Hollywood: Black Panther
By Tony Rizzo
HOLLYWOOD -- Henry Cavill has left the Netflix series "The Witcher," for the new four-part spy film franchise "Argylle," with Sam Rockwell, Bryce Dallas Howard, John Cena and Samuel L. Jackson. Cavill will also star in director Guy Ritchie and producer Jerry Bruckheimer's next film "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare" (opposite "Baby Driver's" Eiza Gonzalez), which charts Winston Churchill's and "James Bond" creator Ian Fleming's secret WWII combat organization. "Enola Holmes 2" also hit Netflix recently, and Cavill will be back to play Superman again.
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"12 Years a Slave" Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o, currently headlining "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," has found "A Quiet Place" for her next film. Considered a spin-off, not a sequel to "A Quiet Place" and "A Quiet Place 2," "A Quiet Place: Day One," is based on an idea from creator, star and director of "A Quiet Place" John Krasinski -- who won't be starring in it when it opens in March 2024.
Lupita Nyong'o in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" PHOTO CREDIT: Courtesy of Disney
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"The Fabulous Four" -- Susan Sarandon, Bette Midler, Sissy Spacek and Megan Mullally -- are lifelong friends who reunite in Key West for Midler's wedding. Aussie director Jocelyn Moorhouse begins shooting next year in her home. Spacek currently stars with Dustin Hoffman in "Sam & Kate."
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International film superstar Catherine Deneuve (age 79) is best remembered for "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" (1964), Roman Polanski's "Repulsion" (1965) and "Viva Maria!" (1965), with George Hamilton and French mega-superstar Brigitte Bardot. Even though she's never stopped working in her native home of France, she's making an international comeback in "Bernadette" as former French first lady Bernadette Chirac, wife of 1995 French president Jacques Chirac. I met Deneuve when she and Bardot toured 26 theaters in New York with "Viva Maria!" in 1965. They attracted mob scenes, and people were fainting and going mad over her and Bardot who, despite being French movie stars, commanded crowds equal to Liz Taylor and Richard Burton.
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Also making a comeback is Shelley Duvall, who won two Emmys, a British Academy Award, a Peabody and a top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Duvall was unforgettable in two 1980 classics (Wendy in "The Shining" and Olive Oyl in "Popeye"). Now 73, she's been absent since 2002, and her last film was "Manna from Heaven," with Shirley Jones, Louise Fletcher and Cloris Leachman. In 2016, a talk show host who calls himself "Dr." did a hatchet job interviewing her. But in 2021, when the Hollywood Reporter profiled her in "Searching for Shelley Duvall," it created renewed interest in her career.
After she completed her comeback werewolf film "The Forest Hills," Duvall admitted, "It was a lot of fun, and I'm excited to be back!" The times I partied with her, she was sweet and funny. Guess werewolves like Olive Oyl, too?
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