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Forbes
2 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Happy Gilmore 2' Rotten Tomatoes Reviews: Does Sandler Sequel Make Critics Happy?
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio (aka Bad Bunny) and Adam Sandler in "Happy Gilmore 2." NETFLIX/Scott Yamano Adam Sandler's Happy Gilmore 2 is finally here, nearly 30 years after the first film. How are Rotten Tomatoes critics reacting to the film? Rated PG-13, Happy Gilmore 2's logline reads, 'Happy Gilmore returns!' Julie Bowen reprises her Happy Gilmore role as Virginia Venit for the sequel, as does Christopher McDonald as Happy's rival, Shooter McGavin. Forbes 'South Park' Season 27 Release Schedule For Episodes On Streaming And Cable By Tim Lammers Also starring in the sequel are Ben Stiller, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio (aka Bad Bunny), Travis Kelce, John Daly and Margaret Qualley and several stars from showbiz and professional golf. Directed by Kyle Newacheck (who directed Sandler's Murder Mystery ) and written by Sandler and his original Happy Gilmore co-scribe Tim Herlihy, Happy Gilmore 2 premieres on Netflix on Friday. Forbes Horror Thriller '28 Years Later' Gets Streaming Date, Report Says By Tim Lammers As of this publication, Rotten Tomatoes critics have collectively given Happy Gilmore 2 a 64% 'fresh' review based on 14 reviews. Audiences, meanwhile, have given the film a 73% Popcornmeter score based on 250-plus verified user ratings. RT's Critics Consensus is still pending. Only two of RT's top critics have reviewed Happy Gilmore 2 so far. Liz Shannon Miller of Consequence gives the film a 'fresh' rating on RT , writing, 'Between Happy's family life and a whole new series of challenges for him to tackle, there's enough freshness to the plot to keep it from feeling like a total rehash of what came before, while still delivering wild golf stunts and a huge range of cameos.' Forbes All 'Fantastic Four' Movies Ranked Worst To Best By Rotten Tomatoes Critics By Tim Lammers On the flip side, Nick Schager of The Daily Beast gives the film a 'rotten' rating on RT, writing that Adam Sandler's Happy Gilmore 2 is 'arguably the least inspired film in the actor's canon, if not all of movie history.' Of RT's top critics who haven't posted on the review aggregation site yet, Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter says it all in his headline, which partially reads, 'Adam Sandler's Netflix Sequel Is Terrible — and Fans Will Love It.' 'Other than a running gag revolving around Happy's use of every possible object as a liquor container, the film's main humor involves people being painfully hit by golf balls,' Scheck writes on THR . 'By the time the movie ends and you've been assaulted by one tired gag after another, you'll know exactly how they feel.' Forbes 'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning' Gets Streaming Date By Tim Lammers Owen Gleiberman's Happy Gilmore 2 review for Variety is much more on the positive side, as he writes that the film 'is a happy orgy of raucously well-executed Adam Sandler fan service.' 'It's a pointed exercise in nostalgia, but with a present-tense edge,' Gleiberman writes in Variety . 'It's not some fake update of the clever/dumb brand of slob comedy that made Sandler a superstar in the '90s. It's the genuine article, a true revival of Sandler's Jerry Lewis-meets-rock 'n' roll rage.' Happy Gilmore 2 is new on Netflix. Forbes 'Fantastic Four: First Steps' Box Office Projections Far Below 'Superman' Opening By Tim Lammers
Yahoo
2 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Puma Surprises Market With Early Q2 Results, Slashes Guidance for 2025
German sportswear brand Puma surprised local markets after it released preliminary second-quarter results that were below expectations and then slashed its outlook for the full year. The news sent Puma's stock into a dive, closing Friday down 16 percent to 20.70 euros. More from WWD KidSuper to Open Rooftop Soccer Field in Brooklyn Adidas Is Bringing Bold Animal Prints to Another One of Its Classic Sneaker Models Bad Bunny Goes on 'Stephen Colbert' Wearing Tan Suede Adidas Wales Bonner Sneakers 'Amid ongoing volatile geopolitical and macroeconomic volatility, Puma anticipates that both sector-wide and company-specific challenges will continue to significantly impact performance in 2025,' the company said in a statement issued late Thursday evening. Between April and June, Puma sales fell by 2 percent, in currency adjusted terms, to 1.94 billion euros. This meant that over the first half of 2025, the brand's sales decreased by 1 percent, in currency adjusted terms, compared to the same period last year. So far in 2025, Puma sales have totaled 4.02 billion euros. Puma also made deep cuts to its guidance for the rest of the year. The German brand now expects sales to drop by low-double digits over the whole year and also issued a profit warning. Previously the company had been much more upbeat, predicting low growth and a positive EBIT — earnings before income and taxes — of somewhere between 445 million and 525 million euros. Now it expects a loss. In Friday morning trading in Germany, Puma shares lost almost 20 percent in value. That comes on top of losses in March after the company's initial profit warning, from which Puma shares have not yet recovered. A combination of factors is to blame for the turnaround in guidance, Puma's chief financial officer Markus Neubrand told journalists at a hastily arranged press conference to discuss the preliminary second-quarter results. Puma was not doing well at wholesale, he said, with North America in particular presenting the brand problems. That market makes up around one-fifth of Puma's sales worldwide. Tariffs being imposed by the U.S. government under President Donald Trump were also an issue for Puma, despite the company changing sourcing to suit and bringing extra stock into the U.S. ahead of tariffs, Neubrand added. 