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Marlon Brando’s Bedtime Story didn’t begin with any grand ambitions. It was practically sandwiched between his flops and fading headlines, and honestly, made way into his career like a breeze drifting through a stormy season. By that time, the actor once hailed as the future of Hollywood had started to grow weary, somewhat distant, and worn out by his fame. He had become the kind of person who made directors anxious and studio execs rethink contracts.

Marlon Brando’s Breakthrough In The 1950s

Things looked very different for Marlon Brando back in the early 1950s. He was a revelation, to say the least. He didn’t act the way others did, and while some recited lines with polish, he seemed to live in each role, breathing through the character’s lungs. Audiences saw something new in him as well.

One of the classic movie tropes of studio comedies, and especially in the 70s and 80s- is the ever-clever “slobs vs snobs” tale. You know, the blue-collar underdog against a preppy, often annoyingly sophisticated social elite. Movies like Revenge of the Nerds, Animal House, Wayne’s World, or Caddyshack make this the crux of their stories and often use multiple characters in each category to drive the shenanigans all the way up. But in some cases, a movie will tell the story with just one slob and one snob- and crank them both to their absolute extremes- and then throw in a heist because… we love that stuff.

In today’s episode of Revisited, we’re going to be talking about 1988’s buddy comedy classic- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. This movie stars Steve Martin and (the now retired) Michael Caine as two con artists who make an old western-style bet to run each other out of town.

Madonna brought her “Celebration Tour” to a close with the biggest show of her career.

The pop icon held a free concert on Saturday, May 4th, at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, drawing upwards of 1.6 million attendees.

Madonna’s performance spanned 26 songs and included guest appearances from Brazilian pop stars Anitta (who joined for “Vogue”) and Pabllo Vittar (who took part in the tour debut of “Music”). Check out the full setlist and watch performance footage below.

Previously, Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach massive concerts from The Rolling Stones, who played to a crowd of 1.5 million in 2006, and Rod Stewart, who broke the world record for most-attended concert of all time with an audience of 4.2 million people in 1994.

Beyond being a big night in live music history, Madonna’s performance also closed out her “Celebration Tour,” which saw her honor her long, multi-faceted career with “reverence and joy,...

Madonna has officially launched the U.S. leg of her The Celebration Tour and we have the setlist from opening night.

The legendary entertainer performed a sold-out show at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Wednesday night (December 13) and she added a special song to the set list for the New York City crowd.

The tour launched in London back in October and the start date for the tour was delayed by several months due to Madonna‘s hospitalization earlier this year for a serious bacterial infection.

Madonna‘s setlist for the tour includes more than 25 songs, some of which had not been performed onstage in decades.

Head inside to check out the set list…

Keep scrolling to check out the full set list…

**This set list is representative of the first show and might not be completely accurate for every show.

1. Nothing Really Matters

2. Everybody

3. Into the...

Tom Hardy will read Julia Donaldson and Victoria Sandøy’s The Oak Tree on CBeebies Bedtime Story tonight.

When Tom Hardy first joined the CBeebies Bedtime Stories, the internet went into a frenzy. Sure, the kids loved listening to the Venom actor read stories, but I’m willing to bed a lot of adults tuned in too, sans kids. I know I did.

Well, Hardy is back for some more children’s stories. The actor will be gracing our screens tonight, 1st December, and will be reading Julia Donaldson and Victoria Sandøy’s The Oak Tree to celebrate National Tree Week. The story revolves around a tiny acorn’s journey from a tiny seed to a mighty oak over a thousand years as it witnesses Viking invasions, teddy bear picnics and everything in between.

Hardy will also be joined by his adorable French bulldog, Blue. Let’s be honest here,...

It’s been over a month since Madonna began her Celebration Tour in Europe and fans in North America won’t have to wait much longer.

On December 13, Madonna will be back in her home country to perform at the Barclays Center in New York. She’ll then continue to perform for the United States, making a few stops in Canada in between her U.S. tours before making her way to Mexico in mid-April.

The journey to her world tour has been long as Madonna had to reschedule her whole tour when she was hospitalized in June for a bacterial infection.

