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Trailer using AI to cast Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie in new James Bond movie goes viral
Good Morning AmericaHenry Cavill is James Bond and Margot Robbie the femme fatale in a new trailer that has attracted more than 2.6 million viewers on YouTube since it dropped Saturday.The problem is, it's fake. Its creator, KH Studio, says it was made "solely for artistic and entertainment purposes"; a cinephile can see from which movies certain scenes were cribbed — including previous James Bond adventures Quantum of Solace and No Time to Die, and the spy adventure Cavill actually was in, 2015's The Man from U.N.C.L.E.But the creator also used AI to turn Cavill into the hero that many fans want him to play and to make the Barbie star break bad.Sure, it's not perfect — Robbie's lip-synch is way ... Read More
After the success of ‘Anyone but You’, is Hollywood back in love with romantic comedies?
Sony PicturesAfter audiences fell in love with the Sydney Sweeney/Glen Powell romantic comedy Anyone but You and the success of the Lindsay Lohan film Irish Wish, The Hollywood Reporter says studios are swiping right on the genre once again.Anyone But You writer-director Will Gluck tells the trade, "There's been no dearth of rom-coms in the last 10 years. They’ve just all been on ... on Netflix and Hulu and Amazon."He continues, "I think the quality has probably been just the same as in theaters. The problem is we do not laugh at home. You do not laugh when you're watching at your house. You do not laugh when you’re watching on a phone."Gluck adds, "When you're in a theater with ... Read More
After another Trump diss, Jimmy Kimmel says he’s thinking about hosting the Oscars again
Disney/Frank MicelottaOn Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday night, Jimmy revealed he may host the Oscars for a fifth time.If he does, he has former President Donald Trump to thank.The former president became a punchline during Kimmel's last stint as Academy Awards host, thanks to Kimmel reading Trump's mid-show pan of Jimmy's job as host.On Wednesday, for apparently no specific reason, the former commander-in-chief went after Kimmel's "horrendous performance" again, insisting Kimmel's wife and producers "begged" Jimmy not to read the Truth Social post on air.Trump also claimed the show ended with Kimmel suffering a "CLASSIC CHOKE" when revealing the winner of the Best Picture trophy.Kimmel went on to fact-check Trump's Truth Social post point by point, including the fact that ... Read More
Mariska Hargitay halts ‘SVU’ filming to help lost child who confused her for police officer
Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC ImagesMariska Hargitay isn't a cop, but she plays one on TV. Her Law & Order: Special Victims Unit character Olivia Benson recently came to the aid of a lost, little girl who thought she was the real deal.People reports that on April 10, while shooting SVU at New York City's Anne Loftus Playground in Fort Tryon Park, Hargitay halted production of the show for 20 minutes after a lost, little girl spotted her badge and approached her. According to the magazine, the child did not notice the film crew or her scene partner, Ice-T.Hargitay, who is a parent to three children with husband Peter Hermann, was able to reunite the daughter with her mother, the witness told the ... Read More
Quentin Tarantino reportedly not making ‘The Movie Critic’ his final film
ABC/Randy HolmesAlthough he's repeatedly said he was calling it a career with his tenth film, The Movie Critic, Deadline reveals Quentin Tarantino has dropped the project, which was set to start shooting in 2025.Tarantino's 1970s-set project was to feature Brad Pitt reprising the role that won him his first Oscar: stuntman Cliff Booth from the writer-director's Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.However, after a rewrite, the trade says Tarantino "simply decided" to shelve the project.The director and Oscar-winning Pulp Fiction screenwriter previously told Deadline The Movie Critic was to be "based on a guy who really lived, but was never really famous, and he used to write movie reviews for a porno rag ... He wrote about mainstream movies."He explained, ... Read More
‘Transformers One’ trailer debuts in space
Paramount PicturesOur first look at Transformers One is here, and it's out of this world — literally.The film, the first-ever fully CG-animated Transformers movie, debuted in space Thursday morning before dropping online."Before he was Optimus Prime, he was Orion Pax. Before he was Megatron, he was D-16," onscreen text reads. "Every transformer has an origin."Transformers One is billed as "the untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever," according to a synopsis.The film features a stacked voice cast, including Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key, Steve Buscemi, Laurence Fishburne and Jon Hamm.Transformers One lands in theaters on earth on September 20.Copyright ... Read More
