You’d be forgiven — especially if you haven’t seen the film before — for thinking that Beetlejuice was the main character in Tim Burton’s classic movie. He’s the title character, he’s all over the promotional materials, you can’t get away from him.
However, the character actually spends very little time on-screen – and his famous pinstripe suit is even rarer throughout the film, clocking in at just two minutes.
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Speaking with Variety, writers and producers Miles Millar and Alfred Gough revealed that in the original Beetlejuice film, their chaotic character only had 17 minutes of screentime, and the recently-released sequel kept this sparing approach to the character.
Miles said: “He’s such a fun character to write, but … he’s not the protagonist of the movie.
“It was tricky in terms of keeping the right balance. People love him so much. It’s called ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ for a reason, so he needs to be essential to the movie.”
If you’re not familiar with the character, Beetlejuice is a crude, hilarious and obnoxious character that creates chaos and pulls tricks whenever he’s around.
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Of course, with such a huge character, who is essential to the plot and feel of the film, the creative team still had to make the most of the time he was on screen.
They explained: “It makes you think harder about what those scenes are going to be, and what his contribution to the movie is
“It feels incredibly satisfying, and like you’ve spent a lot more time with him than you think. That’s the magic trick of that character.”
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is out in cinemas across the UK now.
Last year, Channing Tatum revealed his production company had already bought the rights to Ghost with the intention of remaking it and doing “something different” with the classic film.
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“I think it needs to change a little bit,” he claimed to Vanity Fair.
However, this isn’t a concept Demi seems entirely sold on.
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“There are some films better left alone,” she told Variety, quickly noting that “ it depends on what the take is”.
She continued: “The success of Ghost is really about alchemy. Think about Whoopi, who anchored the comedy in a magical way. Or Tony Goldwyn, the boy next door who is the most unsuspecting villain. And the sweetness and virility of Patrick Swayze.”
“Channing is incredibly intelligent and talented — who knows what he would bring to it if it happened,” she added.
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Asked if she’d reprise her role from the original, Demi said: “I’d have to see what they come up with.”
“Every story, in some ways, has already been told. The wonderful thing is the different way things can be reinterpreted,” the Indecent Proposal star told Entertainment Weekly.
“I think there are some films that often are better left not touched, and left, and then sometimes there are wonderful surprises in that reinterpretation.”
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Asked by Variety why she thinks Ghost has endured after more than 30 years, she offered: “There’s something comforting about the movie. It’s about the things we might perceive as lost never really leaving us.”
Joaquin Phoenix won’t be discussing his recent controversy without the affected parties.
The Oscar winner, who made headlines last month for exiting a gay drama movie just days before director Todd Haynes was set to begin filming, addressed the matter publicly for the first time during a press conference on Wednesday.
“I would just be sharing my opinion from my perspective and the other creatives aren’t here to say their piece, and it just doesn’t feel like that would be right,” he said at the Venice International Film Festival.
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“I’m not sure how that would be helpful. So, I just, I don’t think I will.”
Social media users are nonetheless still curious about Joaquin’s sudden departure from the unnamed Todd Haynes film, billed as a same-sex romance between a corrupt cop and a Native American who flee 1930s Los Angeles and head to Mexico.
Danny Ramirez, who appeared in 2022′s Top Gun: Maverick, had been cast as Joaquin’s love interest, and crews had reportedly already been hired in Guadalajara. But with no apparent plans to recast the Joker star’s role, the project has indefinitely stalled.
A representative for Todd Haynes told Entertainment Weekly on Wednesday that the director “will not be able to comment” on Joaquin’s remarks in Italy. However, producer Christine Vachon issued a blunt reaction to his abrupt departure in August.
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“It has been a nightmare,” Vachon reportedly said in a now-deleted Facebook post.
Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix
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Vachon, whose company has produced all of Todd Haynes’ feature films, seemed particularly miffed at Joaquin Phoenix, saying the movie “was HIS project that he brought to US” before changing his mind. A source close to the film told Variety that Phoenix got “cold feet”.
The actor has acknowledged experiencing the jitters over his acting work before, saying last year that he was “terrified” about his role as Commodus in 2000′s Gladiator.
