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It’s the dawning of a new era of the friend sitcom and Adults Season 2 is going for it. We bring the gang together to answer our most asked questions, read each other for filth and maybe learn the truth about the cast, behind the scenes.
Featuring: Jack Innanen (Paul Baker), Amita Rao (Issa), Owen Thiele (Anton), Lucy Freyer (Billie) and Malik Elassal (Samir)
Jacob Elordi’s latest movie, “The Dog Stars,” has failed to make an impression at the box office during its opening weekend.
Despite the actor’s growing popularity following movies like “Wuthering Heights” and “Frankenstein,” his star power couldn’t help boost the film’s performance.
“The Dog Stars” earned just $8 million during its opening weekend, falling far short of its more than $80 million production budget.
“The Dog Stars” failed to attract a large audience during its opening weekend, despite being led by one of Hollywood’s rising stars, Jacob Elordi.
The film was shown in about 3,330 theaters across North America but brought in only $8 million during its first weekend in cinemas. This placed it fifth on the domestic box-office chart, behind several competing releases, including “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” and “Coyote vs. Acme.”
Expectations were higher given its $80 million budget and the fact that it was helmed by Ridley Scott. However, Scott’s presence, like Elordi’s, failed to translate into strong box-office numbers.
Online, some viewers who reviewed the movie shared their disappointment with its plot.
“It just didn’t really go anywhere, first hour I was in, but the second hour it lost complete control. If anything, it was a post-apocalyptic love story,” one wrote.
“I don’t know how a decent story from the book can be so poorly represented in a film,” another individual shared.
“DOG STARS is the kind of post-apocalyptic flick you’ll instantly forget,” someone else stated. “Despite being one of my favorite genres, it makes a series of underwhelming choices and has absolutely nothing new to say. Ridley Scott is on cruise control.”
“The Dog Stars” is adapted from Peter Heller’s 2012 novel and follows a lone survivor living with his dog at an abandoned airport after an apocalyptic event. His isolated existence takes a turn when he discovers a mysterious radio signal and sets out to find its source, all while struggling to secure food and other essential supplies.
While the film explores familiar post-apocalyptic themes, it takes a different approach by leaving out the zombies often seen in the genre.
Elordi leads the cast as the film’s central character, with Margaret Qualley, Josh Brolin, Guy Pearce, Allison Janney, and Benedict Wong also appearing in key roles.
“The Dog Stars’” weak debut also draws comparisons to Scott’s 2021 historical drama “The Last Duel,” which opened with just $4.7 million in October that year despite a production budget of roughly $100 million.
At the time, Scott claimed that Disney had done a fantastic job promoting “The Last Duel.” He then blamed millennials for the movie’s poor performance, citing their alleged ignorance of history.
“I think what it boils down to [is] what we’ve got today [are] the audiences who were brought up on these fucking cell phones. The millennials do not ever want to be taught anything unless you are told it on the cell phone,” Scott said.
“The Dog Stars” marks the first collaboration between Elordi and veteran director Scott. For now, there is no indication that the two intend to work together again, and the film’s disappointing box-office performance could make another collaboration even less likely.
However, both are already moving on to other projects following their first collaboration.
Elordi is in talks to take on a lead role in A24’s upcoming thriller “Scapegoat.” If he joins the project, he is expected to star alongside former Marvel star Scarlett Johansson.
Meanwhile, Scott recently revealed that he is “rewriting the next Alien film,” which will likely serve as the last installment in the iconic sci-fi franchise.
Pedro Pascal was arguably the first big star to emerge from Star Wars’ Disney+ era as he took on the role of Din Djarin in The Mandalorian, primarily providing the voice of the titular helmet-wearing character. Pascal has played Din since 2019, across three seasons of the series before making the jump to the big screen with The Mandalorian and Grogu. However, Disney+ is already bringing the beloved character back for another adventure, without Pedro Pascal.
