WEEK ENDING JANUARY 24 , 2016| guyanatimeSinternational.com
Suicide Squad trailer released: The super villains are ready for their mission
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C Comics has brought together their villains in the latest edition of ‘Suicide Squad’. The film’s first trailer has been released and it is about the super villains being released from a prison to complete a mission. The trailer shows a worried Viola Davis who wants the group of super villains to be assigned a secret mission. Suicide Squad, which has been directed by David Ayer, features bad men Will Smith (Deadshot), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Killer Croc), Karen Fukuhara (Katana),
Joel Kinnaman (Rick Flagg), Margot Robbie (Harley Quinn), Jai Courtney (Captain Boomerang) who are ready for a mission. Cara Delevingne plays the role of Enchantress in the much-awaited film. One can also hear Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ in the background too which goes perfectly well with the quirky trailer. Then there is Jared Leto, the famous Joker. Leto’s photos as Joker were released last year. The film has been written and directed by David Ayer. (With PTI inputs) (Indian Express)
Learned to play drums in two weeks for ‘The Big Short’: Christian Bale
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ctress Kate Winslet has backed her “Titanic” co-star Leonardo DiCaprio to win his first Oscar at next month’s ceremony.
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ollywood star Ryan Gosling is “very lucky” to have Eva Mendes and their daughter. The “Big Short” star said his “The Place Beyond the Pines” co-star is his ideal woman and he is
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The actress, 40, said she would be “surprised” if “The Revenant” star did not receive the best actor award after missing out with his previous five Oscar nomina-
equally smitten with their 16-month-old little girl Esmeralda, reported Femalefirst. “My biggest investment is my family. I’m with the person I’m supposed to be with – I’m not looking for anything else beyond Eva –
and I feel very lucky that we have a beautiful, healthy daughter, who is an angel. That’s investment enough for me,” he said. The 35-year-old actor is unsure whether he’s a good father but he tries to be around as much as possible. Asked how he fares as a father, he said, “You’d have to ask my girlfriend really – all I can say is that it’s important for me to be there for my daughter and that I want to be there too, because it’s so fun.” (Indian Express)
time for big changes” and that she will review membership recruiting to bring about “muchneed diversity” in the academy’s ranks. At a Los Angeles gala honoring Boone Isaacs on Monday night, actor David Oyelowo _ who was famously snubbed last year for his performance as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in “Selma” _ expressed frustration with the academy. “This institution doesn’t reflect its president and it doesn’t reflect this room,” Oyelowo said. “I am an academy member and it doesn’t reflect me and it doesn’t reflect this nation.” Other stars began weighing in. George Clooney, in comments to Variety, said that after earlier progress by
the industry, “you feel like we’re moving in the wrong direction.” He noted that movies like “Creed,” “Straight Outta Compton,” “Beasts of No Nation” and “Concussion” may have deserved more attention from the academy. “But honestly, there should be more opportunity than that,” Clooney said. “There should be 20 or 30 or 40 films of the quality that people would consider for the Oscars. By the way, we’re talking about African Americans. For Hispanics, it’s even worse. We need to get better at this. We used to be better at it.” A 2012 Los Angeles Times study found that the academy was 94 percent white and 77 percent male. (Indian Express)
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ctor Christian Bale endured a two-week drumming “crash course” to prepare for his role in financial drama “The Big Short”. The “Batman Begins” star portrays real-life hedge fund manager Michael Burry in the comedic drama, and his character, who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome, is often featured rocking out to heavy metal music in his office and home basement, reported Guardian online. “It was a wonderful crash course, double kick-drum, Pantera, By Demons Be Driven, fan-
tastic song to begin with,” Bale, 41, said. “This is how (Burry) unwound, this is how he calmed down. He would listen to it all day long in his headphones, Mastodon as well. His brain is on fire so much
that death metal calms him. He’s a very different individual to most of us.” Bale is nominated for the best performance by an actor in a supporting role Oscar at the Academy Awards next month. (Indian Express)
‘Fantastic Four’ reshoots were tough: Michael B Jordan
ctor Michael B Jordan has opened up about the production problems
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the Marvel film, which became one of the biggest box office disasters of 2015, reported
which hampered last year’s “Fantastic Four” reboot, branding the numerous reshoots tough. The 28-year-old played Johnny Storm/ The Human Torch in
Independent online. Problems reportedly arose between 20th Century Fox and director Josh Trank during the production process, with major reshoots and
script rewrites ordered. Jordan admits it was a tough time for the cast, which also included Miles Teller, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell. “Working on set is always difficult when you’re doing a project of that size, with those many special effects and CGI. A lot of parts were involved. Did it feel tough? Yeah, it felt tough, but you never know how it’s going to turn out in the end. “Cause everything we shot didn’t ultimately make the movie either. A lot of decisions were made after we filmed, after the reshoots, to make the best project that we could possibly do.” (Indian Express)
tions, reported the BBC. “I think you can sort of feel it, and I think that everyone wants it for him,” Kate, who is also an Oscars frontrunner for best supporting actress said. “It would be amazing,” she added. Winslet was speaking at the London Critics Circle Film Awards. She collected her best supporting actress award for “Steve Jobs”, just one week after winning the same prize at the Golden Globes. (Indian Express)
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rowing calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards over the lack of diversity among this year’s Oscar nominees are forcing stars to choose sides and threatening to throw the movie industry’s biggest night of the year into turmoil. The backlash over the second straight year of all-white acting nominees is also putting heavy pressure on the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences to diversify its overwhelmingly white male membership. The furor grew on Tuesday when the Rev. Al Sharpton said he would lead a campaign encouraging people not to watch the Feb. 28 telecast. On Monday, Spike Lee, this year’s Oscar honoree for lifetime achievement, and Jada Pinkett Smith announced they will boycott the ceremony in protest. Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who has led efforts to diversify the academy, responded late Monday evening with a forceful statement saying that those previous measures weren’t enough. Isaacs, the academy’s first African American president, said that “it’s