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Marvel & Star Wars’ Historic Crossover Has One Major Problem
Earlier today, Marvel Comics and Lucasfilm delivered a stunning announcement that the worlds of Star Wars and the Marvel Universe will collide next year with Star Wars/Marvel: Hope Assembles. Hope Assembles seems to be hitting all the right notes, as its creative team consists of Kevin Smith and David Marquez; Smith is no stranger to the comic book world, having written iconic runs for Daredevil and Green Arrow, while Marquez’s work on titles like Uncanny X-Men and Invincible Iron Man is more than worth the cover price. Hope Assembles will also land on the 50th anniversary of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, making it a true comic book event.
There’s one issue that might impact the crossover, and it has to do with the premise. According to the official synopsis, Hope Assembles will bring the events of Star Wars: A New Hope smack-dab into the Marvel Universe. This raises all kinds of questions, most notably: How will it affect both universes? Most people know that the movies and television shows that make up the Star Wars universe take place in a singular timeline, as do the Marvel comics set on Earth-616, aka the mainstream version of the Marvel Universe. Hope Assembles could complicate those timelines if it isn’t pulled off right.
‘Hope Assembles’ Could Radically Affect The Star Wars & Marvel Timelines
When Disney purchased Lucasfilm, it chose to establish a new version of Star Wars canon. Said canon would include the original trilogy, the prequels, the then-upcoming sequel trilogy, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars, making it easier for new fans to get into the series. Future movies, comics, and other media would take place within this timeline and continue to do so; Rogue One, for example, is set right before the events of A New Hope and plays into its narrative. Crossing over these iconic characters with Marvel’s heroes could risk the integrity of that timeline, even if fans have been waiting to see such a crossover for years.
Kevin Smith and David Marquez might have found a way to blend the two franchises together. According to Entertainment Weekly, which first revealed the news, Hope Assembles is born due to a reality-warping spell that pulls the universes of Star Wars and Marvel together. Outgoing Marvel editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski said that ideas for a Star Wars and Marvel crossover had been tossed around for years:
“It’s an idea we’ve wanted to explore since getting the Star Wars license back over a decade ago, but we knew we’d have to wait with the patience of a Jedi to make it happen. The 50th anniversary of A New Hope has finally given us the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring these two universes together, in this incredible story being told by Kevin Smith and David Marquez.”
The idea of a reality-warping spell raises plenty of questions, most notably concerning the Scarlet Witch, but it also seems like the best way to bring Star Wars and Marvel together. After all, the former franchise has teetered between science fiction and fantasy, which could fit into the wider scope of the Marvel Universe. It all hinges on whether Smith and Marquez can pull it off.
A Star Wars/Marvel Crossover Poses a Problem of Scale
There’s another question that Hope Assembles has raised, and it concerns how Star Wars characters would operate in the Marvel Universe. Specifically, characters who use the Force could be a major problem. How can Captain America and the Avengers fight Darth Vader when he can choke them with the Force? Is a lightsaber powerful enough to carve through Cap’s shield or Wolverine’s Adamantium claws? It also runs the other way: given the cosmic forces that Marvel’s heroes have faced, is a Death Star or the might of the Empire really a major threat?
Fans will have to wait until next year to see how this conflict plays out, but it’s no surprise that Kevin Smith and David Marquez have a tough task ahead of them. Merging together two of the biggest pop culture franchises is a Herculean feat that could result in disaster or meteoric success. Hopefully, the latter will be the end result for Hope Assembles.
Star Wars/Marvel: Hope Assembles #1 will be available wherever comics are sold on January 2027. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
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May 25, 1977
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121 minutes
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George Lucas
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George Lucas
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Gary Kurtz, Rick McCallum
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Horror trilogies have a harder job than most franchises. The first film can thrive on mystery, but the sequels must expand that fear without explaining it into boredom. A strong trilogy also needs more than just three recognizable titles.
It needs progression, a clear identity, and enough emotional or thematic weight to make the whole journey feel planned rather than prolonged. These five trilogies approach that challenge from completely different directions. None are gentle. All are worth the marathon.
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The Blade Trilogy (1998–2004)
Long before shared superhero universes became Hollywood’s safest business model, the Blade trilogy made a half-vampire warrior feel completely at home inside an R-rated action-horror world. Blade (Wesley Snipes) hunts the creatures that killed his mother while using their own strength, speed, and healing against them. Blade II sends him into an uneasy alliance with vampires facing a more dangerous mutation. Blade: Trinity expands the war again by bringing Dracula and a new group of hunters into the conflict.