Disney has confirmed that Gavin Hammon will replace Pascal as the voice of Din Djarin in LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian, which arrives on Disney+ today. The animated special will offer a comedic LEGO retelling of memorable moments from all three seasons of The Mandalorian, with Hammon providing the voice of its helmeted hero. What makes this particularly notable, though, is that Pascal seems to be the only member of the main cast who isn’t actually reprising their role from the television series. Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica), Emily Swallow (Supernatural), Ming-Na Wen (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Rosario Dawson (Ahsoka), Temuera Morrison (The Book of Boba Fett), and Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad) are all reprising their roles for the special.
Hammon taking over the LEGO version of Din Djarin doesn’t mean Pascal has finished playing the character in live action. During the press tour for The Mandalorian and Grogu press tour earlier this year, Pascal made it clear that he was willing to continue for as long as audiences wanted him: “You know, age is a real thing… Whatever my body can do, and however long people want to experience these stories with these characters, is how long I want it to last.”
Pascal separately said that he hoped there would be a “next chapter” for Din and Grogu, arguing that there was still plenty of potential left in the characters and the corner of the Star Wars universe created by Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni. His absence from the LEGO special also isn’t entirely unprecedented for the character. During The Mandalorian, stunt performers Brendan Wayne and Lateef Crowder regularly wore Din Djarin’s armor for action sequences and when Pascal wasn’t physically available, with Pascal providing the character’s voice.
LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian and The Mandalorian and Grogu arrive on Disney+ today. Stay tuned at Collider for more.
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Rick Famuyiwa, Bryce Dallas Howard, Dave Filoni, Carl Weathers, Peyton Reed, Deborah Chow, Jon Favreau, Peter Ramsey, Robert Rodriguez, Taika Waititi, Lee Isaac Chung
Alexandra Grant is facing questions over whether her latest museum project really benefited the female writers whose work it featured. Critics have questioned whether the exhibition gave those writers a bigger platform or drew more attention to Keanu Reeves‘ longtime girlfriend herself. The scrutiny grew after several participating writers reportedly said the project was less collaborative than they expected and raised concerns about the fees they were initially offered.
Keanu Reeves’ longtime partner, Alexandra Grant, is facing criticism over an art project that was promoted as amplifying female writers’ voices.
German art magazine Monopol questioned whether Grant’s “One Star Is Enough to Believe in the Light” exhibition at Neues Museum Nürnberg actually empowered the writers whose work it incorporated. The outlet argued that several of the contemporary German-language authors featured were already established figures who hardly needed Grant’s introduction to an audience.
That framing became a central point of contention because the project positioned Grant as someone helping bring overlooked female voices into the museum space. Monopol pushed back on that idea. The outlet pointed out that Fatma Aydemir, Rasha Khayat, Olivia Wenzel, and Pauline Füg were already accomplished writers with established careers, major publications, and industry recognition.
Monopol’s criticism of Grant went further. According to the publication, Füg, Khayat, and Wenzel said the dialogue, or “ping-pong,” process they expected with Grant never materialized.
The authors also reportedly said Grant characterized the exhibition as a low-budget project and initially offered only small fees for use of their texts.
The magazine contrasted those claims with the exhibition’s high-profile opening, which Reeves attended, and questioned whether his star power ultimately drew more attention to Grant than the participating writers. Monopol reported that she later increased the authors’ fees and secured additional usage rights following negotiations.
Months before Monopol published its criticism, Grant had already outlined the thinking behind the Nuremberg exhibition.
In a June interview with ELLE, she said the show would feature eight women connected to the German language, spanning from a medieval nun to contemporary writers. Grant described the project as an examination of how women had shaped themselves through literature and writing over time.
She also said the exhibition would present their voices through her paintings on paper and spoke broadly about the struggles women faced across different eras.
Grant’s own description of the exhibition offers a broader view of what she appeared to be trying to do.
In her chat with ELLE before the show opened, she described a project spanning centuries of women’s writing, with each voice interpreted through her visual work. That framing suggests the exhibition was not simply about introducing unknown writers to the public.
An author need not be obscure for an artist to bring her work to a different audience or to explore it through another medium. Grant also openly acknowledged Aydemir’s stature before the controversy emerged, calling her a distinguished novelist and playwright.
Grant also recently offered a rare glimpse into what has kept her relationship with Reeves going strong.
