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Euphoria‘s Sydney Sweeney and Top Gun: Maverick‘s Glen Powell pretend they’re a couple, but they might just become one in the steamy teaser to Sony Pictures’ “edgy” romantic comedy Anyone But You.

According to the studio, Sweeney’s Bea and Powell’s Ben “look like the perfect couple, but after an amazing first date something happens that turns their fiery hot attraction ice cold – until they find themselves unexpectedly thrust together at a destination wedding in Australia.”

“Let’s just tell everyone we’re together. It could be kinda fun,” Bea tells Ben during a romantic sailboat ride. “There’s no way we could convince anyone we actually like each other,” he protests.

“Trust me,” she rebuts. “We’re at a wedding a million miles from home, who knows what can happen?”

As they lean in for a kiss, she kills the moment by smacking him in the crotch. “Convincing enough?” she says playfully.

There’s no release date set for the film.

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Timothée Chalamet recently praised his Dune: Part Two co-star Austin Butler in a GQ interview. Now, Butler is paying it forward, giving flowers to his Bikeriders co-star Tom Hardy.

Butler plays a protégé to Hardy’s gruff biker gang leader in the 1960s-set film. Speaking to Indiewire, Butler expresses how impressed he was with his co-star. “Tom Hardy surprised me,” the Elvis Oscar nominee admitted to his Dune: Part Two co-star and interviewer Josh Brolin.

He continues, “I pictured him to be this grizzly bear, always serious. And really, he’s one of the funniest people I’ve ever met. He’d be joking around until action is called and then go into being the most intense guy I’d ever seen.”

Butler added to Brolin, “I learned a lot from Tom. It reminds me of you, where you can be in that relaxed place where you’re receptive to your environment, and then when the time comes, you can click into what the scene demands.”

Brolin praised Butler, too, noting, “This doesn’t happen very often…but a whole series of people told me, ‘You have to meet Austin…'”

He added, “[t]he anomaly factor is that you’re very, very good at what you do, and you’re young, which is a rarity, but then you’re kind, which is even more of a rarity. And then on top of it, you’re not a d******* actor who’s so into his art that he can’t be kind to anybody else, which I never understood.”

The Bikeriders was to hit theaters December 1, but opening has reportedly been delayed due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike.

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John Stamos and Rebecca Romijn broke things off in 2004 after five years of marriage, and now the Full House actor is revealing things behind the scenes left him seething.

He details the relationship in his new memoir If You Would Have Told Me, which he discussed with People. “I just hated her,” he tells the magazine. “I couldn’t believe how much I hated her, and it ruined my life.”

The former celebrity couple finalized their divorce in 2005, with the actor now calling the “humiliating” break-up “shattering to me.”

The actor admits to drinking “too much,” at the time, and seeing his ex as “the devil.”

At the time, Stamos was best known as the former Full House star, while his ex’s filmography was on fire with roles in the original X-Men movies and others.

He says the public’s perception was a root cause of the strife. “It was very much the opinion that she dumped me because her career was going great and mine wasn’t,” he says.

“Maybe they weren’t wrong,” he admitted. “She was doing great at that time and I wasn’t.”

With some distance, and sobriety, he says he began to acknowledge she “was trying to make it work because she cared” about him.

Now 60, Stamos reflects, “You start thinking… ‘Oh, she wasn’t the devil. Maybe I was as much to blame as her.'”

Stamos “straightened up,” and in February of 2018 married 37-year-old model and actress Caitlin McHugh, who gave birth to their son Billy two months later.

After divorcing Stamos, Romijn had her own Hollywood ending, marrying Stand By Me star Jerry O’Connell in 2007; they’re the parents of twin daughters Dolly and Charlie.

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On his Instagram, Sylvester Stallone posted a black-and-white throwback photo of himself with his Rocky co-star Burt Young, to mourn the actor’s passing.

Stallone, 77, remembered his “dear friend” as “an incredible man and artist,” adding, “I and the World will miss you very much…RIP.”

