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• Kurt Russell Says He Pitched an Action-Hero Shared Universe With Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Etc. in the 1980s

  21-04-2017 00:47 via movies.com
  
  Long before the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Expendables and maybe even Planet Hollywood, Kurt Russell wanted to unite your favorite heroes. In a new interview promoting his role in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the actor reveals that back in the day he pitched a movie where all the big action movie stars of the time -- Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and others --would team up as their "one best," i.e. their most iconic, action hero characters. "It was a li
  
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• Podcast dedicated to Stephen King works announces “sudden” death of co-host Scott Wampler

  01-06-2024 16:08 via nme.com
  
  The Kingcast, a podcast dedicated to the works of Stephen King, has announced the death of its co-host Scott Wampler.
  On its X account, co-host Eric Vespe published a tweet thread addressing Wampler’s passing.
  “I’ve had many tearful chuckles tonight reading just how impactful his mischievous sense of humor was and revisiting some of his best articles, tweets, and, well, Wamplerisms,” Vespe writes.
  “Scott may have reached the clearing at the end of the path way soone
  
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• Nicolas Cage horror movie ‘Longlegs’ gets rave reactions following surprise screening

  01-06-2024 14:01 via nme.com
  
  An upcoming Nicolas Cage-starring horror film, Longlegs, was recently given a surprise screening that received rave reactions from critics and attendees.READ MORE: ‘Sting’ review: spooky space spider throws a monster-sized tantrumYesterday (May 31), as part of the Los Angeles film festival Beyond Fest, audiences were in attendance at the Aero Theatre for a secret screening advertised to start at 7:30pm. In the theatre hall, the logo of upcoming musical film Wicked appeared on the scr
  
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• These are the biggest movies of the year so far

  01-06-2024 13:41 via nme.com
  
  As we enter June, it is a good time to reflect on the year in cinema so far. Read on for this year’s ten biggest films around the world, and a few of the year’s biggest flops. 
  Last year, two of the year’s biggest overall hits were Barbie and Oppenheimer, films that were joined at the hip in the Barbenheimer phenomenon. Completing the top five were The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Fast X. 
  These are the biggest movies of the year so far&
  
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• ‘Godzilla Minus One’ is now streaming on Netflix

  01-06-2024 13:16 via nme.com
  
  Ever since its limited theatrical release late last year, film fans have been clamouring for the release of Godzilla Minus One on streaming – and it’s finally here.READ MORE: ‘Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire’ review: titanic team-up goes crash, smash and bashToday (June 1), Netflix surprise-released the acclaimed Japanese kaiju film on its streaming platform globally. The film’s arrival on the streaming platform had not been teased or announced beforehand, save for
  
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• Bill Skarsgård will return as Pennywise in ‘It’ prequel series

  01-06-2024 12:35 via nme.com
  
  HBO Max‘s It prequel series Welcome To Derry has scored its Pennywise – and it’s a returning Bill Skarsgård.READ MORE: ‘It: Chapter Two’ review: a funny, fright-filled ode to horror heritageSkarsgård, who famously donned the clown makeup in 2017’s It and 2019’s It: Chapter Two, has been confirmed to reprise his role as the creepy intergalactic clown-looking creature known as Pennywise for the upcoming TV prequel series.
  Per a Deadline report,
  
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• Will there be another Hunger Games movie?

  01-06-2024 12:25 via nme.com
  
  After eight years away, The Hunger Games returned in 2023 with new instalment The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes, and you can watch it now on Amazon Prime Video.
  Directed by Francis Lawrence, the prequel is set 64 years prior to the first film and depicts the events that led Coriolanus Snow (originally played by Donald Sutherland) to become the tyrannical leader of Panem.READ MORE: ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’ review: sings a pleasingly fam
  
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• ‘300’ TV series in the works, Zack Synder in talks to direct

  01-06-2024 11:30 via nme.com
  
  A TV series based on Zack Snyder‘s hit 2006 movie 300 is in the works – find out more below.READ MORE: ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ review: an unflinching update fans can be proud ofPer a report from Variety, a 300 prequel TV series is in early development with Warner Bros. Television. While details of the series’ plot have yet to be finalised, Variety reports that it is shaping up to be a prequel to the original 2006 movie.
  The film’s director Za
  
