Champions

Who didn’t make the most movies?

179

Jack Nicholson

173

Marlon Brando

160

Paul Newman

150

Cary Grant

140

Robert De Niro

135

Tom Cruise

126

Dustin Hoffman

118

Mel Gibson

117

Sean Connery

Al Pacino

113

Brad Pitt

108

Johnny Depp

Robert Redford

107

Harrison Ford

101

Warren Beatty

Spencer Tracy

Kevin Costner

John Travolta

Bette Davis

Jeff Bridges

Burt Lancaster

Lord Laurence Olivier

Robert Mitchum

Gary Cooper

Gregory Peck

Charlton Heston

Richard Burton

Jodie Foster

Steve McQueen

Nicolas Cage

John Wayne

Tom Hanks

Michelle Pfeiffer

Katharine Hepburn

Peter O’Toole

Alec Baldwin

Kevin Costner

Tom Hanks

Bill Murray

Alain Delon

Julie Christie

Clark Gable

Bruce Willis

Leonardo DiCaprio

Mel Gibson

Meryl Streep

Robin Williams

Montgomery Clift

Gregory Peck

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Tom Hanks

Michael Keaton

Dame Elizabeth Taylor

Orson Welles

Nicole Kidman

Peter Sellers

Gene Hackman

Jim Carrey

Jane Fonda

Sylvester Stallone

Clint Eastwood

Sir Dirk Bogarde

Kirk Douglas

James Mason

Julia Roberts

Audrey Hepburn

Brigitte Bardot

James Cagney

William Holden

Debra Winger

Tatum O’Neal

Burt Reynolds

Frank Sinatra

Kim Basinger

Madonna

Arnold Schwarzenegger

William Holden

Joan Crawford

Richard Gere

Sean Penn

Frank Sinatra

Natalie Wood

Dame Olivia De Havilland

Richard Dreyfuss

Vivien Leigh

Henry Fonda

Susan Hayward

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Gary Oldman

Natalie Portman

Gérard Depardieu

Marlene Dietrich

Kurt Russell

Sharon Stone

Christopher Walken

Meg Ryan

Isabelle Adjani

Humphrey Bogart

Michael Douglas

Henry Fonda

Kay Lenz

Gwyneth Paltrow

Joel McCrea

James Stewart

Sir Patrick Stewart

Michael Caine

Greta Garbo

Sir Anthony Hopkins

Demi Moore

Joan Crawford

Ava Gardner

Anjelica Huston

Fredric March

Dennis Quaid

Barbara Stanwyck

Lindsay Lohan

Brooke Shields

John Cusack

Melanie Griffith

Sophia Loren

Steve Martin

Winona Ryder

Sigourney Weaver

Matt Damon

Geena Davis

Sir Alec Guinness

Shirley MacLaine

Lee Marvin

Nick Nolte

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Irene Dunne

Rita Hayworth

Burt Reynolds

Lana Turner

George Clooney

Lee Marvin

Denzel Washington

Christian Bale

Ingrid Bergman

Cher

Faye Dunaway

Jeanne Moreau

Jon Voight

Robert Downey Jr

Carole Lombard

Marilyn Monroe

Liam Neeson

Lino Ventura

Albert Finney

Richard Harris

Jennifer Jones

Tommy Lee Jones

John Malkovich

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Ginger Rogers

Sir Patrick Stewart

Robert Taylor

Kate Winslet

Chevy Chase

Daniel Day-Lewis

Tommy Lee Jones

Jack Lemmon

George Raft

Vanessa Redgrave

Keanu Reeves

Edward G Robinson

Drew Barrymore

Ralph Fiennes

Goldie Hawn

Sir Christopher Lee

Will Smith

James Caan

Tony Curtis

Jessica Lange

David Niven

Mickey Rourke

Winona Ryder

Reese Witherspoon

Ann-Margret

Glenn Close

Jennifer Connelly

Catherine Deneuve

Glenn Ford

Judy Garland

Hugh Grant

Sir Anthony Hopkins

Deborah Kerr

Val Kilmer

Tyrone Power

Barbra Streisand

Tony Curtis

Juliette Binoche

Willem Dafoe

Robert Duvall

Sarah Jessica Parker

George C Scott

Charlie Sheen

Emma Thompson

Faye Dunaway

Mia Farrow

Bridget Fonda

Charles Laughton

Ewan McGregor

Edward Norton

Jean Simmons

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Russell Crowe

Peter Cushing

Robert Donat

Douglas Fairbanks Jr

Laurence Harvey

Rock Hudson

Scarlett Johansson

Angelina Jolie

Dame Helen Mirren

Christopher Reeve

George C Scott

Uma Thurman

Richard Widmark

James Woods

Douglas Fairbanks Jr

Sir Alec Guinness

Diane Keaton

Myrna Loy

Mark Wahlberg

Sandra Bullock

