Priyanka Chopra Wishes The Rock on Birthday With New Baywatch Pic

Actress Priyanka Chopra, who is filming Baywatch with Dwayne Johnson in Savannah, Georgia, wished her co-star on his birthday with a wonderful picture from the sets of Baywatch on May 2.

Priyanka, who plays the main antagonist in the beach movie, shared on Instagram:

The Rock stars as lifeguard Mitch while Priyanka will feature as Victoria Leeds in the movie. Baywatch also stars Zac Efron, Alexandra Daddario, Kelly Rohrbach, Jon Bass and Ilfenesh Hadera in key roles.

Actress Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff, who starred in the iconic '90s TV show, will also make appearances in the movie.

Directed by Seth Gordon, Baywatch hits screens on May 19, 2017.

Michael Fassbender to Play Serial Killer in Entering Hades

Steve Job actor Michael Fassbender is in talks to star as a serial killer in Entering Hades, which he will also be co-producing.

Entering Hades is based on John Leake's crime novel about Jack Unterweger, a celebrated Austrian journalist and best-selling author who led a double life investigating murders by day and killing by night, amassing a body count of 11 people across multiple continents.

Alexander Dinelaris, who won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay as one of the four screenwriters of Birdman, is rewriting the screenplay with Mr Fassbender, 39.

Bill Wheeler is the writer of the original script.

"With Bob and Richard's vision and Michael's keen ability to bring captivating characters to the big screen, we are confident that Entering Hades will be an entertaining thriller that draws a big audience," said Gabriel and Daniel Hammond, CEO and Chief Creative Officer of Broad Green Pictures.

Entering Hades is the first project announced by Broad Green Pictures and Storyscape Entertainment since the companies signed a first-look deal last year.

On Star Wars Day, 10 Star Wars Secrets Only a True Fan Would Know

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....a Jedi knight met a princess with a hairstyle that shouldn't have looked good on anyone but did on her and they met a smart-mouth pilot with a giant furball best friend and with the help of two robots - one tall, one short - they saved the universe from a Dark Lord and an Evil Empire. Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which released in December last year, is one of the highest-grossing films of all time.

Meanwhile, it's 'Star Wars Day' today - May 4 - and we're celebrating with this list of 10 things only a true fan would know. 'May the fourth be with you':

1.Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill generally played the fool on set while filming the first film. They only behaved when senior actor Sir Alec Guinness was around.




2. When Harrison Ford found out that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker's father he said: "I didn't know that. Why the ?#@*!$ didn't you tell me?"




3.R2-D2 and C3PO appear as hieroglyphics in a scene in Raiders Of The Lost Ark (also starring Harrison Ford).



4. Until Finn and Daisy from The Force Awakens came along, Han Solo was the only non-Jedi who gets to use a light saber, when he cut open the tauntaun's stomach to keep Luke warm. But he didn't get his own, he used Luke's.




5. The gold bikini Carrie Fisher wore as Princess Leia in Return Of The Jedi was a result of the costumes she wore in the first two movies in which, she complained, no one could tell 'she was a woman.'



6. Scientists have actually calculated what it would take to build a real Death Star. They concluded that it was possible in theory but would require too much time and money.




7. By the third film, Anthony Daniels was able to get into his C3PO costume in minutes rather than hours.



8. Jabba The Hutt was six people in an animatronic suit.




9. David Prowse and James Earl Jones, the body and voice of Darth Vader, never actually met.




10. Ewan McGregor, who took over from Sir Alec Guinness as the young Obi Wan-Kenobi in the prequel trilogy, made light saber 'noises' all through filming the fights in The Phantom Menace which had to be deleted in post-production. Adam Driver, who joins the new cast in Episode VII, said he wanted to make light saber and R2-D2 noises on set but didn't.

Emma Watson's Met Gala Dress Made From Recycled Plastic Bottles

Harry Potter star Emma Watson's Met Galaoutfit was made from recycled plastic bottles. With the help from Eco Age, Calvin Klein Collection created an off-the-shoulder bustier, wide-leg tailored pants and a long detachable train for the 26-year-old actress.

And unlike the other gowns that will never be worn again, separate pieces from Emma's outfit can be used again.

Emma's stylist Sarah Slutsky explained everything in an Instagram post: The theme of this year's gala, which was held at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on May 2, was 'Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology.'

Cannes 2016: Freida Pinto's Trip to French Riviera Will be About This

Actress Freida Pinto will reportedly attend the upcoming 69th Cannes International Film Festival to launch the first project of non-profit production company called We Do It Together, which focuses on women's empowerment in the entertainment industry.

Freida is one of the members of the advisory board which also includes stars like Jessica Chastain, Juliette Binoche, singer Queen Latifah, and film director Catherine Hardwicke.

Other members are director Hany Abu-Assad, actress Zhang Ziyi, director Amma Asante, director Marielle Heller, director Katia Lund, director Malgorzata Szumowska, actress Alysia Reiner, National Humanities Medal honouree Henry Louis Gates and director Haifaa Al-Mansour.

