Marvel megastars Samuel L Jackson, Angelina Jolie and Salma Hayek cosy up for cute off-duty snap during fun evening together
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- Published on Monday, 15 November 2021 11:39
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He doesn't appear in the latest Marvel film.But, Samuel L Jackson, 72, cosied up to Eternals co-stars Angelina Jolie, 46, and Salma Hayek, 55, for a cute off-duty snap, taken during a recent fun evening together.The trio of megastars appeared with the movie's director, Chloé Zhao, 39, and the film's producer, Victoria Alonso, 55, in a bash hosted by the King of Cool at the end of October.Samuel L Jackson wore a black hoodie and matching beanie as he beamed with delight, while Angelina stunned in a green number. Posting the photo to her Instagram on Sunday, Salma wrote alongside: 'With the eternally cool @samuelljackson and my @eternals sisters @angelinajolie @chloezhao @victoriaalonso76 [photo] by @samanthalopezs.Mexican actress Salma plays Ajak in the new Marvel movie, who is depicted as the leader of the group of super-beings and the only one capable of communicating with their Celestial mentor Arishem.Angelina plays Thena in Eternals, an elite warrior who can form any weapon out of pure cosmic energy, and develops a close bond with Gilgamesh over the centuries. Samuel L Jackson has long portrayed Nick Fury, the founder of the Avengers, who frequently helps the team's various superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.Currently, the actor is working on Secret Invasion, a new series for Disney+ in which he reprises his role as Nick Fury. Speaking about her new role, Salma told Variety: 'It never crossed my mind to be in a Marvel movie. I guess that I thought that boat had sailed, and it was an absolute shock.' The Eternals were created by comic book legend Jack Kirby in 1976, his first project after returning to Marvel following a well-publicized move to DC.The story followed The Eternals, described as a sentient offshoot of the evolutionary process that created life on Earth as we know it.They were created by The Celestials, who intended for The Eternals to defend Earth against their more nefarious counterparts, The Deviants.
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Angelina Jolie reveals she doesn't watch her own films as she prefers the process of making them and she is a 'terrible critic'
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- Published on Wednesday, 10 November 2021 07:18
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Angelina Jolie has admitted that she doesn't usually watch her own movies.The 46-year-old American actress made the confession during a discussion with Nova radio host Kent 'Smallzy' Small on Smallzy's Celebrity Small Talk. Angelina came on the show to talk about her latest role in the latest MCU film The Eternals before revealing she doesn't watch many of her movies as she prefers the 'process'. 'No, there's quite a few films of mine I've actually never seen, cause I like the process,' the Academy Award winner said. 'I usually see it and I get frustrated cause I thought it was going to be something else. So I'm a terrible critic.' 'I really just like the making of. But I enjoyed watching this one, I've seen it,' she explained.Eternals is Marvel's 28th film based on a fictional race of humanoid aliens of the same name which first appeared in an American comic book series.The film sees the Eternals, who have powers and are immortal, come out of hiding for the first time in thousands of years to battle the evil Deviants.The movie, which premiered in Los Angeles earlier this month, stars Angelina Jolie as Thena, leader of the Eternals.It also features Gemma Chan as Sersi, Richard Madden as Ikaris, Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo and Lauren Ridloff as Makkari.The film was directed and co-written by Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao, who won the Oscar for Best Director and Best Picture last year for Nomadland.The Eternals is showing in Australian cinemas now
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Angelina Jolie is a stylish shopper in a sweeping black dress as she loads up on groceries with daughter Vivienne in Hollywood
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- Published on Sunday, 07 November 2021 09:52
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Angelina Jolie did not taper back her fashion sense for a lowkey grocery run in Hollywood on Friday evening.The 46-year-old Eternals star was seen in a sweeping black dress as she did a little shopping at a Gelson's market, accompanied by daughter Vivienne, 13.The duo spent about 40 minutes in the store browsing the aisles and bagged their own groceries before heading out with a bounty of provisions in each hand.Angelina modeled a chic black frock and a pair of black stilettos with a cozy-looking knit cardigan that fell past her knees.Vivienne on the other hand seemed more appropriately dressed for a last minute grocery run as she emerged ahead of her mom in grey sweats and a T-shirt with Nike sneakers. As the duo shopped in the store they were seen being quite affectionate as they wrapped their arms around each other while perusing the freezer section. Vivienne was seen pushing the grocery cart through the aisles while the Maleficent star put items such as pretzel Goldfish, Pirate's Booty, oranges, vegetables and juice into the cart. As her household is filled with six growing children: Maddox, 19, Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 15, and Vivienne and Knox, 13, Angelina made sure to get a variety of items that her whole brood would enjoy. Jolie's outing comes after she criticized several Gulf Nations including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar for refusing to screen her latest Marvel film Eternals based on the depiction of a homosexual relationship. In the film, Bryan Tyree Henry (Phastos) shares a kiss with Haaz Sleiman (Ben) marking the first ever same sex kiss in the Marvel franchise, causing Angelina to speak out on the nations' decision to censor the film all together.'I'm sad for [those audiences]. I'm proud of Marvel for refusing to cut those scenes out,' she told Australian outlet news.com.au.'I still don't understand how we live in a world today where there's still [people who] would not see the family Phastos has and the beauty of that relationship and that love. How anybody is angry about it, threatened by it, doesn't approve or appreciate it is ignorant.'
