One of the best-reviewed movies of the year, the horror film Barbarian, hits theaters Friday.
The movie stars Georgina Campbell as a young woman who shows up to the home she’s rented, only to find out a mysterious man, played by It‘s creepy clown Bill Skarsgård, is already living there. Without spoilers, it gets much, much worse from there.
The movie is the directorial debut of actor-turned writer-director Zach Cregger. Reactions to the movie have been through the roof with both professional critics and screening audience members opining online.
The movie’s other lead, Justin Long, jokes that may have changed his mind about the internet.
“I had gotten to the point in my life and my career…where I was like, ‘I’m not going on social media….I don’t read the comments,” he says.
“And with this, I read one. And then I got hungry…[or] thirsty, I guess the kids say. And I started reading all these comments, and I was like, ‘I think I like Twitter again,” he continues with a laugh. “Twitter’s kind of nice again!”
Long adds, “We’ve been watching some of these screenings, and it’s it sounds arrogant to say, but it’s so fun to be in a movie theater with people who are like really invested in this wild ride.”
“It’s just a blast,” he enthuses.
For her part, Campbell is also psyched. “It’s been a really crazy experience and really exciting,” she says, “and I really enjoyed it, and I’m just so happy that that Zach found me!”
After teasing some very special duet partners earlier this week, Kelsea Ballerini is spilling all the details about a collaboration she describes as a “sassbomb female moment.”
The song in question is called “You’re Drunk, Go Home,” and joining her in the studio for it are none other than Carly Pearce and Kelly Clarkson.
“A sassbomb yeehaw collab moment?!? ‘You’re Drunk, Go Home’ with my sister [Carly Pearce] and my hero sister [Kelly Clarkson],” Kelsea shared on Twitter in a video announcing the collaborations.
“You’re Drunk, Go Home” will be part of a track list that also includes lead single “Heartfirst” plus some other songs that Kelsea put out ahead of the full album’s release day: “What I Have” and “Love is a Cowboy.”
(NEW ALBANY, Ohio) — After voting for the bipartisan computer chip manufacturing bill earlier this year, Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, was one of several lawmakers with President Joe Biden on Friday in Licking County, to mark the groundbreaking of Intel’s new semiconductor chip factory.
But as a Democratic candidate in a competitive Senate race, Ryan has kept his distance from Biden — who lost Ohio to former President Donald Trump by eight points in 2020.
The Ryan campaign has not asked Biden or anyone from the White House to campaign with the Senate hopeful, with “no plans to do so,” spokesperson Izzi Levy told ABC News.
Ryan is not alone: In many key states with crucial Senate, House and gubernatorial races, Democrats are carefully managing their association with the president, toeing the line between appearing too friendly with the White House, and breaking with him and a party who have consistently received low marks from voters on their handling of inflation and the economy.
Ryan went as far as to categorize himself as an “independent” during an interview with Youngstown’s WFMJ-TV on Thursday, ahead of the president’s arrival.
“Well, not really asking anybody. Like I just I’m not one of those guys like, ‘Oh, I need someone to come in and help me.’ I’ve been I’ve been doing this I know what I’m doing. I know what I believe in. I know where I’m from. I know who I’m fighting for. I don’t need anyone else to like, you know, gum that message up,” he said.
When pressed by ABC News on whether he’s renouncing his ties with the Democratic Party, Ryan backtracked, saying he’s campaigning as an “independent-minded person.”
“I’m running as an independent-minded person who’s taken on President Obama, who’s taken Nancy Pelosi, has taken on Bernie Sanders but also agreed with Trump on trade and China and General Mattis and other things,” Ryan said. “People want an independent-minded person, they don’t want someone who’s just going to pull the lever with their own party, and I will be capable of saying ‘no’ to my own party.”
During Thursday’s WFMJ interview, Ryan notably highlighted the policy platforms he’d agreed with former President Trump on while pointing out the times he’d delineated from Biden, with whom he has voted with 100% of the time, according to FiveThirtyEight.
“I agree with Biden on CHIPS and infrastructure and some of these things,” Ryan said. “I’ve agreed with, you know, Trump, for example, on China trade. I’ve agreed with Trump on renegotiating NAFTA, strong defense, space force, General Mattis, on those things.”
This isn’t the first time that Ryan has attempted to render a stark divide between himself and the president. When Biden announced his student loan forgiveness plan in August, Congressman Ryan distanced himself from the plan, saying it “sends the wrong message to the millions of Ohioans without a degree working just as hard to make ends meet.”
And when President Biden delivered a prime-time speech last Thursday denouncing “MAGA Republicans” and urging the country to unite against threats to American democracy, none of the Democratic Senate nominees that ABC News initially reached out to for responses reacted to the president’s speech, with Ryan later telling ABC News at an Ohio State University game that “we all have to be extremely vocal about people who stormed the Capitol.”
