Nicole Kidman and Anya Taylor-Joy praised each other during ‘The Northman’ premiere

Keith Urban is notoriously private when it comes to his family life with Nicole Kidman and their two daughters but he gave an update during a recent interview which will delight fans. The country music star is about to kickstart his tour in the UK and appeared on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show to talk about his music and his life behind closed doors. MORE: Nicole Kidman wows in elaborate designer dress alongside smitten Keith Urban The host read out a question from a fan who asked if Keith and Nicole would be "doing any more singing together" as they've previously gifted fans a Christmas duet and sung as a pair on social media. WATCH: Nicole Kidman and daughters surprise Keith Urban Keith responded: "Yeah I'm always for it. I think it would be something that made sense for us to do."While he didn't elaborate if it would be a professional duet or another sneak peek just for fun, listeners couldn't help but get their hopes up. MORE: Nicole Kidman's Oscars makeup artist says this genius tool is a "10-minute at-home face lift"MORE: Nicole Kidman as you've never seen her beforeZoe also asked if they sang as a family with daughters, Sunday Rose, and Faith, and he simply said: "Yeah".

Being the Ricardos, Roar, The Northman and more, Nicole Kidman is seriously booked and busy. MORE: Roar: viewers have same reaction to Nicole Kidman’s bizarre Apple TV+ showFrom film to television, the star has been launching and celebrating back to back projects, with The Northman having premiered less than a week ago, on 22 April, and her new dark comedy, Roar, premiering just a week before that, on 15 April.Even amid her busy schedule, the actress took a moment to honor two of the women that made one of her projects all the better.WATCH: The trailer for Apple TV's RoarMORE: Fans share concern for Nicole Kidman after latest postIn light of Woman Crush Wednesday, Nicole took to Instagram to share a sweet tribute to her The Northman co-stars, Anya Taylor-Joy, of The Queen's Gambit fame, and singer Björk.The post first featured a photo of the two actresses as they attended the film's premiere, with Nicole wearing a fabulous yellow dress with peach hued feathers, and Anya looking chic as ever in a white gown with stunning gold jewelry.The post also included two clips from The Northman, and her co-stars' transformations were so impressive, they beg to be seen on the big screen in theaters.A post shared by Nicole Kidman (@nicolekidman)The heartfelt tribute and shocking transformationsThe first is of Björk, who plays Seeress, looking unrecognizable as her eyes seem to be dripping black paint, and she appears wearing a headpiece with shells and long plants attached to it.MORE: Alexander Skarsgård talks relationship and reunion with The Northman co-star Nicole KidmanMORE: Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise's daughter wows with beach destination snapshotAnya on the other hand looks a little more recognizable, though just as

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterHollywood is often skewered for no longer making large-scale original epics like “The Northman,” director Robert Eggers’ bloody Viking tale about a warrior’s quest to avenge his father’s death.Yet Focus Features, Universal’s indie label, took a gamble, not only backing “The Northman” but releasing the film in theaters nationwide. Driven by positive reviews, the movie generated $12 million from 3,865 North American theaters over the weekend, enough to secure the No. 4 spot on domestic box office charts.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“The Northman,” a violent epic of Viking revenge, is not a good movie. It’s like “Gladiator” without the Colosseum and with a stubbornly uninteresting hulk avenger hero. (It also drags on 45 minutes longer than it should have.) A lot of critics have overpraised the movie because they feel invested in the career of Robert Eggers, the maverick indie director who made the spectral Puritan horror film “The Witch” (2015) and the even more impressive two-men-in-a-lighthouse gaga period fever dream “The Lighthouse” (2019).

AlexanderSkarsgård pushed himself to the limit to transform his body for his new film The Northman.In an interview with Variety, the 45-year-old actor's trainerMagnus Lygdback described the grueling fitness and diet regimen that the True Blood star underwent to play the role of the Viking Prince Amleth inRobert Eggers' action/adventure movie.'This character, his spiritual animals were a bear and wolf. So that is exactly what we were trying to embody in terms of Alex's build and movements,' Lygdback told the media outlet.

