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Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Princess Diana's legacy 25 years after her death - CBS Mornings

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Mariah Carey calls out 'diva' Meghan Markle: 'Don't act like' you aren't - Page Six

It takes one to know one.

Meghan Markle — and her “Archetypes” podcast listeners — “started to sweat” after Mariah Carey accused the Duchess of Sussex of “diva moments” in Tuesday’s episode.

When Markle, 41, told her guest that she does not personally “connect to” the “diva … persona,” Carey, 53, interrupted.

“You give us diva moments sometimes, Meghan,” the singer said. “Don’t act like [you don’t].”

The “Suits” alum appeared flustered, asking, “What kind of diva moments did I give you?”

Carey then clarified that she meant Markle’s “visual[s]” and not her personality, saying she “didn’t mean” anything by the comment and was “playing” with the former actress.

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Markle expressed her relief after the interview ended.

“She must have felt my nervous laughter, and … she jumped right in to make sure I was crystal clear that when she said diva, she was talking about the way I dress, the posture, the clothing,” she explained.

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“She meant diva as a compliment, but I heard it as a dig,” the duchess continued. “That moment, as she explained to me, she meant it as chic, as inspirational.”

Before Carey set the record straight, Markle admittedly was “squirming in [her] chair in [a] quiet revolt” against the accusation.

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“[The conversation] was all going swimmingly, really well, until that moment happened,” she recalled. “It stopped me in my tracks. … My mind was just genuinely spinning on what nonsense she might have read or clicked on to make her say that.”

Markle explained, “I just kept thinking in that moment: Is my girl crush coming to a quick demise? Does she actually not see me?”

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Earlier in the episode, the “Bench” author told Carey how important the Grammy winner’s career was to her while growing up biracial.

“You were so formative for me,” gushed Markle, who launched her podcast earlier this month with guest Serena Williams.

“Representation matters so much,” she added. “When you came onto the scene, [I was like], ‘Oh, my gosh, someone looks like me.'”

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Eugenio Derbez to Undergo ‘Complicated’ Surgery After Accident, His Wife Announces - Variety

Mexican actor Eugenio Derbez is undergoing a “very complicated” surgery after suffering an accident, his wife Alessandra Rosaldo announced on Monday night.

Rosaldo wrote on Instagram that Derbez is currently “fine” but his injuries are “delicate.” The surgery will not compromise his health, but “the recovery process will be long and difficult since he will have to rest for several weeks and then undergo rehabilitation therapies,” Rosaldo wrote. She did not provide any details about Derbez’s accident.

Variety has reached out to Derbez’s reps for more information.

Derbez has been one of Mexico’s most successful international stars, and he has appeared in dozens of films and TV shows since the ’80s. He began to break out in the U.S. in the 2010s and has starred in American projects like last year’s Oscar best picture winner “CODA,” “Dora and the Lost City of Gold,” “How to Be a Latin Lover” and the Apple TV+ series “Acapulco.”

Read Rosaldo’s full note below, translated from Spanish to English.

“To our family, friends, and media: Through this medium, I want to inform you that a couple of days ago Eugenio had an accident.

“He is fine, however the injuries he suffered are delicate and in the next few hours, he will have to undergo surgery. The operation is very complicated, but it does not compromise his health.

“The recovery process will be long and difficult since he will have to rest for several weeks and then undergo rehabilitation therapies.

“For us, it is very important to communicate to you all through our own voice the family situation that we are going through since we know how much love you all have for us. At this time, the priority is to focus on this process so that Eugenio can move forward, taking the time necessary to do so.

“I have some work commitments to fulfill that I cannot cancel, but I ask you all with much love, that whatever you want to know about this topic, allow me to communicate it through my social networks. Eugenio will be recovering and maybe for a while he will be away from his social networks and the media.

“Thank you for always being close to us. I know that with the good energy that you all will be sending us and with the favor of God, Eugenio will recover very soon.”

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Monday, August 29, 2022

Amber Heard's Sister Whitney Calls MTV 'Disgusting' and 'Desperate' for Including Johnny Depp in VMAs - Yahoo Entertainment

Amber Heard's sister Whitney Henriquez is slamming MTV for featuring Johnny Depp in the 2022 Video Music Awards just under three months after the verdict in the Virginia defamation trial.

During the Sunday night live broadcast, Depp, 59, appeared as the awards show's Moon Person in a pre-recorded bit with his face digitally superimposed into the helmet of the floating figure. He told the audience at one point, "And you know what? I needed the work," while hovering inside the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

In a joint post between his Instagram account and MTV's official page, a clip of the moment was shared with the caption, "guess who? #VMAs." Depp's former lawyer Adam Waldman — the subject of Heard's three defamation countersuit claims, which she won one of and was awarded $2 million in damages — commented on the post with a celebratory raising-hands emoji.

Following the surprise inclusion of Depp in the show, Whitney, 34, reacted on her Instagram Story, sharing the message "I stand with Amber Heard" and a graphic that renamed the event the "DVMA's," a seeming reference to domestic violence.

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"@MTV you're disgusting and clearly desperate! I really hope that none of the people that made this call have daughters...," she wrote.

Reps for Depp, Heard and the VMA's did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's requests for comment.

