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Russell Crowe’s one of the greatest cinematic works was riddled with script issues right from the beginning. Ridley Scott’s Gladiator had a difficult production owing to the multiple script rewrites and the death of actor Oliver Reed before the production was completed. Crowe was frustrated with the script throughout the film, but fans only remember iconic lines from the actor in the film.

Russell Crowe in a still from Gladiator | Universal Pictures

Crowe at one point complained about the “trash writing” on the film and shared that his lines were garbage. However, he was so confident in his skill that he claimed he could make it work. The result was some amazing dialogue delivery from A Beautiful Mind actor, including his iconic vengeance speech.

Russell Crowe Considered The Writing On Gladiator as Garbage Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix in a still from Gladiator | Universal Pictures

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For as long as survival horror has existed, confounding puzzles and bewildering navigation have been staples of the experience. Granted, they did fall out of fashion for a brief period in the late-noughties — when games like Dead Space and Resident Evil 5 pivoted in a more action-oriented direction — but generally they have been mainstays of the genre ever since the very beginning.

Although it’s up for debate where those origins actually, you know, originated, the original Alone in the Dark at least belongs in the conversation. It may have arrived a little later than kitschy Fmv outings like Night Trap and some of those side-scrolling movie tie-ins — which, let’s be honest, were just bog-standard platformers anyway — but it’s where the style as we understand it today was properly codified.

Indeed, Frédérick Raynal’s trailblazer pioneered most of the ideas that we now associate with classic survival horror,...

Plenty of haunted, Halloween and holiday options will crop up on Netflix in the month of October. The harvest doesn’t seem too lean despite the almost five-month writers strike that viewers are sure to feel next year, but at least the WGA and AMPTP have reached a deal, and hopefully, SAG-AFTRA is not too far behind. Luckily, Halloween and fall have a classic canon of films and TV shows that stretches back decades, and some of those staple watches will be available through Netflix throughout the month.

Movies include “Casper,” “Scarface” and the first two “The Amazing Spider-Man” films. New arrivals worth the wait include Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” starring Zendaya and Timotheé Chalamet among other heavy hitters, “Fair Play” with Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich and David Yates’ “Pain Hustlers” starring Emily Blunt and Chris Evans. Mike Flanagan’s “Fall of the House of Usher” is sure to...

Netflix is gearing up for a solid month of programming this October with titles to satisfy spooky season embracers and many more. Among the highlights are Mike Flanagan‘s latest, The Fall of the House of Usher, and fan favorites like Elite, Lupin, and Big Mouth, along with the doc Beckham and buzzy new series Neon. Plus, don’t miss Chris Evans and Emily Blunt in the new film Pain Hustlers. Below, we’re sharing the full slate of titles coming to and leaving Netflix this October. Scroll down for the latest listings and let us know what you’ll be streaming in the comments section. Available This Month on Netflix: October Tba Onefour: Against All Odds — Netflix Documentary October 1 60 Days In: Season 4 A Beautiful Mind American Beauty Backdraft Casper Catch Me If You Can Cinderella Man Colombiana Drake & Josh: Seasons 1-3 Dune (2021) Elysium Forgetting Sarah Marshall Gladiator Hot Tub...

With the chillier fall months slowly creeping in, Netflix is more than ready for curl-up-and-binge-something season. This month, the streamer will debut some of its most highly anticipated projects of the fall season, including the latest Mike Flanagan horror series “The Fall of the House of Usher,” which will premiere just in time for your Halloween binge watching. Netflix will also bring several other horror films and series to its platform for at least the month, including “It Follows,” “Deliver Us from Evil,” and the new Spanish nun horror film “Sister Death.”

For the less horror-minded, in addition to dozens of Netflix Original films, series, comedy specials, family programs, and documentaries, such as the four-part documentary series “Beckham,” you’ll soon be able to stream a large collection of library additions that includes the recent blockbuster “Dune,” “Gladiator,” and more.

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It was a close race for the top spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart for the tracking week that ended September 21, but rapper Rod Wave‘s “Nostalgia” eked out a win over the second week of Olivia Rodrigo‘s “Guts.” Read all about this week’s chart here at Billboard.com.

“Nostalgia” achieved 137,000 equivalent album units based on the combination of its traditional sales, individual track sales and online streaming performance. In this case, streaming made up the overwhelming majority of its units. This is Rod Wave’s third number-one album, following “SoulFly” (2021) and “Beautiful Mind” (2022).

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“Guts” was next with 134,000 album units, just 3,000 fewer than “Nostalgia.” That’s down 56% from last week when the album debuted with 302,000 units. The rest of the top five is made up of familiar faces. Zach Bryan‘s...

Tom Sandoval tried to play a verbal shell game on Vanderpump Rules but the walls are closing in on him during the latest episode. Round and round he went misusing the term “dip out” in an attempt to throw everyone off the scent, including Lisa Vanderpump.