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Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“The Northman,” a blood-drenched viking epic from director Robert Eggers, pillaged $1.35 million in Thursday previews, while “The Bad Guys,” a kid-friendly spin on the heist genre, earned $1.15.Those aren’t the only new wide releases in town; they will also have to fend off “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” a very meta exercise in which Nicolas Cage stars as himself. It picked up $835,000 in Thursday previews.Universal’s indie label Focus released “The Northman,” which is projected to earn $10 million to $15 million in its first three days of release.

Zack Sharf Of all the images in Robert Eggers’ Viking epic “The Northman,” there’s no sight more jaw-dropping than that of Alexander Skarsgård’s bulging traps. The actor’s shoulders look like two protruding volcanoes ready to erupt. Skarsgård’s muscles are a testament to his work with Magnus Lygdback, the celebrity trainer who helped the actor pack on 20 pounds of muscle and transform into the hulking Viking warrior prince Amleth.Lygdback, who first worked with Skarsgård on the 2016 adventure film “The Legend of Tarzan,” is both an exercise trainer and a movement coach.

Universal had the most to boast last night at the box office, hitting the 18-34 arthouse demo with Robert Eggers’ Focus Features Viking epic, The Northman, which drew $1.35M last night in previews, and families with Dreamworks Animation’s The Bad Guys, which made $1.15M. 

The Northman (★★★☆☆) unfolds like the sort of epic that Viking warriors might have passed down for generations, sharing over horns of ale around a roaring fire: the haunting Legend of Prince Amleth.The exiled prince’s trials and adventures appear to have been shot by firelight, too. Writer-director Robert Eggers and his Oscar-nominated Lighthouse cinematographer Jarin Blaschke opt for enveloping the action in shadows and mist, the natural darkness of a northern land where winter nights are long, and the days short.Even the film’s climactic showdown, a naked sword fight by a lake of lava and fire, is depicted as a brutal clash between silhouettes backlit by flames.Rivals dueling on an erupting volcano forms a gorgeous tableau, but audiences might, for various reasons, wish they could actually see more of the combatants swinging their swords — especially the ferocious Amleth, embodied heartily by Alexander Skarsgård.The erstwhile Tarzan delivers a gruelingly physical performance, fighting, running, lifting, swimming, hauling, speaking primarily and most clearly through Amleth’s vivid body language.

A.D. Amorosi Without a doubt, Robert Eggers’ “The Northman” traffics in his now-usual brand of haunted atmospherics and wonky mysticism, a signature whose intensity is upped by the savage bloodlust of its characters and the vastitudes of his first big-budget epic with a price tag reportedly hovering between $70 million and $90 million.The only thing more intensely stressed than the dilemma of a Viking prince in the year 895 (avenging the death of his father, the king, at the hands of his jealous uncle who stole the prince’s mother as the spoils of war — or did she go willingly?) played to brutal, muscular perfection by Alexander Skarsgård, is the all-consuming dedication of its tactile production design, its brooding, cinematographic ambiance and the craftsmanship of its furry, hierarchical costuming.

After “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse,” director Robert Eggers brings his passion for meticulous historical recreation and his interest in the (often tortured) psyches of past generations to the violent and epic world of Vikings in “The Northman” (read our review). Unlike actor Alexander Skarsgård, who plays the film’s eponymous hero (read our interview with the actor here), Eggers was never particularly inspired by these ruthless people before the idea for the movie was suggested to him — which only makes his achievement on “The Northman” more impressive.

Alexander Skarsgård is gearing up for the wide release of his latest project, the historical epic drama The Northman, opposite Anya Taylor-Joy, Willem Dafoe, and Nicole Kidman.MORE: Alexander Skarsgard unveils new bold look! See picturesFor Alexander and Nicole, the film serves as a happy reunion, having worked together previously on the HBO drama Big Little Lies.VIDEO: Nicole Kidman wows with incredible transformation for new roleWhile the two play mother and son in the epic, they garnered acclaim for their performances as an abusive married couple in the TV series, having even won Golden Globes and Emmys for their portrayals.Speaking to Vanity Fair at the premiere event for The Northman, Alexander opened up about his relationship with the Oscar winning actress.MORE: Nicole Kidman and Alexander Skarsgard share kiss at Emmys"Nicole and I have another dark, twisted, dysfunctional relationship," he quipped about their roles in the movie."There really is no one I'd rather go into those dark territories than with Nicole. We did build a very strong bond from Big Little Lies," he explained.  The two played husband and wife in Big Little Lies"It demanded so much trust, and now she's a dear friend.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterNicolas Cage is back… not that he went anywhere.The actor’s latest movie “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” a meta comedy in which he plays a fictionalized version of himself, is one of several films opening nationwide over the weekend. It’ll compete against director Robert Eggers’ Viking epic “The Northman” and Universal and DreamWorks’ animated family film “The Bad Guys,” as well as last weekend’s champion “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.”Unless ticket sales crash in week two, “The Secrets of Dumbledore,” the third chapter in the “Harry Potter” spinoff series, should retain the domestic box office crown.

