The fun for horror fans isn’t stopping anytime soon in 2026, with The Odyssey star Anne Hathaway delivering the thrilling dino-based survival flick The End of Oak Street next month, from It Follows director David Robert Mitchell. This comes following a couple of months dominated by one movie in particular, which made quite the splash with Gen Z audiences. Of course, that movie is Focus Features’ Obsession, directed by Curry Barker, which has become a viral phenomenon and broken many records along the way.

For example, the film is the first with a sub-million production budget to earn over $200 million this century, the highest-grossing non-animated original film of the past decade, and the only genre film in history to stay in the box office top ten for over 40 days in a row. More recently, Obsession became the highest-grossing original horror movie of this century, and is now an unstoppable force on the streaming charts. But it isn’t the only 2026 horror movie to earn the praise of Gen Z, who have now adopted a recent Prime Video arrival as their new must-watch horror.

The film in question is Do Not Enter, by prolific music video director Marc Klasfeld, which follows four social-media personalities as they break into and explore New Jersey’s abandoned Paragon Hotel for livestream fame. Looking to pull off their biggest stunt yet, and with $300 million rumored to be on the line, paranormal activity threatens to upend their challenge. Adeline Rudolph, who plays Kitana in Mortal Kombat II, leads the ensemble, which also includes Laurence O’Fuarain, Nicholas Hamilton, Jake Manley, Brennan Keel Cook, Catrina Shank, and Francesca Reale.

‘Do Not Enter’ Is a Prime Video Hit

At the time of writing, Do Not Enter is one of the ten most-streamed movies on Prime Video in the U.S. This feat is made more impressive when considering the tough competition the horror flick faces, including the cozy murder mystery The Sheep Detectives, last summer’s superhero sensation Superman, the 2023 action movie Ruthless, and, the current chart topper, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller‘s sci-fi masterpiece Project Hail Mary.

Do Not Enter is one of the ten most-streamed movies on Prime Video in the U.S. Make sure to stay tuned to Collider for more streaming stories.

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Thriller movies and TV shows are great, but the genre is best experienced on the page. A visual medium can show the audience what is happening, but a book traps them inside the characters’ thoughts, fears, and paranoia. Thriller novels offer a sense of immersion that doesn’t need background music cues or lingering shots to offer the audience hints.

Instead, readers have to search for clues themselves, question every narrator, and essentially become a part of the mystery at hand. The tension here depends entirely on the author’s ability to control what the reader knows, and, more importantly, what they don’t. Given that, here is a list of the best thriller books of all time that continue to define the genre to this day.

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‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ (2005)

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Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the first book in the Millennium series and serves as the perfect slow-burn thriller. The story follows disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist, whom wealthy industrialist Henrik Vanger hires to investigate the four-decade-old disappearance of his great-niece, Harriet. Henrik is convinced that someone within the enormous, deeply dysfunctional Vanger family was responsible for the crime. This leads Mikael on a sprawling investigation that brings him to Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant hacker and private investigator whose ability to uncover other people’s secrets makes her uniquely suited to this case built around generations of lies.

Mikael and Lisbeth are initially treated as the leads of two separate stories that unfold simultaneously. However, once they finally cross paths, the book becomes impossible to put down thanks to their unique dynamic. Larsson also gives the mystery far more weight than a conventional cold case. The novel’s original Swedish title translates to Men Who Hate Women, which reveals the uglier subject hiding beneath its missing-person premise.

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‘The Day of the Jackal’ (1971)

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Frederick Forsyth’s political thriller, The Day of the Jackal, begins in 1962, after repeated attempts by the far-right OAS to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle have ended in disaster. The organization is heavily infiltrated by French intelligence, so its leaders decide their only remaining option is to hire someone the authorities have never seen before. That’s when the Jackal enters the story as a nameless English assassin who accepts the contract and begins constructing an extraordinarily detailed plan to kill one of the most heavily protected men in the world. Meanwhile, quiet and methodical police commissioner Claude Lebel is given the seemingly impossible task of identifying and stopping a killer whose real name, appearance, and location are completely unknown.

