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Comedian Tim Dillon, who has a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role in “Joker: Folie à Deux” as an Arkham Asylum security guard, recently appeared on “The Joe Rogan Experience” and trashed Todd Phillips’ controversial “Joker” sequel as “the worst film that has ever been made.” The sequel earned mostly negative reviews and flopped at the box office with $58 million domestically and $204 million worldwide, a far cry from the 2019 original’s $1 billion gross.

“It’s the worst film ever made,” Dillon said. “I think what happened, after the first ‘Joker,’ there was a lot of talk like, ‘Oh, this was loved by incels. This was loved by the wrong kinds of people. This sent the wrong kind of message. Male rage! Nihilism!’ All these think pieces. And then I think, ‘What if we went the other way,’ and now they have Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga tap dancing to a point where it’s insane.

During a recent excursion, actor Bruce Willis was seen photographed with a friend. This occurred after news came out concerning the actor’s current health. Thanks to this, some fans worried if it was appropriate to take photos of the actor and even wondered how they photos were taken.

The Actor Was Seen Getting Coffee With A Friend

Bruce Willis is a retired American acotr. He is best known for his role as John McClane in the Die Hard film franchise. He is also known for his work in films like Pulp Fiction, The Fifth Element, and The Sixth Sense.

Willis had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia early last year. He was recently spotted on an excursion with a friend in Santa Monica California.

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The actor could be seen wearing a white, short-sleeved shirt and a black cap. He and his friend were enjoying a drive together this past Thursday.

Denis Villeneuve recently joined a Q&a with students at Concordia University’s film school in Montreal, where he shrugged off Quentin Tarantino’s comments about refusing to watch “Dune” and its sequel.

Tarantino, known for “Pulp Fiction,” said he’s not interested in watching Villeneuve’s “Dune” movies since he already knew the story from David Lynch’s earlier version.

“I don’t care,” Villeneuve replied, sparking laughter in the room. “I agree with him on not recycling old ideas, but what I did wasn’t a remake—it’s a book adaptation. To me, it’s something original.” Villeneuve added, “But we are very different people.”

Tarantino mentioned his lack of interest in “Dune: Part Two” while speaking on “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast.” He explained that he’d seen Lynch’s “Dune” a couple of times and didn’t need to revisit that story. “I don’t...

Denis Villeneuve recently participated in a Q&a with students at Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal, Quebec (via Montreal Gazette) and brushed off Quentin Tarantino’s viral comments about refusing to watch “Dune” and “Dune: Part Two.” The “Pulp Fiction” Oscar winner said he’s not interested in remakes and didn’t need to watch Villeneuve’s films because he was already familiar with the “Dune” story from seeing David Lynch’s previous adaptation.

“I don’t care,” Villeneuve said as the “whole room erupted in laughter,” as reported by the Gazette. “It’s true. I agree with him that I don’t like this idea of recycling and bringing back old ideas. But where I disagree is that what I did was not a remake. It’s an adaptation of the book. I see this as an original.”

Villeneuve added, “But we are very different human beings.

Emmy-and-Golden Globe winning actor. Oscar-nominated producer. Director. Writer. In his 50 years in the industry, Danny DeVito has worn many hats, becoming one of the most successful and popular entertainers of his generation.

Daniel Michael DeVito, Jr. was born on November 17, 1944, in New Jersey, with multiple epiphyseal dysplasia. Also known as Fairbank’s disease, this rare genetic disorder affects bone growth and contributed to his short stature. This has not hindered his successes, beginning with his training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and early work in the theater.

In 1975, DeVito successfully reprised his off-Broadway role in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” in the film version, and soon found success as Louie DePalma in the television sitcom “Taxi,” for which he received four Primetime Emmy and four Golden Globe nominations, winning the Emmy in 1978 and the Globe in 1980. Louie was the arrogant dispatcher of the Sunshine Cab Company who...

Quentin Tarantino has been pretty vocal about his retirement plans. The director has been expected to retire after his tenth film, which he is currently working on. However, Ridley Scott had some choice words to say about the Inglorious Basterds director.

Quentin Tarantino at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International || Credits: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0

Quentin Tarantino’s last film was expected to be The Movie Critic, which was set to star Brad Pitt. However, the film seems to be in the process of being reworked, leaving fans wondering what the auteur’s alleged final offering is going to be. Ridley Scott, though, thinks that Scorsese might be on the wrong track with his trajectory.

Ridley Scott thinks Quentin Tarantino should keep making films Ridley Scott speaking at the 2012 WonderCon in Anaheim || Image by Gage Skidmore, licensed under Cc By-sa 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ridley Scott will...

As the format continues to gain traction, here’s our regularly-updated list of upcoming 4K Ultra HD disc releases in the UK.