Speaking to PEOPLE in May, the artist said “mutual respect” is key to how the couple navigates both their personal and creative lives. She explained that they can spend as long as necessary discussing problems, challenges, or ideas while still giving each other room to work independently.
That understanding extends to Reeves’ acting career. Grant joked that she has “lived with John Wick” and “lived with Neo,” referring to two of his most famous roles. She said she respects the intense process when Reeves is immersed in a character and compared it to entering her own “painter mode.”
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The show’s 34th season was one of the most popular in years.
Rebecca Louise has revealed that after a year of marriage, she and Blueface‘s dad, Johnathan Porter, are getting a divorce.
Earlier this week, Rebecca Louise took to her Instagram account to share an apparently AI-generated flyer showing her and Johnathan Porter. Furthermore, the flyer featured the headline, “DIVORCED.” In addition, the flyer read, “SOMETIMES ENDING A CHAPTER IS THE ONLY WAY TO START A NEW ONE… AFTER CAREFUL THOUGHT & PRAYER, WE HAVE MADE A DECISION TO GO OUR SEPARATE WAYS… WE REMAIN RESPECTFUL OF ONE ANOTHER AND WILL CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON OUR INDIVIDUAL GROWTH AND PEACE.”
Social media users slid in Rebecca Louise’s Instagram comments with reactions to the divorce news.
Instagram user @_waviest99 wrote, “This the reason it’s so hot outside 😂”
While Instagram user @netgeniuskid added, “Not the chatgpt flyer 😂😂😂😂”
Instagram user @official_drip_on_a_budget wrote, “I thought this was a party flyer”
While Instagram user @lizzielovve added, “It’s the ‘Ai content’ for me lol 😂”
Instagram user @donaldgowens wrote, “Diabolical 😂😂😂😂”
While Instagram user @eatdacake_annamae added, “He was talkn trash on Blues stream today”
Instagram user @sagittariusbabe39 wrote, “Spill the tea 👀”
While Instagram user @cocodryps_tea added, “His loss ❤️❤️❤️”
As The Shade Room previously reported, in February 2025, Johnathan Porter tied the knot with Rebecca Louise in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the Lucky Little Wedding Chapel.
In a circulating social media post, Blueface’s dad seemed to allude to speculated infidelity being the cause of their split.
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Joseline Hernandez isn’t backing down from exposing how Stevie J allegedly doesn’t contribute to caring for their daughter, Bonnie Bella. And Benzino is part of the reason Joseline is speaking out! She shared heated words for Zino after he appeared to defend Stevie and blast the Puerto Rican Princess for discussing child support with her nine-year-old.
This week, clips circulated from Joseline’s new reality show, showing her and Bonnie chattin’ openly about what some would call “grown folks business.” In one video, for instance, Bonnie says Joseline told her what a “stripper” does for work. Hernandez admits she wants to keep Bella from finding out about her past on the internet or at school. During that same conversation, the mother and daughter discussed how involved Stevie J is. Bonnie Bella tells her mom that she thinks he’s both a good dad and not a good dad. The nine-year-old said sometimes her dad wants to see her, making him good. Other times, she believes he lies about having to end calls for meetings. Joseline added to Bonnie’s reasoning, alleging that Stevie J doesn’t give them any money. “He don’t give us a dollar. Your school is so expensive. He doesn’t even have the decency to call and say, ” Hey, do y’all need some money over there?” Hernandez said.
As the Joseline and Bonnie Bella clips circulated, Benzino hopped online to share his two cents. He shared his stance against Hernandez being so open with her nine-year-old. Zino mentioned that the girl shouldn’t know about her past as a stripper. He said it’s an inappropriate conversation for Bonnie’s age, calling her “way too young.” However, Benzino said the “real issue” is Joseline speaking about Stevie J not giving them any money.
“This is a real problem in our community, where the mother paints this narrative of the father because the father is not with the mother anymore. And she’s filling Bonnie Bella’s head up with this narrative…as they get older they start resenting their father and I just think that is wrong.”
Benzino said that Joseline should tell the whole story if she’s going to tell anything. “…without Stevie her career wouldn’t be where it is and that’s just a fact,” he added. He then appeared to speak to her directly, telling her to stop trying to paint a “bad father” picture without full context. He also challenged women to take accountability in the chaos and emphasize that without Stevie J there would be no Joseline Hernandez or ‘Love & Hip Hop.’
