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New York Times Friday alongside her “Forrest Gump” co-star, Tom Hanks, to promote their new film “Here,” and Wright was asked if she thinks her character in the 1994 classic, Jenny Curran, was “kind of an anti-feminist role.”“No! It’s not about that,” Wright rebutted. “People have said she’s a Voldemort to Forrest. I wouldn’t choose that as a reference, but she was kind of selfish.”In “Forrest Gump,” Wright’s Jenny is a victim of child sexual abuse and lives a life of freedom that involves drug use and sex work, as well as an on-and-off decades-long relationship with Hanks’ title character.

Chris Sarandon, Catherine O’Hara, William Hickey, Ken Page, Paul Reubens, Glenn Shadix and Ed Ivory voice the characters conceived by Tim Burton, who also co-produced the movie. Some fans believe the presences of Jack and the other spooky characters, the Halloween-centric town, and the Halloween songs make “The Nightmare Before Christmas” a Halloween movie first.Not to mention, the movie came out on October 29.However, those on “Team Christmas” argue that the spirit of the red and green holiday is felt throughout the film.

Bela Lugosi, who made his mark as Dracula in Hollywood, insisted to reporters he battled a crippling addiction to drugs for over two decades — but one author claimed he “deliberately exaggerated” his story for a heartbreaking reason.“What he said was that he had been dependent on drugs for 20 years, in some cases 25 years,” author Robert Cremer told Fox News Digital. “But he greatly exaggerated the story… And this exaggeration of his dependency on drugs was aimed, in part, at [his fourth wife] in the hope that she would feel guilty, would reconcile with him and come back to him.”“He wanted to win back his wife and his son,” Cremer added.Cremer, who was a syndicated columnist at The Hollywood Reporter, has a new book set to be published on Dec.

died at 68 from acute intoxication from drug use, including cocaine. A rep for the NY Chief Medical Examiner’s office told TMZ Thursday that Salazar died from the combined effects of cocaine, cyclobenzaprine — a muscle relaxant — and diphenhydramine, which is a type of antihistamine.

Let’s Talk Off Camera.”Ripa casually mentioned Moore when she disclosed that their 1986 movie “About Last Night” was one of her all-time favorites. In the film, Lowe and Moore played love interests who boldly decided to move in together after only a few dates.

Al Pacinocan refuse.The 84-year-old revealed that despite starring in some of the most critically acclaimed films over the past several decades, including “The Godfather” and “Scarface,” he doesn’t take home mementos from filming.“I’ll probably lose them,” Pacino admitted to People in an interview published Saturday. “For a long while, I used to bop from one place to another.

new interview with Variety, Zegler accused her critics of taking her comments “out of context” after interview footage from 2022 featured her chiding the original movie as old-fashioned in its depiction of romance between Snow White and the prince that saved her.“In all honesty, it made me sad that it was taken in such a way, because I believe that women can do anything. But I also believe that they can do everything,” she told the Hollywood outlet.In the 2022 clip from the Disney D23 Expo that year, Zegler commented on her film adaptation of the classic fairy tale being more modern.

Let’s Talk Off Camera,” where the veteran filmmaker was promoting his new book, “Best Possible Place, Worst Possible Time.”Smith and co-star Tommy Lee Jones had to be “hermetically sealed” and locked into a tight space to film a scene for the iconic 1997 sci-fi blockbuster, Sonnenfeld recalled, but but just before they started rolling, Smith broke wind.“They have to be put in this device, which is [a car] that transforms into a hyper car, and [they’re] going to go through the Midtown Tunnel upside down,” he said. “We have to bring a ladder over on wheels like it’s like the old days, when you would get on airplanes from the tarmac. We get them up there and we put them in the thing and we turn it upside down and we’re ready to shoot.”“I hear Will Smith go, ‘Oh, Jesus, so sorry.

Entertainment Weekly on Friday that he recalled receiving “400,000 pieces of hate mail and three bona fide death threats” after the film debuted. The comedy starred Ben Affleck and Matt Damon as two fallen angels who attempt to get from New Jersey back to heaven.“The movie had a rubber poop monster in it,” Smith told the outlet.

“Little House on the Prairie” star Melissa Gilbert “had to get out” of Hollywood after gaining fame as a child star.Gilbert landed the role of Laura Ingalls Wilder at the age of 9, cementing her as a rising star.“All of the pressures, I faced all of them,” Gilbert explained to People magazine. “When you live in Los Angeles, it’s like living at the mall when you work at the mall. Literally, everyone is in the business.

