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upcoming “Super Mario Bros.” movie has been released and the world has tuned in to judge Pratt’s Mario voice.The verdict? Far from “Mario number one!” and verging on “Mario ho hum,” according to Twitter.“Bland,” “zero effort” and “meh” were just some of the responses to the newly released trailer, with the general assessment being Mario sounds like… Chris Pratt.

Jared Leto is preparing for another iconic role on the big screen! The Hollywood star will be starring and producing a biopic of legendary designer Karl Lagerfeld.The Oscar winner shared his excitement about the project, revealing to Women’s Wear Daily that he feels like “this is a full-circle moment, and Karl would be proud” of the production they are developing.He also shared his admiration for the designer and shared the approach they want to take in the film. “Karl was an artist. Period.

Entertainment Weekly recently.The 62-year-old went on: “She was very fragile emotionally and, you know, you understood how she could create such moving material, because she has a great depth of feeling and it was very very tragic.”The executive continued: “What an incredible talent, what an incredible voice, what an incredible person she was and it was very, very sad.”The “Back to Black” crooner died at the age of 27 and was found dead in bed at her London home in July 2011. She suffered from drug and alcohol problems for years prior to her death.Winehouse and her musical partner Mark Ronson composed — but never finished — recording a theme in 2008.The 007 bosses decided to go a different route and hired Alicia Keys and Jack White of The White Stripes to record instead.Ronson, 47, announced at the time that he pulled his demo with Winehouse and said she’s “not ready to record any music.” The “Uptown Funk” producer also noted that it would take “some miracle of science” to finish it.White discussed getting the Bond gig in an episode of the podcast Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend this past July and noted that he scored the job at the last minute.

It Happened in Hollywood podcast, “Leaving Las Vegas” writer-director Mike Figgis revealed that he, as well as Cage, didn’t see so much as a cent hit their bank accounts after the film.“Nicolas and I never got paid,” Figgis said.Figgis claims he was due $100,000 for his directing fee, which he never received.“They said the film never went into profit,” he said of the now-defunct Lumiere Pictures, which financed the $4 million film.The film, adapted from the 1990 John O’Brien novel of the same name, follows Cage’s character Ben Sanderson, a Los Angeles screenwriter who moves to Las Vegas and endures a grueling battle with alcoholismIt raked in $32 million globally, according to Box Office Mojo. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including best director, best-adapted screenplay, best actress for Elisabeth Shue, and best actor for Cage, which he won.Figgis isn’t dwelling over the lack of compensation over 27 years later.“Whatever,” he said.

Bad Bunny’s superhero movie will be directed by Jonás Cuarón, the son of Alfonso Cuarón. This marks Bad Bunny’s first leading role and also the first time where a Latino character will headline a Marvel movie.Bad Bunny and Lana Del Rey have a lot more in common than you thinkBad Bunny and Cardi B shared special moment during surprise performance in Los AngelesThe Wrap was the first to break the news of Cuarón joining the project.

tragically killed the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, will in a boneheaded move resume filming and hit theaters. How deranged can these people possibly be?Extremely, it turns out. Hutchins’ family also supports and is involved in this misguided mess.

Christian Bale says all actors get Leonardo DiCaprio’s sloppy seconds when it comes to leading roles. In a rare interview with GQ magazine, the “Amsterdam” actor said DiCaprio always has first dibs on Hollywood roles after writer Zach Baron noted that the “Don’t Look Up” star was cast ahead of Bale for his iconic role as Patrick Bateman in the 2000 horror thriller “American Psycho.” When Baron noted that DiCaprio had been cast ahead of him in “at least five roles” in the 1990s, including mega blockbuster “Titanic,” Bale responded: “It’s not just me.” “Any role that anybody gets, it’s only because he’s passed on it before hand. It doesn’t matter what anyone tells you.

wrongful death lawsuit brought by the estate of slain cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, reports said Wednesday. Matthew Hutchins, the husband of the film’s director of photography who was shot and killed by Baldwin in October, will be an executive producer on the film and production is slated to resume with the original cast in January, Deadline reported. “We have reached a settlement, subject to court approval, for our wrongful death case against the producers of Rust, including Alec Baldwin and Rust Movie Productions, LLC. As part of that settlement, our case will be dismissed,” Matthew Hutchins said in a statement. “I have no interest in engaging in recriminations or attribution of blame [to the producers or Mr.

Jennifer Lopez is getting married again. In a movie this time.Lopez appears to be back in her rom-com groove, following her previous movie “Marry Me” with another love story that involves a wedding.

Vanity Fair.Thompson’s days spent in the buff with Goldblum, 69, were when they were filming the 1989 rom-com “The Tall Guy.”“We were both so nervous,” she admitted. “We both had indigestion I think for two weeks beforehand.