North America World Tour Dates:

12-13 Brooklyn, NY — Barclays Center

12-14 Brooklyn, NY — Barclays Center

12-16 Brooklyn, NY — Barclays Center

12-18 Washinton, D.C. — Capital One Arena

12-19 Washinton, D.C. — Capital One Arena

01-08 Boston, Ma — Td Garden

01-09 Boston, Ma — Td Garden

01-11 Toronto, Canada – Scotiabank Arena

01-12 Toronto,...

Madonna kicked off “The Celebration Tour” with the first of four performances at the O2 Arena in London on Saturday night.

A true retrospective performance, the career-spanning setlist touched on all eras of Madonna’s career and featured numerous songs that hadn’t been performed in decades. The show opened with only the second performance ever of “N0thing Really Matters” from Ray of Light. A few songs later, she dusted off “Live to Tell” from True Blue for the first time since 2006.

Songs like “Justify My Love,” “Bad Girl,” and “Rain” were performed for the first time sine 1993, while “Bedtime Story” was dusted off for the first time since 1995. Other noteworthy performances included “Like A Prayer,” in which she was accompanied by topless dancers, an acoustic cover of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive,” and “Like a Virgin,” which was interpolated elements of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean.”

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Madonna has officially kickstarted her Celebration Tour, and it was well worth the wait!

The 65-year-old Queen of Pop took the stage on Saturday night (October 14) at The O2 Arena in London, England for the first date of her long-awaited tour. The start date is several months later than expected after Madonna was hospitalized earlier this year for a serious bacterial infection.

With a discography that spans 40 years, there were so many songs that fans were hoping to hear from the superstar as she travels the country.

Now that opening night has come and gone, we can reveal that she delivered an evening full of beloved hits and two surprise covers!

Head inside to check out the setlist from opening night of Madonna’s Celebration Tour…

@justjared @madonna kicks off the #CelebrationTour ♬ original sound – Just Jared

Madonna‘s setlist for opening night included 28 songs, some of which had not been performed onstage in decades.

Quebec festival wrapped on August 9.

Talk To Me, the horror hit from Danny and Michael Philippou which has grossed more than $31m in North America and close to $50m worldwide, has been named best international feature in the 2023 Fantasia audience awards.

In other key awards Lee Sang-yong’s South Korean title The Roundup: No Way Out was named best Asian feature, while Shigeyoshi Tsukahara’s Japanese entry Kurayukaba earned best animated feature, and

Satan Wants You from Steve J. Adams and Sean Horlor took the inaugural Dgc Audience Award for Best Canadian Film (narrative or documentary).

The full list of audience award winners appears below.

A couple weeks ago, the Fantasia International Film Festival announced the films that won jury prizes at the 27th edition of the show, which recently came to a close. Yesterday, our own Tyler Nichols shared his list of favorite films from this year’s Fantasia festival. Now Fantasia has unveiled the list of audience award winners, with wins going to films like Talk to Me, The Roundup: No Way Out, Kurayukaba, and Satan Wants You, among others. The full list can be seen below:

Best International Feature

Gold: Talk To Me

Silver: Late Night With The Devil

Bronze: Hundreds Of Beavers

Best Asian Feature

Gold: The Roundup: No Way Out

Silver: River

Bronze: Phantom (South Korea d. Lee Hae-young)

Best Animated Feature

Gold: Kurayukaba

Silver: The Concierge

Bronze: The First Slam Dunk

The Dgc Audience Award for Best Canadian Film (Narrative or Documentary)

Satan Wants You – This year’s...

Madonna is collecting her favorite club remixes, as well as some previously unreleased tracks, for a massive new collection, Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones, set to arrive Aug. 19.

The new collection was inspired by Madonna’s Feb. 2020 achievement of notching her 50th Number One on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart with “I Don’t Search I Find.” In doing so, Madonna not only became the first artist to earn at least one Number One song on the Dance Club Songs chart in five separate decades (the Eighties through the...

The 1964 comedy "Bedtime Story" starring Marlon Brando, David Niven, and Shirley Jones is about two conmen with clashing styles that find themselves competing to scam the same wealthy heiress. In 1988 Orion Pictures remade the film as "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" with Steve Martin and Michael Caine. The movie would be made again in 2019 as "The Hustle" starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson, with the gender roles flipped.

