Jessica Alba and her eldest daughter, Honor, have found a meaningful way to mark an important transition in their relationship.

As the 18-year-old, who is her mother’s lookalike, prepares to leave home for college, the mother-daughter duo recently got matching tattoos that symbolize their connection and the memories they have created together.

The matching ink comes at a particularly emotional time for Jessica Alba, who has openly reflected on the significance of watching her daughter reach this new stage of life.

Alba and Honor recently made their bond permanent with matching tattoos on their wrists. The designs feature an eye alongside a small infinity symbol, creating a sentimental reminder of their relationship as Honor prepares to leave for college.

The mother and daughter were photographed holding hands while displaying the artwork, which was shared by celebrity tattoo artist Winterstone.

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He celebrated the special moment on Instagram, writing, “Matching tattoos with her daughter! @jessicaalba. What a way to show love with an unforgettable experience! A memory they will share forever!”

Honor also gave fans a glimpse of the tattoos in an Instagram post, captioning the image, “Me X Mama.” The simple gesture has since become another memorable milestone for the pair as Alba prepares to watch her eldest child begin a new chapter away from home.

The Actress Makes Every Moment With Her Children Memorable

The matching tattoos are not the first time Alba has used meaningful gestures to celebrate her children and the special bond they share.

The actress is a mother to Honor, Haven, 15, and Hayes, 8, whom she shares with her former husband, Cash Warren, and she has frequently emphasized the importance of creating lasting memories with them.

According to Page Six, Alba has previously marked her children’s place in her life through tattoos, including a 2019 design inspired by their astrological signs.

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At the time, she described the tattoos as something she knew she would never regret, referring to her children as “my babies.”

Jessica Alba Shares Sweet Moments With Her Daughters

Over the years, Alba has also made a point of sharing special moments with her children, including memorable family appearances on the red carpet.

In June 2024, she attended the Los Angeles premiere of “Trigger Warning” alongside Warren and their daughters, Honor and Haven.

The family’s appearance shows the great connection and relationship Alba shares with her children, as they came together to support her during the premiere.

Moments like these have allowed the actress to create memories with her kids while watching them grow and enter different stages of their lives.

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The Actress Gets Emotional As Her Daughter Prepares For College

Although Alba is proud of Honor’s accomplishments, sending her daughter off to college is clearly an emotional milestone.

Speaking to People, the actress admitted that the reality of the transition had not completely sunk in yet. “It hasn’t really hit me personally, but I think for any parent, just that milestone, it’s intense,” Alba said.

She added, “I don’t think you can prepare for it. You just have to tackle it when it happens.”

The actress has also previously expressed how much motherhood means to her. Ahead of Honor’s departure, Alba reflected on how quickly the years had passed, describing time as “fleeting” and “sacred” while calling every moment of being Honor’s mother one of the greatest gifts of her life.

With Honor heading to Yale, the matching tattoos offer Alba a tangible reminder of their bond as her daughter takes an important step toward independence.

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Jessica Alba’s Controversial Love Life Continues To Draw Attention

The mother-daughter milestone comes as Alba’s personal life has also remained a subject of public interest following her split from Warren.

The former couple, who married in 2008, finalized their divorce in February after years together and continue to share their three children.

During the early stages of Alba’s post-divorce dating life, Page Six reported in July 2025 that she had been romantically linked to actor Danny Ramirez.

Sources described their relationship at the time as “not exclusive,” while the actress was said to be enjoying her life following the separation.

The relationship later became more public, with Alba and Ramirez photographed together on several occasions. Still, amid the attention surrounding her love life, Alba has continued to place her children at the center of her life.

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Former UFC star Chuck Liddell is accusing his ex-wife, Heidi Liddell, of abducting their daughter, just over one year after the couple finalized their divorce.

Chuck, 56, filed an emergency custody order requesting that their daughter, Guinevere, 14, be returned to him and placed in his custody full time, according to court documents obtained by Us.

The MMA legend accused Heidi, 46, of abducting Guinevere on Friday, August 14, “with no intent to return her,” five days before her scheduled first day of school. Heidi allegedly brought Guinevere to her residence in Orange County, outside of the district where she currently attends school.

Chuck alleges that Heidi realized she would not be able to get court permission to move Guinevere and their son, Charlie, 13, before the fall semester started, so she resorted to disobeying several court orders regarding custody of their kids. That included “not using the co-parenting communication app, using the children as messengers, failing to bring Guinevere to extracurricular activities, and not following the court-ordered custody schedule,” according to the documents.

