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Alan Rickman turned down legendary movie in a rage – ‘The hell is this?!’ | Films | Entertainment

Later this week, on January 14, 2023, it will be the seventh anniversary of Alan Rickman’s death. The British actor died of pancreatic cancer in 2016 aged 69. He was perhaps best known for playing Professor Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series, but his first film role was opposite Bruce Willis in Die Hard …

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The Way We Were…was almost The Way We Weren’t: On-set tension nearly sank the film | Films | Entertainment

Director Sydney Pollack, Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford (Image: Getty) But half a century after its release, two fascinating new books expose the nightmare behind the scenes, with Redford desperate to quit the film, Streisand’s skyrocketing diva demands, a jumbled plot, countless delays and rewrites, on-set tensions and an exhausted director who cut 15 minutes …

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John Travolta begged Olivia Newton-John to join Grease – she had one condition | Films | Entertainment

John Travolta stars in Pulp Fiction this evening on Channel 4 at 10pm – but long before he became the assassin Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino’s action movie, the American star played Danny Zuko in the 1978 musical Grease. The legendary ’50s movie starred him and the iconic Olivia Newton-John – but she only joined …

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Matilda star’s beautiful gift from Danny DeVito after her mother’s death | Films | Entertainment

Danny DeVito not only starred in Matilda, but he was also the director and creative force behind it. The American actor played Harry Wormwood, Matilda’s abusive good-for-nothing father. But behind the camera, he was in total control of the production, but he went above and beyond to look after the eight-year-old Matilda actress Mara Wilson …