Brendan Fraser in PressureImage via Universal Pictures
Fans of World War II-era movies and television are spoiled for choice at home, with several titles on offer. The History Channel’s epic documentary series World War II with Tom Hanks has completed its 20-episode run and is now available to watch in its entirety. According to FlixPatrol, it’s among the most popular shows on the domestic iTunes and Amazon charts as we speak. More recently, the thriller filmLucky Strike, starring Scott Eastwood and Colin Hanks, emerged as one of the top titles on the same platforms; it’s still among the top 10 a week after its home-video debut. However, the best-received project of the lot is a nail-biting fact-based movie that emerged as a sleeper hit in theaters before conquering the streaming charts.
The movie stars Brendan Fraser and Andrew Scott, and follows a British meteorologist’s race against time to convince the American president to delay the Allied invasion of Europe by one day. The decision altered the course of history, and was instrumental in the defeat of the Nazis. The movie grossed more than $15 million in its domestic run, which began on May 29. This exceeds the domestic total of last year’s Nuremberg, starring Russell Crowe and Rami Malek. Like that movie, the 2026 sleeper hit holds an impeccable 95% audience score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, which has no doubt contributed to its continued success at home.
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Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
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🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
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The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
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Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
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Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
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Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
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No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
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The WWII Hit Recently Debuted on Peacock
We’re talking, of course, about director Anthony Maras‘ Pressure, which is among the most-watched movies on the domestic Peacock chart. The film holds a “Certified Fresh” 87% score on Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “Finding a fresh angle on one of the most dramatized days in military history, Pressure is a brainy war film that derives most of its thrills from Andrew Scott’s simmering performance.” Fraser made a return to prominence with an Oscar-winning performance in the drama film The Whale, while Scott is already being touted as a frontrunner at next year’s Academy Awards, for the upcoming biopic Elsinore. You can watch Pressure at home, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
Alicia Vikander at a fancy dinner table in The Green KnightImage via A24
One of the most exciting movies currently in production is The Peasant, a period epic filmed on location in the mountains and deserts of India with Dev Patel at the helm. It’s a revenge saga about a shepherd who seeks vengeance against the knights who killed his family, described as a combination of Braveheart and John Wick. Patel made his directorial debut with another John Wick-adjacent movie, Monkey Man, which was released in theaters a few years ago. Patel has worked with some of the most talented filmmakers in his acting career, and he seems to be applying all the knowledge and experience he has gained to directing. Among his most memorable recent movies was another epic in which he played a man on a quest.
The movie in question is currently streaming on Netflix in the United States, but only for a little while longer. It was directed by David Loweryand released theatrically in 2021 by A24; the same outfit that’s producing Patel’s upcoming film. The 2021 film’s cast included Alicia Vikander, Ralph Ineson, Sean Harris, and Joel Edgerton. While it wasn’t a breakout hit at the box office — the movie grossed $20 million against a reported budget of $15 million, primarily because the theatrical market hadn’t fully recovered back then — it received positive reviews and has gone on to develop a cult following.
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Collider Exclusive · Middle-earth Quiz Which Lord of the Rings Character Are You? One Quiz · Ten Questions · Your Fate Revealed
The road goes ever on. From the green hills of the Shire to the fires of Mount Doom, every soul in Middle-earth carries a destiny. Ten questions stand between you and the truth of who you are. Answer honestly — the One Ring has a way of revealing what we most want to hide.
💍Frodo
🌿Samwise
👑Aragorn
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🔥Gandalf
🏹Legolas
⚒️Gimli
👁️Sauron
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🪨Gollum
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You are handed a responsibility that could destroy you. What do you do? The weight of the world falls on unlikely shoulders.
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Your closest companion is heading into terrible danger. You: True loyalty is revealed not in comfort, but in crisis.
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Enormous power is within your reach. Your instinct is: Power corrupts — but only those who reach for it.
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What does “home” mean to you? Where we long to return reveals who we truly are.
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When a battle is upon you, your approach is: War reveals what we are made of — whether we like it or not.
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Someone comes to you for advice in their darkest hour. You: Wisdom is not knowing all the answers — it’s knowing which questions to ask.
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How do you see yourself, honestly? Self-knowledge is the most dangerous kind.
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Which of these best describes your relationship with the natural world? Middle-earth speaks to those who know how to listen.
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You encounter a wretched, pitiable creature who has done terrible things. You: How we treat the fallen reveals the height of our character.
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When the quest is over and the songs are sung, what do you hope they say about you? In the end, we are all just stories.
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The Fellowship Has Spoken Your Place in Middle-earth
The scores below reveal your true character. Your highest number is your match. Even a tie tells a story — the Fellowship was never made of simple people.
💍 Frodo
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🌿 Samwise
👑 Aragorn
🔥 Gandalf
🏹 Legolas
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⚒️ Gimli
👁️ Sauron
🪨 Gollum
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You carry something heavy — and you carry it alone, even when you don’t have to. You were not born for greatness, and that is precisely why greatness chose you. Your courage is not the roaring, sword-swinging kind; it is quiet, stubborn, and terrifying in its refusal to quit. The Ring weighs on you more than anyone can see, and still you walk toward the fire. That is not weakness. That is the rarest kind of strength there is.
You are, without question, the best of them. Not the most powerful, not the most celebrated — but the most essential. Your loyalty is not a trait; it is a force of nature. You would carry the person you love up the slopes of Mount Doom if it came to that, and we both know you’d do it without being asked. The world needs more people like you, and the world is lucky it has even one.
