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Daniel Craig will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame just ahead of the U.S. release of the much-anticipated No Time To Die. Variety reports that Craig is the fourth James Bond actor to receive the star, following David Niven, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan. Barry Nelson who also played Bond in a TV movie also has a star on the Walk of Fame. No Time To Die marks Craig’s fifth and final film of the James Bond franchise. His star will is set to be next to Moore’s plaque. In a statement from Ana Martinez, producer of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she shared, “Daniel Craig is a British cultural icon, as is James Bond, the man he has portrayed in five 007 films. We are thrilled to place his terrazzo Walk of Fame star next to the star of another famed actor who also portrayed Jame...

Ahead of the release of Netflix‘s Army of Thieves film, Zack Snyder has teased a new trio of posters to show off the new team for the Army of the Dead prequel. The prequel follows safecracker, Ludwig Dieter, played by Matthis Schweighöfer, and is focused on the early days of Dieter’s career at the beginning of the zombie outbreak, six years prior to the events of Army of the Dead. Dieter is hired by a mysterious woman to pull off a heist and sees him partnering with a group of aspiring criminals. Snyder returns as a writer and producer while Schweighöfer directs the film. Different from Army of the Dead, Snyder’s new film is expected to feature fewer zombies, focusing more on the rom-com and heist elements of Dieter’s adventures. Last week, Snyder took to Twitter to spotlight the film, rel...

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings on Thursday became the first pandemic-era movie to cross $200 million USD at the North American box office, according to reports. The Marvel Studios and Disney film was released exclusively in theaters, as opposed to a simultaneous release with Disney+ Premier Access, which the company has done for other films released during the pandemic, including Black Widow.  Early last month, Shang-Chi set a new Labor Day box office record with a $90 million USD earning across four days. The film beat out 2007’s record holder Halloween, which raked in $30.6 million USD at the time. While unraveling the untold origin story of Shang-Chi, the Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s first Chinese American protagonist, the film itself “shows the Asian-...

Fans of Squid Game may be excited — or horrified– to discover that the giant animatronic doll featured in the first episode of the Netflix K-drama series actually exists in real life. The innocent-looking figure plays a gruesome role in the survival show, introducing players to the first of several life-or-death challenges. As it turns out, the doll is real and was momentarily on display at a horse carriage museum called Macha Land, according to Newsweek. The museum is located in Jincheon County, about three hours outside of South Korea’s capital city of Seoul. The doll was originally manufactured for filming and stood outside the museum’s entrance up until a few days ago when its manufacturer decided to keep the doll. Korean newspaper Hankook Ilbo reported that the doll was intended to be...

In a recent installment of GQ‘s “Undercover” series, Will Smith revealed what he considers to be the best and worst work of his acting career. “For the best,  I think it is a tie between the first Men in Black and The Pursuit of Happyness,” Smith said. “For different reasons, those are the two almost perfect movies.” In Men in Black, which ultimately turned into a wide-spanning franchise, Smith stars alongside Tommy Lee Jones as an agent of a secret organization that supervises extraterrestrial life on Earth. For The Pursuit of Happyness, Smith received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his role as the homeless salesman Chris Gardner in the 2006 biographical drama. As for his worst film, Smith had a clear choice: Wild Wild West. “Wild Wild West is ju...

Following a two-year period of delays and postponements as a result of COVID-19, the 25th film in the James Bond series, No Time To Die, premiered in the U.K. earlier this week, with reports suggesting it made as much as $6.7 million USD. It’s no secret that cinema admissions across the U.K. have dropped considerably as a result of the pandemic, with a reported 44 million attendees throughout the whole 2020 — a sharp decline from the 176 million the year before. Despite these figures, early signs from Daniel Craig‘s final 007 outing certainly leaves room for optimism, with Universal also announcing it as the U.K.’s “widest theatrical release of all time” following screenings at 772 cinemas nationwide on Thursday — overtaking 2019’s Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker. While it may take some time ...

The telephone number featured on the mysterious business cards handed out in the Netflix K-drama “Squid Game” reportedly belongs to a Korean man who is being bombarded with late-night phone calls from people asking “to be in the game.” According to The Korea Times, a man in his 40s living in the Gyeonggi Province told Korean broadcaster MBC this week that he was receiving up to 4,000 phone calls per day, sometimes in the early hours of the morning. The man, who initially had not heard of the show, first thought they were spam calls. The man told MBC that he does not want to change his number, as he has used it for a decade and it is linked to his business. Netflix is said to be discussing the issue with the owner of the phone number and working toward a solution. W...

More than four years after the ride’s initial announcement, Disney World has finally announced a 2022 opening window for its upcoming Marvel attraction Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind in EPCOT. Described as a family-friendly storycoaster, Disney says that the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind ride will be a “totally new type of roller coaster experience” it has developed specifically for the attraction. Its compartments will be able to rotate 360 degrees to allow riders to take in the entirety of their environment as they help the Guardians save the galaxy. The ride will also feature the theme park’s first-ever reverse launch on a roller coaster and will be one of the longest enclosed coasters in the world. While Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind is scheduled for laun...

Despite not appearing in James Gunn‘s The Suicide Squad, Will Smith is still open to reprising his role as Deadshot. In a new interview, the 53-year-old actor revealed that his absence from Gunn’s standalone sequel was actually due to a conflict in scheduling. “Yeah, I was working and they were ready to shoot. It was a timing issue,” Smith confirmed, also confirming that his role was not recast and that Idris Elba was not Deadshot. “A different character?” he checked with a person off-camera, continuing, “Alright, cool. So I can come back.” The Suicide Squad producer Peter Safran confirmed in July that they “discussed” bringing Smith back. “But I think the Will [Smith] of it all was really more of a schedule thing than anything else. We knew we had to start shooting in September because, f...

Lily-Rose Depp, the daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, is joining The Weeknd‘s upcoming HBO show, The Idol. According to reports, the 22-year-old French-American actress has been cast as the female lead opposite of The Weeknd. The Idol is set to follow “a female pop singer who starts a romance with an enigmatic L.A. club owner who is the leader of a secret cult,” and while HBO has not confirmed just exactly who Depp and The Weeknd are playing, it is believed that they will portray the female pop singer and the L.A. club owner, respectively. The Idol is co-created by The Weeknd and Euphoria‘s Sam Levinson and marks both Depp and the XO Records head’s foray into live-action television. Depp recently starred in the sci-fi film Voyagers, while The Weeknd previously lent his voice to ...

In anticipation of its release this Friday, Sony has now released a brand new trailer for Venom: Let There Be Carnage, this time focusing specifically on Woody Harrelson‘s titular character Cletus Kasady aka Carnage. Centering around what appears to be a fortified execution chamber, the trailer shows Kasady being injected with a substance we soon recognize as the Carnage symbiote in front of an onlooking audience, which almost immediately becomes terrified as the serial killer starts reacting horrifyingly to the substance. As he transforms into Carnage, his tendrils tear apart the chamber while everyone around attempts to flee the prison, setting the nightmare free. Picking up a year after where the original Venom from 2018 left off, Venom: Let There Be Carnage sees the return of Tom ...