“I think we absolutely have to be very clear about speaking out about that,” the congressman told ABC News.
Ryan also joins a growing sect of national Democrats who have publicly declared their opposition to something Biden and his administration has confirmed he would do for months — run for a second White House term in 2024. He told WFMJ that “we need new leadership across the board” in response to a question on whether he believes Biden should declare another bid for the slot.
When pressed whether yes or no if he wants to see the president run again in 2024, Ryan told ABC News, “That’s not up to me” and reiterated the need for “generational change.”
“Guys like Mitch McConnell, these people have been there for a very long time,” he added. “As we move out of this age of stupidity that we’ve been in officially long. I think it’s time to hit the reset button and get people that don’t want to focus on us being Americans first.”
In Wisconsin over Labor Day weekend, as President Biden touted the power of union workers at a “Laborfest” in Milwaukee — Democratic Senate nominee and Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes was noticeably absent.
At a presser last week in Tempe, Arizona, Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly told ABC News that on the issue of whether he wanted the president to come join him in the state before the general election, he said, “We welcome anybody to come out. We’ve got a lot of issues we’re dealing with right now. Water, wildfires, being some of the top of my priority list.”
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, a Democrat running for governor, did not join the president at his second Labor Day stop in Pittsburgh, after appearing with Biden at an official White House event in Wilkes-Barre the previous week.
Shapiro did tell CNN in May that he would “welcome” Biden in Pennsylvania to campaign for him, adding that he is “focused on running a race here in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, listening to the people of Washington County, not Washington, D.C.”
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat in a competitive reelection race with Republican businessman Tim Michels, and Barnes marched in a “Laborfest” parade before the president’s arrival in the city, with supporters asking for pictures and opportunities to shake hands with Barnes, the candidate several voters told ABC News will be “the next senator of Wisconsin.”
In Georgia’s Senate race, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has also been on record distancing himself from President Biden as he fights for reelection, locked in a tight battle against former football star and GOP nominee Herschel Walker.
When pressed by ABC News at a campaign stop in Union City on Tuesday, Warnock wouldn’t say if he supports Biden coming to Georgia to campaign for him.
“Frankly, I’m not focused on who I’m campaigning with but who I’m campaigning for,” Warnock said. “That’s why I spend time in places like Union City. Before this stop, I was in Newnan — a place that folks don’t expect Democrats to show up — because I’m determined to represent all the people of Georgia.”
That campaign strategy marks a departure from just last year, when Biden campaigned in Georgia for Sens. Warnock and Jon Ossoff during their runoff elections.
(WASHINGTON) — A federal judge in Florida has dismissed former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against his 2016 presidential challenger Hillary Clinton that accused her of “acting in concert” with top FBI leadership to invent what became known as the Russia investigation.
U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks seemingly mocked the lawsuit in his order of dismissal, calling the suit “difficult to summarize in a concise and cohesive manner.”
“It was certainly not presented that way,” the judge wrote.
Trump had argued that the Russia probe was “prolonged and exacerbated by the presence of a small faction of Clinton loyalists who were well-positioned within the Department of Justice,” a group that included defendants James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Kevin Clinesmith and Bruce Ohr.
The judge said the lawsuit was rife with “glaring problems,” claims that were “not warranted under existing law,” and legal theories that lacked factual support.
“At its core, the problem with Plaintiff’s Amended Complaint is that Plaintiff is not attempting to seek redress for any legal harm; instead, he is seeking to flaunt a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him, and this Court is not the appropriate forum,” the order said.
“We vehemently disagree with the opinion issued by the Court today,” Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, said in a statement following the dismissal. “Not only is it rife with erroneous applications of the law, it disregards the numerous independent governmental investigations which substantiate our claim that the defendants conspired to falsely implicate our client and undermine the 2016 Presidential election.”
Habba said Trump’s legal team would immediately move to appeal the decision.
Trump earlier tried to move the lawsuit to a different judge in the Southern District of Florida, but was unsuccessful. That judge, Aileen Cannon, is the same Trump-appointed judge who this week granted Trump’s motion for a special master to review the Justice Department’s seizure of documents from his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, completed in 2019, concluded that Russian interference in the 2016 election was “sweeping and systematic,” and the investigation led to seven guilty pleas and five jail sentences, mostly on charges of lying to investigators — but no charges were ever brought against Trump himself.
Ricky Martin is suing his nephew for trying to “assassinate” his reputation. To recap, the 21-year-old had accused the “Livin’ La Vida Loca” singer of stalking and sexual abuse.
Ricky was exonerated in July when a Puerto Rican court dismissed Dennis Yadiel Sanchez Martin‘s request for a restraining order. Sanchez has since withdrawn his domestic abuse allegations against the singer.
