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Yahoo
09-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Scarlett Johansson's New Family Comedy 'My Mother's Wedding' Will Fill The 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' Void
Family drama might feel like the end of the world when you're a teenager, but there's no denying it can get even more complicated when you're an adult. And in Scarlett Johansson's new movie My Mother's Wedding, we see three sisters return to their childhood home for their mother's wedding, and the family reunion is all kinds of unexpected. And while the casting is already buzzy, ScarJo's accent really has people talking. Here's everything you need to know about Scarlett Johansson's My Mother's Wedding, in theaters August 8, 2025. Where can I watch My Mother's Wedding? You can see My Mother's Wedding in theaters on August 8, 2025. What is the movie My Mother's Wedding about? After their mother was widowed twice, three very different sisters come to their childhood home for her third wedding. While dealing with their own dynamics and careers, they also come in contact with a variety of interesting wedding guests. And with the wedding chaos and complicated family relationships, this is definitely filling the void left behind by My Big Fat Greek Wedding. But while fans are very excited to see how the relationship dynamics play out, they're less thrilled with Scarlett's English accent. "I love this but I cannot take scar's accent seriously at all," one TikTok user says, while another adds. "Love Scarlett but the accent is hurting me." Who's in the My Mother's Wedding cast? The My Mother's Wedding cast includes: Kristin Scott Thomas as Diana Scarlett Johansson as Katherine Sienna Miller as Victoria Emily Beecham as Georgina James Fleet as Geoff Freida Pinto as Jack Thibault de Montalembert as The Grand Fromage Joshua McGuire as Jeremy Mark Stanley as Charlie Samson Kayo as Steve Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Ken Is My Mother's Wedding a true story? Actress Kristin Scott Thomas wrote and directed My Mother's Wedding, and based the story on her own childhood experiences growing up without a father. 'The part that is absolutely true and is my experience as a child is all the memories that Scarlett Johansson character carries in her head. That all happened to me, and those are my exact memories,' she TODAY. 'And that was sort of the seed for the film in the beginning — wanting to explain that to my family, what I remembered about our fathers." "I played it as the mom that I would like to be. The idealized version,' she continued. 'The important thing for me was that the memories should be mine and then the rest was theirs to play with." Where was My Mother's Wedding filmed? My Mother's Wedding was filmed in Hampshire and Portsmouth in the summer of 2022. Tag us when you go see on ! Solve the daily Crossword
The Advertiser
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Advertiser
The tired old Jurassic beasts creaks on with a fresh new feel
Jurassic World: Rebirth (M, 133 minutes) 3 stars Scarlett Johansson almost single-handedly carries this latest film in the 32-year-old dinosaur action film series. I mean, there are plenty of dinosaur critters, plenty of action, enough dubious characters getting their comeuppance, and some sensible restraint in the writing and the direction - and ScarJo had nothing to do with any of those things. But there's a world-weariness and vulnerability that Johansson brings to her mercenary leading an expedition to the last remaining havens of the world's dinosaur population. Writer David Koepp, director Gareth Edwards and the film's producers don't try and overburden the path her character is on. As aforementioned, it is 32 years since audiences were gobsmacked, just like Sam Neil and Laura Dern's characters were, by a pack of brontosaurus in Steven Spielberg's original Jurassic Park. In this fictional world, it has also been that amount of time, a timeline where dinosaurs escaped their enclosures and joined the world's ecosystems. The jaded New Yorkers of this film's opening scenes are fed up to the back teeth with the traffic jams and interruptions to their routines that a dying Brontosaurus is causing in the city. Our world is a colder place full of new diseases, and since the trilogy of Jurassic films that starred Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt, most of the escaped plague of dinos have been dying out, their second great extinction. Only a thin band of latitude along the equator is climatically suitable. It is here that a shadowy services-for-hire operative Zora Bennett (ScarJo) is offered an obscene amount of money to bring the even shadowy-er pharmaceutical company exec Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend). Krebs is working for some unseen money-men looking for blood samples collected from the largest of the remaining dinosaur population to produce lucrative medical products. The team Krebs assembles includes research scientist Dr Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) and transport specialist Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali). Screenwriter David Koepp was one of Spielberg's original 1993 Jurassic writers and he goes back to the heart of what made that film so great. The greatest amongst those things I think is its character interplay. There's no need to force some unnecessary sexual tension between anybody and there's enough emotional rawness in each of the characters' backstories - and we're far enough from the 90s - that greed itself isn't enough of a character motivator. And so the Johansson and Bailey characters can discuss the ethics of what they're doing without the filmmakers forcing a reason for them to drop their shirts, or flirt, or kiss. For anyone who misses that in their family-audience dinosaur film, Game of Thrones star Ed Skrein is dressed in such skin tight Lycra, which I'm not sure most real-life game-hunting mercenaries would don, that his nipples deserve their own film credit. Writer Koepp has, in his CV, also written for the LEGO PlayStation game versions of the Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones films, and here he and director Gareth Edwards give us plenty of great fan service jokes, like the old "objects in the