Takeshi Kaneshiro Hates To Work On Films With Animals After He Saw A Bird Get Tortured To Death On Set Of Hong Kong Movie

We stan an actor who believes in animal rights. Reclusive Japanese-Taiwanese actor Takeshi Kaneshiro, 49, doesn’t have social media and rarely grants interviews. However, he recently spoke up about ending animal abuse, a cause he is very passionate about. And we thought he couldn’t get more attractive. Takeshi revealed thatt he “hates seeing animals on set” because of an awful experience on a...

Sandra Bullock Never Thought She’d Win an Oscar for ‘The Blind Side’ & Here’s Her Reasoning

Sandra Bullock won an Oscar in 2010 for her work in the movie The Blind Side, but she never thought she was going to win. Weeks ahead of the film’s release back in November 2009, Sandra was generating awards buzz for her performance as Leigh Anne Tuohy. At the time, she was asked to comment on the speculation and she...

Everyone Is Talking About Taiwanese Actor Greg Hsu’s Butt Now That His Movie Marry My Dead Body Is On Netflix

If you've seen it, you would be talking about it too. One of the biggest Taiwanese movies this year is supernatural comedy Marry My Dead Body. The film stars Taiwanese it boys Greg Hsu, 32, and Austin Lin, 35. Greg plays a policeman who finds himself forced into a ghost marriage with a dead gay man, played by Austin. The movie made US$11.5mil (S$15.6mil) at...

The 10 Fastest Movies to Hit the Billion Dollar Mark (& ‘Barbie’ is the Only 1 That Isn’t a Sequel or Remake!)

Barbie is the latest movie to pull off a very impressive feat – netting $1 billion at the global box office – and it is one of the fasted movies to hit the goal. It only took Greta Gerwig‘s movie 17 days to hit that awe-inspiring number. How does it measure up to the competition? We were curious how that...

Ticket sales for Warner Bros movie Barbie top $1.3b

Box-office ticket sales of the movie Barbie topped US$1 billion (S$1.3 billion) in the United States and worldwide since its debut more than two weeks ago, Warner Bros. Pictures, a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery, announced on Sunday (Aug 6). In a statement, Warner Bros. said the movie took in US$459 million from domestic theatres and another US$572.1...

Everything to Know About ‘The Iron Claw,’ the Sports Drama Starring Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White

Zac Efron fans are finally going to see what that bowl cut and beefed-up physique were all about. The actor was photographed looking unrecognizable on the set of the sports drama The Iron Claw in October 2022. Nine months later, A24 announced that the film will hit theaters nationwide in December. Efron stars as real-life professional wrestler Kevin Von Erich, who left his...

Movies Allowed to Continue Filming Amid Dual WGA and SAG-AFTRA Strikes

The dual WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes resulted in almost every production pressing pause — not including the movies that have received approval to keep filming. Hollywood came to a standstill in May 2023 when the Writers Guild of America announced their decision to strike after a labor dispute with the Alliance of Motion. (The AMPTP represents major companies such as...

Chinese Actress Liu Xiaoqing, 68, Plays A 17-Year-Old In Movie. For Real

There’s been quite a bit of buzz surrounding Chinese war movie Ice Sniper 2 since its release on major video platforms such as iQiyi and Tencent on July 8. Adapted from the historical war drama Suppress Bandits in Northeast, the film tells the story of guerrilla forces led by hero Yang Jianfeng targeting the bandit forces, led by Dan...

Oppenheimer’s Cillian Murphy Defends His ‘Powerful’ and ‘Perfect’ Sex Scenes With Florence Pugh

Cillian Murphy praised Oppenheimer costar Florence Pugh — and their graphic sex scenes. “Those scenes were written deliberately,” Murphy, 47, told the Sydney Morning Herald in a recent interview conducted before the SAG-AFTRA strike. “He knew that those scenes would get the movie the rating that it got. And I think when you see it, it’s so f–king powerful. And they’re not gratuitous. They’re...

Barbie movie: Iconic doll has ‘existential crisis’ about real world

Margot Robbie recalls being at a rehearsal for the upcoming Barbie movie and experiencing an existential crisis. Fortunately, lines from co-star America Ferrera's character were exactly what she needed to hear while both portraying the iconic doll and being a producer of a US$145 million (S$191 million) movie. "She was like 'I release you from your assignment,'" Robbie...