'The impact from U.S. tariffs were previously excluded from our guidance,' Neubrand explained. 'We also factored in what we've seen in the second quarter and the gross profit margin is also behind expectations. That combination [of factors] is the key explanation for the change.' Puma saw the biggest drop in sales in North America: These slumped 9.1 percent, in currency adjusted terms, over the second quarter. In Puma's home market of Europe, sales fell 3.9 percent. They dropped by the same percentage in Greater China. In the Asia-Pacific region, Puma sales slipped 2.4 percent, in currency adjusted terms. The only markets to see growth were smaller ones, with Latin American sales rising 16.1 percent and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa totting up a small sales boost of half a percentage point. The company was also holding too much inventory, the Puma executive conceded, and is having issues selling at full price. In terms of product categories, sales of Puma footwear grew 5.1 percent, in currency adjusted terms. Apparel and accessories fell by 10.7 percent and 6.4 percent, respectively. Puma had expected to capitalize on the so-called 'low profile' trend with its range of Speedcat products. Although these were doing well in fashion-forward Asian markets and in trendy metropolitan stores elsewhere, Speedcat had not resonated with customers more generally and sales 'are behind expectations,' Neubrand noted. Also present at the press conference was the company's new chief executive officer, Arthur Hoeld, who previously spent 26 years at Puma's much larger, local competitor Adidas. Hoeld started the job on July 1, taking the place of Arne Freundt, who led Puma for around two-and-a-half years. Hoeld held a wide variety of roles at Adidas, including in global sales, brand strategy and regional management. Analysts have suggested that in such difficult market circumstances, Hoeld may have wanted a 'clean slate' before he initiates his own strategy, which may have been another reason for the unexpectedly drastic cut in Puma's guidance. Hoeld himself wouldn't be drawn in detail on where he might take the company next. 'We need to ask ourselves some tough questions,' Hoeld told media on Friday morning. 'I am aware of the disappointment…I do recognize we have some very immediate operational challenges.' But, he added, he'd only been in the top job for three weeks and was still evaluating everything. He promised he would come back to investors, analysts and media with a more fully formed strategy by October. Key areas for that strategy would likely include 'distribution mix, the quality of our distribution, our brand storytelling, our strength in archives and innovation,' Hoeld said. 'These are the things we will investigate to bring our brand forward in the future.' One thing Hoeld was clear on: The strategy put in place by his predecessor, which included big spending on a worldwide marketing campaign, would be discontinued. 'The future starts now,' Hoeld said, adding that he didn't want to dwell on any past mistakes at Puma. The rest of 2025 would be a 'reset' for the brand and then 2026 would be a 'transitional year,' Hoeld said. On Friday morning, market analysts from the likes of Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan and UBS expressed surprise at the new, negative guidance. Several analysts suggested that Hoeld had a tough job ahead of him. Puma was suffering from increased competition in its sector, cash flow issues and high net debt and seemed to have been slow coming to market with some trend-driven products, the analysts said. Best of WWD All the Retailers That Nike Left and Then Went Back Mikey Madison's Elegant Red Carpet Shoe Style [PHOTOS] Julia Fox's Sleekest and Boldest Shoe Looks Over the Years [Photos]
USA Today
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Does Taylor Swift make a cameo in 'Happy Gilmore 2' with Travis Kelce?
Here's what we know about Happy Gilmore 2: It is a very funny sequel to the original Adam Sandler golf movie, and there are A TON of cameos in it from celebrities, golfers and Sandlers. One of those cameos belongs to Travis Kelce, who makes an appearance and gets honey rubbed on him by Bad Bunny while the Kansas City Chiefs tight end has his shirt off, which is one heck of a Mad Libs sentence to write. Which brings us to the question you want to know about: is Taylor Swift in the movie too if her boyfriend -- who just dropped some Instagram photos of them -- is? The answer is: Nope. No Taylor Swift in there. Sadly, she's not in the movie, although that would have been fun. Here's the Travis Kelce and Bad Bunny scene with the honey in Happy Gilmore 2 Enjoy. LOL!
