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Corin Hardy to direct 'Gangs of London'
The Nun director Corin Hardy will direct a thriller series titled Gangs of London.
According to variety.com, the 43-year-old will direct three episodes of the show about warring gangs.
Hardy made his directorial debut in 2015 with The Hallow. His most recent feature, The Nun, broke franchise records in its September opening weekend, and landed at number one in the US and the international box office.
Being created by Gareth Evans and Matt Flannery, Gangs of London series will follow different gangs battling for control of the British capital's criminal underworld.
Jean-Marc Vallee on break from direction
Director Jean-Marc Vallee, who just received a timely career tribute at the Vancouver Film Festival, is on a break from direction for eight months.
"I burnt myself out. I'm so tired. I'm on a break, have been for a month, and I have seven more to go. I'm taking eight months to recharge my batteries and to get my life back," the 55-year-old told a leading online portal.
Valle helmed all of the episodes of the Big Little Lies last year, for which he won an Emmy as best director, and this year he shot the thriller series Sharp Objects.
He added, "It's a marathon, a Herculean effort for a director to direct all the episodes. I shot 180 days in 20 months, Big Little Lies and then Sharp Objects. They were overlapping."
Vallee said it wasn't his choice to become a workaholic since six years ago earning multiple Oscar nominations for Dallas Buyers Club.
"It just happened. And I've paid. I didn't go through a burnout, but I need the break I'm on now," he insisted.
Vallee's upcoming projects include Les Temps Magiques, the third of a film trilogy he did during the 1990s after Les Fleurs Magiquesand Les Mots Magiques, with the feature script already written.
Cheryl's new music to be '100 per cent personal'
Singer Cheryl says her new music will be "100 per cent personal" and will show fans her "vulnerability" following split with former One Direction star Liam Payne.
Cheryl is putting the finishing touches to her first solo album in four years.
In a chat with the Daily Star, her collaborator and super producer Naughty Boy said the "Fight For This Love" hitmaker had written songs from the heart and shown a different side of herself for the new album.
"It is 100 per cent personal and it's about time people got to know the real Cheryl," he said.
"I think when you are writing songs, there is a different vulnerability and that comes out through songwriting, so I am proud of her that she got more involved this time and not just as a singer. The lyrics really mean something to her - sometimes you have to put a bit of heart for people to see that there is a real struggle," he added.
He said becoming a mother to son Bear, 18 months, had changed the former Girls Aloud singer.
Payne and Cheryl, who have a 10-year age gap and first met when he auditioned for the X Factor at 14, confirmed reports that they were dating in February 2016, and they parted ways in July 2018.
Cheryl later kept fans guessing for months before confirming her pregnancy in the most public way - at a L'Oreal photoshoot, in which she posed in a close-fitting black dress and cradled her bump.
The couple confirmed the birth of son bear on Mother's Day 2017, posting identical Instagram posts of Payne cradling their newborn baby.
Ryan Reynolds trolls Blake Lively over risque image
Actor Ryan Reynolds has trolled his wife and actress Blake Lively on social media over a racy image.
Lively posted a risque image of herself on her Instagram account. The Gossip Girl star is seen standing over a nude man who offers her a carefully balanced cocktail glass, his legs akimbo, reports suggest so.
Lively's caption read: "My turn..."
Reynolds joked: "He seems nice."
The image is part of a campaign promoting the 31-year-old's latest film A Simple Favor in which Lively plays a career woman gone missing.
Beatles chief recording engineer Geoff Emerick dead
Geoff Emerick, the Beatles' chief recording engineer who worked on some of the bands most seminal albums, is dead. He was 72.
He suffered a heart attack, reports suggest so.
His manager William Zabaleta said in a statement, "Today at around 2'o'clock, I was making my way back from Arizona to Los Angeles to pick up Geoff, so we could transport some gold records and platinum plaques to our show in Tucson. While on the phone, he had complications and dropped the phone.
"I called 911, but by the time they got there, it was too late. Geoff suffered from heart problems for a long time and had a pacemaker... When it's your time it's your time. We lost a legend and a best friend to me and a mentor."
Emerick began working as an assistant engineer at Abbey Road at just 15 years old and just a few months in, was face-to-face with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in the London studio.
He apprenticed and later worked on such early Beatles' recordings as "Love Me Do", "I Want To Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You" and "A Hard Day's Night". Later becoming the band's chief engineer, he helmed "Revolver", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "The White Album" and "Abbey Road" as well as the dual-sided single "Penny Lane", "Strawberry Fields Forever."
