Basketball legend Kobe Bryant almost made a cameo in the Saved by the Bell revival on Peacock. Reboot stars Josie Totah and Alycia Pascual-Peña, who portrayed Bayside High students Lexi and Aisha in the short-lived sitcom, reveal the surprise tidbit in Thursday's all-new episode of Dare We Say, the best friends' Crooked Media podcast also featuringYasmine Hamady. In EW's exclusive first listen of the episode (above), Totah and Pascual-Peña share that the late Bryant was scheduled to film the pilot episode of the reboot episode days after his untimely death in January 2020. Read More...
In my introductory post this year from the Sundance Film Festival — the first Sundance to be presided over by newly appointed festival director John Cooper, pictured at left — I said that the real test, the only test, for the Cooper era wouldn’t be the festival’s novel display of bells and whistles: the NEXT section (which bracketed and highlighted eight films made on very low budgets — just like dozens and dozens of past films shown at previous Sundance festivals), or the freshly trumpeted, take-back-the-megaplex, this is the new rebel spirit of indie film signifiers. Read More...
”I could take a lot of heat,” Kurt Russell says of his up-close-and-personal approach to playing a firefighter in Backdraft. ”When we started one of the most intense fires, this whole building was going up and I thought, man, this is really hot. It was a bitch and a half. Snot was running out of my nose, I could barely breathe, my eyes felt like they were going to burst. I felt a rising panic. Read More...
