Tom Hiddleston met his Night Manager counterpart Aditya Roy Kapur for the first time last night. Hiddleston, who played Jonathan Pine in The Night Manager for the BBC and AMC in 2016, jumped on a video call with Kapur while attending a lively screening of Disney+ Hotstar’s The Night Manager India in London. We’ve obtained exclusive images from the screening. Also in attendance was Night Manager India director director Priyanka Ghose and showrunner Sandeep Modi, who set up the call when Hiddleston unexpectedly arrived with David Farr, the writer of the original BBC and AMC series. “We went to the London screening with zero hopes of seeing Tom but to all of our surprise he walked in along with David Farr,” Modi told Deadline. “I remember walking inside the theater and telling them that this felt like an ambush because I was showing one of the most loved shows of the world to the people who originally created it.” Modi said the two-hour screening felt … [Read more...] about ‘The Night Manager’: Tom Hiddleston Meets His Indian Counterpart Aditya Roy Kapur On Video Call During London Screening
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Platinum Dunes Developing Thriller ‘Lure’ At Universal With ‘Gangs Of London’s Corin Hardy Directing
EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures and Platinum Dunes producers Michael Bay and Brad Fuller continue to stay busy on the banner’s new overall deal, as sources tell Deadline that Universal will develop Lure , which Platinum Dunes is producing. Corin Hardy has signed on to direct the project currently being written by Chris Bernier. While plot details are being kept under wraps, the story is based on the haunting of the real-life King’s Tavern, considered to be the most haunted building in all of Mississippi, with one of its tenants being the murdered mistress of one of the tavern’s original owners. Universal Pictures EVP Production Development Matt Reilly will oversee the project for the studio. Cameron Fuller will executive produce and oversee the project for Platinum Dunes. Hardy has a reputation for having developed a dark and distinctive visual flair for creating monsters, animations and Super-8 horror films in his work-shed before gaining industry experience in … [Read more...] about Platinum Dunes Developing Thriller ‘Lure’ At Universal With ‘Gangs Of London’s Corin Hardy Directing
Blac Chyna Arrested At Austin Airport for Drunk and Disorderly
7:24 PM PT -- TMZ has just learned Blac Chyna was just charged with drug possession ... more than 1 gram but under 4 grams. Blac Chyna was arrested Friday after allegedly getting drunk and becoming belligerent during a trip to London ... TMZ has learned. Chyna was busted in the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport Friday afternoon. Cops tells us, she was on her way to board her connecting flight to London when she started getting loud. She stormed toward the gate, got on the plane and screamed at a flight attendant, "Nasty ass bitch!" That was enough for cops ... they got on the plane and arrested her on the spot. An eyewitness tells TMZ, Chyna appeared "heavily intoxicated" and was "fighting" with a flight attendant, acting "like a drunken fool." Another eyewitness says, at one point she screamed, "Y'all got no respect for me. I gotta tie my shoes. Let me tie my Yeezys." She'd just taken off a few hours earlier from LAX aboard a Delta … [Read more...] about Blac Chyna Arrested At Austin Airport for Drunk and Disorderly
BBC Apologizes For Filming Presenter Amol Rajan Traveling In A Taxi Without A Seatbelt
EXCLUSIVE : The BBC has apologized after broadcasting a documentary in which presenter Amol Rajan is filmed in the back of a taxi not wearing a seatbelt. The documentary, How to Crack the Class Ceiling , was broadcast in December last year and, around 11 minutes in, features Rajan delivering a piece to camera from the back of a cab. The presenter can be clearly seen not wearing a seatbelt, which is against the law in the UK when the safety device is available. The BBC said: “In the course of making this programme the presenter was filmed travelling by cab without using a seatbelt. This was a mistake for which we apologise.” Rajan appears to be traveling through London in the clip. The Metropolitan Police website states that people can be fined up to £500 ($606) for not wearing a seatbelt. The police force has been contacted for comment. Rajan has also been contacted for comment. The BBC apology comes two months after British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was … [Read more...] about BBC Apologizes For Filming Presenter Amol Rajan Traveling In A Taxi Without A Seatbelt
Costume Designer Jacqueline West On ‘The Revenant’ & ‘Dune’; Spills Beans On Zendaya’s Off-The-Peg Desert Dress – Qumra Masterclass
Jacqueline West is one of Hollywood’s most respected costume designers with four Oscar nominations for Philip Kaufmann’s Quills , David Fincher’s The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button , Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s The Revenant and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune : Part One . She is also Terrence Malick’s go-to costume designer, after a recommendation from his long-time production designer Jack Fisk, working with him on The New World , The Tree of Life , To the Wonder and Knight of Cups , while other credits include Stephen Norrington’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , Ben Affleck’s Argo and Martin Scorsese’s upcoming Killers Of The Flower Moon . Talking about her career in a masterclass for the Doha Film Institute , West said she fell into cinema by chance after connecting with Kaufmann through a clothes store she set up in Berkeley in the 1990s after majoring in art history, having originally planned to study sciences. “I never planned to work … [Read more...] about Costume Designer Jacqueline West On ‘The Revenant’ & ‘Dune’; Spills Beans On Zendaya’s Off-The-Peg Desert Dress – Qumra Masterclass
Mary Beth Barone To Exec Produce & Star In Indie Erotic Thriller ‘Good Girl’
EXCLUSIVE : Rising comedian, writer and actor Mary Beth Barone is set to exec produce and star in Good Girl , an indie erotic thriller to be directed by Lauren Garroni , in her feature debut. The feature scheduled to launch production in April watches as an enterprising Sugar Baby, offered ten grand to move in with her Sugar Daddy, comes to discover the dark secrets trapped within his home. Pic is described as part biting dark comedy, part erotic thriller — but above all, a story about sex work through a feminist and queer lens. Bree Essirig and Garroni penned the script, with Kelly Parker’s Mary Ellen Moffat to produce. Additional exec producers will include Garroni, Essrig, Simon Brook and Brook Productions. The New York-based Barone landed her feature script You’re My Best Friend on the 2022 edition of The Black List and is currently developing a half-hour comedy series titled Dicks with Jax Media and Fox. She has appeared on That Damn Michael Che for … [Read more...] about Mary Beth Barone To Exec Produce & Star In Indie Erotic Thriller ‘Good Girl’
Kamaru Usman Says He’s Better Than Edwards, And Leon Knows It!