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You were born to lead, and you have spent years running from it. The crown is yours by right, but you know better than anyone that right means nothing without the will and the worthiness to back it up. You are tempered by loss, shaped by long roads, and defined by a code of honour you hold to even when no one is watching. When you finally step forward, the world shifts. Because it was always waiting for you.
You have seen more than you let on, and you say less than you know — which is exactly as it should be. You are a catalyst: you do not fight the battles yourself, you ignite the people who can. Your wisdom comes not from books but from an age of watching what happens when it is ignored. You arrive precisely when you mean to, and your presence alone changes what is possible. A wizard is never late.
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Graceful, perceptive, and almost preternaturally calm under pressure — you see things others miss and act before others react. You do not need to make a scene to be remarkable; your presence speaks for itself. You are loyal to those you choose to stand beside, and that choice is not made lightly. You have lived long enough to know that the most beautiful things in this world are also the most fragile, and that is why you fight to protect them.
You are loud, proud, and absolutely formidable — and beneath all of that is one of the most fiercely loyal hearts in Middle-earth. You don’t do anything by half measures. Your friendships are forged like iron, your grudges run as deep as mines, and your courage in battle is the kind that makes legends. You came into this fellowship suspicious of everyone and ended it willing to die for an elf. That is not a small thing. That is everything.
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You think in centuries and act in absolutes. Order, dominion, control — not because you are cruel by nature, but because you have decided that the world left to itself always falls apart, and you are the only one with the vision and the will to hold it together. You were not always this. Something was lost, or taken, or betrayed, and the version of you that stands now is the answer to that wound. The tragedy is that you’re not entirely wrong — just entirely too far gone to course-correct.
You are a study in contradiction — pitiable and dangerous, cunning and broken, capable of both cruelty and something that once resembled love. You are defined by loss: of innocence, of self, of the one thing that gave your existence meaning. Two voices war inside you constantly, and the tragedy is that the better one sometimes wins, just not often enough, and never at the right moment. You are a warning, yes — but also a mirror. We are all a little Gollum, given the right ring and enough time.
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Here’s How Long You Have Left to Watch the Dark Fantasy Film on Netflix
We’re talking, of course, about The Green Knight. The movie now holds a “Certified Fresh” 88% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “The Green Knight honors and deconstructs its source material in equal measure, producing an absorbing adventure that casts a fantastical spell.” Lowery’s latest film was the psychological drama Mother Mary, which grossed $3 million against a reported budget of $20 million. The film starred Anne Hathaway and Micaela Coel in the lead roles. Patel, on the other hand, last starred in the psychological horror film Rabbit Trap, which underperformed at the box office and received mediocre reviews. You can watch The Green Knight on Netflix until August 31. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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July 29, 2021
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130 minutes
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David Lowery, James M. Johnston, Theresa Page, Tim Headington, Toby Halbrooks, Edmund Sampson
The ending to a film is extremely important. One can have what some think to be the greatest plot out there, but without a good ending to finish it off, and wrap everything up in a nice bow, the experience will be tainted. This can especially be said for the likes of superhero movies. With how much they’ve taken over the industry over the past few decades—the Marvel Cinematic Universe specifically—the reputation of these flicks has minimally wavered.
In the case of the MCU, this could, in part, be because of some of the amazing endings their films contain. When some of these adventures find their finales, the way said endings are executed has the ability to leave audiences feeling even more excited about the product than they’d been without it. A story can really be hyped up in people’s minds if it leaves them feeling awesome at the end.
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‘The Avengers’ (2012)
Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Hulk (mark Ruffalo), Captain America (Chris Evans), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), stand heroically in the wreckage of Stark Tower, staring down at the camera in The Avengers.Image via Marvel Studios
After Phase One of the MCU had begun to truly thrive between 2008 and 2011, it was up to The Avengers—the first big crossover movie—to solidify this as a true, bona fide cinematic universe. It’s one thing to have some characters appear in other hero’s movies, but The Avengers was going to prove that a big, multi-character crossover could be successful. Boy, oh boy, did it do just that.
After the devastating Battle of New York, The Avengers go their separate ways with a voice-over from Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) talking about how, now that they’ve come together, despite going their separate ways, they’ll come back when something like this happens again. “Because we’ll need them to,” is how he specifically puts it. It leaves the door open for their solo franchises to continue, while promising the audience that, yes, they’ll be coming together once more.
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‘Black Panther’ (2016)
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One of the most impactful superhero movies out there is, without a doubt, Black Panther. It didn’t just find itself penetrating the cultural zeitgeist because it did something truly amazing by having an almost all-Black cast and crew, but the story itself was truly moving and thought-provoking. Director Ryan Coogler knows how to make an effective movie, with more than applies to the ending, as well.
Something that really stands out about T’Challa’s (Chadwick Boseman) character arc in Black Panther is the way that Coogler emphasizes how imperfect not only the protagonist is, but the country of Wakanda—more specifically their previous leaders—too. This movie’s villain, Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan), is so beloved because the ending decides to highlight how, while he was doing some despicable thiongs, he had a lot of validity to what he believed. It keeps the main characters accountable. T’Challa actually learns from his enemy, setting an ideal for the other leaders of the world and other Marvel superheroes, too.
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‘Iron Man’ (2008)
Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark with a slight smile at a press conference in Iron Man.Image via Marvel Studios
The project that started it all is important and impactful not only because of how great of a movie it is, but additionally because of how it ends. The final moments of Iron Man are what helped put it, and the upcoming MCU, on the map. Up until this point, superhero movies decided to focus on heroes that had secret identities, and it was relatively unheard of for one to not have one. Iron Man, however, changed that completely.