Of the three versions, it is perhaps an unrealized vision for the film that might have led to the most memorable of them all. The 1988 pairing of Martin and Caine was brilliant, with Caine's...

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“Lucifer” star Kevin Alejandro is set to lead a limited series adaptation of Katie Rogin’s 2018 novel “Life During Wartime,” TheWrap has learned exclusively.

Alejandro Films Productions, founded by Kevin Alejandro, Leslie Alejandro and Dani de Jesus, and Craig Anderson Productions have jointly secured the rights to Rogin’s book, which follows Jim Vargas, who suffers from Ptsd and survivor’s guilt due to the blame he assumes for his brother’s death on 9/11.

In the 2008 backdrop of the financial crisis, Vargas’ Iraq war veteran niece Nina Vargas goes missing after a nightmare-ish party with other vets. When no one searches for the missing vet he decides to investigate alongside her friend and former army nurse Lise Sheridan.

Kevin Alejandro — who has starred alongside Tom Ellis on “Lucifer” throughout the show’s first five seasons, the most recent of which dropped Friday on Netflix — will star as Vargas.

Rogin’s...

We're kicking off the week with a new edition of Horror Highlights! In today's installment, we have the short film Kissed, an announcement for the Killer Shorts competition, release details and art from The Place We Hide, and the trailer for The Fall:

Watch the Short Film Kissed: "A coroner touches up the new body in the morgue, and adds a few touches of his own. But after taking his obsession one step too far, he must face the grave consequences."

Crew:

Director: Elwood Quincy Walker Producer: Elwood Quincy Walker Writer: Elwood Quincy Walker Director Of Photography: Bennett Barbosa Assistant Camera: Meghan Larson Key Grip: Eden Ashkenazi Grip: William Putty Sound Mixer: Nico Fulton Lavachek Makeup: Little Shop Of Gore - Ryan Ward & Salina Kyle

Cast:

Norman: James Warfield The Body: Aurora Persichett

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Second Annual Killer Shorts Screenplay Competition Announced: "Los Angeles, CA – July 2nd, 2020: Calling all horror writers!

Like mother, like daughter. On Tuesday, Kylie Jenner took to Instagram to reveal her Vogue Czechoslovakia cover alongside 2-year-old daughter, Stormi Webster. And, as the Kylie Cosmetics mogul shared with her 181 million followers, this cover shoot took place at home and was done by fashion photographers Luca and Alessandro Morelli via an iPhone. "New cover with my baby for @vogueczechoslovakia shot at home on my iPhone," the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star wrote. "@morellibrothers #VogueCS" On top of the serene close-up of the mother-daughter duo, the magazine declared it was "Bedtime Story with Kylie Jenner & Stormi." And it seems that Kylie couldn't be happier with...

On Saturday night’s Man Vs Bear, there’s a new time, a marathon, and a candidate named Chrissi from Hackensack, New Jersey who hopes to beat Bart the bear, aka King of the Mountain, in a competition. For the big Man Vs Bear finale on Saturday, the broadcast time has shifted. Man Vs Bear’s finale is now at 1 p.m. Et/Pt […]...

Mike Baxter (Tim Allen) has a problem on Thursday’s “Last Man Standing” — what else is new, right? — one that he can’t sleep on any longer: Vanessa (Nancy Travis) has started snoring and he is incapable of suffering through it. Of course, he does his best to present this issue to his dear wife in the most loving way possible, but she still doesn’t take the news so well.

In TheWrap’s exclusive clip from tomorrow’s episode, Mike comes home after a “taxing” day at work and slowly tries to broach the topic gently by saying, “You’re beautiful, funny and so understanding,” to which she goes, “Mike?”

Fine. “You snore!” he shouts.

“I mean with an extraordinary amount of gusto, I might add.”

Also Read: Ratings: 'Last Man Standing' Makes Fox First-Place Network

Yeah, no Vanessa doesn’t buy it and now she’s...

Sam Raimi has lined up another interesting horror project, as he has set out to turn the short Bedtime Story into a feature-length movie. He will produce the thriller, which was picked up by Js Entertainment and Starlight Media. The original was directed by Lucas Paulino and &#193ngel Torres.

