The screening for Now You See Me 2 was cut short due to a security concern on Thursday at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. The theater was evacuated 10 minutes into the screening and attendees were asked to exit the theater at Caesars Las Vegas, according to Deadline..
The film is the sequel to the successful 2013 movie, Now You See Me, about four talented illusionists who pull off a massive bank heist. The new movie welcomes back Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Dave Franco, Woody Harrelson, Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine. Also joining that cast are Lizzy Caplan and Daniel Radcliffe. Read more at…
A lot of teenagers have played with fire at one point or another. Mohammed Jalaluddin, a 19-year-old male from Hyderabad, was no exception. On Monday, Jalaluddin was preparing a submission video for the prominent TV series India’s Got Talent, when the performance went totally wrong. He caught on fire and eventually succumbed to his injuries. Here’s what we know.
Mohammed Jalaluddin was practicing fire stunts in front of some of his friends on Monday. This included reportedly pouring kerosene into his mouth and then breathing out fire, as well as a secondary stunt that involved a t-shirt. It was while he was filming this t-shirt stunt that he caught on fire. He was unable to remove the piece of clothing that was on fire. He suffered third degree burns over 60% of his body, according to The Times of India.
His friends were on hand during the filming, as Mohammed Jalaluddin was attempting to get the best shots of his stunt work so he could send them in to India’s Got Talent, a popular show based on NBC’s America’s Got Talent which has spawned other iterations in numerous countries around the globe (including Britain’s Got Talent and Das Supertalent. The Wrap reports that although Jalaluddin’s friends were on hand when he was burning, he told authorities they had done nothing wrong before he died on Monday. He had attempted the fire stunts in the hopes that he would be called up by the popular reality competition series and said the filming was his own idea. Read more…
Ricky Jay is one of the greatest sleight-of-hand artists in the world, which is to say that he deals in deception, misdirection and the seemingly impossible. His shuffles can leave aces congregating at the top or the bottom of the deck depending on his requirements, and he will even deal from the middle if needed. Once asked, in a New Yorker profile, if there are people who still play cards with him, he replied, “Sure. Silly people”, and plenty of his most honest skills are so astonishing that they still have a touch of artifice to them. For many years, the climax of a performance has seen Jay throwing playing cards with such force that they will penetrate the “thick, pachydermatous outer layer” of a watermelon – a fruit that he often prefixes with the term “his majesty”. It should not be too surprising, then, that having finished Jay’s latest book, a biography of the 18th century magician, musician and calligrapher Matthias Buchinger, I raced online to see if there was any truth in the tale I had just read. Read more…
Three minutes of magic on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1967 changed Dick and Joanne Gustafson’s lives forever.
Both 85, they now tour suburban senior centers and school assemblies instead of the European night clubs of their heyday. But their flame burns as brightly as it did when they performed “Magic by Candlelight” on national TV nearly 50 years ago.
Dick Gustafson was a career research chemist at Rohm and Haas, doing magic as a hobby, when fate changed his focus from reality to illusion.
“I married a chemist, but I got a magician,” Joanne Gustafson said, smiling at her husband of 62 years in their cozy Horsham living room.
“She has said that for a million years,” he said. “Then she usually says, ‘Where did I go wrong?’ ”
