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Andrew Garfield stars as a leader of the rebellion against King Richard II in The Uprising.

While Garfield’s character is the star of the film, as well as a leader of the ferocious rebellion he takes part in, he has no name. The character is only referred to as Ploughman. He’s a simple farmer living in medieval England grieving the family he lost during The Plague.

Audiences experience the film through the eyes of someone who represents an everyday person. One who doesn’t think of himself as a leader, and yet is one inherently.

“I think that’s one of the reasons why he is seen as a leader and reluctantly given that role, because he doesn’t want it,” Garfield told ABC Audio. “I think it’s a sign of a true leader because they know the cost. No one would want to be a leader if they knew the true nature of it.”

Garfield said Ploughman’s sense of humility is “a dying art form in our consciousness.”

“I think all of our leaders could use a hefty dose of it — a kind of acceptance of their own humanity — which allows them to be in touch with the humanity of others,” Garfield said.

Ploughman is “someone who can feel deep compassion for the people around him because he knows his own pain and he knows his own lostness. That’s a real leader as far as I’m concerned,” Garfield said.

And while this film’s story takes place during the 1300s, Garfield supports modern interpretations of its themes. Encourages them even, he says.

“There’s a reason to make this film. I think the urgency of making this film is because even though these events were centuries old, they feel like a distant mirror to the times we’re in, today, tomorrow, if we’re not careful,” Garfield said.

The actor expressed that he feels “there is a deep wounded rage and sense of injustice that a lot of us in this world are feeling right now, whether we’re talking about it or not.”

“I feel like it’s rumbling underneath most cultures, most interactions and I feel like there’s a real longing to set the world right, to see people brought to justice that seem to be above the law because they are laws that they are governing themselves,” Garfield said.

Garfield said he believes there’s a lot of corruption in the world right now.

“If justice is coming from God then laws are coming from man and those laws are corrupt,” he said.

Garfield then put it very plainly: “I think we’re in trouble.”

“I think a film like this is hopefully shedding some light on the trouble we’re in, and a healing and a reckoning that we need to do as a human race,” he said.

The Uprising comes from Captain Phillips director Paul Greengrass. It opens in theaters on Friday. 

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JLaw is now on IG.

Jennifer Lawrence has officially joined Instagram. The Oscar winner created her account on Wednesday and posted her first video on Thursday, where she warned her already amassed 1.5 million followers that she will quit the social media platform if anyone is mean to her.

“So yeah, I am giving it a shot and if anyone says anything negative I will quit immediately, no questions asked,” Lawrence said in the video. “If anyone thinks something mean, I’ll know. I’ll know and I’ll quit.”

The actress doubled down on her stance in a post shared to her Instagram Story on Thursday.

“Please be mindful that any mean or aggressive comments can negatively affect the baby. It’s me. I’m the baby,” Lawrence wrote.

Lawrence’s handle on the platform is @jlaw, and her Instagram bio hints that it was not her first choice.

“jenniferlawrence was taken,” her bio reads.

The comments section is riddled with fans posting everything from excitement and support to gifs of her The Hunger Games character Katniss Everdeen hoisting the three finger salute of respect.

Actresses Zoey Deutch and Beth Behrs also took to the comments, with Deutch writing, “wow finally some good news,” and Behrs offering up two fire emojis.

Lawrence currently follows 46 people on Instagram, including Stephen Colbert, her Hunger Games co-star Josh Hutcherson, Keke Palmer, Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kim Kardashian, her husband Cooke Maroney and Miss Piggy. She is currently developing a movie about the Muppet with her friend Emma Stone.

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The team behind the upcoming East of Eden is set to adapt another classic novel for Netflix.

Lonesome Dove is set to be adapted for a new TV series for the streaming service. Netflix won the rights to what it described as a highly competitive project. The show will be based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Western novel by Larry McMurtry.

“Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call renew their spirit of adventure as they face an uncertain future, embarking on one final, perilous cattle drive from the Rio Grande to the untamed wilderness of Montana in pursuit of a dream that they have perhaps already outlived,” according to the show’s logline. “These two former Texas Rangers lead an unforgettable cast of characters across the American west in this sweeping odyssey defined by unrequited longing, unbreakable friendship, brutal frontier justice, and an unwavering pursuit of a meaningful life.”