Sitting alongside our list of upcoming DVD and Blu-ray releases (that you can find here), we’re also keeping a calendar for those who support the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc format. As we learn of new UK releases, we’ll add them to this list.

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A group of activists dedicated to preserving film history has launched a petition asking the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to rehire 16 individuals the Academy laid off from its film archive and library staff last week.

On October 30, AMPAS let go of 16 employees — roughly 2 percent of AMPAS’ overall staff — including 14 from the Academy Film Archive and Margaret Herrick Library, and the other two from the Academy Museum collection staff.

In a petition launched on Tuesday, November 5 on Change.org, a cohort called Missing Movies protested the Academy’s decision and wrote an open letter to AMPAS CEO Bill Kramer and its Board of Governors, saying the layoffs represent a “deep disregard for the vital work of the Academy Film Archive.”

“These senior staff members have deep institutional knowledge of the Archive’s history and goals; they built the organizational structures, collections, and community outreach that allowed it to grow and thrive,...

Odin’s Eye Entertainment has come on board as international sales agent to “Stealing Pulp Fiction,” an audacious heist comedy from director Danny Turkiewicz. The company will launch it to overseas buyers at the American Film Market that starts in Las Vegas this week.

It had its world premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival on Oct. 19. And is set for a U.S. theatrical release in early 2025 through Giant Pictures.

The film follows a group of hopelessly ambitious misfits in their attempt to steal Quentin Tarantino’s personal 35mm print of his iconic film ‘Pulp Fiction.’ But what begins as a simple heist quickly spirals into a chaotic adventure filled with unexpected twists and comedic mishaps.

It stars Karan Soni (“Deadpool 2”), Jason Alexander, Cazzie David and Jon Rudnitsky (“Home Again”).

Adapted from Turkiewicz’s 2020 short film of the same name, “Stealing Pulp Fiction” was produced by Ben Shields Catlin,...

If anyone had to be labeled Hollywood’s golden boy in the late 70s, it was John Travolta. From early success on Welcome Back, Kotter to his star turns in Grease, Travolta’s charm, cool-collected persona, and chops in singing and dancing made him sparkle. As much as those roles played to his specific skill sets and advantages, they left him a bit typecast as the smooth-talking, dancing heartthrob – a niche he, or for that matter anyone, couldn’t keep playing forever.

It would be, perhaps, some soul-searching that would lead to a different alley in 1981. Blow Out, a gritty thriller by Brian De Palma had Travolta taking risks. Gone were the musical numbers and dance moves, replaced by an intense role as a sound engineer caught up in a murder. Travolta’s performance was strong – so strong that years later, Quentin Tarantino reached out to him with an offer...

So… Joker: Folie à Deux is pretty great, right? Well, the reviews are mixed with a majority of people claiming that it’s a sh*t movie. However, Quentin Tarantino and Hideo Kojima are just some of the cinephiles who are actually loving it!

Joker: Folie à Deux received mixed reviews | Credits: Warner Bros. Pictures

Although the film was slandered and beaten to a pulp, there are some who claim that the film is actually one of the most iconic pieces of cinema that they have ever witnessed. Hideo Kojima is one of them.

Hideo Kojima Praises Joker: Folie à Deux

It’s not your average Friday when a film like Joker: Folie à Deux releases. The film was one of the most anticipated sequels that the world had been waiting for. Unfortunately (or fortunately), it was a… weird experience.

Hideo Kojima loved Joker: Folie à Deux | Credits: Hideo Kojima...

Donald Trump has been one of the most influential figures in the world of politics over the last couple of years. The 78-year-old is on the cusp of potentially winning his second election to reclaim his position as President of the United States, but only one person stands in his way, Kamala Harris, who currently serves as Vice President under the Joe Biden administration.

Donald Trump | Credits: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, Az, United States of America, Cc By-sa 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Since stepping into the limelight, Trump has established himself as an incredibly outspoken person. But not everybody agrees with the things the 45th commander-in-chief has had to convey. At times, Trump has been involved in public feuds with big-named celebrities that have raised eyebrows. So, here are six Hollywood personalities that Donald Trump has butted heads with.

1. Samuel L. Jackson Samuel L. Jackson in Kingsman: The Secret Service | Credits:...

Director Quentin Taratino walks the walk when it comes to originality: he's been doing it his way since the '90s, making lots of movies that have gone on to become modern classics, including Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill and Inglourious Basterds. Like a lot of people, he's not enthusiastic about Hollywood's interest in remaking everything under the sun. But unlike a lot of people, he still isn't interested in those remakes even when they're great.

Take the example of Denis Villeneuve's two recent Dune movies, which adapt Frank Herbert's seminal 1965 sci-fi novel. Both movies received widespread critical acclaim. But as far as Tarantino is concerned, he watched David Lynch's 1986 Dune movie and doesn't need to revisit that story. “I saw [David Lynch’s] ‘Dune’ a couple of times. I don’t need to see that story again,” he said on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast. “I don’t need to see spice worms.

