Duck Dynasty star and patriarch Phil Robertson has died, his family confirmed.
The reality star and businessman, who starred on the popular A&E series from 2012 to 2017, was 79.
“We celebrate today that our father, husband, and grandfather, Phil Robertson, is now with the Lord,” Robertson’s family said in a statement Sunday, which was also shared to several family members’ social media pages. “He reminded us often of the words of Paul, that we ‘do not grieve like those who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.'”
“Thank you for the love and prayers of so many whose lives have been impacted by his life saved by grace, by his bold faith, and by his desire to tell everyone who would listen the Good News of Jesus,” the statement continued. “We are grateful for his life on earth and will continue the legacy of love for God and love for others until we see him again.”
Robertson’s family announced in December 2024 that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, among other health issues.
Duck Dynasty followed the family-owned Duck Commander business, which Robertson founded in 1972, as well as the day-to-day lives of the family’s members.
Robertson previously came under fire for comments he made about homosexuality in an interview with GQ in 2013 — for which he was briefly suspended from the show before A&E reversed the decision days later — as well as his controversial remarks at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference.
Barry Keoghan is speaking candidly about his struggle with drug addiction.
The Saltburn star, 32, revealed in a recent interview with HollywoodAuthentic he is aware of and accepting of his sobriety struggle.
“I’m not in denial anymore. I understand that I do have an addiction, and I am an addict,” Keoghan told the outlet. “You know, when you accept that, you finally can move on, and learn to work with it.”
During the conversation, which also included details about his “tough” upbringing in Dublin, Keoghan admitted that although he lost both parents to drug addiction, it was hard for him to keep clean.
“My father passed away as a result of [something] similar and I lost my mum to it. I’ve lost two uncles and a cousin to drugs. That should be enough to go, ‘OK, if I dabble here, I’m f*****,'” he said. “But your curiosity is a powerful thing. Sometimes it’s beneficial, and sometimes it’s detrimental. For me, it was detrimental.”
Keoghan said “even my own son coming into this world” didn’t stop his curiosity and that being part of the Hollywood lifestyle provided “an enormous amount of pressure.”
During the interview, Keoghan pulled up his sleeves to reveal marks on his arms from drug-induced injuries.
“I’ve got scars here to literally prove it,” he said. “They’re a result of using.”
Keoghan noted, “I’m at peace now, and responsible for everything that I do. I’m accepting. I’m present. I’m content. I’m a father.”
“I feel like I’ve arrived,” he added. “I [apologize], too, mainly to myself more than anything else for all the pain I’ve put people and myself through.”
Bandai Namco Entertainment, in partnership with film company A24, has announced that a live-action film adaptation of the popular video game Elden Ring is in the works.
The project will be helmed by writer and director AlexGarland, known for his work leading films Civil War, Ex Machina and Annihilation. Garland rose to prominence in the late 1990s with his award-winning book, The Beach.
Elden Ring, the brainchild of Japanese game developer FromSoftware, is an action role-playing game set in an authentic dark fantasy world, as described in a statement. “The game allows players to explore vast environments and dungeons to discover the unknown and enjoy the sense of accomplishment that comes from overcoming obstacles and challenges.”
The game was originally released in February 2022, and more than 30 million units have been shipped worldwide, Bandai Namco said.
No cast or release date information has been revealed yet. Fans can, however, look forward to Elden Ring Nightreign, a spinoff action game set for release on May 30.
Sorry, Avengers fans — you’ll have to wait a little while longer for the next movie(s) to hit the big screen.
Disney revealed Thursday that Marvel Studios is pushing back the release of two of its upcoming films: Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars.
Doomsday,which had an original release date of May 1, 2026, is now set for December 18, 2026. Secret Wars had its release moved from May 7, 2027, to December 17, 2027. The later premieres allow for more time to spend making the films as they are among the most in-depth productions yet.