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On June 1, the jury in Fairfax County, Virginia, found that Heard, 36, defamed Depp in her 2018 op-ed about domestic violence and abuse, though she did not mention him by name in the article. He was awarded more than $10 million in damages. She is now appealing the verdict, and he is appealing her countersuit win.

That trial outcome came a year and a half after Depp lost a libel case in the U.K. over a newspaper referring to him as a "wife beater." The London judge upheld the outlet's claims as being "substantially true," and in March 2021, Depp's attempt to overturn that decision was overruled.

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After the recent Virginia verdict, Depp said in a statement that the jury "gave me my life back" and the "best is yet to come" for him. Heard, meanwhile, called it a "setback" for women who speak out. Her sister, who testified on her behalf during the trial and was present in the courtroom when the verdict was read, also spoke out at the time.

"I still stand with you, sissy. Yesterday, today and tomorrow I will always be proud of you for standing up for yourself, for testifying both here in Virginia and in the UK, and for being the voice of so many who can't speak to the things that happen behind closed doors," wrote Henriquez.

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"We knew that this was going to be an uphill battle and that the cards were stacked against us," she continued. "But you stood up and spoke out regardless. I am so honored to testify for you, and I would do it a million times over because I know what I saw and because the truth is forever on your side."

She concluded, "I'm so sorry that it wasn't reflected in the decision made by this jury, but I will never give up on you, and neither will anyone who stands with you. Forever by your side… #istandwithamberheard."

Depp is currently set to star as King Louis XV in the upcoming period drama Jeanne du Barry, and he will be directing a movie co-produced by Al Pacino. He recently released an album with Jeff Beck, whom he's been touring with overseas. Heard will appear in the superhero sequel Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, which had its release date delayed until December 2023.

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Sunday, August 28, 2022

Ozzy Osbourne Reveals U.S. Mass Shootings Influenced Family’s Move Back to England - Yahoo Entertainment

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Ozzy Osbourne has revealed that part of the reason he and his family are moving from Los Angeles back to the U.K. is because he’s “fed up” with the gun violence epidemic in the U.S.

In a new interview with the Observer — where Osbourne also discusses his Parkinson’s battle and recent health struggles, his new album Patient Number 9 and reuniting with Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi — Ozzy and his wife Sharon Osbourne talked about why they’ve opted to move back to England after decades in L.A., and how the move wasn’t health-related.

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“America has changed so drastically. It isn’t the United States of America at all,” Sharon said. “Nothing’s united about it. It’s a very weird place to live right now.”

Ozzy added, “Everything’s fucking ridiculous there. I’m fed up with people getting killed every day. God knows how many people have been shot in school shootings. And there was that mass shooting in Vegas at that concert… It’s fucking crazy,” referring to the Route 91 Harvest shooting in 2017 where 60 people were killed.

“And I don’t want to die in America. I don’t want to be buried in fucking Forest Lawn [Memorial Park, a celebrity-filled cemetery],” Osbourne continued. “I’m English. I want to be back. But saying that, if my wife said we’ve got to go and live in Timbuktu, I’ll go. But, no, it’s just time for me to come home.”

The Observer noted that Ozzy’s move back to the U.K. puts him in closer proximity to his former band mate Iommi, who recently performed alongside the singer for the first time in over five years; Osbourne mentioned that he hopes to build a studio on the family’s new U.K. estate to potentially record an album with the Black Sabbath guitarist.

“You have not seen the end of Ozzy Osbourne, I promise you,” he said. “If I have to go up there and die on the first song, I’ll still be back the next day.”

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The 3 Zodiac Signs With Rough Horoscopes On Sunday, August 28, 2022 - YourTango

On August 28, 2022, during Virgo Sun, zodiac signs will be experiencing a day so filled with negative energy that we may want to just sit this one out.

Today has us dancing with Moon trine Uranus, Venus opposition Saturn, Moon opposition Neptune and Moon trine Pluto. Just looking at this lineup should make us want to hide beneath our comforters and never get out of bed. Yet, we will, and we will deal with it all, as we always do.

We're dealing with the whole 'opposition' thing and it's going to manifest as people disagreeing with us on all manner of things.

Some of those 'things' will be so innocuous, so meaningless, that we will wonder what the big deal is, and why is everyone today so on edge and ready to pick a fight over nothing.

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There are just too many of those outer planets doing their thing on us, and it all ends up with us feeling ready to give up whatever it is that we're doing so that we can bolt out of wherever we are.

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Our main gripe will be with Moon trine Uranus, as this is the transit that will make the least amount of sense to us, during the day. What we can't imagine ever taking place will take place today, and all the things we want to happen, will not. It's that simple, and here's the fun part: there's no explanation either. What happens today is random, outrageously unfair, and inexcusable. All that and more, for the forecast of certain zodiac signs, on August 28, 2022.

Why today brings rough horoscopes for the following three zodiac signs on Sunday, August 28, 2022:

1. Gemini

(May 21 - June 20)

Thought you knew what you were doing today? Ah, guess again, as your plans are a screaming laugh riot for the universe today.

Nothing like mere mortals to test the whims of Moon trine Uranus, and today, without signing up for the 'fun' you'll be tossed around and pushed into full involvement, whether it was your plan or not. Today gives you everything you don't want, including drama at home, and a spat or two at the workplace.

