Allen dropped some hints about the Toy Story sequel in a recent interview on The Tonight Show and told the host Jimmy Fallon that he’s been contacted by Disney.

“Bob Iger, head of Disney, said it was on. He actually said it was going to happen. They have reached out to Tom and I to reprise the roles. They’re not saying anything about it,” said Allen.

Allen also revealed that he has been reluctant about returning as Buzz Lightyear because you must wonder if five movies are too many. He decided to come back because one of the original scribes is involved with the sequels, adding this could be “a very, very interesting way to reunite it.”

Upon its release in 2019, Toy Story 4 garnered critical acclaim and crossed the coveted $1 billion mark to become the highest-grossing film in the franchise. The sequel would serve as a potential revival of this franchise, which is yet to recover from the disappointing box office numbers of the polarizing spin-off Lightyear.

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Freddie Prinze Jr. tells Entertainment Weekly that originally, it was Tom Hanks who was to portray the “manny” Ross (David Schwimmer) and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) hire to watch Emma in “The One With the Male Nanny.”

“I wasn’t even supposed to be [Sandy], that was originally offered to Tom Hanks but he wasn’t gonna make it back from his film on time,” Prinze told Entertainment Weekly. “And so my agent called me and said, ‘Do you want to be on Friends? And I said, ‘Yeah, I’ll do an episode of Friends. That’ll be great.’ He said, ‘Yeah, it shoots tomorrow.’ and I was like, ‘What?’ He said, ‘Yes, tomorrow so I’ll send you the script.’”

Over its ten seasons and 236 episodes, the iconic sitcom had over 73 of the industry’s A-listers guest star. The slew of famous actors and actresses include Reese Witherspoon, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Danny DeVitto, Susan Sarandon, and many many more. 

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The Masters of the Air WWII miniseries has found a new home in Apple’s forthcoming streaming service. Based on the book of the same name by Donald L. Miller, the miniseries focuses on American bombers during the war. 

Unlike the first two parts, which aired on HBO, the network decided to pass on the project. “After careful consideration, HBO decided not to move forward with Masters of the Air. We look forward to our next collaboration with Playtone and Amblin,” a statement issued by the premium cabler read. 

Gary Goetzman, Spielberg and Hanks’ collaborator on the two previous installments, will also executive produce, with Hanks and Goetzman’s Playtone and Spielberg’s Amblin Television producing the series with Apple.

Apple TV+ launches November 1.

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The 62-year-old actor recalled what it was like voicing the Toy Story character Woody for the very last time. 

Hanks, who was a guest earlier this week on The Graham Norton Show said to the host that saying those last couple of lines really hit him hard.

“It was terrible, it was terrible,” Hanks said. “I started recording Woody in 1991. That’s when we got together to do the first one.”

He continued: “You record these things over about four years, and the last session — I thought it would just be odds and ends — but I was in the same studio with the same microphone, and they said ‘OK, great, thanks.’ And just like that, 20 however many years were over.”

“My lip started quivering. You ever do this, when you’re so uncomfortable all you can say is, ‘Well, oh, my my. Oh my, my my my my. Oh, well.’ And the only thing to do was to go and get in my car and drive away.”

Hanks has been a part of the franchise for the better part of the last 25 years. The latest installment, Toy Story 4 hit theaters June 20 and has dominated the weekend box office since its premiere. 

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Wiley, who won an Emmy for her work in The Handmaid’s Tale will star opposite Tom Hanks in the movie that follows the last man on Earth, who builds a robot to care for his dog.

The film centers on Finch (Hanks), an ailing inventor facing his own mortality, who’s the last man on Earth. He builds a robot (Caleb Landry Jones) to care for his dog, and the trio embark on an epic cross-country journey where the scientist must teach his creation to become human enough to take care of his beloved pet and for his dog to accept a new master.

Game of Thrones helmer Miguel Sapochnik will direct Bios from a script penned by Craig Luck and Ivor Powell. Luck and Powell also serve as executive producers alongside Robert Zemeckis and Andy Berman.

Bios is expected to hit theaters in 2020.

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Sony Pictures has finally released the official title of the Mr. Rogers/Tom Hanks film. The untitled Mr. Rogers project, which at some point was titled You Are My Friend, is titled A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.

Marielle Heller will direct from a script penned by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster.

The film is based on the real-life friendship between Fred Rogers, star of the long-running Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,  and award-winning journalist Junod. It tells the story of Junod who begrudgingly accepted an assignment to write a profile piece on the beloved icon and finds his perspective on life transformed.

Hanks is set to portray the beloved TV personality Rogers. The cast also includes Matthew Rhys, as Lloyd, a fictionalized version of Junod, as well as Chris Cooper, Tammy Blanchard, and Sakina Jaffrey.

