Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy sat down for one of Variety‘s ongoing Actors on Actors interviews with an appropriate partner: Barbie lead Margot Robbie.
After congratulating each other on both Barbie and Oppenheimer‘s box office successes, the pair opened up about how the “Barbenheimer” frenzy almost didn’t happen — and probably wouldn’t have if she didn’t follow her instinct.
Murphy explained Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan has traditionally — and superstitiously — favored releasing movies on or around the films’ eventual date night at the movies, July 21.
Robbie, a producer of her blockbuster, said one of the producers for the nuclear age drama called her and suggested she and the rest of the Barbie team shift their theatrical release so the two films wouldn’t go up against each other.
“And I was like, ‘We’re not moving our date,'” the actress recalled, smiling.
“If you’re scared to be up against us, then you move your date,'” she continued. “And he’s like, ‘We’re not moving our date. I just think it’d be better for you to move.’ And I was like, ‘We’re not moving!'” the Australian actress said.
She then expressed her reasoning for standing her ground, saying, “I think this is a really great pairing actually. It’s a perfect double billing, Oppenheimer and Barbie.”
“That was a good instinct,” Murphy responded with a laugh.
“Clearly the world agreed,” Robbie added. “Thank God.”
“I think both of these films show the appetite that the audience has for cinema,” Murphy expressed.
“People like everything. People are weird,” Margot said. “They have wide-ranging tastes.”
“The audience doesn’t like being told what to do … [Moviegoers] decided that this [pairing] was correct,” Murphy agreed.
Nicolas Cage may be trading the big screen for the small screen in the near future.
The Leaving Las Vegas actor, who turns 60 in January, told Vanity Fair in a new interview that he “may have three or four more movies left” in him.
“I do feel I’ve said what I’ve had to say with cinema,” he added. “I think I took film performances as far as I could.”
In a separate interview with UPROXX, Cage said that after 45 years of acting in over 100 movies, he’s hoping to switch formats and give television a shot.
Throughout his career, the Dream Scenario actor has rarely, if ever, done television. Aside from a TV pilot he filmed as a teen, a couple of appearances on Saturday Night Live and presenting a Netflix docuseries about swear words in 2021, Cage has stuck to films.
So, what led Cage to want to give TV a shot? A little show called Breaking Bad.
“I have seen things that can be done now with characters and the time they’re given to express themselves,” he said. “I saw Bryan Cranston stare at a suitcase for an hour on one episode of Breaking Bad. We don’t have time to do that in a feature film, so maybe television is the next best step for me. We’ll see.”
“I’m a student and I don’t know if I have anything else to learn in cinema,” he continued. “I might have something to learn in television.”
In both interviews, Cage expressed a desire to spend more time with his family, noting he has a baby daughter with his wife, Riko Shibata. Cage is also dad to two adult sons, Weston and Kal-El, from previous relationships.
People has released its Most Intriguing People of 2023, and as always, it’s a who’s who of entertainment — and this year, the mother of Taylor Swift‘s boyfriend, Travis Kelce.
Speaking of Taylor, she made the list this year, what with her domination of the concert stage, record sales and now movie theaters.
Beyoncé,who also hit the stage and screen this year, made the cut, too.
Another no-brainer: Margot Robbie, whose Barbie became the biggest movie of the year.
The Mandalorian’sPedro Pascal, who is rumored to take a main role in Marvel Studios’ Fantastic Four was also among the stars named, as was The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White, now in theaters in the fact-based wrestling movie The Iron Claw.
Here’s People‘s full list of 2023’s movers and shakers:
Taylor Swift
Jeremy Allen White
Halle Bailey
Ariana Madix
Beyoncé
Colman Domingo
Donna Kelce — mother of Jason Kelce and Travis Kelce
David Beckham
Margot Robbie
Lily Gladstone
Emma Stone
Pedro Pascal
Pamela Anderson
Prince Harry
Jacob Elordi
Ashley Park
Coco Gauff
Robert Downey Jr.
Adele
Jada Pinkett Smith
Jeremy Renner
Britney Spears
Ryan Gosling
Jenna Ortega
Bradley Cooper
Three Disney/Pixar movies that made their debuts on Disney+ are heading to theaters for the first time.
2020’s music-filled Soul featured the voice of Jamie Foxx and debuted on the streaming service during the pandemic because of shuttered theaters.
Similarly, the theatrical run of 2021’s Luca, an animated adventure on the Italian Riviera, was cancelled because of COVID-19.
2022’s coming-of-age adventure Turning Red was turned into a streaming release as well, when many theaters closed over the omicron variant of the virus.
Soul went on to win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, and Best Achievement in Music Written for a Motion Picture for Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste‘s original score, as well as Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture — Animated and Best Original Score — Motion Picture, and a Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media.