Trevor Howard

Helen Hunt

William Hurt

Kevin Kline

Christophe(r) Lambert

Matthew McConaughey

Yves Montand

Anthony Quinn

Patrick Swayze

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Daniel Auteuil

Pierce Brosnan

Jake Gyllenhaal

Dennis Hopper

Charles Laughton

Robert Montgomery

Simone Signoret

Franchot Tone

Kathleen Turner

Ben Affleck

Anne Bancroft

Jessica Biel

David Bowie

Danny De Vito

Douglas Fairbanks Jr

Errol Flynn

Sir Rex Harrison

Jeremy Irons

Diane Lane

Gina Lollobrigida

Marcello Mastroianni

Gene Tierney

Rachel Weisz

James Woods

Claudtte Colbert

Ronald Colman

Cameron Diaz

John Garfield

Eva Green

Melanie Griffith

Jeremy Irons

Christophe(r) Lambert

Walter Matthau

Sissy Spacek

James Stewart

Shelley Winters

Loretta Young

Dame Julie Andrews

Jennifer Aniston

Anne Baxter

Michael Biehn

Charles Bronson

Bing Crosby

Colin Farrell

Mia Farrow

Ed Harris

Ida Lupino

Fred MacMurray

Bette Midler

Liam Neeson

Susan Sarandon

Romy Schneider

Cybill Shepherd

Emma Stone

Olivia Wilde

Amy Adams

Daniel Auteuil

Charles Boyer

Steve Buscemi

James Coburn

Danny DeVito

Michael Fassbender

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sir John Gielgud

Hugh Jackman

Anne Hathaway

Van Johnson

Gene Kelly

Grace Kelly

Alan Ladd

Eddie Murphy

Merle Oberon

Bill Paxton

Vincent Price

Elvis Presley

Charlotte Rampling

Buddy Roosevelt

Amanda Seyfried

Terence Stamp

Tallulah Bankhead

Halle Berry

Joan Collins

Tim Curry

Jamie Lee Curtis

Joan Fontaine

James Franco

Jean Gabin

Keira Knightley

Shia LaBeouf

Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lopez

Liza Minnelli

Molly Ringwald

Mickey Rooney

Amanda Seyfried

Martin Sheen

David Warner

Fred Astaire

Ann Baxter

Tom Chadbon

Doris Day

Matt Dillon

Sally Field

Carrie Fisher

Michael J Fox

Stewart Granger

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Ray Liotta

Ray Milland

Jack Palance

William Powell

Anthony Quinn

Christina Ricci

Rosalind Russell

Ann Rutherford

Norma Shearer

Ann Sheridan

Kevin Spacey

James Stewart

Marisa Tomei

Mark Wahlberg

Naomi Watts

Jean Arthur

Joan Collins

Michael J Fox

James Garner

Jeff Goldblum

Darryl Hannah

Sir John Hurt

Heath Ledge

John Malkovich

Joaquin Phoenix

Alan Rickman

Romy Schneider

Tom Selleck

Rod Steiger

Raquel Welch

Michael York

Rosanna Arquette

Dan Aykroyd

Cate Blanchett

Emily Blunt

Joseph Cotten

Greer Garson

Laura Dern

Ryan Gosling

Elliott Gould

Miriam Hopkins

Malcolm McDowell

Tobey Maguire

Eleanor Parker

Paul Scofield

Ally Sheedy

Max von Sydow

Robert Wagner

Naomi Watts

Matthew Broderick

John Carson

John Cleese

Bradley Cooper

Kirsten Dunst

Paulette Goddard

Tom Hardy

Sterling Hayden

Van Heflin

Katie Holmes

Samuel L Jackson

Boris Karloff

Rachel McAdams

Rooney Mara

Victor Mature

Viggo Mortensen

Kim Novak

Maureen O’Hara

George Sanders

Margaret Sullavan

Gloria Swanson

Tuesday Weld

Nicholas Ball

Kate Beckinsale

Annette Bening

Tom Berenger

Benicio Del Toro

Farrah Fawcett

Peter Finch

Andy Garcia

Ryan Gosling

Richard E Grant

Kate Hudson

Don Johnson

Danny Kaye

Kay Lenz

Rob Lowe

Sir Ian McKellen

Joe Pesci

Jason Robards

Tim Robbins

Alicia Silverstone

Wesley Snipes

Sir Peter Ustinov

Joanne Woodward

June Allyson

Gemma Arterton

Lauren Bacall

Sir Alan Bates

Candice Bergen

Brian Blessed

Leslie Caron

Claire Danes

Patrick Dewaere

John Goodman

Ethan Hawke

Sir Mick Jagger

Ashley Judd

Patsy Kensit

Harvey Keitel

Hedy Lamarr

Jude Law

Heath Ledger

Blake Lively

Patricia Neal

Jack Palance

Sir Michael Palin

Anthony Perkins

Sidney Poitier

Romy Schneider

Sam Shepard

Margaret Sullavan

Robin Wright (Penn)

