The official teaser trailer for "Being the Ricardos" is out now. The first look at the upcoming Aaron Sorkin-directed film, starring Nicole Kidman as Lucille Ball and Javier Bardem as Desi Arnaz, was released on Tuesday. MORE: Nicole Kidman on the challenges of playing TV icon Lucille Ball Amazon Studios' description of the upcoming film about the famous "I Love Lucy" couple reads: "A revealing glimpse of the couple’s complex romantic and professional relationship, the film takes audiences into the writers’ room, onto the soundstage and behind closed doors with Ball and Arnaz during one critical production week of their groundbreaking sitcom “I Love Lucy.'" The teaser features a voiceover from Kidman as Ball, sharing, "I get paid a fortune to do exactly what I love doing. I work side-by-side with my husband, who is genuinely impressed by me." "And all I have to do to keep it is kill for 36 weeks in a row and then do it again the next year," she continues. …
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Producers finance film selling NFTs; paper Maps popular despite GPS
CryptoCorner Two producers are raising startup money for their first movie with an online Bitcoin campaign. The team hopes to cover all expenses and maybe make a little seed money for their next project by selling NFTs based on their feature film, The Underground Sistine Chapel . The 80-minute film is scheduled to open June 25 at the Grand Rex in Paris, after which the producers will make it available for free on Youtube and the InterPlanetary File System, a peer-to-peer network. "We stay very down to earth, and we only think about one thing: Deliver this movie to everyone, and start working on the next one," co-director Antoine Breuil told Newsweek from Paris. The movie follows the efforts of Pascal Boyart, known in the art world as Pboy, and a team of volunteers to turn an abandoned foundry in a run-down area near Paris into a contemporary Sistine Chapel. The movie and the art it highlights were funded by volunteers using non-traditional means and cryptocurrency. …
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Jason Momoa says Denis Villeneuve was “nervous” asking him to shave his beard for “Dune”
Jason Momoa parted with his signature look for a role in the upcoming sci-fi epic Dune . The Hawaiian actor was asked by director Denis Villeneuve to shave his beard to play fan-favorite Duncan Idaho in the movie, which comes out in theaters and on HBO Max on Thursday October 21, 2021. Momoa stars in Dune alongside the likes of Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Oscar Isaac, Dave Bautista and more. With a look that's became synonymous with his roles including Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones , Arthur Curry in Aquaman and Baba Voss in See , even the director of Dune seemed a little hesitant to mess with it, according to Momoa. He told Newsweek : "That's one of the first things Denis asked me. I think he felt a little nervous asking me that. But it just felt like, no one's ever asked me to do that." Fortunately for Villeneuve, he was able to get Momoa on board for his interpretation of the character Duncan Idaho. "He was like 'I see Duncan …