Mumbai Indians will take on Chennai Super Kings in the first match of the second leg of IPL 2021 in Dubai on September 19
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'NZ Just Killed Pakistan Cricket': Shoaib Akhtar On New Zealand Calling off Tour
It was going to be New Zealand’s first international cricket series on Pakistani soil in 18 years.
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BB vs KB Dream11 Team Prediction: Check Captain, Vice-Captain, and Probable Playing XIs for Bengal T20 Challenge 2021 Match 22 between Barrackpore Bashers vs Kharagpur Blasters, September 17, 07:00 pm IST
Check here BB vs KB Dream11 Team Predictions and hints for the Bengal T20 Challenge 2021 Match 22 between Barrackpore Bashers and Kharagpur Blasters. Also, check the schedule of the Barrackpore Bashers vs Kharagpur Blasters match
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IPL 2021: These Foreign Cricketers Could Make Their IPL Debut in UAE
If they match up to their potential, these six first-time IPL players could prove to be game-changers for their teams.
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IPL 2021: Here's How Kolkata, Rajasthan And Punjab Can Still Reach Playoffs
The second leg of the IPL kicks off in the UAE on September 19.
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PCB Chief Ramiz Raja Talks Tough, Says 'NZ Will Hear Us at ICC'; Babar Azam 'Disappointed' With New Zealand
The New Zealand contingent in Pakistan is now preparing to leave the country.
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‘Faster Spinner?’ Yuzvendra Chahal's Cheeky Dig at Selectors
In the 15 members squad, Chahal has been replaced by Rajasthan's Rahul Chahar.
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Communication Gap Between Virat Kohli and BCCI: Ex-Chief Selector Sandeep Patil
Earlier this week, when reports surfaced of Kohli thinking of leaving the limited-overs captaincy, BCCI treasurer Arun Dhumal dismissed them.
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England's Tour of Pakistan in Serious Doubt After New Zealand Pull Out Over Security Concerns
The ECB say they will make a decision on whether next month’s tour of Pakistan can go ahead in the next 48 hours
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James Wan Says Malignant Is The Horror Version Of Disney’s Frozen
If you’ve ever watched Disney’s Frozen, you can probably draw some comparisons to other television and film relationships. The sibling bond between Anna and Elsa is essential; it’s the critical component of the storyline for both films, and it’s a heartwarming one, at that.
One can easily imagine that Frozen‘s message and relationship may be mirrored in some comedy films, the heartwarming type that you watch when you need a pick me up, and even the movie that leave you in tears. You may not as quickly jump to the horror realm when you think of the movie, Frozen.
James Wan does, however, and he thinks his newest horror movie, Malignant, is a lot like the Disney flick.
Speaking about Malignant at a recent press event, ComicBook reported that Wan had this to say about the parallels between both movies.
Here you have a story about Madison with her own blood relation, her own blood sibling, which has Gabriel, who turns out to be a horrible person. But yet her adopted sister, not blood relation in any way, is actually the one that she has the most connection with. That is the one that is the most loving. And I felt like that was such a cool story to come at it from that perspective.
He went on to speak of how Ingrid Bisu, who worked with himself and Akela Cooper to create the narrative, was rooting for it to be a love story. She wanted to share that message, but she didn’t want to do it romantically.
And for Ingrid, she loves the idea of telling a love story, but it’s not a romantic story between the two leads. It’s a love story between the two sisters. And I love that. I haven’t quite seen that in a horror movie at least to this degree. And it’s funny that we jokingly refer to it as it’s like the horror version of Frozen. It’s like Anna and [Elsa]. But it really is like the horror version of Frozen. It’s sisterly love, it’s sisterly bond. And one of the many themes that the film deal with is the idea that can you be close to the people that you don’t necessarily share blood relation with? And what we want to kind of say in this film is it’s possible.
Frozen and Frozen 2 drew in audiences of all ages, not just children, and part of that was because of the relationships in the movie. At the end of the day, all Anna and Elsa had was each other. They had to rely on one another to successfully make it through any challenges, and even when things between them were cold, they still had the others’ back.