Michael Douglas wanted to have a “serious death scene” in ‘Ant-man and the Wasp: Quantumania’
Marvel StudiosMichael Douglas, who played Dr. Hank Pym in Marvel's Ant-Man movies, asked to have his character killed off in the third installment, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.The 79-year-old actor had told The Hollywood Reporter in February of 2023 that he would return for a fourth installment "as long as I could die."However, while promoting his Apple TV+ series Franklin during a recent episode of ABC's The View, Douglas clarified his statement, saying, "This actually was my request for the third one.""I said I'd like to have a serious [death], with all these great special effects," he continued. "There's got to be some fantastic way where I can shrink to an ant size and explode, whatever it is. I want ... Read More
In Brief: Apple TV+ renews ‘For All Mankind’ plus a spin-off, and more
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves actor Justice Smith and The Holdovers breakout star Dominic Sessa have been tapped to join Barbie actress Ariana Greenblatt in Now You See Me 3, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Original cast members Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco and Morgan Freeman are expected to reprise their roles as thieving illusionists, per the outlet. Plot details are being kept under wraps ...Apple TV+ announced it has renewed the space drama For All Mankind for a fifth season, as well as a new spin-off series, Star City. For All Mankind explores what would have happened if the global space race had never ended. Star City is described as "a propulsive, paranoid thriller that takes us back ... Read More
Prince William attends first royal engagement after Kate Middleton cancer announcement
Prince William, Prince of Wales visits a housing workshop to discuss solutions to support local families at risk of homelessness, in Sheffield, northern England on March 19, 2024. (Temilade Adelaja/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)(LONDON) -- Prince William returned to work this week in his first official public appearance since his wife Kate, the princess of Wales, revealed she had been diagnosed with cancer.William is traveling to Surrey on Thursday to visit Surplus to Supper, a nonprofit organization that distributes surplus food to people in need.The royal engagement is the first for William since March, when Kate shared publicly for the first time that she was diagnosed with cancer and was undergoing preventative chemotherapy.Kate shared her diagnosis in a video message released ... Read More
Ewan McGregor has a boomer moment trying to plug new film ‘Bleeding Love’ with daughter Clara
Randy Holmes/Disney via Getty ImagesMost parents have been schooled on using social media by their tech savvy children, and evidently Ewan McGregor is one of them.The actor on Wednesday tried to promote his and his 28-year-old daughter Clara's new movie, Bleeding Love, however, he had some trouble synching her video to his on Instagram."My Name's Ewan, and my daughter Clara and I are unable to record our conversation here to encourage you to go see our new film Bleeding Love, which is just out in the cinemas in Britain now," began the selfie-style video message posted to Clara's Insta.What follows is a fast-forward, back-and-forth chat between the pair — set to a remix of that anthem of things going wrong, ... Read More
‘Yellowstone’ again links up with Stagecoach fest
Paramount NetworkOn Wednesday, MTV Entertainment Studios, 101 Studios and Paramount Network announced that the Dutton Ranch is coming back to the sold-out Stagecoach Festival.The event runs from April 26-28 in Indio, California, and will feature some of the biggest names in country music, including Eric Church, Miranda Lambert and Morgan Wallen.For the second year in a row, Taylor Sheridan's neo-Western Yellowstone will have a presence there, and so will the Dutton family spin-off 1923. "Stagecoach attendees will be transported to the Montana ranch to kick back and relax in the shade Dutton-style all weekend long," the companies tease in a joint statement."Fans will have the opportunity to enjoy larger-than-life and brand-new photo moments from Yellowstone and 1923," as well as exclusive merch, and meet ... Read More
Scorsese’s next moves: A Jesus film and Sinatra — with DiCaprio?
