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      George Clooney Turning Down Movie Role to Avoid Infecting Asthmatic Son With Covid-19

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      The ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ actor cites family’s health as he opens up about the real reason why he had to back out of the upcoming Steven Soderbergh movie this year.

      Dec 1, 2020
      AceShowbiz – George Clooney had to drop out of a Steven Soderbergh movie to make sure he didn’t bring COVID-19 home and infect his asthmatic son.
      The Oscar winner was looking forward to jetting off to make the movie “Kill Switch” with Don Cheadle and the filmmaker, but had to turn to the job down for the sake of his family’s health.
      “I’ve got a son with asthma,” Clooney tells Deadline. “It’s not like I can just go taking any chances.”
      “I had to drop out of the Soderbergh film that he was shooting because of that, which was a bummer because it’s a great part. It looks like I would have gotten to work with Don Cheadle and everybody again. It really looked like fun.”

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      “Kill Switch”, which has since been retitled “No Sudden Move”, features Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, David Harbour, Amy Seimetz, Jon Hamm, Ray Liotta, Kieran Culkin, Brendan Fraser, and Matt Damon among others.
      Cheadle, Soderbergh, Clooney, and Damon all worked together on “Ocean’s Eleven”, “Ocean’s Twelve”, and “Ocean’s Thirteen”.
      Clooney is dad to three-year-old twins Alexander and Ella with wife Amal.
      In a GQ interview recently, the actor admitted he never wanted to get married and have children until he met wife Amal. “For 36 years, I was the guy that if some kid popped up and started crying, I’d be like, ‘Are you f**king kidding me?’ And now suddenly I’m the guy with the kid, you know?” he said
      “I was like, ‘I’m never getting married. I’m not gonna have kids,’ I’m gonna work, I’ve got great friends, my life is full, I’m doing well.”

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      The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Amazon, HBO Max, Hulu and More in December

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      #masthead-section-label, #masthead-bar-one { display: none }What to WatchBest Movies on NetflixBest of Disney PlusClassic Holiday MoviesHoliday TVBest Netflix DocumentariesAdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyThe Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Amazon, HBO Max, Hulu and More in DecemberEvery month, subscription streaming services add a new batch of titles to their libraries. Here are our picks for December.By More

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      ‘Disco’ Review: Devoted to Dancing (and More)

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      In the Norwegian drama “Disco,” the second-time feature director Jorunn Myklebust Syversen demonstrates a strong feel for pulsing bass, neon lighting and discomfiting close-ups but a somewhat vaguer sense of character and theme.The movie centers on a teenager named Mirjam (Josefine Frida), a highly competitive championship dancer. She is also seriously committed to her Christianity, or at least grew up thinking she had to be. She listens to audio of English-language sermons. Her stepfather, Per (Nicolai Cleve Broch), is a pastor at a modern church that more obviously resembles an indie coffee bar and attached performance space. Mirjam pitches in and sings devotional pop music.[embedded content]Outwardly hip, Per is controlling at home, manipulating his wife, Vanja (Kjaersti Odden Skjeldal), and Mirjam, and wanting his family to distance themselves from Vanja’s brother, a wealthy televangelist whom Per regards as a fraud. (The brother is shown leading an ostensibly cancer-healing ceremony on TV and participating in a homophobic ritual later on.)The movie’s placid surfaces conceal signs of repression and discord. Mirjam appears to have bulimia, and there’s an unspoken history of sexual abuse within her family. Mirjam goes to an island religious camp where children, on the pretense of expelling demons from their bodies, breathe into bags until they pass out.Still, all of this simmering tension doesn’t develop into much. By the time it is over, “Disco” has crossed the line that separates being productively ambiguous from being simply cryptic.DiscoNot Rated. In Norwegian, with subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 34 minutes. Rent or buy on Amazon and Google Play. More

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      Maggie Smith to Take Lead in Film Version of 'A German Life'

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      Developed by screenwriter-playwright Christopher Hampton, the one-woman show about Nazi Joseph Goebbels’ secretary will be opera director Jonathan Kent’s movie debut.

      Dec 1, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Dame Maggie Smith is set to star in the film version of her one-woman show about Nazi Joseph Goebbels’ secretary, Brunhilde Pomsel.
      Developed by screenwriter-playwright Christopher Hampton, who was awarded an Oscar for the screen adaptation of “Dangerous Liaisons”, Smith previously played the role in “A German Life” at The Bridge Theatre in London’s West End.
      The project will be opera director Jonathan Kent’s movie debut.

