Tag: Hidden Figures
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Glen Powell Is an “Ideal Collaborator” For Director Richard Linklater
Ever since he was a teenager, Glen Powell has been a frequent collaborator for Academy Award nominee Richard Linklater. The pair first linked up on 2006’s Fast Food Nation which was released shortly after Powell’s eighteenth birthday, and now they’re back together for the action comedy Hit Man. In that time, Powell has grown significantly…
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‘Hit Man’s Glen Powell & Adria Arjona Had Instant Chemistry, Says Director
Over the past several years, Glen Powell and Adria Arjona have risen to true stardom. Powell found his breakout role in 2015 when he joined Scream Queens, paving the way for a future that featured Hidden Figures and The Bad Guys, culminating in a major role in last year’s Top Gun: Maverick, one of the…
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Netflix’s Most-Rented DVDs Star Two Hollywood A-Listers More Than Any Others
With Netflix’s DVDs by mail service now heading off into the sunset, movie trivia nerds now have decades of data to pull from regarding what kind of motion pictures flourished on this service and why. Netflix gave people the ability to pull features from countless countries right into their homes simply by requesting them online,…
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Breakout Glen Powell Made a Cocky Fighter Pilot His Own After Losing Different Role
Glen Powell has been waiting for this moment. And waiting, and waiting. In the summer of 2018, the Texan actor, best known for roles in Richard Linklater’s “Everybody Wants Some!!,” Best Picture nominee “Hidden Figures,” and Netflix’s breakout rom-com hit “Set It Up,” was up for a major part in the long-simmering “Top Gun” sequel.…
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Viola Davis Is Now the Most-Nominated Black Actress in Oscars History
With her Oscar nomination for Best Actress with “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” Viola Davis has officially become the most nominated Black actress in the history of the Academy Awards. Davis now boasts four career Oscar nominations: Best Supporting Actress for “Doubt,” Best Supporting Actress for “Fences,” Best Actress for “The Help,” and Best Actress for…
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Gal Gadot To Star In International ‘Bond’-Esque Spy Thriller ‘Heart of Stone’
After playing a member of an international team of thieves and car enthusiasts in “The Fast & Furious” franchise, and proving herself a capable superhero in “Wonder Woman,” Gal Gadot is setting her sights on a new high-profile role: the female James Bond, kind of. Gadot has reportedly signed on to star in the original…
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Janelle Monáe: ‘What is a revolution without a song?’
From starring roles in Moonlight and Hidden Figures, to a genre-busting musical career, the actor and singer has always gone her own wayA downside, perhaps, to the sheer imaginative power of Janelle Monáe is that it’s hard not to bring unreasonable expectations to any conversation one has with her. The musician and actor is on…
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‘Hidden Figures’ Stage Musical in Development at Disney
Hidden Figures, the 2016 film that earned a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars, is heading to the stage. Disney is reportedly developing a Hidden Figures musical, which would adapt the story of the Black female mathematicians who were an essential part of the United States space missions during the Space Race of the 1960s.…
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How ‘Invisible Man’ Composer Benjamin Wallfisch Wrote a Musical Love Letter to ‘Psycho’
When Benjamin Wallfisch learned that he was going to compose the score for the 2020 reboot of “The Invisible Man,” he deliberately stayed away from rewatching the 1933 original. The goal, he says, was “to keep the sound as fresh as possible.”Director Leigh Whannell showed Wallfisch the film with no temp music as all, with…
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January 2019 Gets the New Year Off to a Slow Start
The new year got off to a bit of a slow start with January 2019 delivering $812.4 million in calendar grosses, ranking as the 11th best January of all-time, -15.5% behind last year. Notable is the absence of a new Star Wars film carrying over from a December release, something the last three Januarys all…