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Actress and singer Olivia Newton-John dies at 73

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Olivia Newton-John, a four-time Grammy champ and entertainer in famous melodic Grease, had uncovered quite a while prior that bosom disease had metastasized and spread to her back, constraining her to drop exhibitions.

Singer Olivia Newton-John, who took off to the highest point of the world’s popular music diagrams during the 1970s and 1980s with so much tunes as “I Honestly Love You” and “Physical” and featured in the hit film melodic Grease, passed on Monday at age 73 at her home in southern California.

The demise of the British-conceived, Australian-raised performer was declared on her Instagram account, saying she “died calmly” at her farm home “encompassed by loved ones.”

Newton-John, a four-time Grammy champ, had unveiled quite a while prior that bosom disease had metastasized and spread to her back, compelling her to drop exhibitions. A quarter century sooner Newton-John had gone through a halfway mastectomy and proceeded to lay out a disease treatment-research office in Australia.

The performer started proceeding as a youngster and turned into a worldwide whiz in the wake of moving to the United States. She was light, blue-looked at and overflowing with healthiness when she had her previously hit in 1971 with “Without taking yourself into account” — a Bob Dylan melody that likewise had been recorded by George Harrison.

It would be continued in the following couple of years by “Let Me Be There,” which won her a Grammy for best female country vocal execution, “In the event that You Love Me (Let Me Know)” and two No. 1 melodies, “Have You Never Been Mellow” and “I Honestly Love You.” The last tune won Grammys for best female pop execution and record of the year.

Newton-John likewise beat down country stars Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton to win the Country Music Association’s female artist of the year grant in 1974. The far-fetched progress of an Australian in American down home music irritated numerous Nashville perfectionists.

Pundits additionally could have done without Newton-John’s work, frequently thinking that she is foamy and excessively business. The New York Times once depicted her voice as “nearly colorless.”

In any case, the analysis didn’t hurt Newton-John’s deals as she got over from the nation diagrams to pop and solidified her recognition by co-featuring with John Travolta in “Oil,” the 1978 film that would become perhaps of the most well known melodic in Hollywood history.

Maker Allan Carr needed Newton-John to play the female lead Sandy in the wake of being dazzled by her at an evening gathering, and Travolta likewise encouraged her to take the part. Newton-John was at first hesitant in view of her negative involvement with the clumsily named 1970 British film flop “Toomorrow” and stressed over harming her singing vocation. She likewise was worried about doing an American intonation, so the part was changed to make Sandy an Australian.

In the film, set during the 1950s, Newton-John’s demure Sandy has a late spring fling with Danny, the “greaser” depicted by Travolta, yet the relationship goes to pieces in light of their social distinctions. In the end they accommodate as their jobs switch, with Danny getting it together and Sandy showing up in a tight dark calfskin outfit.

The 1978 film wowed pundits and crowds, and its soundtrack created a series of hits, including the title tune, Newton-John’s “Horrendously Devoted to You,” “Summer Nights,” and her fun two part harmony with Travolta, “You’re my desired One.”

“I’m appreciative for Grease,” she told the Detroit News in 2016. “The film and the tunes are still so adored.”

Her next melodic film, Xanadu in 1980, was a failure however gave Newton-John more hits in the title tune and “Wizardry,” which came to No. 1.

In 1981 Newton-John scored her greatest hit single, “Physical.” The melody’s going with video highlighted her in resolve garments and a headband, which filled a style. Its sex-imbued verses (“nothing remains to be discussed except if it’s evenly, we should get physical”) disintegrated her great young lady picture and drove a radio broadcasts to boycott it.

Newton-John’s vocation chilled later “Physical” however in 2015 she had another No. 1 hit on the dance graphs — “You Have to Believe,” a redid variant of “Enchantment” performed with her lone kid, Chloe Lattanzi.

She would make one more film with Travolta, Two of a Kind in 1983, and they kept a collection of Christmas melodies in 2012.

Newton-John, whose sister passed on from mind disease, turned into a promoter after her most memorable session with bosom malignant growth and she laid out the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Center in her old neighborhood of Melbourne. She likewise advertised what was known as the Olivia Breast Self-Exam Kit.

Newton-John, whose granddad was German-conceived Nobel laureate Max Born, a physicist, completed fourth in the 1974 Eurovision singing rivalry while addressing the United Kingdom.

Her most memorable marriage, to Xanadu entertainer Matt Lattanzi, finished in separate from in 1995 and in 2008 she wedded financial specialist John Easterling.

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Wicked Box Office Hits Global Milestone, Poised to Surpass Kung Fu Panda 4 and Godzilla x Kong

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The box office for Wicked hits a significant milestone worldwide as it gets ready to surpass Godzilla x Kong and Kung Fu Panda 4.

Wicked is still doing well despite recent box office releases that have caused significant disappointment. The most recent Wizard of Oz musical was too good for the Spider-Man villain and the Tolkien adaption to compete with Kraven the Hunter and The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim in the same week. Wicked has already exceeded its $145 million budget following a record-breaking first weekend that raked in over $160 million globally.

