Oliver Stone slams ‘John Wick,’ ‘Fast & Furious’ films: ‘Disgusting’

With the WGA currently picketing and a looming SAG-AFTRA strike already impacting San Diego Comic-Con with several film and TV companies, i.e. Marvel, Lucasfilm, Sony, Universal, Netflix skipping, Lord knows what a truncated and tamer Comic-Con is going to look like from July 19-23, especially after an explosive 2022 which repped the confab’s return to in-person after going dark for two years during Covid for 2020 and 2021. However, here’s a glimpse at the first 3-days. Some shows and movies have promised cast appearances, but that’s still TBD given that the SAG-AFTRA contract expires on July 12, and actors aren’t permitted to promote their wares during a work stoppage. There are some big pieces of IP below, read the new Peacock John Wick spinoff series, The Continental and Paramount’s Seth Rogen produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, as well as Jamie Lee Curtis, TJ Miller and more who are looking to make noise and stoke the most devoted of fans. We’ll be updating the schedule over the weekend. At the bare minimum, expect a lot of screenings.

, so there's no reason to think she wouldn't have written songs about her famous friends as well. Currently, the internet's preeminent scholars of Swiftian lore are convinced that Swift's newly released track titled “When Emma Falls in Love” is about Emma Stone.“When Emma Falls in Love” is one of six songs “from the vault” that from the original album.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Is John Wick actually dead? It’s the question every Keanu Reeves fan was asking after “John Wick: Chapter 4” opened in March. The film ended with John’s presumable death after competing in a duel to free himself from the High Table. John gets shot in the third round of the duel and seemingly dies on the steps of the Basilica of Sacré Coeur while seeing a vision of his late wife, Helen. The film then cuts to a a final scene of Winston (Ian McShane) and the Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne) visiting John’s gravestone. In a new interview with Empire magazine, “John Wick: Chapter 4” director Chad Stahelski revealed for the first time that a more concrete ending to the action tentpole was filmed and tested. In this version of the film, there’s no question that John Wick survives the events of the duel.

Corey Taylor has hinted that Stone Sour‘s future remains uncertain.The band has been on hiatus since 2020, with Taylor saying the project has “kinda run its course for now.”In a new interview, Taylor referred to certain people’s “hindrances” getting in the way of Stone Sour making new music.“It’s not that I don’t miss some of the guys in Stone Sour – I still talk to them,” he told Rock Antenne. “But at this stage, I refuse to compromise my vision and my art because of certain people’s hindrances.

Just over a year after she tied the knot, Pixie Lott has revealed that she and husband Oliver Cheshire are expecting their first child together.The 32 year old singer, who recently debuted her huge hair transformation on Instagram, announced that she is expecting her first child with husband Oliver in a personal essay for British Vogue. Writing for the publication, the Mama Do singer and The Voice Kids coach revealed that she’d passed the 28-week mark at the beginning of the month - shortly before she and 35 year old Oliver celebrated their first wedding anniversary together on 6 June.

John Wick director Chad Stahelski has been pushing for a Best Stunts category to be added to the Oscars.In a recent interview with ComicBookMovie.com, to mark the blu-Ray release of John Wick: Chapter 4, Stahelksi said that conversations about a stunt Oscar had taken place “in the last couple of months” between the Academy and a group of stunt coordinators. “We’ve been meeting with members of the Academy and actually having these conversations, and, to be honest, it’s been nothing but incredibly positive, incredibly instructional,” Stahelski said.

Chad Stahelski is confident in the current discussions with the Academy about expanding the awards categories.

ComicBookMovie.com, the filmmaker behind the fourth Keanu Reeves-starring actioner stated that there have been serious talks within the Academy about potentially righting this arguable wrong. While he noted that no one at the Academy had previously sat down and talked it out, that’s changed just in the last few months.“So, in the last couple of months, we’ve been meeting with members of the Academy and actually having these conversations, and, to be honest, it’s been nothing but incredibly positive, incredibly instructional,” Stahelski said.

John Wick” movies with Keanu Reeves, spent the majority of his “John Wick: Chapter 4” press tour earlier this year urging the Academy to create an Oscar category for stunt work. At the time, the filmmaker said the main problem behind the Oscars not awarding stunt performers was that no conversations were taking place behind the scenes for them to do so. It now appears Stahelski is changing that. In a recent interview with ComicBookMovie.com to mark the Blu-ray release of “John Wick: Chapter 4,” Stahelski announced that conversations about a stunt Oscar have finally taken place “in the last couple of months” between the Academy and a contingent of stunt coordinators.

