As Harry Potter prepares for its theatrical re-release as part of the film’s 25th anniversary, the movie theaters are also preparing for the influx of fans wanting to relive the magic once more. So, it comes as no surprise that the popcorn bucket trend has followed suit, allowing fans to take a piece of the wizarding world with them.
With all eight Harry Potter films returning to theaters later this month, Cinemark and Regal unveiled their Harry Potter collectible popcorn bucket and soda cup collection. Cinemark will be releasing three popcorn buckets. One is a tin bucket with a Harry Potter 25th anniversary decal wrapped around it and a “stirring wand” that’s shaped as Harry’s wand. The other two are a Sorting Hat popcorn bucket, where the Sorting Hat is the lid and the books are where the popcorn resides. There is a regular version and a limited edition where the Sorting Hat is color gold rather than the default brown. Lastly, Cinemark will also sell Gripper cups, where each design is based on one of the four houses. Cinemark’s collection is now available to purchase in theaters, and its official social media claims there’s more to come. Meanwhile, Regal’s collectible popcorn bucket offerings offer more variety in terms of design. The theater chain has revealed popcorn buckets designed as the Nimbus 2000, Hogwarts Express, and the Hogwarts Trunk, all coming with large popcorn. Additionally, it will also release a collectible combo which comes with a cup and a bucket with Harry Potter 25th anniversary decals wrapped around it. Regal’s Harry Potter collectibles will be available on August 27, when the Harry Potter theatrical re-releases begin.
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Collider Exclusive · The Sorting Hat Awaits Which Hogwarts House Are You? Gryffindor · Slytherin · Hufflepuff · Ravenclaw
Four houses. One destiny. The Sorting Hat has considered thousands of students — now it’s your turn. Answer honestly and discover where you truly belong at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
🦁Gryffindor
🐍Slytherin
🦡Hufflepuff
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🦅Ravenclaw
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What quality do you value most in yourself? Answer as honestly as you can — the Hat always knows.
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A friend is being treated unfairly. What do you do? How you protect others says everything about who you are.
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What does success look like to you? What you’re working toward defines who you’re becoming.
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What is your greatest fear? Fear is the most honest thing about a person.
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The rules say no. Your gut says go. What do you do? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.
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What kind of friend are you? Who you are to the people you love is who you really are.
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You look into the Mirror of Erised. What do you see? The mirror shows the deepest desire of your heart.
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The Sorting Hat pauses. It whispers: “You could do well in any house. But what matters most to you — truly?” This is your tiebreaker. The Hat always listens.
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The Sorting Hat Speaks Your House Has Been Chosen
After careful deliberation, the Sorting Hat has made its decision. This is the house your values, your instincts, and your particular way of being in the world were made for.
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Gryffindor Tower · Scarlet & Gold
🦁 Gryffindor
You have nerve. Not the reckless kind, but the deep, quiet courage that shows up even when you’re terrified — especially then.
Gryffindors don’t act because they’re fearless — they act because they understand that some things are worth being afraid for.
You stand up for people when it would be easier to look away.
You charge toward what’s right even when the odds are terrible.
Harry, Hermione, Ron — the heroes of Hogwarts’s greatest chapter — all called the tower with the scarlet and gold home. And now, so do you.
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Slytherin Dungeon · Emerald & Silver
🐍 Slytherin
You are driven, sharp, and utterly clear-eyed about what you want and how to get there.
Slytherin has long been misunderstood — painted as the house of villains when it is, at its best, the house of those who refuse to accept limits placed on them by others.
You are resourceful, strategic, and you play the long game.
You know your worth. You protect your own fiercely.
The dungeon common room with its view of the Black Lake is yours — and the ambitions that will take you further than anyone expects are yours too.
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Hufflepuff Basement · Yellow & Black
🦡 Hufflepuff
You are the kind of person that makes the world genuinely better just by being in it.
Hufflepuff is not the “safe” house or the “leftover” house — it is the house of those with the greatest heart and the most unwavering integrity.
You show up. You work hard. You don’t need glory or recognition — you do what’s right because it’s right.
Your loyalty never wavers, even when tested.
Nymphadora Tonks, Cedric Diggory, Newt Scamander — some of the wizarding world’s finest. And now you join them.