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Alexander Skarsgård does not simply play the eponymous man of the North in Robert Eggers’ Viking epic “The Northman” — the Swedish actor essentially knocked the first domino down in the process of turning the project into a reality, convincing Eggers to delve into a history the director previously had no interest in. The result, in ways not completely dissimilar to Eggers’ 2019, somehow pre-lockdown cabin fever freakout “The Lighthouse” is a rousing and maniacal portrait of raging masculinity and hot-blooded violence: in his most physically demanding and biggest film role since 2016’s “The Legend of Tarzan,” Skarsgård tears through villages as a berserker and pursues vengeful retribution on the uncle who tore his family apart.

Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise's daughter, Bella, swapped London in favor of a tropical location and the vacation photo she shared was envy-inducing. The UK-based artist rarely posts personal photos on Instagram, but the blue sky and sun-drenched beach location was too much not to share. MORE: Bella Cruise rocks supershort hair in futuristic selfie Bella – who was adopted by the former couple during their 11-year-marriage – took to social media and delighted her followers with a scenic image taken on the beach. WATCH: Bella Cruise surprises fans with patriotic video from London The sun was bright and the waves were rolling in and the photo sparked a huge reaction from her fans. "Soooo dreamy," wrote one, while another added: "Absolutely beautiful. So tranquil," and a third said: "So beautiful Bella".MORE: Nicole Kidman looks unreal in latest throwback photo MORE: Nicole Kidman facing health setback after suffering painful injury: detailsBella is likely on a well-deserved getaway with her husband, Max Parker, to whom she has been married since 2015.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterTaylor Sheridan is the first to admit that the number of series he is fielding for various Paramount platforms is “excessive.”“This volume of work is not sustainable for a long period of time,” the “Yellowstone” co-creator says. “But it’s an opportunity to tell stories the way I want to tell them with a creative freedom that just doesn’t exist in this space.

Robert Eggers‘ viking epic “The Northman” in Northern Ireland may not have been the most pleasant experience for the cast and crew due to the brutal weather and dangerous landscape, but the stars of the film wouldn’t have it any other way.“I do not complain ever really,” Anya Taylor-Joy told Variety at the Los Angeles premiere at TCL Chinese Theatre on Monday night. “There was one day when the mud came up to about my knees and it had frozen,” Taylor-Joy said. “I essentially squeaked out a ‘Please can we roll?’ and Robert was like, ‘Oh, Anya is asking if we can roll, we should roll.’ But we did it, it’s in the movie and it looks great.”Taylor-Joy looks back at the shoot fondly despite the hardships.

Roar, a new series on AppleTV+ made by the creators of and produced by Nicole Kidman answers this question. The show, out on AppleTV+ now, is an anthology series and each of the eight episodes stands alone, like a vivid short story. One episode starring and written by Janine Nabers is a chilling sci-fi thriller about racism in “nice” white liberal spaces.

Writer/director Robert Eggers returns with his third feature film, “The Northman,” after giving us arresting genre thrillers like “The Witch” and “The Lighthouse.” His new movie takes us 1,000 years into the past with a young Viking prince who witnesses his father’s murder and his kingdom stolen, only to return years later to intact a path of violence and revenge which is based on the original Scandinavian tale that directly influenced “Hamlet.” Focus Features has released a short red band trailer (See below) ahead of “The Northman” swinging into theaters this week, focusing on heroic character Amleth’s brutal journey towards his goal of revenge within this visually stunning setting.