“I’d obviously been acting since I was a kid,” he said on CinemaBlend’s ReelBlend podcast at the time. “I’d never been a part of a major production. And when I arrived on set for Gladiator, honestly, I was so sick. I was shaking.”
Joaquin went on to receive an Oscar nomination for that performance, but wouldn’t win his first Academy Award until 2020 with his part in Joker, the predecessor to Folie À Deux.
Since then, everyone from director Todd Haynes to Joaquin himself has had a go at discussing Joker: Folie À Deux’s musical elements – and whether it’s actually a musical or just a “film with music”.
Ahead of the movie’s Venice Film Festival premiere, Gaga was asked again about the project’s relationship with music.
“The way that we approached music in this film was very special and extremely nuanced,” she explained.
“I wouldn’t necessarily say that this is actually a musical, in a lot of ways it’s very different. The music is used to really give the characters a way to express what they need to say, because the scene and just the dialogue is not enough.”
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Now… is it just us… or is that not just exactly what a musical is? Either way, we’re pleased to see we weren’t the only ones confused…
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That’s literally what a musical is. Gaga should know better
It feels like they did a bunch of focus groups and the toxic male audience is scared of musicals so they no longer want to focus on the music https://t.co/1BjVpQbRpm
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What is this bullshit statement that these people have agreed on? Lady Gaga of all people surely should be aware that that IS what a musical is??? The Lady Gaga who belted Elphie songs during school lunches!!!??? 🙁 https://t.co/DD8O03NO3J
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Don’t worry, Marge, it’s not a musical. It’s just that the music is used to give the characters a way to express what they need to say when the scene and dialogue are not enough. pic.twitter.com/uDP4FgS36i
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Don’t worry, Marge, it’s not a musical. It’s just that the music is used to give the characters a way to express what they need to say when the scene and dialogue are not enough. pic.twitter.com/uDP4FgS36i
Joaquin won an Oscar for his performance in the first Joker film, and returns for the sequel alongside new addition Lady Gaga as the iconic Batman villain Harley Quinn.
The film’s cast also includes Zazie Beetz (returning from the first Joker film), Steve Coogan, Brendan Gleeson and Catherine Keener.
Joker: Folie À Deux hits cinemas on Friday 4 October.
During a joint interview with Brad Pitt in the September issue of British GQ magazine, George revealed he was “irritated” with the Pulp Fiction director, after the filmmaker claimed he wasn’t a real movie star.
“Quentin said some shit about me recently, so I’m a little irritated by him,” the Gravity star explained. “He did some interview where he was naming movie stars, and he was talking about [Brad Pitt], and somebody else, and then this guy goes, ‘Well, what about George?’. He goes, he’s not a movie star.
“And then he literally said something like, ‘Name me a [George Clooney] movie since the millennium.’ And I was like, ‘Since the millennium? That’s kind of my whole fucking career’.”
As Brad laughed, George continued: “So now I’m like, all right, dude, fuck off. I don’t mind giving him shit. He gave me shit.”
George and Quentin actually previously shared the screen in the 1996 horror movie From Dusk Till Dawn.
While the two-time Oscar winner didn’t actually direct the film in question, he did write it, and was seemingly heavily involved in the casting process, even selecting George because he thought they looked so similar.
And, George had some feelings about that comment, too, in a clip which resurfaced on social media last year…
Read George Clooney and Brad Pitt’s full interview in the September issue of British GQ, available on newsstands and via digital download from Tuesday 27 August.
If you saw Longlegs over the weekend, the chances are you may have left the cinema with a few questions. “What did I just watch?” being one of them, and “Am I going to be able to sleep tonight?” potentially being another.
And then, of course, there’s the titular character’s name. Despite everything we do end up learning about Nicolas Cage’s Satan-worshipping serial killer, it’s never actually made clear where he got the name Longlegs from.
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Well, director Osgood Perkins – the brain behind Longlegs – has cleared things up. Sort of.
Asked by Variety where Longlegs’ name came from, Oz said: “We writers just like words. We like how certain words sound and look and shape and feel.”