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Chuck wrote that he fears that Guinevere will “suffer irreparable harm by missing her first week of school,” including causing her to be kicked off the volleyball team. That, in turn, has allegedly caused Charlie “immense undue stress and turmoil” due to how close the siblings are.

Chuck is also asking for Heidi to only be allowed monitored visits with the kids to prevent her from trying to “manipulate” them or take them again.

Heidi, for her part, denied ever kidnapping Guinevere, insisting that her daughter “begged” her to take her away from Chuck.

“For the past 5 years after our divorce, Chuck has been obsessed with staying in my life and trying to control me,” she told TMZ, adding that their kids “don’t feel safe speaking up to him at this point.”

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“My door has always been open for my kids to see Chuck and I never abducted anyone,” Heidi said.

She filed a response to Chuck’s court order saying she does not consent to his request for custody. Heidi also did not consent to attorney fees or costs.

“I am a full-time mother and do not have extra income,” she wrote in her response. “I have been financially bullied in court. This is partially why I had to fire my attorney. I cannot afford all the fees.”

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She also wrote that Chuck has caused Guinevere to suffer “severe anxiety and mental distress,” that she is “crying out for help” and that she does not, in fact, want to play volleyball.

“She refuses to return to his house because she doesn’t feel safe with him,” Heidi wrote.

A hearing is scheduled for Monday, August 24.

There are always changes to be made, when making a book (or a few books) into a movie (or maybe a few movies). Things might need to be stretched, cut down, or cut out entirely, for any number of reasons. There are things one might be able to picture while reading that prove difficult to properly visualize on screen (Denis Villeneuve’s first two Dune movies, for instance, capture more of the plot and characters than the absolute spirit of the book, since they’re a bit less psychedelic and alien in their feel).

You’ve also got books that have to be edited, when making the jump to cinema, just because there aren’t really limits to what you can describe on the page, yet there are boundaries that can be crossed when it comes to showing such things visually. The content found in books sometimes has to be sanitized a little to keep things more or less R-rated when it comes to making them movies, while books, you know, don’t really have official ratings, and also (mostly) lack visuals, so it’s a bit more of an “anything goes” type of medium. Anyway, the following books all stand out as more extreme and intense with their content than their movie adaptations ended up being.

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‘The Body’ (1982)

Made Into ‘Stand by Me’ (1986)

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Either way, you’ve got a sad story here, but it’s more that The Body is sad in a genuinely crushing (and almost eerie) way, while Stand by Me, the movie based on The Body, is more bittersweet. It’s also worth noting that The Body is a novella, rather than a novel, but it’s been published as a standalone, so it still feels worthy of being called a book. And, by novella standards, it’s decently long.

The premise involves four boys setting off on a journey to try and find a dead body, and then they learn harsh truths about life along the way, in typical coming-of-age fashion. Stand by Me does show most of the hardships and acknowledge at least one tragedy that happened in the years following the main events of the story, but The Body goes a bit further with how many tragedies happened, and what it all might mean for the protagonist/narrator, who’s left in a slightly more peaceful place at the end of Stand by Me, versus at the end of The Body.

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‘L.A. Confidential’ (1990)

Made Into ‘L.A. Confidential’ (1997)

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There aren’t all that many adaptations of James Ellroy’s books, even if he’s a rather popular crime/thriller author, and lots of his stuff is quite cinematic, not to mention sometimes about the world of film. L.A. Confidential takes place in Los Angeles, unsurprisingly, and things about the entertainment industry are relevant, so it ended up making for a fairly good – and fitting – movie. Also, The Black Dahlia was adapted into a film, but not quite as successful.

The books L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia both belong to the L.A. Quartet, and these four novels by Ellroy all feature a lot more by way of violence, darkness, and despair than you’ll find in the already decently violent, dark, and despairing movie versions of L.A. Confidential and The Black Dahlia. The characters do even worse things, the descriptions of violence – and the aftermaths of violent acts – get more graphic, and there are also more moving parts, adding to the sense that whatever truths or conspiracies are unearthed during the narrative feel even more troubling on page than on screen.

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‘And Then There Were None’ (1939)

Made Into ‘And Then There Were None’ (1945)

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This is a milder example, because there have been subsequent adaptations of And Then There Were None that stick to how dark the original novel is. But if you’re just talking about that original novel and the first major adaptation, which was a movie that came out in 1945, you do have things made noticeably gentler when everything made the jump from the page to the screen.