Both Luca and Seeing Red were also nominated for Oscars in the Animated Feature category.
Tickets go on sale January 2 for the special engagement theatrical runs, “which invite moviegoers to experience three Pixar films the way they were meant to be seen ahead of the studio’s June 2024 theatrical release of Inside Out 2,” Disney touted.
The three movies will run with a Pixar animated short ahead of each of them: Soul, which hits theaters first on January 12, will be accompanied by Burrow, an entry from Pixar Animation Studios’ SparkShort label.
Turning Red opens February 9, to be preceded by the SparkShort Kitbull.
Luca comes to the big screen March 22, including the classic Pixar short For the Birds.
(NEW YORK) — Grace Jabbari, the accuser in the misdemeanor assault case against actor Jonathan Majors, took the stand as the first witness on the second day of the trial Tuesday.
Jabbari, 30, wearing plaid pants and a plaid jacket, answered questions from Assistant District Attorney Kelli Galaway, appearing to take a deep breath and exhale as she began her direct examination.
“I am Grace Jabbari, nice to meet you,” she said as she introduced herself to the jury. “I’m a professional dancer.”
Jabbari said Majors first became angry with her in December 2021 and detailed several instances of him being mean or aggressive.
Among the incidents was one Jabbari recalled from July 2022 when he started throwing things at her in a home they were sharing in West Hollywood.
“The first thing that he threw was the candle,” Jabbari said, as she showed the jury a photo of the room. “The dent in the wall is one of candles.”
She used a pen to mark the spot where she was standing.
“I took the photo because the shift in his temper was something that I was aware of,” Jabbari said. “I just wanted to remember. I know I kept forgiving him but I wanted to have a bit of a memory of it.”
Jabbari often testified through nervous laughter, occasionally finishing her responses with a giggle.
“Is this a test?” she asked after Galaway asked her the ages of her three siblings.
Majors, 34, sat at the defense table in a gray suit after entering the courtroom with current girlfriend Meagan Good, who has attended each day of the proceedings. He carried a cup and a Bible.
Majors did not appear to look at Jabbari as she described her dance training and career.
Members of Jabbari’s family sat in the front row, on the opposite side of the aisle from Majors’ relatives and friends.
Majors, who has played the role of Kang in several Marvel films and TV shows, is accused of assaulting Jabbari in the backseat of a for-hire SUV on March 25 after she allegedly grabbed his phone when a message from another woman popped up that said “wish I was kissing you.”
Jabbari was movement director on the set of “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” in Pinewood, United Kingdom, when she met Majors, whom she acknowledged seeing in the courtroom.
“In one of the breaks he came over to me, near-ish the monitor, and asked me what I was doing, why I was here and I said, ‘Oh I’m a dancer, I’m working on movement,'” Jabbari testified.
She said his hair stylist slipped her his number and the two went on a date. The relationship progressed “fast,” she said.
“We spent every day together, maybe minus a few, within the next few months,” Jabbari said. “He told me he loved me very early on.”
Jabbari said Majors would quote her poetry.
“I felt very loved and cared for,” she said.
Jabbari said the first time Majors became angry with her was in December 2021 when she was going to meet his dogs.
She said Majors gave her specific instructions for how to behave around the dogs. At that point, Jabbari mentioned how an ex-boyfriend had a dog and she said he became angry and raised his voice.
“How dare I mention him,” Jabbari quoted Majors telling her. “It’s embarrassing to him that I dated him. His dog is pathetic. This kind of stuff.”
“It was the first time I felt scared of him,” she told the jury.
Jabbari also described a time in June 2022 when she went to a festival where cellphone reception was not very good and Majors was “not very nice” about it.
“Just that I shouldn’t be there and how dare I go,” she said. “You’re just out there drinking with your friends and I had a really hard week.”
He had been training as a bodybuilder for a movie, Jabbari said, and “he was quite stressed.”
By September 2022, Jabbari was living with Majors in London while he was shooting a movie. She recounted a Sunday when she had been at a pub with friends and returned to the house with them.
“He was getting a bit snappy. Just quick with his responses,” she said. Jabbari said she ushered everyone out of the house. The following day she said they met at a park when he accused her of being an alcoholic, tore headphones off her head and started shouting at her.
“Better not be in the house when I get home,” Jabbari quoted Majors saying that day.
Jabbari broke down in tears on the stand after recounting the story and asked the judge for a break.
Majors, who faces misdemeanor assault and harassment charges, faces up to a year in jail if convicted.
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While appearing on ABC’s The View to promote her new Netflix movie Leave the World Behind, Julia Robertsdodged a chance to talk about her former Friends co-star Matthew Perry, who died at 54 on October 28.
Perry’s recent memoir revealed that he and the Pretty Woman star had a “three-month-long courtship” featuring flirty fax messages to each other.
