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Fans are convinced that Jennifer Lopez could finally nab her first Oscar after the trailer for Kiss of the Spider Woman dropped.

The film, an adaptation of the 1993 Broadway musical of the same name, will be released in cinemas on October 10 and has already been met with rave reviews.

The On The Floor star, 55, will be starring as Ingrid Luna, a diva actress made up by gay hairdresser Luis Molina (Tonatiuh) while he’s enduring an eight-year jail sentence in Argentina.

Attempting to escape the horror of prison, he dreams up a string of movies starring the imaginary actress, including one where she plays a spider woman who kills her lovers with a kiss.

When he is joined in his cell by Marxist Valentin Arregui Paz (Diego Luna), his time behind bars is transformed as they forge an unlikely bond.

The first teaser for the movie, directed by Bill Condon, was shared this week, showing the singer belting out Where You Are while switching between a series of fabulous costumes – all through the imagination of Luis.

Fans were mesmerized over the footage and flocked to social media to rave about JLo’s efforts, with many tipping her to win big during awards season.

Flocking to the comments below an Instagram post of the trailer, Cru.stella predicted: ‘This could be the movie that Jennifer will receive an Oscar nomination. It looks dazzling.’

The_messymentor agreed: ‘I was just thinking the same thing. She has waited for too long to be recognized for her talents by the academy.’

‘Hello????! I hear an Oscar win!! This looks phenomenal!!,’ Jlotheitgirl commented.

Ladelsanto penned: ‘They’re so not ready for this award winning performance!!!!!!!!’

As Ohmymybri added: ‘And the 2026 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress goes to… Jennifer Lopez!’

This isn’t the first time Jennifer has been mentioned in the lead up to the Academy Awards, as she was previously tipped to take home a coveted trophy for her efforts in 2019 flick Hustlers, but failed to land a nomination.

The 1985 movie adaptation of Kiss of the Spider Woman – based on Manuel Puig’s novel – previously saw success at the ceremony when William Hurt landed the gong for best actor for his role.

In a new interview, the Love Don’t Cost A Thing musician shared her hopes that Bill’s version gets the same love.

Speaking of the Oscars buzz surrounding her latest role, she told Variety that she didn’t ‘even want to begin the conversation’, but insisted: ‘Of course, I would love it to get the recognition that I believe it deserves.

‘Bill wrote a script that for the first time in my life I was in bed reading it and I started saying it out loud. Saying the lines and laughing and crying.

‘This is what I’ve been waiting for my whole life. This is all I’ve ever wanted to do.

‘I got into movies because of West Side Story. I thought I was going to do Broadway. I wanted to do movies but I didn’t even think about records. I wanted to do musicals. I love musicals. My kids love musicals. My mother did.

‘It was a dream fulfilled in having done the movie.’

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A new action thriller film has already landed on Amazon Prime Video despite its UK cinema release date only coming two months ago.

The Accountant 2, starring Ben Affleck, is a sequel to the 2016 action film The Accountant, which also starred Ben in the lead role of Christian Wolff.

Following the story of autistic accountant Christian, The Accountant followed Ben’s character as he secretly reworked accounts for international criminal organisations.

It received a mixed response from critics, and has a 53% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but has developed a cult following in the nine years since its release.

And while it was made on a budget of $44million (£32.5m), the film – directed by Gavin O’Connor – made back $155m (£115m) at the global box office.

Starring Anna Kendrick too, The Accountant was popular with viewers, and a sequel was greenlit by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after years of development.

Directed again by Gavin O’Connor, The Accountant 2 saw Ben Affleck reprise his role and starred opposite Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, and JK Simmons once more.

The sequel sees Christian drawn back into the criminal underworld after a mutual acquaintance is killed, uncovering a deadly conspiracy along the way.

Critics were much kinder to it upon release earlier this year, with the film currently boasting a solid 72% critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on more than 200 reviews.

Fans are super keen too, with the audience rating sat at 92%, which is a marked improvement upon the 77% audience rating from the first film.