It may be the weekend, but there will be plenty of work-related misery to deal with, so don't expect much of a day off, if that was part of your, um, plan.

You don't like today, and you might even end up making a fist and shaking it at the universe as you are seriously mad at the cosmos for just being this way. Today feels like it's you against the gods as if the day is one big video game and you're the warrior that's been given no weapons to work with.

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2. Virgo

(August 23 - September 22)

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Just as you thought it was safe to go back in the water, think again, as it seems there are sharks all around you, ready to snap and take you down into the depths of their dramatic little worlds. In other words, watch your back today, Virgo, as the people in your life are very uptight and on edge today.

It seems that, due to Moon trine Uranus, everyone in your life is looking for a fight, and lo and behold: there you are, thinking that you're innocent when what you really are is a lamb waiting for the slaughter, so to speak.

It's not personal; no one in your life wants you to be the center of their attention, but you just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and so, there you are; the target for friends and family members to take out their aggression on.

Wrong place, wrong time, wrong transit. Stay in bed!

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3. Capricorn

(December 22 - January 19)

Ooh, today is not going to rub you the right way, Capricorn, as this day is everything you've been working so hard to avoid in your life. Drama, fit-throwing, tantrum-having people are going to descend on your world as if they have an actual purpose.

They have no purpose, but they are people who cannot control the Moon trine Uranus vibe that's going on inside of them.

If you are in the way, then you will be trampled on. These people, who are actually your good friends or possibly your romantic partner, will go out of their way to get your goat, so to speak.

You will have to defend yourself over the stupidest of causes, and honestly, you did not have this kind of war game in mind for yourself today.

All you wanted was rest and relaxation, and yet, all you'll get during Moon trine Uranus is involved in drama and over-reaction. There's going to be a lot of sighing and face-palming today.

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Saturday, August 27, 2022

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Horror Pic ‘The Invitation’ Leads Worst Weekend At This Summer’s Box Office, All Pics Grossing $54M - Deadline

SATURDAY AM UPDATE: The bowels of the summer box office have been reached, with Sony’s new C CinemaScore horror movie The Invitation leading with $6M-$7M at 3,114 theaters. Like the late Andy Rooney, I get a lot of mail from sources. But in this instance, it’s about why it’s important to be gentle when covering the box office: We’re still in the pandemic, we’re not back yet, it’s not good for our business to be nasty, blah blah blah.

However, simply putting random movies in theaters without any great P&A spend doesn’t do the box office, or exhibitors, any favors. This weekend will rank as the lowest-grossing weekend to date of summer, with an estimated $54M for all titles (some even have it lower). If it makes anyone feel better, it’s not the worst weekend of the year. That belongs to Jan. 28-30, when all titles made $34.9M, per Box Office Mojo.

On some level, I get it: It’s late August. A majority of kids are back in school (Comscore says 32% K-12 were out yesterday, with 38% colleges on break), and Sony traditionally has had a horror film during this latter part of the summer. Don’t Breathe was a wonderful hit for them back in late August 2016, opening to $26.4M and ending its run at $89.2M.

But let’s be honest, the more you spend, the more you gross. True, the diagnostics here on this period vampire thriller at a 29% critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 53% audience score doesn’t warrant a studio to spend wads of cash to open it. But we’ve seen Sony do better with less: Their August 2018 movie Slender Man, which had a D-, 8% critic score, and 17% audience on RT, opened to $11.3M and had a 2.7 multiple for a $30.6M domestic end game.

Social media chatter on The Invitation wasn’t horrible at mixed-leaning positive, according to RelishMix, with “fans comping and calling-out Vanilla Sky, Ready or Not, Twilight, Meghan Markle and Jordan Peele films, too. Chatter wonders how these ingredients look right for a wild date-night vampire outing.”

Let’s get away from the pandemic excuse that people don’t want to go back; it’s simply about product. Disney proved that last year by opening a Marvel movie over Labor Day weekend with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings to holiday record results of $94.6M. Great movies will get people out at any time of year.

Yes, theaters need that, that being product. But let’s put some umpf behind it if we’re serious about the theatrical window and the longevity of this part of the business. What’s sad as exhibitors’ Covid bailout money runs out is they’re desperate for anything, and are powerless when it comes to a major studio dictating that the first big franchise title of the summer, Halloween Ends, goes theatrical day-and-date. Let’s not be morons, that maneuver will siphon grosses. Enough of this widest audience crap between streaming and theatrical. Peacock is starving for paid subs.

It’s not like the PG-13 rated The Invitation is some older-skewing movie: It’s aimed right at the 18-34 crowd who’s attending movies right now, that demo repping 57% of the pic’s ticket buyers to date. Like the run-of-the-mill PG-13 horror title, The Invitation skewed more female at 57%. Those under 35 repped 70% of the crowd with diversity demos showing 44% Caucasian, 23% Latino and Hispanic, 18% Black, and 15% Asian/other. The Jessica M. Thompson-directed movie was accepted the most on the coasts and in the South. Seven of the top ten runs were in LA, which leaned toward Latino and Hispanic moviegoers.

