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Jake Gyllenhaal gave the surprise of a lifetime to a cosplayer shooting some pictures of himself dressed as Jake’s Spider-Man: Far from Home villain Mysterio — and the fan didn’t even notice it.

The cosplayer was in Venice, where much of the film was set, and had suited up for some movie-accurate pictures of himself. But Jacopo Ludovico was so immersed in his character that he didn’t notice Gyllenhall himself, deliberately leaning against a post in the background.

Gyllenhaal posted his intentional photobomb on his Instagram. “Ran into an old friend in Venezia,” he captioned the snaps. One was a selfie with the cosplayer far in the background after the actor noticed him. The next shows Jake sidled into the background of his oblivious doppelganger’s shot.

“It is not every day you go to Venice in a Mysterio cosplay and meet @jakegyllenhaal,” Ludovico later noted. “And even less, it happens that he is the one to post you.”

For the record, the fan’s cosplay is LEGIT.

The events at the climax of Far from Home play heavily into Spider-Man: No Way Home, which opens December 17 from Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios. 

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Netflix has unveiled the trailer for its upcoming action comedy Red Notice, starring Ryan Reynolds, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and Gal Gadot.

The snippet is sumptuously shot, spanning locations in Europe as Johnson’s John Hartley, the FBI’s top profiler, hunts two fugitives on the list that shares the movie’s title: Reynolds plays con man Booth, and Gadot is a notorious, unnamed art thief. “Now that you’ve been tagged with Red Notices, I’m the only one who can bring you in,” Hartley states.

Johnson previously starred with Gadot in the fifth Fast & Furious installment, and with Reynolds in the F&F spin-off Hobbs & Shaw. Ryan and Dwayne’s bantering here matches the rapid-fire chatter they shared in that film. 

“Where’d you get that jacket?” Booth asks Hartley, who has a gun trained on him. “It’s a statement piece. Somewhere there’s a very nude cow saying, ‘Worth it.'”

The pair form an unlikely alliance to catch Gadot’s thief, with Reynolds literally choking on the word “teamwork”: “It just feels weird in my mouth,” he quips.

“We’re work wives,” Reynolds’ Booth tells Gadot later in the trailer.

“Not work wives,” Johnson corrects.

“Sister wives?” Reynolds counters. 

“We’re not any kind of wives!” Hartley snaps.

For her part, Gadot is devastating, wearing a red gown and at one point she takes them both down, leaving the men handcuffed together.

“This is gonna end with you in handcuffs,” Johnson tells Gadot as they stand nearly cheek-to-cheek.

“Promises, promises,” she purrs.

Red Notice was supposed to debut in theaters for Universal Pictures, but Netflix scooped up distribution rights in 2019. 

Reynolds posted the trailer, noting, “Life doesn’t always imitate art, but I’d wear a tux and do karate with
@TheRock and @GalGadot everyday if I could.”

Red Notice hits Netflix November 12.

Life doesn’t always imitate art, but I’d wear a tux and do karate with @TheRock and @GalGadot everyday if I could. #RedNotice, coming November 12 to @netflix. pic.twitter.com/VHxJAvMqu8

— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) September 2, 2021

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Halloween is fast approaching, which means it’s almost time to crawl onto the couch, mummify yourself in a blanket, unwrap a king-size candy bar and prepare for Freeform’s annual 31 Nights of Halloween.

This year’s lineup of spooky movies was released Wednesday, and it’s packed with classics, fan favorites and some new faces.

Joining the roster this year will be the premiere of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, The Huntsman: Winter’s War, Jaws, Fright Night, Men in Black II and many others.

However, it’s not 31 Nights of Halloween without the staples, with Casper kicking off the inaugural event at 2:30 p.m. ET on Friday, October 1.  Other must-have classics that will keep viewers up at night will be Hocus Pocus, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Craft, Halloweentown, The Addams Family and Ghostbusters. 

