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India Today
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- India Today
Materialists trailer: A swooning romance with the prettiest faces in business
Materialists trailer is here and it's swoon-worthy (Photo: Movie stills) India Today Entertainment Desk The trailer of 'Materialists' was released on Friday The romantic-comedy features Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal It's essentially a love triangle set in New York City The makers of 'Materialists' released the trailer of the romantic drama on Friday morning. Starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal, in probably the most swoon-worthy story of their time, the film establishes a love triangle. The film is directed by Celine Song, known for the critically acclaimed 'Past Lives'. The trailer promises a fresh and emotional take on modern romance. The trailer begins by establishing Johnson as a successful matchmaker. Pascal is one of her clients who ends up falling in love with her and tries to convince her that he can make her life better. Evans, as shown in the trailer, is a boy from the past who regrets losing her today. The film is set in New York City and presents an engaging love story, something fresh and exciting for lovers of Hollywood rom-coms. Watch the trailer of 'Materialists' here: Earlier, while speaking to the media, Johnson described her character as someone who leads a very 'transactional' life daily, but deep down, she's more understanding and more emotional than she's perceived to be. The 'Fifty Shades...' actor said, "She's sort of at the top of her game in her work and is very disconnected from her heart and focused on being a perfectionist and getting people to get married. On the surface, you see her as a very transactional person and not really invested in people's souls, but she actually is and really does want the best for them. She's also on her own journey of trying to figure out what it is she wants for herself in this life, and, essentially, do you fight for the thing that you think you want, or do you fight for that thing that you know you need?" It also features Zoe Winters, Marin Ireland, Dasha Nekrasova, and Louisa Jacobson in important roles. The shooting of the film began in April 2024 and wrapped in June. Distributed by Sony Pictures in India, 'Materialists' is set for its release on June 13. The makers of 'Materialists' released the trailer of the romantic drama on Friday morning. Starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal, in probably the most swoon-worthy story of their time, the film establishes a love triangle. The film is directed by Celine Song, known for the critically acclaimed 'Past Lives'. The trailer promises a fresh and emotional take on modern romance. The trailer begins by establishing Johnson as a successful matchmaker. Pascal is one of her clients who ends up falling in love with her and tries to convince her that he can make her life better. Evans, as shown in the trailer, is a boy from the past who regrets losing her today. The film is set in New York City and presents an engaging love story, something fresh and exciting for lovers of Hollywood rom-coms. Watch the trailer of 'Materialists' here: Earlier, while speaking to the media, Johnson described her character as someone who leads a very 'transactional' life daily, but deep down, she's more understanding and more emotional than she's perceived to be. The 'Fifty Shades...' actor said, "She's sort of at the top of her game in her work and is very disconnected from her heart and focused on being a perfectionist and getting people to get married. On the surface, you see her as a very transactional person and not really invested in people's souls, but she actually is and really does want the best for them. She's also on her own journey of trying to figure out what it is she wants for herself in this life, and, essentially, do you fight for the thing that you think you want, or do you fight for that thing that you know you need?" It also features Zoe Winters, Marin Ireland, Dasha Nekrasova, and Louisa Jacobson in important roles. The shooting of the film began in April 2024 and wrapped in June. Distributed by Sony Pictures in India, 'Materialists' is set for its release on June 13. Join our WhatsApp Channel
Time of India
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Dakota Johnson reveals the tough love that forced her into Hollywood hustle: ‘I was totally on my own'
Dakota Johnson Dakota Johnson may come from Hollywood royalty, but her path to stardom wasn't paved with privilege. The Fifty Shades of Grey actress is shedding new light on the rocky beginnings of her career, revealing that her father, actor Don Johnson , cut her off financially when she decided not to attend college. In a conversation with her Materialists co-star Pedro Pascal for Elle U.K., the 35-year-old actress recalled how her dreams of attending Juilliard were dashed — along with her financial safety net. 'I didn't get in,' she said, referring to the prestigious performing arts school, 'and my dad cut me off because I didn't go to college.' Left to figure things out on her own, Dakota dove headfirst into acting auditions. 'I think I was 19 when I did The Social Network,' she said, referencing her brief role in the 2010 film. That project opened a few doors, but stability was far from immediate. She began picking up minor roles, doing whatever it took to stay afloat. 'There were a few years where money was really tight,' Dakota admitted. 'I'd go to the grocery store and not have enough in my account. I couldn't pay rent sometimes.' Though she tried to stand on her own, she occasionally turned to her parents, Don Johnson and actress Melanie Griffith, for support. 'I'm very thankful they were there to help me,' she said. 'But it wasn't easy and it wasn't fun.' Dakota elaborated on this during a February 2024 appearance on Today, where she revealed the ultimatum her father gave her: go to college and receive an allowance, or pursue acting and be financially independent. 'I chose to act and he told me, 'Alright, you're on your own.' I was cut off.' To make ends meet, Dakota picked up modeling gigs and leaned on her mother during particularly tough times. 'She was the soft one,' she said affectionately. 'I had to ask her for help with groceries more than once.' While her last name certainly opened a few doors, Dakota made it clear that she still had to fight for her place in the industry. 'Auditioning is brutal,' she told Pascal. 'It's the worst part of the job.' Despite the rough start, Dakota's perseverance paid off. From a small role in Crazy in Alabama as a child to becoming a household name in the Fifty Shades franchise, she built her career from the ground up without a safety net.
