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daredevil stunts can the silence the rumors about the “Mission: Impossible” star. From his sometimes abrasive perfectionism to his deep involvement with the Church of Scientology, Cruise, 61, prefers to keep public comments focused on his projects — leaving plenty of room for gossip about his personal life.But in recent interviews conducted with cast and crew around the upcoming “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning — Part One,” director Christopher McQuarrie revealed that there’s one dogged rumor that Cruise himself is happy to debunk.In a story in The Times, McQuarrie recalled asking Cruise for the “weirdest” story he’s heard about himself — the star revealed there was a rumor going around over the years that cast and crew members “were not allowed to look me in the eye.” Not true, said Cruise — an assertion backed up by co-worker McQuarrie.Additionally, while Cruise was seen getting frustrated on set in 2020, McQuarrie and co-star Simon Pegg (Benji Dunn) were quick to defend Cruise as the fun-loving, thrill-seeking guy.

according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.A sequel to 2013’s “Insidious: Chapter 2,” the flick is actor Patrick Wilson’s directorial debut.It managed to push “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” which opened last Friday and was in the No.

“The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood’s Kings of Carnage” by Nick de Semlyen (Crown).“In the context of these ’roid-rage, superhuman heroes we had at the time, this character seemed like a pu–y.”The character in question, of course, was John McClane, who transformed Bruce Willis from a wise-cracking, Chandler Bing-esque TV banterer into an action movie legend with the 1988 now-classic. Even though it almost killed him.

per People. “And in this movie, in ‘Terminator,’ we talk about the machines becoming self-aware and they take over.”The actor also praised the film series’ director, James Cameron, for his “extraordinary” writing, noting that when the movie debuted in 1984 they had “just scratched the surface” of AI. “Now over the course of decades, it has become a reality,” the actor continued.

according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.The film stars Harrison Ford in his fifth and final portrayal of archeologist-extraordinaire Jones. “While Ford is scrappy and lovable as ever, Indy was never a role that should have been played for 41 years,” The Post said.“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” remained in second place this week, taking home $3.435 million.

SPOILER ALERT: Major plot points are revealed below — so don’t say we didn’t warn you.Put on your fedoras and crank out your bullwhip because Indiana Jones is taking you on another wild ride. But there’s one noteworthy character missing from the fifth installment of the iconic action-adventure franchise.“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” has finally swung its way into theaters and a lot has changed since the last time viewers saw Harrison Ford’s archeologist.The character previously appeared in the series’ fourth flick, 2008’s “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” which also featured Indiana’s son, Mutt Williams, played by Shia LaBeouf, as they set off on another historical quest in 1957.However, in “Dial,” Mutt is noticeably absent — with his storyline all tied up.The newest installment takes place in 1969, amid the turmoil of the Vietnam War, and shows Indy — still a professor and now teaching at Hunter College but on the verge of retirement — shockingly living alone in a small apartment in Manhattan.

told People. “He has the tightest circle around him.”The news comes a mere hours after Foxx, 55, chatted with co-star John Boyega, 31, who had been trying to contact his friend several times.“He finally picked up the phone. Thank you, bro,” the “Star Wars” actor told the outlet at the premiere of “They Cloned Tyrone,” which stars both Boyega and Foxx.“He’s doing well.

final installment of the long-running franchise to include Ford, 80, is titled “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” and is set to be released on June 30.The star explained to Digital Spy in a recent interview why there is a 15-year gap between the fourth and fifth films.He noted that the studio wasn’t clamoring to release another flick so soon after “Crystal Skull” debuted.“Well, it wasn’t as though we sat around for 10 years waiting to come up with an idea,” Ford said.  “When we finished the last film, I don’t think anybody thought about going and doing another film for some time,” he added.The length of time between the last two movies could also be attributed to “Crystal Skull’s” not-so-good reviews.While it was regarded as 2008’s second highest-grossing film and took in about $790 million, it holds a 53% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.Critics’ reviews were mixed, with one person even calling it “the most lifeless of the series” and “simply [not] a very good motion picture.”Ford continued to tell the entertainment news outlet that “there were some interesting ideas that were floated” for a fifth movie over the last few years, however, producers weren’t too keen about them.“And then we found an idea, and a script, and a strong story that we wanted to tell,” he gushed about “Dial of Destiny.” “Dial of Destiny” takes place in the mid-1960s with Indiana joining his goddaughter Helena Shaw (played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge) as they go on a quest to find a dial that can change history.“The Wolverine” director James Mangold is helming the feature and it also stars the talents of Antonio Banderas, Toby Jones, Boyd Holbrook, Ethann Isidore and Mads Mikkelsen.Ford was also digitally de-aged for the flick, as the new story

