Denzel Washington: Last News

Denzel Washington is heading for Wakanda.

Denzel Washington is booked and busy – dropping some details we didn’t know, including when he’s retiring, too.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Denzel Washington revealed in August that “there are very few films” left for him to make at this stage in his Oscar-winning career, but now he’s revealing that “Black Panther 3″ is one of them. Speaking to Australia’s “Today” while on the press tour for “Gladiator II,” Washington said that director Ryan Coogler is writing him a role in the third “Black Panther” film. It will be one of Washington’s final movies along with a new Steve McQueen project and a film adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Othello.” “For me it’s about the filmmakers.

Naman Ramachandran Studiocanal’s third “Paddington” instalment, “Paddington in Peru,” delivered a commanding £9.6 million ($12.3 million) opening weekend at the U.K. and Ireland box office, per numbers from Comscore. “Paddington in Peru” scored the biggest opening of the year for a British-produced film, the biggest opening in the territory for the franchise and is Studiocanal’s highest U.K.

House of Gucci” was devoured by lions; the gauche “Napoleon” decapitated. And “The Last Duel” hemorrhaged gallons of blood (and millions of dollars).But he’s finally notched a win with “Gladiator II,” the enjoyable follow-up to his Best Picture Oscar winner from 2000 that’s not so much long-awaited as it is suddenly here.Honestly — who ever thought there’d be another “Gladiator”?Is it an essential continuation of the story of Russell Crowe’s fallen fighter Maximus? Eh, not really.

Sir Ridley Scott didn’t make his first feature film (1977’s The Duellists) when he was already 40 years old. The director, turning 87 at the end of this month, has not wasted any time making up for that late start with a remarkable array of landmark films including Blade Runner, Alien, Thelma And Louise, The Martian, Black Hawk Down and on and on. Coming off the massive Napoleon he jumped right into another epic project with a sequel 24 years after 2000’s Gladiator became his only Best Picture Oscar winner to date (however he lost Best Director to the double nominated Steven Soderbergh that year). Scott has generally resisted going the sequel route to his films with his 2012 Prometheus and 2017 Alien: Covenant proving the exception, although those two films completing his so-called Alien trilogy came respectively 33 years and 28 years after his much imitated 1979 hit, Alien. In between he left it to others including James Cameron to take on the mantle on that one before considering revisiting that particular world.

no bueno for the ceremony, which has seen its ratings cut in half over a cruel decade of cord-cutting and disinterest.Too bad, because last year things were looking up with “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie.” Big hits, big stars, real emotional investment from movie fans.This award season, hobbled by the 2023 Hollywood strikes that delayed production and whole projects, is a total about-face from that.Most pundits can barely agree on more than a few films that will be nominated. “Anora,” “Conclave,” “Emila Perez” (starring Selena Gomez), “Dune: Part Two” and “The Brutalist” are pretty safe bets, but there are five more slots for some dumb reason.Consider that by Nov. 3, 2023, we’d already seen every eventual Best Picture nominee at either a festival or normal movie theater, and there was a general consensus on what would be honored.Everybody knew that “Oppenheimer,” which grossed nearly $1 billion, would probably win.

Queen Camilla will be absent from all Remembrance events this weekend due to a chest infection, as confirmed by Buckingham Palace.The Palace had previously stated on Friday that her attendance would depend on medical advice closer to the time. Meanwhile, it was announced that the Princess of Wales would accompany King Charles and Prince William at the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph and the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall.

Joaquin Phoenix made his breakout performance in 2000’s Gladiator, which earned him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Gladiator II director Ridley Scott opened up about how close we came to getting Barry Keoghan in the movie.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Gladiator II” star and “Aftersun” Oscar nominee Paul Mescal recently spoke to The Sunday Times and railed against labeling films as “content.” He called the descriptor a “filthy word,” one that seemingly does not apply to movies such as Ridley Scott’s long-awaited “Gladiator” sequel due to its cinematic craftsmanship. It was also not made solely with the goal of boosting social media followers and engagement. “Over the last few years people have been talking about films as content.

