Pride month means standing up and being an ally for marginalized groups and Dwyane Wade is doing just that for his 15-year-old transgender daughter, Zaya — and we’re breaking it all down on Us Weekly’s “Hot Hollywood” podcast.
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Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterGeorge Miller has some thoughts about the future of superhero movies.At a Saturday press conference in Cannes for his new film “3000 Years of Longing,” story archetypes throughout history were widely discussed — as his movie follows an academic who studies the narratives of humankind.In one scene, set at a conference discussing storytelling, we glimpse a large image of the DC Comics heroes including Superman, Batman and The Flash. Variety asked Miller if he thought that contemporary superhero content would be shared throughout the ages to come.“They endure and have endured anyway.
The one thing you will be certain of is that they will change, they will morph into something else. Marvel and the DC Universe are basically the vestiges of the Greek and Norse and Roman mythologies.
There’s a direct equivalence between each of those characters, ” Miller said. “We’re going through an era in which I think we’re expressing through moving image narrative these stories.
They’re echoes of the past, but they’re adjusted to have meaning to us.” Swinton, who plays the academic in “3000 Years” and is a member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe herself, piggybacked off of Miller’s answer with an impassioned call to tell new kinds of stories in the superhero canon.“The thing that is dangerous about story is when you have only one story,” she said. Swinton’s assertion has become more relevant “particularly in the last few months,” she said, seeming to reference Russian propaganda and the war in Ukraine.“It is possible when people cant hear any other stories that things really go down the tubes very, very fast and may close everything down.
Pride month means standing up and being an ally for marginalized groups and Dwyane Wade is doing just that for his 15-year-old transgender daughter, Zaya — and we’re breaking it all down on Us Weekly’s “Hot Hollywood” podcast.
Prince George attended several of the Platinum celebrations shoulder to shoulder with his younger siblings Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis. The eldest son of Prince William and Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge is often deemed the more serious of the three but even he could not hold back his laughter looking at Louis enjoying the celebrations.
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In his quest to get AR-15 rifles out of Americans’ hands, Hollywood liberal George Takei seemed to inadvertently make a point in support of the Second Amendment. On Monday, the Star Trek actor tweeted that all the AR-15s in America could be put to better use in Ukraine, where they are trying to fight off the tyranny of the Russian invaders.
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Bode Miller and Morgan Beck welcomed the newest addition to their family — a baby girl — and now the proud mom is finally revealing the name they chose for their youngest child.«6 Months Of little miss Scarlet Olivia Khione Miller,» the 35-year-old professional volleyball player wrote alongside an adorable series of pics of the baby smiling. A post shared by Morgan Miller — The Simple Mom (@morganebeck)From the comments underneath her post, Beck's fans were thrilled about the name reveal, with one person writing, «Her own beautiful meaningful name,» and another pointing out that one part of Scarlet's moniker was an ode to Miller's career as an alpine ski racer. «She’s beautiful and I love that part of her name means 'snow',» the commenter wrote in reference to Khione, which is the Goddess of Snow from Greek mythology.Beck and Miller announced the arrival of Scarlet in November with a black-and-white snap of the newborn. «She’s here!» Beck captioned the photo.A post shared by Morgan Miller — The Simple Mom (@morganebeck)Months later, the couple still hadn't come up with the perfect name for their daughter, with Miller telling the show that «she's stumped us on names so far.»«We have a lot that we like, but she hasn’t smiled or high-fived or anything when we say them to her, and we say them to her all the time,» he added.Miller and Beck — who wed in 2012 — are also parents to four sons: 7-year-old Nash, 3-year-old Easton and 2-year-old twins, Asher and Askel.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticOlivia Rodrigo probably isn’t begging to be compared to Paul McCartney. No one would wish that on a superstar — we can call her that now, right? — who just turned 19 years three months ago.
Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday. The actress, 45, and her beau, 53, who share a three-year-old daughter, looked happier than ever as they walked the red carpet.
Rise Films is nearing the end of what has been a monumental month for the London-based production outfit. Last week, HBO Max launched the company’s two-part documentary George Carlin’s American Dream, which chronicles the life and five-decade career of the comedian with Judd Apatow in the director’s seat.
The International Coalition For Filmmakers At Risk (ICFR) has demanded “an end to a growing environment of fear and insecurity” in Iran after two documentary creators were arrested then released on bail, preventing them from travelling or working.
Roger Moore was 'petrified' drunk Hollywood star would drop a babyLink'Don't hit him, Sean!' James Bond star was 'begged' not to attack starLinkBoyle added: "But the passageway to it (Bond's death) was obviously very different. "The director duly made a high-profile exit, to be replaced by Cary Fukunaga. It also affected his creative team and some of the actors who had been hired specifically for his plot and Russia-based finale and who were subsequently let go.
Based on a true story, Firebird is a meticulously researched and produced film about two young men on a military base in Soviet-occupied Estonia in the late 1970s.Sergey (Tom Prior) is a private just weeks away from discharge; Roman (Oleg Zagorodnii) is an officer and pilot, newly assigned to the base. Their attraction is almost immediate, unfolding with a tender intimacy which is beautifully, painfully naïve to the realities of their society – both military and civilian.Tom Prior and Oleg Zagorodnii in ‘Firebird’Firebird feels like a film for the ages, but also of the times.
If anyone has a right to be jaded about superhero movies, it’s George Miller. Miller posses one of the great what-if superhero stories, having spent several years in the 2000s working on “Justice League Mortal,” a $200 million dollar movie that would have featured Armie Hammer as Batman and D.J.
“Three Thousand Years of Longing” premiered at Cannes on Friday night has quickly become one of the more talked about films out of the festival thus far. And Miller and his stars Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba in a press conference Saturday encouraged the journalists in the room, as well as Hollywood at large, to continue telling unique, diverse stories.Swinton in particular warned of the danger of only being exposed to one type of story.
When ranging out of Mad Max territory, George Miller’s films are highly diverse and unpredictable in nature, and never has this proved more the case than with his time-traveling, narratively far-ranging new drama, Three Thousand Years of Longing. In this Cannes Film Festival competition entry, the director delves back into old texts to examine the nature and power of legendary stories that have endured for centuries in a way that is both sharply creative and a bit off-putting; the film begins on quite a high, only to slowly deflate as it works its way toward its modern-day ending.