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Yahoo
22 minutes ago
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P.F. Chang's Debuts "Freakier Flavors" Limited-Time Menu Inspired by Disney's 'Freakier Friday'
First-time collaboration with Disney offering a limited-time menu featuring new dinner specials, color-changing refreshers, and a chance to enter to win a year of dinner specials and movie tickets SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., July 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- P.F. Chang's is bringing a beloved movie moment to life with the launch of its new limited-time "Freakier Flavors" menu, inspired by the August 8th theatrical release of Disney's Freakier Friday. The menu pays tribute to the fictional "House of Chiang's" from the original 2003 film – a playful nod to the Asian and Asian-inspired cuisine that has long defined the P.F. Chang's brand. Now, with Freakier Friday bringing the fan-favorite body-swap chaos back to theaters for a new generation, P.F. Chang's is joining the fun, serving up dinner specials and movie-inspired menu items for fans of all ages. "When the original Freaky Friday featured a scene at the fictional 'House of Chiang's,' it felt like an unexpected shoutout to our brand," said Sonika Patel, Chief Marketing Officer at P.F. Chang's. "With Freakier Friday, we saw the perfect opportunity to make that connection real – turning a fun film moment into a flavorful experience for our guests." "We love when movie moments leap off the screen and into real life," said Jan Coleman, Vice President, Marketing Partnerships, Promotions & Multicultural, Disney. "P.F. Chang's has captured the spirit of Freakier Friday with a playful twist, serving up a flavorful experience that fans of all ages will enjoy." The "Freakier Flavors" menu is available for a limited time at most P.F. Chang's locations nationwide starting July 30, 2025 through September 2, 2025. The menu will include: Make Good Choices Dinner Specials– A customizable combo with a choice of starter, base, and entrée. Featured Dinner Specials: House of Chang's Spicy Chicken Dinner Special – Chang's Spicy Chicken served with white rice and an egg roll. Mix It Up Mongolian Beef Dinner Special – Mongolian Beef served with white rice or lo mein and a house salad. Switcheroo and Crystal Ball Refreshers – Non-alcoholic drinks with fruit-forward flavors and visual flair, like mango-orange lemonade and desert pear both finished with color-changing theatrics and shimmer. Pink Slip Ube Cheesecake – Vanilla cheesecake base topped with a creamy, nutty ube layer, made from real purple sweet potato and topped with edible pink glitter for a full rock-and-roll moment. Guests will have the chance to win cool prizes as part of the celebration of P.F. Chang's new menu launch—whether they're dining in and trying the latest dishes or simply joining in the excitement. Prizes include:* Grand Prize (1): Includes a Disney's Freakier Friday Prize Pack, a year of P.F. Chang's Dinner Specials, and a year of movie tickets. First Prizes (10): Each includes a $150 P.F. Chang's gift card and two movie tickets. To learn more or find a location, visit or follow P.F. Chang's on Instagram, X, Facebook or TikTok. For terms and conditions, please visit *No purchase necessary. Must be legal resident of fifty (50) U.S. or D.C., age 18 or older. Registration ends 9/2/25. For Official Rules, visit Void where prohibited. SPONSOR: P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ. "A year of movie tickets" awarded as a Fandango Promotional Code with a total value up to $2,080, inclusive of ticket prices, fees, and charges. Fandango terms and conditions apply. "A year of dinner specials" awarded as a $2,600 P.F. Chang's Gift Card, subject to standard terms and valid only at participating U.S. locations. About P.F. Chang's:Founded in 1993 by Philip Chiang and Paul Fleming, P.F. Chang's is the first internationally recognized, multi-unit Asian culinary brand to honor and celebrate the 2,000-year-old tradition of wok cooking as the center of the guest experience. With roots in Chinese cuisine, today's menu at P.F. Chang's spans across all of Asia, honoring cultures and recipes from Japan, Korea, Thailand, and beyond. Each item offers a unique exploration of flavor – whether it's a handcrafted cocktail, a fan-favorite Lunch or Dinner Special, or a celebratory Chef's Feast 3-course dinner. Worldwide, P.F. Chang's operates 297 restaurants in 23 countries and U.S. airport locations. For more news, visit and follow @pfchangs on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. About Disney's "Freakier Friday""Freakier Friday," the eagerly anticipated sequel to the Disney classic starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, will be released in theaters nationwide August 8, 2025. In the film, Curtis and Lohan reprise their roles as Tess and Anna Coleman. The story picks up years after Tess (Curtis) and Anna (Lohan) endured an identity crisis. Anna now has a daughter of her own and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the myriad challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might indeed strike twice. "Freakier Friday" is directed by Nisha Ganatra, and the screenplay is by Jordan Weiss, with a story by Elyse Hollander and Jordan Weiss, based on the book "Freaky Friday" by Mary Rodgers. The film, which also stars Julia Butters, Sophia Hammons, Manny Jacinto, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Rosalind Chao, Chad Michael Murray, and Mark Harmon, is produced by Kristin Burr, p.g.a., Andrew Gunn, p.g.a., and Jamie Lee Curtis, with Ann Marie Sanderlin, Mario Iscovich, Nathan Kelly, and Lindsay Lohan serving as executive producers. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE P.F. Chang's Sign in to access your portfolio
Perth Now