Ursula Andress

Ralph Bellamy

Yul Brynner

Brian Donlevy

Jeanne Crain

Billy Crystal

Jamie Lee Curtis

Timothy Dalton

Linda Darnell

Peter Falk

Alice Faye

Whoopi Goldberg

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Josh Hartnett

Leslie Howard

Dolph Lundgren

Kelly McGillis

Walter Matthau

Ryan O’Neal

Donald Pleasence

Lee Remick

Jeremy Renner

Christina Ricci

Mary Steenburgen

Vince Vaughn

Evan Rachel Wood

Renée Zellweger

Jessica Alba

Ursula Andress

Dana Andrews

George Baker

Lucille Ball

Nicholas Ball

Lionel Barrymore

John Belushi

Stephen Boyd

George Brent

Marion Cotillard

Daniel Craig

Benicio Del Toro

Emilio Estevez

Rupert Everett

Frank Finlay

Brendan Fraser

Vittorio Gassman

Lillian Gish

Elliott Gould

Rutger Hauer

Bob Hoskins

Kate Hudson

Tab Hunter

John Lithgow

Alyssa Milano

Julianne Moore

Sir Roger Moore

John Payne

Ron Perlman

Walter Pidgeon

Christopher Plummer

Donna Reed

Jean Reno

Tim Roth

Randolph Scott

Robert Shaw

Elisabeth Shue

Tom Sizemore

Donald Sutherland

Sean Young

George Baker

William Baldwin

Sir Kenneth Branagh

Adrien Brody

Abbie Cornish

Patty Duke

Heather Graham

Jean Harlow

Sir Nigel Hawthorne

Amy Irving

Martin Jarvis

Kris Kristofferson

Christopher Lloyd

Rob Lowe

Kelly McGillis

Michael Madsen

Frank Morgan

Jean Peters

Michel Piccoli

Chris Pine

Luise Rainer

Oliver Reed

Saoirse Ronan

Isabella Rossellini

Sylvia Sidney

Michel Simon

Christian Slater

Mary Steenburgen

Ben Stiller

Hilary Swank

Channing Tatum

Rod Taylor

John Turturro

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Tim Allen

Don Ameche

Lord Richard Attenborough

Carroll Baker

Ellen Barkin

John Barrymore

Robert Blake

John Cassavetes

Lee J Cobb

Lily Collins

Melvyn Douglas

Deanna Durbin

José Ferrer

James Gandolfini

Scott Glenn

Michael Gothard

Linda Hamilton

Holly Hunter

Dame Glenda Jackson

Ronald Lacey

Dame Angela Lansbury

Ray Liotta

Kyle MacLachlan

Sophie Marceau

Frank Morgan

Claude Rains

Ronald Reagan

Adam Sandler

Simone Simon

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Patricia Arquette

Amitabh Bachchan

Kevin Bacon

Javier Bardem

Lionel Barrymore

Wallace Beery

Joan Bennett

Jim Broadbent

Bruce Campbell

Neve Campbell

Helena Bonham Carter

Will Ferrell

José Ferrer

Nastassja Kinski

Kelly McGillis

TP McKenna

Dean Martin

Dennis Morgan

Gérard Philipe

Ryan Phillippe

River Phoenix

Cliff Robertson

Clifford Rose

Robert Ryan

George Segal

Peter Vaughan

Max Von Sydow

Mia Wasikowska

Owen Wilson

Joss Ackland

Woody Allen

Gillian Anderson

Christina Applegate

Mary Astor

Stanley Baker

Geoffrey Bayldon

Jennifer Beals

Jim Belushi

Jacqueline Bisset

Albert Brooks

Gerard Butler

John Carradine

Graham Chapman

Jessica Chastain

Jeanne Crain

Macauley Culkin