The Cannes International Film Festival will commence on May 11- 21, 2016.

According to sources, Freida will be a part of the prestigious gala on May 15 to announce the first project of the company.

The production company We Do It Together (WDIT) aims to produce films and TV that boost the empowerment of women. The company also hopes to partner with male and female industry professionals to create a slate of gender-led projects, and to generate opportunities for women.

The organisation also participated at the United Nations' Third Annual Power of Collaboration Global Summit in February.

Freida's upcoming projects include Jungle Book: Origins and Yamasong: March of the Hollows.

What Captain America: Civil War and Batman v Superman Have in Common

When I left Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice back in March, I was convinced that DC's attempts to build a cinematic universe to match Marvel's wildly popular movie franchise was doomed. And while Captain America: Civil War suggests that Marvel's formula is alive and relatively healthy, it has unexpected - and unwelcome - parallels to Batman v Superman.

Taken together, these movies suggest that 2016 might be the year in which superhero films, at least as currently constituted, bump up against the limits of their ability to tell certain kinds of stories. And they're a striking illustration of what the drive to global dominance has cost superhero movies in terms of creativity and claims to social significance.

I should say up front - though saying it won't actually spare me the ire of folks who interpret any serious discussion of their favorites as a vicious trashing - that I quite enjoyed Captain America: Civil War. For a 2 1/2-hour movie, it moves really nicely; I didn't check the time until 105 minutes.

There's a fight sequence in the middle of the film that's just a joy; well-choreographed, character-driven and consistently surprising. And after years of obligatory shots of Black Widow's (Scarlett Johansson) posterior, Captain America: Civil War shows an admirably subversive commitment to serving up beefcake for those of us who are there to ogle the pretty gentlemen, including a sequence that exists almost entirely to showcase Chris Evans's-CGI-enhanced guns.

On every level, Captain America: Civil War is a more pleasurable moviegoing experience than Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, even taking into account the weird visual distortions that my 3-D glasses produced during my Captain America screening. But while one movie is quite enjoyable and the other is terrible, they illustrate the limits of political storytelling in superhero movie franchises in strikingly similar ways.

Both Captain America: Civil War and Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice are ostensibly movies that center on questions about the roles super-powered individuals play in national (and global) security, and whether superheroes can act independently of governments and still be legitimate.

In Captain America: Civil War, the collateral damage from an operation in Lagos when Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) accidentally zaps the corner of a high-rise building prompts an international treaty that requires the Avengers to get United Nations approval for their operations. Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), in what seems like at least something of a reversal from his prior anxieties about invaders from outside the galaxy, decides that the Avengers need to be brought to heel, while Captain America, worried that bureaucracy will stop the Avengers from providing immediate aid, refuses to sign up to work for the U.N.

The movie weaves together an interesting set of positions, expressing doubt about international law, moral outrage about indefinite detention and a perspective on the radicalization process that removes the debate from the quagmire of Islamist terrorism. And it's better for having sympathetic characters on each side of the debate, even if everyone other than Captain America and Iron Man have motivations that are either unclear or susceptible to change when it's useful for the plot. (This isn't even to mention the questions about isolationism and security implied by Black Panther's (Chadwick Boseman) presence in the movie.)

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice begins with Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) witnessing the city-destroying fight between Kryptonians Superman (Henry Cavill) and General Zod (Michael Shannon) and deciding that no one person should have that much power and be able to act independently. A senator (Holly Hunter), prodded by tech titan Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg), who has his own dark visions about a coming alien invasion, holds hearings. Superman shows up only for a Luthor-backed victim (Scott McNairy) of the New York battle to detonate a suicide bomb.

But it's not only explosions that distract Captain America: Civil War and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justicefrom the questions that fuel their first and second acts. The "Martha" moment in Batman v. Superman became instantly infamous, and for good reason: the idea that this titanic clash between iconic superheroes, motivated by wildly different worldviews, would come down to the fact that their mothers share the same name made a mockery of the film's proposed stakes and the relative intelligence of both protagonists.

And without saying anything explicit, Captain America: Civil War also ends up pivoting as much on personal concerns as on big ideas.

At this point, I should note that this is fine! A movie or television show doesn't have to explore politics, much less to come down on whatever the proper side of any given political issue is supposed to be, to be any good. And anyone who's ever heard me argue passionately in favor of a She-Hulk romantic comedy knows I don't have some obsession with making superhero movies relentlessly grim and didactic. But I do find it interesting that both Captain America: Civil War and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice set out to explore politics and then shy away from giving answers to the questions they've posed, seeking refuge in more intimate themes and emotions.

Posing their burning cities and bruising fights as a way to explore big, relevant themes in national security makes a claim that these movies are more than childish popcorn entertainments. That specific grasp for credibility only works, though, if you're willing to advance an argument about the questions you're posing, rather than simply punting it to the next franchise installment.

Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy managed to do some of this. Increasingly, I'm unsure that another superhero franchise, at least not one governed the way Marvel and DC are handling their cinematic universes, will be able to manage it again.