an hour ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Lindsay Lohan helps Jamie Lee Curtis reconsider mother comments
Jamie Lee Curtis says Lindsay Lohan has helped her reconsider whether her mother would be proud of her role in Everything Everywhere All at Once. While Jamie, 66, won an Oscar for the film, she previously admitted her late mom Janet Leight, who died in 2004 at the age of 77, wouldn't have approved because of how dowdy she looks in the film but Freakier Friday co-star Lohan has given her a different perspective. She told PEOPLE: '"It's funny because Lindsay - you can say things and you think them and then you read them. And Lindsay said to me one day, 'Well, how do you know what she would've thought?' And I'm like, 'Well, I know my mom. I think I know,' but she's right. My mom's dead. And I don't know, maybe she would've loved Everything Everywhere. I don't think so. "The reason why I didn't think she would love it is because in her generation, as I was trying to say, what you looked like was your currency. [Leigh] was a great beauty. I've never been a great beauty. I've been cute. I was cute. Not beautiful. My mother was legendarily beautiful. And so because of that, I thought she would have a problem with the way I looked." In the film, Curtis plays an IRS agent who audits Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan's laundromat business. Her character wears glasses and unfashionable clothes, with Curtis also donning an unflattering wig. And, while Jamie doesn't believe her mother would have liked her appearance in the film, she things she would definitely approve of Freakier Friday. She said: "Maybe she would've loved it. Maybe she would've appreciated the art of it. She would have loved this [Freakier Friday]. This would be, she loved this. She loved True Lies. She loved it. '[Leigh] always believed that I was a comedian because I was an obnoxious teen. And you know, I was funny and a smart aleck, and I think she always wanted me to be very true to that. That's hard to do when you don't have any confidence in what you're doing. And this has all grown out of many years and a little bit of analysis."
Yahoo
2 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
In 'Freakier Friday,' Manny Jacinto plays Lindsay Lohan's love interest. Why his leading man status is a big deal.
Jacinto hive, rejoice: Our boy's a romantic lead. At this point, it's an undeniable fact: Manny Jacinto is in his leading man era. It's been a whirlwind few years for Jacinto, who is currently on the press tour for Freakier Friday, the Freaky Friday sequel out Aug. 8. A follow-up to its 2003 predecessor, Freakier Friday sees Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis reprise their roles as body-swapping mother-daughter duo Anna and Tess Coleman, who find themselves in familiar territory two decades later, only this time, Anna's daughter and stepdaughter-to-be are thrown into the mix. Jacinto plays Eric Davies, Anna's husband-to-be, who's completely unaware that his fiancée has swapped places with his stepdaughter-to-be, and that his daughter has traded places with his soon-to-be mother-in-law. The 37-year-old actor is aware of how big this opportunity is. 'It's wild that I get to do this. I never would have thought I'd play the love interest to Lindsay Lohan; I watched Lindsay Lohan as a kid,' he told InStyle in an interview published Tuesday morning. 'It's wild what you can do if you put your mind to it.' More than starring opposite Lohan, Jacinto was mostly drawn to the role because of its significance to the Asian American community. It's not often we see a man who looks like Jacinto in such a mainstream role — and he knows that. 'I mean, you don't get to see a lot of Asian American males as a love interest, or as a solid father figure, and that was definitely the part that enticed me about it,' Jacinto told Deadline last week. With Freakier Friday, Jacinto fully seizes his leading man potential. For fans who have been following him since The Good Place, his rise to fame — and newly minted heartthrob status — is a point of pride. 'Without giving the algebra of representation too much credit, there's something pleasurable about seeing an Asian man romancing anyone and getting a break from the more familiar interracial combo of white man/AAPI woman,' Veronica Fitzpatrick, a Filipino American adjunct assistant professor of modern culture and media at Brown University, told Yahoo. 'That we're seeing it in a mainstream film like Freakier Friday … helps further normalize the very normal, very not-novel idea that AAPI men have sex appeal and romantic currency.' Raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, the Filipino Canadian actor nabbed his breakthrough role on NBC's The Good Place, where he charmed audiences as the often aloof but well-intentioned Floridian Jason Mendoza. From there, Jacinto landed a starring role on the Nicole Kidman-led series Nine Perfect Strangers before appearing in her ex-husband's blockbuster hit Top Gun: Maverick a year later, despite all his lines famously being cut. Jacinto's rise to the top has been slow and steady, though his portrayal of brooding Sith Lord the Stranger on Disney+'s The Acolyte triggered a shift in how Hollywood perceives him: as an Asian male worthy of a lead role. Jacinto has even received the TikTok treatment: He was the subject of several shirtless, lustful edits on the app that had loyal Acolyte fans rethinking their allegiances. 'The Stranger flips classic gender tropes of hypersexualization,' Leslye Headland, The Acolyte's creator and showrunner, previously told GQ. 'But a true sex symbol is someone who resonates emotionally with fans. Manny's magnetism is rooted in his acting, not just his physique. His ability to access vulnerability, empathy and longing is very compelling.' Women, it seems, have played a crucial part in Jacinto's continued success and rise to stardom. His female fans are plentiful, but Jacinto is especially moved by the championing that women behind the scenes are doing for him. Without them, he told InStyle, his career wouldn't have gone in the direction that it has. 'Women have been a huge champion for me. It's always been women who have been able to look past what I have done and see the potential of what I can do,' he said, naming Kidman, Headland and Freakier Friday's Nisha Ganatra. 'Thank God I get to do this during this day and age when there are so many women at the top … who see my potential and are not afraid to explore that.' Solve the daily Crossword
