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While some actors take on many roles out of passion for their craft, others occasionally accept projects simply as part of the job. Hugo Weaving, known for playing some of the most unforgettable characters in Hollywood, has always been praised for bringing power and depth to his performances.

His intense screen presence and deep voice have made him a natural fit for playing villains. That is exactly why he was chosen to voice Megatron in Michael Bay’s Transformers films.

Hugo Weaving as Red Skull | Credits: Marvel Studios

Fans loved his portrayal of the Decepticon leader, believing that his menacing voice gave the character a unique presence. However, Weaving himself felt very differently about the role.

Was Hugo Weaving really uninterested in playing Megatron?

Hugo Weaving is well known for playing some of the most iconic characters in film history. He has brought to life unforgettable roles like Agent Smith...

Hugo Weaving created waves at the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) in Goa, where he shared exciting news about his upcoming projects and reflected on his successful career.

Weaving has revealed that he will return to the spy drama “Slow Horses” for its fifth season, with filming slated to begin in London in January. The two-and-a-half-month shoot will maintain the series’ tradition of adapting Mick Herron’s novels while taking creative liberties. “Each season generally follows a book, but deviates a little,” Weaving revealed.

The actor also teased a possible sequel to the 1994 cult favorite “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.” Ongoing conversations with filmmaker Stephan Elliott have resulted in many script revisions. Weaving speculates that the movie may move forward next year.

At the festival, Weaving promoted “The Rooster,” an Australian thriller directed by Mark Leonard Winter. Weaving stars in the film as a hermit with...

Speaking at the International Film Festival of India in Goa, Hugo Weaving revealed he will reprise his role as Frank Harkness in Season 6 of “Slow Horses,” returning to London in January for a two-and-a-half month shoot.

“Each season generally is a book, but also each season departs a little bit from those books,” Weaving said. “We’re getting to the point with ‘Slow Horses’ where the seasons are catching up to the amount of books that [Mick] Herron has written.”

The actor also provided an update on the developing sequel to 1994’s “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.” “I was texting the director [Stephan Elliott] this morning. I’ve got another script to read. I’ve read about five drafts,” Weaving said. “It’s slowly getting closer to perhaps happening next year. Still lots of things to finalize, but it’s looking promising.”

While Weaving is globally recognized for “The Matrix” franchise,...

The biography is titled "Guts amidst Bloodbath", referring to an occurrence that many cricketers had to face to play the game in the past. "Stand up and be a man" was a comforting retort when one got hit by the hard red cherry, the cricket ball.

India’s first Test captain, C.K.Nayudu, had a few of his teeth broken by a fast delivery while batting in an important match and after gargling, he continued to play his innings. He was an Army man, who believed in never giving in even an inch to his opponents or showing discomfort. This was considered to be the epitome of behaviour that one displayed if one wanted to play the game.

Similarly, Aunshuman Gaekwad, when hit by a short delivery off Michael Holding directly on his ear while batting on 81 runs at Kingston, Jamaica in 1976, was coaxed to retire hurt, even though...

Mumbai, May 19 (Ians) With six former India cricket captains gracing the occasion, ‘Guts Amidst Bloodbath’, a semi-autobiographical book by former Indian Test cricketer, Anshuman Gaekwad was released at the Cricket Club of India (Cci) here on Friday.

India’s pride Sachin Tendulkar, Gundapa Vishwanath, Sunil Gavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Ravi Shastri and Kapil Dev all recalled choicest anecdotes voicing their unstinted praise for Gaekwad.

Bcci President Roger Binny, Yajurvindra Singh, Karsan Ghavri, Zaheer Khan, Abey Kuruvilla, and Nayan Mongia also showed up to mark the occasion. Publisher and Editor Sachin Bajaj, founder of Global Cricket School and Aditya Bhushan who penned the book, also graced the dais.

Addressing the gathering on the occasion, batting legend Sunil Gavaskar commended his former opening partner for his bravery and spoke about accompanying him to the hospital after he was hit by a bouncer during the West Indies tour in 1976.

Sachin Tendulkar testified to Anshuman...

Films which centre around team sports have long been a staple of popular cinema. Often the sport in question is an integral part of the story being told, these films making good use of a sporting event as a way to actualise the drama. Escape to Victory is a strange and wonderful example of this, with its well known (and slightly ridiculous) football game which closes the film. Over the years we’ve seen films such as Raging Bull, The Color of Money and A League of Their Own all using the inherent passion and spectacle to their narrative advantage.

As can be seen in some of those examples already mentioned, real life has inspired many a sporting cinematic outing, with Fighting with My Family, the magnificent I, Tonya, Ron Howard’s Rush and Michael Mann’s Ali being fairly recent examples of this. We are fixated by the people behind the achievement,...

We've come a long way since Bodyline. While this staid period miniseries was a huge success for George Miller and Australian television, it didn't exactly launch cricket as a genre we started seeing more on screens - whether as a backdrop to drama or as the backbone of an inspirational sports story in the vein of what Hollywood does so well. Almost two decades later and this is starting to change, and in a major way. A few years ago we had the silly I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer, which took the sport of cricket and thrust it headlong into horror-comedy territory. It was a largely mindless comedy which, like Black Sheep, took every cliche and pun about its central topic and mined it for comedy. But...

In a keynote address to the Australian International Movie Convention, News Limited CEO Kim Williams argued that download films, TV shows or music without paying for it is no better than looting

My subject today is copyright. It’s a topic as potentially dry as a pub with no beer. Its mere mention makes you think of lawyers. And fees. And trademarks. And fine print. So let’s put that all aside for a moment and talk about what copyright is really about. Let’s cut right to the chase. Copyright is about enabling the production of great art and great commercial work – hopefully both. It’s about nurturing the creative process. It’s about supporting business cases and employment. About getting the noblest imaginings of the human mind and human emotions into a form that the whole world can see and share.

If you want to know why you should care about copyright,...