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She will next be seen alongside Steve Carell in Battle of the Sexes, a true-life tennis drama, and is currently filming a dark Netflix comedy, Maniac, with Jonah Hill.
Kenobi was played by Alec Guinness in the 1977 film and Ewan McGregor in the later prequels. McGregor has expressed interest in playing the role again. “There’s no official offer, and I haven’t met them about it or anything,” he told Entertainment Weekly earlier this year.
Farewell to one of Hollywood’s most successful comedians, Jerry Lewis who has died aged 9121/8/2017
Haruo Nakajima, the actor who first portrayed Japanese movie monster Godzilla, has died aged 88. His daughter Sonoe confirmed his death to the Associated Press, saying that Nakajima had died of pneumonia after being hospitalized last month. The Japanese actor wore the movie monster suit in 12 Godzilla films and appeared in Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai.
The star of the 1993 classic movie went to see the Broadway musical version on Tuesday and then returned Wednesday for another show. Bill Murray, star of Groundhog Day, a film famously about reliving the same day over and over, is spotted at the Broadway show based on that film. So far the actor has seen it twice. Murray was reportedly weeping at the end of the Tuesday performance, saying later in an interview: “The idea that we just have to try again. We just have to try again. It’s such a beautiful, powerful idea.”
A Ghost Story (12A)
(David Lowery, 2017, US) 92 mins. Supernatural drama film “A Ghost story” written and directed by David Lowery tops UK box office this week. The fourth feature film from the American film-maker David Lowery, A Ghost Story reunites Affleck and Rooney Mara, the two stars of Lowery’s acclaimed second feature, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints. The director also brings from this previous film the hint of a Malickian influence in the slow-burning pacing and spiritual themes. |