On X, user @4P1HT commented: ‘The Accountant 2 is a solid action entertainer. It also gets unexpectedly quite intense in some places.’

@PlanetReview concurred: ‘The film is a fun buddy comedy. It’s proof that a movie doesn’t have to be deep to have a good time at the movies, and that’s perfectly fine!

‘The action is fun too. The characters are funny. However, the chemistry between leads Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal is as charming as it is electric.’

Variety film critic Owen Gleiberman referred to The Accountant 2 as ‘agreeably loopy’ and described it as a ‘hyperviolent good time’.

@UcheKL said ‘Jon Bernthal and Ben Affleck have amazing screen chemistry,’ while @HeyKayKay described ‘the brother chemistry’ as ‘top notch’.

@HayKayKay also argued: ‘Wait. I thought [The Accountant 2] was even better than the first one and so heartfelt. Like, I’m over here crying.’

@MarkOwenH raved: ‘The Accountant 2 was not good… it was excellent. Normally the second installment is mailed into the viewer. Not in this case. Well done gentlepeople. Well done indeed.’

And @RobertPalacios2 said: ‘I enjoyed The Accountant 2 even more on a second viewing. Affleck and Bernthal are a great pairing.’

While The Accountant 2 has gone over better with fans and critics, its box office figures didn’t quite match up, with the film making back just $101m (£74.5m) against a budget of $80m (£59m).

The Accountant 2 is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.

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KISS fans have expressed their disappointment over the ‘awful’ and ‘ridiculous’ casting of Nick Jonas as frontman Paul Stanley in an upcoming biopic.

The Jonas Brothers singer, 32, is reportedly set to star as the legendary musician, 73, in Shout It Out Loud, a biopic charting the 70s band’s rise to fame.

KISS – made up of Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss – formed in 1973 and went on to become one of the most influential and biggest-selling rock bands of all time.

The film will be directed by McG, famed for his work on Charlie’s Angels and Transformers.

But fans aren’t happy Jonas will be playing the Starchild, taking to social media to air their frustrations and vow to ‘never see the film.’

‘This casting just assures I will never watch this,’ one person commented on a Reddit post about the casting news, while another simply added, ‘Oh f**k no’ and a third wrote, ‘Absolutely not, that’s awful.’

Others noted the band had enjoyed its fair share of controversy over the years. Several of its members openly admitted they had taken advantage of their star status to sleep with up to 5,000 women, while the band also caught flak for marketing a KISS-themed coffin.

‘Absoultely (sic) ridiculous casting,’ a commenter declared. ‘But then we are talking about the band who replaced their lead guitarist with a roadie.’

Elsewhere, commenters complained that too many music biopics had been released lately, with movies about the lives of Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Bob Marley, and Amy Winehouse all released in the last two years.

‘I’m sure a lot of people must love them, but I cannot describe how happy I would be if they just stopped making most musician biopics,’ one wrote.

Other fans were more supportive, with Iamacannibal commenting: ‘Nick is actually a really good actor. He was in a show called Kingdom a while back that is fantastic and he was great in it.’

‘Oh I can totally see why they picked him he will really pull it off!’ Rap_A_Toni93 posted, with other users drawing similarities between Jonas and Stanley’s appearances.

The Hollywood Reporter reports Jonas is in ‘final talks’ to take on the role of Stanley, while movie bosses are still looking for an actor to play the singer’s bassist bandmate Simmons.

The group is helping to develop the project while Stanley and Simmons are among the producers, along with McG.

Deadline reports Jonas plans to take on singing duties in the film and needs time to train his voice to be able to emulate Stanley’s signature vocals.

Longtime KISS manager Doc McGhee previously revealed the movie would focus on the band’s first four years together after forming in the 1970s.

Speaking to Talking Metal in 2021, he explained: ‘[The script is] completely done … And the script is about the first four years of KISS. Basically, it’s before they were famous – it was up to Cadillac High [KISS’ famous gig in a high school gym in Cadillac, Michigan in 1975] , that kind of thing.