The Post noted in a review that called the flick “solidly entertaining.”The film is tracking to open in the $70 million range over the long Father’s Day and Juneteenth weekend, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Next in line was Pixar’s new animated adventure film “Elemental,” which grossed $11.8 million in its opening night on Friday. It could end up being Pixar’s lowest debut, wrote the blog Slashfilm.The family flick is set in a New York-esque metropolis inhabited by anthropomorphic wind, water, fire and Earth citizens, and is sweet but underwhelming, said The Post.“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” took third in the box office, raking in $8.1 million.

Netflix documentary “Arnold,” in which he admitted that the Austrian-American actor is the better action star between the one-time rivals.“The ’80s was a very interesting time because the definitive ‘action guy’ had not really been formed yet,” Stallone explained.“Up until that time, action was a car chase like ‘Bullitt’ or ‘The French Connection,’ and a film all about intellect and innuendo and verbal this and verbal that,” he recalled.Stallone then admitted that Schwarzenegger, 75, was a pioneer of the fist-pumping genre, noting that “dialogue was not necessary” in order to tell a story. “You actually relied upon your body to tell the story,” the “First Blood” actor said, before calling him the higher-caliber artist of the two.

three-part Netflix docuseries, “Arnold,” on Wednesday, with Hamilton, 66, revealing that she had a “snotty definition” of what an actor should be. And Schwarzenegger did not fit the bill.“By our snotty definition, Arnold was a poser, a bodybuilder pretending to be an actor,” Hamilton recalled. “But because I was curious, I went and stood off the sidelines watching Arnold, and I bought it.

“heat” between these two Hollywood heartthrobs. One Twitter user sparked a massive online debate on Saturday when they asked fellow tweeters who they thought was hotter: a young Robert De Niro or a young Al Pacino?The question, posed by journalist Ashley Reese to her 60,500 followers, came after De Niro, 79, welcomed his seventh child on Tuesday. Eighty-three-year-old Pacino, meanwhile, has been fresh on fans’ minds following his retrospective interview with the 92nd Street Y in New York City.“At a wedding and having a big debate rn.

Arnold, 64, guest-stars in Wednesday night’s episode of “True Lies” (10 p.m. on CBS) as Arnie, an ex-Omega operative living off-the-grid who, along with his onetime Omega flame, Sharon (Kate Vernon), is being targeted for murder years later by a former colleague.Arnie and Sharon, who’s living a quiet suburban life, are still bitter over their long-ago breakup; they (comically) bicker back and forth in front of Harry and Helen (series stars Steve Howey and Ginger Gonzaga), the husband-and-wife Omega agents trying to save their lives.The series, which premiered March 1, is based on the hit 1994 tongue-in-cheek spy movie “True Lies” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis as Harry and Helen and Arnold as Albert “Gib” Gibson, Harry’s teammate and Omega partner.

2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.”Gunn, 56, gave his take on how it’s difficult to pen films that go beyond the over-the-top action sequences of Marvel movies.“I think it’s really hard in the wake of the [‘Endgame’] Blip. There’s this worldwide, universe-wide event that happened. And, in truth, everybody would be stark raving mad at this point,” the new co-CEO of DC Studios told Rolling Stone in a recent profile.

to having “tantrums” on set during filming. Grant recently courted controversy during the Oscars after his red-carpet interview with model Ashley Graham went viral.

according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.The Post praised the “assassin’s unrelenting brutality” as “a beautiful sight to behold.”The thriller is expected to enjoy a $70 million-plus opening weekend, the best in the entire franchise, according to Collider.“Scream VI” remained in second place, with a $2.46 million take.

