47 h. ago Brad Pitt hints at F1 sequel with Tom Cruise after a Ford v Ferrari movie featuring both actors was axed

Actor says studio scrapped director Joseph Kosinkski’s plans after Cruise discovered he ‘would not be driving much’

Culture

4 d. ago Clint Eastwood compared quitting 'addictive' affairs to giving up smoking after years of serial cheating ... according to new memoir

The 95-year-old movie actor/director's extramarital trysts were reexamined in Clint: The Man and The Movies from author Shawn Levy, 63.

Society

4 d. ago Olivia Munn claims TV series director tried to ‘ruin’ her career

The actor says ‘The Newsroom’ director accused her of being habitually ‘late and combative’

Culture

5 d. ago Susan Sarandon ‘terrified but excited’ to make UK theatrical debut in September

The Oscar winner will appear alongside Oscar nominee Andrea Riseborough when they play the same character at different ages in Tracy Letts’ play Mary Page MarloweSusan Sarandon is to make her UK theatre debut alongside Andrea Riseborough, when the pair portray the same woman at different ages, in Tracy Letts’ drama Mary Page Marlowe.The play will be staged this autumn at the Old Vic in London by Matthew Warchus, in his final season as artistic director. Several actors portray the title character, which is described as a “time-jumping mosaic” spanning 70 years in the life of an accountant and mother of two in Ohio. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago The Devil Wears Prada 2: Kenneth Branagh joins cast as sequel begins filming

British actor-director joins Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci for a long-awaited follow-up to the comedy hitKenneth Branagh is joining the original cast of The Devil Wears Prada for the much-anticipated sequel which begins filming this week.The actor-writer-director will play the husband of Meryl Streep’s vicious fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly. Streep returns along with Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci. Continue reading...

Politics

8 d. ago Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet, French cinema power couple, call it quits

Oscar winner Marion Cotillard and actor-director Guillaume Canet have announced their separation after 18 years and two children together, breaking up a power relationship of French cinema

Politics

9 d. ago ‘Smooth with a sinister edge’: readers on who the next James Bond should be

After Dune director Denis Villeneuve was confirmed to be the next 007 director, we asked you which actor you think should join himBond should have an element of danger about him. So yes Tom Hardy immediately springs to mind. I also think Tom Hiddleston would be good at a more lighter touch Bond though, the Roger Moore to Hardy’s Connery. All the other candidates either sound way to young or in the case of Idris Elba, great actor though he is, a bit old for the role. machineheadWhilst Idris and Tom Hardy would undoubtedly have been excellent – Tom Hardy, in particular, has that undercurrent of menace that Connery always carried – as, I think, would Christian Bale, their time has passed. I did think Nicholas Hoult might be a reasonable pick, though possibly too “pretty”. But were I casting it, my money would go on Jack O’Connell: right age, English, dashing and could probably do rugged, thuggish violence if SAS Rogue Heroes is any guide. EvanByrne2 Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Bugonia: first trailer for new Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos collaboration

Actor and director who worked on Kinds of Kindness and Poor Things reunite for a dark comedy about a kidnappingThe first trailer for Bugonia has arrived, offering a first look at the latest collaboration between Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone.The acclaimed Greek film-maker and the American actor have previously worked on The Favourite, Poor Things and, most recently, Kinds of Kindness. The relationship has netted Stone an Oscar nomination and a win.Well, actually just this one is one of the few times that I read a script that I hadn’t generated or I hadn’t been developing for a long time, and I was immediately drawn to it. And then I did a little bit of work with the writer Will Tracy in order to make it a little bit more my own. It’s just one of these things that something clicks in the story, in the tone. Again, something you probably haven’t done before, working with the same actors, like working with Emma again and Jesse, it’s just exciting to get into it, do something differen...

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2 w. ago ‘What are you trying to incite?’ Billy Porter asks thorny questions with This Bitter Earth

The Cabaret and Pose star is making his UK directorial debut with Harrison David Rivers’ play about love and activism. We join rehearsals with Omari Douglas and Alexander LincolnWhen Billy Porter talks, people listen. They have no choice. The actor, fresh from a stint as Emcee in the London run of Cabaret, and about to reprise the role on Broadway, speaks in a poised, purposeful, regal fashion. Each word is selected with care and weighed in his hand as if it were an avocado in the fruit and veg aisle, the gaps between words so lengthy that it isn’t always clear when he has finished speaking. Seated around the table in the south London studio where Porter is overseeing rehearsals for This Bitter Earth, which marks his UK directorial debut, are the playwright Harrison David Rivers and the actors Omari Douglas (It’s a Sin) and Alexander Lincoln (Emmerdale). Everyone maintains an attentive silence while Porter is speaking, until there can be no doubt that he has completed his thought.“T...

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2 w. ago ‘We’re all connected – but it’s not the connection I imagined’: Hideo Kojima on Death Stranding 2

The legendary video game designer discusses directing actors in Mexico from Japan, how Mad Max inspired his career and the unique reason why he wants to go to spaceHideo Kojima – the acclaimed video game director who helmed the stealth-action Metal Gear series for decades before founding his own company to make Death Stranding, a supernatural post-apocalyptic delivery game this publication described as “2019’s most interesting blockbuster” – is still starstruck, or perhaps awestruck. “George [Miller] is my sensei, my God,” he proclaims gleefully.Kojima is visiting Australia for a sold-out chat with Miller, the creator of the Mad Max film franchise, at the Sydney film festival. The two struck up an unlikely but fierce friendship nearly a decade ago, and Kojima says that, as a teenager, the first two Mad Max films inspired him to become a movie director and thus, eventually, a video game maker. At the panel later, Miller is equally effusive, calling Kojima “almost my brother”; the Aus...

Events

2 w. ago Tyler Perry denies sexual assault allegations as he's sued for $260m in damages

US actor and director Tyler Perry has been accused of sexual assault by an actor who starred on his long-running TV show, The Oval, but Perry has denied the claims

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2 w. ago Tom Cruise and Dolly Parton among stars set to receive honorary Oscars

The Mission: Impossible actor and country singing multi-hyphenate will be honoured alongside actor Debbie Allen and production designer Wynn ThomasTom Cruise and Dolly Parton will be among this year’s recipients of honorary Oscars.The pair join choreographer, actor and director Debbie Allen and production designer Wynn Thomas, all scheduled to receive special Oscars at this year’s governors awards in November. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Justin Baldoni’s $400m defamation claim against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds dismissed

Judge finds Lively’s accusations of sexual harassment were legally protected and therefore immune from suitA judge on Monday dismissed Justin Baldoni’s $400m defamation claim against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, after finding that Lively’s accusations of sexual harassment against Baldoni were legally protected and therefore immune from suit.The entire lawsuit from Baldoni, the actor and director, which included claims of extortion, was dismissed by Lewis Liman, a US district judge of New York. But the ruling allows Baldoni to amend and refile some allegations regarding interference with contracts. Continue reading...

Economics

4 w. ago Ryan Coogler confirms Denzel Washington will star in Black Panther 3

Director hailed Washington as ‘the greatest living actor’

Politics

4 w. ago 15 terrible movies directed by great actors, from Jodie Foster’s The Beaver to Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ

Remember the time Chris Evans spent his Marvel hiatus directing a romantic comedy? Of course you don’t – because it was one in a long lineage of speedily forgotten flops directed by overly indulged movie stars, writes Tom Fordy

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last month ‘He threatened my career’: 22 actors who didn’t get along with their directors

Adam White lists just some of the times actors and directors couldn’t stand each other

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