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Armie Hammer exits The Offer as fallout from ‘cannibal’ scandal continues

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Having been set to sink his teeth into the role of producer Al Ruddy, Deadline is reporting that Armie Hammer has now exited The Offer, the upcoming Paramount+ series about the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, as the fallout from his recent controversy continues. Earlier this month, explicit social media messages said to […]

Watch Gary Oldman, Evangeline Lilly, Armie Hammer and more in trailer for Crisis

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The last time such a star-studded ensemble was put together to weave a tapestry depicting a drug war we got Steven Soderbergh’s Oscar-winning Traffic. Now Nicholas Jarecki, with his first film since 2012’s terrific Arbitrage, is hoping his multi-stranded opioid war epic Crisis can achieve similar success. Starring Gary Oldman (Mank), Armie Hammer (Call Me […]

Josh Duhamel replaces Armie Hammer in Shotgun Wedding

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The Jennifer Lopez-led romantic comedy adventure Shotgun Wedding found itself in need a new male lead last week when Armie Hammer exited the project amid a cannibal sexting controversy, and it seems they’ve wasted little time in bringing in his replacement. As reported by Variety, Transformers actor Josh Duhamel is now set to star alongside […]

Armie Hammer exits Shotgun Wedding amid cannibal sexting controversy

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Call Me By Your Name and Rebecca star Armie Hammer has departed the upcoming Jennifer Lopez romantic comedy adventure Shotgun Wedding amid controversy over leaked Instagram messages allegedly written by the actor and featuring graphic sexual fantasies including cannibalism. “I’m not responding to these bullshit claims but in light of the vicious and spurious online […]

Mads Mikkelsen and Armie Hammer to star in Cold War drama The Billion Dollar Spy

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Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal) and Armie Hammer (Rebecca) are set to star in the true story Cold War drama The Billion Dollar Spy. The film will be directed by Amma Asante (A United Kingdom). The story was written by American journalist David E. Hoffman, who researched unclassified CIA documents and interviewed interviewed those involved. The script was […]

Jennifer Lopez and Armie Hammer set for Shotgun Wedding

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The Wrap is reporting that Lionsgate has set Jennifer Lopez (Hustlers) and Armie Hammer (Rebecca) to star in Shotgun Wedding, an action comedy which is being directed by Jason Moore (Pitch Perfect). According to the trade, the film will see Lopez and Hammer as “a couple hosting a destination wedding with their lovable but opinionated […]

Armie Hammer explains why audiences should be patient for a Call Me by Your Name sequel

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It has been three years since Call Me by Your Name, the 2017 romantic coming-of-age story starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer, was adapted from the 2007 novel by André Aciman and fans are still waiting on an update on the potential sequel after the author released his Call Me By Your Name sequel Find Me in 2019. Now, in an […]

Movie Review – Rebecca (2020)

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Rebecca, 2020. Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, Keeley Hawes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Riley, Anna Dowd and Bill Paterson. SYNOPSIS: Manderley is the ancestral country seat of Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer). Shrouded in secrets, rife with scandal and cloaked in tragedy it sits precariously overlooking a ravaged coast line. It […]

Armie Hammer on whether there will be a sequel to The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

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Although Guy Ritchie’s feature film adaptation of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was released five years ago, we are still waiting for any update on the potential second adventure with Henry Cavill’s Napoleon Solo and Armie Hammer’s Ilya Kuryakin. Now, in an interview with CinemaBlend to promote his upcoming romantic thriller Rebecca [read our review here], Hammer and his co-star […]

Movie Review – Rebecca (2020)

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Rebecca, 2020. Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Keeley Hawes, Jane Lapotaire, Lucy Russell, Bryony Miller, Sam Riley, Bill Paterson, Tom Goodman-Hill, Mark Lewis Jones, Jeff Rawle, John Hollingworth, Ben Crompton, and Ann Dowd. SYNOPSIS: A young newlywed arrives at her husband’s imposing family estate on a windswept English […]