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Ravenclaw Tower · Blue & Bronze
🦅 Ravenclaw
Your mind is your greatest gift, and you’ve always known it.
Ravenclaws are the thinkers, the questioners, the ones who find a puzzle irresistible and a good book better company than most people.
Ravenclaw is not merely about intelligence — it’s about the love of learning, the pursuit of truth, and the rare courage to admit you don’t know something yet.
You see the world with unusual clarity and depth.
Luna Lovegood, Filius Flitwick, Rowena Ravenclaw herself — all extraordinary, all original. And so are you.
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What’s Harry Potter About?
Harry Potter is a franchise created by J.K Rowlingthat first began as a book series, but has expanded into films, video games, theme parks, merchandise, audiobooks, and soon, a TV series. It follows a young boy named Harry Potter who discovers he’s a wizard and was selected to study at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Each year has him and his friends, Hermione and Ron, dealing with a new problem that tends to be connected to the return of Lord Voldemort. Years after the film’s release, as well as the spin-off movies, Fantastic Beasts,Harry Potter is making a return to HBO Max, with Season 1 scheduled to come out on December 25, 2026, and Season 2 is currently in production. Starring in this TV series are Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter, Alastair Stoutas Ron Weasley, Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger, and also starring in the show areJohn Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeeras Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essieduas Severus Snape, and Nick Frostas Rubeus Hagrid, to name a few.
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All 8 Harry Potter films will return to theaters starting on August 27. In the meantime, you can watch them at home on HBO Max. Follow Collider for more updates.
Every so often, we get a new television series that fully becomes part of the pop culture lexicon. It used to be called a “water cooler show” but, well, everybody works from home now, or they bring their own water bottle to work if they do go into the office. How do people even meet anymore? Sorry, we’ve gotten off-topic. When Apple TV released an intriguing workplace mystery show, people weren’t paying that much attention, but suddenly, everything changed and now everyone wants to work at Lumon Industries.
Created by Dan Erickson and executive produced by Ben Stiller, Severanceimagines a world where employees can surgically divide their work memories from their personal lives. For Lumon Industries employee Mark Scout (Adam Scott), that separation begins to unravel after a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries. The official synopsis states:
“Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.”
The series stars Britt Lower (Dark Winds) as Helly R., Tramell Tillman (Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning) as Seth Milchick, Zach Cherry (Fallout) as Dylan George, John Turturro (The Batman Part II) as Irving Bailiff, Christopher Walken (Dune: Part Two) as Burt Goodman, Patricia Arquette(They Will Kill You) as Harmony Cobel, and Dichen Lachman (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes) as Ms. Casey.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
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🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
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What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
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Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
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The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
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You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
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You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
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You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
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Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
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You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
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Is ‘Severance’ Worth Watching?
Severance has become one of the most acclaimed television series of the decade. Both seasons have earned extraordinary critical praise, with Rotten Tomatoes scores comfortably above 95%, while the series has collected multiple Emmy Awards and become one of Apple TV’s biggest flagship originals. Critics have lauded it for the genius of the writing and the premise of the series itself, combined with the stunning and star-making performances (in the case of Tillman, especially, who booked himself a Mission: Impossible movie and a Spider-Man movie in the wake of the series) and the incredible production design. It’s also been acclaimed for its daring and its willingness to embrace some genuinely odd storytelling without actually sacrificing any emotional beats that make the characters so relatable.
Severance is streaming now on Apple TV. A third season is officially in development. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
Gerard Butler in CopshopImage via Briarcliff Entertainment
2026 hasn’t exactly been a benchmark year for Gerard Butler so far, who starred in one of the biggest box office bombs of his career with Greenland 2: Migration. Butler reunited with his Greenland co-star Morena Baccarin on the sci-fi sequel, but with a budget of $90 million, it needed close to $200 million just to break even — Greenland 2 left theaters with less than $50 million total at the box office. Butler’s second movie of the year, In the Hand of Dante, is a 700-year-spanning crime thriller that saw him team up with other stars like Oscar Isaac and Jason Momoa. The film had a successful run into the top 10, but it certainly didn’t stay at the top of streaming charts as many fans were expecting, especially considering the star power involved.
