Paul Bettany is no longer the king of his castle — in terms of the domestic box office at least — after Top Gun: Maverick flew past Avengers: Infinity War‘s theatrical take in the States.
The Tom Cruise film, which also stars Bettany’s real-life wife, Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly, is now the sixth highest-grossing movie of all time in the U.S., bumping Bettany’s Marvel movie down a peg with a to-date take of more than $683 million.
By comparison, Avengers: Infinity War finished its 2018 run with $678 million in the States.
Bettany marked the occasion with an Instagram post of Variety‘s coverage of the news, along with the characteristically dry caption, “I’m just never gonna live this down in my house.”
At least the Emmy-nominated WandaVision actor, who has been part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2008’s Iron Man, can take comfort in the fact that Infinity War cleared more than $2 billion worldwide. That said, Maverick‘s no slouch, with over a billion bucks in the bank globally.
Ariana Grande is expanding her presence in the fragrance game with her recently launched body care products, the God Is A Woman Body Line.
“After seven+ years of creating fragrances, i’m beyond excited to announce that today we have finally launched our very first full body collection !!!!!” the Grammy winner said on Instagram. “i am so excited and proud of this step and of all that we’ve created thus far.”
Ariana continued, “It will never get old to me when people tell me that they love our fragrances or when i smell them on someone and they say ‘thanks, it’s yours!’. 🙂 it’s an honor to create things and to then see you enjoy them in every / any capacity.”
This new offering is all about natural, clean fragrance, as said by the hitmaker. She vowed, “Each product was developed with clean, vegan, sustainably sourced, beautiful ingredients ie: coconut oil, shea butter, argan oil and lots of love.”
The Body Scrub Soufflé, which is her “favorite product in this collection,” is a salt-based scrub that uses coconut oil and shea butter to soften skin.
Other offerings include a body oil, hand cream, body cream and a travel spray — which is a mini portion of Ari’s God Is A Woman fragrance.
Ariana teased this is only the beginning of her expansion in the beauty business. She closed out her announcement with, “i truly cannot wait for all that’s to come. we have many yummy surprises up our sleeves !”
The singer’s God Is A Woman Body Line, aptly named after her 2018 smash hit single, is available to purchase now on Ulta.com. You’ll be able to purchase these items in Ulta stores staring August 28. Prices range from $12 to $38.
Kate Bush‘s “Running Up That Hill” has run all the way to Wembley Stadium, courtesy of Coldplay.
Chris Martin and company put their spin on the 1985 single during their show at the famed London venue on Saturday. Not only that, they were joined by English actor Steve Coogan, who performed as his Alan Partridge character.
You can watch footage of the cover via Coldplay’s Twitter.
“Running Up That Hill,” of course, has become a resurgent hit over the past few months thanks to its placement in the new season of Stranger Things. The track has reached the top five on the Billboard Hot 100, a career-first for Bush.
Along with the “Running Up That Hill” cover, Coldplay and Coogan-as-Partridge covered ABBA‘s “Knowing Me, Knowing You,” according to Setlist.fm.
Coldplay’s show Saturday marked the penultimate date of their six-show residency at Wembley Stadium, the last of which took place Sunday.
In related news, Coldplay has announced a new batch of U.K. and European tour dates, set to take place in May, June and July 2023. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit Coldplay.com.
Coldplay will be touring in continued support of their latest album, 2021’s Music of the Spheres. The group toured the U.S. earlier this year.
Slipknot has premiered the video for “Yen,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, The End, So Far.
The clip, which was directed by percussionist M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan, has a real Jekyll and Hyde vibe, cutting between a buttoned-up and glasses-wearing Corey Taylor, and him rocking out in his Knot mask and jumpsuit getup. Are there also creepy contortionist dancers and a whole lot of fire? You’d better believe it!
You can watch the “Yen” video streaming now on YouTube.
The End, So Far, the follow-up to 2019’s We Are Not Your Kind, is due out September 30. It also includes the previously released tracks “The Dying Song (Time to Sing)” and “The Chapeltown Rag.”
Slipknot will hit the road in support of The End, So Far on their fall Knotfest Roadshow tour, launching September 20 in Nashville.
(NEW YORK) — Tesla is raising the price of its “Full Self Driving” software to $15,000, Elon Musk said in a tweet on Sunday.
Tesla is facing scrutiny from federal and state officials over how it has advertised its self-driving technology, as well as concern over safety risks involved with the self-driving capability.
