Borys Kit

Writer for The Hollywood Reporter. Creator of award-winning geek blog, Heat Vision.

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Sad: Stacy Keach, the stage actor perhaps best known for playing private eye Mike Hammer on TV, dies at age 85. https://t.co/QtFoa4xGFX

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James Gunn & Peter Safran thought they had a place in David Ellison's Skydance. But simmering tensions between executives and a fateful Friday visit by Ellison to the DC offices sealed their fate. Story w/@AaronCouch https://t.co/TxOytpfx1x

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DC STUDIOS SHOCKER: James Gunn and Peter Safran are exiting as heads of the studio division, now owned by Skydance... former Marvel Studios exec Jeremy Latcham named new president & chief creative officer https://t.co/XgqGmZhosz

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‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Powers $31M in Historic Box Office Launch Against Subdued ‘Cat in the Hat’ https://t.co/cMMtnCgu0J

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News: Robert Pattinson is one of the mystery men who screen tested for James Bond, multiple sources tell THR. https://t.co/1y9g2hgCxD

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...scoops via @HeatVisionBlog newsletter: EXQUISITE CORPSES comic creator James Tynion IV signs first-look deal with Blumhouse...Incubus frontman Brandon Boyd making scoring debut with sci-fi thriller UNKNOWN COMPANY. Plus: more https://t.co/2HOECtwLnK

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It's Friday so that means it's time for...

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Item: Just in time for awards season, Universal is giving THE ODYSSEY a re-release starting Dec. 11, on more than 1,000 North American theaters in all formats, including Imax and Imax 70mm. Via @_RyanGajewski https://t.co/tIQmWGpvpk

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Excl: Cynthia Erivo playing Tupac Shakur’s mother, Afeni Shakur, in Universal’s Snoop Dogg biopic https://t.co/CP8or2urxF

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Excl: Sony comes on board Lionsgate NARUTO live-action movie (being directed by Destin Daniel Cretton) to co-finance and to distribute internationally. Plus: the movie is greenlit for a spring 2027 production start. https://t.co/WhenwmMiIH

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Breaking: Gabriel LaBelle, Jackson Kelly and Rhenzy Feliz were all in the running but Ben Wang (KARATE KID: LEGENDS, THE LONG WALK) got the role of Iceman in Marvel's new X-Men movie.

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Wow!

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Aerosmith & Friends at the Hollywood Bowl: Steven Tyler was back in form, even singing on top of a piano, as the 78-year old rocker returned to the stage for the first time after the band canceled its farewell tour due to Tyler’s fractured larynx back in 2023. They sang 6 songs.

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Dream on: Aerosmith’s Joe Perry introduces Johnny Depp on guitar - and then proceeds to have a guitar battle with him - at the band’s return to the stage for the first time in years at a special concert at the Hollywood Bowl.

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SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)

Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.

We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.

America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.

His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.

Ian McKellen 29 October 2026

Photo: University of Huddersfield

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In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund   
https://t.co/luC5CdcWDy
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources    
https://t.co/zvNptfyuNd

Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia

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A few great non-Picard, non-Professor X Patrick Stewart roles:
1: Sir Leondegrance in Excalibur.
2: Sejanus in I, Claudius.
3: Vladimir Lenin in Fall of Eagles.
4: Darcy the skinhead leader in Green Room.

[Terry Matalas @TerryMatalas]

Oh Captain, my Captain.

This is how I’ll always remember you…

[William Shatner @WilliamShatner]

What a heartbreaking week it has been. Sir Patrick Stewart was a friend, a colleague, and a magnificent actor. From the stage to the bridge of the Enterprise, he brought intelligence, grace, and a deep sense of humanity to everything he did. Captain Picard stood for the best of us, and so did the man who played him. I was filled with affection and admiration for him and his work.

My heart goes out to Sunny and his family. He will be deeply missed.

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Patrick Stewart, 'Star Trek' Captain and 'X-Men' Superhero, Dies at 86 https://t.co/sWmmwnoDlu