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Ariana Grande to star in new 'Meet the Parents' film
Ariana Grande is slated to star in the next installment of the " Meet the Parents" franchise. Universal Pictures confirmed to "Good Morning America" on Friday that the Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated " Wicked" actress will star alongside Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller in the new film, which is expected to arrive next year. Grande shared the news on her Instagram story, writing, "very thrilled to be joining (meeting) the family !!!!!!!" Details about the film's plot and Grande's character have not been released. John Hamburg, the screenwriter for the previous three "Meet the Parents" films, wrote the screenplay for the fourth movie and is set to direct. De Niro will co-produce with Jane Rosenthal through Tribeca Productions. Stiller is also a producer on the project with John Lesher through Red Hour Films. According to Deadline, which first reported the news, original cast members Teri Polo and Blythe Danner will also return for the new film. The first "Meet the Parents" film was released in 2000. It followed Stiller's dealings with his girlfriend's parents, particularly her overprotective father. The film brought in $330,425,040 in worldwide box office, according to the Numbers, and spawned two successful sequels, "Meet the Fockers," which premiered in 2004, and "Little Fockers," which hit theaters in 2010. The new film will arrive in theaters Nov. 25, 2026.
Perth Now
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Amanda Seyfried and Scoot McNairy join The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd cast
Amanda Seyfried and Scoot McNairy are to star in prison break thriller 'The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd'. Written and directed by Tim Blake Nelson, the upcoming motion picture tells the story of a teacher in an abusive marriage who falls for a convict after landing a job at a maximum-security prison. The movie will be a reunion for 39-year-old Seyfried and Nelson, who will star opposite one another in forthcoming historical musical film 'Ann Lee', in which Amanda portrays the titular founding leader of the Shakers religious sect. Nelson is quoted by Deadline as saying: "I feel deeply fortunate to be able to tell this story with such an extraordinary lead cast. "I have always admired Amanda, and getting to work with her on Mona Fastvold's film 'Ann Lee' last summer confirmed for me what an extraordinary person she is aside from her talent." Nelson admitted McNairy's role is a "demanding part", but he is looking forward to seeing the 47-year-old actor "accomplish" the role. He added: "As for Scoot, it's great to be able to offer him such a demanding part. "No one has seen him do what he's about to accomplish in this role. "It will be magnificent to be on set with these two performers." 'The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd' - which will be produced by Julie Buck, Nelson, Ryan Bartecki, Miles David Romney, and Billy Hines - is in production in Georgia. Nelson said: "It's a difficult story, but also one meant to grab its audience and not let go. "We've assembled a cast and crew of people dedicated to making something not only compelling but unforgettable." In December, it was revealed Seyfried is to lead the cast of 'Ann Lee', a movie put together by the team behind the Golden Globe-nominated historical drama film 'The Brutalist'. It is described as an "epic fable" about the religious leader Ann Lee, the founding member of the Shaker Movement, who was proclaimed by followers as the female Christ and ended up building one of the largest utopian societies in the history of the United States.
