Minions: The Rise of Gru is huge!
Minions: The Rise of Gru is huge!
The new movie Minions: The Rise of Gru is now in theaters and it features a star-studded voice cast!
J. Kim Murphy It’s official —the Minions are back.Universal’s “Minions: The Rise of Gru” is setting off fireworks at the Fourth of July box office, projecting a $129.2 million opening over the four-day holiday weekend.
Lightyear,” a film that sometimes falls into that old Pixar trap of being too smart for its own good.The Minions, on the flip side, are not Mensa candidates. They’re stooges.The story exists, for the most part, to put them into a bunch of silly situations.Kevin and Bob go full-on “Catch Me if You Can,” dress up as pilots and fly a commercial jet to California … with plenty of turbulence.They meet Master Chow (Michelle Yeoh), a San Fran acupuncturist who moonlights as a kung fu expert and teaches them her martial art — in “Rocky” training montage style. Dumb, dumb Otto, meanwhile, takes to the open road on a motorcycle and visits the World’s Biggest Banana.He’s also a hopeless romantic, and briefly falls in love with a rock with googly eyes glued on it.“Rise of Gru” is better than the previous Gru-less flick because the Minions make the most sense when serving a lame-o villain.
Let’s start with what’s most important about “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” which is that my children loved it. One is going on nine years old, so she’s mostly come out on the other side of her affection for these characters, but she had a good time; her five-year-old sister, in the midst of full-on Minion Fever (she brought a stuffed Bob along with her to the screening), proclaimed it the best one yet, though she may have been suffering from recency bias.
EXCLUSIVE: French sales agent and producer Other Angle is leading a showcase of French comedies at the Fine Arts Theater in Beverly Hills.
EXCLUSIVE: In a hot package for EFM buyers this weekend, Jean-Claude Van Damme will star in What’s My Name? Directed by Jeremy Zag, the film will be produced by Cross Creek’s Tyler Thompson, alongside Zag and Van Damme. Cross Creek is fully financing a film that will reunite the fighting icon in matches against some of his past screen rivals.
Jean-Claude Van Damme is looking back at working on “Double Impact” and being a bit “crazy”.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticDuring the closing credits of “The Last Mercenary,” we see a montage of Jean-Claude Van Damme in the various getups he wore during the movie (a fuzzy beard; a mustache and Yankees cap; a blond wig; a Bond tuxedo; drag). The film presents this cavalcade of mostly routine disguises with wide-eyed affection, as if it were showing us Peter Sellers in his “Pink Panther” prime.
Jean-Claude Van Damme has stopped many a bad guy in his films, but IRL he accidentally helped one get away — simply by being at the wrong place at the wrong time!
Jean-Claude Van Damme appears to have accidentally and unwittingly aided a pair of criminals by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
George Clooney and his family had an unfortunate front row seat to the devastating floods, hail storms and mudslides that hit northern Italy this week.The "Ocean's 11" star was vacationing at his home in Lake Como when the extreme weather hit. Photos out of Italy showed George assessing the damage with Mayor Roberto Pozzi. The Sun reported that George, his wife, Amal, and their 4-year-old twins, were not hurt.
The Guardian reported. Many potential witnesses to what a police officer described to newspaper Le Parisien as a “monumental haul” were distracted by the 60-year-old filmmaker and totally missed the crime.While patrons at a cafe close to the scene of the crime were possibly in both ear- and eyeshot of the robbery, Van Damme’s presence proved the more interesting event of the moment.
announced last summer. He also shouted out French New Wave actor Jean-Paul Belmondo as a major source of inspiration for his own performance. “I've always been a fan of Jean-Paul Belmondo and I hope to take up the torch of action comedy in my own way.
Nothing beats a live Comic-Con with the scream of the audience, the thunder of Hall H, and the social media wattage that shines out of San Diego. I’ll never forget the first time that Marvel walked the cast of Guardians of the Galaxy from the Hilton over to the Convention Center: The fans went so crazy, you’d think some of The Beatles came back from the dead and there was an immediate reunion.
