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    Tessa Thompson Pushes Marvel to Give Better Representation of Race and Sexual Orientation

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    The actress playing Valkyrie in ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ and ‘Avengers: Endgame’ shares her thought after co-star Anthony Mackie called out bosses at the studio for its lack of diversity.
    Jul 6, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Tessa Thompson is pushing for Marvel bosses to commit to better representation of people from all backgrounds on screen.
    The 36-year-old actress, who played Valkyrie in “Thor: Ragnarok” and “Avengers: Endgame”, told Variety she hopes to see people of every race, sexual orientation and ability in upcoming installments of the hugely popular comic book movies.
    “The truth is these movies travel globally in such huge ways, and if you can represent people that are of color, if you can represent people with disabilities, if you can represent the LGBTQIA community inside of these films, it’s a pretty big deal,” Tessa shared.
    Explaining that there are “so many cool queer characters in the comic books, and they should have a place on screen,” she continued, “I think it’s really important for everybody, but for young people especially, to be able to show up to those movies and see projections of themselves.”
    “So I’m really excited that we’re able to continue to push the bounds of that and that I’m able to do that with Valkyrie.”
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    Actor Anthony Mackie recently called out bosses at the studio for its lack of diversity, telling Variety, “It really bothered me that I’ve done seven Marvel movies where every producer, every director, every stunt person, every costume designer, every PA, every single person has been white.”
    He called on company officials to hire the “best person for the job,” regardless of their stature, and open up opportunities for “a new generation of people who can put something on their resume.”

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    Lesley Manville on Taking Over Princess Margaret Role in 'The Crown': I Find It Thrilling

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    The ‘Maleficent’ actress reveals she has had to keep the secret to herself ever since showrunner Peter Morgan offered her the role as Queen Elizabeth II’s sister in the final season of the hit series.
    Jul 6, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Lesley Manville can’t wait to start playing “wonderful woman” Princess Margaret in “The Crown”.
    The actress confirmed her casting as Queen Elizabeth II’s sister in the fifth and final season of the drama last week (ends July 03), and now she reveals she has had to keep the secret to herself for the past year, ever since showrunner Peter Morgan offered her the role in one of her own favorite TV “treats.”
    “It’s mind-blowing television,” the “Maleficent” star tells Deadline. “There was never any doubt that I would say yes. When they said, ‘Margaret’, I hadn’t really thought about it. Then I thought, ‘Yes, Margaret! That’s fabulous!’ She was so avant-garde. So naughty, delightful and funny. What a wonderful woman to play.”
    Manville will follow in the footsteps of Vanessa Kirby and Helena Bonham Carter, who took on the role in the first four seasons of the hit show, and she can’t wait to pick up the baton.
    “I don’t find that daunting; I find it thrilling,” she adds. “I think, ‘Come on Manville, you’ve got to take that baton, and not let those two actresses think, ‘Oh we were great, shame about Manville’. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.”
    Lesley knows she’ll be working with old pal and occasional co-star Imelda Staunton, who will portray Elizabeth in season five, but she has no idea who else will make up the cast.
    “Not a single name has been dangled like a carrot to make me even more excited,” she tells Deadline.

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    'Mission: Impossible VII' and 'The Batman' Get Thumbs Up to Resume U.K. Production

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    British Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has announced the quarantine exemption for small numbers of essential cast and crew to help the screen industries bounce back from COVID-19 pandemic.
    Jul 6, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Tom Cruise’s new “Mission: Impossible” action blockbuster and Robert Pattinson’s highly-anticipated debut as Batman are among the projects given the green light to resume filming in the U.K.
    Both “Mission: Impossible VII” and “The Batman” were in the midst of production in March when the coronavirus pandemic began, forcing a global industry shutdown.
    Cruise was recently revealed to have flown to England in the hopes of getting back to work soon, and on Sunday, July 5, British Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden announced he had personally spoken to the Hollywood star, and would be allowing filming to continue once more as they would be exempt from quarantine travel restrictions, introduced to curb the spread of COVID-19.
    As part of the exemption, cast and crewmembers must abide by rules to remain in a “bubble” environment, staying in and around the production area for the duration of the shoot.
    “The world’s biggest blockbusters and high-end TV shows are made in Britain,” Dowden said at a press conference.
    “Our creativity, expertise and highly successful tax reliefs for our screen industries means that we are an in-demand location that in turn delivers a great return for our economy. We want the industry to bounce back and exempting small numbers of essential cast and crew from quarantine is part of our continued commitment to getting cameras rolling safely again.”
    Other major projects set to move into production or continue filming as a result of the ruling include “Jurassic World: Dominion”, “Fantastic Beasts 3”, and the live action Disney remakes of “Cinderella (2021)” and “The Little Mermaid (2020)”.

