23 Years Ago, Harrison Ford Laughed at Jokes About Playing Indiana Jones at 80 Years Old: ‘Indiana Jones and the Comfortable Bed’

Josie Gibson was keen to give her fans and followers a 'reminder' after sharing her gratitude following her This Morning return. The presenter was back on screens on Monday (July 31) alongside Craig Doyle.

She may be famous for appearing on the famous cobbles but Coronation Street star Jane Danson has shared how she actually 'owes' rival Emmerdale. The actress shared the message on social media as she paid tribute to her famous husband who was enjoying a double celebration.

Police have issued a missing persons appeal to help track down two Tameside teenagers who were last seen more than two weeks ago.

A newly-wed was diagnosed with breast cancer just four months after she tied the knot. Lauren Upshall, 37, said she was the 'fittest and healthiest' she'd ever been and was 'living her best life' when the shock diagnosis came.

A man has been charged by detectives investigating an alleged attempted abduction of a teenager.

If you’re seeking somewhere different for your summer staycation, it’s time to discover bonnie Argyll in scenic West Scotland. This is loch and mountain country, with views to take your breath away – yet only 1.5 hours from Glasgow.

Scientists have petitioned for large-scale trials to be conducted to explore whether drinking kombucha can help cut blood sugar levels among those with type 2 diabetes.

Big Brother legend and trans pioneer Nadia Almada has shared her excitement about the rebooted series and admits she wants to be involved.

Drivers in Scotland have been warned that parking on the pavement could soon mean they're slapped with a fine of up to £150.

Angus Cloud had completed work on his role in an upcoming monster thriller prior to his untimely death, ET has confirmed. The film is slated for an April 2024 release.The actor died on Monday, his family previously shared in a statement.

A mother and her two children were left traumatised after a gang of thugs smashed their way into her home.

Costa Coffee has updated its loyalty scheme - and many customers have been left unhappy by the change.

Helen Flanagan has told her fans 'it's really bad' as she told them of her hidden problem after arriving back in the UK. The actress was brought back to reality with a bang as her holiday in Barbados with her children came to an end.

A woman who said she couldn't enjoy her Spain holiday due to her weight returned to the same destination 12 months later - but seven-and-a-half stone lighter.

Charlotte Dawson has admitted she's an 'emotional wreck' after welcoming her second child into the world. The reality TV star took to social media to share the moment her two sons met for the first time days after giving birth to baby Jude.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The Asia Contents Awards, held as part of the Busan International Film Festival since 2019, is to join forces with the Global OTT Awards to form a wider-reaching event. The merged events are to be known under the ungainly abbreviation ACA & G.OTT Awards and will be co-hosted by South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and Busan Metropolitan City authorities. The ceremony will be held in Busan on Sunday Oct.

Napoleon co-star Vanessa Kirby on set to “surprise” her, as part of a pact they’d made.The actor, who portrays the titular character in Ridley Scott’s upcoming biopic about the French military commander, hits his fictional wife Joséphine de Beauharnais (Kirby) in a heated divorce scene.Phoenix and Kirby explained to Empire that they’d agreed to shock each other whilst filming to ensure that the movie didn’t feel like a boring, overly planned biopic.“We were using the real words from their divorce in the church,” Kirby said. “When that happens, you can faithfully go through an archival re-enactment of it and read out the lines and then go home.

Gunfire Games‘ Remnant 2 has revealed a new character class that was designed specifically for dataminers to discover for the community.Per Forbes, Remnant 2 principal designer Ben Cureton said that there was no way that the developer could discourage datamining of its Soulslike shooter. Moreover, this genre of game does see a lot of players sift through code and try ridiculous things in the game’s world to determine if there are any hidden secrets.To unlock the Archon in #Remnant2, one must penetrate the code itself.We knew we couldn't stop datamining, so we leaned into it and created an entire Archetype that could be shared with the community once revealed by those with the ability to see between worlds.

