Groundbreaking artificial intelligence technology used to de-age actors in real-time will be featured in a new Tom Hanks and Robin Wright film directed by Robert Zemeckis, which takes place in a single room over thousands of years.
Metaphysic, the AI-tech-based company, announced Tuesday to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/metaphysic-ai-tom-hanks-robin-wright-deaged-robert-zemeckis-caa-1235313318/">The Hollywood Reporter</a> that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Creative Artist Agency (CAA) to develop generative AI tools and services for talent, which would first be featured in a Richard McGuire graphic novel adaption titled &#8220;Here.&#8221;
&#8220;With the support of CAA and by working on projects like Here, Metaphysic is demonstrating the transformative power of hyperreal AI to shape the future of entertainment and to eventually help people create AI-generated, photorealistic immersive content while they own and control their data,&#8221; Tom Graham, Metaphysic CEO and co-founder, told the entertainment news outlet.
The film takes place in one room and follows many of its inhabitants over thousands of years, from the past to the future.
Graham and Metaphysic co-founder Chris Ume, ​​who will serve as AI supervisor, shocked audiences around the world last year after debuting the high-resolution photorealistic face swaps and de-aging effects technology on America&#8217;s Got Talent, which featured a deepfake of the show&#8217;s host Simon Cowell performing &#8220;You&#8217;re the Inspiration.&#8221;
The company first went viral in 2021 after turning actor Miles Fisher into superstar Tom Cruise using an AI avatar called DeepTomCruise on a TikTok channel.
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Zemeckis told The Hollywood Reporter that using technology to help tell stories has always attracted him.
&#8220;With Here, the film simply wouldn&#8217;t work without our actors seamlessly transforming into younger versions of themselves. Metaphysic&#8217;s AI tools do exactly that, in ways that were previously impossible,&#8221; Zemeckis said. &#8220;Having tested every flavor of face replacement and de-aging technology available today, Metaphysic are clearly the global leaders in feature-quality AI content and the perfect choice for this incredibly challenging, emotional film.&#8221;
Visual effects supervisor for the production Kevin Baillie told the entertainment news outlet AI-technology also serves as a &#8220;youth mirror&#8221; for the actors, which allows the artists to test acting choices for a younger version of themselves in real-time. &#8220;It is incredible to see Metaphysic&#8217;s AI-generated content flawlessly integrated into a shot live on set,&#8221; Baillie said.
Joanna Popper, chief metaverse officer at CAA, told The Hollywood Reporter the agency looks forward to working with Metaphysic, as its tech &#8220;combined with their ethics-first approach and thought leadership&#8221; could &#8220;unlock an incredible opportunity for the entertainment industry and beyond.&#8221;
Making an actor look younger through visual effects has been used in the past but continues to emerge in Hollywood in recent years.
De-aging technology first appeared on the scene in 2006 with X-Men: The Last Stand, where Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan appeared as younger versions of themselves, Yahoo <a href="https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/tom-hanks-robin-wright-reunite-forrest-gump-170243387.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJQi-tsjdSx7R22x2jxh_iqzLtNnkT-s4q55f73Ao7scpOGKsDtjhzxuP6pgcWlVdZNE9w22kEBa84VqvspA4RVw42Govhd28xXZ-jB9YCri0Nv6FlfXv3eaWBtgiWtqiL7m73styBZ3va_QPZmgDaVQUhEQ_RXTZueyvPXPTsvI">reported</a>.
Critically acclaimed director Martin Scorsese used the technology in 2020 for &#8220;The Irishman,&#8221; which de-aged the entire cast of Hollywood legends Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci.
Disney announced last year the company developed artificial intelligence tools that can de-age actors with just one click in post-production.
Creators of the new &#8220;Indiana Jones&#8221; installment will also showcase a young Harrison Ford in a flashback sequence in the upcoming movie &#8220;Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.&#8221;
Metaphysic creators are set to move the new generative AI-driven cameras to de-age actors Hanks and Penn as they team up again with Zemeckis, who all originally worked on the 1994 classic &#8220;Forrest Gump.&#8221;
&#8220;Here&#8221; is set to release in the U.S. by Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2024.

