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Anya Taylor-Joy learned on the set of George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” prequel “Furiosa.” Under heavy coats of makeup, shooting in the Australian winter when daylight was scarce, Taylor-Joy wished she could have stayed in bed at least through the crack of dawn. Instead, she’d rise up in the middle of the night, ready to do battle. “I had the earliest call time of my life: 1:45 a.m.,” the 28-year-old actress says on a recent Los Angeles afternoon.

Mad Max spin-off Furiosa are coming in, and the film is receiving positive first reactions.The film, officially titled Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is set to be released on May 23. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth, the movie will serve as a prequel to 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron and Zoë Kravitz.Some critics have already seen the highly-anticipated film, and have gone online to share their views.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director The first reactions for George Miller’s “Furiosa” have trickled in on social media ahead of the movie’s world premiere later this month at the Cannes Film Festival, and it appears the “Mad Max: Fury Road” director has another amazing action epic on his hands. “Brings me great joy to report that ‘Furiosa’ is really, really fucking good,” IndieWire film critic David Ehrlich wrote on X.

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Anya Taylor Joy went all out with a work of art at the Australian premiere of her film Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga at the State Theatre on Thursday (May 2) in Sydney, Australia.

Visionary filmmaker George Miller returns to his gasoline-fueled wasteland fantasy action universe this summer “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.” The latest installment of his post-apocalypse saga is a prequel centering on a young Furiosa (this time played by Anya Taylor-Joy instead of Charlize Theron), but it apparently almost went in a totally different direction, using a totally different medium In a new interview with Total Film (via Games Radar), producer Doug Mitchell recently revealed how the prequel came about and how it was actually ready 15 years ago story-wise, with the original intention of becoming an anime project, not the live-action thriller that arrives in May.

Mad Max prequel film Furiosa includes a 15-minute action scene that took 78 days to film, it has been revealed.Speaking to Total Film Magazine, the film’s star Anya Taylor-Joy and George Miller’s production partner Doug Mitchell spoke about the scene, which Taylor-Joy says is “very important for understanding” the character of Furiosa better.Mitchell revealed that the film includes a “has one 15-minute sequence which took us 78 days to shoot” and required close to 200 stunt workers on set daily. While little else has been revealed about the scene, it has been described as a “turning point” for Furiosa.Taylor-Joy explained why the scene plays such an integral role in the film: “George and I would have these big conversations about why this particular set-piece was so long.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Mad Max” fans know that topping “Fury Road” is most likely an impossible task, but it sounds like the upcoming prequel “Furiosa” has a few action-packed tricks up its sleeve to deliver the goods. Speaking to Total Film magazine, director George Miller’s longtime producing partner Doug Mitchell let it slip that “Furiosa” contains “one 15-minute sequence which took us 78 days to shoot” and required 200 stunt people on set daily.

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EXCLUSIVE: Justin Lin’s Perfect Storm Entertainment have acquired World Rally Vice Champion Michèle Mouton’s life rights with plans to develop a biopic on her. Mouton’s life story caught the attention of Perfect Strom following the release of Drum Studio’s documentary The Queen of Speed, which won the International Emmy for Best Sports Documentary in 2022.

Anya Taylor-Joy’s Imperator Furiosa takes aim at Chris Hemsworth’s Dementus in the new trailer for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga – check it out below.The film is a prequel to 2015’s action classic Mad Max: Fury Road, and it will feature The Queen’s Gambit star Taylor-Joy taking on the role of the war captain originally played by Charlize Theron.Venturing back to before the events in Fury Road, the new movie follows the story of a young Furiosa as she is taken away from the Green Place of Many Mothers and forced to find a way to survive.Check out the trailer below:The trailer shows Furiosa being torn away from her life as a child and into the stewardship of Dementus. As her new master wages war against The Immortan Joe, Furiosa must survive many trials before she can attempt to find her way home.It marks the fifth instalment to the Mad Max franchise, and also features Tom Burke and Alyla Browne.Other actors to star in the forthcoming prequel include Quaden Bayles, Daniel Webber and Lachy Hulme, as well as Fury Road actors Nathan Jones and Angus Sampson who will be reprising their roles of Rictus Erectus and The Organic Mechanic.In December, Warner Bros.

The trailer for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is finally here!

Largely beloved upon its arrival in 2015, George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” is now considered a 21st-century classic. And while the adrenaline-pounding film was supposed to be a Mad Max story, clearly one of the more compelling characters was Charlize Theron’s Furiosa, who went toe to toe with Tom Hardy’s Max in the movie.

Engines will rev and roar in the wasteland once more in May when George Miller’s “Furious: A Mad Max Saga” finally his theaters. The film, starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth, is a prequel to the events of “Mad Max: Fury Road” and a new trailer has dropped.

