmore ("Waking the Dead") and Chris Lunt ("Prey") are penning the pilot for the new version which aims to go into production next year. Whittier says the aim is to produce a show that explores the morals of a man who both fought and committed crimes to do what's right: "There is a post-Breaking Bad appetite for morally grey characters... Simon Templar is a kind of Robin Hood figure, he's timeless.

30 years ago today, John Hughes's teen movie The Breakfast Club opened in the Us, and although it wasn't a runaway box office hit, in the years since it has rightly claimed a place as a screen classic.

Buoyed by brilliant performances, a sharp script and direction from Hughes and that Simple Minds track, this is a film we return to again and again. But what happened to its stars? We go then and now with the cast to find out what happened to the brain, the athlete, the basket case, the princess and the criminal.

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A staple of John Hughes movies in the '80s, Hall brought endearing geeky charm to National Lampoon's Vacation , Sixteen Candles and Weird Science.

As he grew out of child star roles, Hall sought to shed his established screen persona with a diverse selection of character parts across film and TV.

Admit it. If you've been to a movie theatre lately, you've thought about it. The morons with their cellphones. Texting with their stupid shortcut lingo and emoticons while you're trying to watch a movie. Wouldn't it be nice to round 'em up and bury 'em alive?

While not exactly along those lines, the new horror flick from director Leigh Sheehan, 6 Plots, brings some of that revenge fantasy to life. Check out the first details and more below. Alice Darling, Ryan Corr, Andrew Clarke, Eliza Taylor, Emily Wheaton, Joey Coley-Sowry, Damien Harrison, and Penelope Mitchell star.

Synopsis

It's the end of summer, and seven cocky senior high school friends break into a luxury beachside mansion in the sleepy seaside town of Oak Bay. The party's on. Music, alcohol, drugs - their passions run riot.

One of the seven, Brie Weisman, awakens from a drug-induced sleep. She is completely alone. Something is very wrong!

Tagline: "6 Lives, 6 Traps." 6 Plots is an Australian filmed horror feature. This is also a teen focused horror film as seven friends leave high school for fun in the sun at an isolated cabin. Here, the drugs and alcohol fuel the party while making these seven friends an easy target for a mysterious killer. Chloe awakens to find her friends missing and a strange voicing urging her on. Her friends are hidden beneath the earth and Chloe must choose who lives and who dies. Will anyone escape? This horror title has already released in Australia. However, a North American release date has not been fixed. For now, a concept poster is available with more bloody details to come, shortly. Director: Leigh Sheehan. Writer: Tim C. Patterson. Cast: Alice Darling, Ryan Corr, Andrew Clarke, Eliza Taylor, Emily Wheaton, Joey Coley-Sowry, Damien Harrison and Penelope Mitchell. *runtime is 90 mins. Source: 6 Plots at High...

Rob Sitch comedy Any Questions For Ben? has slipped 50 per cent in its second weekend at the box office.

Working Dog.s latest project . following the incredibly popular past hits The Castle and The Dish . grossed a disappointing $302,421 from 235 screens over the weekend, earning it a screen average of just $1287. Last weekend it opened with $608,731.

Distributor Roadshow kept Any Questions for Ben? on 235 screens . the same as opening weekend . however, the film failed to generate positive word-of-mouth while negative reviews also did not help its cause.

The film, also starring Rachael Taylor and Daniel Henshall, follows Ben (Lawson) who suffers a quarter-life crisis after being asked to speak at his school.s career night. Sitch directed the comedy and co-wrote along with Tom Gleisner (The Hollowmen, Russell Coight.s All Aussie Adventures) and Santo Cilauro (Frontline, Thank God You.re Here).

Stephan Elliott.s comedy A Few Best Men also...