Quentin Tarantino is one of Hollywood’s most celebrated filmmakers. But, in a recent interview with Conan, Tarantino is also the guy you don’t want to mess with on set.
Tarantino revealed on Conan Tuesday night his method of “punishment” for actors or crew members who fall asleep on his set. It involves a purple dildo named “Big Jerry” and lots of pictures. Firt of all, did Tarantino buy this dildo himself? Who has to use the dildo? Also, there are a few grosser names for a dildo than Big Jerry, which implies there is a “Little Jerry” hiding out there somewhere on set of The Hateful Eight.
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I guess that’s better than placing someone’s hand in a glass of warm water…
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Before directing the biggest movie in history, J.J. Abrams was an aspiring actor.
In a newly revealed indie film, J.J. Abrams was an aspiring actor who played a whiny little brat in a movie once. That’s right, before creating the beloved TV series Felicity and Lost, and directing Star Trek and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Abrams tried his hand at acting.
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His second movie, and the first in which he had a major role was, Six Degrees of Separation, an adaptation of the John Guare play that starred Will Smith. In addition to being one of the biggest movies to launch Will Smith’s acting career, it contains a scene in which J.J. Abrams character screams, “YOU’RE AN IDIOT! YOU’RE AN IDIOT!” at his father over the phone for allowing a con man into their family’s Manhattan apartment.
Before breaking box office records, J.J. Abrams was an aspiring teen actor just like everyone else.
What do you think of J.J. Abrams’ acting performance? Share with us your thoughts in the comments below!
Have you ever noticed that actors act differently in the classic American movies? Well actors used to have very different, American accents in the earlier part of the 20th century movies.
If you have ever seen an American movie from the 1940s and earlier, you might have wondered why the actors sound so different from actors today.
This video from HowStuffWorks explains the accent, referred to as the Mid-Atlantic or Transatlantic accent:
It is not just actors, but also anyone form the higher class society at the time:
This type of pronunciation is called the Transatlantic, or Mid-Atlantic, accent. And it isn’t like most other accents – instead of naturally evolving, the Transatlantic accent was acquired. This means that people in the United States were taught to speak in this voice. Historically Transatlantic speech was the hallmark of aristocratic America and theatre. In upper-class boarding schools across New England, students learned the Transatlantic accent as an international norm for communication, similar to the way posh British society used Received Pronunciation – essentially, the way the Queen and aristocrats are taught to speak.
Here’s an example from the classic movie Casablanca:
If you’re from Northeast, you have probably heard the accent from older men and women who grew up around this time. As for actors in this era, since this was the accent of upper-class elites, it was the one also taught to actors. Though it stopped being used over time, you can hear it all the time in older movies. This is because method acting and other natural styles of acting changed the way people talked in movies and TV shows.
What do you think? Are you going to start talking with a Mid-Atlantic or Transatlantic accent? Share with us your thoughts in the comments below!
Do you think it is possible to survive The Walking Dead?
That’s what the latest trailer for the mid season return of AMC’s The Walking Dead asks whether or not people can survive inside the walls of Alexandria.
The 30-second clip shows the second half of the apocalyptic drama’s sixth season shows Lauren Cohan’s Maggie shaken up and Andrew Lincoln’s blood-drenched Rick Grimes. But, the scenes sho no sign of Negan, the new character played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan who is expected to turn The Walking Dead upside down.
“Negan is the leader of the Saviors. He’s the new biggest threat, possibly the biggest ever threat that’s ever been introduced in the ‘Walking Dead,’” exec producer Robert Kirkman told Variety in November after the midseason finale. “We’ve announced that Jeffrey Dean Morgan is playing him, and he’s an absolutely amazing actor. He checks every box needed for Negan, which is he’s very personable. You like this guy. He’s very funny. But he’s also extremely intimidating. Very powerful. Just a very wide range of personality traits that Negan encompasses. It was very difficult to find somebody who did check all those boxes. But I’m very happy to say Mr. Morgan does. Negan himself is a catalyst who fundamentally changes what we’re doing with ‘The Walking Dead’ and how these characters exist and really messes a lot of things up for Rick in a lot of terrifying ways. There’s a lot of cool stuff in store for the ‘Walking Dead’ fans when he debuts.”
A convicted armed robber was allowed to walk out of prison early after impressing judges on Georgian ‘The Voice’.
