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* Albums
- Stone Temple Pilots by Stone Temple Pilots: Seventh album by the rock band, their first with Jeff Gutt on lead vocals after original singer Scott Weiland’s death in 2015; includes the singles ‘Meadow’, ‘Roll Me Under’, and ‘The Art of Letting Go’.
* Movies
- Tomb Raider (starring Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu) – action, based on the 2013 video game of the same name; Lara Croft (Vikander) embarks on a dangerous journey in the hopes of solving the mystery of her father’s (West) disappearance.
- 7 Days in Entebbe (starring Rosamund Pike, Daniel Bruhl, Vincent Cassel, Eddie Marsan, Ben Schnetzer) – action, based on the story of 1976’s Operation Entebbe; a counter-terrorist hostage-rescue operation is attempted in response to the hijacking of a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris.
- Flower (starring Zoey Deutch, Kathryn Hahn, Tim Heidecker, Joey Morgan, Adam Scott) – comedy; a girl (Deutch) and her friends stalk a man (Scott) who her brother (Morgan) believes assaulted him.
Celeb Tweets
- Kelly Oxford (kellyoxford): The worst part about having kids is that they magnify every single thing that's wrong with you. And they wake up early.
- Mark Hoppus (markhoppus): Emily Blunt, but only because Emily Care.
- Kat Dennings (OfficialKat): If this is the only earth shattering discovery I ever make, I'm fine with it: YOU CAN IRON CLOTHES WITH YOUR HAIR STRAIGHTENER. Byeeeeee.
Spotlight
Red Sparrow
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeremy Irons
Director: Francis Lawrence
Tagline: Seductive. Deceptive. Deadly.
- Action; a Russian intelligence officer (Lawrence) is sent to seduce a CIA agent (Edgerton) in the hope of discovering the identity of a mole.
- Is based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Jason Matthews.
- Had a budget of $69 million; has made around $83 million in less than two weeks.
- Has received mixed reviews from critics; Jennifer Lawrence’s performance has been praised, but the film has been criticised for being derivative, the lack of chemistry between its leads, and its overreliance on graphic violence.
- Darren Aronofsky was initially in talks to direct the film but dropped out. Then David Fincher and Rooney Mara were attached to the project, but that didn’t pan out either. Finally Francis Lawrence was announced as the director and Jennifer Lawrence as the protagonist.
- Is Francis Lawrence’s first film after the Hunger Games franchise, which also starred Jennifer Lawrence.
- Score composed by James Newton Howard.
Star
Alexandra Anna Daddario
- Born on 16th March 1986 in New York, U.S.
- Has a younger brother, Matthew, who is also an actor, and a younger sister, Catherine.
- Became interested in acting as a child.
- Made her television debut when she was 16 in the soap opera All My Children (from 2002 to 2003).
- Got her first prominent role in the Percy Jackson film series – Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013).
- Has gone on to appear in television series including White Collar (2009 – 2011), Parenthood (2011–2012), True Detective (2014), and American Horror Story: Hotel (2015), as well as films like Hall Pass (2011), Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013), San Andreas (2015), and Baywatch (2017).
- Upcoming projects include the thrillers We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018), Nomis (2018), and I Am Not a Bird (2018).
Also born today: Aisling Bea, Brooke Burns, Blu Cantrell, Alan Tudyk, Lauren Graham, Gore Verbinski, Victor Garber