“Yeah, it has daddy longlegs and a creepy-crawly aspect to it,” he continued. “But it also feels ’70s to me — almost like a Led Zeppelin song or someone would have on the side of their van, something groovy like that. It feels like a vintage word that people wouldn’t toss around much today.
“It positioned the movie in a weird place. You don’t get to fully understand it. It doesn’t fully fit, which is more alluring to me and creates a curiosity that I think is important.”
Osgood Perkins
via Associated Press
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Oz also revealed that the character of Longlegs is one that he’s had in the back of his mind for some time.
“[He] was a character that had tried to make himself fit into other projects that I had worked on,” the filmmaker said. “When you’re writing all the time and generating specs and no one’s paying you or you don’t have any source material, you’re making shit up all the time. You end up with a universe of things that are swirling around, and you try to pull them out and stick them in.
“Longlegs was an entity, this shabby – is he a birthday clown? Is he a puppet master? Does he deal with stuffed animals? Is it little pianos? You start to wonder about this person who comes to your kid on their birthday and you’re in another room and you don’t know they’re interacting and that’s weird.
“He doesn’t abduct the kids because we’ve seen that 1,000 times before. He kind of talks to them. You start to be curious about that.”
Nicolas Cage at the premiere of Longlegs last week
via Associated Press
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Oz added: “When I decided that I was going to try for a serial killer procedural that was going to be something else, I needed a bad guy. Longlegs was like, ‘I’ll do it’.
“In your drawer of ideas, one of them says, ‘Put me in, coach’. And in goes Longlegs.”
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The endlessly quotable, quintessentially British and laugh-out-loud zom-rom-com is an undisputed classic that still holds up two decades later.
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It’s also the movie in which the world got to know the loveable comedic duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, who star in the zombie apocalypse comedy as a directionless salesman and his lazy roommate, who must ward off an invasion by any means necessary.
If you’re already planning your latest re-watch, here are the behind-the-scenes secrets you probably didn’t know…
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The whole concept of the Shaun Of The Dead was inspired by an episode of Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright’s sitcom Spaced. In the episode titled Art, Simon’s character stays up all night playing the video game Resident Evil, when he starts to hallucinate a zombie invasion.
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“I wrote an episode of Spaced where my character fights zombies in his flat. We had such a fun time shooting it, we thought we ought to make a zombie movie – like it was that easy,” Simon Pegg told The Guardian in 2020. “We really were so naive. We thought we could do anything.”
The cast and crew did not have high hopes for the film’s success
Simon Pegg and director Edgar Wright in 2004
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It’s hard to imagine now when we look back at the cult success of the film, but Shaun Of The Dead was not at all guaranteed to be a critical or commercial success.
“I didn’t know if anyone was going to see this film apart from my mum,” Simon Pegg told GQ in a recent retrospective.
Edgar Wright agreed: “I don’t think we had any thought of what it would be beyond the UK. And even that was like, please let it go down well in the UK… everything that came afterwards, travelling around the world with it, was a life-changing bonus.”
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The team were keen not to water down the Britishness of Shaun Of The Dead
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Shaun Of The Dead
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Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Simon Pegg said the success of the film was a “vindication of our intentions” to make the film “very, very British”.
“We didn’t make any concessions to sort of transatlantic-ism,” he added.
Movie execs wanted more A-listers in the cast
We of course now know Nick Frost and Simon Pegg as an inseparable comedic duo, but apparently industry folk were confused as to why director Edgar wasn’t vying for bigger names.
“There were some times people… didn’t understand necessarily why Simon and Nick together was so important,” Edgar told GQ. “There were a couple of times [where they said], ‘Ed is like the funniest part of the film. Why wouldn’t you go with somebody bigger?’.”
He added: “It was literally that thing of, like, ‘Could you get an American in this part? Could Jack Black play this part?’. And we were like, ‘No, it has to be Nick’.”
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And some pretty big names were actually thrown into the mix
Speaking during a recent oral history with IndieWire, Edgar recalled how they were asked to look at “casting up” to get some more high calibre names involved for the roles of Shaun’s girlfriend Liz and mother Barbara, which were written specifically for Kate Ashfield and Penelope Wilton.
“We met Kate Winslet about playing Liz and she liked it, but ultimately didn’t do it,” Edgar recalled.