And not to pick on Sony, but of late, yes, you, Lionsgate, are guilty of shortchanging P&A on YA film Fall, which opened to $2.5M, and stands at $5.9M, and with diagnostics of 74% critic reviews on RT and 78% audience score, along with B CinemaScore. With results like that, there seems to be money left on the table there. That pic could have potentially grossed more. In sum, let’s stop with the cutesy economic slide rule games at the box office, and how we’re profiting off less B.S., and really commit to theatrical. Can we do that, studios? Obviously, if it’s a bad movie, send it to to the home market, just like they used to do with movies like The Last Seduction II. Sending terrible movies to the home market isn’t some brand new business model.

Given the lack of product this weekend, MGM/UAR went significantly wider than anticipated on George Miller’s Cannes Film Festival premiere 3,000 Years of Longing, which, off of a 67% Rotten Tomatoes and B CinemaScore, is opening to $2.9M at 2,436 theaters. Guys actually showed up for this Idris Elba-Tilda Swinton genie romance, with 51% between 17-34, and 48% over 35. Diversity demos were 55% Caucasian, 16% Latino and Hispanic, 13% Black and 16% Asian/other. Pic’s ticket sales are from the big coastal cities, with AMC and Alamo owning the top ten runs.

But, hey, Amazon, why aren’t going wide on a Sylvester Stallone movie? When are you guys going to grow up, realize you bought MGM and start releasing wide theatrical titles and reporting box office? I mean, like the tentpole kind of ones!? Cherish and behold the theatrical studio you bought, don’t squander it!

Why in God’s name is the movie direct to service? The last Stallone movie Rambo: Last Blood opened to $18.8M. That’s a diamond mine by pandemic box office standards. I agree with Warner Bros Discovery Boss David Zaslav on this one: Why are you shedding the patina (and future ancillaries) of a theatrical movie by sending it straight to homes? Did it occur to you that perhaps more toilet paper could be sold off a title with a theatrical window than merely dropping it on the service? I mean, you have the billion-dollar cost of Lord of the Rings: The Power of the Rings series next weekend (the rights alone were scooped up by the streamer for $250M). That alone should trigger an early Christmas season for the marketplace site. On Rotten Tomatoes, audiences love Samaritan at 82%.

RelishMix noticed the online convo for the film, and believes Samaritan coulda been a contender at the box office, with fans expressing “absolute adoration for Stallone, everything that he represents in the film industry, and the heroic characters that he’s played,” to those who “are also intrigued that this aging superhero project is not a Marvel or DC production and that in of itself has fans interested in a unique way.”

The objective is to get people to leave their homes, not stay at home.

Top ten films for the weekend:

1.) The Invitation (Sony) 3,114 locations, Fri $2.6M, 3-day $6M-$7M/Wk 1

2.) Bullet Train (Sony) 3,513 (-268) theaters, Fri $1.54M (-31%),  3-day $5.5M (-31%)/Total $78.1M/Wk 4

3.) Top Gun: Maverick (Par) 2,962  (-7) theaters, Fri $1.35M (-13%), 3-day $4.9M (-17%), Total $691.3M/Wk 14
They have to get this to $700M. C’mon!

4.) Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (Cru) 2,941 theaters (-77), Fri $1.3M (-88%) 3-day $4.83M (-77%)/Total $31M/ Wk 2

5.) Beast (Uni) 3,754 (+11) theaters, Fri $1.3M (-70%)  3-day $4.3M (-63%)/Total: $19.5M/Wk 2

5.) DC League of Super-Pets (WB) 3,284 (-253) theaters, Fri $1.065M (-25%), 3-day $4.3M (-24%)/Total $74.1M Wk 5

7. ) 3,000 Years of Longing (UAR) 2,436 theaters, Fri $1.16M, 3-day $2.9M/Wk 1

8.) Minions: Rise of Gru (Uni) 2,494 theaters (-160), Fri $670K (-29%), 3-day $2.73M (-27%), Total: $354.77M/Wk 9

9.) Thor: Love and Thunder (Disney) 2,450 (-305) theaters, Fri. $694K (-35%), 3-day $2.65M (-35%)/Total $336.5M/Wk 8

10.) Nope (Uni) 1,909 (-472) theaters, Fri $630K (-40%), 3-day $2.19M (-39%), Total $117.6M/Wk 6

11.) Where the Crawdads Sings (Sony) 2,216 theaters (-392), Fri $650K (-28%), 3-day $2.15M (-31%)/Total $81.7M/Wk 7

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Friday, August 26, 2022

Richard Simmons breaks silence, tells The Post he's 'living the life he has chosen' - New York Post

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Ezra Miller Meets With Warners Leadership in a ‘The Flash’ Course Correct (Exclusive) - Hollywood Reporter

This was one of the most consequential weeks in DC’s history. Warner Bros. Discovery seems to have found the executive to lead that division’s film and TV efforts. There were funeral screenings for canceled movie Batgirl. And the moving of major tentpoles Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom and Shazam! Fury of the Gods revealed the shifting sands under the newly acquired studio’s feet.

Amid all the bustle this week on the Burbank lot, one could have easily missed a pair of figures walking around the offices and heading to a meeting of the highest order. But that’s what Ezra Miller, the star of Warners’ high-profile movie, The Flash, and their CAA agent, Scott Metzger, did Wednesday — the same day a Batgirl screening took place.

