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It seems a Mean Girls reunion is on the horizon. 

Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Seyfried, and Lacey Chabert, known for their iconic roles as Cady Heron, Karen Smith, and Gretchen Wieners, came together for what appears to be a Pepsi commercial, as reported by TMZ. Notably missing was Rachel McAdams, who portrayed the formidable Regina George.

In photos obtained by the outet, the trio was all smiles while on set in Los Angeles on October 6. Lindsay was seen clutching a handbag with the label “Plastic Clubs Member, Est. 2004,” a nod to their memorable clique from the 2004 film. The bag also featured the group’s iconic motto, “On Wednesdays, we wear pink.” Meanwhile, Amanda and Lacey posed for photos, both in a convertible car and on a football field.

Speculation is that this reunion might be part of a Super Bowl ad, given the proximity to the big game. If true, this wouldn’t be the first time Pepsi tapped into the Mean Girls nostalgia for advertising purposes. In December 2022, Lohan reprised her character’s “Jingle Bell Rock” look to promote “Pilk,” a quirky blend of Pepsi and milk.

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James Caan‘s final film, the action thriller Fast Charlie, will make its world premiere on October 7 at California’s Mill Valley Film Festival, according to Deadline. Caan plays Charlie Swift, a mob hitman with a problem: a thug he’s whacked is missing his head and Charlie will only be paid if the body can be identified. Enter the thug’s ex-wife — played by Deadpool’s Morena Baccarin — who has all the skills that Charlie needs. Morgan Freeman and Pierce Brosnan also star. Caan died in Los Angeles in July 2022, aged 82, following a six-decade career…

Celebrity chef and former Food Network star Michael Chiarello, died Saturday at Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa, Calififornia where he was being treated for an acute allergic reaction that led to anaphylactic shock, his company Gruppo Chiarello announced in a statement obtained by Variety. He was 61. Michael’s Emmy-winning cooking show Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello ran for 10 seasons on Food Network. He’s also hosted shows on PBS, Fine Living and Cooking Channel for a decade, appeared as a guest chef on NBC’s Today show, ABC’s The View and served as a judge on Bravo’s Top Chef and Top Chef Masters. In 2011, he participated in Food Network’s Next Iron Chef competition…

Fox is bidding farewell to Welcome to Flatch after two seasons, according to Deadline. The U.S. remake of the cult British comedy series — starring The Boys‘ Aya Cash, Sam Straley and Seann William Scott — followed a documentary crew that sets out to explore the lives of residents in the small American town of Flatch…

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The Exorcist: Believer, a direct sequel to the 1973 classic and the sixth film in the franchise, topped the North American box office, delivering an estimated $27.2 million in its opening weekend. The film — starring country singer Jennifer Nettles, Fosse/Verdon‘s Norbert Leo Butz and Ellen Burstyn, who reprises her role as Chris MacNeil from the original — snatched up an estimated $17.9 million overseas, for a global haul of $45.1 million.

That knocked, last week’s box office champ, Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie, which earned an estimated $11.8 million, to the No. 2 spot. Its two-week domestic tally now stands at $38.9 million and $87.1 million globally.

Saw X pulled up in third place this weekend with an estimated $8.2 million, bringing its two-week North American gross to $32.6 million and $52.7 million worldwide.

The Creator took fourth place with an estimated $6.1 million, bringing its two-week tally to $24.9 million. The sci-fi flick has racked up $61.9 million globally.

Rounding out the top five was The Blind, a biopic of Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson, which earned an estimated $3.1 million at the North American box office in its second week of release. That brings its domestic tally to $10.5 million.

Elsewhere, Hocus Pocus, the 1993 film starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy, returned to theaters at No. 10 with an estimated $1.9 million haul.

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Sofia Coppola missed an appearance promoting her newest film Priscilla to be with her mother, Eleanor Coppola.

The film’s stars Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny, who play Elvis and Priscilla Presley, fulfilled their scheduled appearances at a New York Film Festival press conference Friday, while producer Youree Henley read a statement from Sofia.

