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New York Post
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Lightning in a bottle: Florence Pugh promotes ‘Thunderbolts*' in Loewe, McQueen and more
It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Florence Pugh jumping off the second-highest building in the world. The high-flying, high fashion-favoring Pugh performed the leap for Marvel's 'Thunderbolts*,' hailing the studio's new era and looking absolutely fabulous while doing it. Here are the highlights from Pugh's press tour — put together with the help of stylist Rebecca Corbin-Murray — featuring lovely lace and lots of leather. 4 Actress Florence Pugh wears Harris Reed and Stella McCartney while promoting her film 'Thunderbolts*.' Images: Getty Images 4 The 'Little Women' star slips into Elie Saab for a London screening. Getty Images What says 'I do my own stunts' like a dramatic, hooded Nina Ricci gown for the brand's London fashion week show? Maybe a monochromatic moment for Cinemacon, composed of a Stella McCartney mini and Paris Texas boots — to add just a hint of superhero style. The British star's next stop was a Leicester Square screening, where she looked ethereal in Elie Saab and flaming orange eye makeup. 4 From left: Pugh is perfection in Francesco Murano, McQueen and Marine Serre. Images: Getty Images 4 From left: The 'Midsommar' actress stuns in looks from Altuzarra, Mugler and Loewe. Images: Getty Images The superhero superstar brought the thunder in a Francesco Murano set for a London stopover, and stepped up for her film's LA premiere in a minty masterpiece from McQueen. She made the case again for life in leather, opting for a Marine Serre midi dress for an appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Pugh chose a softer look for 'The View,' donning a shimmery, off-the-shoulder Altuzarra gown. But she quickly turned up the volume in an archival Mugler suit on 'Good Morning America.' And, in case you thought all heroes wore capes, Pugh proved that some prefer custom leather Loewe, strutting around NYC.
Globe and Mail
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Globe and Mail
Kernels of Hope
The mood inside the multiplex is grim. But at Cinemacon in las Vegas, movie going isn't dying — it just needs a reboot Barry Hertz The Globe and Mail Illustration by Drew Shannon/The Globe and Mail to view this content.
Yahoo
06-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Glen Powell Says Arnold Schwarzenegger Gave Him His ‘Full Blessing' to Star in a ‘Running Man' Remake
Glen Powell got the go-ahead from Arnold Schwarzenegger to take on the role of Ben Richards in a remake of his 1987 action flick 'The Running Man.' At a launch event for his new condiment line, Smash Kitchen, Powell told People that he spoke to Schwarzenegger via FaceTime and got his blessing to reprise the role. 'Arnold gave us his blessing,' he said, sharing that he and director Edgar Wright contacted Schwarzenegger before the remake began filming. 'Patrick Schwarzenegger is a great friend of mine and I asked Patrick if I could talk to Arnold and I hadn't seen Arnold since we shot Expendables in Bulgaria,' Powell explained. More from Variety Tom Cruise Told Glen Powell to 'Film Yourself' Sprinting for 'The Running Man': 'You Don't Look as Cool as You Think You Do' Glen Powell Races to Stay Alive in Bloody CinemaCon Trailer for Edgar Wright's 'The Running Man' 'Fubar' Season 2: Arnold Schwarzenegger Squares Off With Carrie-Anne Moss in First Look, Sets June Release Date 'Arnold gave us his full blessing and we get to give Arnold a very specific fun gift from the movie in a couple of weeks here,' Powell added. 'So I'm very excited to see him.' Based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, the original 'Running Man' film starred Schwarzenegger as a man taking part in a game show where convicted criminals are hunted by professional killers. 'The Running Man' was directed by Paul Michael Glaser. Powell appeared earlier this week at Cinemacon alongside costars Colman Domingo and Josh Brolin to premiere first-look footage from the new 'Running Man.' 'This game is no game…life and death run wild,' Domingo's character tells Powell in the trailer. 'This is America goddammit and we don't put up with no bullshit.' Before debuting the trailer, Powell told Cinemacon attendees that making 'The Running Man' was 'the hardest thing I've done in my life.' Production on the film began in London last September, nearly 37 years after Schwarzenegger's 'The Running Man' hit theaters. Wright's 'The Running Man,' starring Powell, is in theaters November 7. Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week What's Coming to Disney+ in April 2025 The Best Celebrity Memoirs to Read This Year: From Chelsea Handler to Anthony Hopkins
