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The New Barbenheimer? Hello, Glicked

'Blockbuster energy' of Wicked , Gladiator II raise hopes of a big movie weekend

(Newser) - Since the joint release of Barbie and Oppenheimer in July 2023 led to scores of people seeing both blockbusters in a double bill, social media users have been looking for a repeat of the Barbenheimer phenomenon . "Saw Patrol," the portmanteau title given to the joint release of PAW ...

Denzel Washington: My Gay Kiss in Gladiator Got Cut
Denzel's
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Nov 19, 2024 1:36 PM CST

Denzel's Gay-Kiss Story Is Fizzling

Actor had said filmmakers maybe 'got chicken,' but director Ridley Scott says it never happened

(Newser) - Denzel Washington's assertion that filmmakers cut his gay kiss out of Gladiator II seems to have been overstated. "No, that's bulls---," director Ridley Scott tells Variety of the claim. "They never did. They acted the moment—it didn't happen." And the actor himself...

Crew Hurt as Gladiator II Set Is 'Plunged Into Chaos'

6 receive treatment for non-life-threatening injuries on sequel set in Morocco

(Newser) - Paramount Pictures says that multiple crew members were injured Wednesday in Morocco on the set of the Gladiator sequel, after a stunt went awry. "While filming a planned stunt sequence ... an accident occurred during which several crew members experienced non-life-threatening injuries," a spokesperson for the studio says in...

Russell Crowe Just Held Very Successful Divorce Auction

Actor made $2.8M hawking memorabilia from his career to finance divorce from Danielle Spencer

(Newser) - If there's an art to divorce, Russell Crowe has mastered the profiting off of it: The actor rang in his 54th birthday and anniversary to soon-to-be ex-wife Danielle Spencer on Saturday with a wide-ranging auction of memorabilia from his storied career that netted $2.8 million, reports the Guardian ...

New Book Bares Russell Crowe's Crazy Side

Actor indulges in wee-hours phone calls, prima donna behavior on set

(Newser) - With Russell Crowe's latest film on the horizon, a new book about DreamWorks is perfectly timed to take advantage of curiosity about the famously short-tempered actor. Some juicy details from Nicole LaPorte's The Men Who Would Be King: An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company called DreamWorks,...

Top Conservative Flicks of the '00s
 Top Conservative 
 Flicks of the '00s 
decade in review
Jan 1, 2010 5:31 AM CST

Top Conservative Flicks of the '00s

Even Hollywood can make movies for the non-'lily-livered:' Nile Gardiner

(Newser) - "Hollywood may well be a bastion of liberalism, but it does continue to occasionally produce major films that advance conservative principles," Nile Gardiner writes in the Telegraph . His best of the aughts:
  1. Master and Commander, 2003: The Peter Weir flick starring Russell Crowe is "an epic tale
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Top 10 Historically Flawed Flicks

10,000 BC , Gladiator, and 300 top Yahoo's list of historical misfires

(Newser) - Most historical films forgo a few facts for dramatic flair, but these flicks leave truth to the cutting room floor. Yahoo lists the most inaccurate movies ever:
  1. 10,000 BC: Woolly mammoths weren't around to help build the pyramids.
  2. Gladiator: Emperor Commodus didn't kill his dad... chickenpox did.
  3. 300: Spartan
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