The UK has changed its age rating for the original “Mary Poppins” movie due to “discriminatory language.” The Disney movie, which came out in 1964, stars Julie Andrews as magical governess Mary Poppins and Dick Van Dyke as her chimney-sweep sidekick, Bert. It snared 13 Oscar nominations — including one for Best Picture — and … Read more
So much for the fake industry outrage over Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie being left off the director and actress Oscar nominations lists. A gigantic sector of that very same industry — actors — shut out the peppy, pink movie entirely during the 2024 SAG Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Saturday … Read more
Barbra Streisand accepted the Screen Actors Guild Award for life achievement at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Saturday. “This is such a wonderful award to get, because you know in advance you’re gonna get it,” began Streisand, 81, at the 2024 SAG Awards. “And you don’t have to sit there and squirm.” The singer-actor-director … Read more
That’s all. Meryl Streep and her “Devil Wears Prada” co-stars Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt had an epic reunion at the 2024 SAG Awards in LA on Saturday. The trio presented at the show nearly 17 years after the release of the 2006 comedy/drama film, which starred Streep, 74, as the Anna Wintour-esque editor of … Read more
Award season’s next biggest event has arrived. The 2024 SAG Awards, which celebrates the incredible talent of actors and actresses in film and television, went down Saturday night at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in LA. Summer blockbusters such as Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” led the film division with a whopping … Read more
It slayed its competition. Japanese animated dark fantasy “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – To the Hashira Training” was No. 1 in theaters on Friday, earning $5.525 million, according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo. The action flick, based on a manga series, opened in theaters on Feb. 2. “Bob Marley: One Love,” which has already earned … Read more
Call it Blunt force trauma or a real pillow case. Emily Blunt revealed on Thursday night’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that her “Oppenheimer” co-star, Cillian Murphy, smashed his head open while fluffing a pillow she gave him to help him sleep while shooting the boffo box-office movie. Blunt, 41, was on ABC’s “JKL!” with Murphy, 47, … Read more
Even acting legends are afraid sometimes. Bryan Greenberg, 45, claims Meryl Streep, 74, told him she was “scared s—tless” while filming their 2005 rom-com “Prime.” Oscar-winning Streep portrays therapist Lisa Metzger in the flick that helps Rafi Gardet (Uma Thurman) and David (Greenberg) navigate the age-gap in their budding romance — only to find out … Read more
More than two decades before his infamous roadside antisemitic rant, Mel Gibson was angling to star in “Schindler’s List.” According to The Hollywood Reporter, the “Braveheart” actor “was interested” in playing Oskar Schindler, a German Nazi party member who saved more than 1,000 Jews during the Holocaust. “Mel Gibson’s name came up,” said Creative Artists … Read more
Here’s the naked truth: he went too far. The BBC has apologized after one of its reporters repeatedly questioned actor Andrew Scott about Barry Keoghan’s “naked dance scene” in the movie “Saltburn,” in which Scott does not appear. The interaction was deemed “homophobic” by many viewers. The incident occurred on the red carpet at last Sunday’s BAFTA … Read more
“Hello, my name is Jonathan Glazer, and I’m the writer and director of the ‘Zone of Interest.’ So we open the sequence on a prisoner gardener, one of whose duties is to clean Rudolf Höss, the commandant’s boots. So everything you’re going to see in this scene was shot simultaneously with 10 cameras. We’re watching … Read more
But what about Scuba Steve? Cole Sprouse still stays in touch with his famous onscreen dad Adam Sandler — years after starring as Sonny Koufax and Julian McGrath, respectively, in 1999’s “Big Daddy.” “Adam Sandler and I talk every once in a while,” Sprouse, 31, revealed during a recent interview with Men’s Heath. He further … Read more
“Elvis” star Austin Butler, who went all-out on his method acting to portray the King, Elvis Presley, in Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 movie, said he’s toning it down for his next big-screen role. Butler, 32, co-stars as uber-villain Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in “Dune: Part Two,” which hits theaters March 1. “I’ve definitely in the past, with ‘Elvis,’ explored … Read more
They’re pouring their hearts out. When “Dune: Part Two” Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya and Austin Butler posed Thursday at the much-anticipated franchise film’s premiere in Seoul, South Korea, the trio didn’t offer up your standard, simmering red-carpet moves. Instead, the performers each cupped one of their hands to the side of their smiling faces in a … Read more
He’s taking the highway to the legal zone. Barry Tubb, who starred in the original “Top Gun” film as Wolfman, filed a lawsuit against Paramount+ claiming that the streaming giant used a photo of him without his permission in the 2022 sequel, “Top Gun: Maverick.” Tubb’s lawsuit refers to a scene when Hangman (Glen Powell) … Read more
Ethan Coen’s road-trip comedy “Drive-Away Dolls” does not have that cinematic new-car smell. movie review DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS Running time: 84 minutes. Rated R (crude sexual content, full nudity, language and some violent content). In theaters Feb. 23. No, the stale scent is closer to months-old, unfinished McDonalds Happy Meals and inexplicably maroon stains. The creaky … Read more
Is there another force at play? A massive cellphone outage affecting users across the US quickly piqued interest on Thursday — and so did the Netflix thriller “Leave the World Behind.” Subscribers to the Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile networks have experienced a drop in service and the reason has yet to be determined. Many AT&T … Read more
Malia Obama opted to release her first Hollywood directional effort under a stage name, but social media is still blasting the former First Daughter for her “nepo baby” roots. The 25-year-old daughter of former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wrote and directed the short film, “The Heart,” which debuted at on Jan. … Read more
Natalie Portman can’t stand the gossip about her marriage, the actress said in a new interview for Vanity Fair’s annual Hollywood issue, which hits newsstands in March. When asked about swirling rumors that she’s split from husband of 11 years Benjamin Millepied, the “May December” actress told the glossy, “It’s terrible, and I have no … Read more
The Hulk may have had his last smash. Mark Ruffalo believes that the odds of getting his own stand-alone film as the Incredible Hulk are slim to none. “I’d love to do a stand-alone Hulk, I just don’t think that’s ever going to happen,” Ruffalo, 56, told GQ for its cover story on Wednesday. “It’s … Read more