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Tokyo ctress Zoe Saldana says she is excited about her character from Afilm “Guardians of the Galaxy” finding a place in “Avengers: Infinity War”. Saldana will reprise her role of a green-skinned alien named Gamora for the film, and will battle the evil alongside superheroes like Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr), Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Captain America (Chris Evans). In fact, she will also be joined by her squad from Los Angeles “Guardians of the Galaxy” ctress Michelle in the next “Avengers” Rodriguez says she is instalment. Chris Pratt will A“fiery and feisty” and girl reprise the role of Peter power-oriented like her Quill (also nicknamed character SmurfStorm. Star-Lord), Dave Bautista In the forthcoming as Drax, while Vin Diesel animated film “Smurfs and Bradley Cooper will - The Lost Village”, the be the voices of Groot and “Girlfight” star has voiced he whole world knows how much of a busy bee Dwayne Johnson is, but that does not keep him from Rocket, respectively. the role of SmurfStorm. Tmeeting and surprising his fans. “I am excited for Talking about the role, The 44-year-old actor took to his Instagram page and shared a picture of himself surprising the ‘Avengers’. It will be she said in a statement: Disneyland guests as they were about to set a sail on ‘Jungle Cruise.’ amazing to have all of “SmurfStorm is a handful. He captioned the snap, “Surprise! Once I committed to our Disney partners to make JUNGLE CRUISE, these characters of Marvel She’s fierce and totally I wanted to dive head first into the research. So I headed to Walt Disney World and surprised tourists by Universe come together and protective of her fellow Smurfs, ctor Brad Pitt is set to star in James Gray’s science-fictionfilm ‘Ad Astra’, the commandeering the JUNGLE CRUISE ride.” fight a supervillain Thanos. We her team. They’re her family. She’ll director confirmed. In the movie, the 53-year-old star will essay the role of a The ‘Fate of the Furious’ star feels that he “learned a lot” and “had a great day on the river”. have shot some scenes and they do whatever it takes to take care of A‘slightly autistic’ space engineer, who makes a journey through the solar system. “It was a GREAT day on the river. Learned a lot.. for example, it takes approximately 12.6 minutes for are turning out to be amazing,” them.” Gray broke the news in his recent interview with Collider and added that they would all the passengers to get over the shock of me jumping on the boat and thinking I’m a DJ look-a-like. One Saldana said. (IANS) Rodriguez says she’s like her character start shooting in July this year. passenger even said, “Oh the real Rock is much smaller than this guy”. I threw his ass off the boat.” (TOI) in more ways than one. “Yes, yes, and yes,” Gray said when asked whether Pitt would have a starring role in “I’m kind of fiery and feisty, just like ‘Ad Astra’. “I’m terrified by it. The science-fiction genre is so tricky because there are SmurfStorm. We’re both pretty girl elements of fantasy usually involved, and there are also fantastical elements. What I’m power-oriented. So yeah, there might trying to do is the most realistic depiction of space travel that’s been put in a movie and be some typecasting there, but then to basically say, ‘Space is awfully hostile to us’.” (TOI) I’m also very connected to my friends and protective of them. So in that way, SmurfStorm is just like me.” (IANS)

ction star Vin Diesel Asays voicing Groot in The Boss Baby $26.4 million ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ is very challenging as Beauty and the Beast $23.7 million the limited vocabulary makes it hard to get Smurfs: The Lost Village $13.2 million emotion across. Diesel’s character in Going in Style $11.9 million the Marvel Comics movie franchise is a Ghost in the Shell $7.3 million tree-like humanoid named Groot who Power Rangers $6.2 million can only say “I am Groot”. April 12, 1994 Kong: Skull Island $5.6 million “It’s very, very challenging Get Out $4.1 million because you’re Actress who was nominated for the Best Supporting Los Angeles limited to three Actress Academy Award in 2008 after co-starring in ctor Don Cheadle will produce and star in upcoming biopic “Prince of Logan $4.02 million words. There’s a Darkness”, which will focus on the life of 19th Century millionaire Jeremiah secret script that I Atonement. She earned her second Academy Award AG. Hamilton. The script of the film has been adapted from Shane White’s book The Case for Christ $3.96 million get where it has all “Prince of Darkness: The Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street’s First Black of Groot’s lines,” nomination for her lead role in the 2015 film Brooklyn. Millionaire”, reports variety.com. (AFP) Diesel said. (TOI) White’s book portrays Hamilton as a larger-than-life character who defied convention during the period and amassed a $2 million fortune by the time of his death in 1875. (IANS)