Without ruining things for either 1939’s And Then There Were None or 1945’s And Then There Were None, there is a particularly intense feel to the former that was too much to translate entirely for the latter, at least by the standards of 1945. There’s a resolution in both takes on this murder mystery, though it’s all a bit less horrifying and shocking in the movie, compared to the book (though that movie is still very good for its time, and packs a punch, even if the punch is softer because of some fairly obvious reasons).

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‘Blonde’ (2000)

Made Into ‘Blonde’ (2022)

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It’s intense stuff all-around, should you choose to read Blonde (2000) or watch Blonde (2022). The former feels almost more of a horror book than a biographical one, because it is indeed about Marilyn Monroe, sure, and there are allusions to other people who were relevant to her tragically short life, but the book frames her whole tragic life as one that stands in for abuse that’s happened – and continues to happen – on an industry-wide scale.

The 2022 movie captured enough of the book’s horror and graphic content to be given an NC-17 rating, and it stirred up plenty of controversy on its own, for sure. Yet it speaks to the intensity of Joyce Carol Oates’ original novel that the movie feels a little easier to digest in comparison (700+ pages of very detailed horror and abuse is harder to take in than 160+ minutes of very intense – but not as intense – depictions of the same).

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‘IT’ (1986)

Made Into ‘IT’ (2017) and ‘IT Chapter Two’ (2019)

The Body was mentioned before, but not specifically as a Stephen King story, so yeah, it was Stephen King, and it was one of a fair few coming-of-age stories he’s written over the years (and he does continue to write – in both that genre and more generally speaking – into the 21st century). His ultimate coming-of-age story, though, is probably IT, which follows a group of characters at two different ages in their lives, and at both ages, they’re taking on the same horrific enemy.

There was a movie adaptation done in the late 2010s, but it split the story into two halves by focusing on the kids in the 2017 film, and then showcasing their battle against the titular IT as adults in the 2019 film. That removed the interesting structure of the novel, and also removed was some of the more alarming content found in the source material. There is stuff in IT (1986) that you couldn’t film without being charged with some kind of obscenity-related laws, so it was for the best, to put it mildly, that the two-part film adaptation wasn’t 100% faithful to the book.

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‘Trainspotting’ (1993)

Made Into ‘Trainspotting’ (1996)

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The biggest difference between the book and movie versions of Trainspotting is style-related, since the movie is digestible in a way the book isn’t really. You get heavy slang used in dialogue and narration in both instances, but all of it’s easier to understand in the movie, compared to the book, even if by just a little.

As for the difference in content? Yes, Trainspotting (1996) is uncompromising as a look at addiction and a certain way of life, but it’s not as harrowing as the original book, written by Irvine Welsh. This is saying quite a lot, since 1996’s Trainspotting feels very intense and honest, and it is, sure, yet the book goes several steps further in some regards, and is a piece of literature where, for better or worse, genuinely nothing feels off-limits.

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‘The Wanderers’ (1974)

Made Into ‘The Wanderers’ (1979)

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The Wanderers is an underrated coming-of-age book, and was written a decade or so on from when it was set. Like with lots of coming-of-age books, you can line up the time covered with the author’s life, and yes, Richard Price would’ve been a teenager in the first half of the 1960s, and The Wanderers is mostly about teenagers rambling their way through life during 1962, and a bit of 1963, too.

There was a movie that came out in 1979 that had a feeling of “telling it like it is,” or “like it was,” but it had kid gloves on compared to the book. The Wanderers (1979) is hard-hitting enough, as a film, but so many of the grittier and more intense moments from the book are either left out or altered slightly. The book is honestly pretty horrific at times, but again, that brutal honesty and sense of things being hard-hitting do make it an admirable literary work.

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‘Misery’ (1987)

Made Into ‘Misery’ (1990)

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The last Stephen King book worth mentioning, for present purposes, is Misery. This book’s about an author who gets into an accident, and then he’s seemingly rescued by a woman who ends up being a massive fan of his writing. She’s more than a little intense in general, though, and then she gets genuinely frightening as the story goes along, and she learns that he’d recently concluded a series she had a lot of love for.

This happens in the movie, too, the whole “kidnapping an author and making them continue writing a series they wanted to move on from” thing. It’s just what the fan does to the author in Misery, the book, that proves a good deal more gruesome and stomach-churning than what she does in the movie. There’s also an infamous scene in the book involving a lawnmower that’s entirely absent from the 1990 movie (if you know, you know).

