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Yahoo
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2 Cast Adds The Crown Star & More
has added two new stars to the cast of the David Fincher movie. Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was released in United States theaters in July 2019 from Sony Pictures. It starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton, Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth, and Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate. Earlier this year, it was revealed that Fincher was working on a sequel to the movie, which is believed to be centered around Pitt's character, for Netflix. Production is expected to begin this July in California. Elizabeth Debicki and Scott Caan have both joined the cast of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Debicki is known for playing Diana, Princess of Wales, in Netflix's The Crown. She has starred in movies such as 2013's The Great Gatsby, 2015's Macbeth, 2015's The Man from U.N.C.L.E, 2017's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, 2017's Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, 2018's The Cloverfield Paradox, 2018's Widows, 2020's Tenet, 2024's MaXXXine, and more. Caan, meanwhile, is known for playing Danny 'Danno' Williams in CBS' Hawaii Five-0. He also played Turk Malloy in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's trilogy (which also starred Pitt), while his filmography further includes 1998's Enemy of the State, 1999's Varsity Blues, 2000's Gone in 60 Seconds, 2008's Meet Dave, 2015's Rock the Kasbah, 2023's One Day as a Lion, and more. Debicki and Caan's character details are being kept under wraps at this time. Not much is known about the plot of Fincher's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2 at this time, other than that it will star Pitt. 'The story's origins lie in a script that Tarantino wrote for himself to direct, but eventually put it aside,' The Hollywood Reporter's article reads. Pitt convinced the filmmaker to let Fincher take a stab at directing it, setting it up earlier this spring.' Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2 does not yet have a release date. The post Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2 Cast Adds The Crown Star & More appeared first on - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More.
New York Post
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
How ‘Karate Kid: Legends' turned Montreal into Manhattan
Two branches, one tree. Spoilers below for 'Karate Kid: Legends.' The newest 'Karate Kid' film follows kung fu prodigy Li Fong (Ben Wang) as he moves from Beijing to New York City with his mother, Dr. Fong (Ming-Na Wen). Advertisement But while 'Karate Kid: Legends' is mainly set in NYC, it was almost filmed one hundred percent in Quebec, Canada. 8 While 'Karate Kid: Legends' is mainly set in NYC, it was almost filmed 100% in Quebec, Canada. Sony Pictures In an exclusive interview with The Post, the movie's production designer, Maya Sigel, revealed how she and her crew recreated Manhattan on a soundstage in Montreal – and how they were able to make it as close as possible to the real thing. 'First, I always start with lots of research and reference photos, even when it's something I'm familiar with, like NYC,' she explained. 'I go through lots of old books, the internet, and, in this case, Google Street View.' Advertisement 'Then, along the way, different crew members will do additional research on certain elements and then bring them to me, and we'll add some of them to the mix,' Sigel continued. 'There were certain buildings that I specifically called out, and the set designers modified them for our space constraints.' 8 The Post spoke with the film's production designer, Maya Sigel, about how she and her team went about recreating Manhattan on a soundstage in Montreal. NurPhoto via Getty Images Even more impressive was the fact that Sigel used some of her own experiences living and working in NYC as personal references for the latest 'Karate Kid' film's production design. Advertisement 'I have lived in NYC and have made movies and TV shows there, so it's very much ingrained in my consciousness and design vocabulary,' she told The Post. 'When designing Li's Apartment set, for example, I'm thinking about apartments I've lived in or friends' places and location scouting that I've done in NYC in the past.' 'It also helped when I was looking for locations in Montreal with the location manager, knowing what looks right and where it might fit geographically in NYC,' Sigel continued. 'There are certain locations that I imagined designing and building from the first time I read the script because of either the page count there, the importance of the geography to the story, the fight sequences, or other practical constraints.' 8 'I wanted it to have this old-school New York feeling, a place that is both familiar and charming but also unique,' Sigel said. AP Plus, Sigel and the film's director, Jonathan Entwistle, talked about certain NYC locations 'right away' and ultimately settled on a few specific landmarks that one could easily believe were filmed there on location. Advertisement 'The alley was one of these sets, and it was inspired by Cortlandt Alley in NYC and modified for our story and needs, including the stunts,' she explained. 'Another was the rooftop set for the final Five Boroughs Tournament fight.' The Five Broughs Tournament serves as the climax of the film, when Wang's character must fight his rival, Connor Day (Aramis Knight), with the help of shifu Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) and sensei Daniel Larusso (Ralph Macchio). 8 Ben Wang's character Li Fong fighting on a rooftop designed to look like the NYC skyline is in the background. ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection 8 Another shot of Ben Wang's character with the NYC skyline in the background. ©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection 'It was written as the rooftop of a skyscraper in Manhattan, and we – the art department, director, cinematographer, production, VFX and stunts – all worked together for months figuring out what the best way to achieve this would be, and in the end we landed on the Volume,' Sigel said. 