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Zack Sharf Digital News Director With Disney’s beloved sports comedy “Cool Runnings” celebrating its 30th anniversary this month, director Jon Turteltaub and the cast reunited for an interview with The Independent and revealed their battle against Disney over the film’s Jamaican accents. Loosely based on the debut of the Jamaican national bobsleigh team at the 1988 Winter Olympics, the film got its start outside of Disney with a script that was full of “drugs, racism and the characters were getting laid a lot,” cast member Rawle D. Lewis recalled.
“I saw it morph into the movie that it is now,” he added. “It was something that had never been told before – Jamaicans in tights? People were like, ‘How’s this going to go under the Disney umbrella?’” Walt Disney Studios executives allegedly tussled with Turteltaub over the cast’s accent work. “They wanted me to sound like a black Aladdin,” said Just Leon.
“They wanted a Disney version. It was tough because if anybody wants to be authentic, it’s me — but I’m a professional and I had to do the job.” Malik Yoba added, “They’d say, ‘People in Middle America won’t be able to understand you.’ At that time, people had less access to cultural differences and didn’t know how Jamaican really sounded.” Turteltaub said he eventually received a phone call from then-Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg at 1 a.m.: “He said, ‘If you can’t get these accents to where I can understand them clearly, I’ll find a director who can.'” “The next day, I told the cast, ‘I’m going to get fired if you don’t sound like Sebastian the Crab. Please don’t get me fired,’” Turteltaub added.
“We joked about it but they got it. They understood. ‘We’re not going to do Sebastian the Crab but we’re going to make an
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The BBC has offered extra support to staff who are facing abuse and attacks, and finding their mental health suffering over the corporation’s coverage of the Israel-Gaza conflict.
There are few celebs who have stood the test of time quite like Jennifer Lopez, and the singer/actress/dancer/businesswoman has managed to keep us obsessed with her ever since she released If You Had My Love back in 1999. Apart from her undeniable talent, JLo has been on our fashion and beauty inspiration boards since the get go, and her latest fashion venture is no exception.
Money saving expert Martin Lewis says anyone can get a free £100 John Lewis gift card using his simple trick. With Christmas just around the corner, a £100 John Lewis gift card could be given as a gift, or used to buy multiple presents - but it doesn't come without spending a bit of cash first.
Blink-182 have released a heartfelt new single, ‘You Don’t Know What You’ve Got’.The track is the sixth and final single to be taken from their forthcoming album ‘One More Time’, which is out on Friday (October 20). It follows the previously released singles ‘Edging’, ‘One More Time’, ‘More Than You Know’, ‘Dance With Me’ and ‘Fell In Love’.The song delves into vocalist and bassist Mark Hoppus’ experience with cancer, of “long weeks of impending doom/Stuck in life’s waiting room”, but contrasts his dread with the poignant yet powerful realisation that “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s almost gone”. Hoppus was diagnosed with stage 4-A diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in 2021 but was declared cancer-free six months later.Check out ‘You Don’t Know What You’ve Got’ below:Meanwhile, Travis Barker revealed this week that he endured playing drums with Blink-182 in Manchester recently with bloody knuckles and fingers.In the image seen by Billboard are close-up cuts and scabs across his fingers and knuckles.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director In a new interview with the Wall Street Journal, Martin Scorsese recalled Paramount Pictures execs telling him point blank they would not be backing the overhauled script for “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The rejection came before the new script was even finalized. “The studio said, ‘We backed the other version, we can’t back this one,’” Scorsese remembered.
Don’t Scream has landed.In the game the player’s goal is do precisely what its title states, because if you do scream when scared, the game ends.Inspired by ’90s found footage film horrors including The Blair Witch Project, Don’t Scream challenges the player to explore the fictional Pineview Forest for 18 minutes. However, time only passes when the player moves and through “dozens of dynamic scares” (no two playthroughs will be the same).Check out the trailer for the upcoming game below.What sets Don’t Scream apart from other found-footage horror games is that the player’s microphone must be calibrated to register any sounds that the player makes in real life.“A mere squeak or quiet gasp should be flagged as a scream,” said developer Joure & Joe, but the team of two developers clarified that speaking softly should not trigger the game to end, making it possible for streamers to play with their audience.Developed in Unreal Engine 5, Don’t Scream is expected to enter early access on Steam on October 27.
“Three’s Company” star Suzanne Somers passed away Sundayat the age of 76 after a battle with breast cancer. During her long career in showbiz, she made her fortune starring on the hit ’70s sitcom, as well as being a spokeswoman for the contraption, the ThighMaster.But as to how she got to be a part of the thigh-busting equipment empire, is a tale within itself.Somers was best known for playing the ditzy blonde Chrissy Snow on “Three’s Company” from 1977 to 1981 alongside late star John Ritter and Joyce DeWitt.Ritter was reportedly being paid $150,000 per episode — and Somers wanted to be on the same playing field.She asked the network executives for equal pay and demanded a salary bump similar to the “8 Simple Rules” alum.
Deadpool 3 director Shawn Levy is opening up about the upcoming blockbuster.
Coleen Rooney has revealed her husband Wayne's shocked response to her exposing Rebekah Vardy for leaking stories about their private life.The mother of four appeared on BBC's The One Show to discuss her new Disney+ documentary, Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story. The show will detail how Coleen turned into an amateur social media detective to find an explanation for why private stories about her and her family continued to appear in the media.
Millie Bobby Brown is speaking out!
Jaden Thompson Sir Michael Caine has confirmed his official retirement from acting at age 90. The veteran British actor announced the news in an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today show on Saturday. “I keep saying I’m going to retire.
Will your inside jokes still be funny?) Maybe you haven’t caught everyone up on your latest career move and have no idea what their reaction will be. Maybe you’re bringing home a new romantic partner to meet the whole crew at once. Maybe you’re not bringing home a partner and are bracing yourself for the onslaught of inquiries about why you haven’t settled down yet.
Roy Wood Jr. offered more of an explanation Thursday on why he decided to leave .
Harvey Weinstein, claiming he sexually assaulted her in 1995. The producer has denied the allegation.The Sabrina star is also seeking damages from Disney, Miramax and her former talent agency, who she says failed to protect her from the abuse.Weinstein is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence for rape.
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Wind gusts quivered the tree limbs, rainfall ricocheted off the roads, and in an instant, power cut off at the old Opera House on Elm Street in Camden, Maine, scuttling screenings there at the Camden International Film Festival.
The cast and crew of Disney’s beloved sports comedy, “Cool Runnings”, are opening up about the troubles they ran into with Disney upon making the 1993 film.
Since NASA’s conception just over six decades ago, 600 astronauts have traveled to space, yet only 18 have been Black Americans. Hindered in equal parts by racial discrimination and the lack of educational and economic resources given to the Black community in the space administration’s formative years led to a significant racial disparity among those who aimed to reach for the stars.
Days of Our Lives” has stunned fans with the shocking recast of character Theresa Donovan. The soap opera opted to switch up things during actress Jen Lilley’s return to the show. Fans know that Theresa is a legacy character, brought to life as an adult by Lilley.