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Tom Hanks spilled the details on the Christmas gift he said he gets every year from superstar Tom Cruise and said both his family and entire staff looks for it to arrive in the mail starting after Thanksgiving.
During the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tom-hanks">66-year-old</a> actor&#8217;s recent appearance on the YouTube show &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxSyov0Hjz8">Mythical Kitchen</a>.&#8221; the superstar actor revealed to the host that the gift from the &#8220;Top Gun&#8221; star would be part of his ultimate &#8220;last meal.&#8221;
&#8220;And my last meal would be challah bread French toast with Carey&#8217;s sugar free syrup, an In-N-Out double double with a Diet Coke,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-hanks-says-hes-made-only-four-pretty-good-movies-during-his-entire-career">Hanks</a> explained as he went on listing several other items before sharing that he would top it all off with a white chocolate coconut bundt cake.
&#8220;This cake is so great,&#8221; he added. &#8220;You can really only have it once a year. Which works out perfectly because I don&#8217;t order it. It arrives as a gift at Christmas.&#8221;
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&#8220;Now, I&#8217;m gonna drop a name now, and I don&#8217;t want you to go berserk, but this is a big name,&#8221; Hanks continued. &#8220;Not everybody gets this white chocolate coconut bundt cake. This is a Christmas gift that we get every year from Tom Cruise.&#8221;
The &#8220;Forrest Gump&#8221; star said he&#8217;s not the only one who eagerly waits for the cake to arrive, but the entire staff at his production studio does as well.
&#8220;Now, what&#8217;s interesting is the folks now at the office, the Playtone World headquarters around, starting about Thanksgiving, they start eyeing the, you know, &#8216;what mail has come in today,'&#8221; the superstar actor shared. &#8220;You know, &#8216;is the big box coming in&#8217;? Are we getting what is essentially being called the Tom Cruise cake? Because this is just off the scale, fantastic.&#8221;
The &#8220;Cast Away&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-didnt-let-tim-allen-tom-hanks-says-he-didnt-understand-why-chris-evans-replaced-allen-as-buzz-for-lightyear">star</a> said the staffers start out with big slices of the cake after it arrives, but over time the slices get smaller and smaller as everyone tries to make the cake last as long as possible.
&#8220;As time goes by, we realize these, the days are numbered on the survival of this cake,&#8221; Hanks shared. &#8220;So everybody starts slicing thinner and thinner slices, you know, and it&#8217;s a mathematical proof that you just keep cutting everything in half. You will never run out of Tom Cruise cake.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rita-wilson-says-slowing-down-her-movie-career-to-raise-her-kids-wasnt-a-sacrifice-but-a-choice">Rita Wilson Says &#8216;Slowing Down&#8217; Her Movie Career To Raise Her Kids Wasn&#8217;t &#8216;A Sacrifice&#8217; &#8216;But A Choice&#8217;</a>

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Legendary actor Tom Hanks stood up for &#8220;nepo babies&#8221; in a recent interview, arguing that it wasn&#8217;t nepotism so much as the fact that the Hollywood film industry, like any other industry, had the potential to be a &#8220;family business&#8221; of sorts.
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/watch-new-yorkers-find-out-exactly-what-it-takes-to-make-tom-hanks-cuss-in-public/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hanks</a> made the comments during an <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/tom-hanks-nepotism-debate-family-business-1235292066/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with The Sun while promoting his latest film, &#8220;A Man Called Otto,&#8221; which features his son Truman playing a younger version of Hanks&#8217; titular character.
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The actor has four children — son Colin and daughter Elizabeth from his first marriage to actress Samantha Lewes, and sons Chet and Truman with current wife, actress <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/rita-wilson-says-slowing-down-her-movie-career-to-raise-her-kids-wasnt-a-sacrifice-but-a-choice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rita Wilson</a>. All four, he says, are involved in creative arts in some way.
&#8220;Look this is a family business. This is what we’ve been doing forever. It’s what all of our kids grew up in,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If we were a plumbing supply business or if we ran the florist shop down the street, the whole family would be putting in time at some point, even if it was just inventory at the end of the year.&#8221;
The Oscar-winning actor went on to argue that, just as in any other business, it was the quality of the work that would ultimately determine success in the field.
&#8220;The thing that doesn’t change no matter what happens, no matter what your last name is, is whether it works or not. That’s the issue anytime any of us go off and try to tell a fresh story or create something that has a beginning and a middle and an end. Doesn’t matter what our last names are. We have to do the work in order to make that a true and authentic experience for the audience,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That’s a much bigger task than worrying about whether anybody’s going to try to scathe us or not.&#8221;
Hanks&#8217; comments align fairly closely with actress <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/nepo-babies-jamie-lee-curtis-kate-hudson-fight-back-i-dont-care-where-you-come-from/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kate Hudson&#8217;s</a> assessment on the topic. Hudson was raised by her mother, actress Goldie Hawn, and stepfather Kurt Russell — and she said there was definitely a creative streak that ran through her family.
&#8220;It’s definitely in our blood. People can call it whatever they want, but it’s not going to change it,&#8221; she said. And at the end of the day, she argued that it all came down to who was willing to put in the work. &#8220;I don’t care where you come from, or what your relationship to the business is … if you work hard and you kill it.

