Robert Eggers Teases Elizabethan Project & Isn’t Interested In Making Contemporary Films: “It Doesn’t Inspire Me”

Amber Heard hasn’t kept her eyes off the jury as she testifies in the defamation trial brought on by her ex-husband Johnny Depp, and it’s left many wondering why. According to legal experts, Heard is likely following the advice of her attorneys, but it’s a double-edged sword. The "Aquaman" actress finished up her testimony on Tuesday after four days of questioning.

Bravo fans know Sonja Morgan for her candor, and now the reality TV star is spilling details on her "Real Housewives of New York City" castmates and sharing her thoughts on cancel culture and her tips for staying young.  "You know, everybody asks me that, but there's a bunch of little tricks. But one thing I know is you work hard, but you have to play hard," Morgan, 58, told Fox News Digital.  "If you don't blow off a little steam — and obviously, I think sex is very healthy. I don't care if you're older, divorced.

Manchester United fans have been left surprised by Giovanni Van Bronckhorst’s decision not to bring on Amad in Rangers’ Europa League final penalty shoot-out defeat to Frankfurt.

Wu-Tang Clan‘s ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ for $2million (£1.4m), has been released early from prison.Shkreli was serving a seven-year sentence after being found guilty of securities fraud following claims he defrauded investors in former hedge funds in 2017.Upon his incarceration, the US government seized ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ and sold it on to a new buyer last year.But today (May 18) his lawyer Ben Brafman confirmed that Shkreli has been released.“I am pleased to report that Martin Shkreli has been released from Allenwood prison and transferred to a BOP halfway house after completing all programs that allowed for his prison sentence to be shortened,” he said in a statement to The Washington Post. In 2020, Shkreli was denied an early release from prison after he petitioned to be let out so he could continue the “significant research” he’d be conducting into finding a vaccine for coronavirus.But the judge described his attempt at a shortened sentence to be another example of the “delusional self-aggrandising behaviour” that he often exhibits, while also citing the few number of COVID-19 cases at Shkreli’s prison, and his lack of a pre-existing condition that would make him more likely to catch the virus.Earlier this year, he was barred from the drug industry and ordered to return the $64.6million (£47.2million) in profits that he made by price-gouging the drug Daraprim in 2015.Meanwhile, shortly after Shkreli’s incarceration, RZA said he had attempted to reclaim the CD copy of ‘Once Upon A Time…’.Although the album was never released to the public, Shkreli did play clips of it during a live-stream in 2017.

Music Venue Trust to prevent the demolition going ahead. It has so far gained nearly 1,500 signatures.

Beat The Chasers left Bradley Walsh and viewers alike in stitches as one contestant's thick accent caused the presenter to make an awkward blunder in the studio on Wednesday night. Paisley contestant Anne arrived on the podium eager to try and earn some money with her quizzing prowess, but during her initial chat with the host, things quickly took a nosedive. When asked what she does for a living, Anne quickly answered that she was a career adviser.

Stacey Solomon unveiled her fabulous garden makeover after completing her fire pit transformation in the latest project at Pickle Cottage on Tuesday 17 May.The 32 year old star is gradually working on renovating her beloved home Pickle Cottage with fiancé Joe Swash and their brood of children, and the latest piece is complete. After a stunning finish to her long-awaited swimming pool in couple's lavish garden, the Loose Women favourite moved on to giving her fire pit a much-needed revamp. For months and months, the glass table-top and white surface had been allowed to gather dirt and bits of grass and leaves blown around by nature's elements.

Ferne McCann left best friends Billie Faiers and Greg Shepherd stunned on Wednesday's episode of First Time Mum as she shared her engagement plans. The reality star, 31, and her new boyfriend Lorri Haines decided to throw an incredible peacock-themed party in celebration of their love with all of their closest friends.

As Manchester United face another tortuous rebuild this summer, various figures have been predicting how long this process will take. Ralf Rangnick, looking enviously at Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool, said last month it could take ‘six years’ to catch up with their rivals.

