Actor Irrfan Khan Admitted To Mumbai's Kokilaben Hospital After His Health Deteriorates

Acclaimed Bollywood and Hollywood actor Irrfan is currently admitted to Mumbai's Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital. Irrfan lost his mother, Saeeda Begum, earlier this week, and could not attend her funeral in Jaipur due to the nationwide lockdown. While it was reported that the actor wasn't in India at the time of her death, he was, in fact, in Mumbai. The actor was unwell and unable to attend the funeral because of the lockdown. He spoke to his family in Jaipur over a video call. Irrfan, 54, has had a rough few years after being diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumour, which required medical attention and kept the actor away from Bollywood for a year..............

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Artemis Fowl | Streaming Exclusively June 12 | Disney+

Remember the name. #ArtemisFowl is streaming exclusively June 12 on #DisneyPlus............








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Amazon Acquires Comedy 'My Spy' From STX

The Dave Bautista starrer was set to hit theaters domestically on April 17.

Amazon Studios has picked up STX's once theater-bound action comedy My Spy, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

The movie, which was set to hit theaters domestically on April 17, hails from STXfilms and MWM Studios and had already begun rolling out overseas, including in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Prior to the global shuttering of cinemas due to the novel coronavirus, My Spy had earned over $4 million at the international box office........

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Allen Garfield, Actor in 'The Conversation,' 'The Stunt Man' and 'Nashville,' Dies at 80

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Allen Garfield in the 1971 film 'Cry Uncle'

He also played the police chief in 'Beverly Hills Cop II' and mogul Louis B. Mayer in 'Gable and Lombard.'

Allen Garfield, the New Jersey character actor who specialized in playing nervous types while appearing in such films as The Conversation, The Candidate, The Stunt Man and Nashville, has died. He was 80.

His sister, Lois Goorwitz, confirmed his death in a brief conversation with The Hollywood Reporter.

Earlier, actress Ronee Blakley posted the news of Garfield's death on Facebook, saying that he had died Tuesday and that the cause was COVID-19. Garfield and Blakley played husband and wife in Robert Altman's Nashville (1975).........

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Cineworld to Suspend Dividend Payments, Execs to Defer Salary Amid Coronavirus

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The company's board has decided to suspend the payment of the 2019 fourth-quarter dividend of 4.25c per share and upcoming 2020 quarterly dividends.

Cineworld says it will suspend dividend payments and top executives have "voluntarily" agreed to defer salary and bonus payments amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The London-headquartered company, the world's second biggest cinema chain, has closed all of 787 sites in 10 countries as the world grapples with limiting the spread of COVID-19.

Cineworld's board have decided to suspend payment of the 2019 fourth quarter dividend of 4.25c per share and upcoming 2020 quarterly dividends and the company's executive directors have........

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'Coffee & Kareem': Film Review

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Ed Helms plays a cop struggling to keep his girlfriend's son safe in Michael Dowse's Netflix action-comedy costarring Taraji P. Henson.

A tone-deaf attempt to recreate the nasty comic vibe people associate with certain '80s buddy cop films, Michael Dowse's Coffee & Kareem names a key character for director Walter Hill, just to make sure we know what it's going for. Then it tweaks the Eddie Murphy-era format by pairing a white cop with a distractingly foul-mouthed black twelve-year old. It tosses this unlikable duo into a contrived scenario of dirty cops, drug dealers, strip clubs and endless reversals of fortune. But making a film that feels two days long is not the same thing as making 48 Hrs.........

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Not Quite Dead Yet': A feeble take on two days of death

Ghosts that haunt the living for laughs have been Hollywood staples going back to at least “Topper.” In this 1937 comedy, a feckless young couple (Cary Grant and Constance Bennett) die in a car crash and, as ghosts, decide to bring fun to the life of their stuffy older pal, Cosmo Topper (Roland Young). 
Comic ghosts can also be found in Japanese films, as in Koji Maeda’s 2015 “Till Death Do Us What?,” starring Kuranosuke Sasaki as a bereaved widower whose wife (Hiromi Nagasaku) returns as a free-spirited spook........

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