Dev Patel knows about his celebrity lookalike contest, which took place in San Francisco in November and drew more than 500 people, and he’s in awe. The actor was asked about the event during a talk at the Red Sea Film Festival and confirmed, “Oh, yes. I have heard all …
Read More »Jordan Peele's Fourth Film Appears to Be Set for 2026
Jordan Peele appears to have landed on a release date for his next horror flick: Oct. 23, 2026, according to a Monday social media post. The project marks Peele’s fourth feature film as a director, just in time for spooky season. A cast, synopsis, and other details have been yet …
Read More »'There Were Punches I Didn't Want to Pull': Why Dev Patel Needed to Make 'Monkey Man'
All Dev Patel knew was: The man was wearing a rubber monkey mask. Past that, everything else was a mystery. The 33-year-old actor had this image stuck in his head. There’s a young man, sweaty and battered, standing in a crude wrestling ring located in what Patel excitedly describes as …
Read More »'Monkey Man': Welcome to the Action-Movie Pantheon, Dev Patel
Revenge, we’re constantly told, is a dish best served cold — unless you’re a modern genre-flick fanatic, in which case you need payback to be served piping hot and preferably moving at 120 mph. Monkey Man is, on the surface, a fairly simple tale of vengeance: Man has vendetta. Man …
Read More »Dev Patel Goes On a Vengeful Rampage In Directorial Debut With First 'Monkey Man' Trailer
Dev Patel‘s directorial debut comes in the form of a bloody, violent revenge story as he punches his way through hoards of bad guys in the first trailer for his upcoming film Monkey Man. Jordan Peele is producing the movie through his production company Monkeypaw, and the movie is set …
Read More »Wes Anderson's 'The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar' Is Barely a Movie — and One of His Best
The golden rule is usually, “Show, don’t tell.” And Wes Anderson is a filmmaker who — judging by the overly meticulous mise-en-scène, the highly mannered methods of his storytelling, the obsessive curating and compulsive footnoting of onscreen bric-a-brac — seems to love the structure that comes with obeying unwritten rules. …
Read More »Dev Patel Stopped a 'Violent' Knife Fight in Australia: He 'Acted on His Natural Instinct'
Dev Patel can add peacemaker to the list of skills on his resume. On Monday, the actor intervened and helped stop a “violent altercation” outside a convenience store in Adelaide, Australia, the hometown of his girlfriend Tilda Cobham-Hervey. “Dev Patel and his friends witnessed a violent altercation that was already …
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