While he may have spoofed the 1993 movie in a recent commercial for Paramount+, Sylvester Stallone is apparently not joking about a big-screen reboot of Cliffhanger.
According to Deadline, Stallone will reprise his mountain climbing expert Gabriel “Gabe” Walker from the Renny Harlin-directed “Die Hard on a mountain” blockbuster, which also starred John Lithgow as a sneering criminal leader looking for missing loot.
This time around, however, Angel Has Fallen director Ric Roman Waugh will call the shots, with Tulsa King star Stallone starring and co-producing under his Balboa Productions, along with Neal H. Moritz, the guy behind the Fast and Furious franchise.
The project is apparently far enough along that casting is underway, Deadline reports.
It should be said that nobody except James Bond series producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson knows who will fill Daniel Craig‘s shoes as the next 007.
That said, a video with Richard Madden and Stanley Tucci has the internet shaken and stirred.
The pair star in the Prime Video spy series Citadel and apropos of maybe nothing, they posted a video of themselves enjoying a beverage to kick off the weekend.
Not coincidentally, they’re sipping martinis — also not coincidentally, James Bond’s liquid refreshment of choice.
“How’s yours?” Tucci asks, to which Madden replies, “Delicious.”
It didn’t take long for followers to make the connection. “Hope that’s shaken and not stirred,” one opined.
Another noted plainly, “richard madden for james bond pls.”
She commented, “[W]hen we cast Bond, it’s a 10-, 12-year commitment. So [Idris] is probably thinking, ‘Do I really want that thing?’ Not everybody wants to do that. It was hard enough getting [Daniel Craig to agree],” to which Wilson added, “And he was in his early 30s at the time!”
Broccoli added, “A lot of people think, ‘Oh yeah, it’d be fun to do one. Well. That ain’t gonna work.”
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On their Brotherly Love podcast, Joey, Andy and Matthew Lawrence discussed something they feel isn’t talked about enough in show business: the so-called Hollywood “casting couch” when it comes to young male actors.
Matthew began by praising the #MeToo movement for exposing such abuse by those in power in the entertainment industry, but says it happens to guys, too — including himself.
“There’s been many times in my life where I’ve been propositioned to get a huge role,” Matthew explained. “I’ve lost my agency because I went to the hotel room — which I can’t believe they would send me to — of a very prominent Oscar Award-winning director who showed up in his robe, asked me to take my clothes off and said he needed to take Polaroids of me.”
He continued, “And then if I did X, Y and Z, I would be the next Marvel character. I didn’t do that, and my agency fired me because I left this director’s room.”
He mentioned Terry Crews, who went public with an accusation against a powerful producer he claims groped him in public. Brendan Fraser also made headlines for accusing a former leader at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association of doing the same.
“Terry Crews comes out and says it; people are laughing at him,” Matthew said. “People don’t support him. They kick him out. Why? Because he’s a man that represents masculinity, and I think our society is less ready to hear that situation going on with men.”
He continued, “Not a lot of guys, in my opinion, have come out and talked about this in the industry. … Now granted, it’s probably about a third of what women go through. … Men go through this as well, whether it’s another woman or another man in power.”
While it is known that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny will be the last time Harrison Ford portrays the whip-cracking archeologist, the actor says the June release will also be Indy’s last big-screen adventure.
“This is the final film in the series…” he tells Total Film in a cover article, adding, “I anticipate that it will be the last time that he appears in a film.”
There have also been rumors the character may be spun off into a small-screen project, but on this, Ford insists to Total Film, he will “not be involved in that, if it does come to fruition.”
Ford, 80, calls making the “ambitious” fifth film a “joyous moment” for him, noting, “I’ve been able to deliver amazing films developed by Steven [Spielberg] and George [Lucas] over a 40-year period, and to end it not with a whimper, but a bang, has been my greatest ambition for this excursion.”
There has been speculation for years that someone else would someday don the famous fedora. In the close of the fourth film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the hat literally lands at the feet of Shia LaBeouf‘s character, Indy’s kid Mutt. However, Jones grabs it back before Mutt can try it on.
After that film fizzled, there were rumors Chris Pratt was being eyed to succeed Ford — and while he didn’t deny he was approached, Pratt insisted on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, “I once saw a quote from Harrison Ford…it was enough to scare me — that was like, ‘When I die, Indiana Jones dies.’ And I’m like, am I gonna get haunted by the ghost of Harrison Ford one day…?”
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny hits theaters June 30 from Lucasfilm, which is owned by ABC News’ parent company Disney.
Months ahead of its fall season 3 premiere, The Morning Show has snagged a fourth season pickup from Apple TV+, according to Deadline.
Stars Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon are reportedly locked in through the end of season 3 and are expected to sign on for the fourth season as soon as they work out their busy schedules. There’s also an option for a fifth season, per the outlet.
Julianna Marguiles will also be back for season 3, reprising her role as news anchor Laura Peterson, along with series newcomer Jon Hamm, who’ll play a media mogul who gives Billy Crudup’s Cory Ellison a “run for his money,” according to Apple TV+. 42‘s Nicole Beharie also joins the cast as a new TMS anchor, and Tig Notaro, Stephen Fry and Natalie Morales will also appear in recurring roles.
