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San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend.In a clip from her interview with MTV’s Josh Horowitz, Curtis was asked which phase the MCU is in right now.“Bad,” she bluntly responded.Horowitz was shocked by Curtis’ comment, as the actress and her “Borderlands” costars all burst out laughing. After the remark made headlines, Curtis issued an apology on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday.“My comments about Marvel were stupid and I will do better,” the “Freaky Friday” star wrote.“I’ve reached out to Kevin Feige and will no longer play in that mud slinging sandbox of competition we call the internet nor will I engage in the toilet paper promotion or game play that is designed for clicks not content or conversation,” she added.Curtis, who has never appeared in a Marvel movie, previously shaded 2022’s “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness” while praising her own multiverse film, “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”“Is it JUST me? Does it seem STRANGE that our tiny movie that could and did and continues to do ##1movieinamerica and is TRULY MARVELOUS, out marvels any Marvel movie they put out there,” Curtis wrote on Instagram, calling out the similarities between the posters for the films which came out two months apart.She continued: “@everythingeverywheremovie has a Marvel movie coming out with a copycat poster? Is this one of those Internet feuds? All I’ll say is we would SLAY in a family feud contest @familyfeud with the Doctor Strange strangers.

BBC wrote that a movie “needs to have a plot, a bit of credible characterization, and a structure that preferably includes a beginning, middle and end. ‘Horizon’ doesn’t have any of those.”Variety slammed Costner’s film as “meandering,” and said it “seldom seems to aim in a clear direction,” while IndieWire said, “These aren’t characters so much as the spokes of a plot in human form, each of their storylines moving as if being pulled by horses across the entire span of the American West.”The Post movie critic Johnny Oleksinski wrote, “I could not fathom committing another 540 minutes of my time to this bloated ego trip,” referring to how “Horizon” was planned to be four parts.

was announced as Doctor Doom, the main antagonist in the next two “Avengers” films (2026’s “Avengers: Doomsday” and 2027’s “Avengers: Secret Wars”), at Comic-Con over the weekend.The actor previously played Tony Stark/Iron Man until the beloved hero was killed off in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.”Doctor Doom is replacing Kang the Conqueror as the main villain in the film franchise. Kang was played by Majors, who was dumped by the Disney-owned studio late last year after he was found guilty of assault and harassment but received no jail time.Majors, 34, broke his silence on the casting news while chatting with TMZ on Tuesday. He told the reporter he’s “heartbroken” over Downey Jr.

People while promoting his new Audible Original, “Blues Brothers.”Marketed as “Ghostbusters: Answer the Call,” the comedy rebooted the original and cast women to play the main parts, prompting intense criticism from misogynist trolls before it was even released. “I liked the movie [director] Paul Feig made with those spectacular women,” Aykroyd, 72, said. “I was mad at them at the time, because I was supposed to be a producer on there and I didn’t do my job and I didn’t argue about costs.

Josh Harnett revealed the “unhelpful” advice he received from his “Oppenheimer” co-star Matt Damon while promoting his new film “Trap” on “The Tonight Show” on Wednesday. “He gave me a lot of good advice. One in particular — one thing that was just so unhelpful: He told me not to gain the weight I’d already gained for the role,” he told the host.

“Deadpool & Wolverine” — and made a subtle joke about her personal life.Spoilers below for “Deadpool & Wolverine.” Jennifer Garner makes a cameo as Elektra, the role she debuted in 2003’s “Daredevil” and reprised in 2005’s “Elektra.”She starred in “Daredevil” opposite Ben Affleck, who she went on to marry and have three children with before their split in 2015. In “Deadpool 3,” Elektra shows up to rescue Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds), Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), Gambit (Channing Tatum), X-23 (Dafne Keen) and others from the villain Cassandra Nova (Emma Corrin).Elektra says that other heroes, including her longtime love Daredevil (Affleck), have been killed by Cassandra already. Daredevil tells Elektra he’s sorry about Daredevil’s death.“It’s fine,” she replies with a shrug.

said in a statement on Instagram. “Therefore, I won’t be doing any more acting or making public appearances, doing any more interviews or signing any more autographs as of today.”The actor added: “It’s been a fun ride but getting older is no fun.”When Sean Connery first departed from the 007 franchise after 1967’s “You Only Live Twice,” Lazenby, an Australian model with no performance experience, was producers Albert R.

“Wonka” star taking on the role of the legendary musician. “Your singing is PERFECTION.

getting ripped to shreds by critics.While retaking its cinematic crown will be a challenge, “Deadpool & Wolverine” is a giant, promising step forward for the franchise.Director Shawn Levy’s laugh-a-second movie is easily the best Marvel has delivered since 2021’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” and provides similarly nostalgic pleasures in its whiplash-inducing number of retro cameos — none of which I’ll spoil, for fear of my own life.Safer to reveal is that since the events of 2018’s “Deadpool 2,” Wade has been wading through his daily routine, lacking heroic purpose.Meta as ever, he also gives us a corporate refresher course. “Disney bought Fox, there was a boring rights issue, blahdeddy blah,” Deadpool says.

“Happy Sad Confused” podcast, Glen Powell suggested he knows when filming begins for the follow-up to “Top Gun: Maverick.”“I mean, I have a date,” Powell, 35, said, when asked about “Top Gun 3” by host Josh Horowitz.When pressed for more details, the actor humorously responded, “Absolutely not,” and suggested they move on to the next question.Since “Top Gun: Maverick” released in 2022, Powell and other stars, such as Tom Cruise and Miles Teller, have been fielding questions regarding when the follow-up will begin production.News broke in January that Paramount Pictures was officially developing a third “Top Gun” movie. Powell appeared at the Sundance Film Festival to screen “Hit Man” that month, where he was asked questions about the newest film in the franchise.

