Benioff & Weiss Turned Down “Free Money” By Not Taking Executive Producer Roles On Every ‘Thrones’ Spinoff

Gears Of War designer Cliff ‘CliffyB’ Bleszinski has revealed he once pitched a game similar to Palworld to Epic Games, but was turned down.Released earlier this month in Early Access, Palworld has quickly become one of the most popular games on Steam. Creators PocketPair have reported upwards of 8million copies of the game have been sold in a week while earlier today (January 26), it became only the second ever game to pass 2million concurrent players on Steam, with PUBG being the first.Now Bleszinski has taken to social media to talk about how validating Palworld’s success has been for him.“Palworld‘s success kinda validates my pitch that was turned down at Epic many years ago,” he wrote with his idea revolving around “medieval Pokémon with baby dragons instead.”Responding to a fan, Bleszinski revealed that his pitch for the mobile game “just never went anywhere”.It just…never went anywhere.

Stassi Schroeder is explaining why she declined an appearance on a new Bravo show.

EXCLUSIVE: T-Street filmmakers Rian Johnson and Ram Bergman have set Katie McNeill to become a producer at their independent studio. McNeill joins the film side of the company alongside producers Ben LeClair, Leopold Hughes and Nikos Karamigios.

The Office is one of the best comedies in television history, but did you know that Steve Carell almost didn’t play the iconic role of Michael Scott?

Billy Elliot, revealing he found its depiction of the working class “offensive”.The actor, who is well-known for appearing in Doctor Who and is currently starring in True Detective: Night Country, said he was offered the role of the father in the 2000 film, which tells the story of a working-class boy who discovers a passion for ballet.Speaking to The Independent, Eccleston said he didn’t like the portrayal of Billy’s parents as being against his artistic ambitions, revealing his own parents – a forklift driver and a cleaner – were very supportive of his own aspirations.“[I’m] tired of seeing working-class parents portrayed as being vehemently against their kids going into the arts,” he said. “What was that fucking ballet film everyone went mad for?”“I was offered a meeting to play the father,” Eccleston went on to recall.

Chris Wallace just found out Jon Hamm almost played his father Mike Wallace in a film.

Wake & Bake with Double S Express.”Snoop Dogg wouldn’t be the first prominent rapper or actor to appear on the adult platform, as rapper Iggy Azalea, 33, and former “The Sopranos” star Drea de Matteo, 51, have also found success on OnlyFans. “I figured, ‘OK, so everybody’s in their underwear and being sexy on Instagram and I don’t do that, but I can do that and get paid for it.’ … I don’t know why I didn’t think of this sooner,” de Matteo said in September. But, Snoop Dogg (nee Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr) said he had to turn down the opportunity because, “Ain’t no way in the world she gonna allow me to go on there and pull that thang out for no amount of money.”His wife, Shante Broadus, 52, has been with him since the two were teenagers at Long Beach Polytechnic High School in California.“I was there with him when he started all this,” Broadus told W Magazine in 2021.

Star Wars, but had to pass on the opportunity.During an appearance on Wednesday’s (January 17) edition of The Tonight Show, the two-time Oscar winner recalled how she was approached to play the iconic sci-fi character, which would later become a breakthrough role for the late Carrie Fisher.Foster had to turn down the part, however, due scheduling conflicts with the original Freaky Friday film.“I was [offered the role], but I had a conflict,” she told host Jimmy Fallon. “I was doing a Disney movie, and I just didn’t want to pull out of the Disney movie because I was already under contract, so I didn’t do it.

Princess Leia from the “Star Wars” franchise. Foster, 61, made the revelation during an appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” while promoting her new HBO series, “True Detective: Night Country.” “I saw this on the internet, it resurfaced somehow,” Fallon, 49, said.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jodie Foster has shocked the “Star Wars” fandom by confirming she was offered the role of Princess Leia in “Star Wars,” which unquestionably would’ve changed the course of her career. The two-time Oscar winner told Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show” that she was already locked into a contract for a Disney movie at the time and didn’t want to break it in order to join a galaxy far, far away. Foster did not reveal what Disney movie, but the timeline suggests it might’ve been “Freaky Friday,” which was released a year before “Star Wars.” “You’ve been in so many iconic roles, and we love what you do,” Fallon said during the show.

Caroline Brew editor SPOILER ALERT:This story contains spoilers for Season 5, Episode 10 of “Fargo,” now airing on FX and streaming on Hulu. While the events of Noah Hawley’s FX series “Fargo” don’t expand on those in the 1996 film from Joel and Ethan Coen, there is one bit of dialogue from the movie that Hawley considers a thematic throughline for each season in the anthology. “There’s always something every year that’s rooted in Marge’s line from the movie, ‘And here you are, and for what, a little bit of money?’ — the crimes that people commit for money, either desperation or greed,” he said.

Paul Walker could have been cast as Clark Kent, the Man of Steel. The late actor’s manager, Matt Luber, and stunt double, Oakley Lehman, revealed in the 2018 documentary I Am Paul Walker that the Fast & Furious star walked away from a multi-million dollar deal.

Dan Levy has revealed that he was offered the chance to play one of the Kens in Barbie, but had to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts.The actor, who co-created the sitcom Schitt’s Creek with his father Eugene, confirmed the news in a new interview with People magazine, to promote his new film Good Grief, which is streaming on Netflix now.“Logistically could not make it work despite desperately trying to,” he said. “So, yeah, I guess I was I was technically unavailable to to do that.”“Does it haunt me when I sleep at night? Sometimes.

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Joy Behar has revealed that she almost appeared in Ted Lasso.

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Julia Roberts is speaking out in a new interview and you might be very interested with some of the fun facts she’s sharing!

81-year-old Joy Behar said Wednesday on the talk show’s Behind the Table podcast that she rejected the opportunity to play Ted Lasso‘s mom in season 3.

Emily Longeretta SXSW Film & TV Festival announced multiple categories for the 2024 event, including Opening Night TV Premiere, Centerpiece Screening and more. Netflix’s “3 Body Problem,” executive produced and written by “Game of Thrones” creators David Benioff and D.

The SXSW Film & TV Festival said Wednesday that Universal’s The Fall Guy starring Ryan Gosling will serve as the 2024 edition’s Centerpiece film, and Netflix’s 3 Body Problem from David Benioff, D. B. Weiss and Alexander Woo will open the fest’s opening-night TV premiere.