Quentin Tarantino is not about the spice, and he definitely won't be investing in a Shai-Hulud popcorn bucket any time soon. "I saw [David Lynch’s original adaptation of] Dune a couple of times," the director told Bret Easton Ellis on the latter's self-titled podcast (via Deadline). "I don’t...

Quentin Tarantino does not care about Lisan al Gaib.

More specifically, the Pulp Fiction filmmaker recently said he has no interest in watching fellow colleague Denis Villeneuve’s Dune adaptations, as he views them as symptomatic of Hollywood’s overreliance on remixing old IP (usually in a bid to mitigate risk and maximize profit).

“I saw [David Lynch’s original adaptation of] ‘Dune’ a couple of times,” he told Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho) on his self-titled podcast. “I don’t need to see that story again. I don’t need to see spice worms. I don’t need to see a movie that says the word ‘spice’ so dramatically.”

The Oscar winner continued, listing other titles he has shrugged off because their material draws from trodden ground.

“It’s one after another of this remake, and that remake,” he said. “People ask ‘Have you seen ‘Dune?’ ‘Have you seen ‘Ripley?...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences laid off a major contingent of staff members in its archive and library on Wednesday, including Academy Film Archive director of 24 years Mike Pogorzelski. A source with knowledge of the changes says that several impacted employees had worked at the Academy for more than a decade. Across archive, library and museum collection, 16 employees were laid off.

The downsizing, announced on Wednesday by Academy CEO Bill Kramer in an internal statement obtained by Variety, comes amid an ongoing restructuring initiative at the organization. The cutbacks place the archive, the library and the collecting unit’s operations under a newly formed Academy Collection and Preservation department.

“As part of this work in building the new Academy Collection and Preservation department, some team members will be leaving the Academy this week,” Kramer wrote, adding the note that “less than 2% of our overall workforce” had been impacted.

It’s a question of priorities, and the 30 or so employees at the Academy Film Archive have been nervous for a while. They’ve seen where the energy is going ever since Bill Kramer moved over from the Academy Museum to run parent organization the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Under his purview is the non-profit 501C3 Academy Foundation, which runs the Museum, the archive, and the Margaret Herrick Library.

Kramer has been restructuring the Academy for some time now. For example, he merged the communications and marketing teams for all the sections of the Academy, and October 30 saw the exit of sixteen employees, some 2 percent of 800 total. The goal for the new Academy Collection and Preservation Department is to align operations and avoid duplicating efforts. Fourteen cuts were on the Archive and Library side, two from the museum collection staff.

Experienced people with vast institutional knowledge are getting lost in these layoffs.

Emma Heming, who tied the knot with Bruce Willis over a decade ago, has been pretty vocal about the issues that have stemmed from the Pulp Fiction star’s Frontotemporal Dementia (Ftd) diagnosis. After being diagnosed with aphasia in 2022, which impacts a person’s ability to speak, read, and write, six months later, Willis was additionally diagnosed with Ftd, which currently has no cure.

Bruce Willis in a still from Pulp Fiction | Credit: Miramax Films

Considering the chronic illness isn’t going to get any better, Heming made sure to break this news to their kids without sugarcoating it.

Emma Heming on Breaking Bruce Willis’ Diagnosis to Their Kids Bruce Willis and Emma Heming | Credit: emmahemingwillis/Ig

After finally learning about Bruce Willis‘ Ftd diagnosis, Emma Heming made sure to follow her therapist’s advice and broke word about the Pulp Fiction star’s incurable condition to their two young daughters,...

Unlike its predecessor, Joker: Folie à Deux has brutally failed to fare between both critics and general audiences, with a minority still standing up in praise for it. Turns out, one of Hollywood’s most renowned veterans, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is also included in the list of people who seemed to have “really, really liked it, really. A lot. Like, tremendously.”

Joker: Folie à Deux. | Credits: Warner Bros.

To say the least, the director, who is famed for having tamed pieces like Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill film series, found himself discovering and praising influences of a script he wrote 30 years ago in Joker 2. But the best part about Tarantino’s review is his theory in one statement about the director’s approach to helming this piece: “Todd Phillips is the Joker.”

Quentin Tarantino Feels Joker 2 Has Been Influenced by Natural Born Killers

Over three decades ago,...

Most viewers have rejected “Joker: Folie à Deux” — the film currently has dismal 32% scores on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and audiences alike, an unusual consensus on this sort of thing, and is on track to lose over $150m — but it does have one high-profile fan: Quentin Tarantino.