The third movie is far messier than the first two, which keeps the trilogy below the top tier. The overall legacy remains enormous. Wesley Snipes gave Blade the stillness, confidence, physical authority, and he never needs to explain why he owns the room. Stephen Norrington’s original turned blood-soaked nightclubs and martial arts into superhero language before the genre had settled on a formula. Guillermo del Toro then pushed the sequel toward creature horror with the Reapers and their splitting jaws. Put the trilogy on for leather coats, silver weapons, vampire politics, and the reminder that comic-book cinema once had real teeth.
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The Original Fear Street Trilogy (2021)
Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy follows a group of teenagers trying to break the curse hanging over Shadyside, a town blamed for generations of massacres and violent killers. Fear Street Part One: 1994 establishes the modern group and the rivalry between Shadyside and wealthy Sunnyvale. Fear Street Part Two: 1978 moves into a summer-camp massacre. Fear Street Part Three: 1666 reaches back to the origins of the town’s suffering and connects the separate timelines into one story.
Releasing all three films across consecutive weeks turned the trilogy into a genuine event during the summer of 2021. Director and co-writer Leigh Janiak used R.L. Stine’s books as a foundation while aiming the movies at an older audience than the novels. The result mixes teenage romance, slasher brutality, supernatural mythology, and class anger without losing the energy of a crowd-pleasing horror marathon. Deena Johnson (Kiana Madeira) and Samantha Fraser (Olivia Scott Welch) give the story a relationship worth carrying across centuries, while Ziggy Berman (Sadie Sink) helps make the 1978 chapter especially painful. Fear Street understands how much fun horror can be when every masked killer, hidden tunnel, and old town secret feels connected. Watch all three close together. Shadyside works best when there is no escape between chapters.
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The X Trilogy (2022–2024)
The X trilogy explores fame, youth, sex, aging, and self-invention through three films centered on women who refuse to accept the lives handed to them. X brings a small adult-film crew to a Texas farm in 1979, where Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) meets an elderly woman whose buried desires turn deadly. Pearl travels back to 1918 and shows the frustrated young dreamer behind that violence. MaXXXine moves into 1980s Hollywood as Maxine chases mainstream stardom while a killer stalks the city.
Mia Goth connects the trilogy through Maxine and Pearl, two women separated by time but driven by the same belief that ordinary life would be unbearable. Ti West changes genre with each chapter. X is a grimy slasher. Pearl looks like a poisoned Technicolor melodrama. MaXXXine embraces neon crime thrillers, Hollywood sleaze, and the paranoia surrounding the Night Stalker era. The trilogy also understands performance as survival. Pearl creates fantasies because reality feels too small. Maxine turns certainty into armor and keeps walking toward the spotlight no matter what waits around it. Three movies, three decades, one ferocious hunger to be seen. Give them a weekend. You may never hear “I’m a star” the same way again.
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The Apocalypse Trilogy (1982-1994)
John Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy is a thematic collection rather than one continuous saga. It starts with The Thing, that places an alien imitator inside an Antarctic research station and makes every human face suspicious. Prince of Darkness brings scientists and a priest into an abandoned church where an ancient force challenges the line between religion and theoretical physics. In the Mouth of Madness follows an insurance investigator searching for a missing horror novelist whose fiction may be rewriting reality itself. The threats change. The destination remains humanity’s possible extinction.
The progression is deliciously bleak. The first film asks whether a small group can recognize the end before it escapes. The second wonders whether science and faith can understand what is approaching. The third attacks reality, authorship, and sanity until the audience becomes part of the joke. Cosmic horror rarely feels this physical. Blood tests, shared dreams, mirrors, manuscripts, and impossible towns all suggest that human knowledge may be a very small light surrounded by something ancient. Watch these in release order after midnight for best sleep not guaranteed results.
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The Dead Trilogy (1968-1985)
Modern zombie cinema began here and you’ll find out exactly how only once you sit through these films. Night of the Living Dead traps strangers inside a Pennsylvania farmhouse while recently deceased people gather outside and human disagreements become just as dangerous. Dawn of the Dead moves the collapse into a shopping mall, where survivors build a comfortable life among the products of a dead consumer culture. Day of the Dead descends into an underground military facility where scientists and soldiers argue over whether the undead can be understood, controlled, or trained.
These three films share no continuing hero or conventional storyline so the connection is societal decay. Each chapter finds humanity further along in the catastrophe and somehow less capable of cooperating. The zombies evolve from a terrifying crowd into a permanent population, while George A. Romero’s attention shifts through racial tension, consumerism, militarism, and scientific responsibility. Dawn may be the trilogy’s most exhilarating chapter, but the complete set shows how one low-budget nightmare created the language later used by The Walking Dead, survival games, outbreak movies, and almost every modern zombie story. Start at the farmhouse. By the bunker, you may be rooting for the dead.
