Ali Suliman as King Saul sitting on the throne in House of David Season 2Image via Prime Video
The historical epic has quietly become one of the most popular genres of movies and TV shows over the last 25 years. While many fans would argue that this dates back to Peter Jackson’s early work with The Lord of the Rings franchise, it truly goes back even further to acclaimed epics like Lawrence of Arabia. However, the advancement in modern technology has added an enhanced sense of realism to some of the later modern epics, like Game of Thrones, the hit HBO series inspired by the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R.R. Martin. The rise of shows like Game of Thrones has also paved the way for biblical historical epics like The Chosen to take over the zeitgeist and become some of the most popular projects in the world.
One recent show that perfectly bridges the gap between Game of Thrones and The Chosen is House of David, the historical epic that premiered on Prime Video early last year before it returned with its second season less than nine months later. Prime Video has not only renewed House of David for a third season, but the streamer has explicitly confirmed that Season 3 will premiere before the end of this year — an impressive turnaround time for a show this ambitious. Before the Season 3 return of House of David later this year, the show has charged back into the Prime Video global top 10, sitting at #8 at the time of writing. This is especially noteworthy, considering the Season 2 finale aired all the way back in November. Fans refuse to quit on Prime Video’s hit historical epic/faith-based series.
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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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What Is ‘House of David’ About?
The House of David cast consists of Michael Iskander as David, Ali Suliman as Saul, and Stephen Lang as Samuel, among others. The official synopsis for House of David reads as follows:
“House of David tells the story of the ascent of the biblical icon, David, who becomes the most famous king of Israel. The series follows the once-might King Saul as he falls victim to his own pride. As Saul loses his power over his kingdom, David finds himself on a journey to discover and fulfill his destiny, navigating love, loss, and violence in the court of the very man he’s destined to replace.”
Check out the first two seasons of House of David on Prime Video, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Season 3.
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Release Date
February 27, 2025
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Prime Video, Wonder Project
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Directors
Jeff T. Thomas, Jon Gunn, Jon Erwin, Lynsey Miller
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Jon Erwin, Jon Gunn, Jonathan Walker, Bekah Hubbell, Nathan Andrew Jacobs, Laura Kenar, N.D. Wilson
Every month, thousands upon thousands of viewers are surely discovering Taylor Sheridan‘s back catalog after checking out one of his blockbuster Paramount+ shows. Sheridan has established himself as one of the leading television writer-producers of his generation, with titles such as Yellowstone, Mayor of Kingstown, Landman, and more recently The Madison. Each of those shows was created at Paramount. He’s now looking at a new creative partnership with NBCUniversal, having severed ties with his current home. Before he hit the stratosphere with Yellowstone, however, Sheridan was an acclaimed writer who conceived a modern trilogy of neo-Westerns.
The trilogy began with Sicario, directed by Denis Villeneuve. The movie remains a cult classic, having grossed approximately $85 million worldwide and received near-unanimous praise. Sheridan also wrote a sequel to Sicario, although he doesn’t count it as part of the spiritually connected trilogy. The second installment, instead, was Hell or High Water, directed by David Mackenzie and starring Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Gil Birmingham, and Ben Foster. The movie earned Sheridan an Oscar nomination in the Best Original Screenplay category. It remains his highest-rated work, with a 97% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The third installment of the trilogy is a movie that Sheridan considers to be his directorial debut.
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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
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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
⚖️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.
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
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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.