Paul Mescal has said he hates films being called “content”, describing it as a “filthy word.”The actor made his comments in a new interview with The Times while promoting his new film, Gladiator II, which is released in cinemas later this month.Speaking about content and the difference between that and the craft of acting, the actor explained: “Over the last few years people have been talking about films as content. That’s a filthy word.

Paul Mescal wasn’t in attendance at the premiere of his new movie Gladiator II in Tokyo, even though he was in town the day before for the press conference.

The stars of the Gladiator sequel have arrive in Japan!

EXCLUSIVE: Danielle Deadwyler achieved  “artistic love” working with director Malcom Washington and his sibling John David Washington on the screen adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Piano Lesson.

Mark Schilling Japan Correspondent A quartet of stars, headed by Paul Mescal and Denzel Washington, were on hand Monday in Tokyo to celebrate “Gladiator II” and its master filmmaker Ridley Scott. Mescal, who plays the gladiator Lucius, said that what separates “Gladiator II” from “Gladiator” is that Scott, who also directed the original 2000 film, “had more resources at his disposal and put them to great use.” “There’s no better director for focusing on an audience’s sense of entertainment than Ridley Scott,” he said.

Cobra Kai, Emilia Pérez, The Piano Lesson and Arcane are among some of the most anticipated additions to Netflix US in November.The Karate Kid spin-off series Cobra Kai returns for the second load of episodes of its sixth and final season, which is spread across three instalments, on November 15. Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and former rival Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) find themselves heading to a major karate tournament in Spain, where they unexpectedly encounter a mutual enemy.Other highlights this month include the French musical crime comedy movie Emilia Pérez, which drops on November 13. Written and directed by Jacques Audiard, the film combines cartel crime thrills with telenovela-style melodrama with its three leading ladies Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón and Selena Gomez.

We’ve reached the end of another long week. But before we clock out for the weekend, we’re giving props where they’re due.

Saoirse Ronan has said she doesn’t feel safe going to watch films at cinemas in the US because of gun violence.The four-time Oscar nominee told Variety for their Awards Circuit Podcast that she finds it “horrifying” that she’s scared to go to the cinema because of gun violence. In the US, there have been several shootings at cinemas including at screenings of The Dark Knight Rises in 2012 and Trainwreck in 2015.Ronan explained: “There are people I’m close to who don’t feel safe and can’t go to New York anymore because they’re just randomly getting attacked in the street for TikTok content.“I don’t feel safe going to the cinema because I’m not sure if someone’s going to pull a gun out.

The Hollywood Reporter that the film’s idea is “total Hollywood bulls–t.”Written by David Scarpa, the sequel to the Russell Crowe-led 2000 historical epic showcases the world over two decades later.Paul Mescal plays the grown-up Lucius Verus II, the son of Crowe’s character, Maximus, whom Spencer Treat Clark portrayed in the original film. Lucius is the son of Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) and nephew of Commodus, who was originally played by Joaquin Phoenix.In the film’s trailer, one scene shows the Colosseum in Rome being flooded and filled with sharks.“I don’t think Romans knew what a shark was,” said Bartsch, who boasts degrees from Princeton, Harvard and UC Berkeley.Bartsch did note that the Romans really did fill the Colosseum with water for various naval battles.Another scene from the film shows rhinos charging into the Colosseum, which Bartsch notes is only partially accurate.Bartsch explained that Martial, a Roman poet, “wrote a poem in 80 AD about a rhinoceros tossing a bull up to the sky” — however it would have been a single-horned rhino and not a two-horned one shown in the film.The historian noted that Scott got the news element wrong in the film, explaining that Romans did not read newspapers while sipping tea in a cafe, because newspapers were invented some 1,200 years later.“They did have daily news — Acta Diuma — but it was carved and placed at certain locations,” she told the outlet.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Asian Persuasion,” the film directing debut of three-time Tony Award- and Grammy-winning producer Jhett Tolentino, has set North American distribution and will have a sales launch at the imminent American Film Market. Hawaii-based Scatena & Rosner Films has acquired the worldwide rights to the romantic comedy. The film tells the story of a lovable underachiever who hatches an outrageous scheme to avoid paying alimony to his fashion-executive ex-wife. Scatena & Rosner Films will release the film itself in the North American or ‘domestic’ market and has earmarked a Spring 2025 date.