Samuel Girard, Kim Boutin get closer to Olympic spots at short track selection trials

Samuel Girard and Kim Boutin both increased their chances of being the first male and female skaters to lock up their spots on the Canadian short track team at the 2018 Olympic Games. They both the men’s and women’s second 500m event at the short track selection trials from Montreal. Samuel Girard, from Ferland-et-Boilleau, Que., led the men’s […]

Coronation Street's Samuel Robertson confesses he felt like 'a spare part' in ITV soap

The actor, who plays Adam Barlow, lasted 3 years in the role before moving on to other projects, including Celebrity Big Brother and Beaver Falls.  The 31-year-old has now revealed that he struggled to find his place on the soap when he first started.  “The trouble 10 years ago was that I was on the […]

TVLine Items: Samuel L. Jackson Eyes TV Gig, Mary Kills Again and More

Hold on to your butts, because film vet Samuel L. Jackson has signed on for his first TV-starring role, in an adaptation of the Thomas Perry novel The Old Man, our sister site Deadline reports. Jackson will play Dan Chase, a former Army intelligence officer who has been on the run for 35 years after […]

‘Captain Marvel’ Will Be a Prequel Set in the Early ’90s, Samuel L. Jackson Confirmed to Co-Star [Comic-Con 2017]

The Marvel Studios panel at Comic-Con 2017 couldn’t feature footage from Captain Marvel (because it hasn’t started filming yet), but it could reveal a number of tantalizing details about the Brie Larson-starring superhero movie due out in 2019. First, we learned that the rumors are true: Samuel L. Jackson‘s Nick Fury will play a role […]

Rumor: Could Samuel L. Jackson Co-Star as Nick Fury in ‘Captain Marvel’?

Samuel L. Jackson‘s Nick Fury was once the connective tissue between all the Marvel Cinematic Universe films, recruiting and cleaning up after the superheroes that would form his Avengers team. But once the MCU took off its training wheels and gained a life of its own, Nick Fury vanished from the scene, last appearing in […]

‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’ Trailer: Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson Brawl and Bicker Across Europe

Ryan Reynolds has been in some solid movies that haven’t required him to use his fast-talking jokester persona (Buried, The Nines, etc), but sometimes an actor crafts a persona so well that it becomes difficult for audiences to accept them doing anything else. And Reynolds is good at being an exasperated, sarcastic badass, so he might as well lean into it, right? Toss somebody […]

Samuel L Jackson: ‘It’s impossible Quentin Tarantino is racist with his movies’

The 54-year-old’s last two movies – Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight – received criticism upon release for the frequent use of the N-word, with some movie fans accusing him of racism. Now in an unearthed interview from The Hateful Eight’s release last year, Tarantino regular Samuel L Jackson has defended the filmmaker’s work. Speaking […]

Star Wars news: Mace Windu to RETURN? Samuel L Jackson demands comeback at SWCO

Jackson played a key role in the prequel trilogy and today called on George Lucas to bring his character back in Episode IX. As the audience cheered at the 40th Anniversary Panel, he said: “Mace Windu is awaiting his return, let’s make it happen.  “All you gotta do is say the word, Kathy!” He added: […]

‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’ Trailer: Ryan Reynolds Tries to Protect Samuel L. Jackson

Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson are going to try their hand at reviving the buddy comedy — this time with plenty of the latter’s trademark expletives. The trailer for their new movie The Hitman’s Bodyguard is less a send-up of the legendary Whitney Houston/Kevin Costner Bodyguard romance (though the movie’s famous theme song I […]

Samuel L. Jackson Wants to be in ‘John Wick 3,’ So Someone Should Make That Happen

Normally, “Actor A Wants to be in Franchise B” stories aren’t worth the digital ink or the imaginary paper they’re printed on. However, it’s not every day that Samuel L. Jackson says he loves the John Wick series and wants to be in the third movie. After all, this is the kind of thing we could […]