During an appearance on author Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast (via Variety), the Academy Award-winning “Pulp Fiction” filmmaker effusively praised Todd Phillips’ musical “Joker” sequel. “I really, really liked it, really. A lot. Like, tremendously, and I went to see it expecting to be impressed by the filmmaking,” Tarantino said. “But I thought it was going to be an arms-length, intellectual exercise that ultimately I wouldn’t think worked like a movie, but that I would appreciate it for what it is. And I’m just nihilistic enough to kind of enjoy a movie that doesn’t quite work as a movie or that’s like a big,...

Following a disastrous run at the box office, Joker: Folie à Deux hit VOD platforms today as Warner Bros. looks to recoup anything they can from a movie that promises to deliver a sizeable loss.

Neither critics nor audiences embraced the Joker sequel but the movie has earned a mega fan in Pulp Fiction and Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood helmer Quentin Tarantino.

"I really, really liked it, really," he said on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast. "A lot. Like, tremendously, and I went to see it expecting to be impressed by the filmmaking. But I thought it was going to be an arms-length, intellectual exercise that ultimately I wouldn’t think worked like a movie, but that I would appreciate it for what it is."

"And I’m just nihilistic enough to kind of enjoy a movie that doesn’t quite work as a movie. That’s like a big,...

Joker: Folie à Deux, the follow-up to 2019’s Oscar-winning Joker, has become one of the biggest box-office bombs in modern movie histoy. But despite the terrible critical and commercial reception that cost Warner Bros. somewhere in the neighborhood of $200 million during its theatrical run, Joker believers have gained an ally in the form of Quentin Tarantino.

During a recent appearance on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, the celebrated filmmaker didn’t hold back in his praise for the Todd Phillips sequel.

“I really, really liked it, really,” he revealed. “I’m just nihilistic enough to kind of enjoy a movie that doesn’t quite work as a movie, and that’s a big, giant mess to some degree. I didn’t find it an intellectual exercise. I really got caught up into it. I really liked the musical sequences. I thought the more banal the songs were, the better they were.

Uma Thurman, Phoebe Dynevor, and Anthony Hopkins have been tapped to lead the cast of the period drama film “The Housekeeper.” Directed by Richard Eyre, the movie tells a story of forbidden love set in 1930s England. It is based on a short story by novelist Rose Tremain and will explore relationships and creativity during that time period.

The film follows a Polish housekeeper, to be played by Uma Thurman, and famous author Daphne du Maurier, portrayed by Phoebe Dynevor. Anthony Hopkins takes on the role of a wealthy widower named Lord DeWithers. Du Maurier’s own life experiences reportedly inspired Tremain’s short story and the movie’s story. Producer Julia Taylor-Stanley said the project offers “a captivating story of forbidden love and the power dynamics at play in 1930s high society.”

Eyre is an acclaimed director known for movies like “Notes on a Scandal” and “Iris.” Tremain, whose...

Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction), Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton) and two-time Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins (The Father) have been set to star in period drama The Housekeeper.

Set in 1930s Cornwall, UK, the film will chart the forbidden romance between a Polish housekeeper and a famous novelist.

Notes On A Scandal and Iris filmmaker Richard Eyre is directing with Julia Taylor-Stanley (Coriolanus) and Kevin Loader (The Death Of Stalin) producing from a script by British novelist Rose Tremain.

The story is inspired by Tremain’s short story in which a young woman is horrified to discover, after a brief sexual encounter with Daphne du Maurier, that she is the model for Mrs Danvers in the writer’s classic work Rebecca.

Dynevor will play Du Maurier, Thurman the housekeeper and Hopkins the wealthy and widowed Lord DeWithers.

Embankment Films is launching sales ahead of the upcoming American Film Market in Las Vegas. Filming...

Lauded journalist, host, and moderator Josh Horowitz is a staple among the Hollywood circuit in part thanks to his popular podcast “Happy Sad Confused.” Horowitz, who began his career as a producer and talent booker, parlayed his expertise and ease with filmmakers into his own standalone podcast back in 2014. Its format pivoted during the pandemic to include a video component on YouTube (where he has amassed more than 111K subscribers), and once again took another shape as Horowitz began hosting live podcast recordings with a partnership at the 92nd St Y in New York City.

Horowitz has interviewed notoriously private, or rather, anti-podcast stars such as Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, and Vin Diesel, with Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, and Henry Cavill appearing on multiple episodes. Some of Horowitz’s personal heroes like George Miller, Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo del Toro, Steven Soderbergh, Denis Villeneuve, and...

“Notes on a Scandal” and “Iris” director Richard Eyre has assembled a starry cast for his next feature, an evocative romance fictionalizing the inspiration behind Daphne Du Maurier’s “Rebecca.”

“The Housekeeper” — being launched at AFM by Embankment Films alongside CAA Media Finance, which is co-repping U.S. rights — will be led by Oscar nominee Uma Thurman, two-time Oscar winner Sir Anthony Hopkins “(The Father,” “The Silence of the Lambs”) and Phoebe Dynevor.