Variety published Tuesday.Throughout the years, there have been talks about re-creating the iconic film, most recently with Channing Tatum, who announced his plans to remake “Ghost” in 2023. The original movie starred Moore (Molly Jensen) and the late Patrick Swayze (Sam Wheat) as a couple. After Sam gets murdered by his friend (played by Tony Goldwyn), he is left to roam the Earth as a powerless spirit.

Dennis Quaid reflected on the 1998 cult classic film, and while he’d love to give fans the sequel they want, he doesn’t think it’s possible without the late Natasha Richardson.Quaid, whose character was Parker, the father who is clueless his twins, Annie and Hallie, played by Lindsay Lohan, have swapped after meeting as preteens for the first time at summer camp, spoke about the possibility of a follow-up film. While walking the red carpet of his upcoming movie “Reagan”in Los Angeles earlier this week, the actor, 70, said he doesn’t see how a sequel could work without Richardson, who tragically died in 2009 at 45 from blunt-force trauma during a skiing accident.

A League of Their Own” was destroyed in an overnight fire. The Jay Littleton Ball Park in Ontario, CA, built in the 1930s, could not be saved after it was engulfed in flames just before midnight Thursday.According to local reports, the blaze broke out around 11:30 p.m.

during an interview with Entertainment Tonight on July 29.While promoting the second season of his comedic Netflix show “Unstable” with his son and co-star, John Owen Lowe, 29, Rob opened up about the rumored reboot.“We’ve met with the studio, and I have been talking about doing it for about four months,” Rob revealed. “But it’s very, very, very, very, very early stages.

Tom Wambsgans in HBO’s “Succession,”Matthew Macfadyen was most known for his role as Mr. Darcy in the 2005 adaptation of “Pride & Prejudice” opposite Keira Knightley.Despite fans swooning over his portrayal of the brooding love interest of Elizabeth Bennet, Macfadyen, 49, revealed he “didn’t really” enjoy playing the part in the adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic during an interview on “CBS Mornings” Tuesday.“I feel bad saying that,” he admitted. “There were moments I had a good time, but I wish I’d enjoyed it more.

Ferrell opened up about the late actor while appearing on Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler’s “MeSsy” podcast earlier this month.Caan played Walter Hobbs, the father to Ferrell’s Buddy in the Jon Favreau-directed comedy, which has become a staple holiday movie. Caan died from a heart attack caused by coronary artery disease on July 6, 2022. He was 82.“James Caan — may he rest in peace, and we had such a good time working on that movie — he would tease me,” Ferrell recalled on the episode.

“Pretty in Pink” at the time that it came out.“I didn’t think it was that interesting,” said McCarthy, 61, in an interview with PEOPLE published Saturday. “I didn’t quite get the movie at the time.

died on Thursday at age 88 in Miami, after a long illness. His son, actor Kiefer Sutherland, announced on X, formerly Twitter, “With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away. I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film.

“The First Wives Club” rewritten after being extremely dissatisfied with the initial script for the 1996 comedy film.“I fought for every single thing I could because what happened with ‘First Wives Club,’ we all turned it down because it was very male bashing and didn’t want to do it,” Hawn, 78, said on the June 19 episode of Kelly Ripa’s podcast. “I didn’t wanna do it and then suddenly, the girls said, ‘Okay, Goldie, you talk.

during a Vanity Fair interview, which published on June 12. “And I would have to like do our makeup checks, on both of us between takes.”“And I would end up looking as though I had been like sucking a caramel chocolate bar after each take because his makeup would come off on me,” she continued.

Turns out there wasn’t a whole lot of prettiness behind the scenes of one famous movie filmed during the prominent “Brat Pack” era.Jon Cryer, who starred in the 1986 film “Pretty in Pink,” revealed that he and co-star Andrew McCarthy did not get along off-camera. McCarthy has assembled several members of the group, including Cryer, to appear in his upcoming documentary “Brats,” which examines the significance of the “Brat Pack.”McCarthy, along with several other budding actors in the ’80s, like Cryer, Demi Moore and Rob Lowe, were dubbed the “Brat Pack,” a group of young actors that frequently collaborated in films like “The Breakfast Club” and “Sixteen Candles.”“When we had done ‘Pretty in Pink’ together, we did not get along because he was a d—,” Cryer said of McCarthy during a Q&A session at the Tribeca Film Festival, as reported by People magazine.“That’s very true,” McCarthy admitted.