'We built the rooftop set on stage, had hundreds of extras, and the Volume work turned out looking good,' she added. Sigel later described the production design for 'Legends' as a 'love letter to New York' and the 'old-school kind of New York nostalgia.' 8 Jackie Chan, Ben Wang and Ralph Macchio in 'Karate Kid: Legends.' AP Advertisement One set that captures those ideas the best is Victory Pizza, the pizzeria owned by the family of Li Fong's love interest, Mia Lipani (Sadie Stanley). 'I wanted it to have this old-school New York feeling, a place that is both familiar and charming but also unique,' Sigel explained. 'The slice shop on your block that is cozy and family-owned, with the grit and sweat and history that comes along with that.' 'There are family photos on the wall along with NYC memorabilia, Mets gear, and Victor's old boxing photos and awards,' she continued. 'It's a cozy place that's welcoming and makes you feel grounded and at home.' 8 'The Karate Kid is, at its essence, a story of a kid being thrown into a new environment, struggling, and eventually building strong relationships, finding his center, and returning home to himself,' Sigel explained to The Post. Sony Pictures Advertisement By the end of the film, and with the help of Sigel and her crew's production design, the audience witnesses Li Fong's true journey from his old home in Beijing to his new one in NYC. 'The Karate Kid is, at its essence, a story of a kid being thrown into a new environment, struggling, and eventually building strong relationships, finding his center, and returning home to himself,' Sigel said. 'I wanted to show New York as it can be at its best,' she concluded, 'a beautiful mish-mash of people and cultures, a place of possibility and vibrance, and a wild and warm place to call home.' 8 Ben Wang's character on what was designed to look like the NYC subway in 'Karate Kid: Legends.' Sony Pictures Advertisement As for why the movie was filmed in Montreal despite being set predominantly in Manhattan, Sigel said that the decision was already made when she joined the project. Still, she advocates for a boost in tax incentives and credits to bring productions back to the US – especially as more studios are ditching NYC and Hollywood for other countries to save on production costs.
Forbes
12 hours ago
- Business
- Forbes
Box Office: ‘Karate Kid: Legends' Is No Match For ‘Lilo & Stitch'
Disney's Lilo & Stitch and Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning are easily holding back Karate Kid: Legends at the weekend box office. Lilo & Stitch, the live-action remake of the 2002 animated classic of the same name, defied industry projections over the four-day Memorial Day weekend holiday to earn $182.6 million from 4,410 North American theaters, while Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning made $77 million domestically from 3,857 venues. Karate Kid: Legends, which is the sixth film in the action franchise and the first Karate Kid movie since 2010, is the only film opening wide this weekend domestically. The film finds original Karate Kid franchise star Ralph Macchio and 2010 reboot lead Jackie Chan teaming up to help a new 'Karate Kid,' played by Ben Wang, in a karate match against a bullying opponent. Karate Kid: Legends is projected to make $20 million in its opening Friday to Sunday frame from 3,809 theaters for a No. 3 debut, according to Deadline. The industry publication earlier this week projected a much healthier $25 million to $30 million opening for the Sony Pictures Entertainment release. Variety also projected a $25 million opening for Karate Kid: Legends, noting that the film had a $45 million production budget before prints and advertising costs. Sony Pictures Entertainment early Friday reported that Karate Kid: Legends made $2.3 million in Thursday preview screenings at 3,050 locations. Lilo & Stitch, meanwhile, is projected by Deadline to keep its domestic box office crown with $60 million in ticket sales from 4,410 in its second-weekend frame, which will up the film's domestic take to $277 million through Sunday if the estimate holds. Deadline also is projecting a $27.3 million from 3,861 North American ticket sales for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning through Sunday. Should that forecast hold, it will boost the Paramount Pictures release's running domestic tally to $122.6 million. Brec Bassinger in "Final Destination Bloodlines." Warner Bros. Pictures Directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein's Final Destination Bloodlines, which opened at No. 1 two weekends ago, is projected by Deadline to make $10 million from 3,134 theaters domestically in its third-weekend frame. Should the estimate hold, it will up the film's running tally to $110.9 million. The Warner Bros. horror thriller is holding off another horror thriller — A24's Bring Her Back — to secure the No. 4 spot on the domestic chart. Deadline projects Bring Her Back will round out the top 5 with a projected $6 million to $7 million in ticket sales from 2,409 North American venues. Note: This box office report will be updated throughout the weekend with the most current numbers as they become available. The final numbers for this weekend's box office will be released on Monday.
BBC News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Karate Kid Legends: Jackie Chan and Ben Wang answer YOUR questions
Famous movie star and martial arts legend Jackie Chan stars in the new film Karate Kid Legends out in cinemas actor is known for his incredible stunts and acrobatics, and in the new film he has to train Disney actor Ben Wang to be the next Karate Kid. We got the chance to put YOUR questions to Jackie and Ben - they tell us how they got into acting, give some top tips for starting karate and answer just why is Jackie Chan so cool!Footage from Sony Pictures.