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Angelina Jolie calls Middle Eastern ban of Eternals 'ignorant' and is 'proud' Marvel refused to cut scenes featuring gay couple ... after Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar barred film release
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- Published on Saturday, 06 November 2021 10:02
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Angelina Jolie reacted to the news that her new Marvel movie, Etertnals, has been banned by several countries in the Middle East over the portrayal of gay couple.During a press conference, the 46-year-old A-lister said she was 'sad' audiences would miss out and expressed her disbelief over 'ignorant' views regarding the 'beauty of that relationship' in the film, according to news.com.au.On Thursday it was reported that Eternals would not be shown in Saudi Arabia, Qatar or Kuwait over censorship concerns because it features a gay couple and a same-sex kiss. 'I'm sad for [those audiences],' Angelina said during an interview. 'And I'm proud of Marvel for refusing to cut those scenes out.' The movie, which was due for release in the Middle East on November 11, has been quietly removed from websites in several countries advertising upcoming films.No official reason has been given, but homosexuality is still illegal across much of the Middle East and films are frequently banned there for referencing LGBT issues.Eternals features Marvel's first on-screen gay couple - superhero Phastos, played by Brian Tyree Henry, who shares a home with non-hero Ben, played by Haaz Sleiman. 'I still don't understand how we live in a world today where there's still [people who] would not see the family Phastos has and the beauty of that relationship and that love,' Angelina said.Adding: 'How anybody is angry about it, threatened by it, doesn't approve or appreciate it is ignorant.' At one point during the film, the Phastos and his husband share a passionate kiss. It will be Marvel's first same-sex kiss shown in cinemas.Ahead of the release, censors in several Middle Eastern nations had requested edits to remove the gay couple, according to The Hollywood Reporter.But Disney, the company which owns the Marvel franchise, refused and the movie was pulled, according to the site.One Middle Eastern cinema chain confirmed to the site that Eternals had been 'banned', though said they had not been given an explanation.Last year, the Pixar film Onward was pulled from cinemas in Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia over a single line that referenced a lesbian relationship.It is not the first time Eternals has been targeted because of its gay characters.Earlier this week the movie was 'review-bombed' - where people who haven't seen a film target it with malicious reviews - which is thought to have been triggered by its depiction of homosexuality.The Last of Us Part II, the latest installment of a popular Playstation franchise that was released last year, was similarly targeted - thought to be at least in part due to its prominent use of LGBT characters.Meanwhile Eternals was also given an 18 rating in Singapore due to its depiction of homosexuality, the first film in the Marvel franchise not to get a PG13 rating.Eternals is Marvel's 28th film based on a fictional race of humanoid aliens of the same name which first appeared in an American comic book series.The film sees the Eternals, who are immortal, come out of hiding for the first time in thousands of years to protect Earth from their evil counterparts, the Deviants.The movie, which premiered in Los Angeles earlier this month, stars Angelina Jolie as Thena, leader of the Eternals, alongside Gemma Chan as Sersi, Richard Madden as Ikaris, Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo and Lauren Ridloff as Makkari.The film was directed and co-written by Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao, who won the Oscar for Best Director and Best Picture last year for Nomadland.
