Jake Gyllenhaal has said in the past that Brokeback Mountain, which he starred alongside the late actor Heath Ledger, is one of the movies of his he can’t bring himself to watch.”There are things you’re chosen for—a quality, an essence—and [Ang Lee] did that,” the 39-year-old shared in a recent interview with Another Man magazine.”And […]
Continue readingHeath Ledger was dedicated to the message behind the groundbreaking film Brokeback Mountain — so much so that he refused to make jokes about the film’s homosexual love story.In a recent interview with Another Man magazine, Jake Gyllenhaal, who starred opposite Ledger in Ang Lee’s film, said that the late actor refused to present at […]
Continue readingTwenty years ago, it was a very big deal that Jewel was going to be in a movie. She was at the peak of her commercial powers, performing the national anthem at the Super Bowl in 1998; selling 3.7 million copies of her sophomore album, Spirit; releasing a book of poetry.Yet at the same time, director Ang Lee […]
Continue readingDwayne Johnson and a score of Avengers, including Chris Hemsworth, Robert Downey Jr.and Chris Evans have topped Forbes’ annual list of the highest paid actors of 2019.The list is a big shake-up from last year, in which George Clooney placed at #1, only to now be absent from this year’s list.Check out the other actors […]
Continue readingIf Jordan Peele’s Us had been an action-packed sci-fi flick rather than a gruesome, mind-bending horror film, then perhaps it would’ve looked a little closer to the trailer for Ang Lee’s Gemini Man.The film stars Will Smith as Henry, a highly trained expert-level hitman who’s getting up there in age.Despite all his skills, nothing seems […]
Continue readingBrokeback Mountain catapulted the already-thriving acting careers of Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal when it was released in 2005.The film was met with success during the subsequent award season, and the two actors each earned Oscar nominations for their respective portrayals of Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist.Though it’s now difficult to imagine anyone else […]
Continue readingMason Lee (son of Ang Lee) is best known for playing the studious little brother, Teddy — who gets lost and loses a finger while on a wild bender in Bangkok — in the 2011 follow-up film “The Hangover Part II.” Guess what he looks like now! Read full article
Continue readingNumerous actors reportedly have been cast in the film adaptation of the 1980 novel ‘Waiting for the Barbarians,’ including Joe Alwyn — perhaps best known currently as the boyfriend of pop star Taylor Swift.Alwyn will play a lieutenant in the movie, which is based on Nobel Prize-winner J.M.Coetzee’s book about an South African regime at […]
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