‘And I think it’s a very interesting look at the formation of KISS, the mindset of how that came about, the social pressure that everybody was in in the ’60s and ’70s that brought something like Kiss to the forefront, that it could actually happen.

‘So it’s a very interesting, and I think it’s a well-written movie.’

Stanley has also previously spoken about the movie, telling broadcaster Kylie Olsson in 2021: ‘[The movie is] definitely happening. And that’s gonna be really interesting. The script was really good. And we really waited until we felt comfortable.’

Speaking of actors who could play him in the film, he added: ‘I will tell you this: for casting to be accurate in terms of age, we are looking at actors in their early 20s.

‘Honestly, I don’t know a whole lot of actors in their early 20s. When people get asked these kinds of questions, they’ll say, “Oh, Brad Pitt,” or this one or that one.’

He went on to say that he will be ‘there and watching’ as the casting process continues, so if that remains true, surely Jonas has the stamp of approval from the man himself.

‘But as the casting process goes on, I’ll certainly be there and watching. It’ll be interesting to see how someone else- be it the casting people or the director – how they view who I am and who they see doing that.

‘I think I’ll learn a lot about their perception of me by who they cast.’

The biopic was originally slated for a 2024 release date on Netflix, but so far, a revised release date has not been announced.

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The trailer for Wicked: For Good has finally arrived, and with it, a tidal wave of excitement, speculation, and screen grabs.

The sequel to last year’s Wicked, which soared to $755million (£590m) at the global box office and landed 10 Oscar nominations, brings back Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda to continue the witches’ origin story.

Based on the second act of the Wicked stage musical, itself adapted from Gregory Maguire’s novel (and of course, L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz), Wicked: For Good picks up with Elphaba in hiding and Glinda navigating the aftermath of their diverging paths.

The trailer teases heartbreak, rebellion, and the arrival of a mysterious figure in ruby slippers.

But beyond the drama and vocals, fans are noticing something else: Easter eggs.

X user @2nnjenn_ wrote: ‘Quick someone smarter than me find all the easter eggs and spoilers from the Wicked: For Good trailer. #wicked’

@juan_g_lopez605 agreed: ‘me looking for easter eggs in the trailer #WickedForGood’

One of the most talked-about elements of the trailer is the implied arrival of Dorothy Gale. Several users pointed out that the shot of Dorothy on the yellow brick road directly references the original Wizard of Oz film, even mimicking an exact shot.

Many fans connected a lot of the imagery to the 1939 classic, suggesting that director Jon M Chu is intentionally tying the two film worlds together.

One X user pointed out that the trailer also included cut scenes from part one, perhaps suggesting there’s more crossover between the parts than previously thought.

This makes sense, given that both Wicked films were edited simultaneously. Fans now speculate that some moments were intentionally held back to enrich Part Two’s emotional and narrative stakes.

One of the most widely shared discoveries involves Michelle Yeoh’s Madame Morrible, who appears to summon a massive tornado in the trailer. Fans noticed that the skies outside during this moment look eerily familiar.

@TheeStellaBrown wrote: “YALL OMG in the wicked for good trailer, when Morrible summons the tornado, outside it’s the same colours as the wizard of oz before oz omg !!!”

The sequence seems to directly reference the sepia tones and swirling clouds from the moment Dorothy’s farmhouse is swept away in the 1939 film.

The trailer’s emotional center is a tearful goodbye between Elphaba and Glinda. ‘You’re the only friend I ever had,’ Elphaba tells her. ‘The only one that mattered,’ Glinda replies.

It’s underscored by a new version of the duet For Good, and follows Erivo’s haunting rendition of No Good Deed – it also features purpleish/blue and pink lighting, often referred to as ‘bisexual lighting.’

For many fans, the moment reads as more than just friendship.

