Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello are calling it quits.
“We have made the difficult decision to divorce,” they said in a joint statement provided to Page Six. “As two people that love and care for one another very much, we politely ask for respect of our privacy at this time as we navigate this new phase of our lives.”
Vergara and Manganiello’s whirlwind romance led them down the aisle in November 2015. However, recent weeks have seen whispers and speculations about their relationship’s stability, particularly when Vergara celebrated her 51st birthday in Italy sans her husband and wedding ring.
This marked Vergara’s second marriage, while it was Manganiello’s first.
The new SAG-AFTRA strike is bound to leave thousands of San Diego Comic-Con ticket holders disappointed.
The union’s rules prevent its members from promoting their upcoming projects or attending “fan events and conventions,” so attending SDCC is a no-go for all of the stars who were scheduled to attend the annual event, kicking off this week.
While there are hundreds of panels and special events set to get underway between July 19 and 23, a look at its website shows a number of high-profile attractions are canceled.
Such is the case with Amazon’s The Wheel of Time, which was to take place Thursday, July 20. Ditto for the panel for Amazon Freevee’s Jury Duty, which was canceled for that day, as was the Good Burger 2 get-together with Kel Mitchell and Kenan Thompson.
The same goes for every event that was to attract movie and TV stars over the anticipated weekend, including a promotional event for The Boys‘ spinoff, Gen V, and a panel for the Emmy-winning Abbot Elementary.
Even before the SAG-AFTRA strike was declared, the studios that traditionally have the most to tout at the San Diego Convention Center’s famed Hall H chose to step back from the event this year, meaning there would be no major presence in 2023 for veterans like Marvel Studios, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, Universal and more.
Legendary Entertainment was set to take the pole position at Hall H this year to promote its Dune: Part Two and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, but that panel also appears as “cancelled” on the event’s website.
A rep for the Mean Girls actress told Good Morning America in a statement that Lohan and her husband, Bader Shammas, have “welcomed a beautiful, healthy son named Luai.”
Lohan announced her pregnancy in March, sharing an Instagram post featuring a photo of a baby onesie emblazoned with the words “coming soon.”
“We are blessed and excited!” she wrote in the caption.
At the time, Lohan’s rep confirmed the happy news to Good Morning America, saying the actress was “very excited for this new chapter.”
The Parent Trap star and Shammas became engaged in November 2021; she referred to him as her husband in a heartfelt Instagram post in July 2022.
Lohan gave GMA an update on married life in November and gushed about finding love.
“It’s amazing. I’m really lucky. I found my partner and he’s an amazing man and we’re a great team,” she said at the time. “He’s the best. I love him so much.”
While the movie industry is in flux, thanks to the strikes of both the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, there’s one bright spot: “Barbenheimer.”
The atom-smashing of two unlikely release date twinsies, Margot Robbie‘s cotton candy-colored Barbieand Christopher Nolan‘s partially black-and-white nuclear drama Oppenheimer, has gone from meme curiosity to bona fide event, with AMC Theatres telling ABC Audio that 40,000 of its movie club members have snagged tickets for the double feature.
This is double the number reported just last week.
The full run time for both films, back-to-back, is around five hours, so pick your movie times and beverage amounts accordingly.
Barbenheimer, starring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Issa Rae, Will Ferrell, Cillian Murphy, RobertDowney Jr., Emily Blunt and Matt Damon, opens in theaters Friday, July 21.
Despite a ton of hype, and far better overall audience and critic scores than its predecessor, Warner Bros.’ The Flash has ended its box office run in the States making less money than the studio’s infamous Green Lantern.
That’s saying something, considering the 2011 movie is so bad that Ryan Reynolds‘ Deadpool went back in time just to murder Reynolds so that he could never make the movie.
With a production budget said to be in the neighborhood of $200 million — plus more than half that added for marketing — the Ezra Miller-led Flash is heading out of theaters in the U.S. after having grossed a little over $106 million. Green Lantern ended its run with $116 million domestically.
The Flash‘s overseas performance did manage to top that of Lantern‘s, bringing its total take to more than $263 million versus Green Lantern‘s more than $219 million.
That wasn’t exactly a photo finish for the Scarlet Speedster: the movie turned out to be a bigger financial misfire than 2022’s Black Adam. After making $393 million, according to Box Office Mojo, Black Adam was still considered a disappointment for Warner Bros.
While The Flash was made before JamesGunn and Peter Safran‘s tenure as the heads of DC Films began, Gunn and others touted it as one of the best superhero films ever made.
While the Audience Score on the aggregator Rotten Tomatoes is a respectable 83%, there apparently just wasn’t enough audience there for The Flash to be anything but a financial disaster.
Before Gunn and Safran’s vision for DC Films officially takes flight with 2025’s Superman: Legacy, Warner Bros. will release its final two pre-Gunn comic book movies: Blue Beetle on August 18 and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom on December 20.
In a new video, Marvel Studios revealed that the blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 will be coming to Disney+ on August 2.
That’s a day after the hit movie starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Dave Bautista and Pom Klementieff, among others, comes to Blu-ray and HD DVD.
Written and directed by James Gunn, the movie also stars Chukwudi Iwuji, Will Poulter, Sean Gunn, Sylvester Stallone, Nathan Fillion, and newly-minted The Crown Emmy nominee Elizabeth Debicki. It’s Gunn’s final film for the Disney-owned Marvel Studios before taking the job as co-CEO of Warner Bros.-owned DC Studios.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which made more than $842 million worldwide, is already available for purchase on streaming.