The “I am Iron Man” quote is one of the most popular in modern superhero cinema for this very reason. This moment not only totally shocked viewers, but also got them super intrigued about how on Earth the people over at Marvel Studios were going to move forward in this franchise with such a huge shift in the typical superhero status quo.
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‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ (2022)
Shuri (Letitia Wright) sitting on a beach at the end of ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’Image via Marvel Studios
After the terrible passing of series star Chadwick Boseman, no one really knew how in the world the series was going to continue post-passing. Expert director Ryan Coogler, thankfully, knew exactly what to do and handled the situation with grace and prowess—turning Black Panther: Wakanda Forever into not just a great movie, but a huge tribute to the deceased lead. This truly comes through in the final scene.
After completing her character arc, Shuri (Letitia Wright)—sister of T’Challa—takes some time to herself to finally burn the funeral robes for her brother, to the amazing musical track of “Lift Me Up” by Rihanna. Alongside the world watching Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Shuri gets to finally find comfort in her grieving.
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Collider Exclusive · Marvel Personality Quiz Which MCU Hero Are You? Spider-Man · Daredevil · Iron Man · Punisher · Thor · Cap
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Six heroes. One destiny. Answer 10 questions to discover which Marvel Cinematic Universe hero shares your personality, values, and fighting spirit. Will you swing, fly, or thunder your way to glory?
🕷️Spider-Man
😈Daredevil
🤖Iron Man
💀Punisher
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⚡Thor
🛡️Cap
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What drives you to do what’s right? Choose the answer that feels most like you.
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It’s 2 AM. Where are you? Your answer says more about you than you’d think.
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How do you handle a villain who keeps escaping justice? Every hero has a method. What’s yours?
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How do you feel about keeping a secret identity? The mask — or the lack of one — says everything.
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You’ve lost someone important because of your heroism. How do you carry that? Every hero pays a price. The question is how they pay it.
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What’s your role when working with a team? Who you are under pressure is who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line between justice and revenge? The answer defines what kind of hero you really are.
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When you’re not saving the world, what does life look like? The person behind the mask is always the more interesting story.
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What keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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The battle is lost. You’re outnumbered, outgunned, and exhausted. What do you do? This is your tiebreaker — choose carefully.
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Your Hero Has Been Identified Your MCU Hero Is…
Based on your answers, the Marvel hero who matches your spirit, values, and instincts has been revealed.
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Queens, New York
🕷️ Spider-Man
You carry the weight of the world on shoulders that are younger than they should have to be — funny, loyal, and endlessly self-sacrificing.
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You do the right thing not because it’s easy, but because no one else will.
You understand that responsibility isn’t a burden you choose — it’s one that finds you.
Whether it’s a neighbourhood mugging or a multiverse crisis, you show up.
Peter Parker’s lesson — that great power demands great responsibility — isn’t a slogan to you. It’s the code you live by, even when it costs you everything.
Hell’s Kitchen, New York
😈 Daredevil
You fight in the shadows between law and chaos, guided by a fierce moral compass that refuses to let the guilty walk free.
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You use every tool available — your mind, your body, your faith — to protect those the system overlooks.
You’ve looked into the darkness and chosen not to become it, though the line has never been easy.
Matt Murdock’s duality — champion in the courtroom, devil in the alley — mirrors your own.
Relentless, conflicted, and unwilling to stop. That is exactly you.
Stark Industries, Malibu
🤖 Iron Man
Brilliant, driven, and occasionally insufferable — but always the person who solves the unsolvable problem.
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You lead with your mind and back it up with resources, innovation, and a stubbornness that borders on heroic.
You started out looking out for yourself, but somewhere along the way the world became your responsibility.
Tony Stark’s arc — from ego to sacrifice — is your arc too.
You build, you plan, and when the moment comes, you’re willing to give everything. Because in the end, you’re Iron Man.
New York City
💀 The Punisher
You’ve been through fire that would break most people — and it did change you, completely. What’s left is unyielding, relentless, and operating by a code forged in grief.
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You don’t ask for forgiveness, and you don’t expect gratitude.
You see a corrupt, broken world and you’ve decided to do something about it, consequences be damned.
Frank Castle’s war is born from love twisted by loss — and so is yours.
Uncompromising and unflinching — the world may not agree with your methods, but your conviction is absolute.
Asgard · Protector of the Nine Realms
⚡ Thor
Powerful, proud, and on a lifelong journey to become worthy of the legend you carry.
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You lead with strength but have learned — sometimes painfully — that true greatness comes from humility and growth.
You’re larger than life, yet more vulnerable than you let on.
Thor’s story is one of transformation: from arrogant prince to worthy king, from isolated warrior to beloved protector.
You bring the storm when it’s needed — and the warmth when it matters just as much.
Brooklyn, New York · The Avengers
🛡️ Captain America
You believe in something bigger than yourself — and you fight for it even when the world has moved on and nobody else will.
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You don’t bully the small guy, and you never stop when it gets hard.
Steve Rogers didn’t become a hero when he got the serum — he was always one. So were you.
Your strength isn’t in your fists; it’s in your refusal to compromise what’s right, no matter the cost.
In a world full of people taking the easy road, you’re the one who picks up the shield and stands up — every single time.