Boston Globe
5 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
The 20 best albums of 2025 (so far)
Annie & the Caldwells, 'Can't Lose My (Soul)' The 'about' page on Annie & the Caldwells's website offers a single, mundane statement — 'we're a family band from West Point, Mississippi' — but the music this family makes is simply out of this world. Led by singer-matriarch Annie Caldwell, 'Can't Lose My (Soul)' delivers six spectacular, extended workouts of disco, funk, and gospel-soul call-and-response fervor that testify — to their faith, and to the power of music. (Stuart Munro) Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Bad Bunny, 'DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS' Advertisement The Energizer Bunny of Latin music reigns supreme with his sixth solo LP, a twisting odyssey where plena, salsa, and bomba from the Bad Bunny performs during the first show of his 30-date concert residency at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Alejandro Granadillo/Associated Press Billy Nomates, 'Metalhorse' Billy Nomates comes equipped with a withering alto cut with half of a snarl, and it'd serve her exceedingly well for black-hearted cynicism (or country music). But the art-pop she serves up via 'Metalhorse' — grand and wheezing here, flattened into synth-garage there — finds her clinging to a belief in the humanity we all start with instead. From there — well, that's where things get interesting. (Marc Hirsh) Advertisement D.K. Harrell, 'Talkin' Heavy' The blues is more alright than it's been in years, thanks to a recent surge of young, Black, Southern-raised talents. One of the most exciting is Louisiana-born singer/guitarist D.K. Harrell. Like his most obvious influence, B.B. King, Harrell knows how to make a soulful sound that's informed by traditional blues but still sounds funky and fresh. (Noah Schaffer) The Delines, 'Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom' The fourth album from Portland, Ore., band the Delines continues what they do so well: combining Willy Vlautin's unflinching portraits of trials and tribulations from the hardscrabble side of life, Amy Boone's husky, impossibly weary vocals, and the band's delicious country-soul instrumentation. If there's a new one from this band, it's pretty much a lead-pipe cinch that it will show up somewhere on my best-of list. (Stuart Munro) Durand Jones & the Indications, 'Flowers' This Echezona & JPRiZM, 'Ényì' Advertisement With Afrobeats thriving in the diaspora, a cadre of US-based artists are now putting their own spin on the music. Boston-based artist Echezona and producer JPRiZM have crafted this heartfelt multilingual celebration of women and community; it's full of club-ready grooves that hit a sweet spot right between Afrobeats and hip-hop. (Noah Schaffer) Ethel Cain, 'Perverts' An EP testing the limits of 'extended' play? A double-album statement disguised as interstitial palate cleanser? Singer-songwriter Ethel Cain's nine-song, 90-minute project 'Perverts' defies simple categorization as it sheds the gothic Americana of 2022's 'Preacher's Daughter' for an imposing and intoxicating sea of drone, dark ambient, and spectral folk. It's a deep dive into the abyss, inviting (or daring) listeners to follow it down. (Ben Stas) Hallelujah the Hills, 'Deck' Mirroring a traditional pack of playing cards — that's four records for four suits, 52 songs for 52 cards, plus a pair of 'joker' tracks — the ambitious, towering 'Deck' is the biggest swing yet from long-running Boston outfit Hallelujah the Hills. The high-concept conceit may be the hook, but bandleader Kali Uchis, 'Sincerely' Since her emergence in the early 2010s, Virginia-born Advertisement KiNG MALA , 'And You Who Drowned in the Grief of a Golden Thing' The audacious debut full-length from Los Angeles pop savant KiNG MALA tackles the often-ugly collision of ambition and romance with high-concept songs that find her fighting a deity. On tracks that possess the grandeur of cinema scores and the white-knuckle emotionalism of bedroom pop, KiNG MALA takes on the world's biggest ills, knowing that any scars she weathers will double as proof of life. (Maura Johnston) Mei Semones , 'Animaru' The debut album from this Berklee grad recalibrates the recent indie infatuation with samba and bossa nova (see: Laufey, John Roseboro). Start with the fact that Semones sings in Japanese as often as English; add that her band indulges in chamber-pop rock and occasional math-y breakdowns. 'This is a dumb feeling,' she sings. 