“I’m so proud to have our film at the New York Film Festival in my hometown,” Sofia said in her statement. “When I saw The Power of the Dog here as the first film on screen since the pandemic, it reminded me of the power of cinema and what we love about the communal experience. I’m so sorry to not be there with you, but I’m with my mother, to whom this film is dedicated.”

Despite Sofia’s absence, Spaeny and Elordi explained what it was like to fill the shoes of such iconic figures. Spaeny said Priscilla was gracious with her time, and detailed a meeting with her that lasted over four hours.

“Just being in front of her and in her presence was so informative in how I tried to do my own version of her story,” Spaeny said. “She’s a woman from a different time, different generation. She’s American royalty, really.”

Elordi said if you “want to see an Elvis impersonator, you can go to Vegas,” because he wasn’t attempting that with his performance.

“The biggest thing for me was trying to identify, to find, where the human being was under all the glitz and the gold and the voice and the caricatures and all of these things,” Elordi said. “Cailee and I spoke about – there were days where we would just imagine that it was a Sofia Coppola marriage drama, completely separate from, you know, Elvis and Priscilla.”

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Just in time for spooky season, a new teaser for FX’s latest installment of American Horror Stories is out.

The four-episode series is a spinoff of the long-running Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk anthology series, American Horror Story. It serves up a different horror story in each episode.

Details about the episodes remain largely under wraps, but Deadline previously reported that former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Lisa Rinna would star in an episode entitled “Tapeworm.”

The new episodes will premiere on Hulu as a so-called “Huluween Event” on October 26.

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A new trailer has been released for one of Angus Cloud’s final roles.

The late Euphoria star leads the upcoming thriller Your Lucky Day, where he plays a young man who tries to rob a lottery jackpot winner of his newly acquired fortune.

The film is due out in theaters November 10 and also stars Elliot Knight, Jessica Garza, Sterling Beaumon, Mousa Hussein Kraish, Jason Wiles, Sebastian Sozzi, Spencer Garrett and Jason O’Mara.

Cloud, best known for his role as Fez in Euphoria, passed away July 31 of an accidental drug overdose at age 25.

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

Love Island UK (ITV)
Two months after winning season 10 of Love Island UK, winners Jess Harding and Sammy Root have split. Shortly after rumors surfaced, Sammy confirmed the breakup in an October 3 Instagram Story, writing, “Yes, we had a private conversation but this was left up in the air as Jess is still away and we haven’t had a chance to speak in person.” Sammy went on to say he “genuinely saw a future with Jess” and despite how everything played out, he wishes her the best. Jess has yet to publicly address the split. 

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (Bravo)
Bravo has unveiled the trailer for Season 13 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, with the marital turmoil between Kyle Richards and Mauricio Umansky stealing the spotlight. The trailer hints at potential infidelity, with rumors involving Richards and a woman named Morgan Wade featured, prompting co-star Sutton Stracke to say, “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” Umansky jokingly remarks, “I’m just glad it’s you having an affair for once.” The season also teases Denise Richards‘ return. RHOBH season 13 premieres October 25 at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo, with episodes on Peacock the following day.

Selling the OC (Netflix)
Selling the OC star Tyler Stanaland is leaving the Oppenheim Group. In a statement to People, Tyler, 34, said the decision was professional not personal, explaining, “Leaving the Oppenheim Group wasn’t an easy decision, but is the right decision for me and my clients… I [am] joining my dad and brother at Douglas Elliman.” As for his future on the Netflix show, he shares, “Selling the OC revolves around agents at the Oppenheim Group. As of today, I will be working at Douglas Elliman.”

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What if the movies Back to the Future and Scream had a baby? That’s basically the elevator pitch of the new movie Totally Killer, says director Nahnatchka Khan.

The film, out this weekend on Prime Video, stars Kiernan Shipka, who time travels from present day to 1987 to try and stop a string of murders — and the year is important because it means Back to the Future had already been out for two years, so the teens in the film would have seen it.

