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On FX’s hit comedy-drama series The Bear, Lionel Boyce plays Marcus Brooks, a humble pastry chef trying to balance the hardships within his life with the hectic environment of the restaurant. While Season 2 maintains the fast-paced, high-adrenaline storylines that the series is known for, the first few episodes take the opportunity to dig deeper into the lives of the other characters throwing down in the kitchen, but namely, Boyce’s Marcus.

Episode 4’s Emmy-nominated episode, “Honeydew,” directed by Ramy Youssef, follows Marcus’s life outside the kitchen, as he serves as caretaker for his ill mother, who is unconscious in a hospital bed. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity arrives via Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) and Carmy (Jeremy Allen White), who offer him a moment of reprieve as they send him to Copenhagen to learn from chef Luca (Will Poulter) and return with dessert ideas for the menu at The Bear. Throughout the episode,...

Exclusive: The story of a woman who was accused of murder after entering into a suicide pact with her terminally ill husband is being adapted for the screen in the UK.

Corestar Media has acquired the dramatic rights to Mavis Eccleston’s story, who took the agonizing decision to end her life alongside husband of six decades Dennis, who was in terrible pain from cancer.

The feature, Goodnight Darling, will follow how the 79-year-old Mavis was arrested and tried for murder, only to be unanimously found not guilty, and then began a campaign with her family to change the law to allow people to take the choice of assisted dying.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel author Deborah Moggach, whose mother served time in prison in an assisted dying case, has written a script. The story could be made as a film or a TV series, said a rep for UK drama indie Corestar.

Maestro, Bradley Cooper's film, accurately depicts the deep and complicated relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre. Felicia Montealegre's battle with lung cancer is portrayed in the film, and Bernstein cared for her during her illness. Leonard Bernstein's death, caused by a heart attack from mesothelioma, occurred in 1990, shortly after his retirement.

Bradley Cooper's new film, Maestro, follows some of the grandest achievements of the celebrated American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, but it also spends time focusing on his personal life and relationship with his wife, Felicia Montealegre. Maestro is Bradley Cooper's second stint at directing, which he co-wrote, starred in, and produced. Cooper co-stars with Carey Mulligan, who expertly plays the part of Felicia Montealegre. The Netflix biopic's opening scene shows Bernstein at the piano, giving an interview from his home and opening up about the loss of the love of his life, Felicia, and how much he missed her.

"Maestro" is a Bradley Cooper-directed biopic about Leonard Bernstein's life, focusing on his enduring marriage with Felicia Montealegre. The film covers 30 years of Bernstein's life and explores his evolution as a musician, intertwining it with his relationship with Montealegre. Despite knowing about Bernstein's extramarital affairs, Montealegre stayed in their marriage, based on tenderness and mutual respect.

Since a Leonard Bernstein biopic, Maestro, is scheduled to premiere on Netflix, audiences may be curious about his true story and relationship with his wife, Felicia. As reports suggest, Martin Scorses was initially going to direct Maestro. However, after he stepped away from the project to take over as The Irishman's director, Steven Spielberg offered Bradley Cooper the part after watching A Star is Born. The rest is history. Not only has Bradley Cooper starred in the film as the titular Maestro, but also helmed it, making it his first directorial endeavor...

Lana Turner in Green Dolphin Street (1947) will be available on Blu-ray April 13th from Warner Archive

The Academy Award® winner about star-crossed love that spans the years – and the globe. After her triumph as the lunchroom temptress in the crime classic The Postman Always Rings Twice, Lana Turner expanded her range with Green Dolphin Street. Set in 19th century Europe and New Zealand, this sweeping romance tells the story of two beautiful sisters, one headstrong (Turner) and one gentle (Donna Reed), and of the man (Richard Hart) who marries one even though he loves the other. The film’s riptides of emotion are matched by breathtaking physical tumult: a fierce Maori uprising plus a catastrophic earthquake and tidal wave that earned the film a 1947 Oscar for special effects. With its dramatic story and spectacular visuals, Green Dolphin Street drew huge audiences for epic moviemaking, being one of the top-ten box office hits of the year.

William Cameron Menzies. William Cameron Menzies movies on TCM: Murderous Joan Fontaine, deadly Nazi Communists Best known as an art director/production designer, William Cameron Menzies was a jack-of-all-trades. It seems like the only things Menzies didn't do was act and tap dance in front of the camera. He designed and/or wrote, directed, produced, etc., dozens of films – titles ranged from The Thief of Bagdad to Invaders from Mars – from the late 1910s all the way to the mid-1950s. Among Menzies' most notable efforts as an art director/production designer are: Ernst Lubitsch's first Hollywood movie, the Mary Pickford star vehicle Rosita (1923). Herbert Brenon's British-set father-son drama Sorrell and Son (1927). David O. Selznick's mammoth production of Gone with the Wind, which earned Menzies an Honorary Oscar. The Sam Wood movies Our Town (1940), Kings Row (1942), and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943). H.C. Potter's Mr. Lucky...

Here is a list of May's additions to Warner Archive Instant's streaming video service. If you aren't a subscriber, you can sign up for a free two week trial at instant.WarnerArchive.com.

Man From Atlantis (1976-78) 

It all begins with a storm and a man washed up on shore. A man with gills... Before he shot to superstardom in Dallas playing Bobby Ewing, Patrick Duffy donned swim trunks for a super-heroic turn as Mark Harris, Man from Atlantis. Debuting in a series of Sci-Fi movies-of-the-week, the adventures of the amnesiac Atlantean so captivated audiences that the movies spawned a weekly TV series. Eschewing the TV movies' more cerebral approach for more light-hearted action fare, the series took a more campy turn only to sink into the depths of TV history (but not before becoming the first American TV import to Communist China!). Now's your chance to explore below the...

Lana Turner movies: Scandal and more scandal Lana Turner is Turner Classic Movies’ "Summer Under the Stars" star today, Saturday, August 10, 2013. I’m a little — or rather, a lot — late in the game posting this article, but there are still three Lana Turner movies left. You can see Turner get herself embroiled in scandal right now, in Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life (1959), both the director and the star’s biggest box-office hit. More scandal follows in Mark Robson’s Peyton Place (1957), the movie that earned Lana Turner her one and only Academy Award nomination. And wrapping things up is George Sidney’s lively The Three Musketeers (1948), with Turner as the ruthless, heartless, remorseless — but quite elegant — Lady de Winter. Based on Fannie Hurst’s novel and a remake of John M. Stahl’s 1934 melodrama about mother love, class disparities, racism, and good cooking, Imitation of Life was shown on...