Saturday’s Golden Raspberry Awards, better known as the Razzies, scoring prizes for Worst Screenplay; Worst Director; Worst Screen Couple; Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off, or Sequel; and overall Worst Picture.“Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” earned 3% among critics and 50% among audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. The Post’s film critic, Johnny Oleksinski, called it a demented and sicko indie horror film.Other Razzie champions include Oscar winner Jon Voight, 85, for his “Lucky Charms leprechaun” Irish accent in the 2023 crime thriller “Mercy.”Megan Fox, 37, took home a pair of trophies, for Worst Actress (“Johnny & Clyde”) and Worst Supporting Actress (“Expend4bles”), a rare Razzie feat.Sylvester Stallone received yet another Razzie, for Worst Supporting Actor (“Expend4bles”).
Sylvester Stallone underwent 7 surgeries after Steve Austin body-slammed him on ‘Expendables’: ‘I never recovered’
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expendable. Sylvester Stallone was forced to undergo seven major surgeries after he suffered a neck fracture while filming a fight scene with wrestler-turned-actor Steve Austin on the set of “The Expendables” in 2010. “I did stupid stuff.
I was directing ‘Expendables‘ and, like an idiot, I’m doing take 10, take whatever, and I remember one slam and I could actually feel one bang,” the “Rocky” alum, 77, recalled in his reality TV show, “The Family Stallone,” which is currently in its second season.“Steve knew,” added the “Rambo” star. “I never recovered from ‘Expendables 1.’ After that film, it was never physically the same. I’ve warned people: Don’t do your own stunts.”According to the veteran actor, he required a metal plate to be inserted into his neck.
The actor also needed spinal fusions and treatment for dislocated shoulders.In a bizarre twist of fate while undergoing a few of his early procedures, Stallone was put in an adjacent hospital bed to fellow “Expendables” star Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was also undergoing surgery for a shoulder injury. Stallone’s wife, supermodel Jennifer Flavin, admitted during the series that she is terrified every time her husband has to go under the knife.“Sly tries to mask the pain, pretending like it didn’t happen,” Flavin, 55, said. “He doesn’t like people to know he’s had so many back surgeries.”“It’s very scary for our family every time Sly has to go through surgery, because you never know . . . no one knows.”The actor’s surgeon reportedly told him that he may need to have “artificial discs” placed on his lower spine in the near future.
Razzie Awards: Megan Fox and Sylvester Stallone Win Worst Acting Prizes; ‘Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey’ Nabs Five Dishonors
Ethan Shanfeld The infamous Razzie Awards are back, (dis)honoring the year’s worst in film. While Sunday’s Academy Awards will celebrate Christopher Nolan’s landmark drama “Oppenheimer” and Greta Gerwig’s $1.4 billion blockbuster “Barbie,” the 44th annual Razzies are focusing on lesser-seen fare, like the fourth “Expendables” movie and “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey,” a horror adaptation that won five undesired awards.
Kirsten Dunst hated nickname she was given on ‘Spider-Man’ set: ‘I never said anything’
Kirsten Dunst revealed that she regrets not standing up for herself more after she was called a “girly-girl” while starring in the original three “Spider-Man” films opposite Tobey Maguire.“It was a joke, but on ‘Spider-Man,’ they would call me ‘girly-girl’ sometimes on the walkie-talkie,” Dunst, 41, told Marie Claire while promoting her upcoming flick “Civil War.” “But I never said anything … Like, don’t call me that,” she said. Prior to the rise of the #MeToo movement in 2017, Dunst explained that one of the unspoken rules in Hollywood was: “You didn’t say anything. You just took it.” The New Jersey native appeared as Mary Jane Watson — Peter Parker’s (Maguire) love interest — in the 2002 Sam Raimi-helmed film.
Dakota Johnson gets frank about box-office bomb ‘Madame Web’: ‘Will never do anything like it again’
cinematic bomb “Madame Web.”Johnson, 34, laid bare her feelings on the big-screen catastrophe, which was produced by Sony in conjunction with Marvel and earned only $26.2 million from its premiere on Valentine’s Day through President’s Day, in an interview with Bustle.“Unfortunately, I’m not surprised that this has gone down the way it has,” Johnson told the outlet in a cover story, which published on Tuesday. “But it was definitely an experience for me to make that movie.
