Tag: Guardians of the Galaxy
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Report: Marvel Studios Making 11th-Hour Plea To Disney To Keep James Gunn On ‘Guardians 3’
Oh, to be a fly on the wall in the ongoing Disney/James Gunn meetings.It should come as no surprise that Disney is in the middle of negotiations regarding the departure of James Gunn. After his offensive tweets from almost a decade ago resurfaced, the “Guardians of the Galaxy” helmer was quickly fired from the upcoming…
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James Gunn’s Top 5 Movies at the Box Office
‘Guardians of the Galaxy‘ director James Gunn is facing a future outside of the blockbuster Marvel franchise after being fired by Disney over old tweets. Stars such as Dave Bautista, Kurt Russell, and Selma Blair have spoken out with their opinions on the topic.Here is a look at Gunn’s top performing movies at the worldwide…
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‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Actor Dave Bautista Calls James Gunn Firing ‘Nauseating’
After the “Guardians of the Galaxy” cast released a statement supporting fired director James Gunn, Dave Bautista, who plays Drax in the franchise, has shared his personal thoughts on the matter and called the situation “pretty nauseating.”Bautista wrote on Twitter Sunday that he’ll still act in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” because he’s “legally…
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‘Wild, Wild Country’ Team Talks Scripted Feature Adaptation
Kurt Russell had a couple of good reasons for hosting a reception on Saturday for “Wild, Wild Country,” the Netflix documentary about the 1970s and ‘80s Oregon-based Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his community of followers.Not only did Russell’s nephews, brothers Maclain and Chapman Way, direct the six-and-a-half-hour series, but the “Guardians of the…
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‘Guardians’ Actor Kurt Russell Defends James Gunn: ‘I Think We’re Getting A Little Too Sensitive’
The “Guardians of the Galaxy” cast continues to voice its support for James Gunn, who was recently fired by Disney after 10 year-old tweets surfaced in which he made jokes about rape and pedophilia.“It’s sad. But it’s a part of our fabric now and I get it,” Kurt Russell said to Variety at Netflix’s “Wild,…
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Movie Talk: Could Disney Re-Hire James Gunn After the ‘Guardians’ Cast Statement?
On this episode of Collider Movie Talk Mark Ellis, Perri Nemiroff, and John Rocha discuss the following: Multiple outlets are reporting that Mission: Impossible – Fallout opened to $61.2M this weekend making it the highest opener of the franchise. However, Teen Titans Go! to the Movies underperformed with an opening of just $10.4M. The cast…
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‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Cast Posts Open Letter Supporting Reinstatement of Director James Gunn
10 days ago, writer/director James Gunn was abruptly fired by The Walt Disney Company after an alt-right political group created a bad faith “controversy” about a bunch of Gunn’s old tweets from nearly a decade ago, many of which contained bad jokes about pedophilia. Gunn is no longer at the helm of the Guardians of…
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Guardians of the Galaxy cast signs open letter in support of James Gunn
Stars like Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Bradley Cooper released a joint statement calling for the director’s reinstatement after Disney fired him over offensive past tweetsChris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and Bradley Cooper, along with other cast mates from the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, have signed an open letter asking that James Gunn be reinstated…
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Selma Blair Calls On Disney’s Marvel To Rehire James Gunn: “This Man Is One Of The Good Ones”
Selma Blair, who last year detailed to Vanity Fair the sexual harassment she faced in auditioning for filmmaker James Toback, has tweeted her support to James Gunn, encouraging her followers to sign a Change.org petition to have the filmmaker re-hired on Disney/Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 and exclaiming, “This man is one of…
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Dave Bautista Stands For Felled ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’s James Gunn As Free Speech Chill Sets Into Hollywood
Continuing to reverberate: the stunning take down of director James Gunn by conservative journalists who bared years-old disgusting tweets that got Gunn ostracized from Disney’s Marvel Comics Universe. His banishment from returning for a third Guardians of the Galaxy prompted this response from Dave Bautista, the former wrestler and mixed martial artist who began his…