Kate Winslet pictured in 2003
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Another British acting legend was very nearly involved
Two-time Oscar nominee and (at the time) future winner Helen Mirren was also considered for the role of Barbara.
In an excerpt from the book You’ve Got Red On You – about the making of Shaun Of The Dead – published in Rolling Stone, Edgar recalled the acting icon’s “brilliant” response.
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“She read the script and said, ‘I’m passing on the role of Barbara. I would only do the movie if I got to play Ed.’ Her reason was, ‘Well, Ed’s the funniest part.’”
As we know, it was Nick who went on to portray Ed, but we can’t help but admire The Queen actor’s resolve.
Helen Mirren in 2004
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Shaun Of The Dead ended up being really popular with some Hollywood heavy-hitters
Speaking to GQ, Edgar reeled off the names of people in the industry who supported the film with press quotes: Quentin Tarantino, Stephen King, Sam Raimi, Guillermo Del Toro, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Darabont being among them.
To say thank you, they even made each of them personalised versions of Shaun’s badge with their own names on it.
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A legend of the zombie genre was particularly impressed by the film
The cast of Shaun Of The Dead
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Shaun Of The Dead was clearly an homage to the zombie genre, so much so that it impressed Night Of The Living Dead director George A. Romero.
In a 2008 interview with CinemaBlend, the director recalled: “So I get this message from these guys, and I didn’t know who they were. Some cat named Edgar Wright: ‘I made this movie, I hope you like it.’
“So next thing I know, some cat from Universal shows up like a guy with a bomb suitcase, the fucking print is chained to him. He starts saying, ‘We want to show you this movie at the local theatre. We arranged it.’ I see this movie a little too dark, but it was hilarious, man! And I flipped for it.”
That record-tossing scene actually required artist’s permission
One of the most memorable scenes from the film sees Shaun and Ed toss (very carefully chosen) vinyl records at two approaching zombies. It turns out they couldn’t just launch any old album, they actually had to get permission from the artists.
Edgar recalled Smooth Operator singer Sade Adu being particularly generous with her sign off for Diamond Life being one of the chosen albums. “It’s a tough thing to get someone on board [by] saying, ‘We want to trash your album!’” Edgar said in a quote from You’ve Got Red On You.
“Sade, who I’ve never met, signed her release and was down for it. To me, she’s the coolest person ever. It’s like, you don’t know us from Adam, we actually break your record in the shot, and you let us clear your likeness. That’s amazing.”
But it was a hard “no” from one British music legend
The scene also depicts the pair deciding which Prince albums they should use as weapons, but it was nearly David Bowie at the centre of those deliberations.
David Bowie on stage in 2004
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“The only other bit that we wrote, as far as I recall, is at one point we did David Bowie albums,” Edgar told GQ. “I think it was like: “Hunky Dory, no. Ziggy Stardust, no. The Labyrinth soundtrack…”
“I think we reached out to David Bowie’s publicist, and I heard something secondhand that he was touchy about Labyrinth, so that was a no.”
But they had more luck when it came to another musical sequence
Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen isn’t the most obvious choice to soundtrack a violent zombie assault, but director Edgar was a huge fan of the iconic band. Thankfully, they were able to get the sign-off for this one.
“We choreographed the entire fight to that song, which was a real worry because it hadn’t been cleared for use and could have ended up being way too expensive,” Simon told The Guardian. “So we wrote a begging letter to Queen guitarist Brian May and he was lovely about it.”
They let bored local kids be in the film
Edgar recalled to IndieWire how there was a “group of disgruntled teenagers who were throwing stones at the camera because we were on their turf”.
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He went on: “In an attempt to make peace with the teenagers, we promised that they could be in the film. A couple of days later, they went through makeup, dressed up as zombies and they’re in the film — you can see them when Shaun is next to the garden fence!”
And just in case you were wondering about the significance of the Cornetto…
Nick Frost enjoying a Cornetto on the set of Shaun Of The Dead
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When Nick’s character needs a Cornetto to help him nurse a hangover, this was actually borrowed from director Edgar’s real life.