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‘Lolita’ (1955)

Made Into ‘Lolita’ (1962)

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Like with IT, there are things that happen with underage characters in Lolita that you just couldn’t show on screen, for reasons that are hopefully obvious to anyone who’s read either (or both) of these novels. The premise of Lolita is arguably more nightmarish than that of IT’s, though, since Lolita is about a man who is infatuated with a 12-year-old girl, carrying out his fantasies with her after becoming her stepfather.

The idea of making a movie version of Lolita in the first place was extreme enough that the tagline for the original 1962 film adaptation, directed by Stanley Kubrick, was “How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?” It’s a good question, but that film does work, and it does a lot by way of implying some of the most uncomfortable scenes. For what it’s worth, the 1997 movie adaptation did a similar thing, even if it’s technically a bit more intense and graphic than the 1962 version.

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‘American Psycho’ (1991)

Made Into ‘American Psycho’ (2000)

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You know, the movie version of American Psycho is honestly kind of fun. There is a satirical slant to the source material as well, but everything there is nastier and generally more graphic, so you can appreciate it as satire about wealth and entitlement and class and all that, but finding it actually funny, when it gets as full-on as it does, is a bit more difficult, to say the least.

American Psycho, the movie, is still about a wealthy investment banker who either is – or imagines he is – a serial killer, and so there’s a good deal of carnage and debauchery seen on screen, still. It’s more just that it’s not nearly as detailed as it is in the book, and also, the book version of Patrick Bateman does (or imagines he does) a few things far more horrific than the movie version of Patrick does (or believes he does).

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April 14, 2000

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101 minutes

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Bret Easton Ellis, Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner

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It seems pretty clear that the future of entertainment is digital. As regards films and television shows, streaming platforms such as Netflix and Prime Video and others like them are sometimes involved in a cold war of sorts, with all platforms developing new, original titles to compete with what is obtainable elsewhere. These platforms are often home to a wide range of titles that often cut across multiple genres. With Netflix launching its video streaming service in 2007 and Prime Video following suit in 2011, both stand out as entrenched members of that community. However, one other streamer has carved out a particularly impressive niche for itself.

Apple TV launched on November 1, 2019, and seven years later, the streaming service has established itself as the home of prestige science fiction without a shadow of doubt. With Dan Erickson’s workplace thriller, Severance, which has exploded into a cultural phenomenon, and the likes of Rebecca Ferguson’s dystopian drama, Silo, and Alexander Skarsgård‘s Murderbot, among others, that title is not contested. However, a lot of the success the streamer enjoys today within the sci-fi genre would likely not have manifested had TV veteran Ronald D. Moore‘s brilliant co-creation not succeeded.

For All Mankind was co-created by Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi, as the defining Apple TV Original premiered even as the streaming service launched in 2019. Wildly imaginative and surprisingly different, the sci-fi series reimagined what would happen if the Space Race’s most important moment had gone in an entirely different direction. Having paved the way to sci-fi dominion for the streamer, For All Mankind is now looking towards the exit doors at the end of an era. After five full seasons, For All Mankind is heading into its sixth and final season, which has recently wrapped filming. Coral Peña, who plays Aleida Rosales in the sci-fi series, took to social media to mark the end of filming on Season 6. Peña, who replaced Olivia Trujillo in Season 2, shared an image with the caption: “Seven years later… series wrap on For All Mankind.“

How Good Is ‘For All Mankind’?

For All Mankind stars Joel Kinnaman, Wrenn Schmidt, Krys Marshall, Cynthy Wu, Peña, Toby Kebbell, Edi Gathegi, and Tyner Rushing, with earlier seasons also heavily featuring Shantel VanSanten, Jodi Balfour, Sarah Jones, Michael Dorman, and Sonya Walger. The alt-history drama remains one of the crown jewels of Apple TV, highlighted by its persistent strong performances on the service’s worldwide chart.

Collider’s Therese Lacson wrote in her review that For All Mankind Season 5 continues to highlight exactly why the series remains one of Apple TV’s most impressive, well-crafted, and consistently rewarded sci-fi dramas, which has expanded its lore in the alternate reality while ensuring its emotional core remains firmly grounded in relationships. Even as the show has evolved into a sprawling, multi-generational story set on a fully colonized Mars, the transition feels totally earned rather than forced. Lacson wrote:

“For All Mankind is proof that when streamers have faith in their shows and allow them to grow, they can create pure magic. With each episode, Season 5 builds tension while giving us brief moments of relief, all culminating in another massive shift that promises to usher in a completely new and exciting age.”

For All Mankind Season 6 will premiere in 2027. Stream the sci-fi series on Apple TV, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.

