If you thought Tom Cruise couldn’t possibly out-do his Mission Impossible Rogue Nation A400 plane stunt, featuring Tom Cruise literally hanging from the plane as it took off, then you don’t know Tom Cruise.

In the latest Mission Impossible trailer it features Tom Cruise doing an intense underwater scene.

Tom Cruise told USA TODAY that he worked extensively for the underwater scene shot without a cut, training to hold his breath for over six minutes.

Says Cruise:

“It’s something I have always wanted to do. (Director Christopher McQuarrie) and I have been thinking about it since working on ‘Edge of Tomorrow.’ I have done a lot of underwater sequences. But we wanted to create a suspense underwater sequence without cuts. So doing that sequence was really interesting. We’re underwater and we’re doing breath-holds of 6 to 61/2 minutes. So I was doing all my training with the other stuff (on-set). It was very taxing stuff.”

Cruise worked extensively for weeks with Kirk Krack, performance underwater trainer, for the breath training to complete the scene.

“When you’re making ‘Mission’ movies you’re working with athletes and stunt people at the height of their game,” says Cruise.

Rebecca Ferguson, who is the latest cast member to join the cast of the Mission Impossible franchise revealed that on her first day she scaled the Vienna Opera House with Tom Cruise and later took part in the infamous underwater scene.

Says Ferguson:

“When you are with Tom and the ‘Mission’ team, the best people are brought in to train you. So you are actually capable of managing everything. It’s incredible to know you have the ability to do these things.”

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Chris Pratt reveals that he gains weight to play comedic roles because it makes him funnier. However, to last in Hollywood he lost over 100 pounds to stay relevant and healthy.

Chris Pratt has become one of Hollywood’s biggest actors since last summer’s blockbuster hit movie, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy‘ rocked the box office.

This summer Chris Pratt leads in the hugely anticipated Jurassic World, and his good looks have earned him millions of followers on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. But, in a new interview with Men’s Health magazine, the 35-year old actor has revealed how he was forced to take action after he weighed in at 300lbs just two years ago.

The actor hit 300lbs at his heaviest but dropped the weight to star in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’. The actor revealed he toned up to play a baseball player in 2011’s ‘Moneyball’, before shooting back up in weight for 2013 movie ‘Delivery Man’ – that’s when he hit 300lbs.

It was his success in ‘Parks and Recreation’ though, with producers expanding Andy’s character to a recurring role thanks to Chris’ popularity, that convinced the actor that he had to gain weight.

‘I saw myself in an episode,’ Pratt, who admits he used to devour three or four cheeseburgers at every table read, told Men’s Health, ‘and in the matter of two moments very close together, I thought, “Oh my God, I’m getting fat.” And then almost immediately I did something else and I thought, “Holy crap, I’ve never seen myself funnier.” And I put the two together.’

‘I’d gone back and forth, lost weight for Moneyball, got fat again, then trimmed down for Zero Dark Thirty, then gained it all back again for Andy. That’s when I saw Zero Dark Thirty and right after walking out I was like: “I’m going to get in shape and I’m never going to be fat again,”‘ he explains.

‘I was impotent, fatigued, emotionally depressed. I had real health issues that were affecting me in a major way. It’s bad for your heart, your skin, your system, your spirit,’ he adds.

Chris Pratt lost weight with dedicated workouts and a drastic change in his diet, which he admits wasn’t easy. Chris Pratt is currently working with Denzel Washington in the ‘Magnificent Seven’ remake which is currently seeking extras and stand-ins.

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Hollywood has a thing for young actresses matched with older actors hence, the “Hollywood Age Disparity”.

We’ve become extremely accustomed to 20-something actresses getting romantically involved with much older men onscreen, so much that we hardly even notice when it happens anymore.

Did it bother you when Emma Stone was matched with Edward Norton in Birdman? Or when Scarlett Johansson was matched with Mark Ruffalo in The Avengers: Age of Ultron? How about the time Jennifer Lawrence was cast as Bradley Cooper’s love interest in several movies?

In an interesting article from Vulture, Kyle Buchanan breaks down the major age gape that is affecting some of the biggest young actresses today and the impact it is having on women in Hollywood.