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Hollywood star Rita Wilson said she wouldn&#8217;t call &#8220;slowing down&#8221; her movie career to raise her and actor Tom Hanks&#8217; children &#8220;a sacrifice&#8221; and said it&#8217;s more of &#8220;a choice&#8221; to be there at home for them.
In a wide-ranging interview for <a href="https://people.com/music/rita-wilson-says-slowing-down-career-when-kids-were-young-wasnt-sacrifice-but-choice/">People</a> magazine, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rita-wilson">66-year-old</a> actress talked about stepping away from the spotlight to raise her and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-hanks-says-hes-made-only-four-pretty-good-movies-during-his-entire-career">Hanks&#8217;</a> two kids and be there for her two stepkids from her husband&#8217;s earlier marriage as well.
&#8220;I slowed down my work because I really wanted to be the mom that was there when they got home, drove the carpool and did all those things,&#8221; Wilson explained.
&#8220;Tom was also working a lot, so we would travel with him,&#8221; she added. &#8220;If both of us were working and not home, my kids would have been affected. I wouldn&#8217;t call slowing down my career a sacrifice, I would call it a choice.&#8221;
Wilson started working in Hollywood at the age of 16 when she landed a role on the TV show &#8220;The Brady Bunch.&#8221; She later appeared on such shows as &#8220;Three&#8217;s Company&#8221; and &#8220;Bosom Buddies&#8221; before she made it to the big screen.
She&#8217;s probably best known for her roles in movies like &#8220;Sleepless in Seattle&#8221; and &#8220;That Thing You Do.&#8221; But as Hanks&#8217; career took off, she said one of them needed to be home. Rita said she feels no regrets about her choice and noted that the two have always been supportive of each other.
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&#8220;Tom and I have always been supportive of each other and what we do,&#8221; Wilson shared. &#8220;I remember doing press junkets back in the day, and interviewers would say to me, &#8216;Gosh, it must be so difficult to be with someone so famous.&#8217; I would think, &#8216;Why are they saying that?&#8217; Then I realized that the question was more about them and how they would feel in that situation than me.&#8221;
&#8220;If you have someone who is happy for your success, and you&#8217;re happy for their success, that&#8217;s not even an issue that comes up,&#8221; she added. &#8220;You know about schadenfreude, when you&#8217;re happy for someone&#8217;s failure? Well, there&#8217;s another concept called freudenfreude, which is when you&#8217;re happy for someone&#8217;s success. I live in the freudenfreude. Somebody else&#8217;s success does not diminish my own.&#8221;
Rita and Hanks have been married for more than 30 years.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-allen">Tim Allen</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tom-hanks">Tom Hanks</a> may have opposite political views, but that didn’t stop these two actors from cultivating a very close <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">friendship</a> that’s lasted for years.
Allen recently described his close relationship with Hanks, who was his co-star in the popular <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/disney">Disney</a> franchise “Toy Story.” The duo played enemies turned friends in the movies, with Allen voicing Buzz Lightyear and Hanks voicing Woody.
 “I don’t think I’ve ever trusted a human being as much as Tom to listen to me and vice versa,” the “Last Man Standing” star said of Hanks during an appearance on the “Kelly Clarkson Show” podcast. 
“Tom and I really became close friends from ‘Toy Story 1,” Allen continued. &#8220;He’s a very different person than me and he eats off my plate. I come from a family, you don’t do that.”
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Allen illustrated his point by recalling one time he was out to eat with Hanks and the actor stole some french fries off his plate without permission. 
Besides that specific breach of boundaries, Allen described their lunch dates as “most peculiar.” The pair began dining together while filming “Toy Story” and have kept it up ever since. 
“We’re like two older women ’cause we will sit almost too close to each other at a booth, it’s just weird,” the “Home Improvement” alum explained.
“He and I differ on so many things, I adore that man, his heart and mind,” Allen continued, reiterating that while he and Hanks have “very different opinions on so many things,” his friendship has convinced Allen that Hanks is “a really wonderful engaging person and is the first guy that listens to me and doesn’t judge.”
While Allen is fond of Hanks, whose actions include an endorsement for Barack Obama for president, he’s not overly enamored with leftists as a whole. The 69-year-old actor created a controversy on social media last month when he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-allen-trolls-wokees-asks-the-question-everyone-is-wondering-about-this-group">tweeted</a>, “Do wokees have a club house in someone’s backyard or maybe a cute yet safe playpen somewhere?”
Over the summer, he jokingly shared, “Took some kids to Disneyland and overheard a 13 year old boy wondering if he may be pansexual since he loves skillets.”
More recently, Allen was called out by critics for reprising his role in the “Santa Clauses” miniseries on Disney+ and turning him into a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/critics-mad-about-tim-allens-right-wing-santa-in-the-santa-clauses-miniseries-on-disney">so-called</a> “right-wing Santa.” They were especially annoyed over the line, ’Saying ‘Merry Christmas to all’ has suddenly become problematic,” which he says in the series.
(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/introducing-dw-kids">announced plans</a> for kids entertainment content.)