Kanye West‘s has wiped his Twitter (X) account clean just days after being re-instated by Elon Musk.It comes after he was previously banned from the platform three times, the last being on December 2 last year after the rapper tweeted an illustration of a swastika inside a Star of David.The inflammatory post was one of many West – also known as Ye – tweeted at the time, culminating in Musk confirming that West’s account would be suspended due to violating the platform’s policies “against incitement to violence”.The rapper previously faced significant backlash after making a series of antisemitic remarks, wearing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt, and expressing false claims about the death of George Floyd.Despite his account being re-instated to Twitter earlier this week, West will now not be eligible to monetise his account and advertisements will not appear next to his posts.His account was reinstated after receiving reassurance that he would not use the platform to share antisemitic or otherwise harmful language.The rapper has since wiped all his tweets from the account.

Angus Cloud's loved ones are continuing to mourn his tragic death. The star, who played the role of Fezco on the drama, died on July 31, his family previously confirmed to ET. He was 25.

Believe and its TuneCore subsidiary have surveyed nearly 1600 self-releasing artists about generative AI. Half of those surveyed said that they had a positive perception of artificial intelligence and would be willing to offer their music for the training of AI models.Around a third said they were interested in using AI as part of their music-making process, with a similar amount reckoning AI technologies could help them with their marketing and promotion.Commenting on the study, TuneCore CEO Andreea Gleeson says: “As AI continues to be a conversation topic across creative industries, we sought to engage directly with independent artists to determine their awareness of AI and how they’re most interested in engaging with it”.“TuneCore’s main priorities lie in the interests of our artists”, she adds, “so the responses to this survey will help us enable them to utilise AI on our platform with consent, control, transparency, and fair monetary compensation”.Of those surveyed, 35% said that they are interested in using AI in their creative process, while 31% said it could help with marketing and promotion around releases.Meanwhile, 18% said they might use AI technologies to create promotional content – including videos to post to TikTok and Instagram – while 16% said they were interested in how AI could help them more generally engage and develop their fanbases.In terms of allowing tech companies to use their creative output in order to train generative AI models, 50% showed a willingness to allow that to happen.

A police report has been filed by an audience member after an altercation occurred during a Cardi B show in Las Vegas this weekend.During a performance at Drai’s Beachclub on Saturday, an audience member threw a drink at the rapper. She then quickly retaliated by throwing her microphone at said audience member.Video footage of the event seems to show the person who threw the drink subsequently apologising before being escorted out of the venue by security.

The US district court for the Central District Of California last week published a judgement that provided a pretty extensive overview of what was a big legal debate in the US music industry for a time: whether online radio services like Pandora and Sirius were obliged to pay royalties when they played pre-1972 recordings.A lot of that debate centred on lawsuits pursued by the artists Flo & Eddie, who were members of the 1960s band The Turtles.In theory, the 2018 Music Modernization Act removed the ambiguities that those lawsuits sought to address. However, some technicalities remained in relation to Flo & Eddie’s litigation, meaning the lawsuit against Sirius rumbled on until 2021, and the Pandora dispute until last week.

APPOINTMENTSDeezer has appointed Florence Lao as its General Counsel. “Deezer is leading the way for the future of the music industry and I’m looking forward to contributing to continued success, together with the talented teams in France and across the globe”, she says. “The music landscape is changing quickly, with Deezer playing a key role for its partners, the industry, and fans alike.

Travis Scott and his legal team have been dubbed “stunningly tone deaf” for criticising the timing of the publication of a police report about the Astroworld tragedy. The Houston Police Department made that lengthy document available on Friday, just as Scott released his new album ‘Utopia’, his first since the fatal crowd surge that occurred during his headline set at the 2021 edition of the festival he founded.On Friday, a representative for Scott told TMZ: “The timing of the Houston Police Department report’s release, coinciding with the launch of Travis Scott’s highly anticipated album, is anything but coincidental … it is outrageous that HPD has chosen to resort to tactics that attempt to discredit Travis and his team, casting doubt on how the unfortunate events at Astroworld actually transpired while deflecting blame from their own critical failures”.Responding to those remarks, a lawyer working for the family of one of those who died during the crowd surge, ten year old Ezra Blount, said in his own statement to TMZ: “For an artist making his living with music, these are stunningly tone deaf comments about this preventable tragedy that took so many lives and injured so many”.Ten people died and hundreds more were injured during the crowd surge at Astroworld 2021, which took place in Houston’s NRG Park.

