OHMYGOSSIP — Rob Marshall was daunted by the underwater scenes on ‘The Little Mermaid’.
The 62-year-old director has helmed the live-action remake of the Disney animated film and had to draw on all of his previous experience behind the camera to shoot the watery sequences required for the flick.
Rob told ComicBook.com: “It was definitely daunting and a challenge. I mean, as I started, I thought, ‘What have I gotten myself into?’ But I have to say, if I hadn’t done all my movies prior to this, I wouldn’t have been ready for this one because it was so complicated.
“I mean, everything had to be choreographed in advance so that we could actually take all of that information and give it to our stunt team.”
The ‘Chicago’ director continued: “All of the underwater work was literally done on rigs, you know, apparatuses, wires. And sometimes in one scene, you know, many times in one scene, they’d say two lines. I’d say ‘Cut’, and we’d put on another apparatus for a couple more lines. It was all done in little pieces, like a mosaic for even just one scene.”
Melissa McCarthy – who stars in the film as antagonist Ursula – admits that she was blown away by how “technically impossible” the underwater scenes seemed to be.
The ‘Bridesmaids’ actress said: “I’ve never seen anything look like that. I just can’t process how technically impossible that seemed to be and how you never thought about it, just watching you’re like, ‘Of course, I’m underwater.'”
Melissa added: “Every hair is digital, all the movement. You know we each had, what, like seven, eight people that were a part of our team to help keep that kind of undulating. It took a lot of people to make it look so effortless.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Vanessa Kirby was astonished by Tom Cruise’s fearlessness on the set of ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two’.
The 35-year-old actress reprises her role as the White Widow in ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ and recalled being present on set in Iceland for the project’s sequel when Tom parachuted from a motorcycle after riding it off a cliff.
Speaking to Variety, Vanessa said: “He did it many times in one day. He did it consecutively… and repeatedly so he could capture all the different angles and sides of it.”
The ‘Crown’ star was “inspired” by Cruise’s calm approach to the stunt and says that working with the Hollywood legend is why she enjoys being in the franchise so much.
She recalled: “He was just so calm. He had no fear. He found it just exhilarating. That kind of belief in cinema and what one could achieve and his passion for it is so inspiring. He kind of believes he can do the impossible and then he does. I love being a part of the franchise. I’m really excited to come back.”
‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two’ will be released next year and the project is expected to be the climax to the long-running series of films, although Vanessa is tempted to do even more.
She said: “I would hope they would have me. My character, I love playing because she’s kind of unusual, strange and fun and ambiguous.”
Despite suggestions that the franchise is nearing its conclusion, director Christopher McQuarrie is open to making another film.
The 54-year-old filmmaker told Entertainment Weekly: “Look, we’re still shooting eight and there’s any number of ways that that story could play out.
“When you’re watching ‘Mission: Impossible’, and watching the team go through these adventures, you’re having some sense of what it’s like to make a ‘Mission: Impossible’ movie. There’s always a plan, the plan always changes, everything goes completely awry, and hopefully everything always turns out alright in the end. But you never really fully understand, or trust where it is you’re going, until you get there.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Willem Dafoe has joined the cast of ‘Beetlejuice 2’.
The 67-year-old actor is the latest actor added to the star-studded line-up for the sequel to the 1988 supernatural comedy that sees Tim Burton returning to direct.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dafoe will play a law enforcement officer in the afterlife.
The new movie features a combination of both original and fresh cast members with Michael Keaton returning as the titular ghost and Winona Ryder reprising the part of Lydia Deetz.
‘Wednesday’ actress Jenna Ortega has been cast as Lydia’s daughter, Monica Bellucci is to play Beetlejuice’s wife and Justin Theroux is to feature in a role that is not yet known.
Production on the project is underway in the UK ahead of a September 2024 release date.
The original movie was a critical and commercial hit and told the story of a couple of ghosts who enlist a spirit named Beetlejuice to help them rid their home of its new inhabitants.
Composer Danny Elfman – who will be reunited with longterm collaborator Burton on the ‘Beetlejuice’ sequel – recently suggested that Michael “won’t look much different” as the character despite more than three decades having passed since the original movie.
