Netflix announced today that it’s picking up a new film from Murder On The Orient Express co-stars Josh Gad and Daisy Ridley. Tragically, the new project will not simply be a documentary in which Gad employs ever-more complex schemes to get Ridley to cough up some Star Wars spoilers; instead, Variety is…
Chadwick Boseman will soon appear in a second movie as the Marvel superhero Black Panther, but he’s already three movies deep into a different franchise: the Chadwick Boseman Plays Important Figures Of The 20th Century Expanded Universe. After tackling Jackie Robinson in 42 and James Brown in Get On Up, he has moved…
Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express is one of the most famous murder mysteries, so promotion for the latest film adaptation of the novel began with reintroducing the strangers on a train. As we see in this second preview, Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh, who is rocking that scalloped ’stache) is tasked with…
Taking a break from playing Disney sidekicks, Josh Gad will add his interpretation of Truman Capote to the cinematic canon in the upcoming film Party Of The Century, about the author’s famous Black And White Ball. According to a release, the story is not entirely centered on Capote—instead, it focuses on the romance…
Stalled production on the DCEU’s new Batman movie has raised some concerns, as the film tries to hang on to Ben Affleck in some capacity after bringing in Matt Reeves to take over as director. Joe Manganiello recently asked fans to chill out about the whole thing, despite the fact that he’s playing Deathstroke in the…
We already knew that Kenneth Branagh’s new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder On The Orient Express was going to be a starry affair, with basically every character played by a celebrity of some sort. Now, Entertainment Weekly has debuted images of the celebrity passengers all decked out in their period garb.
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Shiny but not exactly new, Bill Condon’s live-action Beauty And The Beast is a curious nostalgia object, synthetically engineered to reproduce all the same sensations as a 26-year-old movie. Once content merely rereleasing or straight-to-video sequelizing its vast canon of animated classics, Disney has recently turned…
We recently reported that Russia was considering a ban on Disney’s live-action Beauty And The Beast movie due to it possibly being “gay propaganda,” with the issue stemming from the reveal that Josh Gad’s LeFou is depicted as gay in the film. Now, The Hollywood Reporter says that Russia’s culture ministry has decided…
When director Bill Condon mentioned in passing that his upcoming Beauty And The Beast would touch, very briefly, on the sexuality of Josh Gad’s character—Gaston-admiring crony LeFou—he probably wasn’t expecting to unite Russian politicians and Alabama-based theater owners in common homophobic cause. But, as reported…
The trailers for Disney’s live action adaptation of Beauty And The Beast have hewed closely to the animated film, but the remake will apparently offer something both new and quite possibly revelatory. Director Bill Condon explained in a new interview with British magazine Attitude that it will tackle LGBT themes in…
Look, Josh Gad is fucking trying. The latest in his ongoing series of duplicitous attempts to get Daisy Ridley to reveal Last Jedi plot details has come out, and he has called in no higher authority than Dame Judi Dench for help. The three all have supporting roles in Kenneth Branagh’s upcoming adaptation of Murder On…
Josh Gad has taken a break from trying to get details about The Last Jedi out of Daisy Ridley to dedicate a song to Kellyanne Conway. Inspired by Conway’s latest nonsense—her invented Bowling Green massacre—Gad posted a video of himself singing a reworked version of “Making Things Up Again” from his breakout role in …
Actor Josh Gad is costarring with Daisy Ridley in Kenneth Branagh’s upcoming adaptation of Murder On The Orient Express, a high-profile project but a stopgap for Ridley between episodes seven and eight of the new Star Wars trilogy. Last week, shortly after the title of this year’s installment was revealed as The Last…
After leaked footage revealed animal abuse on the set of A Dog’s Purpose, star Josh Gad and the film’s director and producer have all called for an investigation into the company responsible, while PETA has urged a boycott of the film. Should it still be released? And how deep does this company’s history of animal…
The humans behind A Dog’s Purpose are responding to the upsetting footage released yesterday, showing a seemingly frightened German Shepherd being forced into turbulent water to film a scene. Both director Lasse Hallström and actor Josh Gad have expressed their own dismay and concern over the leaked video, which casts…
Kenneth Branagh’s Murder On The Orient Express has managed to shove one more passenger onto its star-studded cast. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Frozen co-star and future Beauty And The Beast actor Josh Gad has been added to the Agatha Christie mystery.
Everybody’s loves seeing toys that come to life in Pixar movies and toys that beat the crap out of each other in Michael Bay movies, but it turns out that the behind-the-scenes drama of the actual toy companies is just as exciting as any Transformers or Toy Story movie—Alright, maybe not “just as exciting,” but…
It’s National Dog Day today. And hey, what better way to celebrate man’s best friend than with a trailer for a movie that’ll let you watch the single worst part of the joyful ritual of dog ownership not just once, but repeatedly? That’s the premise of A Dog’s Purpose, the new Dennis Quaid film that tracks the lives,…
Taking his mandatory turn in Hollywood’s coveted-yet-pitied “Funny Fat Guy” slot—also known as The Kevin James Memorial Acting Prison—Frozen and Pixels star Josh Gad has signed on for a new movie about an adult man attending a weight-loss camp. Written by his old 1600 Penn cohorts, Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit, the…