Returning to Cannes a year after his feverish drama “Petrov’s Flu” hit the Croisette, Kirill Serebrennikov can finally attend the festival in person after recently being free from years of house arrest. Debuting in competition, his latest offering, “Tchaikovsky’s Wife,” is a slow-burn historical drama that never manages to escape from being a bore despite its seemingly intriguing premise.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorFaith Hill will never forget one of her earliest auditions.She read for director Anthony Minghella for 2003’s “Cold Mountain” for the role that went to Natalie Portman. “I read, I believe, the rape scene and another one. It was intense,” Hills tells me on the new episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast.

weather is leading to a surge in Britain’s only poisonous spiders, experts have warned.False widows are romping in their millions as hibernation ends and the thermometer shoots up.The scary eight-legged creatures, related to the deadly black widow, are breeding in larger numbers – and there have been attacks.Pest control expert Clive Boase said: “The population of false widows in the UK is growing all the time.“People don’t realise just how common they have become. They can survive both indoors and outdoors.“They are generally shy creatures and won’t come out into the open – but they could crawl into curtains or perhaps clothing left on the floor.”Joe Hildebrandt, from Conwy in North Wales, revealed his hand swelled up like a balloon after being bitten in his garden.He said: “Spiders don’t scare me but this one did.“When I saw it on the floor, it spooked me a bit as it had been on my arm – and I know they will only bite when provoked.”The British Arachnological Society says the bite of a false widow is similar to a wasp sting.Experts say symptoms from attacks can include pain, swelling, nausea, tremors and altered blood pressure.To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters hereMichel Dugon, an expert from the National University of Ireland in Galway, said: “In addition to their medically significant venom, noble false widows are extremely competitive.

aliens exist – because he has held a piece of a UFO in his hands.The psychic spoonbender hit out after a military chief said the US government doesn’t have any ET wreckage.Deputy director of US Naval Intelligence Scott Bray told Congress there was nothing that “isn’t consistent with being of terrestrial origin”.But Uri said: “I know the US government does have material. I wish the US government would just come out and admit it.“Either it was just an unfortunate choice of words or they are still covering this stuff up.

Having jumped around from one film genre to another during his 40 year career in Hollywood has been a rollercoaster of a ride for Nicolas Cage.Applauded and criticized for his versatility - to be able to jump from one film genre to another - the longtime leading man has been hearing the words 'career resurgence' lately, due in part to portraying a heightened version of himself in The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent.While out on the promotional trail for the action-comedy film, the Oscar-winning actor teased fans by revealing he may soon be reprising his role asCastor Troy in a Face/Off sequel. Another installment: Nicolas Cage, 58, gave fans of his 1997 film Face/Off more than a glimmer of hope when he revealed he may be reprising his role as Castor Troy in a sequelIn an interview with Comicbook.com, Cage (born Nicolas Kim Coppola), 58, offered fans of 1997's Face/Off more than just hope that another installment might be in the works.'There have been some phone calls with Neal [Moritz], who I enjoyed very much working with on the first Face/Off," the actor began, in a reference to the movie's producer.

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).

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.

Nicolas Cage made his first late-night talk show appearance in 14 years on Wednesday, and he hadof interesting stories to tell. Cage — dressed in a full silver ensemble — was a guest on and first opened up about living in Las Vegas, where he's resided for nearly 17 years, calling it «one of the most unique addresses in the world.»After Cage told Kimmel he's not a gambler, he went on to share a story about how he once turned $200 into $20,000 in just a half hour while in the Bahamas.«Do you ever have one of those nights where you feel like the mojo is with you and you could just do nothing wrong? Everything was going to go your way,» the 58-year-old actor recalled of the night that took place two decades ago. «Every number I chose, and I often would choose the same number, it kept winning.

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.

In an alternate universe, Nicolas Cage is Superman.

The domestic release of Robert Eggers‘ big studio revenge flick “The Northman” is days away (April 22) and most critics are deeply impressed by how well the filmmaker has done in the realm of action (read our review here). The plot —a relatively simple story of a son avenging his father—takes direct cues from the original Scandinavian tale that inspired “Hamlet,” and attempts to be historically accurate compared to other Viking projects.