You can see Malignant on HBO Max right now, and then you can watch Frozen on Disney Plus if you need a feel-good movie after.
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SCO vs ZIM Dream11 Team Prediction: Check Captain, Vice-Captain, and Probable Playing XIs for Today’s 2nd T20I match, September 17, 06:30 PM IST
Check here SCO vs ZIM Dream11 Team Predictions and hints for the 2nd T20I match between Scotland and Zimbabwe. Also, check the schedule of the Scotland vs Zimbabwe match.
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IPL 2021: Rohit Sharma Ready to 'Switch Gears' as he Joins Mumbai Indians' Camp
Five-time IPL champions MI will resume their title defence against former champions Chennai Super Kings on Sunday, September 19.
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SCO vs ZIM, 2nd T20I Live Streaming: When and Where to Watch Scotland vs Zimbabwe Live Streaming Online
Know when and where to watch SCO vs ZIM, 2nd T20I Live Streaming.
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Akash Chopra Says Rohit Sharma is the ‘Readymade’ Captain in Waiting
Rohit Sharma has achieved amazing success in the IPL with Mumbai Indians
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If Rohit Sharma Becomes Next T20 Captain, This Bowler Could be Named His Deputy
Virat Kohli announced the decision to step down from the captaincy of India’s T20I team on Thursday.
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Exclusive Interview: Frank Grillo Talks Copshop, The Purge 6, Marvel And More
If you’re a fan of action cinema, then you’ll already be more than familiar with Frank Grillo’s filmography. The actor has taken a more hands-on role in his output over the last few years since founding production company WarParty films with Smokin’ Aces and The Grey director Joe Carnahan, and the pair’s Hulu hit Boss Level gained a deserved reputation as one of the year’s most unsung and underrated genre films.
WarParty’s latest effort Copshop isn’t just Grillo’s eighth movie release of 2021, but it also marks his first time starring opposite fellow heavyweight action hero Gerard Butler. Fans of the pair have been eagerly anticipating the showdown for quite some time, and it would be fair to say that the gritty R-rated crime caper delivers on its promise.
We Got This Covered had the chance to chat with Grillo for a wide-ranging interview covering Copshop, The Purge 6, the Marvel Cinematic Universe and much more, and you can check out what he had to say below.
Teddy is a very different character than we’re used to seeing from you. You’ve got a great relationship with Joe Carnahan and you’ve been friends with Gerard for a while, so did that give you more room to make the role your own and build your idea of Teddy from the ground up?
Frank Grillo: Yes. You know, Joe and I are partners, so we choose projects together that we’re working together specifically for each other, and it was a chance for me… I don’t think the character on the page was necessarily me, do you know what I mean? So, I had to kind of play around a little bit and create a kind of sleazy character. But, you know, it’s hard for me to be the little, weak, accountant-type weasel, right? It just doesn’t work, physically. So we had to kind of make some adjustments. Some people will say it works, other people will say it doesn’t work. We put a lot of time into it, so… And I had a lot of fun. We had a lot of fun. Me and Gerry, we had a great relationship on set, back and forth with all the banter, and Carnahan rewrote the script from page one, and he made it a Joe Carnahan movie.
Gerard Butler said he always thought he’d play Teddy, but the dynamic works better because you’re both playing roles that are the opposite of what your fans would expect. Was that an easy switch to make once you and Joe got involved in the project?
Frank Grillo: Yeah, I mean I would have played either role. I think it’s easier for me to play the assassin, you know? But I’ve seen that in my own stuff too many times, so I wanted to have some fun with this, and I don’t know if I’d ever see big bad Gerard Butler as a weaselly Teddy Murretto! But we kind of sat down, the three of us, and talked it through. And we didn’t always agree. You know, Gerard thought my character should be a little bit more mysterious and not such a badass, and I had some different opinions, and Joe had some different opinions, so at the end of the day we kind of mixed it up and tried some different stuff. And we had a really great chemistry, the three of us. Actually, all of us, everyone in the crew and cast.
On paper it reads like a two-hander between Teddy and Viddick, but would you agree that Alexis Louder is really the ace of Copshop’s sleeve in terms of what she brings to her role, even though she’s up against two of the action genre’s biggest names?
