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22-05-2025
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Joey King in Talks to Star in "Practical Magic 2"
Yara Sameh Joey King is in negotiations to star in 'Practical Magic 2' alongside Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. If the deal closes, King will play the daughter of Bullock's character. Bullock and Kidman are reprising their roles as Sally and Gillian Owens, two sisters who descend from a long line of witches. In the original 1998 movie, the duo finds themselves fighting off a curse that kills the men they fall in love with. While plot details for the second film haven't been revealed, sources say the story is based on a later installment in Alice Hoffman's 'Practical Magic' book series. Susanne Bier is directing 'Practical Magic 2' from a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, who co-wrote the first film. It's aiming to start production in London later this summer. Warner Bros. will release the witchy sequel in theaters on September 18, 2026. In a recent conversation with Variety , Kidman said that she's seen the script but doesn't expect to begin filming 'for a while.' But what's a few more weeks or months, at this point? The Oscar-winning actress revealed she's been waiting nearly 30 years for the follow-up to 'Practical Magic.' 'When we were making it, we definitely [thought about a sequel],' she said. 'We're so excited. We put out our spell already.' Kidman's referring to the teaser that Warner Bros. released earlier in May. The clip featured a voiceover from Bullock and Kidman, who chant the following incantation: 'Tooth of wolf and morning dew. Something old and something new. Let the spell begin to mix. Sept. 18, 2026.' King is best known for Netflix's 'The Kissing Booth' franchise, as well as Hulu's true-crime series 'The Act,' which earned her an Emmy nomination. The 25-year-old actress' other major credits include 'Despicable Me 4,' David Leitch's action-comedy 'Bullet Train,' Christopher Nolan's 'The Dark Knight Rises,' and 'Crazy Stupid Love.' read more New Tourism Route To Launch in Old Cairo Ahmed El Sakka-Led Play 'Sayidati Al Jamila' to Be Staged in KSA on Dec. 6 Mandy Moore Joins Season 2 of "Dr. Death" Anthology Series Don't Miss These Movies at 44th Cairo Int'l Film Festival Today Amr Diab to Headline KSA's MDLBEAST Soundstorm 2022 Festival Arts & Culture Mai Omar Stuns in Latest Instagram Photos Arts & Culture "The Flash" to End with Season 9 Arts & Culture Ministry of Culture Organizes four day Children's Film Festival Arts & Culture Canadian PM wishes Muslims Eid-al-Adha News Egypt confirms denial of airspace access to US B-52 bombers News Ayat Khaddoura's Final Video Captures Bombardment of Beit Lahia News Australia Fines Telegram $600,000 Over Terrorism, Child Abuse Content Arts & Culture Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's $4.7M LA Home Burglarized Sports Former Al Zamalek Player Ibrahim Shika Passes away after Long Battle with Cancer Sports Neymar Announced for Brazil's Preliminary List for 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers News Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly Inaugurates Two Indian Companies Arts & Culture New Archaeological Discovery from 26th Dynasty Uncovered in Karnak Temple Business Fear & Greed Index Plummets to Lowest Level Ever Recorded amid Global Trade War Arts & Culture Zahi Hawass: Claims of Columns Beneath the Pyramid of Khafre Are Lies
UPI
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
Joey King joins cast of 'Practical Magic 2'
1 of 5 | Joey King arrives on the red carpet at the Met Gala celebrating the opening of "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5. She is reportedly joining the cast of the upcoming "Practical Magic" sequel. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo May 21 (UPI) -- Joey King is reportedly joining Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman for the Practical Magic sequel due in theaters Sept. 18 2026. King is in talks to portray Bullock's daughter whose magical abilities cause problems for the family, per The Hollywood Reporter. Bullock and Kidman portrayed the Owens sisters in the 1998 film, which followed them as they tried to figure out how to stop a curse that caused the men they loved to die. The initial film took its inspiration from Alice Hoffman's book. "When we were making it, we definitely (thought about a sequel). We're so excited. We put our spell already," Kidman said, per Variety. King rose to fame for her role in The Kissing Booth. She also recently starred in and executive produced The Uglies. Practical Magic 2 could begin filming in London later this summer.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
A New Cast Joins Nicole Kidman in 'Nine Perfect Strangers' Season 2