Just because Butler’s last few movies haven’t lived up to his high standards doesn’t mean he doesn’t still have plenty of hits under his belt, though. While it failed to find success at the box office, Butler’s 2021 action thriller with Frank Grillo, Copshop, has become a massive success on streaming in the last few years, running in the top 10 on various platforms. Copshop has called Netflix its streaming home for a few months now, but all good things must come to an end. The streamer recently announced that the last day to watch Butler and Grillo’s Copshop will be on August 9, at the end of this weekend. Fans need to act fast if they want to check out the film on streaming, as a new home has yet to be announced for when it leaves Netflix.
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Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz Which Action Hero Would Be Your Perfect Partner? Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt
Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.
🎖️Rambo
🍸James Bond
🏺Indiana Jones
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🎭Ethan Hunt
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You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner? The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.
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You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel? How you get there is half the mission.
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You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do? This is when you find out what someone is really made of.
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The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest? Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.
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How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission? Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.
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Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them? The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.
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Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do? Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.
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What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace? A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.
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Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with? No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.
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It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now? The last question is the most honest one.
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Your Partner Has Been Assigned Your Perfect Partner Is…
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
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Rambo
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
James Bond
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Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Indiana Jones
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
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John McClane
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
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Ethan Hunt
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
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What Is ‘Copshop’ About?
The official synopsis for Copshop reads as follows: “A small-town cop shop becomes a pressure cooker when a wanted man (Frank Grillo) gets himself arrested on purpose to hide from a ruthless hitman (Gerard Butler) hunting him down. Rookie officer Valerie Young (Alexis Louder) finds herself caught in the crossfire as lies unravel and bullets fly. A tense, twisty thriller where nothing — and no one — is what they seem.” Copshop was directed by Joe Carnahan, who also worked on one of the biggest Netflix movies of 2026, The Rip, starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Copshop also holds solid scores of 83% from critics and 74% from audiences on the aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes.
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Check out Copshop before it’s removed from Netflix at the end of this weekend, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Gerard Butler’s future projects.
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September 9, 2021
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108 minutes
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Joe Carnahan
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Joe Carnahan, Kurt McLeod, Mark Williams
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Frank Grillo, Gerard Butler, Tai Duncan, Alan Siegel, Warren T. Goz, Mark Williams, James Masciello, Eric Gold, Joe Carnahan
A woman who was walking her dog was critically injured when a set of 7-year-old and 4-year-old brothers took their parents’ car for a joyride.
A white sedan was speeding down 35th Avenue in Oakland, California, before it hit the woman while she was walking her dog. The incident was seen by several witnesses, as well as captured on surveillance video.
Oakland police said that a 7-year-old was behind the wheel, while his 4-year-old brother was also in the vehicle. They allegedly took their parents’ Toyota while they were sleeping, and the crash took place several blocks away from their home.
Following the crash, the children were found outside the vehicle. Meanwhile, the woman was left in critical condition. Her dog also fled the scene and it is not clear if the pet has been located.
The “House of Lafond” influencer family was injured after a hit and run car accident. “I saw a car in the rear-view mirror coming toward us at full speed,” patriarch Hashim Lafond told ABC7 on Thursday, April 16, revealing that a vehicle recently crashed into their 12-passenger van on the freeway. “Imagine you’re sitting there […]
“It was loud,” witness Lavelle Shah-Marquis told ABC 7 News of the crash. “I pray that she’s okay, but it was bad, it was bad.”
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Oakland police have been able to locate the boys’ parents, who have reportedly cooperated with the investigation.
In light of the tragedy, many witnesses were left wondering who should be left responsible given the boys’ ages.
“Unfortunately, I think these parents need to be held responsible and that was my main concern was these parents need to be held responsible. This is ridiculous,” Shah-Marquis told the outlet.
Meanwhile, legal analyst and former prosecutor Steven Clark admitted that penalizing anyone may be difficult since the situation was so uncommon. “I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s just such a one off,” he told ABC 7 News.
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“The law doesn’t have an exact remedy for this,” he said.
A Georgia woman was arrested after she allegedly threw three kittens out the window of her moving vehicle. Valentina Tobon Henao was charged with facing animal cruelty after a witness reported to authorities that they saw her throw the kittens out of a minivan window on Wednesday, August 5, according to FOX 5 Atlanta. Local […]
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Clark went to acknowledge that the act could be considered a crime, but the children involved likely won’t face criminal accountability due to their ages. “It is a crime that the seven-year-old committed, but we’re not going to put a seven-year-old in juvenile hall,” he said.
