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A sequel to 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' is in the works.
Nia Vardalos is reprising her role as Toula Portokalos, in the follow-up to 2002's comedy with John Corbett who played her love interest in the original, and feels she's ready to take on the project since she's "experiencing motherhood" after she adopted a daughter, Ilaria, with husband Ian Gomez.
Vardolas wrote on Twitter: "I'm working on the MBFGWedding sequel; now that I'm experiencing motherhood I feel ready to write this next chapter.
"A few jaded press corps will claim I ran out of money or just want to kiss John Corbett again. One of these things is true. (sic)"
Later she added: "Re: #MyBigFatGreekWedding2, thank you for the love, yes the entire big fat family is invited back for the sequel. (sic)"
Vardalos has written the script for the project and the plot involves a "bigger and fatter" wedding than that in the first film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks will produce with Gary Goetzman, and no director has been cast yet.
'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' generally positive reviews and was a box office success and grossing over $368.7 million worldwide.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding sequel in the works
A sequel to 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' is in the works.
Nia Vardalos is reprising her role as Toula Portokalos, in the follow-up to 2002's comedy with John Corbett who played her love interest in the original, and feels she's ready to take on the project since she's "experiencing motherhood" after she adopted a daughter, Ilaria, with husband Ian Gomez.
Vardolas wrote on Twitter: "I'm working on the MBFGWedding sequel; now that I'm experiencing motherhood I feel ready to write this next chapter.
"A few jaded press corps will claim I ran out of money or just want to kiss John Corbett again. One of these things is true. (sic)"
Later she added: "Re: #MyBigFatGreekWedding2, thank you for the love, yes the entire big fat family is invited back for the sequel. (sic)"
Vardalos has written the script for the project and the plot involves a "bigger and fatter" wedding than that in the first film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks will produce with Gary Goetzman, and no director has been cast yet.
'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' generally positive reviews and was a box office success and grossing over $368.7 million worldwide.
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Martin Kemp wished Tom Hardy luck for playing both Kray Twins in 'Legend'.
The 52-year-old actor starred as Reggie Kray in 1990's drama 'The Krays' and insists he had enough difficult job portraying just one of the brothers.
Kemp admits Hardy who is in talks to play the both Reggie and Ronnie Kray - who were known as perpetrators of organised crime in the East End of London during the 1950s and 1960s - may be taking on an ambitious role.
When asked if he had any advice for Hardy for playing the London gangster brothers, Kemp told BANG Showbiz: "He's gonna play both parts, interesting. I had enough trouble playing one part. Tom's a great actor. That's his decision so I wish him luck. I don't have any advice - it is just another role but playing both characters hmm ... they weren't identical twins, they were slightly different. I just wish him luck - it is just another role."
Meanwhile, Kemp who recently directed British crime drama 'Top Dog', wanted to create a piece which was different to other things he'd worked on.
He added: "What I wanted to try and do was to make a performance film. So it was all about the acting. It was about what happens behind closed doors - what are the knock on effects of the fightings that had gone off between the boys. Looking at the fights and the guys from the woman's eye, from the woman's perspective and in that way it became a performance film.
"I have seen lots of films where it's just fights and the performance sometimes lack. And I didn't want to make that -I wanted to make a rounded film."
'Top Dog' is out now on Blu-ray and DVD through Universal Pictures.
Martin Kemp wishes Tom Hardy for Cray Twins role
Martin Kemp wished Tom Hardy luck for playing both Kray Twins in 'Legend'.
The 52-year-old actor starred as Reggie Kray in 1990's drama 'The Krays' and insists he had enough difficult job portraying just one of the brothers.
Kemp admits Hardy who is in talks to play the both Reggie and Ronnie Kray - who were known as perpetrators of organised crime in the East End of London during the 1950s and 1960s - may be taking on an ambitious role.
When asked if he had any advice for Hardy for playing the London gangster brothers, Kemp told BANG Showbiz: "He's gonna play both parts, interesting. I had enough trouble playing one part. Tom's a great actor. That's his decision so I wish him luck. I don't have any advice - it is just another role but playing both characters hmm ... they weren't identical twins, they were slightly different. I just wish him luck - it is just another role."
Meanwhile, Kemp who recently directed British crime drama 'Top Dog', wanted to create a piece which was different to other things he'd worked on.
He added: "What I wanted to try and do was to make a performance film. So it was all about the acting. It was about what happens behind closed doors - what are the knock on effects of the fightings that had gone off between the boys. Looking at the fights and the guys from the woman's eye, from the woman's perspective and in that way it became a performance film.