Frank Grillo: Yeah, and you know, that was the plan. Joe and I, we auditioned a lot of women and we knew that, because you have to promote the film… I mean, Alexis Louder at this point… she will be, but she’s not a name that people recognize, and Gerry’s Gerry, and for whatever value I have. But yeah, we always knew that was the linchpin role, that was the pivotal role, and she just absolutely crushed it. You can’t take your eyes off her. So yeah, she’s the ace.
Movies like Wheelman, Boss Level and now Copshop are all action thrillers with premises that audiences are familiar with, but put fresh and exciting spins on them. Is that the WarParty remit, or can we expect to see you doing some slapstick comedy in the future?
Frank Grillo: I think Boss Level is about as slapsticky as I’ll get! But yeah, that is kind of our mission statement. But you know, I’m going to play Lamborghini, I’m doing a serious movie. I’m going to Rome on Wednesday to play Ferruccio Lamborghini in a biopic [Grillo replaced Antonio Banderas in the project to be written and directed by Academy Award-winning Crash writer Bobby Moresco]. So my idea is, ‘Look, I can do the action stuff falling off a log at this point, it’s pretty easy and fun, now I wanna go do some stuff and challenge myself’. I’m sure I’ll get beat up by critics, which I don’t really… It’s not my concern. But, I kind of want to do some interesting things, and stay with what I know as well, which is this physical action stuff. And elevate it, you know? If you can elevate it, it’s good.
Copshop is your eighth movie release of the year, and it’ll be nine next week when This is the Night arrives, which is also your third of September. Do you ever stop working?
Frank Grillo: No! I don’t! You know, I love to work, and I have a lot of friends in the business and I’ll get a lot of calls asking, ‘Hey, can you come and do this role for three days or a week?’. And I was just in a little movie called The Gateway with my friend Shea Whigham. And I like to go and play, I like to go to work. I do have actor friends that, like, they want to do a movie and that’s the end of the year. And I’m like, ‘No! I have lots of other time’. I know people say, ‘I’m tired of seeing you’, ‘You suck’, or whatever it is, but what are you gonna do? Some people like it, some people don’t.
So what is the status of WarParty’s next film, is that still going to be Leo from Toledo with Mel Gibson?
Frank Grillo: That’s a great question. I don’t know. I think Boss Level took a lot of energy and effort with Joe and I, and WarParty, and during COVID, and it was a very difficult movie to pull off for other reasons. So I think we’re taking a minute to kind of reassess what it looks like. I have four or five movies lined up between now and next summer, so I’ll probably… We probably won’t do another movie together until at least then.
Anytime James DeMonaco is asked about The Purge 6 he always says, ‘It has to be Leo Barnes’. I’m going to ask you for your perspective on the next Purge movie, because I’m actually speaking to James on Friday, and I’ll ask him the exact same question to see how different his answer is from yours.
Frank Grillo: We’re making that movie. We’re making Purge 6. I think he’s finished with the script. It does center around Leo Barnes. He called me… like, now I’ve done three movies with James, he’s my brother. So he called me and said, ‘What do you think?’. I said, ‘What do you think?’. Because he hasn’t directed any of them for a while. And he said, ‘I’ve got a great idea’. And I said, ‘You got a great idea? I’m in’. So, I think… I don’t want to date it, but I think we’ll be shooting that movie sometime second or third quarter of 2022, Purge 6. You’re the first person I told that to.
Kingdom [Grillo’s MMA drama that ran for three seasons between 2014 and 2017] has found a new lease of life on streaming, where it’s become more popular than ever. Is that something you’re proud of, when it was always underrated and underseen during its initial run on TV?
Frank Grillo: Yeah, that’s a great question. I’m so proud of that show. In fact, [co-star] Jonathan Tucker called me last night from Boston, he was in a bar and people were going crazy. It’s like… it’s reached so many people thanks to Netflix, and now Universal have picked it up on their streaming platform. So yeah, it’s probably in the top three things that I’ve ever done in my life. I don’t know if I’ll ever get the opportunity to do anything like that again, and I relish in the fact that people are now appreciating that. I get people all day long, mostly women, coming up to me about Kingdom. I get on my knees and I praise Netflix!