According to reports, Eona Kolbaia sung a prayer set to music on the Georgian local version of The Voice. Kolbaia was granted her freedom after making it to the quarter finals. During the finals, Kolbaia sang the song Kyrie Eleison, a version of a Catholic prayer for mercy.
But, why would such a talented singer end up in jail for armed robbery? Apparently she tried to rob a cab driver.
Kolbaia, who had been convicted of a 2012 heist when she and a male accomplice robbed a taxi driver in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, threatening him with a fake pistol before making off with cash, mobile phones and his car, had been allowed out of prison to attend auditions and recordings of the television show after prison officials recognized her talent.
At the end of the shower, the former Soviet state’s prisons minister Kakha Kakhishvilil walked on to the stage to tell her that even though she lost she impressed the parole board so much that that the government has decided to cut her sentence short. “We’ve been keeping a close eye on her,” the minister told the audience. Kolbaia responded by saying she was going “to use this opportunity to start my life anew.”
What do you think of this? Share with us your thoughts in the comments below!
Mornings are tough and Monday mornings are even tougher. Earlier this morning, Poppy Harlow, CNN anchor, passed out live on the air, returning a few moments later with the explanation that “I got a little hot and I passed out for a moment”:
You can watch the video above!
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Here’s what it’s like to work with Samuel L. Jackson in ‘The Hateful Eight’.
The Hateful Eight doesn’t make it’s wide release until a few more days, but Quentin Tarantino’s latest movie has had more drama than an episode of the Jersey Shore. The movie’s script and movie was leaked online and the movie was boycotted by the police. But, outside of all of this drama, Quentin Tarantino’s new movie is being called “devilishly good.” One of the actor’s standing out from the rest is Samuel L. Jackson.
So, it begs the question; What is it like working with Samuel L. Jackson?
Well, in a newly released featurette centering around Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a former union soldier turned “infamous bounty hunter.” In the video, Jackson unpacks his character’s motivations – “he joined the war, he says, to kill white, Southern crackers, but he killed pretty much anybody who got in his way”
But, the video also shows what it’s like to work with Samuel L. Jackson with the cast and crew revealing Jackson’s acting process. “Sam is one of those very few people that sometimes can get Quentin to step outside of the words on the page,” says director of photography Bob Richardson. “That level of respect I’ve only seen with Sam.”
Even Kurt Russell praised Jackson’s acting. “I really looked forward to working with Sam because he’s a bold actor,” says Russell. “He’s inventive, creative. He’s right there with you, for you. You should be there for him.”
As the highest grossing actor in Hollywood, you have to trust Samuel L. Jackson’s acting process!
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You can finally watch the full documentary that accuses Peyton Manning of using steroids.
Al-Jazeera America has just dropped the full The Dark Side: Secrets of the Sports Dopers documentary on YouTube before its scheduled airing this evening, finally allowing us to peek inside the allegations HGH was shipped to NFL superstar Peyton Manning’s home along with several other claims connecting professional athletes with illicit drug use, charges Manning called today as “garbage.”
The Peyton Manning part of the documenatary appear around 40:45 in the above video. here’s what former Guyer Clinic employee Charlie Sly said on a hidden camera in the video:
I did part of my training at the Guyer Institute, which is this anti-aging clinic in Indiana. Him and his wife would come in after hours and get IVs and shit. So one thing that Guyer does is he dispenses drugs out of his office, which physicians can do in the United States. It’s just not very many of them do it. And all the time we would be sending Ashley Manning drugs. Like growth hormone, all the time, everywhere, Florida. And it would never be under Peyton’s name. it would always be under her name. We were sending it everywhere… it’d go to Florida… Almost all drugs you can prescribe off-label. GH is one of the few drugs, it’s really the only drug you cannot prescribe off-label. It has three indications.
[In response to a question about whether Guyer was prescribing HGH]: I know for a fact he does. I would see patients with him part of the day and the other part of the day I would work in his pseudo-pharmacy. I’m surprised his place has not been shut down yet.
This mostly connects with what had been reported, perhaps the most interesting and convincing part of the program comes earlier, when Ryan Howard and several other athletes are accused of having received drugs ranging from steroids to narcotics.
What do you think? Do you think professional sports is plagued with steroids? Share with us your thoughts in the comments below!
Daniel Stern brings back his iconic movie burglar role after Macaulay Culkin revealed a grown up version of Kevin: “I’m home… alone… and I’m scared!”
