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Harrison Ford is 82 and has been enjoying somewhat of a renaissance of late. 2023 became the year of Ford giving a crap again after the early 2000s and 2010s seemed to be something of a slog for the veteran star. Not only did he appear to be going through the motions in a lot of his movies, he also became one of Hollywood's most notorious grumps, rivaling Ridley Scott for the most amusingly irascible man in the industry.

But that has changed in recent years. "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" might have been a massive flop, but none of that was down to Ford, who in stark contrast to his performance in 2008's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," seemed to truly care about delivering a heartfelt Indy portrayal. Ford also started pushing his boundaries with roles in "Yellowstone" spin-off "1923" and Apple TV+'s "Shrinking," both...

Harrison Ford shines as a villain in What Lies Beneath, showing his potential beyond heroic roles. Despite What Lies Beneath's mixed reviews, Ford's performance as the antagonist was chilling and memorable. Ford has not played a former villain since What Lies Beneath in 2000.

Over the course of his acting career, Harrison Ford has starred in numerous critically acclaimed movies and played many beloved characters, but there is one thing that has been sadly missing from his catalog. Ford's breakthrough in Hollywood came when he starred as Bob Falfa in George Lucas' American Graffiti. Although the 1973 comedy-drama certainly isn't what Ford is most known for, it helped build his relationship with Lucas. Consequently, American Grafitti was a key factor in Ford securing the role of Han Solo in Star Wars in 1977, which was when the actor truly rose to prominence.

Harrison Ford has recently shifted from the big screen...

The A League of Their Own film is inspired by the real All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (Aagpbl) from 1943 to 1954. The Rockford Peaches, featured in the film, were a real team in the Aagpbl and were successful, winning several championships. Although the film fictionalizes many aspects, it still brings awareness to the Aagpbl and celebrates the players' contributions while addressing criticisms of lack of racial and queer inclusivity.

The A League Of Their Own true story is about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, a real league from 1943 to 1954. The Penny Marshall film loosely follows the story of the Aagpbl, which was formed in 1943 during World War II when Major League Baseball was in danger since men were being drafted for war. In the same way women stepped up to work men's factory jobs, they did the same for baseball. The film focuses on sisters Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) and...

In the 24th weekly installment of the Deadline Strike Talk Podcast, host Billy Ray doesn’t seem too shaken by the surprise breakoff of talks between the studios and SAG-AFTRA.

Even though CAA chief Bryan Lourd stated publicly there is a wide gap between the streamers and actors over residuals, Ray believes a deal could be had by the end of next week. The pressure is high, as crew members stretch further without a paycheck, and the streamers find themselves the focus over issues like viewer transparency and what that should mean in the area of residuals and health benefits for actors.

This week, Ray takes a look at the actor’s life with three veterans who each trod a hard road to get to a position of prominence: Ashley Nicole Black, Clark Gregg, and Robert Wisdom. They discuss the ongoing strike, the importance of continued solidarity and the essential next steps for performers to protect their work.

Ray’s intro deals with Jackie Robinson and former Dodgers Gm Branch Rickey and how the historic shattering of baseball’s color line came two years in the making and involved a key person who’d grown up in the segregated South and had to be swung over to the right side of history in order for the audacious move to succeed. Luck is opportunity meeting preparation, Ray says. He believes that the planning that went into the current painful labor stoppage will change the business long term, for the better, and make it possible for the next Ashley Nicole Black, Clark Gregg and Robert Wisdom to thrive in an art form that pours of billions in revenues, and ought to provide for health benefits and a cushion against lean times like the ones we are all dealing with right now.

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42 is a moving, powerful biopic of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, but he isn’t the only successful baseball player portrayed in the film. The movie chronicles Robinson’s journey to becoming the first African-American player to join a Major League Baseball team in the modern era, and all the adversity he faced along the way. Chadwick Boseman stars in 42 as Robinson, giving one of the finest performances of his career. The movie was written and directed by Brian Helgeland of L.A. Confidential fame and is named after Robinson’s jersey number, which was retired across all of Major League Baseball in 1997.

Jackie Robinson is just one of many historical figures from the baseball world to be depicted in 42. The film focuses on Robinson’s mentor-mentee relationship with Brooklyn Dodgers owner Branch Rickey, himself a former player. The ensemble of 42 features both players who were supportive of Robinson,...