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The Evil Dead Trilogy (1981-1993)
Ash Williams’ (Bruce Campbell) terrible weekend begins when five friends reach an isolated cabin and accidentally unleash flesh-possessing demons through the Book of the Dead. The Evil Dead treats that nightmare as relentless cabin horror. Evil Dead II returns Ash to the same blood-soaked battle while introducing slapstick, manic camera work, and the chainsaw-handed hero fans now recognize instantly. Army of Darkness then throws him into medieval England, where surviving one cabin somehow becomes commanding an army against the undead. Escalation achieved.
The trilogy’s magic comes from watching horror mutate without losing its handmade energy. Ash starts as a frightened survivor and gradually becomes a boastful action hero whose confidence regularly exceeds his intelligence. Bruce Campbell commits to every possessed hand, collapsing shelf, terrible decision, and glorious one-liner with his entire body. The effects are messy, the camera seems possessed, and the comedy never makes the Deadites harmless. Few trilogies have reinvented themselves this aggressively while strengthening their central character each time. Watch all three together and enjoy cinema discovering a legend one concussion at a time.
This summer has been a season of Spider-Men, Greek heroes with zero sense of direction and a buff Nicholas Galitzine in a leather harness and skit.
Movies in August tend to be less big and noisy and more dark and, well, thrilling. That’s why Watch With Us has put together a list of some of the best thrillers to watch on streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and more.
At the top of our list is the premiere of the 2026 Netflix original The Whisper Man, a serial killer thriller starring Adam Scott and Robert De Niro.
We also recommend streaming the underrated 2024 sequel MaXXXine, starring a never-better Mia Goth as an erotic film actress fighting for her life in a sleazy 1980s Hollywood.
Last but not least, take a trip back to the ‘80s and watch No Way Out, a political suspense flick starring Kevin Costner as a man framed for a crime he didn’t commit — or did he?
‘The Whisper Man’ (2026) — Netflix
Adam Scott in The Whisper Man. David Lee/Netflix © 2026
When Tom Kennedy’s (Adam Scott) 8-year-old son Jake (Acston Luca Porto) is abducted from their home one night, he has no choice but to contact the one man who can help him – his estranged father, Pete Willis (Robert De Niro). He’s a detective who caught a serial killer known as the Whisper Man 30 years ago, and he thinks that case might hold clues to Jake’s abduction. But the Whisper Man is still behind bars and has had no contact with the outside world. Who kidnapped Jake, and why are they mimicking the crimes of a notorious criminal the world has largely forgotten about?
Based on the hit novel by Alex North, The Whisper Man delivers all the late-summer/early-fall thrills you could ever want. The film conjures a spooky atmosphere filled with dark shadows and strange sounds in the night, which is exactly what a thriller like this should do. It also has a genuinely intriguing mystery, which plausibly connects Tom and Pete’s past with the Whisper Man to Jake’s present disappearance without making your eyes roll. The top-notch supporting cast includes Michelle Monaghan, Hamish Linklater and Michael Keaton.
The Whisper Man begins streaming on August 28.
‘MaXXXine’ (2024) — Hulu
Mia Goth in MaXXXine. Justin Lubin /© A24 / Courtesy Everett Collection
Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) always wanted to be a Hollywood star, and she eventually got her wish – albeit one with a big asterisk next to it. She’s a porn actress who is at the top of her very adult industry, but she longs to be “legitimate” and act in mainstream movies. She thinks she has a shot when she nabs a part in the cheap horror flick The Puritan II, but Maxine’s shot at stardom is jeopardized by a stalker who is gradually killing all of her friends. Who is this mysterious murderer, and why is he — or she — linked to a past traumatic incident from her past she’d rather forget?
MaXXXine is the third chapter in Ti West’s X horror trilogy, but it’s more satisfying as a Brian De Palma-like erotic thriller than it is a traditional slasher like 2022’s X and 2023’s Pearl. There’s genuine mystery surrounding Maxine’s deadly stalker, with a lineup of suspects that include a scuzzy private investigator played by Kevin Bacon and even Maxine herself. As the unstable but magnetic Maxine, Goth is terrific — she never lets her heroine get lost in a story that’s a bit too complicated for its own good. The ending is a bit of a letdown, but the movie is so entertaining up until then that it’s still worth watching.
‘No Way Out’ (1987) — Prime Video
Gene Hackman and Kevin Costner in No Way Out. Everett
Navy officer Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) is normally a level-headed guy, but when he meets the alluring Susan Atwell (Sean Young) at a party, his caution and restraint go out the window. Against his better judgment, he begins a passionate affair with her, but there’s just one problem — she’s already someone’s mistress. Even worse, that someone is David Brice (Gene Hackman), the U.S. Secretary of Defense who is prone to wild fits of jealousy. He’s not happy when he finds out Susan is cheating on him, and he’s determined to find out who it is. Tom’s identity is unrevealed for now, but soon rather than later, he’ll be exposed, and he’ll learn there’s truly no way out once Brice comes after him.
