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DESPICABLE ME 3
FUN FACTS
Chucky
@ChuckyIsReal
"I make them millions and this
is how they make me travel?"
#CultOfChucky
Often confused with Daryl Hannah, circa
Splash
(1984), this
winsome star with big hair and a pearly smile blazed a trail
across screens during the 1980s, playing a mean cello in the
Fame
TV series and cutting loose as Kevin Bacon's girlfriend
in
Footloose
(1984)
.
The latter is the film Gen Xers will most
remember her from, unless they're a fan of
Warlock
(1989), in
which she plays a twentysomething cursed to age 20 years per-
day by the titular sorcerer (Julian Sands).
Although Singer was never quite the superstar like peers
Molly Ringwald, Michelle Pfeiffer and the aforementioned
Hannah, she had the ability to light up even the dullest of films,
like Tom Hanks misfire
The Man with One Red Shoe
(1985) and
Alan Rudolph's
Trouble in Mind
(1985).
Post-
Warlock
and the arrival of the 1990s, Singer dropped off
the movie map, making the occasional appearance in Robert
Altman's
Short Cuts
(1993) and alongside Mickey Rourke in
F.T.W.
(1994), before heading to television with a role on the short-lived
sci-fi series
VR.5
(1995).
The last Singer sighting was in the 2016 documentary
God
Knows Where I Am,
so until someone like Edgar Wright or
Quentin Tarantino decides to revive her film career, we'll just have
to be content with viewings of
Footloose
and
Warlock
.
Whatever Happened to...
If you stuck around after the closing credits of
Kong:
Skull Island
, it was teased that some Japanese
heavyweights are primed to appear in the next chapter
in legendary Pictures' evolving MonsterVerse.
Godzilla:
King of the Monsters
is currently shooting in Atlanta,
Georgia, under the direction of Michael Dougherty
(
Krampus
) and promises the triple threat of Rodan, King
Ghidorah and our favourite, the mighty
Mothra, taking on their old
nemesis. Plot details of this
upcoming kaiju-fest are under
wraps, but we can tell you that
Stranger Things
' Millie Bobbie
Brown has been cast alongside Vera
Farmiga and Kyle Chandler, and it's set to
roar into cinemas on 21 March 2019.
In
production
LORI SINGER
– BENWHEATLEY,
director of
Free Fire
, on the storytelling
constraints imposed by today's technology.
•
Footloose
(1984)
is available on
DVD & Blu-ray
"“The mobile phone has sort of screwed the thriller.
Certainly [Free Fire] wouldn’t last 10 seconds with a mobile phone
in it. It’s a real problem for filmmakers. A contemporary version of Free
Fire would have to have a lot of scenes talking about mobile coverage and
all that bullsh–t. When you think about Assault on Precinct 13, they cut
the telephone lines and that’s it – they’re stuck."
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At the talent show
in
Despicable Me 3
,
the Minions sing in
Minionese "I Am the Very
Model of a Modern Major
General" fromThe Pirates
of Penzance by Gilbert
and Sullivan.
Kristen Wiig
also voiced Miss
Hattie in the first
Despicable Me
.
The Minions are
voiced by directors
Pierre Coffin and
Chris Renaud.
Miranda Cosgrove
is still best friends
with Jennette
McCurdy, who she
worked with on
iCarly
.
Miranda Cosgrove was
discovered by a talent
scout when she was
three years old.