James Dean

David Duchovny

Zac Efron

Robert Evans

Chris Farley

Frances Farmer

Frank Finlay

Peter Fonda

Bernard Giradeau

Betty Grable

Helen Hayes

Barbara Hershey

Katie Holmes

John Ireland

Milla Jovovich

Janet Leigh

Juliette Lewis

Sir Ben Kingsley

Jeanette MacDonald

Carey Mulligan

Heather Locklear

Ali McGraw

Sam Neill

Phillipe Noiret

Chris Pratt

Basil Rathbone

Debbie Reynolds

Miranda Richardson

Eva Marie Saint

Roy Scheider

Maria Schneider

Shirley Temple

Liv Tyler

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Mae West

Cornel Wilde

Anouk Aimée

Rowan Atkinson

Harry Andrews

Bernard Archard

Antonio Banderas

James Belushi

Claire Bloom

Gabriel Byrne

John Candy

Vincent Cassel

Peter Cushing

Paul Darrow

Marion Davies

James Dean

Vin Diesel

Stephen Dorff

Chris Evans

Will Ferrell

Mel Ferrer

Jon Finch

Laurence Fishburne

Ben Gazzara

Julian Glover

Daryl Hannah

Del Henney

Sir Ian Holm

Amy Irving

Dwayne Johnson

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Bernard Giraudeau

Bob Hope

Stephen Lang

Rachel McAdams

Jeanette MacDonald

Andie MacDowell

Kate Mara

Sophie Marceau

Sarah Miles

Dudley Moore

Rick Moranis

Kenneth More

Michele Morgan

Brittany Murphy

Chuck Norris

Teresa Palmer

Jon Pertwee

Alex Pettyfer

Micheline Presle

Dame Diana Rigg

Margot Robbie

Maximilian Schell

Chloë Sevigny

Kim Stanley

Sting

Margaret Sullavan

Justin Timberlake

Piul Walker

Naomi Watts

Stuart Whitman

Jane Wyman

Robert Young

Sean Young

Eddie Albert

Ian Bannen

Keith Barron

Constance Bennett

Steven Berkoff

Richard Boone

Ernest Borgnine

Emily Browning

Horst Buchholz

Ellen Burstyn

Claudia Cardinale

David Carradine

Henry Cavill

Ruth Chatterton

Jill Clayburgh

Brian Cox

Joan Cusack

Linda Darnell

Judy Davis

Laraine Day

Frances Dee

Benicio Del Toro

Angie Dickinson

Leo Durocher

Ruth Duskin

Joel Edgerton

José Ferrer

Morgan Freeman

Ben Gazzara

Peter Gilmore

Lilian Gish

George Hamilton

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Isabelle Huppert

Juliette Lewis

Bela Lugosi

James McAvoy

Patrick McGoohan

Dorothy McGuire

Kristy McNichol

Sienna Miller

Thomas Mitchell

Samantha Morton

Patrick Mower

George Peppard

Gérard Philipe

Chris Pine

Robert Preston

Mark Ruffalo

Jane Russell

Robert Stack

Kristen Stewart

Anthony Valentine

DIck Van Dyke

Michelle Williams

Donnie Yen

Tim Allen

Antonio Banderas

Barbara Bel Geddes

Josh Brolin

Jeff Chandler

Sam Claflin

Billy Crudup

Penelope Cruz

Sammy Davis Jr

Larraine Day

Louis De Funes

Bruce Dern

Diana Dors

Eliza Dushku

Jacques Dutronc

Sherilyn Fenn

Colin Firth

Peter Fonda

Preston Foster

Anthony Franciosa

Sir Michael Gambon

John Gilbert

Jennifer Grey

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Ann Harding