Eyre will direct from a script written by bestselling author Rose Tremain, based on her own short story and forthcoming novel. The film is being produced by Julia Taylor-Stanley and Kevin Loader.

“The Housekeeper” is set in the mystic, brooding and wild landscape of Cornwall, the rugged Atlantic foot of England, where Danni (Thurman), housekeeper at Manderville Hall — a grand and historic house owned by the wealthy and widowed Lord DeWithers (Hopkins) — falls prey to the glance...

From 2020 to 2022, Bruce Willis cranked out a huge number of movies, most of them low-budget sci-fi/action films that all went straight-to-video, and usually playing brief, supporting roles. The many films were, by and large, panned by critics and mocked by baffled fans, all of whom wondered by Willis didn't appear to have much on-camera dialogue, or why he wasn't the lead character. In three years, he appeared in 22 movies. 

In March of 2022, it was announced that Willis had been diagnosed with aphasia, a brain condition that affected his ability to speak and comprehend language. Many of the above fans expressed their deepest apologies, and even the Razzies, in a rare show of good taste, retraced Willis' Worst Actor nominations. Willis retired from acting because of his condition. In February 2023, Willis, now 69, was also diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, and he remains in the care of his family. 

Willis, of course,...

Box office bashes are often cinematic events on their own. While audiences are much more conscious about where their films come from and where their loyalties lie, there were times when films from multiple A-list actors would battle it out at the box office.

Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump || Paramount Pictures

Tom Hanks, John Travolta, and Morgan Freeman are some of the best actors in the business, and each has delivered some of the greatest films to come out of the industry. While nowadays these actors have found themselves attached to franchises in a bid to stay relevant, there was a time when there was more for them to do with the films that they put out, which also butt heads at the box office.

Tom Hanks, John Travolta, and Morgan Freeman saw their best films play out in 1994 Morgan Freeman in a still from The Shawshank Redemption (Image via...

When talking about Pulp Fiction 30 years later, Bruce Willis’ performance is not something that immediately comes up in discussions. Willis’s character Butch was one of the more conventional characters in the film, which was filled with image-breaking performances. However, Willis’ stardom gave a significant boost to the film at the time of its making.

Bruce Willis as Butch in a still from Pulp Fiction | Credits: Miramax Films

Interestingly, Willis was not a name that Quentin Tarantino ever had in mind for the role. It was Harvey Keitel, who played the role of Winston Wolfe, who introduced the Die Hard actor to Tarantino. At the time, Willis was one of the only A-listers among the cast.

Bruce Willis Played A Crucial Role In Pulp Fiction‘s Epic Success Bruce Willis in a still from Pulp Fiction | Credits: Miramax Films

Pulp Fiction was snubbed for the Oscars in favor of Forrest Gump 30 years ago.

Well, the thing about Brad Pitt is that once he walks into a camera frame, it is almost impossible to not have one’s focus entirely locked onto his face, with a total disregard for the backdrop and rest of the players. With his effortless magnetism that seems to suction every light molecule toward his direction, Pitt has made a career that defies his superficial beauty and leans into his creative and artistic exploits.

Brad Pitt in Fight Club [Credit: 20th Century Studios]

David Fincher, being one of the oldest and long-time collaborators of Pitt knows all of this, having directed him in 3 movies since their Oscar-nominated 1995 film, Seven. However, it is neither Seven nor Fight Club (for which they reunited again in 1998) that Fincher considers Pitt’s ultimate cinematic pinnacle. That unique credit goes to another movie entirely.

Brad Pitt Impresses David Fincher With Third Film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) [Credit: co0026840 autoWarner Bros.

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Pulp Fiction is the rare film that’s simultaneously a cult classic, a commercial smash, and a critical darling, and this month marks 30 years since its release in theaters. It’s easy to take for granted how unlikely its success was — it’s not often that a hyper-violent, nonlinear indie movie wins the Palm d’Or and breaks $200 million at the box office.

To mark its 30th anniversary,...

Samuel L. Jackson Rose Become the Highest-Grossing Actor of All Time (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Boom! Samuel L. Jackson‘s snatched the highest-grossing actor’s title of all time! With $14.628B from 69 movies, he’s stacking cash like there’s no tomorrow. Most of his blockbuster bucks come from his role as Nick Fury in the MCU. Starting with a sly cameo in Iron Man (2008), he became the ultimate glue that holds the Avengers together. If glue could talk, it’d drop iconic lines like Jackson!

Nick Fury: The Man, The Myth, The Legend

But wait! Let’s not put Jackson in a box labeled “just superhero.” Oh no! This man’s got a filmography that reads like a love letter to cinema. It features classics like Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained. With 45 films grossing over $100M, he blew past legends like Harrison Ford and Tom Cruise. Talk about taking names and kicking ass!