🤠 Yellowstone
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🛢️ 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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The Movie Taylor Sheridan Considers His Directorial Debut Has Been Blocked for Some Netflix Users
He once made a low-budget horror movie that he has mostly disowned. Instead, he has stressed that his first film as director was Wind River, starring Marvel Cinematic Universe alums Elizabeth Olsenand Jeremy Renner. The movie followed two investigators looking into crimes against Indigenous peoples; it’s an idea that Sheridan revisited in 1923, one of his Yellowstone prequels. Released in 2017, Wind River holds a “Certified Fresh” 87% score on Rotten Tomatoes, with praise going to Sheridan’s direction and the film’s tone. It grossed approximately $45 million worldwide against a reported budget of $11 million. However, not everyone who wants to check it out will be able to do so this month, as Netflix has made it inaccessible to folks subscribed to its ad-supported tier. What’s On Netflix reports that 59 titles have been blocked this month, mainly because Netflix isn’t allowed to monetize those titles with ads. Sheridan followed Wind River up with the Angelina Jolie-led neo-Western Those Who Wish Me Dead, which debuted day-and-date on HBO Max and in theaters. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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107 minutes
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Basil Iwanyk, Matthew George, Peter Berg, Elizabeth A. Bell, Wayne L. Rogers
Anya Taylor-Joy has become one of the brightest stars in the world over the last few years after her career got rolling 10 years ago with ritualistic, spooky hits like The Witch and Morgan. More recently, she headlined the ambitious sci-fi reboot, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the prequel film that co-stars long-time Marvel veteran Chris Hemsworth. She earned widespread critical acclaim in 2020 for her award-worthy performance in the Netflix original miniseries, The Queen’s Gambit, which helped develop the modern streaming era as it’s known today. Taylor-Joy is also confirmed to step into a much larger role in the third and final Dune movie in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi trilogy later this year, on December 18. The film also stars Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya.
In a world where box office success is analyzed so heavily, it can be easy to overlook some of the best movies that are released straight to streaming. For Anya Taylor-Joy, one of her most successful hits of the last few years came with The Gorge, the Apple TV original dystopian sci-fi film that co-stars Miles Teller (Top Gun: Maverick). The Gorge is streaming exclusively on Apple TV around the world, and although it’s now been a year since it was released, it’s still one of the top five most popular movies for the streamer. Scott Derrickson (Doctor Strange) directed The Gorge with a script from Zach Dean. The film is the perfect mash-up of John Wick and The Last of Us, sure to scratch the itch for those looking for both great action sequences and a dark dystopian world.
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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
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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
🏜️Dune
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🚀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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
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.
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Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
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.
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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.
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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What Is ‘The Gorge’ About?
The official synopsis for The Gorge reads as follows:
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“Two highly trained operatives (Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy) grow close from a distance after being sent to guard opposite sides of a mysterious gorge. When an evil below emerges, they must work together to survive what lies within.”
In addition to Teller and Taylor-Joy, who star as Levi and Drasa in The Gorge, the film also features Sigourney Weaver as Bartholomew, Sope Dirisu as J.D., William Houston as Erikas, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as a Black Ops Commander, James Marlow as Bradford Shaw, Julianne Kurokawa as an Airman, and Ruta Gedmintas as a WWII scientist.
Check out The Gorge on Apple TV around the world, and stay tuned to Collider for more streaming updates and more coverage of Anya Taylor-Joy’s future projects.
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February 28, 2025
Runtime
127 Minutes
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Scott Derrickson
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Zach Dean
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Gregory Goodman, C. Robert Cargill, Dana Goldberg, David Ellison, Don Granger, Miles Teller, Sherryl Clark, Adam Kolbrenner
Katseye hit the stage without Manon Bannerman at the 2026 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
Five members of the girl group — Daniela Avanzini, Lara Raj, Megan Skiendiel, Sophia Laforteza and Yoonchae Jeung — performed during the first day of the Indio, California, festival on Friday, April 10. Manon, 23, was noticeably missing from Katseye’s Coachella debut amid her ongoing hiatus from the band.
Katseye opened their show with a performance of their new single “Pinky Up” before entertaining the crowd with “Debut” and “Touch.”
HUNTR/X vocalists EJAE,Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami joined the girl group on stage for a surprise performance of “Golden” from the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack.
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Manon’s Coachella absence comes nearly two months after Katseye announced her plan to take a break from the group.
There are only three things that are certain in life: death, taxes and celebrities coupling up at the annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Since the ever-growing multi-weekend event was cofounded in 1999, A-list couples such as Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom, and Rande Gerber and Cindy Crawford have […]
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“After open and thoughtful conversations together, we are sharing that Manon will be taking a temporary hiatus from group activities to focus on her health and wellbeing,” read a February statement from the band shared via the social media platform Weverse. “We fully support this decision.”
The group assured fans at the time that the remaining Katseye members would carry on with their responsibilities despite Manon’s absence.
“Katseye remains committed to showing up for one another and for the fans who mean everything to us. The group will continue scheduled activities during this time, and we look forward to being together again when the time is right,” the statement continued. “Thank you to our Eyekons for your continued love, patience and understanding.”
