Baz Luhrman
Director Baz Luhrmann was forced to get three stitches to his head after bumping into a camera crane on the set of The Great Gatsby, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
The Moulin Rouge filmmaker was directing a scene at the time. ''We were on quite a cramped set and he was ducking under the crane," co-producer Anton Monsted told the newspaper. "He struck his head on the...
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Cliff Robertson
Cliff Robertson, who won an Oscar for playing mentally disabled man in the 1968 film Charly and later played Ben Parker in the Spider-Man films, has died. He was 88.
Robertson died of natural causes on Saturday in Long Island, one day after his 88th birthday, Evelyn Christel, Robertson's secretary for 53 years, told The Associated Press.
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Besides his Oscar-winning role in Charly — which was adapted from Daniel Keyes' short novel, Flowers for Algernon, and told the story of a mentally disabled man who becomes a genius after medical treatment — Robertson is also remembered for playing President John F. Kennedy in 1963's PT-109. The film...
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Andrew Garfield
Stop us if you've heard this one before: A teenage outcast who lives with his aunt and uncle in New York gets bitten by some radioactive spider and develops the abilities to climb tall buildings, spin webs and swing from skyscraper to skyscraper.
However, unlike 2001's Spider-Man starring Tobey Maguire, 2012's The Amazing Spider-Man shows a decidedly more...
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Tobey Maguire
Tobey Maguire is slipping into something more comfortable: Prada.
The 35-year-old actor can now add "model" to his resume, as he's appearing in the fashion label's fall/winter ad campaign, which was shot by photographer David Sims, according to The Hollywood Reporter...
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Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth
Reese Witherspoon and Hollywood agent Jim Toth tied the knot, People reports.
The private ceremony took place Saturday at Witherspoon's Ojai, Calif., ranch. The guest list included Renée Zellweger, Salma Hayek, Sean Penn...
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Andrew Garfield
Unknown actor Andrew Garfield will swing into the role of Spider-Man in the reboot of the successful comic book franchise, Sony Pictures announced Thursday.
Garfield will bring Peter Parker, and his crime-fighting alter ego Spider-Man, back to high school in a new 3-D film set to hit theaters on July 3, 2012. Sony Pictures decided to return to Parker's teenage years after the studio passed on...
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Spiderman
Spider-Man is about to face his biggest obstacle yet: high school.
The film franchise is getting a reboot to focus on Peter Parker's teenage years, Columbia Pictures and Marvel Pictures announced Monday.
The as-yet-untitled film — written by James Vanderbilt, who wrote the screenplay to 2007's serial-killer drama Zodiac — is tentatively set for a summer 201...
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Spider-Man
Spider-Man 4 hasn't even been filmed yet, but Sony is already looking ahead to the fifth and sixth installments in the franchise.
The studio has recruited James Vanderbilt to pen Spider-Man 5 and Spider-Man 6, which have an interconnected storyline, Variety reports. Vanderbilt wrote the screenplay to 2007's serial-killer drama Zodiac.
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Vanderbilt was the first writer on Spider-Man 4, but the script has since seen two rewrites because ...
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Jennifer Meyer and Tobey Maguire
Break out a Spider-Man Onesie: Tobey Maguire and his wife, jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer, welcomed their second child, a baby boy, on Friday.
"I can confirm the Maguires ...
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Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man 3 courtesy Columbia Pictures
Provided that taut Tobey Maguire doesnt go to pot or unless he is recast with like Jake Gyllenhaal or Vincent Chase Spider-Man 4 is a go and being eyed for a May 2011 release date Nobodys signed anything on any dotted lines and I dont think theres an actual script yet but as we all know [thats just a detail] The Closers JK Simmons aka J Jonah Jameson tells us In films they work backwards They announce that Spider-Man 4 will open on say Memorial Day 2011 they start the marketing campaign from there and at some point theyll write and cast the movieAside from Maguires involvement and the matter of a director Maybe Sam [Raimi] will direct again Simmons muses the big question surrounds No 4s No 1 baddie My vote goes to Lizard Dylan Baker has played Dr Curt Connors twice in Parts 2 and 3 though some spec it could be Vulture too ugly I say or Kraven ditto Whats your take What villain do you want to see wailing on the wall-cr
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