Quentin Tarantino once said that good actors always rise to the occasion. His 1994 masterpiece Pulp Fiction gave a lot of would-be A-listers that platform to prove their worth to the world before the world knew them as Hollywood G.O.A.Ts. Now, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Walken, Uma Thurman, and Tim Roth walk in the hallowed halls beyond Sunset Boulevard.

Pulp Fiction (1994) [Credit: Miramax]

Pulp Fiction proved so monumental to the reinvention of Hollywood genre movies after the ’60s that even the then-washed John Travolta found a renaissance within the unforgiving film industry. Tarantino quickly rose from the ranks of a novice video store clerk to one of the greatest directors of all time, with such independent attention to detail that even his crime films are reconciled in the public eye as art films.

Meanwhile, Tarantino’s purist insight and knowledge as a cinephile allow him to use...

In the name of the Galactic Senate of the Republic, Mace Windu is still alive, Chancellor. Or so says Samuel L. Jackson, who says it’s going to take a lot more than what we saw in Revenge of the Sith to put an end to Mace Windu. Now that’s the confidence of a man with a purple lightsaber!

As we remember, Mace Windu was seen in 2005’s Revenge of the Sith in a showdown with Palpatine. Windu disregards Anakin’s insistence that killing people was not part of the Jedi life, going for one final blow to Palpatine, only to be attacked by Anakin, followed by a final blow from Palpatine that sends him falling.

Appearing on The Tonight Show, Samuel L. Jackson said he has enough reason to believe that Mace Windu somehow survived his encounter. “There’s a history alone, history of one-armed, one-handed people in the Star Wars universe.

Renowned for his performances in films like The Godfather, Scarface, and The Devil’s Advocate, Al Pacino has been one of Hollywood’s most iconic and celebrated actors. And the actor is more than grateful for the opportunities he’s been given, including for his brief appearance in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Al Pacino | Credit: Embajada de Eeuu en la Argentina/Cca 2.0/Wikimedia Commons

The actor recently shared insight into his appearance in the role of a talent agent Marvin Schwarz, in his new memoir, Sonny Boy, stating that his scene with Leonardo DiCaprio was originally much longer but was shortened in the final version of the film.

Al Pacino Revealed His Cut Scene With Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

In his recently released memoir, Sonny Boy, Al Pacino reflected on his brief appearance alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar-winning...

Good Morning America welcomed award-winning actor Samuel L. Jackson to the studio for a sit-down interview.

On GMA, he spoke about his upcoming film, The Piano Lesson, based on the August Wilson play.

Jackson initially starred in the Broadway show in 1987 and returned to star last year.

His acting career spans 50 years, as many moviegoers recognize him from a role somewhere on stage or screen.

Following his initial Broadway appearance in The Piano Lesson, he starred in many popular films, including Pulp Fiction, Snakes on a Plane, Shaft, Jackie Brown, A Time to Kill, and the Star Wars prequel trilogy.

While discussing some of his famous movie roles and lines on GMA, Robin called out the actor during the conversation.

Robin Roberts warns Samuel L. Jackson during their GMA interview

GMA’s trio of anchors appeared for the Samuel L. Jackson interview, including recent grandpa Michael Strahan, George Stephanopoulos, and Robin Roberts.

Fox Entertainment has unveiled plans for an upcoming drama series called “Billionaire Apocalypse.” The show will explore themes of wealth inequality and social responsibility. It was created by Jay Carson, known for his work on “The Morning Show.”

“Billionaire Apocalypse” will follow the richest man in the world after a financial crisis causes his wealth to disappear. With his money gone, he loses power and control over his employees and family. The series looks at how this affects the relationships of those who relied on his wealth.

Carson will write and produce the show. He has experience in both politics and entertainment. Previously, Carson worked as a spokesperson in the U.S. Senate and for President Bill Clinton. Later he produced “House of Cards” for Netflix and created “The Morning Show” for Apple TV+.

Hollywood star Hugh Jackman and veterans Lawrence Bender and Kevin Brown will also serve as executive producers.

Fox said late Sunday night that it is developing a drama series tentatively titled Billionaire Apocalypse that hails from The Morning Show creator Jay Carson and counts Hugh Jackman among its executive producers.

The drama, from Fox Entertainment Studios for the Fox network, is written and executive produced by Carson, creator and writer of Apple+’s Emmy-nominated Morning Show. Also serving as exec producers are Lawrence Bender (Flesh and Bone, Pulp Fiction) and Kevin Brown (Flesh and Bone, Trumbo).

The logline for the drama: “The richest man on the planet, 200 of his employees, and his family are forced to flee to his private island in the wake of a global financial collapse, where the employees and family members — who he’s treated as afterthoughts for decades — quickly realize he’s no longer rich and thus no longer in charge.”

The project, which has received a script commitment, is being distributed worldwide by Fox Entertainment Global.

