Category: Movie News
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Chris Hemsworth Says Showing His Naked Butt in ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ Was a ‘Dream’ Come True
Everyone knows Thor has a mighty hammer. But in “Thor: Love and Thunder,” Chris Hemsworth bares it all to show off another asset: his bare butt.“It was 10 years in the making that scene — kind of a dream of mine,” Hemsworth told Variety during Thursday’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” premiere at El Capitan Theatre…
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Hannibal Lecter Caused Major Headaches For Army Of Darkness
Some films are connected in ways a casual observer could not possibly fathom. Hollywood is a massive labyrinth of deals, of complex contracts, and of vaguely interconnected equity that can link two seemingly random film projects that couldn’t be more different. That was certainly the case with Jonathan Demme’s Academy Award-winning film “The Silence of the…
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‘Gaslit’ Didn’t Want Watergate to Look Any Different from Today’s Political Debacles
There’s something comfortably distancing about history. Grainy black and white footage can look impossibly foreign, and even once something’s in color, the more limited options older film stocks worked with to recreate real life have this kind of patina to them in comparison to digital color. It is easy for a modern audience to use…
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Nathan Fillion Supports Embattled Director Joss Whedon: “I Would Work With Him In A Second”
Filmmaker Joss Whedon (“Avengers”) has had a bad couple of years. Starting in the summer of 2020, after “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” was announced, a wave of accusations about the director’s reportedly appalling behavior on the set of 2016’s “Justice League,” started to surface. Led by “Justice League” actor Ray Fisher, the worst of these…
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‘Jurassic World: Dominion’: How the Giganotosaurus Became the Joker of the Franchise
“Jurassic World: Dominion” places more animatronic dinosaurs alongside CG creatures than any other film in the franchise. This was more than a nostalgic nod to late practical wiz Stan Winston, who worked on the first three “Jurassic Park” films: It was also a strategy to capture as much in-camera interaction as possible between the actors…
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Ezra Miller’s Story Get Worse: New Allegations Involve Children In An “Unsafe” Environment, Unattended Guns & More
Things aren’t getting any easier for embattled actor Ezra Miller (“The Flash “), seemingly embroiled in one new scandal after another every day. Following dozens of reports of erratic and troubling behavior, things somehow might be getting increasingly worse.Rolling Stone has been chronicling the increasingly disturbing Miller situation while sharing both sides of the claims/allegations…
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Box Office: ‘Elvis’ Opening and ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Battling for No. 1, ‘Black Phone’ Ringing Up 23 Million
It’s a 20th century showdown at the box office this weekend, with the baby boomer epic “Elvis” contending against Gen X revamp “Top Gun: Maverick” for the top spot on domestic charts.Director Baz Luhrmann’s biopic about the King of Rock and Roll is projected to draw 30 million from 3,906 theaters in its opening. It…
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Martin Sheen Regrets Changing Name, Wishes He Had the ‘Courage’ to Go by Ramon Estévez
When Martin Sheen began pursuing an acting career in the early 1960s, he made a crucial choice that would follow him for the rest of his life. The then-young actor, who was raised by a Spanish father and an Irish mother, opted to abandon his given name of Ramon Estévez and use the stage name…
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Bruce Willis Worried His ‘Baggage’ Would Bring Down 12 Monkeys
Everyone knows Bruce Willis the action movie star, the actor famed for playing stubborn, wise-cracking heroes in the “Die Hard” film series, “The Fifth Element,” “Armageddon,” and so on. Lesser-known or, perhaps more accurately, lesser-appreciated, is Bruce Willis the character actor, the star who portrayed a Vietnam War veteran with Ptsd in the movie “In…