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‘Citizen Penn’ Trailer: New Doc Shows Sean Penn’s Extensive Work To Help People Across The World

April 7, 2021 1:22 pm

There are plenty of people that like to make Sean Penn the butt of jokes about how Hollywood stars like to insert themselves into political arguments. The iconic actor has spent years being very outspoken abou...

Scarlett Johansson Takes ‘The Psychopath Test,’ Ewan McGregor To Direct ‘American Pastoral’ And More

Kevin Jagernauth

February 18, 2015 2:45 pm

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Scarlett Johansson Takes 'The Psychopath Test,' Ewan McGregor To Direct 'American Pastoral' And More

Liam Neeson And Bono Are Writing A Movie Script Together

Kevin Jagernauth

September 17, 2014 10:40 am

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Liam Neeson And Bono Are Writing A Movie Script Together

Bono & The Edge To Score Pixar’s ‘Brave’?

Christopher Bell

June 29, 2010 4:28 pm

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Bleeding Cool has reported that Bono and possibly The Edge are writing music for Pixar's "Brave" (formerly titled "The Bear and the Bow"). A little more digging brought us to The Pixar Blog, which combined a bu...

Lance Bangs And Spike Jonze Reunite For AIDS Documentary ‘The Lazarus Effect’

Simon Dang

May 16, 2010 7:01 am

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Filmmaker Spike Jonze and documentarian Lance Bangs have evidently reunited for a documentary on the AIDS epidemic in Africa titled "The Lazarus Effect," funded by Bono and Bobby Shriver's (Red) initiative.The...

Paramount International Are ‘Killing Bono’ (In A Movie)

Oliver Lyttelton

April 22, 2010 3:41 pm

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Aside from a cameo in Wim Wenders' "Million Dollar Hotel" and a strange appearance looking almost identical to Robin Williams in "Across the Universe," U2 frontman Bono has thankfully refrained from any major a...

U2 Biopic ‘Killing Bono’ Starts Filming Next Week

Kevin Jagernauth

January 4, 2010 7:00 pm

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Remember when U2 wasn't selling iPods, Blackberrys, pretending to save the planet and hiding their earnings in offshore accounts? Those early, much more glorious days will be the subject of a new film, "Killing...

The Spike Jonze/U2 Music Video With Jim Carrey That Might Have Been…

Rodrigo Perez

December 16, 2009 4:17 pm

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This one pretty much speaks for itself and yes, while we love Spike Jonze, we're kind of glad this one didn't happen.Bono: I kind of always knew, actually. Yeah. pitched an idea… I’ll tell you this just as I ...

Original ‘Brüno’ Ending Climaxed With Gay Bashing Scene?

Rodrigo Perez

July 1, 2009 1:38 pm

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We hate to give The Wrap's National Inquirer-style reporting any ink or credence, but perhaps their articles that said Sacha Baron Cohen's "Brüno" was softened and made more "gay friendly" were somewhere on the...

Evan Rachel Wood Tries To Tame Bono’s Pretentiousness On ‘Spider-Man’ Musical

Rodrigo Perez

June 30, 2009 4:16 pm

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We missed this the first time. Evan Rachel Wood trying to mollify Bono's humorlessness when writing music for Julie Taymor's "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark," Broadway musical. Funny...“Bono and the Edge are doi...

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