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‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ (2023)
Drax, Mantis, Starlord, and Nebula standing together in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’Image via Marvel Studios
Ever since director James Gunn debuted the Guardians of the Galaxyfranchise in 2014, he turned some of Marvel Comics’ biggest misfit toys into absolute fan favorites. After two successful entries in the trilogy, Gunn had a huge responsibility to finish it off with a great third project. Thankfully for everyone, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 wound up being a phenomenal project.
The ending of this third Guardians of the Galaxy project does a borderline perfect job wrapping up everyone’s stories and giving them a happy ending. While everyone’s individual endings are brilliantly executed, it’s the group dance sequence with everyone in Knowhere to Florence + The Machine‘s “Dog Days Are Over.” Despite there being a few scares along the way, everyone got their happy ending, and it’s beyond tear-jerking in the best ways.
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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ (2026)
MJ (Zendaya) and Ned (Jacob Batalon) sitting in their apartment in ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’Image via Sony Pictures Releasing
Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures’ newest smash hit in the Tom Holland Spider-Man franchise is one of the most well-received superhero movies in recent years. Breaking records by quickly becoming one of the highest-grossing movies of all time—in a ridiculously short amount of time, by the way—and being loved critically by both hardcore Spidey fans and general audience members alike.After the first trilogy of the MCU’s Wall-Crawler, people were pretty happy with the films, but many had things they wished they’d seen and hoped to see when moving forward with this character. The biggest thing people have been asking for is a more street-level Spider-Man, and that’s exactly what Spider-Man: Brand New Day delivers.
The end of this rip-roaring, web-slinging ride is extremely cheer-worthy. Jean Grey (Sadie Sink) finds her redemption after saving Peter from a gunshot wound and heads upstate; Punisher (Jon Bernthal) realizes his wrongdoings in his methods; Michelle Jones-Watson (Zendaya) begins to remember—seemingly—her time with Peter; and, finally, the young hero decides to bring his best friend, Ned Leeds’ (Jacob Batalon) back by doing their iconic handshake. Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s ending has people smiling and feeling satisfied all around.
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‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ (2014)
Captain America pushing Winter Soldier’s face away as they fight in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.Image via Marvel Studios
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is often considered not only one of, if not the best, MCU movies, but one of the best superhero movies of all time, as well. This is for a plethora of reasons, discovered throughout the journey of Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) unveiling a government conspiracy and discovering that his best friend, Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), is actually alive and has been brainwashed into becoming the terrifying assassin, The Winter Soldier.
The entire runtime of Captain America: The Winter Soldier is amazing, and it is wrapped up greatly as Steve decides he’s going to continue searching for his bestie, after he was saved by him following the final battle—so, there must be good within him, still.At the same time, said friend goes to the iconic Captain America Museum to discover more about himself, showing the audience firsthand that he’s looking for answers to be the man he once was.
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‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ (2021)
Spider-Man swings in a new suit at the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home.Image via Marvel Studios
Ask any Spider-Man fan, and they’ll tell you that they love to see the young hero be miserable—a huge part of why Spider-Man: Brand New Day has been so successful. While he’s not too miserable throughout the third film in his franchise, Spider-Man: No Way Home, it’s the ending that brings the feeling of melancholy and sets the stage for Spider-Man: Brand New Day to have the exact thing that has made it so appealing.
Spider-Man: No Way Home ends with Peter Parker making the ultimate sacrifice to save his friends and the multiverse by sacrificing his identity. To save the collapse of the universe(s), he erases his identity from the minds of the entire world. While he promises MJ and Ned that he’ll come back to them and remind them of who he is… he chooses not to, in order to protect them. It’s genuinely so heartbreaking and is one of the most Spider-Man-feeling endings of a Spidey flick in a very, very long time.
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‘Avengers: Endgame’ (2019)
Steve (Chris Evans) talks to Sam (Anthony Mackie) who holds the Captain America shield in Avengers EndgameImage via Marvel Studios
Avengers: Endgame has fought back and forth with Avatar for the highest-grossing movie of all time, and for very good reason. It wasn’t just a gigantic event movie that acted as a culmination of the long, 10+ year-running cinematic universe, but a genuinely well-written story. It acts as the sendoff for the first 11 years of the MCU and most of the original 10 Avengers.
It’s because of this that seeing the wrap-up of so many stories felt so impactful for so many people, especially with the death of the fan-favorite Tony Stark.While the MCU has continued forward post-Avengers: Endgame, this finale ended up as what many people consider one of the greatest eras in superhero cinema. Steve Rogers gets his happy ending, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) goes off to discover himself, Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) goes to settle down with his family, Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) unfortunately also met her end, and the perfect endings for so many other major MCU characters.
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‘Avengers: Infinity War’ (2018)
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While Avengers: Endgame was a phenomenal event/finale movie, it’s Avengers: Infinity War that acts as, without a doubt, the best The Avengers flick. This is thanks to the fact that the third film in this series is a borderline perfectly executed project that, on paper, should have failed in every way. Somehow, though, directors Joe Russo and Anthony Russo weaved this project together with flying colors.
They also finished the story in one of the most heart-wrenching ways an MCU movie ever has. Everyone knew—given that they knew this 2018 film was going to act as a “Part One,” of sorts—that this was going to end in a cliffhanger, but non-comic fans had no clue that half of the universe was going to get destroyed. What makes this so great, though, is that while it acts as a perfect cliffhanger, it is simultaneously a great full-circle moment that solidifies this as Thanos’ (Josh Brolin) story and can be consumed as a single plot—that ends depressingly, that is.