In a March announcement that production had begun on Avengers: Doomsday, Marvel also revealed the cast, naming Chris Hemsworth, RobertDowneyJr., AnthonyMackie, SebastianStan, PaulRudd, LetitiaWright, FlorencePugh, SimuLiu, TomHiddleston, WyattRussell, DavidHarbour, WinstonDuke and other Marvel familiars.
Anthony and JoeRusso, who’ve directed four other MCU films, return as directors for both films.
“Being able to create stories and explore characters within the Marvel Universe fulfilled a lifelong dream of ours, and we discovered a powerful connection with audiences in each film that we made,” the Russos said in a statement last year.
Disney is the parent company of Marvel and ABC News.
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Megan Fox is getting candid about her most recent pregnancy.
The actress and mom of four, who welcomed a baby girl with Machine Gun Kelly in March, wrote in a post on her Instagram Story Wednesday that the pregnancy was “a happy surprise.”
The post included a video of her posing for a photo shoot while six weeks pregnant.
“38 years old, six weeks pregnant (unplanned but a happy surprise),” she wrote in text overlaid in the video.
“Please stop listening to the patriarchy,” she continued. “Women are eternal light beings. We do not have an expiration date Don’t let them rob you of your power.”
She ended the post by telling her followers to watch her new show, Overcompensating, which dropped May 15 on Prime Video.
Fox announced she was expecting a child with Kelly in November 2024.
She is also the mom of three children — Noah, Bodhi and Journey — from her previous marriage to BrianAustin Green.
Kelly also has a daughter from a previous relationship.
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The spotlight on Taylor Swift‘s alleged role in the Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively feud has dimmed for now.
Sources with direct knowledge told ABC News that Swift is no longer facing a subpoena from Baldoni, weeks after she was called as a witness over Baldoni and Lively’s alleged conflict on the set of the film It Ends With Us.
The subpoena is no longer needed because the necessary information has been obtained, according to sources with direct knowledge.
ABC’s Good Morning America has reached out to reps for Swift and Baldoni.
Swift was subpoenaed by Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman earlier this month. In February, Freedman told Harvey Levin and Mark Geragos of TMZ’s 2 Angry Men podcast that he’s not ruling out deposing Swift, Lively’s longtime friend.
“Anyone that reasonably has information that can provide evidence in this case is gonna be deposed,” Freedman said.
In response, a spokesperson for Swift told GMA in a statement at the time, “Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie, she was not involved in any casting or creative decisions, she did not score the film, she never saw an edit or made any notes on the film, she did not even see It Ends With Us until weeks after its public release, and was traveling around the globe during 2023 and 2024 headlining the biggest tour in history.”
The spokesperson added, “The connection Taylor had to this film was permitting the use of one song, ‘My Tears Ricochet,'” and said the subpoena was “designed to use Taylor Swift’s name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.”
Lively and Baldoni have been embroiled in a heated legal feud since December 2024, when Lively first filed a complaint against Baldoni with the California Civil Rights Department, accusing him of sexual harassment on the set of the film, which he also directed.
Baldoni denied the allegations via a statement from Freedman, who called Lively’s actions “shameful” for making “serious and categorically false accusations” against Baldoni. He added that it was “another desperate attempt to ‘fix’ her negative reputation which was garnered from her own remarks and actions during the campaign for the film.”
Lively, represented by attorney Michael Gottlieb, and Baldoni, represented by attorney Bryan Freedman, then launched dueling lawsuits against each other.
Baldoni’s lawsuit against Lively detailed a text message he allegedly received from Lively in which Baldoni claims she referred to Swift and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, as her “dragons.” According to his complaint, it argues that Lively leveraged her relationship with high-profile individuals like Swift and Reynolds to exert her influence over the film. Reynolds is also being sued by Baldoni.
Lively’s lawyers called Baldoni’s lawsuit “another chapter in the abuser playbook” and accused Baldoni of “trying to shift the narrative to Ms. Lively by falsely claiming that she seized creative control and alienated the cast from Mr. Baldoni.”
