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Jon Favreau Once Again Rumored To Replace Kathleen Kennedy As Head Of Lucasfilm

It’s become something of a recurring theme over the years for various rumors to make the rounds positing that Kathleen Kennedy’s days as the president of Lucasfilm could be numbered. Disney CEO Bob Chapek may have recently come right out and said in a very public and even more definitive fashion that she’s not going anywhere, but that’s hardly going to dampen the speculation.

The four names continuously touted as her potential successors are Jon Favreau, Kevin Feige, George Lucas and Dave Filoni. Out of those four, Favreau and Filoni are the two directly employed by Lucasfilm to work on the Star Wars lineup for Disney Plus, while Lucas and Feige aren’t under contract with the studio but do have plenty of experience running a production company, although the latter does also have a deal in place to oversee a new blockbuster set in a galaxy far, far away.

A new report is once again touting Favreau as Kennedy’s replacement, based on an article decrying the latter’s handling of the Star Wars brand throughout the entire Disney era. While it’s something a huge number of fans would love to see, it’s also entirely based on conjecture and hearsay, with the source article leading to various online personalities giving it the old ‘I told you so’, and the even more incredulous claim that the notoriously and often laughably unreliable, not to mention very much anti-Kennedy, YouTuber Doomcock was right all along.

As always, then, best not to read too much into this one for now, but if the stewardship of Lucasfilm were to theoretically change hands, then Jon Favreau does stand out as one of the best placed and most qualified candidates to steer the ship.



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WTC Final: BJ Watling Dislocates Finger, But Continues Wicketkeeping on Last Day of Test Career

BJ Watling, who is playing his last Test in the ICC World Test Championship final against India, is battling a dislocated finger while keeping on Day 6

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ICC Rankings: Ravindra Jadeja Dislodges Jason Holder as Top Test Allrounder

India's Ravindra Jadeja on Wednesday dislodged West Indian Jason Holder as the world's top all-rounder in the latest ICC Test rankings.

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Call off Ashes if English Players' Families Are Not Allowed in Australia: Michael Vaughan

Former England skipper Michael Vaughan has joined the chorus for the country's cricketers to be allowed to travel with their families for the Ashes later this year

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Scarlett Johansson To Receive American Cinematheque Award

It feels as though Scarlett Johansson has been around forever, but the actress is still just 36 years old. That being said, part of her longevity is down to the fact that she’s been winning acclaim for her talents dating back almost a quarter of a century, and she was already on her seventh feature film by the time Robert Redford’s 1998 drama The Horse Whisperer saw her singled out for particular praise.

Personally and professionally, though, the last couple of years have arguably been the best of her career. Since the beginning of 2019, Johansson became the highest-paid actress to ever star in a superhero movie thanks to Avengers: Endgame, and she’s finally set to make her solo debut when Black Widow comes to theaters and Disney Plus in just a couple of weeks.

On top of that, she became just the twelfth star in history to land two Academy Award nominations in the same year after being shortlisted in the Lead and Supporting Actress categories for Marriage Story and Jojo Rabbit respectively. If that still wasn’t enough, then she joined some illustrious names as this year’s recipient of the MTV Movie & TV Generation Award, and the accolades won’t stop coming.

Scarlett Johansson will become the 35th name to be honored with the American Cinematheque Award, as part of the nonprofit organization’s annual fundraiser. It’s something of a ceremonial title above all else, though, but past honorees have included heavy hitters like Robin Williams, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Sean Connery, Tom Cruise, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jodie Foster, Denzel Washington, Nicole Kidman, Al Pacino, Robert Downey Jr., Spike Lee and many more, so it’s pretty illustrious company to find yourself in.



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Vin Diesel Takes Credit For Dwayne Johnson’s Fast & Furious Performance

The feud between Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson got so heated that the two stars would refuse to even be in the same frame of the eighth Fast & Furious movie, despite their characters appearing in several scenes together, leading to the dots awkwardly being joined in post-production.

Things got so bad that Tyrese Gibson even got involved, blasting Johnson for choosing to make spinoff Hobbs & Shaw at the expense of reuniting with the gang for F9. It looks like those fences have been mended, though, after the franchise’s Luke Hobbs publicly praised his fellow bald-headed action icon on social media, with Diesel reciprocating by teasing a return to the fold for The Rock in Fast 10.

However, in a new interview Diesel addressed the beef between the two alpha males, and his wording was very peculiar. You see, the longtime Dominic Toretto claims that it was all a genius plan on his part, and he deliberately masterminded the antagonism between the two actors in an effort to draw out the best possible performance from the former WWE star.