Gizmodo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
Karate Kids, Ranked
'The Karate Kid' movies, of course. Not actual kids. We'll save that for another time. 'Karate Kid: Legends' is now in theaters. No one could have guessed that when a scrawny kid from New Jersey moved to California with his mom, we'd still be talking about it four decades later. But that's exactly what happened with The Karate Kid, the hit 1984 movie starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita. The inspirational sports tale spawned two sequels over the next five years and a third one five years after that. Things then went cold at the dojo for almost 15 years until Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith revived the franchise for their son Jaden with Jackie Chan in the mentor role. That 2010 remake was the biggest hit of the bunch, by a significant amount, but nothing immediately came of it. Instead, fans had to wait almost another decade for the show Cobra Kai, which continued the story from the original films in a whole new format. That show became a mega hit on Netflix, and finally, in 2022, Sony Pictures announced it was bringing The Karate Kid back to the big screen, not just with Jackie Chan, but Ralph Macchio too. Karate Kid: Legends is in theaters this weekend, and it's a film that promises to bring together everything fans love about all iterations of The Karate Kid, all in one package. But does it? And how does it compare to the other films in the franchise? Here's our ranking so you can find out which one is the best around. 6. The Next Karate Kid (1994) No matter how bad you think or remember The Next Karate Kid to be, trust us. It's worse. Eventual Oscar winner Hilary Swank stars as an awkward high school student who Mr. Miyagi attempts to teach karate to. Only, the dynamic of older man and younger woman is constantly awkward, the villains are evil without any discernible reason, and you never buy into any of it. It's a pox on The Karate Kid franchise as a whole and should be erased from the Earth. 5. Karate Kid: Legends (2025) What a letdown. There are many, many things wrong with Karate Kid: Legends and you can read about them all in my review here. But for the purposes of this article, the biggest thing is that it doesn't understand what makes The Karate Kid great. It's a franchise about underdogs. About friendship. About hard work and mentorship. Legends thinks it's a franchise about cool fights with all the other stuff taking a back seat. There are good moments and good intentions throughout, but mostly it's a swing and a miss. 4. The Karate Kid Part III (1989) Part III is a movie only for the true Karate Kid fans. Which is to say, as a general movie, it's not very good. But if you love the characters and the franchise, it's super fun. It's set only one year after the events of the first film, but five in real time which makes things a little wonky. Disgraced sensei John Kreese (Martin Kove) gets his super rich best friend Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith) to get revenge on Mr. Miyagi and Daniel for humiliating him and Cobra Kai at the previous tournament. Only, it's clear they deserved it since no one else returns in a meaningful way and they have to hire 'Karate's bad boy,' Mike Barnes (Sean Kanan), to fight for them. It's silly, it doesn't make much sense, but it's unabashedly The Karate Kid, so we love it. 3. The Karate Kid (2010) When I first saw the 2010 remake of The Karate Kid, I didn't much care for it. I remember that because I hadn't revisited it again until this week. But, once I did, I changed my tune slightly. It's a very, very faithful remake of the original film, down to almost every single story beat. Things happen a little differently only because the son and mother here (Jaden Smith and Taraji P. Henson) move to Japan, not California, and Jaden's character Tre is several years younger than Daniel was in the first movie. But, beyond that, it's a film that flies by because it's based on something that at its core, works incredibly well. 2. The Karate Kid Part II (1986) The main fault of The Karate Kid Part II is that it's not the first one. That's pretty much it. Beyond that, it does everything you could want from a sequel. In the film, Mr. Miyagi and Daniel go to Miyagi's home in Okinawa, Japan, and are sucked into a long-standing local grudge. So, it changes the setting in a logical but interesting way. Introduces bigger stakes for the characters. Loosely borrows the structure of the original film but evolves it ever so slightly. It is filled with excellent new characters, both good and bad. It even has a banger of a theme song in 'The Glory of Love' by Peter Cetera. 1. The Karate Kid (1984) Was there any doubt I was going to put the original in the top spot here? Of course not. The original Karate Kid is not only funny, emotional, and exciting, it's way more epic than you probably remember. Daniel LaRusso truly goes on a big, formative journey throughout the movie, helped not just by the Oscar-nominated performance of Morita as Miyagi, but a stellar cast of supporting characters played by the likes of William Zabka as the villainous Johnny, Martin Kove as his evil sensai Kreese, and Elisabeth Shue as the love interest, Ali. It's simply one of the most enjoyable (not to mention quotable) films of the entire decade. But also … Cobra Kai I can't do a Karate Kid ranking without at least giving some props to Cobra Kai. Of course, a six-season TV show is going to have an edge over any two-hour movie, so putting them against each other isn't fair. I've also written at length about the wonder that is Cobra Kai, a 65-episode sequel to a beloved, nostalgic franchise. So yes, it's better than all of these movies combined, because it should be. It has more time. It understands The Karate Kid in ways that even some of the other movies don't. It makes every single one of those movies, even the new one, better. But it's not a movie, so it doesn't count here.
