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11 Dec

News of the World Review: Tom Hanks Western Has Rugged Warmth

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Cynthia Ann Parker was about nine years old when she was taken by Comanche warriors during an attack on her family’s settlement. She lived with the Native American tribe for 24 years, married into it, and eventually had Comanche children. When she was finally “saved” by Texas Rangers, she hardly recognized her old way of life or the culture she was thrust back into. Her fate was a tragedy, but her story became the stuff of legend, even inspiring one of the greatest Westerns ever made, John Ford’s The Searchers. The legacy of Ford’s epic, as well as the real…
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10 Jul

Greyhound Review: Tom Hanks Adrift

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Tom Hanks has a knack for playing courageous captains who constantly beat the odds. He also has a habit of starring in or producing sterling World War II dramas. This holds true from Captain Phillips to Sully on one side of this paradigm, and Band of Brothers to The Pacific on the other. But for the first time since the one that started it all, Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, the two old reliable tropes intersect once more with Greyhound, a new naval thriller premiering on Apple TV+. Yet, to borrow from another famous World War II event, this might’ve…
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07 Jul

Tom Hanks Criticizes the Maskless, Compares COVID-19 to World War II

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Tom Hanks certainly has a unique perspective about the ongoing scourge of COVID-19, seeing as he and wife Rita Wilson contracted the disease back in March; an occurrence that made him the highest profile early case for what would rapidly escalate to the pandemic we all know today. Now, having thankfully pulled through, the two-time Best Lead Actor Oscar winner is using the publicity platform for his imminently-arriving World War II Apple TV+ movie, Greyhound, to address the dangerously widespread nonchalance of those who opt not to wear protective masks in public. Appearing remotely on NBC’s Today show for an…
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19 May

Greyhound: Tom Hanks World War II Movie Goes Straight to Apple TV+

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In the latest example of the coronavirus pandemic wreaking havoc on the movie industry, the once Father’s Day bound theatrical release of Greyhound, a movie that stars Tom Hanks and is set in World War II, is now finding safe harbor for wide release on Apple TV+. Considering that Hanks and WWII go together like, well, Father’s Day and ties, this development is both another harbinger of the changing times as well as a major step-up in commitments for feature films by Apple. Indeed, as broken by Deadline, Greyhound will premiere simultaneously in 100 countries on Apple’s new streaming service,…
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12 Mar

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson Have Coronavirus

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Tom Hanks has tested positive for coronavirus. The actor confirmed that he and wife Rita Wilson became ill while on location in Australia’s Gold Coast region during filming on Baz Luhrmann’s forthcoming Elvis Presley movie, set to be released by Warner Bros in October, 2021. In the film, Luhrmann’s first feature since 2013’s The Great Gatsby, Hanks stars as Colonel Tom Parker alongside Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rufus Sewell and Olivia DeJonge. The news was posted across Hanks’ official social media accounts, as Deadline broke the story: pic.twitter.com/pgybgIYJdG— Tom Hanks (@tomhanks) March 12, 2020 “Hello, folks. Rita and I are down here…
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06 Mar

Greyhound: Trailer Arrives for Tom Hanks World War II Movie

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Greyhound will see Tom Hanks return to the backdrop of World War II; an arena in which he has excelled, both onscreen in 1998’s Saving Private Ryan and offscreen as executive producer of HBO miniseries offerings Band of Brothers and The Pacific. Here, Hanks serves as star, writer, and producer for the Sony film, tackling a different aspect of the war, the seas, with a story centered on an international convoy of Allied ships, racing across North Atlantic seas filled with Nazi U-boats. Greyhound is an adaptation of the novel, The Good Shepherd, by C.S. Forester. It’s a World War…
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