Everything Everywhere All at Once” — his first major role in 30 years.“Everything is still so fresh in my mind,” he told Variety in an interview published Wednesday. “And that’s why moving forward I’m still really scared.“Even though I just won an Oscar, I’m still really fearful of what tomorrow brings,” he shared.Quan, an immigrant from Vietnam, had his first acting role in the Harrison Ford-starring movie “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” when he was just 12 years old. The next summer, he played Data in the movie “The Goonies” — but that was it.Until now.“I had a conversation with my agent, and I said, ‘I’m so worried that this is only a one-time thing,'” Quan told Variety about his recent successes.

according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo.The “Rocky” spinoff, which The Post said keeps audiences “under its spell right until the end,” marks the ninth installment in the franchise. The action flick, which is the directorial debut of its leading man Michael B.

won for best lead actor at the Screen Actors Guild Awards Sunday, Oscar hopeful Brendan Fraser may be living his best life right now.But the 54-year-old star of “The Whale” almost didn’t survive filming his 1999 hit “The Mummy.” In fact, on Tuesday’s episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” Fraser revealed that he “nearly” died shooting a hanging scene in the action adventure film.“I was choked out accidentally,” said Fraser, who then stood up to demonstrate the perilous stunt. “I was standing on my toes like this, with the rope [around my neck] … And Steve [Sommers, the director] ran over and he said, ‘Hey it doesn’t really look like you’re choking.

Jimmy Kimmel Live!” “I was crying. I got emotional.

told Vanity Fair. “It was a cornball. I really did feel that.

performing his own stunts — especially in the “Mission Impossible” franchise, where death-defying acrobatics at great heights have become the actor’s calling card.At a masterclass at the Cannes Festival earlier this year, Cruise had a comeback for those who questioned his willingness to risk his life with stuntwork.“No one asked Gene Kelly, ‘Why do you dance?’” he said, according to a Variety report.“I always thought there’s something that I can do and I wanted to push the art form,” he continued.

retired from acting.“My heart goes out to him. I think about him every day,” Neeson told The Post, noting that aphasia — which affects the ability to express and understand language — is especially cruel for an actor such as Willis. “It’s particularly poignant, isn’t it? I wish him all the best.”But even as the Irish icon gets ready to turn 70 in June, Neeson has no plans on slowing down.

back in February, but hadn’t divulged the details until now.“I’m completely ignited to be creating this thriller,” the 39-year-old former cage fighter told Deadline of the ambitious new project.The yet-to-be-titled action film will feature Carano as a strong-willed woman looking to hunt down the serial killer trucker who tried to murder her.

“Crazy Rich Asians” charmer is so stiff in his first go-round as an action hero, at no point do you care if Snake Eyes lives or dies. That is a big problem for a film in which the only stakes are life and death. To cut him some slack, though, Golding signed onto awful material that shouldn’t exist in the first place.Running time: 121 minutes.

The Hollywood Reporter. “So, that was it.

LOS ANGELES — AT&T Inc’s Warner Bros. movie studio on Thursday delayed the release of Christopher Nolan thriller “Tenet” for a second time due to the coronavirus outbreak, dealing another setback to the industry’s hopes for a late-summer rebound.

Joseph Kosinski, the man behind Tom Cruise’s Top Gun return, is in talks to remake classic storm movie Twister.

Henry Cavill is reportedly in talks to reprise his role as Superman in a new film based on the DC Comic books.

By Lisa Kennedy, Variety.com

Nicholas Hoult has turned down the mission.

Rachel Weisz found it “daunting” taking on the physically challenging role of spy Melina Vostokoff in Black Widow less than a year after having her daughter.

Olivia Munn still can’t understand why people like Bryan Singer land blockbuster jobs in Hollywood after working with him on X-Men: Apocalypse.

Quentin Tarantino’s desire to take over the 007 spy franchise is a well-worn Hollywood legend. But as he took part in a GoldenEye watch party with Esquire magazine from his home in Hawaii, Pierce Brosnan revealed more about the original meeting between the two in the early 2000s.

Filmmaker Sam Raimi has finally confirmed he’s onboard to direct the upcoming sequel, Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness.

LOS ANGELES — The release of the much anticipated movie sequel to Top Gun has been moved to December, Paramount Pictures said on Thursday.