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The Making of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – An Oral History

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Luke Owen interviews the people behind 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider… These interviews are taken from Lights, Camera, GAME OVER!: How Video Game Movies Get Made – available now from all good book sellers. By the end of the 1990s, the idea of turning a video game into a movie wasn’t high on the list […]

Kate Hudson replaces Rebel Wilson in Kung Fu Panda 3

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Kate Hudson (Wish I Was Here) is set to replace Rebel Wilson (Pitch Perfect 2) in the voice cast for Kung Fu Panda 3, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed. SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Kung Fu Panda 3 Wilson was set to voice the character of Mei Mei, “a crazy ribbon-dancing panda (the movie […]

Jennifer Lawrence tops Hollywood’s highest-grossing stars of 2014

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Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence has capped another fantastic year by securing the honour of being the highest grossing star of 2014, with her movies X-Men: Days of Future Past and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 earning a combined $1.4 billion in box office receipts. Chris Pratt claimed second place with $1.2 billion from The […]

Pablo Larraín to direct Angelina Jolie in Maria Callas biopic

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Pablo Larraín is set to continue his trend for biopics depicting some of history’s most iconic women with the news that he is set to direct Angelina Jolie in a film about legendary soprano Maria Callas. Following his Oscar bothering one-two of Jackie and Spencer, Deadline report that the Chilean filmmaker will direct Maria, a […]

Salma Hayek to star in Angelina Jolie’s Without Blood

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Deadline is reporting that Salma Hayek is set to reunite with her Eternals co-star Angelina Jolie as she takes on a role in the latter’s new directorial offering Without Blood. An adaptation of Alessandro Baricco’s bestselling novel, Without Blood is described as “a fable set in the aftermath of an unidentified conflict in a farmhouse […]

Chloé Zhao opens up about Eternals’ divisiveness

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Now that the water around the fallen Celestial statues is a lot calmer, Eternals director Chloé Zhao has been speaking exclusively to Empire Magazine about the divided critical reception to her unique entry into the IP heavy world of the MCU. Eternals was always going to be a challenging film to gauge; featuring no recognisable […]

Movie Review – Eternals (2021)

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Eternals, 2021. Directed by Chloe Zhao Starring Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Kit Harrington, Kumail Nanjiani, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Barry Keoghan, Don Lee, and Bill Skarsgard. SYNOPSIS:  Eternals is a story of immortal guardians charged with overseeing an Earth in perpetual evolution. Over thousands of years it tells […]

Angelina Jolie’s Thena gets an Eternals sixth scale figure from Hot Toys

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Sideshow and Hot Toys have unveiled the 1:6 scale Thena figure which is based on the likeness of Angelina Jolie in the Marvel Phase Four superhero adventure Eternals. The collectible is available to pre-order now, priced at $270; check out the promotional images here… As an Eternal, Thena is part of a group of ancient, […]

Angelina Jolie responds to Marvel’s Eternals being pulled from theaters in some countries

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As the fearsome warrior Thena in Marvel Studios’ Eternals, it only seems fitting that Angelina Jolie has stood up and addressed the reports that the blockbuster film won’t be receiving a release in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar, calling the decision to pull the film due to the inclusion of a same-sex couple “sad” and […]