Emma Stone

It wasn’t long ago that Emma Stone was known for playing a high school student in ‘Superbad’ and the breakout hit ‘Easy A’.

In the span of only four years, Emma Stone went from working with guys her own age to being Colin Firth’s love interest in Woody Allen’s ‘Magic in the Moonlight’. Sure, the near 30 year difference is a major talking point in the movie, but this doesn’t change the fact that this is a common trend in Hollywood. Only a year earlier, Emma Stone was matched with Sean Penn.

But, this does not only affect women. Creating the older man-younger woman relationships is leading to fewer and fewer leading men in their 20s landing major roles. And if Vulture’s chart on Emma Stone is any evidence, this trend is become more and more popular and common in movies.

Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence is one of the most popular actresses of our time. The director of ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ and ‘AMerican Hustle’, has a habit of casting Jennifer Lawrence in parts originally scripted for older actresses. Of course Jennifer Lawrence does a great job, but this means she will more than likely get paired with an older man.

This is having devistating consequences for other actors in Hollywood. While Jennifer Lawrence can land any role between 20 and 40-years-old, actresses like Maggie Gyllenhaal (37) are told they are too old to be a love interest for a 55-year-old male actor.

Casting directors are getting to the point where it is more believable to see Bradley Cooper with Jennifer Lawrence together despite their 16 year age difference, than to see him with someone his own age. The only time Jennifer Lawrence is with someone her own age, it’s in ‘The Hunger Games’.

Scarlett Johannson

Scarlett Johannson has been in the industry since she was a child. But, she still has one of those faces that seem to never age. Johannson is a great example of a twenty-something actress working with middle aged actors so often that we forget how old she really is.

While moves are not supposed to be 100% realistic, shouldn’t there be a few examples on Johansson’s acting resume wher eshe can be with someone who is in her age range? Right now, that’s probably never going to happen.

Perhaps the single most important point to bring up regarding age disparity in Hollywood is that while young women are systematically paired with older men, the reverse is never true. Male actors have more options when it comes to leading co-stars, but, the most popular women onscreen can’t get with younger guys – or guys even their own age. When is the last time you saw Betty White with a 20-something actor?

Head on over to Vulture for more of their insights into the topic and further analysis of the data.

(Source: Vulture)

Producers are interested in making ‘Sony Hack‘ the movie.

As you may recall, around Christmas time ‘The Interview’ was set to premiere but North Korean hackers caused for the movies release get cancelled. Well, get ready for a movie about it.

From The Hollywood Reporter:

The first film to address the Sony Pictures hack is in the works, from the team behind 2013’s Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning documentary The Square from Netflix. Spouses Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer quietly are working on a documentary that explores the cyberattack.

The untitled film is expected to drop new bombshells. Sources say director Noujaim and producer Amer will put forth alternative theories about the hack’s culprit. After the breach was detected Nov. 24, focus immediately shifted to North Korea, which had expressed outrage over The Interview. On Dec. 19, the FBI and President Obama fingered the rogue nation as the perpetrator.

But many in the cybersecurity community believe that the attack likely was an inside job given that the hackers exhibited intimate knowledge of the architecture of Sony’s servers.

Hopefully in the movie we can find out who really caused the Sony Hack. But, it may be interesting to see Sony make the feature film version with James Franco playing Seth Rogen and Seth Rogen playing James Franco. With Randall Park returning as Kim Jong-Un and Barack Obama played by The Rock.

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‘Seinfeld’ ruined this actress career simply because they couldn’t get along.

If you watched Seinfeld, you may remember the time that George (Jason Alexander) and Susan (Heidi Swedberg) were engaged. But, you may have had trouble understanding why the relationship was so short lived.

Alexander was a guest on Wednesday’s ‘Howard Stern Show’ and admitted that the show’s writers decided to kill off Susan with poisonous envelopes because he and the rest of the cast did not enjoy sharing scenes with the actress.

“I couldn’t figure out how to play off of her,” Alexander said of Swedberg, who followed her 1997 departure from the celebrated NBC sitcom with roles on Roswell, Gilmore Girls and Bones. “Her instincts for doing a scene, where the comedy was, and mine were always misfiring. And she would do something, and I would go, ‘OK, I see what she’s going to do — I’m going to adjust to her.’ And I’d adjust, and then it would change.”