Four years after the first season of Nine Perfect Strangers aired on Hulu — based on the 2018 novel by Liane Moriarty — the drama series is back and will debut its second season on Wednesday, May Kidman returns as Masha Dmitrichenko — the Russian founder of a wellness resort — who invites nine new strangers on a wellness retreat in the Austrian Alps, where she uses psychedelic therapy to "heal" them."I love playing this character because she's so powerful," said Nicole Kidman at the premiere party held at the Beverly Estate on May 15. "A lot of the characters that I play are in precarious emotional places, and Masha is power. That's what's so appealing. And also getting to be the puppeteer of this whole group." Among the group, Murray Bartlett of The White Lotus fame plays one of Masha's new clients. "This is an extraordinary group of people ... and they're amazing characters," Bartlett said. "The character that I get to play is just so rich — I got to be a puppeteer for the first time in my life, with voices. Just the character description alone: a kid's TV show host who's been canceled, who has deep-rooted anger issues and has a puppet. And then he takes psychedelics — so you can imagine what ensues. So it was an actor's dream, really." Maisie Richardson-Sellers (Netflix's The Kissing Booth) plays someone who tricks her girlfriend into going on a wellness retreat. "But I actually did a little bit of puppeteering as well," she said. "There was one scene when I fully donned the green suit and committed, and I was Murray's scene partner as the puppeteer in the final moment.""Maisie was extraordinary, because I have some quite emotional scenes with the puppet," said Bartlett. "And I didn't want to do it with an inanimate object. So Maisie very generously agreed to step in — was an amazing puppeteer, put me to shame. And we did these scenes together and it was a beautiful experience." "I was crying inside the green suit!" Richardson-Sellers added. "Like, it was really emotional! It was beautiful."Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians) and Mark Strong (Kingsman) have a great chemistry as a father and son. "I would love to be able to say that we locked ourselves in a room and did mushrooms and got into our underwear and then sang and sort of roosted to the moon—""We did do that," Strong interjected. "I gave it away! But when you're in a group like this and filming on a location, it's kind of like a big summer camp. So when Mark joined us, we'd been filming two or three weeks. And we all had dinner together, and everybody just hit it off — immediately from the start. And I think that's a testament to the people that were chosen to play these parts, and led by Nicole of course. So we got along. We didn't really need any bonding, did we?""No, it was easy. We get on," Strong said. "And I'm obviously way too young to play his father! It was a massive mistake in the casting. But we all get on."Annie Murphy (Schitt's Creek) and Christine Baranski (The Good Wife) play a mother-daughter duo. "It was fucking terrible!" Murphy said. "We haven't spoken since!" "We still haven't resolved it," Baranski said. "We got to be real assholes to each other, which was wonderful, and then go have a glass of wine at the end of the day, which was also wonderful," Murphy added. "I loved every minute.""It was a dream," Baranski followed. "This is as good a group of actors as I've ever worked with — and in those gorgeous locations, and with Nicole in the lead. It was a life experience, and we were in Europe together, and I just thought that was an extraordinary thing to spend six months in Germany and the Austrian Alps, and we're learning so much culturally. So, I came away feeling like it was a paid vacation."Singer-songwriter King Princess makes her acting debut. "I feel like I got a crash-course in acting from this wonderful cast," she said. "There were moments when I looked directly into the camera and everyone was like, 'Stop doing that! It's not a music video!' she joked. Lena Olin and Lucas Englander played an important role in the operation of Zauberwald, the new wellness facility. Did they have personal experience with unconventional wellness?"I think I'm pretty good at staying well myself, but I'm trying every day to be close to my soul and my spirit and who I am, and I think that's a very important step toward wellness," Olin said. "But this center that my character has created — and it was so fun to be in my character's castle. So I felt like, 'welcome everyone.' So it was really helpful to be in this gorgeous, incredible castle and to have these people come and stay with us.""Has anybody ever done ecstatic dance?" Englander asked the crowd. "I'm thinking maybe we can do some ecstatic dance later — that's the highest unconventional [thing I've done]. What about you Nicole, do you want to lead?" he asked."No!" Kidman said. "I'll never forget our ecstatic dancing on set," said Filipina actress Dolly de Leon. "It's a core memory for me, this series. It's my first-ever series out of my country, so it's really special.""I have the same feelings," said Turkish actor Aras Aydın, who assumes his first role in an American series. "I was so nervous and so excited. And I still feel like [my character] Matteo — not out of character. I'm still broken! I learned a lot from these beautiful women and men."After the presentation, guests at the historic estate mingled over passed bites, drinks and a table filled with a trippy display of mushroom dishes. Then, a speakeasy-slash-nightclub opened up downstairs, where the party continued on in a room filled with marionettes (even live ones).