He told Deadline: “I said, ‘He’s not even going to look that much different. That’s the beauty of the ‘Beetlejuice’ make-up. He already looked like he was 150 in the first one.’
“It’s perfect, you know? Everybody else has to play the next generation, except for Michael. I mean, he’s still like really fit and really active and really on it.
“And with the ‘Beetlejuice’ make-up, I can’t even imagine it’s going to look like he’s changed practically at all. So, I can’t wait for that.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Ozzy Osbourne and his Black Sabbath bandmates were “s*******” themselves watching 1973’s ‘The Exorcist’.
The Prince of Darkness – who once unknowingly ate a real bat onstage – has revealed his “favourite” horror movie “freaked” him and his fellow bandmembers “out” so much that they had to go and see another film to get over it, which made him feel like a fool with his nickname.
The 74-year-old heavy metal icon recalled to Metal Hammer magazine: “Our manager came to us one day when we were on tour and says, ‘You have to go and see this film called The Exorcist. We said, ‘The Exorcist? What the f*** does that mean?’ He said, ‘Just go and see it.’
“We were in Philadelphia in this f****** movie theater and we were s******* ourselves! That one was just so real. We were freaked out! Here we were, Black Sabbath and I’m the Prince Of Darkness and all this, and we had to go see another movie — [1936 Paul Newman caper film] The Sting —just to stop thinking about it. It was so amazing.”
Meanwhile, Ozzy previously shared how he swore off acid after a horse he spoke to for an hour told him to “f*** off” during a drugs trip.
The ‘War Pigs’ rocker kicked the class A substance after swallowing them like sweets during his rock heyday while conquering America.
He was quoted in the Daily Star last year as saying: “At that time in America, people were very fond of lacing your drinks with acid. I didn’t care.
“I used to swallow handfuls of tabs at a time. The end of it came when we got back to England. I took 10 tabs of acid then went for a walk in a field. I ended up standing there talking to this horse for about an hour.
“In the end the horse turned round and told me to f*** off. That was it for me.”
The ‘Paranoid’ hitmaker – who has Parkinson’s and has a longstanding spinal injury – recently announced he is retiring from touring the world due to poor health.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Kathryn Newton, Angus Cloud and Will Catlett have signed up to star in the upcoming untitled monster movie from the ‘Scream VI’ filmmakers.
The trio will join Melissa Barrera and Alisha Weir in the new film from directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, also known as Radio Silence, which is set for a 2024 release.
The movie is a Universal Pictures project and plot details are being kept a closely guarded secret.
However, according to The Hollywood Reporter, at one stage of development the movie was titled ‘Dracula’s Daughter’.
That script told the story of a “group of kidnappers who abduct a band of young people, one of whom ends up being the titular character”.
It is unclear if the plot has changed.
Universal stated that the movie: “provides a unique take on legendary monster lore and will represent a fresh, new direction for how to celebrate these classic characters”.
Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett have previously directed the two latest ‘Scream’ movies.
Newton recently appeared in ‘Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’, and has finished production on Focus Feature’s Lisa Frankenstein movie.
Cloud is best known for playing Fezco on HBO’s ‘Euphoria’, while Catlett stars in ‘A Thousand and One’, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Jamie Lee Curtis told the director of ‘Freaky Friday’ to “fire” her.
The 64-year-old actress – who is said to be reprising her role as Tess Coleman in the sequel to the 2003 Disney body-swap comedy alongside her on-screen daughter Lindsay Lohan (Anna Coleman) – has recalled being told by Mark Waters that editor Bruce Green was concerned that her “performance was a little big”.
The ‘Halloween Ends’ star told him to trust her, otherwise, he could get rid of her, and she ultimately ended up proving the editor wrong.
