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Todd Phillips Tells All on Making ‘Joker 2’: Musical Numbers, Method Acting and Joaquin Phoenix’s Broadway Dream That Started It All

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By Brent Lang According To The variety It all started with Joaquin Phoenix‘s dream. Shortly before shooting wrapped on “Joker,” Phoenix confessed to Todd Phillips, the filmmaker who had reimagined Batman’s greatest enemy as an aspiring stand-up with a Travis Bickle complex, that he wasn’t ready to leave the character behind. When he fell asleep one night, Phoenix had a vision of Arthur Fleck, the man behind Joker’s clown makeup, performing onstage, telling jokes and singing. “Todd was in the wings talking to me through a headset,” Phoenix remembers. “I woke up feeling elated and called him, hoping he’d want to do a show with me.” Even before “Joker” went on to earn more than $1 billion in 2019, the pair were already thinking about a follow-up. They discussed the prosp...

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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck Are the Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton of the 2020s

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By Daniel D'Addario According To The variety There’s something particularly painful about the news that — on the exact day of their wedding ceremony in Georgia in 2022 — Jennifer Lopez has filed for divorce from Ben Affleck. Up until now, we were intimately invited to be a part of their love story. Lopez, as documented in Stephen Rodrick’s profile for this magazine, took the risk of her career with the album and feature film “This Is Me… Now.” The record is end-to-end love songs about a journey of discovery that led Lopez to forgive herself, and made her ready to accept Affleck’s love once again. (The pair had been together from 2002 to 2004, and even got engaged; reunited, they first wed in a Nevada chapel in July 2022, an event chronicled in Lopez’s song “Midnight Tr...

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Cancer-Surviving Cricket Star Yuvraj Singh Biopic Set at India’s T-Series (EXCLUSIVE)

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By Naman Ramachandran According To The variety Cricket sensation Yuvraj Singh‘s remarkable journey from prodigy to World Cup hero to cancer survivor is getting the biopic movie treatment. Prolific Indian studio T-Series head Bhushan Kumar has revealed a film chronicling the life and career of the Indian cricketing icon, which captures Singh’s triumphs both on and off the field. Kumar, known for backing high-profile projects like “Animal,” “Drishyam 2,” “Kabir Singh” and “Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior,” is joining forces with producer Ravi Bhagchandka to bring Singh’s story to life. Bhagchandka will co-produce via 200 Not Out Cinema. The biopic marks the second time Bhagchandka has brought a cricketer’s life to the big screen, following the 2017 Sachin Tendulkar docu...

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Blink Twice’ Review: Zoë Kravitz Proves She’s a Total Filmmaker In a #MeToo-Meets-‘Midsommar’ Thriller Starring a Sinister Channing Tatum

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By Owen Gleiberman According To The variety Blink Twice” opens with a blurry close-up shot of a frog, which then comes into glistening focus. The sound is eerie; the image is sinister, fascinating, mysterious and trippy. That describes the movie as well. “Blink Twice” is the first feature directed by Zoë Kravitz, who also co-wrote it (with E.T. Feigenbaum), and it’s a post-#MeToo feminist party-girl nightmare thriller that’s been made with an unusual sense of intimacy. Kravitz, the veteran actor (“The Batman,” “Kimi,” “Big Little Lies”), doesn’t rely on the standard medium shot/POV pedestrian film grammar. She composes the movie out of vibrant close-ups, using each shot (a cocktail, a glance, a social-media cutaway) to tell a story, drawing us into the center of an encounter, so th...

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Julia Ormond Can Sue Disney and CAA for Failing to Protect Her From Harvey Weinstein

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By Gene Maddaus According To The variety A judge on Monday allowed Julia Ormond to proceed with allegations that Disney and CAA failed to protect her from Harvey Weinstein in the mid-90s. Suzanne J. Adams, a state court justice in Manhattan, denied the companies’ motions to dismiss the lawsuit, which claims that the entertainment conglomerate and the agency enabled Weinstein’s predatory behavior because he “made them too much money.” Ormond sued the companies last October, alleging that Weinstein sexually assaulted her in New York in December 1995. CAA represented Ormond the the time, and had negotiated a deal for her at Weinstein’s company, Miramax, which was owned by Disney. Miramax was also named as a defendant. The British actress rose to stard...

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John Aprea, ‘Godfather Part II’ and ‘Full House’ Actor, Dies at 83

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By Meredith Woerner According To The variety John Aprea, whose acting career landed him roles on “Godfather Part II” and “Full House,” died on Monday of natural causes in Los Angeles. He was 83. His death was confirmed by Will Levine, Aprea’s manager. Born in 1941 to Italian immigrants in Englewood, N.J., Aprea spent part of his early years in Italy before his family resettled back in the States. In the early 1960s, he set out to pursue his passion, acting, enrolling in Joshua Shelley’s acting classes (who also taught Mia Farrow and Jon Voight) in New York. Eventually, he would land a role in the 1968 Steve McQueen classic film Bullitt, playing Killer. After his splashy debut, Aprea found acting work on sets for the 1970s TV series “Mannix,” the 1970s film “The Grasshopper,” an...

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High-Stakes Netflix Drama ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’ From Anubhav Sinha Unveils Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)

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By Naman Ramachandran According To The variety Netflix India has unveiled the first trailer for its upcoming series “IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack.” The titular hijack occurred in December 1999 when an Indian Airlines flight was commandeered by militants en route from Kathmandu to New Delhi. The flight made multiple landings including at Amritsar, India, Lahore, Pakistan, Dubai and Kandahar, Afghanistan. The crisis lasted seven days. The drama, adapted from the book “Flight Into Fear” by Captain Devi Sharan and Srinjoy Chowdhury, explores the crisis from multiple angles, and offers a multifaceted look at the incident, showcasing the tense negotiations in Delhi’s War Room, the high-stakes diplomacy at Taliban-controlled Kandahar, and the terrifying ordeal faced by passengers and...

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