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John Travolta has reflected on the "planetarily epic" 'Pulp Fiction' three decades on from its release. The 70-year-old actor experienced a career renaissance after portraying hitman Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film and recalled how audiences were key to the film's slow-burn success. Speaking to People at the 30th anniversary event in Hollywood on Thursday (18.04.24), John said: "It was epic and it evolved. "The audiences made this movie what it was, and it wasn't overnight. It took about a year of evolution. In those days, movies stayed in the theatres for over a year. So, by the...
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Most actors are lucky if they get to play one iconic character known by basically every human being on Earth. Chris Pratt already has Mario from Super Mario Bros. under his belt, and now he’s adding the world’s most famous lasagna-eating cat Garfield to his resume. If you want a big name actor to play a really well-known character in an animated movie based on something else, you get Pratt. This new animated Garfield movie — the last franchise based on the long-running comic strip was a live-action / animation hybrid, with Bill Murray providing Garfield’s voice — features Pratt and a shockingl...
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Dave Bautista has been cast in the action-adventure movie 'Afterburn'. The 55-year-old star will feature alongside Samuel L. Jackson in the post-apocalyptic set story that is being directed by J.J. Perry. The plot takes place 10 years after a solar flare has wiped out technology across the world and Bautista plays the role of former soldier Jake – who works as a treasure hunter recovering valuable items for powerful clients. His new mission is to team up with freedom fighter Drea to recover the Mona Lisa before an unhinged warlord gets their hands on the famous painting. The film is adapted fr...
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Pierce Brosnan has pleaded not guilty to two charges over allegations he hiked into prohibited areas of Yellowstone National Park. The 70-year-old former James Bond star is accused of wandering into two areas of the park which are closed to the public during a day out there on November 1 with the actor facing citations for walking in a thermal area and for hiking into the Mammoth Terraces - a pocket of hot springs which are described as both delicate and dangerous. According to Cowboystatedaily.com, Brosnan entered his plea at the U.S. District Court for Wyoming on January 4 via paper filing. ...
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'Shaft' star Richard Roundtree has died aged 81 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. The actor - best known for playing suave detective John Shaft in 1971 action movie 'Shaft' and its sequel - passed away on Tuesday (24.10.23) at his home in Los Angeles surrounded by his loved ones. A statement from the actor's agency confirmed the sad news to People.com: "Artists and Representatives Agency mourns the loss of our friend and client Richard Roundtree. His trailblazing career changed the face of entertainment around the globe and his enduring legacy will be felt for generations to come. Our hea...
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Samuel L. Jackson, Pierce Brosnan and Brandon Lessard are starring in 'Unholy Trinity'. The trio have boarded Richard Gray's Western which is currently shooting in Montana after securing a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement that enables work on the project to continue despite the ongoing actors' strike. The movie is described as a tale of revenge, dark secrets and buried treasures. It picks up in the moments before the execution of Isaac Broadway as he instructs his estranged son Henry (Lessard) to murder the man who framed him for a crime he did not commit. Determined to fulfil his father's wish, He...
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Nicol Paone believes Uma Thurman is the perfect person to play Patrice in 'The Kill Room'. The 53-year-old actress has been reunited with Samuel L. Jackson for the new thriller film, and Nicol - the movie's director - believes Uma is perfectly suited to the role of Patrice, an art dealer who gets involved with a money laundering scheme. Nicol told Collider: "It was because I was hounding Danielle Thomas, who is a partner at Untitled, to read the script. I just was bothering her for about a year thinking it's right up her alley. I know she'll love it, she's an art collector, she’s a big Broadwa...
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'The Kill Room' was rewritten in a day for Samuel L. Jackson. Director Nicol Paone has revealed how finding out Jackson was available meant the script needed reworking just before Christmas to make the character more suited to the Hollywood megastar's style of acting. She told Collider: "That role is really interesting because it was written as Herschel, a 72-year-old Jewish man. "And when we were discussing the casting, Uma [Thurman] texted me, 'Is Sam Jackson an option?' And I was like, 'Are you kidding? Of course.' "And so Jonathan and I had a day to rewrite the script before the Christmas ...
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Samuel L. Jackson is in talks to play the US president in 'The Beast'. The 74-year-old actor is set to join Joel Kinnaman in the first significant project to be revealed for the Toronto International Film Festival. The film was packaged prior to the Hollywood actors' strikes kicking off and has an interim agreement with SAG-AFTRA to continue pre-production. The movie's title refers to the presidential limousine that is nicknamed 'The Beast' by the Secret Service. The impenetrable vehicle is stocked with grenades, shotguns, armour plating and bombproofing. When a hostile militia coordinates a c...
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Samuel L. Jackson fought to keep the 'Snakes on a Plane' film title from being changed. The actor starred in the 2006 action horror which features passengers fighting a horde of venomous villains which had been placed on the aircraft by a gang boss in an attempt to cause a crash - and he's now revealed studio bosses wanted to give the film a more generic name to keep the snakes a secret but he wasn't happy about it. Speaking to Vulture, the 74-year-old actor explained he was excited about signing on for the movie because of the title, saying: "When I heard about 'Snakes on a Plane', I had just...
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