Viggo Mortensen’s career-defining role as Aragorn was not originally meant to be. In fact, the film trilogy had an entirely different actor cast in the role before a dramatic change had Mortensen flying from America to New Zealand at the last minute to give one of his most memorable performances. …
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Dame Maggie Smith, the two-time Oscar-winning actor best known for playing Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter movie franchise and the acid-tongued Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess on Downton Abbey, died Friday, her publicist and children confirmed. The iconic actress was 89. Her professional acting career began in the …
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The first trailer for Ballerina, a spin-off of the John Wick franchise, has been released. Ana de Armas stars as Eve Macarro, a Ruska Roma ballerina seeking revenge against hitmen responsible for her family’s murder. The film is set to hit theaters on June 6, 2025. The storyline unfolds between …
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Deadpool & Wolverine is now in its tenth week of release, and it was still in the top five at the box office last weekend. But with a digital release right around the corner, Marvel’s first R-rated flick is winding down its theatrical run and looking ahead to awards season. …
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Francis Ford Coppola’s latest film, Megalopolis, had more than enough PR problems before it had a trailer pulled because it had AI-generated fake movie review quotes. That trailer was meant to reassure audiences that the auteur behind The Godfather trilogy had overcome negative buzz before. But if current box office …
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Oscar-nominated actress Saoirse Ronan said in a new interview that she’s enjoyed making independent films over the years, but now she’d like to do something “big.” And what might that be? She told The Los Angeles Times (via GamesRadar) that her dream role is something few would have guessed: a …
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In 2006, Joaquin Phoenix was nominated for Best Actor for playing Johnny Cash in Walk the Line, a role that required him to sing Cash’s legendary songs. Phoenix didn’t win the Oscar until 2020 when he was named Best Actor for playing Arthur Fleck in Joker. However, Phoenix’s previous music …
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The first trailer for Marvel Studio’s Thunderbolts was released Monday morning and seemed to elicit a generally good vibe from fans. The film brings together some of the MCU villains and anti-heroes, and introduces the Sentry (Lewis Pullman), who is making his live-action debut. Sentry also apparently gained an additional …
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Almost 25 years since it first released, you’d be hard-pressed to find a historical action movie better than Gladiator. With a sequel on the way, it’s a fine time to revisit the hard-hitting movie, and right now, you can grab a 4K Blu-ray of it from Amazon for $30. This …
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Oscar-winning actor Richard Harris played Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films prior to his death in 2002, and now his son, actor Jared Harris, has weighed in on if he could step up to play Dumbledore in HBO’s upcoming reboot TV series. He told The Independent that not …
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