Obviously you’re a very busy man, but are there any regrets on your part over how your time with Marvel ended? Because you signed a five-picture deal and made three appearances, two of which were cameos, and there was plenty for your character to do in the future.
Frank Grillo: Yeah, it’s always been a bit of a heartache because it was going a different way, and then the popularity of Marvel just shifted. But, again, you would think that Crossbones and Rumlow were in ten movies, because even as little time as I had in the second Cap and no time in Avengers, people think Crossbones… I mean, look, I have probably fifteen different versions of Crossbones. He’s in the movie for twelve minutes, you know what I mean? So, I’m grateful. I can’t go anywhere on the planet without people saying, ‘Oh my god, Crossbones!’. And I’m like, ‘Really?’. That’s amazing, so I’m grateful for it.
Now that you’ve moved into producing, you and Joe are forging ahead with WarParty and you’ve got more ownership and control over your own projects, is there any type of movie or genre you haven’t explored yet that you’d love to dive into?
Frank Grillo: You know, we have a couple. Joe has this script, Leo from Toledo, it’s very much in the vein of L.A. Confidential, it’s the sequel to L.A. Confidential, so there are some serious things I’d like to do like that, which are pretty much straight dramas. And I wanna be able to dabble in the horror genre, but mash it up with thriller/action, and I think that’s what The Purge: Anarchy was. It wasn’t really a horror movie, it was more of a thriller with a bunch of great action, so something like that I think is really interesting.
That concludes our interview with Frank Grillo. Copshop is in theaters from today, September 17th. You can check out our review of the movie here, as well as our exclusive chat with Grillo’s co-stars Gerard Butler and Alexis Louder.
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IPL 2021: Sunrisers Hyderabad Will Take Every Game as Final, Says Rashid Khan
Khan was among the few bright spots for SRH in the first half of IPL 2021, claiming 10 wickets in seven matches at an excellent economy rate of 6.14.
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Mumbai Indians Can't Afford Trademark Slow Start to IPL, There's No Time for Catch Up: Kevin Pietersen
Former England skipper Kevin Pietersen says defending champions Mumbai Indians can illafford a typical slow start when the IPL resumes.
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Former Tamil Nadu Captain Sharath Sridharan Named Chairman of BCCI Junior Selection Committee
The BCCI on Friday appointed the national junior selection committee with former Tamil Nadu batsman Sridharan Sharath as its chairman.
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Sunil Gavaskar Gives His Verdict on Virat Kohli’s Decision to Step Down as T20 Captain
Kohli took over the captaincy duties from Mahendra Singh Dhoni in 2017. The 2021 World Cup is Kohli’s maiden T20 World Cup as a captain.
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First Trailer For Toy Story Spinoff Lightyear Reportedly Coming Soon
You’d have thought that news of Chris Evans starring in a Toy Story spinoff would have gone down a treat with fans of both the actor and the franchise, but last year’s announcement that Lightyear was coming to theaters in June 2022 received a rather mixed response.
You can understand both sides of the argument; Toy Story is comfortably one of the greatest multi-film stories in cinema history, with the worst-reviewed installment still boasting a Rotten Tomatoes score of 97%. Then again, when you factor in $3 billion at the box office and the additional revenue streams that keep the money rolling in, Disney’s position on developing new adventures becomes clearer.
To differentiate itself from the quartet of Pixar classics, Lightyear exists independently of the Toy Story timeline, taking place in a fictional universe where Star Command is real, with Evans’ young Buzz rising up the ranks. With only nine months to go until release, it looks as though we could be seeing a trailer very soon, as you can see in the tweet below that originally came from animator Daniel Gonzales.
The fact Gonzales’ initial post was deleted shortly afterwards only lends more credence to the speculation, and it could be one way of convincing audiences to check out Encanto on the big screen, with the musical fantasy marking Disney Animation’s first exclusive theatrical release since before the pandemic. People love Toy Story, and have done for over a quarter of a century, so a Lightyear trailer playing before the studio’s latest could turn out to be a stroke of marketing genius.
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