Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn has said that despite the overwhelming success of Disney’s Marvel movies it isn’t easy to convince actors to sign those six to nine movie contracts. Obviously one drawback is that kind of commitment ties an actor down for a lot of time that
Actor John Benjamin Hickey may be a star of stage and screen as well as television, but he is probably best known in recent years for playing Sean Tolkey on Showtime’s The Big C. Though the series ended in May 2013, Hickley hasn’t been off television screens for very long.
In recent roles in movies like Her and Under the Skin, Scarlett Johansson has made a concentrated effort to not appear as “Scarlett Johansson” (and in the case of Her, she didn’t appear at all). It’s difficult for an actress of her notoriety (and beauty) to disappear into a role
The list of professional wrestlers who have attempted acting careers is long, but the list of those who actually succeeded on the silver screen is very small. Of course, none have yet equaled the resume of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and only a few are even as popular on screen
She’s All That and Scooby-Doo star Freddie Prinze, Jr. does not appear on screen as much as he used to, and while he was at San Diego Comic-Con promoting Star Wars Rebels he has revealed why in a no-holds-barred way that reflects his current work experience with WWE. Prinze didn’t
Though Scarlett Johansson has been kicking butt in The Avengers movies as Black Widow, she has tended to star in dramatic films since her 2003 movie breakthrough Lost in Translation. However, in Lucy Johansson is finally starring as the lead in her first all-out action movie, which is directed by
Rubin spoke about what she looks for in casting a replacement actor and how prepared an actor should be for a first audition and a callback.
Zach Braff has gone from a fan favorite actor on the cult TV series Scrubs to indie filmmaker and Broadway star in only a few short years. While Braff has gained thousands of fans in the meantime, he also remains a target of ridicule for using Kickstarter to partially fund
Though the Jersey Boys movie hasn’t done well in theaters (so far it has grossed $56.6 million worldwide on a $40 million budget), in the past even poor performing movie adaptations of musicals that were currently on Broadway — such as the disastrous box office of the 2012 Rock of
Actors often have trouble committing to projects that might take several months of their time. However, Patricia Arquette and the cast of Boyhood has that beat — the movie was filmed in pieces over the course of twelve years as it follows the youth of a young boy, Mason, and
Christopher Eccleston is no stranger to TV — after all, he is the actor who brought Doctor Who back to life after a sixteen year absence and was also on another cult favorite TV series, Heroes — and he recently returned to the small screen in the HBO series The
Returning to Broadway after a thirteen year absence in the lead role of a popular musical is nerve-wracking enough. But how about finding out during intermission that your pregnant wife is having contractions? Actor Josh Tower, who stepped into the lead role of Berry Gordy in Motown The Musical on
Peter Cullen reveals the inspiration behind the voice he has used for Optimus Prime.
Few actors make Forbes‘ annual list of most powerful celebrities, but the ones who do have a lot of weight to throw around when it comes to making their movies. According to the magazine, the most powerful actor on the list is Robert Downey, Jr., who comes in at #10.
Both How I Met Your Mother‘s Josh Radnor and Boardwalk Empire‘s Gretchen Mol will make their Broadway returns after more than a decade absence in Disgraced, written by novelist and screenwriter Ayad Akhtar. Disgraced won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was previously produced in Chicago, London, and off-Broadway
With each performance Broadway’s Phantom of the Opera sets the record for longest-running Broadway show in history (it will cross 11,000 performances by the end of July), and the Phantom website boasts that more than 130 million people have seen a version of the musical in its various productions all
Holler If Ya Hear Me, the Broadway musical featuring the music of Tupac Shakur, might be the only new musical on Broadway this summer but unless there is a dramatic change in business soon it likely won’t last to see fall. According to The Broadway League, in its first three
One year ago Jane Lynch was in the middle of her eight week run of playing Miss Hannigan in Broadway’s Annie. It was Lynch’s long-awaited Broadway debut in a career that stretches back to the early 1980s. However, audiences didn’t have to wait that long to see Lynch back on
Indie It girl Greta Gerwig has made a return to the stage in New York in The Village Bike for the first time since she was a college student. In the play she stars as a pregnant woman with a husband uninterested in having sex with her who fulfills her
The term “icon” is often tossed around a bit too loosely by hyperbolic writers, but Clint Eastwood is certainly a person who deserves the term. He is not only a legendary actor, but has proven to be one of the most talented directors in Hollywood history. Now in his seventh