Terence Winter Returns To ‘Tulsa King’ Season 2 After Exiting As Showrunner
In a strange turn of unexpected events, writer/producer Terence Winter is returning for season two of “Tulsa King,” Paramount’s crime series starring Sylvester Stallone, a year to the month that he left. Amid reports of creative differences with Taylor Sheridan—the show’s creator who admitted he had trouble delegating and letting hired showrunner run their series— Winter stepped down from “Tulsa King” not long after season one finished its run (it took eight long months to be officially picked up for season two).
Bill Skarsgard’s ‘The Crow’ remake look slammed by fans: Brandon Lee is ‘turning in his grave’
declared on X, formerly Twitter. Other fans mocked Skarsgård’s appearance in the first look photos, saying, “They casted The Crow reboot by asking pedestrians from Miami if they’d like to be in a movie,” and that Skarsgård was “hotter as Pennywise,” and “Getting Jared Leto Joker vibes off this.
‘White Christmas’ actress Anne Whitfield dead at 85 after ‘unexpected accident’
“White Christmas” star Anne Whitfield — who played Susan Waverly in the 1954 holiday film — has died. She was 85.
Corrie star Will Mellor spills on one-night stand with Hollywood actor who 'threw me away like a tea bag'
Coronation Street star Will Mellor has shared a surprising story about his encounter with Hollywood's Brigitte Nielsen.The 47 year old actor claimed she made him feel like a "piece of meat" during their one-night stand. On the Two Pints with Will and Ralf podcast, he talked about how Brigitte Nielsen - who was once married to Sylvester Stallone - came onto him. "I met Brigitte Nielsen and she came on to me and asked me to go and have sex with her in a hotel room," he revealed.
‘Tulsa King’: Terence Winter Returns As Writer In Season 2 As Paramount+ Series Opts Against Traditional Showrunner
Terence Winter, who stepped down as showrunner of the Sylvester Stallone-starring mob drama Tulsa King after its first season, is back as a writer on Paramount+ series’ upcoming second season in addition to his continuing duties as an executive producer. The series, created by Taylor Sheridan, has opted not to bring in a replacement for Winter in line with the practice at the other Sheridan series produced by 101 Studios which don’t have a traditional showrunner. Instead, Tulsa King has hired a director/executive producer whose deal is still being finalized.
Heath Ledger died with movie script ‘in bed with him,’ new details reveal
“The Dark Knight” star died of an accidental overdose, and director Stephen Gaghan claimed on a recent podcast appearance that the Australian actor had other aspirations at the time. During an episode of the “Developmental Hell” podcast, a spin-off of Malcom Gladwell’s “Revisionist History” show, Gaghan said he had an idea in the early 2000s to turn Gladwell’s book, “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking,” into a movie. But after Ledger’s death, “I just had to put a pin in it,” he said.
ITV Coronation Street's Will Mellor had one night stand with Brigitte Nielsen who treated him 'like piece of meat'
Coronation Street actor Will Mellor has opened up about a one-night stand with Hollywood star Brigitte Nielsen, claiming she treated him like a "piece of meat".
Sylvester Stallone’s Paramount+ Drama ‘Tulsa King’ To Get Summer Run On CBS
Following the successful run of Yellowstone on CBS, another Taylor Sheridan series is getting a lineaer window on the linear network. The popular original Paramount+ drama Tulsa King, starring Sylvester Stallone, will make its broadcast debut on CBS this summer. The series’ first season will air on the network ahead of Season 2 launching this fall exclusively on Paramount+.
Sting offered Austin Butler his original ‘Dune’ codpiece to wear: ‘He’s going to dry-clean it’
personal with “Dune: Part Two” star Austin Butler.Sting, 72, who played the villain Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in the original 1984 movie “Dune,” met “Elvis” star Butler at the “Dune: Part Two” premiere Sunday in New York City — and offered him not advice but a piece of his movie wardrobe.“I met him last night. He came to the premiere,” Butler, 32, said during an appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Monday.
Jaime King Signs With Paradigm
EXCLUSIVE: Actress Jaime King (Black Summer) has taken on new agents at Paradigm.