“I don’t like to sit back and watch somebody bash someone’s father to a child who’s 10 years old. I thought that was very inappropriate and a lot of y’all who’s cosigning it, y’all need your head examined…cause it wasn’t cool.”
After The Shade Room reposted Benzino’s comments on Instagram, Joseline didn’t hold back on the degree of her insult. She implied that Zino was performing fellatio on Stevie J, writing in the comment section, “Omg I see some of Stevie j [nut emoticon] on the side of his mouth. Someone give him a washcloth.”
TSR reposted her comment on IG again. This time, Joseline slid into the comment section to double down on her narrative that her daughter’s biological father does not contribute financially to caring for Bonnie Bella. She called him disgusting and suggested that deadbeat dads should be locked up.
“That lame Stevie hasn’t gave me a 1$ dollar for Bonnie since she’s been born I don’t talk bad about him to Bonnie’Bella at all. But you not going to tell me I can’t ask my daughter how she feels about anything. Stevie been doing that. No one feelings are valid except his feelings. Stevie needs a job and needs to provide for his children period. Not just Bonnie’Bella but all his 8 or 9 kids that he has. He is a disgusting human being. That girl eat, dresses, hair, insurance, school, and activities and he has never payed a dollar for anything. Smh. These DEAD BEATS need Jail time.”
At this time, Stevie J has not publicly weighed in on what Joseline is alleging or how Benzino appeared to come to his defense.
What Do You Think Roomies?
GenreFantasy, Adventure, Drama
December 25, 2026
Mark Mylod
Dominic McLaughlin, Arabella Stanton, Alastair Stout, John Lithgow, Janet McTeer, Paapa Essiedu, Nick Frost, Luke Thallon, Paul Whitehouse
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone follows young Harry Potter as he discovers that he is a wizard and is invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. There, Harry forms friendships with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, learns about the magical world, and begins uncovering secrets surrounding his past and the dark forces that threaten his new life.
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Jodeci’s Mr. Dalvin is asking fans to send prayers for TLC’s T-Boz after it was revealed that she is experiencing a sickle cell anemia flare-up. The ‘Cry For You’ artist shared the request in an Instagram video.
Dalvin DeGrate, also known as Jodeci singer Mr. Dalvin, asked fans for prayers on Monday. The TLC singer, whose real name is Tionne Tenese Watkins, reportedly missed a performance on Sunday, August 27, at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in New York. Subsequently, Chilli performed solo.
Sickle cell anemia causes misshapen red blood cells that affect the hemoglobin molecule, leading to blocked blood flow to the rest of the body. Symptoms may include sudden onset episodes of pain, chronic pain, stroke, lung problems, eye problems, infections, and kidney disease.
Mr. Dalvin took to Instagram to ask fans to pray for T-Boz amid her health setback.
“Praying for u @therealtboz 🙏🏾🙏🏾 we love u dearly ❤️ #God1st #snakekilla🔪🐍 #mrdalvin #jodeci.,” he wrote.
Roomies were quick to offer prayers and send T-Boz well-wishes for a speedy recovery after seeing the video.
User @yellow_dymond wrote, “Awwl T Boz wishing you a speedy recovery.. sickle cell sucks.”
Additionally, @ericbellinger added, “Praying!!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾.”
User @gingging7 replied, “By His Stripes TBoz Is Healed In The Name Of Jesus 🙏🏽🙏🏽 ~Isaiah 53:5.”
@ayymanman noted, “Lord, cover her today and always . Protect her, guide her, and keep her blessed 🙏🏾❤️.”
In addition, user @lowcarbiebarbie.nene replied, “The goat 🐐 🙏💕 get well soon!”
User @chefsonyamo added, “Praying 🙏🏾 for a speedy recovery ❤️🩹.”
Furthermore, @simply_un4gettable exclaimed, “Lord have mercy we can’t take no more!! 😫😫😫.”
User @junction_ent replied, “🙏🏿 my fav TLC member. God cover her!”
