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Sony Pictures and Apple Originals released an epic trailer to Napoleon, starring Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix as the titular military genius.

“I’m the first to admit when I make a mistake,” he says in the coming attraction. “I simply never do.”

The trailer from the Gladiator Oscar winner shows Napoleon‘s arc as a gifted soldier who becomes the emperor of France, as well as his romance with Josephine, played by Vanessa Kirby from The Crown.

According to the studio, the film tracks “Napoleon Bonaparte’s relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his one true love, Josephine, showcasing his visionary military and political tactics against some of the most dynamic practical battle sequences ever filmed.”

The trailer lives up to the latter: It shows sweeping battle scenes, including what’s considered Napoleon’s greatest victory, 1805’s The Battle of Austerlitz — in which the emperor trapped unwitting legions of his enemies on a frozen lake then fired cannonballs into the ice, smashing it and sending thousands of Russians to a frigid, watery death.

Napoleon will be released in theaters on November 22 by Sony Pictures; after that, it will stream on Apple TV+.

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Fanboys and girls have a reason to smile — or more likely, squee — this Monday morning (July 10), as the first Deadpool 3 picture has emerged of Ryan Reynolds in costume as Deadpool and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.

The shot comes courtesy of Reynolds himself, who chose a disappearing Instagram Story to mark the occasion, saying appropriately, “Don’t blink.”

The onscreen reunion of the two real life friends and fake frenemies is one of the most anticipated parts of the film. Adding to the excitement is the fact that Jackman is, for the first time, wearing a comics-appropriate yellow X-Men suit as the adamantium-clawed character.

The Tony winner has played the character nine times onscreen, but never wearing the suit, even when he was spliced into an after-credits scene with Reynolds’ character in Deadpool 2, culled from a sequence from 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Jackman starred in that film with Reynolds, who played a sub-par version of “The Merc with a Mouth.”

The portrayal was so bad that the DP2 end credits had Reynolds’ hero traveling back in time into Origins to murder his badly-adapted version. “Just cleaning up the timeline,” he tells Jackman’s character after Deadpool identified himself as a “big fan.”

As recently reported, Reynolds tapped Jennifer Garner to return as the mysterious assassin Elektra from both 2000’s Daredevil and her 2005 standalone movie bearing the character’s name.

It remains to be seen if Deadpool 3 will feature any other X-Men from days past, though rumors persist that’s the case and stars including Halle Berry could return. Her sporting silver hair like her character Storm in a social media post only fueled the fire.

Deadpool 3 opens May 3, 2024.

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Pro surfer Sarah Brady has released to Instagram Stories a long chain of texts and DMs purportedly from her ex Jonah Hill, in which she details what she calls his emotionally abusive behavior.

Brady, who reportedly ended their nearly year-long relationship in 2022, declared, “This is a warning to all girls. If your partner is talking to you like this, make an exit plan. Call me if you need an ear.” What followed were a series of messages purportedly from Hill, directing the model/athlete about how to behave and act appropriately.

Among the no-no’s, according to Hill, were “surfing with men,” “Boundaryless inappropriate friendships with men,” “to post pictures of yourself in a bathing suit,” “to post sexual pictures,” and “friendships with women who are in unstable places and from your wild recent past beyond getting a lunch or coffee or something respectful.”

The You People star continued, “I’m not the right partner for you if these things bring you to a place of happiness….These are my boundaries for romantic partnership. My boundaries with you based on the ways these actions have hurt our trust.”

Brady details that for a while, she put up with these “boundaries,” deleting photos of herself on social media that Hill didn’t like. He reportedly called her actions “a good start.”

Brady went on to say, “The dynamics of my last relationship are not unique. Women deal with this kind of psychological abuse all the time.”

Some followers likened Hill’s alleged behavior to that of Keke Palmer‘s boyfriend and baby daddy Darius Jackson‘s public criticism of a revealing outfit she wore to an Usher concert. “It’s the outfit tho.. you a mom,” he said on July 5.

Hill, who in June welcomed a baby with girlfriend Olivia Millar, has yet to comment on the accusations.

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Jamie Foxx was spotted out and about in Chicago, in the first footage since his mysterious “medical complication” in April left him hospitalized and out of the spotlight.

TMZ got footage of Jamie aboard a yacht cruising on the Chicago River on Sunday afternoon, July 9 — he was close enough for fans to record the encounter and cheer him on.