CNN
5 hours ago
- Entertainment
- CNN
Jamie Lee Curtis has thoughts about the harm done to ‘a generation of women by the cosmeceutical industrial complex'
Jamie Lee Curtis understands that using the word 'genocide' to describe plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures might not go over well for some, but she's not backing down. 'I've been very vocal about the genocide of a generation of women by the cosmeceutical industrial complex,' the actress told The Guardian in a recently published interview. 'I've used that word for a long time and I use it specifically because it's a strong word. I believe that we have wiped out a generation or two of natural human (appearance).' The 'Freakier Friday' star caused a stir years ago when she posed for a magazine cover in her underwear and no makeup to show the reality of what she looked like at the time. Now 66, Curtis told The Guardian that 'the concept that you can alter the way you look through chemicals, surgical procedures, fillers – there's a disfigurement of generations of predominantly women who are altering their appearances.' She added that the trend 'is aided and abetted by AI, because now the filter face is what people want.' 'I'm not filtered right now. The minute I lay a filter on and you see the before and after, it's hard not to go: 'Oh, well that looks better.' But what's better?,' the Oscar-winner continued. 'Better is fake. And there are too many examples – I will not name them – but very recently we have had a big onslaught through media, many of those people.' Elsewhere in the interview, Curtis described how she would respond to other public-facing personalities in her business that may have indeed had plastic surgery, saying, 'It doesn't matter.' 'I'm not proselytising to them. I would never say a word,' she said. 'I would never say to someone: what have you done? All I know is that it is a never-ending cycle. That, I know. Once you start, you can't stop. But it's not my job to give my opinion; it's none of my business.' This is far from the first time Curtis has commented on what it means to age in Hollywood. During a 2024 appearance on 'Today,' the star said she was 'very much in acceptance of what I look like and I own what I think and feel. And that, to me, is what maturity is.' 'You own what you think and feel. I say what I mean. I mean what I say. I try not to say it mean. And that's a way then to grow into my old age.'
West Australian
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- West Australian
Jamie-Lee Curtis slams Hollywood's plastic surgery obsession, says 'the filter face is what people want'
Jamie Lee Curtis has taken aim at Hollywood's obsession with plastic surgery, calling it out for 'disfiguring generations of women' in a new interview. The 'Freakier Friday' star criticised the rise in cosmetic procedures: 'The concept that you can alter the way you look through chemicals, surgical procedures, fillers – there's a disfigurement of generations of predominantly women who are altering their appearances,' she told The Guardian. 'It is aided and abetted by AI, because now the filter face is what people want. I'm not filtered right now. The minute I lay a filter on and you see the before and after, it's hard not to go, 'Oh, well that looks better.' But what's better? Better is fake.' To reinforce her message, Curtis wore oversized wax lips to her photo shoot, expressing, 'The wax lips is my statement against plastic surgery. I've been very vocal about the genocide of a generation of women by the cosmeceutical industrial complex, who've disfigured themselves. The wax lips really sends it home.' Curtis defended her use of the strong word 'genocide,' explaining it was deliberate: 'I've used that word for a long time and I use it specifically because it's a strong word. I believe that we have wiped out a generation or two of natural human (appearance),' she argued, adding, 'And there are too many examples – I will not name them – but very recently we have had a big onslaught through media, many of those people.' When asked about plastic surgery speculation around her 'Freakier Friday' co-star Lindsay Lohan, Curtis said, 'I'm bossy, very bossy, but I try to mind my own business. She doesn't need my advice. She's a fully functioning, smart woman, creative person. Privately, she's asked me questions, but nothing that's more than an older friend you might ask.' She also emphasised that her criticism isn't meant to judge other women's personal choices. 'It doesn't matter. I'm not proselytising to them. I would never say a word. I would never say to someone, 'What have you done?' All I know is that it is a never-ending cycle. That, I know. Once you start, you can't stop. But it's not my job to give my opinion; it's none of my business.' Curtis described herself as 'pro-aging,' in 2022 on the Today show. She also acknowledged her own experiences with cosmetic procedures, saying, 'I did plastic surgery. I put Botox in my head. Does Botox make the big wrinkle go away? Yes. But then you look like a plastic figurine.' She admitted to having liposuction and an eye procedure after hurtful comments from a director, which led to struggles with opioid addiction. 'Once you mess with your face, you can't get it back.'
