According to the Central Intelligence trailer, Kevin Hart was the cool kid in high school while Dwayne Johnson was known as "Fat Robbie." But by the time they're all grown up, the tables have been turned.
In the film, Hart plays an mild-mannered accountant who is reluctantly lured into the life of CIA agent after reconnecting on Facebook with his old high school friend, who is now exceedingly muscular.
Rawson Marshall Thurber (We're the Millers) directs the New Line comedy that also stars Aaron Paul and Amy Ryan.
Central Intelligence hits theaters on June 17.
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The latest Marvel comics-inspired series, "Jessica Jones," gives us a heroine who's a cross between Sam Spade, Walter White, and Wonder Woman.
While that sounds like a recipe for failure, the true super power shown by "Jessica Jones" is how well it blends elements that seem like they shouldn't be in the same universe, let alone the same show. And it gives Krysten Ritter, as Jessica Jones, a role as complex as any of TV's memorable antiheroes.
"Jessica Jones," which begins streaming its 13 episodes on Netflix on Friday, Nov. 20, is part of a Marvel/Netflix deal, which will ultimately give us five series derived from Marvel properties.
But these aren't the quippy, action-bloated blockbusters that lumber into movie theaters. The first Netflix/Marvel series, "Daredevil," set the dark, adult tone that "Jessica Jones" continues.
"Jessica Jones" is adapted from a comic book series created by writer Brian Michael Bendis -- who lives in Portland -- and artist Michael Gaydos. While other TV series have tried to give us female heroes as flawed and fascinating as Don Draper in "Mad Men," or Tony Soprano in "The Sopranos," "Jessica Jones" succeeds where others have fizzled.
Jessica has super powers, we gradually come to find out. But because of something terrible in her past, she hides them, and works as a low-rent private investigator. Jessica's main goal seems to be keeping a low profile, and throwing herself away by drinking to excess, and hiding out in her rathole of a New York apartment.
Despite her self-destructive habits, Jessica is good at her job, however underhanded her methods. In the first episode, she investigates a case involving a nice young woman from the Midwest who's missing. This simple-sounding set-up turns deadly when Jessica discovers the man behind it all is the diabolical Kilgrave (David Tennant), who has the power to make people do things they desperately don't want to do.
Naturally, Jessica and Kilgrave have history. And it's bad. She's so terrified, she wants to run, but ultimately she finds the courage to stay and try to protect others from the damage Kilgrave can do.
In the first episode, executive producer and showrunner Melissa Rosenberg (who wrote the "Twilight" movies), overdoes Jessica's film noir-style narration ("In my line of work, you gotta know when to walk away. But some cases just won't let you go.")
But things improve with the second episode, as we learn more about Jessica, and her relationship with Luke Cage (Mike Colter), who's also trying to lay low, and also turns out to have super powers. (And he's in line for his own Netflix series, too, in 2016.)
Ritter is terrific, in a role that showcases her talents for black comedy (shown in the sitcom, "Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23") and tragedy (her role as Jesse's short-lived junkie lover in "Breaking Bad.") And she has sizzling chemistry with Colter, who was memorably intimidating as the drug kingpin Lemond Bishop in "The Good Wife."
The entire cast, including Rachael Taylor and Carrie-Anne Moss, is strong. The show does an excellent job of portraying female characters, especially, as complicated, conflicted and multilayered.
Tennant's Kilgrave is shown, at first, almost as a shadow, but the menace that emanates from him hovers over the story like a blanket you want to throw off, but you can't.
They say good things come to those who wait… and while there’s still a few hours to go until Marvel’s Jessica Jones officially hits Netflix, fans can now watch the series’ opening titles. Released via Twitter with the tease, “A little something to get you through the next twelve hours,” the stylized opening showcases the show’s darker vibe while paying homage to its comic book counterpart.
Krysten Ritter stars as the titular hero, along with Carrie-Anne Moss as Jeri Hogarth, Mike Colter as Luke Cage, Rachael Taylor as Trish Walker, and David Tennant as Kilgrave (a.k.a. The Purple Man). If you’ve missed any of Netflix’s previous teases (including an example of just how ruthless Kilgrave can be), check them out below. All episodes of Jessica Jones will be available to stream on Netflix starting Nov. 20. I'm going to be your guest here indefinitely. You'll be delighted.
“Marvel’s Jessica Jones” makes its much-anticipated Netflix debut on Nov. 20, and as Variety critic Mo Ryan notes in her review, the series is “not just a contender for the title of Best Marvel-related TV Property; in a supremely crowded TV scene, it is one of the year’s most distinctive new dramas.” That assessment is thanks, in large part, to Krysten Ritter’s performance as the show’s titular heroine, a prickly, damaged and deeply conflicted private eye who nonetheless manages to radiate wit and charisma, even when she’s at her most antagonistic. The series is based on writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Michael Gaydos’ “Alias” comic book series, with Melissa Rosenberg serving as showrunner.