One of the great ‘80s thrillers, No Way Out has more twists than an overpriced baseball pretzel. There’s so much more to the plot, which includes a gruesome murder, a manhunt, political sabotage and foreign spies, that your head will get whiplash trying to figure out what’s going on. But it somehow all makes sense, with a thrilling story that always manages to include just enough depth to make you care about Tom and Susan as they become embroiled in a dangerous cat-and-mouse game. No Way Out also features some pretty steamy sex scenes, including one in a limo that might make you think twice before ordering that Uber Black car to ride to the airport.
Before the record-breaking success of Christopher Nolan’s latest epic, The Odyssey, Universal released another tentpole directed by a legendary filmmaker. In fact, the movie in question was released only a few weeks before The Odyssey, but unfortunately, it had largely tailed off at the box office by the time Nolan’s film arrived in theaters. We’re talking, of course, about Disclosure Day, director Steven Spielberg’s first sci-fi movie in nearly a decade. The hotly anticipated movie divided critics and audiences; while some felt that it was a return to populist form for Spielberg, others found holes in David Koepp’s screenplay and flaws in the movie’s pacing.
Starring Emily Blunt as a newscaster who is “touched” by aliens and chosen to relay their message to the world, the movie also features Josh O’Connor, Eve Hewson, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, and Wyatt Russell. Disclosure Day received mostly positive reviews, and is now sitting at a “Certified Fresh” 80% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “A humanistic variation on one of Steven Spielberg’s most revisited themes, Disclosure Day‘s breathless pursuit of optimism in an age of conspiracy gets its biggest boost from career-highlight work by Emily Blunt.”
Steven Spielberg Has Set an Incredibly High Bar for Himself in the Sci-Fi Genre
However, the movie wasn’t the breakout hit that Spielberg needed after the underperformance of his last two movies, West Side Story and The Fabelmans. Disclosure Day grossed a little under $250 million worldwide against a reported budget of $115 million, just about breaking even considering marketing and distribution costs. The movie fell drastically short of Spielberg’s other sci-fi movies of the last couple of decades, such as War of the Worlds (more than $600 million worldwide) and Ready Player One (approximately $580 million worldwide). That said, it was always aimed at older audiences, who typically prefer to wait for movies to hit home video. According to FlixPatrol, the Disclosure Day redemption arc is in full swing; the movie is currently the number-one title on the domestic iTunes viewership chart, and among the top 10 on Google Play, Amazon, and Vudu. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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June 12, 2026
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Teen Mom’s Amanda Conner continues to face the consequences of her recent DUI arrest.
According to online court records viewed by Us, a judge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, ordered Conner, 35, to submit to weekly drug screenings. (She was previously ordered to only undergo random drug testing.)
Conner’s next court date is scheduled for October 21. The Ashley’s Reality Roundup was first to report the news.
Although Conner has not publicly commented on the judge’s ruling, she posted a TikTok from the courthouse on Friday, August, 7.
UPDATE 6/11/2026 at 12:53 p.m. — Teen Mom’s Amanda Conner has denied rumors that she and Ryan Edwards are divorcing after she appeared to hint at relationship trouble in a 911 call. “The rumor about what Ryan did me is bulls***,” Conner, 35, said in a TikTok video on Wednesday, June 10, seemingly referring to […]
“Alright, just left the courthouse,” she said in a video. “On my way to see my PO [probation officer] and then on my way to work.”
Diddy’s song “Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down” later played in the background as she danced in her car.
Back in May, Ryan Edwards’ wife was arrested and booked on a DUI charge. At the time, Conner was also charged with child abuse/neglect for allegedly driving under the influence with a baby in the car.
Amanda Conner Courtesy of Amanda Conner/TikTok
“I relapsed. After three years of me busting my ass and getting my life together, I relapsed. I think I got too comfortable, let my guard down and it happened,” Conner shared via TikTok on May 27 while addressing her arrest. “I do know addiction does not care how long you’ve been clean, how much you’ve built, it doesn’t care how many people believed in you, it doesn’t care about none of that.”
She later apologized for disappointing the people who “believed” in her.
“You all ride so hard for me and I appreciate the f*** out of that,” she continued. “I have let you all down and I’ve let my family down. Just saying that out loud, just letting it be known, it’s just so uncomfortable, it’s shameful, I’m disappointed, I feel guilty, scared. I’m not perfect. I’ve never come to be perfect.”
In a separate TikTok video from Thursday, August 6, Conner shared a positive update on her reality as she continues to focus on her sobriety.
“I just wanted to give you guys an update on how life has been going for me,” she said. “Still doing good, I’m working. I clean houses and restaurants. I do go to meetings. I try to go at least two a week, but if not two, I will definitely go to one a week.”
If you or someone you know is struggling with substance abuse, contact the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).
More than a decade after Spring Breakers became one of the most talked-about films of 2013, the controversial crime drama is officially getting another chapter.
