Will Smith’s slavery drama “Emancipation” held its red carpet premiere earlier this week and the film’s producer Joey McFarland is drawing some criticism. McFarland, 50, attended the event on Wednesday and brought with him a 19th-century photo of the whipped slave Peter — the portrait that inspired the film. The Kentucky native caught up with Variety … Read more
The new animated Disney movie “Strange World” is underperforming at the box office and is estimated to ultimately lose $147 million. The film also features the first openly LGBTQ+ teenaged Disney character, who discusses his crush in the movie. Film critic and author Christian Toto said of the film bombing: “Hollywood doesn’t fully grasp the … Read more
Telling the story of life in plastic didn’t immediately sound fantastic to filmmaker Greta Gerwig. The 39-year-old actress and director admitted to being nervous about taking on the Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling-fronted “Barbie” movie. “It was terrifying. I think there’s something about starting from that place where it’s like, ‘Well, anything is possible,’” Gerwig … Read more
Margot Robbie revealed a boozy behind-the-scenes moment with her “The Wolf of Wall Street” costar Leonardo DiCaprio. During a special guest appearance at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts event, the Australian actress confessed she needed a bit of liquid courage before filming a raunchy nude scene with the Oscar winner. “I’m not going … Read more
Quentin Tarantino doesn’t care if you hate his movies. The Oscar winner, 59, recently appeared on HBO Max’s “Who’s Talking With Chris Wallace” where he discussed the criticism against him for the violence and racist language in his films. Wallace, 75, asked the director: “So when people say, ‘Well there’s too much violence in his … Read more
Mickey Kuhn — a child star of the 1930s and ’40s Golden Age of Hollywood — has died. He was 90. Kuhn famously made an appearance in the 1939 Civil War classic “Gone With the Wind” when he was just 6 years old. He was the last surviving member of that cast, as Olivia de … Read more
Golden Globe winner Quentin Tarantino has declared “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood” as his best movie to date. During a recent appearance on “The Howard Stern Show,” the legendary director was put on the spot and asked to name his top project. “For years people used to ask me stuff like that,” the 59-year-old said, according … Read more
Feeling under the weather? Try the rom-com remedy — three in five Americans say it’s their go-to movie genre when down for the count. That’s according to a new poll of 2,000 millennial parents of kids ages 4-12, where they’re also watching action and adventure movies (37%) and series like “Harry Potter” or the “Hunger … Read more
“Emancipation” director Antoine Fuqua came to the defense of his upcoming Apple TV+ movie starring Will Smith after the infamous slap incident at the Oscars earlier this year. The new drama, in which he stars as an enslaved man on the run from a Louisiana plantation, is Smith’s first role post-smack controversy. Fuqua, 56, told … Read more
That ship sailed and sank. Actress Margot Robbie said Monday that the brand-new, female-led “Pirates of the Caribbean” film was forced to walk the plank by Disney, reported Vanity Fair. According to the “Birds of Prey” actress, the idea was broached in an effort to reboot the franchise that originally starred Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom … Read more
The first look at Anne Heche’s final film is here. A recently released trailer for “What Remains” depicts a paroled convict (Kellan Lutz, “FBI: Most Wanted”) as he returns to the town where he murdered the wife of a pastor, played by Cress Williams (“Black Lightning”), who is trying to find forgiveness in his anger … Read more
In ’90s Hollywood, the ultimate battle was between Rocky and the Terminator. Long before they appeared in “The Expendables” franchise together, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger were bitter rivals. “We couldn’t stand to be in the same galaxy together for a while,” Stallone, 76, said on Britain’s “The Jonathan Ross Show. “We truly, truly loathed … Read more
Now that’s devotion. Jonathan Majors revealed Monday on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that he made Glen Powell pitch his film “Devotion” to him while they were naked in a Russian Turkish bathhouse in New York City. “Pretty standard procedure,” Majors explained. “You have a meeting, you know, say, ‘Hey, you want to be in the movie?’ … Read more
Hell hath no fury like TikTokkers scorned. A filmmaker says she’s been subjected to a vicious smear campaign on social media ahead of the release of her new documentary, which alleges that the word “homosexual” was accidentally inserted into the Bible back in 1946. Sharon “Rocky” Roggio is the director of “1946: The Mistranslation That … Read more
The Japanese animated fantasy “One Piece Film: Red” narrowly edged “Black Adam” for the lead in Friday’s box office. Dwayne Johnson’s superhero flick held the No. 1 spot in the box office since its debut Oct. 21, and is still expected to win the weekend, according to Deadline. But on Friday, the latest film in … Read more
Matthew Perry just wants to be young again. The “Friends” star, 53, revealed he was hoping to once again work with Zac Efron, but it may not be in the cards. Perry revealed during an interview on SiriusXM’s “Pop Culture Spotlight With Jessica Shaw” that he wrote a script for a new rom-com with himself as … Read more
Pam Grier was only romantically involved with comedian Richard Pryor for about a year during the 1970s. However, the “Foxy Brown” star, 73, still remembers the impact their relationship had on her. The pair dated from 1975 until 1976 and their love affair was a tumultuous one. Grier recalled in an interview with Fox News … Read more
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Ben Platt is speaking out about the backlash he received last year after the film adaptation of the Broadway show “Dear Evan Hansen.” Platt admitted he’s “really grateful” he got to work on “Dear Evan Hansen” for so many years, but he had a “difficult” experience with the film version. “It was definitely a disappointing … Read more
Sisters, prepare for a possible third film! Stars from the original 1993 classic “Hocus Pocus” revealed Saturday that they would be interested in returning for a third installment of the witchy franchise, Entertainment Weekly exclusively reported. Stars Vinessa Shaw, Omri Katz and Jason Marsden said that would be interested in reprising their roles of Allison, Max … Read more