Other than George Martin, Emerick was the behind-the-scenes brains that helped shape the Beatles sound. When John Lennon asked Emerick to make him sound like "the Dalai Lama singing on a mountain" for "Tomorrow Never Knows".
Emerick was a Grammy Award winner for his work on "Sgt. Pepper's" and "Abbey Road" as well as Paul McCartney and Wings' "Band on the Run".
Denny Laine, who was a member of Paul McCartney and Wings, tweeted upon hearing the news: "Geoff was a brilliant engineer and a fine man."
Janelle Monae joins Harriet Tubman biopic
Singer Janelle Monae is joining the cast of Harriet, a new biopic chronicling the life of Harriet Tubman.
It stars British actress Cynthia Erivo as the heroic abolitionist.
Monae also stars in the animated movie UglyDolls and is expected to perform original songs for the film, reports suggest so.
Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn, Jennifer Nettles, Clarke Peters, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Zackary Momoh, Deborah Ayorinde and Vondie Curtis-Hall round up the cast of Harriet.
Kasi Lemmons will direct a screenplay she co-wrote with Gregory Allen Howard. Harriet is set to begin filming this month in Virginia.
Tubman was born into slavery, escaped in 1849, and made more than a dozen missions to rescue about 70 slaves through the Underground Railroad. She served as a spy for the Union Army during the Civil War and campaigned for women's suffrage.
UglyDolls is an animated family adventure based on the beloved toy brand. In the adorably different town of Uglyville, the free-spirited Moxy and her UglyDolls pals confront what it means to be different, struggle with their desire to be loved, and ultimately discover that you don't have to be perfect to be worthy of love.
Noah Centineo joins 'Charlie's Angels'
To All the Boys I've Loved Before famed actor Noah Centineo, has landed a key role in the Charlies Angels reboot.
Elizabeth Banks is directing and starring as one of the Bosley characters. Patrick Stewart and Djimon Hounsou will play the other two Bosleys.
Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinska will portray the film's Angels. Jonathan Tucker, Sam Claflin, and Luis Gerardo Mendez are also on board.
Centineo, who was last seen in Netflix's movie Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, will be playing the love interest of one of the Angels.
The latest draft of the script is written by Jay Basu and Banks, based on earlier versions by Craig Mazin and Semi Chellas.
The film will focus on the next generation of Angels working for the mysterious Charlie. The Townsend Agency has grown considerably and gone global, providing security and intelligence services to a wide variety of private clients.
The movie hits theatre on 27 September 2019.
Mike Tyson loved chicken biryani, got sherwani in India
Former American boxing heavyweight champion Mike Tyson gorged on chicken biryani and took home a traditional sherwani, says celebrity bodyguard Shera.
Shera and Tiger Security Services were specially roped in to handle the security for Tyson, who was in Mumbai on his maiden visit to launch mixed martial arts league, Kumite 1 League.
Shera, who is known for guarding Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, said in a statement, "Tyson is such a modest and straightforward person. He has definitely eased up over the years but I admire his inspirational spirit and positive outlook.
"He seemed to admire the culture, cuisine and hospitality of the country. His favourite dish was chicken biryani and he did manage to take home a sherwani."
Tyson visited Mumbai and Agra.
"Though he visited Dharavi and Taj Mahal, he didn't indulge in any popular touristy activities as such. Since I was accompanying him, a lot of fans approached me in the hope that Salman Khan and Mike Tyson would be getting into the ring together for the league.
"Once you work with Salman Khan, handling any celebrity becomes a cakewalk."
Tyson also appreciated Shera's security services.
Ben Affleck looks fit during rehab stint
Actor Ben Affleck, who is getting treated for his alcohol addiction in a rehabilitation centre, looked fit and in good spirits while heading for gym.
The Justice League actor's outing comes one week after he completed the first 30 days of his third stint in the centre for his battle with alcoholism, as per media reports on Tuesday.
The 46-year-old showed off his buff body in slim-fit vintage classic T-shirt with a pair of sunglasses.
He also rocked a short new haircut while holding an ice coffee.
A two-time Oscar winner, Affleck has checked into a rehabilitation centre in the past also as he sought help in 2001 and 2017 for his addiction.
Elle Fanning inspired by Angelina Jolie
Actress Elle Fanning says she feels inspired by Hollywood star Angelina Jolie, with whom she is going to star in Maleficent 2.