If you didn’t grow up in Pittsburgh (which boasted rival baseball greats the Homestead Grays and the Pittsburgh Crawfords) or watch Episode 5 of the 1994 Ken Burns docu-series “Baseball,” you may not know much about the Negro Leagues. That’s about to change.

Sam Pollard’s “The League” is an eye-opening slice of American baseball’s 154-year history. In fact, the recent rule changes imposed on the Majors by Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred were inspired in part by the practices of the Negro Leagues: while Babe Ruth focused on home runs (like many players today), these extraordinary Black athletes favored a fast, hit-and-run, base-stealing game.

“If you watch footage of Jackie Robinson from the ’40s and the ’50s, his style of play, his aggressiveness, all came from the Negro Leagues,” Oscar-nominated documentary director Pollard told IndieWire during a recent interview. “If you watch the players who integrated Major League Baseball,...

Harrison Ford will probably be remembered foremost as Han Solo — but not if he can help it. While Ford may well be the greatest movie star of the latter 20th century, it feels like he would've preferred to be a character actor, one that would sink into part after different part, not play the same archetype over and over.

In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Ford mentioned that he "likes to change genres" from film to film. Not all of these genres have been successful for him, though he maintains that even his flops, "were entered with the best of intentions." Still, when Ford stars in an unsuccessful film like "Morning Glory" or "Cowboys & Aliens," he tries not to dwell on it:

"The first job of a movie is to make its money back. God knows why something doesn't work. It doesn't usually make that much difference...

Harrison Ford reveals which of his roles he thinks are the most underrated. With his earliest film roles dating back to the late 1960s, the iconic actor is best known to audiences as the snarky smuggler Han Solo in Star Wars and the titular intrepid archeologist in Indiana Jones. Over his 50-year acting career, a few of Ford's more underappreciated performances have come outside the two Lucasfilm franchises, including his Oscar-nominated performance in the 1985 film Witness.

In a recent profile by The Hollywood Reporter, Ford reveals which of his roles he thinks are the most underrated. The veteran actor says he is most proud of 42 and K-19: The Widowmaker, not necessarily because of his individual performances, but because he thinks they are just really good movies. Read what Ford says below:

I’m proud of 42. I’m proud of K-19: The Widowmaker, where I played a Russian submarine captain.

Netflix has added quite a selection of newer and classic movies to its roster this May. Two Tom Hanks films have made the cut, and should make your to-watch list if you haven’t seen them already, and rom-coms are always a great mood booster. Below, we’ve assembled a list of the best new movies on Netflix in May 2022, which includes library titles and a brand new Netflix original that’ll hit the sweet spot for a specific audience. So peruse our selections below to get your viewing plans sorted.

Forrest Gump (1984) Paramount

Robert Zemeckis’ Oscar-winning film starring Tom Hanks had to make the cut here. Hanks plays a man named Forrest Gump, who recounts his life story starting from his childhood in Alabama where his mother (Sally Field) encouraged him to do anything he wanted to do. The film chronicles how he learned to run, his relationship with...

Swing and a miss. Striking out. Fair or foul. Rounding the bases. Touching them all.

Baseball is back. The latest opening day in history is upon us but nonetheless it’s still opening day.

Baseball is as much a part of America as mom, apple pie, the flag – and the movies.

No sport has been romanticized on the silver screen as often as baseball. Hollywood has been betting on baseball for decades and it still delivers a winning performance. Diamonds Are Forever isn’t just a James Bond film. It perfectly describes the relationship between the Silver Screen and the American Pastime.

Grab your peanuts and Cracker Jack, because you’re about to get caught in a run down of the greatest baseball films ever made.

42 (2013)

A biopic of when Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier while wearing No. 42 for the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers, hence the title. The film earned $27.3 million during its opening weekend.

The acclaimed baseball drama 42/">42 will be returning to the big screen as a way of paying homage to its late star, Chadwick Boseman. AMC Theatres, Regal Cinemas, Cinemark, and other exhibitors will all be screening the acclaied drama. Last week, the beloved actor passed away after a four year battle with colon cancer, leaving us way too soon at the age of 43. The news came as a shock to millions of fans across the world, and many have been watching some of Boseman's best performances in the past several days since as a way of honoring the actor's legacy.

Further paying tribute to Chadwick Boseman, AMC Theatres has partnered up with Warner Bros. and Legendary, the studios behind 42, to bring the hit movie back to the cinema. The movie will be showing in more than 300 locations, which accounts for almost every AMC location that's opened back up...