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is scheduled to hit theaters October 18.

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The first official image was released Thursday and the transformation simply could not be more accurate. Hank was of course sporting Mr. Rogers’ iconic look: a red sweater, a dress shirt and tie, taupe trousers, and a pair of blue plimsoll shoes.

News of Hanks’ participation in the biopic was first reported in January. The film is based on the true story of the friendship between the Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood host and journalist Tom Junod.

The Marielle Heller helmed feature is currently shooting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

“It’s a movie that’s largely focused on a reporter and [Mr. Rogers’] relationship to his life, and how [the reporter’s] whole world changes when coming in contact with Fred Rogers,” said Heller. 

“It’s a story for our times, a story about kindness and family connection and trying to tap into our better self. God knows we need that right now!” she continued. “In the research for the movie, the writers found that more people than they could possibly count credited Mr. Rogers with changing their lives…. [It’s about] one man who’s in a critical point in his life — becoming a new father, having issues with his own father — and meeting Mr. Rogers to write a piece about him, thinking it’s going to be a bit of a puff piece, but it ends up changing his entire life.”

Penning the script are Transparent producers Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster. 

The still untitled film opens in theaters on October, 2019. 

Tom Hanks is Mister Rogers, coming to a neighborhood near you October 2019. pic.twitter.com/2TP3eiPUCx

— Sony Pictures (@SonyPictures) September 27, 2018

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Who would have believed that the movie about a boy who wanted to grow up so bad, is turning 30 this year.

The beloved 1988 comedy about 12-year-old Josh Baskin, who, thanks to the magic of Zoltar, is transformed into a 30-year-old man played by Tom Hanks. 

Since 30 is a big number, and 2018 marks the film’s 30th anniversary, Turner Classic Movies and 20th Century Fox have decided to celebrate the occasion by bringing the film back to theaters. 

Big will return to more than 700 theaters across the US for two days only on July 15 and July 18. 

Big earned Hanks the first of his five Oscar nomination for Best Actor. 

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Tristar Pictures announced that the 61-year-old actor is set to play Fred Rogers aka Mr. Rogers in a biopic about the life of children’s TV icon, star of the show Mister Rogers Neighborhood, which ran for 31 seasons, from 1968 until 2011.

The project is directed by Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl) and based on a script penned by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster (Transparent). Heller told Variety that she is “thrilled to be making” the film.

“The script knocked me out with its message of kindness and its exploration of the human spirit. As a mother, I am so inspired by the teachings of Fred Rogers and as a human, I am in awe of his life’s work. I can’t wait to bring his story to the public and be a part of such a thoughtful, smart group of people who are all coming together to make this film, which truly feels to me like an antidote to our very fractured culture.”

The film is inspired by Rogers’ real-life friendship with journalist Tom Junod, an assignment that ended up in a classic 1998 Esquire profile. Junod tweeted about the news saying, however, that the film is “very loosely” based on his Esquire story.

Rogers’ Emmy-nominated series was one of the longest-running children’s shows of all time. Seems fit that it’ll Hanks who was chosen to pay homage to one of America’s truly good real-life figures.

The Fred Rogers profile which inspired the movie to be made with Tom Hanks was the cover story of our "Heroes" issue. And the best thing about today's news is that Hanks wants Fred to be understood as a hero of his time — meaning our time, right now.https://t.co/IWhQpQxCR5

— Tom Junod (@TomJunod) January 29, 2018

It is finally happening, and in the best of ways: a movie, very loosely based on the article I wrote for @Esquire 20 years ago, with Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers, two innovative screenwriters from "Transparency" scripting, and Marielle Heller directing. Well-timed, for this moment. https://t.co/JWsOCmL6XB

— Tom Junod (@TomJunod) January 29, 2018

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Hanks was at a talk about his latest book, Uncommon Type: Some Stories on Saturday. During the Q&A, Hanks read out a question he got from a man named Ryan McFarling: “Here’s Ryan’s question, and it’s for Nikki Young…’Nikki, will you marry me?'”

Nikki said yes in front of the actor and 1,000 other people.

And a surprise wedding proposal with the help of @tomhanks during his Q&A! Congratulations to the happy couple! #txbookfest pic.twitter.com/GceDZsAN30

— Texas Book Festival (@texasbookfest) November 4, 2017

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Allen dropped some hints about the Toy Story sequel in a recent interview on The Tonight Show and told the host Jimmy Fallon that he’s been contacted by Disney.

“Bob Iger, head of Disney, said it was on. He actually said it was going to happen. They have reached out to Tom and I to reprise the roles. They’re not saying anything about it,” said Allen.