The genius of the novel is that readers already know de Gaulle survived. Forsyth cannot create suspense by making anyone wonder whether history will be rewritten, so he builds it in how dangerously close the Jackal might come to it. The two men barely share the page, yet their battle of patience and intelligence makes the novel feel as fast-paced as ever. Obviously, Forsyth’s background as a journalist gives the book a frightening sense of authenticity. He blends the fictional plot with real political tensions and genuine events surrounding the OAS to fully immerse the reader in an operation of this scale. This documentary-like realism completely redefines what readers expected from political thrillers, and remains the benchmark for the genre to this day.

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‘The Silent Patient’ (2019)

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Alex Michaelides’ The Silent Patient begins with an almost impossible mystery, which is what makes it such a compelling read. The story follows Alicia Berenson, a successful painter with a seemingly happy marriage. Things take a turn when one fateful evening, she shoots her husband Gabriel five times in the face. After the murder, she never speaks again, not even to defend herself or offer any kind of explanation. Her silence turns the case into a national obsession and eventually brings her to the Grove, a secure psychiatric facility. Years later, psychotherapist Theo Faber becomes determined to uncover the truth.

He believes that getting Alicia to speak will finally explain the murder, but his interest in her quickly becomes more personal than professional. Soon enough, Theo’s investigation leads him to believe that nearly everyone involved in the mystery is hiding something. The central question of the story is pretty simple. The readers constantly wonder why Alicia killed her husband, and every chapter of the novel keeps the pace moving to answer that question. The Silent Patient is best known for its final twist, but the reveal works because of how carefully the author builds everything that comes before it.

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‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ (1955)

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The Talented Mr. Ripley is Patricia Highsmith’s brilliant psychological thriller that is still an important part of pop culture today. The story introduces readers to Tom Ripley, a struggling young con artist surviving through petty scams in New York. His fortunes change when wealthy businessman Herbert Greenleaf offers to send him to Italy to convince his son, Dickie, to return home and join the family business. Tom barely knows Dickie, but he happily exaggerates their friendship for the free trip. Once he reaches the beautiful seaside village of Mongibello, however, he becomes fascinated by Dickie’s money, confidence, and carefree lifestyle. The catch is that becoming Dickie’s friend isn’t enough.

Tom slowly begins to believe he deserves Dickie’s life more than Dickie does, and this obsession leads him into murder, identity theft, and an increasingly complicated web of lies. Highsmith traps readers inside Tom’s mind while he does all these unhinged, selfish things. As he switches between identities and attempts to stay ahead of the police, the tension comes from never knowing what he might do next, or how much further he is willing to go to protect a life he has stolen. The novel became the first of five books about Ripley, but the opening installment remains one of the most iconic crime stories ever told.

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‘The Bourne Identity’ (1980)

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The Bourne Identity begins with a man being pulled from the Mediterranean Sea. His body is filled with bullets and his memory almost completely erased. He doesn’t even remember his name or where he comes from. All he knows is that his instincts tell him how to fight, escape surveillance, and recognize danger before anyone else does. The only clue is a Swiss bank-account number hidden beneath his skin. When he follows it to Zurich, he discovers millions of francs, the name Jason Bourne, and several armed men who seem very determined to stop him from learning anything else. That is the intriguing premise of Robert Ludlum’s genre-defining thriller novel, but the story is far from over here.

The author keeps complicating the central character’s identity every step of the way. The evidence suggests that he may be a professional assassin known as Cain, yet other clues point toward a much stronger covert operation involving the CIA. That forces Bourne to hunt for the truth while questioning whether the person he used to be is someone he should even want to remember. Unlike the considerably simpler film adaptation (which later turned into multiple rewatchable Bourne movies), the novel does not provide one easy answer and move on. It keeps peeling away layers until Bourne’s past becomes more morally complicated than the reader expects.

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‘Rebecca’ (1938)

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It’s easy to mistake Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca for a romance in the beginning, but it slowly reveals its much darker narrative. The story follows an unnamed narrator, a shy young woman working as a paid companion in Monte Carlo when she meets the wealthy and recently widowed Maxim de Winter. Their courtship moves quickly, and before long, she becomes the second Mrs. de Winter and returns with him to Manderley, his enormous estate on the Cornwall coast. However, instead of beginning a perfect new life, she finds herself living in the shadow of Maxim’s first wife, Rebecca, who drowned less than a year earlier.