He then wondered what the “level of supervision of these kids” was at the time they took the car. “How did they get access to the vehicle?” Clark asked. “I’ve seen that in other cases where you rely on social workers, not prosecutors.”
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Clark ultimately guessed that no one will be criminally charged, though a civil case is likely. “This isn’t like leaving a gun around for a kid. This is an automobile that we use every day, and this is the kind of thing that you’re used to just leaving your car keys out,” he said.
The investigation into the case remains ongoing.
The Oakland Police Department did not immediately respond to Us’ request for comment when contacted about the case.
Late NBA star Brandon Clarke’s cause of death has been determined nearly three months after he died at age 29.
The County of Los Angeles Department of Medical Examiner announced on Friday, August 7, that Memphis Grizzlies power forward died from “the effects of heroin and cocaine.” A medical examiner’s report ruled that Clarke’s death was accidental.
On May 11, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to an emergency call from a home in the San Fernando Valley shortly after 5 p.m. local time and later pronounced Clarke dead at the scene, per NBC 4 Los Angeles. Officials suspected Clarke may have died from an overdose because drug paraphernalia was reportedly found inside the residence.
However, there were some initial questions when the L.A. Medical Examiner deferred announcing a cause of death in May “pending additional investigation.”
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Clarke was facing charges of speeding and possession of a controlled substance at the time of his death, after he led police on a high-speed chase in Arkansas in April.
The basketball player was selected by the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first round of the NBA draft before being immediately traded to the Memphis Grizzlies in 2019. Clarke played all seven of his NBA seasons with the Grizzlies though he was sidelined for all but two games during the 2025–26 season due to injuries.
Following his death, the Grizzlies organization said that they were “heartbroken by the tragic loss of Brandon Clarke.”
“Brandon was an outstanding teammate and an even better person whose impact on the organization and the greater Memphis community will not be forgotten,” the Grizzlies said in a statement in May. “We express our deepest condolences to his family and loved ones during this difficult time.”
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Ja Morant — who played for the Memphis Grizzlies at the time but has since been traded to the Portland Trail Blazers — acknowledged in a solemn statement that Clarke’s death was “bigger than basketball.”
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Former Grizzlies power forward Jaren Jackson Jr. also reflected on the friendship that the two developed when Clarke joined the team in 2019. (Jackson, 26, was traded to the Utah Jazz in February.)
“I couldn’t imagine a world where this was even a possibility. i love you forever brother, this is absolutely devastating,” Jackson wrote via Instagram. “i just wish i could talk to you. you were so much to so many and even more to me. i will never have the words to describe what this feels like. i still can’t believe this. to your family and friends and everyone you were always a light and you were always so genuine and real and our friendship went far beyond anything on the court.”
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He poignantly concluded, “I truly lost my twin. i’m still going to be talking to you always. you will be forever loved and forever missed.”
Clarke’s sister, Taylor Triplett, spoke out on behalf of her family two days after her brother’s death to thank the public for “the outpouring of love and support.”
“It means everything to our family. If you reached out please know I appreciate it so much but I am just having a hard time finding the words to even talk about this yet and it might be a while before I’m ready,” she explained via Instagram.
Ryan Murphy hinted that his shows will have less “graphic” sex scenes — starting with The Shards.
“I’ve done a couple of shows with high school characters, and I love doing them. I think that arena is really interesting,” Murphy, 60, told The Hollywood Reporterin a profile published on Thursday, August 6. “It’s an arena of first times: First kiss. First makeout. First sexual experience. First breakup.”
The setting of his new show made Murphy reconsider the sexual content featured in author Bret Easton Ellis’ 2023 novel of the same name, which inspired The Shards.
“I always thought it was a story of longing and romance more than sexuality. Also, I’m a parent. I have three young boys,” Murphy, who shares his kids with David Miller, added. “I’ve done erotic shows, sexual shows. I wanted it to be tasteful and palatable.”
