Ryan Gosling initially didn’t want to perform I’m Just Ken at the Academy Awards, saying, “There’s a lot of ways that can go wrong.” Ryan Gosling singing “I’m Just Ken” from Barbie at the Oscars was a definite highlight of the ceremony, but the actor originally turned down the Academy when he was first asked … Read more
Ian Fleming would have preferred Richard Burton, James Mason or James Stewart to play the first James Bond. The name’s Fleming, Ian Fleming. And boy did he have some problems with how his James Bond character was being adapted for the big screen. As we all know, Sean Connery was cinema’s first 007, but Fleming … Read more
Christopher Nolan was “on the fence” about directing The Dark Knight as he didn’t want to be typecast as a superhero movie director. Christopher Nolan has one of the best superhero trilogies under his belt with Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises, but he once considered calling it quits after the … Read more
The main reason to remake a film is the main reason to make a sequel or a reboot or anything else connected to existing intellectual property: Brand name value. Everyone in Hollywood wants a hit, and at least according to conventional wisdom, the quickest and easy way to produce one is to make something with a built-in audience. And … Read more
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga director George Miller explains why he didn’t digitally de-age Charlize Theron for prequel. It didn’t used to be an issue when a character was recast with a younger actor for a prequel or flashback scene, but with digital de-aging, directors can choose to have the same actor portray a character … Read more
Al Pacino didn’t make a mistake while presenting the Academy Award for Best Picture at the Oscars; says that’s what the producers wanted. When Al Pacino took the stage to present the Academy Award for Best Picture at the Oscars, some wondered if the actor had made a mistake when he jumped straight to announcing … Read more
I saw “The Phantom Menace” at the now-defunct Ziegfeld movie palace in New York with my wife and my younger brother, also major fans of the series. We walked out in muted silence, then spent the next few hours trying to convince ourselves that we’d had a good time. We had to admit that, except … Read more
Russell Crowe broke both of his legs during a stunt for Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, but didn’t find out until a decade later. I’ve never broken a bone in my life. That said, it always struck me as something you would know when it happened, but apparently not. Russell Crowe revealed to People that he … Read more
Robert Downey Jr. is grateful that he didn’t win the Oscar for his performance in Chaplin, saying it would have given him the wrong message. Robert Downey Jr. is fresh off an Academy Award nomination for his exemplary work on Oppenheimer, but the actor received his first Oscar nomination over thirty years ago for Chaplin. … Read more
The Quentin Tarantino Star Trek movie would have been hard R, but the director couldn’t bring himself to make it his final movie. The thought of a Quentin Tarantino Star Trek movie always felt like a pipe dream to me, and while the project didn’t move ahead, I am surprised it got as close as … Read more