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    Pharrell Williams Teams Up With Netflix for Gospel Series 'Voices of Fire'

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    The ‘Happy’ hitmaker makes a return to his Virginia hometown to find undiscovered talent to build ‘one of the world’s most inspiring gospel choirs,’ with the assistance of Bishop Ezekiel Williams.
    Jul 6, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Superstar Pharrell Williams is bringing gospel music from his Virginia hometown to Netflix on a new TV series.
    “Voices of Fire” will chronicle the “Happy” hitmaker’s recent return to the Hampton Roads community, where he teamed up with his uncle, fellow musician Bishop Ezekiel Williams, and other gospel leaders to find undiscovered talent to build “one of the world’s most inspiring gospel choirs.”
    Pharrell will co-executive produce the show, which will premiere on the streaming service later this year.
    He shared the news of the Netflix collaboration on Sunday (July 05) during an appearance at the virtual Essence Festival.
    The musician is also said to be in talks with platform bosses to develop a feature-length musical about the Juneteenth holiday (June 19), which commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S., along with “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris.

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    Tom Hanks Hopes to Get Back Filming Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Presley Biopic in October

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    The untitled project was in pre-production back in March when its Queensland shooting was shut down after the actor and his wife, Rita Wilson, both tested positive for the coronavirus.
    Jul 6, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Tom Hanks is expecting to head back to work in Australia in October to resume production on his Elvis Presley biopic.
    The currently-untitled project, in which Hanks will play Elvis’ manager Colonel Tom Parker, had been in pre-production back in March, when the Queensland shoot was shut down after the actor and his wife, Rita Wilson, both tested positive for the coronavirus.
    They were briefly hospitalised and quarantined while they recovered, before returning to their home base of Los Angeles, where they have been donating plasma to help medical researchers find a cure.
    Last month, the film’s director, Baz Luhrmann, was revealed to be in advanced discussions with Australian government officials about a restart date following the nation’s lockdown measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, and now Hanks has revealed they are aiming to resume filming in three months, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
    “There is certainly a plan and a desire from the studio’s perspective and from everybody else involved in the movie to figure out a way to make it happen,” Hanks explained in a video call.
    “There are dates on the calendar that say maybe we will be making this movie in October, but all of that stuff is a ‘maybe’ as questions about quarantine and temperatures and sterilising soundstages and all of that go on.”
    However, it’s not clear if Hanks will be on set when cameras are allowed to start rolling again, as the country’s borders are likely to remain closed to travellers from overseas for “quite some distance off”, according to Australian Trade Minister Simon Birmingham.
    The Luhrmann film will also feature Austin Butler as Elvis.
    Hanks’ remarks emerge as New Zealand’s Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment officials granted travel ban exemptions to cast and crewmembers working on the upcoming TV adaptation of “The Lord of the Rings”, and Robert Downey Jr.’s “Sweet Tooth” comic book series, as well as Netflix’s “Cowboy Bebop” project with John Cho.
    Permits had already been issued to those working on James Cameron’s “Avatar” sequels, and Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog”, set to star Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, and Jesse Plemons, which had been in production prior to the coronavirus pandemic.

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    The Nastiest Breakups in 'Bachelor' Franchise History

    Several couples are indeed born from the franchise, but fans of the series also witness that some of the couples end their romantic relationship in the most brutal way possible.
    Jul 5, 2020
    AceShowbiz – “The Bachelor” and its spin-offs are TV shows that allow people to find love while being captured on small screen.. Several long-lasting couples were indeed born from the franchise, but fans of the series also witnessed that some of the couple ended their romantic relationship in the most brutal way possible.
    Fans of the ABC dating show might remember when authorities were involved in a drama between one couple as one of them physically assaulted the other. Another couple, meanwhile, blasted each other publicly in an infamous sitdown interview with the show’s host Chris Harrison. One nasty breakup that fans could never forget was when a bachelor also heartlessly broke up with his fiancee to be with the runner-up of his season.
    Taking a walk down memory lane of these scandalous moments, here are the messiest breakups in “Bachelor” franchise history.

    1. Josh Murray and Amanda Stanton
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    Josh Murray and Amanda Stanton met in season three of “Bachelor in Paradise” and quickly hit it off as she accepted his proposal at the end of the show. However, their relationship ended in January 2017. They did rekindle in February only to dramatically break up again.
    Amanda exposed Josh in an exclusive interview with E! News, talking about the “red flags” she noticed while dating him and how the breakup affected her daughters. In response to that, Josh said in a statement, “I just want Amanda to stop lying about me, stop speaking to the press about me, and for Amanda and her friends to stop trying to cyber bully me.” Their nasty breakup didn’t only get the two of them involved as his personal assistant Hayley Watts spoke out against Amanda in a separate interview in which she claimed that Amanda accused her of stealing her iPad.

