Dakota Johnson on Her “Love-Hate Relationship” With Acting and Producing and Dealing With “Shady Financiers”

Dakota Johnson on Her “Love-Hate Relationship” With Acting and Producing and Dealing With “Shady Financiers”

Dakota Johnson revealed she has a “love-hate relationship” with aspects of her job as an actress, and now as a producer, due to the “shady” elements in the entertainment industry, as well as the “exhausting” internal battles she has to endure as a performer trying “fight with myself to get to an emotional place.” Taking…

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Celine Song Takes Her ‘Materialists’ Victory Lap: “I’m Able to Be Fearless Because I’m Not Full of Sh**”

Celine Song Takes Her ‘Materialists’ Victory Lap: “I’m Able to Be Fearless Because I’m Not Full of Sh**”

Celine Song was waiting for it. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker was in London, a few months after her sophomore feature Materialists had bowed to critical and commercial success in the U.S. — and spurred dozens of thinkpieces about its depictions of modern dating, capitalism, and gender roles (okay, and leg-lengthening surgery). She’d noticed a pattern in…

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Dakota Johnson Gets Karlovy Vary Award and Love, Calls Celine Song “Probably the Best Filmmaker of Our Time”

Dakota Johnson Gets Karlovy Vary Award and Love, Calls Celine Song “Probably the Best Filmmaker of Our Time”

Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey, Black Mess, Suspiria) got feted at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on Saturday as the audience for one of her latest movies showered the Hollywood star with enthusiastic applause and love, and she received one of the Czech fest’s honors. On a summer-y and warm evening of day three…

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Box Office: ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Roars to Record M U.S. Opening, 8M Globally

Box Office: ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Roars to Record $84M U.S. Opening, $198M Globally

Borrowing a page from Disney’s playbook is paying off big time for Universal at the box office, where the live-action remake of DreamWorks Animation‘s How to Train Your Dragon opened to a series-best $83.7 million domestically and $197.8 million globally, according to Sunday estimates. That includes a huge international haul of $114.1 million from 81…

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Sandra Bullock Welcomed Dakota Johnson to the “Razzie Club” After Her ‘Madame Web’ Worst Actress Win

Sandra Bullock Welcomed Dakota Johnson to the “Razzie Club” After Her ‘Madame Web’ Worst Actress Win

After receiving her first Razzie Award for worst actress for Madame Web, Dakota Johnson learned she’s actually part of a special club now. The Materialists actress revealed during a recent appearance on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast that Sandra Bullock reached out to her to welcome her to the “Razzie Club.” “Sandra Bullock sent me a voice…

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‘Splitsville’ Review: Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona in a Winning Indie Comedy That Puts Two Divorcing Couples Through the Wringer

‘Splitsville’ Review: Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona in a Winning Indie Comedy That Puts Two Divorcing Couples Through the Wringer

What many of us know as screwball comedies — particularly the great ones of the 1930s and 40s — philosopher Stanley Cavell famously dubbed “remarriage comedies,” describing a popular template in which wedded couples drifted apart at the start of the movie, only to get back together at the end. In between were all the…

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#Dakota Johnson “100 Percent Had Preconceived Notions” About Justin Timberlake Before Starring in ‘Social Network’ Together

#Dakota Johnson “100 Percent Had Preconceived Notions” About Justin Timberlake Before Starring in ‘Social Network’ Together

Dakota Johnson is looking back at one of her first film roles, which saw her star opposite Justin Timberlake in The Social Network. The actress was recently asked during a video interview with Vanity Fair if she had any “preconceived ideas” about the “SexyBack” singer before filming together in the 2010 David Fincher-directed movie. “Are you kidding? I…

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