The fourth annual Academy Museum Gala, which honored Quentin Tarantino, Paul Mescal and Rita Moreno, raised $11 million on Saturday night.

The evening’s program included John Travolta presenting the Luminary Award to Tarantino, who went onto to announce that he was donating his first handwritten draft of the script for “Pulp Fiction”to the museum. The evening closed with Ariana Grande introducing her “Wicked” co-star Cynthia Erivo, who performed a four-song set that included “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” from “The Wizard of Oz.”

Earlier in the evening, on the red carpet, Grande told Variety that she is “absolutely” interested in recording original music with Erivo. “I love being in the studio with her, even just as like a fly on the wall, hearing what she’s working on and having her there when I’m working,” she said. “I think we are stuck with each other, professionally and personally, for the rest of our lives.

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures held its fourth annual gala at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles on Saturday.

Honorees at this year’s gala were Academy Award-nominated actor Paul Mescal; Academy Award-winning actress, singer, and dancer Rita Moreno; and two-time Academy Award-winning and six-time Academy Award-nominated writer and director Quentin Tarantino.

A high wattage crowd turned out for the event, which highlighted the museum’s mission to advance the understanding, celebration and preservation of cinema and expand knowledge and conversation about film as a global art form and cultural force. Attendees included Selena Gomez, Kim Kardashian, Gal Gadot, Gabrielle Union, Dwyane Wade, Olivia Wilde, Greta Lee, Demi Moore, Mikey Madison, Drew Starkey, Sofia Richie Grainge, Taylor Zakhar Perez, Ayo Edebiri and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.

Following cocktails provided by Tequila Don Julio, gala co-chair Eva Longoria kicked off the evening, introducing director and president of the Academy Museum, Amy Homma,...

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One of the hardest parts of working in the film industry is the fact that your work, no matter how hard you've worked on it and/or how proud you are of it, can't move forward until you let other people pass judgment on it. That screenplay that you've poured every ounce of your creative energy into for months is finished, and now you've got to get notes from your friends, your agent, and anyone who might be interested in working on it. It's terrifying. And the situation gets more fraught when you're showing a cut of the film. You've been working with an editor to craft a compelling motion picture, and all that effort could come undone over two hours in a screening room.

When you've been through this, when you know how it feels to take a barrage of constructive criticism,...

Over the years, Quentin Tarantino has built quite a reputation for being an amazing filmmaker, screenwriter, and even actor. Although he will go down in history for his work on films like Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and more, those movies were not what should be considered his original cult classic hit. In fact, before Tarantino became a household name with his work, his passion for storytelling and a knack for writing sharp, gritty dialogue paved the way to success.

Quentin Tarantino | Image by Gage Skidmore, licensed under Cc By-sa 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Over the years, many fans have realized that the genesis of his career began with a story he sold to fund his debut film, Reservoir Dogs. This original cult hit was True Romance, a script that Tarantino wrote and sold, which became a stepping stone that enabled him to make his directorial debut.

The Quentin Tarantino script that...

What does "Pulp Fiction" have to do with low-budget horror movies? Well, the film's $8 million budget might seem like a fairly significant amount of money, but it's not the kind of figure you'd expect for a film starring Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, and Uma Thurman. Of course, at the time those actors weren't the bonafide megastars they'd become, or, in Travolta's case, king of the 0% Rotten Tomatoes score. Still, $8 million is more the kind of budget you'd expect for a mid-range horror movie, so it's impressive Quentin Tarantino managed to make $212 million from his off-beat postmodern pastiche.

That's not the only connection between "Pulp Fiction" and horror, either. Aside from the film's often striking depictions of violence, there's a surprising link between one of its stars and an ultra low-budget horror movie that debuted the same decade as Tarantino's film.

Bruce Willis made "Pulp Fiction" profitable before shooting even began,...

Image Source: Amazon It was 30 years ago that Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction opened in theaters, marking a big step forward in the filmmaker’s then-blossoming career and single-handedly reviving John Travolta’s then-flagging career. The movie was Tarantino’s baby all the way — he wrote the screenplay, directed it, and it was the first movie he also produced. (He even played a bit part in the film.) As with many of Tarantino’s films, Pulp Fiction defied categorization, blending genres both effortlessly and flippantly. In fact, while most critics thought of Pulp Fiction as a crime drama, Tarantino had other ideas. When we spoke to him at the time of the film’s release, he viewed the film primarily as a comedy! (Click on the media bar below to hear Quentin Tarantino) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Quentin_Tarintino_Pulp_Fiction_Comedy_.mp3 Pulp Fiction is currently streaming on Paramount+ and Prime Video,...

As ill-fated coffee shop burglar Pumpkin in Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction,” Tim Roth knows the truth about a privileged piece of movie mythology.

“We tend to know only as much as [our character] would know, but one thing that I do know because my character would know, which is what’s in the suitcase,” Roth reveals. “But Quentin asked me not to mention it.”