@thisredwine: ‘new wicked trailer featuring ‘no good deed’ (the best elphaba/fiyero song) and ‘for good’ (the best elphaba/glinda song) as a symbol of elphaba’s bisexuality in this essay i will—’

Whether read as subtext or text, the deep emotional intimacy between the two women continues to resonate with queer audiences.

From the Wizard’s smoke-filled throne room to shots of the Yellow Brick Road curling into the horizon, the trailer is filled with visual homages to The Wizard of Oz.

As one user put it: ‘It’s giving vintage MGM… and I’m not mad about it.’

Now, with Wicked: For Good set to close the curtain on this reimagined Oz, fans are soaking in every frame.

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After behind-the-scenes clashes, public criticism, and tanking at the box office, the live-action Snow White is finally limping onto Disney Plus.

It was meant to be the jewel in Disney’s remake crown and modernise the beloved classic – but Snow White has been a poisoned apple from the start.

While critics largely praised leading lady Rachel Zegler as ‘enchanting’, the scandal that surrounded the release overtook any positives about the film itself.

Problems seemed to be coming from all angles, with Disney reportedly rolling back the scale of their London premiere in response to the backlash.

When it hit cinemas in March, the box office clawed back $205.5million – impressive until you consider the budget was around $270million.

If you loved the film the first time around or are morbidly curious about it after all the drama, Snow White will reach its final resting place on Disney Plus on June 11, 2025.

With just 40% on Rotten Tomatoes, the remake may have even stopped the controversial live-action remake push from Disney (not in time to pull Lilo and Stitch, though).

After the mixed response, Tangled has ‘been put on pause’, according to insiders speaking to The Hollywood Reporter.

Moana, set for release on July 10, 2026, is still thought to be in the works as one of Disney’s biggest animated hits of recent years.

Disney was facing pushback from fans as its slate appeared to be overwhelmingly focused on these remakes, with some even boycotting.

However, Snow White was hit was even more controversy than the others – until maybe the bizarre choices made for the recently released Lilo and Stitch.

First came the complaints that Rachel, 24, was a ‘woke’ casting choice given her Colombian heritage, echoing similar (distasteful) sentiments voiced over Halle Bailey’s Ariel.

The West Side Story star may have proved those naysayers wrong but this was just the start of the problems.

Game Of Thrones star Peter Dinklage then branded the studio ‘backwards’ for still making a ‘story about seven dwarfs living in a cave together’.

Peter, 55, has a common form of dwarfism known as achondroplasia and asked Disney to ‘take a step back and look at what you’re doing’.

As well as dropping half the film’s original title, director Marc Webb opted to portray the characters using CGI – which was pulled apart when the Seven Dwarfs were first unveiled in the movie’s teaser trailer – after erroneous reports that Disney would be using diverse ‘magical creatures’ instead.

Pro-wrestler Hornswoggle, 39, as well as other actors, said ultimately the decision was detrimental to their careers as the roles would have traditionally gone to seven actors with the condition.

Then came the girl boss-ification of Snow White herself – a common move in all the live-action remakes but garnered extra heat for Rachel.

Snow White was ‘not going to be dreaming about true love’ anymore and rather ‘becoming the leader she knows she can be and the leader that her late father told her that she could be if she was fearless, fair, brave, and true’.

Fans slammed Disney (and its leading lady) for the outdated feminism, which many felt turned its back on the core of who Snow White is in the original 1937 film.

Finally, there was the boycott over the casting of Gal Gadot, an Israeli actress who has publicly advocated for Israel over the years.

She has stated that ‘killing innocent Palestinians is horrific’, but mostly her public posts are about Israeli hostages, while Rachel was criticised for her support of Palestine.

After an incredibly messy road to get here, Snow White’s release was quickly forgotten in the wake of other remake missteps.

Snow White will be available to watch on Disney Plus from June 11.

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There’s only one indisputable king of body transformations in Hollywood.

Christian Bale has made the dramatic transformations part of his brand as an actor. There was the time he got jacked for American Psycho. Or emerged rail-thin for his role in The Machinist. Or beefed up for Vice. Then he shaved his head last year for his upcoming role in The Bride.