"I have seen lots of films where it's just fights and the performance sometimes lack. And I didn't want to make that -I wanted to make a rounded film."
'Top Dog' is out now on Blu-ray and DVD through Universal Pictures.
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Charlize Theron thought she was going to die on the set of 'A Million Ways to Die in the West'.
The 38-year-old actress stars as the wife of a notorious gun-slinger in the comedy-western and while she was filming in the New Mexican desert the temperatures were so high she didn't think she would survive.
Quizzed on what it was like to film in the state, she told Collider.com: "It's a gorgeous place ... but I wouldn't necessarily want to go and shoot in it again.
"The weather was just unbelievable. I felt like it was Biblical times and we were all going to die a horrible death by weather."
Writer-director Seth MacFarlane, 40, acts alongside the 'Snow White and the Huntsman' star in the film and takes on the role of a cowardly farmer who begins to fall for her character when she teaches him how to shoot a gun and stand up for himself.
Theron admits that one day, when they'd finished shooting, MacFarlane sent her a message to warn her to leave the set as soon as possible because the heat was melting the road.
She added: "There was a night where we shot, and Seth left before me, and I got a text from him that literally just said, 'The road is washing away. Get out of your trailer right now and start driving.'
"I was like, 'I'm gonna die on this movie!'"
Charlize Theron feared death on set of new film
Charlize Theron thought she was going to die on the set of 'A Million Ways to Die in the West'.
The 38-year-old actress stars as the wife of a notorious gun-slinger in the comedy-western and while she was filming in the New Mexican desert the temperatures were so high she didn't think she would survive.
Quizzed on what it was like to film in the state, she told Collider.com: "It's a gorgeous place ... but I wouldn't necessarily want to go and shoot in it again.
"The weather was just unbelievable. I felt like it was Biblical times and we were all going to die a horrible death by weather."
Writer-director Seth MacFarlane, 40, acts alongside the 'Snow White and the Huntsman' star in the film and takes on the role of a cowardly farmer who begins to fall for her character when she teaches him how to shoot a gun and stand up for himself.
Theron admits that one day, when they'd finished shooting, MacFarlane sent her a message to warn her to leave the set as soon as possible because the heat was melting the road.
She added: "There was a night where we shot, and Seth left before me, and I got a text from him that literally just said, 'The road is washing away. Get out of your trailer right now and start driving.'
"I was like, 'I'm gonna die on this movie!'"
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'X-Men Days Of Future Past' was a "final goodbye" for the original actors.
Screenwriter Simon Kinberg insists the latest installment of the Marvel adventure, which stars Sir Patrick Stewart as the older Charles Xavier who he first played in the original 'X-Men' trilogy, Sir Ian McKellen as the villain Magneto and Shawn Ashmore as Iceman, was the final wave to these actors portrayals of the iconic characters.
Talking to The Hollywood Reporter, he said: "We approached it as a final goodbye for the original actors. But to be totally candid, that's the way I approached X-Men: The Last Stand. If you talked to me in 2006 and said, 'Do you think we'll ever see Patrick Stewart as Professor Xavier again? Do you think we'll see Ian and Halle and Ellen Page and Shawn Ashmore back on screen together?' I most likely would have said no, and certainly in the case of Patrick Stewart I would have said no way."
Although in some ways he'll miss McKellen, Ashmore and Stewart's unique take on the comic book characters the film acted as a conclusion to their story.
He added: "There's some part of our brains that hopes we will see them again, but we wanted to tell a story that felt like it was a conclusion to their stories."
Days Of Future Past was a ‘final goodbye’ for original actors
'X-Men Days Of Future Past' was a "final goodbye" for the original actors.
Screenwriter Simon Kinberg insists the latest installment of the Marvel adventure, which stars Sir Patrick Stewart as the older Charles Xavier who he first played in the original 'X-Men' trilogy, Sir Ian McKellen as the villain Magneto and Shawn Ashmore as Iceman, was the final wave to these actors portrayals of the iconic characters.
Talking to The Hollywood Reporter, he said: "We approached it as a final goodbye for the original actors. But to be totally candid, that's the way I approached X-Men: The Last Stand. If you talked to me in 2006 and said, 'Do you think we'll ever see Patrick Stewart as Professor Xavier again? Do you think we'll see Ian and Halle and Ellen Page and Shawn Ashmore back on screen together?' I most likely would have said no, and certainly in the case of Patrick Stewart I would have said no way."