Daniel Stern, who played one of the Wet Bandits, reprised his Home Alone character, Marv Merchants, on Christmas Day – but there’s nothing cute about it.
Daniel Stern released a dark video blog as his reply to the even crazier NSFW Home Alone parody released earlier this month. In Culkin’s violent spoof, the Home Alone actor appears as an adult version of Kevin McCallister who is so psychologically traumitized from the events that occured to him as a child (“I had to fend off my house from two psychopath home invaders,” he says) he ends up kidnapping and torturing a man.
Marv replied to the video with a video of his own:
“I saw it on the Internet, the kid is coming to get us!” says Marv, who speaks into the camera in an attempt to warn his partner-in-crime, Harry (played by Joe Pesci). “He’s coming for all the home invaders and he’s gonna come get us.”
In a video that is too hilarious and amazing to write about, Marv looks over his shoulder while reliving the ways Kevin tortured the two burglars in the original Home Alone movies. “He hit me in the head with a brick … the iron … he electrocuted me!” he says. “Please Harry, I’m home… alone… and I’m scared!”
What do you think of the video? Leave us a comment below if you think they should reboot Home Alone 2!
Mark Wahlberg reveals he had to do 700 pull ups for a scene in ‘Daddy’s Home’
Mark Wahlberg is in terrific shape to be in his forties. And the funniest part is that his muscles are not just for show. In a new interview, Mark Wahlberg revealed that he did about 700 one-arm pull ups while shooting a scene from this upcoming movie Daddy’s Home.
In the New Orleans filmed movie, Mark Wahlberg worked alongside Will Ferrell in a buddy comedy that only the two actors can pull. But, in the latest trailer, Mark can be seen showing off his physique while performing an impressive physical feat.
The Deepwater Horizon star revealed what it was like to work on the scene in an interview with E! News on Monday.
‘I did probably about 700 that day.
‘We did many takes from many angles.’
Even though the work out seems pretty impressive, the actor did have reveal he had a guy under neath him to help him out during filming. He explained: ‘They didn’t want me to sound like I was giving an effort whatsoever so I’m talking very calmly during the push-ups and the pull-ups.’
According to IMDB, Daddy’s Home centers around “A mild-mannered radio executive strives to become the best stepdad to his wife’s two children, but complications ensue when their freewheeling and freeloading real father arrives, forcing him to compete for the affection of the kids.” The movie features, Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, and Linda Cardellini.
And while we posted casting calls for the comedy while it was filming earlier this year, it is always interesting to see how the movie worked out.
What do you think of Mark Wahlberg? Do you plan on going to see Daddy’s Home? Share with us your thoughts in the comments below!
Jennifer Lawrence had a pretty open conversation with Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live! on Monday.
The actress played “Plead the Fifth” and answered a wide range of questions. For the first question of the game, Cohen asked Jennifer Lawrence if she ever kissed Hunger Games costar Liam Hemsworth “when the cameras weren’t rolling.”
“Liam and I grew up together,” said Lawrence, smiling. “Liam’s real hot.” She then said to Cohen, “What would you have done?” Cohen responded, “I would say yes,” leading Lawrence to confess “yeah”. “I mean, I pick Gale over Peeta any day,” said Cohen. “I did, at one point,” said Lawrence.
Jennifer Lawrence also admitted she smoked weed before one of the Oscars, although she didn’t reveal which one.
“I smoked pot at none of them, but I saw my brother smoking out of a bong before one of the Oscars, won’t say which,” she said.
While on the show Jennifer Lawrence talked about working with Melissa Rivers, who had a small part playing her late mother Joan Rivers in Lawrence’s new movie Joy. Apparently, Lawrence had issues in the past with Joan and said she was careful not to make things awkward.
Channing Tatum reveals what it was like working with Quentin Tarantino and how far he would go to get cast in The Hateful Eight.
When Channing Tatum was cast in the new Quentin Tarantino movie, The Hateful Eight, critics and fans were thoroughly surprised. But, behind the scenes, the actor recently revealed that he would nearly anything in order to catch Tarantino’s attention.
On Friday’s Tonight Show the actor explained that he emailed the director a month about his role in the movie.
