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Armie Hammer dropped from Billion Dollar Spy, but not Death on the Nile

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Having already exited the action rom-com Shotgun Wedding, Paramount+’s The Godfather making of event series The Offer, actor Armie Hammer has now departed another two projects after the social media scandal surrounding the star escalated into an official Los Angeles Police Department investigation into claims of rape and sexual assault. Deadline is reporting that Hammer, […]

Movie Review – Crisis (2021)

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Crisis, 2021. Written and Directed by Nicholas Jarecki. Starring Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez, Luke Evans, Lily-Rose Depp, Kid Cudi, Veronica Ferres, Mia Kirshner, Indira Varma, Martin Donovan, Michael Aronov, Toni Garrn, Ellora Torchia, Adam Tsekhman, Sara Sampaio, Nicholas Jarecki, Éric Bruneau, Duke Nicholson, Daniel Jun, Benz Antoine, and Kwasi […]

Watch Gary Oldman, Evangeline Lilly, Armie Hammer and more in trailer for Crisis

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The last time such a star-studded ensemble was put together to weave a tapestry depicting a drug war we got Steven Soderbergh’s Oscar-winning Traffic. Now Nicholas Jarecki, with his first film since 2012’s terrific Arbitrage, is hoping his multi-stranded opioid war epic Crisis can achieve similar success. Starring Gary Oldman (Mank), Armie Hammer (Call Me […]

Movie Review – Crisis (2021)

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Crisis, 2021. Directed by Nicholas Jarecki. Starring Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez, Luke Evans, Lily-Rose Depp, Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, Duke Nicholson, Veronica Ferres, and Martin Donovan. SYNOPSIS: A drug trafficker organizes a smuggling operation while a recovering addict seeks the truth behind her son’s disappearance. The opioid crisis has […]

Armie Hammer exits The Offer as fallout from ‘cannibal’ scandal continues

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Having been set to sink his teeth into the role of producer Al Ruddy, Deadline is reporting that Armie Hammer has now exited The Offer, the upcoming Paramount+ series about the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, as the fallout from his recent controversy continues. Earlier this month, explicit social media messages said to […]

Josh Duhamel replaces Armie Hammer in Shotgun Wedding

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The Jennifer Lopez-led romantic comedy adventure Shotgun Wedding found itself in need a new male lead last week when Armie Hammer exited the project amid a cannibal sexting controversy, and it seems they’ve wasted little time in bringing in his replacement. As reported by Variety, Transformers actor Josh Duhamel is now set to star alongside […]

Armie Hammer exits Shotgun Wedding amid cannibal sexting controversy

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Call Me By Your Name and Rebecca star Armie Hammer has departed the upcoming Jennifer Lopez romantic comedy adventure Shotgun Wedding amid controversy over leaked Instagram messages allegedly written by the actor and featuring graphic sexual fantasies including cannibalism. “I’m not responding to these bullshit claims but in light of the vicious and spurious online […]

Movie Review – Nocturnal Animals (2016)

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Nocturnal Animals, 2016. Directed by Tom Ford. Starring Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Armie Hammer, Laura Linney. Ellie Bamber, Karl Glusman, India Menuez, Andrea Riseborough, and Michael Sheen. SYNOPSIS: An art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband’s novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a […]

Mads Mikkelsen and Armie Hammer to star in Cold War drama The Billion Dollar Spy

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Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal) and Armie Hammer (Rebecca) are set to star in the true story Cold War drama The Billion Dollar Spy. The film will be directed by Amma Asante (A United Kingdom). The story was written by American journalist David E. Hoffman, who researched unclassified CIA documents and interviewed interviewed those involved. The script was […]