Lucas Paulino and &#193ngel Torres will return to direct the feature-length version of Bedtime Story. The pair wrote the short, which follows two young boys who are terrorized when their mother's haunting late night tale springs to scary life. Sam Raimi will produce alongside Rob Tapert for their Ghost House genre banner. The production is being made under Ghost House's deal with Starlight.

Craig Flores has also joined the thriller as a producer through his Bread & Circuses Entertainment label. Romel Adam is responsible for bringing Bedtime Story to the table, and will continue to oversee everything, working with Zainab Azizi.

Exclusive: Js Entertainment and Starlight Media have picked up the Lucas Paulino and Ángel Torres directed horror short Bedtime Story.

Paulino and Torres are also attached to direct the feature version, which will be produced by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert’s Ghost House, under their production deal with Starlight. Craig Flores will also produce via his Bread & Circuses Entertainment banner. Romel Adam brought the project in and will oversee alongside Zainab Azizi. The producers are out to writers now.

In the short, written by Paulino and Torres, two young brothers, who, after hearing their Mother’s haunting bedtime story, are terrorized when it comes to life.

Paulino and Torres have worked as creatives for such prolific advertising agencies as Bbdo and Saatchi & Saatchi, among others. Their commercial work in Spain includes such brands as Coca-Cola, Renault, Toyota, Powerade, Visa, the International Olympic Committee, Fox, and J&b. In 2014 they founded their own advertising agency,...

The Hustle is a gender-swapped rehash of "buddy films" featuring tricksters who are out to outwit each other and con people of their money. The films that immediately come to your mind are the 1964 released "Bedtime Story" starring David Niven and Marlon Brando, and the 1988 released "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" featuring Michael Caine and Steve Martin.

Director Chris Addison replaces the heroes of the original with women, so here we have Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson playing high-stake fraudsters who swindle naive people. She does so probably, as Hathaway's character puts it, "men can't imagine that a woman is cleverer than they are." And she fails miserably.

Set in the sophisticated but fictional town of Beaumont-sur-Mer, Josephine Chesterfield (Anne Hathaway), a glamorous seductress fleeces gullible wealthy men from all corners of the world. Into her well-ordered, meticulously schemed universe, bursts a small-time trickster Penny Rust (Rebel Wilson) an Australian who is...

Stars: Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson, Alex Sharp, Ingrid Oliver, Emma Davies, Dean Norris, Casper Christensen | Written by Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning, Dale Launer, Jac Schaeffer | Directed by Chris Addison

Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson star as a pair of rival con artists in The Hustle, a remake of 1988′s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (with Michael Caine and Steve Martin), which was itself a remake of 1964′s Bedtime Story, with David Niven and Marlon Brando. That might sound like a tantalising proposition on paper, but the actual film is a profound disappointment with an almost criminal lack of laughs.

Wilson plays low-rent Aussie grifter Penny Rust, whose regular scam involves fleecing gullible men she meets on a dating app. On a train to the South of France, she meets high class con artist Josephine Chesterfield (Hathaway), who immediately schemes to divert Penny from her home turf of Riviera town Beaumont-sur-Mer, on the...

Rebel Wilson produces and stars in The Hustle, the story of two con women who scam the rich for their money in a hilarious and ultimately ingenious fashion. Previous iterations of this story was the 1964 feature Bedtime Story with Marlon Brando and David Niven and 1988’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (starring Steve [...]

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You don’t need immersive technologies like Dolby Cinema, Screen X or 4Dx to feel the effects of The Hustle. After 94 minutes without a single laugh, you’ll definitely feel the pain knowing that you’ve wasted time and money on this dreadful farce. Allegedly a remake of the far superior Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (which itself was a remake of Bedtime Story), the Chris Addison-directed picture credits four screenwriters and yet adds nothing to the original formula nor does it do anything exciting with a well-established genre built on double and triple crosses.

Of the four credited writers, two have passed on years ago, previously credited with Bedtime Story. Dale Launer received credit for this mess as the writer of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. This leaves Jac Schaeffer, the only new writer with a credit to bear the brunt of the shame for a picture that no doubt was conceived...