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Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer – Universal
Christopher Nolan has a well-earned reputation of striving for realism for his films whenever possible, but because of this, speculation went figuratively nuclear regarding his latest film, Oppenheimer.
Specifically, rumor had it that the CG-adverse director set off a real nuclear bomb to film the movie’s atomic bomb test sequence.
Yes, the filmmaker has seen the scuttlebutt, he tells The Hollywood Reporter, but no, he didn’t actually do that.
“It’s flattering that people would think I would be capable of something as extreme as that on the one hand, but it’s also a little bit scary,” he admitted.
That said, Nolan wouldn’t reveal exactly how he and his team managed to bring to life the history-changing explosion J. Robert Oppenheimer and the rest of the members of the Manhattan Project created.
He did say how he didn’t do it, however: computer graphics.
“CG inherently is quite comfortable to look at,” Nolan explained. “It’s safe, anodyne. And what I said…is, ‘This can’t be safe. It can’t be comfortable to look at it. It has to have bite. It’s got to be beautiful and threatening in equal measure.'”
Incidentally, Nolan fans are apparently going to great extremes to see the movie in the best possible setting.
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, one IMAX theater in Prague is seeing ticket sales from moviegoers in Germany, Poland and elsewhere in Europe, while movie fans in Japan, Sri Lanka and New Zealand are headed to an IMAX theater in Melbourne, Australia.
In the U.S., some are planning weekends around hourslong trips to that perfect cinema seat.
Kevin Spacey arrives at court July 17; Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images
A surprising witness took the stand for the defense in Kevin Spacey‘s ongoing sexual assault trial in the U.K.: Elton John.
Elton and his husband David Furnish both testified remotely via video link from Monaco to address Spacey’s attendance at one of Elton’s AIDS Foundation charity events, the White Tie and Tiara Ball. The Ball was held at the couple’s home in Windsor, England for a period of about 15 years.
This is notable because one of Spacey’s alleged victims has accused the actor of aggressively “grabbing” him while he drove with him to the ball in 2004 or 2005. Spacey has testified that the only year he attended the event was 2001.
Elton confirmed that Spacey had only attended the ball once, in 2001. As Variety reports, Elton said he remembered the actor being there because “he arrived in white tie. He came on a private jet and he came straight to the ball.”
Elton also recalled that Spacey had spent the night in the couple’s house after the event, but that he never visited them there again.
David Furnish further testified that he’d checked the archives of all the photographs of the event — which were taken each year by OK! magazine — and that the only year Spacey attended was 2001.
Asked if it were possible that Spacey had attended and hadn’t been photographed, Variety reports that Furnish said it “never happened,” explaining that all the stars understood that they would be photographed to promote the charity.
He noted that if “a star of Kevin Spacey’s magnitude” had refused to be photographed, it would have been an “impossible situation.”
Spacey, 63, has pleaded not guilty to a dozen charges that include sexual and indecent assault counts and one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.
ABC has revealed that 71-year-old Gerry [GAIR-ee] Turner will be the senior singleton looking for love in the forthcoming spin-off The Golden Bachelor.
The show will debut on ABC this fall.
The network describes him as a “charming” patriarch and retired restaurateur from Indiana, who is a “doting father and grandfather” who “lives in his dream house on a beautiful lake in Indiana.”
ABC continues, “He’s often busy hosting barbecues, playing pickleball, cheering on his favorite Chicago sports teams, four-wheeling and spending time with friends and family at restaurants and local haunts.”
The show’s producers tease, “Always a romantic, Turner married his high school sweetheart, Toni, in 1974. Together, they lived a full and happy life with their two daughters, Angie and Jenny, and later two granddaughters, Charlee and Payton. Sadly, after 43 years together, Toni suddenly fell ill and passed away in 2017.”
The announcement continues, “Six years after Toni’s passing and with the support of his family, Turner is ready to put himself out there and find a love that will stand the test of time in his golden years.”
For the spin-off, “The women arriving at the mansion have a lifetime of experience, living through love, loss and laughter, hoping for a spark that ignites a future full of endless possibilities.”
The tease continues, “In the end, will our Golden man turn the page to start a new chapter with the woman of his dreams?”
Jane Birkin, the beloved actor and singer known for her English grace, natural style, and social activism, has passed away at the age of 76, according to Le Parisien newspaper. Birkin, who made France her home, captivated audiences with her musical collaboration and romantic relationship with Serge Gainsbourg, particularly with their provocative hit “Je t’aime moi non plus.” Her iconic fashion sense, featuring long hair, jeans, white tops, knit mini dresses, and basket bags, remains a symbol of French chic. Additionally, Birkin’s name became synonymous with the exclusive and coveted Hermes Birkin bag, a luxury item that commands a high price and lengthy waiting list…
Disney characters Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Maleficent, the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and Cruella de Vil walked the red carpet at the Haunted Mansion premiere in Disneyland instead of the stars including LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson, Daniel Levy, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Hasan Minhaj due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, which commenced on Thursday, according to Variety. However, director Justin Simien did grace the premiere and said he was “sad” the cast couldn’t attend, but understands and supports the reason why…
Laird Koenig, the writer known for adapting his own novel into the screenplay for the 1976 cult film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, featuring a young Jodie Foster, has passed away at the age of 95, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Koenig died of natural causes on June 30 in Santa Barbara, according to Jamie Dixon, son of Koenig’s frequent writing partner, Peter L. Dixon. Koenig also contributed his writing skills to three films directed by Terence Young, including 1971’s Red Sun, 1979’s Bloodline, and 1981’s Inchon, which featured a cast including Charles Bronson, Audrey Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, and Jacqueline Bisset…