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lainie Miller, Burlesque Dancer in ‘The Graduate' and Longtime Hollywood Labor Advocate, Dies at 84
Lainie Miller, who performed a dazzling burlesque number in The Graduate before going on to work as a longtime Hollywood labor advocate, script supervisor, business agent and producer, has died. She was 84. Miller died Tuesday in her Los Angeles home in Toluca Lake after a battle with metastatic cancer, a family spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter. More from The Hollywood Reporter James Foley, Director of 'Glengarry Glen Ross,' 'House of Cards' and 'Fifty Shades,' Dies at 71 Jirí Bartoska, Czech Actor and Longtime Karlovy Vary Film Festival President, Dies at 78 Paul Nichols, Longtime TV Publicist, Dies at 76 Her husband, the noted character actor Dick Miller — he appeared in lots of Roger Corman and Joe Dante films, among them A Bucket of Blood and Gremlins — died in January 2019 at age 90. They were together for nearly 60 years. Born Sheila Elaine in Ontario, Canada, in March 1941, she took up dance as a child to recover from polio, which had her in an iron lung from ages 3 to 5. She trained in contortion and ballet for 13 years — she once performed in Swan Lake at Toronto's Royal Alexandra, the oldest operating theater in North America — and acted in weekly radio dramas at the CBC until age 12 before moving to Hollywood with a nightclub act when she was 17. She went on to perform burlesque as a Las Vegas showgirl and as a headliner with Minsky's Revue, then used her experience to play a stripper in a memorable scene that humiliates Katharine Ross' Elaine Robinson in Mike Nichols' The Graduate (1967). To provide stability for her daughter, Barbara Ann, Miller left acting in 1966 to start a career in nursing, putting her paycheck from the Paramount film toward her studies. 'I wanted to start exercising my brains — for a change,' she said. 'My tassels were getting tired.' Miller rose to positions of director of nurses, associate hospital administrator and chief labor negotiator before returning to the film industry in the 1980s as an IATSE 871 script supervisor, working on the 1988-90 syndicated series Freddy's Nightmares and on the 1996 film Down Periscope, among other projects. She served as business agent for more than a decade as well. Miller also spent time in various capacities with MPI Pension and Health and IATSE as a labor delegate for three decades. She also co-executive produced the 2009 Little League film The Perfect Game, directed by William Dear and starring Clifton Collins Jr. Miller met her future husband at Schwab's Pharmacy in Hollywood, recognizing him at the drugstore counter from Corman's War of the Satellites (1958). 'That guy could put his shoes under my bed anytime,' she said. In their later years, they enjoyed Latin and swing dancing at Las Hadas in Northridge and traveled the world on cruises when they weren't signing autographs at fan conventions around the country. Their story is memorialized in the documentary That Guy Dick Miller (2014), whose premiere at South by Southwest came on her 73rd birthday. 'I was his fan before I met him,' she told the Asbury Park Press before a screening, 'so I'm living a dream.' 'Fierce, fabulous, passionate, witty and romantic are just some of the words friends and loved ones use to describe Lainie, who often held down the fort with enormous tenacity and chutzpah so her husband could maintain a career as an actor — the quintessential woman-behind-the-man,' her family noted. Survivors include her granddaughter (and best friend), Autumn; her grandson-in-law, Ceaser; and her beloved dog, Popeye. She was predeceased by her brother, Sheldon, and Barbara Ann. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Goonies' Cast, Then and Now "A Nutless Monkey Could Do Your Job": From Abusive to Angst-Ridden, 16 Memorable Studio Exec Portrayals in Film and TV The 10 Best Baseball Movies of All Time, Ranked
CNA
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNA
Fifty Shades Darker director James Foley dies at 71 after a year-long cancer battle
James Foley, a journeyman director best known for "Glengarry Glen Ross," has died. He was 71. He died earlier this week after a yearlong battle with brain cancer, his representative, Taylor Lomax, said Friday (May 9). In his long and varied career, Foley directed Madonna music videos, 12 episodes of House of Cards and the two Fifty Shades of Grey sequels, but it was his 1992 adaptation of David Mamet's foulmouthed Pulitzer Prize winning play that stood above the rest. Although it wasn't a hit at the time, "Glengarry Glen Ross" wormed its way into the culture and grew into an oft-quoted cult favorite, especially Alec Baldwin's made-for-the-film "always be closing" monologue. Critic Tim Grierson wrote 20 years after its release that it remains "one of the quintessential modern movies about masculinity." He added, "while there are many fine Mamet movies, it's interesting that the best of them was this one – the one he didn't direct." Born on Dec 28, 1953, in Brooklyn, Foley studied film in graduate school at the University of Southern California. Legend has it that Hal Ashby once wandered into a film school party where his short happened to be playing at the time and he took a liking to him. Foley would later attribute his ability to make his first feature, Reckless, a 1984 romantic drama about mismatched teenagers in love starring Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn and Adam Baldwin, to the Ashby stamp of approval. It was also the first screenplay credited to Chris Columbus, though there were reports