Chicago – As the “Oceans Eight” remake of last year proved, it is simply not enough to redo a film and flip the gender focus. Anne Hathaway may be the kiss of death for this genre, as she appeared both in O8 and the current “The Hustle,” which in turn is a remake of “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” (1988). Rebel Wilson, doing what Rebel Wilson does, portrays her sidekick.

Rating: 2.0/5.0

Hathaway and Wilson have little chemistry together, but that is the least of sins for “The Hustle.” Not only is the title lazy as hell, but the whole she-bang (ha) is flat and unfunny. It’s been years since I’ve seen the original – which was in itself a remake of the 1964 film “Bedtime Story” – but both those films must have more life than this tepid exercise in dreck. The screenplay credits list four names, a sure tip that the film we’re about to see is lost,...

1988’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels isn’t often cited as the best that 1980s comedy had to offer, but it did have one thing going for it – Steve Martin at his absolute best.

With Michael Caine infusing his successful conman with pomposity and pretentiousness, Martin took the role of Freddy Benson and made it as memorable as any other he performed during his decade at the pinnacle of Hollywood comedy.

Which is why it’s baffling that Chris Addison’s 2019 remake fails to update the script, rather, the movie asks Rebel Wilson to achieve the impossible feat of repeating Martin’s antics and elevating a decent, if somewhat lightweight story to comedy glory.

Wilson plays Penny, a small-time con artist who ‘catfishes’ young men by convincing them they’re going to meet the woman of their dreams. When they meet her instead, should they show the requisite level of disappointment, she...

Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson team up for the terrible new comedy The Hustle. Bewitched and bamboozled, men tend to make fools of themselves around this pair, con artists plying their trade in the French Riviera. Glamorous and cunning Josephine Chesterfield (Hathaway) has a talent for defrauding gullible wealthy men from all corners of the world. The more fun-loving Penny Rust (Wilson) is an Aussie who fleeces her marks in neighborhood bars. Despite their different methods, they team up in France to swindle a naïve tech billionaire (Alex Sharp). Bank accounts are emptied, true love is declared, and common sense left in the gutter.

The Hustle feminizes the perennially male profession of con artists. This might seem like a fresh take if we hadn’t just seen women con artists (including Ms Hathaway!) in Oceans Eight a few months ago. There’s little to keep you entertained here as Hathaway...

Sneak Peek the new comedy feature "The Hustle", directed by Chris Addison as a female-centered remake of the 1988 film "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" which is itself a remake of the 1964 film "Bedtime Story", starring Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson, Alex Sharp and Dean Norris, opening May 10, 2019:

"...two female con artists, the brash and free-wheeling 'Lonnie' (Wilson) and the cunning and cultured 'Josephine' (Hathaway), join forces in the South of France, to fleece men who have wronged women..."

Cast also includes Tim Blake Nelson as 'Portnoy', Ingrid Oliver as 'Inspector Desjardins' and Emma Davies as 'Cathy'.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "The Hustle"...

Riding in on the wave of gender-swapped remakes, The Hustle is a comedy whose timing is late in every sense of the word. Based on the 1988 film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which is itself a remake of 1964 Bedtime Story, The Hustle attempts to reboot the story of two wildly different con artists for the […]

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There is a smart movie nestled somewhere in director Chris Addison’s romp, “The Hustle,” but you have to weed through a whole lot of foolery to get to it. The new film is ripe for big laughs with Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson as, respectively, the snobby British bombshell with sticky fingers and the rough-around-the-edges though equally cunning con artist, but neither actress is given rich enough material to bring the film’s most interesting ideas to the finish line.

Hollywood has had a growing fascination with the female swindler, often to confront a larger issue of sexism and lack of female agency. And for about the first 20 minutes of “The Hustle,” it looks like screenwriter Jac Schaeffer — sharing credit with her antecedents, the creators of 1964’s “Bedtime Story,” Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning, as well as Dale Launer, who wrote that film’s 1988 remake, “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” — is...