In a film full of mysteries, the contents of that sacred object remain among the biggest. But even without Jules Winnfield’s 9mm pistol pointed at his head, Roth is kind enough to volunteer an answer that, though perhaps slightly disappointing, is at least factually accurate. “I remember him saying that the answer if they ask you was, ‘A battery and a lamp’.”

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of “Pulp Fiction,” Variety spoke with more than 20 members of the film’s cast and crew about their experiences,...

Everyone knows that "Pulp Fiction," Quentin Tarantino's beloved, acclaimed 1994 ensemble film, is told across a scattered, non-linear narrative where the stories end up linking together in wholly unexpected ways. But apparently, the original idea was quite different.

In a sprawling oral history of the film in Variety commemorating the movie's 30th anniversary, Roger Avary, who co-wrote the story with Tarantino, said there was initially a totally different format for the project. "The original idea for 'Pulp Fiction' was, we're going to make three short films with three different filmmakers. I'm going to make one, Quentin's going to make one and we hit a pal, Adam Rifkin, who was going to make one. I wrote a script called 'Pandemonium Reigns,' and along the way, my little short film expanded into a feature-length script. 'Reservoir Dogs' expanded into a feature-length script. Adam just never wrote his, and 'Pulp...

Happy 30th to Pulp Fiction. Quentin Tarantino made a grand entrance with Reservoir Dogs, but it was 1994’s Pulp Fiction that solidified him as the director to watch with his unique brand of intermingling stories and 70s-inspired aesthetics. For the 30th anniversary, Pulp Fiction is returning to the silver screen in October for special presentations featuring pristine new 35mm prints in select theatres across the U.S. In addition, the film will be released on 4K Ultra HD in a 30th Anniversary Collector’s Edition on December 3, 2024, from Paramount Home Entertainment.

Pulp Fiction was such a milestone that not only did it catapult Tarantino’s career immensely, but the film would also become the comeback for John Travolta and it would be the breakout for Samuel L. Jackson. He would be a standout early on in the film with a Bible verse monologue right before executing an unlucky individual. Jackson...

John Travolta has paid tribute to ‘Pulp Fiction’ for giving him "a second chance at a high-end career" in Hollywood.The 70-year-old actor starred as gangster Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 picture and has thanked the film for being "a next-level, upper echelon opportunity" that revived his career after a lean period following his 1970s success in 'Grease' and 'Saturday Night Fever'.In a retrospective look back at the flick in celebration of its 30th anniversary, Travolta told Variety: "The last success [I’d had] before ‘Pulp Fiction’ was the ‘Look Who’s Talking’ films, so getting the ‘Pulp’ offer was certainly a next-level, upper echelon opportunity more along the lines of the Oscar nomination-type performance of ‘Saturday Night Fever’ and ‘Blow Out’ integrity."I was one of his [Tarantino’s] favorite actors growing up on ‘Welcome Back Kotter’, ‘Saturday Night Fever’, ‘Grease’ and ‘Blow Out’, and he wanted to work with me.

Samuel L. Jackson recently remembered and recited a memorable monologue from the 1994 cult classic film “Pulp Fiction.” In a video posted to social media, Jackson casually sits on a couch and flawlessly delivers Jules Winnfield’s chilling speech from the Bible passage Ezekiel 25:17.

Released 30 years ago, “Pulp Fiction” tells intertwining crime stories set in Los Angeles. Quentin Tarantino’s directing earned widespread acclaim and seven Academy Award nominations. Jackson played Jules, a philosophical hitman, in an unforgettable performance. In a pivotal scene, Jules uses the biblical verse as a pre-execution ritual.

Jackson’s video commemorates the film’s 30th anniversary this year. Without pausing, he precisely speaks the entire monologue with the same intensity and dramatic flair seen in 1994. Fans were amazed that Jackson, at age 73, could still remember and deliver such a long speech from memory. His performance underscores how deeply the character and scene affected both viewers and his own career.

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A new retrospective focused on Quentin Tarantino's masterpiece "Pulp Fiction" in Variety revealed the that notorious — and disgraced — producer Harvey Weinstein had a very clear idea regarding the film's casting, and he was ultimately overruled.

Journalist Todd Gilchrist spoke to a ton of people involved with the Oscar-winning film and learned, through executive producer Danny DeVito, executive producer Michael Shamberg, and producer Lawrence Bender, that Weinstein really wanted Daniel Day-Lewis to play Vincent Vega, the role that ultimately went to John Travolta. DeVito had an overall development deal at TriStar Pictures and got final cut on his projects there. As he recalled, he spoke to Weinstein, who insisted that Day-Lewis — who had just won his Academy Award for "My Left Foot — play Vincent.

"I said, 'The director wants John Travolta,'" DeVito told Gilchrist. "I told this kid I've got final cut,...