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Miller, who uses they/them pronouns, and their agent met with new Warner Bros. film chairs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy to discuss not only how to stay on course for The Flash’s June 23, 2023 release date but to reaffirm their commitment to the movie as well as apologize for bringing negative attention to the production and the company.

Over the past two years, Miller has been at the center of arrests and controversy, culminating with the actor announcing a mea culpa Aug. 15 and saying they were seeking help for mental health issues. Said the actor in a statement at the time, “I want to apologize to everyone that I have alarmed and upset with my past behavior.”

According to sources, Miller vowed to seek help after learning that De Luca and Abdy were considering all options for Flash, including scrapping the $200 million movie if things devolved further with Miller. While the actor is said to not have minded the stream of bad headlines, they were spooked by the notion of the film getting canceled and jolted to take action. Says one source: “They care about The Flash. It’s one of their favorite characters to play.”

Details of the meeting were not revealed but it was the first time that Miller spoke with De Luca and Abdy, who took over running the film division at the beginning of July and inherited a DC slate of movies in various stages of post-production. The actor was apologetic and affirmed their commitment to both getting care and to the production.

Warners had no comment and Miller’s representatives could not be reached for comment.

The move comes as work on The Flash, directed by Andy Muschietti, moves full steam ahead, with Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav not wavering on its release date, even as Warners this week pushed Shazam! Fury of the Gods out of 2022 and Aquaman 2 back from March 2023 to Christmas of that year. (Aquaman’s push was due to the long runway need to complete the intensive and complex visual effects, while Shazam! departed a date that was a week away from juggernaut Avatar: The Way of the Water.)

Next week, composer Benjamin Wallfisch will lead a scoring session at Abbey Road Studios in London, sources say. Visual effects work continues and could be done by the end of the year.

After months of upsetting headlines about Miller, the mood regarding Flash is more hopeful on the lot than it’s been in some time, even if the movie still has a ways to go before its ultimate release date. Still, the movie was receiving some of the highest scores at test screenings since Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies and execs and creatives believe they have the goods to have a critical and box office hit that lives up to those scores.

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Britney Spears teams up with Elton John on 'Hold Me Closer,' her first release in six years - CNN

(CNN)The Princess of Pop is back!

After a six-year hiatus, Britney Spears made her musical comeback on Friday with the release of "Hold Me Closer," her collaboration with Elton John.
The song, which is an EDM reimagining of John's 1971 hit "Tiny Dancer," marks Spears' first new release since the legal victory last November that freed her from the 13-year conservatorship that controlled her career and personal life.
Last year, Spears revealed she stepped away from music and performing after the conservatorship "killed my dreams." Her last album, "Glory," arrived in 2016.
Before the release of "Hold Me Closer," Spears tweeted that she's learning "everyday is a clean slate to try and be a better person and do what makes me happy."
She added that she wanted to be "fearless like when I was younger."
John said he was inspired to join forces with Spears by his husband, David Furnish, adding that he believes their duet will give her a much-needed confidence boost after such a "traumatic time."
"I'm so excited to be able to do it with her because if it is a big hit, and I think it may be, it will give her so much more confidence than she's got already and she will realize that people actually love her and care for her and want her to be happy," he said in an interview with the Guardian newspaper.
A quick scan of social media and it looks like fans are delighted by the joint release.
"Such a cool, beautiful song, you guys make a wonderful team! We have missed you so much Brit, you can't imagine how happy it makes me to hear you singing again," one fan wrote on Twitter.
Another said: "welcome back!!!! Hold me closer is freaking fantastic! You sound so good!"
Among music critics, however, opinion was more divided.
Awarding the song a four-star rating, the Guardian's Michael Cragg notes that Spears "throws in a few playful 'yeahs', ad libs that feel like actual yelps of joy rather than the robotic manoeuvres of someone being shuttled from studio to waiting car."
He adds that "Spears seems to hint at finding that for herself again in music. Even if this is a one-off -- and who can blame her if she doesn't want to return to pop full-time -- that feels like enough."
According to Vogue's Christian Allaire, "There's something about Britney's voice and a dance track that just go extremely well together -- like red wine and a basket of bread. She does things with her vocal tone that all the other pop girlies simply can't. That's why she's the true princess of pop."
Writing in the UK's Times, however, reviewer Will Hodgkinson was not as enthusiastic. While saying "the return of Britney Spears should be welcomed with open arms," he described "Hold Me Closer" as a "bloodless remix" that "gives no space for Spears to shine while also killing the magic of the original."

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Shia LaBeouf Claims He ‘Quit’ ‘Don’t Worry Darling,’ Calls Out Olivia Wilde: ‘Firing Me Never Took Place’ - IndieWire

Shia LaBeouf is claiming he quit “Don’t Worry Darling” after director Olivia Wilde said that he was fired from the production.

Following a Variety cover story with Wilde opening up about LaBeouf’s recasting and Harry Styles taking over the role, LaBeouf wrote an email to the “Booksmart” director addressing her “narrative” of events. LaBeouf shared the letter, along with text message exchanges and a personal video sent from Wilde to LaBeouf during production in 2020, with IndieWire. LaBeouf claims he quit the movie due to inadequate rehearsal time.

