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Margot Robbie’s Barbie exposed all of his “blond fragility” on the big screen in the summer blockbuster that brought the iconic Mattel doll to life, it’s “the man behind the tan” — as memorably Kenoughed by Ryan Gosling — who is having the last laugh in 2023.“I’m Just Ken (Merry Kristmas Barbie)” — a new holiday rendition of his signature number in Greta Gerwig’s box-office smash — dropped from the hunky heavens on Wednesday.The Yuletide twist arrives just five days before Santa will be delivering Barbies and Kens to little girls and boys all around the (snow) globe.The “Kristmas” makeover of “I’m Just Ken” puts a sweeping, Phil Spector-esque spin on the song that was written by “Barbie” music supervisors Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt. And the string-laden setting decks the ditty in seasonal splendor as Gosling ever-so-earnestly sings lines such as “Am I not hot when I’m in my feelings?”Clearly still hopelessly devoted to his dream doll — who leaves him behind for the real world at the end of the film — Gosling ends with, “Merry Kristmas, Barbie / Wherever you are.”The “I’m Just Ken” revamp comes ringing in with a video of the song featuring Ronson and Wyatt.

Oppenheimer”).During the simultaneous Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America strikes, the sagging box office was boosted, like NFL ratings and the economy of East Rutherford, New Jersey, by Taylor Swift.Marvel Studios, which used to be the surest thing in Hollywood, began to underperform (“Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania”) and then downright flop (“The Marvels”).And DC was revealed to actually stand for Dud Central, with all of the studio’s comic-book films of 2023 (“Shazam! Fury of the Gods,” “The Flash” and “Blue Beetle”) turning out to be financial failures.In a win for Gen Z, studio execs determined Zendaya’s star wattage is so huge now that two of her movies — “Dune: Part 2” and “Challengers” — were delayed a year due to the strikes, so she can promote them to her hoards of fans. And baby boomers were dinged by the big-time tanking of the nostalgic “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” starring a now 81-year-old Harrison Ford who schlepped around New York and Europe.Despite all the madness — and a sea of schlock — some excellent films hit theaters this year.

Andrew Haigh’s drama All of Us Strangers has landed nine London Critics’ Circle Awards nominations, ahead of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which has scored seven.

Peaky Blinders spin-offs are in development at Netflix, according to reports.As reported by Bloomberg, the company is planning two spin-offs based on the British gangster series, which came to an end in 2022 after six seasons.One of these shows is said to be “set in Boston during the middle of the 20th century”, a couple of decades after Peaky Blinders. The other, meanwhile, is believed to be centred around Shelby family matriarch Polly, who was originally played by the late Helen McCrory.The only confirmed continuation of Peaky Blinders on-screen is an upcoming sequel movie, written by the show’s original creator Steven Knight.Speaking to Radio Times recently, Knight said filming on the movie should commence in the middle of 2024.“I’m just working on the final bits of it at the moment,” Knight said.

We often wax effusive about movies, their meaning, their craft, their intention, how they are sculpted and shaped, but sometimes we forget about the director’s mantra: that casting is everything and we arguably sometimes take for granted how some movies that seem so perfect, may not work at all without the actors and performers at their center. READ MORE: The 21 Best Films Of 2023 2023 was a great year for movies, see our Best Films Of 2023 list, but let’s be real, so many of these movies were make or break based on their performances.

Way back in 2017, Hathaway was considering playing Barbie for Sony Pictures, with Alethea Jones circling to direct. The Oscar-winner says now, in hindsight, it’s a “lucky thing” that never happened.

Barbie has scored the most nominations for next year’s Golden Globes, inching slightly ahead of former summer box office rival Oppenheimer.The nominations for the upcoming ceremony were announced today (December 11), starting awards season off.Both films became huge critical and commercial successes after being released this summer, starting the ‘Barbenheimer’ trend of fans going to see both films on the same day.It now looks like both could be set to dominate awards season, with Barbie scoring nine nominations including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Director for Greta Gerwig and Best Actress – Musical or Comedy for Margot Robbie.The film also earned three Best Original Song nods, for ‘What Was I Made For?’ by Billie Eilish and Finneas, ‘Dance the Night’ by Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, and ‘I’m Just Ken’ by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt.Oppenheimer follows behind with eight nominations, including Best Director for Christopher Nolan, as well as acting nods for Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr.Both films are also up for the new category of Cinematic and Box Office Achievement in Motion Pictures. Other nominees include Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3, John Wick: Chapter 4, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, The Super Mario Bros Movie and Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour.Other notable nominees across the board include Poor Things and Killers Of The Flower Moon, which both trail behind with seven nominations each.

were announced Monday morning, and the biggest shocker is … that they still exist!Like a post-apocalyptic Twinkie, the 80-year-old ceremony has survived against all odds. There’s been scandal after scandal, the disbanding of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a sale to Dick Clark Productions and a move from NBC to CBS.

The 2024 Golden Globe nominations have officially been announced!

Bradley Cooper for an apparent dig he made toward Cillian Murphy.Cooper made the comments in Variety‘s series ‘Actors on Actors’, where he appeared with Emma Stone. The director and lead actor of Maestro spoke to Stone about the preparation she did for upcoming film Poor Things.Both Maestro and Poor Things took six years to make: “I feel like you couldn’t have made Poor Things if you didn’t have a tremendous amount of prep, and it’s the same thing with Maestro,” he said.It was Cooper’s next comment that fans thought was directed to Murphy: “This wasn’t like you got a call, and in six months you’re going to do it,” he said.