Daily Mail
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Jessica Alba chats up Kris Jenner's boyfriend at Las Vegas pool party as she celebrates 44th birthday
Jessica Alba was spotted chatting up Kris Jenner 's boyfriend, Corey Gamble, at the Palm Tree Beach Club and MGM Grand on Saturday. The club is the first partnership between night life giant Tao Group Hospitality and Palm Tree Crew. Alba mingled with fellow A-list stars at the exclusive Las Vegas pool party while celebrating her 44th birthday over the weekend. She appeared to be in bright spirits while spending time by the poolside hotspot, where newly single Sydney Sweeney was also seen having fun and flirty conversations with MGK and Patrick Schwarzenegger. At one point, Alba was seen catching up with her longtime friend and throwing her head back in laughter as they joked around. For the star-studded event at the lavish day club, she showcased her casual yet chic style as she modeled an all-black, midriff-baring outfit. The Honey actress mingled with fellow A-list stars a Las Vegas pool party while celebrating her 44th birthday over the weekend. She appeared to be in bright spirits while spending time by the poolside hotspot The Dark Angel alum flaunted her fit physique in a black bandeau top paired with high-waisted trousers with metallic silver belt loops that matched the details on her tiny top. Alba and Gamble appeared to be having a fun and friendly catch-up while they were both in town in the City of Sin. At one point, the talent executive, who has been in a relationship with the KarJenner momager for over a decade and shares a 25-year age gap with the reality TV star, was seen leaning in to talk into Alba's ear so she could hear him over the loud music and chatter. The pair both sported sunglasses while hanging out at the sunny location and flashed big smiles on their faces. Earlier this week, the Golden Globe-nominated actress rang in her 44th birthday on Monday, April 28. Her Las Vegas outing comes shortly after Alba and her estranged husband — who separated and filed for divorce in February — listed their longtime family home, their $19 million Beverly Hills mansion, for sale. She and the former film producer, 46, were married for 16 years and together for 20 before they announced their split earlier this year. They had previously met while filming her 2005 film Fantastic Four. The exes share three children together — daughters Honor, 16, Haven, 13, and son Hayes, seven. The Dark Angel alum flaunted her fit physique in a black bandeau top paired with high-waisted trousers with metallic silver belt loops that matched the details on her tiny top Earlier this week, the brunette beauty dropped a major clue that she is ready to date again amid her wild birthday trip. Joining a bevy of gal pals including Lizzy Mathis, Jennifer Shaffer and Galit Hadari Laibow, she blew out candles on her towering birthday cake before dancing the night away in a club on Monday. And earlier in that day, she had her three children present her for different types of 'cake' for her to blow out during a low-key celebration. 'As I move into this next year, I wish for myself what I wish for everyone — to feel loved,' she wrote in the caption of her Instagram post. 'To feel seen. To feel accepted. And to know you are worthy of your biggest dreams.' Alba was last rumored to be dating a 'friend of a friend' — Emmy-winning writer Alex Edelman — but it turned out that he only chivalrously lent her his coat to keep her warm outside of the Vanity Fair Oscars Party in March. The star also admitted in her birthday post that her 'drive for perfection is exhausting' and she years to make 'space to accept myself — flaws and all — and to release the need to control.' The Honest Renovations producer-host received birthday greetings from her famous friends Viola Davis, Kali Uchis, Kerry Washington, Jenna Dewan, Michelle Pfeiffer, Chelsea Handler, Jennie Garth, Michelle Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Karrueche Tran, Chrishell Stause, Rachel Zegler, Helena Christensen, Isla Fisher, Selma Blair, Casandra Fine, Mario Lopez, and Ana Navarro-Cárdenas.
Yahoo
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
On Swift Horses star Diego Calva on playing Jacob Elordi's on-screen boyfriend and his mental health journey
'Being naked around Jacob Elordi is intimidating!' declares Diego Calva with an infectious giggle, describing his co-star in On Swift Horses. We get it: the pair spend much of this new 1950s-set romance rolling around in matching tighty-whities. 'He's like a fucking god!' Calva adds. 'He's too perfect!' Cue more infectious giggling. Coming from the beautiful with a capital 'B' man whose mesmeric face was the best thing about 2022's Babylon, such modesty is a charming quality. (In a wild turn of events, I bump into Elordi in a London pub that very night, and the Euphoria star is naturally over the moon to learn his friend has landed an Attitude cover.) Calva then reveals how he bonded with Elordi. 