Lindsay Lohan is ready for her comeback! The actress has her first of three Netflix films Falling for Christmas, hitting the streaming site next month. On October 3, the official “Mean Girls” day Lilo and Netflix shared the movie poster on Instagram with the cheeky caption, “it’s October 3rd.

current host, Josh Dela Cruz, 33, reports Entertainment Weekly.The musical-comedy follows Blue and Josh as they take a trip to New York City after Josh books a Broadway audition. Josh is bummed to discover he left his handy-dandy notebook at home so his friends Mr. Salt and Mrs.

talk of Idris Elba being the next 007, as well as Tom Hardy. “Bridgerton” star Regé-Jean Page is also tipped to become the martini-drinking secret agent.“We’ve tried looking at younger people in the past,” Wilson said at a Bond event at the British Film Institute on Friday, according to Deadline. “But trying to visualize it doesn’t work.”Craig, who took over as Bond from Pierce Brosnan in 2006, was 38 years old, and went on to appear in four 007 films in total.“Remember, Bond’s already a veteran,” Wilson said.

first trailer of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” — which debuted at the San Diego Comic-Con in July — featured the mournful strains of Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry” (as covered by Nigerian singer Tems) in memory of Chadwick Boseman, the star of the 2018 blockbuster “Black Panther,” who shockingly died from colon cancer at 43 in 2020.And the new trailer for the much-anticipated Marvel sequel, released on Monday, shows that Wakanda — and the Black Panther — will live on. At the very end of the trailer, the new Black Panther makes her entrance — yes, it appears to be a woman! But the identity of the person behind that masked armor is not revealed.The trailer also features a mural honoring the late King T’Challa — and, of course, Boseman — whose character was killed off rather than being recast for “Wakanda Forever.”“They have lost their protector,” says Angela Bassett’s Queen Ramonda as Wakanda faces a new threat from the underground nation Talokan, with Tenoch Huerta playing aquatic enemy Namor.But of course, Wakanda isn’t going down without a fight.

Debby Wolfe, showrunner and co-creator of NBC’s upcoming comedy “Lopez vs. Lopez” for Universal Television; Claudia Forestieri, creator and executive producer of HBO Max’s “Gordita Chronicles;” and Justin Hillian, showrunner and executive producer of Showtime’s “The Chi.” All of the writers from the most recent 2020-21 class have been staffed on series following the completion of the program with several on NBC or Universal Studio Group (USG)-produced shows, including “The Blacklist,” “Bel-Air,” “FBI: International” and “Space Force.” For the next eight months, the new class will develop an original pilot under the guidance of NBCUniversal programming executives.

took to Twitter to express his disappointment over the dire numbers with a controversial take that quickly garnered backlash.“Last night I snuck in and sat in the back of a sold out theater playing ‘Bros’ in LA. The audience howled with laughter start to finish, burst into applause at the end, and some were wiping away tears as they walked out. It was truly magical.

infamous Oscars slap.While the 54-year-old actor has been mostly been staying out of the limelight since he smacked presenter Chris Rock at the ceremony earlier this year, he has a new project in the works that’s already creating buzz.Smith’s first post-Oscars film, titled “Emancipation,” had a special screening hosted by the NAACP during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 51st Annual Legislative Conference on Oct. 1.The drama stars Smith as a runway slave named Peter who found asylum in Louisiana and winds up joining the Union Army.The film earned early praise at the event, with the “King Richard” star making an appearance.“Throughout my career, I’ve turned down many films that were set in slavery,” Smith noted at the screening, via the Hollywood Reporter. “I never wanted to show us like that.

according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.The feature film debut from writer and director Parker Finn was called a film with a “highly effective creep factor,” by Variety.It is predicted to be grinning all the way to a $19 million dollar opening weekend,” according to Deadline.Moving down a notch to second place from the top slot last week was “Don’t Worry Darling,” with $2.4 million in sales. The firm, which cost $35 million to make, according to Forbes, has netted $27.9 million domestically and $11 million internationally.Directed by Olivia Wilde, the 1950s-set thriller was “mid to poorly reviewed,” and is forecast to bring in just $7.2 million on its second weekend in theaters, according to Collider.

BFI’s “Baz Luhrmann in conversation” event in London.“There are two great American gestures, I think. The two that really fascinate me are the ‘big sell’ – the ability to sell well, and the other is the gesture of the new,” Luhrmann explained.

who co-stars with husband Ashton Kutcher on the upcoming “That ’90s Show” on Netflix. “It was really hard for me to do. Like, acting with my husband and not being like ‘why are you making that face?’” Kunis, 39, told an audience at the 92nd Street Y after a screening of her new Netflix movie “Luckiest Girl Alive.” Kunis and Kutcher, 44, co-starred for years starting in the late 1990s on “That 70’s Show,” and he was even her first kiss.

even after his retirement.The 67-year-old actor sold his image rights to Deepcake, an artificial intelligence-powered content optimization platform, after he was diagnosed with aphasia — a brain disorder that affects his ability to communicate — last year, according to the Daily Mail.Engineers at the Delaware-based company created a “digital twin” of Willis, putting images of his face into their AI platform where they’re able to create film projects in a matter of days.The Post has reached out to Willis’ reps for comment.The “Die Hard” actor’s deepfake already made its debut in August 2021 when his face was “grafted” onto Konstantin Solovyov for a commercial for MegaFon, a Russian telecommunications company.“With the advent of the modern technology, I could communicate, work and participate in filming, even being on another continent,” Willis said in a testimony on Deepcake’s website after the advertising project. “It’s a brand new and interesting experience for me, and I grateful to our team.”The technology used content from “Die Hard” and “Fifth Element,” so the actor’s face will be similar to images from those films.“I liked the precision of my character.