Fast-rising punk band Teen Jesus And The Jean Teasers have released the latest single from their upcoming debut album ‘I Love You’ – its opening track ‘I Used To Be Fun’. Despite its title, the track finds the band at their most fun, its jaunty pace belying the lyrical claims of the song.“‘I Used To Be Fun’ is about getting older and redefining the way you have fun”, say the band.

If you’re yet to try Ed Sheeran’s Tingly Ted’s hot sauce, then this could be your month. The pop star has announced a partnership with the Honest Burgers restaurant chain to flavour up its hot beef.Yes, having launched his own sauce brand in February – and a TV ad campaign in June – Sheeran now has a restaurant partner to help push his condiments.Throughout August, anyone who walks in the doors of one of Honest Burgers’ 42 UK restaurants (or orders takeaway via Uber Eats) will be able to grab a special burger which, says a press release, will be “drenched” in Ed’s special sauce.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” almost pulled an “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” by opening with an extended sequence featuring a de-aged version of its main star. “Dial of Destiny” de-aged Harrison Ford to mixed results for a 25-minute opener. “Dead Reckoning” director Christopher McQuarrie ultimately nixed an idea to de-age Tom Cruise because the technology just isn’t convincing enough yet. “Originally, there had been a whole sequence at the beginning of the movie that was going to take place in 1989,” McQuarrie told GamesRadar+ and Total Film. “We talked about it as a cold open, we talked about it as flashbacks in the movie, we looked at de-aging.”

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Disney CEO Bob Iger is citing the studio’s output increase for Disney+ as one reason for “some disappointments” as of late. Speaking to CNBC’s David Faber at the Sun Valley Conference, Iger admitted the studio screwed with audience expectation by offering up so much streaming content. The negative impact of that has been commercial disappointments in theaters, be it “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” not even getting past the $500 million worldwide or disappointing openings for summer tentpoles “Elemental” and “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” “There have been some disappointments we would have liked some of our more recent releases to perform better,” Iger said. “It’s reflective not as a problem from a personnel perspective, but I think in our in our zeal to basically grow our content significantly to serve mostly our streaming offerings, we ended up taxing our people way beyond — in terms of their time and their focus — way beyond where they had been.”

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Reese Witherspoon said in a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar that filming a sex scene at 19 years old for the 1996 thriller “Fear” was not “a particularly great experience.” Directed by James Foley, “Fear” stars Witherspoon as a teenager who falls for a sinister young man played by Mark Wahlberg. One of the film’s buzziest scenes centers on Witherspoon’s character having an orgasm on a rollercoaster while being pleasured by Mark Wahlberg’s character. “I didn’t have control over it,” Witherspoon said about filming the sex scene, adding that she requested a stunt double be used for the below-the-waist shots. “It wasn’t explicit in the script that that’s what was going to happen, so that was something that I think the director thought of on his own and then asked me on set if I would do it, and I said no. It wasn’t a particularly great experience.”

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Robert Downey Jr. admitted in a recent interview with The New York Times Magazine that he was concerned his acting chops might be at risk while playing Iron Man/Tony Stark for 11 years in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The actor debuted as the superhero in 2008’s “Iron Man” and was killed off in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame,” appearing in a total of nine Marvel movies. “You start to wonder if a muscle you have hasn’t atrophied,” Downey Jr. said about the risks of playing the same character for over a decade. When asked if he had any concerns about what effect playing Iron Man for 11 years might have on his acting, Downey Jr. replied: “Yes. 100%, and I knew there was a point where Christopher Nolan was endorsing, let’s work those other muscles, but let’s do it while rendering you devoid of your usual go-to things.”

