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27/08/2026

First Dolly Parton, then Tim Curry, and now Peter Cullen. Very sad! Rest In Peace. 🙏🏼

Peter Cullen, famous for voicing Optimus Prime in the 'Transformers' franchise, is dead.

25/08/2026

TODAY IN HISTORY: “The Wizard of Oz” is released in theaters (1939)

25/08/2026

Very sad! Dolly Parton passes at age 80. R.I.P. 🙏🏼

The singer died at her home in Nashville, Tennessee, earlier today, her family confirmed in a statement.

14/07/2026

Spaceballs: The New One

The Teaser Poster. In theaters April 2027.

San Diego Comic-Con Panel. Hall H. Friday July 24. 4-5pm PT.

[Source: Spaceballs FB Page]

13/07/2026

Very sad. R.I.P. Sam Neill

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/new-zealand-actor-sam-neill-dies-age-78-after-cancer-recovery-family-says

23/06/2026

Actor Faizon Love, known for his roles in Elf and Couples Retreat, said he has been struggling with homelessness and poverty during a court hearing following his recent arrest.

Love was released from jail on Friday, June 19, three days after he was arrested on two counts of contempt of court in Florida’s Hillsborough County and booked into a Tampa jail on Tuesday, June 16. The actors ex-wife has declared he owes around $250,000 in unpaid child support payments.

The actor, who appeared in court in a wheelchair, said he has faced homelessness and poverty and relies on annual Elf royalty checks of around $10,000 to survive each year.

“He was homeless. He lived in his car,” Love’s attorney said in the hearing. “That’s how the mighty have fallen.”

[source: PEOPLE]

16/06/2026

Happy Birthday, Arnold Vosloo!

An Afrikaner of Dutch and German ancestry, Arnold Vosloo was born into a Pretoria acting family, his parents having been stage actors.

Vosloo liked the script for 1992's "The Mummy," but told director Stephen Sommers (who, instead of making another straightforward horror film, wanted to turn it into a romantic action-adventure epic with a few horror elements), he wanted to play the role "absolutely straight. From Imhotep's point of view, this is a skewed version of 'Romeo and Juliet.'" He was offered the role after a single audition, and to help Vosloo prepare for the role of Imhotep, Sommers told him to watch Yul Brynner in "The Ten Commandments" (1956).

Carrying some extra weight and conscious of it because of Imhotep's skimpy costume, Vosloo lost 10 to 15 pounds for the role by eschewing alcohol and sugar.

"I'm no Mr. Fitness, but I had done some exercise. When I finally got to London, they showed me my costume, and it was like the size of a postage stamp."

The scene in the beginning where Imhotep is mummified freaked out Vosloo. He had to be in bandages for four hours to film the scenes where he's wrapped and put in his tomb.

[Source: Wikipedia/IMDb/CinemaShorthandSociety]

05/05/2026

Happy Birthday, John Rhys-Davies!

"I cannot tell you how many people I have met that have said 'Oh, by the way, I studied archaeology at University' or 'I became an archaeologist largely because of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' (1981).' And I still meet youngsters who are going up to read archaeology and history at University because of 'Raiders.'"

On the Bonus Features DVD, John Rhys-Davies talks about how when he auditioned for the role of Sallah, he was concerned since the script originally described Sallah as a "5-foot-2, skinny, Egyptian digger" (Steven Spielberg originally wanted Danny DeVito to play Sallah and DeVito was set for the role, but he had to drop out due to conflicts with "Taxi"). Spielberg mentioned that when he first heard Rhys-Davies speak, he reminded him of the Shakespearean character Falstaff.

Rhys-Davies spent up to five hours a day putting on makeup for the role of Gimli in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. It was discovered early on that he was allergic to the prosthetics, so he could only put them on and work about every third day. The first week, it burned off the skin under his eyes. After filming was completed he was given the appliance used and told to do what he wanted with it. One of the makeup artists claimed they had never seen him move so fast as he threw it into a nearby fire.

Rhys-Davies lost the end tip of his left hand middle finger to the knuckle while changing a van engine. During filming of "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" (2002), he was fitted with a gel tip for the finger. Rhys-Davies and the crew played a prank on director Peter Jackson by slicing the gel tip nearly in half and inserting prop blood inside. Rhys-Davies approached Jackson to tell him he was hurt and pulled open the tip, letting the blood flow out. (IMDb)

02/05/2026

Happy Birthday, Dwayne Johnson!

Each day on set of "The Smashing Machine" (2025) required makeup that took three to four hours to complete and 21 prosthetics, courtesy of Academy Award winner Kazu Hiro, to make Dwayne Johnson look like former amateur wrestler and MMA fighter Mark Kerr. Johnson worked with a voice coach to turn his speech into that of Kerr's, a soft, tender voice. The result has been a performance that critics have lauded as one of Johnson's best, who looks almost unrecognizable on the big screen. "I've never worked harder, and we like hard work, it's what we all like to do," Johnson told ESPN during the roundtable. "But man, I had never worked harder for a role."

Co-star Emily Blunt was stunned when she first saw Johnson step into his role. "'Holy s**t,' is what went through my head," said Emily. "I was really staggered by it. It changed the air in the room. Everyone just went very quiet...The transformation seemed like water in the desert. It was so magical."

Johnson first met Kerr around 1997 when the wrestler began ascending, and Johnson's career as the Rocky Maivia character struggled to take off in the then World Wrestling Federation. During the late 1990s, Johnson and Kerr witnessed a sudden uptick in deaths of MMA fighters and pro wrestlers from pills and drugs. Both of them knew friends who suffered a similar fate. "My thought was just this man [Mark] and (director) Benny (Safide), your vision, you'll shoot the film how you want to and I know, I feel it's going to be special. But it was really just about Mark," Johnson said. "And I just wanted to write my own love letter to the men who are my friends that I lost. And to Mark's as well."

In the 2000 PRIDE Grand Prix fight scene between Kerr and Kazuyuki Fujita, Johnson insisted on being hit for real, a request which actor Yoko Hamamura initially refused. He was talked into it by Safdie, and ended up giving Johnson a concussion, to achieve that legitimately dazed look on Kerr in the movie. (IMDb/Wikipedia)

[source: Cinema Shorthand Society]

23/03/2026

Happy Birthday William Shatner, who turned 95 today!