In honor of the late Chadwick Boseman, AMC Theatres will theatrically re-release “42,” the 2013 biopic in which Boseman starred as baseball great Jackie Robinson.

The film will play in more than 300 AMC theaters beginning on Thursday, Sept. 3. Tickets for the screenings will be $5 and will be on sale by the end of Tuesday.

AMC made the decision after posting a poll to Twitter asking which of Boseman’s films, outside of “Black Panther,” which played on AMC screens last week, was most meaningful to fans. “42” won by a wide margin over “Marshall,” “Get On Up” and “21 Bridges” with 62% of the vote.

The movie opens as “Tenet” also opens this weekend in theaters. Attendees at AMCs will be socially distanced and will be required to wear masks.

Boseman died on Friday at age 43 after suffering from colon cancer for four years. He died on the same day that Major...

The late Chadwick Boseman made just 15 films before his shocking, devastating death last week from colon cancer. But many of those 15 movies had already left an undeniable and in some cases massive impact on cinema, even before becoming the permanent legacy of an incredible actor taken from us far too soon.

Not only did his portrayal of King T’Challa in Marvel’s Black Panther and three other Marvel Cinematic Universe entries change film history itself, but he brought some of the most important figures in both Black and American culture to the screen. Jackie Robinson and Thurgood Marshall were American heroes of gigantic stature, and Boseman managed to introduce them to new generations of viewers through his sensitive, complex portrayals.

By all accounts, Chadwick Boseman wanted each of his roles to mean something. He wanted to tell the story of Black history and push that story forward every time...

Chadwick Boseman, beloved actor and star of the highest grossing solo superhero movie of all time, Black Panther, has passed away in his Los Angeles home after a four-year struggle with colon cancer. The actor was 43.

Confirming the actor’s death to the Associated Press late Friday evening, Boseman’s publicist Nicki Fioravante said Boseman’s wife and family was by his side when he passed. Boseman had never publicly commented or acknowledged being diagnosed with cancer.

Boseman’s family shared on Twitter this additional statement.

“It is with immeasurable grief that we confirm the passing of Chadwick Boseman. Chadwick was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer in 2016, and battled with it these last 4 years as it progressed to stage IV. A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all, and brought you many of the films you have come to love so much. From Marshall to Da 5 Bloods, August Wilson...

Charles Dickens’ 160 year-old “best of times/worst of times” conundrum from “Tale of Two Cities” beautifully sums up the state of filmmaking in this young century. Seemingly around every corner there’s a new disruptive technology changing, and often complicating, either production or distribution.

Suffice to say, one person’s disruption is another person’s breakthrough. And this year’s Oscar nominations provide a multitude of examples of how this dichotomy plays out across the filmmaking landscape.

Streaming: Godsend or the Devil’s Handmaiden?

From the point of view of film exhibitors, Netflix and its fellow streamers are the avowed disruptive enemy of everyone selling tickets, and more importantly, profit-packed soft drinks, popcorn and candy bars. But from the point of view of filmmakers (and TV producers) in virtually every corner of the globe, the streamers are pouring tens of billions of dollars into productions and transforming formerly dormant film industries into hives of activity,...

Jackie Robinson's contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers -- one of the most important documents of all time -- is hitting the auction block and it's expected to fetch Millions ... TMZ Sports has learned. The 1947 contract -- which made Robinson the first black player to sign with an Mlb team -- will be sold along with Jackie's 1945 contract with the Montreal Royals, the Dodgers minor league team. Bidding on the items, hosted by Goldin Auctions,...

The Jackie Robinson who titled his 1972 autobiography “I Never Had It Made” — and meant it — is scarcely present in “42,” a relentlessly formulaic biopic that succeeds at transforming one of the most compelling sports narratives of the 20th century into a home run of hagiography. Thick with canned inspirationalism and heroic platitudes, but only occasionally pushing past the iconic to grapple with the real human drama of Robinson’s life, this personal passion project for Legendary Pictures chairman-ceo Thomas Tull should enjoy a decent first inning with audiences, but won’t surpass Robinson’s famed jersey number in box office millions.

Robinson also wrote in his memoir that, even two decades on from his historic achievements on the baseball diamond, he couldn’t bring himself to salute the American flag or stand for the National Anthem, knowing that he remained “a black man in a white world.” So it comes...