The new project reunites Zoe Kazan and Jeb Stuart as co-showrunners. The pair also co-showrun the upcoming East of Eden limited series for Netflix. Teton Ridge Entertainment first acquired the rights to Lonesome Dove. It then pulled Kazan and Stuart to develop the show. The pair also serve as writers and executive producers on the series. 

“After our singular experience on East of Eden, we are thrilled to be teaming with Netflix again, along with Teton Ridge Entertainment, to bring Larry McMurtry’s western classic to life. We come to this material with love and respect, and can’t wait to hit the trail with Gus and Call and the rest of these beloved characters. Yee-haw,” Kazan and Stuart said in a statement.

Jinny Howe, the head of Scripted Series, UCAN, at Netflix, said that “Lonesome Dove is one of the great American stories.”

“There was no question we wanted to follow Zoe and Jeb wherever they went next,” she continued. “After East of Eden, we know exactly what they’re capable of — the depth of character, the sweep of place, the emotional precision. This material deserves that level of care. In their hands, it’s going to be something extraordinary.”

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Dig up the final trailer for Tom Cruise’s new film, Digger.

Warner Bros. Pictures released a new official trailer for the upcoming film on Wednesday. It finds Cruise completely transformed into the character Digger Rockwell, a billionaire who has a thick Southern accent, a potbelly and combed-over white hair.

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) director Alejandro González Iñárritu helmed the movie. It is his first English-language feature since The Revenant.

Digger follows “the most powerful man in the world” who “embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s savior before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything,” according to an official description.

The new trailer starts with Cruise’s Digger explaining the current situation to Riz Ahmed’s character, Ganesh.

“I’m not gonna sugarcoat it. We’re in a tight spot. Now, do me a favor. Imagine that you’re one of those people that think that Digger Rockwell’s Satan himself. Now, what are some of the harshest attacks I can expect from those folks who think that I’m the scum of the earth?”

Ganesh gives him an idea, to which Digger responds, “Well, I wasn’t expecting that.”

Later, we see Ahmed’s Ganesh appear on a news program that Digger watches from his home.

“Mr. Rockwell is a man who would roast our children alive if he thought he could sell them for a dime,” he says.

The film’s ensemble cast includes Sandra Hüller, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons, Sophie Wilde and Emma D’Arcy.

Iñárritu also produces the film, which he co-wrote with his Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) co-writers Nicolas Giacobone and Alexander Dinelaris, along with Sabina Berman. Cruise also serves as a producer.

Digger arrives in theaters on Oct. 2.

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The first photos showing off Prime Video’s Boys of Tommen are here. The romantic drama series will be based on the bestselling books by Chloe Walsh. Pictured in the photos are Nancy Surridge as Shannon Lynch and Conor Sánchez as Johnny Kavanagh. The show centers around the pair’s forbidden love story. Boys of Tommen is currently in production and will premiere exclusively on Prime Video …

Celebrate Halloween this year with the Dexter: Resurrection season 2 premiere. Paramount+ has announced that the second season of the show arrives on Oct. 30. The streaming service also put out the new season’s teaser trailer. Michael C. Hall stars as serial killer Dexter Morgan in season 2. Joining him are Uma Thurman, Jack Alcott, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Kadia Saraf, Dominic Fumusa, Desmond Harrington and James Remar …

A trailer for M. Night Shyamalan and Nicholas Sparks’ collaboration has arrived. Warner Bros. Pictures has released the official teaser trailer for Remain, the romantic drama written and directed by Shyamalan based on a story by him and Sparks. Jake Gyllenhaal stars alongside Phoebe Dynevor in the movie, which also includes Ashley Walters, Julie Hagerty and Jay O. Sanders in its ensemble …

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Fans will be able to visit a galaxy far, far away in IMAX.

Disney and Lucasfilm have announced that the original 1977 Star Wars film, as well as the upcoming Star Wars: Starfighter, are set to debut on IMAX screens in 70mm film in 2027.

