Salma Hayek Pinault Was Told She Was Too 'Sexy' For Comedy Until Adam Sandler's Grown Ups Came Along
As a producer, Adam Sandler has always managed to attract an impressive litany of talent. Although the films released through Sandler's studio, Happy Madison, regularly get terrible reviews, they tend to be very lucrative and high-profile actors keep coming back for more work. This may be because, as the rumor mill has it, Sandler is a relentlessly decent and kind human being that others love to work with. As such, Al Pacino can be seen in "Jack and Jill," Susan Sarandon appeared in "That's My Boy," and the likes of Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale, Jennifer Aniston, and Winona Ryder have all played Sandler's wife or love interest in his movies.
In Dennis Dugan's 2010 film "Grown Ups," Salma Hayek Pinault plays Roxanne, a successful fashion designer, and the wife of a talent agent named Lenny (Sandler). "Grown Ups" is about how Lenny is still very close with the circle of...
In Dennis Dugan's 2010 film "Grown Ups," Salma Hayek Pinault plays Roxanne, a successful fashion designer, and the wife of a talent agent named Lenny (Sandler). "Grown Ups" is about how Lenny is still very close with the circle of...
- 2/7/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Exclusive: The Good Fight’s Audra McDonald is among a number of stars to have joined The Gilded Age, Julian Fellowes’ period drama for HBO.
McDonald, who is also set to star in MGM’s Aretha Franklin biopic Respect, joins as a special guest star.
A slew of Broadway stars added as major recurring guest stars. They include The King and I’s Kelli O’Hara, Hello, Dolly!’s Donna Murphy, who is also in Starz’ Power, Fun Home’s Michael Cerveris, who also starred in Netflix’s Mindhunter, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof’s Debra Monk, Promises Promises’ Katie Finneran, who was also in CBS All Access’ Why Women Kill, To Kill A Mockinbird’s Celia Keenan-Bolger, Gary’s Kristine Nielsen and King Lear’s John Douglas Thompson.
They join series regulars stars Christine Baranski, Carrie Coon, Cynthia Nixon, Morgan Spector, Denée Benton, Louisa Jacobson, Taissa Farmiga, Blake Ritson,...
McDonald, who is also set to star in MGM’s Aretha Franklin biopic Respect, joins as a special guest star.
A slew of Broadway stars added as major recurring guest stars. They include The King and I’s Kelli O’Hara, Hello, Dolly!’s Donna Murphy, who is also in Starz’ Power, Fun Home’s Michael Cerveris, who also starred in Netflix’s Mindhunter, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof’s Debra Monk, Promises Promises’ Katie Finneran, who was also in CBS All Access’ Why Women Kill, To Kill A Mockinbird’s Celia Keenan-Bolger, Gary’s Kristine Nielsen and King Lear’s John Douglas Thompson.
They join series regulars stars Christine Baranski, Carrie Coon, Cynthia Nixon, Morgan Spector, Denée Benton, Louisa Jacobson, Taissa Farmiga, Blake Ritson,...
- 11/13/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Gary Oldman won the Oscar for Best Actor thanks to his performance in “Darkest Hour,” in which he played Winston Churchill by undergoing a physical transformation that included a fat suit and facial prosthetics. Throughout his career, from “Darkest Hour” to “Dracula” and the “Harry Potter” franchise, Oldman has often relied on hair and makeup to transform into his characters, which is why the upcoming biographical drama “Mank” presented such an odd challenge for the star.
As Oldman tells Empire magazine, “Mank” director David Fincher had one request for him when he was cast: “Gary au naturel.”
“I thought, ‘Oh, fucking hell!’,” Oldman said, revealing some nerves he had over playing a real-life figure without help from hair and makeup. “I can’t remember the last time I did that. I’ve always got something! I was thinking, ‘I don’t know about that.’ I don’t look anything like Mank.
As Oldman tells Empire magazine, “Mank” director David Fincher had one request for him when he was cast: “Gary au naturel.”
“I thought, ‘Oh, fucking hell!’,” Oldman said, revealing some nerves he had over playing a real-life figure without help from hair and makeup. “I can’t remember the last time I did that. I’ve always got something! I was thinking, ‘I don’t know about that.’ I don’t look anything like Mank.
- 9/29/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The Criterion Channel’s stellar offerings are continuing next month with a selection of new releases, retrospective, series, and more. Leading the pack is, of course, a horror lineup perfectly timed for Halloween, featuring ’70s classics and underseen gems, including Abel Ferrara’s The Driller Killer (pictured above), Tobe Hopper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, early films by David Cronenberg, Wes Craven, and Brian De Palma, Bill Gunn’s Ganja & Hess, and more.
Also of note is a New Korean Cinema retrospective, featuring a new introduction by critic Grady Hendrix and a conversation between directors Bong Joon Ho and Park Chan-wook, whose Barking Dogs Never Bite, The Host, Mother, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, and Lady Vengeance are part of the lineup, as well as Lee Myung-se’s Nowhere to Hide, and more titles to be announced. Bong’s short Influenza will also arrive, paired with Michael Haneke’s Caché.
Also of note is a New Korean Cinema retrospective, featuring a new introduction by critic Grady Hendrix and a conversation between directors Bong Joon Ho and Park Chan-wook, whose Barking Dogs Never Bite, The Host, Mother, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, and Lady Vengeance are part of the lineup, as well as Lee Myung-se’s Nowhere to Hide, and more titles to be announced. Bong’s short Influenza will also arrive, paired with Michael Haneke’s Caché.
- 9/29/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week […]
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- 5/30/2020
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
This Legends of Tomorrow episode review contains spoilers.
