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  • Ryan Reynolds taking ‘a little sabbatical’ after wrapping ‘Spirited’

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds has announced that he has taken “a little sabbatical” from films following the wrap on the Apple TV Plus film “Spirited”.

    The 44-year-old actor shared the news in an Instagram post on Saturday, October 16, 2021.

    “Perfect time for a little sabbatical from movie making. I’m gonna miss every second working with this obscenely gifted group of creators and artists. These days, kindness matters as much as talent. I’ve been lucky to work with folks who are flush with both,” Reynolds wrote alongside a series of photos of him with cast and crew members on the Christmas-themed musical film.

    Directed by Sean Anders and John Morris, “Spirited” is the modern retelling of Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella “A Christmas Carol”.

    It also stars Will Ferrell and Octavia Spencer.

    Reynolds, who was most recently seen in “Free Guy”, said he had a great time working on the upcoming film.

    “Not sure I’d have been ready to say yes to a film this challenging even three years ago. Singing, dancing and playing in the sandbox with Will Ferrell made a whole lotta dreams come true. And this is my second film with the great @octaviaspencer…” he wrote.

    The actor will next be seen in the action comedy film “Red Notice”, which will be released on Netflix in November.

    It also stars Gal Gadot and Dwayne Johnson.

    Reynolds also has “The Adam Project”, a sci-fi movie, also scheduled to be released on the streamer early next year.

  • ‘Jungle Cruise’ ride is all about wish fulfillment: Dwayne Johnson

    By IANS

    NEW DELHI: Actor Dwayne Johnson, who will soon be seen in the adventure film ‘Jungle Cruise’, says that the actual ride from Disneyland has a ‘wish fulfilment’ factor attached to it.

    Disney’s ‘Jungle Cruise’ also stars Emily Blunt in the leading role. It is based on the popular Disneyland ride of the same name, where the skippers of the Jungle Cruise ride lead a humorously irreverent expedition, carrying passengers along four rivers: the Nile in Africa, the Amazon in South America, the Irrawaddy in Southeast Asia and the Ganges of India.

    Speaking on why he finds the Jungle Cruise fascinating, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson says: “People love the Jungle Cruise attraction because of its rich history and tradition. There’s a unique quality to Jungle Cruise that still feels as if it were fifty or sixty years ago. But that’s the charm of it. When you go around the world to some of these other parks, you see their iterations of Jungle Cruise that are just spectacular. I feel there’s a wish fulfilment factor for the audience that happens with the Jungle Cruise ride. That wish fulfilment, I believe, is the idea that you are being transported, and you are truly going on the adventure and ride of a lifetime.”

    The actor says that the team ensured that the charm of the actual Jungle Cruise ride was part of the film.

    “From the beginning, we wanted to ensure that every element of the Jungle Cruise attraction are in the movie. We’ve worked closely with the tremendously talented team of Disney Imagineers to make sure that we are servicing all these memorable moments and integrating them into this epic adventure. This is what makes this project so very special. It’s been years in the making to pay homage to this wonderful piece of Disneyland history and we’re very, very excited about making a great movie that honours and respects the Jungle Cruise ride,”says the actor.

    Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, ‘Jungle Cruise’ stars Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Edgar RamArez and Jack Whitehall, Jesse Plemons and Paul Giamatti. The movie is set to release on September 24 in Indian cinemas in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.

  • Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot to star in Netflix’s ‘Red Notice’

    By IANS

    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood stars Dywane Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot will be seen headlining streaming giant Netflix’s new movie titled ‘Red Notice’.

    Netflix officially released the teaser of the upcoming film ‘Red Notice’, which is written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. The film is slated to release on November 12.

    When an Interpol-issued Red Notice, the highest-level warrant to hunt and capture the world’s most wanted, goes out, the FBI’s top profiler John Hartley played by Dwayne Johnson is on the case.

    The film is produced by Beau Flynn for Flynn Picture Co, Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, and Hiram Garcia for Seven Bucks Productions and Rawson Marshall Thurber.

    The action comedy film marks the third collaboration between Johnson and Thurber after the 2016 film ‘Central Intelligence’ and ‘Skyscraper’.

  • Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt returning for ‘Jungle Cruise’ sequel

    By ANI

    WASHINGTON: Actors Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt are set to return for the second installment to Disney’s hit film ‘Jungle Cruise’, based on the theme park ride.

    As per Variety, Johnson and Blunt will be back for another adventure as the pun-obsessed riverboat captain Frank Wolff and the brave explorer Dr Lily Houghton, respectively. Director Jaume Collet-Serra is expected to return.

    Executive producer Scott Sheldon and producers John Davis, John Fox, Beau Flynn, Johnson, Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia are also expected to return for the upcoming sequel.

    Michael Green, who co-wrote ‘Jungle Cruise’ with Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, will write the second installment.