Director Roland Emmerich and screenwriter Dean Devlin have been longtime collaborators that started with the hit Jean-Claude Van Damme sci-fi action film “Universal Soldier.” Their most well-liked film is easily the 1996 alien invasion film “Independence Day” that helped launch a new era of disaster films, most made by Emmerich.
Netflix UK has revealed its full list of new releases for July 2021 – see every film and TV show landing on the streaming service below.Netflix originals arriving on the streaming platform this month include a film adaptation of the video game Dynasty Warriors and French action-comedy The Last Mercenary starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.Original show Atypical returns for its fourth and final season, with Keir Gilchrist reprising his role as autistic teenager Sam Gardner.
When it comes to aging action stars, the once-mighty tend to fall very hard; in the case of Jean-Claude Van Damme, oh how the mighty have fallen. After 2008’s “JCVD” was a hit on the 2008-2009 festival circuit for its sly metafictional take on the actor, it looked like Van Damme’s star wasn’t in total descent.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNetflix has boarded new action-packed film projects in France, including the sequel of Guillaume Pierret’s thriller “Lost Bullet,” and Regis Blondeau’s “A tombeau ouvert,” a remake of the Korean film “A Hard Day.” The service’s slate of Originals for 2021, meanwhile, comprises the action movie “Le Dernier mercenaire” with Jean-Claude Van Damme and the series “Braqueurs,” a spinoff of Julien Leclercq’s movie.
Some “Friends” writers are spilling some behind-the-scenes secrets of the show’s iconic “The One After The Super Bowl” episode.
tweeted on Thursday.Fortunately, the “Muscles from Brussels” won’t make followers wait too long for the reveal.“I will post her photo here tomorrow. #JCVD,” he wrote.
Jean-Claude Van Damme, 60, is looking incredible these days! The actor stepped out with some family members in St. Barts on Dec. 26 and turned heads with his muscular arms showing through his black tank top. He also wore black shorts, a light tan fedora-style hat, and sandals while wheeling his mother, Eliana Van Varenbergh, in her wheelchair.
@Change petition and help me save a puppy https://t.co/yTxPuXzk3XThe petition seemed to work. Media reports state the Bulgarian food safety authority have decided to allow Raya to return.
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 18-24:Oct. 18: Actor Dawn Wells (“Gilligan’s Island”) is 82.
Bloodsport actor’s daughter Bianca Van Damme, sees him showcase his limber dance moves in a parking lot and by the sea.According to AaRON, Van Damme initially reached out to them about a film he was working on. That conversation led to the duo telling the Belgian actor about their new album ‘Anatomy Of Light’.“Jean-Claude came back to us to tell us how much this song meant to him,” AaRON explained in a statement.
Shawn Hook has just released his newest music video for “Holding On To You”.
The Muscles from Brussels has officially booked his first feature with Netflix. Jean-Claude Van Damme has started shooting The Last Mercenary, David Charhon's action-comedy also starringAlban Ivanov, Assa Sylla, Samir Decazza, Patrick Timsit, Eric Judor and Miou-Miou.
Also Read: Naya Rivera to Appear as Judge on Netflix's 'Sugar Rush' Episode Filmed Before Her Death“The Last Mercenary” is produced by Jean-Charles Levy, Nicolas Manuel (Forecast Pictures), Olivier Albou, Laurence Schonberg (Other Angle Pictures), David Charhon, Jakéma Charhon, Eponine Maillet (Mony Films), Olias Barco and Vlad Riashyn (Apple Tree).“‘The Last Mercenary’ is an incredibly exciting project and allows me to take on a new genre.
There’s a reason why he’s called The Muscles from Brussels. Action star Jean-Claude Van Damme is 59 years old, but he’s still in fighting form. The actor, known for his badass roles in films like Street Fighter and Kickboxer, was spotted heading into a gym in Los Angeles on July 8, and his famous guns were on display. Wearing just a tight tank top, it’s clear that Jean-Claude never took a break from pumping iron during quarantine.
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