Jamie recalled to The New York Times: “The first day, we shot the scene where we pull up to the school. I’m the teenager and I’m completely flummoxed because this hot guy [played by Chad Michael Murray] is walking over. My body freezes up. Mark came up to me the next day and said, ‘My editor is wondering if the performance is a little big.’ I looked at him and said, ‘My instinct is all I have to go with. If you don’t like what I’m doing, fire me. I will regret dyeing my hair red, and other than that, it will be fine. But this is what I’m going to do.’ Years later, I was at the Aero Theater [in Santa Monica] and the editor, who was sitting in front of us, said, ‘By the way, I was so wrong.'”
Elyse Hollander has been hired to write the script for the sequel, while Lindsay has revealed that she and her co-star are open to reprising her role.
The 36-year-old actress told the newspaper: “Jamie and I are both open to that, so we’re leaving it in the hands that be. We would only make something that people would absolutely adore.”
Jamie revealed that she’d approached Disney about the possibility.
She said: “Something really touched a chord. When I came back, I called my friends at Disney and said, ‘It feels like there’s a movie to be made.'”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Brie Larson, Jordana Brewster and Michelle Rodriguez “would love” to make an all-female ‘Fast and Furious’ spin-off movie.
The actresses are currently promoting ‘Fast X’, the tenth installment of the series and not only do they love working together, they think a women-focused action film would be good for the wider movie industry.
Discussing the prospect, Brie told ‘Entertainment Tonight’: “I don’t think we’d be mad about anything that involved ladies all together.
“It was very clear that we would love to spend more time together.”
Jordana added: “Here’s what I would like to see. I would like to see Charlize [Theron], me, Natalie [Emmanuel], Michelle, Brie. I would like to see us all kick some a** together!”
And Michelle agreed: “There’s nobody better. I’m all about it! Bring it!
“God knows Hollywood could use one of those.We don’t have any good ones, not really, really good ones.”
The women are proud there are now so many women at the forefront of the franchise.
Michelle said: “I’m just over the moon. It’s just really extraordinary.”
Charlize paid tribute to Michelle, who was the original female star of the movie series, for the work she has done to encourage more women to be involved with the movies.
She said: “[Michelle] was really the push behind [my casting], and has been for I think all the females that have joined this cast so I’m really grateful to her putting it out there, saying we should do this.”
One other person who could potentially join an all-female ‘Fast and Furious’ would be Meadow Walker, the daughter of the late Paul Walker, who starred in the first seven films but died in a car crash in November 2013.
Meadow has a cameo role in ‘Fast X’ and recently revealed she had been “waiting for the right moment” to honour her dad.
She told ‘Entertainment Tonight’ of her appearance: “I’ve always thought about honouring my dad [in a ‘Fast’ film] just because it’s such a big part of his life and my life.
“I wanted it to be something super small and simple that was almost like an Easter egg. Like, if you didn’t know who I was, you wouldn’t even notice it. I know that’s what my dad would want. My dad was always humble, very simple. I left my little mark and I can always share that with him.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Natalie Portman has praised the family-friendly filmmaking model in France.
The 41-year-old actress – who has son Aleph, 12, and seven-year-old daughter Amalia with husband Benjamin Millepied – has had “life-changing” experiences working on projects in the European country because the days were structured in a way she could spend the evenings with her family, and she admitted it is much “harder” for parents working on sets in the UK.
Discussing Sarah Polley’s efforts to allow cast and crew to maintain a family life while making ‘Women Talking’ last year, Natalie told The Hollywood Reporter: That’s something that I see a lot in France, and I think it’s why the entire new generation of French filmmakers is female, because it’s really possible.
“Not that every woman has kids or wants kids, but it makes it possible to be a director and to have children and be a good parent. You have a strong social system that has child care, and the workday hours are normal.
“We shot ‘Jackie’ in France, and I did a French film called ‘Planetarium’ as well. I was home every day for dinner at 6 p.m. — just completely life-changing. When you make a film or a series in the U.S., you’re just gone. You’re just gone, and it’s really hard on all parents.”
The ‘May December’ actress is keen for her production company, MountainA, to shine a spotlight on female stories.
She said: “Where it’s united is, how can we see as many different versions of women as possible? And I think that’s where you get to equality, where women can be anything. They can be criminals, virtuosic athletes, brilliant, not brilliant. I think when you get the more variety, the more expression, there’s more possibility.”

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