Movie News from Around the Web

• Stunt Woman Olivia Johnson Injured During On Set Accident.

Olivia Johnson who is a stunt woman on the upcoming film Resident Evil: The Final Chapter has been injured after an on set accident.  Her injuries are so bad she will have to have her left arm amputated after a stunt involving a motorcycle went horribly wrong.  The 34 was in a coma after she hit a metal camera arm while filming in South Africa.  Olivia told The Sun during an interview,

“My facial scarring is horrible and I wish I had my old face. But I’m truly grateful to be alive.”

In October, she revealed the extent of her horrific injuries, including having lost a thumb.

“2 weeks in a coma, brain bleed, brain swelling, severed main artery in the neck, crushed & degloved face, several broken ribs, paralyzed arm, shattered scapula, broken clavicle, broken humerus, broken radius & ulna, with an open wound and a 7.5 piece of bone missing, amputated thumb, torn fingers, 5 nerves torn out of the spinal cord…. not my funnest day on set,” she wrote in a Facebook post.

• Quentin Tarantino gets Walk of Fame Star

Joined by the cast of The Hateful Eight, Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino has received a Walk of Fame star.  Tarantino also stopped over on The Late Show with Steven Colbert to talk about his new film and his love of Rom-Coms.  Check out the video below.

• The Force Awakens Breaks Box Office Records

Coming as no surprise to almost anyone.  Star Wars The Force Awakens has had the biggest opening weekend of all time.  In it's first week it has surpassed Jurassic World for the largest film opening of all time. Star Wars brought in nearly $248 million domestically.  What's also interesting about this figure is that Jurassic World also had the benefit of opening in China at the same time.  It makes the title for Biggest Opening ever just that much more incredible.

• Lupita Nyong'o told Ellen she didn't Realize she was Auditioning for Force Awakens

 Actress Lupita Nyong'o didn't realize that at the time she was auditioning for The Force Awakens when she went in to give a test screening for JJ Abrams.  She was on Ellen when she said,

“I didn’t really know what I was auditioning for,” the actress revealed Tuesday during an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”Nyong’o committed to the audition with the vague premise that it was for a role in an Abrams-directed film. The audition — during which she read from a substitute script — occurred in 2014, fresh off the actress’ Oscar win for  “12 Years a Slave,” so her schedule was hectic."