“I basically sent about an email a day for about a month just threatening any other actors that might be up for the role,” Tatum said. “I was just praying that no one really tough was up for the role.” He joked that he and the other actors could be locked in a room without doors and windows and whoever came out of the room would get the role. “I’m so happy that he didn’t say, ‘Well Mike Tyson is up for this role.'”
The 21 Jump Street actor revealed that while there’s “an alumni” in Tarantino films and that actors in his movies are “an actual family,” the actor explained that he was pretty nervous during his first table read where he met the legendary cast.”I start getting terrified. I’m just shaking. I’ve never been so nervous.”
Channing Tatum said that during the table read, he and Dern had to shake hands. But, Bruce Dern was not expecting it. Needless to say, things didn’t end well. “I made this really dumb, over-zealous decision and I pull him in really close, and this is at a table read, and I almost pull Bruce Dern out of his chair and he’s like, ‘You jerk! You almost pulled by arm out of the socket!'”
“I’m like, ‘Oh my god. I just almost killed one of the best actors of our time.’ And I’m mortified,” Tatum said.
Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight features Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth and Michael Madsen.
10 ‘Star Wars’ secrets you have never heard before.
Until probably 2016, all you are going to see and hear is news about the ‘Star Wars’ franchise. As you might have heard, many fans, critics, and celebrities were able to attend the world premiere of the movie in LA on Monday night, but the rest of us are going to have to until the weekend.
But, if you are ready to get some extra trivia about the Star Wars movies, Screen Rant has put together a pretty cool video of hidden details from the first six Star Wars movies that are pretty damn interesting.
Channing Tatum reveals what it was like working with Quentin Tarantino and how far he would go to get cast in The Hateful Eight.
When Channing Tatum was cast in the new Quentin Tarantino movie, The Hateful Eight, critics and fans were thoroughly surprised. But, behind the scenes, the actor recently revealed that he would nearly anything in order to catch Tarantino’s attention.
On Friday’s Tonight Show the actor explained that he emailed the director a month about his role in the movie.
“I basically sent about an email a day for about a month just threatening any other actors that might be up for the role,” Tatum said. “I was just praying that no one really tough was up for the role.” He joked that he and the other actors could be locked in a room without doors and windows and whoever came out of the room would get the role. “I’m so happy that he didn’t say, ‘Well Mike Tyson is up for this role.'”
The 21 Jump Street actor revealed that while there’s “an alumni” in Tarantino films and that actors in his movies are “an actual family,” the actor explained that he was pretty nervous during his first table read where he met the legendary cast.”I start getting terrified. I’m just shaking. I’ve never been so nervous.”
Channing Tatum said that during the table read, he and Dern had to shake hands. But, Bruce Dern was not expecting it. Needless to say, things didn’t end well. “I made this really dumb, over-zealous decision and I pull him in really close, and this is at a table read, and I almost pull Bruce Dern out of his chair and he’s like, ‘You jerk! You almost pulled by arm out of the socket!'”
“I’m like, ‘Oh my god. I just almost killed one of the best actors of our time.’ And I’m mortified,” Tatum said.
Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight features Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth and Michael Madsen.
10 ‘Star Wars’ secrets you have never heard before.
Until probably 2016, all you are going to see and hear is news about the ‘Star Wars’ franchise. As you might have heard, many fans, critics, and celebrities were able to attend the world premiere of the movie in LA on Monday night, but the rest of us are going to have to until the weekend.
But, if you are ready to get some extra trivia about the Star Wars movies, Screen Rant has put together a pretty cool video of hidden details from the first six Star Wars movies that are pretty damn interesting.
Channing Tatum reveals what it was like working with Quentin Tarantino and how far he would go to get cast in The Hateful Eight.
When Channing Tatum was cast in the new Quentin Tarantino movie, The Hateful Eight, critics and fans were thoroughly surprised. But, behind the scenes, the actor recently revealed that he would nearly anything in order to catch Tarantino’s attention.
On Friday’s Tonight Show the actor explained that he emailed the director a month about his role in the movie.
“I basically sent about an email a day for about a month just threatening any other actors that might be up for the role,” Tatum said. “I was just praying that no one really tough was up for the role.” He joked that he and the other actors could be locked in a room without doors and windows and whoever came out of the room would get the role. “I’m so happy that he didn’t say, ‘Well Mike Tyson is up for this role.'”
The 21 Jump Street actor revealed that while there’s “an alumni” in Tarantino films and that actors in his movies are “an actual family,” the actor explained that he was pretty nervous during his first table read where he met the legendary cast.”I start getting terrified. I’m just shaking. I’ve never been so nervous.”
