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Quentin Tarantino’s original cast list for Pulp Fiction has resurfaced online, with both John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson billed as second options.In the 1994 film, Travolta and Jackson played Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield respectively, alongside supporting cast members Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer.While many of Tarantino’s first picks ended up in the film (including Roth, Plummer, Keitel, Ving Rhames and Christopher Walken), some have different first options.

EXCLUSIVE: Black Widow actress Olga Kurylenko and American Gangster actor Armand Assante are toplining Kevin Lewis’ latest feature thriller, Misdirection, which looks to shoot later this year.

ActorsZar Amir-Ebrahimi – “Holy Spider,” “Bride Price vs. Democracy”Sakura Ando – “A Man,” “Shoplifters”Selma Blair – “Hellboy,” “Legally Blonde”Marsha Stephanie Blake – “I’m Your Woman,” “Luce”Austin Butler – “Elvis,” “Once upon a Time…in Hollywood”Raúl Castillo – “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” “The Inspection”Chang Chen – “The Soul,” “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”Ram Charan – “RRR,” “Magadheera”Kerry Condon – “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Gold”Robert John Davi – “Licence to Kill,” “The Goonies”Dolly De Leon – “Triangle of Sadness,” “Verdict”Martina Gedeck – “The Lives of Others,” “Mostly Martha”Bill Hader – “Trainwreck,” “The Skeleton Twins”Nicholas Hoult – “The Favourite,” “Mad Max: Fury Road”Stephanie Hsu – “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”Tin Lok Koo – “A Witness out of the Blue,” “Paradox”Vicky Krieps – “Corsage,” “Phantom Thread”Joanna Kulig – “Cold War,” “Elles”Lashana Lynch – “The Woman King,” “No Time to Die”A Martinez – “Ambulance,” “Powwow Highway”Noémie Merlant – “Tár,” “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”Paul Mescal – “Aftersun,” “The Lost Daughter”Richard Mofe-Damijo – “Oloibiri,” “30 Days in Atlanta”Keke Palmer – “Nope,” “Hustlers”Park Hae-il – “Decision to Leave,” “Memories of Murder”Ke Huy Quan – “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”NT Rama Rao Jr.

Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. The long list of artists and executives will bring the total number of Academy members to 10,817, as the 96th edition of the Oscars quickly approaches.Among the new members, some popular names include successful singer Taylor Swift, talented actress Keke Palmer, ‘Elvis’ star Austin Butler, fan-favorite actor Paul Mescal, ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ star Stephanie Hsu, and more.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is expanding its membership.

Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan has left the Ton to SURve up the fun at a special Vanderpump Rules-themed costume party amid fallout from Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss’ affair scandal.

Nicolas Coster has sadly passed away.

Superman: Legacy.Directed by James Gunn, the film will launch DC’s new film universe, spearheaded by Gunn and his co-CEO of DC Studios, Peter Safran.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Corenswet and Brosnahan were selected from six actors who had screen tests earlier this month (June 17). The other actors in contention were Nicholas Hoult and Tom Brittney for Superman, while Emma Mackey and Phoebe Dynevor were also in the running for Lois.Gunn later confirmed the casting on Twitter, writing: “Accurate! (They are not only both incredible actors, but also wonderful people).”Corenswet most recently starred as the projectionist in the 2022 slasher film Pearl, with his previous credits including Ryan Murphy projects The Politician and Hollywood.

Deadline revealed today that David Corenswet has been cast as D.C. films’ new Superman in James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy. But beyond the requisite piercing blue eyes, exactly who is the 29-year-old Corenswet?

“All The President’s Men” and “All My Children” actor Nicolas Coster died on Monday at a Florida hospital.He was 89.His daughter Dinneen Coster shared the tragic news on Facebook, penning: “There is great sadness in my heart this evening, my father actor Nicolas Coster has passed on in Florida at 9:01 pm in the hospital.”“Please be inspired by his artistic achievements and know he was a real actor’s actor,” she went on. “I will always be inspired by him and know how lucky I am to have such a great father,” she wrote.The British-American screen star’s cause of death has yet to be released.Coster was born in London to a British mother and a father from New Zealand.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for Warner Bros. and DC Studios’ “The Flash,” now playing in theaters. “I finally got to see Nic Cage be Superman. It has been an absolute delight for me,” Kevin Smith recently told Rolling Stone about watching “The Flash.” The film and that Cage-as-Superman cameo near the end is a full circle moment for Smith, who was the screenwriter of the studio’s infamous “Superman Lives.” After launching the Batman movie franchise for Warner Bros. to great success, Tim Burton turned his attention towards Superman in 1998 with the development of “Superman Lives.” Smith penned the script, which focused on Superman’s fight against Doomsday. Despite spending over $30 million on the film’s casting and pre-production, Warner Bros. pulled the plug on “Superman Lives” due to creative differences.

The Blackening is a potent blend of comedy, and thrills that parodies and challenges the genre’s tropes, specifically those around a mostly Black cast. Under the direction of Tim Story and script by Tracey Oliver, it pays homage to some iconic horror franchises like Scream, Friday the 13th, and Saw with a bit of Cabin In The Woods sprinkled in for some extra razzle dazzle. In the midst of the chaotic hijinks, the narrative centers Black American culture and all of its complexities. The film stars Jermaine Fowler, Antoinette Robertson, Dewayne Perkins, Sinqa Walls, Grace Byers, X Mayo, Melvin Gregg, with Yvonne Orji, and Jay Pharoah. 

There are a lot of guns in season 3 of Hulu’s The Great, particularly a season where Catherine the Great is trying to outlaw Russia’s pastime –murder. But throughout the chaos, reason and serenity arise as Elle Fanning’s royal comes into her full reign.

James Gunn had a busy weekend auditioning to find the star of Superman: Legacy. The DC Studios co-head gave fans an update on the casting call.

After watching, even the biggest DC Comics fans might be asking why Nicolas Cage played Superman in one of the many colliding alternate universes in Barry Allen’s (Ezra Miller) Speed Force showdown. While Michael Keaton’s highly-anticipated return as Batman was the most substantial tribute among several loving homages to past adaptations, the most surprising nod is to another Tim Burton comic book project, . «It's a different time now. We're going into the new millennium,» Cage said in 1997.

It will be a quick return to network primetime for Wendi McLendon-Covey. NBC has picked up to series St. Denis Medical, its single-camera workplace comedy starring The Goldbergs alumna and veteran David Alan Grier.

Nicolas Cage’s son has accused “various materialistic people” of trying to exploit him and his family’s fame and fortune. Weston Cage Coppola, 32, who his ‘Face/Off’ actor dad, 59, had with actress Christina Fulton, 55, made the accusation while opening up about his life, sobriety, and a bitter spousal and child support court battle with the mother of his twin daughters.

EXCLUSIVE: Following months of going through dozens of audition tapes, Warner Bros and DC Films look to be getting closer to finding the stars of their Superman: Legacy movie as a second round of testing looks to be imminent.

The casting for “Superman: Legacy” is heating up as screen tests get underway Father’s Day weekend with Nicholas Hoult, Rachel Brosnahan, Phoebe Dynevor testing for Clark Kent and Lois Lane, according to insiders with knowledge of the projectsDavid Corenswet, Emma Mackey and Tom Brittney are also testing for the roles of Clark Kent and Lois Lane.Deadline first reported the news.Reps for Warner Brothers Discovery had no comment.More to come…

EXCLUSIVE: Quebec’s Fantasia International Film Festival will open its 27th edition with the North American premiere of Pascal Plante’s latest pic Red Rooms (Les chambres rouges).