Legends of Tomorrow: Season 5 Episode 13
There’s one, maybe two perfect episodes of Legends of Tomorrow a season, and “I Am Legends” is one of them. As the episode started to roll towards its climax, I became more and more surprised at what I was seeing, until just before the big final fight when I realized what they were about to pull off.
Legends of Tomorrow did the impossible: they made a zombie episode in a serialized superhero show that had meaningful stakes and an earned emotional payoff. And to be quite honest, the how of it is even more impressive. They did it by staring down the structural problem that makes those stakes so hard to impart on a story like this and instead, flipping it around.
Last week’s episode ended with Lachesis confronting Astra and bringing her back...
Legends of Tomorrow: Season 5 Episode 13
There’s one, maybe two perfect episodes of Legends of Tomorrow a season, and “I Am Legends” is one of them. As the episode started to roll towards its climax, I became more and more surprised at what I was seeing, until just before the big final fight when I realized what they were about to pull off.
Legends of Tomorrow did the impossible: they made a zombie episode in a serialized superhero show that had meaningful stakes and an earned emotional payoff. And to be quite honest, the how of it is even more impressive. They did it by staring down the structural problem that makes those stakes so hard to impart on a story like this and instead, flipping it around.
Last week’s episode ended with Lachesis confronting Astra and bringing her back...
- 5/20/2020
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
In one version of the world, Ethan Hawke and Owen Wilson could have had nearly identical careers.
Both Texas-born and vets of the Austin indie filmmaking scene of the mid-90s, the two actors have since floated through independent, art house, and mainstream projects to varying degrees of success. Hawke, for the most part, stayed indie while Wilson went big. They are the story of Generation-x: Former malcontents grasping for authenticity and fame in an industry that is designed to make those dual aspirations somewhat impossible.
When observed as a series of choices beginning in 1994, the careers of Hawke and...
Both Texas-born and vets of the Austin indie filmmaking scene of the mid-90s, the two actors have since floated through independent, art house, and mainstream projects to varying degrees of success. Hawke, for the most part, stayed indie while Wilson went big. They are the story of Generation-x: Former malcontents grasping for authenticity and fame in an industry that is designed to make those dual aspirations somewhat impossible.
When observed as a series of choices beginning in 1994, the careers of Hawke and...
- 6/9/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW.com - PopWatch
HollywoodNews.com: Um, remind me not to let my Sunday Los Angeles Times sit around unopened.
Was too busy to enjoy my Sunday ritual of coffee with the paper so it wasn’t until last night that I realized Hung star Thomas Jane had given this juicy interview about exploring his sexuality when he was younger.
The article covers the controversy the followed Thomas’s remarks that he would not allow his male prostitute character on the show to perform gay sex acts. Anyone who has ever seen the actor’s performance in The Velocity of Gary knows he’s not homophobic so I’m not going to rehash all that.
Here’s what I thought was most interesting – and revealing:
“Hey, you grow up as an artist in a big city, as James Dean said, you’re going to have one arm tied behind your back if you don...
Was too busy to enjoy my Sunday ritual of coffee with the paper so it wasn’t until last night that I realized Hung star Thomas Jane had given this juicy interview about exploring his sexuality when he was younger.
The article covers the controversy the followed Thomas’s remarks that he would not allow his male prostitute character on the show to perform gay sex acts. Anyone who has ever seen the actor’s performance in The Velocity of Gary knows he’s not homophobic so I’m not going to rehash all that.
Here’s what I thought was most interesting – and revealing:
“Hey, you grow up as an artist in a big city, as James Dean said, you’re going to have one arm tied behind your back if you don...
- 10/4/2011
- by Greg Hernandez
- Hollywoodnews.com
Remember when Thomas Jane was on Arrested Development as Thomas Jane, pretending to be homeless to more fully realize the role of a homeless man? And do you remember when he played a gay hustler in The Velocity of Gary? And do you remember how he plays a non-gay hustler on Hung? Well, here's some serious art-imitates-life shit for you, courtesy of Jane's interview with the Los Angeles Times. When asked about some controversial remarks he made about his character on Hung ("I told HBO, the year I end up with a penis in my mouth is the last year of the show") which some considered offensive, Jane said that he was talking about what he felt was right for the character, not his own views. When asked if he wanted to clarify his position any further, he said this: Well, here's your chance. [...]...
- 10/3/2011
- Nerve
HollywoodNews.com: Anyone who has ever seen Thomas Jane’s make-out scene with Vincent D’Onofrio in the film The Velocity of Gary knows that the Hung star is not afraid to take on a gay role.
But he raised a few eyebrows recently when he chatted with Vulture about his series Hung, and said: “I told HBO, the year I end up with a penis in my mouth is the last year of the show.”
Vulture caught up with Jane this week and he was eager to clarify things: “Of course, everything I said was meant in good humor, good fun. You know, I’m a fan of the gay community, just because I’ve grown up in Hollywood around them, I have family members who are gay, really good friends, co-workers, a lot of the writers on Hung are gay, so it’s amusing to think, obviously I...
But he raised a few eyebrows recently when he chatted with Vulture about his series Hung, and said: “I told HBO, the year I end up with a penis in my mouth is the last year of the show.”
Vulture caught up with Jane this week and he was eager to clarify things: “Of course, everything I said was meant in good humor, good fun. You know, I’m a fan of the gay community, just because I’ve grown up in Hollywood around them, I have family members who are gay, really good friends, co-workers, a lot of the writers on Hung are gay, so it’s amusing to think, obviously I...
- 9/18/2011
- by Greg Hernandez
- Hollywoodnews.com
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