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    Robin Wright Gets Candid About Bear Whisperer Hiring for 'Land' Filming

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    Speaking about her new film on ‘Live with Kelly and Ryan’, the ‘Forrest Gump’ actress additionally shares her thought on filming in remote Alberta, Canada to make the scenes look authentic.

    Feb 8, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Robin Wright really went into the wild to shoot her new film “Land” – and needed a bear whisperer to keep her cast and crew members safe from the local creatures.
    The “Forrest Gump” star pulls double duty on the movie, as director and leading lady, a woman who retreats to a remote cabin as she battles grief and the urge to take her own life, before the kindness of strangers sets her on a new path.
    But filming in remote Alberta, Canada meant that even the production’s trained bear had to be protected from the local grizzlies, who took quite an interest in the Hollywood visitors.
    “We have a scene in the movie where a bear is basically in danger of being eaten by a bear, and we had to do (the scene with) visual effects because it wasn’t safe for the trained bear to be on the set, because we had wild bears around the set all day long,” Robin tells “Live with Kelly and Ryan”.

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    “We had to have a bear whisperer to keep them away.”
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    But Robin has no complaints about getting to grips with nature to make the country scenes look authentic.
    “First of all, it’s like medicine being out there,” she smiles. “We were at 8,000 feet at the top of a mountain and to wake up and hear birds and not honking horns and trains – it was peaceful and it was therapy.”
    In another interview, Robin admitted that she initially hesitated to direct the movie. “Should I? Can I? Yes, you can. You can do it. You just have to be committed to your strength and your confidence that you can do it,” she explained.

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    Comedian Ted Alexandro Seeks $1M as He Accuses 'SNL' of Stealing Zillow Jokes From Him

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    Making public his allegations regarding the jokes in a now-viral skit on Twitter, the comedian asks the hit NBC comedy show to ‘Venmo me the sum of 1 million dollars.’

    Feb 8, 2021
    AceShowbiz – “Saturday Night Live” introduced a new sketch about how sexy Zillow real estate listings were in its Saturday, February 5 episode. The skit quickly hit a nerve on social media, but the NBC show was accused of stealing the joke from a comedian.
    Comedian Ted Alexandro took to his Twitter account on Sunday to claim that the joke was from his material during his live performance at the Comedy Cellar in New York City. “Dear @SNL, since you stole my Zillow joke last night please Venmo me the sum of 1 million dollars,” so Ted wrote alongside a clip of him delivering the joke in his standup performance.
    “My full special Cut/Up is on youtube if you need more ideas,” he added. “You have until kickoff. Venmo: @Ted-Alexandro,” he continued in a follow-up tweet.

    Ted Alexandro accused ‘SNL’ of stealing jokes from him.

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    Not surprised by the allegations, one user responded, “When I was younger I was always so impressed that they wrote a whole comedy sketch show in a week every week and then I grew up to be a comedian and realized it’s easy when you piece together stolen tweets, jokes, podcast banter and already completed sketches. your joke is great!”
    Another user added, “While watching it last night, I literally said to myself, ‘This is funny. There’s no way that someone didn’t already make this joke. I bet tomorrow someone shows receipts.’ Not joking. Literally said that to myself.”
    Someone, however, tried to make Ted’s claims invalid by writing to him, “I usually support any comic who’s material is stolen, but I’m sorry Ted, I can only support your audience on this one. @SNL didn’t steal from you, they stole from the people who saw your Zillow bit. You didn’t write the material, you only caused audiences to think of it.”
    Echoing the sentiment, someone else argued, “Comedians are funny. And they have this power where if they think of something nobody else on the planet can ever have the same idea. It’s science.” To that, Ted replied, “I work at @ComedyCellarUSA where many SNL writers regularly perform. Stick to privacy apps.”
    Meanwhile, “SNL” has yet to respond to Ted’s accusations.

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    Fisher Stevens Regrets Behaving Like a 'D**k' on the Set of 'Friends'

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    Years after portraying Lisa Kudrow’s on-screen psychiatrist boyfriend on the hit sitcom, the ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ actor issues an apology to the stars of the series.

    Feb 8, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Actor-turned-filmmaker Fisher Stevens has apologized to the cast of “Friends” for behaving like a jerk on the first season of the hit sitcom.
    He starred in one episode of the show’s first season as the psychiatrist boyfriend of Lisa Kudrow’s character Phoebe whose unwanted assessments of the friends causes them to take an instant dislike to him. Now, he admits he went too far with his portrayal of an “a**hole.”
    “At that moment in my career, I had never done a sitcom before,” he tells PeopleTV’s “Couch Surfing”. “I had never heard of ‘Friends’ because it was just the beginning of the show and I didn’t watch TV at the time much.”