Olivia Hussey

Dean Jagger

Felicity Jones

James Earl Jones

Sailf Ali Khan

Martin Landau

Gérard Lanvin

Sondra Locke

Jean Marais

Burgess Meredith

Paul Muni

Brittany Murphy

Clive Owen

Jason Patric

Ryan Philippe

Mary Pickford

Sam Rockwell

Matthias Schoenaerts

Jane Seymour

Gary Sinise

James Spader

Stella Stevens

Kiefer Sutherland

Quentin Tarantino

David Tennant

Billy Bob Thornton

Emma Watson

Sam Worthington

Gene Wilder

Gig Young

Jessica Alba

Eddie Albert

Colin Baker

Javier Bardem

Hywel Bennett

Paul Bettany

Jack Black

Keith Carradine

Phoebe Cates

Cyd Charisse

Benedict Cumberbatch

Jeff Daniels

William Devane

Kay Francis

Priyanka Chopra

Diane Cilento

Sacha Baron Cohen

Richard Conte

Dominic Cooper

Sir Noël Coward

Courteney Cox

Danielle Darrieux

Aaron Eckhart

Britt Ekland

Laurence Fishburne

Claire Forlani

Megan Fox

Lilian Gish

Cuba Gooding Jr

Helene Grayco

Bill Hader

Rebecca Hall

Mark Hamill

Woody Harrelson

Salma Hayek

Garrett Hedlund

Charlie Hunnam

Walter Huston

Kareena Kapoor

Lisa Kudrow

Ashton Kutcher

Dinsdale Landen

Brie Larson

John Leguizamo

Anita Louise

Courtney Love

Joe McGann

Mark McGann

Anna Magnani

Burgess Meredith

John Mills

Miou-Miou

Jean-Pierre Mocky

Mnand Moore

Chloë Grace Mortez

Zero Mostel

Pola Negri

Bill Nighy

Edmond O’Brien

Rosie O’Donnell

Edward James Olmos

Kate O’Mara

Ed O’Neill

Mary-Louise Parker

Robert Pattinson
Elizabeth Perkins

Suzanne Pleshette

Martin Potter

Richard Pryor

Dick Powell

Eddie Redmayne

Sir Ralph Richardson

Emma Roberts

Katharine Ross

Robert Ryan

Telly Savalas

Matthias Schoenaerts

Jean Seberg

Tupac Shakur

Stella Stevens

Eric Stoltz

Madeleine Stowe

Hilary Swank

Kristin Scott Thomas

Lily Tomlin

Dick Van Dyke

Monica Vitti

Marina Vlady

Michelle Williams

Nicol Williamson

Frank Windsor

Teresa Wright

Keenan Wynn

Tom Adams

Brian Aherne

Lew Ayres

Lucille Ball

Eric Bana

Elizabeth Banks

Kathy Bates

Nathalie Baye

Elizabeth Berkley

Charles Bickford

Jane Birkin

Robert Blake

Orlando Bloom

Sandrine Bonnaire

Shirley Booth

Kate Bosworth

Clara Bow

Peter Boyle

Genevieve Bujold

Gary Busey

Neve Campbell

Kate Capshaw

Richard Carlson

Christopher Cazenove

Jackie Chan

Ken Colley

Sir Tom Courtenay

Michael Craig

Laird Cregar

Billy Crudup

Benedict Cumberbatch

Linda Darnell

Dame Judi Dench

Maurice Denham

Bo Derek

Laura Dern

Betsy Drake

Rhonda Fleming

James Fox

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Janeane Garofalo

John Gavin

Janet Gaynor

Mitzi Gaynor

Gloria Grahame

Anthony Michael Hall

Jon Hamm

Sir Cedric Hardwicke

June Haver

Jack Hawkins

Katherine Heigl

Mariel Hemingway

Donald Houston

Marin Ireland

Joshua Jackson

Michael Jayston

Marlene Jobert

Felicity Jones

Louis Jourdan

Curd Jürgens

