Ever wanted to see a Michael Bay movie filled with his trademark high-octane action sequences but without all those annoying characters and plotlines? You have your wish with his new documentary about a seven-member team of parkour athletes who have been racking up millions of YouTube subscribers and billions of views since they started filming their stunts of derring-do nearly …
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Paul Feig does not appear to be exaggerating when he talks about the pains of making Another Simple Favor. The sequel-averse filmmaker has discussed his apprehensions before, noting after Friday’s South by Southwest world premiere that he feared disappointing fans of the first movie — an absolutely bonkers comedy thriller that proved to be a real showpiece for Anna Kendrick, Blake …
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John Goodman is recovering after being injured during the production of an upcoming, untitled Alejandro González Iñárritu movie for Warner Bros. and Legendary, starring Tom Cruise. The actor “experienced a hip injury,” a Warner Bros. spokesperson said in a statement. “He received immediate medical attention that led to a brief delay in shooting to allow him time to recover,” the statement continues. …
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Robert Downey Jr. isn’t quite done with Tony Stark just yet. The actor hung up the Iron Man superhero suit in Avengers: Endgame, and he is poised to return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the evil Dr. Doom for the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday. But first, there’s a theme park ride to launch. At D23 last year, Disney announced that …
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Less than a week after the 2025 Oscars, Emilia Pérez star and best actress nominee Karla Sofía Gascón is reflecting on her experience as part of Netflix’s awards campaign for the genre-bending musical. Though Emilia Pérez scored a leading 13 Oscar nominations, it won only two awards (for best song, “El Mal,” and best supporting actress, Zoe Saldaña) after past, …
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In her stint as Golden Globes host in January, Nikki Glaser mostly played nice, but she couldn’t resist a poke at Hollywood’s worst-kept secret. “I love how meditating removes your eyelids,” she quipped in her monologue, in reference to the ever-more-popular eyelid-lift surgery. “Really convenient.” Glaser surely knew the joke would kill with the A-listers in the room, since a …
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As the saying goes, you gotta have a gimmick, even when it comes to action movies. That’s certainly the case with the central character of Novocaine, Dan Berk and Robert Olsen’s action-comedy about a man genetically incapable of feeling pain. As played winningly by Jack Quaid, Nathan Caine is a new kind of action hero. He’s not so great at …
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The 2025 Sundance Film Festival was largely seen as a mutated affair, with a line-up focused on discovery over commerciality. But for producer-financier Tango Entertainment, where credits run the gamut from Oscar-nominated Aftersun to Weird Al Yankovic movie Weird, and its head Lia Buman, the festival was particularly notable. With three films in the line-up, Tango landed the most moneyed …
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Kevin Hart and Seth Meyers clearly know how to party hard… maybe a little too hard. During a recent appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers, the actor-comedian recalled his experience filming the show’s “Day Drinking” segment with the host last year, confessing that he “almost died” during it. “I came into that day with such an idea of who …
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Before the SXSW premiere of Another Simple Favor, Paul Feig admitted that he was reluctant to make a follow-up to his campy 2018 mystery A Simple Favor. Sequels, in his and many other people’s estimation, rarely live up to the standards of their predecessors. Unfortunately, Another Simple Favor doesn’t prove to be the exception to that rule; fortunately, though, it …
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