Deadline reports Ricky is now suing Sanchez for $20 million and submitted an 8-page filing that laid out the harm his nephew caused.
“The reckless, malicious and culpable actions by Defendant Sanchez were motivated by the desire to expose Plaintiff to hatred and disdain from his fanbase, to threaten his business opportunities and to destroy his reputation,” the lawsuit states. “Such actions caused Plaintiff to have multimillion dollar-contracts and present and future artistic projects cancelled.”
The singer is calling his nephew “maladjusted” and claims Sanchez continues to threaten to “assassinate his reputation” unless “he is economically compensated.”
Ricky’s lawyers say the singer’s family no longer feels safe in Puerto Rico.
Earlier this year, Sanchez had accused Ricky of engaging in a seven-month relationship with him and, when filing for protection, said he “feared for his safety.” He claimed the singer began stalking him following the end of their alleged relationship.
Ricky denied the accusations and spoke out publicly after the restraining order was dismissed by a Puerto Rican court. “Thank God [these] claims were proven to be false,” he said in a video message, adding, “It has been devastating for me, for my family, for my friends.”
(LONDON) — Queen Elizabeth II’s death on Thursday came as a shock to the public.
Planning for what would happen in the days, weeks and months after her death, however, has been years in the making, and started around the time of her coronation 70 years ago.
Immediately upon the queen’s death at Balmoral Castle, a plan known internally among government and royal officials as Operation London Bridge went into effect, detailing the memorializing of the queen and the transition of power to her eldest son Prince Charles, now officially known as King Charles III.
An additional plan known as Operation Unicorn also went into effect Thursday, as the queen died at her castle in Scotland, as opposed to her residences in England.
Operation Unicorn details the process of transporting the queen’s coffin from Scotland to London, where her funeral will take place.
A plan known as Operation Spring Tide, meanwhile, lays out the details of Charles’ accession to the throne.
Here is what to expect with all three plans in effect, detailing — down to the minute — memorial services and the path ahead for the monarchy:
10 days of national mourning
A period of national mourning for Elizabeth began on the day of her death and will last until her funeral, which takes place 10 days after her death.
Described as a “period of time for reflection,” the mourning period will see public services and businesses operating as usual in the U.K., with the option to suspend or pause activities at their own discretion. Flags at royal residences, government buildings and military establishments will fly at half-mast during this time, according to the U.K. government.
Buckingham Palace has also declared a period of royal mourning, which is observed from now until seven days after the queen’s funeral.
During that time, flags will fly at half-mast — except for the Royal Standard — and royal residences will be closed, according to the palace.
Daily remembrances, formalities leading to a state funeral
Operation London Bridge designates the day of the queen’s death as “D-Day,” with each subsequent day known as D-Day+1, D-Day+2, all the way to the day of the queen’s funeral.
On Friday, the first day after the queen’s death, Charles and Camilla, the queen consort, arrived in England under their new titles for the first time, greeting well-wishers outside of Buckingham Palace.
A pre-recorded televised address from Charles, who assumed his title as king immediately upon his mother’s death, will be broadcast across the country at 6 p.m. local time Friday.
Other tributes for the queen on Friday include a national service of thanksgiving at St. Paul’s Cathedral, a gun salute across the U.K. and the tolling of bells across London and in Windsor, where the queen also resided.
On Saturday, the Accession Council — made up of senior government officials, judges and leaders of the Church of England — will meet at St. James’s Palace in London to formally proclaim Charles as king.
After the meeting, which Charles will attend, a proclamation will be read from the palace’s balcony. Later in the day, a second proclamation will be read at the Royal Exchange in London.
On Sunday, proclamations declaring Charles as king will be read in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
Over the course of the next week, the queen’s body will be transported to England and “ceremonial and commemorative events” will be held, the details of which have not yet been confirmed by Buckingham Palace.
There will be a public procession to carry the queen’s coffin from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, where it will lie in state for around four days to allow the public to pay their last respects.
Members of the royal family will walk with the coffin in the procession, which will also include a military parade.
In addition to attending memorials for his mother in London, Charles is also expected to travel across the U.K. next week to meet with members of the public and local leaders.
The queen’s funeral is expected to take place at Westminster Abbey, making the queen the first sovereign to have a funeral there since 1760.
Westminster Abbey normally holds 2,200 congregants, but extra seating can be arranged to accommodate more than 8,000 people, as it did at the queen’s coronation.
Following the funeral, members of the royal family will attend the queen’s burial at St. George’s Chapel, on the grounds of Windsor Castle.
The queen will be buried next to her father King George VI, her sister Princess Margaret, and Prince Philip, her beloved late-husband of 73 years.