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Tom Hanks definitely got everyone&#8217;s attention when he said he&#8217;s made &#8220;a ton&#8221; of films during his career but only called four of them &#8220;pretty good.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tom-hanks">66-year-old</a> actor made the shocking comment in a discussion about his upcoming novel titled, &#8220;The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece,&#8221; due out in 2023, <a href="https://people.com/movies/tom-hanks-reveals-cover-and-plot-details-of-new-novel-exclusive/">People magazine</a> noted.
&#8220;The source for a movie can go back as many years as are in history,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-didnt-let-tim-allen-tom-hanks-says-he-didnt-understand-why-chris-evans-replaced-allen-as-buzz-for-lightyear">Hanks</a> explained. &#8220;A story turns on a single moment in the life of someone, then all the anecdotes of the current day magnify that moment. Going back to 1947 makes sense, as would have starting in, say, 1559. Human yearning has proven to be timeless.&#8221;
&#8220;No one knows how a movie is made — though everyone thinks they do,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I&#8217;ve made a ton of movies (and four of them are pretty good, I think) and I&#8217;m still amazed at how films come together. From a flicker of an idea to the flickering image onscreen, the whole process is a miracle.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000158/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0#actor">IMDb,</a> the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/beyond-that-now-tom-hanks-says-fans-wouldnt-accept-him-playing-gay-man-in-philadelphia-now">actor</a> has 94 credits to his name, with his career on the big screen starting in 1983 with &#8220;Splash.&#8221;
It is hard to imagine which four of the nearly 100 movies he&#8217;s been part of he&#8217;s calling &#8220;pretty good.&#8221;
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The &#8220;Toy Story&#8221; star discussed details of his upcoming book with People, saying, &#8220;every character in the book does something I&#8217;ve experienced while making a movie, as well as discovered a philosophy or learned an important lesson.&#8221;
&#8220;Even the foolish moments are some kind of stunt I&#8217;ve pulled or mistake I&#8217;ve survived,&#8221; he added.
Hanks&#8217;s book will deal with the entertainment industry and the making of a &#8220;colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film and the humble comic book that inspired it,&#8221; per an official synopsis.
He said that he hopes it &#8220;captures as much of &#8216;the accidental judgements and casual slaughter&#8217; that go into a motion pictures dictum to hold &#8216;a mirror up to nature&#8217; that I have witnessed (and caused) since I joined the Screen Actors Guild.&#8221;

Tom Hanks Says He’s Made Only Four ‘Pretty Good’ Movies During His Entire Career

Tom Hanks Says He's Made Only Four 'Pretty Good' Movies During His Entire Career

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tom-hanks">Tom Hanks</a> made it clear he&#8217;s upset that he only learned about the Tulsa Massacre two years ago, and said he wanted to know who decided to make an &#8220;editorial&#8221; choice about what was &#8220;appropriate&#8221; for him to learn in school.
During the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/beyond-that-now-tom-hanks-says-fans-wouldnt-accept-him-playing-gay-man-in-philadelphia-now">66-year-old</a> actor&#8217;s recent appearance on the &#8220;Another Act&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bww22SBitGo">podcast</a>, Hanks talked about growing up as a child in Oakland, California, as he referenced why he wrote an op-ed last year advocating for the teaching of the race-based massacre for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/opinion/tom-hanks-tulsa-race-massacre-history.html">The New York Times</a>. It starts at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bww22SBitGo">12:31</a> minute mark.
&#8220;I read a New York Times piece on a hundred-year-old survivor of the Tulsa Massacre, and my question was this, &#8216;What’s the Tulsa Massacre?’” Hanks told the host. &#8220;You know, I was taught American history every three years growing up … how is it that it wasn&#8217;t until two years ago that I heard about the Tulsa Massacre?”
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&#8220;How is that possible? &#8230; I heard about all kinds of disasters in which people died,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But I had never heard about this thing that happened in 1921.&#8221;
&#8220;I tell you, at the age of 10, when I was in fifth grade, living in Oakland, California, that would&#8217;ve been a moment of enlightenment for me,&#8221; the superstar actor continued. &#8220;That would&#8217;ve told me something very, very different about the city I lived in. Not just American history or the city of Tulsa.&#8221;
Hanks explained how it made him “mad&#8221; that somebody had “made an editorial process&#8221; about what was and was not &#8220;appropriate&#8221; for him to learn in school about &#8220;our own American history” — and that it took him 54 years to find this out, calling it &#8220;not right&#8221; and a &#8220;disservice&#8221; to all of America.
In the NYT piece, the &#8220;Cast Away&#8221; star talked about how in all his years of studying history in school, he never learned &#8220;about how, in 1921, a mob of white people burned down a place called Black Wall Street, killed as many as 300 of its Black citizens and displaced thousands of Black Americans who lived in Tulsa, Okla.&#8221;
He also wrote that, &#8220;America’s history is messy but knowing that makes us a wiser and stronger people. 1921 is the truth, a portal to our shared, paradoxical history.&#8221;
The comment was part of a larger interview about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elvis-biopics-black-roots-are-real-not-woke">actor&#8217;s</a> current role as Colonel Tom Parker on Baz Luhrmann&#8217;s &#8220;ELVIS&#8221; movie. Parker was Elvis Presley&#8217;s manager.
The movie is &#8220;Luhrmann&#8217;s biopic of Elvis Presley, from his childhood to becoming a rock and movie star in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker,&#8221; a description on <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3704428/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1">IMDb</a> read.
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Tom Hanks Is ‘Angry’ He Only Learned About The Tulsa Massacre Two Years Ago

