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Jon Hamm says ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ casting is ‘profound history’ ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia ; Top Gun: Maverick ) Actor Jon Hamm says filming ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ with Hollywood star Tom Cruise was a “pinch-me moment”. Starring as Cyclone in the long-awaited action sequel, the 51-year-old actor says it was a dream come true to be part of a movie with such a “profound history”, Hamm said. During his appearance on ‘Smallzy’s Surgery’, Jon Hamm said, “To be able to work on a film like this that has such a…

via Marvel Studios The level of secrecy maintained by Marvel Studios has become the stuff of legend, unless Sony are involved, in which case leaks are an almost everyday occurrence, but Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings star Simu Liu gleefully broke protocol when he was informed that he’d landed the coveted title role. Kevin Smith revealed that Marvel has a genuine secret police that disseminate false information in order to root out the culprits responsible for giving away sensitive details, while…

Simu Liu became a massive star this past year in particular when he debuted a new Marvel hero in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Now that the Chinese-Canadian has found his big break as a Hollywood star, he has recently been opening up about his road to fame, with one bump in the road being that he auditioned and got rejected from a role in Crazy Rich Asians. Following his recent comments, it has sparked a debate about Henry Golding and the movie itself, which Liu has now come back around to defend. For over a…

YouTube Music has added a new casting feature that allows users to find the nearby speakers and cast music to them, The Verge reports.The Google-owned music streaming app has been through serious changes in recent months and has added some practical features. One of the newly added features is the ability to cast music to speakers. As the music streaming market is flourishing, Google is also trying to stoke interest in its YouTube Music and turn it into a direct competitor of Spotify.ChromeUnboxed has spotted the…

Image via Skydance Media Taking a page from director Werner Herzog, a man has made a showbusiness bet involving Top Gun: Maverick that has resulted in him agreeing to eat a shoe. It all started a decade ago when a man who goes by Matt Patches on Twitter, who is the deputy editor for Vox’s entertainment coverage according to his bio, tweeted that if a Top Gun sequel happened, he would eat a shoe. “No one has let me forget this … including the folks at Paramount, who are quite excited for me to be wrong,” Patches…

Taking on the life of Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Rock, is a massive undertaking. Thankfully, Baz Luhrmann's upcoming movie about the music icon struck the right note with Austin Bulter being cast as the King as seen in the explosive Elvis trailer, which also stars Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker. Here's a fun tidbit of trivia regarding Butler's involvement: Luhrmann has revealed it was two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington who was totally responsible for the young actor being cast as Elvis.Denzel Washington…

Rosie Perez apologises for sounding a little hoarse – it’s partly because of a cold, but mainly because she spent Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, screaming for Amanda Serrano during her historic bout against Katie Taylor. “I shouldn’a went to the fights, but I went to the fights,” she mutters in that unmistakeable Brooklyn accent. But how could she have missed the biggest women’s boxing match in history? “On one hand, it’s gonna go down in the history books as one of the best fights ever, and that’s saying a lot.…