OHMYGOSSIP — Kate Hudson lost out on ‘Moulin Rouge’ to Nicole Kidman.
The 43-year-old actress revealed she was “bummed out” when Nicole won the role of tragic heroine Satine, opposite Ewan McGregor as Christian, in Baz Luhrman’s musical but said Nicole, 55, got the part because she “had a relationship with Baz and wanted to do it”.
Speaking on ‘The World’s First Podcast’, she said: “I really wanted that part and it was written at the time for a 19-year-old girl, I believe.
“Then what happened was I was sort of in the auditioning process and then Nicole [Kidman] had a relationship with Baz and wanted to do it. And so of course, it was like, ‘I guess Nicole Kidman’s doing it’.
“He’s so wonderful. And energetically, I just felt very connected to the way he does things. So I was bummed out. Of course, totally got it, because it’s Nicole. It couldn’t be more different… I really wanted that part.”
However, when asked if there were any roles she regretted turning down, Kate was not as forthcoming, explaining that she tried not to have any regrets.
She said: “I try not to think of things like that. You know how that thing like, ‘Oh, one decision could change the trajectory of your life?’ I don’t ever want to think of that way.”
Speaking previously about Nicole’s talent, Baz said: “I mean, yes, we’re great friends and I think in terms of the cast I see some of them more than others, but Nicole and I go way back.
“You know, we live in a world where as an actor you can be relegated at a certain numerical point in your life, and she’s flourished.
“I mean, she’s not only acting in more challenging roles consistently but she’s also producing and creating and I think she’s someone to be admired, but she’s also just a great friend.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Dave Bautista says that ‘Dune 2’ will be “more amped up” than the first movie.
The 54-year-old actor starred as antagonist Glossu Rabban Harkonnen in the multi-Academy Award winning 2021 movie – which is the first part of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert- and explained that he “loved” with director Denis Villeneuve as he teased that the upcoming sequel has given him a “much bigger” onscreen role than the first.
He said: “You’ve heard me talk about the first film, we’ve talked about the first film. It was that times 100 because it was Rabban amped up, and my part is much bigger on this. I got to spend much more time with Denny, which I crave for because I love working with Denny. And Denny, again, he just brings out the best in me and this was such an amazing experience. Before I left the film – [we were] talking about something else and I’m not gonna say until it actually happens, but he knows that my dream is to work with him as a number one because I really think that Denny will show me how good I can be.”
The ‘Knock at the Cabin’ star went on to add that the first film served as “an introduction” and that the sequel is packed with “absurd humour.”
He told Collider: “This is so amped up from the first film. The first film was just an introduction to what this film is. There’s just so much going on, it’s so much more cutthroat and political and intense. And there are moments of levity where [there are] some funny moments, and they’re kind of absurd humor, but there are those moments. So it’s just so much more amped up than the first film.”
‘Dune 2’ is set for release on November 3.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Vin Diesel will star in ‘Riddick: Furya’.
10 years after the last installment in the ‘Riddick’ franchise, Vin is set to reunite with David Twohy for the fourth movie, following on from ‘Pitch Black’ (2000), ‘The Chronicles of Riddick’ (2004) and 2013’s ‘Riddick’.
Twohy is set to direct from a script he has written, while Diesel will produce alongside Samantha Vincent, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The THR reports that the movie’s official logline states: “In ‘Riddick: Furya’, the protagonist finally returns to his homeworld, a place he barely remembers and one he fears might be left in ruins by the Necromongers. But there he finds other Furyans fighting for their existence against a new enemy. And some of these Furyans are more like Riddick than he could have ever imagined.”
Twohy said in a statement: “Our legion fans have demanded it for years, and now we’re finally ready to honour their call-to-action with Riddick: Furya. My collaboration with Vin and One Race has spanned 20 fruitful years, as together we’ve created three movies, two video games, an anime production and motion comics for the internet. This new big-screen event will see a return to Riddick’s homeworld, where we finally get to explore Riddick’s genesis.”