Now Bale, 51, is back at it, with a fresh look for the David O Russell film Madden, which sees him play the NFL team owner of the LA Raiders, Al Davis. He’s joined by Nicholas Cage, who stars as Raiders head coach turned broadcaster John Madden, and Sienna Miller who plays Madden’s wife. 

The sports film tracks Madden’s journey to coaching the Raiders to win the Super Bowl, before burnout prompted him to leave the team and eventually wind up as a broadcaster.

The new pictures from the set in Atlanta show the Oscar winner in a leather jacket with hair so slicked back it would leave Bella Hadid impressed. 

The hair also has a noticeable widow’s peak to it. It’s unclear whether Bale is wearing a wig, but given what we know about how much he likes to transform for roles, there’s every possibility it’s his real tresses.

Bale is also sporting a ruddy complexion on set, which was particularly noticeable in the pictures without his sunglasses on. 

It’s not just Bale who’s made a physical change for the film, as the new pictures from filming on set show Cage has also changed his look for the role, with noticeably new copper wavy hair.

Bale has done everything imaginable to contort his body for his parts. He did special exercises that would thicken his neck for the part of Dick Cheney. He survived on a daily intake of water, an apple, and one cup of coffee to become an insomniac factory worker.

But in recent years Bale has said his history of insane body transformations might be just that: a thing of the past.

Bale told The Sunday Times Culture magazine in 2019: ‘I can’t keep doing it. I really can’t.’ He went on to say that the roles had taken their toll and he had reached a point where his ‘mortality is staring [him] in the face’.

He again said that age had been the deciding factor, telling E! News at the premiere for Ford vs Ferrari. ‘I’ve become a little bit more boring now, because I’m older and I feel like if I keep doing what I’ve done in the past I’m going to die,’ he said. ‘So, I’d prefer not to die,” he added with a laugh.

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Robert De Niro has opened up about his honest impression of watching himself back on the big screen, revealing there are some moments he ‘possibly’ realises just how good he is.

The acting icon has fronted some of the most iconic films in cinema, including Killers of the Flower Moon, Goodfellas, The Godfather franchise, Raging Bull, A Bronx Tale and Jackie Brown – to name just a few.

At this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, which kicks off today in Manhattan, the 81-year-old will be reminiscing over his efforts in Casino and Meet the Parents at special anniversary events, alongside Martin Scorsese and Ben Stiller respectively.

Speaking to Metro to celebrate the annual event, which he co-founded with producer Jane Rosenthal in 2002, the dad-of-seven touched on how it feels to reflect on his time in the spotlight.

When asked whether rewatching those projects makes him realise just how good he is in front of the camera, he couldn’t help but give us the most Robert De Niro answer ever, quipping: ‘That’s possible…

‘Most of the time you’re just sort of looking and [squirming] but it’s possible. Especially if you have many, many years distance between the time that you did it and the time you’re seeing it.

‘You can be a little more objective.’

Questioning if he ever looks at the films differently now, after having seen them through fresh eyes and with an audience, he clarified: ‘I’m not going to see them with an audience – I might.

‘I’ll try to look at them but not with an audience. I’m doing one Q&A before, and one after.’

Robert has always celebrated his career at Tribeca with screenings and Q&A sessions – and last year was honored with his very own ‘De Niro Con’ around Manhattan.

This year is no different as he is appearing at events to mark the 25-year anniversary of Meet the Parents, as well as a chat with Martin Scorsese on all things Casino for the iconic flick’s 30th birthday.

In Meet the Parents, he showed off his comedic talents when he invited us all into his ‘circle of trust’ as the stern father who was meeting his daughter’s boyfriend, Gaylord ‘Greg’ Focker (Ben Stiller), for the first time.

Unfortunately, Greg’s attempts to impress his partner’s parents didn’t quite go as planned, leading to lie detectors and a lost family cat.