“What inspired this email today is your latest Variety story,” LaBeouf wrote to Wilde in part. “I am greatly honored by your words on my work; thank you, that felt good to read. I am a little confused about the narrative that I was fired, however. You and I both know the reasons for my exit. I quit your film because your actors & I couldn’t find time to rehearse. I have included as a reminder the screenshots of our text exchange on that day, and my text to Tobey [Emmerich].”

LaBeouf added, “I know that you are beginning your press run for DWD and that the news of my firing is attractive clickbait, as I am still persona-non-grata and may remain as such for the rest of my life.”

LaBeouf noted his exit date as August 17, 2020. The “Honey Boy” actor also shared that he is now 627 days sober and felt the need to weigh in on Wilde’s current statements about what transpired more than two years ago.

“Firing me never took place, Olivia. And while I fully understand the attractiveness of pushing that story because of the current social landscape, the social currency that brings, it is not the truth,” LaBeouf stated. “So I am humbly asking, as a person with an eye toward making things right, that you correct the narrative as best you can. I hope none of this negatively effects you, and that your film is successful in all the ways you want it to be.”

LaBeouf did not respond to IndieWire’s request for further comment, and representatives for Wilde declined to comment.

LaBeouf attached screenshots of texts allegedly from Wilde at the time of production. Wilde seemingly sent LaBeouf this message the night before he officially resigned from production: “Thanks for letting me in on your thought process. I know that isn’t fun. Doesn’t feel good to say no to someone, and I respect your honesty,” Wilde wrote. “I’m honored you were willing to go there with me, for me to tell a story with you. I’m gutted because it could have been something special. I want to make clear how much it means to me that you trust me. That’s a gift I’ll take with me.”

LaBeouf also circulated a video that Wilde sent him while driving a car, saying that LaBeouf’s threatened exit could be “a bit of a wake-up call for Miss Flo,” referencing lead star Florence Pugh.

“I feel like I’m not ready to give up on this yet, and I too am heartbroken, and I want to figure this out,” Wilde says in the video. “You know, I think this might be a bit of a wake-up call for Miss Flo, and I want to know if you’re open to giving this a shot with me, with us. If she really commits, if she really puts her mind and heart into it at this point and if you guys can make peace — and I respect your point of view, I respect hers — but if you guys can do it, what do you think? Is there hope? Will you let me know?”

In another text message sent between August 16 and August 20, 2020, Wilde texted LaBeouf, “You don’t have to be in my movies but don’t ever doubt me. We pinky promised. That means something in my house.”

Wilde recently told Variety that she is still “such an admirer” of LaBeouf’s work but “his process was not conducive to the ethos that I demand in my productions. He has a process that, in some ways, seems to require a combative energy, and I don’t personally believe that is conducive to the best performances.”

Wilde continued, “A lot came to light after this happened that really troubled me, in terms of his behavior. For our film, what we really needed was an energy that was incredibly supportive. Particularly with a movie like this, I knew that I was going to be asking Florence to be in very vulnerable situations, and my priority was making her feel safe and making her feel supported.”

She concluded, “I believe that creating a safe, trusting environment is the best way to get people to do their best work. Ultimately, my responsibility is to the production and to the cast to protect them. That was my job.”

Read LaBeouf’s full email to Wilde sent August 24 after her comments to Variety:

Olivia,

I hope this finds you inspired, purposeful, fulfilled & well. I pray every night that you & your family have health, happiness, & everything God would give me. No joke, every night before I sleep.

I have a little girl, Isabel; she is five months old and just beginning to develop the last half of her laugh; it’s AMAZING. Mia, my wife & I have found each other again & are journeying toward a healthy family with love and mutual respect.

I have embarked on a journey that feels redemptive & righteous (dirty word but fitting). I write to you now with 627 days of sobriety and a moral compass that never existed before my great humbling that was the last year and a quarter of my life. I reached out to you a few months ago to make amends; & I still pray one day, you can find space in your heart to forgive me for the failed collaboration we shared.

What inspired this email today is your latest Variety story. I am greatly honored by your words on my work; thank you, that felt good to read. I am a little confused about the narrative that I was fired, however. You and I both know the reasons for my exit. I quit your film because your actors & I couldn’t find time to rehearse. I have included as a reminder the screenshots of our text exchange on that day, and my text to Tobey.

I know that you are beginning your press run for DWD and that the news of my firing is attractive clickbait, as I am still persona-non-grata and may remain as such for the rest of my life. But, speaking of my daughter, I often think about the news articles she will read when she is literate. And though I owe, and will owe for the rest of my life, I only owe for my actions.

My failings with Twigs are fundamental and real, but they are not the narrative that has been presented. There is a time and a place to deal with such things, and I am trying to navigate a nuanced situation with respect for her and the truth, hence my silence. But this situation with your film and my “firing” will never have a court date with which to deal with the facts. If lies are repeated enough in the public they become truth. And so, it makes it that much harder for me to crawl out of the hole I have dug with my behaviors, to be able to provide for my family.

Firing me never took place, Olivia. And while I fully understand the attractiveness of pushing that story because of the current social landscape, the social currency that brings. It is not the truth. So I am humbly asking, as a person with an eye toward making things right, that you correct the narrative as best you can. I hope none of this negativly effects you, and that your film is succesful in all the ways you want it to be.