mirror may appear closer than they are", so that I very much look forward to the LEGO PlayStation game of this film. The performers are all good, and they're all given enough meat and motivation to be more fleshed-out than their future LEGO selves. Among the things to celebrate in director Edwards's approach is shying away from CGI to work with practical effects, puppetry and real location filming where possible, and so the film looks great and doesn't feel HDTV surreal. He took the Star Wars franchise back to its gritty fan-base-loyal origins when he directed Rogue One, opening up a new line of storytelling. I feel he's just done the same for this tired old beast of a money-making film machine. Jurassic World: Rebirth (M, 133 minutes) 3 stars Scarlett Johansson almost single-handedly carries this latest film in the 32-year-old dinosaur action film series. I mean, there are plenty of dinosaur critters, plenty of action, enough dubious characters getting their comeuppance, and some sensible restraint in the writing and the direction - and ScarJo had nothing to do with any of those things. But there's a world-weariness and vulnerability that Johansson brings to her mercenary leading an expedition to the last remaining havens of the world's dinosaur population. Writer David Koepp, director Gareth Edwards and the film's producers don't try and overburden the path her character is on. As aforementioned, it is 32 years since audiences were gobsmacked, just like Sam Neil and Laura Dern's characters were, by a pack of brontosaurus in Steven Spielberg's original Jurassic Park. In this fictional world, it has also been that amount of time, a timeline where dinosaurs escaped their enclosures and joined the world's ecosystems. The jaded New Yorkers of this film's opening scenes are fed up to the back teeth with the traffic jams and interruptions to their routines that a dying Brontosaurus is causing in the city. Our world is a colder place full of new diseases, and since the trilogy of Jurassic films that starred Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt, most of the escaped plague of dinos have been dying out, their second great extinction. Only a thin band of latitude along the equator is climatically suitable. It is here that a shadowy services-for-hire operative Zora Bennett (ScarJo) is offered an obscene amount of money to bring the even shadowy-er pharmaceutical company exec Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend). Krebs is working for some unseen money-men looking for blood samples collected from the largest of the remaining dinosaur population to produce lucrative medical products. The team Krebs assembles includes research scientist Dr Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) and transport specialist Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali). Screenwriter David Koepp was one of Spielberg's original 1993 Jurassic writers and he goes back to the heart of what made that film so great. The greatest amongst those things I think is its character interplay. There's no need to force some unnecessary sexual tension between anybody and there's enough emotional rawness in each of the characters' backstories - and we're far enough from the 90s - that greed itself isn't enough of a character motivator. And so the Johansson and Bailey characters can discuss the ethics of what they're doing without the filmmakers forcing a reason for them to drop their shirts, or flirt, or kiss. For anyone who misses that in their family-audience dinosaur film, Game of Thrones star Ed Skrein is dressed in such skin tight Lycra, which I'm not sure most real-life game-hunting mercenaries would don, that his nipples deserve their own film credit. Writer Koepp has, in his CV, also written for the LEGO PlayStation game versions of the Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones films, and here he and director Gareth Edwards give us plenty of great fan service jokes, like the old "objects in the mirror may appear closer than they are", so that I very much look forward to the LEGO PlayStation game of this film. The performers are all good, and they're all given enough meat and motivation to be more fleshed-out than their future LEGO selves. Among the things to celebrate in director Edwards's approach is shying away from CGI to work with practical effects, puppetry and real location filming where possible, and so the film looks great and doesn't feel HDTV surreal. He took the Star Wars franchise back to its gritty fan-base-loyal origins when he directed Rogue One, opening up a new line of storytelling. I feel he's just done the same for this tired old beast of a money-making film machine. Jurassic World: Rebirth (M, 133 minutes) 3 stars Scarlett Johansson almost single-handedly carries this latest film in the 32-year-old dinosaur action film series. I mean, there are plenty of dinosaur critters, plenty of action, enough dubious characters getting their comeuppance, and some sensible restraint in the writing and the direction - and ScarJo had nothing to do with any of those things. But there's a world-weariness and vulnerability that Johansson brings to her mercenary leading an expedition to the last remaining havens of the world's dinosaur population. Writer David Koepp, director Gareth Edwards and the film's producers don't try and overburden the path her character is on. As aforementioned, it is 32 years since audiences were gobsmacked, just like Sam Neil and Laura Dern's characters were, by a pack of brontosaurus in Steven Spielberg's original Jurassic Park. In this fictional world, it has also been that amount of time, a timeline where dinosaurs escaped their enclosures and joined the world's ecosystems. The jaded New Yorkers of this film's opening scenes are fed up to the back teeth with the traffic jams and interruptions to their routines that a dying Brontosaurus is causing in the city. Our world is a colder place full of new diseases, and since the trilogy of Jurassic films that starred Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt, most of the escaped plague of dinos have been dying out, their second great extinction. Only a thin band of latitude along the equator is climatically suitable. It is here that a shadowy services-for-hire operative Zora Bennett (ScarJo) is offered an obscene