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Kirsten Dunst announces pregnancy by gracing the cover of 'W' magazine

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George Pimentel/WireImage(LOS ANGELES) — Kirsten Dunst is pregnant! How do we know? Well, because she showed off her pregnancy glow and growing bump while gracing the cover of W Magazine’s Director’s issue. 

On Tuesday, the 38-year-old actress took to Instagram to share the cover of the magazine, which also featured Elle Fanning and Rashida Jones and was directed by Sofia Coppola.

For the cover Dunst wore an elegant long-sleeved white lace dress as she laid across a bed adorned with floral sheets. 

In the feature, the expecting mother joked about how it felt doing the cover shoot while pregnant. 

“Every shot was on the floor. I was like, ‘I can’t get up.’ I felt like Urkel,” she said. 

This will be the second child for Dunst and her fiancé Jesse Plemons. They are already parents to son Ennis, who they welcomed in May 2018. 

By Danielle Long
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Russell Crowe pens heartbreaking note to announce his father's passing

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Quinn Rooney/Getty Images(NEW SOUTH WALES) — Actor Russell Crowe announced Tuesday that his dear father, John Crowe, passed away at the age of 85.  The Oscar winner honored his dad by penning a heartbreaking tribute that called him “the most gentle of men.”

“I arrived back in the bush last night. Today, although the sun is shining and the torrential rain has abated, this date will forever be tinged with sadness,” Crowe tweeted early Tuesday morning. “My dear old man, my beautiful dad, the most gentle of men, has passed away.”

The Gladiator star continued in a follow up tweet, “I’m posting this because I know there are people all over the world who’s heart he touched and who’s ribs he tickled with his sparkly eyes and his cheeky attitude to everyone, and everything.”

“This is probably as efficient a method as any to pass on the news,” added Crowe.

The 56-year-old actor revealed his father was born on March 13, 1936 “in Christchurch, New Zealand” and died Tuesday “in Coffs Harbour, NSW, his home for the last 25 years.”

After announcing his father’s passing, Crowe changed his Twitter header and icon in honor of his dad’s memory.

The profile picture has been changed to a recent photo of his two parents at a black tie event while the header is a serene snap of his dad enjoying some sunshine by the water.

Crowe openly spoke about how close he was with his father and explained last April that he chose to fly home and quarantine with his dad during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Isolating with the old man. 84 now.  Wearing a hat I got at Princeton while shooting A Beautiful Mind,” he captioned the sweet photo.

By Megan Stone
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Tyler Perry calls for DOJ investigation of "unconstitutional" Georgia voting law

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ABC News/Stephen Iervolino(ATLANTA) — Tyler Perry weighed in on Georgia’s new voting law on Tuesday, suggesting the Department of Justice should take action.

However, the media mogul, whose Tyler Perry Studios is based in Atlanta, also warned against pulling businesses from the state.

“As a Georgia resident and business owner I’ve been here a few times with the anti-abortion bill and the LGBTQ discrimination bill,” Perry said in a statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter.  “They all sent a shockwave through Georgia and the nation but none of them managed to succeed.”

“Please remember that we did turn Georgia blue and there is a gubernatorial race on the horizon — that’s the beauty of a democracy,” the statement continues

Adds Perry, “I’m resting my hope in the DOJ taking a hard look at this unconstitutional voter suppression law that harkens to the Jim Crow era.”

Some in Hollywood, including Ford v Ferrari director James Mangold have announced their intent not to shoot future films in Georgia due to the new law.

Star Wars actor Mark Hamill expressed his solidarity with Mangold, tweeting “Absolutely,” in response to the director’s tweet, along with the hashtag #NoMoreFilminginGeorgia.

By George Costantino
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"Game of Thrones" is heading to Broadway

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Macall B. Polay/HBO(NEW YORK) — Brace yourselves, Game of Thrones is coming to the Great White Way.

Two years after the massively successful HBO series aired its final episode, Broadway is breathing new life into the land of Westeros in hopes of adding a Tony Award to its massive trophy collection.

Entertainment Tonight reports that a stage version of Game of Thrones, based off the television adaption of the George R. R. Martin novels, is being turned into a stage play.   Martin will play a direct role in developing the stage adaption of his series, set to hit NYC in 2023.

In addition, Duncan MacMillian has been tapped as the writer while Dominic Cooke will direct.

The Broadway adaption of GoT won’t cover the whole series but, instead, will take place “during a pivotal moment in the history of the series.”  It is currently unknown which characters will be featured in the stage adaption.

According to a statement by Martin, he teases, “The seeds of war are often planted in times of peace. Few in Westeros knew the carnage to come when highborn and smallfolk alike gathered at Harrenhal to watch the finest knights of the realm compete in a great tourney, during the Year of the False Spring.”

The beloved author continued, “It is a tourney oft referred during HBO’s Game of Thrones, and in my novels, A Song of Ice & Fire… and now, at last, we can tell the whole story… on the stage.” 

GoT ran for eight seasons on HBO, becoming one of the most awarded series in Emmy Awards history with a whopping 38 wins.  In all, the series was nominated for a total of 738 awards and won 269 of them. 

Besides the Broadway adaptation, three spinoff series are currently in the works.

By Megan Stone
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'Wrath of Man': Watch trailer for Jason Statham's bloody reunion with 'Snatch' director Guy Ritchie

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Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures © 2021 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved(LOS ANGELES) — In 1998, a then-unknown director named Guy Ritchie and an even less-known former Olympic diver named Jason Statham collaborated on the cult classic heist movie Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. They followed that up with another heist hit, 2000’s Snatch, with Brad Pitt.

Fast-forward to 2021. Ritchie has directed hit action films like the Sherlock Holmes series with Robert Downey Jr., stylish, star-studded crime dramas like The Gentleman with Matthew McConaughey, and even family fare like Disney’s live-action hit, Aladdin. 

Statham, meanwhile, became one of Hollywood’s most bankable movie tough guys: in the Transporter films, the hit Expendables series with Sylvester Stallone, the action comedy Spy with Melissa McCarthy, and recently alongside The Rock in the blockbuster Fast and the Furious spin-off Hobbs and Shaw.

It’s only fitting that their latest collaboration, Wrath of Man, would play to both Statham’s and Ritchie’s strengths. The brand-new trailer shows Statham as an an armored car guard who clearly has experienced more than the two-week training course. Between dispatching bad guys, he’s untwisting a conspiracy that could solve the murder of his son. In true Ritchie style, much of the tightly-edited heist action is set to Johnny Cash’s Folsom Prison Blues.

The movie, which also stars Mindhunters‘ Holt McCallany, Black Hawk Down‘s Josh Hartnett, Laz Alonzo from The Boys, and recording artist and actor Post Malone, opens May 7.

By Stephen Iervolino
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