Daniel Craig Out, Tom Hiddleston In As James Bond?
Tom Hiddleston is used to flashy fight sequences. In the three Marvel movies he"s made (and the fourth one that will shoot this summer), these elaborately choreographed scenes are staged in front of green screens. We may panic watching Loki dangle from the side of the rainbow bridge in Asgard, but obviously no children, small animals or hunky Internet boyfriends were harmed in the making of the "Thor" films.
Hiddleston"s latest movie, "High-Rise," is far less action-driven,and perhaps that"s why the movie"s fight scene was far more dangerous. Or at least he was worried it would be.
HIddleston plays Dr. Robert Laing, a 1970s pathologist who moves into a chic, full-service London apartment tower seized by a dystopian class structure.In the 40-story building, the privileged reside in the top half, while the underclass is relegated to the bottom floors. The besuited Laing moves to the 25th story following the death of his wife, and he is quickly invited to opulent parties thrown in the owner"s penthouse. After a power outage, resources dwindle and a surreal tribe warfare breaks out. From there, the movie -- based on J.G. Ballard"s novel and directed by Ben Wheatley -- gets pretty bonkers.
None of it is as adrenaline-inducing as Hiddleston"s superhero work, but that"s precisely why the 35-year-old Brit had to apologize in advance to a stuntman in case he inadvertently clocked him. The scene in question is a raid at the high-rise"s in-house supermarket, where supplies have grown scarce. A brawl erupts.
"The raid ... was very, very chaotic," Hiddleston said. "I shook hands with a stuntman who I knew was going to play somebody involved in a fight with me. Ben had said, "I dont want this to look like a superhero fight," and he said that as a huge fan of superhero films. He said, "I dont want this to look choreographed so that it has kinetic action. ... Do what you need to do, warm up, plan whatever you need to plan.""
Wheatley shot the scene with handheld cameras so as not to need unnecessary cuts in the editing room, meaning the action was captured continuously. He offered for Hiddleston to wear pads for protection, but the actor"s "transparent" white dress shirt didn"t allow it.
"But the stuntman was padded up," Hiddleston said. "We just shook hands and we were on a parquet floor, and we just rolled around. We warmed up a bit and we looked at each other and I said, "I apologize in advance if I accidentally clip you on the ear.""
Both men made it out unscathed, and Hiddleston called the experience of staging a fight sequence on the fly "refreshing." Now he"s off to the end days of Ragnark, where the character stakes are high but the actors" physical risks, if all goes well, are relatively low. (No offense to Robert Downey Jr., of course.)
"High-Rise" is now in limited released and available on-demand. It also stars Elisabeth Moss, Sienna Miller,Jeremy Irons, Luke Evans and James Purefoy.
Apparently, this Facebook Live video of a woman laughing in an electronic Chewbacca mask that she bought at Kohls is now the most-watched Facebook Live video in the short history of Facebook Live videos.
We must admit, it is pretty funny and we understand why it has over 55 million views as of this post.Check it out(Fast-forward to 2:00 when she puts it on):
For comparison purposes, the video from BuzzFeed imploding a watermelon had only about 10.7 million views to date.
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Tom Hiddleston talks about his early inspirations to become a movie star, including his love of the Indiana Jones films.
Hollywood superstar Tom Hiddleston"s love of movies began when as a child he pretended to be Indiana Jones.
The actor, 35, is now one of the world"s most in demand stars, as he plays villainous Loki in the Marvel superhero movies and is British bookmakers" favourite to replace Daniel Craig as James Bond.
However, Tom admits that as a child there was one part he especially wanted - Harrison Ford"s role as adventure loving archaeologist Indiana Jones.
"I spent my childhood running around my parents" living room pretending to be Harrison Ford on a horse, wearing a hat, with the Indiana Jones theme tune playing in the background," he tells Britain"s Daily Mail newspaper.
But with Harrison still going strong in the role aged 73 - with a fifth Indiana Jones movie featuring the movie veteran being announced by Disney bosses in March (16), he may have to settle for his role as G*d-like mischief-maker Loki.
And Tom, who will return as Loki next year in Thor: Ragnarok, says that when he got a little older, it was villainous characters who he loved seeing on screen, adding, "When I was a teenager I loved watching Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die Hard or Jack Nicholson as The Joker in Batman."
The movie hunk"s early acting career was mostly spent on stage, although he did not always seem destined to be the star. He admits that when at prestigious British independent educational establishment Eton, he was upstaged in school productions by another schoolmate who would go on to great things, Eddie Redmayne.
"Eddie and I are very good friends still," he explains. "We"ve actually been fellow actors for 20 years now. There was a production of E.M. Forster"s A Passage To India at school. I had a small part in the chorus and he had one of the leading roles, and one of my jobs was to play the right leg of an elephant he was riding on, which I still remind him of!"
The big break that would eventually take Tom to Hollywood came when Kenneth Branagh, who would go on to direct the first Thor film, saw him in a production of the William Shakespeare play Othello.
"I was in a production of Othello and Ken Branagh, being the Shakespearean he is, came to see it," the British star says. "He said he"d like to work with me, so we did a radio play, and then a Chekhov play in the West End, and then he cast me to play his number two in the TV series Wallander.
