Vol. 29
No. 27
Pick Hits
At The Movies
Thor: Love And Thunder
Thor (Chris Hemsworth) embarks on a
journey unlike anything he's ever faced; a quest for
inner peace. However, his retirement gets interrupted by
Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale), a
galactic killer who seeks the extinction of the gods.
The fourth movie in the Thor franchise and the sixth
film in Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic
Universe, Love and Thunder sees Natalie
Portman’s Jane Foster take up the mantle of Mighty
Thor. Taika Waititi returns to direct following his work
on 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok, while Chris Hemsworth,
Tessa Thompson and Jaimie
Alexander are also back. Franchise newbies include
Christian Bale as villain Gorr the God Butcher, and
Russell Crowe as Zeus.
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Spiderhead (Netflix)
Two inmates form a connection while grappling with their
pasts in a state of the art penitentiary run by a
brilliant visionary who experiments on his subjects with
mind-altering drugs. Spiderhead is a 2022 American
science fiction thriller film directed by Joseph
Kosinski, with a screenplay by Rhett
Reese and Paul Wernick, based on the
dystopian short story "Escape from
Spiderhead" by George Saunders. The
film stars Chris Hemsworth (who also
co-produced), Miles Teller, and Jurnee
Smollett.
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The Summer I Turned Pretty (Prime Video)
A girl is caught in a love triangle between two brothers
as she deals with her first love and first heartbreak
during the perfect summer. Following the series' debut,
all three The Summer I Turned Pretty books skyrocketed
into the top three spots on Amazon Best
Sellers list, with the second book, It's Not
Summer Without You, at number one. The artists whose
music is used in the show have also seen an increase in
streams, sales and followers, with some experiencing up
to a 6,000% increase in song sales. Taylor
Swift's seventh studio album, Lover, resurged in
sales and streaming, and re-entered the top 40 region of
the Billboard 200 chart as well.
The Buzz...
Brooke Shields wants to keep the negativity away from her family.
Especially when it comes to her daughters Rowan Francis Henchy, 19, and Grier
Hammond Henchy, 16 (with husband Chris Henchy), navigating social media. "I try
to not preach too much," the supermodel exclusively told E! News. "They
have been privy to me as an example their whole lives. "
A man has been arrested on stalking and trespassing charges after allegedly
trying to gain access to Taylor Swift's apartment in New York
City. According to the NYPD, Joshua Christian was arrested
at 7:20 p.m. on July 1. At the time of his arrest, the mand had allegedly
entered two buildings in Swift's neighborhood over the course of a three month
period.
Surprise! Lindsay Lohan is a married woman. On July 2, her 36th
birthday, the Mean Girls actress shared an Instagram
tribute to her longtime partner Bader Shammas, calling him her
"husband."
The long July 4th holiday weekend is turning into a bonanza for Hollywood as
Minions: The Rise of Gru heads for a huge four day opening of 129.2 million
domestically, according to early estimates. That includes 109.5 million for the
three days.
Clint Eastwood filed two lawsuits accusing companies involved in
the cannabis industry of stealing his likeness as part of a scam to drive
traffic to CBD retailers. He claims that the marketing campaigns, which
included fake news articles using his name and image, implied he was endorsing
the cannabis products. Eastwood has no formal involvement in the cannabis
industry and maintains that he would have been uninterested in endorsing any CBD
products.
Netflix’s Stranger Things, which ahead of Season 4, Volume
1’s release made its first ever appearance on Nielsen’s U.S. ranking of
streaming originals, as people played catch-up, dominated the Nielsen Top 10
chart for the weeks of May 23 and May 30, after the first new episodes finally
saw the light of day.
Kelsey Grammer is in “the final stages” of developing the
Frasier reboot. In a preview of his upcoming appearance on The
Talk, Grammer explains: “There’s been some conversation about maybe
[shooting in] October, maybe a little later. I don’t know. There are a couple
other things coming up. We’ve developed a couple other projects that look like
they’re going to shoot first.
Jerry Hall filed for divorce from billionaire husband Rupert
Murdoch on Friday, citing “irreconcilable differences,” six years after
the pair married. The 66 year old model sought unspecified spousal support and
attorneys’ fees from 91 year old media mogul Murdoch, in a California court
filing.