'He plays Pokémon. He was playing it on Nintendo Switch. I'd just finished the new game three weeks before. That was the icebreaker: 'How do you catch this Pokémon?' We just started playing!' In On Swift Horses, Calva plays card shark Henry, who starts a passionate affair with drifter and hustler Julius (Elordi). (Rounding out the cast is Warfare's Will Poulter as Julius's strapping, all-American brother Lee, and Normal People's Daisy Edgar-Jones as Lee's secretly queer wife, Muriel.) Calva was Golden Globe-nominated for his role in Babylon as Hollywood exec Manny, the only man wonderful enough to (briefly) tame Margot Robbie's dazzling 20s starlet Nellie. Who tames who in On Swift Horses is up for debate. 'What I can say is: Hollywood likes me in a period movie, kissing Australian people!' Calva points out. Quite. News of Margot Robbie and Elordi playing tortured lovers in a new take on Wuthering Heights is 'funny' to Calva. 'Doing Horses, Jacob asked me a lot about Margot,' he says. 'Margot's the queen of Australia, and now we have a new king. … I feel pretty lucky — I've kissed both!' This rapidly rising star has form for cheeky quotes. Ever since he teased On Swift Horses' 'pretty hot' sex scenes in a Variety interview in 2023 — and after Barry Keoghan raised the stakes with his bath-drinking revelry opposite Elordi in 2023's Saltburn — the thirst for this film has been real. Battle-hardened by the explicit nature of Euphoria, The White Lotus et al, this viewer went in expecting… Well, it's partly set in Las Vegas, land of Showgirls. Strip poker at least? What I was not expecting was a central dynamic of Heartstopper-level sweetness and a love story, based on the novel of the same name by Shannon Pufahl, that snaps at the heels of Brokeback Mountain and Call Me by Your Name. 'It's like when you fall in love with your first love when you're eight,' says Calva. 'You fall in love with your cousin or your teacher. Something really sweet, platonic, in a way. …When they're inside the hotel room, in their world, because they have to hide from the actual world — they're kids.' It's strange to think that their love, in 1950s America, is illegal; stranger still to think homosexuality was only effectively legalised in America in 2003, when the Supreme Court struck down all remaining state sodomy laws in the landmark Lawrence v. Texas case. (Yes, that recently.) As such, the sex scenes are pointedly there, in flip-flopping abundance, but they're tasteful. The best, in which Julius pins Henry against a mirror, is shot from the shoulders up: the sight of these two handsome faces, reflected into four, is almost more male beauty than the camera can bear. 'It's hard not to do a hot scene with Jacob shirtless!' says Calva, before adding: 'Dan [Minahan], the director, is such a gentleman. He told us: 'I don't want to provoke the audience. This is about actual love. I don't want a classic story of tragedy around these queer characters and then they have kinky sex — no, no, no. They're two sweet guys who really fall in love.'' Calva's protective of them. 'Henry is wilder and more dangerous in the streets,' he adds. 'But with Julius, he's very tender.' Calva is Zooming with me from Istanbul, Turkey, a country gripped by political instability. Within days, thousands march in protest over the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu, frontrunner in the 2028 presidential race and challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, which is surely an attempt to crush democratic opposition. 'I've seen groups of people — they're trying to change stuff, I support them,' says Calva from his hotel lobby, energised. Turkey is as good an example as any as to why films like On Swift Horses are vital — that's if it's even screened there. Authorities in Istanbul banned a 2024 screening of Daniel Craig's Queer, after all, while Pride has been banned in Turkey since 2015. 'Now I'm here, the movie's a reminder that we still have a lot of jobs to do,' says Calva. 'A reminder that it was not a long time ago that this was forbidden all over the world. … It's crazy there are [still] places, countries, chasing queer people.' Watching Calva's two biggest films back to back is another reminder that progress, like sexual liberation, is more of a pendulum swing than a straight line. Babylon depicts roaring 20s Hollywood shifting from silent film to talkies in what was a decade of frenetic change, decadent excess and sexual debauchery, immortalised in a staggeringly drawn-out, swinging-from-the-chandeliers mass orgy scene where anything goes. (Coked-up watersports? You got it). In contrast, '50s America in On Swift Horses, with its low hemlines and white picket fences, seems positively draconian — you can almost feel the asphyxiation of nuclear family ideals as post-Second World War, post-Korean War society grasps for stability. 'It's crazy, no?' says Calva of the contrast. 