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Last week, Taylor Swift attended the London premiere of Beyoncé‘s Renaissance concert film, and brought her pal Blake Lively with her.  Blake and Taylor each posted a photo of themselves cuddling in a banquette at the event in their glamorous evening wear — which was a cue for Blake’s husband Ryan Reynolds to poke fun at them.

On his Instagram Story, Ryan posted a hilarious photo that a fan created: It has his face Photoshopped onto Blake’s in the London pic, while Travis Kelce‘s face is Photoshopped onto Taylor’s. Travis looks quite fetching with a side-tucked bang and slinky silver dress, while Ryan looks great with long, flowing blond hair.

“I feel like I should remember this,” he captioned the pic.

Meanwhile, the real Travis and Taylor were together December 3 in Green Bay, Wisconsin, with Taylor in a VIP box cheering on Travis as his Chiefs took on the Packers. Taylor was joined in the VIP suite by Brittany Mahomes, wife of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. Unfortunately, the Chiefs lost.

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Florence Pugh became the latest celebrity to get struck by an object thrown by an over-excited fan.

The incident happened on Sunday, while she and her fellow Dune: Part Two cast members were promoting the movie at the CCXP 2023 convention in São Paulo, Brazil.

According to video posted by a fan, the Oscar-nominated star was smiling for photos, arm in arm with Austin Butler, Timothée Chalamet, Souheila Yacoub, director Denis Villenueve, and Zendaya, and when a small item hit Pugh in her right eye.

She grabbed her face before crouching down to fetch the object, while a peeved Butler scanned the crowd to see who threw it.

Pugh, like Butler, is a newcomer to the Oscar-winning Dune franchise. She plays Princess Irulan in the movie, which opens March 1.

The incident is reminiscent of other such occurrences at concerts this year: Harry Styles was hit in the face by a thrown water bottle at a show in July; in June, Bebe Rexha got a black eye on stage when a fan frisbeed a cellphone at her.

In that case, the offender was arrested and charged with assault.

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Legendary Pictures debuted the trailer for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, the fifth movie in its Monsterverse series. This time, Kong and Godzilla are pitted against “a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence — and our own.” Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry and Kaylee Hottle reprise their 2021 roles as Dr. Illene Andrews, Bernie Hayes and Jia, respectively, along with franchise newcomers Dan Stevens and Fala Chen. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is set to open April 12…

HBO dropped the first trailer for season 2 of The House of the Dragon on Saturday. The Game of Thrones prequel series, based on George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood, is set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, and tells the story of House Targaryen. The returning cast from the first season includes Rhys Ifans, Matthew Needham, Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Eve Best, Steve Toussaint, Fabien Frankel and Ewan Mitchell, joined by newcomers Tom Taylor as Lord Cregan Stark, Clinton Liberty as Addam of Hull, Jamie Kenna as Ser Alfred Broome, Kieran Bew as Hugh, Tom Bennett as Ulf and Vincent Regan as Ser Rickard Thorne. House of the Dragon season 2 premieres next summer…

Prime Video has released the teaser trailer for season 4 of The Boys. Per the streaming service, “The world is on the brink. Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit) — is closer than ever to the Oval Office and under the muscly thumb of Homelander (Antony Starr), who is consolidating his power. Butcher (Karl Urban), with only months to live, has lost Becca’s son as well as his job as The Boys’ leader. The rest of the team are fed up with his lies. With the stakes higher than ever, they have to find a way to work together and save the world before it’s too late.” The snippet also reveals Jeffrey Dean Morgan‘s addition to the Emmy-nominated series. The Boys‘ fourth season is set to premiere sometime in 2024…

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Beyoncé‘s concert film Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé, topped the domestic box office in its opening weekend, finishing slightly above expectations with an estimated $21 million. That marks one of the best debuts for a concert film, behind Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour with $92.9 million this past October, 2008’s Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert with $31.1 million, Justin Bieber‘s 2011 outing Never Say Never with $29.5 million and Michael Jackson‘s This Is It with $23.2 million.

Renaissance — written, directed and produced by Queen Bey — was the first film in a couple of decades to open with more than $20 million on the typically slow weekend after Thanksgiving, according to distributor AMC Theatres.