Disney/Chris WillardMartin Scorsese is reportedly following up his Oscar-nominated epic Killers of the Flower Moon with two projects: one about Jesus and one about another deified figure, Frank Sinatra, that could star the legendary filmmaker's frequent collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio.While Scorsese's camp is mum, Variety reports the first project will be based on Shūsaku Endō's 1973 book Life of Jesus, and that Miles Teller and Scorsese's Silence Oscar nominee Andrew Garfield could star. Scorsese is reportedly self-funding the project, which the trade says will get underway later this year in Israel, Italy and Egypt — however, unrest between Israel and Gaza could "prove too great of a logistical challenge," the trade says.As for the Sinatra film, Variety says that could prove to be a challenge on its own, as Tina Sinatra, Frank's daughter ... Read More
2024 Tribeca Festival lineup includes entries from Lily Gladstone, Brat Pack documentary and more
On Wednesday, the 2024 Tribeca Festival announced its features lineup, boasting more than 100 entries from 114 filmmakers hailing from 48 countries.The annual event that was co-founded by Robert De Niro and his partner Jane Rosenthal runs from June 5 through June 16 in New York City. This year's entries include Andrew McCarthy's anticipated documentary Brats, starring his fellow former Brat Pack members Demi Moore, Rob Lowe and more.Other films making their debut will be Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone starring in Jazzy, centering on her character from indie drama The Unknown Country; Sean Penn and Dakota Johnson's drama Daddio; and the medical thriller A Mistake, starring Elizabeth Banks.The festival will also host animated films and documentaries, including The Cranes Call, ... Read More
Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor record tease for ‘Romeo + Juliet’
ABC - NetflixA day after it was announced that West Side Story's Rachel Zegler and Heartstopper lead Kit Connor will make their Broadway debuts in Romeo + Juliet — temporarily tanking the play's website in the process — they're apparently at it again. The pair posted to the production's Instagram a brief video greeting teasing their strictly limited engagement, which is being directed by Tony winner Sam Gold. "We are so excited to do our new production of Romeo and Juliet on Broadway," Connor, wearing a black tank top, says into a mirror, which Rachel is filming on her phone. Zegler, smiling in a low-cut white floral summer top, replies, "Sign up if you want first access to tickets!"The production, which will feature music ... Read More
Michael J. Fox, Oscar nominee Jeffrey Wright and more make 2024’s ‘TIME’ 100
Jeffrey Wright - Disney/Randy HolmesOn Wednesday, TIME revealed its 2024 TIME 100, its annual list "of the 100 most influential people in the world," and the world of entertainment was well represented.As is tradition, each of the heralded personalities for the year is singled out by a colleague who sings their praises.Ryan Reynolds, for example, salutes Michael J. Fox for his dedication to fighting Parkinson's, which Fox suffers from and which Ryan's late father had. "It’d be kinda lazy to simply regard him as a movie star who shaped the lives of people all over the planet," Reynolds says of the Back to the Future star and fellow Canadian. "He’s the sum of these beautiful parts. And so many more."Ryan's ... Read More
‘Crazy Rich Asians’ is Broadway bound with Jon M. Chu to direct
Warber Bros. PicturesWarner Bros. Theatre Ventures — the division that translated movies including Beetlejuice and Elf into Broadway musicals — will be doing the same with its 2018 hit Crazy Rich Asians.ABC Audio has confirmed that the blockbuster's director, Jon M. Chu, is aboard for the adaptation, which would mark his Broadway debut.That said, Chu has a fitting resume: The director called the shots on the staged musical-turned 2021 musical film In The Heights, and he's also behind a big-screen version of the Broadway smash Wicked, which coincidentally stars his former Crazy Rich Asians leading lady Michelle Yeoh.Based on the movie, which was adapted from Kevin Kwan's 2013 bestselling book trilogy, Crazy Rich Asians "takes a fun, engaging and hilarious ... Read More
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