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'I've always been careful': Angelina Jolie weighs in on Alec Baldwin's fatal shooting accident as she says she follows 'serious procedures' on films where she is the director
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- Published on Friday, 05 November 2021 06:16
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Angelina Jolie has revealed she is 'always careful' and follows gun procedure on set following Alec Baldwin's fatal shooting accident on the set of his film Rust.The actress, 46, weighed in on the tragic incident after the actor, 63, was given a loaded gun, which he shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with, as well as injuring director Joel Souza.Angelina, who has worked with guns on set on many occassions both as an actor and director, said that 'certain procedures' have to be taken 'very seriously', when asked about the accident during a recent interview with The Times.The Eternals star, said: 'I can't imagine what these families are going through. At this moment, the grief and the tragedy of that accident is quite overwhelming. 'I've always been very careful because I've had to work with guns a lot. The way I've worked or checked when I'm directing, there are certain procedures. You have to take it very seriously.'Angelina's many action parts have seen her handling guns on countless occassions, including her roles in Tomb Raider, Mr & Mrs Smith and Salt.The A-lister previously revealed her pro-gun stance in 2008 when she admitted she kept a gun in the house during her marriage to Brad Pitt, 57. She said: 'Brad and I are not against having a gun in the house, and we do have one. And yes, I'd be able to use it if I had to… If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I have no problem shooting them.'The latest update in the Baldwin case is that lawyers representing the armorer who loaded his gun claimed the weapon was left unattended for two hours on set, before backtracking and saying it was only ten minutes.Jason Bowles, speaking on behalf of Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, suggested the gun may have been tampered with before it fired the fatal shot during the filming of Rust.The .45 Long Colt was not supposed to contain live rounds and was one of three on a tray given to assistant director David Halls who then passed it on to Baldwin.Gutierrez-Reed, 24, who says she gave the actor gun training and told him to never point a firearm at someone, had loaded the gun on the prop cart with six dummy rounds which she took from a prop ammunition box labeled 'dummies', Bowles claims.These rounds do not contain any gunpowder and are used on film sets to mimic real bullets.Bowles claimed the guns were left unattended for two hours including the crew's lunch break during a TV interview on Wednesday.But later he backtracked after consulting Gutierrez-Reed, saying the guns had been locked in a safe during lunch and were only left unattended for five to 10 minutes, he told the New York Times. Bowles said his client had asked her colleagues to watch the gun cart when she was not there and she remembered seeing it left unattended at points throughout the day.
Gutierrez-Reed loaded the three firearms at 11am, including the .45 Long Colt, which were to be used during filming on the fateful day, fellow lawyer Robert Gorence said.He said: 'Was there a duty to safeguard them 24/7? The answer is no, because there were no live rounds.'The gun was declared 'cold' meaning it was safe to use and it remains unclear how a live round was used. Gutierrez-Reed said in a statement issued by her lawyers: 'Who put those in there and why is the central question. 'Hannah kept guns locked up, including throughout lunch on the day in question, and she instructed her department to watch the cart containing the guns when she was pulled away for her other duties or on a lunch break.'The statement goes on to say that 'Hannah did everything in her power to ensure a safe set. She inspected the rounds that she loaded into the firearms that day. She always inspected the rounds.'The statement adds that she inspected the rounds before handing the firearm to assistant director David Halls 'by spinning the cylinder and showing him all of the rounds and then handing him the firearm.''No one could have anticipated or thought that someone would introduce live rounds into this set,' Gutierrez Reed's statement said.The statement also noted that 'she did firearms training for the actors as well as Mr. Baldwin, she fought for more training days and she regularly emphasized to never point a firearm at a person.'It comes as Halyna's husband Matthew hired the firm Panish, Shea, Boyle and Ravipudi in Los Angeles and is set to file a wrongful death lawsuit.Sources told TMZ there will be multiple defendants in the suit and it will be filed on behalf of Matthew and their son Andros, nine, following her death on October 21. Gutierrez Reed's attorneys floated the theory that a 'disgruntled' crew member may have planted the live round on set as an act of revenge, during an interview with the Today show's Savannah Guthrie on Wednesday. In the wake of the fatal shooting that also wounded director Joel Souza, several crew members have come out claiming that they were overworked and denied hotel rooms in the vicinity of the New Mexico set. 'I believe that somebody who would do that, would want to sabotage the set, would want to prove a point, want to say they're disgruntled, they're unhappy,' Jason Bowles said. 'And we know that people had already walked off the set the day before... and the reason they are unhappy is they're working 12 to 14 hour days, they are not given hotel rooms in and around the area, so they had to drive back and forth an hour to Albuquerque, and they're unhappy.'