Channing Tatum said that during the table read, he and Dern had to shake hands. But, Bruce Dern was not expecting it. Needless to say, things didn’t end well. “I made this really dumb, over-zealous decision and I pull him in really close, and this is at a table read, and I almost pull Bruce Dern out of his chair and he’s like, ‘You jerk! You almost pulled by arm out of the socket!'”
“I’m like, ‘Oh my god. I just almost killed one of the best actors of our time.’ And I’m mortified,” Tatum said.
Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight features Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth and Michael Madsen.
10 ‘Star Wars’ secrets you have never heard before.
Until probably 2016, all you are going to see and hear is news about the ‘Star Wars’ franchise. As you might have heard, many fans, critics, and celebrities were able to attend the world premiere of the movie in LA on Monday night, but the rest of us are going to have to until the weekend.
But, if you are ready to get some extra trivia about the Star Wars movies, Screen Rant has put together a pretty cool video of hidden details from the first six Star Wars movies that are pretty damn interesting.
Macaulay Culkin plays a psychopath version of Kevin McCallister from ‘Home Alone’ in this new webseries.
If you have ever wondered, “I wonder what Kevin McCallister from Home Alone would have been like as an adult?”, well a new web series, which stars Macaulay Culkin himself, may give you a few hints. FYI: he’s pretty insane.
In the debut episode of :DRYVERS, Macaulay Culkin plays the driver to a company similar to Uber, with a whole lot of psychological damage from the time he was eight years old and his entire family went on vacation without him.
The web series creator Jack Dishel calls for a ride and ends up having to listen to Culkin complain about his childhood, which sounds exactly like the plot of the 1990 hit Christmas movie. I had to fend off my house from two psychopath home invaders,” he says in the clip, viaEW. “I was just a kid. I mean, I still have nightmares about this bald, weirdo dude chasing me around talking like Yosemite Sam.”
When the two come in contact with a carjacker, Culkin still has all of his previous booby-trap talents up his sleeve and ends up capturing him. He then ties him up and holds him hostage.
Future episodes of are set to be released in 2016 and will feature more famous cameos, such as Rosanna Arquette and Steven Weber.
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You can watch the full video below:
What do you think of the video? Share with us your thoughts in the comments below!
Channing Tatum reveals what it was like working with Quentin Tarantino and how far he would go to get cast in The Hateful Eight.
When Channing Tatum was cast in the new Quentin Tarantino movie, The Hateful Eight, critics and fans were thoroughly surprised. But, behind the scenes, the actor recently revealed that he would nearly anything in order to catch Tarantino’s attention.
On Friday’s Tonight Show the actor explained that he emailed the director a month about his role in the movie.
“I basically sent about an email a day for about a month just threatening any other actors that might be up for the role,” Tatum said. “I was just praying that no one really tough was up for the role.” He joked that he and the other actors could be locked in a room without doors and windows and whoever came out of the room would get the role. “I’m so happy that he didn’t say, ‘Well Mike Tyson is up for this role.'”
The 21 Jump Street actor revealed that while there’s “an alumni” in Tarantino films and that actors in his movies are “an actual family,” the actor explained that he was pretty nervous during his first table read where he met the legendary cast.”I start getting terrified. I’m just shaking. I’ve never been so nervous.”
Channing Tatum said that during the table read, he and Dern had to shake hands. But, Bruce Dern was not expecting it. Needless to say, things didn’t end well. “I made this really dumb, over-zealous decision and I pull him in really close, and this is at a table read, and I almost pull Bruce Dern out of his chair and he’s like, ‘You jerk! You almost pulled by arm out of the socket!'”
“I’m like, ‘Oh my god. I just almost killed one of the best actors of our time.’ And I’m mortified,” Tatum said.
Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight features Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth and Michael Madsen.
10 ‘Star Wars’ secrets you have never heard before.
Until probably 2016, all you are going to see and hear is news about the ‘Star Wars’ franchise. As you might have heard, many fans, critics, and celebrities were able to attend the world premiere of the movie in LA on Monday night, but the rest of us are going to have to until the weekend.
But, if you are ready to get some extra trivia about the Star Wars movies, Screen Rant has put together a pretty cool video of hidden details from the first six Star Wars movies that are pretty damn interesting.
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