When it comes to filming sex scenes for TV shows and movies, actors have had a variety of good and bad experiences. Intimacy coordinator Brooke M. Haney previously opened up to Us Weekly about how filming steamy scenes between actors goes down on set. Contrary to what some fans may think, Haney said that it […]
He continued: “The interesting thing about The Shards is that it’s made for everybody. Specifically, it’s made for you if you grew up in the ‘80s, and it’s made for young people who are that age. In the back of my mind, I was always like, ‘Being too graphic and too sensational is not the way to go.’”
“But I would say that the older I get, the more I become an old Victorian prude,” he noted. “Maybe because I’m a father, I’m like, ‘We don’t need to show that.’”
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While teasing the series, Murphy called the sexual scenes “tasteful,” adding, “It certainly will launch discussions. We were all conscious of that.”
He concluded: “A lot of this cast is new, and I didn’t want to put anybody in any situations in any of the scenes. The thing I always lead with actors is, ‘What do you feel comfortable doing?’ I always empower actors in those situations.”
Based on Ellis’ novel, The Shards is set in Los Angeles in 1981 and follows a 17-year-old version of the author during his final year at the elite Buckley prep school. His world is upended by the arrival of a mysterious new student, Robert Mallory, whose “unsettling presence coincides with the activities of a serial killer known as The Trawler,” according to the synopsis.
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The Shards is the only book of Ellis‘ to feature himself as a character, but he previously issued a disclaimer stating that all the characters featured in The Shards are fictional — apart from himself.
Igby Rigney, who was tapped to play Ellis, spoke with Us about approaching the challenge.
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“Ryan was really fun in the way that he directed us where he would have us do multiple takes multiple ways. So we were never clued in on which take he was going to use,” he recalled last month. “And then I’m sure some of those takes got combined to make it extra confusing.”
Rigney continued: “Getting to have the narration sometimes was a little challenging on set though because everybody around me is having fun and I’m staring deeply into the distance thinking about this big long paragraph I have but I’m not saying it out loud.”
Antonio Banderas made a lot of memories in Hollywood but he always knew he would end up back in Spain.
“Those were beautiful, exciting years. But I always had this sense of provisionality that it was not going to last my whole life,” the actor, 65, said in an interview with People published on Friday, August 7. “I knew that Málaga was there, my hometown. I was not supposed to be in Malibu, but in Málaga.”
Banderas moved from Spain to the United States in 1995 after falling in love with now ex-wife Melanie Griffith while on set of their rom-com Two Much. At the time, Griffith, 68, was already mom to two children: son Alexander Bauer and daughter Dakota Johnson, whom she welcomed during previous relationships. The pair wed in May 1996 after his divorce from first wife Ana Leza was finalized that same year.
While Banderas was already a doting stepfather, he and Griffith expanded their family shortly after their nuptials when they welcomed daughter Stella, 29, in September 1996.
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In June 2014, Griffith and Banderas called it quits after 18 years of marriage. Their divorce was finalized in December 2015. Banderas moved on with current girlfriend Nicole Kimpel in November 2015.
Despite their split, Banderas and Griffith have remained close over the years. Banderas has referred to Griffith as one of his “best friends.” While Banderas has his roots in Spain, he regularly visits Hollywood to spend time with his family.
“When I go to Los Angeles, we get together anyway, we got a lot of fun,” he told the outlet of reuniting with his ex. “We laugh and we just … It’s a very healthy thing, and it was very healthy for our kids.”
Earlier this year, Banderas shared that his desire to move back to Spain came after he suffered a heart attack in 2017.
Jessica Alba is broadening her horizons amid her divorce from Cash Warren. The Dark Angel star, 43, took to Instagram on Wednesday, March 26, to document a recent trip to Mexico City and teased that the Mexican capital may be her “new home away from home.” “Forever memories made – feeling connected, satiated and nourished […]
“It was like somebody put glasses on me so I could see the reality that I didn’t see before. I was just too worried about stupid things. We sometimes forget that we are going to die,” he reflected. “People live like they are not going to die. They collect things and they collect. I don’t want to collect anything … The only thing that I am interested in now is the experience of living.”
While Banderas travels to Los Angeles to see his loved ones, Stella also visits him in Spain. Last year, Stella wed husband Alex Gruszynski in her father’s hometown.