"I was 14 when I did the first movie, now I'm 20," Fanning told a leading publication.
She spoke about how their relationship has evolved since they first worked together.
"I wasn't as young now so Angelina and I got to relate on a different level now that I'm older."
Fanning relished the experience of reuniting with the Oscar-winning star, and said to being inspired by her work ethic.
"We actually got very close on the second one. Very close. She's amazing! She does a lot and is very inspiring to work with. To see how she handles the business and also she's the producer so to see that side of things, to see her with her producer hat on, I learned a lot."
John Krasinski's balancing act
John Krasinski has made for himself as an actor, director and producer. And he says balancing them all is not at all tough.
Asked how he balances everything, Krasinski said, "When you say it like that I get worried, and think how I am balancing it."
On a serious note, he added, "The reason why I do all these things is because when I got The Office I thought I was so lucky and that I didn't deserve it. So, I started learning everything so that they think I deserve it. I started going in editing bays, directing, writing, getting a sense of the whole world. I feel when you get an opportunity one should do what it takes."
Krasinski spoke on his career choices when he appeared at the Prime Video event at Mayfair's historic Curzon Cinemas here.
He took a break from shooting the second season of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan to announce new characters including his "new female counterpart, a friend and enemy of Jack, played by Noomi Rapace"
"She has been amazing, we are lucky to have her. And from 'House of Cards' we have Michael Kelly, playing my CIA boss," he said.
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, which hails from the Lost duo of co-showrunner Carlton Cuse and writer Graham Roland, Platinum Dunes, Skydance Media and Paramount TV, is a reinvention with a modern sensibility of the famed and lauded Tom Clancy hero, starring Krasinski and Abbie Cornish.
It centres on Jack Ryan (Krasinski), an up-and-coming CIA analyst thrust into a dangerous field assignment for the first time. He uncovers a pattern in terrorist communications that launches him into the centre of a dangerous gambit with a new breed of terrorism that threatens destruction on a global scale. It streams on Amazon Prime Video.
On the show, the actor said, "I got lucky by doing a long form of storytelling because it is hard to make a movie with that much incredible material and rich detail."
'Homecoming' did wonders for my personal life: Julia Roberts
Hollywood’s “Pretty Woman" Julia Roberts is entering the world of the small screen with the thriller Homecoming. She says she stayed away from television for this long due to lack of offers.
Roberts started her career in Hollywood in 1987 with Crime Story, and walked up the stairs of fame with the success of projects likePretty Woman, Erin Brockovich, My Best Friend's Wedding, Notting Hill, Runaway Bride, Ocean's Eleven, Valentine's Day, Eat Pray Love, Money Monster and The Normal Heart.
Why did she stay away from the small screen for so long?
"The lack of being offered a TV show probably. This (‘Homecoming') was such a great piece of material. I wasn't making a choice to do TV. I was making a choice to go where I thought the work was interesting," Roberts told a publication in a group interview on the sidelines of Prime Video Presents 2018 event here.
"My request was to have one director for all the episodes and that's what I needed. I didn't want to have a different person every week trying to understand the way my brain works. It seemed unfair to the society," she added on a lighter note.
However, Roberts said the makers didn't think about TV while working on the show.
"Sam Esmail really set this up like a movie and I like to think, for me. It was not dissimilar in the process of creating it from a film," she added.
The show, adapted from a podcast with the same name, follows the life of case worker-turned-waitress Heidi Bergman (Roberts) as she struggles to remember her time working at a facility that treats soldiers returning from war. The trailer also shows how Heidi begins to suspect something more suspicious at the heart of the program with one of her patients Walter, essayed by Stephan James.
Created and written by Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg, the show is directed by Esmail -- the man behind Mr. Robot.
"The show did wonders for my personal life. I was so happy that I am me and they are them," said the Oscar-winning actress.
Now, the actress is looking forward to opening the "complex and fascinating" world in front of the audience with the show, which will go live on Amazon Prime Video in November.
"It is a whole package. The whole story is so complex and fascinating with really interesting ideas in characters that reveal themselves in very unique way. Playing two different characters was interesting -- what are the differences, and what are the things that she is aware of and not aware of... Sometimes I would think that I am telling the truth, and Sam would be like, ‘No, you are lying'."
Other cast members of Homecoming include Bobby Cannavale, Shea Whigham, Jeremy Allen White, Alex Karpovsky and Roberts' My Best Friend's Wedding co-star Dermot Mulroney.
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