Tom Cruise has said he was so terrified of the original The Mummy film as a child that he would sleep on his sisters' bedroom floor. Several decades later, the Hollywood star has faced his old fears and is taking the lead role in the latest remake of the horror fantasy franchise.
The 54-year-old actor stars as Navy Seal Tyler Colt in the new 'Mummy' reboot, the first film in Universal Studios' Dark Universe movie series. Cruise knew he wanted the role as soon as it was offered to him because he has such vivid memories of watching the original film as a child and being so scared of Karloff's performance he had to sleep in the same room as his sisters Lee Anne, Marian and Cass.
The city is set against the backdrop of Camelback Mountain. The camera swirls by skyscrapers and a massive radio tower, past what I now know is the Luhrs City Center, and then zooms in on a fourth-floor window of the old Jefferson Hotel.
The 1994 movie - starring the Hollywood funnyman and a young Cameron Diaz - was a huge box office hit and is still popular with family audiences now who love Carrey as unlucky bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss and his madcap green-faced alter ego. Now, director Chuck Russell has revealed he had to battle bosses at New Line to let him make the film a comedy as opposed to the horror romp they had envisioned.
The 1994 movie - starring the Hollywood funnyman and a young Cameron Diaz - was a huge box office hit and is still popular with family audiences now who love Carrey as unlucky bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss and his madcap green-faced alter ego.
There have been stories floating around all morning that David Gordon Green's Halloween had begun shooting, utilizing locations around Cali that were used for John Carpenter's original film. We reached out to Blumhouse to get the skinny, and we're told that whatever's going on at those locations it is NOT them.
June 11: Comedian Johnny Brown is 80. Singer Joey Dee of Joey Dee and the Starliters is 77. Actress Adrienne Barbeau is 72. Drummer Frank Beard of ZZ Top is 68. Singer Donnie Van Zant of .38 Special and of Van Zant is 65. Actor Peter Bergman is 64. Actor Hugh Laurie is 58. Talk-show host Dr. Mehmet Oz is 57. Singer Gioia Bruno of Expose is 54. Bassist Dan Lavery of Tonic is 51. Country singer Bruce Robison is 51. Actor Peter Dinklage is 48. Bassist Smilin' Jay McDowell is 48. Actor Lenny Jacobson is 43. Bassist Tai Anderson of Third Day is 41. Actor Joshua Jackson is 39. Actor Shia LaBeouf is 31. June 12: Singer Vic Damone is 89. Actor-singer Jim Nabors is 87. Jazz musician Chick Corea is 76. Sports announcer Marv Albert is 76. Singer Len Barry is 75. Drummer Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick is 66. Country singer-guitarist Junior Brown is 65. Singer-songwriter Rocky Burnette is 64. Actor ... (more)
The road to Jeepers Creepers 3 has been a long and confusing one. Thankfully though with the passage of time comes a bit more clarity and even some new eye candy.
Actor Richard Dreyfuss wants to return America to its founding principles, which he says have been running off course for decades. Through his nonprofit Dreyfuss Civics Initiative , he aims to "revive the teaching of civics in American public education" so students can rebuild a shaken country by understanding the basics of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.