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2019 – 2027-00-00

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Sergio Mimica-Gezzan, Andrew Stanton, Meera Menon, Dan Liu, Allen Coulter, Craig Zisk, Dennie Gordon, John Dahl, Lukas Ettlin, Wendey Stanzler, Seth Gordon, Sylvain White, Michael Morris, Maja Vrvilo, Sarah Boyd

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Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, Ben Nedivi, Bradley Thompson, David Weddle, Nichole Beattie, Joe Menosky

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Hailey Bieber’s hair has never looked better.

Bieber, 29, took to her Instagram Story on Wednesday, August 19, to share a pic of her silky mane after adding new haircare products into her routine.

In the pic, she ran her fingers through her brunette tresses, which feature a delicate highlight in her front pieces, proving how soft it was. She completed her look with a natural glam. She donned glowy skin, manicured eyebrows, blushed cheeks and a touch of mascara. Bieber also lined her pout and added a touch of gloss.

The Rhode founder made her caramel hair stand out even more with a black boat-neck top.

“Been on a real hair health journey this summer,” Bieber captioned the post.

Bieber previously gave some insight into how she’s been styling her strands this summer earlier this month. At the time, she zoomed in on her blowout in the works while snapping a mirror selfie. To achieve a bouncy look, Bieber sectioned off her hair and rolled pieces into a mix of medium and small rollers. She secured them with a pin while getting ready, and of course, used her Rhode eye patches as well.

The model has been growing her hair out since June, when she debuted a lob. Her shiny hair was cut to her shoulders and worn down. She flipped the end of her mane to give her hair a touch of volume.

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In April 2025, she commented on a fan’s post advising not to make any hair decisions while postpartum. “You would look stunning [with a bob], but let’s hold hands and agree to not make any big hair decisions postpartum!” she commented via TikTok. “Personally giving myself at least a year!” (Hailey and husband Justin Bieber welcomed son Jack, 23 months, in August 2024.)

Throughout the years, Hailey has experimented with a number of hairstyles. At the 2018 Met Gala, she rocked bubblegum pink hair and brunette roots, which she styled in soft curls. She accessorized with a flower crown, which held her front-pieces back.

Hailey has also been known to sport blonde hair for years before switching back to her natural brunette strands in late 2021.

Traditional thinking suggests giant blockbuster movies ought to be aimed at the widest audience possible, and this therefore would appear to take the restrictive-by-name R rating out of the equation. The MPA’s second-harshest certification has long been seen as a box-office hurdle in any context. Though plenty of R-rated films have seen runaway box-office success, it goes against conventional wisdom to assume many R-rated movies will be counted among the highest-grossing movies ever made.

In the modern era, the ultimate target for a blockbuster, the benchmark, is the billion-dollar mark. Only three R-rated movies have crossed it, beginning in 2019 with Todd Phillips‘ box-office wildfire Joker in 2019. Some R-rated movies have come awfully close to crossing the billion-dollar mark, like Deadpool 2 and Oppenheimer, but only these three have crossed the threshold. The following ranks every R-rated billion-dollar movie from worst to best. Surely, these movies prove that it sometimes pays to aim your movie specifically, confidently at a grown-up audience.

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‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ (2024)

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No one can deny the buckets of money Deadpool & Wolverine made in the summer of 2024, and more power to you if you love this movie, but it’s hard to see the third Deadpool movie as much more than a lavishly-budgeted corporate merger with hindsight. Hugh Jackman as Wolverine has been one of the most perfect, fan-favorite presences in comic-book movies since the dawn of the 21st century, so, of course, fans were widely hyped to discover he’d be returning to the role in this context, and it was easy to predict Deadpool’s third outing would at minimum clear a billion following the snowballing box-office successes of the first two films.

Deadpool & Wolverine suffers from a lot of the problems that plagued the, admittedly, enormously successful, Deadpool and Deadpool 2. There are more references than actual, genuine, set-up and pay-off jokes, and the film is more zany and wild than genuinely funny. It really falls apart on repeat viewings once the jukebox cameos and surprises are known. Jackman and Ryan Reynolds do have comic chemistry, but the writing just isn’t all that remarkable. This was a theatrical event, to be sure. Enough of one to clear $1.39 billion worldwide, still, as of this writing, enough to make it the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever made. This is also perhaps the ultimate embodiment of Martin Scoresese’s controversial comments suggesting superhero movies were often more theme parks than cinema.