Multiple movies and Halloween-centric episodes from Family Guy, The Simpsons and others will play every day until Halloween, with Ghostbusters capping off another year of spooks and frights.

You can view the full schedule on Freeform’s website.

In addition, Los Angeles residents will be able to enjoy an additional fright fest when Freeform takes over Heritage Square Museum from October 1 to the 5 for Freeform’s Halloween Road, “a bewitching bash full of mischief and mayhem” where fans can enjoy an “immersive outdoor walk-thru experience” through the worlds of Hocus Pocus, Tim Burton‘s The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ghostbusters and The Addams Family.

Tickets for the spooktacular event are currently sold out.

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Some of the best party guests are those who weren’t invited…like Jamie Foxx, who crashed a woman’s bachelorette over the weekend.

The New York Post reports that Foxx walked into the Miami club Kiki on the River and decided to surprise the soon-to-be-bride.

“When Jamie took a walk inside, he stumbled upon a bachelorette party all decked in sailor hats,” a witness told the newspaper. “At first, they didn’t recognize him because he was wearing a mask, but then it clicked and they were shocked.”

Foxx, who was at the joint to celebrate a friend’s birthday, reportedly took selfies with the women at the party.  The New York Post obtained a photo of the actor taking a group selfie with the ladies.  

The Soul star enjoyed himself at his friend’s party, with a witness saying he ordered 20 bottles of Dom Pérignon, a brand of vintage Champagne that costs over $100 per bottle, as well as oysters, grilled chicken and fish, and Greek salads.

Foxx capped off the night by jumping behind the DJ booth and belting out Alicia Keys and Jay-Z‘s “Empire State of Mind.”

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Billy Porter is ecstatic he was able to become the character that he needed to exist when he was younger, and credits Cinderella for making that magic happen.

Speaking to ABC Audio, Porter gushed about playing the Fairy Godmother — since renamed to Fab G — in the Amazon Prime Video film, adding that it allowed him to become closer to his idol, Whitney Houston.

“As a black, queer man on this planet growing up in the 70s and 80s, there wasn’t anything to really identify with. The thing I identified with the most was Whitney Houston,” the Pose star explained. “By the time I was a teenager, I wanted to be the male Whitney Houston.”

Houston famously played the Fairy Godmother in the 1997 TV musical Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella.

“Imagine getting this part all these years later… I’m playing the Whitney Houston part!” Porter exclaimed, “I could die and go to heaven today.”

As for becoming a character he needed to see on television when he was younger, Porter, who turns 52 this month, is thankful that he is able to let queer, Black boys see themselves represented on screen. He also admitted that he was unable to become that person when he first started in Hollywood, telling ABC Audio, “I was trying to fit in the masculinity box, so that I could eat, right? There was never a possibility for anything that looked like this [movie.]”

Continued the Emmy winner, “As far as Cinderella is concerned?  That looks like me! As far as Billy Porter in the world and the way that I resonate right now, it didn’t exist [before.]” 

Cinderella, also starring Camila Cabello, Idina Menzel and Pierce Brosnan, premieres on Amazon Prime Video this Friday.

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The wait for Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is almost over! The film hits theaters for preview screenings tonight but until then, Meng’er Zhang, who stars as Shang-Chi’s butt-kicking sister, gave ABC Audio a preview of what to expect.

“It’s a film about family. It’s a film about bond and love. We have a lot of drama, good comedy and countless breathtaking action sequences in it,” the actress spilled. “And I mean, it’s just it’s unlike anything you have ever seen in the Marvel Universe, right?”

Also unlike anything seen before, Shang-Chi is Marvel’s first Asian superhero movie and it was important to avoid the typical stereotypes when it comes to Asian characters on screen — so much so that they ditched over a month’s worth of content.

Explaining that her character once had red extensions, Zhang said, “…One day I read an article from Teen Vogue talking about how Asian female characters in Hollywood films, they always had some color in their hair to show that they’re a rebel, to show that they can fight, to show that they are tough. And I don’t want my character to follow that trend. So I called our director, Destin [Cretton], and asked him if we could take that out. And just the next day we took it out.”

