Tag: The Current War
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Time Forgot Martin Scorsese’s Underrated Movie Starring Andrew Garfield
Fans of Martin Scorsese often refer to 2019’s The Irishman as his directorial follow-up to 2013’s The Wolf of Wall Street. While that chronology may be true for Scorsese’s signature crime filmography, he actually came out with another movie between the two. We are not talking about a short, documentary, or a project that Scorsese…
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Nicholas Hoult: ‘Part of your brain doesn’t want to walk down a corridor naked’
From starring opposite Hugh Grant aged 11 to joining the X-Men, does nothing faze the actor? Well, there was one scene for his latest role …Preparing for his role as Emperor Peter III of Russia in the TV show The Great, Nicholas Hoult wondered if he should go for the accent. The 31-year-old had just…
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‘The War With Grandpa’ Tops ‘Tenet’ at Domestic Box Office
“The War With Grandpa,” a Robert De Niro comedy about the battle between a wily septuagenarian and his grandson over a bedroom, was originally supposed to hit theaters in 2018.Plans changed after Harvey Weinstein, the indie film producer whose company The Weinstein Company financed the “Home Alone” knockoff, was exposed as a serial sexual harasser…
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Tesla review – portrait of an inventor out of step with his time
Ethan Hawke and Kyle MacLachlan star in Michael Almereyda’s humorous and ambitious film about the under-appreciated visionaryEvery historical drama involves some element of pure invention: maybe it happened like this? Perhaps she said it like that? But Michael Almereyda’s biopic of the Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla (1856 – 1943), is rather more open about this…
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Benedict Cumberbatch’s ‘Current War’ Gets Awards-Season Release
David Glasser’s 101 Studios is positioning the long-shelved and revamped “The Current War,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon, for an awards-season release in October.101 Studios announced Tuesday that the film would open in limited release on Oct. 4, then go wide on the following weekend. The film presents the story of the “war of…
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Idris Elba Set to Direct, Star in ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’ for Netflix
Idris Elba is set to star in, direct and produce a modern retelling of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” for Netflix, an individual with knowledge told TheWrap.The film is currently untitled. Elba will also produce the music for the feature. Producers on the project include Fred Berger (“La La Land”) and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (“Midnight Special”)…
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Benedict Cumberbatch “Fine” to Wait for ‘Current War’ Release to Get Rid of Weinstein “Toxicity”
Benedict Cumberbatch says he’s happy to wait for the release of his Harvey Weinstein-tainted historical epic The Current War.The film, looking at the rivalry between electricity innovators Thomas Edison (played by Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), was a casualty in last year’s fallout of the revelations about the disgraced movie mogul, who acted as…
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Deadpool 2 hindered Josh Brolin in filming Avengers: Infinity War with his co-stars
Josh Brolin couldn’t spend as much times as he would like filming scenes with his Avengers: Infinity War co-stars because of his commitments to Deadpool 2.The actor is starring as the villain Thanos in the long anticipated Infinity War but according to Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Doctor Strange, Brolin wasn’t able to perform with him…
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Ethan Hawke to Play Nikola Tesla in Biopic
Ethan Hawke is set to follow the likes of Nicholas Hoult (The Current War) and David Bowie (The Prestige) by playing electricity pioneer Nikola Tesla. Tesla, being introduced to buyers by Millennium Media at the European Film Market, which launches this week in Berlin, will also see Hawke reunited with writer-director Michael Almereyda, with whom he…