"When I first came to Los Angeles, I was auditioning for everything, big movies, small movies, superhero movies," he adds. "Ken cast me as Loki in Thor. Bizarrely enough, Joss Whedon (The Avengers director), who had also seen that Othello production, had loved it so much that he wrote me a very good part for Loki in The Avengers."
Tom"s latest film, a biopic of American musician Hank Williams was released in the U.S. in April (16), and opened in U.K. cinemas earlier this month (May16).
The Meddler Movie CLIP - Valentine"s Day (2016) - Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne Movie HD
By Alexandra Corradetti | acorradetti@wcia.com
Published 05/20 2016 10:33AM
Updated 05/20 2016 10:52AM
CHAMPAIGN
The Meddler
An aging widow (Susan Sarandon) from New Jersey follows her daughter (Rose Byrne) to Los Angeles in the hopes of starting a new life after her husband passes away. Filled with the best of intentions, Director Lorene Scafaria, based the film on her experiences after her father passed away. The result is a sometimes effective look at the blurring of boundaries between family members that may be born of the best of intentions but wind up being intrusive. In the end this is a hit-or-miss affair. 2 stars (Chuck Koplinski) Rated PG-13. 100 minutes.
The Nice Guys
A mismatched pair of private eyes (Russell Crowe & Ryan Gosling) investigate the apparent suicide of a fading p**n star in 1970"s Los Angeles. The humor and chemistry between Crowe and Gosling is an unexpected delight, while the film"s mystery and its solution prove intriguing and satisfying. Unfortunately, the presence of a young character who"s perpetually in danger breaks the spell the cast and Director Shane Black labor so hard to create, preventing the film from reaching its full potential. 2 stars (Chuck Koplinski) Rated R. 116 minutes.
Neighbors 2
After a sorority moves in next door, which is even more raucous than the fraternity before it, Mac and Kelly (Seth Rogan & Rose Byrne) have to ask for help from their former enemy, Teddy (Zac Efron). There"s nothing new here as this film. Much like its predecessor, is filled with great ideas that aren"t developed to their full potential. In the end, this is simply a lazy movie. 2 stars (Chuck Koplinski) Rated R. 92 minutes.
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John Berry, founding member of Beastie Boys, dead at 52
2. The passing of Beastie Boys Member
Guitarist John Berry, an original member of the Beastie Boys passed away in hospice in Massachusetts yesterday morning. Although he was only with the Beastie Boys from 1981-82, he is credited with giving the group its name. He played on the first EP Polly Wog Stew and was later replaced by Ad-Rock. He was 52.
3. Eagles of Death Metal pulled from festivals over terrorism comments
EODM has been dropped from two French music festivals after singer Jesse Hughes released comments suggesting his security staff were involved in theNovember 13 Paris attacks at Le Bataclan.In an interview with Takis Magazine, singer Jesse Hughes said, I saw Muslims celebrating in the street during the attack. I saw it with my own eyes. In real time! How did they know what was going on? There must have been coordination.
President Obama Speaks at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner
CAIRO - The White House says it"s too early to say definitively what caused an EgyptAir flight to crash into the Mediterranean Sea.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest says investigators will consider all factors and possibilities. He says nothing has been ruled in or out. Earnest says the U.S. is ready to help with the investigation and that the U.S. Navy is working to deploy a P-3 Orion aircraft in the search.
The White House says President Barack Obama is getting multiple updates about the crash. Earnest says the president is sending his prayers to families of those on the place. Earnest says U.S. national security and aviation experts are in contact with their counterparts in France and Egypt to offer assistance.
8:58 update: EgyptAir crash deemed "more likely" terror act than tech failure.
Greek official says that a search plane has located two orange items believed to be from the plane.
Law enforcement sources say the FBI will offer assistance to investigators in the EgyptAir incident.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------6:22 update: French and Egyptian officials say that EgyptAir flight 804 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea.
The Greek defense minister says that EgyptAir flight 804 made abrupt turns and suddenly lost altitude.
Officials say the plane fell 22,000 feet then spun sharply before it disappeared.
The flight left Paris at 11:09 p.m. local time and lost contact at 2:30 a.m.3:15 a.m. was the expected arrival into the Cairo airport.
French President Francois Hollande says that "No hypothesis ruled out" on plane"s disappearance and crash.
Officials say no Americans were on board. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
EgyptAir says an Airbus A320 carrying 56 passengers and 10 crew members has disappeared from radar.
The airline says Flight 804 from Paris to Cairo vanished 2:45 a.m. Thursday, Egypt time, 10 miles after it entered Egyptian air space.
A spokesman for the Egyptian civil aviation agency tells SkyNews Arabia that the plane most likely crashed into the sea.
Morley Safer"s 2001 CNN interview (Larry King Live official Interview)
In his 1990 interview with Terry Gross, Safer discussed his groundbreaking coverage of the war in Vietnam. He died Thursday at 84.