Renaissance fell short of expectations overseas with an estimated $6.4 million, for a total of $27.4 million worldwide.

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes dropped to second place in its third week of release, delivering an estimated $14.3 million. To date, the Hunger Games prequel has grossed $343.9 million in North America and $243.9 globally.

Third place went to another major debut, Godzilla Minus One, gobbling up an estimated $11 million. The foreign language sci-fi movie has already earned $23 million in Japan.

The animated threequel Trolls Band Together took fourth place, earning an estimated $7.4 million, for a three-week North American tally of $74.2 million $160.6 million worldwide.

Disney’s Wish rounded out the top five with an estimated $7.4 million. To date, the animated feature has collected $42 million in North America and $81.6 million globally.

The Marvels ended its box office run as the lowest-grossing film in MCU history, with a total of $80 million in North America and $197 million worldwide.

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Macaulay Culkin received a Walk of Fame star this week.

The actor, 43, who is known for his roles in Home Alone, Richie Rich, My Girl and more, was honored during a ceremony in Hollywood on Friday.

“Thank you to the Walk of Fame committee for honoring me in this way. I feel such esteem from this whole thing,” Culkin said. “There’s so many people that I love, and to feel that love back is just amazing.”

He also thanked Brenda Song, with whom he shares two sons.

“You are absolutely everything, you’re my champion,” he said as he held back tears. “You’re the only person happier for me today than I am. You’re not only the best woman I’ve ever known, you’re the best person I’ve ever known. You’ve given me just all my purpose. You’ve given me family.”

“And after the birth of our two boys, you’ve become one of my three favorite people,” he added. “You’re somewhere in there. But I love you. I love you so much.”

Culkin ended his speech by reciting his iconic line from Home Alone: “To wrap things up, in the spirit of the holiday season, I just want to say, Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals.”

Friends, family and other Hollywood stars, including his Home Alone mom Catherine O’Hara, Natasha Lyonne, Seth Green and Paris Jackson, attended the ceremony to support Culkin.

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Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia‘s Seven Bucks Productions is reteaming with their Disney+ Behind The Attraction collaborators The Nacelle Company for the latter’s upcoming RoboForce animated series. 

As reported, Nacelle has become a force rejuvenating and reimagining retro pop culture properties and toys — one of their projects, the revamp of the 1990s cartoon Biker Mice from Mars, is being backed by superfan Ryan Reynolds and his Maximum Effort company.

RoboForce: The Animated Series is set in 2089, when a robot line destined to assist a new intergalactic society on Earth found itself immediately rendered obsolete, leaving the would-be heroes to working menial jobs. But 15 years later, when the ‘bots that replace them turn on humanity, the RoboForce is called back into action.

In a statement, Johnson and Garcia noted of the series, which was inspired by a vintage toy line of the same name, “We love that it’s a story about redemption, second chances, and rising to the challenge as told through the eyes of funny, messed up, renegade robots who finally get their chance to shine.”

They added that they’re excited “to bring the iconic story of RoboForce to life,” commenting, “This is a great opportunity for Seven Bucks to build on its animation momentum, and we can’t wait for audiences to see what we’ve got in store for them.”

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ABC Audio has confirmed Stephen Colbert will be back behind the desk at The Late Show Monday, December 4, following emergency surgery for a ruptured appendix and a week off to recover.

The guests scheduled for his return will be Sarah Paulson and recording artist Jason Isbell.

As reported on November 27, Colbert announced to his fans that he’d be taking the week off to recover, joking, “Going forward, all emails to my appendix will be handled by my pancreas.”

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Jodie Foster‘s first Oscar nomination came at just 14 years old for her work in Martin Scorsese‘s Taxi Driver. Now 61, the two-time Academy Award winner is sharing some wisdom with Elle magazine.

“I went through a period where I was like, ‘Wow, I had these goals about writing and directing, and I didn’t meet any of them.’ And I couldn’t stop feeling like a terrible failure,” Foster admits.

“And now I feel like I have fewer goals in film than I’ve ever had, and I’m happier than I’ve ever been,” she declares.