of creative differences. He followed it with the Sean Penn crime drama At Close Range, the Madonna and Griffin Dunne screwball comedy Who's That Girl and the neo-noir thriller After Dark, My Sweet, with Jason Patric. Critic Roger Ebert included After Dark, My Sweet in his great movies list, calling it "one of the purest and most uncompromising of modern film noir" despite having been "almost forgotten." He also directed several music videos for Madonna including Papa Don't Preach, Live to Tell, and Who's That Girl, and an episode of Twin Peaks. Foley adapted John Grisham and worked with Gene Hackman on The Chamber and made the Reese Witherspoon and Mark Wahlberg teenage love-gone-scary thriller Fear, as well as the largely derided Halle Berry and Bruce Willis psychological thriller Perfect Stranger, which was released in 2007. It would be a decade before his next film was released, when he was given the reigns to the Fifty Shades of Grey sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. "For me, what's most challenging is stuff that doesn't involve the actors, oddly enough – in three, there's a big car chase and there's different stunts and stuff and that stuff really bores me," he told The Associated Press at the UK premiere of Fifty Shades Darker. "So when the actors aren't around, that's difficult because the actors give me so much energy and kind of engagement and a car driving by doesn't do the same thing." Foley was not an easily definable director, but that was by design. In 2017, he told The Hollywood Reporter that he had no interest in repeating himself. "I've always just followed my nose, for better or for worse, sometimes for worse," Foley said. "What's best and what's worst (about the industry) are almost the same to me. What's worst is you get pigeonholed and what's best is I haven't been. It means that I'm still making movies, despite hopping all over the place."
CTV News
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
James Foley, ‘Glengarry Glen Ross' and ‘Fifty Shades of Grey' director, dies at 71
James Foley, a journeyman director best known for 'Glengarry Glen Ross,' has died. He was 71. He died earlier this week after a yearlong battle with brain cancer, his representative, Taylor Lomax, said Friday. In his long and varied career, Foley directed Madonna music videos, 12 episodes of 'House of Cards' and the two 'Fifty Shades of Grey' sequels, but it was his 1992 adaptation of David Mamet's foulmouthed Pulitzer Prize winning play that stood above the rest. Although it wasn't a hit at the time, 'Glengarry Glen Ross' wormed its way into the culture and grew into an oft-quoted cult favorite, especially Alec Baldwin's made-for-the-film 'always be closing' monologue. Critic Tim Grierson wrote 20 years after its release that it remains 'one of the quintessential modern movies about masculinity.' He added, 'while there are many fine Mamet movies, it's interesting that the best of them was this one — the one he didn't direct.' Born on Dec. 28, 1953, in Brooklyn, Foley studied film in graduate school at the University of Southern California. Legend has it that Hal Ashby once wandered into a film school party where his short happened to be playing at the time and he took a liking to him. Foley would later attribute his ability to make his first feature, 'Reckless,' a 1984 romantic drama about mismatched teenagers in love starring Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn and Adam Baldwin, to the Ashby stamp of approval. It was also the first screenplay credited to Chris Columbus, though there were reports of creative differences. He followed it with the Sean Penn crime drama 'At Close Range,' the Madonna and Griffin Dunne screwball comedy 'Who's That Girl' and the neo-noir thriller 'After Dark, My Sweet,' with Jason Patric. Critic Roger Ebert included 'After Dark, My Sweet' in his great movies list, calling it 'one of the purest and most uncompromising of modern film noir' despite having been 'almost forgotten.' He also directed several music videos for Madonna including 'Papa Don't Preach,' 'Live to Tell,' and 'Who's That Girl,' and an episode of 'Twin Peaks.' Foley adapted John Grisham and worked with Gene Hackman on 'The Chamber' and made the Reese Witherspoon and Mark Wahlberg teenage love-gone-scary thriller 'Fear,' as well as the largely derided Halle Berry and Bruce Willis psychological thriller 'Perfect Stranger,' which was released in 2007. It would be a decade before his next film was released, when he was given the reigns to the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' sequels, 'Fifty Shades Darker' and 'Fifty Shades Freed.' 'For me, what's most challenging is stuff that doesn't involve the actors, oddly enough — in three, there's a big car chase and there's different stunts and stuff and that stuff really bores me,' he told The Associated Press at the UK premiere of 'Fifty Shades Darker.' 'So when the actors aren't around, that's difficult because the actors give me so much energy and kind of engagement and a car driving by doesn't do the same thing.' Foley was not an easily definable director, but that was by design. In 2017, he told The Hollywood Reporter that he had no interest in repeating himself. 'I've always just followed my nose, for better or for worse, sometimes for worse,' Foley said. 'What's best and what's worst (about the industry) are almost the same to me. What's worst is you get pigeonholed and what's best is I haven't been. It means that I'm still making movies, despite hopping all over the place.' Foley is survived by his brother, Kevin Foley, and sisters Eileen and Jo Ann. Lindsey Bahr, The Associated Press
