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Here are the latest comings and goings casting news from all four daytime dramas: The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of our Lives, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless.

Casting For The Week of August 26, 2024

Find out if any of your favorite actors and actresses from yesteryear are returning to the shows you watch, if any newcomers have been cast in contract, recurring, or day-player roles, or if any popular performers are about to make their exit.

The Bold and the Beautiful

Another musical guest is headed to The Bold and the Beautiful. On the heels of Michael Damian’s visit and “Rock On” performance as The Young and the Restless’ Danny Romalotti, the show welcomes another singing star. Jökull Júliusson, who headlines the Icelandic band Kaleo, appears on the soap next month. He’ll perform the hit song “Way Down We Go” on Friday, September 27. Júliusso has already filmed his episode.

What are the latest casting moves at General Hospital? Find out if any new actors or actresses are boarding the show in contract, recurring, or day-player roles, if any popular vets from yesteryear are returning, or if any of your favorite performers are leaving the ABC soap.

The Week of August 26, 2024

Daytime vet Lindsay Hartley was back as Sam McCall last week, subbing for Kelly Monaco. “Grateful to be stepping in again,” shared the actress on Instagram. Hartley made her initial appearance as Sam in 2020. Word is she’s back for a quick stint.

After a long absence, Parry Shen is back as Brad Cooper. The hospital’s ousted lab manager made a pitch for a new job as a lab technician. He last aired in March 2023.

That was Debbie Matenopoulos, former co-host of The View and Home & Family, playing a Home & Heart producer. She interacted with the Deception team.

Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl wins Queer Lion

Veteran director Marco Bellocchio’s Blood Of My Blood (Sangue Del Mio Sangue) has won the Fipresci Award at the 72nd Venice Film Festival (Sept 2-12).

The film is a vampire-themed period drama starring Alba Rohrwacher, who won last year’s Volpi prize for best actress with her performance in Hungry Hearts, as a 17th-century noblewoman who becomes a nun and seduces a young army officer and his twin brother. The film is sold by The Match Factory.

Venice’s ‘Collateral Awards’ - prizes assigned independently by film critics and cultural associations - also saw the Queer Lion Award go to Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, starring Eddie Redmayne as Danish artist Lili Elbe, one of the first known recipients of sexual reassignment surgery.

The film, which receives its North American premiere at Toronto tonight (Sept 12), is a hot contender for the upcoming awards season.

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Venice Days winners also include As I Open My Eyes, Lolo and Arianna.

Venice Days, the independently run strand of Venice Film Festival, has revealed its winners for 2015, with Michael Rowe’s Early Winter taking the top prize, the Venice Days Award, which comes with a $22,500 (€20,000) prize.

Early Winter, an Australian-Canadian co-production, stars Paul Doucet and Suzanne Clément as a couple in the throes of martrimonial disharmony.

Others winners announced in Venice today include Leyla Bouzid’s As I Open My Eyes (A Peine J’Ouvre Les Yeux), which won the Best European Film award, selected by a jury of European exhibitors, and will now go on to receive promotional support from Europa Cinemas and an EU financial incentive for network cinemas to include it in programming. The film also won the Bnl people’s choice award.

The Fedora prizes, selected by a jury of European film critics headed by Dubravka Lakic, was awarded...

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