“As a producer, to say, ‘Okay, we’re going to take Dwayne Johnson, who’s associated with wrestling, and we’re going to force this cinematic world, audience members, to regard his character as someone that they don’t know’, Hobbs hits you like a ton of bricks. That’s something that I’m proud of, that aesthetic. That took a lot of work. We had to get there and sometimes, at that time, I could give a lot of tough love. Not Felliniesque, but I would do anything I’d have to do in order to get performances in anything I’m producing.”

This directly contradicts with Johnson’s version of events, where he hinted that conduct and professionalism were behind his discontent, but for whatever reason Diesel appears to be pushing the narrative that pissing off his co-star on purpose was all part of his plan to distance his opposite number from his established wrestling persona, even though The Rock had been a full-time actor for eight years by the time he made his Fast & Furious debut. It’ll be interesting to hear what Johnson makes of this, but fans won’t care in the slightest as long as Hobbs returns for the final two chapters in The Fast Saga.



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YOR vs WOR Dream11 Team Prediction: Check Captain, Vice-Captain, and Probable Playing XIs for Today’s English T20 Blast 2021 match, June 23, 11:00 pm IST

Check here YOR vs WOR Dream11 Team Predictions and hints for the English T20 Blast 2021 match between Yorkshire and Worcestershire. Also, check the schedule of the Yorkshire vs Worcestershire match.

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New Zealand’s Tim Southee Edges Past Ricky Ponting; Three Shy of MS Dhoni in Most Test Sixes

Southee, who is known for hitting big sixes in Tests, hit two massive ones against India in the first innings of the New Zealand innings in the WTC final.

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WTC Final: Mohammed Shami’s Viral Towel Video Sparks Meme Fest

Apart from picking wickets for his team and proving to be a threat for the opposition, Shami also provided entertainment for viewers.

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ENG vs SL Dream11 Team Prediction: Check Captain, Vice-Captain, and Probable Playing XIs for Today’s 1st T20I match, June 23, 11:00 PM IST

Check here ENG vs SL Dream11 Team Predictions and hints for the 1st T20I match between England and Sri Lanka. Also, check the schedule of the England vs Sri Lanka match.

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AL vs PDSC Dream11 Team Prediction: Check Captain, Vice-Captain, and Probable Playing XIs for Today’s Dhaka Premier League 2021 match, June 23, 06:00 PM IST

Check here AL vs PDSC Dream11 Team Predictions and hints for the Dhaka Premier League 2021 match between Abahani Limited and Prime Doleshwar Sporting Club. Also, check the schedule of the Abahani Limited vs Prime Doleshwar Sporting Club match.

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WTC Final: Virat Kohli Sledges Kiwi Batsman Tom Latham, Caught on Stump Microphone

Virat Kohli's tactics didn't work as Latham went on to build a 70 runs partnership for the first wicket with his opening partner Devon Conway. Later it was off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin who dismissed Latham for 30.

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India Is Missing Bhuvneshwar Kumar In The WTC Final: Aakash Chopra

The Indian bowlers failed to impress on the third day of the rain-affected World Test Championship Final.

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WTC Final: On Last Day of Career, BJ Watling Gets Congratulated by Virat Kohli

BJ Watling was wished ahead of his retirement from Test cricket by none other than India skipper Virat Kohli.

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On This Day: First Century In T20 Cricket Was Scored By An Australian Player

Despite scoring the first century in T20 cricket Ian Harvey was never be able to play an international match in the format.

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IND vs NZ Live Score, WTC final, Southampton Test, Day 6: Ajinkya Rahane Falls After Small Partnership

India vs New Zealand, WTC Final Live Score And Updates: The weather today is the best in the last five days and we should be getting a full game today

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WTC Final: Jasprit Bumrah Bowls an Over With Wrong Jersey on Day Five

It would be fair to say that the WTC final has failed to live up to the hype, mostly because of the inclement weather in England. More than two days are lost, and in all probability, the match between India and New Zealand would end in a draw. This stop-start match has left the fans disinterested as well.

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WTC Final: I Would Have Included Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Says Sunil Gavaskar

Gavaskar's comments came on the back of some ineffective bowling by the Indian trio of Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and Ishant Sharma.

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WTC Final: This is How Ashwin’s Wife Prithi Reacted to His Dismissal

Ravichandran Ashwin came out to bat after India vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane was dismissed for 49 and played an entertaining cameo of 22 runs.