Diesel first confirmed the movie was in development in 2016, with Twohy on board.
And, in 2019, he shared that the script had been completed.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Rob Marshall would cast Emma Stone as Roxie Hart in ‘Chicago’ if he were making the movie today.
The 62-year-old director was at the helm of the 2002 Oscar-winning musical – which starred Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renee Zellweger as two women in prison who gain celebrity status over their crimes – but explained that these days he would pick the ‘Cruella’ star to take on the role made famous by the ‘Bridget Jones’ Diary’ actress.
He said: “I love Emma Stone. I’ve worked with her on stage in ‘Cabaret’ on Broadway. Immediately, I think Roxie would somehow be hers, I think. I just feel like she could play into the vulnerability. It’s not easy, actually, to find actors who are truly vulnerable, that can project vulnerability the way Renée Zellweger was able to, or the way Shirley MacLaine was able to.
“She’s a fragile character that actually kind of turns during the piece to become a ferocious person, you know, aggressive person, and then back down again. It’s all about the rise and fall of fame. So, Emma comes to mind.”
Rob – who also directed the 2014 Disney adaptation of Broadway hit ‘Into the Woods’ as well as the 1999 TV remake of ‘Annie’ with Kathy Bates and most recently helmed the live-action version of ‘The Little Mermaid’ with Halle Bailey – went on to muse that when it comes to recasting the other female lead as he recalled that it was “unusual” to even do a cinematic movie musical at the time he took on ‘Chicago.’
He told Collider: “Velma, I haven’t really thought… I mean, Velma is a tricky one because you really have to be a killer dancer for that too. [There are] some fabulous actors out there. Let me think about that one. I’m sure it would be somebody fantastic. You know what? I think we could cast it now because I was saying before, actually, that we were sort of the resurgence of musicals, live-action musicals. [It was] very unusual at that time to do a musical. All the animated musicals were happening, but no one wanted to hear people sing in real life. So I feel like so many musicals have since happened, right? And so now [there are] more musicals, more people are singing in film, more people are dancing in film.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Dario Argento takes inspiration for his horror films from his own nightmares.
The 82-year-old Italian maestro is regarded as one of the most influential directors in the genre over the course of his six decade spanning career.
Argento explained that after being at the helm of classics such as ‘Suspiria’, ‘Inferno’, ‘The Bird With the Crystal Plumage’ and ‘Deep Red’, making movies is as “natural” to him as breathing.
He said: “It felt like not even a month had passed. I’ve made so many films it is as natural to me as eating or breathing. So I draw my inspiration from my nightmares and my dreams, that is what I need for my inspiration but others must be inspired by me. That’s a normal thing. It’s a bit like when I go to a museum and I see a picture and I get inspired by that. So art is something that is interchangeable.”
Dario most recently completed work on ‘Dark Glasses’ for streaming service Shudder – which stars newcomer Xinyu Zhang as a little boy who helps a blind young woman track down a serial killer and is his first feature since 2012’s ‘Dracula 3D’ – and explained he was “very lucky” to find such an intelligent performer to take on the role.
He told HeyUGuys: “I was extremely lucky to find this boy because he is a very intelligent boy but he had never acted before but he had seen a lot of films so he knew how to act and I just told him what to do and he did it.”
Meanwhile, the soundtrack to the new horror was supposed to be provided by 1990s French duo Daft Punk until their manager called Dario to inform him that they were no longer working and he had to find someone else.
He said: “With Daft Punk, everything was already discussed and almost finalized but at that point, the manager called me and told me that they didn’t exist any longer I had to look to someone else to do the music for the movie, the soundtrack. So I looked and I found Arnaud Bottini and he is a wonderful musician and he did that wonderful electronic soundtrack, so everything worked out.”

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OHMYGOSSIP — Peyton Reed is “unsure” if there will be another ‘Ant-Man’ movie.
The 58-year-old director is at the helm of the ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” – which is the third instalment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe series and stars Paul Rudd in the title role – but is very “superstitious” about saying too much and “cannot talk” about the future of the franchise until the new movie is released.
