We have new details about Christopher Nolan‘s upcoming adaptation of Homer‘s epic, The Odyssey.
The film, which has a star-studded cast that includes Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron and Jon Bernthal, will partly film in Sicily. Variety first reported the location news on Monday. The Italian island was, according to scholars, a location during Odysseus’ journey in the world-famous text.
Filming in Sicily will take place on the island Favignana, otherwise known as goat island, believed to be the location where Homer envisioned Odysseus landing with his crew.
Other announced locations for the shoot include the U.K. and Morocco.
The Odyssey, of course, tells the story of Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, and his 10-year journey of returning home to his wife, Penelope, after the Trojan War.
Moana 2 is riding a wave of box office success that just won’t quit.
The Disney animated sequel brought in $8.5 million at this box office this past weekend; nearly 50% down from last weekend but still good enough for first place. It’s domestic haul to date is over $337 million, according to Box Office Mojo.
Coming in second place for the second week in a row was Wicked: Part 1, with just under $7.3 million, followed by one of this week’s new releases: Marvel’s Kraven the Hunter, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ariana DeBose. It brought in just under $2.5 million.
Another new release, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim — an anime film set more than 180 years before Peter Jackson‘s The Lord of the Rings trilogy — came in sixth place with 1.1 million.
1. Moana 2 – $8.5 million 2. Wicked: Part 1 – $7.25 million 3. Kraven the Hunter – $ 2.45 million 4. Gladiator II – $2.29 million 5. Red One – $1.3 million 6. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim – $1.1 million 7. Interstellar (Re-release) – $995,000 8. Pushpa: The Rule – Part 2 – $446,000 9. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever – $405,000 10. Queer – $241,000
On Thursday, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star, 24, announced that she is expecting her fourth child with husband JaceTerry in an exclusive interview with People.
She said that the news was a “surprise” and that she and Terry were “not planning or trying.”
“I miss my period a lot with my health issues, so for me it’s normal to sometimes be off track,” she said. “Then a month and a half went by and I was telling my friends, like, ‘Maybe I should take a test.'”
“My husband was with me when I took the test,” she said. “He never really has much of a reaction to anything, but we were both pretty in shock. Then it set in and we got really excited.”
Matthews and Terry are already parents to daughters Tommie and Haven, and son Beckham. She said she shared the news about her pregnancy with them while they were filming The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives around Christmastime.
“We waited until after my first ultrasound to tell them,” she said. “We actually told them on the show, and they were so excited. They said Santa brought them a baby for Christmas. It was so sweet.”
“It’s so wild to me that we’ll be a family of six,” she added. “I feel like it’s the Mormon in me coming out.”
Looking ahead, Matthews said that she can picture herself having more kids.
“I’m surrounded by Mormon culture still and my husband’s siblings all have so many kids,” she said. “They’re like, ‘Once you hit three kids, you can have 10 kids,’ That’s kind of the mindset I have. When people ask me how many kids I want, I’m like, ‘I’ve always wanted three or four, but I could see myself having six.'”
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