Reuters
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Reuters
Tom Cruise remembers 'Top Gun' co-star Val Kilmer
LAS VEGAS, April 3 (Reuters) - Actor Tom Cruise paid tribute to his late "Top Gun" co-star, Val Kilmer, on Thursday, remembering him as a talented actor who loved movies. Cruise opened his appearance at the CinemaCon industry convention in Las Vegas with remarks about his "dear friend" Kilmer, who died on Tuesday at age 65. "I really can't tell you how much I admired his work, how much I thought of him as a human being, and how grateful and honored I was when he joined 'Top Gun' and came back later for 'Top Gun: Maverick,'" Cruise said. "He loved movies and he gave a lot to all of us with his performances," Cruise said. In 1986 film "Top Gun," Kilmer played naval aviator Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, a rival to Cruise's character, Lieutenant Pete Mitchell. Kilmer reprised the role in 2022 hit "Top Gun: Maverick" when he could barely speak after years of battling throat cancer. Cruise asked the Cinemacon audience to pause in a moment of silence to remember Kilmer's work. "Thank you for doing that," Cruise said. "I know he'd appreciate that." Cruise, 62, attended CinemaCon to promote "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning," which will be released by Paramount (PARA.O), opens new tab in May.
CBC
01-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Meet the (onscreen) Beatles: Who are the actors starring in separate Fab Four biopics?
Social Sharing While the loose lips of Hollywood have seen the likely cast members for an unprecedented series of Beatles biopics previously leaked in the media, moviegoers and fans of the band got their first look at the four actors playing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr on Monday. Harris Dickinson, Barry Keoghan, Paul Mescal and Joseph Quinn were officially introduced at Cinemacon in Las Vegas, with Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes also on hand to hype the project, which is being heralded as the first time that Apple Corps Ltd, the company founded by members of the Beatles, has signed off on such a project. The four films, each told from the perspective of a band member, will be released "in proximity" to each other in April 2028, Mendes said, adding that Sony Pictures executive Tom Rothman described it as "the first bingeable theatrical experience." There are few precedents to the ambitious plan; on a much smaller scale, Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colours trilogy of films were released over the course of a year in 1993-94. Keoghan, at 32, is the oldest of the bunch, and also older than any Beatle was when they broke up in 1970. The ability of the actors to portray the musicians over their dozen-year existence has been the subject of online chatter so far, as well as a debate whether any of them resemble the band members. WATCH | A stunning Beatles find in Vancouver: Rare early recording of The Beatles unearthed in Vancouver record store 11 days ago Duration 2:50 In Liverpool, where the lads where influenced by Britain's skiffle music craze to pick up instruments and form bands, it has not escaped notice that two of the actors are Irish, and two are Londoners. "They couldn't have found four Scousers?" one commenter exclaimed, using the nickname for the northwest port city's residents. Mendes's filmography — American Beauty, Spectre, Revolution Road — has focused on fictional characters and not biopics, but he has staged several theatre musicals in his career. Many questions remain, from the order in which the films will be released, to how the busy actors will be able gel together and capture the band's madcap energy in their early years. Nevertheless, the project promises the most sweeping look on film at the group. Previous biopics on the big screen and television have tended to focus on specific periods or storylines, with Harrison and Starr largely overshadowed. The Birth of the Beatles (1979) and Backbeat (1994) dealt with the group's earliest years, with the latter film predating Starr's time in the band. Backbeat — later adapted for the stage — was centred in Germany, with a look at the relationship