Customers who order the Full Self Driving, or FSD, software before Sept. 5 will receive the product under the current price, Musk, Tesla’s CEO, said in the tweet. The $3K price bump arrives as Tesla introduces FSD beta 10.69, a new iteration that boasts “improved overall driving smoothness” and “reduced false slowdowns near crosswalks,” according to the company.
The FSD software doesn’t make a car fully self-driving. Rather, users must remain focused on the road and keep their hands on the driving wheel. The Autopilot system, meanwhile, offers navigation to and from user-provided destinations, as well as suggestions for lane changes and other maneuvers to optimize a trip.
Tesla has come under sharp criticism over its marketing of the FSD software and Autopilot.
Earlier this month, the California Department of Motor Vehicles alleged that the company deceptively advertises the products as fully autonomous, according to two filings with California’s Office of Administrative Hearings. The filings were first reported by The Los Angeles Times.
Similarly, Senators Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) last year called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Tesla’s advertising of the FSD software and Autopilot.
“Tesla’s marketing has repeatedly overstated the capabilities of its vehicles, and these statements increasingly pose a threat to motorists and other users of the road,” Markey and Blumenthal said in a letter to FTC Chair Lina Khan.
In response to the letter, Tesla Senior Director of Public Policy Rohan Patel said in March: “Tesla’s Autopilot and FSD Capability features enhance the ability of our cusotmes [sic] to drive safer than the average driver in the U.S.” The response was first reported by Reuters.
Tesla vehicles operating under the Autopilot system were involved in 273 reported crashes over roughly a yearlong period ending in June, according to data released that month by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Tesla vehicles comprised almost 70% of the crashes involving advanced driver-assisted systems over that period, the data showed.
If you’re a Harry Styles stan who likes to say mean things about his girlfriend Olivia Wilde on Twitter or TikTok, you should know that isn’t exactly the way to get on his good side.
In his global cover story for Rolling Stone, Harry comments on online trolls who’ve made fun of Olivia’s dancing or attempted to cancel her for jokes she made years ago by saying, “That obviously doesn’t make me feel good.”
He adds, “It’s obviously a difficult feeling to feel like being close to me means you’re at the [mercy] of a corner of Twitter or something. I just wanted to sing. I didn’t want to get into it if I was going to hurt people like that.”
In fact, Harry says it’s pretty upsetting that he has to warn anyone he’s involved with that they may be the target of online hate. As he puts it, “Can you imagine going on a second date with someone and being like, ‘OK, there’s this corner of the thing, and they’re going to say this, and it’s going to be really crazy, and they’re going to be really mean, and it’s not real…But anyway, what do you want to eat?’”
For her part, Olivia tells Rolling Stone that barring some “toxic negativity,” she believes that most of Harry’s fans are “true champions of kindness.”
Harry also reveals that the reason he’s doing extended residencies in select cities — as he’s currently doing in New York’s Madison Square Garden — is that it’ll give him time to write and record his next album, the follow-up to Harry’s House.
Harry says, “I think all of us are so excited to get back to it, which feels insane because we’ve just put an album out.”
More details are emerging regarding Gary Busey‘s arrest on Friday on charges of sex offenses stemming from an appearance at a horror fan convention in Cherry Hill, New Jersey earlier this month.
Police responded to a Doubletree Hotel near Philadelphia that was hosting Monster-Mania Con “for the report of a sex offense,” the Cherry Hill Police Department said in a statement Saturday.
The 78-year-old actor, known for his roles in the films The Buddy Holly Story and Point Break, was a featured celebrity at the convention, held from Aug. 12 to 14.
Three women have come forward with allegations against Busey of groping and inappropriate touching during the meet and greet, Chief Robert Kempf confirmed to ABC News on Sunday.
Police conducted an interview with Busey after the initial report while he was still in Cherry Hill and are looking at surveillance video from the hotel.
Busey’s initial court appearance is scheduled for the end of August in Camden Superior Court.
Requests for comment from the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office and Busey’s reps have gone unanswered as of late Sunday night.
(LONDON) — A new era is beginning for Prince William and his family.
Prince William and his wife, Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, have chosen to move from Kensington Palace to Windsor, and their children will attend a new school nearby.
Kensington Palace announced Monday that the Cambridges’ three children, Princes George and Louis and Princess Charlotte, will attend Lambrook School in Berkshire, starting in September.