Bella Thorne is set to write, direct and star in Spring Breakers 2, taking creative control of the follow-up to Harmony Korine’s cult favorite. Original Spring Breakers producers Chris and Roberta Hanley are also returning to produce the new film.
Rather than simply recreating the original, Thorne plans to put her own spin on the material while maintaining the rebellious energy that helped make Spring Breakers such a distinctive piece of early 2010s pop culture.
“The original Spring Breakers was an iconic cultural touchstone, and taking the reins as a filmmaker is a dream project for me,” Thorne said in a statement. She added that she hopes to create a “wild, high-stakes thrill ride” that honors the original while establishing its own identity.
The new story will follow five girls who arrive at what appears to be the spring break party of a lifetime. Things quickly take a darker turn when they discover they were never actually invited to the party. Instead, they are the targets.
Casting directors Mary Vernieu and Jessica Kelly are launching an international search for undiscovered talent to join Thorne in the film’s lead roles.
Producer Chris Hanley said the decision to hand Thorne the franchise came after seeing an early cut of her feature directorial debut, Color Your Hurt. Hanley praised Thorne’s willingness to combine professional actors with non-actors and described her approach to Spring Breakers 2 as a new female perspective rather than a conventional sequel.
“This isn’t a traditional sequel,” Hanley said. “It’s Bella’s singular vision, capturing the rebellious DNA of the original film for a new generation.”
The original Spring Breakers followed four college students played by Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine, whose Florida vacation spirals into a violent criminal underworld after they cross paths with eccentric drug dealer Alien, played by James Franco.
Korine’s film became particularly notable for taking several actresses associated with younger and more mainstream audiences and dropping them into an intentionally provocative, neon-soaked crime story. Its unusual style and divisive reception eventually helped turn it into a cult favorite.
Attempts to continue the franchise have actually been underway for years. A sequel was first discussed in 2014 without Korine’s involvement, prompting Franco to publicly criticize the idea. That version ultimately never materialized.
Another incarnation, titled Spring Breakers: Salvation Mountain, was announced in 2025 with Thorne, Grace Van Dien, Ariel Martin and True Whitaker attached to star and Matthew Bright set to direct. The latest announcement represents a major creative shift, with Thorne now writing and directing her own version of the project.
Thorne certainly isn’t promising a restrained follow-up either.
“There’s so much litness in this movie,” Thorne said while discussing the project. “I mean, from start to finish, it’s lit as f—.”
Whether Spring Breakers 2 can capture the strange cultural lightning of Korine’s original remains to be seen, particularly without the original filmmaker or cast. But putting Thorne behind the camera as well as in front of it gives the sequel a much clearer identity than previous attempts to revive the franchise.
A release date for Spring Breakers 2 has not yet been announced.
Brielle Biermann is setting the record straight on rumors that she was trying to “steal the spotlight” from influencer Brigette Pheloung by trying on the same Vera Wang wedding dress.
“Addressing this once & for all,” the reality star, 29, wrote via her Instagram Stories on Sunday, August 10. “As you’ll see, I made this video on Friday. We had it scheduled to be posted on Sunday for engagement purposes. I’ve never met @acquired.style & did not know she was getting married this weekend, let alone see a leaked photo of her!”
Biermann shut down the speculation after the rumor mill went into overdrive. Theories emerged online when she shared a clip of herself wearing the same off-the-shoulder white gown with floral details as Pheloung — who goes by Acquired Style on social media — while dress shopping for her big day.
“The dress I almost said yes to,” she captioned the post. Biermann was quickly met with comments accusing her of shading Pheloung, 29, after the content creator’s nuptials with Mitch McHale over the weekend.
What really happened with Nicola Peltz Beckham’s wedding dress? Nicola, 30, previously contradicted Brooklyn Beckham’s claims that Victoria Beckham “canceled” making her wedding dress back in 2022. While chatting with Vogue after her May 2022 nuptials with Brooklyn, 26, Nicola opened up about designing her dress with Valentino for a year. “It was the ultimate […]
“So it’s just a coincidence that you’re posting this as the first pics of acquired’s dress got leaked…. Rightttt,” one social media user wrote.
Biermann replied, “? Do you think I ran to Vera Wang today to try this dress on and post it lmao.” She added, “Also, I haven’t seen a single thing of her wedding dress! If she chose this, she chose well!!!! I bet she looked stunning .”
Others came to Biermann’s defense, writing, “All these negative comments are crazy! Many influencers post the dresses they didn’t get. I bet Brielle had no idea about the other girl’s dress. Chill out y’all!” Another added, “People are weird to make something out of nothing. You look stunning; can’t wait to see the one you actually chose!”