Variety spoke to Ritter about her approach to the super-powered detective, her place in Netflix’s corner of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (alongside Mike Colter’s Luke Cage and Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock/Daredevil) and why Jessica Jones is “the best part that I had ever seen.” It’s kind of exactly what you just said. She’s such an original, sort of obscure, misfit character in the Marvel universe and I love how grounded the show is and how deeply complex and developed she is. I feel like it’s such a rare opportunity to get a role like this. It’s a part that you find in some weird, dark, obscure independent movie that nobody will ever see, and fact that I get that opportunity on a Netflix platform, with the Marvel logo… it’s completely insane. When I first read the script — I read the first few before I got the part — I walked out of there and felt like they were the best scripts I had read and the best part that I had ever seen, available to me or not. A tough female character like this doesn’t come around every day. A little bit of both. This was some heavy lifting for me. I’m in 99 percent of the scenes so there wasn’t a lot of down-time, so I kind of just had to stay in that mindset, and go home, and go to sleep, and come back. If I had an opportunity to shake it off, whether it was with Carrie-Anne [Moss] or Rachael [Taylor] on set, and enjoy myself, that was welcome. But it’s the kind of work as an actress that I’d always wished to do. So for me, it was very creatively rewarding to just roll up my sleeves and sink in. Big time. When I first heard about the show, my manager called and said “Netflix” — I’d really wished to be on a Netflix show because I love the content that they’re putting out and I think their shows are really top quality, and those are the shows that I watch. I love “House of Cards,” I love “Bloodline,” I love “Orange is the New Black,” so I had written on my refrigerator that I was looking for “groundbreaking television on Netflix.” That’s what I wanted to do, so when my manager called like, “Okay, so Netflix wants to see you for this superhero show,” and I like to audition so I was like, “Great! I’m never going to get that, but I’m happy just to go.” My mind never went to the place where “Jessica Jones” lives. I just assumed “superhero — that’s not what I look like, I’ll never get that.” They were parsing out information, [all] secretive, as Marvel is, and I started reading scenes and I was like, “This is really cool. Is this real? Is this really this dark and this dramatic and this character-driven?
And then I met with Melissa Rosenberg and Jeph Loeb, and at the end of the meeting we’re just going through all the things that she is and everything they’re saying, I’m just lighting up more and more, and then at the end of the meeting, they just said, “And she needs to be funny.” I was like, “What? Now you’re talking.” I was like, “Come on. Who else are you going find that could do this?” Then I started screen testing with Mike [Colter] and I was very vocal about how badly I wanted the part. I just loved how it was an opportunity for me to do drama, and comedy, and action sequences, but the real thing that really got me was when they said they needed someone that could be funny. I’m like, “Come on.” So I just worked my ass off. I wanted to prove to them and bring a work ethic to it that I didn’t think anybody else in the whole world would ever bring. So everyday was like, “Okay,” proving that they choose the right girl.
Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct, famous for its graphic sex scenes and infamous 'leg-crossing' scene
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2/9 Bridget Jones' Diary
The 'absolutely enormous panties' moment between Bridget and Daniel Cleaver in Bridget Jones Diary
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3/9 Dirty Dancing
Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze dance to Solomon Burke's 'Cry To Me' in the Dirty Dancing sex scene
4/9 When Harry Met Sally
Meg Ryan faking an orgasm in the middle of a packed diner as Sally in 1989's When Harry Met Sally
5/9 American Beauty
Lester is enchanted by his daughter's best friend (Mena Suvari) in American Beauty
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Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore's sex scene takes place at a pottery wheel
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Helen Hunt having sex with a severely disabled man who's never had sex before in The Sessions
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Leonardo DiCaprio's hand in his Titanic sex scene with Kate Winslet is iconic in itself
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Charlie Sheen cracks an egg onto the stomach of love interest Valeria Golina in the 1991 spoof Hot Shots! Golina is so 'hot' the egg fries straight away and Sheen's character decides to add some bacon
Passengers stars Lawrence and Pratt as two passengers on a spaceship taking thousands of people to a distant colony planet. Problems arise when one of the spacecraft’s cryogenic sleep chambers suffers a malfunction, leading one passenger, Jim, to awaken 60 years early. After much deliberation and struggle over the thought of dying alone, he wakes up another passenger, Aurora, and a romantic love story begins.
Directed by The Imitation Game’s Morten Tyldum, Passengers arrives in UK cinemas on 23 December 2016.
Lawrence can currently be seen in the final The Hunger Games chapter, Mockingjay Part 2.
Jennifer Lawrence shoots first sex scene with Chris Pratt for Passengers: 'I got really really drunk' Lawrence felt guilty about the sex scene with her married co-star despite knowing it was her job
Jennifer Lawrence had somehow managed to avoid filming a sex scene before Passengers Rex Features
Jennifer Lawrence has revealed how “bizarre” she found shooting her first proper sex scene.
The Oscar winner, 25, had somehow managed to avoid one of the most dreaded moments in an actor’s career until she was called upon to get it on with Chris Pratt in upcoming sci-fi movie Passengers.
“Everything was done right; nobody did anything wrong. It’s just a bizarre experience,” she told The Hollywood Reporter during the annual actress roundtable. “It’s really weird.”
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Lawrence tried to calm the nerves by pouring herself some strong beverages but, as is too often the case with booze, getting “really really drunk” only made matters worse.
“It led to more anxiety when I got home because I was like, ‘What have I done? I don’t know.’” she said. “He was married, and it was going to be my first time kissing a married man and guilt is the worst feeling in your stomach.
“I knew it was my job, but I couldn’t tell my stomach that. So I called my mom and I was like, ‘Will you just tell me it’s okay?’ It was just very vulnerable. That was the most vulnerable I’ve ever been.” Iconic sex scenes
After Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone called Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol’s chemistry beyond ‘palangtod’ at an event, SRK sent out a sweet message to the duo. When Ranbir and Deepika were asked to comment on their comparison with the DDLJ couple during the promotion of Tamasha, Ranbir said, “We are surely waiting for Dilwale. Their chemistry is beyond palangtod.”
Replying to his comment, the 50-year-old actor said in a statement, “Ranbir and Deepika are amazing. It is too sweet of them to say that about my chemistry with Kajol. We don’t know whether it is palangtod, ghar tod aur khidki tod! I don’t know how is their chemistry. Whether they break palang or no, I don’t know!”While Ranbir-Deepika’s Tamasha is all set to release on November 27, SRK-Kajol’s Dilwale will hit the theatres on December 18.