For his part, the shades-wearing Ray Oscar winner waved back, and flashed a peace sign as the boat cruised on by.

The gossip site also reported Foxx was seen out on the town the previous evening, “getting active on his feet, no less, and looking to be in great spirits there too.”

Foxx’s health scare, which was first made public by his daughter and Beat Shazam co-host Corinne, has been a mystery. While she mentioned he was “already on his way to recovery” thanks to “quick action and great care,” exactly what went wrong is still unknown.

Complicating matters, his famous friends had weighed in, including his friend Charles “Charlie Mack” Alston, who asked fans to pray for the 55-year-old star.

On May 3, there was a post from Foxx’s Instagram account, with the message, “Appreciate all the love!!! Feeling blessed.”

Later that month, Corinne pushed back at news reports that said Foxx’s condition was worse than first known.

“Update from the family: Sad to see how the media runs wild,” she said, noting Foxx, “has been out of the hospital for weeks,” and was even playing pickleball.

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Jennifer Garner will return as the Marvel assassin-for-hire Elektra for Deadpool 3, alongside Ryan Reynolds, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Garner first played Elektra in the 2000 film Daredevil, opposite Ben Affleck in the lead role, and reprised the role two year later in a spinoff centering the character. She joins Hugh Jackman, who is set to play Wolverine once again. Deadpool 3 is slated for a May 23, 2024 release…

All My Children actor Jeffrey Carlson, best known for his groundbreaking role as a trans character on the soap show, has died, Time Out New York theater editor Adam Feldman announced on Twitter. Carlson was 48. The cause and location of his death have not been revealed. The actor had been on the daytime TV series since 2006, coming to the show as a character named Zarf in August 2006, then returned that November as a trans woman named Zoe…

Betta St. John, who played the island girl Liat in the original Broadway production of South Pacific and starred as a princess alongside Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in the MGM romantic comedy Dream Wife, died June 23 of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Brighton, England. Her son, TV producer Roger Grant, broke the news to The Hollywood Reporter, noting she was 93. St. John was married to English actor-singer Peter Grant from 1952 until his death from cancer in 1992 at age 69…

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Insidious: The Red Door opened at no. 1 at the North American box office, beating expectations with an estimated $32.6 million. Overseas, the fifth installment in the Insidious franchise — starring Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Andrew Astor, Steve Coulter, Whannell, Angus Sampson and Lin Shaye, reprising their roles from previous films, with Hiam Abbass and Sinclair Daniel joining the cast — logged the best start for a horror film in pandemic times, earning an estimated $31.4 million. The Red Door has collected $64 million worldwide.

That spelled bad news for Indiana Jones and Dial of Destiny, which dipped to second place with an estimated $26.5 million in its second week of release. Dial of Destiny added an estimated $31.8 million at the international box office, for a global haul of $247.9 million.

The faith-based film The Sound of Freedom took third place with an estimated $17 million, bringing its two-week domestic gross to $39 million.

Pixar’s Elemental landed in fourth place, earning an estimated $9.6 million in its fourth week of release. The animated comedy has now topped $109.2 million at the North American box office and $251.9 million worldwide.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse rounded out the top five, grabbing an estimated $8 million. Its six-week $357.6 million domestic tally pushes the film just ahead of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 as the summer’s highest-grossing film. Globally, Across the Spider-Verse has earned $641 million.

Elsewhere, the raunchy comedy Joy Ride — starring Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu and Sabrina Wu — bowed in sixth-place with an estimated $5.85 million at the domestic box office.

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A call for leniency for one of the four men convicted in the fatal fentanyl poisoning of The Wire star Michael K. Williams has come from an unlikely place: the celebrated cop drama’s creator, David Simon.

The 54-year-old actor, who battled addiction issues, died in 2021 from an overdose of fentanyl-laced heroin.

According to The New York Times, Simon sent a three-page letter to Federal District Court Judge Ronnie Abrams, asking for a lighter sentence for 71-year-old Carlos Macci.

New York police also arrested Hector Robles, Luis Cruz and Irving Cartagena in connection to Williams’ death; the men were all convicted on narcotics conspiracy charges, with the latter man reportedly caught on camera selling Williams the fatal dose outside his Brooklyn, New York, apartment.

According to the Times, Macci’s attorney Benjamin Zeman reached out to Simon to ask him to speak on behalf of Macci, who is reportedly facing a decade behind bars, because Simon is “such a thoughtful and eloquent voice about what the failure of the war on drugs has wrought.”

