Star of Four Weddings and a Funeral Andie MacDowell said had she not stepped away from films, she would have had a career as illustrious as Nicole Kidman’s. The 59-year-old actress, who will next be seen in Love After Love, said she chose to focus on a more “normal life” with motherhood instead of running after film projects. “I look at other people, like Nicole Kidman and all these people, and look back and think, ‘At one point, I was a contender along with these people.’ I feel like I lost my juice somewhere along the line. I think it was important to me to have a normal life.” And while she calls herself “super ambitious”, she admitted that becoming a full-time mother made her “lose the inspiration” to work. “I think I’m super ambitious. In getting out of that whole world, I did focus on my children, so there was a positive. They didn’t really know that much about what I did. It was not a part of our dialogue, and it did help me to just be a mom.”
The latest Star Wars spin-off, Solo: A Star Wars Story, will get its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, the organisers announced on Friday. A glitzy red-carpet premiere in the French coastal city is scheduled for May 15, ten days before the film — starring Emilia Clarke, Woody Harrelson and Donald Glover among others — opens in theatres around the world, they said in a statement.
Abhinay Deo is already working on a slew of other projects which he says will not be in the comedy genre. “There are five-six projects on which work is on, the scripts are being written. There is a romantic drama, a father-son story, a story around friendship and a crazy action film. Also, there is a buddy film that I am desperately waiting to make, it is close to my heart...(then there is) a pure romantic-comedy, there is also completely a crazy film that is a period film,” the director of Blackmail, starring Irrfan Khan and Kirti Kulhari, told PTI. “I can always come back to black comedy or a quirky comedy. But a creative person should not have boundaries and he should be able to turn around and try their hands on everything.”
Comedian-actor Jack Whitehall will play Emily Blunt’s brother in Jungle Cruise, a film adaptation of the popular Disneyland ride. The film also stars Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, Variety reported. Whitehall had taken to Twitter last month to confirm the news. “So excited to be joining Jungle Crusie with the incredible Emily Blunt and one of my heroes @TheRock going to be a blast. #Disney #JungleCruise”. The Rock retweeted: “Welcome @jackwhitehall to our cast of JUNGLE CRUISE. Very funny and talented lad who’s gonna do an outstanding job for us on our movie. He paid me to say that bullsh*t. Let’s have some fun my friend and welcome to the fam.”
The Lord of The Rings TV show will be the most expensive series in the history of small screen, with the costs expected to exceed $1 billion. Before the Amazon series, which was confirmed last November and has already been given a multi-season order, The Crown by Netflix held the No. 1 position at $100 million. The LoTR fantasy series was originally penned by JRR Tolkien, with Peter Jackson having helmed the popular film franchise. According to The Hollywood Reporter, a $250 million rights deal was won by the Tolkien estate, HarperCollins and New Line Cinema against Netflix. The proposed show will follow the events before the first volume, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring, which in the film version starred, among others, Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins.
