Stephen Gaghan Reveals ‘Blink’ Project Was Originally Set To Star Leonardo DiCaprio, Heath Ledger

Warner Bros. is shuffling the deck of its release date calendar.

Matt Reeves‘ The Batman 2 is no longer opening on Oct. 3, 2025 –a new launchpad for Comic Book movies– rather Oct. 2, 2026. We hear the new date is due to the aftermath of the dual strikes.

win at the 2024 Oscars prevented “Killers of the Flower Moon” star Lily Gladstone from making history as the first Native American woman to win in the category.Stone, 35, tearfully accepted the award for “Poor Things,” although she, too, appeared stunned by her win. She also suffered a wardrobe malfunction onstage, telling the audience that her Louis Vuitton gown had ripped. This is Stone’s second win in the category after taking home a golden statue for “La La Land” in 2017.

With every round of Academy Award nominations, there are bound to be a few disappointments. In years past, the Oscars were criticized for snubbing "Straight Outta Compton" in all categories and for the failure to recognize Samuel L. Jackson's work in "Django Unchained" and Gary Oldman's performance in "Leon: The Professional." This year is no different, with stars being looked over in both the acting and directing categories.

Jimmy Kimmel is set to host and Scorpio king Ryan Gosling will take to the stage to perform his existential bro-anthem “I’m Just Ken.” Gosling is nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category for his role in the blond blockbuster “Barbie.” Despite critical acclaim, the film’s director Greta Gerwig, and star, Margot Robbie were notably excluded from the Best Director and Best Actress categories — thereby proving the point of the movie they made. In 2024, we’ll be celebrating the tenth anniversary of Aquarius John Travolta’s abject butchering of Idina Menzel’s name — and, we’re told, the public debut of Bradley Cooper and Gigi Hadid’s relationship.If the zodiac signs themselves were winners in academy categories, we’d place our bets that Aries wins Best Live Action Short Film, as they go hard and but not for long.

Austin Butler has revealed to NME that he drew inspiration from Gary Oldman and Heath Ledger for his performance in Dune: Part Two.Butler plays the role of Feyd-Rautha, the villainous nephew of and heir to Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgård), in Denis Villeneuve’s new film.When asked if there were any classic movie bad guys that he took a lead from while preparing to play the role, Butler said that it was the broad career work of the two stars that motivates him.“I’ve always been inspired by Gary Oldman in many of his roles,” he said. “Léon: The Professional, or True Romance, or The Fifth Element.”“And you know, we’ve talked about Heath Ledger a lot, the sense of play that he had.

Tom Hanks will host and narrate a 20-part documentary series about World War II on the History Channel.

The list of the highest paid actors of 2023 has been revealed, and this ranking is full of A-list stars!

Diego Ramos Bechara editor The annual Podcast Academy’s Awards for Excellence in Audio — or Ambies — will return for its fourth installment on March 26, with Season 3 “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” winner Trixie Mattel set to host. The ceremony celebrates excellence in podcasting, especially those that elevate the status of the medium as a “unique” and “personal” form of entertainment, information and storytelling, according to The Podcast Academy (TPA).

Heath Ledger‘s friend has shared new details regarding the circumstances surrounding the late actor’s death.Ledger, who is perhaps best known for his role as the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, died in January 2008 after overdosing on prescription drugs. He was 28 years old.Now Ledger’s friend Stephen Gaghan, a director and writer, has said Ledger’s father Kim had told him that Ledger’s body was found with a script for his film.The Oscar-winning director had been working towards making an adaptation of Malcolm Gladwell’s 2005 novel Blink and was hoping to cast Ledger in the lead role.

Over 15 years after his death, new details are still emerging about Heath Ledger.

A Playboy model has spilled the beans on Leonardo DiCaprio, saying he's got strange habits in bed and isn't great at kissing. Model, Hieke Konings, 22, told everyone she kissed the 49 year old actor at a secret club in Los Angeles. However, the stunner wasn't too impressed as she dished on the kiss: "It was okay, but definitely not the best I've had." Detailing the moment, Hieke claimed she was called over to Leo after they locked eyes and spoke for a while before kissing,reports The Mirror Online.

Star Wars franchise to Leonardo DiCaprio – see what he had to say below.Christensen, who was ultimately cast as Anakin Skywalker (and Darth Vader), recently spoke to Empire Magazine about the character, and creator George Lucas’ filmmaking process. Before Christensen was cast as the iconic character, it was revealed that Lucas was talking to several big stars for the role.One such name was Leonardo DiCaprio. Lucas speaking to DiCaprio led Christensen to believe that he had had no shot at landing the role of Anakin.

During his recent appearance on Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast miniseries, Development Hell, director Stephen Gaghan talked about the film he almost made with Heath Ledger. And the phone call that ended that dream.

“The Dark Knight” star died of an accidental overdose, and director Stephen Gaghan claimed on a recent podcast appearance that the Australian actor had other aspirations at the time. During an episode of the “Developmental Hell” podcast, a spin-off of Malcom Gladwell’s “Revisionist History” show, Gaghan said he had an idea in the early 2000s to turn Gladwell’s book, “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking,” into a movie. But after Ledger’s death, “I just had to put a pin in it,” he said.

As Timothée Chalamet’s “Wonka” has quietly crossed the $600 million mark worldwide—a remarkable figure given the film wasn’t a box office smash but clearly had great sustained longevity theatrically—the actor is starring down his next lead role in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two” (read our review) It’s a film whose hype is so large at the moment it suggests it could best that “Wonka” record, but we’ll see if it has the same kind of four-quadrant appeal.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Timothée Chalamet first revealed in September 2022 that his “Don’t Look Up” co-star Leonardo DiCaprio once gave him brief but essential career advice: “No hard drugs and no superhero movies.” DiCaprio has never gone down the comic book movie route, and it’s a path Chalamet has also avoided so far despite the majority of his contemporaries signing up for Marvel and DC films in recent years. Is Chalamet still committed to DiCaprio’s advice? In a recent interview with The New York Times while on the press tour for “Dune: Part Two,” Chalamet said the door on starring in comic book movies is not completely shut the way it might be for DiCaprio.

Timothée Chalamet and Denis Villeneuve have said that they spoke to each other in French on the set of their new film, Dune: Part Two.The pair were speaking to the The New York Times to promote the new film, which is the second part of the adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 896-page sci-fi novel, and the writer of the interview noted that they were speaking in French each other when they arrived. Villeneuve is from Quebec, the French-speaking area of Canada, while Chalamet is a dual American and French citizen.“It was the way that we were able to find intimacy in the chaos.

Timothée Chalamet is sharing which film motivated him to pursue acting!

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor This article first appeared as part of Jenelle Riley’s Acting Up newsletter – to subscribe for early content and weekly updates on all things acting, visit the Acting Up signup page.I’m no stranger to celebrity. I’ve sat down with Leonardo DiCaprio, I’ve interviewed Angelina Jolie — and I have never been more starstruck than last week, when I hosted a press conference with the breakout star of the year. That would be Messi, the lovable pooch who plays service dog Snoop in “Anatomy of a Fall” He’s the scene stealer of an Oscar-nominated movie and the one everyone wanted to meet at the recent Academy luncheon.