Brynn Whitfield teased that all is fair in love, war and The Real Housewives of New York City, especially when it comes to questionable fashion choices. During Us Weekly’s latest episode of “Housewives Happy Hour,” Brynn, 36, pointed to Jessel Taank as the “worst dressed” at their season 14 reunion, which aired in October 2023. […]
Biermann got engaged to fiancé Billy Seidl in February 2024. The duo met on vacation in the Bahamas in 2023 and started dating. In April of that year, they went Instagram official.
In July, she opened up about wedding planning and shared that she was unsure if her adoptive father, Kroy Biermann, would attend her wedding amid his divorce from her mom, Kim Zolciak.
“I haven’t really spoken to Kroy,” she told TMZ. “[It’s] in the air, it’s ever changing.” Her sister Ariana Biermann also exclusively told Us that she’s “sad” Kroy, 40, may not be in attendance.
She also teased that their wedding would be happening “soon” and is at a venue near “the beach.”
Reacher Season 4 is officially around the corner. Since its premiere in 2022, Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) has ventured all across America, from the small town of Margrave, Georgia, to the casinos of Atlantic City. Although he’s left military life behind to become a full-time drifter, trouble always seems to follow him. Each season follows Reacher in a different location as he’s pulled into a new case, whether it’s exposing a crooked factory owner or taking down a corrupt security director. As Reacher braces himself for what could be his most dangerous and darkest case yet in Season 4, those who haven’t rewatched his previous adventures can catch up with our recap of Reacher Season 3.
Reacher Takes On a Dangerous Undercover Assignment in Season 3
Season 3 kicks off in Abbottsville, Maine, where Jack Reacher (Ritchson) appears to botch a kidnapping rescue when he accidentally shoots a police officer. However, the chaotic opening is revealed to be a setup. Working with DEA agent Susan Duffy (Sonya Cassidy) and her team, Reacher must infiltrate the shady rug business of Zachary Beck (Anthony Michael Hall), whom Duffy believes is holding DEA agent Teresa Daniels (Storm Steenson) captive.
To pull off the mission, Reacher must assume a convincing new identity and get close to Beck’s son, Richard (Johnny Berchtold), by playing the hero. After a long interrogation and a game of Russian roulette, Reacher is finally recruited as one of Beck’s henchmen, much to the displeasure of his head of security, Chapman Duke (Donald Sales), and his towering bodyguard, Paulie (Olivier Richters).
Reacher settles into his undercover role within the Beck estate and security team. Not fully trusting him just yet, Beck assigns him to identify Richard’s kidnappers’ Toyota at a police impound lot and deliver a truck to Connecticut within six hours. However, henchman Angel Doll (Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz) quickly makes things difficult after tracking Reacher during the delivery. When Angel nearly blows his cover, Reacher kills him and hides the body.
Reacher Is Haunted by an Old Enemy in Season 3
Reacher and Duffy sneak into the impound lot to both dispose of Angel’s body and locate Teresa, but end up fighting and dispatching two assailants instead. Back at the Beck house, Reacher continues to earn Richard’s trust, and Richard finally reveals that his father has been living in fear of a criminal named Julius McCabe. In order to get closer to Beck, however, Richard must get rid of Duke. During a fake shootout, Reacher rigs an explosive device inside a microwave and kills Duke, which allows him to pin Duke’s death on Angel.
Season 3 also reveals Reacher’s personal history with McCabe (Brian Tee), whose real name is Francis Xavier Quinn, a former member of U.S. military intelligence who became an arms dealer. During Reacher’s time with the 110th MP Special Investigations Unit, Quinn became the subject of an investigation. The case brought Reacher together with Sergeant Dominique Kohl (Mariah Robinson), a talented young soldier who basically turned into his protégé. Although Dominique quickly proved she could keep up with Reacher, Quinn kidnapped and murdered her. Reacher pursued Quinn, leading to a confrontation that ended with Reacher shooting him and throwing him off a cliff. However, Quinn survived the fall, resulting in Reacher’s most personal enemy still walking free.
Reacher Discovers Quinn’s Real Endgame in Season 3
After Reacher learns that Duffy and fellow DEA agent Guillermo Villanueva (Roberto Montesinos) are checking out a tubing facility, he realizes they’re walking into an ambush. He arrives as Quinn’s henchmen open fire but successfully gets Duffy and Villy to safety. Meanwhile, John Cooper (Ronnie Rowe), Beck’s former bodyguard, who’s being held by Duffy, Villy, and rookie agent Steven Eliot (Daniel David Stewart), tricks Eliot into giving him a cigarette. Cooper uses alcohol to blind Eliot, then beats him to death and escapes. Reacher and Duffy stage a car crash to stop Cooper, allowing Reacher to shoot him. They also discover that Quinn is moving powerful, untraceable weapons, rather than drugs.
