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
Meryl Streep nearly lost her role in The Devil Wears Prada over fears she wasn’t funny enough. The Hollywood veteran landed the part of fearsome fashion boss Miranda Priestly in the hit 2006 film opposite Anne Hathaway as her assistant but the movie’s producer Wendy Finerman has now admitted she faced some push back for … Read more
The people in charge of the Twilight franchise didn’t think Robert Pattinson was handsome enough to play the role of Edward Cullen. The 37-year-old actor earned heartthrob status through his portrayal of the vampire in The Twilight Saga but Catherine Hardwicke – who directed the original 2008 film – has revealed that production company Summit Entertainment … Read more
Rick Riordan “wrote off Hollywood” after being left frustrated by the Percy Jackson films. The 59-year-old author has never watched either of the movie adaptations of his work – Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters – and refused to consider other takes on the books as the … Read more
Obviously Hugh Jackman is Wolverine right now, and will be playing the role at least one more time, in the upcoming Marvel film Deadpool 3. But he has been Wolverine for over 20 years now. And unlike Logan, Hugh Jackman is a mortal human man who does not possess an uncanny healing factor that slows the … Read more
There was a couple years there where Aaron Taylor-Johnson looked like he was about to become one of the biggest leading men in Hollywood. After the first Kick-Ass was a surprise hit, he started popping up in tons of big movies. He was the lead (human) actor in 2014’s Godzilla, and he became one of the first additions … Read more