“I’m Andalusian, I’m an actor, I’m a father … and it was a storm of emotions!” Banderas told Hello! of his daughter’s big day in October 2025. “I tried to keep my composure, but it was difficult not to shed a few tears looking at Stella.”
While the vision for Sterling Point includes more seasons, is every cast member coming back for a potential season 2?
The show, which is streaming now, follows Annie Jacobson (Ella Rubin), whose life takes a turn when she inherits her mysterious grandfather’s island in Canada. This leads to new friends, a love triangle and shocking family secrets being exposed — including a secret sister named Ramona (played by Amélie Hoeferle).
Sterling Point hails from creator Megan Park, who had her own coming-of-age journey after getting her start as an actress on then-ABC Family’s The Secret Life of the American Teenager. She then made the move to writing and directing with 2021’s The Fallout and 2024’s My Old Ass, which allowed Park to expand her storytelling vision.
“It would be so thrilling and such a gift if we got to do more. It was so shocking how different it was to film a show,” she told Us in July 2026. “A movie is an hour and a half and it’s a much shorter period of time that you have to make it and put it out into the world. It’s eight hours of something. So it was a lot of work and it’s been a long process.”
Sterling Point is Prime Video’s newest YA show that feels like a story straight off BookTok — but is it actually a book adaptation? The show, which is streaming now, follows Annie Jacobson (Ella Rubin), whose life takes a turn when she inherits her mysterious grandfather’s island in Canada. This leads to new friends, a […]
Park continued: “I wouldn’t say it almost killed me but it definitely aged me 10 to 20 years. It was also really rewarding though because within an hour and a half, you can only go so deep and you can only explore so much and talk about so much. When you have eight hours, you have a much bigger world and so many more characters. So it was really creatively rewarding in that sense. But I’m not going to lie, it’s a lot of work making a TV show.”
“I knew that we always wanted Ramona and Annie to switch places. It was just like, ‘How do we get them there and how do we show that?’ Because I think it’s really important for them to experience each other’s worlds for a little bit of time and see how that shapes them and see how that makes them understand each other or not understand each other,” Park teased. “And also Connor reaching out to his biological parents was something that was really important to me — without Annie’s knowledge — which is a pretty bold and dramatic move.”
Park promised a “great setup” for season 2, adding, “But also if we don’t, it’s like you are kind of [leaving] people wondering what happened to them. But yeah, hopefully it sets us up for a nice season 2.”
Keep scrolling to see who is and isn’t coming back on Sterling Point:
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Ella Rubin
Season 2 would follow Rubin’s character Annie after she chose to stay on the island.
Amélie Hoeferle
Hoeferle’s character, Ramona, meanwhile, chose to swap places with Annie by moving to New York.
Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie
While Annie and Ellis called it quits when she was planning to leave, their romance will presumably be front and center in season 2.
Daniel Quinn-Toye
Quinn-Toye’s Rory didn’t end up with Annie but he could still be back.
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Bo Bragason
Bragason, who plays Oona, is expected back after Ramona’s split from her friend.
Keen Ruffalo
Ruffalo’s character, Connor, had a smaller role in season 1 but will likely be back.
Mabel Strachan
Maple a.k.a Oona’s younger sister is presumably returning in the sophomore season.
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Missi Pyle
Pyle’s character, Denise, made appearances in season 1, which will likely continue in future episodes.
Jay Duplass
After finding out that he is (spoiler!) Ramona’s biological father, Steven’s role would likely be expanded.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Morgan told Us he had high hopes for more storylines for the adults in season 2.
Wizards of Waverly Place star David DeLuise had an impromptu run-in with John Goodman, and many fans didn’t even recognize the actor.
“He was my childhood !! ❤️ Legend !” DeLuise, 54, wrote via Instagram on Thursday, August 6, alongside a selfie of him and Goodman. “I love that I get to say that to someone 😉 If you know you know.”
Goodman, 74, posed for a sweet photo with DeLuise after the pair crossed paths in a grocery store. DeLuise beamed as he grinned for the camera while Goodman smiled beside him.
Several fans were surprised by Goodman’s recent weight loss, and multiple didn’t recognize the Roseanne alum at first glance.
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“Is that John Goodman???? @daviddeluise he’s unrecognizable,” one user commented while another replied, “I love John Goodman! Yes, he looks very different, but I bet he feels great!”
