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26 Apr

Harrison Ford Uses Oscar Night to Roast Blade Runner Studio Notes

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He could hardly wait to pull the notes out of his pocket. That’s at least what it looked like when Harrison Ford showed up in his tuxedo at 2021’s singular Oscars ceremony. Coming on stage to present the award for Best Editing, the once and future Indiana Jones star took the moment to share with audiences a few of his favorite notes from a little movie he did back in the day—though it’s doubtful any Blade Runner fan couldn’t immediately guess the name of the picture. “I want to share some notes, some editorial suggestions that were prepared after the…

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14 Apr

Link Tank: The Actors With the Most Oscar Nominations of All Time

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With the Oscars just around the corner, let’s take a look at the actors with the most Academy Award nominations of all time. “Some actors are in a lot of movies, some actors are in great movies, and some actors are in a lot of great movies. In this last category, Meryl Streep is the reigning champ. From her first Oscar nod for 1978’s The Deer Hunter to her most recent one for 2017’s The Post, Streep has amassed a total of 21 Academy Award nominations: four for best supporting actress and a staggering 17 for best actress.” Read more…

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13 Apr

Marvel’s Moon Knight: Oscar Isaac Wails on Some Dudes in Behind the Scenes Footage

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Oscar Isaac has been posting some pretty cool behind the scenes Moon Knight clips online since late March, which has been a treat for everyone following his production company, Mad Gene Media, over on Instagram. While Marvel has kept much of its prep for the forthcoming Disney+ series under wraps, Isaac hasn’t been shy about sharing his gruelling fight training for the role of The One You See Coming. Training for a very physical part that includes all the Marvel bells and whistles can be tough, but the 42-year-old Star Wars and X-Men actor makes it look like a walk…

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12 Mar

The Training Day Moment That Won Denzel Washington an Oscar

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In Training Day, Denzel Washington’s undercover detective Alonzo Harris is playing the long game, and edging both sides against the middle. “This shit’s chess, it ain’t checkers,” he explains to Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke), the rookie cop being led down the road to perdition. As another Denzel copper learned in the 1998 Satanic thriller Fallen, the devil often appears in the least likely of guises. For Training Day, Washington plays against type to lay out the temptations of easy money and real, street legal power. Alonzo may not have nabbed Jake’s soul with his opening gambit, but he walked away…

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05 Dec

Is Oscar Isaac’s Solid Snake Casting Reason to Believe in the Metal Gear Solid Movie?

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Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ long-dormant Metal Gear Solid adaptation received a surprising burst of life today when Deadline reported that Oscar Isaac has been cast as Solid Snake. The details of Isaac’s involvement are few and far between at this time, but some have already pointed out that Isaac’s loaded upcoming schedule (which includes Moon Knight and an HBO miniseries) likely means that the Metal Gear Solid movie likely won’t start filming until sometime later in 2021. Even then, that’s an optimistic projection that doesn’t necessarily account for the million things that can happen between now and then as well as…

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26 Oct

Oscar Isaac in Talks for Marvel’s Moon Knight on Disney+

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Oscar Isaac is in talks to join the Marvel screen universe as Moon Knight, according to Deadline. Isaac, who starred as Poe Dameron in the latest Star Wars trilogy for LucasFilm and Disney, will now stay with the Mouse House if he signs up to star in Marvel’s Moon Knight series, which has been announced for the Disney+ streaming service. Moon Knight, a.k.a. Marc Spector, was created by writer Doug Moench and artist Don Perlin and made his Marvel Comics debut in the August 1975 issue of Werewolf by Night. The son of a rabbi, a former CIA agent and…

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30 Sep

The Godfather Making-Of Movie Casts Oscar Isaac as Francis Ford Coppola

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Like Michael Corleone dreaming of a life with Kay, Hollywood may never be able to go back to the way things were in the 1970s… but they can make movies about what is generally viewed as their second golden age! Fresh off news that Ben Affleck will direct a movie about the making of Chinatown, another Paramount Pictures masterpiece of the New Hollywood era is getting its own film with Barry Levinson’s Frances and The Godfather. And now Jake Gyllenhaal and Oscar Isaac are climbing aboard, with the latter playing Francis Ford Coppola. The news comes out of Deadline, which…

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16 Sep

Wonder Woman Could Face Oscar Competition From Another Superhero Movie

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It has been a topic of conversation for quite some time now. Will a major comic-book property ever contend for an Academy Award? This year, at least two are making a play. It has been a topic of conversation for quite some time now. Will a major comic-book property ever contend for an Academy Award? This year, at least two are making a play. Source from..

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