Ana de Armas‘ appearance in the trailer for the 2018 Beatles film Yesterday, despite ultimately being cut from the film, has resulted in a federal ruling that movie studios who deceive audiences with misleading movie trailers can be sued for false advertising. The move comes after two of the actress’ …
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If your stance is, rightly, that Marilyn Monroe was a kind of genius, an actress for whom the status of sex symbol comes with an asterisk, because she was not helplessly beholden to her iconic image — not merely a slave to the culture’s open-flied erotic hunger, not simply the …
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The Marilyn Monroe Estate has released a statement supporting the casting of Ana de Armas as the Hollywood icon in upcoming film Blonde.The statement, released by Variety, comes after a backlash to the trailer released last week, which revealed that the Cuban/Spanish actress’ accent does not entirely mimic Monroe’s breathy …
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If the movies have taught us anything, it’s that there’s always a booming market for assassins — and should you be a government-sanctioned executioner, you’ll eventually use your deadly skill set against the very folks who’ve trained you. (That, and don’t feed creatures purchased from a Chinatown antique store after …
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The return of a master of the genre, they said. Maybe the erotic thriller isn’t dead after all, they said. Never mind that the release of the Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas thriller Deep Water— director Adrian Lyne’s first movie since Unfaithful 20 years ago —was repeatedly delayed. This …
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