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    To make matters worse, he discovered the script he had studied before flying to Los Angeles had been rewritten.
    “That’s what sitcoms did and I didn’t know that,” he adds. “I was kind of an a**hole, I have to admit. (I was like), ‘What do you you mean? So I have to relearn lines that you’ve written that are worse than what you’d originally written?’ Yeah, I was a d**k. I’ve rarely seen any of those people on ‘Friends’ again, but I’m sure if you asked them about me, they would go, ‘What a New York snob.’ ”
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    But he wants the “Friends” stars to know that he’s not really the jerk they worked with all those years ago: “I’m sorry guys. I’m sorry I was a d**k to you all… I was bad, I was wrong.”

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    Super Bowl LV: 'F9' Unveils New Preview, M. Night Shyamalan's 'Old' Debuts Mysterious Trailer

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    The ‘Fast’ sneak peek reunites the big family in addition to bringing back some familiar faces, while the ‘Old’ TV spot sees strange things happening to a family at a beach.

    Feb 8, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Universal Pictures is making use of Super Bowl LV to promote its upcoming movies. The studios released a TV spot each for “F9” and “Old” before the big game, which aired live from Tampa, Florida on Sunday, February 7.
    The new sneak peek for the next installment in the “Fast Saga” reunites the big family at dinner. “The world has a way of changing,” says Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto in voiceover, “but there’s one thing that always stays the same.”
    From there, the mood quickly changes as it previews some high-octane action sequence, including high-speed car chase scene for which the franchise is known. The 30-second sneak peek also teases the return of Sung Kang as Han Lue, Helen Mirren as Magdalene Shaw and Charlize Theron as Cipher.
    In “F9”, Dom has been leading a quiet life off the grid with Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) and his son, Brian Marcos, but is forced to confront the sins of his past as imminent danger threatens his family. He must face his own younger brother Jakob (John Cena), a deadly assassin, who is working with their old enemy Cipher, and who holds a personal vendetta against Dom. It is slated to hit theaters in the U.S. on May 28.
    Diesel recently opened up about his excitement to show the film to fans of the franchise. “Definitely eager to share it,” he told EW. “When you make a good movie, your first goal is to make something that you can be proud of, and in the film business, you learn from the very beginning that when the film gets released, even without the pandemic, is rarely in your control. But when you really think about the quality of the movie, there’s more time you have to work in post-production, more time to get the shots right; it does give you a little bit of a cushion.”

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    “I want to get the movie out for all of the great fans who have been waiting for this chapter – and yet look at the world that we live in,” he went on gushing. “It is going to be a special day when that audience is back in the movie theater, celebrating the ninth chapter of this saga that they’ve been so loyal to.”
    “Old”, meanwhile, is an upcoming thriller from visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan. Inspired by the graphic novel “Sandcastle” by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters, it centers on a family on a tropical holiday who discovers that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly, reducing their entire lives into a single day.
    It stars Gael Garcia Bernal, Eliza Scanlen, Thomasin McKenzie, Aaron Pierre, Alex Wolff, Vicky Krieps, Abbey Lee, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ken Leung, Rufus Sewell, Embeth Davidtz and Emun Elliott among others. Marking Shyamalan’s return to the big screen since 2019’s “Glass”, “Old” is scheduled to open in theaters on July 23.
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    The movie is part of Shyamalan’s two-project deal with Universal Studios that was announced in October 2019. A second thriller film by the director is set for release on February 17, 2023, but the title is currently unknown.

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    'Nomadland' Tops Winners List of 2021 London Critics' Circle Film Awards

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    The road movie directed by Chloe Zhao dominates the 41st annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards by picking up a total of three top honors including Film of the Year.

    Feb 8, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Chloe Zhao’s road movie “Nomadland” has cemented its place as Oscars Best Film frontrunner after picking up three top honours at the 41st London Critics’ Circle Film Awards on Sunday (07Feb21).
    The movie claimed the Film of the Year while Zhao took home the Screenwriter of the Year prize and her leading lady, Frances McDormand, was named Actress of the Year.
    British drama “Saint Maud” also won three awards – British/Irish Film of the Year, British/Irish Actress of the Year for Morfydd Clark, and Breakthrough British/Irish Filmmaker for writer/director Rose Glass – and Steve McQueen was presented with Director of the Year for his five film series, “Small Axe”. Shaun Parkes won Supporting Actor of the Year for the first drama in the collection, “Mangrove”.

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    Riz Ahmed was named British/Irish Actor of the Year for his work in “Sound of Metal” and “Mogul Mowgli”, and the short he wrote, produced and starred in, “The Long Goodbye”, was named British/Irish Short Film of the Year.
    Meanwhile, the late Chadwick Boseman picked up Actor of the Year honours for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and Maria Bakalova scored the Supporting Actress of the Year gong for her role in “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”.
    The full list of winners is:

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    Chiwetel Ejiofor to Lead 'Man Who Fell to Earth', Serinda Swan to Play Liz Taylor in 'Devotion'

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    The ’12 Years a Slave’ actor is tapped for the a new series based on David Bowie’s classic movie while the ‘Ballers’ actress is set to portray Elizabeth Taylor in new movie ‘Devotion’.