    2. Michael Stagliano and Holly Durst
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    The drama between on-and-off couple Michael Stagliano and Holly Durst, who appeared together in season 2 of “Bachelor Pad” back in 2011, started after Holly was wavered by fellow contestant Blake Julian. While Michael Stagliano won “Bachelor Pad” with his former fiancee Holly, he was left heartbroken when the latter dropped a bombshell revelation in the live finale.
    Michael and the viewers were stunned when Holly and Blake announced they were engaged during the episode. “I was caught off guard, humiliated,” Michael admitted to PEOPLE at the time. “I know neither Holly nor Blake wanted it to go down like that. I’m now even more thankful for the talk we had two weeks ago, which provided closure I didn’t have before. If we hadn’t had that, it would have been so much worse tonight. I might have just walked off stage.”

    3. Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi
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    Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi might think they had the best experience from “The Bachelor” back in 2010. They seemed to think they were for each other with Jake proposing to Vienna at the end of the season. However, their romance was quick to take a nasty turn because they split in June of the same year and things were a downhill from there.
    In a special episode of “The Bachelorette”, the former lovers called each other names with Vienna telling Jake, “You are a fame w***e is what you are,” to which he responded, “I’m disgusted with you.” He also accused her of undermining him. Meanwhile, Vienne claimed that he treated her like a child and was mean to her.

    4. Jason Mesnick and Melissa Rycroft
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    Jason Mesnick and Melissa Rycroft’s dramatic split unsurprisingly was among the messiest breakups in “The Bachelor” franchise history. In his season of “The Bachelor”, Jason decided to pick Melissa over Molly Malaney after asking his family for an input. However, he realized later on that he made the wrong choice.
    During the “After the Final Rose” special, he came clean about it. He told Chris that he “can’t stop thinking about Molly” and that he wanted a proposal do-over. Melissa was unsurprisingly pissed over the revelation and called him “a bastard.” The dramatic split aside, it all worked out in the end. Jason and Molly are married with two kids, while Melissa is happily married to Tye Strickland with whom she shares three children.

    5. Andi Dorfman and Josh Murray
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    His split from Amanda Stanton wasn’t the first time for Josh Murray to experience a bitter breakup in Bachelor Nation. Prior to being with Amanda, Josh was engaged to Andi Dorfman whom he proposed to in season 10 finale of “The Bachelorette”. However, nine months after making it official, the couple called off their engagement.
    Andi detailed her split from Josh in her book titled “It’s Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak Into Happily Ever After” in which she said that Josh was sometimes “an emotional abuser.” “That one sexual escapade [with runner-up Nick Viall] would become a power play used by my fiance to justify his mistrust in me. It would be an excuse to call me a whore. And it would eventually lead to the demise of my engagement,” Andi wrote. Josh denied all of her claims when he was on “Bachelor in Paradise”.

    6. Byron Velvick and Mary Delgado
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    Byron Velvick and Mary Delgado got together in a November 2004 finale of “The Bachelor”, but instead of the moment of Byron proposing to Velvick, it was when Mary was arrested for assaulting Byron that most “Bachelor” fans would remember the most. The altercation took place the night after they appeared in a “Bachelor” reunion episode in November 2007.
    According to authorities, she punched Byron in the mouth and was under the influence of alcohol when she was arrested. Despite the assault, they managed to put their differences aside and stay together, but then called it quits for good in 2009.

    7. Juan Pablo and Clare Crawley
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    Juan Pablo broke Clare Crawley’s heart on “Bachelor Winter Games” with the meanest thing a man could ever say to a woman. In the season, Juan chose Nikki Ferrell over Clare after Andi Dorfman left the show. As if being dumped wasn’t enough to hurt Clare, Juan told him why he didn’t choose her.
    Despite basically having sex with him in the ocean, it wasn’t enough to make Juan to say that he loved Clare. However, he did say to her that he “loved f***ing” her.” What a way to crush someone’s heart.

    8. Marcus Grodd and Lacy Faddoul
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    Marcus Grodd and Lacy Faddoul found love on “Bachelor in Paradise” season one in 2014 and got married in the season two premiere. It might look like a fairy tale, until it was actually revealed that they never legally wed. Marcus said that Lacy “changed” after they came back from the show and “stalled” things when they “were supposed to start the paperwork.”
    He then accused Lacy of ghosting him, saying she became “a runaway bride.” He shared in an interview in 2016, “It became a toxic relationship at times. She was very controlling. I was more of an appeasing person. I wouldn’t want to fight. There were a lot of barriers that we couldn’t overcome. I think that that made her change her mind.”

