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$48.5M Joaquin Phoenix Movie Ruthlessly Recast Harry Potter Star With Scarlett Johansson, Ended Up With Whopping 186 Award Nominations


It’s not every day that Joaquin Phoenix manages to stun his audience with an incredible vision of his psyche which more or less reflects through his creative deliveries and artistic performances rather than recorded snippets of press junkets and interviews. The film actor is as mysterious as they come and not since Commodus has he managed to petrify his audience so much as he did with the film, Her in 2013.
And one of the rare aspects that made the movie so convincing in its fractured and Black Mirror reality was the haunting, looming, ever-consistent presence of Scarlett Johansson’s voice in the background of the narrative.

Joaquin Phoenix Finds a Frequency With Scarlett JohanssonThe Spike Jonze film that was powerful enough to leave entire city blocks reeling with the emanating waves of existential sadness, melancholy, and tragedy had a hard time coming to fruition. Like an artist immersed in every minute brushstroke of a painting, Spike Jonze forgot to take a step back and take in all the colors at once. But when he did, there was a crucial element that was missing from the piece. Not until the film’s theatrical cut went halfway into post-production did the director realize what he really needed in order to complete Her.
The Harry Potter star, Samantha Morton, who was present every step of the way with the project’s development, even keeping Joaquin Phoenix company every day on set, lent her voice to the AI. Yet for reasons left unknown, it was not Morton who we wear in the film but rather a very familiar, very popular actress, Scarlett Johansson. Whether it was because Morton sounded too mechanical or too real or altered between the two, no one really knows.

However, by whatever designs of fate, chance, or pure skill, the director’s decision to bring in Johansson was what grounded the entire film and gave it the anchor it needed to make the story so tragically beautiful.
Spike Jonze Betrays Samantha Morton For Her, LiterallyDespite the beauty that Jonze and Joaquin Phoenix manage to capture in the film, there is an essence to Scarlett Johansson’s raspy voice that is almost hypnotic for the human mind. And it’s this quality that ingrained the deep-seated conviction in the director to overturn Samantha Morton and film all her dialogues once again, but this time with the Marvel star in the recording studio instead.

But no matter how perfect everything seems in the film’s theatrical cut, not all means justify the end. And the audience is almost left feeling bad for Samantha Morton who was so cruelly betrayed by Spike Jonze, who essentially did not deem her voice to be good enough in the given context.
Talking it over with the actress, Jonze went on to follow his feelings, did cast Scarlett Johansson who did an unbelievable and inimitable job as the titular character, and ultimately helped rake in $48.5 million at the box office, a staggering 94% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, an Academy Award for the screenplay and 4 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, and an irrevocable legacy in the cinematic canon.

Her is available for streaming on Apple TV.

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‘I am officially off the market’: When Margot Robbie revealed she made the ‘conscious’ decision of not dating actors


Margot Robbie revealed her decision to not date actors because of the media scrutiny that came with a public relationship of two high-profile actors
Back in 2015, A-lister Margot Robbie made a declaration that she would not be dating any actors. The actress may have alluded to her fiance Tom Ackerley, who she married the following year in 2016. In an exclusive interview with Marie Claire, she revealed that being in a relationship as an actor herself came with its own set of challenges. She believed that dating someone who was popular would add on to the media scrutiny.

Margot Robbie opened up on why she made a conscious decision to not date actorsTalking to Marie Claire, she claimed, “I am officially off the market.” She then shared the reasoning behind her decision and added, “I made a conscious decision not to date actors.” She continued to explain, “But not because I hate actors. That’s a nasty generalization to make, and that’s not the case. People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile, it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.”
The Barbie actress continued, “So two people with profiles, I figure it’s just double the amount of scrutiny, and I’d like to avoid that at all costs.” This came after reports of her locking lips with Tarzan co-star Alexander Skarsgard started making rounds. It was reported that she was caught kissing the actor during the Sundance Film Festival.

Margot Robbie revealed she opted for a minimal lifestyle even after becoming an actorIn the interview, Robbie also opened up about how she was adapting to fame. She shared, “I have a normal 24-year-old life. If I were a waitress, I’d probably have the exact same lifestyle. I’d go to the same clubs I go to already, live in the same house with the same housemates, hang out with the same people.”
However, Margot Robbie tied the knot with Tom Ackerley who is an English producer and actor. The duo met on the sets of 2013 movie Suite Francaise where Tom was working as an assistant director. Post marriage, both of them launched their production company LuckyChap Entertainment.

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Monica Bellucci and Tin Burton at lunch in the restaurant in Selci Lama


For All Saints’ Day, the Hollywood star from Tiferno returned to his native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and then visit his parentsOn the occasion of the All Saints’ Day celebrations, the Hollywood star of Tiferno origin, Monica Bellucci, returned to her native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and to visit her father Pasquale and her mother Brunella.Flanked by her current partner Tim Burton, she went to lunch, together with about twenty old friends, at the Osteria del Musicista, which has always been her favorite restaurant, in Selci Lama.Menu dedicated to typical dishes of the area, which includes an appetizer with breadsticks lined with coppa, duck in porchetta and grilled pork livers, polenta with wild boar sauce accompanied by the very typical cappelletti in broth.To conclude, a dessert based on fried “ciaccia” with Nutella and roasted chestnuts.
Having paid the bill and greeted the restaurant owner and lifelong friend, Roberto Polchi, Monica brought home cappelletti and broth for a family dinner.

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‘Rocky’ Was Quite Different In His Original Screenplay, Sylvester Stallone Claims


Sylvester Stallone took his friend’s advice on a rewrite of the original screenplay to Rocky. A few tweaks later, he was on his way to major success.
In the new Netflix documentary Sly, Stallone discussed how he initially conceived of the project, which had a much harder edge. In the early version, Rocky was depicted as a “thuggish” character, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, Mean Streets.

But Stallone’s perspective changed when a friend read the script and thought the boxer was too cruel for audiences to actually care about him.
Stallone recalled her crying.

“She goes, ‘I hate Rocky. I hate him. He’s cruel. He hits people. He beats them up.’”
Stallone took it to heart, and asked what he could do to soften the character.

“I said, ‘what if you stop short of it?’ Like, maybe he almost did. He could have, that’s his job, but he doesn’t?’ ‘That’d be nice,’” he added. “I said, ‘What if he had a girlfriend or something?’ ‘Yeah, that’s nice.’ So I go back, start writing that: ‘Girlfriend. Nice.’”
$117 million in box office later, a franchise was born.

Stallone also revealed that actor Dolph Lundgren sent him to the hospital during one fight scene in Rocky IV.
“Dolph Lundgren… he pulverized me,” Stallone says in the documentary. “Later that night, my heart started to swell—which happens when the heart hits the chest—and then my blood pressure went up to 260, and they thought I was going to be talking to angels. Next thing I know, I’m in intensive care, where I’m surrounded by nuns, and I thought, ‘OK, that’s curtains.’”
Stallone was in the hospital for nine days following the incident, praying for “one more round.”
“For the first minute of the fight, it is going to be a free-for-all,” Stallone told Lundgren. The Swedish actor joked in a separate interview that all he did was “obey orders,” explaining, “[Stallone] was the boss. I did what he told me.”
Doctors allegedly told Stallone that he received a blow to the ribs that made his heart rattle around in his ribcage, a condition typically seen in head-on collisions. “I did hit a bus, of sorts,” Stallone joked.

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