Charles’ coronation ceremony
Though he is already king, Charles’ coronation — the ceremony during which he is formally crowned — is likely to take place several months from now.
The queen’s coronation, for example, took place on June 2, 1953, 14 months after she ascended the throne upon her father’s death.
Charles is expected to be crowned at Westminster Abbey, where each coronation has taken place for the last 900 years, according to the royal family’s website.
The elaborate ceremony will be broadcast to the world and will see Charles take the coronation oath and have the St. Edward’s Crown placed on his head by the archbishop of Canterbury.
As queen consort, Camilla is expected to be crowned at the same time as her husband.
Kane Brown and his wife, Katelyn,escape the world with a lush, tropical beachside vacation in the music video for “Thank God,” their new duet, which appears on Kane’s Different Man album.
Some shots show the couple cruising down a greenery-covered backroad with the top down, while others see them at a beachside bonfire, dancing around and watching the sun go down.
It’s an idyllic visual addition to the couple’s duet, a romantic declaration of love and dedication to a partner who makes life complete. For Kane’s listeners, the collaboration is a long time coming: fans have been asking for the singer to release a duet with his wife, a talented singer who pursued a career as an R&B/pop artist before she and Kane met and got married.
“My fans have been waiting for five years for us to sing together,” Kane tells People, revealing that the couple went through four other duet ideas before settling on “Thank God.”
“…And then ‘Thank God’ came in and I was like, ‘This is the one.’ And she said the same thing, and I’m so glad I waited for this particular one to come out,” he continues.
Kane’s Different Man album arrived on Friday. It also features another duet: the title track is a collaboration with Blake Shelton.
Pearl Jam performed a cover of The Beatles deep cut “Her Majesty” during their show in Toronto on Thursday.
A hidden track off Abbey Road, the original “Her Majesty” lasts just 23 seconds and features tongue-in-cheek lyrics, such as “Her Majesty is a pretty nice girl/But she doesn’t have a lot to say.”
Pearl Jam’s rendition of “Her Majesty” came just hours after news broke that Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, had died at age 96. Vedder made no specific mention of the queen when introducing the song, telling the crowd only, “This is just a little one I’m gonna borrow from Paul McCartney.”
You can watch fan-shot footage of the performance posted to YouTube by user mfc172.
Both McCartney and fellow living Beatle Ringo Starrsharedtributes to Queen Elizabeth II following the news of her passing.
A Louisiana grand jury indicted rapper Mystikal on first-degree rape charges this week.
The New Orleans Advocate reports that if he is found guilty, he could face a life sentence.
Sheriff’s deputies accuse Mystikal, born Michael Tyler, of attacking a woman at his Louisiana home on July 30 following a financial dispute. He’s also been charged with criminal damage to property, false imprisonment, domestic abuse battery by strangulation, simple robbery and numerous drug possession accusations.
Mystikal previously pleaded guilty to sexual battery and extortion in 2003 and was sentenced to six years in state prison.
In 2017, the 51-year-old MC was charged with first-degree rape and second-degree kidnapping. Unable to post bond, he spent 18 months in jail. The charges were eventually dropped due to lack of evidence.
Mystikal, a two-time Grammy nominee, hit number one on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop chart in 2001 with “Danger (Been So Long)” featuring Nivea.
The Beach Boys in 1964; Gems/Redferns/Getty Images
A new series of videos set to four classic Beach Boys songs from the mid-1960s launched Friday with the premiere of 1965’s “Barbara Ann.”
Watched together, the four videos tell the story of a high school romance between surfing-obsessed Helena and her classmate Lucas, an aspiring photographer who just moved into town. All of the clips include clever references and nods to The Beach Boys.
The “Barbara Ann” clip specifically follows Helena as she daydreams about surfing while sitting in class and then making her way home from school. We’re also briefly introduced to Lucas, whom Helena passes on her bicycle.
The other three videos, which will be set to “Don’t Worry Baby,” “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” and “God Only Knows,” will debut on the band’s official YouTube channel at noon ET, respectively, on Saturday, September 10; Friday, September 16; and Saturday, September 17.
The “Don’t Worry Baby” visual will share Lucas’ back story, “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” will focus on his and Helena’s romance, and “God Only Knows” will look at where their relationship is at as the school year ends.
The videos were directed by Andrew Litten, who’s worked with Earth, Wind & Fire, Anderson .Paak and Pusha T, and were filmed in South Africa with local actors.
“A recurring theme throughout The Beach Boys’ music is the feeling of being young and in love,” explains Litten. “Their most iconic songs were written when they were between the ages of 15 to 21, so there’s this exciting view on life that’s immortalized in their lyrics. I wanted to do the same with the music videos by capturing the spontaneity and playfulness of being a teenager, fantasizing about the future, pursuing new passions, and falling in love.”
