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Ben Affleck sympathises with Britney Spears over the way paparazzi targeted her amid difficult times in her personal life. During a recent episode of the This Past Weekend with Theo Von podcast, the Oscar winner recalled how he “really had a lot of empathy” for the popstar at the height of her fame in the […]
Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras Tour’ movie director is set to direct Warner Bros.‘ remake of ‘The Bodyguard’. Sam Wrench will helm a new version of the 1992 movie – which starred Whitney Houston as singer Rachel Marron and Kevin Costner as her bodyguard and love interest Frank Farmer. Jonathan Abrams, who wrote Clint Eastwood’s ‘Juror #2’ […]
Jenna Bush Hager has reflected on one of her most memorable childhood moments. On the latest episode of her show Today with Jenna & Friends, the host reminisced with guest and Saturday Night Live cast member Bowen Yang about the time she faked a kidnapping to get out of trouble. “In the first grade, I […]
Scarlett Johansson’s feature directorial debut Eleanor the Great will premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in May. Cannes bosses unveiled the official selection for the 2025 edition on Thursday, revealing that the Avengers actress will make her debut as a director during the prestigious French festival. Eleanor the Great stars June Squibb and tells […]
Michael Mann has “handed in the first draft” of the script for ‘Heat 2’. The 81-year-old director – who helmed the original 1995 crime drama – has been working on the sequel since its announcement in 2023, and Mann has now revealed he has completed the story and has submitted it to Warner Bros. In […]
Vin Diesel has been asked to direct a “precursor” to ‘Fast X: Part 2’. The 57-year-old actor – who has portrayed Dominic ‘Dom’ Toretto in the ‘Fast and Furious’ franchise since its debut in 2001 – previously helmed the short film ‘Los Bandoleros’ to fill in the gaps for his character between the events of […]
Salma Hayek has written her first feature film and she intends to direct it herself. The Frida star revealed in a profile interview with Marie Claire that she’s just finished writing her first feature, which she intends to direct and produce via her Ventanarosa production company. “It’s meaningful. It has a great rhythm. It’s full […]
Jenna Ortega is in talks to star in a remake of ‘Single White Female’. The 22-year-old actress – who is perhaps best known for playing the lead role in the hit Netflix show ‘Wednesday’ – and Taylor Russell are both being eyed to star in a remake of the 1992 erotic thriller film, according to […]
Mark Wahlberg apologised to his castmates after filming ‘Flight Risk’ because he’d been too consumed with his role to socialise. The 53-year-old actor stars in the movie as a hit man pretending to be a pilot while targeting US marshal Madelyn (Michelle Dockery) and fugitive Winston (Topher Grace), and he was so “locked in” to […]
Samuel L. Jackson pushed Leonardo DiCaprio to say the racial slurs in the Django Unchained script when he was reluctant to do so. In Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 revisionist Western, the Titanic star played Calvin J. Candie, a plantation owner who had many slaves, including Jackson’s character Stephen. The script called for Candie to use the […]