Another first is that Shang-Chi is Zhang’s first film and its also the first time she’s done martial arts training — which is what might have contributed to her punching co-star Simu Liu in the face.

“I didn’t mean to! It was an accident… but I did enjoy it,” she said with a laugh.

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Gregg Leakes, the husband of Real Housewives of Atlanta alum Nene Leakes, has lost his battle with cancer. He was 66.

“Today the Leakes family is in deep pain with a broken heart,” reads a statement from a rep for the famous couple. “After a long battle with cancer, Gregg Leakes has passed away peacefully in his home surrounded by all of his children, very close loved ones and wife Nene Leakes.”

The statement concludes, “We ask that you pray for peace and strength over their family & allow them to mourn in private during this very very difficult time.”

Incidentally, the news came days after Nene told patrons at her Atlanta lounge that Gregg “was transitioning to the other side.”

Gregg was diagnosed with Stage 3 colon cancer in 2018, but it went into remission after treatment. In June, Nene shared that the cancer had returned and Gregg had undergone surgery.

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Paramount has made 2022 the year of Tom Cruise. The studio has bumped his pandemic-delayed Top Gun: Maverick until 2022, along with the star’s anticipated seventh Mission: Impossible film. 

Paramount now says Maverick will open May 27, over Memorial Day weekend of 2022, and Mission: Impossible 7 will come to theaters on Sept. 30, 2022.

Incidentally, Top Gun: Maverick‘s move from its November 19, 2021 release date led Sony to bump by a week the release of its own pandemic-delayed film, Ghostbusters: Afterlife. The movie will now open on that date to take advantage of IMAX and other higher-quality theaters that Top Gun‘s move freed up.

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Taraji P. Henson and Gabrielle Union are teaming up behind the camera for a brand-new project.

According to Deadline, the two have signed on to produce Sorcerority, a feature film adaptation of Mikhail Sebastian and George Watson‘s graphic novel of the same name. The book follows Melanie, a young girl who follows in her late mother’s footsteps by enrolling into a historically African-American coven and university of magic. There, she “discovers her enrollment into the school may not be entirely of her own choosing, but rather the calculated actions of a higher authority.” Casting for the film has yet to be announced.

In other news, Jay Ellis, Kiersey Clemons and Alison Brie are set to star in Dave Franco‘s romantic comedy Somebody I Used to Know. Directed and co-written by Franco, the film follows Brie as a workaholic who reunites with an ex-boyfriend, played by Ellis, during a trip to her hometown. During their encounter, Ally begins to “question all of her prior life choices.” A release date for Somebody I Used to Know has not been announced.

Finally, fresh off of his Candyman box office success, Jordan Peele has inked a multi-year television deal with Universal Studios via his Monkeypaw Productions banner, Deadline reports. As you may recall, Peele had previously signed a first-look TV deal with Amazon Studios back in 2018. Under his new deal, the Oscar winner will get to develop television projects across Universal Studio Group divisions.

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Starting today, the streaming service Shudder is getting a jump on the spooky season with its second annual “61 Days of Halloween” lineup.

The subscription service, which caters to fans of horror movies and thrillers, announced a massive slate of both new and classic content that will unfurl as we get closer to October 31. 

The lineup features new movie premieres and original series debuts. Included will be a new Halloween special with genre fave Joe Bob Briggs, a new season of the drag competition Dragula, and new offerings to Shudder’s library of scary films, including Brian De Palma‘s classic Carrie and Tobe Hooper‘s Poltergeist. 

Shudder will also unveil a new version of its annual yule log — that is, the 24/7 streaming jack-o-lantern known as the Ghoul Log — as well as a return of Shudder’s Halloween Hotline, which lets fans get personalized movie recommendations from the streaming service’s head curator, Samuel Zimmerman.

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