Foster can be seen in Netflix’s Nyad, playing Bonnie Stoll, the coach to Annette Bening‘s Diana Nyad.

“[T]here’s something amazing about acting in my sixties and supporting other people,” Foster says. “I think I enjoy it more than anything I’ve ever done.”

Having started out so young, Jodie says she can’t help but have a “soft spot” for other actresses. “I find myself reaching out to girls who could be my daughters and saying, ‘Wait a minute, you keep doing dumb things on publicity tours. What’s going on with you? … Who’s letting you do that? And where’s your mom?'”

She continues, “I just don’t know how they survive without some mother around the way I had a mom around. To be able to say, ‘You’re overexposed,’ or … ‘You can go away for two years and have a life and come back and there will be work for you. Yeah, maybe it won’t be in some franchise, but what do you care? This is your life.'”

Foster also calls the superhero genre “a phase that’s lasted a little too long for me.”

“The good ones — like Iron Man, Black Panther, The Matrix — I marvel at those movies … but … those movies don’t change my life,” Foster continues.

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Have no fear, your reality roundup is here! Here’s a look at what happened in the world of reality television this week:

Vanderpump Rules (Bravo)
Rachel Leviss is launching a new podcast. Rachel Goes Rogue is set to premiere January 8 and promises to explore a wide range of topics, including mental health, pop culture and self-empowerment. Back in September, Tom Sandoval came out with his own podcast, Everybody Loves Tom. The two stirred up the biggest scandal – or should we say Scandoval – in Vanderpump history when their secret affair was exposed earlier this year.

90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way (TLC)
Couple Brandan and Mary revealed to Entertainment Tonight that they welcomed a baby girl named Midnight in August. They also shared a cute picture of the sleeping newborn. “When I heard our baby crying for the first time during my C-section, I got teary-eyed and was so happy to realize I have a baby!” Mary tells ET. “Our daughter, Midnight, is worth everything and I’ve never been this happy in my whole life.”

Squid Game: The Challenge (Netflix)
This may not have been a challenge contestants were expecting, but they certainly found a creative solution. Player 301/Trey Plutnicki confirms to Entertainment Weekly that contestants were not given lip balm in their toiletry bags, so some resorted to using lubricated condoms to moisten their lips. He said producers eventually gave players tins of lip balm with their numbers on it. The season finale of Squid Game: The Challenge hits Netflix on December 6.

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Tony Danza, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Judd Hirsch, Marilu Henner and Carol Kane will be getting back together at the Sunshine Cab Company, as part of a 45th anniversary to the beloved, Emmy-winning sitcom Taxi, courtesy of ABC’s The View.

Danza tells People the event will be seen on December 11’s installment of the daytime chat show.

Whoopi Goldberg first spilled the tea that something was in the works on The View‘s companion ABC Audio podcast Beyond the Table. She explained Hirsch called her personally to try to set up the gathering.

“He called, he said, ‘Listen, we are all gonna be in town. It’s the 45th anniversary, and we’re all in town because we’re seeing Danny’s show on Broadway [I Need This]. Could you get us on The View? We should get on The View,” Goldberg recalled.

Danza tells People the old friends “have been getting together on a Zoom every month for three, four years now and we see each other a lot.”

He confirmed Hirsch with setting the whole thing up. “Judd is the most energetic … I don’t know how old he is. He’s incredible,” 72-year-old Danza enthused Thursday at the New York City premiere of Power Book III: Raising Kanan.

Hirsch, now 88, played levelheaded cabbie Alex Reiger; Henner was Elaine Nardo, a single mom and aspiring artist; Danza played wannabe boxing champ Tony Banta; Lloyd played the burned-out “Reverend” Jim Ignatowski; DeVito was their scheming dispatcher Louie De Palma; and Kane played Simka Gravas, the eventual wife of the late Andy Kaufman‘s mechanic Latka Gravas.

Of the main cast, Kaufman passed away in 1984 and Jeff Conaway, who played aspiring actor Bobby Wheeler, died in 2011.

Taxi ran from 1978 to 1982 on ABC and from 1982 to 1983 on NBC.

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