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      “A German Life” is based on a series of interviews that Pomsel gave when she was 103. The screen version came about due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, which has closed theatres throughout the world.
      “What with COVID, Maggie decided that she didn’t really want to go back and do it again on stage, which was a great shame because it meant that an enormous number of people hadn’t seen it and her great performance,” Hampton told Variety.
      He adds, “What I’ve been doing is writing it as a screenplay about this woman in her retirement home in 2013 talking about her life. The film script was more difficult to write than the stage play. Sometimes she looks out the window and sees characters, but otherwise, it’s all just her through the course of the day talking about her memories.”
      Additionally, Hampton shared that he finished his long-gestating stage play about Jimmie Lee Jackson, the African-American civil rights activist and a deacon in the Baptist church in Alabama. “The death of Jimmie Lee Jackson led to the Selma to Montgomery marches. In 2010, the policeman was finally tried and sentenced to six months in jail. I’ve been working on this on-and-off for some time. I went to Alabama four or five years ago, while the guy who killed Jackson was still alive. Finally, after doing all this research, I wrote it this summer, and it turned out to be sort of unpleasantly relevant [with the Black Lives Matter demonstrations],” he said.

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      'Thor: Love and Thunder' Director Sparks Speculation of a Dead Character's Return

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      Taika Waititi has got fans hopeful that he will bring back Idris Elba’s fan-favorite character Heimdall in the upcoming fourth movie after they’re hanging out together in New Zealand.

      Dec 1, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Taika Waititi may have dropped a hint about a possible resurrection in “Thor: Love and Thunder”. The director’s new photos have sparked a speculation that the upcoming movie would feature a fan-favorite character, who has been presumed dead.
      On Sunday, November 29, the Kiwi filmmaker shared on his Instagram account pictures of him hanging out with New Zealand’s legendary All-Blacks rugby team. What’s interesting was that he was seen being joined by Idris Elba during the fun outing.
      “Me and @idriselba visited the @allblacks last week and I think we can all agree that’s what inspired last night’s win,” Waititi captioned the snaps. “Caught up with the uso @ardiesavea while Drisco tried to steal the Bleddy.”

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      While the post and images have nothing to do with “Love and Thunder”, many can’t help talking about why Elba was in New Zealand. In this current situation of an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, one likely won’t travel hundreds of miles away just to catch a rugby game.
      Thus, it’s possible that the actor, who has played Heimdall in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, may have flown to the country to join the production of the fourth Thor movie. His character, however, is believed to have died after being killed off by Thanos in the opening sequence of “Avengers: Infinity War”, so it remains to be seen if and how Waititi will bring him back to life in “Love and Thunder”.
      Elba himself didn’t rule out his character’s return, previously suggesting that Heimdall possesses god’s gift of immortality. “Listen, Heimdall is essentially part of the god family. So you know, he essentially could be alive. I’m just saying! I’m just putting it out there,” he claimed, before explaining, “The Heimdall character goes way back into, you know, the Thor mythology. And I’m sure there will be an interesting way to bring that alive. Of course I would [return]. Yes.”
      While Elba’s return has not been confirmed, Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman and Tessa Thompson have been set to reprise their respective roles in “Thor: Love and Thunder”.

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      George Clooney Details Reason Behind Casting of Gregory Peck's Grandson for 'The Midnight Sky'

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      Praising Ethan Peck for giving a beautiful performance in the Netflix movie, the Augustine Lofthouse depicter spills on how they worked out the sharing of their voice to portray the same character.

      Dec 1, 2020
      AceShowbiz – George Clooney recruited Gregory Peck’s grandson to play his “The Midnight Sky” character as a younger man after abandoning plans to de-age himself onscreen.
      The Oscar winner met with Netflix bosses after deciding to direct and star in the new movie and quizzed them about the technology Martin Scorsese used to make Robert De Niro and others look younger in “The Irishman”, but eventually decided it would become too much of a talking point if he took years off himself.
      ” ‘The Irishman’ used it and had not come out yet,” Clooney tells Deadline. “They (Netflix bosses) showed it to me and I thought, ‘That’ll just become a topic then that people will talk about.’ I didn’t know how people would react to it at the time. I just said. ‘I think you’re going to talk about it’. It’s tricky because people know basically what I looked like when I was 35 years old.”