Goodman has been on a weight loss journey since the mid-2000s. During a 2010 interview with David Letterman, Goodman confessed he reached 400 pounds at one point.
“I’d get off of Roseanne every spring. I’d lose 60 pounds every spring,” he explained. “I’d gain it back and then some, every year. It’s going to be an ongoing process for the rest of my life.”
After struggling to keep the pounds off, Goodman decided to get serious about his wellbeing and make some lifestyle changes. Goodman previously shared that he struggled with overeating and alcoholism.
A noticeably thinner John Goodman showed off his slimmed-down figure during a recent appearance at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival in Monaco. The Righteous Gemstones actor, 70, stepped out on Sunday, June 18, at the event, where he served as jury president for the festival. In photos obtained by Page Six, Goodman looked smart in a […]
“I was just eating all the time. I was just eating alcoholically. In the old days, I would take three months out, lose 60 or 70 pounds, and then reward myself with a 6-pack of Bud or whatever and just go back to my old habits,” he said in a 2016 interview with ABC News. “Then this time I wanted to do it slowly, move, exercise. I’m getting to the age where I can’t afford to sit still anymore. And it gives me the energy to work, ‘cause work is very draining.”
As the years have passed, Goodman has continued to put in the work. In 2023, he revealed that he was officially down 200 pounds after adding kickboxing to his exercise plan.
“I dug it. Yeah. Nobody’s going to get hurt, but it’s just hitting the mitts and trying to learn,” he said about boxing in a June 2023 interview with Rolling Stone. “I never got good enough where I would trust myself to spar because once I get whacked in the face, I don’t know if I wouldn’t lose it.”
Spencer Pratt detailed his recent meeting with President Donald Trump following his loss in the Los Angeles mayoral race.
“Working with the President on a 25% FEDERAL film tax credit to bring back Hollywood,” the Hills alum, 42, wrote via Instagram on Friday, August 7. “While Gavin Newsom’s commissioner is actively outsourcing production jobs to Hungary, and his rogue AG is trying to destroy CA production companies, the adults in the room are actually trying to repatriate the most quintessential American industry.”
Pratt’s post included a photo of him and the president, 80, during their meeting at Trump’s golf club in Los Angeles.
“I’m committed to saving Hollywood, and I’m very grateful for the President’s remarkable generosity and focus on this issue,” Pratt continued. “He is very passionate about revitalizing the entertainment industry and we will not let Canada, or the UK or Budapest steal our lunch anymore.”
California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton has teased a role for Spencer Pratt following the reality star’s failed bid to become Los Angeles mayor. “I would be honored to have him in any kind of role,” Hilton, 56, revealed during a Thursday, June 11, appearance on Fox News. The two candidates were on the same California […]
Pratt added that during their meeting, he and Trump shared a meal which he described as the “best clam chowder” he has ever had.
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“We discussed several other very important topics, as well. I’m humbled and grateful for all the time and discussion from the President,” Pratt recalled. “Unlike many other cynical doomers out there, he refuses to write off California.”
When Pratt entered the Los Angeles mayoral race earlier this year, Trump seemingly endorsed the former reality star. (While Pratt is a registered republican, the Los Angeles mayoral race was a nonpartisan election.)
“I’d like to see him do well. He’s a character,” Trump told reporters ahead of the primary election. “I assume he probably supports me. I heard he’s a big MAGA person.”
In May, Pratt spoke with Us about his mayoral bid and stressed his deep commitment to the endeavour. “It was always very serious, but when I announced [my run] in front of thousands of fire victims, everyone cheered so much that it kicked off a new path of being taken seriously,” he exclusively told Us, revealing his wife, Heidi Montag, showed unwavering support. “And as I go to all of these communities and meet with community leaders, they just have so much faith in me.”
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Pratt ended up finishing in third in the June primary election, falling short of the runoff by less than 30,000 votes. Los Angeles voters will choose between current mayor Karen Bass and Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman this November.
Jimmy Kimmel hopes Spencer Pratt keeps his promise to leave Los Angeles after losing the mayoral election — and he’s offering his packing services. “He clearly promised that if Karen Bass or Nithya Raman were elected mayor, he’s going to move out of L.A.,” Kimmel, 58, said on the Tuesday, June 9, broadcast of Jimmy […]
“Spencer Pratt…He shouldn’t go away quietly,” Trump said of Pratt’s loss during a June speech to the Faith & Freedom Coalition, before erroneously — and without any evidence — claiming the election outcome was not legitimate. “He should protest because it was, in my very strong opinion, that was a rigged election.”
