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Chris Cooper joins Tom Hanks in Mr. Rogers film You Are My Friend

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The Mr. Rogers film You Are My Friend starring Tom Hanks has just gained Chris Cooper (Coming Through The Rye) in the project, according to Variety. He’ll star alongside Hanks and Mathew Rhys (The Americans) in the Marielle Heller-directed film. You Are My Friend is inspired by a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers (Hanks) and award-winning journalist Tom Junod […]

Tom Hanks wanted to make a cameo appearance in Solo: A Star Wars Story

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Tom Hanks wanted to make an appearance as a Stormtrooper in Solo: A Star Wars Story. Appearing in a Star Wars film is the dream of many actors across the generations and we have seen numerous big name actors appear in cameo roles (sometimes in roles that were cut) as Stormtroopers in the past, just […]

Movie Review – The Post (2017)

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The Post, 2017. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons, Alison Brie and Matthew Rhys. SYNOPSIS: In the early 70s, the Washington Post discovers an extensive cover-up spanning four US Presidents.  The decision to publish what became known as The Pentagon […]

First trailer for Steven Spielberg’s The Post starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep

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Ahead of its US release next month, 20th Century Fox has debuted the first poster and trailer along with a batch of new images for director Steven Spielberg’s upcoming drama The Post which stars Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, Jesse Plemons, Matthew […]

Steven Spielberg rounds out his supporting cast for The Papers

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Having already cast Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep for his upcoming Pentagon Papers drama, Steven Spielberg has now rounded out his cast for the film, which is now officially going by the title of The Papers. Deadline reports that Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Pat Healy, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, Jesse […]

Tom Hanks’ Bios picked up by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment

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Tom Hanks and director Steven Spielberg are teaming up again on a new science fiction project. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Spielberg has picked up Hanks’ sci-fi Bios through Amblin Entertainment. The film will be directed by Game of Thrones‘ Miguel Sapochnik from a script by Craig Luck and Ivor Powell with Robert Zemeckis producing. Bios will see Hanks as […]

Tom Hanks to star as Mr. Rogers in biopic You Are My Friend

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Tristar Pictures have announced the casting of Tom Hanks to play Fred Rogers, the children’s television icon who created Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, in a biopic titled You Are My Friend. Marielle Heller (Diary of a Teenage Girl) will direct the film from a script by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster (Transparent, Beautiful Ruins). You Are My Friend is inspired […]

Tom Hanks to star in remake of Swedish comedy A Man Called Ove

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Deadline is reporting that Tom Hanks has signed on to produce and star in a remake of the Oscar-nominated Swedish comedy A Man Called Ove. Hanks is set to play the titular character, “a grumpy widower whose overall unhappiness is exacerbated when he is unceremoniously dumped as chairman of the neighborhood association where he lives. […]

Steven Spielberg to direct Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in The Post

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Fox and Amblin Entertainment have set Steven Spielberg to direct Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in The Post, a drama which details The Washington Post’s role in exposing the Pentagon Papers, a classified study into the United States involvement in Vietnam, and the newspaper’s legal struggle over the right to publish the report. The Post will […]