Ryan Gosling and America Ferrera are the latest stars to weigh in the possibility of making a Barbie sequel.

Cillian Murphy has paid tribute to his Peaky Blinders co-star Benjamin Zephaniah, who died on Thursday (December 7), aged 65.The pair appeared together in the BBC period crime drama, with Murphy playing protagonist Tommy Shelby and Zephaniah as Jeremiah “Jimmy” Jesus, a Jamaican-born street preacher and friend of Shelby’s.“Benjamin was a truly gifted and beautiful human being – a generational poet, writer, musician and activist. A proud Brummie and a Peaky Blinder,” said Murphy in a statement, (via Deadline).

Benjamin Zephaniah, a famed and celebrated poet and actor in works including Peaky Blinders, has tragically passed away at the age of 65.

Cillian Murphy has paid tribute to Peaky Blinders co-star Benjamin Zephaniah, who passed away this morning aged 65.

Cillian Murphy has insisted that the ending to Peaky Blinders wrapped up a “perfect” six seasons, but said he’s “open” to a spin-off movie.The Oppenheimer actor was speaking to Barbie star Margot Robbie as part of Variety‘s Actors On Actors series when he was asked about his famous role as Tommy Shelby in the hit series.Murphy described his time on the post-World War One period drama – which followed the exploits of the Birmingham-based Peaky Blinders crime family – from 2013-2022 as an “adventure”.When Robbie asked if there was any possibility of a spin-off movie, the Irish actor said he’s “open to the idea” if “there’s more story to tell”.A post shared by Variety (@variety)He echoed similar comment he made last year, adding: “I’m totally open to the idea, but I also do think it was a kind of perfect six seasons. It’s sometimes hard to move into the film format, and I do like the ambiguity of the ending, but I’m always open to a great script, who wouldn’t be?”Murphy went on to share with Robbie that fans often come up to him to recite “Tommy fookin’ Shelby” to him in the show’s distinctive Brummie dialect.The pair’s conversation followed the summer cinematic phenomenon dubbed ‘Barbenheimer’ after their respective films were released on the same day.

Zack Snyder has revealed that he was aware of a Zack Snyder’s Justice League joke being included in Greta Gerwig‘s Barbie ahead of its release earlier this year.Speaking to Men’s Health Magazine to promote his upcoming sci-fi film Rebel Moon, Snyder shared that Warner Bros. executive Michael DeLuca had his wife and producer partner Deborah Snyder of the joke.The joke, told by a version of Barbie played by Alexandra Shipp, was used to to describe her time being under the patriarchy of Ryan Gosling‘s Ken: “It’s like I’ve been in a dream where I was really invested in the Zack Snyder Cut of Justice League.”“They gave us a heads-up,” Snyder said of the joke.

Peaky Blinders” gangster Tommy Shelby could jump to the big screen.Series star Cillian Murphy, who played crime-family patriarch Tommy in the period British drama series (2013-2022), said he’s open to the idea of a “Peaky Blinders” movie in a wide-ranging interview he did with Margot Robbie in Variety.Murphy and Robbie, 33, talked about their summer box-office behemoths “Oppenheimer” (Murphy) and “Barbie” (Robbie) — which spawned the fan-frenzy “Barbenheimer” craze (people seeing both movies) — as part of the “Actors on Actors” series.In the sit-down, Robbie brings up “Peaky Blinders” and says she’s “obsessed” with the BBC series, created by Steven Knight, which streamed on Netflix.“In my opinion, there are two kinds of people in this world,” she said. “There are people who are obsessed with ‘Peaky Blinders,’ and then there’s the people who haven’t seen ‘Peaky Blinders.’ I obviously sit in the first category, so can we please talk about Tommy f—ing Shelfy for just one minute? … Is there going to be a spinoff movie?”“I mean, I’m open to the idea,” Murphy says.

Margot Robbie and Cillian Murphy — she the star of “Barbie,” he of “Oppenheimer” — have shared an experience, one unique in film history. On July 21, 2023, their two movies came out, and instead of cannibalizing one another during a time when box office receipts were sluggish, they actually boosted each other, creating the global phenomenon known as “Barbenheimer.” On paper, the two movies couldn’t be more different.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Margot Robbie revealed to Cillian Murphy during a conversation for Variety’s “Actors on Actors,” presented by “AIR,” that she got a call from “Oppenheimer” producer Charles Roven in which he asked her to change the “Barbie” release date so that it wouldn’t open on the same day as Christopher Nolan’s atomic bomb epic. Roven also produced Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy and worked with Robbie on James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad.” “One of your producers, Chuck Roven, called me, because we worked together on some other projects,” Robbie said. “And he was like, ‘I think you guys should move your date.’ And I was like, ‘We’re not moving our date.

Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige has shut down rumours that Robert Downey Jr. will return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).Speaking to Vanity Fair for a new profile piece on Downey, Feige has revealed that Marvel Studios will not be bringing back the Iron Man actor after the character was killed off in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame.Feige said, citing Downey Jr.’s final performance as Iron Man: “We are going to keep that moment and not touch that moment again.