Although in some ways he'll miss McKellen, Ashmore and Stewart's unique take on the comic book characters the film acted as a conclusion to their story.
He added: "There's some part of our brains that hopes we will see them again, but we wanted to tell a story that felt like it was a conclusion to their stories."
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Bryan Singer will direct 'X-Men: Apocalypse'.
The filmmaker is returning to helm the next chapter of the mutant superhero movie, despite being hit with two sexual abuse lawsuits in recent months.
Asked whether Singer would be back, producer Simon Kinberg told the Daily Beast: "That's the plan."
The follow-up film to current blockbuster 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' - which has made $302 million at the global box-office - is set to focus primarily on the younger generation of superheroes, including Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique and James McAvoy's Professor X, but will also feature the older characters like Sir Ian McKellen's Magneto.
Kinberg said: "It will focus primarily on the 'First Class' cast, but it will certainly have some of the original cast involved, too."
Singer strenuously denies claims he sexually abused two men when they were teenagers and Kinberg naturally refused to comment on the allegations.
The producer added: "Well, I don't really want to speak on anything outside the movie, but I believe Bryan created the template for the modern superhero movie.
"I remember where I was when I saw 'X-Men,' and I thought he redefined the way people made comic book films."
'X-Men: Apocalypse' is set for release on May 27, 2016.
Bryan Singer back for X-Men: Apocalypse
Bryan Singer will direct 'X-Men: Apocalypse'.
The filmmaker is returning to helm the next chapter of the mutant superhero movie, despite being hit with two sexual abuse lawsuits in recent months.
Asked whether Singer would be back, producer Simon Kinberg told the Daily Beast: "That's the plan."
The follow-up film to current blockbuster 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' - which has made $302 million at the global box-office - is set to focus primarily on the younger generation of superheroes, including Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique and James McAvoy's Professor X, but will also feature the older characters like Sir Ian McKellen's Magneto.
Kinberg said: "It will focus primarily on the 'First Class' cast, but it will certainly have some of the original cast involved, too."
Singer strenuously denies claims he sexually abused two men when they were teenagers and Kinberg naturally refused to comment on the allegations.
The producer added: "Well, I don't really want to speak on anything outside the movie, but I believe Bryan created the template for the modern superhero movie.
"I remember where I was when I saw 'X-Men,' and I thought he redefined the way people made comic book films."
'X-Men: Apocalypse' is set for release on May 27, 2016.
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Karen Gillan has been cast 'In A Valley Of Violence'.
The 26-year-old actress - who is known for her role as Amy Pond in the British sci-fi series 'Doctor Who' - will reportedly star opposite Ethan Hawke, John Travolta and Taissa Farmiga in the western.
Gillan and Farmiga play sisters who run a hotel in a small town in the 1890s and they're caught in Hawke's mission to seek vengeance for his murdered best friend.
The forthcoming film which will be directed by 'The House Of The Devil' helmer Ti West and will see Gillian reunite with Blumouse Productions, the company behind horror 'Oculus', where she landed a starring role as Kaylie Russell.
Gillan will hit the big screen later this year in 'Guardians of the Galaxy' as Nebula, after she shaved her head for the role. Talking about the character, she previously said: "She is the female villain of the film. She teams up with Lee Pace who is the male villain. She is very sadistic and evil, but I like to think for a very valid reason."
She is also slated to play the lead role in the upcoming U.S. comedy series 'Selfie', which is loosely based on 'My Fair Lady'.
Karen Gillan to star In A Valley Of Violence
Karen Gillan has been cast 'In A Valley Of Violence'.
The 26-year-old actress - who is known for her role as Amy Pond in the British sci-fi series 'Doctor Who' - will reportedly star opposite Ethan Hawke, John Travolta and Taissa Farmiga in the western.
Gillan and Farmiga play sisters who run a hotel in a small town in the 1890s and they're caught in Hawke's mission to seek vengeance for his murdered best friend.
The forthcoming film which will be directed by 'The House Of The Devil' helmer Ti West and will see Gillian reunite with Blumouse Productions, the company behind horror 'Oculus', where she landed a starring role as Kaylie Russell.
Gillan will hit the big screen later this year in 'Guardians of the Galaxy' as Nebula, after she shaved her head for the role. Talking about the character, she previously said: "She is the female villain of the film. She teams up with Lee Pace who is the male villain. She is very sadistic and evil, but I like to think for a very valid reason."
She is also slated to play the lead role in the upcoming U.S. comedy series 'Selfie', which is loosely based on 'My Fair Lady'.