    9. Robby Hayes and Amanda Stanton
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    Robby Hayes and Amanda Stanton might be loving each other at some points, but they failed to end their relationship nicely. The former “Bachelor in Paradise” couple came at each other’s throat with Robby humiliating his ex by sharing on Twitter her private texts in which he praised Amanda for her “new tits.”
    Additionally, Robby dragged Amanda in a lengthy statement on Twitter. “History is repeatedly showing that some people thrive off of using the media and their ‘army’ to manipulate viewers to place one-sided blame, constantly play the ‘victim’ and use their friends to try and assassinate one’s character. Your story-line is getting OLD; at some point it’s just on YOU to stop living a double-life, and at this point, everyone sees through it,” so he wrote in the 2018 tweet.

    10. Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Becca Kufrin
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    The way Arie Luyendyk Jr. broke up with his then-fiancee Becca Kuffrin was really something else. The leading man of season 22 of “The Bachelor” proposed to Becca after sending runner-up Lauren Burnham home, only to later realize that his heart was actually for Lauren instead of Becca.
    Rather unsurpringly, Arie opted to dump Becca on-camera just weeks after filming the finale to pursue his love for Lauren. Becca later confronted the realtor in “After the Final Rose”, asking him why he proposed to her if he wasn’t fully sure of his own feelings. Arie blamed “the pressure of being The Bachelor,” explaining, “[The pressure of] knowing there’s a timeline and having to make the decision on that day.”

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    Brie Larson Credits 'Captain Marvel' for Helping Her Overcome Social Anxiety

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    The Carol Danvers depicter talks about her struggle with mental health issues in her first YouTube video and how her superhero role helped her deal with her anxiety.
    Jul 5, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Brie Larson opened up on her battle with social anxiety in her first-ever YouTube video.
    The “Captain Marvel” star welcomed viewers to her page on Thursday (02Jul20) when she shared clips of video conversations she’s had with friends, family members, and other YouTube personalities, from whom she sought advice and content ideas for the new project.
    During her 21-minute-video debut, titled “So, I made a decision…”, Larson opened up about how taking the titular role in the hit superhero movie helped improve her mental health.
    “For me, my baseline has been I’m an introvert with asthma. That’s been my story for myself. I’m introverted, I’m scared, I have social anxiety,” she admitted.
    “And through, in particular, playing Captain Marvel, that kind of wiped clean those titles I had for myself and made me go, ‘Whoa, I’m not really that anymore.’ ”
    Since joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Larson admitted that she’s found “speaking out, telling my story, talking about the things that I’m scared of has helped” her a great deal.
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    Brie has appeared as Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers twice, including in “Avengers: Endgame”. A sequel to her solo adventure is in the works and is currently slated for a 2022 release.

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    Scott Eastwood Filming War Movie 'The Outpost' With Broken Ankle

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    The ‘Pacific Rim Uprising’ actor reveals he was struggling to walk because of his injured ankle when he began the filming of his new movie directed by Rod Lurie.
    Jul 5, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Actor Scott Eastwood gave director Rod Lurie a filming headache at the start of production on “The Outpost” after a broken ankle left him unable to walk.
    The “Pacific Rim Uprising” star hasn’t revealed how he sustained the injury, but surgeons managed to fix the issue with a pair of screws.
    However, as his recovery coincided with the start of the new Afghanistan war movie, Lurie had to rework his scheduling plans because Eastwood was basically crippled.
    “(Lurie had a) tough as hell time trying to figure out how we were gonna design shots where for the first few weeks I couldn’t walk,” Clint Eastwood’s son told The Associated Press of the “interesting” shoot.
    The “Straw Dogs” filmmaker ended up delaying the action sequences to the latter part of production, and he’s really impressed by how quickly Eastwood managed to bounce back.
    “When you see Scott Eastwood in this movie, running and gunning, you gotta remember this dude has got a broken ankle and he’s a bit of a stud. Just like his dad,” Lurie quipped.
    “The Outpost” chronicles the exploits of a unit of U.S. soldiers battling Taliban forces at the remote Combat Outpost Keating. The conflict, known as the Battle of Kamdesh, was the bloodiest of the Afghan War in 2009.
    The movie is based on CNN journalist Jake Tapper’s book, “The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor”, and is set for release digitally at the end of July (20).

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