    ‘Jungle Cruise’ had released on July 30, both in theatres and on Disney Plus Premier Access, for an additional price tag of USD 30. In its opening weekend, it took in USD 34.2 million in ticket sales from theatres and USD 30 million from Disney Plus, the company reported.

    The film kept afloat at the box office, climbing its way to USD 100 million domestically after its fifth weekend. At the worldwide box office, its total is USD 187 million.

    The movie, which was in development for more than 15 years before finally making its way to the screen, is based on the popular Disneyland attraction, where it was one of the original rides when the theme park opened in 1955.

    ‘Jungle Cruise’ follows Dr Lily Houghton (Blunt) as she travels down the Amazon in search of a powerful ancient tree with the help of a skipper named Frank Wolff (Johnson). 

  • Ryan Reynolds confirms Disney wants ‘Free Guy’ sequel 

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds has revealed that Disney Studios has given a go-ahead to the sequel of his latest release “Free Guy”.

    The action comedy film, directed by Shawn Levy, released in the US theatres on Friday and registered a USD 10.5 million debut.

    The story centres on Guy (Reynolds), a bank teller who discovers that he’s actually an NPC (non-player character) inside a brutal, open-world video game, subsequently deciding to become the hero of the story, by saving his friends from getting deleted by the game’s creator.

    Reynolds took to Twitter to share the update on the sequel.

    Aaaannnnd after 3 years messaging #FreeGuy as an original IP movie, Disney confirmed today they officially want a sequel.

    Woo hoo!! #irony. If it isn’t called, ‘Albuquerque Boiled Turkey’ we’ve failed,” the actor wrote.

    If it isn’t called, “Albuquerque Boiled Turkey” we’ve failed.
    — Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) August 14, 2021
    20th Century retweeted Reynolds’ post, while director Levy also shared it in a quote tweet, adding “Yuuuuuuuup.” 

    “Free Guy” is based on the script penned by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn.

    Actors Jodie Comer, Taika Waititi, Dwayne Johnson, John Krasinski, Hugh Jackman, Channing Tatum, Joe Keery, Tina Fey and Lil Rel Howery round out the cast.

  • Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt open up about working together in ‘Jungle Cruise’

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: Ahead of the release of ‘Jungle Cruise’, actors Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt shared their experience of working together in the film.

    For the unversed, Jaume Collet-Serra directorial ‘Jungle Cruise’ is based on Disney’s theme park ride of the same name.

    The story centres around a brother (Jack Whitehall) and sister (Blunt) duo, who hire a boat captain (Johnson) to row them down the Amazon river as they are in pursuit of a tree believed to have healing powers.

    Opening up on her chemistry with Johnson, Blunt said, “We lucked out, we genuinely got along and became best buds and it was easy peasy, it was just such a fun experience. But I think the script was so winning, the chemistry on the page was so winning and we had a really brilliant director who was very free-spirited and he left us to mess around and improv and stretch the scenes around so they just had this life. So if you didn’t have a director who was this open and confident in letting you play with it then you don’t have the same spirit. We got very lucky with Jaume.”

    Like Blunt, Johnson also praised director Jaume for executing everything in a perfect manner.

    “Jaume wants to build a world, he’s a world builder and he loves characters, he loves building a world and of all the elements Jungle Cruise brings Emily and I had asked him at the end of our first conversation what’s the movie about and he said ‘love.’ Of all the things, comedy and action and adventure and it came down to love so it was great,” he added.

    A few days ago, the film had its world premiere, wherein Johnson, also a producer of the movie, paid tribute to Walt Disney who opened the Anaheim park in July 1955 with the Jungle Cruise ride as one of its original attractions, reported Deadline.

    ‘Jungle Cruise’ will release in theatres soon.

  • Dwayne Johnson confirms he won’t be part of future ‘Fast and Furious’ movies

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: Hollywood star Dwayne Johnson has confirmed that he will not be appearing in any future ‘Fast and Furious’ movies while responding to comments made by his former co-star Vin Diesel.

    According to Fox News, Diesel had earlier claimed that he had to give some of his ‘Fast and Furious’ co-stars some “tough love,” to which Johnson “laughed” at.

    In an interview published on Wednesday by The Hollywood Reporter, Johnson said, “I laughed and I laughed hard. I think everyone had a laugh at that. And I’ll leave it at that. And that I’ve wished them well. I wish them well on ‘Fast 9.’ And I wish them the best of luck on ‘Fast 10’ and ‘Fast 11’ and the rest of the ‘Fast and Furious’ movies they do that will be without me.”

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    During an interview with a news outlet in June, Diesel had finally addressed the tension between him and Johnson, which reportedly began after the two stopped filming ‘The Fate of the Furious’ back in 2016.

