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A documentary about the late music star Olivia Newton-John, who died in August 2022, is in development.

The feature-length doc will explore Newton-John’s life and work as an iconic entertainer, best-selling music artist, animal rights and environmental activist and health, wellness and plant medicine advocate.

R.J. Cutler’s production hub This Machine Filmworks has taken the onus of developing the project, reports Variety. This Machine has secured full authorised access to Newton-John’s music and personal archives.

In 1978, Newton-John co-starred with John Travolta in ‘Grease’, which catapulted her into super-stardom. During her career, she garnered four Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award and numerous other trophies. Her other feature film credits include ‘Funny Things Happen Down Under’, ‘Toomorrow’, ‘Xanadu’, ‘Two of A Kind’, ‘It’s My Party, Sordid Lives’, ‘Score: A Hockey Musical’, and ‘A Few Best Men’.

According to Variety, Cutler, along with This Machine’s Elise Pearlstein and Trevor Smith,...

R.J. Cutler’s production hub This Machine is developing another documentary about a music star — in this case, the late Olivia Newton-John, who died in August 2022.

The feature-length doc will explore Newton-John’s life and work as an iconic entertainer, best-selling music artist, animal rights and environmental activist and health, wellness and plant medicine advocate. This Machine has secured full authorized access to Newton-John’s music and personal archives.

In 1978, Newton-John co-starred with John Travolta in “Grease,” which catapulted her into super-stardom. During her career, she garnered four Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award and numerous other trophies. Her other feature film credits include “Funny Things Happen Down Under,” “Toomorrow,” “Xanadu,” “Two of A Kind,” “It’s My Party, Sordid Lives,” “Score: A Hockey Musical,” and “A Few Best Men.”

Cutler, along with This Machine’s Elise Pearlstein and Trevor Smith, will produce the untitled docu, while John Easterling, Larry Mestel,...

This article contains The Rock spoilers

Michael Bay has made a career out of big, explosive, action movies. That’s sort of his brand. His 1996 film The Rock fully fits that category, but it is somehow more than the sum of its bullets and bravado. Even amid the carnage, the film never loses sight of the human stake, something that sadly can’t be said for most of his other films.

The Rock stars Nicolas Cage as Dr. Stanley Goodspeed, a FBI chemical weapons specialist shanghaied into storming Alcatraz and neutralizing the warheads controlled by a group of disgruntled US Marines. He is assisted by John Mason (Sean Connery), a former inmate of Alcatraz who is more than meets the eye. The Rock is one of the finest performances of Connery’s late-stage career and just a great movie all-around.

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Jennifer Wilbanks was so desperate to avoid getting married to her soon-to-be-husband that she fled more than 1,400 miles then pretended she’d been kidnapped and sexually assaulted. Wilbanks was due to marry John Mason in April 2005 in a lavish wedding with 600 guests. But to avoid it she left Duluth, Georgia, and fled to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her sudden disappearance sparked a manhunt across the Us with some speculating whether Mason had killed her. Three days later — after a $100,000 reward was put up by relatives in a bid to find her — she finally rang Mason, as...read more...

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Michael Bay has been chatting about his idea for The Rock 2...

Spoilers for The Rock lie ahead.

Michael Bay’s fifth and apparently final Transformers movie, Transformers: The Last Knight, arrives in cinemas this week. But one sequel that he never made was a follow-up to arguably his most liked film, The Rock.

The movie starred Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage of course, with the former helping the latter break into Alcatraz Prison to foil a terrorist plot. At the end of the film, we see Cage’s Stanley Goodspeed in possession of a microfilm, that appears to have major Us state secrets on it. A microfilm given to him by Connery’s John Mason.

Bay did have an idea for a follow-up, and in conversation with Slashfilm, he’s been chatting about where it could go.

"The sequel that I have in my mind for this movie is basically after Nic Cage is married to Carla, they drive off", he explained.

"Nic Cage has this microfilm of all this bad government confidential [info], like, who killed JFK? The government comes after Nic Cage with a vengeance. We’re talking out to kill. It turns into more of a thriller. Nic Cage has nowhere to turn, because he’s been stabbed in the back by the government, and they’re after him. Maybe he takes Carla, I’m not sure. Maybe they separate. I’d really like to separate Nic and Carla, and have Nic try to employ the help of Sean Connery. Basically, taking The Rock off exactly where it left off".

There’s no chance at all of the film happening now, of course. Even if Bay wanted to do it, Sean Connery has long retired from acting, even turning down a chance to return to the Indiana Jones series around a decade ago (maybe The Rock could do it, just to have some fun with the poster?). As it stands, The Rock remains one of the most fun standalone Hollywood action movies of the 1990s. I hope one day that Michael Bay can top it.

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A prolific actor, Nicolas Cage has 77 film acting credits to his name, including three films -- Army of One, Dog Eat Dog and USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage -- released within a week of each other this month. And while he’s had some notable hits (National Treasure) in recent years, nothing’s quite topped the string of films that helped define the mid-’90s.

After gaining notoriety for Leaving Las Vegas, which earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor, Cage followed the low-budget film with a string of blockbusters -- The Rock, Con Air, Face/Off -- and the romantic drama City of Angels.

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While all were hits at the box office, it was The Rock that proved to be one of the most special for Cage. Not only did the actor learn of his first Oscar nomination while on...