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• Teddy Swims: “I recently got to record a song with Will Smith – he’s the sweetest guy ever”

  01-06-2024 09:00 via nme.com
  
  Teddy Swims has revealed to NME that he recently recorded a song with his “hero” Will Smith.
  Swims was speak to NME backstage at the recent BBC Radio One Big Weekend in Luton, when he teased his collab with the screen and rap icon.
  “I don’t know what’s going to happen with it and can’t confirm anything, but just being with him and learning knowledge and wisdom from someone who’s been through it all was crazy,” he said.
  “I was at his house and
  
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• Ukrainian model sues over Cannes red carpet “assault”

  31-05-2024 16:55 via nme.com
  
  Ukrainian model Sawa Pontyjska says she has filed a legal complaint against organisers of the Cannes Film Festival after alleging she was assaulted by a security guard on the red carpet.
  Pontyjska was one of several guests who were filmed being challenged by the same steward at the French event.
  Singer Kelly Rowland complained about the same individual, while footage of the guard with South Korean actress Yoona and Dominican actress Massiel Taveras also went viral.
  Pontyjska, who is presenter fo
  
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• Chris Evans criticised after clarifying “misinformation” about “bomb” photo

  31-05-2024 15:32 via nme.com
  
  Chris Evans has received criticism from fans after clarifying “misinformation” about a viral, resurfaced photo.
  The actor, who formerly played Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, jumped to his own defence after an image was shared on social media showing him signing what appeared to be a bomb or missile.
  The image went viral days after former presidential candidate Nikki Haley was photographed writing “Finish Them” on an artillery shell during a Memorial Day
  
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• Chris Hemsworth set to star in ‘Transformers’ and ‘G.I. Joe’ crossover movie

  31-05-2024 14:43 via nme.com
  
  Chris Hemsworth is in talks to star in a Transformers and G.I. Joe crossover movie.
  The announcement (via Deadline) marks the continuation of Hemsworth’s collaboration with Paramount Pictures, with the Australian actor already starring in the upcoming animated movie Transformers One – scheduled for theatrical release on September 20, 2024.
  A crossover movie between Hasbro’s two major toy lines was teased in the final scene of Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts, where the Autobots
  
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• Robert De Niro addresses Donald Trump’s guilty verdict: “Justice was served”

  31-05-2024 13:25 via nme.com
  
  Robert De Niro has offered his thoughts on Donald Trump‘s recent conviction.
  The former U.S. President was found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush money paid to the porn star Stormy Daniels. Daniels alleged that she had sexual relations with Trump in 2006, which he has continually denied.
  Speaking to Variety on the red carpet of his new movie Ezra, De Niro said of the conviction: “I think justice was served. This is just one part of the whole pic
  
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• Jeremy Renner joins cast of ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’

  31-05-2024 12:14 via nme.com
  
  Jeremy Renner has become the latest star to join the cast of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.
  The third instalment in the Knives Out series, following 2022’s Glass Onion, was confirmed last week and will go into production next month. The film is slated for a 2025 release.
  Renner joins recently announced cast members Glenn Close, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Josh O’Connor (Challengers) and Caile Spaeny (Priscilla), while Daniel Craig will return as the eccent
  
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• Ryan Reynolds unveils suggestive popcorn bucket for ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ and playfully mocks ‘Dune’ sandworm design

  31-05-2024 11:27 via nme.com
  
  Ryan Reynolds has unveiled a special edition popcorn bucket for Deadpool & Wolverine, playfully mocking Dune: Part Two‘s viral sandworm receptacle.
  The producer-star of the upcoming movie – which will be Deadpool’s Marvel Cinematic Universe debut – teased the new product with a humorous video on his social media and YouTube accounts.
  The video, set to Richard Strauss’ ‘Also sprach Zarathustra’, features a bucket made to resemble the helmeted head of
  
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• Entertainment world reacts as Donald Trump found guilty on all 34 counts in hush money case