Tom Hanks Is 'Angry' He Only Learned About The Tulsa Massacre Two Years Ago

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Tom Hanks admitted he didn&#8217;t &#8220;understand&#8221; why Disney/Pixar replaced Tim Allen with Chris Evans as the voice of Buzz Lightyear for the new animated film &#8220;Lightyear.&#8221;
During the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/beyond-that-now-tom-hanks-says-fans-wouldnt-accept-him-playing-gay-man-in-philadelphia-now">65-year-old</a> actor&#8217;s appearance on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CfPPwz9Jj7n/">CinemaBlend</a>, the &#8220;Castaway&#8221; star was asked if it was going to be weird being in theaters across from a Buzz Lightyear film, the <a href="https://www.cinemablend.com/interviews/tom-hanks-reacts-to-lightyear-replacing-tim-allen-and-the-toy-story-spinoff-competing-with-elvis">outlet</a> noted. Hanks is currently in theaters in the &#8220;Elvis&#8221; movie where he plays Elvis&#8217; manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Hanks said he was looking forward to going &#8220;head-to-head&#8221; with his former co-star from the &#8220;Toy Story&#8221; franchise, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-allen">Allen</a>. In the animated films, Hanks was the voice of the cowboy toy Woody, and his best friend is Buzz Lightyear, a role voiced by the &#8220;Home Improvement&#8221; star.
&#8220;How &#8217;bout that?&#8221; Hanks explained. &#8220;Why it&#8217;s not&#8230;actually I wanted to go head-to-head with Tim Allen, and then they didn&#8217;t let Tim Allen do it. I don&#8217;t understand that.&#8221;
When pressed by the interviewer about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-why-tim-allen-wasnt-picked-to-voice-buzz-lightyear-in-lightyear-movie">Allen</a> being replaced by the &#8220;Avengers: Endgame&#8221; star, Hanks said, &#8220;Yeah, yeah, I know.&#8221;
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&#8220;But here&#8217;s the thing, just as long as people come back to the motion picture theater,&#8221; Hanks said. &#8220;I want to go back in the theater with a bunch of strangers and leave with something in common.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s what I want to do,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And going to see a movie with him, I&#8217;m looking forward to that.&#8221;
Allen recently broke his silence on Evans voicing the iconic spaceman in the origin-based film. He said there’s &#8220;no connection&#8221; to his famed character in the &#8220;Toy Story&#8221; franchise, though he wished there was, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-allen-finally-weighs-in-on-lightyear-says-theres-no-relationship-to-buzz-and-famed-character">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported.
&#8220;The short answer is I&#8217;ve stayed out of this because it has nothing to do [with my character],&#8221; the &#8220;Last Man Standing&#8221; star shared. &#8220;This is a whole new team that really had nothing to do with the first movies.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s a wonderful story,&#8221; he added of the new movie. &#8220;It just doesn&#8217;t seem to have any connection to the toy, and it&#8217;s a little … I don&#8217;t know. It just has no relationship to Buzz. It&#8217;s just no connection. I wish there was a better connection to this.&#8221;
Allen said that any &#8220;Toy Story&#8221; movie about Buzz must include Hanks&#8217; character. &#8220;There&#8217;s really no &#8216;Toy Story&#8217; Buzz without Woody.&#8221;
(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/introducing-dw-kids">announced</a> plans for kids’ entertainment content.)

‘They Didn’t Let Tim Allen’: Tom Hanks Says He Didn’t ‘Understand’ Why Chris Evans Replaced Allen As Buzz For ‘Lightyear’

‘They Didn’t Let Tim Allen’: Tom Hanks Says He ‘Didn’t Understand’ Why Chris Evans Replaced Allen As Buzz For ‘Lightyear’ :+1: 1