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Dwayne Johnson Teases Netflix’s Red Notice With New BTS Images

As you’d expect from someone who prides themselves on being the hardest worker in the room, Dwayne Johnson is always working on something, and even with his DCEU debut Black Adam in the thick of production, the A-list superstar has been drawing attention to Netflix’s upcoming blockbuster Red Notice.

All we’ve seen from the project so far is a few snippets of footage in the streaming service’s 2021 sizzle reel and a myriad of behind the scenes images, but the fact we’re getting Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot in the lead roles of the platform’s most expensive original film ever is more than enough to generate plenty of excitement.

The Rock hopped onto social media to unveil a pair of new images taken during production on the epic heist thriller, as well as teasing that some big news regarding the release date is coming soon, and you can check out the photos below.

Somewhere around Thanksgiving or closer to Christmas is when most folks are expecting Red Notice to drop, and given the talent on display and sheer scope hinted at in the footage, Extraction‘s record as the most-watched Netflix movie ever is in real jeopardy. Johnson, Reynolds and Gadot play an Interpol agent, conman and art thief respectively, drawn into an adventure when the titular arrest warrant is issued.

It’s the latest high profile gig for the world’s biggest movie star, who has Disney’s Jungle Cruise and a rumored cameo in Free Guy coming this summer, with Black Adam and DC League of Super-Pets releasing next year, while his autobiographical NBC sitcom Young Rock was recently renewed for a second season, so it’s all systems go.



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A Great Chris Evans Movie Is Finding New Life On Netflix

Looking at the facts, it would appear as though nobody in Hollywood loves starring in a comic book movie more than Chris Evans, with the actor having racked up a huge number of credits in a variety of different of spins on the near-ubiquitous genre.

As well as playing the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Steve Rogers on ten occasions, eleven if the rumors of a What If…? cameo as an alternate version of Spider-Man pan out, he also suited up as the Human Torch in Tim Story’s pair of Fantastic Four blockbusters. On top of that, he voiced Casey Jones in the animated TMNT, stole scenes as Jake Jensen in The Losers, headlined Snowpiercer as Curtis Everett, and even original effort Push got a comic book tie-in before the movie itself hit theaters in 2009.

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That’s without mentioning Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, the cult classic still lauded by fans well over a decade after it was first released and flopped at the box office, which might be the most tragically overlooked and underrated entry in Evans’ back catalogue of seventeen outings and counting as a comic book character.

The star plays Lucas Lee, one of the many obstacles needing to be overcome by Michael Cera’s title hero in order to save the day and win the girl, and Chris Evans has an absolute ball with his performance. Sadly, Scott Pilgrim didn’t get to launch the franchise that was intended after earning less than $50 million globally, but it continues to find new fans on an almost annual basis. To illustrate that point even further, the kaleidoscopic adventure has mad its way up the Netflix viewership charts, and now ranks as one of the platform’s 20 most popular titles.



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M. Night Shyamalan Says His New Movie Is Unlike Anything You’ve Ever Seen

M. Night Shyamalan‘s career has been a rarity, in that the filmmaker has had almost complete creative control over his output since the very beginning, a luxury that very few writers and directors have been afforded in the modern era, all thanks to The Sixth Sense being one of the most impressive calling cards of the last quarter of a century.

The complete unknown’s first major studio film nabbed $672 million at the box office, punctured the zeitgeist and landed six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, but it can’t be argued that over the following two decades many of his subsequent projects were highly prone to self-indulgence.

It looked as though a resurgence of sorts was on the cards after the one-two punch of The Visit and Split did solid critical and commercial business, only for Glass to ultimately disappoint by failing to live up to the potential of the core Unbreakable crossover. Shyamalan is back with mysterious psychological thriller Old, which releases next month, and in a new interview he teased that audiences have never seen anything like it before.

“No one has ever seen anything like it in its tone and the way it’s just, I mean, it’s like nothing else. I’m deciding on the minor note; how to end on a minor note. Unbreakable ends on a kind of a dip, right? He goes to the dark note, that minor note at the end. The guy you thought was the best friend is the villain. The minor note sticks to you forever. My father’s very old right now. He has dementia. He comes and goes. And the kids are now directing and singing concerts and, you know, when did this happen? So I made a movie about that feeling.”

Old

The bare bones of the Old‘s premise are inspired by acclaimed graphic novel Sandcastle, with a cast of characters trapped on a beach where they age rapidly every thirty minutes, forcing them into a race against the clock to figure out what’s going on and how they can stop it, before they simply die of old age by the time the credits roll. It’s definitely a unique hook, and the footage we’ve seen so far looks incredibly promising, but given his patchy track record, you never know until opening day which M. Night Shyamalan you’re going to get.



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