Reacher finally encounters Quinn, who’s suffering from amnesia and blames Beck for bringing an undercover ATF agent into his home. Quinn reveals Teresa is alive but being held for a client, while Reacher learns the Russian mob helped finance the weapons operation and now wants its money back. Richard discovers his kidnapping was staged and confronts Reacher, forcing him to explain why he infiltrated his father’s business. Quinn soon connects Reacher to the old 110th unit, exposing his cover. Reacher escapes the Beck estate, successfully killing the henchmen who followed him into the weeds. Back at the house, Quinn punishes Beck for his mistakes. Reacher and Duffy track Teresa down, only to learn that Quinn has already moved her again.
Reacher Faces His Biggest Showdown Yet in Season 3
Reacher and Duffy travel to Los Angeles, where they track down Darien Prado (Greg Bryk), the drug dealer Duffy had been investigating before a warrant mistake shut down her case. They use their leverage over Prado to force him into helping with another weapons shipment. Reacher and Duffy learn that Quinn plans to sell his guns to buyers from Yemen. Meanwhile, Frances Neagley (Maria Sten) digs into Quinn’s past and discovers just how many people he has killed to protect his business. With Quinn’s operation getting more dangerous, Duffy brings in the ATF for backup. Reacher, however, still wants Quinn for himself. When the team reaches the salvage yard to shut down the supposed arms deal, Reacher realizes they’ve been played. The real weapons deal is happening at Beck’s birthday party, which is currently ongoing back at his mansion.
Season 3’s finale goes all out as Reacher, Duffy, Villy, and Neagley race back to the Beck estate. Quinn is using Zachary’s 50th birthday party as cover for his weapons deal with the Yemeni buyers, so the team splits up to rescue Richard and Teresa while stopping the sale. Everyone gets their moment to cause some damage, but Reacher’s showdown with Paulie takes the cake. Reacher eventually gets the upper hand and kills Paulie. Elsewhere, Quinn fatally shoots Beck, forcing Richard to grab a real weapon and fire back. The Russian mob soon arrives to collect their money, but Neagley cuts a deal that leaves Quinn to Reacher. After reminding Quinn of Dominique, Reacher finally kills him. The episode ends with the survivors all going their separate ways — Richard disappears with his father’s remaining money, Duffy delivers Teresa to her family before handing in her resignation from the DEA, and Reacher rides off into the sunset, kicking off his next adventure.
Reacher Season 4 premieres August 12 on Prime Video.
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February 3, 2022
- Network
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Prime Video
- Showrunner
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Nick Santora
- Directors
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Omar Madha, Carol Banker, Julian Holmes, Lin Oeding, M.J. Bassett, Norberto Barba, Stephen Surjik, Thomas Vincent
- Writers
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Cait Duffy
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On set, they were family — but off screen, it was a whole other story.
It’s game on again for Tulsa National Little League after a local judge granted a temporary restraining order, allowing the club to compete for a spot in the 2026 Little League World Series.
The team had previously been disqualified from the Southwest Region tournament after other teams filed a protest, claiming it had an ineligible player on the roster. Judge Ryan Luna’s ruling means Tulsa is now scheduled to face Texas West’s Boerne Little League on Tuesday, August 11, in Waco, Texas, with the winner advancing to the annual Williamsport event.
“Judge Luna made the right decision to give the boys an opportunity to play the game and decide everything on the field,” the team’s attorney said in a statement to News on 6 Tulsa. “These boys are ball players and ball players do just that — play ball.”
The statement continued, “Legally, I find it surprising that an esteemed organization would withhold the protest documentation from this ball club and decide their fate in a cloak of darkness. Simply put, the law does not allow for arbitrary and capricious actions.”
Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) wrote a dramatic letter to the Major League Baseball commissioner after three players were warned for writing Bible verses on their Pride Night hats. “I write with grave concern over your reported decision to issue a formal warning to three Major League Baseball (MLB) players for publicly expressing their Christian faith,” […]
Boerne defeated Louisiana’s Ascension Parish Little League, 4-1, on Monday, August 10, in what would have been the championship game had Little League International’s ban held up.
“Following a recent protest related to the eligibility of players on the Tulsa National Little League Baseball team, the Little League® International Tournament Committee has determined that a player who participated on the team during the International Tournament is ineligible,” Little League International said in a statement on Monday explaining why it had banned the Tulsa team.
The organization explained that it made its decision, “to uphold the integrity of the international tournament and provide an opportunity for every team, community, and, most importantly, child, to have a fair and equitable experience … Little League International is committed to supporting all children impacted by this decision and will continue to provide support and administrative guidance to the families in Tulsa National Little League.”
The ineligible player and additional details around the initial ban have not been released.
Team USA’s Folarin Balogun returned to social media hours after a controversial red card sent him off in the team’s 2-0 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday, July 1. “Purple hearts!” Balogun, 24, wrote via his Instagram Story over a photo of him celebrating on the pitch. “The war continues 💜💜💜💜💜💜.” The red card […]
Further complicating the situation, Softball on SI reports that Boerne does not plan to participate in Tuesday’s game, having already left the site of the tournament to return home and prepare for the Little League World Series bid they believed they had already clinched.