The actors are due to appear in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on March 9, 2026, with Judge Lewis Liman overseeing the case.
Ahead of their court date, Lively filed an amended version of her lawsuit against Baldoni in February.
In March, Reynolds filed a motion to dismiss Baldoni’s complaint against him. Lively followed and filed a motion to dismiss Baldoni’s countersuit against her.
GMA has reached out to attorneys and representatives for Lively in response to Baldoni’s withdrawn subpoena.
The trailer for Apple TV+’s The Buccaneersseason 2 has arrived. Soundtracked to Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!,” the trailer shows Kristine Frøseth’s Nan adjusting to her new role as duchess and gives a quick glimpse at a new character played by Leighton Meester. Season 2 debuts June 18 …
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Lilo & Stitch stars Maia Kealoha and Sydney Agudong may play on-screen siblings, but off screen, they say they’ve become sisters as well.
The duo, who portray Lilo and Nani Pelekai, respectively, in the reimagined live-action version of the iconic 2002 Disney animated film, said they built a special bond as sisters in the film, but also in real life.
“I think we both felt a very special bond,” Agudong, 24, told Good Morning America. “We just loved each other, which was really huge.”
Maia, 8, added, “There’s nothing that we don’t like about each other. As soon as we met, we felt like, ‘Oh my gosh, is she my long-lost sister?'”
Like the animated film, the updated 2025 movie centers around Lilo and Nani, who lose their parents in a car accident.
When Nani overhears Lilo wishing for a friend, she lets her sister adopt a dog. The dog happens to be Stitch, an alien from planet Turo, who crash lands into Earth.
At its core, the film centers around the importance of ohana, a Hawaiian term meaning family, and that family means “nobody gets left behind or forgotten.”
When it came to casting Nani and Lilo, director Dean Fleischer Camp said chemistry was the most important part, and that Agudong and Maia had that.
“They have an undeniable sisterly chemistry,” he said. “When we read Maia with Sydney, it was just so clear from the jump that these two had a spark, and they felt like sisters immediately, and that only continued to grow and deepen.”
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Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code character Robert Langdon is ready for a new adventure at Netflix.
The author is bringing his upcoming new novel, The Secret of Secrets, to the small screen with the help of former Lost showrunner Carlton Cuse. According to Tudum, the story follows the brilliant symbologist Langdon as he “races against ancient forces and time to rescue a missing scientist, whose groundbreaking manuscript contains discoveries that have the power to forever change humanity’s understanding of the mind.”
Brown co-created the series with Cuse. He’ll be a writer and executive producer on the series, while Cuse will serve as showrunner, writer and executive producer.
Langdon first appeared as the protagonist in Brown’s 2000 novel Angels & Demons, followed by 2003’s The Da Vinci Code, 2009’s The Lost Symbol, 2013’s Inferno and 2017’s Origin. The Secret of Secrets will hit bookstores Sept. 9.
Tom Hanks previously played Langdon in The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons and Inferno film adaptations.
Start practicing “Future Days” by Pearl Jam. You can now own the guitar Joel gave Ellie in The Last of Us.
Taylor Guitars has teamed up with Sony Pictures Consumer Products and HBO to release a replica of the acoustic guitar featured in the show, complete with the same moth inlay Joel carves into the instrument and a vintage, worn-in look. It’s available to buy for $2,799.
“The Last of Us is a story of resilience, connection and finding beauty amid harsh realities — themes that resonate with the emotional expression a Taylor guitar offers players,” Tim O’Brien, vice president of marketing at Taylor Guitars, says in a statement. “We’re honored to collaborate with HBO and Sony Pictures Consumer Products to bring this iconic instrument to fans and players alike.”
In the penultimate episode of season 2, we see a flashback of Pedro Pascal’s Joel customizing the guitar and gifting it to Bella Ramsey’s Ellie for her 15th birthday. He then plays “Future Days” for her, a song that has featured prominently in the series and in the video game on which the series is based.
The Last of Us season 2 finale airs Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.
