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Captain Marvel marks Samuel L. Jackson’s ninth appearance as Nick Fury, but this Nick is a lowly S.H.I.E.L.D. desk jockey (who hasn’t yet met any superheroes). He’s younger than we’ve ever seen him (Jackson was digitally de-aged for the role), and perhaps most shocking of all, he’s missing his signature eyepatch. https://ew.com/movies/captain-marvel-first-look-images/#fire-and-fury

abcnews.go.com How Hollywood is giving its biggest stars digital facelifts ABC News Johnny Depp is 53 years old but he doesn’t look a day over 26 in the new “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie — at least for a few moments. There was no plastic surgeon involved, heavy makeup or archival footage used to take […]

hollywoodreporter.com Johnny Depp to Kurt Russell: How “De-Aging” Stars Became Hollywood’s VFX Trick Du Jour May 30, 2017 5:30am PT by Carolyn Giardina But this complex work is “unforgiving; you get it right or it’s glaringly obvious.” When a young version of Johnny Depp’s zany Jack Sparrow appears in a flashback in Disney’s Pirates of the […]

Cinema Blend By Adam Holmes Warning: minor spoilers for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 are ahead! Kurt Russell spent the majority of his time as Ego in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 looking like his usual self, complete with glorious beard. However, out first glimpse of the character in the movie came in […]

Washington Post Analysis | Is young Kurt Russell in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ the best de-aging of an actor ever? https://www.facebook.com/comicriffs Kurt Russell portrays a godlike character named Ego in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,″ which opens May 5. Kurt Russell portrays a godlike character named Ego in “Guardians of the Galaxy […]

nypost.com ‘Rogue One’ proves stars don’t have to be alive to still be on the screen Kyle Smith The greatest special effect in “Rogue One” isn’t a planet being wiped out or the whizzing dogfights of the rebels’ X-wing fighters. What’s really breathtaking about the new “Star Wars” movie is the way its technical wizards […]

“I’m all for a prequel myself after seeing myself CGI-ed in the beginning of the movie, 30 years younger, which was incredible”. Douglas family affair for Ant-Man – BelfastTelegraph.co.uk Michael Douglas with wife Catherine Zeta-Jones, son Dylan and daughter Carys at the Ant-Man premiere Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas made the European premiere of Ant-Man a […]

“In Ant-Man’s opening scene, Michael Douglas’s Hank Pym strides into S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters to tender his resignation. Well, that’s not 100 percent right — it’s definitely Hank Pym, and it’s definitely S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, but it’s not quite Michael Douglas, at least as we know him in 2015. The scene takes place in 1989, and the Douglas […]