“The Hustle” is a rivals-in-crime feminista scam comedy set on the French Riviera, with Anne Hathaway as a drop-dead-elegant British seductress-grifter who fleeces wealthy suckers the way they deserve to be fleeced, and Rebel Wilson as a disheveled vulgarian who’s just as shrewd an operator (she works the same trickery on a more low-rent breed of men). The movie is a remake of “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” (1988), which was a remake of “Bedtime Story” (1964). And this trio of light-fingered films, each made decades apart, adds up to a peculiar footnote in the history of Hollywood con-artist deviltry.

Each film comes with a movie-star pairing that sounds, on paper, like wild-meets-debonair perfection: Marlon Brando and David Niven in “Bedtime Story,” Steve Martin and Michael Caine in “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” and now Wilson and Hathaway in “The Hustle.” Each film is a stylized confection of drawing-room class tension, airy sight gags, and...

They say it’s all in the timing, especially when it comes to funny business. But in The Hustle everyone’s inner comedic clock is calamitously off. The setups are flat, the jokes don’t land and the actors don’t — or won’t — connect. How does this happen in a movie that stars Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson, two proven experts at the art of farce? Oscar winner Hathaway stole the show from her A-list costars in Ocean’s 8. And Wilson, best known as Fat Amy in the Pitch Perfect franchise,...

With “Avengers: Endgame” well on its way to passing “Avatar” as the biggest box-office hit ever, Disney’s already firm grip on the box office has squeezed even tighter. Now it’s time to find out if the rest of Hollywood can find its own success this summer against the growing media behemoth, starting this weekend with Warner Bros./Legendary’s “Detective Pikachu.”

Movies based on video games have generally had a reputation for poor reviews and, aside from a few exceptions like “Resident Evil,” weak numbers at the box office. But “Detective Pikachu,” the first live-action film based on “Pokemon,” could buck that trend. Trailers for the film have built incredible social-media buzz thanks to the film’s CGI interpretations of various beloved Pokemon, as well as Ryan Reynolds’ voice performance as the electric mouse sleuth. Reviews have also been positive with a 71% Rotten Tomatoes score.

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Anne Hathaway explained why her character in The Hustle speaks with a British accent when she visited Good Morning America on Tuesday.

The comedy film follows two women (Hathaway and Rebel Wilson) who seek revenge against men who have tricked them in the past. The Hustle is a remake of the 1964 film Bedtime Story and 1988 film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Hathaway speaks with a British accent in the film, though she revealed that she was originally against the idea.

"Against my will, my character is British," she said. "I didn't want to do it. I just thought, '...

Anne Hathaway explained why her character in The Hustle speaks with a British accent when she visited Good Morning America on Tuesday.

The comedy film follows two women (Hathaway and Rebel Wilson) who seek revenge against men who have tricked them in the past. The Hustle is a remake of the 1964 film Bedtime Story and 1988 film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Hathaway speaks with a British accent in the film, though she revealed that she was originally against the idea.

"Against my will, my character is British," she said. "I didn't want to do it. I just thought, '...

In the new trailer for The Hustle, Anne Hathaway adopts a posh British accent to play an experienced scam artist who takes Rebel Wilson under her very glamorous wing so they can scam a billionaire together - so, yeah, we're definitely seeing this.

The hilarious buddy comedy - which was originally titled Nasty Women and is a gender-swapped version of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - was directed by Chris Addison and focuses on seeing Wilson and Hathaway's characters taking down the men who have wronged them. Previously, the roles were played by Steve Martin and Michael Caine in the 1988 crime comedy. Fortunately, the latest iteration of the caper promises stunning views of mansions, diamonds, Hathaway's extensive collection of gowns, and plenty of physical comedy from Wilson.

Tim Blake Nelson, Alex Sharp, Ingrid Oliver, and Emma Davies also star in the film, which will hit theaters on May 10.

Trailer 1:...

MGM released a new trailer for The Hustle, a comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson as scam artists teaming up to take revenge on the men who’ve wronged them. The film is a gender-bent remake of 1988’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Steve Martin and Michael Caine, itself a remake of the 1964 Marlon Brando/David Niven comedy Bedtime Story.

As seen in the Avengers-parodying teaser, Hathaway plays a posh Englishwoman alongside Wilson’s raunchier, low-class character. In classic buddy-comedy fashion, plenty of hijinks ensue around the characters’ differences, and...

