9 h. ago Twins! Rivals! Clones! Hollywood is doubling down on dual roles

Robert Pattinson, Robert De Niro and Michael B Jordan are all pulling double duty in their new films and that’s just the startFor years, dual roles have been played largely for laughs. Think of Adam Sandler’s Razzie-sweeping twin turn in Jack and Jill, or Lisa Kudrow as both Phoebe and Ursula Buffay on Friends. Eddie Murphy was always particularly prolific, his most multiplicitous performance as a clutch of Klumps for Nutty Professor II.There are exceptions, of course. But for every Legend or The Prestige there are ten Austin Powers, Bowfingers and – shudder – Norbits. This year, however, is giving us a more dramatic breed of duplicate. Robert De Niro will pull double Don duty in The Alto Knights, Michael B Jordan will play twin leads in the supernatural Sinners and a pair of Robert Pattinson clones is currently headlining Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Robert Pattinson fights his way to the top of the box office in Mickey 17 while Anora enjoys a post

Mickey 17 reported for duty at the box office and walked away with the crown over the weekend.

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33 h. ago Mickey 17 review – two Robert Pattinsons for the price of one in Bong Joon

Pattinson plays a hapless space explorer replicated for further hazardous duties every time he dies in the South Korean director’s timely follow-up to ParasiteWe can only speculate about the reasons behind Warner Bros’ decision to delay the release of Mickey 17 for a full year (it was originally scheduled to hit cinemas in March 2024). A science-fiction satire with the tantalising prospect of Robert Pattinson in a dual role, South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to his 2020 best picture Oscar winner, Parasite, has been at the top of most film fans’ need-to-see list since it was announced. The date shift sparked alarm and speculation that the director’s consistently high standards might have slipped. In fact, while Mickey 17 isn’t in the same elevated league as Parasite, it’s a lot of fun. What’s more, the delay has made the picture, with its themes of genetic “purity” and an on-the-nose Donald Trump parody courtesy of Mark Ruffalo’s performance as politician turned space co...

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3 d. ago Mickey 17 review: Robert Pattinson is a blast in Bong’s bonkers space caper

Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo and Naomi Ackie wrestle with multiple Pattinsons in the Parasite director’s wild intergalactic ride

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3 d. ago Inside Mickey 17 star Steven Yeun’s life including reason he was ‘ready’ for The Walking Dead exit

Steven Yeun brushes shoulders with Robert Pattinson in Mickey 17

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3 d. ago Inside Mickey 17 star Naomi Ackie’s life from tragic loss to cancer to 'mental' new film

Naomi Ackie plays Robert Pattinson's love interest in Mickey 17

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4 d. ago What is Mickey 17 about? Everything you need to know about Robert Pattinson's new movie

Mickey 17 sees Robert Pattinson as a man who is sent on deadly missions on a foreign planet

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4 d. ago Mickey 17 release date, cast and plot as Robert Pattinson returns in most challenging role yet

Mickey 17 sees a downtrodden man escape Earth and join a deadly mission in Outer space

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4 d. ago 'Violent' thriller that inspired Robert Pattinson's accent in Mickey 17 is streaming now

Robert Pattinson returns to the silver screen this Friday in Mickey 17

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5 d. ago Robert Pattinson reveals fears he will be 'too old' when the new Batman movie comes out after filming the first one in his early thirties

The 38-year-old actor starred as the Caped Crusader in the 2022 DC superhero movie and is due to begin production for the sequel. Despite his advancing years, he insisted he was 'healthier'.

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1 week ago Robert Pattinson reminds audiences that accents are a signature of his performances in 'Mickey 17'

Often when Robert Pattinson gets a script, one of the first things he does is try on different accents to bring his character to life

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2 w. ago Bong Joon Ho: ‘I wish I had Ken Loach’s energy, but I’m just thinking about nap time’

How do you follow up an Oscar winner like Parasite? If you’re the South Korean auteur, you make a sci-fi satire where Robert Pattinson dies over and over again. The director discusses the inspirational Loach and Mike Leigh and why it’s hard being a ‘middle-aged film-maker’We are in the run-up to the release of Bong Joon Ho’s latest, Mickey 17, and Warner Bros has got the Oscar-winning Korean director stashed away in what appears to be some kind of basement storage room, with grey-painted brickwork and exposed wiring. In fact, this room could pass for one of the “gritty and kind of nasty” cargo-container-packed cabins of his film’s spaceship setting.Not that anyone is complaining. Bong, who speaks good English but prefers to conduct interviews via his longtime interpreter Sharon Choi, appears cheerful throughout our conversation, taking occasional sips from a takeaway coffee cup, while dressed in his usual arthouse auteur uniform of a slate-grey blazer over a black T-shirt. He i...

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