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      So he hired Ethan Peck, explaining, “We both have good eyebrows.”
      “He’s better looking than me and if I’m going to cast somebody why not f**king cast somebody who’s better looking than me…,” George adds. “I said to him, ‘Look, my voice is pretty recognizable, so we’re going to have to work together, you and I, and we’re going to work with… sound. We’re going to work with everybody on blending your voice with mine.’ ”
      “It’s broken down into hundreds of tiny bits and patterns because it can’t be my voice, because my voice was much higher when I was younger. Everybody’s voice is higher when they’re younger. Funnily enough, his voice is deeper than mine… He’s already got this fantastic voice. So I talked to him and said, ‘Look, this is going to be a performance where we’re going to be sharing the voice. I hope you’re OK with that.’ ”
      “He gives such a beautiful performance because he’s playing my character at an unlikeable time. The reason that he needs redemption is because of that. So it’s a really brave thing he did, which is he came onboard and said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it. I’m up for it.’ ”

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      Miles Teller Claims His Wife Was Reduced to Tears Watching 'Top Gun: Maverick'

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      Having been able to catch a screening of the ‘Top Gun’ sequel, the actor playing Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw shares his hope that all the effort the team put into the film pays off at the box office.

      Dec 1, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Miles Teller’s wife is a big fan of the “Whiplash” star’s “Top Gun” sequel, insisting it’s the best film she has ever seen.
      Model Keleigh Sperry, who is a big fan of the 1986 original, jumped at the chance to see her man as Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw in a screening for “Top Gun: Maverick” – and she loved it.
      Her husband tells Men’s Journal Sperry was particularly taken by his character – the son of the original film’s Nick ‘Goose’ Bradshaw, played by Anthony Edwards.
      “Playing Goose’s kid and getting to continue that storyline that was established in such a powerful way all those years ago, there is a lot of history there,” Miles says. “I think when audiences realise the character I play is that tiny kid they saw in the original, it is going to hit.”

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      “I was able to see it a couple of weeks ago. The movie just blew me away, and my wife said, ‘That might be the best film I have ever seen.’ She was crying multiple times.”
      Teller hopes all the effort he put in to the film pays off at the box office, revealing, “There is no green screen in a ‘Top Gun’ movie. Every shot, every stunt, was the result of the work, the real sweat, that we all put into it. The production was over the course of a full year, which was definitely the longest shoot I have ever been part of.”
      “I had about three months of flight training before starting the movie. That time was important to get comfortable with the crafts but also to build up our G-force tolerance, because all of the aerial elements were shot practically.”
      The film’s release has been pushed back to July 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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      Michel Robin, Longtime French Character Actor, Dies at 90

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      This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here.Michel Robin, an award-winning French actor who became a familiar face from his roles in more than a hundred movies and television shows, died on Nov. 18. He was 90.The cause was Covid-19, according to a statement from the Comédie-Française, the prestigious theater company in Paris where he was a longtime member. The company did not specify where he died.“The French didn’t always know his name, but they recognized his face, which illuminated stages and screens,” the office of the French president said.Michel Robin was born on Nov. 13, 1930, in Reims, in eastern France. After studying law in Bordeaux, he decided to try his luck as an actor and took drama lessons in Paris when he was 26.From 1958 to 1964, Mr. Robin was part of a theater company near Lyon led by the playwright Roger Planchon before moving on to the Renaud-Barrault company in Paris. His career in theater spanned over 50 years, and he distinguished himself in classics by authors like Molière, Chekhov and Brecht.Mr. Robin was especially fond of Samuel Beckett, and played Lucky in Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” in 1970 and, 10 years later, Clov in his “Endgame.”“It might seem pretentious, but with Beckett, I feel at home,” Mr. Robin told the newspaper Le Monde in a 2003 interview. “It’s so funny and so awful at the same time.”He joined the Comédie-Française in 1994 and became a staple of its productions for 15 years, often playing the classic supporting role of elderly servants.“Michel always played the old, very early in his career,” Éric Ruf, the general administrator of the Comédie-Française, said in a statement about Mr. Robin’s death. “He recently admitted that he was finally old enough for those roles, and that it annoyed him.”Starting in the late 1960s, Mr. Robin also appeared in movies by a number of directors, including Costa-Gavras, Claude Chabrol, and Alain Resnais. In “Amélie,” the 2001 movie by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, he played the father of Mr. Collignon, an irritable grocer. On television, he appeared in shows including the French version of “Fraggle Rock” in the 1980s and “Boulevard du Palais,” a police drama, in the late 1990s and early 2000s.In 1979, Mr. Robin won a prize at the Locarno Film Festival for his role as an old farmer in the Swiss comedy “Les Petites Fugues” (“Small Escapes”). In 1990, he won a Molière — France’s most prestigious theater award — for best supporting actor, for his role in “La Traversée de l’Hiver” (“Winter Crossing”), a play by Yasmina Reza about a group of six vacationers on a melancholic mountain retreat.He is survived by a daughter, Amélie, and a grandson, Gaspard. More