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Manori Ravindran International EditorWhatever you do, don’t ask Sylvester Stallone — Mr. Stallone to journalists everywhere — to read off a teleprompter.Stallone stole the show at the Paramount+ U.K.
launch on Monday, where the star of mob drama “Tulsa King,” faced with a teleprompter like his fellow actors in attendance, went dramatically off-piste and opted to “speak from the heart” for 10 minutes, delightfully throwing a wrench in an otherwise perfectly curated showcase.“I’m not going to read that. I’m not,” boomed Stallone to cheers from the audience of around 200.
“I’m going to read from the heart!”In a rambling speech that touched on his love of franchises — “When I first started a franchise, they said, ‘Oh very careerist. You’re going to make the same movie three, four times?’ It’s like, ‘Yeah'” — through to riding horses, his own early career, and ultimately “putting together this new gang of misfits.” “I’d like to say I did it all on my own,” joked Stallone, before thanking Paramount boss Bob Bakish; Chris McCarthy, president of Paramount Media Networks; as well as Tom Ryan, president and CEO of streaming.Stallone was the final act in an hour-long presentation that dazzled the audience at Outernet, a new media space on Charing Cross Road in central London, whose massive screens for walls were put to good use by Paramount.
The studio hosted media and select producers and partners at a lavish party for the service, which formally launches in the U.K. on Wednesday (June 22) with an 8,000-hour content offering spanning movies, TV shows, new originals and library fare.Hosted by Graham Norton, who presents drag singing competition “Queen of the Universe” for Paramount Plus, a cavalcade of celebrities took to the
.SCROLL DOWN TO SEE JOSH BROLIN'S JAMES BOND SCREEN TESTAdams was asked to fly into London to take part in Brolin's final round of tests. In a surprise twist, it would end up being the Swedish actress, not Brolin, who would star in Octopussy.
Taylor Sheridan is taking on showrunning duties on his Paramount+ series Lioness, Deadline has confirmed.
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Jessica Chastain wears a bright pink mini dress on her way to the Finch & Partners dinner event held at Chiltern Firehouse on Tuesday night (June 21) in London, England.
Viola Davis, 56, Gillian Anderson, 53, and Michelle Pfeiffer, 64, were just some of the names attending the British launch of Paramount+. Also at the capital's new Outernet complex were Sylvester Stallone, 75, and Kevin Costner, 67.
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Sylvester Stallone is opening up about how he first met Taylor Sheridan, and how that meeting turned into him starring in Taylor‘s upcoming show, Tulsa King.
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Dana Delany (Body of Proof) will join Sylvester Stallone in the new original series Tulsa King for Paramount+.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterDana Delany has joined the cast of “Tulsa King” opposite Sylvester Stallone at Paramount+, Variety has learned exclusively.Stallone leads the series, with other cast members including Andrea Savage, Martin Starr, Max Casella, Domenick Lombardozzi, Vincent Piazza, Jay Will, A.C. Peterson, and Garrett Hedlund.The show follows New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi (Stallone), just after he is released from prison after 25 years and unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Okla.
Jessica Chastain steps out in a chic black dress next to Viola Davis, Gillian Anderson and Michelle Pfeiffer at the Paramount+ UK Launch held at Outernet London on Monday (June 20) in London, England.