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Nina Dobrev and Ruby Rose’s ‘prank war’

Nina Dobrev and Ruby Rose are embroiled in a "prank war".
The actresses are currently filming scenes for Vin Diesel’s action movie ‘xXx: The Return of Xander Cage’ and it all kicked off on April 1 when tradition dictates that people should target their pals and play mischievous tricks on them.
The latest joke took place today (04.05.16) and saw Nina being outed as having a worrying infatuation with her 30-year-old co-star.
Ruby posted a video to her Instagram account which shows her entering Nina’s make-up trailer and gasping in horror, as she stumbles upon dozens of portrait pictures of herself pinned to the walls and covering the bed of the ‘The Vampire Diaries’ star’s private quarters.
Alongside the short clip, the Australian beauty wrote: "When you go to say hi to @ninadobrev but she has 100 photos in her trailer of you and it’s awkward because you’re trying to be professional.. #seekhelpnina #evillaughofastalker #wherestheshinetoo #ineedextrasecurity (sic)"
And in the video, Ruby says: "Are you ready to chill? Whoah, what the hell is this man! Dude this is not OK! Are you obsessed with me?"
Nina, 27, then reposted the video on her account and declared "war" on Ruby.
She said: "After I scared the crap out of her last week, she retaliated back. In true Narcissist fashion. By covering my entire trailer with photos of herself. Stay tuned y’all. The war has begun … #ScareWars Watch your back Rose… Watch your back. @rubyrose #XXXtheMovie #PrankWars … Ruby Strikes back (sic)"
Nina had previously scared the life out of her pal when she unexpectedly screamed in her face and captured her shocked reaction on camera.
Nina had shared the clip on Instagram on Friday (04.01.16) and wrote: "Going to have to wash your mouth out with Soap Missy. **Viewer Discretion is Advised** @rubyrose #ThoughtiWouldnt #ButiDid #ThatsOnYou #GotHer A Special pre April fools… Stay tuned for more, from the set of #XXXtheMovie … Game on. Dobrev out (sic)".
Nina and Ruby play thrill seeking cohorts Rebecca Clearidge and Adele Wolff respectively in ‘xXx: The Return of Xander Cage’ which also stars Samuel L. Jackson NSA Agent Augustus Eugene Gibbons.

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Samuel L Jackson reveals curse cure

Samuel L. Jackson’s stammer is cured when he says ”motherf***er”.

The ‘Hateful Eight’ actor’s speech impediment was so debilitating when he was younger, he was bullied and ”stopped speaking for almost a year in school” but discovered an unusual way to rectify his stutter.

He explained: ”I have no idea [how] but it just does. It clicks a switch that stops the d-d-d b-b-b, because me, I stuttered really, really, really badly for a long time.”

The 67-year-old actor – whose character in ‘Snakes on a Plane’, FBI agent Neville Flynn, memorably said: ”I’ve had it with these motherf***ing snakes on this motherf***ing plane” – taught himself to control his speech impediment without formal speech therapy and his hard work eventually paid off.

He told SiriusXM DJ Howard Stern: ”I read a lot. I read things about breathing exercises, I actually went to the library to combat stuttering.”

Though he was able to get his stutter under control, Samuel admitted he still had a number of run-ins with bullies.

He said: ”Yeah I fought a bit.”

Asked if he won, he joked: ”I could then [but] not anymore. I’m too old now.”

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Samuel L. Jackson lost his virginity age 11

Samuel L. Jackson lost his virginity aged 11.

The 64-year-old star used to go skinny dipping in a small stream while he was on holiday at a relative’s farm in Georgia, US, with girls who were a little older than he was, and he was willing to ”do that thing” as long as they consented.

He told Playboy magazine: ”There was a family of girls who lived through the woods from us, and we all used to meet at this creek and swim naked.

”I was about 10 or 11. I think two of the girls were about 14, 15, so that’s when it happened.

”Girls were interesting to me, period. They could be fat, skinny, tall, short, ugly, beautiful – as long as they were willing to do that thing.”

The star has been married to actress LaTanya Richardson since 1980 after the pair met while he was at the all-male Morehouse College, Atlanta, while she was Spelman College which was based in the same city.

Two years after they wed, they had their only child, daughter Zoe, together.

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Samuel L. Jackson to preach in Black Nativity

Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett are in talks to reteam for ‘Black Nativity’.

The pair – who previously starred together in Broadway production ‘The Mountaintop’ are in negotiations to join the cast of Kasi Lemmons’ forthcoming festive film, as is ‘Dreamgirls’ star Jennifer Hudson.

The film – which is based on Langston Hughes’ gospel musical that was first performed on Broadway in 1961 – follows a young black teenager from Baltimore who is sent by his single mother to spend Christmas with the grandparents he has never met in Harlem. He learns about the importance of faith and family through his preacher grandfather’s Christmas Eve sermon and a dream-sequence retelling of the Nativity story.

The teenager has yet to be cast, but Samuel is expected to play the grandfather, Rev. Clarence Cobbs, and Angela his wife Aretha, while Jennifer is in talks to play their daughter, who hasn’t spoken to her father since they rowed.

In addition, Variety reports that Samuel is also likely to play multiple characters during the Nativity sequence.

Bill Horberg and Celine Rattray will produce along with Galt Niederhoffer and Daniela Taplin Lundberg, while Joy Goodwin will serve as executive producer.
 

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Jonah Hill joins Django Unchained

Jonah Hill has signed up for ‘Django Unchained’.

