Who doesn’t like Idris Elba? He’s often one of the best parts of any project he’s associated with, and Pacific Rim is no different. In the film he stars as the leader of the international robot resistance force.
There are plenty of naysayers who seem to think Pacific Rim is some kind of Transformers ripoff, but they must not be paying attention. First of all, Pacific Rim has a lot more in common with Godzilla movies and, more importantly, it is directed by visionary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro.
It’s almost a throwback to the days of the radio drama: actors who primarily act with their voice in audiobooks. And now that audiobook sales are booming, an actor can actually now make a steady income by reading aloud. The New York Times recently profiled New York City actress Gabra
Considering Disney put a halt on pre-production of The Lone Ranger in 2011 because of its ballooning budget, it makes sense that the production would end up hiring lesser-known actors for the supporting roles. English actress Ruth Wilson plays the Ranger’s love interest — but the wife of his brother (played by Armie Hammer and James Badge Dale, respectively). She is best known for her appearances in BBC television movies and the series Luther.
Captain Jack Sparrow never had to contend with horses on the high seas, but Tonto, the Lone Ranger’s trusty sidekick, does. Johnny Depp, who stars as Tonto in Disney’s new film version of The Lone Ranger, revealed
Believe it or not, Johnny Depp is fifty. Doesn’t it seem not that long ago that he was making hedge sculptures in Edward Scissorhands? Yeah, that was over twenty years ago.
Bette Midler just wrapped a hugely successful run on Broadway in Sue Mengers: I’ll Eat You Last (trust us, it was one of the most successful examples of “star casting” in recent years), her first appearance on Broadway since 1980.
Actors Access, where the actresses discovered the audition, removed May the Best Man Win from its listings and has decided to permanently ban the film’s casting director, Paul Baker, from the service.
Bill Hader, who starred in and co-wrote the sketch, describes the sketch as a “trainwreck.”
I can’t imagine many people ever wanted to hear someone say that to them, but if you just happen to look like one of history’s most hated men The History Channel might have a job for you.
It’s amazing what bits of pop culture history get rediscovered once people start looking in their closets, attics, and garages. One of the latest finds are tapes recorded by Orson Welles several years before his death that he planned to use to write an autobiography (which he never finished).
Armie Hammer has had quite a rise in Hollywood — after small roles in film and television audiences got a double dose of him in The Social Network (he played twins). After a handful of other roles, including opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in J. Edgar, Hammer has been launched into super-stardom in Disney’s Lone Ranger alongside Johnny Depp.
An actress who starred in a commercial about filing a lawsuit has now filed a lawsuit against the ad agency who shot it.
New Yorkers and tourists know that one of the best ways to score discount tickets to Broadway performances is Times Square’s TKTS Booth, which just celebrated its fortieth anniversary as a New York City institution this month.
Michelle Rodriguez might be best known for starring in numerous movies in The Fast & The Furious franchise, but her original ambition was to become a writer. Though she has yet to write a film,
Many people do not know that Samuel L. Jackson had significant substance abuse problems that derailed his acting career for many years before his 1990s breakthrough.
Debate continues to go on about whether or not established celebrities have the “right” to use crowd sourcing funding websites like Kickstarter to fund their projects after a Veronica Mars movie and Zach Braff’s next movie received significant funding through the website on the behalf of fans’ donations.
Remember that scene in Brüno when Sacha Baron Cohen is auditioning babies for an increasingly ridiculous and degrading photoshoot and the attention-starved parents agree to feature their child in anything
So the rumors were not true: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and True Blood star Christopher Meloni did not play Lex Luthor in Man of Steel in what fans speculated to be a closely-guarded secret. Instead, Meloni played Colonel Nathan Hardy, one of the many American soldiers faced with dealing with a battle of super-beings.
History has shown that child actors on film and television often face tremendous “growing pains,” with many of them spiraling into drug and alcohol abuse and falling prey (in a variety of terrible ways) to older people that they trust.