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‘Joker’ (2019)

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Joker‘s sheer profitability sets it apart from the other two movies on this list, grossing $1.08 billion against a budget that was likely under $70 million, a genuine “mid-budget” studio picture like we had far more of in the ’90s. This is a film where a great deal is lost outside of the theatrical experience, which goes a long way in explaining the box-office haul relative to the cultural cooling-off over the last seven years. Joaquin Phoenix gives it everything in the Oscar-winning lead performance, but Joker just isn’t that substantial or thematically deep a picture considering its ambitions of exploring mental illness. The cinematography and especially the score are gorgeous, which perhaps went a long way in masking that there just isn’t that much going on under the surface.

There are some movies—iconic movies, successful, once-adored movies—with sequels so bad and so hated they’ve tarnished the original and the brand over time. This era of Warner and D.C. gave us at least two examples, with the astonishingly bad Wonder Woman 1984 in 2020, and Joker: Folie à Deux a few years later. Todd Phillips’ musical follow-up to Joker is, and likely will forever remain, one of the most hated and most infamous box-office bombs in Hollywood history, losing an estimated $125-200 million for Warner Bros. thanks to an absolutely absurd $200 million budget that never should have been a thing. It’s important to note and respect that the original Joker truly struck a chord in a sincere and organic kind of way with many viewers. Also, the past seven years haven’t been great to it, and the damage the sequel did to its legacy is simply undeniable.

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‘The Odyssey’ (2026)

Hey, remember a couple months ago, when this movie was “controversial?” Remember when some dark, best-ignored corners of the internet suggested The Odyssey would be Christopher Nolan‘s undoing because of a few casting choices? Cries of “woke” because of a few casting choices in this fantasy movie? Yeah, me neither. Maybe it’s time for the entertainment industry and its observers to repurpose a colloquialism previously reserved for James Cameron: Never bet against Christopher Nolan. The Oscar-winning director’s enormously-scaled adaptation of Homer’s epic poem is simply the best reason to go to a movie theater in 2026, maybe even in years. It’s important to mention that seeing the film in any format apart from the IMAX 70mm in which it was filmed is to get an incomplete experience, but this quasi-roadshow presentation is about as spectacular and immersive a cinema experience as you can ever hope for. There’s a reason it’s been sold out across the U.S. and international markets for months.

There are multiple, perhaps at least a half-dozen, set pieces from The Odyssey that are truly for the ages: the movie truly takes off and never lets up following the emergence of the Cyclops, the most terrifying movie scene of a landmark year for horror movies. The ambush of the Laestrygonians (giants) is also an all-timer, as is a final action set piece with a heart-pumping emotional payoff. The scene many point to as the highlight of the film is Samantha Morton as the sorceress, Circe. The technical aspects of The Odyssey have in many ways set the bar. This movie really is that impressive, but it’s important to mention that all the performances, perhaps especially Morton, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, and a career-best Matt Damon, are just as great. Rarely has a film this technically astonishing had such a strong emotional core. Every other movie that has also married these two aspects has also been a box-office leviathan.

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July 15, 2026

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Fans are remembering Hayden Panettiere on what would have been her 37th birthday. The date appears to have made her death feel even more painful, with many reflecting on her career, personal struggles, and lasting impact.

Adding to the heartbreak, Panettiere had reportedly planned to spend her birthday week with her daughter, Kaya, and had been eagerly looking forward to their reunion.

Fans are remembering Hayden Panettiere on what would have been her 37th birthday, just days after her death. A Reddit post marking the late actress’ August 21 birthday quickly drew more than 1,500 upvotes as users shared their grief and memories of growing up watching her.

“She should still be here,” one person wrote, adding that the timing of Panettiere’s death made the milestone especially painful. Another admitted the loss had hit harder than expected, while a “Heroes” fan said it felt as though “a part of my childhood has gone.”

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Others reflected on Panettiere’s career and the struggles she had spoken openly about over the years. Several fans also noted how close they were to her age, saying her death felt particularly jarring.

Tributes spilled onto X as well, where users wished the “Nashville” star a “happy heavenly birthday” and remembered characters including Claire Bennet and Juliette Barnes. One mourner summed up the mood simply: “She deserved so many more birthdays and so many more beautiful moments in life.”

Panettiere Planned To Spend 37th Birthday With Daughter Kaya

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Even sadder, Panettiere had reportedly planned to spend her birthday week with her 11-year-old daughter, Kaya, before her sudden death. A source close to the actress told Page Six that Panettiere intended to travel to Germany to see Kaya and had been eagerly anticipating the visit.