amount of money to bring the even shadowy-er pharmaceutical company exec Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend). Krebs is working for some unseen money-men looking for blood samples collected from the largest of the remaining dinosaur population to produce lucrative medical products. The team Krebs assembles includes research scientist Dr Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) and transport specialist Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali). Screenwriter David Koepp was one of Spielberg's original 1993 Jurassic writers and he goes back to the heart of what made that film so great. The greatest amongst those things I think is its character interplay. There's no need to force some unnecessary sexual tension between anybody and there's enough emotional rawness in each of the characters' backstories - and we're far enough from the 90s - that greed itself isn't enough of a character motivator. And so the Johansson and Bailey characters can discuss the ethics of what they're doing without the filmmakers forcing a reason for them to drop their shirts, or flirt, or kiss. For anyone who misses that in their family-audience dinosaur film, Game of Thrones star Ed Skrein is dressed in such skin tight Lycra, which I'm not sure most real-life game-hunting mercenaries would don, that his nipples deserve their own film credit. Writer Koepp has, in his CV, also written for the LEGO PlayStation game versions of the Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones films, and here he and director Gareth Edwards give us plenty of great fan service jokes, like the old "objects in the mirror may appear closer than they are", so that I very much look forward to the LEGO PlayStation game of this film. The performers are all good, and they're all given enough meat and motivation to be more fleshed-out than their future LEGO selves. Among the things to celebrate in director Edwards's approach is shying away from CGI to work with practical effects, puppetry and real location filming where possible, and so the film looks great and doesn't feel HDTV surreal. He took the Star Wars franchise back to its gritty fan-base-loyal origins when he directed Rogue One, opening up a new line of storytelling. I feel he's just done the same for this tired old beast of a money-making film machine. Jurassic World: Rebirth (M, 133 minutes) 3 stars Scarlett Johansson almost single-handedly carries this latest film in the 32-year-old dinosaur action film series. I mean, there are plenty of dinosaur critters, plenty of action, enough dubious characters getting their comeuppance, and some sensible restraint in the writing and the direction - and ScarJo had nothing to do with any of those things. But there's a world-weariness and vulnerability that Johansson brings to her mercenary leading an expedition to the last remaining havens of the world's dinosaur population. Writer David Koepp, director Gareth Edwards and the film's producers don't try and overburden the path her character is on. As aforementioned, it is 32 years since audiences were gobsmacked, just like Sam Neil and Laura Dern's characters were, by a pack of brontosaurus in Steven Spielberg's original Jurassic Park. In this fictional world, it has also been that amount of time, a timeline where dinosaurs escaped their enclosures and joined the world's ecosystems. The jaded New Yorkers of this film's opening scenes are fed up to the back teeth with the traffic jams and interruptions to their routines that a dying Brontosaurus is causing in the city. Our world is a colder place full of new diseases, and since the trilogy of Jurassic films that starred Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt, most of the escaped plague of dinos have been dying out, their second great extinction. Only a thin band of latitude along the equator is climatically suitable. It is here that a shadowy services-for-hire operative Zora Bennett (ScarJo) is offered an obscene amount of money to bring the even shadowy-er pharmaceutical company exec Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend). Krebs is working for some unseen money-men looking for blood samples collected from the largest of the remaining dinosaur population to produce lucrative medical products. The team Krebs assembles includes research scientist Dr Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) and transport specialist Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali). Screenwriter David Koepp was one of Spielberg's original 1993 Jurassic writers and he goes back to the heart of what made that film so great. The greatest amongst those things I think is its character interplay. There's no need to force some unnecessary sexual tension between anybody and there's enough emotional rawness in each of the characters' backstories - and we're far enough from the 90s - that greed itself isn't enough of a character motivator. And so the Johansson and Bailey characters can discuss the ethics of what they're doing without the filmmakers forcing a reason for them to drop their shirts, or flirt, or kiss. For anyone who misses that in their family-audience dinosaur film, Game of Thrones star Ed Skrein is dressed in such skin tight Lycra, which I'm not sure most real-life game-hunting mercenaries would don, that his nipples deserve their own film credit. Writer Koepp has, in his CV, also written for the LEGO PlayStation game versions of the Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones films, and here he and director Gareth Edwards give us plenty of great fan service jokes, like the old "objects in the mirror may appear closer than they are", so that I very much look forward to the LEGO PlayStation game of this film. The performers are all good, and they're all given enough meat and motivation to be more fleshed-out than their future LEGO selves. Among the things to celebrate in director Edwards's approach is shying away from CGI to work with practical effects, puppetry and real location filming where possible, and so the film looks great and doesn't feel HDTV surreal. He took the Star Wars franchise back to its gritty fan-base-loyal origins when he directed Rogue One, opening up a new line of storytelling. I feel he's just done the same for this tired old beast of a money-making film machine.