between Lennon and Stu Sutcliffe, the onetime Beatles member who died suddenly in 1962, just months after leaving the group. Here are the cast members announced Monday: Harris Dickinson as John Lennon Dickinson, 28, has already portrayed an eclectic list of real people in a career just a decade old — Prince Phillip, actor-director Richard Attenborough, oil tycoon scion John Paul Getty III and the doomed wrestler David Von Erich in the Iron Claw. Dickinson was most recently seen by many in a lead role opposite Nicole Kidman in the erotic thriller Babygirl. Lennon's premature death at 40 has seen him the focus of more portrayals than the rest of the band members. Even his assassination has been covered in a biopic, with future Oscar winner Jared Leto playing Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman, in 2007's Chapter 27. Ian Hart earned praise for his Lennon portrayal in Backbeat, while Doctor Who actor Christopher Eccleston starred in the public television offering Lennon Naked in 2010, focusing on Lennon's tumultuous 1967-1971 period when he struggled with drug use, first met Yoko Ono and began to create music outside the group. The couple's life also got the made-for-TV treatment in 1985's John and Yoko: A Love Story. Nowhere Boy (2009) looked at Lennon's seminal adolescence — his parents split acrimoniously and his mother died when he was 14 — while Two of Us (2000) saw actors Jared Harris and Aidan Quinn play Lennon and McCartney, respectively, as they navigated their relationship in the mid-1970s after the contentious split of the Beatles. Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney Mescal starred in Gladiator II and All of Us Strangers and was nominated for an Oscar for Aftersun. The Irish actor's participation is not a surprise, inadvertently revealed late last year by Gladiator II director Ridley Scott. Mescal, 29, told CBC's Q in 2022 that he didn't have a roadmap in terms of choosing roles. "It's always going to be related to the filmmaker or the director and the source material — if it's a character I feel like I can represent accurately and truthfully, I'm going to do that," he said. While the pressure will be intense to live up to the expectations of fans in any of the four roles, comments attributed to McCartney have seen the music legend express some displeasure with previous portrayals. Joseph Quinn as George Harrison Quinn, 31, also just appeared in Gladiator II. The London native first attracted attention to many outside of Britain with an appearance in the fourth season of Stranger Things, and will see his profile raised in the next year or so with multiple appearances as Johnny Storm, the Fantastic Four's Human Torch, in Marvel films. "It's important to follow the stories that interest you, the filmmakers that have something interesting to say," Quinn told The Associated Press recently. "If recognition comes along ... it's in service of making the film." Harrison, who died in 2000, will get his moment in the sun onscreen after being closely associated with the film industry after the Beatles broke up. Harrison's HandMade Films produced and distributed films which included Monty Python's Life of Brian, Time Bandits and Withnail and I. While Harrison hasn't been depicted onscreen as much as Lennon and McCartney, future Doctor Who and Thick Of It actor Peter Capaldi — sporting a rad mustache — played Harrison in 1985's John and Yoko: A Love Story. WATCH | George Harrison in 1969 on the complicated business of the band: Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr Keoghan, another Irish actor, has taken a turn on the award show circuit for a few years now. The Banshees of Inisherin, from 2022, earned him Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations, and it won him a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA). Keoghan's performance in the following year's Saltburn also resulted in Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. Starr, who enthusiastically greeted the Beatles film announcement in February 2024, later in the year tipped off to Entertainment Tonight that Keoghan was set to sit on the drummer's stool for the Mendes movie. "I believe he's somewhere taking drum lessons, and I hope not too many," Starr joked. WATCH | Ringo Star in conversation with CBC (2021): Tom Power catches up with legend Ringo Starr 4 years ago Duration 8:28 Ringo Starr in conversation with CBC Radio Q's Tom Power on how the legendary Beatles' drummer is making music during the pandemic.