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Baz Luhrmann’s “<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3704428/">Elvis</a>” isn’t your standard-issue biographical film.
There have been other Presley biopics released over the years, including one starring Kurt Russell (1979) and a miniseries with Jonathan Rhys Meyers (2005). But the director of “Moulin Rouge!” and “The Great Gatsby” figured something … different was in order.
Luhrmann’s “Elvis” brims with razzle-dazzle sequences, concert recreations and those Presley hip gyrations that caused a societal stir. Anyone expecting conventional rags-to-riches storytelling, though, will be disappointed.
Co-star Tom Hanks, playing the duplicitous Colonel Tom Parker, gets so much screen time it’s almost like you’re watching “Elvis and the Colonel.”
Luhrmann doesn’t ruminate on the icon’s ’70s excess but digs into his formative years. That means showing a young Presley attending black churches and peeping into clubs where black musicians made music outside the cultural mainstream.
None of the presentation is woke. It’s a celebratory recreation of Presley’s backstory. And this “Elvis” doesn’t condemn its subject for cultural appropriation.
It honors that amalgam of music, culture, and style.
It’s undeniable that Presley allowed the music industry to elevate gospel and R&amp;B stylings via a white performer who captured their essence.
That doesn’t tell the whole story, though, since some black artists did <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/07/whats-so-great-about-elvis-he-didnt-invent-or-steal-anything/374081/">crack the mainstream</a> during the 1950s, including The Dominoes, who made a run at the pop music charts with “Sixty Minute Man” in 1951. With the lyrics &#8220;I rock &#8217;em, roll &#8217;em all night long,&#8221; the track is even considered by some as the origin of the &#8220;Rock and Roll&#8221; genre.
Plus, Bill Haley beat out Presley on the charts, albeit barely, with 1954’s “Rock Around the Clock.”
Presley, though, became a once-in-a-generation superstar.
Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, he spent his early days in a racially mixed community. His tight-knit family attended the Assembly of God Church, exposing him at a young age to gospel music.
The future star moved to Memphis, TN, in his teen years, where he absorbed the sounds of historic Beale Street. Teen Presley shopped on the celebrated street and soaked in the blues and gospel singers who called the region their second home.
<a href="https://www.graceland.com/">Graceland.com</a>, dedicated to keeping Presley’s legacy intact, <a href="https://www.graceland.com/biography">elegantly captures</a> how the singer incorporated those influences into his art. “[Presley] uniquely combined his diverse musical influences and blurred and challenged the social and racial barriers of the time.”
The movie finds him comparing creative notes with the likes of B.B. King (played by Kelvin Harrison Jr.), and it’s clear being a white star channeling blues and gospel notes let him rise beyond some black peers.
Presley’s mammoth talents did the rest.
He openly spoke of how black singers impacted his creative choices. A 1957 interview with Jet Magazine, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-truth-about-elvis-and-the-history-of-racism-in-rock">recalled by The Daily Beast</a>, offers a window into his generous spirit:
<blockquote>“I always wanted to sing like Billy Kenny of the Ink Spots. … I like that high, smooth style. … I never sang like this in my life until I made that first record—‘That’s Alright, Mama.’ I remembered that song because I heard Arthur (Big Boy) Crudup sing it and I thought I would like to try it.” </blockquote>
Black musicians, in turn, embraced him as an artist, not merely a white colleague. James Brown, for example, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/elvis-presley-40-years-later-was-king-rock-n-roll-guilty-appropriating-black-651911">called him “his brother”</a> and upon Presely’s death said, &#8220;There’ll never be another like that soul brother.”
<a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/sammy-davis-jr-turned-down-elvis-presleys-in-the-ghetto-wanted-king-of-rock-n-roll-sing.html/">Sammy Davis, Jr. similarly hailed</a> Presley and spoke openly of their respectful bond.
“Elvis” wisely ignores any cries of cultural appropriation. Luhrmann’s film honors Presley’s musical gifts while acknowledging his cultural influences. This shrewd approach to assessing the icon’s body of work is not only fair to the subject matter, but it’s also accurate to how Presley embraced those influences.
“Elvis” shows the superstar commiserating with Harrison Jr.’s B.B. King in scenes that lack the depth and details that haunt the rest of the superficial trappings. They reveal a musician willing to learn from his peers, no matter their skin color.
He worshipped music in all its wondrous shadings.
Not everyone signed off on Presley’s noble heart. Music impresario Quincy Jones dubbed Presley a racist based on what <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/quincy-jones-michael-jackson-elvis-presley-1234955138/">band leader Tommy Dorsey claimed about Presley</a>.
<a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/shine-my-shoes/">Snopes.com debunked</a> one allegedly racist Presley quote which circulated in the late 1950s. Sun Records founder Sam Phillips similarly described an Elvis Presley who didn’t match Dorsey’s version: “The lack of prejudice on the part of Elvis Presley had to be one of the biggest things that happened to us …”
Presley’s story, as everyone knows, had a tragic ending. His medicinal addictions turned him into a sideshow — witness the “Fat Elvis” some impersonators evoke in their act. He died at 42 but remains an integral part of pop culture.
And his success, from his innate gifts to his ability to fuse cultural influences into one irresistible package sans hate, embodies the American dream in a way few others could replicate.
Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News&#8217; Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en">@HollywoodInToto</a>. 
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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‘Elvis’ Biopic’s Black Roots Are Real, Not Woke