Brie Larson’s MCU status is unknown after ‘Marvels’ flop: ‘I don’t have anything to say’
Brie Larson is defiantly mum on her plans to continue in the Marvel Comic Universe after her last movie, “The Marvels,” fizzled at the box office.“Extra” asked Larson at Saturday’s 2024 SAG Awards if she had any upcoming MCU projects in the works.Larson, 34, shook her head.“I don’t have anything to say about that,” the “Lessons in Chemistry” star replied while attending the ceremony in LA.It wouldn’t be surprising if “The Marvels” was Larson’s swan song in the MCU.The movie, which opened in November as a sequel to Larson’s hit 2019 movie “Captain Marvel,” made only $47 million in the US over its opening weekend — the worst MCU opening weekend ever.By comparison, “Captain Marvel” opened to $153 million in 2019.In November after “The Marvels” was released, Larson was enthusiastic about the prospects for her on-screen alter-ego, Carol Danvers, of whom she said “there is still so much” inside of her to explore.“I feel like getting to be on this team just cracked her open in a way that she hadn’t been and I really loved her for that,” she told Entertainment Tonight at the time.But when she was asked about future MCU projects, Larson hedged her bets with a cryptic reply that hinted at the possibility of a movie in the pipeline.“I don’t want Marvel to come for me,” she said. “But there is something.
Sylvester Stallone ‘permanently’ leaving California for ‘free state of Florida’ as Casey DeSantis welcomes superstar
told his three daughters: Scarlet, 21, Sistine, 25, and Sophia, 27 – referring to his wife of 26 years, Jennifer Flavin.He added, “We’re gonna sell this house. We already have the place, it’s a done deal.”Florida Gov.
Sylvester Stallone’s daughters shocked to learn Pope Francis is a fan of their dad
Pope Francis is a fan of their dad, they told The Post. During a trip to Italy with their parents, Sophia, Sistine and Scarlet Stallone met the pontiff, who told Sly in Italian, with the help of a translator, “We grew up with your films.”“He brought it up to him that he was watching the films and we all looked at each other like, ‘Oh my gosh,'” said Sophia, 27.
Austin Butler loses method acting approach for ‘Dune: Part Two’ role: ‘That would be unhealthy for my family’
“Dune: Part Two,” which hits theaters March 1.“I’ve definitely in the past, with ‘Elvis,’ explored living within that world for three years and that being the only thing that I think about day and night,” Butler told the Los Angeles Times in an interview with the movie’s director, Denis Villeneuve.“With Feyd, I knew that that would be unhealthy for my family and friends.”Butler was so immersed in playing Elvis Presley in “Elvis” that, for a long time after finishing his role on the movie, he still spoke in Presley’s Southern drawl.Villeneuve joked that, if Butler absorbed himself as much in Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen as he did with Presley, it would also be unhealthy for the director.“So I made a conscious decision to have a boundary,” Butler said. “It allowed for more freedom between action and cut because I knew I was going to protect everybody else outside of the context of what we were doing.“That’s not to say that it doesn’t bleed into your life,” he said.
Sylvester Stallone Says ‘Don’t Do Your Own Stunts’ After ‘Expendables’ Injury Led to Fractured Neck, Seven Back Surgeries: ‘I Never Recovered’
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Sylvester Stallone revealed on “The Family Stallone” Season 2 premiere that he never recovered from an injury he endured during the making of “The Expendables” (via People). The stunt gone wrong occurred during a scene in which Stallone got tackled by co-star and WWE legend Steve Austin. It left Stallone with dislocated shoulders and a fractured neck that have since required seven back surgeries and counting.
Why Mark Ruffalo thinks a stand-alone ‘Hulk’ movie is never going to happen
Mark Ruffalo believes that the odds of getting his own stand-alone film as the Incredible Hulk are slim to none.“I’d love to do a stand-alone Hulk, I just don’t think that’s ever going to happen,” Ruffalo, 56, told GQ for its cover story on Wednesday. “It’s very expensive if you did a whole movie, which is why they use the Hulk so sparingly.“I priced myself out,” the actor jokingly added. Ruffalo, who appeared as Dr.