“You know, if you and I went back in time, you know, I’m not a scientist, I’m not a physicist, so I wouldn’t be able to like have a chalkboard scene where I’m like breaking down or whatever,” Khan tells ABC Audio. “But I could be like, have you seen Back to the Future? You know, and kind of use our, like, pop culture currency, I guess, as a way to bridge the science element.”

Khan was heavily influenced by the horror classic Scream, which she says, reinvented the genre, explaining, “The idea of a mash up, that something can be genuinely scary and also really funny and meta, you know, referencing other movies, and that the characters have the knowledge of entertainment that we all have I think is really amazing.”

Khan says she and her crew “made their best effort” to make sure they got the time travel element right, but understands “there’s going to be things of like, wait, what about this? And what if this it happened?” 

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A24 reportedly offered somewhere in the neighborhood of $6 million to Paris Hilton to develop a series adaptation of her recent book, Paris: A Memoir, according to Variety. Hilton will serve as an executive producer, but no writer or star is currently attached to the project. The former model, reality TV star and heir to the Hilton Hotel fortune co-starred in the hit reality series The Simple Life alongside Nicole Richie. She also released the album Paris in 2006 and previously published the book Confessions of an Heiress…

Suits has set the streaming chart record for most weeks at No. 1. The former USA series, which currently streams on Netflix and Peacock, topped the Nielsen rankings for a 12th straight week, drawing 2.36 billion minutes of viewing for the week of September 4-10, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Suits‘ 12th week at No. 1 overall broke a tie with Netflix’s Ozark, which spent 11 weeks at No. 1 over several seasons…

The upcoming third season of Max’s comedy series Sort Of will be its last, according to Deadline. The critically praised Canadian comedy stars co-creator Bilal Baig as a non-binary millennial trying to balance their roles as a child of Pakistani immigrant parents, a bartender at an LGBTQ bookstore and café, and a caregiver to the young children of a professional couple. Sort Of is set to hit Max in early 2024…

Season seven of Selling Sunset will premiere on Netflix on November 3. The 11-episode season promises the familiar fiery feuds and competitive spirit among the realtors of the Oppenheim Group in the cutthroat LA market. Brett and Jason Oppenheim will lead the team, with returning agents including Chelsea Lazkani, Amanza Smith, Bre Tiesi, Emma Hernan, Chrishell Stauss, Mary Fitzgerald, and Nicole Young…

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It’s only week two of The Golden Bachelor and Gerry Turner is already making strong connections with the women competing for his heart.

Theresa, 70, from Shrewsbury, New Jersey, went on the first one-on-one date with Gerry.

Before the date, the financial services professional opened up about her first love, her late husband Billy, whom she married when she was 18. Like Gerry’s first love Toni, Billy was Theresa’s high school sweetheart. They were married for 42 years. Theresa said that before her husband died eight years ago, he told her he hoped she would find someone and get married again.

While on their date at a 1950s-themed diner, Theresa’s story about Billy touched Gerry, who told her that he understood what losing a spouse feels like. At the end of the date, Gerry told Theresa that he has hope he’ll find someone he can “enjoy the rest of my life with” and gave her a rose.

Several women in the mansion went on the first group date of the season where they got to live out the fantasy of being on the cover of a romance novel. Gerry surprised them with a photoshoot where they were able to dress up and pose for a photo with him.

While it was a fun activity for the women on the date, it was an emotional one for Nancy, a 60-year-old retired interior designer from Alexandria, Virginia, who opted to wear a wedding dress for the photoshoot. She broke down in tears after the dress brought up the memory of her wedding to her late husband Mark, who died 12 years ago.

Nancy told Gerry that while she felt sad, “there’s joy in remembering” and that she “still has hope moving forward.” Their connection earned her the group date rose.

Later, at the rose ceremony, Gerry was in tears after giving out the last rose and said goodbye to Peggy, Natascha and Jeanie.

The women who remain include Leslie, Joan, Edith, Ellen, Sandra, Susan, Kristina, Faith, April and Kathy.

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