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Actors know their next gig could be their last in the fickle Hollywood arena.
Tastes change. Box office glory fades. A new, younger star suddenly snags the roles tailor-made for them.
It’s why most actors don’t trash their own films, no matter how bad they might be. Even Rebel Wilson <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8008483/Rebel-Wilson-defends-Cats-movie-reveals-cult-classic.html">defended 2019’s infamous stink bomb “Cats.”</a>
The following stars break that unwritten rule. They have happily mocked their past efforts, inadvertently shaming their co-stars, directors and screenwriters in the process. Some did so for artistic reasons. Others may have felt pressure to criticize their less-than-woke projects.
<h4>Tom Hanks</h4>
We’ve recently learned “Forrest Gump” isn’t proud of one of his two Oscar wins. Hanks <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/16/tom-hanks-says-couldnt-play-gay-role-today-philadelphia">has said</a> that nowadays, only a gay man could have played his role in 1993’s “Philadelphia,” even though he’ll keep that golden statuette.
Hanks has also attacked one of his most famous franchises, “The Da Vinci Code” series, including the two sequels “Angels &amp; Demons” and “Inferno.” Hanks starred as Robert Langdon in the successful saga, based on the best-selling books by Dan Brown. The saga, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/13/magazine/tom-hanks-interview.html">Hanks’ interview with The New York Times</a>, is “as cynical as a crossword puzzle.”
<blockquote>Yeah, those Robert Langdon sequels are hooey. “The Da Vinci Code” was hooey.
Those are delightful scavenger hunts that are about as accurate to history as the James Bond movies are to espionage. … All we were doing is promising a diversion.</blockquote>
<h4>George Clooney</h4>
The “Ocean’s Eleven” star is no stranger to clunkers, from his 2017 directorial dud “Suburbicon” to “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jan/08/grizzly-ii-review-george-clooney-laura-dern">Grizzly II</a>,” shot before NBC’s “ER” made him a star.
Clooney saves most of his self-directed ire for “Batman &amp; Robin,” the 1997 film that crushed the Dark Knight franchise for 12 years. The film is a disaster, a tonal mishmash that attempts to summon the ‘60s TV show but fails miserably.
Clooney has mocked the film for years, zeroing in on his contributions to the franchise. In an interview with GQ, Clooney <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/george-clooney-icon-of-the-year-2020">expanded his apology</a> to the film itself.<a href="https://www.thewrap.com/george-clooney-admits-terrible-in-batman-and-robin/">.</a>
<blockquote>When I say “Batman and Robin” is a terrible film, I always go, “I was terrible in it.” Because I was, number one. But also because then it allows you the ability to say, “Having said I sucked in it, I can also say that none of these other elements worked either.” You know? Lines like “Freeze, Freeze!”</blockquote>
Clooney previously told “The Graham Norton Show” he <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/george-clooney-apologises-for-destroying-batman-robin-18-years-later-10276879.html">played a role in crushing a beloved superhero saga</a>.
<blockquote>Let me just say that I’d actually thought I’d destroyed the franchise until somebody else brought it back years later and changed it. I thought at the time that this was going to be a very good career move. Ummmmm, it wasn’t.</blockquote>
“Batman &amp; Robin” earned $107 million domestically, which was a far cry from “Batman Forever’s” $184 million haul two years earlier. 
<h4>Shia LaBeouf</h4>
The troubled star’s career is in limbo following allegations he <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2022/06/21/fka-twigs-looks-back-calling-abuse-ex-shia-labeouf/7695095001/">sexually mistreated ex-girlfriend FKA Twigs</a>, charges the actor denies.
Before those headlines, LaBeouf made some powerful enemies by trashing his work in “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” … and the film itself. The actor slammed his own contributions to the film, a commercial smash — but one fans soured on after its 2008 release.
Talking to the Los Angeles Times, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/24-frames/story/2010-05-15/cannes-2010-shia-labeouf-we-botched-the-last-indiana-jones">LaBeouf felt their pain</a>.
<blockquote>I feel like I dropped the ball on the legacy that people loved and cherished. … You get to monkey-swinging and things like that and you can blame it on the writer and you can blame it on Steven [Spielberg, who directed]. But the actor’s job is to make it come alive and make it work, and I couldn’t do it. So that’s my fault. Simple.</blockquote>
He also claimed star Harrison Ford had similar misgivings about the finished product.
<blockquote>He wasn’t happy with it either. Look, the movie could have been updated. There was a reason it wasn’t universally accepted.</blockquote>
“Skull” director Steven Spielberg <a href="https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a399730/shia-labeouf-i-deeply-regret-criticising-steven-spielberg/">wasn’t pleased</a> that LaBeouf didn’t take one for the team.
<h4>Viola Davis</h4>
The Oscar winner is one of Hollywood’s most revered stars, but an early role continues to haunt her. 
The 2011 drama “The Help” drew critical acclaim and commercial success – its $169 million U.S. box office total is rare for a dramatic film. The story follows a young writer (Emma Stone) who interviews the black women charged with tending to wealthy white families in their southern community.
Davis played one of “the help,” but the actress now looks back with disdain on the film and her contributions to it. It’s worth noting Octavia Spencer, who is black, earned a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her part in the film.
Davis <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/07/cover-story-viola-davis">complained</a> to Vanity Fair that the story was &#8220;created in the filter and the cesspool of systemic racism” and cared more about its “white audience.”
<h4>Robert Pattinson</h4>
“The Batman” may have made Pattinson a bankable superhero star, but the “Twilight” films put him on the map.
The unknown actor got the coveted role as Edward Cullen in the film franchise, which was dismissed by critics but adored by its fan base. That didn’t persuade Pattinson, who has mocked the movies repeatedly over the years. He <a href="https://www.wmagazine.com/story/robert-pattinson-good-time-subway">dissected the movies as a whole</a> to W magazine in 2017.
<blockquote>If it hadn’t been so successful, I think people would have thought it was really weird. It’s a really weird story. But I think once it becomes mainstream, it’s difficult for people to see how strange the story is.</blockquote>
Even creating promotional materials for the saga made Pattinson wince. The actor <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/04/robert-pattinson-201104">told</a> Vanity Fair he endured a lengthy photo shoot to help sell the series.
<blockquote>There&#8217;s nothing you can do about it. That&#8217;s the way it is. But it is weird being part of that, kind of representing something you don&#8217;t particularly like.</blockquote>
Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News&#8217; Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en">@HollywoodInToto</a>. 
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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These Stars Trashed Their Own Movies