Every Blessing To You,

Shia

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DC’s Kevin Feige Found? Producer Dan Lin in Talks to Take Control of Film, TV for Superhero Arm - Hollywood Reporter

Has the new head of DC has been found?

Dan Lin, the executive-turned-producer who counts hits such as the live-action Aladdin, The Lego Movie, and the It horror movies among his credits, is in talks to take the role of DC chief, multiple sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.

The role would encompass overseeing not just film but television as well, with Lin reporting directly to Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, according to sources.

The proposed structure would bypass three separate division heads  — Warner Bros. Pictures’ heads Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy, HBO/HBO Max chief Casey Bloys, and Warner Bros. TV chair Channing Dungey — and put control of DC in the hands of one person.

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Walter Hamada, the current head of DC Films, would transition out of the role, according to sources. A Warners insider says that no negotiations are taking place and no official offer has been made, although other sources say the parties are discussing salary, reporting structure and the future of Lin’s prolific production company, Rideback.

If any deal does close, it would cap off one of the most intense executive searches in recent memory, one that faced scrutiny by rival Hollywood producers and executives as well as DC fans.

Zaslav has said he was searching for Warners’ own version of Kevin Feige, the famed Marvel executive who has steered the rival comic book company’s movie slate, and then later its TV portfolio, transforming it into a multibillion-dollar pop culture juggernaut.

That is a nigh-impossible ask, but it didn’t stop executives’ names from surfacing. Emma Watts proved to be an early contender, while in recent months, names such as Amy Pascal, Matt Tolmach, Sean Bailey and Greg Berlanti were rumored to be taking meetings or pushed by canny agency heads.

Lin’s name appeared late in the game, but he has a champion in Warners adviser Alan Horn, the former Disney chair who ran Warners as president and COO in the aughts. It was during that latter tenure that Lin worked for Horn, starting as a junior exec and rising to senior vp production. He struck on his own as a producer in 2008, but not before shepherding movies such as The Departed and 10,000 BC He also oversaw the infamous and aborted Justice League feature that was to have been directed by George Miller. (The 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike and tax credit complications were factors in its derailing.)

Lin is a respected producer known for his smarts and, in a town full of hype and egos, his willingness to find experts on the fields that are not his forte. He has worked on franchises — the Robert Downey Jr.-starring Sherlock Holmes features, the four Lego movies — as well as the wildly successful two-part adaptation of Stephen King’s It. His résumé ranges from big offerings, such as the billion-dollar-grossing Aladdin, to intimate dramas, such as the Oscar-nominated The Two Popes. He is coming off of the early August release of Universal’s Jo Koy comedy Easter Sunday.

And he also has TV experience, a key factor for the new position. Lin and his company executive produced the Lethal Weapon show that aired for three seasons on Fox and Walker, the reboot of Walker, Texas Ranger that will begin its third season on The CW this fall. He and his company are in postproduction on the big-budget live-action series take on Avatar: The Last Airbender for Netflix.

Lin has also shown ambitions beyond the screen. His banner, Rideback, has a nonprofit arm and several initiatives and fellowships that aid BIPOC and rising entrepreneurs. It is unclear what would happen to Rideback, but one scenario, according to sources, is that Warner Bros. Discovery would take some sort of stake in the company. Rideback would also continue to operate as a production entity and be run by current president Jonathan Eirich.

If Lin takes over, he will replace Hamada, who joined DC in 2018, a time when the brand was looking to reset after Justice League (2017) bombed. Hamada, who had a reputation as an amiable collaborator, kept a much lower profile than Marvel’s Feige, who is very much the face of the franchise. Though rival Marvel Studios has a closely connected universe, DC under Hamada explored some stories that took place in separate universes, including the $1 billion-grossing, Oscar-winning Joker (2019) and Matt Reeves’ The Batman (2022), which brought in $769.2 million globally. Sequels to both are in the works.

Hamada built relationships with talent such as Marvel favorite James Gunn, who directed The Suicide Squad (2021) and created the HBO Max spinoff Peacemaker and has other projects in development at DC.

However, Hamada’s tenure also underscored the public pressures that come with leading DC. For the past two years, Hamada has found himself the subject of critical tweets from Justice League actor Ray Fisher, which put the executive in the unusual position of running a film division while being publicly criticized by one of its stars. In the summer of 2020, Fisher accused filmmaker Joss Whedon of abusive and unprofessional behavior on the set of 2017 reshoots for Justice League, which Whedon oversaw after director Zack Snyder departed. Though Hamada was not at DC during the production of Justice League, Fisher accused the executive of attempting to throw Whedon as well as producer Jon Berg “under the bus” in order to protect Geoff Johns, another Justice League producer Fisher said enabled Whedon. Hamada was cleared in the studio’s investigations of any Justice League interference.

Hamada was gearing up to release three or four films a year between theaters and HBO Max when the Warner Bros. Discovery merger occurred. Some see his exit as coming only partway through his DC course-correct, while other observers believe he did not get enough internal support from the previous AT&T regime.

Lin would join DC at a time in which Zaslav has vowed to reshape DC with a 10-year plan he hopes will allow the brand to compete with Disney-owned Marvel Studios, which has built the biggest film franchise in history. 