Manon also spoke out in an individual statement at the time.
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“Hi friends,” she wrote via Weverse. “I want you to hear this from me, I’m healthy, I’m OK and I’m taking care of myself. Thank u for checking in! Sometimes things unfold in ways we don’t fully control, but I’m trusting the bigger picture. Thank you for standing by me. I love you endlessly and can’t wait to see you again.”
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Earlier this month, Manon shared an update with fans amid her ongoing hiatus from Katseye.
“Thank you so much for all the love and support you’ve been sending my way. I’m really grateful for the patience and kindness everyone has shown during this time,” she noted via Weverse. “[Katseye’s management] HxG and I are having positive conversations, and I feel supported. I’m happy, and I’m healthy. I’ll share more soon. Thank you for always being there for me.”
Manon raised eyebrows when she removed “Katseye” from her Instagram bio. Days later, a source exclusively told Us Weekly on Monday, April 6, that she does not plan to return to the group.
Going their own way. For some musical artists, they needed to leave their former bands to explore opportunities as a solo act. Zayn Malik did just that in 2015. He left his longtime One Direction bandmates Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne to embark upon a solo music career, dropping his debut […]
In a Nylon cover story published on Tuesday, April 7, Manon admitted the band deals with disagreements at times. (The outlet noted her interview took place before she announced her hiatus from Katseye.)
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“There’s six of us, so obviously not everyone’s always going to be on the same page about everything,” she said. “But I think we all are at, or have been learning and are finally coming to, a point where for the group’s sake, you give and you take. You pick your battles.”
Manon added that the bandmates “have to lean on each other” to cope with stardom.
“But we also have supportive friends and supportive family,” she explained. “It’s something that keeps you humble and grounded. And then just having a good therapist.”
Actor Harrison Ford has been in the entertainment industry for decades. Best known for his roles in “Indiana Jones and “Star Wars,” the 83-year-old actor has been best known for his movie roles until recently. Over the past several years, he has starred alongside Helen Mirren in the “Yellowstone” spin-off “1923” and opposite Jason Segel in “Shrinking,” where he plays a psychiatrist diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Following the season 3 finale, Ford reflected on his start in Hollywood and the current state of the entertainment industry.
Harrison Ford Reflects On The ‘Fulfilling’ Nature Of Filming ‘Shrinking’
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Following the season 3 finale, which sees his character retire and move to Connecticut, Ford opened up on the “serious sh-t” the show covers in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast.
Throughout the season, Ford shared several scenes with Michael J. Fox, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1991. “Here I am now, playing a guy with Parkinson’s, and I’m sitting next to Michael J. Fox,” Ford said. “This is serious sh-t, man. This is not insignificant for me.”
“I find it really fulfilling doing what I do, and I enjoy it as much as I ever, ever could possibly have imagined,” he continued. However, he admitted that he “never thought” that he would be filming a TV show, let alone a comedy.
Harrison Ford Reveals What Makes His Job ‘Fun’
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Even though he never expected to be starring in a comedy series, he did say that the work is “fun” for him.
“You work faster, and that’s fun for me,” he explained. “I like getting there, getting the work done and going home. I love the challenge. I love the danger, if you will, of the work that I’m able to do. And I like the company.”
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He went on to explain that he “always wanted to be a character actor,” adding, “I had never thought that I would be a leading man … I got to play leading parts because the films I was in had success, and that success carried me along.”
Ford Is ‘Concerned’ About The Future Of Hollywood
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Even though he has been in many successful blockbusters, Ford admitted that he is “terribly concerned” about the future of the entertainment industry.
“I came up at a period of time when the movie business was at its zenith, when the movie business captured the zeitgeist of a culture, and there was a transference, a cross-feeding, and the culture captured the zeitgeist of the movies,” he explained. “There is no zeitgeist anymore.”
“We’ve been disassociated. We’ve been purposefully disaggregated into serviceable political economic units,” he continued. “There is an empty center that needs to be filled, to bring the culture back together, to bring the culture and the movie business back together, for the movie business to be useful in the consciousness of an audience, a culture, a community.”