The most fascinating part of the novel is how Rebecca dominates almost every page, even though she is dead. Her belongings remain untouched, the staff still compare everything to the way she once ran the house, and her former maid, Mrs. Danvers, makes it clear that the new Mrs. de Winter will never be considered a worthy replacement. It’s almost as if Rebecca is haunting the narrator, which gives the book a unique, unsettling quality. All of that slowly builds up to the mystery surrounding Rebecca’s final moments, but even after the truth surfaces, Rebecca never offers the readers a clear resolution, which becomes the novel’s greatest strength.

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‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’ (1963)

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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré strips away the glamor mainstream entertainment associated with espionage. The story follows worn-down British intelligence officer Alec Leamas, whose network in East Germany has been systematically destroyed by Hans-Dieter Mundt, a ruthless counterintelligence chief. After watching his final agent get shot while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall, Leamas returns to London expecting retirement. Instead, Control offers him one last operation to publicly destroy his own life, pose as a bitter former agent, and convince East German intelligence that Mundt has secretly been working for Britain. Leamas begins drinking heavily, loses his job, and allows himself to appear like a man who has been abandoned by the country he once served. The performance eventually attracts the attention of East German agents, who believe he may be willing to sell them British secrets.

Once they make contact, Leamas is pulled deeper into a dangerous intelligence operation where everyone has their own version of the truth. This uncertainty is what makes the novel so gripping, but its moral bleakness is what made it revolutionary. It’s important to remember that the story was published when James Bond was transforming the spy thriller genre. However, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold presented spies as exhausted professionals working for institutions that treat them as expendable. The novel’s final stretch is devastating because its betrayals are not grand or theatrical, but cold and completely believable. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold did not simply make the spy novel darker. It exposed the uncomfortable possibility that, in the real world of espionage, the good side may not exist after all.

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‘Gone Girl’ (2012)

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Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl begins on Nick and Amy Dunne’s 5th wedding anniversary, when Amy suddenly disappears from their home in North Carthage, Missouri. The living room shows signs of a struggle, and the police immediately begin asking difficult questions. What makes things worse, though, is that Nick doesn’t behave like a grieving husband. He avoids simple questions and repeatedly lies about his marriage, and soon enough, the public decides that he might be the person responsible for Amy’s disappearance. The novel unfolds through Nick’s account of the investigation and entries from Amy’s diary, which trace their relationship from an exciting New York romance to an increasingly unhappy marriage. At first, Amy’s memories appear to explain what Nick is hiding.

However, the details in their stories do not always match, and both narrators carefully control what they allow the reader to see. The result is a mystery where the reader doesn’t know who to trust, and their loyalties are always shifting. That’s what makes Gone Girl more than just a missing-person mystery. The book is a chilling examination of the institution of marriage and the pretenses people operate under when they are falling in love. The story is dark, funny, uncomfortable, and impossible to predict. Gone Girl turns a troubled marriage into psychological warfare in a way that still feels fresh.

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‘Red Dragon’ (1981)

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Thomas Harris’ Red Dragon follows former FBI profiler Will Graham, who retired after nearly losing his life while capturing Hannibal Lecter. Graham has an unusual ability to understand how killers think, but that talent comes at a high cost. Entering their minds has left him physically scarred, mentally exhausted, and afraid of how easily he can recognize their impulses within himself. The premise picks up when two families are murdered in their homes under disturbingly similar circumstances, and FBI agent Jack Crawford asks Graham to return for one final investigation. The killer, nicknamed the Tooth Fairy by the press, appears to choose his victims at random and plans his attacks around the full moon. In a race against time, Graham begins studying crime scenes, home videos, and the smallest behavioral details in search of a pattern.

When the investigation stalls, he reluctantly turns to Lecter, while knowing that asking for his help also gives the imprisoned killer another opportunity to manipulate him. Lecter is not the novel’s main villain, though. That role belongs to Francis Dolarhyde, a deeply disturbed man who believes he is transforming into the Great Red Dragon depicted in a William Blake painting. Harris spends a surprising amount of time inside Dolarhyde’s mind to show how childhood abuse, shame, and violence shaped him. The author does not excuse his crimes, but turns him into a far more unsettling character than a faceless murderer. This psychological depth separates Red Dragon from a standard serial-killer thriller. The investigation is tense and carefully detailed, but the novel becomes truly frightening when it forces readers to examine the darkness humans hide within themselves.