Casino was a slightly different vibe but equally as legendary, with Robert playing mobster Sam ‘Ace’ Rothstein.

He is tasked with running a Las Vegas casino but takes action when his pal Nicky Santoro’s (Joe Pesci) criminal activities – and his own romance with con artist Ginger (Sharon Stone) – draw too much attention to their antics.

Aside from Casino, he has worked with director Martin a number of times, staring off their close relationship with Mean Streets in 1973, before reuniting on Taxi Driver three years later.

They went on to share a set in New York, New York, as well as Goodfellas, Cape Fear and Netflix’s The Irishman.

Robert has also showered with acclaim and accolades from projects with the filmmaker – he won the best actor trophy at the Oscars for his efforts in 1980’s Raging Bull, and a Golden Globe.

He landed a further two nominations for stints in Marty’s movies – including Cape Fear and Killers of the Flower Moon, while his first Oscar came from his scene-stealing turn in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part II.

The Hollywood heavyweight has graced our screens for decades and is clearly showing no signs of slowing down, having made his TV debut in Netflix series Zero Day earlier this year.

He recently played a dual role as both Vito Genovese and Frank Costello in The Alto Knights, and is next set to pop up in The Whisper Man alongside Michelle Monaghan, Adam Scott and Michael Keaton.

However, speaking to GQ he explained that there is still one thing that he would love to do in terms of his career.

‘I was always thinking I’d like to see all my movies,’ he told the outlet. ‘Go over them all and see [them] in the order I made them and just sort of see everything that I’ve done one last time in my life.

‘I don’t know if I’ll ever do it but I used to think, I’d like to do it.’

We need to make this happen.

Tribeca Film Festival runs until June 15.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger has dropped a huge bombshell about his stint in the Terminator, confessing that he didn’t like his most famous catchphrase.

The 77-year-old starred as the creepy cyborg assassin in the hit 1984 flick, helmed by James Cameron, and later reprised his role in a string of the sequels.

The character is most known for threatening, ‘I’ll be back’, which was voted among the best movie quotes in history by the American Film Institute (AFI).

However, sitting down with son Patrick Schwarzenegger to reflect on their separate screen careers, he admitted that he tried to rewrite it before the director shut him down.

In a new Variety interview, he told the White Lotus star: ‘The old directors were fanatics about “Study your dialogue and hit the mark.” 

‘Jim Cameron is like that. I would say, “I don’t like the line ‘I’ll be back.’” He says, “What do you mean you don’t like the line?” I said, “It’s just weird for a German to say, “I’ll be back.” Why not just say, “I will be back”?”

‘He says, “Oh, you’re trying to tell me how to be a better writer, because I’m not telling you to be a better actor.

‘Just say, “I’ll be back.” If you want me to do 10 takes because you feel insecure about it, we can do that. But don’t change my writing.”’

Thankfully, the line remained the same and has popped up countless times in Arnie’s career ever since, including in the other Terminator movies.

He also uttered the now-infamous words in 1988 comedy Twins, 1993’s the Last Action Hero as well as the Expendables 2 in 2012.

In the action blockbuster, the Hollywood favorite played a robot assassin from the future sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), a woman whose unborn son will one day save humanity from AI.

He went on to reprise his role in sequels Terminator 2: Judgement Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, before featuring in 2015’s Genisys and 2019’s Dark Fate.

Although the franchise has been hugely successful, the films could have looked very different as OJ Simpson was linked to the main role at one point.

Arnie previously claimed that the NFL star – who was accused of killing his partner, Nicole Brown Simpson, in 1994 – to appear as the killer cyborg while he was considered for the role of rebel soldier Kyle Reese.

Lifting the lid on that version of the film, James confirmed: ‘Very early on, a highly placed person at one of the two studios that funded that film had a brilliant idea and called me up and said, “Are you sitting down? … OJ Simpson for the Terminator!”

‘I said, “I actually think that’s a bad idea.” It didn’t go anywhere.’

And the rest is history…

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