Michael Douglas Wishes His ‘Ant-Man’ Character Had Been Killed Off in a “Fantastic Way” in ‘Quantumania’
Michael Douglas had a request for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: He wanted his character to die. The Oscar-winning actor stopped by The View on Thursday to promote his new Apple TV+ series, Franklin. During the conversation, he was asked about his comments to The Hollywood Reporter about wanting his character in the Ant-Man franchise, […]
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Christy Piña
Kathryn Newton Talks ‘Lisa Frankenstein,’ Young Avengers, ‘Big Little Lies 3’ and ‘Freaky Death Day’
Kathryn Newton’s feature film career continues to bear fruit. Just five years ago, she was a series regular on two hit television series, HBO’s Big Little Lies and Netflix’s The Society, but when the pandemic played a role in the un-renewal of the latter, Newton wasted no time amassing an impressive slate of films. First […]
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Brian Davids
Paul Rudd on His “Very Restrictive” Diet When Preparing to Play Ant-Man
Paul Rudd is sharing the “horrible” and “restrictive” diet he underwent to prepare for his role in the Ant-Man franchise. During a recent appearance on the Off Menu podcast, where guests talk about their “dream menu,” hosts Ed Gamble and James Acaster asked the actor what type of water he preferred. “When I was having […]
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Carly Thomas
Box Office Sensation: ‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Crosses Record $500M Globally
Mario number one! In under a week, Universal and Illumination’s Nintendo video game adaptation The Super Mario Bros. Movie has already become the top-grossing 2023 release to date at the global box office with $508.7 million in worldwide ticket sales through Thursday. It took only a matter of days for Super Mario to knock off […]
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Pamela McClintock
Victoria Alonso Clashed With Marvel Over Blurring Gay Pride References in ‘Ant-Man 3’ for Kuwait (Exclusive)
The intrigue over Victoria Alonso’s abrupt exit from Marvel continues. On March 24, THR exclusively reported that Disney fired Alonso for breach of contract, due to her work on the Oscar-nominated feature Argentina, 1985, which was made by Amazon. Last week, Disney indicated the dismissal was due to “an indisputable breach of contract and a […]
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Pamela McClintock, Aaron Couch
Inside the Firing of Victoria Alonso: Her Oscar-Nominated Movie ‘Argentina, 1985’ at Center of Exit (Exclusive)
The Oscar-nominated film Argentina, 1985 was at the center of last week’s sudden firing of longtime Marvel Studios executive Victoria Alonso, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Alonso was one of eight producers on the Argentine historical drama, which was distributed by Amazon and competed for the best international feature Oscar. However, by assuming that role, […]
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Marvel Working to Find ‘Quantumania’ Leaker
Marvel is closing in on the source of a leak of a script from Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania before the movie was released, and it intends to take legal action, a Disney company source tells The Hollywood Reporter. A federal judge in California on Monday issued subpoenas to Reddit and Google directing them to […]
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Winston Cho, Carolyn Giardina
New AI-Powered Tech Applied Digital Cosmetics to ‘Ant-Man’ Sequel
With the belief that Hollywood stars need never age on screen, or at least can do so more gracefully, Canadian visual effects studio Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies (a.k.a. MARZ) is close to commercially rolling out its Vanity AI artificial intelligence-driven program that cosmetically altersand enhances an actor’s skin and hairline in real-time or ages and […]
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Etan Vlessing
Box Office Preview: Michael B. Jordan’s ‘Creed III’ to Knock Out Competition
MGM’s Creed III will have no trouble knocking out the competition in its box office opening. The latest installment in the Rocky spinoff series is expected to start off domestically with a pleasing $38 million to $40 million, easily enough to win this weekend’s match. In addition to returning as the title character Adonis Creed, […]
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Pamela McClintock
‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ Star David Dastmalchian Talks the Necessity of His New Role and Reuniting with Christopher Nolan
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’s Veb needed David Dastmalchian, and it turns out that he needed Veb more than anyone might realize. Veb —who’s a slime-like creature with the ability to break down communication barriers in the Quantum Realm —is Dastmalchian’s second role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the opportunity came out of the […]
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Brian Davids
‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ Star Corey Stoll Talks the Shakespearean Influence on MODOK
[This story contains spoilers for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania] From Ulysses to Macbeth, Corey Stoll has been doing Shakespearean work for the entirety of his acting career, and despite the outlandish exterior, his MCU return as MODOK in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania doesn’t fall far from the tree. In Ant-Man (2015), Paul Rudd’s […]
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Brian Davids
Box Office: Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man 3’ Gets Mauled by ‘Cocaine Bear,’ Suffers Record 69.7 Percent Drop
Marvel and Disney’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania may have stayed atop the domestic box office chart in its sophom*ore outing with an estimated $32.2 million, but the real superhero of the weekend was Universal’s high-concept genre pic Cocaine Bear. Directed by Elizabeth Banks, Cocaine Bear opened to $23.1 million after stealing away younger adults […]
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Pamela McClintock
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