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‘And Then There Were None’ (1939)

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Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None is a classic whodunit that brings ten strangers to an isolated mansion on Soldier Island. Each person has received a different invitation, yet none of them has actually met the mysterious host. Soon after their arrival, a recorded voice accuses every guest of being responsible for someone’s death. Before the group can understand what is happening, one of them suddenly dies. That’s not all, though. The guests soon realize that the deaths appear to be following the lines of a disturbing nursery rhyme displayed throughout the house. The bad weather cuts off their only route back to the mainland, and the group desperately begins searching the island for their absent host.

However, when they find no one else, they start to wonder whether the killer is one of them. That is where the story’s suspense comes from. The readers know that there is no detective coming to solve the case, and that no character can be fully trusted. Every new death reduces the number of suspects while also increasing the danger for everyone left alive. It’s easy to see how many modern books and films have borrowed this exact formula, but as they say, the first time is the charm.

When DC Studios first announced Lanterns, one comparison immediately dominated the conversation. The upcoming HBO series was pitched as “True Detective with Green Lanterns,” promising a grounded mystery centered on Hal Jordan and John Stewart that stood apart from the larger cosmic adventures typically associated with the Corps. That description has followed the show ever since, helping define expectations ahead of its August premiere.

According to co-creator Tom King, however, that comparison only tells part of the story. While Lanterns still delivers the detective drama he first envisioned alongside DC Studios co-heads James Gunn and Peter Safran, the series ultimately grew into something much larger, embracing more of Green Lantern’s mythology than he ever expected.

During an interview at San Diego Comic-Con conducted by Collider’s Perri Nemiroff, King reflected on seeing footage from the series during the Hall H presentation. Looking back on the creative process, he said he was struck by how closely the finished show matched the pitch he first brought to Gunn and Safran.

“I was just in Hall H watching the scenes, and it looked like the scenes that were exactly in my mind when I first was in a room with James Gunn and Peter Safran. It was like a True Detective, Training Day, but with Green Lanterns.”

Tom King Says ‘Lanterns’ Expanded Beyond His Original Vision

While that central concept remained unchanged, King revealed the series continued evolving throughout development in ways he never anticipated.

“Actually, believe it or not, it’s a little more cosmic than I thought it would be. It’s a little more Green Lanterns, a little more lore. There’s, like, six different twists that I didn’t think… I thought it would be more of a straight arrow. They just kept adding layers of both emotion and action as we went along, and I think that’s fantastic. They did episode elevation as they went.”

King’s comments suggest fans shouldn’t expect Lanterns to remain confined to a grounded detective story from beginning to end. The mystery may provide the foundation, but as the season progresses, viewers can apparently expect a deeper dive into Green Lantern lore, a broader cosmic scope, and plenty of surprises along the way. That’s welcome news for longtime Green Lantern fans who hoped the series would embrace the mythology beyond its crime-thriller premise. If King’s description is any indication, Lanterns won’t abandon the grounded tone that first sold audiences on the project. Instead, it appears to use that foundation as a launching point before expanding into a story that feels much more at home within the wider Green Lantern universe.

Lanterns premieres on HBO and HBO Max on August 16. Check back with Collider for more San Diego Comic-Con news throughout the weekend.

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Reality star Khloé Kardashian started taking over movie time with her Khloud popcorn brand, and now she’s taking over the snack aisle with her new Khloud chips, available in three flavors: Nacho, Buffalo, and Sweet Heat. The Blast has already reviewed the Buffalo flavor, the first one that we could get our hands on, and broke down how much protein you’re really getting per serving. Now that we’ve got our hands on the Nacho flavor, we’re comparing it to that craveable red bag of Doritos that was a staple on the schoolyard. Do Khloud chips provide a better adult-friendly snack that stands up against OG nacho chips? That’s what we set out to uncover!

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The first thing I want to unpack about the Nacho Khloud chips is taste, because when I was digging into the bag of Buffalo Khloud chips, I went straight to the Nutrition Facts. The nacho chips were far and away better than the Buffalo chips. The tomato powder and dried onion definitely gave these chips a taste similar to Doritos, while the yeast extract gave me that powdery, stick-to-your-finger goodness you need when eating a chip like this.

I think Nacho Cheese Doritos have the slight edge in flavor for two reasons. One: nostalgia. It’s hard to beat the taste of something that’s been ingrained in your taste buds since childhood. The second? The Khloud chips have whey in the seasoning. It doesn’t leave much of an aftertaste – unlike erythritol or many “fake sugars” out there – but it does alter the taste profile a bit to give Doritos just a bit of an edge in the competition.