Jack Dunn Warner Bros. has released the second trailer for George Miller’s “Furiosa”, the post-apocalyptic prequel to “Mad Max: Fury Road.” The film stars Anya-Taylor Joy as wasteland warrior princess Imperator Furiosa, a role originally plated by Charlize Theron in the 2015 series reboot. The film follows a young Furiosa as she is ripped from her refuge in the Green Place of Many Mothers and, for the first time, forced to face the insanity of the desolate world beyond.

Mad Max films, has died in a car crash at the age of 85.The stunt performer’s death was announced by his son Leroy, who revealed that his father hit a tree while driving alone near his home on the coast of New South Wales, Australia.Leroy described his father as a “legend”, adding that he died “very happy”. He told the Daily Mail Australia: “He died in very high spirits and he was very motivated.”Page had a long career in the world of stunt performing, and regularly worked with Mad Max director George Miller.Having performed memorable stunts in the original Mad Max (1979) and third movie Beyond Thunderdome (1985), Page reunited with Miller for forthcoming film Furiosa, the Anya Taylor-Joy-led prequel which focuses on a younger version of Charlize Theron’s character from Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).Some of Page’s other notable credits include The Stuntmen, Kung Fu Killers, and The Man From Hong Kong, in which he served as a double for James Bond star George Lazenby.One of Page’s frequent collaborators Trenchard-Smith paid tribute to the stuntman on his blog, praising him for being able to “deliver Hollywood-level action and mayhem”.

Jennifer Lawrence changed up her look and prepared to party the night away at the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. after a star-studded night at the 2024 Academy Awards.

Emma Stone, who portrayed Bella Baxter in Poor Things, burst into tears as she took to the stage to receive an Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role.The Hollywood actress was completely stunned when it was revealed she had won the accolade and as she made her way onto the stage, she was horrified to discover her mint green dress was broken. She asked for Jennifer Lawrence and Charlize Theron to check her gown as she tried to hide the malfunction from the audience.

Charlize Theron is stepping out for the Oscars!

Oscars. The charismatic 27-year-old media personality and former YouTuber graced the 96th Academy Awards red carpet on Sunday in a red off-the-shoulder Marchesa gown and massive platform heels — the latter causing her to fall to the ground in front of photographers. “That’s alright,” the “Players” actress said from the ground as an assistant rushed to help her up.

William Earl Jimmy Kimmel is ready to drink up at the Oscars. The host of the 96th Academy Awards is planning to do a shot of Don Julio tequila during the show with his sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez. But they might not be the only ones drinking at that moment.

Chris Hemsworth is spilling the tea about his character in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

Margot Robbie appeared in her first movie back in 2009, and in less than 15 years she’s landed starring roles in some of the era’s biggest blockbusters.

“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” isn’t due in theaters until the beginning of the summer. However, given that it is most likely making its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in mid-May, the promotional machine for the George Miller-directed film is already underway.

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Charlize Theron played in a tennis tournament for a great cause!

Novak Djokovic is back on tennis courts. The number 1 tennis player in the world hadn’t played since he won the Australian Open, and made his comeback alongside none other than Charlize Theron. Djokovic made an appearance at the Desert Smash charity event, with proceeds funding Theron’s Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project, which benefits young people living in Southern Africa.

UPDATED, 10:00 AM: The Academy said today that Emily Blunt, Cynthia Erivo, America Ferrera, Sally Field, Ryan Gosling, Ariana Grande, Ben Kingsley, Melissa McCarthy, Issa Rae, Tim Robbins, Steven Spielberg, Mary Steenburgen, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlize Theron, Christoph Waltz and Forest Whitaker will present at the Oscars on Sunday. See the rest of the envelope openers below.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Netflix stuck the landing on a star-studded exhibition match between tennis superstars Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz this weekend. Stakes were high on the court, but the Las Vegas showdown was most effective as a lush advertisement for the streamer as a fledgling live sports destination. Taking over the Mandalay Bay’s Michelob Ultra Arena, the inaugural Netflix Slam pit legend Nadal against 20-year-old Alcaraz.

Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz faced off in an exhibition match over the weekend. The game, called “The Netflix Slam,” concluded with an Alcaraz win and with an endorsement from Rafael Nadal, who had nothing but praise for his fellow Spanish player.Rafa Nadal opens up about the ‘radical’ change of being a parentRafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz’s upcoming match: When and how to watch"It's a good thing that as a player I will not face him many times," said Nadal after the match, per Reuters. “As a fan, I will enjoy watching him for many years hopefully.

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Charlize Theron is once again standing up for the LGBTQ+ community.

Charlize Theron says that the efforts to curb the rights of drag performers is driven by fear and ignorance.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor SPOILER ALERT: This contains spoilers from the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 16. Charlize Theron expressed her strong support for the drag community in her debut as a guest judge on the season premiere of MTV’s “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” In the opening episode of Season 16, the Oscar-winning actor and longtime LGBTQ told the queens that the groundswell of efforts to curb the rights of drag performers is driven by fear and ignorance. “Given the climate in our country right now, there’s a lot of energy being put toward your community not existing. I truly believe that all of that is coming from a place of fear,” Theron told the contenders on the long-running competition series.

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