The series also stars Mark Duplass, Nestor Carbonell, Karen Pittman, Bel Powley, Desean Terry, Janina Gavankar, Tom Irwin and Marcia Gay Harden.
The show’s second season, which ran in fall 2021, was set a year earlier and closed with the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging through UBA.
Steve Martin used the Saturday, April 29 stop on his You Won’t Believe What They Look Like Today! tour with Only Murders in the Building co-star Martin Short at the Walt Disney Theater at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, Florida to reveal the Hulu comedy’s season 3 premiere date, according to Variety. “Catch the new season August 8,” Martin shared, after which Short joked, “Our show is like Steve trying to pee — it streams for 33 minutes.” Only Murders in the Building follows three true crime-obsessed strangers — played by Short, Martin, and Selena Gomez — who come together when a crime occurs in their apartment building. Meryl Streep and Paul Rudd also join the show’s third season cast…
Actress Michaela Jaé Rodriguez is reuniting with Pose co-creator Ryan Murphy for the 12th season of FX’s American Horror Story, joining season 9 vet Emma Roberts and franchise newcomers Cara Delevingne and Kim Kardashian, according to Entertainment Weekly. The latest season — based on Danielle Valentine’s thriller novel Delicate Condition, due out in August — is described as a feminist update of Rosemary’s Baby. It reportedly follows “a woman who becomes convinced that a sinister figure is going to great lengths to make sure her pregnancy never happens,” per FX…
Aidy Bryant has been tapped to star in Lonely Hearts Club, a dramedy series based on an episode of the Crime Junkies podcast, in development at Peacock, according to Variety. The project, executive produced by Beau Is Afraid filmmaker Ari Aster, is described as “a darkly comedic true crime thriller about a lonely woman who falls in love with a dim but handsome con man. Together they form an unlikely ‘Loser-Bonnie-and-Clyde’-style partnership that ends in lies, murder and the electric chair”…
It was a fourth straight week at #1 at the box office for The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which pulled in an estimated $40 million. That brings its domestic gross to $490 million, and boosts its global tally to just over $1.2 billion — the first film of the year to pass that milestone.
Supernatural horror sequel The Evil Dead Rise took second place with an estimated $12.2 million, bringing its two-week total to $44.4 million in North America.
It was an estimated $6.8 million third-place debut for Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, the adaptation of Judy Bloom‘s beloved book, starring Ant-Man and the Wasp‘s Abby Ryder Fortson, Rachel McAdams and Benny Safdie.
John Wick: Chapter 4 landed in fourth place, delivering an estimated $5 million in its sixth week of release. The film has earned $176 million domestically and $375 million globally to date, making it the franchise’s highest-grossing film, passing John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum‘s $328 million gross in 2019.
Rounding out the top five was the 40th-anniversary rerelease of 1883’s Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, grabbing an estimated $4.7 million from just 475 theaters. The film has grossed $311 million in North America and $475 million worldwide.
The sequel to Ridley Scott‘s Oscar-winning epic Gladiator could feature Hawkins, Indiana’s resident metalhead.
The Hollywood Reporter says Joseph Quinn — who became a viral sensation for his rendition of Metallica‘s “Master of Puppets” in the most recent season of Stranger Things — is in talks to join the anticipated follow-up.
As reported, the new movie will have Oscar nominee Paul Mescal playing a grown-up Lucius, the son of returning star Connie Nielsen‘s Lucilla, the sister of Joaquin Phoenix‘s evil Emperor Commodus in the original. Oscar winner Denzel Washington and Banshees of Inisherin‘s Academy Award-nominated scene-stealer Barry Keoghan also star, notes the trade.
Like a Jedi who’s become one with the Force, one minute Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof was writing a Star Wars movie and the next, poof, he was gone.
The Emmy winner was able to laugh about the experience with Esquire, in one of the magazine’s “Explain This” videos. The segment has Lindelof scrolling through headlines and questions found online.
“‘You were in talks to join the Star Wars universe, can you see yourself revisiting it,’ he asks, quoting a query. “I was in more than talks to join the Star Wars universe. I joined the Star Wars universe and was asked to leave the Star Wars universe.”
He adds, “Will I get back in line outside the club and try to get back in again? Absolutely,” he said, calling the Star Wars movies the “alpha and the omega, it’s the first movie I saw in the theater.” He added, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Or ‘Again, again try,’ as Yoda would say.”
Damon and Justin Britt-Gibson apparently submitted their script for an upcoming project that will be directed by Oscar-winning documentarian and Ms. Marvel veteran Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.
However, shortly before it was revealed at the recent Star Wars Celebration expo that the film would again star Daisy Ridley as the so-called sequel trilogy’s divisive heroine Rey, it was announced Peaky Blinders‘ Steven Knight had replaced the writers.
The upcoming long-in-the-works Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet may have found its Joan Baez.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Monica Barbaro, who appeared in the blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick, is in talks to play the legendary folk singer in the James Mangold-directed film A Complete Unknown.
The flick is set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, where Dylan infamously divided folk fans by going electric. Baez joined Dylan at the festival to perform “Blowin’ in the Wind.”
Movie and music fans have been waiting a long time for this Dylan film to finally be made. Earlier this month Mangold revealed that production is expected to begin in August, with Chalamet doing all his own singing.
