Tag: Russell Crowe
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Land Of Bad – Release Date, Cast, Plot And More Info
Another Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth collaboration was not a square on our 2024 pop culture Bingo card, yet it looks like we’re about to check it off. Moviegoers are due to see the pair of Aussies team up for the second time in as many years in February’s military action thriller “Land of Bad.”…
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Horror Movies That Will Blow Fans Away In 2024
Horror movies in 2023 ran the gamut. From much-awaited sequels to new takes on old stories to Russell Crowe riding around town on his little Vespa, in “The Pope’s Exorcist,” there was something for everyone. We began the year with the viral sensation “M3GAN,” and now we’re living through a moment of industry-wide instability due…
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Russell Crowe Has Had Way Too Many On-Set Injuries!
With both Kraven the Hunter and Gladiator 2 due out soon, Russell Crowe has proven one of the most versatile, prolific, and gifted actors of the last 30 years. He has played everything from a brilliant person with schizophrenia in A Beautiful Mind to a dynamic captain of an 18th-century English ship on the open…
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Paul Mescal Didn’t Talk to Russell Crowe About ‘Gladiator 2’ Because It’s ‘Totally Separate,’ Was ‘Too Afraid’ to Approach Pedro Pascal on Set
Paul Mescal said in an interview with Esquire UK (conducted prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike) that he did not get in contact with Russell Crowe regarding Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator 2.” Mescal is headlining the upcoming sequel to the 2000 historical epic, which won Crowe the Academy Award for best actor. Crowe’s character, Maximus, dies at…
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Marvel’s Kevin Feige Had A Sly X-Men Cameo You Would Have Never Noticed
Long before Kevin Feige transformed the blockbuster business via the miraculous 11-year Avengers saga that began with 2008’s “Iron Man” and ended with 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame,” he was an assistant to producer Lauren Shuler Donner on non-superheroic fare like “Volcano” and “You’ve Got Mail.” The USC film school grad had an encyclopedic knowledge of comics…
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This Was the Best Villain in a Western Remake
By this point, if you’re still surprised to see a reboot/remake of an older movie released, then you really haven’t been paying attention to the Hollywood landscape. Studios are surely keen to look back to see what once worked in order to take advantage of older moviegoers’ thirst for the good old days, with new…
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This Wild Horror Western Features One of Guy Pearce’s Best Performances
Guy Pearce has been one of Hollywood’s most prominent and versatile character actors for decades. Before finding big-screen success, he started off on the long-running Australian soap opera Neighbours, where he played Mike Young from 1986-1989 in over 450 episodes (and even returned for the finale over 30 years later). The actor had been able…
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This Is the One Tom Cruise Stunt That Failed to Impress
2017’s The Mummy is a mess for a number of reasons. For starters, the supernatural action reboot was supposed to launch the Dark Universe, a interconnected Universal monster movie franchise akin to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But after the film’s abysmal box office performance, the Dark Universe immediately ended, putting to bed Russell Crowe’s Jekyll…
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Russell Crowe Was A Little Jealous After Seeing The Gladiator 2 Set
Ridley Scott’s 2000 historical epic “Gladiator” — based very, very, very loosely on real history — follows a fictional Roman military commander named Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe) who suffers a long string of terrible tragedies. Maximus is poised to be the next Roman emperor, but the sniveling, Richard III-like Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) usurps the throne…
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On the Ground at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Where Cutting-Edge Cinema Meets a Picturesque Setting
Russell Crowe is standing on a stage, playing an electric guitar. He’s singing “Folsom Prison Blues” by Johnny Cash, accompanied by a trumpetist, a drummer, someone at a keyboard, another guitarist, and even four backing singers. He starts rocking out to the instrumental section. The crowd, full of Czech film industry insiders, international critics, and…