  31-05-2024 04:35 via nme.com
  
  Former U.S. President Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 counts in his hush money case – here’s what the entertainment world had to say about the historic verdict.
  Yesterday (May 30), Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts lobbied against him for falsifying records in an attempt to cover up hush money payments to porn star Stormi Daniels in the lead up to the 2016 presidential elections, which he won. Daniels alleged that she had sexual relations with Trump in 2006, which
  
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• Jeremy Renner explains why he had to leave the ‘Mission: Impossible’ franchise

  30-05-2024 17:27 via nme.com
  
  Jeremy Renner has explained why he had to leave the Mission: Impossible franchise, while also hinting at a possible return in the future.READ MORE: ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ review: staggering stunts can’t make up for the nonsensical plotThe Hawkeye star featured in two of the Tom Cruise-led action blockbusters: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol in 2011, and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation in 2015.
  However, Renner did not retur
  
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• ‘The Haunting Of Hill House’ director Mike Flanagan to helm “radical new take” on ‘The Exorcist’

  30-05-2024 16:49 via nme.com
  
  Mike Flanagan is set to direct, write, and produce the next movie in The Exorcist franchise.READ MORE: ‘The Exorcist: Believer’ review: a spooky and surprisingly moving rebootThe Doctor Sleep director, who is best known for his Netflix original dramas such as The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor, will helm what is being described as a “radical new take” on The Exorcist for Blumhouse and Morgan Creek.
  “The Exorcist is one of the reasons I bec
  
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• Jerry Bruckheimer teases “terrific” follow-up to ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

  30-05-2024 15:59 via nme.com
  
  Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has teased a “terrific” follow-up to ‘Top Gun: Maverick‘.
  In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the 80-year-old industry legend revealed that a story has been written for the third movie in the action franchise, and says it is now a case of getting Tom Cruise and the other cast members on board.
  “I think we have a terrific story. It’s just (a question of) how do we get everybody together and how do we get it done,” he
  
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• Bill Skarsgård says it was “mean” to release Pennywise first-look photos due to ‘It’ criticism

  30-05-2024 13:17 via nme.com
  
  Bill Skarsgård has reflected on his role as Pennywise the Clown and revealed the one thing he found “kind of mean” in the build up to his character’s reveal.READ MORE: ‘It Chapter Two’ review: a funny, fright-filled ode to horror heritageThe actor first took on the role of Stephen King’s nightmarish clown for the 20127 remake of the the classic horror film It, and then again in 2019’s It Chapter Two.
  In a new interview with Esquire, Skarsgård
  
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• Lucasfilm CEO Kathleen Kennedy says woman in ‘Star Wars’ suffer more abuse because fan base is “male dominated”

  30-05-2024 12:19 via nme.com
  
  Lucasfilm CEO Kathleen Kennedy has admitted that women in Star Wars suffer more harassment “because of the fan base being so male dominated”.READ MORE: Dafne Keen on her Star Wars debut: “‘The Acolyte’ is about power and identity”The franchise has long fielded misogynistic and racist comments from online trolls, with both Daisy Ridley and Kelly Marie Tran previously leaving social media as a result of the abuse.
  Now, ahead of the release of the new Disney+ Sta
  
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• The ‘Home Alone’ house is back on the market – and here’s how much it costs

  30-05-2024 10:11 via nme.com
  
  The iconic Chicago house used in Home Alone is back on the market for an exorbitant amount of money.READ MORE: ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ review: another mighty, petrol-soaked masterpieceBuilt in 1921, the Winnetka, Illinois house has been listed for sale on Zillow and comes with five rooms and six bathrooms. Fully renovated and expanded in 2018 while still preserving its original look from the 1990 Home Alone film, the house is now fetching an asking price of US$5.25million, or
  
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• ‘Doctor Sleep’ and ‘The Haunting Of Hill House’ director to helm “radical” new ‘Exorcist’ film

  30-05-2024 07:33 via nme.com
  
  A new Exorcist film is in the works with horror filmmaker Mike Flanagan tapped to direct.READ MORE: ‘The Exorcist: Believer’ review: a spooky and surprisingly moving rebootPer a report by Deadline Hollywood, horror filmhouse Blumhouse has confirmed that Flanagan will lead a new entry in the Exorcist universe, telling an entirely new story. It has also confirmed that the movie will not be tied to last year’s The Exorcist: Believer from director David Gordon Green.
  In a press sta
  