What Is In A Bag Of Nacho Khloud Chips?

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Aside from the obvious answer of “chips” here are the ingredients: avocado oil, corn, pea protein, seasoning (whey, cheddar cheese milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], salt, tomato powder, dried onion, natural flavors, yeast extract, spice, citric acid, paprika extract color, Romano cheese [milk cheese cultures, salt, enzymes]), calcium carbonate.

Although these are gluten-free, they are not vegetarian, vegan, or suitable for those who are lactose intolerant, as they do contain milk. According to the website, they are also kosher, non-GMO, made with whole grains, and contain no seed oils.

Breaking Down The Nutrition Facts

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Looking for a reason to grab these at the store instead of a standard bag of Doritos? Well, it has a lot more protein, for one. Protein-enhanced snacks seem to be lining grocery store shelves these days, and these bags are no exception. One serving – which contains 13 chips/30 grams – contains 7 grams of protein. The entire bag has 4.5 servings, which means the bag contains 31.5 grams of protein.

The bag also lists 170 calories per serving, which means that if you eat the entire bag in one sitting (please don’t), it will total 765 calories. If you’re really looking to up your protein intake, a standard protein shake usually provides about 25 grams of protein for about 150 calories, depending on what else you add. So if you’re watching your calories while trying to increase your protein intake, this might not be the best choice.

The contributed photos show exactly how many chips you get per serving.

How Do Khloé Kardashian’s Nacho Khloud Chips Compare To Doritos Nacho Cheese?

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So now that we’ve gotten the nutrition facts for Khloud chips out of the way, let’s turn to Doritos Nacho Cheese. According to the website, one bag has 9 servings per container and contains 11 chips (28 grams). Calories are listed as 150 per serving, which means one bag has 1,350 calories – much higher than Khloud chips.

One bag has only 2 grams of protein, so the entire bag provides 18 grams (again, if you were to eat it all in one sitting). It’s also worth noting that while Khloud chips aren’t the best low-carb choice with 9 grams of carbs per serving, Doritos are almost double that with 17 grams per serving.

And while the Doritos also declares that it’s made with milk, it can’t guarantee that it’s gluten-free. It also contains various seed oils, like vegetable oil and/or canola oil and/or soybean oil and/or sunflower oil, as well as other ingredients like corn maltodextrin, dextrose, and artificial colors.

So Which One Should You Leave The Grocery Store With?

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Well, first, let’s be clear about something. No snack aisle chip is ever going to be “healthy” for you. If you’re looking to clean up your diet but you’re not ready to give up your favorite snack foods, Nacho Khloud chips are a pretty good substitute. The taste difference is minimal, and as you can see from the nutrition facts, they provide fewer calories, fewer carbs, and more protein per serving.

If you’re just looking to fill up the snack bowl at a party, then Doritos is without a doubt the budget-friendly option. That being said, if you have people who might be following a gluten-free diet and want to provide a safer option (since Doritos can’t guarantee that they’re totally gluten-free and might contain cross-contamination that would make it dangerous for someone with celiac disease to consume), then Nacho Khloud chips provide a better-for-you option that is not only safe to consume, but a little lighter on calories.

And lighter on calories means only one thing: you get to eat more dip!

CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins seemingly clapped back at President Donald Trump for attacking her at the rescheduled White House Correspondents Dinner.

Collins, 34, shared an empowering quote from former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt via her Instagram Story on Saturday, July 25, which read, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

Her response came less than 24 hours after Trump, 80, publicly mocked her during his inflammatory remarks at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Washington, D.C., on Friday, July 24.

Trump set up his joke by referencing that Collins was being honored at the ceremony for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure for her coverage of his contentious Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Related: President Donald Trump Criticizes CNN’s Kaitlan Collins for Not Smiling

President Donald Trump once again criticized CNN’s chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins during an Oval Office press conference on Wednesday, June 3. Trump, 79, called CNN “a very corrupt organization” before taking aim at Collins, 34, who was in attendance for the press briefing. Pointing to Collins, he described the journalist as “a corrupt […]

“I want to personally congratulate CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on receiving her award. It was all about me. It’s a fake — she shouldn’t get the award, it was a fake,” he insisted. “But I don’t mind, I said, ‘Kaitlan, congratulations.’ But it was fake, there’s no question about it.”

