Month: September 2024

4 Sep

Will Smith exits his role for the action flick Sugar Bandits

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Whispers around the Hollywood water cooler say Will Smith (Bad Boys, I Am Legend, Men in Black) is exiting his co-starring role for the forthcoming big-budget action film Sugar Bandits. According to Deadline, Smith’s production studio, Westbrook, remains a part of the project, which was supposed to begin filming soon but petered out because Smith became uncertain about his on-screen commitment.

People close to the situation say Will Smith is forfeiting his co-starring role due to scheduling conflicts. However, which endeavor stands in the way of his participation in Sugar Bandits remains to be seen. The plan is to recast Smith’s part and keep the film on track to shoot in 2025. Sugar Bandits is reportedly an $80 million production, with the project selling at EFM and Cannes to distributors and Amazon Prime. However, Smith’s name was attached to the deal and was the primary reason buyers forked over the cash. With Smith out of the picture, questions loom around the film’s appeal.

In Sugar Bandits, Smith was supposed to play a former special forces soldier who runs an elite vigilante squad working to crush the drug trade in Boston. Stefano Sollima (Without Remorse, Sicario: Day of the Soldado) directs Sugar Bandits from a script by Chuck Hogan (The Town, 13 Hours, The Strain).

While Smith took a break from the Hollywood spotlight after the infamous Oscars slap incident, his star began shining anew with the release of Bad Boys: Ride or Die. The $400M+ action blockbuster placed Smith back atop the Hollywood food chain, a welcomed (and predictable) comeback for the Fresh Prince of the Silver Screen. With Bad Boys: Ride or Die giving Smith the juice he needs to get back in the mix, a more enticing (and lucrative) project may have him stepping away from Sugar Bandits.

Who would you replace Will Smith with for Suagr Bandits? I’m sure there’s a winding line of actors ready and willing to pick up where Smith left off. Is Amazon muttering under its breath about Smith’s exit from the film? They signed on under the condition that he star in the movie, and now he’s leaving for unspecified reasons. Only time will tell how this situation shakes out.

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4 Sep

Winona Ryder says she and Keanu Reeves still text each other as husband and wife after accidentally getting married in Bram Stoker’s Dracula

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Winona Ryder is suiting up in the goth blacks again as she reprises her role as Lydia Deets in the upcoming sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Our EIC, Chris Bumbray, had a blast with the film, saying in his recent review, “In it, Burton is wise enough to play the hits to a certain extent, as it is not all that different from the original. Yet, by doing a movie that’s so deliberately old school, with practical effects, rude humor, and WAY more gore than you’d expect from a PG-13 movie, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice almost feels transgressive by how much it plays to the strengths of its director and cast, and discards the trappings of most modern blockbusters.”

The stars of the film are currently making the promotional rounds and Entertainment Weekly reports on Winona Ryder’s recent appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. During the interview, Ryder brings up the anecdote of her and Keanu Reeves filming their wedding scene in Francis Ford Coppola’s horror film Bram Stoker’s Dracula, where Coppola used a real Roman priest and they filmed the entire ceremony. Ryder jokes that she and Reeves may actually have been married. And she tells the podcast that both stars still text each other as husband and wife to this day.

Ryder explains, “We do text. We always say who it is, even though it says it on the text.” She brought up an instance where she texted to Reeves on his birthday, “I was like, ‘Happy birthday, my husband!’” She recalls his unorthodox way of responding, “He’s like, ‘Hey, wife! Love you! KR, 57,” she said. “On each birthday, he’s like, ‘KR, 57,’ or whatever his age is, and he’s always done that. He’s the best.” 

As Ryder works with Wednesday‘s Jenna Ortega, she would observe things about the younger generation that were hard to fathom, “I don’t mean to sound so hopeless. There are a few that are just not interested in movies. Like, the first thing they say is, ‘How long is it?’” Ryder pointed to social media leading to a decline in interest in art as a whole. “I just think that social media has changed everything, and I know I sound old. I’m very aware of that…But I just think there was such an abundance: the history of film, the history of photography, it’s so rich, and there’s so much there, and I don’t mean we should go backwards, but I wish and I hope that the younger generation will study that.”

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4 Sep

AEW Has A Chris Jericho Problem

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Typically, if a professional wrestler gets any reaction or heat from a crowd, be it booming applause as a heroic good guy/babyface or thunderous boos as the villainous bad guy/heel, they’re doing their job well. But occasionally, a professional wrestler gets reactions that verge on apathy. Such is the case in AEW…

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4 Sep

AEW Has A Chris Jericho Problem

By . Video Game No Comments

Typically, if a professional wrestler gets any reaction or heat from a crowd, be it booming applause as a heroic good guy/babyface or thunderous boos as the villainous bad guy/heel, they’re doing their job well. But occasionally, a professional wrestler gets reactions that verge on apathy. Such is the case in AEW…

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