Rebel Wilson fought the MPAA for The Hustle's PG-13 rating. The upcoming comedy is another take on 1988's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which was a remake of the 1964 comedy Bedtime Story. In the original movies, two male scam artists are trying to manipulate rich women out of their money. The Hustle takes the same premise and flips it, making Wilson and co-star Anne Hathaway the scam artists as they go after the money of rich men. So far, the trailer has been getting positive responses from moviegoers.

After going through the ratings process, the MPAA gave The Hustle an R-rating. However, Rebel Wilson did not believe the comedy deserved the rating, which she called "rude" in a recent interview. Since she was a producer on the movie and had so much invested in it, she decided to go into the arbitration hearing and fight for a PG-13 rating. Wilson has...

From lady “Ghostbusters” to talk of a female James Bond, Hollywood has taken a shine to remaking classic movies or TV shows with gender-swapped leads as a way of mixing up a tried and true formula. But the trend dates back farther than to just the last few years. The latest example of this is “What Men Want” opening Friday, which swaps out Mel Gibson for Taraji P. Henson. But here are some other movies that looked to remake something old with not just a fresh face but from an entirely different point of view.

“His Girl Friday” (1940)

Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell move a mile a minute and have a natural chemistry as reporters Walter Burns and Hildy Johnson in Howard Hawks’s screwball comedy classic “His Girl Friday.” But missing from its source material, both the play and the movie “The Front Page” by playwright Ben Hecht, is...

MGM has released the first trailer for the upcoming comedy The Hustle, which is a gender-swapped remake of the 1988 film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which itself was a remake of a 1964 film called Bedtime Story. This new iteration hails from director Chris Addison (Veep) and stars Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson as a pair of con artists who team up to take on the men who have wronged them. Hathaway’s character is a refined pro, whereas Wilson’s character is a scrappy street con artist. Hathaway’s character then takes it upon herself to teach Wilson’s …...

Anne Hathway helps Rebel Wilson master the art of the perfect con in the new trailer for The Hustle, set to arrive May 10th.

In the film, Hathaway plays a high-class scammer who takes Wilson, a small-time crook, under her wing and teaches her how to properly fleece wealthy men. In the clip, Hathaway’s character shows Wilson everything from the deadly art of knife throwing to the practiced craft of fake crying, especially how to get a lone tear to roll perfectly down her cheek.

Eventually the pair team...

Instead of touting itself as a female remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which hasn't really worked for some of the redos in recent past, MGM has simply changed the title to The Hustle, hoping to avoid the fan outrage that plagued Ghostbusters 2016 and Ocean's 8. Today, we get the first trailer and poster, and obviously, the title itself is a bit of a hustle cause, yes, this is descriptively a direct remake, though told with a twist.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was itself a remake, and also got a title change. Everything starts with the 1964 movie Bedtime Story, starring Marlon Brando and David Nevin. Then it was Steve Marin and Michael Caine who more famously took on the con. Now it's Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson scamming their way into our hearts. And whoever is at the forefront of this deceptive tale, it still appears to be as funny as it ever was.

Pirates of the Caribbean star Orlando Bloom is the latest A-list actor to sign up to read a children’s bedtime story for the BBC.

Bloom, who is set to star in Amazon’s Carnival Row next year, will read We Are Together, written and illustrated by Britta Teckentrup, as part of CBeebies’ Bedtime Story strand. The story celebrates the importance of having special friends and family in your life. It will air on the kids’ channel on November 9 and is the first of two that he has recorded for the station.

He joins stars including Ewan McGregor, Ton Hardy, Chris Evans, Dolly Parton, Sir Elton John, Eddie Redmayne and David Tennant in reading books to kids.

Bloom said, “Through my travels as a Unicef Goodwill Ambassador I’ve met children in countries all over the world, and witnessed firsthand how storytelling between adults and young children helps cement their bond.

The Incredibles 2 is getting not one, but two different tie-in comics from Dark Horse this year. It's been 14 years since Disney and Pixar unleashed The Incredibles on the world, and perhaps no movie in the studio's history has been so deserving of a sequel. That sequel is coming this summer in the form of Incredibles 2, which arrives in theaters on June 15. But that's not all, as fans will also have two different comic books to dig into that further explore Pixar's superpowered family.