Karisma Kapoor

Annna Karina

Diane Kruger

Akshay Kumar

Alan Lake

Peter Lawford

Jerry Lewis

Jet Li

Peter Lorre

Ian McCulloch

Roddy McDowall

Gulliver McGrath

Alan Marshal

Barry Miller

Hayley Mills

Patricia Morison

Olivia Newton-John

Bill Nighy

Jack Oakie

Pat O’Brien

Kate O’Mara

Mandy Pantinkin

Guy Pearce

Amanda Peet

Elizabeth Perkins

Kelly Preston

Robert Preston

Bill Pullman

Noomi Rapace

Ryan Reynolds

Ving Rhames

John Ritter

Seth Rogen

Hrithik Roshan

Annabella Sciorra

Steven Seagal

Kyra Sedgwick

Dame Maggie Smith

Ann Sothern

Tori Spelling

Kim Stanley

Harry Dean Stanton

Nigel Stock

Donald Sumpter

Chris Tucker

Eli Wallach

Lesley Ann Warren

Clifton Webb

Dianne Wiest

Shailene Woodley

Anton Yelchin

WELCOME

to the films the stars did not make. The movies that never were. The most definitive collation of casting stories. Check up on all the films - of yesterday, today and tomorrow - that your favourite stars never made... A cast of thousands - 8,063 actors - to click on... More than 40 years in the making! And 2,777,633 words of spirited text.

The ultimate in movie trivia ... Better! Exactly the kind of history that Hollywood deserves. Back to front. Upside-down. Inside out. Full of flashbacks, close-ups, tracking shots (and, alas some badly edited sequences - sorry about that!) forming a fascinating, new and often bizarre flip-side perspective on your treasured movies and stars

HE SAID

“They’re doing stuff, but not with me. I’m not doing any more.” – Adam Driver on no more Kylo Ren/Ben Solo ... Or is it that there will be no more Star Wars?

“I’ve been acting for 42 years and then you make one cocktail…” – Stanley Tucci on his new fame as a TV food and cookery expert.

"The point is it's very hard work and you have to really want to do it. It has to be something that you're burning to say." – Martin Scorsese on directing at 80 and thinking “possibly only one more”.

“Whether you are a competent actor, or an artist, is incidental. The main business is: you’re product. I had a hard time steadying myself against that stuff.” – Robert Redford.

“I’ve never done the same thing twice and how many people can say that?” – Tom Hanks… forgetting his two successive Oscars.

“I was so excited when I got the script for Silent Night. There’s no dialogue in the entire movie! I thought this would be very good for me because it lets me use my gifts for telling a story visually. – John Woo on his Hollywood comeback at 77.

“I’ve gotta be nice about Marvel movies, because I named myself after a Stan Lee character named Luke Cage. What am I going to do, put Marvel movies down? Stan Lee is my surrealistic father.” – Nic Cage.

“The man who invented mornings was no Christian.” – Peter O’Toole.

“The moustache did the acting.” – Anthony Hopkins on Howards End.

