On this date in 1963, Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds was first released in New York. While star Tippi Hedren had many terrible experiences while filming the movie…
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Forty-three years ago today, The Godfather premiered in New York City. So today, we celebrate Robert De Niro.
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As one of the best high school films of the 1990s, Dazed and Confused features plenty of stars in their earliest roles. However, the most memorable actor in the film is undoubtedly Matthew McConaughey
Though it’s not the cultural juggernaut it was in its second and third seasons, Glee will be returning for its sixth and final season on January 9 with a two-hour final season premiere. The show’s primary breakthrough star during its entire run is undoubtedly Lea Michele, who went from a
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9YsztY65V4 Yesterday, This Is Our Youth starring Michael Cera ended its limited engagement on Broadway. It was Cera’s Broadway debut. The Juno actor has come a long way since his first movie starring role in 2007’s Superbad. Here is a clip from his Superbad audition. It features Cera auditioning with
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q2sUV_eHfI Rose Byrne might be starring in the remake of Annie, which opens today, but before she starred in the 2010 comedy Get Him to the Greek she was mainly known for supporting roles and appearing on the TV drama Damages. She’s since appeared in the comedies Bridesmaids, The Internship,
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Benedict Cumberbatch is one of the hottest actors this awards-show season with his turn in The Imitation Game garnering a lot of buzz. The obsession around the talented and quirky actor has reached a fever pitch as of late, so it’s fun to watch the Brit’s audition tape for The
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5fd95h4HCs Though Aaron Paul stars in Exodus: Gods and Kings, which is being released today, it’s hard to fathom that he’ll ever be more associated with a role as he is with Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad. The role has made Paul a three-time Emmy winner. But before the awards
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Jim Carrey returns to one of his zaniest and most famous movie characters in Dumb and Dumber To, which comes out in theaters today. Though watch Dumb and Dumber To might bring you back to 1994, this audition tape of Carrey’s for Man on the Moon might bring you back
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Considering his barbarian-like looks, it’s hard to believe that Jason Momoa had to audition to play Khal Drogo on Game of Thrones. But the Wolves star was required to audition, so he appealed to producers by showing his warlike side: he performed the Haka, a Māori war dance. It’s intense,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m173M3mG1w Emma Stone makes her Broadway performance debut today in the first preview of Cabaret, taking over the role from Michelle Williams. It’s probably quite nerve-wracking for Stone to debut in such a high-profile role, especially since the first few years of her screen acting career consisted of bit parts
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New York theatergoers are undoubtedly excited that Hugh Jackman will be back on Broadway with The River, which begins previews tonight. Even though the Tony Award-winner won’t be singing and dancing in the Jez Butterworth play, Jackman always commands top ticket prices. While most of that has to do with
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2lRdkNGDcY Fifty-nine years ago today (October 27, 1955), Rebel Without a Cause starring James Dean was released. An oft-repeated bit of trivia about the film is that Marlon Brando auditioned for Dean’s role in the film. However, that isn’t entirely accurate. Brando, who was seven years Dean’s senior and was
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIIdyjPG8ZE Ellen Page‘s Kitty Pride might not have had the biggest role in this year’s blockbuster X-Men: Days of Future Past (now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD), but ever since her 2005 breakthrough movie Hard Candy Page has been a popular actress. To date, her most popular film is
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS0VPBUbBbo Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day actress Jennifer Garner might be married to the new Batman, Ben Affleck, in real life, but the couple actually met each other when Affleck was playing another superhero, Daredevil, in the 2003 adaptation of the Marvel comics character. In
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Fifty-nine years ago (September 30, 1955), Hollywood legend James Dean was killed in a car accident. Along with the memorable performances in the three films that he starred in, his death at only age 24 quickly pushed him to an eternal iconic status of cool. He is the only actor
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYjUtmMl3W4 Chef, in which new mother Scarlett Johnasson played a supporting role, was released on Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD this week. While she might be taking a brief break from acting after filming Avengers: Age of Ultron to enjoy motherhood, she’s never too far from the Hollywood spotlight. In fact,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TUbrAkHqM8 With this year’s comedy hit Neighbors being released on Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD this week, it’s interesting to take a look back at the humble beginnings of the movie’s leading man, Seth Rogen. Before he was starring in films like Knocked Up and This Is the End, Rogen first
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The fortieth season of Saturday Night Live premieres this Saturday with guest host Chris Pratt. The show is expected to celebrate its four-decade history throughout the season, but what better way to start that by checking out original cast member John Belushi‘s screen test for the series? In the video,
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sII9sBG94mk] Check out Robin Wright auditioning for the role of Jenny from Forest Gump opposite Tom Hanks. Interestingly enough, Hanks doesn’t quite have Gump’s southern drawl down just yet while the other actors audition with him. In fact, Hanks would base Gump’s voice on the voice of Michael Conner Humphreys,
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