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Last month, Pratt paid a visit to the White House and hinted his career in politics wasn’t over yet.
“I will never stop fighting for my community,” Pratt wrote via Instagram alongside a photo of him and Trump inside the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C.
Details about Pratt and Trump’s July meeting were not publicly revealed at the time.
When Boston Blue returns for season 2, there will be another familiar face: Jamie Reagan!
Will Estes, who was a fan-favorite on Blue Bloods, is officially set to make a cameo on the CBS spinoff, according to a new photo shared by Donnie Wahlberg.
“Welcome (back) to the Family! Jamie Reagan! aka Will Estes! #BostonBlue,” Wahlberg, 56, who played Jamie’s big brother Danny Reagan on Blue Bloods before helming Boston Blue, wrote via his Instagram Story on Friday, August 7.
Estes, 47, can be spotted sitting next to Wahlberg as they dined together at a round table.
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Boston Blue stars Sonequa Martin-Green, Marcus Scribner, Mika Amonsen, who play Detective Lena Silver, officer Jonah Silver and Danny’s son Sean Reagan, respectively, were also smiling for the camera while on set.
In the background, fans can see some of the camera crew and a few extras that also appeared to be eating a meal for the shoot.
Sonequa Martin-Green, Marcus Scribner, Mika Amonsen, Will Estes and Donnie Wahlberg on ‘Boston Blue’ set.Courtesy of Donnie Wahlberg/Instagram
Us confirmed on Friday that Estes will, in fact, be making a cameo on season 2 of the hit drama, making him the third Reagan to crossover from the flagship series.
Fans last saw Estes’ Jamie during the Blue Bloods series finale, which aired in December 2024, when Jamie and wife Eddie Janko (Vanessa Ray) revealed they were expecting their first baby.
After 14 seasons on CBS, Blue Bloods came to a close, seemingly ending the Reagan family’s story — for the time being.
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Throughout the series, fans became part of the family as every episode dove into the lives of NYPD Fran Commissioner Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck) and his adult children, Detective Danny (Wahlberg), Assistant District Attorney Erin (Bridget Moynahan) and NYPD officer Jamie (Estes), as they navigated being first responders and a close-knit family.
The show also starred Frank’s father, former police commissioner Henry Reagan (Len Cariou), and his three grandchildren.
Blue Bloods’ Will Estes, Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan and Tom Selleck.Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images
Luckily for fans, CBS greenlit Boston Blue soon after the OG show ended. This time, the series follows Danny after he relocates to Boston to help his son Sean — a newly minted BPD officer — after he gets hurt trying to save someone.
Throughout season 1, Danny had to adjust to life in Beantown and quickly found himself assisting on cases as a detective before giving up his shield in NYC to live there full-time.
The cast of Blue Bloods doesn’t just play a family on TV, they’ve become a tight-knit group since the show first premiered in 2010. The CBS series follows the lives of the Reagan family helmed by Tom Selleck’s Commissioner Frank Reagan. Frank’s father, Henry Reagan (Len Cariou), sits opposite him at the group’s weekly Sunday […]
While his family lives in New York, viewers have been treated to a few Reagan crossovers thus far, including Erin (Moynahan) and Pops a.k.a. Grandpa Henry (Cariou).
Although Jamie didn’t appear on season 1, he was part of the story line as was his and Eddie’s baby. During the season finale in May, Danny revealed that Jamie had a little boy named Joseph, after their late brother.
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Vanessa Ray and Will Estes on ‘Blue Bloods.’CBS/Everett Collection
Prior to Estes’ confirmed return, executive producer Brandon Margolisexclusively told Us that the hope is that all the Reagans will make cameos on the spinoff at one point or another.
“It enriches our lives to get to continue their stories,” Margolis shared in May. “So we would love to extend that invitation and have you know new Reagans appear and Reagans who were there last year to come back.”
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Season 2 of Boston Blue premieres on CBS Friday, October 9, at 10 p.m. ET.
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