It's not that there's anything about superheroes that makes it impossible to tell sophisticated political stories with a definite perspective.Jessica Jones, made for Netflix, an outlet that prioritizes smaller but highly passionate audiences, spent its first season telling a very specific story about misogyny and free will.

But in a business environment where the biggest superhero movies have to clear a billion dollars at the box office to be considered successful, and where superhero stories have to play equally well in wildly different political and cultural contexts, making an actual political argument might be the riskiest thing Marvel or DC could do. In conquering the world, superhero movies may have given up a piece of the argument that they deserve to rule it.

8 Things You Should Know About Captain America: Civil War

It's not a question of whether Captain America: Civil War is Marvel Studios' best movie yet. With Friday's release of Marvel's greatest film, the debate immediately becomes: Where does this movie rank within the history of comic-book cinema?

Captain America's Civil War visage is fit to be carved on the Mount Rushmore of comic-book movies. But where to make room alongside such greats as Tim Burton's first Batman film, the first two Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies, the second X-Men film and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight? Let's delve into how Cap stacks up.

With the Russo brothers as directors, what Kevin Feige and his entire Marvel Studios team have achieved with this third Captain America film is cinematic magic - the culmination of a Marvel Cinematic Universe that has been allowed to luxuriously build out its interconnected films over the years, with 2008's Iron Man as the true launch pad.

Civil War features two flush teams of superheroes duking it out, yet it never feels overcrowded, even as two new MCU franchise characters are introduced in Spider-Man (Tom Holland) and Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman).

Here are eight key takeaways from Captain America: Civil War:

1. The next Avengers movies will have a tough time topping Civil War

Who knew that Civil War would set the bar so high for the forthcoming Avengers films (Avengers: Infinity War Parts 1 and 2). As directors, Joe and Anthony Russo might need personalized Infinity Gauntlets to try to craft an Avengers tale with Thanos (the baddie in the next Avengers films, of course) that can top Civil War. It's now abundantly clear why Marvel has decided to let the Russos guide the next stages of the assembled Avengers. With their two Captain America films, the Brothers Russo have turned the character into Marvel Studios's top superhero franchise.

2. Spider-Man is brilliantly "rescued" by Marvel

What a difference Marvel Studios makes. Now that Marvel and Sony share joint custody of the wallcrawler, Marvel has shown the power of its oversight by making us actually want another Spider-Man movie. As the new Peter Parker, the teenaged Tom Holland steals scenes and holds his own opposite Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. Holland's charisma shines whether he's in costume or not, and he provides the Spider-Man franchise with something it's never had: genuine youth.

3. Black Panther is triumphant

As regally portrayed by Chadwick Boseman, Black Panther's MCU arrival lives up to the hype. The Black Panther doesn't just appear for a cat-suit cameo; he plays a major part in Civil War, and is connected to the future of Marvel in a massive way. If you loved this character on the comics page, you will not be disappointed with the screen incarnation.

4. RDJ shines, but this is Chris Evans' movie

Downey Jr. may be the most naturally charismatic actor in the MCU - and his Iron Man performance here is his most emotional yet - but he doesn't dominate Civil War because he pitches his performance just right. Meanwhile, Evans gives his best performance yet as Steve Rogers/Captain America. Here, Cap is a soldier who opposes government interference - a stance that comes from the heart as he looks out for his fellow Avengers. That narrative allows Evans enough of a spotlight to exude a steely, sometimes quiet strength. That puts one fact into high relief: Downey becomes Iron Man when the high-tech suit comes on; Evans is Captain America whether he has donned the mask and shield or not.

5. The Cap and Bucky brotherhood resonates

Since the first Captain America movie (2011's The First Avenger), we've witnessed the bond between Steve Rogers and James "Bucky" Barnes. Before he became an Army experiment, the oft-bullied Steve Rogers couldn't defend himself, let alone his country. But Bucky was always there to help him. So even after being injected witih super-serum, Rogers has forgotten those acts of friendship. In Civil War, when Bucky is in the crosshairs of a world convinced he's a dangerous terrorist, his bond with Steve is at the dead-center of a new conflict. Steve can't abandon Bucky, even when Iron Man is the one taking aim.

6. The biggest superhero battle delivers

Civil War's action hits a high when Team Cap and Team Iron Man clash at a German airport, and this epic scene delivers payoff after visual and verbal payoff. Spider-Man becomes Marvel's newest star in this battle, but he doesn't pull off the most incredible feats - a big moment from the hero you might least expect to deliver it.

7. There's room for foxhole humor

Civil War is an emotional tale that takes a toll on its heroes. Yet Marvel always manages to offer deft one-liners. And one surprise here is the comic chemistry between the Falcon (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky/Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan). That only enhances the expected funny moments from Downey Jr.'s Iron Man and Paul Rudd's Ant-Man.

8. Civil War sets a superhero-movie standard

"Is it as good as The Dark Knight?" "Is it better than The Avengers?" Those questions as standard-bearing comparison points can now be replaced by: "Is it as good as Civil War?"

This Captain America is the new pinnacle of comic-book moviemaking.

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