Alexander said he wasn’t happy when, three episodes into Swedberg’s stint on the series, co-creator Larry David informed him that George and Susan would be getting hitched.

“What [David] said was, what Heidi brought to the character is, we could do the most horrible things to her, and the audience was still on my side,” Alexander said, laughing.

Later on the show’s run, with producers still unsure of whether Susan and George would go through with the weeding, Jerry Seinfeld and Julia Louis-Dreyfus shared a number of scenes with Swedberg and finally understood what Alexander was complaining about.

“They go, ‘You know what? It’s f—ing impossible. It’s impossible’,” said Alexander, who stressed that he had nothing against Swedberg personally. “And Julia actually said, ‘Don’t you want to just kill her?’ And Larry went, ‘Ka-bang!'” Just like that, the character’s fate was sealed (so to speak).

Since then this actress’ film industry has basically stopped.

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Michael Cudlitz may have accidentally spoiled a major “The Walking Dead” character death on Twitter.

During ‘The Walking Dead’ off season, rumors often run high, but it’s usually because of excited fans speculating about what’s going to happen.

It’s rare that an actor or actress will let anything slip, which is why you should probably take the tweet of Michael Cudlitz (who plays Abraham) lightly. It could mean anything. It could mean he messed up big time. It could mean he’s playing a horrible joke on us. Or it could mean something completely different.

The Walking Dead Spoiler Alert!

A few days ago, Josh McDermitt – who plays Eugene on ‘The Walking Dead’ tweeted that he hasn’t been around ‘The Walking Dead’ set lately because he’s working on a film. This is how Michael Cudlitz responded:

WHAT? “HAD a blast working with you,” as in, the past tense? As in, Cudlitz was killed off?

Whatever it was, Cudlitz quickly deleted the above tweet and replaced it with “Enjoy”.

Accident? Could be. Or maybe Cudlitz just meant,”Had a blast working with you these past few weeks, and looking forward to seeing you back on set.” Or maybe he posted it just to screw with The Walking Dead fans. Which is pretty common. Robert Kirkman teased Glenn’s death which ended up being a lie.

That said, if anyone is going to die on ‘The Walking Dead’ it is probably going to be Eugene, who may have a hard time finding his way on the newly crowded Walking Dead set.

I guess we will have to wait and see when the sixth season of ‘The Walking Dead’ arrives.

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Beats Pill XL pose a fire safety risk and Apple launches a worldwide recall.

Do you own a Beats Pill XL bluetooth speaker? Apple wants them back. Apparently, the Beats Pill XL is a fire safety risk. Apple launched a worldwide recall program on Wednesday because the speakers have been known for overheating, leading to reports of burned fingers and damaged desks.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission registered a total of eight complaints about overheating Beats Pill XL speakers. Apple is reacting to these complaints with a recall of around 233,000 speakers, and offering consumers an Apple store credit of $325.

The Beats Pill XL was inherited by Apple when Apple purchased the Beats Electronics company last year, and has since been selling the products in its stores as well as through its website.

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Did Marvel fire Samuel L. Jackson from the ‘Captain America: Civil War‘ movie?

According to reports, Samuel L. Jackson told reports that he cant figure out why he will not appear in ‘Captain America: Civil War’. His character, Nick Fury, may have appearead in the ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ movie, he won’t appear in ‘Captain America: Civil War’. This news is so shocking, in fact, Samuel L. Jackson was surprised to hear the news.

“I’m not in Captain America 3,” he told Collider. “I can’t figure that out, but I’m not. I guess I’m still out there, trying to figure out what happened to SHIELD and who these other people are.”

If you’ve seen ‘Age of Ultron’ Samuel L. Jackson, then you would know that the actor had a small role in the movie but, still came to the help of the Avengers. Therefore, it is pretty odd that Nick Fury’s character would be nowhere to be found.

Maybe, Marvel is trying to keep Jackson for other movies. Jackson revealed weeks ago that he only has two more movies left in his contract. “I’m looking for a contract extension right now, yeah,” he told the website. “I’m looking to re-up.”

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