1 hour ago Scarlett Johansson reveals Colin Jost's mom was not thrilled with the unusual name they gave their son

Scarlett Johansson says her family didn't take well to the name she chose for her son. The 41-year-old actress welcomed son Cosmo, four, with husband Colin Jost, 43, in August 2021.

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7 h. ago Scarlett Johansson joining the Batverse is good news for the franchise – but who will she play?

The actor who marries box office ratings with Wes Anderson cool should revive the Batman series, but trying to guess who she might play is a thankless taskFor years the follow-up to Matt Reeves’ slick but glacially paced 2022 comic-book epic The Batman has existed in a dimly lit rumour void. We know it will eventually get here (supposedly in October 2027), but nobody knows quite what it will look like. Entire geological epochs may come and go before the film-maker finally decides which doyen of Batman’s infamous rogues’ gallery he wants to unleash next. The foundations of Gotham itself may shift before Reeves works out which brooding, rain-soaked grunge ditty will form the basis of the new soundtrack.And then – out of nowhere – comes this week’s news that Scarlett Johansson is in final talks to join the cast of the sequel. We have no idea who she’s likely to play but it matters not: this feels consequential, a bat-signal flickering to life over a city long abandoned. Johansson is mo...

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32 h. ago Scarlett Johansson 'in talks' for The Batman 2 and fans think they know who she's playing

Scarlett Johansson is reportedly in talks to join The Batman: Part II alongside Robert Pattinson, with fans convinced she could be playing a villainous role

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55 h. ago ‘It was legs out all the time!’ June Squibb on starring in Scarlett Johansson’s directing debut – and Broadway’s original Gypsy

She brought the house down as a stripper in Gypsy, going on to star in films with Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson. Now, at 96, she’s stealing the show in Eleanor the Great. What’s her secret? ‘Be a looker-ahead’It is surely a comfort to anyone still awaiting mega-success to know that June Squibb was in her mid-80s before she hit the big time. Her role as a foul-mouthed matriarch in the 2013 film Nebraska brought her an Oscar nomination, and she had her first leading role in last year’s action comedy, Thelma. Now she’s playing the lead again, in the new film Eleanor the Great and she’s currently in rehearsals for a show on Broadway. Is Squibb, who has just turned 96, sick of talking about her late-peaking success? “I think people are interested, so no, it’s not a bad thing,” she says. “But it is funny, because when I first came to New York – it was the 50s – I did The Boy Friend, a musical, and I was a big hit.” But it was theatre, she concedes. “The film thing is so different.”In Elean...

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4 d. ago Scarlett Johansson defends her support for Woody Allen: ‘It’s important to stand up for what you believe in’

Actor publicly defended Woody Allen in 2019 after his daughter accused him of sexually abusing her

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4 d. ago Scarlett Johansson says she was pressed to remove Holocaust narrative from directing debut

A backer of Eleanor the Great, about a woman who pretends to be a Holocaust survivor, dropped out after Johansson refused to make changesScarlett Johansson has said she was pressed to remove Holocaust references in her feature directing debut Eleanor the Great, which stars June Squibb as an elderly woman who pretends to be a Holocaust survivor.Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Johansson said that during the film’s pre-production phase, one of the film’s backers threatened to pull out unless the plot elements relating to the Holocaust were cut out. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Scarlett Johansson has signed up for reboot of The Exorcist after 'cursed' film was beset by mysterious deaths during filming and 'evil in every frame'

The terror of the 1973 chiller is set to be unleashed yet again with Scarlett Johansson signed up to star in a 'fresh, bold' update on the original, directed by horror maestro Mike Flanagan.

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5 d. ago BRIAN VINER: Will Scarlett Johansson be the next victim of The Exorcist curse?

Heads swivelled at last week's news that Scarlett Johansson is to appear in a 'radical' new version of The Exorcist. Mine did, anyway.

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7 d. ago NBC risks Olympic backlash as it reveals BRITISH pop star Dua Lipa as the face of Team USA

Having rolled out ads with Hollywood stars Scarlett Johansson and Glen Powell as well as rapper Snoop Dogg, it was Dua Lipa's turn to star in a short commercial for the network.

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1 week ago Scarlett Johansson to star in Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist reboot

Forthcoming film a ‘radical new take’ set in original Exorcist universe

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1 week ago The four trending hairstyles for the party season – and how to get them

From the return of the side part to Sixties updos

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2 w. ago Child killer Colin Pitchfork 'groomed then sexually assaulted young inmate in cell'

Parole Board documents reveal Colin Pitchfork - jailed for raping and strangling 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire - was sexually motivated when he assaulted a young inmate

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4 w. ago Return to Paradise to reveal real reason why Colin left UK in new series

Return to Paradise actor Lloyd Griffith has given some insight into the new series of the BBC show

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