Tag: The Rock
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‘Ballers’ Superfan Elizabeth Warren Says She’d Love Dwayne Johnson to Run for President
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren is a known fan of HBO’s “Ballers.” The bro-centric football comedy even paid tribute to the politician in the show’s Season 5 premiere, with star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson seen reading a copy of her 2017 book “The Fight Is Our Fight.”In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Warren…
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‘Ballers’ Season 5 Teaser Trailer: Somehow Dwayne Johnson, The Biggest Star In The World, Is Still On HBO
By now, it’s quite evident that Dwayne Johnson is a household name. His presence in pop culture is felt through his blockbuster performances in studio behemoths such as “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,” the “Fast and the Furious” franchise, and even an animated venture with “Moana.” However, he also holds occupation in television – I…
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Karen Golden, ‘Transformers’ Script Supervisor, Dies at 78
Veteran script supervisor Karen Golden, best known for her work on “Transformers,” died Tuesday after a seven year battle with Alzheimer’s. She was 78.Golden spent her career working alongside a long list of major film directors, including Michael Bay, John Huston and Ron Shelton. She collaborated with Bay on scripts for “Armageddon,” “Pearl Harbor,” “Bad…
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Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Disputes “Generation Snowflake” Comments & Says Interview Is “100% Fabricated”
Apparently, The Rock doesn’t hate Generation Snowflake. Well, more accurately, he doesn’t even know what that is.In a new video posted to Instagram, Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, set the record straight about a recent “interview” that was attributed to him that included a series of quotes that featured the actor going off on millennials…
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John Cena Apologizes to The Rock for Criticizing His Hollywood Career
Five years ago, John Cena and Dwayne Johnson — or, as he was known in his former life, The Rock — faced off in the main event of WrestleMania for the second year in a row. At the heart of their onscreen feud was the Great One’s decision to leave the world of WWE behind…
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‘Mission: Impossible’: Ethan Hunt Is The Action Hero of a Generation
It’s hard to find a straight up action movie these days. Where the 80s and 90s were a heyday of action extravaganzas, today’s cinematic landscape is populated by comic book and video game adaptations, sci-fi adventures, and whatever The Rock feels like doing, while the one-time kings of action cinema are largely relegated to Dtv…
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Criterion: ‘Princess Bride,’ Hal Ashby’s ‘Shampoo,’ Brian De Palma & More Highlight October Releases
Inconceivable! A mainstream, populist romantic comedy fantasy adventure film by Rob Reiner in the Criterion Collection? It’s happening, 1985’s “The Princess Bride” is coming to the esteemed Criterion Collection in October. Granted not all Criterion releases are formalist, chin-scratching, slow cinema longreads (jk)—Criterion released, Michael Bay‘s “The Rock,” Kevin Smith‘s “Chasing Amy,” “RoboCop” and most…
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Let’s rock! Why Dwayne Johnson is the new Schwarzenegger
The action hero dominates the box office, with his new film Skyscraper set to soar. From his apolitical attitude to his everyman heritage, we explore the magic behind the muscleModern Toss on The RockOn 24 June , Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson posted the following to his 109 million Instagram followers: “Starting off my Sat by…
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Stanley Anderson, ‘Spider-Man’ and ‘Seinfeld’ Actor, Dies at 78
Stanley Anderson, the stage, film and TV actor known for playing the president in a number of movies, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 78.Anderson died Sunday, six weeks after being diagnosed with brain cancer.Anderson had numerous credits to his name, including playing General Slocum in Spider-Man (2002), and he…
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John Krasinski Would Like To See Who’s On The Other Side Of The Fires In ‘A Quiet Place’ Sequel
If at the beginning of 2018, you had said that the guy from “The Office” would co-write, star, and direct a film that had a bigger domestic box office than Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One,” Ava DuVernay’s “A Wrinkle in Time,” and The Rock’s “Rampage,” we would have laughed. But here we are, in May,…