He said: ” I’m a little superstitious, so it’s hard to talk about the possibility of another one until the movie comes out. But I have loved working at Marvel and, again, there are other characters in that universe I love who maybe haven’t been introduced into the MCU yet.”
However, the ‘Bring It On’ director – who also took the reins on ‘Ant-Man’ in 2015 as well as its 2918 sequel ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ – did go on to note that he would leave the “door open for anything” because he has loved working for the MCU for almost a decade.
He told ScreenRant: “Listen, I would leave the door open for anything. I love working with Kevin and Stephen Broussard and everybody at Marvel. With Ant-Man, we’ve been doing this together for eight or nine years at this point, and it’s a family. We’ve kind of all grown up with these heroes and put them out there, and it’s really gratifying.
“That was an exhilarating thing, to have all these artists bring you this incredible artwork. I’m sure that, along the way, there were characters and environments that we just didn’t have room for.”
‘Ant-Man: Quantumania’ is set to be released in cinemas on February 17.

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OHMYGOSSIP — Julianne Moore needs to be “surprised” as an actress.
The 62-year-old star has been active in Hollywood since the 1990s and is known for her roles in ‘Boogie Nights’ and ‘Magnolia’ ad explained that she is often sent scripts to read that feature parts which are similar to those she has played before but admitted that her latest project ‘Sharper’ – which follows a young man who exacts revenge on his family for not accepting him and cons other rich people to gain the wealth he desires – features a twist she “didn’t see coming.”
She said; “A lot of the time I get told, ‘I thought of you for this script,’ and they’ll send it to you, but they thought of me because of something I just did. I want to be surprised,” says the actor, “Usually, having been doing this for as long as I’ve been doing it, you can get ahead of the screenplay, and I see what’s being set up. But when I read it, I really didn’t see it… coming.”
The Academy Award-winning actress – who stars alongside Sebastian Stan and John Lithgow in the Apple+ movie – went on to add that she was interested in how the characters related to one another in the movie and was fascinated by the “deep pleasure” that she thinks must be associated with being in a cult.
She told Total Film: “I’m interested in behaviour, in how people communicate with each other. Why do people get involved in a cult or involved in these schemes? There has to be a deep sense of pleasure. Let’s face it, there are lots of easier ways to live than the way these characters choose. There has to be an element of addiction to the thrill.”
‘Sharper’ streams on Apple+ from February 17

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OHMYGOSSIP — ‘The Banshees Of Inisherin’ co-producer James Flynn has died aged 57.
The Irish film producer’s passing was confirmed by The Irish Times and comes after the dark comedy flick starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson earned nine Oscar nominations at the upcoming Academy Awards.
The cause of death is not known at this time.
The co-founder of Metropolitan Film Productions is survived by his wife Juanita Wilson and children Alex and Anna.
His colleague, producer Ed Guiney, who worked with James on 1998’s ‘Sweety Barrett’, has paid a touching tribute.
He told the outlet: “James was a wonderful person, a brilliant producer – he had an encyclopedic knowledge of film and was the smartest of all of my generation of producers.
“He made massive contributions to the industry at the Film Board, as a member of Screen Producers Ireland and as a producer.”
James’ recent credits include Sir Ridley Scott’s ‘The Last Duel’, the ‘Disenchanted’ sequel and ‘Greta’ starring Isabelle Hupper.
Away from the big screen, he was also the executive producer on the hit series ‘Vikings’ and its spinoff ‘Valhalla’.
He was known for working with fellow Irish stars, teaming up with Farrell and Gleeson on various productions.
In 1997, he and his wife Juanita founded Metropolitan Film Productions, working on a whole host of film and TV productions.
In 2002, he launched Octagon Films, with credits including Neil Jordan’s ‘Ondine’ and Irish comedy ‘Rory O’Shea Was Here’, starring James McAvoy and Steven Robertson.
James earned Oscar nominations for his 2008 short film ‘The Door’ and the 2009 animation ‘The Secret of Kells’.

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