“The appearance of the Cornetto ice cream in Shaun Of The Dead is because it was a hangover cure for me in college and because it seemed like a funny thing for Nick Frost’s character to want on a Sunday morning,” Edgar shared in a piece with Focus Features.
“It’s popped up again because we had gotten free Cornettos at the Shaun Of The Dead premiere, so we thought if we wrote Cornetto into Hot Fuzz, then we would get them at that premiere as well. For some reason we did not, and I felt let down by the lack of free ice cream but by that point it was too late.”
Hollywood star Shelley Duvall has died at the age of 75.
Shelley will be best remembered for her work with the director Robert Altman, which included Nashville, Thieves Like Us, 3 Women and Popeye, as well as her legendary performance in the horror film The Shining.
Her life partner Dan Gilroy confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that the Bafta and Emmy nominee died in her sleep on Wednesday night at her home in Texas, due to complicatons from diabetes.
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Dan said in a statement: “My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us. Too much suffering lately, now she’s free. Fly away, beautiful Shelley.”
Shelley’s big-screen debut came in 1970 when she first collaborated with Robert Altman on the dark comedy Brewster McCloud.
The pair worked together numerous times throughout the 1970s, before she was cast as Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining.
Shelley with co-stars Danny Lloyd and Jack Nicholson in the 1980 movie The Shining
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In the years that followed, she made no secret of the difficulties she experienced working on the iconic horror film, reportedly being made to shoot one memorable scene more than 170 times in a row.
Her other work included Woody Allen’s Annie Hall and Jane Campion’s The Portrait Of A Lady.
Shelley played Olive Oly to Robin Williams’ Popeye in 1980
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Shelley continued to work on screen throughout the 1990s and 2000s, before taking an extended break from the spotlight after 2002’s Manna from Heaven.
During her hiatus, she made a heavily-criticised appearance on the US daytime talk show Dr Phil, during which she spoke candidly about her own struggles with her mental health.
Last year, she made her return to the big screen in Scott Goldberg’s The Forest Hills, which marked her final performing credit.
When you picture the original Gladiator film from 2000, the first thing that likely comes to mind is Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius. However, in an interview with Vanity Fair, the actor revealed that he actually almost dropped out of the film entirely as he didn’t like the script, and there were some strange inclusions that he didn’t agree with.
“I was confident about my abilities as a leading man. What I wasn’t confident about with ‘Gladiator’ was the world that was surrounding me.
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“At the core of what we were doing was a great concept but the script, it was rubbish, absolute rubbish. And it had all these sorts of strange sequences.”
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One of these ‘strange sequences’ was scenes in which the gladiators rode chariots that had promotions for olive oil and other products on them.
While this may have seemed like an anachronistic choice for the filmmakers, gladiators in the Roman Empire really did take on endorsement and product placement deals.
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According to the marketing experts at Banknotes: “The Colosseum was the mecca of entertainment in Ancient Rome, exposing gladiators to thousands of people at once.
“This is why historians have long suggested that Roman Gladiators were arguably the first influencers of purchasing behaviours.”
Russell did actually know this but said that it just wouldn’t resonate with audiences. He exclaimed: “That’s all true but it’s just not going to ring right to a modern audience, they’re going to go, ‘What the fuck is all this?’”
And despite being only two minutes long, we’re already feeling pretty emotionally exhausted by the whole thing.
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In the upcoming film, which is set to hit cinemas later this year, the two Oscar nominees play a pair of strangers who fall in love after Florence’s character, Almut, hits Andrew’s with her car.
The movie then follows the highs and lows of their love story over the course of several decades, including their early relationship, career milestones, the birth of their child and subsequent health issues.
Check out the trailer for yourself in the video below. Just maybe make sure you’re sitting down first, alright…?
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The film was helmed by John Crowley, perhaps best known for his work directing the Oscar-nominated historical drama Brooklyn.
An official synopsis teases: “Almut and Tobias are brought together in a surprise encounter that changes their lives. Through snapshots of their life together – falling for each other, building a home, becoming a family – a difficult truth is revealed that rocks its foundation.
“As they embark on a path challenged by the limits of time, they learn to cherish each moment of the unconventional route their love story has taken, in filmmaker John Crowley’s decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.”