The National
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The National
Jacob Elordi: 'Fame makes you feel like an impostor'
Fame can eat you alive if you let it. That is one of the lessons of the acclaimed new series Narrow Road to the Deep North. It's a lesson its star, Jacob Elordi, has had to learn the hard way. 'You feel like an impostor,' Elordi tells The National. 'You're met with this public idea of who you are, and it's never going to reflect who you actually are. 'Playing this role taught me that it's better to talk about it than bury it down for the entirety of your life.' The Australian actor, 27, has grappled with a lot in his rise to superstardom. He rocketed to fame in 2018 Netflix hit The Kissing Booth, following that up a year later with the phenomenal HBO series Euphoria. By the time Saltburn hit Amazon Prime Video in 2023, he was seemingly all anyone could talk about. The world saw his talent, to be sure, but things also got weird. He wasn't being treated as a great actor – only as a heart-throb. Increasingly, it seemed that fans and journalists alike couldn't separate him from the image built by his films and series. Perhaps that's why he saw so much of himself in Dorrigo Evans, the lead character of Narrow Road to the Deep North, now streaming on Tod in the Middle East. Dorrigo, just as he was in the Booker Prize-winning Richard Flanagan novel on which the series is based, is stoic – tormented by the divide between his public perception as a war hero and his true self that he keeps hidden inside. 'I felt it in my bones when I first read the book. He felt like a culmination of myself,' says Elordi. But unlike Dorrigo, Elordi isn't going to let the world tell him who he is. He's an actor – and a serious one at that. And while films such as Priscilla gave a hint at what's to come, Narrow Road is the start of his intentional ascent to being one of the best actors of his generation. 'I've grown up as a man of movies, and I really wouldn't have it any other way. I love movies so much,' says Elordi. Narrow Road also a homecoming. It's his first Australian lead role since moving to Los Angeles in 2017 to pursue his acting career. That's part of why he takes the role so personally. It's not just himself he sees in the character – it's the world he left behind. 'There's this unspoken Australian thing I recognised here. There's so much of my dad in Dorrigo – this stoic Australian man – and all the men I grew up with. It's hard to put it into words – it's just something that's in our bones when you're born here,' Elordi says. When series director and co-creator Justin Kurtzel (Snowtown, The Order) approached Elordi for the role, he wasn't exactly sure what Elordi was about. He knew he was talented, but he had no idea how much Elordi cared about his craft – and cared about his homeland. Kurtzel says: 'In our first conversation, we talked a lot about Australia and being back here, and our love of Australian film. 'I was really impressed with his curiosity. He just felt like a serious actor who was deeply interested in the craft. He came at everything from that perspective rather than another one,' Kurtzel continues. The more you get to know Elordi the more you find he is truly a student of the game. He's an avid subscriber to the Criterion Channel – a streaming service dedicated to classic and contemporary art house cinema – and calls the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman 'the greatest actor of all time'. In addition to reading the novel over and over, Elordi did a lot of digging into the history of film to prep for Narrow Road. In the series, his character is captured by the Japanese and forced to work on the Burma railway – leading him to revisit classics that tread similar terrain. 'There's so much cinema. There's Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence and Bridge Over the River Kwai. There's a lot of great collections on Criterion, too – particularly pre and post-World War II Japanese cinema. There's a ton of poetry and a great book called Behind Bamboo too – it may not be popular media but this was all really, really helpful to me,' says Elordi. For Kurtzel, much of filming Narrow Road was about getting out of the way and letting the performances of Elordi and his co-stars dominate. 'We wanted it to feel alive,' says Kurtzel. 'We shot hand-held for very, very long takes, and it was to try to make the actors feel as though they were kings on set, and we were just there to follow them. A lot of the energy of the show came from what they were giving us.' And when Elordi returned to Hollywood afterwards, he did so as a changed man. He deactivated his Instagram in November 2024 with more than 13 million followers – seemingly unthinkable in an era in which social media fame dictates someone's perceived value to film executives – and he's chugging headfirst into the next era of his career. Without the distractions that come with managing his public persona, Elordi is thriving. He'll star as Frankenstein's Monster in Oscar winner Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein, Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell's new adaptation of Wuthering Heights, and Hig in Ridley Scott's upcoming The Dog Stars, based on the bestselling novel. 'Now I have the freedom to make them on a regular basis and hopefully make good ones,' says Elordi. 'It's a dream come true.' Narrow Road to the Deep North is streaming on Tod in the Middle East