    Diesel told the outlet, “It was a tough character to embody, the Hobbs character. My approach at the time was a lot of tough love to assist in getting that performance where it needed to be. As a producer to say, okay, we’re going to take Dwayne Johnson, who’s associated with wrestling, and we’re going to force this cinematic world, audience members, to regard his character as someone that they don’t know–Hobbs hits you like a ton of bricks.”

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    Speaking further on the subject, he added, “That’s something that I’m proud of, that aesthetic. That took a lot of work. We had to get there and sometimes, at that time, I could give a lot of tough love. Not Felliniesque, but I would do anything I’d have to do in order to get performances in anything I’m producing.”

    Diesel and Johnson’s feud had allegedly started after Johnson shared a post in which he called his male co-stars of the ‘Fast and Furious’ franchise “candy a–es.” Although Johnson never named Diesel specifically, it was rumoured that Johnson believed the actor was difficult to work with.

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  • Dwayne Johnson wraps filming for ‘Black Adam’

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Production on Dwayne Johnson-led DC anti-hero movie “Black Adam” has concluded, the Hollywood star said.

    Taking to Twitter, Johnson gave a shout out to the team of “Black Adam” and said shooting for the film was an “incredible journey”.

    “That a wrap on ‘Black Adam’. Incredible journey. Hardest undertaking of my entire career physically & mentally. Worth every second,” the Hollywood star tweeted on Friday.

    “Boundless gratitude to my 1,000+ crew members, actors and director, Jaume Collet-Serra. The hierarchy of power in DC Universe is changing,” he added.

    That a wrap on BLACK ADAMIncredible journey.Hardest undertaking of my entire career physically & mentally.Worth every second.Boundless gratitude to my 1,000+ crew members, actors and director, Jaume Collet-Serra.The hierarchy of power in DC Universe is changing.BA https://t.co/adjLrimOYS
    — Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) July 16, 2021

    “Black Adam” is a spin-off from Warner Bros and New Line Cinema’s “Shazam!”, featuring Zachary Levi.

    The character first appeared in DC Comics in the 1940s as a villain corrupted by power.

    He became an anti-hero in the early 2000s.

    Jaume Collet-Serra, who has directed Johnson in the upcoming “Jungle Cruise”, has directed “Black Adam”.

    The movie also features Aldis Hodge as Hawkman, Noah Centineo as Atom Smasher, Quintessa Swindell as Cyclone, and Pierce Brosnan as Dr Fate.

    Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani wrote the latest draft of the script, from a previous draft by Adam Sztykiel.

    Johnson has also produced the movie with Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia via their Seven Bucks Productions, and Beau Flynn through FlynnPictureCo.

  • ‘Red Notice’ starring Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds to release on Nov 12 on Netflix 

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Netflix’s upcoming action feature “Red Notice”, starring Hollywood stars Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds, will premiere globally on November 12, 2021.

    The streamer shared the news of the film’s release date in a post on Instagram.

    “You’ve been put on notice. The world’s number one profiler, art thief, and con, go head to head in ‘RED NOTICE’ on Netflix globally November 12,” the post read.

    The film comes from writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber, who earlier worked with Johnson on movies like “Central Intelligence” and “Skyscrapper”.

    “Red Notice” features Johnson as the FBI’s top profiler, Gadot as the world’s most wanted art thief and Reynolds as the greatest conman the world has ever seen.

    They are all brought together for a daring heist that turns the world on its head.

    Johnson has produced the movie along with Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia through their banner Seven Bucks Productions.

    Thurber and Beau Flynn for FlynnPictureCo are other producers.

    “Red Notice” was earlier with Universal after the studio acquired the project as a pitch following a bidding battle, one where Netflix came in second.

    But after that Universal had second thoughts over the project as they found the movie to be too expensive.

    Netflix then stepped in and acquired the project from the studio.

  • Dwayne Johnson returns for DC’s Black Adam shoot; begins final week of production

    By Express News Service
    Actor Dwayne Johnson gave an update on the production of his upcoming DC comics adaptation, Black Adam. The Rampage-actor took to Instagram to share a picture from the film’s shooting spot. “Back to work. This is our final week of production for the filming of Black Adam,” wrote Johnson.

    Talking about his training process he added, “I can’t thank you guys enough for all your support. Truly. Grateful. From deep in my bones. Almost two years of hardcore, intense training, diet, character prep, and execution. You’ve been right there rockin’ with me all this time. And now it’s my turn and I hope to deliver the definitive antihero you deserve.”

    Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, Black Adam also features Noah Centineo, Aldis Hodge, and Sarah Shahi. The film is currently set to release on July 29, 2022. Meanwhile, Johnson also has Jungle Cruise, co-starring Emily Blunt, and Red Notice alongside Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds, in his pipeline. It was also recently announced that he will be voicing a character in the animated film, DC League of Super-Pets.