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First look at Angelina Jolie in Anxious People

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With filming now underway in London, Black Bear has shared a first-look image of Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie in Anxious People, director Marc Forster’s (Monster’s Ball, Christopher Robin) adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s New York Times bestselling novel. In Anxious People, the day before Christmas Eve, investment banker Zara begrudgingly finds herself mingling with a group of strangers […]

Angelina Jolie to star in Doug Liman spy thriller The Initiative

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Angelina Jolie is getting back into action as THR reports that the star is set to reunite with her Mr. and Mrs. Smith director Doug Liman for the spy thriller The Initiative. Scripted by F. Scott Frazier (xXx: Return of Xander Cage), The Initiative is described as “Training Day set in the world of spycraft” […]

7 Kick-Ass Female-Led Action Movies

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Casey Chong with seven female-led action movies that are worth your time… Action movies may have been traditionally dominated by men but the opposite sex have also had their fair share of notable efforts. From Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley taking down the Xenomorphs in the Alien movies to Uma Thurman’s The Bride slicing and dicing her […]

Movie Review – Maria (2024)

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Maria, 2024. Directed by Pablo Larraín. Starring Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Haluk Bilginer, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Valeria Golino, Stephen Ashfield, Alessandro Bressanello, Vincent Macaigne, Lydia Korniordou, Caspar Phillipson, Paul Spera, Aggelina Papadopoulou, Christiana Aloneftis, and Erophilie Panagiotarea. SYNOPSIS: Follows the life story of the world’s greatest opera singer, Maria Callas, during her final days […]

Angelina Jolie is Maria Callas in teaser trailer for biopic Maria

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StudioCanal has shared a trailer Maria, the latest biographical drama from director Pablo Larrain (Jackie, Spencer) which stars Angelina Jolie in the titular role as Maria Callas and tells the story of the renowned opera singer’s final days in 1970s Paris. Joining Jolie in the cast are Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Haluk Bilginer, and Kodi […]

The Contemporary Queens of Action Cinema

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Tom Jolliffe on the current leading ladies of action… The 21st century has seen many things. Among those has been a push for equality across all spectrums. Of course there’s work still to be done, but progress has at least been made. The action genre has historically been monopolised by male stars. This was slightly […]

First look at Angelina Jolie in Pablo Larraín’s Maria Callas biopic

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Pablo Larraín, he of brilliant biopics Jackie and Diana, has unveiled a first-look at Angelina Jolie in his latest retrospective of a female icon, Maria.  Maria, a film about the life of American-born Greek soprano Maria Callas, has been written by Peaky Blinders creator and Spencer scribe Steven Knight, and is based on true accounts to tell the […]

Angelina Jolie and Halle Berry to face off in Bond vs. Bourne-style action thriller Maude v Maude

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The Academy Award winning duo of Angelina Jolie and Halle Berry are set to go head-to-head in Warner Bros. action-thriller Maude v Maude.  According to Deadline Warner Bros has landed the project following an intense bidding-war, and that Jolie and Berry will produce the film as-well-as headlining the action, which will be orchestrated by Shadow […]

Movie Review – Eternals (2021)

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Eternals, 2021. Directed by Chloé Zhao. Starring Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Barry Keoghan, Don Lee, Harish Patel, Kit Harington, Salma Hayek, and Angelina Jolie. SYNOPSIS: Eternals arrives on digital with a smattering of bonus features. (The physical discs will be hitting online and physical retail stores […]

Akira movie update, Universal’s Dark Universe in potential legal problems and more – Daily News Roundup

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AKIRA The long-gestating Akira movie has seemingly been in development forever by this point. Several director names have been rumoured and attached, but no cast has ever been announced or even a whiff of a production start date. Original director Katsuhiro Otomo has no issues with his vision being remade into a live-action format, but in […]