The “secret” affair between Sandoval and Raquel Leviss appears to be bubbling to the surface, although the cast and crew claimed ignorance, they were suspicious. Their suspicions went into overdrive during the latest episode when Leviss admitted to Vanderpump that the reason she was an hour and a half late for work was that she got drunk with Sandoval and Tom Schwartz. And then spent the night at Sandoval’s house.

Leviss essentially came clean … but left out the part where she and Sandoval probably hooked up. But when Vanderpump questions Sandoval, he stumbles with his lies, telling Vanderpump that Leviss just “dipped out.

Rapper Bad Bunny’s album ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’ has clinched another non-consecutive week at number one, its 11th time at the top spot out of 19 weeks since its release.

Not since Drake’s ‘Views’ logged 13 non consecutive weeks at number 1 in 2016 had a similar feat been reached, reports ‘Variety’.

Both ‘Views’ and ‘Un Verano’ runs were non-consecutive, however, Bad Bunny has yet to slip below a No. 2 slot. ‘Un Verano’ enters with the equivalent of 97,000 album sales in the US, according to Luminate via Billboard.

Former One Direction member Harry Styles also accomplishes a historic mark of 14 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, the longest stay at number one since Lil Nas X’s chart-topping ‘Old Town Road’, feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, logged 19 weeks in 2019.

Out of its 24 weeks on the chart, ‘As It Was’ currently holds the record for the most weeks spent in the...

It was a beautiful week for rapper Rod Wave, whose “Beautiful Mind” debuted at number-one on the Billboard 200 albums chart for the tracking week that ended August 18. He accumulated 115,000 equivalent album units based on the combination of traditional album sales, individual track sales, and online streams. That was enough to knock Bad Bunny out of the top spot (for now), but it was a close call. Read more about this week’s chart here at Billboard.com.

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Rod Wave is only 23-years-old, but this is already his second number-one album and his fourth top-10 album. His 2019 studio debut “Ghetto Gospel” peaked at number-10. Then his 2020 followup “Pray 4 Love” reached number-two. It was 2021’s “SoulFly” that finally got Wave to the top spot with 130,000 album units, a little more than he achieved with “Beautiful Mind.” All three of his previous albums have been certified platinum.

Rod Wave is an unabashed romantic, deploying a voice that blends airy pop melodies, emo yelps and guttural country rap idioms. On his fourth album, Beautiful Mind, the 22-year-old St. Petersburg, Florida vocalist gushes about love in a way that seems unusual for someone so closely identified with rap. “I don’t wanna be alone…don’t leave me alone,” he pleads anxiously on “Leave Me Alone.” He’s a complicated man, teetering between career ambition, melancholy introspection, macho aggression, and heartbroken sensitivity. And while he carefully avoids suicidal ideation,...

On his latest single “Alone,” Rod Wave looks back at all of the complicated moments that make love worth it. The track, set to appear on his forthcoming third studio album, Beautiful Mind, out Aug. 12, considers the relationship between love and loss as the rapper pushes his pride to the side.

In the accompanying music video, Rod Wave becomes the narrator, set on sharing the story of two lovers who lost their way when one of them didn’t appreciate what he had until it was gone. The St. Petersburg...

Investors and potential buyers are taking interest in Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment, Deadline has confirmed.

The interested parties include an unnamed Middle East sovereign wealth fund, as well as international banks and a domestic private equity firm. The valuation of the Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind production company is north of $800M.

Imagine’s umbrella consists of NY-based indie production shingle Jax Media, a majority stake in Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions, a robust documentaries division including titles such as NatGeo’s Rebuilding Paradise, directed by Ron Howard, Sony Pictures Classics’ Julia and Apple’s Who Are You, Charlie Brown?

Imagine’s library includes Howard’s canon with such titles as Backdraft, Apollo 13 but also TV series such as 24, Arrested Development, Friday Night Lights and Empire. Howard is also set to direct his first animated feature movie for Paramount,...

It’s Halloween night, and the thing that most terrifies teenage misfit Kelly Ferguson (Tamara Smart) is making it through the popular kids’ party without being called “Monster Girl.” After the ill-advised choice to tell her peers about a traumatic incident of almost getting snatched by a monster as a child, the unfortunate nickname has stuck and tanked all hope of ever joining the in-crowd. It’s useful, then, that her mother (Crystal Balint) promised Kelly’s babysitting services to her ice queen boss Ms. Zellman (Tamsen McDonough) and her problem child Jacob (Ian Ho). But when that adorable child gets snatched by the same otherworldly creature that once haunted Kelly, the hapless caretaker is thrown into a secret underworld and gets her first lesson in A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting.

Netflix’s kids’ movie is a clear attempt to kick-start a franchise. Based on the book trilogy by Joe Ballarani,...

Mortal Kombat 11 is sadly reaching the end of its life cycle. But although NetherRealm has already released the secondary story mode Aftermath, various Dlc characters, and few other new features, we’re still due one more Dlc pack before the studio moves on to a new game.

