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Elvis Presley fans were disappointed this week when Austin Butler did not win a SAG Award for his portrayal of the King of Rock and Roll. But Austin moved on, and recently appeared at the Costume Designers Guild Awards on Monday night. When he did, he paid a loving tribute …

The Hollywood epic began filming almost three years before it was released with a budget of $5 million. But by the time of its release in 1963, Cleopatra’s costs had ballooned to $44 million (an earth-shattering $430 million today) after going through two directors, a couple of casts and periodic …

When Top Gun 2 was announced Val Kilmer was begging Tom Cruise to be involved, lobbying hard to reprise his character. The original film’s Iceman star had undergone surgery for throat cancer in 2014, losing his ability to speak. Yet wonderfully a cameo scene was written into Top Gun Maverick that …

Star Wars still focuses on the Skywalker family, even to this day. The upcoming third season of The Mandalorian will no doubt bring Luke Skywalker back into the fold after he took Grogu (Baby Yoda) away to train him as a Jedi. Luke was also a major part of the …

Bautista recently spoke to Digital Spy about the end of the journey for the galactic superheroes. Shooting for the movie finished months ago, but it all became very real for the crew as they spent one last moment together on set. Bautista recalled: “There were days when we talked about …

The SAG Awards is the last ceremony to take place before the Oscars take place on March 13. And, usually, these are the nominations and awards that more or less predict who will win at the Academy Awards. And things don’t look good for Elvis Presley biopic star Austin Butler. …

Burt Reynolds became one of Hollywood’s biggest box office stars at the peak of his career in the late 1970s, but never, perhaps achieved the professional acclaim and credibility suggested by his earlier roles. Twenty years earlier, in those breakthrough days of the late 1950s and early 1960’s, much was …

2022 celebrity deaths: Olivia Newton-John, Meat Loaf and more Whether Olivia and John or Sandy and Danny, the Hollywood superstars were an unforgettable pair on-screen, lifelong friends off and, according to both of them in later years, shared a palpable sexual chemistry. The Australian and British icon was celebrated today …

John Wayne, the Oscar-winning action hero whose films can be watched on BBC iPlayer, once became embroiled in a bitter war of words with Ronald Reagan, the Republican politician who led the US between 1981 and 1989. Though Wayne tried to steer clear of politics, his beliefs were often detailed …

Talking about Turner and Hooch, which is back on UK TV screens this weekend, Hanks added: “The scene where I first get that dog in a collar, in a car, or attached to a car, it was … Well, just go back and look at it. It was the most …