“It’s very difficult to get 100 million people to watch anything,” – writer-director Joe Russo.

“I gave him a little part in Looper, where he got to be shot in the face by Bruce Willis. He was just so overjoyed… like a little kid.” – director Rian Johnson on his father.

“I'm not an actor - and I've got 64 films to prove it!” – Victor Mature.

“If you cast it right, you don’t have to tell the actors what to do.” – John Huston.

CCC CLIPS

>> Name Game. James Spader really started something with his Blacklist series. He played – remember? – Reddington. And now we have Austin Butler and, Emma Stone are in making Eddington… and newbie Glenn Powell is Huntingdon, his tenth gig since Top Gun: Maverick. Perhaps it’s time to re-issue Carrington… with, among others, Steven Waddington!

>> Christopher Nolan says “No, sadly no – no truth to those rumours.” About making the next Bond. So, no Cillian Murphy as Jimbo, then?

>> Rolling Stone. Those Poor Things, Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe, are – naturally – in the next release of their Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos. It’s Emma’s third Yorgos collaboration. Most likely she’ll be in his next one, too, a re-make of the South Korean hit, Save the Green Planet. That was a comedy. But one can never categorise a Lanthimos experience. After all this one was first titled… And.

>> Taylor Swift’s guy, US football superstar Travis Kelce, is making moves on movies. To be as famous as Dwayne Johnson. Although people are now beginning to ask: Dwyane Whosis?

>>Brandon Routh was Superman back in the day. Today he’s in…Ick.

>> A star sure was born! Lady Gaga now getting $10million for Joker 2…

>> Sean Ono Lennon says Emma Stone should play his dad. Now there’s a thought. After all, Cate Blanchett played Bob Dylan…

>> Sly Stallone has come this far without bothering with serial killers but that’s what he’s chasing in The Epiphany. He plays a retiring cop - what else at 78?

>> Thirty years after the first, Neve Campbell returns in Scream 7. She refused #6 over a money row…

>> Beatles director Sam Mendes made Skyfall and Spectre and another actor who has played John Lennon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, might yet be the next 007…

>> Ryan Gosling tipped to be join the Marvelverse. (They need him more than he them). Henry Cavill may follow – so definitely no Bond then. Not after Argylle. If anyone witnessed that accident, could they call the appropriate authorities.

>> Will Smith comes back (or so he hopes) in an almost suicide squad blasting drug dealers in Sugar Bandits… while Colin Farrell settles for just Sugar – back to his usual smoothie looks after The Penguin…

>> White Lotus 3 resurrects Parker Posey, Walton Goggins, Jason Isaacs, Charlotte Le Bon, Scott Glenn and introduces Patrick Schwarzenegger. But which one is going to flash…something?

CHAMPION'S LEAGUE

The battle for the top spot between Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson has – I think – come to an end. Recently, we‘ve seen Marlon leading Jack by one or two movies – and then, almost immediately, vice-versa. The gap is much wider now between the former Mulholland Drive neighbours. Latest research dug up more titles for Jack - Mr Mom, A Christmas Story, Striptease, The Bicentennial Man, Expend4bles – so that he is now safe (?) at the top of league with 177 films he chose not to make compared to Brando’s 172. But you know - you never know…

(The full list of their huge lists of bypassed films are not on their pages for now - one of the hassles being tackled in our - yes, very slow! – restructuring).

Marlon Brando – 177
Jack Nicholson – 172
Paul Newman – 160
Cary Grant – 150
Robert De Niro – 140
Tom Cruise – 135
Dustin Hoffman – 126
Mel Gibson – 118
Sean Connery, Al Pacino – 117

Highest Brit remains, as always, Sir Sean at 117… followed by Laurence OIivier, 93; Richard Burton, 87; Peter O’Toole, 79; Elizabeth Taylor, 73; Peter Sellers, 72; Dirk Bogarde and James Mason, 68; Olivia De Havilland, 58; Vivien Leigh and Gary Oldman, 57.

