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| | Channing Tatum: actors are 'incentivized to make bad things to get paid' | | Added 43 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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This upcoming Friday, October 10, is a big opening day for potential blockbuster movies. We?ve got Tron: Ares, After the Hunt, and Kiss of the Spider Woman. One of the lesser known films that?s also opening on the same day is Roofman, a crime comedy film starring Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, Ben Mendelsohn, Uzo Aduba, Peter Dinklage, LaKeith Stanfield, Juno Temple, and more. Its based on a true story about an escaped convict who hid out in a Toys R Us for months.
To promote the film, Channing appeared on one of my favorite shows, Hot Ones. He talked about a lot of things but something that stood out to me, a fan of bad movies, was Channing?s claim that actors are ?incentivized? to make bad movies over the chance to make something really good. Why? It?s all about those Benjamins, baby.
During a recent appearance on ?Hot Ones,? the ?Roofman? star said that in the current state of the industry, it feels like actors are ?incentivized? to appear in subpar productions for money rather than take a big swing on something ?really, really good.?
?I think, now, when you get asked to do a movie, or you?re trying to get a movie made, it?s a very confused pipeline of possibilities,? Tatum said. ?It really feels like, at times, that you?re incentivized to make bad things to get paid, rather than make something really, really good, for the f-cking people that actually get to see these things and [for the type of] people that I want to see these movies, the person that I was when I was a kid. And I want good movies.?
He added, ?I?m like, ?Man, I want to give my money to the good movies.? It?s such an upside-down moment, but I do believe that the disruption is going to lead to something good. I do believe that. I do believe the streamers came in for a reason, and it had to change. It had to morph.?
Later in the episode, Tatum took a few jabs at his past work. When asked about his 2010 romance ?Dear John,? he called it ?such a generic? movie. When speaking about his role in 2024?s ?Deadpool & Wolverine,? he said he doesn?t feel like ?part of? the film since he was only ?in it for two seconds.?
This is not the first time Tatum spoke up about Hollywood?s troubles. In his Variety cover story, the ?Magic Mike? star said that streamers have caused serious confusion in the entertainment industry, both ?for good and bad.?
?The streamers came in and effed up the industry a bit ? for good and for bad. The studios are confused; the streamers are confused,? he said. ?You?re incentivizing me to go make a subpar movie ? a B script, a programmer that isn?t special.?
[From Variety]
?It really feels like, at times, that you?re incentivized to make bad things to get paid, rather than make something really, really good?? I?m going to say this in all caps because I truly mean it with all of my mind, body, and soul, but he better not be referring to White House Down. Is that movie basically a poor man?s version of Die Hard? Sure! Does it make me love it any less? Nope!
This is an interesting perspective because we generally hear from actors about how they?re looking for that one juicy award-bait project. It reminds me of a quote that I literally just spent almost a half hour Googling to try to cite exactly, but with no luck. I thought it was from Tropic Thunder, but it goes something like, ?You make the commercial movie to make the award-winning movie.? (Does anyone know what I?m talking about?) Its not a bad observation, though, because we see a lot of bad movies and Im sure some of the ones with the bigger names are because they were contractually obligated or owed someone higher up a favor in hopes of getting a juicier role in exchange. Also, I am shocked that he would dismiss his role as Gambit like that. Last I heard, he was still hoping to finally make that standalone Gambit movie happen. I wonder what?s going on behind the MCU scenes.
Heres Channings full Hot Wings interview:
Photos credit: imago stock&people/Avalon, Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/Avalon
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| | ?Ted Lasso' will come back for a fourth season with much of the same cast | | Added 408 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Ted Lasso?s third season ended in May 2023. I loved the first two seasons but I absolutely loathed the third season. It felt like Jason Sudeikis?s personal situation affected every part of the show, from the writing to the decisions about all of the characters to the way everything ?wrapped up.? It was no secret that Jason was basically the only one who wanted the show to end, the rest of the actors and writers would have loved to keep going. There were rumors about a spinoff starring Hannah Waddingham?s Rebecca and there were other rumors that AppleTV+ basically went to Jason and said ?name your price, we want more Lasso.? Well, now that everyone is more than a year removed from the Lasso finale, they?re deciding to do a ?fourth season.? Hmm.
Ted Lasso fans, this is not a drill. In a major step toward the long-awaited fourth season of Apple TV+?s hugely popular soccer comedy, the series? studio Warner Bros. Television has picked up the options on the three original cast members who had been contracted under the aegis of the UK acting union Equity, sources tell Deadline. They are Hannah Waddingham, who plays AFC Richmond owner Rebecca Walton, Brett Goldstein, who plays hardman Roy Kent and Jeremy Swift, who plays Director of Football Operations Leslie Higgins.
After securing the trio, the studio is expected to start reaching out to Ted Lasso cast members with SAG-AFTRA contracts whose options had expired, so they will need to make new deals, we hear. In addition to co-creators/executive producers Jason Sudeikis (Ted Lasso) and Brendan Hunt (Coach Beard), that is believed to include Juno Temple (Keeley Jones). We hear one of the Ted Lasso OGs, Phil Dunster (Jamie Tart), has not been picked up, presumably due to a conflict with another series; he is on both Prime Video?s The Devil?s Hour and Apple?s Surface.
It is unclear which other stars may be approached about Season 4; the cast have all said repeatedly that they would be happy to reprise their roles if an opportunity arises. Many would likely pop in for guest appearances.
Getting the cast back paves the way toward a Season 4 greenlight, contingent on budget approval and scheduling as actors whose options have lapsed may have joined other series that have them in first position, sources said.
Starting the process for a Season 4 greenlight indicates that the main Ted Lasso driving force on and off-screen, Sudeikis, is on board for a new installment as the studio would not have proceeded without his consent. The fate of Ted Lasso has always hinged on Sudeikis, who?d originated the character in NBC Sports videos. While being open that they would love to extend Ted Lasso, one of the biggest and most acclaimed comedies of the past decade, Apple and Warner Bros. executives have made it clear that it would be up to Sudeikis whether the show would continue.
[From Deadline]
In the dreamlike final sequence where we saw what happens to the characters, it felt like they were setting up a post-Ted Lasso series in Richmond. That was what most of the conversations were about last year, all of the potential spinoffs now that the Ted character is back in Kansas. I wonder how they?ll explain Lasso?s potential return to Richmond? Suddenly his kid doesn?t need him anymore? His ex-wife is still banging their marriage counselor? Rebecca and Roy can?t manage the football club without him and they beg him to return? Or will Ted see the light and come to the conclusion that, actually, Richmond is his home and he needs to go home? This is why I would tune in, to see how they resolve Ted?s return to Richmond and what ?happened? to everyone in the two years Ted was back in Kansas. I also wonder what happened with Sudeikis he was so burned out on Lasso and he was phoning in his performance in the third season. Maybe he just needed a real break and now he?s ready to come back.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images, Backgrid, AppleTV+.
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