Yahoo
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jacob Elordi on attending 'grueling' boot camp, filming 'primal' love scenes for his new series: 'I become obsessed'
Jacob Elordi is known for a lot of roles. He broke out as the heartthrob in one of Netflix's most popular movies of all time, The Kissing Booth, and earned acclaim for portraying the charming but sinister male lead on the HBO series Euphoria. He has even played Elvis. Soon we'll know him as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights and the monster in Frankenstein. He has dabbled in plenty of genres, but none of his past work compares with his role in the grim Prime Video miniseries The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He plays an Australian soldier named Dorrigo Evans who's captured during World War II and forced to work on the Burma Death Railway, suffering immeasurably as his memory constantly flashes back to a past love affair. Elordi told Yahoo Entertainment that he wasn't concerned about the violence or the emotional turmoil he'd have to endure for the character. It was compelling to him. 'As an actor, I think everyone that performs is drawn to something that is so far from your own experience. This kind of gives you all of that,' he told Yahoo Entertainment. 'They're the sort of thing you want to sink your teeth into. You never want to feel like you're just phoning it in or going through the motions. That'll be the day, creatively, that I feel like I've died.' Elordi had wanted to work with director Justin Kurzel since he was '14 or 15 … before I even knew you could be an actor.' He was moved by the 'well-rounded character' that author Richard Flanagan crafted in the book that the series was adapted from, based on Flanagan's own loved ones who endured this 'horrific time in Australian history.' Elordi transformed himself for the role, attending a six-week boot camp in the rainforest of Sydney with the other actors from the show. 'Justin had said to us early on, 'You'll not have another experience like this in your life, so I need you to go all the way, and I promise you you'll remember it forever,'' he said. 'We all took that to heart pretty early on, so we were bonded in a mateship from the moment we met each other. Going into the camps, we were never alone. We had all of our boys.' They looked after each other, though it was 'grueling' and they were 'quite hungry a lot of the time.' 'There was this strength that got generated between all of us that I've not felt before,' Elordi said. 'I feel really grateful to have had that experience and shared it with these boys who were initially complete strangers.' Though he previously made headlines for speaking so casually about getting into character as Elvis for 2023's Priscilla — eating a pound of bacon every day and only briefly studying his accent — he said he 'relished the opportunity' to immerse himself in his character in The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He goes to an 'unconscious kind of place' when filming. 'You only have a short time to … be this other person,' Elordi said. 'When I play something, and in the best way possible, it kind of does consume my entire life. I become obsessed by the whole thing, and I live every waking hour in that sort of space.' 'When I make something, I have these blanks in my memory of the time period when I was shooting from the start to the end, which is sometimes why press is so hard — I'm trying to remember what happened!' he added. Though the brutality of The Narrow Road to the Deep North stands out in Elordi's filmography, romance is still an essential component, as acts of violence are interspersed with memories of his character's love affair with his uncle's wife, Amy (Odessa Young). In one particularly memorable love scene, Amy cuts her leg in a field and starts bleeding. Dorrigo kisses her leg, tasting the blood. Elordi said it reveals an 'interesting' layer to their relationship that is 'really quite powerful.' 'It's this incredibly primal act … the act of devouring someone wholly,' Elordi said. 'There's something taboo about it, but that's what makes it real, I suppose … the carnality of it, but also the gentleness of it — the contrast of the two in the moment … you're not shocked when you see it, it kind of makes sense.' Elordi said they filmed the 'summer of love' scenes first, then the war. 'When I stepped into the camps, I had the very real memories of the summer of love,' he said. 'On another set, you might start with a death camp, then go to Sydney and shoot a love scene. Justin really made a point of carving out the space and time so we could experience the show as fully realized as possible.' All five episodes of are now streaming on Prime Video.