Jon Bernthal has a type, at least in the characters he plays. Whether portraying a corrupt cop, mobster, vigilante, or con man, the actor often brings his signature brash sensibility to these men who straddle the line between good and evil. And The Punisherstar will be the first to admit he has struggled with the same angry tendencies as his on-screen counterparts.
At nearly 50 years old, he has hit a professional peak — starring in Hulu, Netflix, and Disney+ originals, making his Broadway debut, and joining Tom Holland in the summer blockbusters The Odyssey and Spider-man: Brand New Day. But many fans would be shocked to know Bernthal got his start in comedy. His first starring role was as a series regular in The Class, a short-lived sitcom from Friends co-creator David Crane and his partner Jeffrey Klarik.
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Jon Bernthal’s Surprising Start Was on ‘The Class’
Jon Bernthal as Duncan Carmello in an episode of The Class.Image via CBS
While the largely forgotten CBS sitcom premiered in 2006 and went off the air after just one season, the role provides viewers with the chance to see Bernthal in a different light. The series followed a group of former third grade classmates who reunite as adults. Bernthal played Duncan Carmello, a contractor who lives with his mom while pining for his high school girlfriend, Nicole Allen (Andrea Anders). The Class also featured future stars Lizzy Caplan, Jason Ritter, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, actors who have continued pursuing comedy with the Now You See Me franchise, Kevin (Probably) Saves the World, and the long-running Modern Family among their later projects.
While reminiscing about the “formative” experience during a May 2026 episode of Dinner’s On Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Bernthal told his former co-star that getting the job felt like a “fluke.” Still, his character had an ease on the show flirting with Anders and serving as a foil for Ferguson’s Richie Velch, a man on the brink of suicide and fresh out of an unhappy marriage. Looking back, even Duncan showed glimpses of the Bernthal modern fans have come to expect. While he is not necessarily aggressive, Duncan is a masculine, confident, and romantically-experienced man working a blue-collar job.
The half-hour comedy was filmed as a multi-camera in front of a live studio audience. But the experience set Bernthal on a different path, explaining to Ferguson on his podcast that while the production was “magical,” he felt like an outsider ill-equipped for the format. And with a few exceptions, like guest appearances on How I Met Your Mother, Robot Chicken, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Bernthal has avoided not only the medium but the genre. Instead, he referenced other auditions from that time that aligned more with his future roles, including the World War II miniseries, The Pacific.
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Despite his reservations and its eventual cancellation, The Class won “Best New Comedy” at the 2007 People’s Choice Awards. Some dedicated fans even launched an ill-fated petition to reverse The Class’ cancellation. But in today’s light, The Class has been scored somewhat harshly, only earning a 44% on Rotten Tomatoes and unable to be streamed on any service without purchasing the season outright.
Lizzy Caplan Offered Support After Jon Bernthal’s Arrest
Bernthal’s characters often share this violent streak that he had to work through himself. As if a storyline ripped from one of his movies, Bernthal faced a personal crisis a couple of years after The Class ended. During an appearance on the Howard Stern Show, the actor explained that his July 2009 arrest was the “single most important event” in his life. Bernthal recounted to the radio host that a drunk man called over Bernthal’s dog during a walk and wouldn’t initially release him. He retrieved his dog, but explained the man started following him despite protests to stop. Bernthal was arrested after knocking the man unconscious, revealing to Stern, “You know these cops are telling me, ‘If this guy doesn’t wake up, that’s it for you.’ I remember sitting there on that bench just so disgusted with myself and utterly disappointed with myself.”
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Vowing to make a change, Bernthal actually found help in his former The Class co-star, Lizzy Caplan. During an appearance on Dinner’s On Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson, he revealed the Mean Girls actress reached out after the incident. She set up Bernthal with someone to talk to, who he told Ferguson was “instrumental” in helping him finally work through his anger issues. Bernthal added, “I’m forever indebted to her.”
Jon Bernthal Pursued Drama After ‘The Class’
Bernthal is hardly the first sitcom star to pursue dramatic roles. He joins the likes of Steve Carrell who dropped his Michael Scott persona in Foxcatcher, Bryan Cranston who transitioned from Malcolm in the Middleto Breaking Bad, Melissa McCarthy who earned an Oscar nomination for Can You Ever Forgive Me?, and Katey Sagal who went from nagging housewife to motorcycle matriarch. But while they all oscillate between the two genres, Bernthal has spent the years since The Class playing gun-toting, foul-mouthed men in a series of gritty dramas and action films.
The Bernthal typecast first really emerged when he took on the role of Shane Walsh in AMC’s The Walking Dead, following it up with roles like The Wolf of Wall Street, The Accountant duology, and We Own This City. But as he admitted during an appearance on Dinner’s On Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson, there has been no great strategy to his career. Not worrying about being stereotyped, Bernthal told Insider in 2017 that he tries “to make these characters as specific as possible and as unique as possible.”
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Looking back on Bernthal’s turn on The Class, it would be easy to write off the experience as fairly inconsequential in becoming one of the most in-demand actors in Hollywood. How could a fairly affable character on a long-forgotten sitcom be relevant when discussing a man known for playing hyper-masculine, morally gray roles? In reality, the short-lived CBS series was just the first domino to fall. Had he not had that experience, and had it not been canceled, he may not have clarified the roles he’d be drawn to. But more than that, in that brief time he built lifelong relationships that ended up resetting the trajectory of his life. As Bernthal said, he is indebted to Caplan for helping him get the resources to overcome his anger issues, issues he can tap into for the type of men he plays. In the grand scheme of lost one-season series, The Class’ lasting legacy may just be that of Bernthal’s impressive career.