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• Glenn Close and Kerry Washington join cast of Knives Out sequel

  29-05-2024 23:19 via nme.com
  
  Glenn Close and Kerry Washington are the latest names to join the cast of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.
  The third instalment in the Knives Out series – following 2022’s was confirmed last week and will go into production next month. The film is slated for a 2025 release.
  The news follows the announcement of Andrew Scott joining the cast alongside Josh O’Connor (Challengers) and Caile Spaeny (Priscilla), and Daniel Craig, who played the shrewd and eccentric d
  
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• Jodie Foster says she was “always shocked” by how frequently women had rape backstories in scripts

  29-05-2024 21:53 via nme.com
  
  Jodie Foster has been critical of how frequently male screenwriters have incorporated sexual assault into the backstories of their female characters.READ MORE: ‘True Detective: Night Country’ review: back to its brutal, unbeatable bestThe actress may have won an Oscar for portraying a survivor of rape in The Accused, but she told The Hollywood Reporter that she was “always shocked” by the over-reliance of sexual assault as a source of motivation for fe
  
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• J.K. Rowling reveals loved ones “begged” her to keep anti-trans views private

  29-05-2024 20:50 via nme.com
  
  J.K. Rowling has said that her loved ones had tried to persuade her to keep her views on trans people to herself.
  In recent years, the author has caused controversy with her stance on trans rights, having shared numerous statements condemned as transphobic stemming back to 2020.More recently, she dared police to arrest her as she expressed her opposition to new hate crime legislation that has just come into force in Scotland and earlier this year was reported to the police ov
  
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• Morgan Spurlock’s ex-wife pays tribute to ‘Super Size Me’ star: “I will miss him forever”

  29-05-2024 19:51 via nme.com
  
  The late Morgan Spurlock‘s ex-wife has paid tribute to him, saying that she “will miss him forever”.
  Spurlock was best known for directing and starring in the 2004 McDonald’s documentary Super Size Me. His family confirmed on Thursday (May 23) that he had died “peacefully” while “surrounded by family and friends in New York from complications of cancer”.
  Now, Spurlock’s third wife Sara Bernstein has paid tribute to Spurlock, who he had b
  
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• ‘Home Alone’ actor says he once racked up a $7,000 bar bill on Donald Trump’s tab

  29-05-2024 18:42 via nme.com
  
  Daniel Stern said he once racked up a $7,000 (£5,505) bill on Donald Trump‘s tab during filming for Home Alone 2: Lost In New York.
  The former US president famously made a cameo in the 1992 movie in which Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin MacAllister asks Trump for directions to the hotel lobby.
  Stern, best known for his role as hapless criminal Marv alongside Joe Pesci (Harry) in Home Alone and the sequel, told ITV’s Good Morning Britain [via The Independent] yesterday (May 28): &
  
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• Glen Powell says he missed out on ‘Oppenheimer’ role

  29-05-2024 17:41 via nme.com
  
  Glen Powell has revealed that he missed out on a role in Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer.READ MORE: ‘Oppenheimer’ review: Christopher Nolan’s mind-blowing biopic hits like a bomb to the brainThe Top Gun: Maverick star recently told GQ Magazine, that he was beaten to the role of Nobel-winning nuclear physicist Ernest Lawrence, by Josh Harnett.
  Despite missing out on the role he went on to say that he is still in touch with Nolan, and has faith that they will get to do
  
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• Watch Timothée Chalamet filming Bob Dylan biopic with Edward Norton

  29-05-2024 16:04 via nme.com
  
  New footage of Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in the upcoming biopic A Complete Unknown has emerged online – watch below.READ MORE: ‘Dune: Part Two’ review: sandworm-sized sequel should blow a hole in the box officeLast month, the Dune star was captured in New Jersey filming a scene alongside Monica Barbaro, who plays Joan Baez.
  Now, fans have been sharing footage of Chalamet in scenes in Hoboken with Edward Norton (who plays Pete Seeger).
  The biopic, which is curre
  
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