“She was so excited to see her,” the insider said, adding that Panettiere had been telling people how much she was looking forward to their time together.

Her hairstylist and close friend Erick Orellana offered a similar account. He said Panettiere had spoken to him about taking a vacation and visiting Kaya the last time he saw her a few months earlier. Orellana described Kaya as the “absolute light of her life,” saying Panettiere regularly showed him photos of her daughter and lit up whenever she spoke about her.

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Hayden Panettiere Opened Up About Losing Custody Of Kaya

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Kaya has lived primarily with her father, Wladimir Klitschko, since Panettiere relinquished custody in 2018. The actress later said the decision was far more complicated than simply giving up her daughter.

During a 2022 appearance on “Red Table Talk,” she called signing over custody the “most heartbreaking thing” she had ever done. Panettiere said Kaya had been splitting time between Nashville and Ukraine when Klitschko sought full custody.

“It wasn’t fully my decision,” she said, explaining that she had initially believed the arrangement could change once she addressed her personal struggles. Panettiere was dealing with postpartum depression and addiction at the time and entered treatment.

She also acknowledged Klitschko’s parenting, calling him a “fantastic father,” despite saying they did not always agree on the custody situation. In later interviews, Panettiere said she ultimately chose not to wage a bigger fight because she had to consider how it would affect Kaya.

The Actress Insisted Kaya Never Felt ‘Abandoned’

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Despite living apart, Panettiere repeatedly rejected suggestions that she had abandoned her daughter. In May 2026, she said Kaya “in no way feels abandoned” and stressed that she had worked to make sure her daughter knew both parents loved her.

Panettiere said she traveled to see Kaya as often as possible and remained closely involved in her life. She also spoke proudly about the 11-year-old, calling her an “incredible gift” who was thriving. According to Panettiere, Kaya spoke five languages, rode horses, and was surrounded by people who cared for her.

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The actress also praised Klitschko for helping create that stability. She insisted they had maintained a close friendship, allowing them to co-parent in a healthy manner.

Hayden Panettiere Once Celebrated Her Birthday In Wild Fashion

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Years before her final birthday plans, Panettiere celebrated turning 21 with a much louder party. TMZ reported in 2010 that the actress partied with her “Scream 4” castmates near the movie’s set in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

David Arquette reportedly helped organize the bash at a four-story venue, where guests were entertained by fire breathers, burlesque dancers and Oompa Loompas from Beacher’s Madhouse. Panettiere also got a custom dolphin-shaped birthday cake, a nod to her well-known love of the animals.

Then her boyfriend, Klitschko was notably absent from the festivities, though the report claimed there was a straightforward reason for it. The boxer was in Germany at the time, training for an upcoming fight against Samuel Peter.

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When it comes to crime dramas, Netflix is the place to be. From award-winning shows like Money Heist and Narcos to the beloved Harlan Coben franchise, the streaming giant has titles that portray every type of crime, while having viewers at the edge of their seats. One of the best TV shows to join the list in 2024 was The Gentlemen, a fabulous, action-packed series created and written by Guy Ritchie that’s about to return for Season 2.

In two weeks’ time, The Gentlemen will be back for a long-awaited sophomore season on September 3, 2026. And, as the trailer and the executive producer and co-writer Matthew Read suggest, the new installment will be raising the stakes, taking the drama to international waters and seeing the return of fan-favorite characters, while welcoming some new names to the list. With so much to look forward to, there’s no time like now to catch up.

‘The Gentlemen’ Is One of Netflix’s Best New Shows

For those unaware of the plot, The Gentlemen follows an aristocrat named Eddie Horniman (Theo James) as he unexpectedly inherits his father’s vast country estate, only to discover that the massive cannabis empire it contains and ties he’ll have to upkeep with the British criminal underbelly. When the series was first released, it was clear that Ritchie had a strong vision in mind for the series. By mixing an aristocratic British drama with gangster chaos, the series became one of Netflix’s most unique crime shows. It’s almost as like the series blended genres, and found an unusual combination of Breaking Bad-style drug empire storytelling with Downton Abbey-style aristocratic family drama.

The success of the series is especially the case when considering the story’s first production, the 2020 movie by the same name starring Matthew McConaughey and Colin Farrell. While the film received a solid reception, the series turned the story up a notch, while allowing episodes enough time to cover its cast of characters, while still maintaining Ritchie’s signature pace. “The 2020 film features a vast ensemble of characters with multiple storylines running in tandem and often overlapping with one another, and as entertaining as it is, it’s sometimes a bit convoluted,” Nate Richard stated in his review for Season 1 of the series for Collider. “That isn’t the case with The Gentlemen, which is successfully able to play like the best kinds of British crime series packaged in Ritchie’s particular way of film-making.”