“This was a rough year for Danielle, personally,” Fishel, 45, recalled on the Thursday, August 13, episode of the “Pod Meets World” podcast. “I was in a very bad, unhealthy relationship that also then ended around … the end 2000 or beginning of 2001.”
Fishel remembered that she was “not auditioning at all” around the time Boy Meets World finished its seven season run in 2000. Instead, she was trying to pick up the pieces from a relationship that had taken an emotional toll on her.
“It was a really rough rough time,” she remembered. “And then I left Beverly Hills and I moved to Sherman Oaks, and I left in such a rush that my mom actually had to find my apartment for me and … I [didn’t see it] until I moved in. So I moved, and then I moved into this apartment that she picked.”
Danielle Fishel does it all, from hosting a podcast to acting and dancing — but when it comes to cleaning, she’s found a genius way to share the load. “My least favorite thing to do, cleaning wise, is putting away laundry,” Fishel, 44, exclusively told Us Weekly while promoting her partnership with Lysol to refresh […]
She added, “That year was not a fun year, not a year I like revisiting at all.”
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Her cohosts Rider Strong and Will Friedle asked whether Fishel faced any pressure from her agent to get back to work.
“Not that I remember,” she clarified. “I know, for sure, I had said, ‘I don’t want anything. I don’t want to audition for anything. I’m just done for a little bit.’ And I don’t remember there being a lot of pushback.”
Fishel pointed out this upheaval in her personal and professional life occurred at the same time as she switched from having “a kid’s agent” to going out for older parts.
“For me to say, like, ‘I’m in a holding pattern. I’m not sure what I’m going to do,’ we just kind of put that on hold,” she said. “And then I did eventually sign with the Young Talent department at Innovative, which was run by Abby Bluestone, who is still there and she’s amazing.”
The Boy Meets World cast has spoken out about their years-long rift with former costar Ben Savage. The actor played Cory Matthews on the beloved ABC sitcom, which ran from 1993 to 2000. Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong and Will Friedle have discussed being estranged from Savage for years, stemming from the creation of their “Pod […]
Fishel has frequently been quite vulnerable about her past — and her work on Boy Meets World. In May, she spoke to Us about the way TV executives flippantly discussed her body on set when she was a teenager.
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“I was aware, even if nobody said it to me directly… that as far as the people in power were concerned, my body was a problem… I remember around the time of [1998’s] prom episode being aware that they didn’t want me wearing something sleeveless,” she remembered.
In more recent years, Fishel tied the knot with her second husband, comedian and rapper Jensen Karp, in 2018. They are parents to two sons — Adler, 7, and Keaton, 4.
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Jon Bernthal in The AmateurImage via 20th Century Studios
After years in the trenches, Jon Bernthal finally seems to have established himself as a marquee name, both on streaming and in theaters. The actor began 2026 by starring in the thriller series His & Hers, which also featured Tessa Thompson. It emerged as one of Netflix’s most-watched original shows of all time with more than 100 million views, before being overtaken by the more recent I Will Find You. Bernthal then appeared alongside Tom Holland and Zendayain the back-to-back theatrical blockbusters The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which have grossed approximately $3 billion in combined box-office revenue. The success of these films has propelled a couple of older projects featuring Bernthal to success on home video.
The more popular of the two is Marvel’s The Punisher, the two-season superhero series that Bernthal headlined between 2017 and 2019. It was among a string of MCU shows that were released on Netflix, alongside Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, and The Defenders. Bernthal reprised his role as The Punisher in the Disney+ revival series Daredevil: Born Again, and in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. According to FlixPatrol, Bernthal’s first appearance as the brutal Marvel character is still among the most popular titles on the domestic Amazon chart.
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Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
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⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
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Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
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🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
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You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
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You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
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Jon Bernthal Played a CIA Agent in the Sleeper Hit Taking Over Prime Video
The other Bernthal movie that has seen a spike in viewership recently is the espionage thriller The Amateur, directed by James Hawes. Headlined by the Oscar-winning Rami Malek and featuring a star-studded cast that also included Rachel Brosnahan, Laurence Fishburne, Caitríona Balfe, and Michael Stuhlbarg, the movie was a sleeper hit at the box office in 2025. It grossed nearly $100 million worldwide against a reported budget of $60 million after being widely embraced by its target demographic. It now holds an 87% audience score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “Rami Malek is a compellingly unconventional action hero in the otherwise formulaic The Amateur, which dispenses justice with solid execution but a curious lack of emotional stakes.” Bernthal plays a CIA field agent in the movie, which follows an analyst on a mission to uncover who killed his wife. According to FlixPatrol, The Amateur has remained one of the most-watched movies on the domestic Prime Video chart for two weeks. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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April 11, 2025
Runtime
123 minutes
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James Hawes
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Robert Littell, Gary Spinelli, Ken Nolan
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Hutch Parker, Joel B. Michaels, Jonathan Hook, Rami Malek
Sam Asghari is an actor, model, reality star, and former personal trainer who was married to pop star Britney Spears. The two met on the set of her “Slumber Party” music video in 2016 and started dating shortly thereafter. Before they tied the knot in June 2022, Asghari signed an ironclad prenup protecting the “Toxic” singer’s pre-marital assets and ensuring that he received no payout, spousal support, or rights to her music catalog.