Highest lady is Bette Davis, 97; Jodie Foster, 84; Michelle Pfeiffer, 81; Katharine Hepburn, 79; Julie Christie, 76; Meryl Streep, 75; Elizabeth Taylor, 73; Nicole Kidman, 72: Jane Fonda, 70; Julia Roberts, 68.

Younger Brigade: Johnny Depp 108; Leo, 75; Jim Carrey, 70; Madonna, 62; Natalie Portman, 57; Aishawarya Rai Bachchan, 40; Bridget Fonda, 36: Scarlett Johansson, Angelina Jolie, Uma Thurman, 35; Jake Gyllenhall, 33: Ben Affleck, 31.

(You'll find the full list at Champions in the Main Menu)

A BOND MISS

Is Léa Seydoux now a spy…or, to be more polite, a talent scout for Eon Productions? 007’s girl in both Spectre and No Time to Die appears to assisting the (rather quiet) search for the next Jimbo. In La bête (The Beast), one of her many new French films, Léa co-stars with Hammersmith’s George MacKay - Sam Mendes’ find for 1917. He learned French for the film, so this may not be his last Paris booking.

As Gabrielle and Louis, they work extremely well together as star-crossed lovers in three time-lines: 1904, 1914 and 2044. And he looks the business in his retro tuxedo. ‘Twould be fascinating to cast an eye over her report for Barbara Broccoli’s eyes only. On verra as Léa (and now even George) would say. We’ll see.

SHE SAID

“You need your parents to set boundaries and hold you accountable and keep you away from, like, weird people.” – Scarlett Johansson on surviving as a child actor.

“I was so deeply in love with Bella, it terrified me not to live up to her as a character. I felt like I was failing her in the first week, and failing Yorgos [Lanthimos]. ). It was just difficult. I could talk to him about it, but I couldn’t talk to her about it. “ – Emma Stone on making Poor Things, leading to her second Oscar.

“Everything was so beautiful up on that screen. That make-believe world was much more pleasant than anything I was experiencing. I didn’t like reality. I wanted to be in the movies, even though I knew I didn’t look like the other women on the screen. My mother said, ‘you better learn to type,’ but I didn’t listen. Somehow, some way, thank you God, it all came true.” – Barbra Streisand, receiving lifetime achievement honour from the Screen Actors Guild.

“If I arrive at a moment in the history of cinema where I am legally obliged to have some kind of police on my set telling me what I’m allowed to do, I would rather stop filming sex scenes completely.” – French director Mia Hansen-Løve.

“I’m not one to sit around doin’ nothin’, I would never retire, I’ll just hopefully drop dead in the middle of a song onstage, someday, hopefully one I’ve written.” – Dolly Parton.

“Playing it safe doesn’t necessarily get you anywhere. You have to take chances. especially if you’re a black woman. You have no choice.” – Halle Berry.

“The more famous an actress becomes, the less she's allowed to eat.” – Lana Turner.

“I don’t do T&A very well because I haven’t got much of either.” – Tea Leoni.

“I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.” – Sally Kellerman.

“As you get older, you realise your parents aren't these superheroes. They're actually people.” – Rumer Willis, daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.

“Everybody thought I was crazy. And by the way, I thought I was crazy.” – Jennifer Lopez on spending $20m of her own money on making This Is Me … Now: A Love Story.

“It’s dangerous to repeat performances. It becomes the sole thing on your gravestone.” – Helen Mirren on playing The Queen in The Queen and on stage in The Audience.

“I think I was offered every Marilyn Monroe script ever. I was like: Is this the end of the road creatively?’” – Scarlett Johansson on surviving as a star.

WAIT & SEE...

This is such a busy year for movies that various releases have been postponed until 2025… Captain America: Brave New World, Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17, Games of Thrones spin-off The Hedge Knight (not about a gardener), Ke Huy Quan’s actioner With Love, John Wick’s spin-off, Ballerina, Fast X :part 2, Avatar 3, Jurassic World 4, Black Mirror 7, Mission: Impossible 8, Fantastic Four, Superman and the dreaded Michael bio – more like horror film, surely. Oh and no The Batman 2 or Harry P TV series until 2026.