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Amazon Prime Video is on a roll! Adding another comedy blockbuster to its new year roster, the streaming platform has revealed the Ricky Stanicky trailer. On January 26, the first good look at the upcoming American comedy film unveiled the star cast in action. Heading the shenanigans in question, John Cena steps in as the imaginary friend Zac Efron never had before! Zac Efron and John Cena in Ricky Stanicky trailer. Movie premieres on Prime Video in March 2024. (Prime Video) A childhood bestie trio invents an…

Zac Efron turned in a critically acclaimed, career-best performance—not to mention an astonishing physical transformation—as real-life wrestler Kevin Von Erich, who suffers unimaginable familial tragedy on his rise through the world of professional wrestling. Many fans had their fingers crossed that Efron's work in The Iron Claw would be recognized with a 2024 Academy Award nomination on Tuesday but, like fellow Best Actor hopefuls Leonardo DiCaprio (Killers of the Flower Moon) and Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers), he…

Down below are major spoilers for The Iron Claw. So read on with caution...After watching A24’s The Iron Claw, it’s more than clear to me why everyone’s saying the same thing about Zac Efron’s performance. In short, it truly marks a career best for him. Not only does the High School Musical alum deserve all of the credit for his massive muscles but for portraying a wrestler who had to go through the grief and trauma of experiencing each of his brothers' deaths. The sports biopic’s director, Sean Durkin, recently…

Zac Efron may be garnering career-best reviews for his heartbreaking work in The Iron Claw, his wrestling movie with Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson and Stanley Simons. But don't think that any of his co-stars are letting the movie star forget where he came from. During an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, the quartet of actors joined the titular talk show host in discussing filming the A24 movie, which included a surprise throwback to one of Efron's most famous roles: as singing basketballer Troy Bolton in The…

The Von Erichs were the first family of Lone Star professional wrestling in the late 1970s and 1980s, a dynasty of Dallas-based all-stars who took on all comers throughout the North Texas circuit. First there was Fritz Von Erich, the patriarch who’d begun his career in the 1950s and eventually became president of the World Class Championship Wrestling organization. Then came Kevin, the second oldest of the Von Erich brood of sons (the oldest, Jack, had died as a child) who was being groomed to be the world heavyweight…

The story of the Von Erich dynasty is legendary among fans of professional wrestling, and that tragic tale is about to come to life on the big screen, when The Iron Claw hits theaters on December 22. Zac Efron leads a stunning cast as Kevin Von Erich, alongside Jeremy Allen White, Holt McCallany, Maura Tierney and more. First reactions to the wrestling saga had many moviegoers predicting these actors — along with writer/director/producer Sean Durkin — might see some love come awards season. Now the critics have expanded…

Professional wrestling fans are likely familiar with the story of the Von Erich dynasty, who grew to enormous success in the 1980s. However, it’s a story worth telling even for those outside of the sports realm, and that’s what Sean Durkin has done as the writer/director of The Iron Claw. The film, which is centered around Kevin Von Erich (Zac Efron), premiered — appropriately — in Dallas, Texas, and those who were able to catch an early screening of the upcoming A24 movie are hitting social media to share their first…

Zac Efron’s The Iron Claw has made a lot of headlines as of late for how shredded the actor looks for the upcoming movie about the Von Erich family. Now, the project has really upped its cred with the pro wrestling community, as the word is out that one of AEW’s biggest superstars will join the film. Wrestler Maxwell Jacob Friedman, commonly referred to as MJF, will enter the fray to help tell The Iron Claw’s story. MJF joins The Iron Claw in an unknown role, though it seems fair to speculate he’ll use his in-ring…

Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images Last week we got a glimpse of Zac Efron on the set of A24’s upcoming wrestling biopic The Iron Claw sporting one of the most ridiculous haircuts in the history of cinema. Comparisons were quickly drawn to Shrek‘s diminutive villain Lord Farquaad and, truth be told, it was difficult to deny that there’s a genuine resemblance. Now A24 appears to be trying to squash that by showing us what Efron’s bowl-cut hairdo actually looks like in the squared circle. Check it out: Okay…

2022 has been a busy year for Zac Efron, starting with him starring in Gold, then leading the Firestarter remake with Ryan Kiera Armstrong, and then appearing opposite Russell Crowe in The Greatest Beer Run Ever, which Apple TV+ subscribers can check out. And while audiences won’t see him in anymore cinematic entertainment this year, Efron isn’t done working in these remaining months, as he’s currently working on The Iron Claw. While no official stills from the A24 production have been released yet, set photos have…