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The actor was born Hesam Asghari in Iran and moved to the U.S. with his family when he was 13. He became an American citizen in 2012, at the age of 18. A few years later, he launched a modeling career with his sister’s support and appeared in magazines such as Men’s Health and GQ.
In 2018, he had a small role in a “Star Trek” spoof movie and appeared in a few episodes of the Showtime series “Black Monday” in 2021. That same year, he also had a small part in Mel Gibson’s “Hot Seat.” However, he is best known for his relationship with Britney Spears.
Although Britney Spears was entered into a court-ordered conservatorship in February 2008, she managed to strike up a relationship with the former personal trainer after he appeared in the music video for her hit song “Slumber Party.”
Even though Britney is 12 years older than the actor, they stuck together through the pandemic and became engaged in September 2021. The controversial conservatorship was struck down by a judge two months later, and they tied the knot at her estate in Thousand Oaks, California, in June 2022.
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After 14 months of marriage, Asghari filed for divorce in August 2023, citing “irreconcilable differences” according to court documents obtained by The Blast. In a brief statement, he asked fans to be “kind and thoughtful” amid their divorce, noting “asking for privacy seems ridiculous.”
Celebrity Net Worth noted that Spears’ net worth was only $60 million when they married; however, her lucrative book deal for her memoir, “The Woman In Me,” contributed significantly to her net worth.
Sam Asghari Might Have Lost Millions In The Divorce
As The Blast previously reported, the former couple signed an agreement stating that Asghari would receive “$1 million per every two years” of their marriage. According to the documents, the amount was capped at $10 million after fifteen years. However, Asghari called it quits after just fourteen months, and reports have since indicated that he received “no payout” from the divorce.
However, he was allowed to keep any gifts Britney gave him during the marriage, as well as his impressive car collection. The prenup that he signed also reportedly included an “extensive confidentiality clause” that prevented him from discussing her relationship.
Sam Asghari Reflects On His Marriage To Britney Spears
Even though he has not publicly discussed the downfall of their relationship, he has come to accept that most people know him as the pop star’s ex. As The Blast previously reported, Asghari admitted that he will forever be known as “Mr. Britney Spears” while promoting his new movie “The Gentleman Thief” with John Travolta.
When asked if there would be a time when people didn’t ask him about the pop star, he told Page Six that it’s “never going to happen” but admitted that he is “fully ready to answer those questions.”
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Since breaking things off with the pop star, Asghari has begun dating Brooke Irvine. They have been together for two years and live in Los Angeles with their dog Porcha. He told the outlet that his new girlfriend is “amazing” and “super supportive,” even with his hectic filming schedule.
Looking ahead, Asghari admitted he is open to starting a family with Irvine. “I’m focused on my career now, but what I’ve learned is if I’m going to create a future in Hollywood, I’m going to have to put myself at risk and not my family and the people that are next to me,” Asghari said. “But, yeah, at some point, who doesn’t want to have a family? I mean, everybody wants to have a family.”
In a few days, Rebecca Ferguson will be seen alongside an eclectic cast in The Magic Faraway Tree, an adaptation of Enid Blyton’s fantasy novels for children. It’s a departure for the Swedish actor, whose 2026 slate is dominated by sci-fi projects aimed at adult audiences. She began the year with the poorly received “screen-life” movie Mercy and followed it up with the third season of her beloved Apple TV show Silo. Later this year, Ferguson will reprise her role as Lady Jessica in Denis Villeneuve’s hotly anticipated Dune: Part Three. Thanks to roles in major franchises, Ferguson’s star rose over the years following her breakout performance in the period drama series The White Queen. Now, one of her earliest hits is streaming in the United States on Netflix, but only for a little while longer.
The movie in question turned a decade old this year, having been released theatrically in 2016. It was based on a bestselling thriller novel, and was likely fast-tracked after the smashing success of David Fincher’s Gone Girl a couple of years earlier. Ferguson played a pivotal supporting role in the movie, which was headlined by Emily Blunt. It also featured Luke Evans, Haley Bennett, Justin Theroux, Allison Janney, and others. The film wasn’t very well received, but it did stupendously well at the box office. It grossed more than $170 million worldwide against a reported budget of $50 million — much less than Gone Girl’s $370 million-plus gross, but over three times its reported budget.
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Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
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⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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01
Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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02
Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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03
Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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04
Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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05
How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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06
What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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07
How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
Advertisement
08
Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
Advertisement
09
What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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10
When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
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Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
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🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
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You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
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You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
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Watch Rebecca Ferguson’s Psychological Thriller on Netflix Before It’s Too Late
We’re talking, of course, about The Girl on the Train. Combining the mystery elements of Gone Girl with the Hitchcockian thrills of Rear Window, the movie is now sitting at a 44% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The aggregator website’s consensus reads, “Emily Blunt’s outstanding performance isn’t enough to keep The Girl on the Train from sliding sluggishly into exploitative melodrama.” Like Ferguson, Blunt has also had an extraordinary year so far. She appeared in The Devil Wears Prada 2, which grossed nearly $700 million worldwide, and then headlined Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, which grossed almost $250 million globally. You can watch The Girl on the Train on Netflix until August 31. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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October 5, 2016
Runtime
112 minutes
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Erin Cressida Wilson
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Las Vegas is built for unforgettable nights, and “The Hangover” gave us one nobody in the movie could remember (and many Vegas visitors want to reproduce).
From Caesars Palace to the middle of the desert, Las Vegas provided the perfect backdrop for some unforgettable misadventures in the wildly popular 2009 film “The Hangover” and parts of “The Hangover III.” The Blast rounded up some of the real Vegas spots featured in the hit comedy, including the spots you can still visit today for some great photo recreations and the iconic locations that have since disappeared.