Roberts confirmed to The Late Show with David Letterman back in the day that she was dating Perry. Perry’s memoir reveals he broke things off after a brief time partially because of the “pressure” of dating someone of her celebrity status.
The View co-host Sara Haines didn’t reference that, but she asked the Oscar winner if she had a favorite memory working with Perry in her 1996 appearance on the ’90s sitcom, which was referenced multiple times in the disaster movie.
But Roberts didn’t bite.
Instead, Roberts demurred talking about how great it was for her to appear in that particular episode as a “football fanatic,” adding appearing after Super Bowl XXX “made me feel that much closer to the Super Bowl, which I’ve never been to.”
Whoopi Goldberg then threw Roberts a lifeline and changed the focus to the cast’s upcoming Big Game party.
Incidentally, Julia recently told Entertainment Tonight of Perry, “The sudden passing of anybody so young is heartbreaking. I think that, you know, it just helps all of us just appreciate what we have and to keep going in a positive way as best we can.”
That said, she called the cast of the hit show “so welcoming” and said “The One After The Super Bowl” was “a really fun time.”
Yellowstone fans are used to watching the hit show’s cowboys come to blows, but likely not like this.
The show’s creator, Taylor Sheridan, who also has a recurring role as Travis Wheeler on the neo-Western, is reportedly suing co-star Cole Hauser, who plays no-nonsense Rip, over a logo used by the latter’s new coffee company.
In addition to creating hit TV shows, Sheridan has created a brand — both literally and figuratively — with Bosque Ranch, which he has spun into a shooting location and a home base for various entrepreneurial endeavors, including a spirits venture and a coffee company.
However, Hauser recently mounted a coffee company of his own, and according to Sheridan’s lawyers, the “intertwining” letters on the actor’s Free Rein Coffee logo are too close to the BR brand that appears all over Sheridan’s companies, including his Bosque Ranch Craft Coffee.
Sheridan’s camp says Free Rein uses “a brand mark strikingly similar to Bosque Ranch’s registered trademark, potentially misleading consumers,” according to San Angelo Live, a news site from the same Texas city where Sheridan’s suit was filed in Northern District of Texas’s federal court.
Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx choked back tears Monday night at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, which marked his first public appearance since his mystery health scare and hospitalization in April.
Accepting the Vanguard Award for his performance in The Burial, Foxx expressed gratitude for his life as it is now — and doing what he does best, he brought the laughs.
“I want to thank everybody. I’ve been through something. I’ve been through some things. You know, it’s crazy I couldn’t do that six months ago, I couldn’t actually walk,” he began, holding back tears. “So it feels good to be here. I cherish every single minute now. It’s different.”
He continued, “I wouldn’t wish what I went through on my worst enemy, ’cause it’s tough, when you almost – when it’s almost over. When you see the tunnel. I saw the tunnel, I didn’t see the light. It was hot in that tunnel, too, I was wondering where I was goin’,” he said, cracking up the crowd.
The 55-year-old has yet to disclose the exact medical condition he experienced, but according to his daughter, Corinne Foxx, he was rushed to the hospital while on the set of Back in Action in Atlanta.
Foxx also mentioned having a new appreciation for his life and career following his experience, telling the crowd, “don’t give up on your art and don’t let them take the art from you, either.”
(NOTE LANGUAGE)On his Instagram Monday evening, Ryan Reynoldsdropped the first photo of himself back in his Deadpool scarred face makeup, looking slightly non-plussed as he’s being licked by a new cast member.
His co-star is also…ruff looking: Dogpool, the scrappy mutt who makes her debut in Reynolds’ upcoming Deadpool 3.
As reported, Dogpool was a character that made its debut in the pages of Marvel Comics in 2010. Hailing from an alternate earth, the canine who survived cruel animal experimentation possesses Deadpool’s regenerative abilities, and later became a member of the Deadpool Corps.
Ryan’s post also revealed that the powered pooch has her own Instagram account. Oh, and she posted the same picture, but didn’t hold back her literal distaste of her co-star.
“Looks like avocado,” the caption read, calling back a description of Reynolds’ Wade Wilson from the first movie. “Tastes like dog s***.”
Deadpool 3 hits theaters July 26 from 20th Century Studios, which, like ABC News, is owned by Disney.
Vanessa Hudgens and pro baseball player Cole Tucker tied the knot Saturday, December 2, in Tulum, Mexico, sources tell People.
The High School Musical alum stirred wedding rumors when photos of her posing on the beach barefoot wearing a white dress popped up on X, formerly Twitter.
Hudgens, 34, confirmed she and Tucker, 26, were dating in 2021, and announced their engagement back in February with a photo posted to Instagram of them hugging captioned, “YES. We couldn’t be happier.” A second pic offered a closer look at the ring with the Eiffel Tower in the background.