While @bri.ni wrote, “Oh NO!!!! 🥺 Hang in there, T!!! Sending you positive and healing energy! ✨️🙏🏽.”
User @only1divinity added, “That’s a true friend! Sending prayers and healing energy & strength to T Boz! She’s been fighting for such a long time!”
@ryanshanell_86 noted, “She has sickle cell ❤️🙏🏽 prayers for my fellow warrior !! And September is sickle cell awareness month 🥹🥹.”
T-Boz was diagnosed with sickle cell anemia when she was 7, and she talked about living with the disease in her 2017 memoir, ‘A Sick Life — TLC ‘n Me: Stories from On and Off the Stage,’ according to PEOPLE.
The singer was told that she would not live past 30, and today, she is 56.
“I looked around,” she recalled. “Who was he talking about? I was going to be a famous performer. He was clearly mistaken.”
Not only was she told that she would die before she was 30, but T-Boz was also told that she couldn’t have children. However, she had her daughter, Chase Rolison, in 2000 with now-ex-husband Dedrick Mack 10 Rolison.
Watkins added that the disease is something she has to worry about daily, and the pain sometimes makes her “delirious.”
“I have to worry about it every day of my life,” she said to PEOPLE in 2017. “You can be in so much pain you get delirious…. My life, my sick life has been tinged with illness. But I refuse to be defined by it.”
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Mandy Moore’s 5-year-old son, Gus, is among the top listeners of her 1999 breakthrough hit, “Candy.”
“I don’t know how or why, because I would not play that for him, but now he wants to hear it in the car,” Moore, 42, told People in an interview published Tuesday, September 1. “I’ve had to put a moratorium on it. I’m like, ‘Bud, I don’t want to hear it every day.’”
Whenever Gus asks Moore why they can’t listen to “Candy,” the This Is Us alum merely explains that the track is “just not [her] favorite.”
“Hearing it every once in a while is a total fun little bop and stroll down memory lane,” she acknowledged. “He’s like, ‘I’m the same age that you were when you made that song.’ I was like, ‘No, you’re 5, but you are closer, probably, to that age than I am to that age.’ It’s pretty funny that he can make that distinction.”
Mandy Moore and Taylor Goldsmith are the proud parents of three kids — and they’ve been giving the world a glimpse into their family life ever since baby Gus was born in 2021. “Gus is here,” Moore shared via social media in February 2021. “Our sweet boy, August Harrison Goldsmith. He was punctual and arrived […]
In addition to Gus, Moore shares son Ozzie, 3, and daughter Louise, 2, with musician husband Taylor Goldsmith. Gus, in particular, has already begun to follow both of his parents’ musical footsteps.
“We have a little songwriter in our midst. Our oldest has already written his first album,” she teased to People. “There’s nine songs. It’s only 21 minutes long, but he wants to listen to it in the car.”
Per Moore, Gus’ debut unreleased album was recorded via her and Goldsmith’s smartphones. The Dawes performer, 41, even played piano in the background.
“[Gus] makes up these songs, and then he wants to listen back to them. It’s so much fun,” Moore gushed. “He’s definitely inspired by Dad, for sure.”
Mandy Moore has learned a lot of life lessons from her sons, Gus and Ozzie, over the years. “My boys have taught me everything,” Moore, 40, exclusively reveals in the latest issue of Us Weekly while promoting her partnership with Eucerin’s various skincare products. “It’s like the cliche that every parent mentions, where your life […]
Moore and Goldsmith are content with their family of five, recently coming to the realization that they were done expanding their brood further.
“I’m at the OBGYN getting a checkup … I am endlessly grateful for my beautiful family,” Moore wrote via her Instagram Stories in January. “AND there’s a certain sadness knowing I’m done having babies and won’t be pregnant again.”
Moore gave birth to Louise in 2024 when she was in her early 40s.
“I think, at least in my experience, so many of my friends are having kids later in life, whether it’s by choice or it’s by circumstance or biology,” she said on the “Not Gonna Lie” podcast in July 2025. “I think the thing that I had the most trouble with is just like this system in general kind of treating us as this anomaly that we’re too old and we’re too complicated or high risk, and really, it’s like, ‘Nope, we’re just human beings.’”
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