Dark Horse Comics is behind both of the upcoming Incredibles 2 tie-in comics. Since Disney owns Marvel Comics, it seems a little surprising that they're not handling these comics, but it's Dark Horse that's bringing us these additional Incredibles stories later this year. Dark Horse was in charge of publishing the Star Wars comics until Disney purchased Lucasfilm and decided the property would be heading back to Marvel.

Rebel Wilson has been attached to the all-female reboot of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels since 2016, back when the movie was called Nasty Women. Anne Hathaway signed on in January of 2017 and now we have a new title and an official release date from Wilson, along with a first look sneak peek. Much like the 1988 movie, which is a remake of the 1964 movie Bedtime Story, Rebel Wilson and Anne Hathaway will play two con artists in a competition to swindle a member of the opposite sex out of money.

Rebel Wilson, seen in the first look image standing with Anne Hathaway, took to social media today to announce that the official title of their Dirty Rotten Scoundrels reboot is The Hustle, which is not to be confused with the 1975 or the 2008 movies of the same name. Wilson also announced that the movie will come out on June 29th of this year, which...

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There’s arguably no more important television than children’s television. Sure, you could be one of those parents who doesn’t let their child anywhere near a screen – but chances are, if you’re the kind of person to read Den of Geek, the idea of doing so would utterly horrify you.

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Besides, children can learn so much from watching television – not as a substitute for actual parenting or schooling, of course, but as an addition to it. It can be damaging to rely solely on it, to park them in front of it for several hours a day – but in healthy doses,...

While “The Princess Bride” seems like the kind of movie that couldn’t get made now, it’s a miracle it got made back then. It took nearly two decades for William Goldman‘s 1973 novel (which is pretty damn great on its own) to find its way to the big screen, but when it finally did, the mix of ingredients was absolutely perfect.

Directed by Rob Reiner, and featuring a terrific ensemble cast — Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Andre The Giant, Christopher Guest, Peter Falk, Fred Savage — who couldn’t be better, the meta and arch bedtime story is endlessly hilarious, charming, and romantic.

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Baby Luna's got it handled!

Chrissy Teigen took to Instagram on Friday to share an adorable new pic of her 1-year-old daughter taking a very important phone call.

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Teien and her family recently returned from a family vacation in Bali -- and Luna couldn't look happier to be back in the Big Apple!

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Aww, isn’t Cthulhu just adorable? He may be a gigantic god of death, but he won’t be giving anybody nightmares in the beautiful new children’s book Sweet Dreams Cthulhu. Jason Ciaramella and Greg Murphy previously bought us the charming alphabet… Continue Reading →

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2017-04-24T14:09:21-07:00Chris Evans to Read Bedtime Story for KidsCaptain America star Chris Evans is following in the footsteps of Tom Hardy and has signed up to read a bedtime story on CBeebies. Hardy has been a massive hit with parents watching with their children. Evans said he was "honoured" to be the next guest on "such a special show". "I hope families have as much fun watching as I had reading," he said. The Avengers actor will read Even Superheroes Have Bad Days. The book by Shelly Becker and Eda Kaban shows children how to cope when they are feeling overwhelmed by their feelings. Evans will tell the tale of how they can channel their energies like superheroes. Read the rest of this article at BBC. Chris Evans has starred in Captain America and The Avengers, as well as in a few non-superhero films.

The Thick Of It’s Chris Addison won over American viewers from behind the camera as a director on Veep. Now Variety reports he’s branching out into feature films, beginning with that Dirty Rotten Scoundrels remake we’ve already heard so much about. The new film has swapped the masculine rivalry of the original, which starred Steve Martin and Michael Caine, for the oneupswomanship of Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson. And to really drive home the gender-swapped angle, the remake of a remake (Marlon Brando and David Niven played the O.G. swindlers in “Bedtime Story”) has been titled Nasty Women. Hathaway and Wilson will play the central grifting duo—one posh, one not. They’ll compete to hoodwink some “naïve tech prodigy,” a role that has Zach Woods written all over it. Relatively untested scribe Jac Schaeffer is writing the film for MGM, but there’s currently no...