    Feb 7, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Chiwetel Ejiofor will pick up where David Bowie left off as “The Man Who Fell to Earth”.
    The “12 Years a Slave” star will front Paramount’s new series based on the Walter Tevis novel and Nicolas Roeg’s classic 1976 film, in which Bowie played an alien.
    Chiwetel will play a new alien character, who arrives on Earth to save mankind.
    “Chiwetel Ejiofor’s stage and film career are staggering in their bravery, commitment and quality,” writers and producers Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet state. “He’s everything we could imagine and a million things we can’t. We couldn’t be more thrilled.”
    Kurtzman is also set to direct.

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    David Bowie took home the title of Best Actor at the Saturn Awards, thanks to his onscreen performance in the original “Man Who Fell to Earth” movie which went on to achieve the cult classic status.
    In another news, “Ballers” star Serinda Swan has been cast as a young Elizabeth Taylor in new war movie “Devotion”.
    She joins Joe Jonas, Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell, Christina Jackson, and Thomas Sadorski in the drama, directed by J.D. Dillard.
    Jonas will make his feature film drama debut in the movie about the true story of U.S. Navy fighter pilots Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner, based on a book by Adam Makos.
    Filming will begin later this month

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    Ryan Reynolds Feels 'So Good' After Throwing Axe at Hugh Jackman's Photo on Snapchat Series

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    The ‘Deadpool’ actor takes his feud with the ‘Wolverine’ star to a new level as he uses the latter’s headshot as a target during an axe-throwing session.

    Feb 7, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Ryan Reynolds has refuelled his fake feud with Hugh Jackman by hurling axes at his nemesis.
    The pair of pals has been poking fun at each other ever since they worked together on “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” over a decade ago, often embarrassing each other on social media – and now the “Deadpool” star has taken the spat to dangerous new levels on his web series, “Ryan Doesn’t Know”.
    In a new video, Ryan recruits an axe thrower to give him tips and after failing to hit the target with his first few attempts, the actor gave himself a little incentive by pinning a photo of Hugh to the centre of a board.
    The ploy worked and Reynolds hit the target straight away, calling it “satisfying.”
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    On his new series, Reynolds tackles a series of odd sports and pastimes, including ice sculpting and manicuring.
    Ryan Reynolds teamed up with Snapchat for “Ryan Doesn’t Know”. He is joined “by a group of talented emerging artists and creators from an array of fields” as he tries out some new tricks – including visual trickery with VFX expert Trevor Bell.
    The project is just one of the many original shows being launched by Snapchat.
    Will Smith has also hosted “Will From Home” on the social media platform. He talked to family members, guest stars like Tyra Banks, and members of the public who were staying home due to social distancing measures.
    Will’s son Jaden Smith additionally fronted a racial and justice series on Snapchat ahead of the Presidential election last year. He invited a number of his famous friends and family members such as Hailey Baldwin, Common, his sister Willow Smith, Janelle Monae, Yara Shahidi, and Lena Waithe to discuss topics like criminal justice and education reform and voting access.

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    Rupert Grint Never Watched Last Five 'Harry Potter' Movies

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    The Ronald Weasley depicter says he stopped watching the big screen adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s wizarding books after the third installment which came out in 2004.

    Feb 7, 2021
    AceShowbiz – “Harry Potter” star Rupert Grint “stopped watching” the films after the third instalment.
    Rupert starred as wannabe wizard Ronald Weasley in the movie adaptations of J.K. Rowling’s world-famous books, but admitted during an interview with Variety that he’s never seen the last five films in the franchise.
    “I’ve probably seen the first three at the premieres, but after that I stopped watching them,” he said. “But now that I have a daughter, I will probably have to watch them with her.”
    Grint welcomed baby daughter Wednesday with girlfriend Georgia Groome in May (20).
    He appeared opposite Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson in the films, the third of which was “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”. There were eight films all together, with the final one – “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part II” – released in 2011.

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    While Rupert Grint is currently focusing on his new role as a first-time dad, the actor is open to the idea of returning as Ron Weasley. “I don’t know. I mean, never say never. I would never say, ‘Absolutely no,’ ” he said.
    “It was a huge part of my life and I’m very fond of that character and their stories. So yeah, I mean, I’d be up for it at the right time. I don’t know what capacity that would be, but yeah, we’ll see.”
    While the big-screen adaptation of “Harry Potter” ended in 2011, the franchise is still flourishing. It has spawned a “Fantastic Beasts” spinoff which centers on magizoologist Newt Scamander and enters the third installment.
    There was also a stage production “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” which served as a prequel to the books. It kicked off in the West End in 2016 before branching out to Broadway in 2018. It won multiple accolades including Best Play at Laurence Olivier Awards and Tony Awards.
    A TV project was also rumored to be in the works, but the report was quickly shut down by Warner Brothers.

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