Trump then compared Collins to trans actress and activist Dylan Mulvaney, whose 2023 advertising campaign with Bud Light was condemned by right-wing politicians and influencers. The president’s remarks have been widely condemned as transphobic.

“[Collins is] a young, attractive woman. She never smiles,” Trump said. “I said, ‘Kaitlan, do you ever smile? Smile. You have a nice position, you’re at CNN fake news, you should be a happy person. So smile, Kaitlan, just smile.”

He then quipped, “I thought Kaitlan had really made it big with a major new sponsorship, but then I informed her that it wasn’t her on the Bud Light can, it was Dylan Mulvaney.”

On Saturday, Mulvaney, 29, seemingly responded to the outrage over Trump’s tirade by re-sharing Collins’ Eleanor Roosevelt quote via her own Instagram Story.

For her part, Collins also posted a strong statement of support from her employers at CNN.

“Kaitlan Collins is an exceptional, trusted journalist being honored tonight for her depth of knowledge and the context she provides to audiences all over the world,” the network said. “She reports every day from the White House and the field with real strength and tenacity and skillfully brings that reporting to the anchor chair and CNN platforms every day. We stand by her to the fullest extent.”

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Friday’s White House Correspondents Dinner was rescheduled and moved to the Waldorf Astoria hotel after the original ceremony was interrupted by gunfire outside the main ballroom of the Washington Hilton on April 25. Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance and other administration officials were rushed out of the ballroom as a safety precaution.

Shooting suspect Cole Tomas Allen was captured alive by the Secret Service and later charged with one count of attempting to assassinate the President of the United States, transportation of a firearm and ammunition in interstate commerce with intent to commit a felony, and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence, per the Justice Department.

Allen, 31, pleaded not guilty to the federal charges during a hearing in Washington D.C. on May 11.

It might not have come as a surprise to many, but most were still taken aback by the recent news that Doctor Who had been put out to competitive tender. This came following a disastrous second tenure for now-former showrunner Russell T. Davies, which saw an ambitious partnership with Disney end in controversy. Ncuti Gatwa‘s new titular Time Lord showed plenty of promise, but off-screen issues cut his time on board the TARDIS short in one of the most divisive finales in the timey-wimey show’s history.

Sadly, news of Doctor Who‘s spiritual cancellation, which “was not taken lightly,” according to a BBC statement, also revealed that the once-promised 2026 Christmas special and hunt for a new star were never true, further hurting the show’s reputation with its die-hard fanbase. But Doctor Who fans are no strangers to controversy, especially considering that the second Davies era, which saw many beloved faces return to the show, was an attempt to rectify the ratings-killer few years under the helm of Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall.

Following the recent news regarding Doctor Who‘s immediate future, Chibnall himself broke his silence during an interview with BBC Radio Wales. He admitted that the decision was “definitely disappointing,” adding, “I probably had the same reaction as everybody else did. I think it’s a shame that it’s not going to be on for a while.” However, Chibnall has hope that the show will return in a better place, saying, “I hope they’ve got good plans to bring it back. It’s an amazing idea. It’s an amazing series. Hopefully, they’ll find people who, you know, reinvent it for the next generation of kids.” He continued:

“I feel sad for the kids who are not going to have a Doctor for a little while because I think that’s always the amazing thing, when you work on the show, you cast a Doctor and you know that that Doctor is going to be quite a lot of people’s first Doctor. And your first Doctor is a bit like your first love. I think if you watch Doctor Who, it’s a real connection and it’s there for life. So I think it’s a shame it’s not going to be on the air. It’s not the best thing but hopefully people are going to be working to bring it back.”

The BBC Has Finally Responded to ‘Doctor Who’s Cancellation

Although Chibnall’s opinion on the matter is definitely eye-opening, given that he has felt the fury of Whovians before, it was the BBC’s reply that many were waiting for. Incoming Director General of the BBC, Matt Brittin, finally spoke on the issue last week, saying, “That’s a show that has regenerated multiple times in its 60-plus year history, and we’ll do so again.” He added, “I think that’s one of the great things about the 100-year history of the BBC. We can do that, and we can creatively renew shows that people love, and we’ll be working hard on that right now.”

You can stream the most recent Doctor Who seasons on Disney+. Stay tuned to Collider for the latest updates.

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