It has achieved even more success this past weekend. Variety said that after making $359 million domestically, the musical adaption made over $524 million internationally. It is currently on track to surpass Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and Kung Fu Panda 4, which brought in $547.6 million and $571.1 million, respectively. Having significantly outperformed Grease’s $188.62 million total, it is also officially the highest-grossing Broadway adaption in domestic box office history.

What the Box Office Success of Wicked Means

Musicals and animated blockbusters are regaining their position at the box office after ten years of action film supremacy. Inside Out 2 and Despicable Me 4 have taken first and third place for the entire year, while Moana 2 and Wicked are the top films this weekend. With a $1.3 billion box office total, Deadpool & Wolverine is still in second place, but it’s probably the only action film to stay in the top five globally. Dune: Part Two may lose its position when Mufasa: The Lion King is released the following week:

TitleDomesticWorldwide
Inside Out 2
$653 million$1.7 billion
Deadpool & Wolverine
$637 million$1.3 billion
Despicable Me 4
$360 million
$970 million
Moana 2
$338 million$717 million
Dune: Part Two
$282 million
$714 million

This pattern is probably due to the fact that, other from Deadpool & Wolverine, neither DC nor Marvel have released any successful films this year. With Joker: Folie à Deux, DC tried to duplicate its $1 billion triumph, but it only made $200 million globally. With the exception of Wicked, every film in the top 10 global releases for 2024 has been a sequel, creating a distinct market. Based on a Broadway musical and The Wizard of Oz, Wicked is not a completely original film, but its box office performance does demonstrate that non-sequels may be successful in theaters in today IP-driven landscape.

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Danny Ramirez on Joaquin Phoenix Leaving the Gay Romance Film Directed by Todd Haynes

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Todd Haynes was planning to cast Danny Ramirez and Joaquin Phoenix in a gay romance movie. However, Phoenix left the untitled production five days before Guadalajara, Mexico, filming got underway.

At the Academy Museum Gala on Saturday night in Los Angeles, Ramirez told Variety’s Marc Malkin, “It’s definitely disappointing.” “If anything,” he continued, “If anything, it just gave me more inspiration to keep driving, keep pushing, and knowing that I’m on the right path and approaching the work the right way. So that’s what I’m excited about.”

The movie, which depended on Phoenix’s casting, was in danger after it was revealed in August that he had quit the production, according to sources. Two guys in love in the 1930s who escape Los Angeles and travel to Mexico were the main subject of the NC-17-rated movie.

“It’s definitely a very complicated situation,” Ramirez stated. “The audition process was extensive, and so what I walked away with that was just the artistic validation of throwing down opposite of [Phoenix] in this chemistry read… There was a moment that I was like, ‘Oh, I’ve arrived as a performer.’”

“The most recent update is ‘hopefully.’” Ramirez said in response to a question about whether the movie is still in development with filmmaker Haynes.

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David Schwimmer Remembers Rejecting “Men in Black”: ‘That Would Have Made Me a Hollywood Star’

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Although David Schwimmer admits his “career would have taken a very different trajectory” if he had been the lead in the 1997 movie, he doesn’t regret declining Men in Black.

The actor said, “That’s not why I turned it down,” in response to a question on a recent episode of the podcast Origins With Cush Jumbo regarding whether he rejected down the successful franchise because it conflicted with his Friends filming schedule. Rather, he decided to become a feature film director.

Schwimmer said, “[It] was a brutal decision.” the actor chuckles. “I had just finished filming The Pallbearer, my first film with Gwyneth Paltrow, and there were high expectations of that, which didn’t come true (Laughs). It was kind of a bomb, but there were high expectations, and the studio, which was Miramax, wanted to lock me into a three-picture deal at a fixed price, and I said I would do that if I got to direct my first movie.”

After months of talks, the intelligence actor said that they had come to an agreement whereby he “would act in three more movies for them” in exchange for allowing him to “direct my entire theater company in the first film,” Since You’ve Been Gone from 1998. The film was told through the perspective of a doctor who was severely beaten up by a fellow graduate on graduation day, humiliating him and setting the stage for a ten-year class reunion.

“All these unknown actors but I was going to put them on the map, basically. I was going to let everyone discover the talent of this amazing company,” Schwimmer said, “We found this amazing script, and we were developing it. We started pre-production. All my best friends in the world in my theater company quit their jobs so they could be in this film over the summer, which was going to be a six-week shoot in Chicago.”

However, Schwimmer had to make a tough decision about his career because the production for his directing debut happened to coincide with the filming of Men in Black.

The Six Days Seven Nights actor recalls, “We’re in pre-production, hired the whole crew, everything’s going and that’s when I was offered Men in Black.” “It was a direct conflict with this. My summer window from Friends was four months. I had a four-month hiatus and Men in Black was going to shoot exactly when I was going to direct this film with my company. And of course, it was an amazing opportunity. However, my theater company and that relationship with all those people would probably have ended. I don’t think it would have recovered.”

Schwimmer stated that he is unsure if “he made the right choice,” but he firmly feels that in these kinds of circumstances “you have to follow your gut, you have to follow your heart.”

“Look, I’m really aware, whatever 20 years later maybe more, [Men in Black] would have made me a movie star,” he continued. “If you look at the success of that film and that franchise, my career would have taken a very different trajectory.”

In the end, Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith played the key parts in the Men in Black franchise.

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