Category: Movie News
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Thor: Love And Thunder Director Taika Waititi Wants To Give Thor Purpose [Interview]
Taika Waititi is figuring things out as he goes. It’s why his sets have such a reputation for improv, why he spends months finding his film’s tone in post-production, and why his final product might look dramatically different from his original drafts.”That really just is just months, months of editing the film in different ways,”…
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Chris Hemsworth’s Innate Comedy Chops Are What Got Thor The Rare Marvel Fourquel
Though some may have recognized him from his feature film debut as George Kirk in the 2009 “Star Trek” reboot, Chris Hemsworth was a relative unknown when he landed the role of Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The first “Thor” movie brought in director Kenneth Branagh, seemingly in an effort to lend some Shakespearean gravitas…
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Taika Waititi And Christian Bale Planned A Gorr Dance Sequence That Was Never Shot For Thor: Love And Thunder
Who’s ready to see a proper dance-off, with or without pants, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? “Eternals” gave us a taste of one with its Bollywood dance number, but in that scene, our heroes stood on the sidelines, watching as immortal-turned-actor Kingo (Kumail Nanjiani) shot a choreographed routine on the set of a film-within-the-film. We have…
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Kevin Feige Teases ‘Plenty Of Other Incarnations Of Thor’ That We’ve Yet To See
In “Thor: Love and Thunder,” there’s a new Thor in town and her name is Jane Foster. After sitting out the three-quel, “Thor: Ragnarok,” Natalie Portman’s character is back and she’s buffed up, sporting goldilocks, and wielding Thor’s hammer. As it turns out, Jane’s turn as the Mighty Thor may be a hint of things to come…
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Natalie Portman Relished Playing The ‘Danger’ Of Jane Foster’s Thor: Love And Thunder Arc
There was a time not so long ago when it seemed like Natalie Portman was done with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Although Portman’s character, Jane Foster, popped up in “Avengers: Endgame” in 2019, it was only in existing footage of her that had gone unused from the production of “Thor: The Dark World.” That movie was…
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ returns to top of global box office, flies past 1bn; ‘Elvis’ croons way to 50m debut
Tom Cruise film becomes top title of 2022 at worldwide box office.World Box Office 24-26 June RankFilm(distributor)3-day(world)Cume(world)3-day(int’l)Cume(int’l) Territories1.Top Gun:Maverick(Paramount)75.0m 1,006m 44.5m 484.7m 662.Jurassic WorldDominion(Universal)69.4m 746.7m 43.0 443.9m 73 3.Elvis(Warner Bros)50.5 50.5 20.0m 20.0m 52 4.Lightyear(Disney)40.0 152.4m 19.3m 63.6m 45 5.The Black Phone(Universal)35.8m 35.8m 12.5m 12.5m 46 6.Lighting Up The Stars(Various)31.6m 36.8m 31.6m 36.8m 1 7.Witch…
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‘All her movies are nonfiction’: remembering the life and work of Nora Ephron
In an expansive new biography, the acclaimed writer and director’s complexities are explored and contextualisedYou can’t chart the whole of Nora Ephron with just the name-making hits that placed her atop the end-of-the-century romcom boom, but you can’t do so without them, either. The polymath writer’s best-known traits – her barbed wit, her particular taste…
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‘Lighting up the Stars’ Leads China Box Office Rebound
Sentimental local drama film “Lighting up the Stars” topped the mainland China box office with a solid 31.8 million opening weekend. It underlined the cinema reopening and industry recovery process that has been underway since the beginning of June.The film tells the tale of an ex-con funeral director who has a chance meeting with an…
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‘Elvis’ and ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Slug It Out For The Spot With 30.5 Million Each; ‘The Black Phone’ Also Scares Up Strong Numbers
Looking at this weekend’s box-office returns you may very well be wondering what year it is as Tom Cruise slugged it out with Tom Hanks for bragging rights over who has the top-grossing movie in North America. As Sunday’s receipts were still being tallied, it appeared as if the the two A-list veterans were locked…
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Bruce Willis’ Casting Was Crucial To Getting Pulp Fiction Made
When Quentin Tarantino began casting for “Pulp Fiction,” Miramax wanted a big-name actor attached to the film. When Bruce Willis, a big-name actor who happened to be a big fan of Tarantino’s breakout debut film “Reservoir Dogs,” found out that the director was prepping for his second film, he wanted a role … even if…