DAVE DAVIES, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. Morley Safer, the CBS correspondent known for decades of work on the Sunday news magazine "60 Minutes" died of pneumonia yesterday at his home in New York. He was 84. Safer won a host of awards, including Emmys, Peabodys and a George Polk Award. Terry interviewed him in 1990.
Safer"s reporting ranged far beyond "60 Minutes." He covered wars in the Middle East, the conflict in Northern Ireland, the Cultural Revolution in China, the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia and most significantly the war in Vietnam. He was known for his compelling stories from Vietnam of American troops in combat and the impact of the war on civilians.
Safer"s report of Marines burning Vietnamese huts while weeping villagers begged them to stop so infuriated President Johnson that he wanted Safer fired and had him investigated as a potential communist. Let"s start with an excerpt of that 1965 report from Vietnam.
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MORLEY SAFER: If there were Viet Cong in the hamlets, they were long gone, alerted by the roar of the amphibious tractors and the heavy barrage of rocket fire laid down before the troops moved in. The women and the old men who remained will never forget that August afternoon.
Today"s operation is the frustration of Vietnam in miniature. There"s little doubt that American firepower can win a military victory here. But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home is a - means a lifetime of backbreaking labor, it will take more than presidential promises to convince him that we are on his side.
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TERRY GROSS, BYLINE: Can you describe what the mission was?
SAFER: The mission was not an extraordinary one. I had been up in Danang, which was the - where the headquarters of the Marines were. The Marines were responsible in Vietnam for something called I Corps. It"s the military way of saying first corps. And I had arrived back up in Danang - I used to go up there every couple of weeks - and went out from the press center and checked in with various battalions to find out whether they had operations going on.
And one group said they had an operation going on the next morning. Would I like to come? And I said, yes, I would. And the cameraman, Ha Thuc Can, and I and a young man named Tin (ph), who was a soundman, arrived at - oh, I don"t know - 5:30, 6 in the morning. And off we went in some amphibious track vehicles.
And along the way, a young officer told me they were going to in effect burn out a group of hamlets called Cam Ne, and I said why? And he said because the head honcho, the head Vietnamese honcho who was, I guess, the - would"ve been the district chief - had ordered. And I found this hard to believe because as brutal as search and destroy operations often were, at least in theory, they were not designed to level a place. I mean, if you receive fire, if there was fighting, that might"ve been the end result.
But we moved into this village. There was - they laid down a full array of what they call prepping it - rockets and some artillery and very heavy small arms fire - with very little return fire seemed to be coming out of the place. And then the Marines moved in and proceeded to burn the village down with everything from flamethrowers to cigarette lighters. And this wasn"t an atrocity. You can"t make any comparison with anything that happened in Germany or something like My Lai. This is quite a different kind of thing. But nevertheless, people were in shock to have seen on their television screens this kind of action by their boys.
GROSS: After your report from Cam Ne, you laid awake all night with a gun - a loaded gun. What were you afraid of? What were you expecting?
SAFER: Well, after sending that piece in, we left and went back to Saigon. And the following day - you must remember, Terry, I was younger - the following day I got a call from the Marines in Danang saying if I ever showed my face there again, they would not be responsible for what happened to me. And I said, well, you"ve never been responsible for what happens to me. What do you mean by that? Is this a threat? We just want to tell you show your face around here and something is going to happen. So I went to Ha Thuc Can, and I said, listen, I"m not going to tell you you got to come up -back up there, but I"m going up. Do you want to come to see this thing through? So Can and I went back to
GROSS: This is your cameraman.
SAFER: Yeah. Back to Danang and we had a little - the Marines ran something called a press center. It was like a motel there, and each of the networks and a couple of the papers had permanent rooms there. It"s the only time I carried a gun. And I went into the sort of bar dining room and had my dinner alone with Ha Thuc Can. Nobody would join us except for the Air Force officer who hated the Marines because he was in the Air Force.
And at about 8 or 9 o"clock, I got up, and there were a lot of cracks coming from the bar and pretty rough stuff. And I pointed to my bag, and I said there"s a gun in here. Anybody comes through that door, I"m just going to blow them away. I"m not going to ask any questions. You know, tough guy.
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SAFER: I"ve seen too many movies or something. And I was scared stiff and kind of - I went back, and we got into our bunks. And I locked the door, and I sat there trying to - lay in bed trying to read. And I had this pistol on the night table, and I had the safety on and then I had the safety off. And I thought better leave the safety on because I roll over in the middle of the night, and I shoot my foot off or something. So I put the safety on. And I lay awake all night scared as h**l that somebody might actually come through the door.
And I knew I wouldn"t do anything. I just don"t think I could fire a pistol at someone - or at something for that matter. Anyway, it was - tempers cooled - I"ll put it that way. And my relationship with the Marine Corps now is very good.
DAVIES: Morley Safer speaking with Terry Gross in 1990. Safer died yesterday in New York. He was 84.
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DAVIES: On Monday"s show, Rabbi Susan Silverman, sister of comedian Sarah Silverman. After giving birth to two daughters, she and her husband adopted two boys from Ethiopia. She"s become an advocate for international adoption which has been in decline, and she"s the author of the new book "Casting Lots: Creating A Family In A Beautiful, Broken World." I hope you can join us.
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