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Kevin Bacon Returns to High School Where ‘Footloose’ Was Filmed After Student Campaign
Kevin Bacon returned to the high school where 1984’s Footloose was filmed, 40 years after the movie’s release. The actor gave a speech to the school’s student body in Payson, Utah, on Saturday, following a student-led social media campaign, hoping to get Bacon to attend the prom before the school was relocated. Local news outlet […]
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Zendaya on What Serena Williams Told Her After Watching ‘Challengers’ Performance
Zendaya is revealing what tennis superstar Serena Williams thought of her latest performance in Challengers. The actress, who plays tennis player-turned-coach Tashi Duncan in the Luca Guadagnino-directed movie, recently spoke to Entertainment Tonight about her conversation with the legendary athlete. “She was like, ‘I know there definitely weren’t real [tennis] balls,'” Zendaya recalled. “She knows. […]
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Original ‘Blair Witch’ Cast Asks Lionsgate for Retroactive Residuals and Consultation on Future Projects
The stars of The Blair Witch Project have come together with a public proposal to Lionsgate after the studio recently announced a partnership with Blumhouse for a reboot of the 1999 horror sensation. Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Michael Williams wrote in a statement on Saturday that they’re asking Lionsgate for retroactive and future residual […]
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Cillian Murphy, ‘Kin’ Season 2 Among Irish Film & Television Awards Winners
Cillian Murphy, Kin season two and Paul Mescal were among the winners of the Irish Film & Television Awards 2024, which were handed out during a ceremony in Dublin on Saturday. Lies We Tell, about an orphaned teenage heiress in 19th-century Ireland who is forced to embrace the dark legacy of her family, led the […]
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Debi Mazar Says She Regrets Turning Down ‘The Wedding Singer’ Role: “Made a Stupid Decision”
Debi Mazar is still mourning a role she passed on in the 1998 beloved rom-com The Wedding Singer. The actress revealed during a surprise virtual appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show Friday that she turned down the opportunity to play Holly Sullivan, cousin and friend to Julia Sullivan (Drew Barrymore), in the movie also starring Adam […]
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Pam Grier Says She Still Has Injuries From ‘Foxy Brown’ Because She “Didn’t Have a Stunt Double”
Pam Grier is opening up about how she still has injuries from her time on the set of Foxy Bown. The actress stopped by Live With Kelly and Mark on Friday to celebrate 50 years since the Jack Hill film was released. Foxy Brown follows a vigilante who takes a job as a high-class prostitute […]
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‘Space Mountain’ Movie Lands ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Showrunners (Exclusive)
Action scribes Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec are going to Disneyland. The prolific team behind Amazon’s high-profile spy series Citadel and showrunners on Netflix’s adaptation of Cowboy Bebop have been tapped to write Disney’s live-action adaptation of Space Mountain. Jonathan Eirich from Rideback, the banner that is behind Netflix’s hit live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender […]
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Elliot Page Developing Sci-Fi Novel ‘The Darkness Outside Us’ as Feature (Exclusive)
The Darkness Outside Us is looking to move from the page to the screen. Pageboy Productions, the shingle run by Oscar-nominated actor Elliot Page, Matt Jordan Smith and Tuck Dowrey, has optioned the rights to the 2021 YA sci-fi novel. Author Eliot Schrefer’s The Darkness Outside Us is a love story about two young men […]
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Drew Barrymore Says ‘Never Been Kissed’ Studio Pushed Back on Her Going “Too Far” With Character
Drew Barrymore is reflecting back on 20th Century Fox’s initial reaction to Never Been Kissed. The actress-producer and talk-show host was joined by Hey, Dude…The ’90s Called! hosts Christine Taylor and David Lascher on Friday’s Drew Barrymore Show, where she recalled how the rom-com marked a big milestone for the actress, as it was the […]
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Ke Huy Quan’s ‘With Love’ Movie Adds Marshawn Lynch, Mustafa Shakir, Cam Gigandet, André Eriksen, Lio Tipton
Marshawn Lynch, Mustafa Shakir, Cam Gigandet, André Eriksen and Lio Tipton will join Ke Huy Quan in With Love for Universal Pictures. Ariana DeBose and Daniel Wu also star in the action film from 87North, the stunt-centric banner behind Nobody, Violent Night and the upcoming feature The Fall Guy, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. Lynch most recently appeared in […]
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Cannes Film Festival 2024 Poster Unveiled
The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the official poster for its 77th edition. Cannes likes to evoke cinematic history in its official merch, and this year’s poster is no exception. It features a scene from Rhapsody in August, Japanese classic from the late Akira Kurosawa, which premiered out of competition in Cannes in 1991. In […]
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‘Pulp Fiction’ Cast Reunites and Reminisces on Film’s 30th Anniversary: “It Changed Cinema”
The TCM Classic Film Festival kicked off Thursday with a 30th anniversary screening of Pulp Fiction at the TCL Chinese Theatre. Original castmembers John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman and Harvey Keitel reunited to celebrate the film, along with support from Bruce Willis’ wife, Emma, and daughter Tallulah. After making waves this week with […]
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Sony Pictures Classics to Re-Release 4K Version of ‘Run Lola Run’ for 25th Anniversary
Lola better get some new sneakers. Sony Pictures Classics has announced it will re-release Tom Tykwer’s 1999 German action classic Run Lola Run, in a new 4K restored version, in U.S. cinemas this summer, timed to the 25th anniversary of the movie’s original domestic bow. Franka Potente stars as the titular athletic Lola in the […]
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BAFTA Confirms Date for 2025 Awards
BAFTA has confirmed the date for next year’s film awards ceremony, which will be held Sunday, February 16, 2025. The date means the BAFTAs will come exactly two weeks before the 2025 Oscars, set for March 2. Once again, the British awards will take place smack in the middle of the Berlin Film Festival, which […]
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Netflix Adds Cesc Gay-Directed Drama ’53 Domingos’ to Spanish Film Slate
Netflix will produce and release 53 Domingos, the new film from Spanish director Cesc Gay, an adaptation of his own award-winning theater play. The dramedy follows three brothers who meet up to discuss what to do with their octogenarian father who has started behaving oddly. As they debate whether to put him in a nursing […]
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Jenna Fischer Filmed ‘Mean Girls’ With a Broken Shoulder: “The Wildest Experience”
Jenna Fischer put her acting skills to the test on the set of 2024’s Mean Girls. The actress revealed this week she filmed the movie with a broken shoulder. “I shot for one day on Mean Girls, and then I didn’t have to shoot for a month,” Fischer told People. “And in that month I went […]
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