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Hayden Panettiere is being remembered by fellow former child star Alexa PenaVega, who is also honoring her late friends, Michelle Trachtenberg and Daveigh Chase. The ‘Spy Kids’ actress writes on Instagram, ‘Hayden, Michelle, Daveigh… my heart is heavy today. These aren’t just names from my childhood. They’re girls I grew up alongside, sharing a world that was exciting and also incredibly hard. We were kids navigating something so big, and not everyone had the foundation or support they deserved.’ Hayden died on Aug. 16 after a suspected drug overdose. Daveigh died on June 17 of AIDS and Michelle died last…

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Directors Sean Baker and Haifaa al-Mansour, producers James Wilson and Effie T. Brown and actress Rita Wilson are among more than four dozen Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences members who have been appointed as chairs or vice chairs for the organization’s 2026-27 committees. Baker, who often celebrated the art of theatrical moviegoing in his acceptance speeches when he won for his 2024 Best Picture winner “Anora,” will head the Academy Marquee Theater Committee alongside his partner and producer, Samantha Quan. Documentary filmmaker Michèle Ohayon and producer James Wilson will head the International Feature Film Executive Committee, which oversees…

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Lifetime has added two new movies inspired by actual events, “Sole Survivor of Flight 119” and “The Ocean Between Them,” to its September slate, TheWrap has exclusively learned. The Strength of a Lifetime September movie event will kick off on Sept. 12. The first film in the lineup is the previously announced “Robin Roberts Presents Angel in the Rubble: The Genelle Guzman Story,” starring Sherri Shepherd and Dondré Whitfield. Joy Bryant (“Parenthood”) and Sarah Wayne Callies (“The Walking Dead”) will then star in “Sole Survivor of Flight 119,” which premieres on Saturday, Sept. 19. Inspired by Tammy L. Kling’s memoir…

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