'The pioneers of moviemaking in the wild, crazy '20s, there was a little more freedom. Then we started to put in a lot of rules. And after the Korean War, a lot of young guys came from the army having realised they're gay, and now they don't have a place to be.' LGBTQ+ women had it no better, of course, as On Swift Horses illustrates so effectively with what might be a film first: a narrative split equally between a queer man and woman who are not a couple. Muriel's first girl-on-girl kiss is interrupted by a police raid on a queer bar; later, she jitterbugs in her underwear in the privacy of her lover's home, an adorably innocent moment laced with the threat of discovery. Babylon, meanwhile, has a sapphic sub-plot involving Chinese-American cabaret-singer Lady Fay (Li Jun Li) saving the life of Nellie by sucking snake venom from her neck — a gasp-inducing scene prompting a glass-closet affair and tabloid sensation. 'We're not used to talking about lesbians in film,' offers Calva. 'Not that much. There's a lot of fabric to cut, a lot of stories to tell.' […] Discussing the personal impact of playing queer characters, and the questions they've raised, Calva explains: 'Every time I've played a character, I keep something. Not a prop, not part of the costume — something about their universe, their hearts. … I played a Columbian character, for example. Now I'm a really, really big salsa fan, and learnt about the political situation in '90s Columbia. 'So, playing Henry, of course, there's something about being queer… And I'm playing an immigrant. I realised I've felt what it is to be hiding as an immigrant, being chased, being judged for the colour of my skin. … It's not about 'queer Mexican'. It's about the universe. What can you find, and keep, about the character? Then the conversation could turn to some [other] place. What is being straight? What is being queer? What's a straight or queer character? For me, it's actually the coolest part of my profession. I'm able to be a lot of different people for a month, for three months, and I'm going to be a little part of those characters for the rest of my life. And I'll defend that statement always.' To read the rest of this feature, check out issue 364 of Attitude magazine is , and alongside 15 years of back issues on the free . The post On Swift Horses star Diego Calva on playing Jacob Elordi's on-screen boyfriend and his mental health journey appeared first on Attitude.
USA Today
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Melissa Gilbert shares new child actress set to star as Laura in Netflix's 'Little House'
Melissa Gilbert shares new child actress set to star as Laura in Netflix's 'Little House' Show Caption Hide Caption Shannen Doherty credits Michael Landon with spurring acting career "Little House on the Prairie" star Shannen Doherty has credited her late co-star Michael Landon with honing her passion for acting. Bang Showbiz Netflix's reboot of the "Little House on the Prairie" has found its new little Laura. Melissa Gilbert, who starred as the original Laura Ingalls, took to Instagram on May 2 to help the streaming service share the casting news of the new show's first cast member Alice Halsey. Gilbert starred in the original version of the popular NBC show, which premiered in 1974 and still boasts a cult following in present day. The program, based on the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, inspired a generation of women and celebrated its 50th anniversary last year with dozens of fan events across America. "And…here she is. Wising them and @thealicehalsey all the luck in the world!!" Gilbert captioned the heartfelt post. "Netflix's new Little House on the Prairie series has found its Laura Ingalls! We are so thrilled to announce that Alice Halsey will be playing the iconic role of Laura Ingalls. Please give her a warm welcome to the Little House family!" How 'Little House on the Prairie' star Melissa Gilbert shaped a generation of women Gilbert added in her caption that "The 'Little House' books endure to this day because so many people see themselves in Laura. She is a disruptor. Honest to a fault. Questions authority. And she's our window into this adventure." Halsey is an alum of the Golden Globe-nominated miniseries "Lessons in Chemistry," starring Brie Larson, and the long-running NBC soap opera "Days of Our Lives," which now airs on streaming service Peacock. Gilbert spoke to USA TODAY about how "Little House" changed a generation of young people, in an interview published in April 2024. "The thing that moves me the most is when people tell me the stories of how 'Little House on the Prairie' impacted their lives, what their childhoods were like, and why it was so important to them," Gilbert told USA TODAY. "A lot of people have said – and I'm sure will continue to say to me – 'Look, you were my escape from a bad childhood.' … We taught a lot of lessons and provided a lot of escapist entertainment." Netflix 'Little House' will feature fresh take on beloved franchise Earlier this year, Netflix announced that it would produce its own version of "Little House" based on Ingalls Wilder's beloved books. "The new 'Little House on the Prairie' is part family drama, part epic survival tale, and part origin story of the American West. The series will offer a kaleidoscopic view of the struggles and triumphs of those who shaped the frontier," a press release read about Netflix's fresh take on the tried-and-true program. Contributing: Laura Trujillo