Deadpool & Wolverine,” the third film in the Ryan Reynolds-led series but the first for the Disney-owned Marvel Cinematic Universe, breaks a curse-word record.The threequel, out Friday, July 26, includes more than 100 F-bombs — 116 by The Post’s count — which is the most of any “Deadpool” film so far. The second entry, released in 2018, featured a mere 90.

Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga put on a bloody show as they sing and dance through Arkham State Hospital in the latest trailer for “Joker: Folie à Deux.” The new speak peek dropped on July 23 after a 24-hour live stream hosted by Warner Bros, and it showcases Joker’s “trial of the century” in the sequel to Todd Phillips’ “Joker” (2019), as he faces the consequences for his actions in the original film.But this time around, Phoenix, 49, as the disturbed Joker in Arthur Fleck, now finds a partner-in-crime in Gaga’s Harley Quinn. The trailer opens with Quinn saying: “When I first saw Joker — when I saw you — for once in my life, I didn’t feel so alone anymore,” before showing any of the malicious acts from the duo.Their tumultuous journey then unfolds with scenes of dance and mischief, with Harley encouraging Joker through his ventures into entertainment and violence.“You can do anything you want … you’re Joker,” she tells him.Phillips, 53, returns to direct the sequel after the 2019 original was majorly successful.

“Deadpool & Wolverine,” the crossover blockbuster that opens in theaters on Friday.Reynolds — who stars as Deadpool opposite Hugh Jackman as Wolverine — went on a Madge mission with director Shawn Levy, making an in-person plea to the Queen of Pop for the prized permission to feature her 1989 No. 1 hit in a key scene.“It did involve a personal visit to Madonna, where we showed Madonna the sequence where ‘Like a Prayer’ would be used,” said Levy during an interview on Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM radio show.“Also, let’s preface it with the fact that they don’t license — that Madonna doesn’t just license the song, particularly that song,” added Reynolds about the seventh of the singer’s 12 No.

Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones play stormchasers Tyler Owens and Kate Cooper in the new film “Twisters,” a sequel to the 1996 original. The two actors have undeniable chemistry in the movie, but surprisingly don’t seal the happy ending with a kiss.In an interview with Collider, Powell, 35, and Edgar-Jones, 26, revealed that the decision for their characters to avoid any PDA is thanks to advice from executive producer Steven Spielberg.“I think it’s a Spielberg note, wasn’t it? Do you know what it is? I think it stops the film feeling too cliched, actually,” the “Normal People” actress told Collider. “I think there’s something really wonderful about it feeling like there’s a continuation.

Cheng Pei-pei died in the San Francisco Bay area on Thursday. She was 78.The “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” actress had been suffering from a degenerative brain disease, her representatives at Echelon Talent Management confirmed in a statement to People.The Shanghai, China native’s family also spoke out in a Facebook post.“It is with a heavy heart that we announce that the rumors are true.

he told USA Today. “It’s very taxing stuff.”At 2,722 feet tall, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is the tallest structure in the world.Child’s play for Cruise.In an eight-minute sequence in 2011’s “Ghost Protocol,” the actor slowly ascends the outside of the actual building, hanging only from a wire, and then terrifyingly plummets down.“Somebody said, ‘What if the cable breaks?’ ” stunt coordinator Gregg Smrz told Yahoo Entertainment.

Manny Jacinto, 36, is speaking out about “Top Gun: Maverick” cutting down his part. “It’s flattering that there was a little bit of an outcry, but it wasn’t shocking to me,” Jacinto told GQ in an interview published Wednesday. Jacinto, who is Filipino-Canadian and is married to “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” actress Dianne Doan, 33, added, “It kind of fuels you, because at the end of the day, Tom Cruise is writing stories for Tom Cruise.” He continued, “It’s up to us — Asian Americans, people of color — to be that [for ourselves].

Nicole Kidman has some built-in cheerleaders.The actress recently spoke about her career and family in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.Reflecting on her role as Alice Harford in 1999’s “Eyes Wide Shut,” she revealed that while she will never watch the R-rated film with her teenage daughters, Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret, they caught a glimpse of a memorable scene at the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award Gala. Kidman was awarded this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award in April.“At the AFI tribute, they saw the scene where I get stoned,” Kidman said in the story, which published on July 16. “They showed that and I was like, ‘Ooooh.

DC’s future Superman, David Corenswet.Without a doubt, these characters’ backstories and drives are vastly more compelling than those of 28 years ago. And the main trio’s opposing auras — Edgar-Jones’ damaged soul, Powell’s sensitive jock and Ramos’ heart of gold — marry beautifully. There’s greater moral complexity this time, too.

Rich Eisen Show,” the radio host asked Lowe to share a memory of working with Cruise on “The Outsiders.” Lowe was 17 during filming while Cruise was 19. “He was living at Emilio’s [Estevez] house, auditioning right after ‘Taps,’ ” Lowe recalled, sharing that the two young stars “would workout and jog, like running bros.”Lowe added that Cruise is “so competitive that we used to box in the hallway of the hotel we were staying at during ‘Outsiders.’ ”He added, “So much testosterone. We’re 18-year-old guys stuck on location.

according to Puck News, is a black hole of fun: Glossy fashion mags are crumbling in the 2020s (true!) and Runway editor Miranda Priestly is desperate for advertising dollars.So she’s pitted against her former assistant Emily (Blunt), who controls the ad spend for a luxury brand firm.That dreary plot makes MSNBC look like a fizzy escape to forget all your troubles.It’s understandable why “Devil” Deux is so tantalizing for the House of Mouse. The original, which it acquired with the purchase of 20th Century Fox, is one of the most rewatchable comedies of the past two decades.