Young’s manager confirmed to ABC News that the actor, who was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for playing Paulie Pennino, the butcher and brother of Talia Shire‘s Adrian in 1976’s Rocky, died October 8 in Los Angeles.

Young went on to reprise the role in all six of the Oscar-winning movie’s sequels, including 2006’s Rocky Balboa.

No cause of death was made public for the 83-year-old, who had more than 160 TV and movie credits, including M*A*S*H* and The Sopranos on the small screen, and films including Chinatown, The Pope of Greenwich Village and Back to School.

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Burt Young, the tough guy actor best known for his role as Paulie, the butcher and brother of Talia Shire‘s Adrian in the Rocky movies, died October 8 in Los Angeles, his manager, Lynda Bensky, confirmed to ABC News. He was 83. No cause of death was given. “Burt was an actor of tremendous emotional range. He could make you cry and he could scare you to death. But the real pathos that I experienced was the poignancy of his soul. That’s where it came from,” Bensky said in a statement. Young appeared more than 160 films, including The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, Cinderella Liberty, Chinatown and Back to School. His TV credits included M*A*S*H* and The Sopranos…

The trailer for George Clooney-helmed The Boys in the Boat dropped on Wednesday. Joel Edgerton stars in the film, based on Daniel James Brown’s #1 New York Times non-fiction bestseller about the 1936 University of Washington rowing team who competed for gold at the Summer Olympics in Berlin. The Boys in the Boat is set for a Christmas Day, 2023 release…

Ahead of Élite‘s seventh season premiere on Friday, Netflix announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the Spanish drama’s eighth season, announced back in July, will be its last. The series, which follows a group of working-class students at an elite high school and their relationships with their wealthier classmates, premiered to critical acclaim in 2018…

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The third episode of Loki‘s second season drops Thursday at 9 p.m. ET, and director Dan DeLeeuw [deh-LOO] tells ABC Audio that fans better strap in. 

“Well, I’d say you don’t want any spoilers, but I think the best way to say it is that episode two is the calm before the storm,” he says with a laugh. “Things start getting a little crazy after episode two.” 

Last week’s episode, “Breaking Bad,” delved deeply into the nature of Tom Hiddleston‘s God of Mischief, Loki, with an exploration of whether or not the guy who brought an alien army to New York City is really a bad guy or a good guy who does bad things.

“You know, he is someone that’s not like Thanos,” MCU veteran DeLeeuw says.

“Thanos is a true believer. I’m going eliminate half [of the world’s population] — it’s ‘I’m right, you’re wrong, you don’t know what you’re talking about,” he continues. “And I think Loki, you know, had the capacity to question … It’s like, ‘Am I doing the wrong thing selling my brother [Thor] out? I’m going to do it anyway.'”

DeLeeuw adds, “You know, him being on this journey and being broken down in the first season and now being able to build himself back up, he’s thinking, ‘OK, I can accept the dark side. Just because I do … evil things, doesn’t make me evil.’ And to Loki that makes sense, I suppose.”

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Gwyneth Paltrow is weighing in on the nepo baby debate.

The Academy Award-winning actress, 51, opened up about the topic during a wide-ranging interview with Bustle, saying it’s a “judgment that exists around kids of famous people” and calling it “an ugly moniker.”

“But there’s nothing wrong with doing or wanting to do what your parents do,” she said. “Nobody rips on a kid who’s like ‘I want to be a doctor like my dad and granddad.'”

The Goop founder, who is the daughter of actors Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner, continued, “The truth is if you grow up in a house with a lot of artists and people making art and music … the same way that if you grow up in a house with law, the discussions around the table are about the nuances of whatever particular law the parents practice.”

Paltrow said she hopes that her kids — 19-year-old daughter Apple and 17-year-old son Moses — “always feel free to pursue exactly what they want to do, irrespective of what anybody’s going to think or say.”

Elsewhere, Paltrow also says she never compares herself to other women — no matter the age.

She expresses, “I made a pact with myself to never measure myself against any other woman. So it’s like: How do I feel? … Do I like myself? What is my anxiety level? Am I strong?”