Gutierrez Reed has not been named a suspect, or charged with any crime in connection with Hutchins' killing, but she retained legal representation. 'There was a box of dummy rounds, and the box is labeled 'dummy,'' Bowles said. '[Gutierrez Reed] loaded rounds from that box into the handgun, only later to find out - she had no idea - that there was a live round.'The armorer then handed the vintage Colt pistol to assistant director David Halls, who, in turn, passed it on to Baldwin and announced 'cold gun,' indicating that the weapon was safe to use, according to authorities investigating the deadly October 21 shooting near Santa Fe, New Mexico. 'We're assuming somebody put the live round in that box,' Bowles told Guthrie. 'The person who put the live round in the box of dummy rounds had to have the purpose of sabotaging the set. There is no other reason you would do that: that you would mix that live round in with the dummy rounds.' Gorence said the box of dummy ammunition was in a prop truck, which was 'completely unattended at all times, giving someone access and opportunity.' Gutierrez Reed's lawyers defended her actions that day, saying that the loaded gun was not in her care for the entire duration of the filming because she was expected to perform two jobs on set: as an armorer and a props assistant. Bowels said that after lunch, Gutierrez Reed handed the gun she had loaded earlier to Halls and then went about performing her other duties as a props assistant.As she handed over the Colt, the lawyer said Gutierrez Reed spun the chamber to show Halls the rounds inside.'She did spin the cylinder for him,' Bowles said. 'She did show him each and every round in that chamber, which there were six.'He added: 'The problem is, when you look at a dummy round and you look at their appearance, they have the same projectile tip; some of these do not have a hole in the side. They mimic and look like a real round.'The armorer's legal team admitted that she did not inspect the gun to ascertain that the rounds inside the chamber were not live ammunition.Gorence explained that Gutierrez Reed was not inside the church set at the time of the shooting because it took place while cameras were being set up, and not during filming,'She wasn't there,' the lawyer stressed.The armorer's attorneys said they are cooperating with the investigation, and are hoping that the FBI would be able to determine who had planted the live round. The attorneys for Gutierrez Reed she is 'absolutely devastated.' 'She remains very emotional about everything that's happened,' Bowles said. 'Coming on the scene and everything that she saw, she is heartbroken and she is just devastated by what's happened.' Meanwhile, 'Rust' camera assistant Lane Luper, who quit on the eve of the shooting, told Good Morning America that there were only two safety meetings on set and said production did not take gun safety seriously.'I think with Rust, it was the perfect storm of the armorer, the assistant director, the culture that was on set, the rushing. It was everything,' he said.Luper claimed the crew were overworked and exhausted from commuting to and from the set, and he also cited poor gun safety, which he said resulted in two accidental weapon discharges and one accidental sound-effects explosion. Baldwin has been largely silent about what happened on the set of 'Rust,' but on Tuesday he shared a social media post from one crew member slamming her coworkers for painting a 'blatantly false' picture of the set as 'chaotic and unsafe'. Baldwin issued a public statement the day after Hutchins' death in which he indicated that he was cooperating with authorities and offered his condolences to her family. Halls released a statement to the New York Post on Monday, saying he hopes the tragedy prompts the film industry to 'reevaluate its values and practices' to ensure no one is harmed again. Concerns have been raised about Halls' safety record by colleagues on two previous productions. Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said last week there was 'some complacency' in how weapons were handled on the set. Investigators found around 500 rounds of ammunition — a mix of blanks, dummy rounds and suspected live rounds — even though the set's armorer, Gutierrez Reed, said real ammo should never have been present.
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