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Actor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/americas-dad-tom-hanks-hosts-a-surprisingly-funny-saturday-night-live-from-home/">Tom Hanks</a> dropped an f-bomb on a fan who got a little too close to the superstar and his wife, actress Rita Wilson, as they were leaving a New York City restaurant.
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/tom-hanks-i-got-no-respect-for-people-who-dont-wear-masks/">Hanks</a> and Wilson were leaving a Midtown, NYC restaurant when they were surrounded by fans hoping to nab a photo or say hello — but several of them got close enough that the actor and his wife got bumped and jostled as they made their way out the door, according to a video that circulated Thursday.
Several large men — who appeared to be providing security for the power couple — could be heard warning the gathering crowd to be careful of Hanks and Wilson. &#8220;How you doin&#8217;? Be careful, Tom,&#8221; one said. &#8220;Watch out, move, move,&#8221; another added.
Once on the street, however, one fan bumped into Wilson with enough force that he almost knocked her to the ground.
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Wilson responded immediately, saying, &#8220;Whoa! Guys, stop it!&#8221;
Hanks reacted right away as well, turning to address the fans. &#8220;My wife!?&#8221; he shouted, clearly angry. Placing his hands on two of the men closest to him, Hanks pressed lightly on their chests to push them back slightly. &#8220;Back the f*** up!&#8221; he yelled at the group.
&#8220;What are y&#8217;all doin&#8217;?&#8221; one member of the security team asked as the fans stepped back.
&#8220;Knocking over my wife!?&#8221; Hanks continued to shout at them.
&#8220;Yeah, they&#8217;re buggin&#8217;, sorry about that,&#8221; the man said, attempting to turn Hanks toward the waiting car.
Others could be heard shouting, &#8220;Sorry about that, Tom,&#8221; as the actor walked away, allowing the security team to steer him toward the vehicle and away from the scene.
Most of the responses to Hanks&#8217; behavior were positive.
Former NBC Executive Mike Sington called the actor&#8217;s response understandable, saying, &#8220;Tom Hanks momentarily, and understandably, loses his nice guy persona as over eager fans practically knock over his wife Rita Wilson.&#8221;
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Tom Hanks momentarily, and understandably, loses his nice guy persona as over eager fans practically knock over his wife Rita Wilson. <a href="https://t.co/vS2xfCqOIO">pic.twitter.com/vS2xfCqOIO</a>
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Another user <a href="https://twitter.com/nickguillory/status/1537454895925690368">added</a>, &#8220;I don’t blame him … people are CRAZY and these days doing the most… don’t understand personal space and respect!&#8221;
&#8220;They earned that &#8216;Back the f*** off&#8217; tbh,&#8221; cultural critic Mikki Kendall <a href="https://twitter.com/Karnythia/status/1537439524451545089">tweeted</a>.
Boston 25 News employee Tim Martin referenced a Hanks &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; character, <a href="https://twitter.com/TMar15/status/1537434563965644805">adding</a>, &#8220;Imagine having to go through the rest of your life knowing David S. Pumpkins yelled at you.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tom-hanks">Tom Hanks</a> won an Oscar for his portrayal of a gay lawyer in the 1993 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">drama</a> “Philadelphia,” but the actor doesn’t believe he’d get that same part today as a straight man.
Hanks made the comments during an interview with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/06/13/magazine/tom-hanks-interview.html">The New York Times Magazine</a>, saying he agreed that straight actors shouldn’t pretend to be gay for TV or movie roles. &#8220;Could a straight man do what I did in ‘Philadelphia’ now? No, and rightly so,&#8221; the 65-year-old actor told the publication. 
&#8220;The whole point of &#8216;Philadelphia&#8217; was don’t be afraid. One of the reasons people weren’t afraid of that movie is that I was playing a gay man,&#8221; he said. 
&#8220;We’re beyond that now,&#8221; Hanks continued. &#8220;I don’t think people would accept the inauthenticity of a straight guy playing a gay guy. It’s not a crime, it’s not boohoo, that someone would say we are going to demand more of a movie in the modern realm of authenticity. Do I sound like I’m preaching? I don’t mean to.&#8221;
The actor won his first Academy Award for portraying Andrew Beckett, a gay attorney diagnosed with AIDS and facing workplace discrimination.
In his Oscars acceptance speech in 1994, Hanks said playing in the movie &#8220;is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels,&#8221; per <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2022/06/15/tom-hanks-philadelphia-role-couldnt-happen-today/7642974001/">USA Today</a>. Several attendees wore red ribbons to bring awareness to HIV and AIDS.
&#8220;We know their names,&#8221; Hanks said. &#8220;They number a thousand for each one of the red ribbons that we wear here tonight. They finally rest in the warm embrace of the gracious creator of us all — a healing embrace that cools their fevers, that clears their skin and allows their eyes to see the simple, self-evident, common-sense truth that is made manifest by the benevolent creator of us all and was written down on paper by wise men, tolerant men, in the city of Philadelphia 200 years ago.&#8221;
Elsewhere in the NYT Magazine interview, Hanks explained why he left Twitter. His last post was in May 2020.
“I stopped posting because, number one, I thought it was an empty exercise. I have enough attention on me,” the “Forrest Gump” actor said. 
“But also I’d post something goofy like, ‘Here’s a pair of shoes I saw in the middle of the street,’ and the third comment would be, ‘[Expletive] you, Hanks.’ I don’t know if I want to give that guy the forum. If the third comment is ‘[Expletive] you, you Obama-loving communist,’ it’s like, I don’t need to do that,&#8217;” he said.

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