Zack Sharf Digital News Director In a new video interview with GQ magazine, Harrison Ford revealed that he pushed back against Indiana Jones’ iconic costume when he first saw the plans for his character during the development of Steven Spielberg’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981). The costume included a leather jacket, a bullwhip and a pinch-front fedora that Ford stapled to his head during production so that it would not fly off during action scenes. Ford told GQ he still has the staple scars. “It was presented to me as an aspect of character in the first film,” Ford said about Indiana Jones’ costume. “My questions about it were many. Why am I wearing a leather jacket in the jungle? Isn’t it hot here? Why am I carrying a whip? What am I going to do with a fucking whip? I’m going to whip people?”

Zack Sharf Digital News Director When thinking of the most important movie in Robert Downey Jr.’s filmography over the last 25 years, one might naturally assume the answer is “Iron Man,” the 2008 superhero tentpole that launched the Marvel Cinematic Universe and changed the blockbuster landscape in Hollywood. But that’s not the movie Downey Jr. himself would pick. In a new interview with The New York Times Magazine, the Oscar nominee cited 2006’s “The Shaggy Dog” and 2020’s infamous “Dolittle” flop as his most important titles. “I finished the Marvel contract and then hastily went into what had all the promise of being another big, fun, well-executed potential franchise in ‘Dolittle,'” Downey Jr. said. “I had some reservations. Me and my team seemed a little too excited about the deal and not quite excited enough about the merits of the execution. But at that point I was bulletproof. I was the guru of all genre movies. Honestly, the two most important films I’ve done in the last 25 years are ‘The Shaggy Dog,’ because that was the film that got Disney saying they would insure me. Then the second most important film was ‘Doolittle,’ because ‘Dolittle’ was a two-and-a-half-year wound of squandered opportunity.”

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Rainn Wilson told Bill Maher on the latter’s “Club Random” podcast that he spent “several years” on NBC’s “The Office” unhappy because he failed to become a movie star. Wilson, who starred as Dwight Schrute on the beloved sitcom, was a main cast member on all nine seasons of the show. “When I was in‘The Office,’ I spent several years really mostly unhappy because it wasn’t enough,” Wilson admitted. “I’m realizing now, like, I’m on a hit show, Emmy nominated every year, making lots of money, working with Steve Carell and Jenna Fisher and John Krasinski and these amazing writers and incredible directors like Paul Feig. I’m on one of the great TV shows. People love it. I wasn’t enjoying it. I was thinking about, ‘Why am I not a movie star? Why am I not the next Jack Black or the next Will Ferrell? How come I can’t have a movie career? Why don’t I have this development deal?'”

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Harrison Ford roasted Conan O’Brien on a recent episode of the “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast after the “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” icon discovered O’Brien had “Han Solo” written down in his notes for the interview. The two men were playfully arguing about Ford’s ancestry, which led O’Brien to consult some info he had jotted down prior to the interview. “I refer you to this piece of paper right here,” O’Brien said. “That says, ‘Born and raised in Chicago to an Irish German father—'” Ford leaned over to take a look at O’Brien’s notes and then interrupted the host when he realized they included a reminder that Ford played Han Solo in the “Star Wars” franchise. Along with Indiana Jones, Han Solo is Ford’s most iconic character.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Harrison Ford just wrapped up his tenure as Indiana Jones in the franchise’s fifth installment, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” which opened in theaters just a few weeks before the actor’s 81st birthday. Tom Cruise hopes to have the same longevity when it comes to playing Ethan Hunt in Paramount’s long-running “Mission: Impossible” franchise. Speaking to The Sydney Morning Herald at the Australian premiere of “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One,” Cruise said he wants to keep making “Mission: Impossible” movies until he is Ford’s age. Cruise just turned 61 years old on July 3, 2023. “Harrison Ford is a legend; I hope to be still going. I’ve got 20 years to catch up with him,” Cruise said. “I hope to keep making ‘Mission: Impossible’ films until I’m his age.”