The original film will be presented in IMAX for the first time ever, whether it be digital or on film, in celebration of its 50th anniversary. That rerelease heads to theaters on Feb. 19, 2027. The film, which was later renamed Star Wars: A New Hope, will be screened in a newly restored version in a select amount of IMAX 70mm film locations. It will also play digitally in select theaters.

The latest Star Wars film, Star Wars: Starfighter, is set to release on the 50th anniversary weekend of the original film’s premiere. It debuts on May 28, 2027, as a filmed for IMAX release that was shot with IMAX-certified film cameras. The movie has been converted to IMAX 70mm film prints for release in a select number of IMAX film locations, according to a press release from Lucasfilm.

Ryan Gosling stars as the cynical rogue Kade Auberon in the Shawn Levy-directed film. As he’s “confronted by his mysterious past, he is hurled into a dangerous adventure across the galaxy that puts him on a crash course with destiny,” according to the movie’s official description.

Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Aaron Pierre, Jamael Westman, Daniel Ings, Flynn Gray and Amy Adams also star in the upcoming, standalone Star Wars film.

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Pamela Anderson opened up about her experience living with hepatitis C in a moving speech over the weekend.

The actress delivered the remarks, which were posted in part by Variety on Sunday, at a gala hosted by amfAR, an organization focused on global health and ending AIDS, where the actress received the award of courage.

“Back in the late ’90s, when I was diagnosed with hepatitis C, there was no cure,” Anderson said in her speech. “It was a death sentence — that’s what my doctor told me, that I probably had around 10 years to live.”

Anderson said the diagnosis and life expectancy prediction had a significant impact on her decision-making.

“I’m sure that colored and corrupted my decisions,” she said. “It was not fear of death, but fear of what might happen to my young children. It turned my life inside out.”

The Last Showgirl actress said when a cure finally came “10 blurry years later,” she was able to take it.

“I was lucky. I was offered it in its early stages. And it took everything I had in my bank to pay for it,” she said, noting the cure “wasn’t covered by insurance yet.”

“I felt tremendous guilt that others weren’t granted the same access,” she said.

Anderson, who said she is now free of hepatitis C — the model and actress first announced she was free from the disease in 2015, according to People — said her “experience of shame and guilt was also an unconscious journey” that has stayed with her years later.

“I worked with organizations in those times to bring awareness, I promoted getting tested, reducing the stigma, but who was I kidding, my words did not match my feelings. I was angry and scared,” she said.

“I don’t think I’ve ever fully recovered from that news. I’ve assimilated it, I’ve finally come to terms, maybe,” she added.

Anderson said she found healing through the arts, adding that her experience helped fuel her career in film.

“Courage expands one’s life, while fear diminishes it. The choice is ours,” Anderson said in her closing remarks, echoing a famous quote from French-born author Anais Nin. “As we look at others across the room tonight, be kind, because we’re all in this together, and all of us fight some invisible battle.”

Hepatitis C is a viral infection that causes inflammation of the liver, according to the World Health Organization.

The potentially life-threatening disease is typically spread through contact with an infected person’s blood, including through “unsafe injections and procedures in health care, unscreened blood transfusions, sharing of needles and syringes among people who inject drugs and sexual practices that lead to exposure to blood,” according to the WHO.

Most individuals who are infected initially do not have symptoms. Symptoms can take two weeks to six months to manifest after infection and may include fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, dark urine and yellowing of the skin or eyes, the global health organization states.

Hepatitis C infection can often go undiagnosed for years, if not decades, due to lack of symptoms. For those unknowingly living with hepatitis C long-term, they can develop signs of serious liver damage or liver cancer years later, according to the WHO.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that “many people with hepatitis C don’t look or feel sick, so might not know they have the virus.”

Between 2017 and 2020, the CDC estimates between 2.4 million and 4 million people in the U.S. had hepatitis C.

“Most people can be cured of hepatitis C with timely treatment,” the agency states.

Treatment typically involves eight to 12 weeks of oral medication, according to the CDC, with more than 95% of patients being cured of the disease, “usually without side effects.”

There is currently no vaccine available for hepatitis C.

Dr. Jennifer Miao, a board-certified cardiologist at Yale New Haven Health and a fellow in the ABC News Medical Unit, contributed to this report.

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Andrew Garfield stars as Sam Altman in the Artificial teaser trailer.