Boston Globe
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
‘Jurassic World Rebirth' pits ScarJo against T-Rex in a frustrating franchise entry
Since then, we've been treated to 2018's 'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom' and 2022's ' Koepp has been quite busy as of late, doing double duty for Steven Soderbergh with last year's ghost story, ' Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The Quetzalcoatlus in 'Jurassic World Rebirth." Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment Advertisement It's been 32 years since dinosaurs have made their comeback, an opening screen reveals. But now they only exist somewhere at the Equator. People became bored once the creatures were commonplace, causing not only theme park bankruptcies but also the reemergence of dinosaur extinction. In an attempt to juice up interest, a group of scientists tried to reboot dinos by creating a slew of new species. This goes horribly awry, forcing a worldwide ban on visiting the island that currently holds these mutations. In the film's tense opening sequence, an errant Snickers wrapper causes an unlikable scientist working on this project to get devoured. Product placement just isn't what it used to be, though one could argue that this sequence was akin to the candy bar's 'you're not you when you're hungry' ads. Advertisement Scarlett Johansson as skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett. Jasin Boland/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment Enter another brand that begins with S, ScarJo. She plays Zora, a mercenary whose latest assignment is to go to the aforementioned off-limits island for a secret mission. A Big Pharma bro named Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend) is willing to pay big bucks for the job, so Zora enlists her most trusted colleague, Duncan Kincaid (Ali), to accompany her. Also on hand is nerdy paleontologist, Dr. Loomis, played by actor du jour, Jonathan Bailey (' Speaking of the Master of Suspense,' 'Jurassic World Rebirth' introduces a MacGuffin so preposterous that even Hitch would find it implausible—and he coined the phrase that describes the ultimately useless thing everyone in the plot is concerned with in a movie. This time it's a heart disease drug that can save millions of people's lives. Krebs wants to be the first to manufacture it, so his company can corner the market. Advertisement That idea doesn't sound far-fetched until you get to the part where the drug ingredients include DNA samples from live dinosaurs, one each from the classes of earth, sea, and air dwellers. The collection device is actually quite clever, and Edwards and Koepp craft more than one effective action sequence involving its use. From left, Xavier Dobbs (David Iacono), Reuben Delgado (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson), Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali) and Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) in 'Jurassic World Rebirth." Jasin Boland/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment Had 'Jurassic Park Rebirth' stayed solely with this team and their impossible mission, it might have worked as a summer action movie. But Koepp introduces a family of stranded boat passengers who are so one-dimensional and obnoxious that the film stops dead whenever they're onscreen. I'm willing to believe that ScarJo and company would risk their lives on the Equator, because they're greedy and it's their job. I do not, for one second, buy that Reuben (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) would drag his college-age and grammar school-age daughters (Luna Blaise and Audrina Miranda) across the Atlantic in a boat barely bigger than the Orca from 'Jaws.' Nor do I buy that Reuben would do so with his eldest daughter's companion (David Iacono) on board, as he's best described by a word that rhymes with 'buckfoi.' Kincaid saves these characters from their vessel after it's been decimated by an ocean-dwelling dinosaur, saddling us with them for the rest of the movie. Weren't they aware that the area they were sailing in was declared forbidden by every country in the world? Every character in this film is paper-thin, but Koepp gets more mileage from the camaraderie between Zora and Kincaid than Reuben and his kids. We get the obligatory scene where the two mercenaries catch up with one sentence descriptions of their prior individual traumas. Ali does a more convincing job as a hired gun than Johansson, but they're both upstaged by Bailey, who brings a refreshing take on the science geek. Advertisement Jonathan Bailey as paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis in 'Jurassic World Rebirth." Jasin Boland/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment Bailey's expressions of wonder as he discovers his newfound bravery on this mission are delightful. The film's best scene occurs when he touches a new dinosaur