Cillian Murphy was “at home, eating cheese” during actors’ strike

Denzel Washington’s casting as ancient Carthaginian general Hannibal in a new Netflix movie has sparked a race controversy in Tunisia, the home country of the military commander.Washington’s casting in Antoine Fuqua’s upcoming Netflix movie was announced recently. Washington has worked with Fuqua previously on The Equalizer and Training Day.It was also confirmed the film will be written by John Logan, the three-time Academy Award winner who has written films including Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator and Ridley Scott’s Gladiator.According to the official synopsis, the movie will be “based on real-life warrior Hannibal, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest military commanders in history.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Denzel Washington being cast in Antoine Fuqua’s upcoming Netflix movie as ancient Carthaginian general Hannibal is sparking some controversy in Tunisia, the home country of the great military commander. According to French newspaper Courrier International, there are complaints about depicting the Carthaginian general as a Black African being made in the media and the Tunisian parliament. Member of Parliament Yassine Mami has pointed out that Hannibal, who was born in 247 BC in Carthage – now known as Tunis, the Tunisian capital – was of West Asian Semitic origin.

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.

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.

Oppenheimer and Matthew Perry are among the most viewed Wikipedia pages of 2023.This year alone, the English language version of the website had 84billion views, with celebrity deaths and Christopher Nolan’s epic biopic about the creation of the atomic bomb ranking as two of the highest searches.The list of celebrity deaths, which includes the late Friends star Perry, has been viewed 42,666,860 times, while Oppenheimer has 28,348,248 pageviews.J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist on which the film is based (played by Cillian Murphy), also ranked high with 25,672,469 pageviews.Perry, who starred as Chandler Bing in Friends, was found dead in his Los Angeles home on 28 October, aged 54.

Coachella lookbook. If this isn't prove 2010s style is coming back, I don't know Opting to go necklace-free, the star donned a smokey eye and an entire ensemble straight off the Ralph Lauren runway for Elle's Women in Hollywood event (Ralph Lauren was one of the sponsors), wearing pants, a top, a belt and a shawl from the brand.She carried a small black clutch and wore her hair in a blunt bob parted right in the middle, a corporate contrast to the 70s/Western style of the rest of her outfit.Here's posing it up..And here's Vanessa Hudgens in the machine washable version of this garment in 2012, at Coachella.Also, a model then named Hailey Baldwin, also at Coachella, in 2016.Should we break out the flower crowns and ironic mustache temporary tattoos or is Washington going to elevate this look beyond its music fest moment? After all, the style is more 70s than anything, and we'd love to see her try it with jeans instead of black slacks.Because the thing is, Kerry Washington can pull off pretty much anything.

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.

Cillian Murphy says he knows what a meme is now after admitting previously in an NME interview that he didn’t know what one was.The Oppenheimer actor took part in a Variety ‘actors on actors’ interview with Barbie star Margot Robbie when she asked him if he knew what a meme was.Robbie said to Murphy: “I have watched a lot of your things on YouTube, and it’s out there on the internet that you are not that aware of memes and things like that. First of all, is that true?”He replied: “I have two teenage boys.

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.

Michaela Zee Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series returns featuring the biggest stars in this year’s Oscar race for Season 19. The four episodes will debut on PBS SoCal on Jan. 11 at 8 to 10 p.m., followed by encores on KCET and public television stations across the country and the WORLD Channel (check local listings).

Shonda Rhimes, CEO and founder of Shondaland, who is behind such hit series as Bridgerton, Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, said the writers’ strike, for her, “wasn’t complicated at all. “I consider myself to be a writer, first and foremost. So I was a writer on strike. And I was very aware that I [was] not on strike the way a lot of people [were] on strike,” she said.

historically long actors’ strike and fear their industry will be “decimated” by the move.The Screen Actors Guild struck a deal to get actors and performers back to work on Nov. 9 after the 118-day strike, but the stunt workers who keep Marvel movies action-packed and help actors look superhuman on screensay the offered deal threatens their future.“I’m terrified [this contract] is going to decimate the stunt industry,” Stuntwoman’s Association of Motion Pictures member Heidi Pascoe exclusively told The Post.“The stunt community — [which] is really small — is really getting screwed over.

Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles on Saturday drew 28 of this season’s biggest and buzziest films for our annual panel showcase of cast and creatives, with a list of films that included everything from Barbie and Oppenheimer to John Wick: Chapter 4 and Trolls Band Together and every kind of movie in between.

Christopher Nolan has spoken about the “danger” of films only being available via streaming platforms, stressing that he believes in the ongoing importance of physical media.Speaking to The Washington Post, Nolan expanded on recent comments he made while introducing a screening of his film Oppenheimer, when he urged fans to buy the Blu-ray version, “so no evil streaming service can come steal it from you.”In the new interview, he clarified that he was joking in describing them as “evil”, but he did elaborate that the susceptibility of films disappearing from streaming platforms does concern him.“There is a danger these days that if things only exist in the streaming version, they do get taken down,” he said. “They come and go — as do broadcast versions of films, so my films will play on HBO or whatever, they’ll come and go.”“But the home video version is the thing that can always be there, so people can always access it.

Illumination’s upcoming film Migration is a comedy about a family of ducks trying to fly from New York to Jamaica. Writer-director Benjamin Renner makes his 3D animation debut, and John Powell wrote the score for his film. Renner told the audience Saturday at Deadline’s Contenders Film Los Angeles event that Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri assured him he could pick up 3D animation on the job.

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details from the plot of John Wick: Chapter 4. 

When Julianne Moore first was approached for May December, a dark dramedy that would have her star opposite Natalie Portman under the direction of frequent collaborator Todd Haynes, she said yes immediately. But only in looking more closely at the material and her Gracie character did she come to understand the complexity of what she’d just signed on for.