The new school will be closer to the Cambridge family’s new home, Adelaide Cottage, a four-bedroom cottage on the grounds of Windsor Castle.
For the past several years, George, 9, and Charlotte, 7, have attended Thomas’s Battersea School in London, which was a short distance from the family’s home at Kensington Palace.
“Their Royal Highnesses are hugely grateful to Thomas’s Battersea where George and Charlotte have had a happy start to their education since 2017 and 2019 respectively and are pleased to have found a school for all three of their children which shares a similar ethos and values to Thomas’s,” the palace said in a statement.
Lambrook School is described as one of the country’s leading prep schools. According to its website, the school aims to have students leave “as confident, happy, engaging, mature, considerate and thoughtful young adults who are outward looking global citizens.”
“We are delighted that Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis will be joining us this coming September and very much look forward to welcoming the family, as well as all of our new pupils, to our school community,” Jonathan Perry, headmaster of Lambrook School, said in a statement shared by Kensington Palace.
This year marks the first year that Louis, 4, will attend the same school as his older siblings.
A senior royal source told ABC News the Cambridges’ move to the country was primarily driven by their choice of school, and a desire to give their children as “normal” an upbringing as possible.
The Duchess of Cambridge attended prep school in Berkshire and her parents, Michael and Carole Middleton, still live in the county. The Middletons’ home in Bucklebury is about 45 minutes from Windsor, making visiting with grandparents that bit easier.
“This move puts them much closer to the Middletons and Kate is very close to her family,” said Victoria Murphy, ABC News royal contributor. “It also emulates in many ways the upbringing [Kate] had in rural Berkshire, which she has spoken fondly of and I think has always had a big influence over how the Cambridges have shaped their family life.”
The Cambridges have used Kensington Palace, where Prince William also grew up, as their official residence since they renovated an apartment there in 2013.
They have lived there as a family since 2017, when Prince George started school at St. Thomas’s Battersea.
“As the children get older and more independent you can see why they would feel they have more breathing space in Windsor,” said Murphy. “Kensington Palace and gardens is a major tourist attraction which you are right in the middle of as soon as you step out of the private areas.”
A royal source explained that the family will also use their Norfolk home, Anmer Hall, on the Queen’s Sandringham estate, whenever they can.
With their move to Adelaide Cottage, the Cambridges now have three homes: Kensington Palace, Anmer Hall and Adelaide Cottage.
“I think this move might attract some criticism as they are gaining an additional property,” said Murphy. “But this has been driven by what William and Kate want for their children and they have always been resolved to try and have a normal family life.”
Prince William will be joining a royal enclave with his family’s move to the grounds of Windsor Castle.
William’s brother, Prince Harry, who lives in California with his wife Meghan and their two kids, still calls Windsor’s Frogmore Cottage his home in the United Kingdom. And William’s uncle, Prince Andrew, and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, live in Royal Lodge, not far from the Cambridges’ new home.
William’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, also spends much of her time now at Windsor Castle.
The Cambridges’ new home, Adelaide Cottage, was built in 1831 as a retreat for William IV’s consort Queen Adelaide, according to ABC News royal contributor Robert Jobson, who described the home as, “relatively modest in royal terms, with just four bedrooms.”
As well as it being a sound move for his family, Jobson highlighted another reason why the move will be beneficial for Prince William,
“William wants to be in Windsor to be nearer the queen too, as Windsor Castle is the new royal hub as Buckingham Palace is still undergoing renovations,” said Jobson.
BLACKPINK‘s “Pink Venom” has seeped its way into YouTube history.
Variety reports that the video for the K-pop group’s new song, which dropped at midnight on Friday, racked up 86.2 million views in its first 24 hours on the platform, and topped the 100-million view mark within 30 hours of its release.
That makes it the most-viewed music video on YouTube so far this year, and number four YouTube’s all-time 24 hour views list, which has yet to be updated with the new stats.
The only videos that have earned more views than “Pink Venom” within 24 hours are BTS‘ “Butter” and “Dynamite,” which reached 108.2 million views and 101.1 million views, respectively, and BLACKPINK’s own “How You Like That,” which hit 86.3 million views back in June of 2020. BLACKPINK’s collab with Selena Gomez, “Ice Cream,” is in fifth place with 79 million views.
“Pink Venom” is from BLACKPINK’s new album Born Pink, due out September 16.
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