Austin Butler
Box Office: ‘Dune 2’ Delivers on Promise With Big $81.5M Domestic Opening
Warner Bros. and Legendary’s Dune: Part Two has delivered on its promise to reenergize the box office after a terrible early winter. Denis Villeneuve’s sequel — sporting an A-list cast led by Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya — opened to an estimated $81.5 million in North America this weekend, double the first film and the biggest […]
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Box Office: ‘Dune 2’ Dashes to Early $7.6M Overseas
Denis Villeneuve’s long-awaited Dune: Part Two is off to a promising start at the foreign box office, where it opened to $5.2 million on Wednesday from its first 13 markets. Including previews, the running foreign tally is $7.6 million. The Legendary and Warner Bros. film will debut in a raft of additional countries today before […]
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Why Denis Villeneuve Kept Anya Taylor-Joy’s ‘Dune: Part Two’ Casting a Secret: “Hollywood Is the Most Gossipy Town on Earth”
At Dune: Part Two‘s London world premiere earlier this month, Anya Taylor-Joy made waves when she walked the red carpet alongside the cast, confirming an online rumor that she had a secret role in the film. Taylor-Joy again made an appearance at the New York premiere on Sunday night, as writer-director Denis Villeneuve revealed why […]
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Austin Butler Wanted to Respect Vanessa Hudgens’ Privacy When He Called Her a “Friend”
Austin Butler is clearing the air about the time he referred to his former longtime girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens as a “friend,” which many people felt minimized their nine-year-long relationship. During The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 Actor Roundtable — which featured last year’s awards season’s leading men including Butler, Colin Farrell, Brendan Fraser, Jeremy Pope, Ke Huy […]
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How the Iconic Bomber Jacket Plays a Starring Role on Callum Turner and Austin Butler in ‘Masters of the Air’
In Apple TV+’s new World War II series Masters of the Air, Major John C. “Bucky” Egan (Callum Turner) fearlessly soars through the skies in state-of-the-art Flying Fortress planes advancing against the Nazis. At 25,000 feet up in the clouds, the World War II commander pilot stays warm, and in uniform, in his “lucky” shearling […]
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Austin Butler on Tom Hanks’ ‘Masters of the Air’ Pitch and “Deeply” Loving ‘Dune: Part Two’
As Austin Butler put the finishing touches on his eventual Oscar-nominated performance as Elvis Presley, his Elvis co-star Tom Hanks was already envisioning the budding superstar’s next move. In early 2021, just weeks before Elvis was scheduled to wrap, Hanks took Butler to dinner and pitched him Masters of the Air, the spiritual follow-up to […]
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Austin Butler Says He Hired a Dialect Coach to Help Get Rid of Elvis Accent for ‘Masters of the Air’
Austin Butler revealed that he only had a week between filming Elvis and Masters of the Air, which means he had to work extra hard to drop his Elvis Presley accent. During a Wednesday night appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the Oscar-nominated actor said he “had a dialect coach just to help […]
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‘Masters of the Air’ Review: Austin Butler in an Apple TV+ ‘Band of Brothers’ Follow-Up That Frequently Soars, Occasionally Stalls
Butler, Barry Keoghan and Callum Turner lead a vast ensemble in Apple TV+'s World War II epic from the executive producers of 'Band of Brothers' and 'The Pacific.'
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Focus Features Sets Release Date for Austin Butler, Jodie Comer’s ‘The Bikeriders’
Focus Features has set a release date for Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders, a crime epic about a motorcycle club in the 1950s that stars Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy. The New Regency film set in Chicago will hit theaters on June 21, 2024, after first bowing at Telluride. The movie was earlier set […]
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Florence Pugh Hit in the Face by Flying Object While Promoting ‘Dune: Part Two’ at CCXP in Brazil
Florence Pugh was hit in the face by a flying object during an appearance at CCXP 2023 on Sunday. The actress was onstage with her fellow Dune: Part Two stars when an object was thrown in her direction, seemingly from the audience, and hit her in the face, according to videos circulating online. In the […]
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Austin Butler on Filming Dangerous Scenes in ‘The Bikeriders’: “I Don’t Know How They Insured the Film”
Austin Butler is reflecting on his time filming The Bikeriders, including the memorable and dangerous moments. During a recent conversation with Josh Brolin for Interview Magazine, the Elvis star chatted about the upcoming Jeff Nichols-directed movie, which follows the rise of a Midwestern motorcycle club through the lives of its members. “There’s such a trust as well, when […]
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Jeff Nichols’ ‘The Bikeriders’ Delays Release in Theaters Amid Ongoing Actors Strike (Exclusive)
New Regency is delaying the release of Jeff Nichols’ awards hopeful The Bikeriders due to the ongoing actors strike and the prohibition on talent doing any promotion or publicity. The drama — starring Jodie Comer, Austin Butler and Tom Hardy — had been set to open in theaters Dec. 1 after making several stops on […]
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