Fast & Furious 9 have admitted liability for the “life-changing” injuries suffered by a stunt performer on set in 2019.FF9 Pictures Limited, a subsidiary of Universal Pictures in the UK, is to pay Joe Watts damages for the incident. In 2022, Watts brought a legal claim for more than $1.2million (£940,000) against the production company [via Variety].Watts, an experienced stunt performer who has worked on films including Solo: A Star Wars Story and Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, was rehearsing a fight scene at Leavesden Studios with a stand in for Vin Diesel when he was thrown over a balcony and onto a concrete floor from a height of more than 20ft.It’s claimed that a safety wire designed to stop Watts’s fall malfunctioned and that he also missed the safety mat because the stunt was performed differently to the initial rehearsal.Watts was in a coma for five days following the accident, and suffered a fractured skull, traumatic brain injury, psychiatric injury and damage to his shoulder.His lawyers have described his injuries as “life-changing” and claimed that he’s been left with “a series of cognitive and physical issues” requiring specialist support and therapies.“He will not be able to return to his pre-accident employment as a stunt man,” Watts’ legal filings allege.

John Wick: Chapter 4 appears unstoppable as is earns a third consecutive week at Number 1 on the Official Film Chart.

cinematic universe, no character is ever gone for good!Fans of the high-octane franchise have learned that lesson time and again as our favorite heroes return — the #JusticeForHan hashtag was avenged when Sun Kang's character returned in  and our favorite villains switch sides to join the good guys. (Remember when Dwayne Johnson's Luke Hobbs was the antagonist of )Fast X, the latest installment, directed by Louis Leterrier, brought back not one, but two thrilling characters to the franchise, with Hobbs appearing in a post-credits scene — launching a Johnson-led standalone film that will fit into the timeline between and But the biggest shocker of all came in the film's final moments.

Over the course of his career, Oliver Stone has been part of quite a few films where violence is plentiful. Whether it’s the fantasy world of “Conan the Barbarian,” horrific war in “Platoon,” or perhaps ‘80s Miami in “Scarface,” he’s a creator who has never shied away from the use of violence in a story.

Christopher Vourlias Oliver Stone settled into a sofa on the terrace of the Radisson Blu Hotel in Cluj, Romania, apologizing for the jetlag and gazing at a downcast sky that had briefly parted over the Transylvanian hillside. “Let’s see if we can find some blue,” he said, describing himself — despite ample evidence to the contrary — as a “hopeful” person. But after a week of steady downpours in this picturesque medieval city, the weather refused to cooperate. From the hotel terrace it was gray as far as the eye could see. Stone was in Romania to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Transilvania Film Festival, which also programmed a small retrospective in honor of the three-time Academy Award-winning director including his latest film, the pro-nuclear-energy documentary “Nuclear Now,” which Variety’s Owen Gleiberman described as an “intensely compelling, must-see” doc after its premiere at the Venice Film Festival last year.

It’s a second strong week at Number 1 on the Official Film Chart for John Wick: Chapter 4.

Extraction 2 has said he’d like to see John Wick square off against Tyler Rake in a film.Chris Hemsworth returns as Tyler in the upcoming action thriller sequel, which is set for release on Netflix Friday, June 16.Speaking ahead of the sequel’s release, director Sam Hargrave was asked who’d win in a fight between John Wick, played by Keanu Reeves, and Hemsworth’s Tyler Rake.“I love that conversation,” Hargrave told Dexerto. “You know… as the director of the Tyler Rake world, I’d have to support my man Tyler Rake.“But then, in the canon of movies and legendary skills, it’s hard.

Raquel Leviss really did THAT!

It’s no death-defying leap to state that we are currently in the middle of a blockbuster action revolution, in which former stunt performers and coordinators-turned-feature-directors have reminded us why we love explosive scenes, sharply executed fights, and over-the-top brawn. Although movie stars still help sell in these projects (often by boasting how much they do their own stunts), it’s the filmmakers who are now the real ass-kickers.

Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s fortnightly strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it’s ever been, but breakout hits are appearing in pockets of the world all the time and it can be hard to keep track… So, we’re going to do the hard work for you.

The world of “John Wick” is expanding.