This story is accompanied by a reel of the popular movie locations on The Blast’s social media pages, and is part of a weekly Vegas TV, movie, and celebrity series called “The Vegas Files.”
One of the most iconic lines in “The Hangover” has to be when Alan is standing inside Caesars Palace and asks, “You probably get this a lot. This isn’t the real Caesars Palace, is it? Did Caesar live here?”
Caesars Palace practically became a character in “The Hangover,” with the Wolf Pack checking in, stumbling through the lobby and elevators, and making plenty of questionable decisions along the way.
From the valet entrance and front desk to the hallways, pools, and rooftop, the movie used Caesars Palace as its backdrop often. According to Casino.org, the hallway and elevator scenes were shot on the 24th floor of the Augustus Tower. One thing many might not realize is the trashed hotel suite was one of Hollywood magic, as it was a Burbank soundstage set. But the rest of the guys’ Caesars adventure was filmed on property on the world-famous Las Vegas Strip.
According to Casino.org, many people still call Caesars Palace in the hopes of renting “The Hangover Suite,” but sadly for them, it doesn’t exist. While you can’t visit a suite named “The Hangover Suite,” there are plenty of well-known “Hangover” locations in and around Caesars that you can visit.
One of Downtown Las Vegas’ oldest bars got a brief but memorable cameo in “The Hangover.”
Atomic Liquors makes an appearance during the chaotic car-crash sequence, when Mr. Chow’s Cadillac Escalade comes barreling into the Wolf Pack’s Mercedes.
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The bar’s iconic exterior and sign can be spotted in the scene, giving this historic Fremont Street watering hole a fun connection to one of Vegas’ most famous comedy films.
You can visit this iconic Downtown Las Vegas spot! Check out their website for more information.
The Wolf Pack’s Vegas adventure eventually takes them far beyond the Strip and into the middle of the desert. (It’s really not that far away — about 30 minutes by car, depending on what part of the Strip you are coming from.)
Jean Dry Lake, just outside of the tiny town Jean, Nevada, provided the perfect backdrop for the scene where Phil, Stu, and Alan meet Mr. Chow to swap money for their friend Doug, only to find out he has the wrong Doug. The barren landscape makes the scene feel like it could be literally anywhere in the middle of nowhere, but this filming location is actually just a short drive south of Vegas.
Jean Dry Lake remains a popular location for filming and photo shoots, and has been seen in other movies, such as “Casino.”
Not every iconic Vegas spot in “The Hangover” is still around. Some didn’t survive Sin City’s glow-up over the years.
A few of the most notable spots in the movie that no longer exist include the Riviera, where Alan counts cards, the Wild Wild West, which doubled as Jade’s apartment, and Hostel Cat, former Bungalows Hostel facade, which was the fictional Best Little Chapel for the film. Another spot that no longer exists is outside of Vegas – the Chevron gas station in Jean.
The Wolf Pack returned to Vegas in “The Hangover Part III” and of course, there were plenty of familiar spots featured in the movie. They returned to Caesars Palace, where Phil and Alan sneak into Mr. Chow’s penthouse, as well as visited Planet Hollywood, Paris Las Vegas, and Bally’s, which is now Horseshoe Las Vegas.
Another well-known spot in the third movie was Main Street Peddlers Antique Mall in the Arts District. This is where Alan meets Cassie, the pawn shop clerk who ends up being his love interest.
FYI…Main Street Peddlers Antique Mall is open, so if you want to check out where scenes from “The Hangover III” were filmed, this is a great spot to visit.
If you’re looking for more Wolf Pack fun, head on over to Madame Tussauds at The Venetian and step into some scenes from the movie for photo ops and laughs.
Explore immersive sets including the wedding chapel, the guys’ trashed suite, and don’t forget to take a peek in the bathroom behind Mike Tyson! This area of the famed wax museum also has a functioning bar offering cocktails with interesting “Hangover” themed names such as “What Happened Last Night,” “Mr. Chow’s Mai Tai,” “Baby Carlos Margarita,” “Royal Flush,” and of course, “Wolf Pack.”
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For more information about The Hangover Movie Bar at Madame Tussauds, visit the website.
There are so very few video game worlds that have a visual identity as instantly recognizable as Cyberpunk 2077. The world of Night City is just drenched in neon, there are enormous corporations everywhere you turn, and you have to look cool if you want to get ahead — that’s how to survive there. The game has also evolved well beyond video games by this point, with projects like Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, not to mention merchandise and numerous collaborations, too. But now, you can look like you’re part of the solution in Night City.
Cyberpunk 2077 has officially teamed with GUNNAR for a collection of glasses inspired by the game, including designs based on Dexter DeShawn and Militech. The officially licensed collaboration features GUNNAR’s lens technology designed to reduce digital eye strain while incorporating aesthetics directly inspired by characters and corporations from CD Projekt Red’s universe.
The Dex glasses are inspired by Dexter DeShawn, the larger-than-life Night City fixer who plays a major role during the opening stretch of Cyberpunk 2077. The wide frames feature an oversized angular shield-lens design constructed from magnesium aluminum alloy, with Amber, Sun and Amber Max lens options. They’re priced at $125 and come with a collector’s map-print microfiber cleaning cloth and padded sleeve.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
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🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
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What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
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Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
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The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
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You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
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You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
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You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
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Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
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You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
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