TMZSports.com Leon Edwards may officially be UFC champion, but Kamaru Usman says Rocky knows who's truly the best 170 lb. fighter, and it's not him ... it's "The Nigerian Nightmare." 35-year-old Usman joined Babcock on the TMZ Sports TV show (airs weeknights on FS1 ) ... just days before his highly-anticipated rematch in London against 31-year-old Edwards. "At the end of the day when you are at home and you look at yourself in the mirror, you know who you are, you know if you're the best and you know if you're not the best," Usman said. Getty "There's nothing that he can tell himself that 'I'm the best' because you haven't proven that. Of course, you threw the Hail Mary and it landed and you have that belt but deep down inside, he knows what I've done to his heart and this Saturday, I'm gonna remind him." Of course, Edwards was dominated for most of their UFC 278 in August 2022 ... and went into the fifth and final … [Read more...] about Kamaru Usman Says He’s Better Than Edwards, And Leon Knows It!
Toni Collette Reveals “Intimacy Coordinators Make Her More Anxious” While Filming Love Scenes
They’re the new, and very fashionable, requirement on every film and TV production set, and recognised for helping particularly young actors navigate sex scenes without fear, but intimacy coordinators aren’t for everyone, it appears. Toni Collette has revealed she feels happier working on intimate scenes without one, and has on occasion asked them to leave the set. Collette, who stars in The Power , coming to Prime Video on March 31, told the London Times newspaper: “I think it’s only been a couple of times where they’ve been brought in, and I have very much trusted and felt at ease with the people I was working with. It just felt like those people who were brought in to make me feel more at ease were actually making me feel more anxious. They weren’t helping, so I asked them to leave.” Collette has enjoyed a solid three-decade career of more than 70 films and more than a dozen TV shows since her breakout role in 1994’s Muriel’s Wedding , and she was asked … [Read more...] about Toni Collette Reveals “Intimacy Coordinators Make Her More Anxious” While Filming Love Scenes
No Place For Harry And Meghan In Coronation Procession, Leaked Palace Plans Reveal
Leaked rehearsal plans for the upcoming Coronation of King Charles III reveal that there is currently no place for Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle in the procession to follow the king’s crowning in Westminster Abbey. This revelation by The Times of London follows reports that Harry and Meghan have been invited to the ceremony taking place on May 6 in the UK capital. According to the plans, the King’s shamed brother, the Duke of York, has no place in the royal procession, and his daughters Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie will not be taking part either. In an event estimated at about the third of the size of HM The Queen’s in 1953, it appears there is a place for “working royals only.” These include the King’s sister the Princess Royal and her husband Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, the newly titled Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, and a few other adult royal cousins. One person who will be joining in is the youngest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales, … [Read more...] about No Place For Harry And Meghan In Coronation Procession, Leaked Palace Plans Reveal
John Boyega Finally “Comfortable” With Treatment Of Star Wars Character, Two Years After Disney Call-Out
John Boyega has made peace with the role that previously caused him anguish that he made public, but now says “made a man of him.” The star of JJ Abrams ’s Star Wars reboot previously called out Disney for its treatment of his character Finn, stormtrooper turned resistance fighter. He said in 2020 of Finn’s spotlight in The Force Awakens followed by his diminished role over the course of the franchise: “What I would say to Disney is, ‘Do not bring out a black character, market them to be much more important to the franchise than they are and then have them pushed to the side. It’s not good.’ ” Three years later, he is more sanguine, telling The Times of London: “For me Star Wars has made the man, in a sense… The experiences, the fun times, good times, ugly times, bad times, it makes you who you are as you navigate through the industry, and that has definitely been interesting.” Regarding the finale, which saw Finn reunited with his Star Wars … [Read more...] about John Boyega Finally “Comfortable” With Treatment Of Star Wars Character, Two Years After Disney Call-Out