Many decades ago, a man — feared by some and respected by others — had a breakthrough idea. He and a team of dedicated colleagues worked feverishly to make the conceptual notion come to fruition. It was a big swing, and the end result would become a historical game changer. …
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Batman Begins could have had a very different take on its villain. Following a screening of Oppenheimer at the Aero Theater in Los Angeles last weekend, Robert Downey Jr. revealed that he lobbied director Christopher Nolan to play the part that eventually went to Cillian Murphy. “I’m pretty sure that …
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Robert Downey Jr. poked fun at movie critics during his acceptance speech at the annual Critics Choice Awards last night. After winning Best Supporting Actor for his work in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, Downey took the opportunity to recount some of his worst reviews. “I was thinking this morning: I love …
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Gwyneth Paltrow has a tenuous relationship with the MCU despite playing Pepper Potts in numerous Marvel films. During an appearance at the Red Sea Film Festival, Paltrow confirmed that she “stopped watching them at some point.” “I’ve never seen Endgame,” the actress told the audience during a career retrospective event. …
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One of the year’s biggest hits — and a surefire Oscar contender — is Oppenheimer, filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s three-hour epic, captured on sprawling 65 mm, about theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer’s stewardship of the Manhattan Project that created the world’s first atomic bomb, his anxiety over unleashing such a destructive …
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In the beginning, there were simply explosions. Smaller bangs — the big one would come much later, in the New Mexico desert. But for J. Robert Oppenheimer, the quantum physicist who would guide the greatest scientific minds of his generation toward creating a doomsday device, it was all just a …
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When Chris Smith — a documentarian who had tackled everything from Method acting run amuck to a music festival falling apart — was asked what subjects he might be interested in pursuing in terms of a new project, he didn’t mention a “what.” Instead, he gave his producers a “who”: …
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Robert Downey Sr., the counterculture filmmaker best known for his satire Putney Swope, died Wednesday, July 7th. He was 85. Downey Sr.’s son, the actor Robert Downey Jr., confirmed his death with a post on Instagram, saying, “Last night, dad passed peacefully in his sleep after years of enduring the …
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Jimmy Fallon tapped the cast of Avengers: Endgame to create a new take on Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” themed to the new Marvel movie. In the video, which aired on The Tonight Show, everyone from Robert Downey Jr. to Chris Evans offered lyrics about the history of …
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