While fans wait anxiously for the big announcement, series co-creator Ed Boon has been throwing around hints on Twitter. Normally, I’d be going full-on Beautiful Mind with those hints, covering my walls with Ed Boon tweets and newspaper clippings, but Boon isn’t the kind of guy you should trust at times like this. The guy Loves messing with fans.

Fortunately, a new update just hit Mortal Kombat 11 and that’s sent the dataminers of the world into the game’s code in search of anything juicy, and boy, did they find some stuff. According to the findings of dataminer and Mortal Kombat modder thethiny,...

Veteran Hollywood executive Terry Curtin has joined Solstice Studios as executive vice president of communications.

Curtin, who has previously held top jobs at Disney, Universal and Fox, will report directly to Vincent Bruzzese, head of marketing and strategy at the upstart studio. All of film publicity and corporate communications will fall on her desk.

Curtin replaces Elissa Greer, who is transitioning to a consultant role.

“Terry is a world-class executive who is respected across the industry,” Bruzzese said. “We’re fortunate to have her join the company on a full-time basis. Terry and Elissa worked extremely well together and delivered an excellent publicity and promotion campaign for ‘Unhinged,’ under difficult circumstances: launching the first new movie back in U.S. theaters this summer was no easy task. I look forward to their teaming up to achieve similarly striking results on ‘Good Joe Bell.’”

Curtin last oversaw a boutique consulting agency,...

Paramount Pictures is developing Elsie Chapman’s magic-themed “Caster” novel as a movie with Scholastic Entertainment, Josephson Entertainment and Weed Road Pictures producing.

“Caster,” published in 2019 by Scholastic Press, centers on Aza Wu, who knows that real magic is dangerous and illegal because it killed her sister, Shire. Aza must step in to save the legacy of Wu Teas, the teahouse that has been in her family for centuries.

Akiva Goldsman of Weed Road Pictures and Greg Lessans are producing the film with Scholastic Entertainment President Iole Lucchese and Caitlin Friedman. For Josephson Entertainment, its principal Barry Josephson and company head, D. Matt Geller (“Remember”), will oversee the adaptation for their banner.

“’Caster’ is an absolutely thrilling story with twists and turns that keep readers riveted and holding their breath to see what happens next,” said Lucchese.

Goldsman won the Academy Award for the screenplay for “Beautiful Mind.” Weed Road...

The West Wing was an accident. At opening night of PaleyFest on Friday, creator Aaron Sorkin said that he never intended to do television, and when his agent set up a meeting with producer John Wells, he didn't plan to pitch anything. 

Then on the evening of their meeting, Sorkin's friend and Beautiful Mind writer Akiva Goldsman suggested there might be a TV show in the premise from Sorkin's film The American President. Only instead of romance, it should be about the senior staff. So when Sorkin showed up to the lunch and saw Wells with a group of ...

If you thought keeping track of all the time loops in “Russian Doll” was a little overwhelming, then just imagine how much work sorting through those threads was for star/co-creator Natasha Lyonne. But just because it was tough doesn’t mean Lyonne, who was nominated for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series on Tuesday for her performance in the first season of the Netflix series, didn’t love that aspect of the complex project.

“The multiple timelines is part of what made me so thrilled for so many people on our team to be acknowledged today because that really was the detail-oriented, big-boy work of our show in so many ways: keeping the rules of our particular game very, very specific,” Lyonne told TheWrap.

Co-created by Lyonne, Leslye Headland and Amy Poehler, the series follows a young woman named Nadia (Lyonne) on her journey as the guest of honor...

Spike Lee took to the stage at 194 Piccadilly in London to deliver BAFTA’s annual David Lean lecture. Previous speakers have included Paul Greengrass, Robert Altman, Peter Weir, Oliver Stone and David Lynch – but none of those filmmakers was as outspoken in their lecture as Lee.

In a lively 90-minute talk, which concluded with a Q&A, Lee addressed a wide range of topics from the Oscars to Donald Trump to his new movie “BlacKkKlansman.” In between, he played various clips from both his own films – including “Malcolm X” and “25th Hour” – as well as classics by others, such as David Lean’s “The Bridge on the River Kwai.”

Lee wasn’t afraid to ruffle feathers during his lecture, first discussing the treatment of black people in Hollywood and in cinema following a clip from his 2000 movie “Bamboozled.” As he observed, “This movie is about demonization and degradation of black people.

Well, it was a fun prospect while it lasted!

Although Paul Bettany had been in active negotiations to play Prince Philip in Season 3 of The Crown, TVLine has learned that the Beautiful Mind actor was ultimately unable to sign on the dotted line due to scheduling conflicts. As a result, the search continues for an actor to follow in the footsteps of Matt Smith, who starred opposite Claire Foy’s Queen Elizabeth II in Seasons 1 and 2.

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