News 4 San Antonio reports that Boerne has the “full backing” of Little League International’s legal team. Boerne plans to leave for Williamsport at the end of this week.
The Little League World Series will run from August 19 to 30, featuring 10 international teams and 10 representing different regions from the United States.
After months of speculation and Marvel secrecy, Sadie Sink can finally openly discuss becoming Jean Grey in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The Stranger Things star made her debut as the iconic mutant in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, giving audiences their first look at a new Jean Grey who could eventually become one of the central characters in Marvel Studios’ upcoming X-Menreboot.
In a new interview with Variety, Sink discussed taking on a character who has been an important part of Marvel Comics for decades.
“She’s such an iconic figure in X-Men and in comics, and I’m very excited to bring my iteration of her to life.”
However, Brand New Day introduces Jean in a very different place than longtime X-Men fans might expect.
Rather than already being a member of the X-Men, Jean is presented as a young mutant struggling with her abilities and the circumstances surrounding her. Although she serves as an antagonist during portions of the movie, Sink says she never approached Jean as an actual villain.
“In this film, they told me that I was the villain, but that you’re not actually the villain, which is how I played her.”
Sink added that she didn’t want to give Jean a traditional villainous personality because Jean herself believes her actions are justified.
That distinction appears to be an important part of Marvel’s approach to the character. Instead of introducing Jean as the established superhero audiences previously saw portrayed by Famke Janssen and Sophie Turner, Marvel has an opportunity to show how she eventually becomes that hero.
Famke Janssen, Sadie Sink, Sophie Turner
Sink explained that she viewed Jean primarily as a teenager dealing with pain and anger rather than someone who was inherently evil.
“She’s a young girl in pain.”
According to Sink, the plan was to avoid focusing on the “evil bits” and instead concentrate on Jean as an angry and hurt teenager.
That idea also connects directly to what Sink believes makes the X-Men different from many other superheroes.
“What makes the X-Men special is they are all incredibly flawed.”
Sink explained that mutants have to discover their own relationship with powers they never asked to have. Those abilities don’t necessarily make their lives easier and can instead make them considerably more difficult.
It’s an approach that could tell us quite a bit about the direction Marvel Studios intends to take with its new X-Men.
The mutants have traditionally worked best when their powers aren’t simply treated as abilities that allow them to become superheroes. Being a mutant is part of who these characters are, and learning to live with that identity has always been central to the franchise.
Jean Grey is particularly suited for that kind of story.
As one of Marvel’s most powerful telepaths and telekinetics, Jean has frequently struggled with abilities that can become overwhelming and, eventually, potentially catastrophic. Her comic book history with the Phoenix Force has made her one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel Universe.
But Marvel doesn’t appear to be rushing toward that version of Jean.
Instead, Brand New Day gives Sink the opportunity to start much earlier in Jean’s life and potentially develop the character across several movies before exploring some of her biggest comic book storylines.
Sink also revealed that some of the first people she told about landing the role were Matt and Ross Duffer, the creators of Stranger Things.
“The Duffers were some of the first few people I told.”
Sink said she wanted them to know what she would be doing after Stranger Things, and the brothers were excited about the opportunity. Their reaction carried additional weight for Sink because of their love for comics.
It’s easy to understand the excitement.
After spending years playing Max Mayfield in one of Netflix’s biggest franchises, Sink is moving directly into what could become another defining role, and potentially one that lasts for much of the next decade.
Marvel Studios is currently preparing its new X-Men movie with Thunderbolts director Jake Schreier set to helm the project. Sink’s introduction in Brand New Day now gives the MCU at least one major piece of that team before the movie arrives.
Jean Grey’s future could also introduce another important relationship.
Kit Connor has recently been reported as Marvel’s choice to play Scott Summers, better known as Cyclops. Jean and Scott have one of the most famous and complicated relationships in X-Men history, making the two characters natural candidates to become central figures in Marvel’s new mutant era.
For Sink, though, Jean’s imperfections may ultimately be what makes the character worth exploring.
Marvel has already had two cinematic versions of Jean Grey and has twice attempted to adapt the Dark Phoenix storyline. Simply repeating that journey would offer audiences little they haven’t already seen.
Starting with a younger, angry and emotionally overwhelmed Jean gives Marvel Studios something different: time.
Time to show Jean learning about her powers. Time to show her finding others like herself. Time to establish her relationship with the X-Men. And eventually, time to show how one of Marvel’s most powerful mutants becomes Jean Grey.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day may have introduced her as an antagonist, but if Marvel’s plans come together, Sadie Sink’s Jean Grey is only getting started.
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