What Can Fans Expect From ‘The Gentlemen’ Season 2?

Season 2 of The Gentleman will be taking off one year after Eddie inherited his family estate and business, and sees him joining forces with Susie Glass (Kaya Scodelario) and her luxuriously incarcerated father, Bobby (Ray Winstone). With the new level of power, Eddie plans to up the ante, taking them from Halstead to the lakeside villas of Italy. Per Tudum, their journey across Europe will have them facing Marco Moretti (Sergio Castellitto), a powerful Italian crime boss who is “extremely ruthless and elegant,” and the mercurial fixer Cico Maldini (Michele Morrone). “[Cico] is the man they’re entrusting to help them navigate their criminal enterprise in Italy, but he’s not a man to be trusted,” Read said.

As Eddie and Susie face life-or-death deals, betrayals and ruthless pursuits of money and influence, their connection will be tested the most. “There is great connection between them,” Read told Tudum. “In order to deepen that connection, we threw a lot of obstacles at them, and yet their affection and connection always comes through that.” In addition to returning cast members from Season 1, including Daniel Ings, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Ruby Sear, Pearce Quigley, and Giancarlo Esposito, the second season will also welcome new faces. Among them are Castellitto, Morrone, Hugh Bonneville, Benjamin Clementine, Benedetta Porcaroli, Amra Mallassi, Tyler Conti, British professional boxer Chris Eubank Jr., and TV host and entrepreneur Maya Jama.

All that said, while there are still two weeks until the long-awaited second season of The Gentlemen drops on Netflix, it’s clear that the series will continue to be a hit on the platform. With an impressive ensemble of actors, a story that’s ever-expanding and a creator that’s so sharp and fast-paced that he has a signature flare, The Gentlemen Season 2 is already a must-watch in the making.

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Release Date

2024 – 2026-00-00

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Netflix

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Directors

David Caffrey, Guy Ritchie, Eran Creevy, Nima Nourizadeh

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Stuart Carolan, Guy Ritchie, Matthew Read, Billy Mason Wood, Haleema Mirza

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Charles Melton and Camille Summers-Valli are seemingly husband and wife five months after they became parents.

Melton, 35, referred to Summers-Valli as his “wife” in a new interview with People, the outlet reported on Thursday, August 20.

Us reached out to reps for Melton for comment.

The Riverdale alum previously used the title to describe Summers-Valli in his Gold Gala speech in May, calling her “my partner, my fiancée, my wife, my girlfriend.”

Melton’s latest comment comes after he revealed in March that he and the director welcomed their first baby, a daughter whose name they have kept private.

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“Our family,” the actor wrote via Instagram alongside photos of himself with Summers-Valli, their baby and their dog.

Summers-Valli announced her pregnancy in December 2025, captioning a series of maternity photos via Instagram, “Making a lil family.”

The photos showed Melton kissing Summers-Valli’s bare baby bump and joining her at a doctor’s appointment.

Melton and Summers-Valli have kept the details of their relationship and their family under wraps. However, in December 2023, the Her Private Hell star gushed about his own father’s influence on his life.

“I love him. He was in the Army for 26-plus years,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “Four of those years, my dad was serving in the Gulf War [including] in Desert Storm.”

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He continued, “He talked about family, responsibility. He [described] what a good man was, how a good man would love his family. He said many beautiful things — he was asking me to take care of my sisters and my mom while he’s away. I remember looking at my dad, kind of emotional, but I’m not going to [cry]. I felt, in that moment, that I had to be strong and show my father that I can do this. If I’m crying and begging him to stay, it’s not going to change the fact that he is going to go away for a year. Who knows what could have happened?”

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Before his romance with Summers-Valli, Melton dated his Riverdale costar Camila Mendes on and off from 2018 to 2021. He was also linked to Chase Sui Wonders in 2022 and Chloe Bennet in 2023.

“People need to mind their own f***ing business, honestly,” he told Hunger magazine in 2019 of the attention on his relationships. “I don’t have Twitter and it’s one of the reasons why I don’t read through all my comments on social media because people are always going to talk.”

He continued, “No matter what, people have always talked, even before this age of Instagram, but back then you were less inclined to hear about someone talking about you, and honestly it’s not their place to have any authority over my relationships. Not everyone is going to be a supporter or a fan of your relationship and people need to remember that opinions aren’t facts.”