In his letter to the judge ahead of Macci’s sentencing, Simon reportedly wrote, “What happened to Mike is a grievous tragedy. But I know that Michael would look upon the undone and desolate life of Mr. Macci and know … that it was Michael who bears the fuller responsibility for what happened.”

Simon added of Macci, “No possible good can come from incarcerating a 71-year-old soul, largely illiterate, who has himself struggled with a lifetime of addiction,” maintaining he sold drugs not for profit, “but rather as someone caught up in the diaspora of addiction himself.”

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While the Writers Guild of America’s strike against Hollywood studios continues to simmer, the sweltering heat in New York City this week has caused the guild to cancel any picketing activities on Friday, July 7.

“There will not be any pickets today due to the high heat index,” noted a post on the organization’s website. The heat index — a combination of high temperature and high humidity — hovered in the low 90s in New York City Friday.

At least for now, multiple picket lines are still on schedule for Monday for productions set both in and around the city and in upper Westchester County.

Striking writers from the Writers Guild of America East and West have been protesting since the strike was declared at 3:01 a.m. ET on May 2.

Writers — and actors in solidarity — have been picketing outside production facilities and outdoor sets since.

The strike has caused the largest shutdown in Hollywood production since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and is the largest non-pandemic event to do so since the last WGA strike, which lasted from November 2007 to February 2008.

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Matthew McConaughey and wife Camila Alves took to Instagram on Friday, July 7, to announce their birthday present for their now-15-year-old son, Levi.

The famous parents are finally allowing him on social media. “Happy birthday, Levi Alves McConaughey,” the Oscar-winning actor opened. “Your mom is a little nervous today about one of the gifts we’re giving you. Yes, we’re allowing you, Levi, today, on your 15th birthday, to join the social media universe.”

“We’ve been talking [about it] for a long time,” Camila says. “All his friends have had it for the long time, we’ve been holding out.”

Matthew added, “He knows who he is, and he knows where he’s going. I think he can handle it. He’s got a great story to tell and share.”

Camila added, “He sure does.”

The True Detective star expressed to his followers, “I want to let all of y’all know, you’re getting a very cool and respectful individual in Levi McConaughey coming at you, and we all hope y’all do your best to treat him the same way.”

“Levi: Enjoy the adventure. Enjoy sharing your story, expressing yourself and what you put out there,” Matthew said, before both parents took turns saying, “We love, you, happy birthday!” and adding, “Go check him out!”

Levi wasted no time. His first official post was a still and video collage of him hanging with friends, surfing and jumping into water off a cliff, set to Empire of the Sun‘s “Walking on a Dream,” and featuring a voice-over from his dad’s motivational speaking. He captioned the post, “Happy to be here.”

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One of the highest-grossing movies of the year, Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is now available for purchase on HD digital and on platforms like Fandango’s Vudu, Prime Video, Apple TV+ and more.

Writer-director James Gunn‘s final film in the series centers on the troubling early life of Rocket Raccoon, voiced both by Sean Gunn and Bradley Cooper in the movie.

After Rocket is seriously injured in a battle with Will Poulter‘s Adam Warlock, the rest of the Guardians gang — including Chris Pratt‘s Peter Quill/Star-Lord, Karen Gillan‘s Nebula, Pom Klementieff‘s Mantis and Dave Bautista‘s Drax — find themselves in a race against time to save his life.

Through flashbacks, viewers witnessed the cruel experiments at the hand of Chukwudi Iwuji‘s High Evolutionary that gave Rocket the ability to speak and become a creature with technical genius that eclipsed that of his evil creator.

The film also meets Rocket’s fellow captives, who have also been turned into mechanical hybrids, including Lylla the otter (Linda Cardellini), Floor the rabbit (Mikaela Hoover) and the walrus Teefs (Asim Chaudhry).

Meanwhile, Star-Lord is desperately trying to rekindle his romance with Zoe Saldaña‘s Gamora, who died during the events of Avengers: Infinity War, but thanks to the miracle of time travel in Endgame, returns to the fray as a Gamora from the past who never fell in love with him.

Also included in the digital release are a collection of extras, including a director’s commentary, deleted scenes, a gag reel and “making-of” featurettes.

The film, which grossed more than $805 million worldwide, comes to Blu-ray and HD DVD August 1.

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