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Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
WWE megastar CM Punk has non-wrestling projects 'grandfathered' into contract
CM Punk had his "pre-existing relationships and projects" written into his WWE contract. The 46-year-old wrestler - whose acting career has included roles in 'Heels', 'Girl On The Third Floor' and 'Rabid' - is glad he's in a position where he can balance his in-ring work with his other ambitions. He told Deadline: "It's a lot easier now. It was harder back in the day because wrestling was the lion's share of what I did, and I wasn't allowed to do other stuff. "I have pre-existing relationships and projects I work on that are grandfathered into my contract. "I typically do 'Monday Night Raw' live on Netflix every week. But if I need to dip out for two weeks to shoot an independent film, I can always do that." Punk - whose real name is Phil Brooks - admitted there are efforts to get Netflix to commission a new season of 'Heels' after the first two series found a new home on the streaming platform. Discussing his future projects, he teased: "We're trying to petition Netflix to do a third season of 'Heels'. "I have two projects coming down the line that I'm very excited about. One is the TV show 'Revival' that will air on Syfy, and a really, really fun movie called 'Night Patrol', written and directed by Ryan Prows. "I don't want to give away too much but it's night patrol, LAPD, Bloods, Crips, vampires." Earlier this year, WWE content shifted to Netflix for much of the world as part of a $5 billion deal, and Punk is excited for the opportities the partnership could present. He recently stressed that he wants to do "fulfilling" jobs - including working with fellow wrestler John Cena. Punk told the Metro newspaper's 60 Seconds column: "I would love to do stuff with Cena and with anybody, really ... I want to do stuff that's fulfilling. "I don't necessarily just want to say, 'Oh, yeah, give me a billion dollars, and I'm going to fly on this jet, and I'm going to do this script that I'm not feeling."
Perth Now
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
WWE megastar CM Punk has non-wrestling projects 'grandfathered' into contract
CM Punk had his "pre-existing relationships and projects" written into his WWE contract. The 46-year-old wrestler - whose acting career has included roles in 'Heels', 'Girl On The Third Floor' and 'Rabid' - is glad he's in a position where he can balance his in-ring work with his other ambitions. He told Deadline: "It's a lot easier now. It was harder back in the day because wrestling was the lion's share of what I did, and I wasn't allowed to do other stuff. "I have pre-existing relationships and projects I work on that are grandfathered into my contract. "I typically do 'Monday Night Raw' live on Netflix every week. But if I need to dip out for two weeks to shoot an independent film, I can always do that." Punk - whose real name is Phil Brooks - admitted there are efforts to get Netflix to commission a new season of 'Heels' after the first two series found a new home on the streaming platform. Discussing his future projects, he teased: "We're trying to petition Netflix to do a third season of 'Heels'. "I have two projects coming down the line that I'm very excited about. One is the TV show 'Revival' that will air on Syfy, and a really, really fun movie called 'Night Patrol', written and directed by Ryan Prows. "I don't want to give away too much but it's night patrol, LAPD, Bloods, Crips, vampires." Earlier this year, WWE content shifted to Netflix for much of the world as part of a $5 billion deal, and Punk is excited for the opportities the partnership could present. He recently stressed that he wants to do "fulfilling" jobs - including working with fellow wrestler John Cena. Punk told the Metro newspaper's 60 Seconds column: "I would love to do stuff with Cena and with anybody, really ... I want to do stuff that's fulfilling. "I don't necessarily just want to say, 'Oh, yeah, give me a billion dollars, and I'm going to fly on this jet, and I'm going to do this script that I'm not feeling."
Boston Globe
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
In ‘The Shrouds,' David Cronenberg interrogates grief within a paranoid thriller
From 'Rabid' (1977) to 'The Fly' (1986) to 'Crimes of the Future' (2022), has any filmmaker been as interested in bodily functions and decay? So a shroud cam fits right in with his aesthetic: imaginative, transgressive, clinical, with a high IQ (that's IQ as in 'ick quotient'). But there's also an autobiographical element to 'The Shrouds.' Cronenberg's wife, Carolyn Zeifman, died in 2017, and the writer-director has acknowledged the disabling sense of loss he felt. This is a movie about grief that is itself born of grief. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Hunny the AI avatar and a "shroud," in "The Shrouds." Courtesy of Sideshow and Janus Films Advertisement Underscoring that personal element is 'I had an intense, visceral urge to get in the box with her,' Karsh says of Becca. He developed the shroud cam and founded a company to promote it, GraveTech. Advertisement Becca appears in dreams (or are they?). She's played by Diane Kruger, who also plays her younger sister, Terry, and provides the voice of Karsh's flirtatious AI personal assistant, Hunny. It's a triple play that recalls Jeremy Irons's tour de force as twin brothers, in Cronenberg's 'Dead Ringers' (1988). Terry accuses Karsh, who envisions a global network of GraveTech cemeteries, of being a 'a corpse voyeur, making a career out of it.' He says she's 'catastrophically neurotic.' Ah, in-laws. Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger in "The Shrouds." Sophie Giraud When several of the high-tech graves are vandalized, Karsh seeks help from Terry's ex-husband, Maury. He's played by a barely recognizable Guy Pearce. Maury's techno-geek schlubbiness is a long way from Pearce's big-bucks architecture patron in ' What had been a meditation on mortality, love, and grief starts to take on aspects of a paranoid thriller. Is that a tracking device in Becca's remains? Why has the doctor who was her oncologist disappeared? Might GraveTech hardware have the potential to form a clandestine surveillance network? A cerebral narrative, oblique yet affecting, now gets to be a bit much. Vincent Cassel and Sandrine Holt in "The Shrouds." Courtesy of Sideshow and Janus Films The pace feels deliberate throughout, almost at times ceremonial. Karsh describes himself as 'a non-observant atheist.' 'The Shrouds' is a bit like that, too. It can seem vaguely religious yet minus any religiosity. 'Non-observant atheist' is also a pretty funny line. There are others. Cronenberg's sense of humor more be more -- a lot more -- 'hmm' than 'ha ha,' but he definitely has one. When concerns about GraveTech security arise, Karsh offers reassurance. 'Of course, everything's encrypted. Pun intended.' Or there's the movie's opening exchange, with Karsh visiting his dentist. Advertisement Dentist: 'Grief is rotting your teeth.' Karsh: 'Is this medically feasible?' Dentist: 'Teeth register emotion.' Karsh: 'So what do I do about the grief thing, dentally speaking?' It's hard to say which is more Cronenbergian: the concept of teeth registering emotion or a term like 'the grief thing.' What Cronenberg has done about the grief thing, cinematically speaking, is 'The Shrouds.' A few scenes after the dental exam, Karsh goes on a blind date. The woman he's with asks him to describe how he's handled mourning. 'How dark are you willing to go?' Karsh replies. 'I'm okay with dark,' she says. Well, there's dark and then there's dark. As Irons famously says in the (non-Cronenberg-directed) 'Reversal of Fortune' (1990), *** THE SHROUDS Written and directed by David Cronenberg. Starring Vincent Kassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce. Sandrine Holt. At Boston Common, Coolidge Corner, 119 minutes. R (nudity; decompositional and medical ick, albeit fairly tame by Cronenberg standards) Mark Feeney can be reached at