“We’ve done a reset. … We think we can build a much stronger, sustainable growth business out of DC,” said Zaslav in an earnings call Aug. 4, just two days after he scrapped the $90 million HBO Max Batgirl film that Hamada presided over. “As part of that, we are going to focus on quality. We are not going to release any film before it’s ready. … DC is something we can make better.”

Aaron Couch contributed to this story.

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‘Euphoria’: Barbie Ferreira Says She Won’t Be Back For Season 3 Of HBO Series - Deadline

Barbie Ferreira, who played Kat in the first two seasons of HBO’s Euphoria, says she will not return for Season 3.

Ferreira revealed her apparent exit today in an Instagram story.

“After four years of getting to embody the most special and enigmatic character Kat, I’m having to say a very teary-eyed goodbye. I hope many of you could see yourself in her like I did and that she brought you joy to see her journey into the character she is today. I put all my care and love into her and I hope you guys could feel it. Love you Katherine Hernandez.”

HBO did not immediately respond to Deadline’s request for confirmation.

There had been rumors of on-set tension during the second season between Ferreira and show creator Sam Levinson, but Ferreira told Insider in a March interview that those reports were not true.

Ferreira made her debut as Kat, the best friend of Maddie (Alexa Demie) and Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) in Season 1, which focused on her journey of self love as a body-conscious teen who starts the school year looking to change her reputation. In Season 2 her character’s storyline included a lie about a terminal illness.

The Emmy-winning series was renewed for a third season in February.

Vulture was first to report the news.

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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Paul Rudd Cast in ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Season 3 - Variety

Paul Rudd has joined the cast of “Only Murders in the Building.”

The actor will star in the show’s third season after making a cameo as Broadway star Ben Glenroy in Season 2 finale “I Know Who Did It.” It is not known whether Rudd will appear in a series regular, recurring or guest capacity.

“Paul Rudd, after making an auspicious entrance into the world of our show at the end of Season 2 as Ben Glenroy, is someone we clearly want to know more about and see in our upcoming Season 3 — as he is a clear source of many upcoming questions and, as ever with our show, many twists yet to come!” series co-creator John Hoffman said in a statement to Variety.

“Only Murders in the Building” follows Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short) and Mabel (Selena Gomez), three unlikely friends who live in the same building in New York City and bond over their love of true crime when they find themselves in the middle of a real-life murder mystery and begin a podcast of their own. Season 2 sees them race to unmask the killer of Arconia Board President Bunny Folger (Jayne Houdyshell). However, three (unfortunate) complications ensue – the trio is publicly implicated in Bunny’s homicide, they are now the subjects of a competing podcast and they have to deal with a bunch of New York neighbors who all think they committed murder. Season 3 was greenlit in July.

Martin co-created the series with Hoffman. Martin, Hoffman, Short and Gomez executive produce alongside Dan Fogelman, Jess Rosenthal and Jamie Babbit.

Rudd’s new role in “Only Murders in the Building” reunites him with Selena Gomez, as the two starred together in Netflix’s 2016 film “The Fundamentals of Caring.” Among his prominent credits are “Clueless,” “Wet Hot American Summer,” “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and Marvel’s “Ant-Man.”

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Monday, August 22, 2022

Harry Styles bravely says gay romance My Policeman not about "guys being gay" - The A.V. Club

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Here’s Harry Styles, wading back into dubious queerbaiting territory. A new Rolling Stone profile on the pop icon acknowledges that this is one of the most frequent criticisms lobbed his way, though Styles argues he’s never “publicly been with anyone” and therefore continues to resist society’s restrictive labels.

Though he’s laughably cagey about his personal life for someone mired in a highly publicized (reported) affair with his Don’t Worry Darling director, the budding actor is proudly planting a rainbow flag in his professional career with the upcoming My Policeman. “It’s obviously pretty unfathomable now to think, ‘Oh, you couldn’t be gay. That was illegal,’” Styles says of playing a closeted cop in 1950s Britain.

He goes on to add: “I think everyone, including myself, has your own journey with figuring out sexuality and getting more comfortable with it. It’s not like ‘This is a gay story about these guys being gay.’ It’s about love and about wasted time to me.”

Styles is far from the only star to play the my-gay-film-is-about-more-than-being-gay card. Whether it was to genuinely legitimize queer cinema or to skittishly distance oneself from the subject matter, many performers have been quick to point out that a gay love story is just a love story like any other. But the tedious talking point veers on homophobic: there is obviously nothing wrong with a movie that’s about being gay!

Styles’ insistence that My Policeman transcends sexuality extends to the intimate scenes. “So much of gay sex in film is two guys going at it, and it kind of removes the tenderness from it,” he says. “There will be, I would imagine, some people who watch it who were very much alive during this time when it was illegal to be gay, and [director Michael Grandage] wanted to show that it’s tender and loving and sensitive.”

There’s almost too much to unpack here, but suffice to say it was not strictly necessary for Styles to undermine the entire history of gay sex in film in order to say that his sex scenes are really sensitive. Surely, there’s should be room in cinema for all versions of sex, desire, and intimacy. There is, again, nothing inherently wrong with “two guys going at it.” (By the way, if you ask Pedro Almodóvar, the gay sex in a film like Brokeback Mountain wasn’t animalistic enough.) Styles might want to revise his press points before the My Policeman PR blitz kicks off in earnest.

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