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Feb 2, 2024 at 9:28 PM Update: 3 hours ago

Carl Weathers, known as the boxer Apollo Creed in the film Rocky, passed away on Thursday at the age of 76. His manager announced this on Friday.

“We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Carl Weathers,” manager Matt Luber said in a statement. “He died peacefully in his sleep.”

Before Weathers rose to fame as the brash and charismatic boxer Apollo Creed in the Rockyfilms, he was a professional American football player. He played in the first four Rocky-films.

Afterwards he had roles in films such as Predator and in various series. In total, Weathers appeared in more than 75 films and series during his fifty-year career.

The last series he starred in was The Mandalorian from Disney+. He returned several times during three seasons as Greef Karga. It earned him an Emmy nomination in 2021 in the best guest actor category.

The first Rocky was released in 1976 and won three Oscars. Various spin-offs followed. Creed III was last released in 2023.

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2024-02-02 20:28:14


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Jan 25, 2024 at 7:37 PM Update: 35 minutes ago

Jim Bakkum, Nadja Hüpscher and Chris Peters have a role in it PATTY, the Videoland series about the life of Patty Brard. Bakkum plays René Muthert, an ex-partner of the singer.

Muthert and Brard married in Las Vegas in 1999 and were featured in the popular reality series Patty’s Posse. After five years of marriage, a contested divorce followed.

The TV personality’s other ex-husbands, Ron Brandsteder and Carlo Nasi, are played by Peters and Lorenzo de Moor. Mattijn Hartemink takes on the role of Antoine, the current partner of 68-year-old Brard.

Teunie de Brouwer and Julia Lammerts play Marga Scheide and José Hoebee respectively, who formed the girl group Luv’ together with Brard. Hüpscher plays Brard’s mother, Bo Tarenskeen her father and Astrid van Eck her older sister Shirley.

It was previously announced that both Holly Mae Brood and Eva van de Wijdeven will play the role of Brard. Brood portrays the singer in her younger years, Van de Wijdeven when she is a bit older. Brard’s daughter is also played by two actresses: Dewi Welschen plays the young Priscilla and Emma Buysse the older Priscilla.

PATTY can be seen from Sunday February 18. The series is directed by Will Koopman and Reinier Smit.

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2024-01-25 18:37:35


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Jan 22, 2024 at 11:18 PM Update: 6 hours ago

Canadian film director Norman Jewison died Saturday at the age of 97 at his home in Los Angeles. His films received a total of 46 Oscar nominations, twelve of which were awarded.

Jewison is known as one of the authoritative directors of the sixties, seventies and eighties.

He made, among other things, the racial drama In The Heat of the Night (1967), the crime film The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and the romantic comedy Moonstruck (1987) with Cher. Jewison also directed musical films such as Fiddler on the Roof (1971) in Jesus Christ Superstar (1973).

The film In The Heat of the Night received an Oscar, among others. The film drama is about a detective of color (Sidney Poitier) who is suspected of murder by a racist sheriff (Rod Steiger).

Jewison himself was nominated four times, although he never won the award for best director. However, in 1999 he did receive a lifetime achievement award from the Academy, which awards the Oscars every year.

The last film Jewison made was the drama The Statement in 2003, starring Tilda Swinton and Michael Caine.

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2024-01-22 22:18:40


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Jan 21, 2024 at 12:27 pm

Barry Keoghan recently set tongues wagging when he featured in Saltburn danced naked Murder On The Dancefloor. The 31-year-old Irish actor has been working on his career for a while, but his success certainly did not fall into his lap.

Keoghan has anything but an easy childhood. He grew up in Dublin and ended up in foster care with his brother at the age of five, because their (single) mother was addicted to drugs. In seven years they lived with thirteen different families and in several orphanages.

According to the actor, although the families are good for him and his brother, it is not a nice way to grow up. “As a child you don’t understand what is going on. As soon as we became attached to a family we had to leave again,” he says a few years ago in The Late Late Show.

When he was 12, his mother died and he moved in with his grandmother. She raises the two brothers together with their aunt.

Despite his difficult childhood, Keoghan does not give up. “Because of my thirteen different homes, you would expect me to make a mess of my life, but I wanted to do the opposite. I don’t want to get stuck in my bad childhood, but use it as my ammunition.”

At sixteen, Keoghan quit school and decided he wanted to become an actor. “I remember thinking, what have I got to lose? The only way is up.” Not much later he got his first film role Between the Canals.

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Keoghan often plays the outsider

Keoghan plays the role of the mischievous misfit with a difficult childhood several times. A character close to him. That’s how he is in Irish film Calm with Horses to be seen as an orphan desperate for parents, and searching for them in a crime family.

In The Killing of a Sacred Deer from 2017, his first major production, he plays a difficult teenager with a deceased father and unhinged mother. That same year he also appeared as a heroic soldier in the war thriller Dunkirk.

The Banshees of Inisherin, in which he plays a village boy who is abused by his father, earned him an Oscar nomination and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

Since Saltburn was released on Prime Video in December, the internet can’t stop talking about Keoghan. In the film, which is somewhere between an erotic thriller and a black comedy, he takes on the leading role of Oliver.

The student befriends a wealthy classmate who takes him to the estate of his wealthy parents. The sexually explicit scenes and the naked dance to the song Murder On The Dancefloor by Sophie Ellis-Bextor make him one of the most talked about actors of the moment.

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Hoofdrol in film over Billy the Kid

Saltburn does not remain his only leading role for long. Keoghan will also play the lead character in an upcoming film about legendary gunslinger Billy the Kid. That role seems tailor-made for him.

Director Bart Layton’s film focuses on The Kid’s Irish origins. The future marksman, like Keoghan, was orphaned as a teenager and was wanted for murder at the age of eighteen.

“I felt connected to Billy because he was also a mama’s boy. But of course I did something different and turned my circumstances into something positive instead of resisting them,” he tells Deadline.

“There is a soul and vulnerability in Billy that I think is important to show, to better understand him as a real person rather than the myth he has become.”

2024-01-21 11:27:00


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