Allen also revealed that he has been reluctant about returning as Buzz Lightyear because you must wonder if five movies are too many. He decided to come back because one of the original scribes is involved with the sequels, adding this could be “a very, very interesting way to reunite it.”

Upon its release in 2019, Toy Story 4 garnered critical acclaim and crossed the coveted $1 billion mark to become the highest-grossing film in the franchise. The sequel would serve as a potential revival of this franchise, which is yet to recover from the disappointing box office numbers of the polarizing spin-off Lightyear.

The post Disney Reached Out to Tim Allen and Tom Hanks to Appear in “Toy Story 5” appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.

Freddie Prinze Jr. tells Entertainment Weekly that originally, it was Tom Hanks who was to portray the “manny” Ross (David Schwimmer) and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) hire to watch Emma in “The One With the Male Nanny.”

“I wasn’t even supposed to be [Sandy], that was originally offered to Tom Hanks but he wasn’t gonna make it back from his film on time,” Prinze told Entertainment Weekly. “And so my agent called me and said, ‘Do you want to be on Friends? And I said, ‘Yeah, I’ll do an episode of Friends. That’ll be great.’ He said, ‘Yeah, it shoots tomorrow.’ and I was like, ‘What?’ He said, ‘Yes, tomorrow so I’ll send you the script.’”

Over its ten seasons and 236 episodes, the iconic sitcom had over 73 of the industry’s A-listers guest star. The slew of famous actors and actresses include Reese Witherspoon, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Danny DeVitto, Susan Sarandon, and many many more. 

The post Tom Hanks Was Supposed to Guest Star on “Friends” appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.

The Masters of the Air WWII miniseries has found a new home in Apple’s forthcoming streaming service. Based on the book of the same name by Donald L. Miller, the miniseries focuses on American bombers during the war. 

Unlike the first two parts, which aired on HBO, the network decided to pass on the project. “After careful consideration, HBO decided not to move forward with Masters of the Air. We look forward to our next collaboration with Playtone and Amblin,” a statement issued by the premium cabler read. 

Gary Goetzman, Spielberg and Hanks’ collaborator on the two previous installments, will also executive produce, with Hanks and Goetzman’s Playtone and Spielberg’s Amblin Television producing the series with Apple.

Apple TV+ launches November 1.

The post Steven Spielberg’s “Masters of the Air” is Coming to Apple TV+ appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.

The 62-year-old actor recalled what it was like voicing the Toy Story character Woody for the very last time. 

Hanks, who was a guest earlier this week on The Graham Norton Show said to the host that saying those last couple of lines really hit him hard.

“It was terrible, it was terrible,” Hanks said. “I started recording Woody in 1991. That’s when we got together to do the first one.”

He continued: “You record these things over about four years, and the last session — I thought it would just be odds and ends — but I was in the same studio with the same microphone, and they said ‘OK, great, thanks.’ And just like that, 20 however many years were over.”

“My lip started quivering. You ever do this, when you’re so uncomfortable all you can say is, ‘Well, oh, my my. Oh my, my my my my. Oh, well.’ And the only thing to do was to go and get in my car and drive away.”

Hanks has been a part of the franchise for the better part of the last 25 years. The latest installment, Toy Story 4 hit theaters June 20 and has dominated the weekend box office since its premiere. 

The post Tom Hanks Talks About Saying Goodbye to Woody appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.

Wiley, who won an Emmy for her work in The Handmaid’s Tale will star opposite Tom Hanks in the movie that follows the last man on Earth, who builds a robot to care for his dog.

The film centers on Finch (Hanks), an ailing inventor facing his own mortality, who’s the last man on Earth. He builds a robot (Caleb Landry Jones) to care for his dog, and the trio embark on an epic cross-country journey where the scientist must teach his creation to become human enough to take care of his beloved pet and for his dog to accept a new master.

Game of Thrones helmer Miguel Sapochnik will direct Bios from a script penned by Craig Luck and Ivor Powell. Luck and Powell also serve as executive producers alongside Robert Zemeckis and Andy Berman.

Bios is expected to hit theaters in 2020.

The post Samira Wiley Joins “Bios” appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.

Sony Pictures has finally released the official title of the Mr. Rogers/Tom Hanks film. The untitled Mr. Rogers project, which at some point was titled You Are My Friend, is titled A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.

Marielle Heller will direct from a script penned by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster.

The film is based on the real-life friendship between Fred Rogers, star of the long-running Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,  and award-winning journalist Junod. It tells the story of Junod who begrudgingly accepted an assignment to write a profile piece on the beloved icon and finds his perspective on life transformed.

