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Karen Butler

Karen Butler
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Karen Butler is based in the New York metro area and has written about film, TV, music, books and theater for more than 25 years for media outlets such as United Press International, The Irish Echo, The Brooklyn Paper, Book magazine and The New Jersey Herald. She loves speaking with artists about their passion projects, then sharing these conversations with readers in the form of accurate, entertaining feature stories. In addition to interviewing celebrities, she also covers breaking news, film festivals, premieres and themed conventions.
Karen Butler is based in the New York metro area and has written about film, TV, music, books and theater for more than 25 years for media outlets such as United Press International, The Irish Echo, The Brooklyn Paper, Book magazine and The New Jersey Herald. She loves speaking with artists about their passion projects, then sharing these conversations with readers in the form of accurate, entertaining feature stories. In addition to interviewing celebrities, she also covers breaking news, film festivals, premieres and themed conventions.

TriStar books Bill Condon to direct ‘Guys and Dolls’ remake

TriStar Pictures has hired Oscar-winning filmmaker Bill Condon to direct its planned remake of Guys and Dolls.  TriStar has acquired the rights to the original Damon Runyon short stories and the musical with music by Frank Loesser, as well as the remake rights to the 1955 film adaptation by the Samuel Goldwyn. Guys and Dolls is…

Michelle Yeoh to star in ‘The Witcher’ prequel ‘The Witcher : Blood Origin’

Crazy Rich Asians and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon actress Michelle Yeoh has signed on to star in The Witcher prequel series, The Witcher : Blood Origin, Netflix announced Tuesday. The six-episode, live-action fantasy drama takes place 1,200 years before the events chronicled in The Witcher, which is based on the stories of Andrzej Sapkowski. The author is…

Chandler Kinney, Maia Reficco to Star in ‘Pretty Little Liars’ Spin-Off Created by ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” Team

Lethal Weapon alum Chandler Kinney and Zombies 2 actress Maia Reficco are set to star in HBO Max’s coming-of-age drama, Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina director Lisa Soper is onboard to direct the first two episodes of Original Sin. Production is slated to begin later this summer at Upriver Studios in New…

Allison Mack Got a Light Sentence for Her NXIVM Sex Cult Crimes, Here’s the Reason

“Smallville” alum Allison Mack has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay a $20,000 fine for her role as a recruiter for NXIVM, a sex cult that represented itself as a self-help group. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announced the federal judge’s sentence on Twitter Wednesday. Mack,…