Neon has released the first trailer for director Luca Guadagnino’s comedic drama film about the world of artificial intelligence. The studio also announced the movie will release in select theaters on Christmas Day before expanding to wide release in January.

Artificial explores Altman’s OpenAI during a period in 2023 when Altman was fired and rehired in a matter of days. Guadagnino directed it from a script by Saturday Night Live alum Simon Rich.

Alongside Garfield, the film’s cast includes Mark Rylance, Yura Borisov, Monica Barbaro, Billie Lourd, Jason Schwartzman, Cooper Koch, Cooper Hoffman and Ike Barinholtz.

The teaser trailer finds Garfield’s Altman arriving to an idyllic cabin on the water. In voice-over, we hear him ask, “What is the image of the future that you see?”

As he travels through the cabin, Garfield goes into a secret bunker filled to the brim with weapons.

“We opened Pandora’s box together. The future is inevitable. Countries will fall. Industries are gonna collapse. And we get to be the ones to shepherd people in to this new world,” Garfield’s Altman says.

Neon picked up Artificial after its original distributor, Amazon MGM Studios, decided it would no longer release it. Amazon MGM Studios confirmed to ABC Audio it would no longer release Artificial in a statement shared on June 19.

“We have the utmost respect and admiration for Luca Guadagnino as an award-winning filmmaker – not to mention a longstanding relationship that we hope to continue,” an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement at the time. “We believe that Artificial will be better served if it were released by a different studio and are working closely with the filmmaking team to find the film a new home.”

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Whitney Leavitt is looking at what’s to come after her final season of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.

The social media personality and reality star turned Broadway star stopped by Good Morning America Friday to address why season 5 of the Mormon mom influencer reality show is her last and her next moves.

“I feel like with anything in life, you feel like you have this book of life and it just felt like it was a chapter that was time to end and I’ve tried to leave multiple times, which I’m sure you’ve seen,” she said.

She added, “But this one I felt ended really well, and I think everyone felt that.”

Leavitt announced in May in an Instagram video that she is leaving the Hulu reality show, which she has appeared in since its September 2024 debut.

Since then, she went on to compete on season 34 of Dancing with the Stars where she placed sixth, and also made her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago in February.

In August, she announced that she is returning to Broadway to star in Just in Time for a limited six-week engagement. She’ll appear in the musical from Dec. 1 until Jan. 10, 2027.

“I’m so excited, I’m doing what I love,” she said. “This is what I always wanted to do. This is just the beginning.”

On top of everything else happening in her life, she is also getting ready to cheer on her husband, Conner Leavitt, on season 35 of DWTS.

Earlier this week, Conner Leavitt was announced as part of the new celebrity cast competing for the Mirrorball Trophy. Whitney Leavitt added that she was the one to tell her husband that he was going to star in the new season, after the show’s casting director told her.

She added that as her husband has been preparing for the upcoming season with his pro dance partner, Adele Zaikman, he’ll send her videos of them dancing and she’ll offer her critique.

“I’m like, do this, do that, but remember to have fun,” she told GMA.

“With last season of Dancing with the Stars, I think everyone remembers Conner cheering everyone on, and this is just now his time for all of us to cheer him on and I’m so excited for him. He deserves everything and more,” Whitney Leavitt said.

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Odysseus’ journey through IMAX screens is not even close to ending.

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic poem is getting an extended run in 70mm IMAX lasting throughout the month of September. This brings the large format exhibitor’s run of the film up to 11 weeks.

Additional showtimes have been added at 39 IMAX screens across the United States from Sept. 17 to Sept. 30. The movie is already Nolan’s highest-grossing film. It’s garnered $1.55 billion at the worldwide box office and is the highest-grossing IMAX release of all time.

The Odyssey is the first feature shot entirely with IMAX cameras. Matt Damon stars as Odysseus in the film that opened in theaters on July 17.

In addition to Damon, the movie stars Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong’o, Zendaya and Charlize Theron.

The Odyssey, of course, tells the story of the Greek hero Odysseus’ 10-year journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War. He encounters interruptions in his quest to return home to his wife, Penelope, and his grown son, Telemachus, who fights off suitors who are desperate to steal his father’s throne.

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