'There's something I like about it.' (James Sullivan) Mdou Moctar performs at the 2024 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival./file Mdou Moctar, 'Tears of Injustice' The latest from the electrifying Tuareg guitarist Paquito D'Rivera & Madrid-New York Connection Band, 'La Fleur de Cayenne' Showing up unannounced is rarely advised, but it worked for Spain-based pianist/composer Pepe Rivero. When visiting New Jersey, he dropped by the home of master clarinetist and saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera, and decades later, the two Cuban jazz greats are still creating music together. D'Rivera sounds as inspired as ever on this elegant set full of pan-Latin rhythms. (Noah Schaffer) Advertisement Pulp, 'More' The first album in nearly a quarter-century from Britpop's brainiest collective finds the group older, wiser, and a little more sentimental than they were in the early '00s — although their knife-edge wit and ability to crank out festival-ready anthems are still quite intact. On songs like the gorgeous 'Farmers Market' and the tense 'Grown Ups,' lead raconteur Jarvis Cocker and his band look back at the past with bemusement and toward the future with tenderness. (Maura Johnston) Saba & No ID, 'From the Private Collection of Saba and No ID' What do you do when the producer who shaped some of the biggest songs for Jay-Z, Kanye West, Common, Beyoncé, and Rihanna drops 100 beats in your lap? If you're rapper Saba, you take it as a challenge — but also a chance to exhale after unpacking trauma on 2018's 'CARE FOR ME' and 2022's 'Few Good Things.' The duo ended up with 15 songs that are inviting ('Crash') and flirtatious ('Breakdown'), but still soulful ('Reciprocity') and thoughtful ('How to Impress God'). (Julian Benbow) Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory, 'Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory' Approaching the goth/post-punk/Krautrock amalgam of her current outfit with open-minded intentionality, Advertisement Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory Devin Oktar Yalkin Tamino, 'Every Dawn's a Mountain' He's been dubbed 'the Belgian Jeff Buckley' — a heavy saddle. Actually half Egyptian (his grandfather was a movie and pop star from Cairo), Tamino-Amir Moharam Fouad might be more like Timothée Chalamet's version of Leonard Cohen. None of which is intended to denigrate his obvious promise as a performer all his own. Tamino's third album is a quiet stunner. (James Sullivan) Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, 'Defiant Life' Player-composers Julian Benbow can be reached at
Yahoo
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kesha Shows Support for Cassie Ventura Following Diddy Trial Verdict: ‘I Believe You'
After Sean 'Diddy' Combs was found not guilty of sex-trafficking, despite days of Cassie Ventura testifying to the contrary, the singer has received support from someone who knows what it's like to have their sexual assault claims play out in court: Kesha. Just hours after the Bad Boy Records founder was acquitted on sex-trafficking and racketeering charges Wednesday (July 2) — with a New York jury only convicting him on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution — Kesha shared a message of solidarity with Ventura on X. 'Cassie, I believe you,' she wrote. 'I love you.' More from Billboard Cassie's Lawyer Calls Diddy's Defense Closing Arguments 'Repugnant' Following Verdict Bad Bunny's 'NUEVAYol' Video Arrives on Fourth of July With Pro-Immigrant Message: 'Together We Are Stronger' BLACKPINK Is 'Ready to Jump' in What Looks to Be a New Music Teaser: Listen The pop star added, 'Your strength is a beacon for every survivor.' The jury's decision came after two days of deliberations, putting an end to a seven-week trial that found federal prosecutors attempting to convict Diddy on allegations that he'd spent years running a criminal enterprise built around his own sexual gratification. Ventura took the stand for several days in May and detailed how the disgraced mogul allegedly abused and trafficked her for the sake of his 'freak off' parties. Diddy has denied all of the accusations levied against him in the trial from the beginning. He now awaits sentencing, facing a maximum of 20 years behind bars for the prostitution charge. Kesha has previously found herself in the middle of legal proceedings involving allegations of sexual assault, with the singer accusing producer Dr. Luke in 2014 of drugging her and raping her at a 2005 party, something he vehemently denies. The claims sparked a yearslong legal battle that finally ended when the two parties reached a settlement in 2023 — but Kesha has been open about the toll her experience has taken on her personally and artistically. The 'Tik Tok' hitmaker is now gearing up to release . (Period) — her very first independent album after finishing her contract with Dr. Luke's Kemosabe Records — on July 4. 'It's been all of my vision, all of my words, a lot of hard work, a lot of joy,' Kesha said of the project on The Jennifer Hudson Show in May. 'Really coming back home to myself and feeling what freedom really looks like, feels like, sounds like.' As for Ventura, the model recently welcomed her third baby with husband Alex Fine. The birth came just a couple of weeks after she finished her time on the stand in Diddy's trial. In response to the hip-hop titan's partial acquittal, Ventura's attorney's said in a statement, 'By coming forward with her experience, Cassie has left an indelible mark on both the entertainment industry and the fight for justice … This case proved that change is long overdue, and we will continue to fight on behalf of survivors.' See Kesha's post below. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart Solve the daily Crossword