The ’21 Jump Street’ star previously turned down a role in the spaghetti western movie – which will be directed by Quentin Tarantino – due to scheduling conflicts but he is now able to play a different character, who is as yet unknown, in the film.

Jonah rejected the role of Scotty Harmony, who loses the titular character Django’s (Jamie Foxx) slave wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) to evil plantation owner Calvin Candie – who is played by Leonardo DiCaprio – which results in him being involved in a showdown with the slave-turned-bounty hunter.

The drama film focuses on Django’s quest to recover his wife from Calvin – who runs club Candyland, where his spouse and other female slaves are exploited as sex objects – and Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz and James Russo have also signed up for the motion picture.

Jonah and Leonardo will then join forces for Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, which is based on Jordan Belfort’s memoir of his rise and fall as a stockbroker.

John Dujardin has also been in talks to star in the crime drama, which will see Leonardo play Jordan, a multi millionaire stockbroker who was charged with security fraud and money laundering, and served a 22-month prison stretch.
 

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Hugh Laurie to play RoboCop villain

Hugh Laurie is being lined up to star in ‘RoboCop’.

The ‘House’ actor is currently in negotiations to play the main villain in the Jose Padilha directed movie, which features police officer Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) who is brutally murdered and subsequently re-created as a super-human cyborg.

Hugh is set to play the villainous CEO of Omni Corp, which creates the title character for its own gain.

This will be Hugh’s first high profile film role since his eight season stint on TV show ‘House’ ended.

It was previously revealed that Gary Oldam will star as Norton, a scientist who creates the technology that brings the titular super-human cyborg to life in the MGM reboot.

Gary’s alter-ego will find himself torn between Hugh’s character and the machine who is trying to rediscover his humanity.

Abbie Cornish is in talks to play Murphy’s wife, who is led to believe her husband has been killed in the line of duty while Samuel L. Jackson will take on the role of "charismatic media mogul" Pat Novak.

The movie is due to begin shooting in Toronto, Canada, this September and scheduled to be released next summer.

A total of three ‘RoboCop’ films were made between 1987 and 1993, with the first making $53.4 million at the box office, while the third made just $10.6 million.
 

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Kurt Russell joins cast of Django Unchained

After working together on Grindhouse, veteran actor Kurt Rusell and cult director Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill), have reunited for Django Unchained, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Russell, 60, will be replacing Kevin Costner, who withdrew from the production due to scheduling conflicts, for the role of Ace Woody, the sadistic manager of a slave-owner’s cotton plantation.

Russell joins a star-studded cast including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and Samuel L. Jackson, who have all signed on with the Oscar-winning director for his latest tale of violence and revenge.

Django Unchained is a spaghetti western set in the American Deep South, and tells the story of a German bounty hunter (Waltz) and his protégé, a slave-turned-bounty hunter (Foxx), who journey to rescue his slave wife, held captive by a plantation owner.

Filming is scheduled to begin this November, for a release next December 25, 2012.

Russell appeared as villain Stuntman Mike in Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof segment of the film Grindhouse.

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Will Smith in next Quentin Tarantino movie?

As Quentin Tarantino’s new Sergio Leone-inspired script circulates in Hollywood, I Am Legend star Will Smith is reportedly the frontrunner for the lead role in Django Unchained, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The film tells the story Django, a freed slave who teams up with a German bounty hunter to search for his wife. The German eventually trains Django, and together they team up to take down an evil plantation owner.

The part of the German bounty hunter was reportedly written specifically for Christoph Waltz, who starred alongside Brad Pitt in Tarantino ‘s Inglourious Basterds in 2009. Another Tarantino favorite, Samuel L. Jackson is also up for a key role.

In a 2007 interview with the Daily Telegraph, Tarantino discussed an idea for a form of spaghetti western set in America’s Deep South which he called "a southern", stating that he wanted "to do movies that deal with America’s horrible past with slavery and stuff but do them like spaghetti westerns, not like big issue movies.

“I want to do them like they’re genre films, but they deal with everything that America has never dealt with because it’s ashamed of it, and other countries don’t really deal with because they don’t feel they have the right to.”

Currently, no formal offer has been made yet to Smith. Tarantino is reportedly planning a fall shoot, possibly in Louisiana.

In the meantime, Will Smith is filming Men in Black III due in theaters May 25, 2012. The actor is busy these next few years, especially with Independence Day 2 and 3 for 2013 and 2014, and Hancock 2 for 2013.

 

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The Avengers to be filmed in New Mexico

After speculation that The Avengers would be shot in New York or even Los Angeles, Marvel Studios has finally announced that New Mexico will host the production from April and September 2011, reports Variety.

The film will take advantage of the state’s 25 per cent tax rebate incentive, which has helped the area attract more than 150 projects including True Grit, Thor, and Breaking Bad. According to Variety, this will be the biggest production ever filmed in New Mexico.

Directed by Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly), The Avengers consists largely of superheroes from the Marvel comic book stable. 

The action film will star Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Captain America), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), and Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), and Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye).

The theatrical release of The Avengers is scheduled for May 4, 2012.

 

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New Stars for Thor

According to Ain’tCoolNews, the two megastars have joined the cast of Thor, which will be directed by Kenneth Branagh.

The cast also includes Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Colm Feore, Jaimie Alexander, Samuel L. Jackson and Stellan Skarsgard.

Branagh and Law worked together before in 2007’s Sleuth.  The actor-turned-director also worked with De Niro in 1994 on the film Frankenstein.  Thor is expected to reach theatres on May 20, 2011.

In the meantime, we can see Jude Law in two upcoming films, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and Sherlock Holmes.  De Niro will be starring in Everybody’s Fine, opening on December 4.