for the first time. Alexandre Desplat's impressive score, which incorporates John Williams's familiar motifs, swells underneath the moment. Believe it or not, Even more surprising, the plot ultimately boils down to a battle between capitalism and socialism. You'll never guess which side wins. The true stars of 'Jurassic World Rebirth,' the dinosaurs, are often left unidentified; we're not sure if they're real or some genetically engineered, made-up monstrosity. The film is so disinterested that it simply throws them onscreen with occasional bits of human beings stuck between their teeth. Rather than chew on disposable characters, those dinosaurs should have eaten their agents instead. ★★ JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH Directed by Gareth Edwards. Written by David Koepp. Starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, Audrina Miranda, David Iacono. At AMC Boston Common, Landmark Kendall Square, Alamo Drafthouse Seaport, AMC Causeway, suburbs. 134 min. PG-13 (dinosaurs are messy eaters) Odie Henderson is the Boston Globe's film critic.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Scarlett Johansson Is Nearly Unrecognizable on Set of New Film
Scarlett Johansson Is Nearly Unrecognizable on Set of New Film originally appeared on Parade. Scarlett Johansson, is that you? The Academy Award nominee, 40, was photographed looking nearly unrecognizable on the set of her upcoming film, Paper Tiger. In the photos captured on Monday, June 9, ScarJo is sporting a dramatically different look, with short, tightly curled blonde hair, understated makeup, and a casual, somewhat retro-inspired outfit that marks a noticeable departure from her usual red carpet style. Paper Tiger, directed by James Gray, is described as a crime drama thriller about two brothers pursuing the American dream who get entangled with the Russian mafia. Johansson will star alongside Miles Teller and her Marriage Story co-star Adam Driver. Originally, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong were set to star in Paper Tiger. However, according to reports, they exited the project due to prior commitments. 🎬SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox🎬 The release date for the highly anticipated film is still unknown, but thankfully, fans can catch ScarJo this July in Jurassic World Rebirth. Even with her countless praised roles and accolades, joining the Jurassic Park franchise has always been a dream for Johansson. 'I had a meeting with him and I don't actually know if he knew the depths of my Jurassic fandom, but I'm hoping that no one explained it to him too thoroughly because it maybe would've come off as being a little too much,' ScarJo explained in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter earlier this month, referring to Steve Spielberg. 'Although knowing Steven now, he was excited when I shared with how much it would mean to me to play any part in Jurassic,' she added. 'I could've played it cooler and maybe I wouldn't have gotten it.' Jurassic World Rebirth hits theaters on Wednesday, July 2. Scarlett Johansson Is Nearly Unrecognizable on Set of New Film first appeared on Parade on Jun 9, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 9, 2025, where it first appeared.
Yahoo
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Scarlett Johansson Coordinates Her Orange Smoky Eye to Her Strapless Gown
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Some people go through life never knowing what color they look their best in—but not Scarlett Johansson. The actor looked positively radiant in head-to-toe orange as she attended the New York City premiere of The Phoenician Scheme at Jazz at Lincoln Center last. Her ensemble consisted of an elegant, strapless gown in a blood-orange hue. The piece was ruched at the neckline and featured a draping details that wrapped around her waist and cascaded down one side. ScarJo styled the dress with black square-toe sandals, small gold hoop earrings, and a striking open-ended gold necklace with large teardrop diamonds at each end. For her glam, Johansson chose a summery orange smoky eye that perfectly coordinated with her citrus-tone dress. Her blonde hair was down in easy waves. In The Phoenician Scheme, 'wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists, and determined assassins,' per IMDb. Bill Murray, Tom Hanks, and Michael Cera are also in the Wes Anderson movie. The comedy-drama had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this month. Johansson attended the glamorous festival alongside husband (and Saturday Night Live cast member) Colin Jost. She also promoted another project while there: her film Eleanor The Great, which she directed. ScarJo walked the Cannes red carpet for her directorial debut in a cool Prada skirt suit. You Might Also Like 4 Investment-Worthy Skincare Finds From Sephora The 17 Best Retinol Creams Worth Adding to Your Skin Care Routine