Hanks is set to portray the beloved TV personality Rogers. The cast also includes Matthew Rhys, as Lloyd, a fictionalized version of Junod, as well as Chris Cooper, Tammy Blanchard, and Sakina Jaffrey.

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is scheduled to hit theaters October 18.

The post Tom Hanks’ “Mister Rogers” Film Gets a Title appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.

The first official image was released Thursday and the transformation simply could not be more accurate. Hank was of course sporting Mr. Rogers’ iconic look: a red sweater, a dress shirt and tie, taupe trousers, and a pair of blue plimsoll shoes.

News of Hanks’ participation in the biopic was first reported in January. The film is based on the true story of the friendship between the Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood host and journalist Tom Junod.

The Marielle Heller helmed feature is currently shooting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

“It’s a movie that’s largely focused on a reporter and [Mr. Rogers’] relationship to his life, and how [the reporter’s] whole world changes when coming in contact with Fred Rogers,” said Heller. 

“It’s a story for our times, a story about kindness and family connection and trying to tap into our better self. God knows we need that right now!” she continued. “In the research for the movie, the writers found that more people than they could possibly count credited Mr. Rogers with changing their lives…. [It’s about] one man who’s in a critical point in his life — becoming a new father, having issues with his own father — and meeting Mr. Rogers to write a piece about him, thinking it’s going to be a bit of a puff piece, but it ends up changing his entire life.”

Penning the script are Transparent producers Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster. 

The still untitled film opens in theaters on October, 2019. 

Tom Hanks is Mister Rogers, coming to a neighborhood near you October 2019. pic.twitter.com/2TP3eiPUCx

— Sony Pictures (@SonyPictures) September 27, 2018

The post First Look at Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers in New Film appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.

Who would have believed that the movie about a boy who wanted to grow up so bad, is turning 30 this year.

The beloved 1988 comedy about 12-year-old Josh Baskin, who, thanks to the magic of Zoltar, is transformed into a 30-year-old man played by Tom Hanks. 

Since 30 is a big number, and 2018 marks the film’s 30th anniversary, Turner Classic Movies and 20th Century Fox have decided to celebrate the occasion by bringing the film back to theaters. 

Big will return to more than 700 theaters across the US for two days only on July 15 and July 18. 

Big earned Hanks the first of his five Oscar nomination for Best Actor. 

The post “Big” is returning to theaters to celebrate 30th anniversary appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.

Tristar Pictures announced that the 61-year-old actor is set to play Fred Rogers aka Mr. Rogers in a biopic about the life of children’s TV icon, star of the show Mister Rogers Neighborhood, which ran for 31 seasons, from 1968 until 2011.

The project is directed by Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl) and based on a script penned by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster (Transparent). Heller told Variety that she is “thrilled to be making” the film.

“The script knocked me out with its message of kindness and its exploration of the human spirit. As a mother, I am so inspired by the teachings of Fred Rogers and as a human, I am in awe of his life’s work. I can’t wait to bring his story to the public and be a part of such a thoughtful, smart group of people who are all coming together to make this film, which truly feels to me like an antidote to our very fractured culture.”

The film is inspired by Rogers’ real-life friendship with journalist Tom Junod, an assignment that ended up in a classic 1998 Esquire profile. Junod tweeted about the news saying, however, that the film is “very loosely” based on his Esquire story.

Rogers’ Emmy-nominated series was one of the longest-running children’s shows of all time. Seems fit that it’ll Hanks who was chosen to pay homage to one of America’s truly good real-life figures.

The Fred Rogers profile which inspired the movie to be made with Tom Hanks was the cover story of our "Heroes" issue. And the best thing about today's news is that Hanks wants Fred to be understood as a hero of his time — meaning our time, right now.https://t.co/IWhQpQxCR5

— Tom Junod (@TomJunod) January 29, 2018

It is finally happening, and in the best of ways: a movie, very loosely based on the article I wrote for @Esquire 20 years ago, with Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers, two innovative screenwriters from "Transparency" scripting, and Marielle Heller directing. Well-timed, for this moment. https://t.co/JWsOCmL6XB

— Tom Junod (@TomJunod) January 29, 2018

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Hanks was at a talk about his latest book, Uncommon Type: Some Stories on Saturday. During the Q&A, Hanks read out a question he got from a man named Ryan McFarling: “Here’s Ryan’s question, and it’s for Nikki Young…’Nikki, will you marry me?'”

Nikki said yes in front of the actor and 1,000 other people.

And a surprise wedding proposal with the help of @tomhanks during his Q&A! Congratulations to the happy couple! #txbookfest pic.twitter.com/GceDZsAN30

— Texas Book Festival (@texasbookfest) November 4, 2017

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