Paltrow continued, “Yeah, I’m bummed that my stomach is … I had two babies and now, for some reason, at 51, it’s like all the elasticity’s going. But if I look at a 28-year-old model on Instagram and think my stomach’s supposed to look like that, I’ll just go into a depression. So I’ve really tried to divorce myself from that comparison.”

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Netflix has debuted the trailer to its documentary Sly, about the unlikely rise, the unexpected fall and the later-in-life redemption of Sylvester Stallone.

The film, which drops on November 3, tracks Stallone’s career starting as an unknown actor who was once considered “uncastable.”

He remained undeterred. “The rejection became my encouragement,” Stallone says in the coming attraction.

He had given up acting, but he had a way out. “At that point I knew my fate was determined on the pen.”

The actor wrote a little film called Rocky and insisted he play the lead role. That would have been the Hollywood ending, but his career taking off and turning him into one of the biggest box office stars of the ’80s wasn’t the end of the story.

“When Stallone became famous, he wasn’t expecting the downside,” Quentin Tarantino says.

Sly admits he put his career before anything else, including his family.

“I lost everything,” he says.

The now-77-year-old filmmaker also reflected, “Could I actually go back and start over again? Not without family.”

Stallone hopes his documentary can inspire people the way his career did, people who have been overlooked — underdogs like Rocky Balboa.

“I am in the hope business,” the Expendables franchise lead and Tulsa King star says.

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One of the biggest entertainment stories of the year was the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon — the mash-up of two very different release-date twinsies, Barbie and Oppenheimer.

Greta Gerwig‘s cotton candy-colored comedy starring Margot Robbie and Christopher Nolan‘s star-studded nuclear age biopic “couldn’t be more different,” says Warner Bros. Executive Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Dana Nussbaum, but sure enough, moviegoers showed up in droves for a double feature on July 21.

“That was absolutely a surprise to us. But one that we found incredibly delightful,” Nussbaum said at a New York Advertising Week Q&A, according to Deadline.

She added, “That was a great example of a surprise. I would love to take credit for that, by the way, but [it was] absolutely, not at all architected by us. It’s something that happened very organically, but something that we leaned into.”

Nussbaum expressed, “When we saw that this was out there, and that there was conversation popping up around it, we made sure that Greta and Margot … went to see [Universal Pictures’] Oppenheimer. They took a photo and it sort of kicked off this entire spirit, which was so incredible, because at the outset, people wanted to pit the two films against each other.”

In the end, there was more than enough money to go around. Barbie made $1.4 billion worldwide, while Oppenheimer became Nolan’s third-highest-grossing movie ever, with $942 million globally — the second-highest-grossing R-rated film in history.

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Imagine if the Swifties knew Taylor and Travis would be on? NBC says Saturday Night Live‘s 49th season debut starring Pete Davidson — and with a last-minute, hush-hush assist from Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce — saw its numbers jump 19% from last season’s debut.

The show drew 4.8 million viewers, with numbers for the 18-49 demographic jumping 31% in what’s known as “Nielsen-live-plus-same-day” numbers — that is, the audience who watched it live or streamed it the same day on Peacock.

That’s the best performance in that demo for an SNL season premiere since 2020.

On streaming, the show also had more than double the audience of last year’s season premiere on Peacock —likely after the word was out to Taylor’s fans that she and her rumored boyfriend were at Studio 8H that night.

Davidson’s SNL return was the third-highest Saturday Night Live performance on Peacock ever in a one-day viewing, following the shows on November 12, 2022, when Dave Chappelle hosted, and February 4 when Pedro Pascal was the host.

What’s more, the episode drew more than 1.2 million social media interactions, NBC tells ABC Audio — that’s the most since Nov. 13, 2021, when Jonathan Majors hosted and the musical guest was…Taylor Swift.

If one wanted to get a glimpse of how many eyeballs Taylor could have gotten if her brief appearance to introduce last Saturday night’s musical act was foretold, check out Saturday Night Live‘s clip of the three-second-long moment on Instagram: Her four words: “Once again, Ice Spice” translated to nearly 185,000 views and counting.

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