Director Karan Johar on Why He Won’t Make Hollywood Movies: ‘The World Needs to Wake Up to Indian Stories’

Harry Styles made his big screen debut as a in 2017′s Dunkirk and has pursued a career as a movie star alongside his music ever since.

Walmart advertisement in a new interview. “I don’t know; I guess I wasn’t that excited about doing a commercial if I’m being totally honest,” McAdams, 45, told Variety while promoting her new film “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” on Wednesday.”A movie sounded awesome, but I’ve never done commercials, and it just didn’t feel like my bag,” the Oscar nominee continued. “Also… I didn’t know that everyone was doing it.

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Friends was the perfect escape mechanism in his new Netflix movie, Leave The World Behind.The disaster movie, which stars Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke and Mahershala Ali, features a character called Rose, who is clearly attached to the beloved 1990s sitcom.When a widespread internet outage occurs and Rose can’t watch the series finale, which was originally watched by 52.million American viewers, she is left without her, and many others’ comfort show.In a recent interview with Collider, Esmail shared how he was set on Friends being Rose’s obsession, and an occurring theme throughout the movie.“There was a big conversation that we had for a long time, and you could run through all the sitcoms that are these classics that could potentially work but none of them really had that theme song that was so iconic,” he explained.He continued: “And, I have to stress this, the lyrics of that song were so perfect for how the film ends.

George Clooney seemingly has no interest in returning to the role of Batman following his cameo appearance in The Flash.The actor appeared as Bruce Wayne opposite Ezra Miller in the final moments of the multiverse superhero outing, reprising the role for the first time since 1997’s widely-derided Batman & Robin from director Joel Schumacher.Speaking to Entertainment Tonight at the premiere of his new film The Boys In The Boat, Clooney explained why he returned for the cameo.“There was such a clamour for me to come back as Batman, as you know,” Clooney joked. “Why are you making that face? I saw that face.“I actually said, ‘Where are my rubber nipples?’ And they were like, ‘Can we do it without the rubber nipples?’ I was like, ‘Well, it’s not really my Batman, is it?'”Asked if he could be convinced to return to the role again, Clooney replied: “I don’t think there’s enough drugs in the world for me to go back.”Speaking to Variety in 2021, Clooney joked that Batman & Robin “destroyed” the superhero franchise because it was so bad – and that he refused to let his wife, Amal, watch it.“There are certain films I just go, ‘I want my wife to have some respect for me,'” Clooney said.Multiple actors who previously played Batman make an appearance in The Flash, including Clooney, Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck.In a four-star review of the film, NME wrote: “One of the things that makes The Flash good is how well the timey-wimey stuff works.

Nicholas Weinstock The first time I went to Ghana, I was 19 years old and volunteering to build a health clinic in a rural village. It was the early ‘90s, I was a teenaged lunatic, and everything bad that could have happened to me did: I got malaria; I was beaten up by soldiers on the border with the Ivory Coast — but I also encountered wonderful people and stunning and moving and unforgettable experiences and friendships.

Kevin Bacon. The plot follows a family on vacation to a rental house in Long Island, who get interrupted by strangers showing up, amid a mysterious blackout and technology glitches. Both families work together to decide how to survive as technology such as phones and television break down, and airplanes start crashing.

Bosnian-Dutch director Ena Sendijarević’s satire Sweet Dreams unfolds on a plantation in the Dutch East Indies that is falling into decay in step with the crumbling of the Netherlands’ colonial power.

Given this rising age of anxiety we’re in, where problems of uncertainty and instability feel like they’re global and yet local, intimate, and personal too, writer/director Sam Esmail’s unnerving global collapse thriller, “Leave The World Behind,” feels like it arrives at an all-too-perfectly timed moment. Its opening moments are arresting.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Iraqi director Ahmed Yassin Al-Daradji — who in 2022 won the Red Sea Film Festival‘s top prize with “Hanging Gardens” — will next direct black comedy ”Madness and Honey Days,” in which an audacious theatre director offends Saddam Hussein on stage and winds up in a psychiatric hospital to avoid a punishment of tongue-cutting followed by the death sentence. Segueing from “Hanging Gardens,” in which a 12-year-old boy finds a discarded American sex doll amid the Baghdad trash and then becomes caught in military crossfire, Al-Daradji is continuing to work with tropes that stem from the absurdities and atrocities of his home country’s recent past.

Gwyneth Paltrow opens up about Marvel movies once again!

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor MAD Solutions has acquired world sales rights to OSN’s first-ever original feature, “Yellow Bus,” which world premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. As well as world sales, MAD Solutions will handle Middle East and North Africa theatrical distribution, while OSN will handle all other MENA rights.

EXCLUSIVE: Indian filmmaker Nikhil Nagesh Bhat has signed with WME.

Hugh Grant was on curmudgeonly form during a press conference marking the release of Wonka, telling journalists that he hated playing an Oompa Loompa in the film.

Taylor Swift, Barbie and Hollywood strikers are among the nine contenders for Time’s 2023 Person of the Year, the magazine announced today.

Easily offended sensibilities and hand-wringing over every pop culture moment seem to characterize the times we’re living in, but such battles have been brewing for centuries. In his new book, “Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and Culture Wars,” Kliph Nesteroff looks at nearly 200 years of controversies to help us understand the present moment. In this excerpt, he looks back at the hysteria around “The Simpsons” and “Beavis and Butthead.”By 1991, Fox had enough credibility to land the broadcast rights to the Emmys.That year, the category for Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program was presented by comedian Gilbert Gottfried.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director The year is coming to end, but not without some major original films debuting on Netflix, Prime Video and more top streaming platforms. Whether it’s potential new holiday classics (Prime Video is launching the Eddie Murphy holiday comedy “Candy Cane Lane” this month) or potential new franchises (Zack Snyder returns to Netflix for the start of his space opera saga “Rebel Moon”), streaming is offering up a ton of original fare this month bolstered by star power such as Bradley Cooper, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts and more. Disney+ already added the first four “Indiana Jones” movies to its streaming library in May, but now comes the arrival of the fifth installment, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” which marks Harrison Ford’s final outing as the iconic archeologist and adventurer.

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor The third edition of the Red Sea Film Festival, taking place in Jeddah between Nov. 30 – Dec. 9, will be the culmination of a highly successful funding cycle for the Red Sea Film Foundation.

A.D. Amorosi With Lionsgate’s “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” looking to continue its reign at the top spot of the box office, it’s time to consider the most sonorous secret to its success: its original, bluegrass-tinted song selection, including a theme written and produced by Dave Cobb (with lyrics from “Hunger Games” author Suzanne Collins), and sung soulfully by the film’s star, Rachel Zegler.

comes during the film’s climax, features the character Mark (played by Andrew Lincoln) arriving at the home of his best friend, Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofor), to wordlessly declare his love for Peter’s wife, Juliet (Keira Knightley), using a boombox and handwritten notecards. “He actually turns up, to his best friend’s house, to say to his best friend’s wife, on the off chance that she answers the door, ‘I love you,'” Curtis, 67, told the Independent.