Harrison Ford’s Depression Launched His Acting Career
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Before he became a household name, Ford recalled living in a single room in college and rarely venturing out. “I would get up out of my single bed, go to a phone, order a pizza, go back and lay down in bed until the pizza came,” he recalled. “I would eat the pizza, throw the wrappers in the corner, go back to sleep.”
Things changed when he took a class called “Drama” without reading the full description. He was interested in analyzing plays, but he didn’t realize he also had to act in them. Although it was a “surprise,” he realized that he actually “found [his] place” through the class.
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“I’d never done anything like that,” Ford admitted. “And I was surprised that the people that I had considered to be fellow geeks and misfits were, in fact, some of the most interesting people I knew. They were doing something that I hadn’t really understood, and they were telling stories about life, and some of them were exceptional in their capacity to understand human behavior. And so I think I simply found my place amongst storytellers. It really changed my world, changed my life.”
Ford Is ‘Really Good’ At Improv, Says ‘Shrinking’ Costar
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In a June 2023 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, costar Jason Segel revealed that his “Shrinking” costar is actually “really, really good” at improv.
“With Harrison Ford, there was a moment when I saw him register and was like, ‘Oh, we’re doing this now.’ And he was good at it. He’s really, really good at it,” Segel said. “There was a whole potato run, where I end up eating these potatoes. [He said] ‘Do whatever you want with them. Boil them, bake them.’ That was a riff that came out of his mouth. He is really smart, he’s really funny and he really understands acting.”
“There’s a reason he’s Harrison Ford,” he added.
All three seasons of “Shrinking” are available on Apple TV+. The show has been renewed for a fourth season, with the main cast set to return.
Among the modern masterpieces are rare gems that transcend the title of great and achieve flawless status, such as The Godfather. These are the films where every gear in the machine, the pacing, the choreography, the stakes, and the character arcs work in total harmony. From the moment the first frame hits the screen until the final credits roll, there isn’t a single wasted second.
Out of all the genres in cinema, action is by far the furthest-reaching spectacle. Action-packed drama and daring stunts combine to create a riveting experience of fights and thrills that define the genre. While many films have revolutionized the industry, only a handful can claim to be airtight from beginning to end. This list highlights ten action movies that are practically perfect, based on their narrative structure, visual storytelling, and the sheer adrenaline they provide without ever losing their footing.
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‘The Dark Knight’ (2008)
Batman (Christian Bale) looming over The Joker (Heath Ledger) in ‘The Dark Knight’Image via Warner Bros.
Many fans claim that the superhero genre has gone downhill, but it is true that there hasn’t been a better film in this genre than The Dark Knight. Batman (Christian Bale) now faces his toughest challenge yet with the Joker (Heath Ledger) trying to prove his psychotic philosophy. This race against time pits the two against each other, leaving Batman with an impossible choice.
From the opening bank heist to the flipping of the semi-truck, the action feels heavy and tangible. Christopher Nolan eschews heavy CGI in favor of practical stunts, giving the film a gritty realism that has taken over the superhero genre. With frantic pacing that moves from one crisis to the next, The Dark Knight never loses sight of its complex themes among the chaos, but that is exactly why it is an intellectually stimulating, adrenaline-pumping action masterpiece.
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‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ (2023)
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Most flawless movies are groundbreaking classics, but some modern hits also prove to be perfect, including John Wick: Chapter 4. The titular character has his final battle against the High Table, hoping to get out of the industry for good. Moving from city to city, John (Keanu Reeves) will face challenges unlike anything he has faced before.
The original John Wick is more influential, but there is no denying that John Wick: Chapter 4 is the most riveting. Redefining the genre with its gun-fu and return to tactile combat, this movie uses gorgeous set pieces and innovative fight scenes to create an exhilarating experience that has a stranglehold on the viewers’ entertainment from start to finish. John Wick: Chapter 4 is a breathless epic that concludes in poetic fashion.
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‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ (1981)
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Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are two of the most legendary creators in the industry, and they teamed up to create the ultimate tribute to 1930s adventure serials. Raiders of the Lost Ark introduces Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), a globe-trotting archaeologist racing against Nazis to recover the biblical Ark of the Covenant.
Indiana Jones is one of the greatest adventure franchises, and this film is its magnum opus. The film is a series of escalating challenges, each one more creative than the last. Whether it’s the opening boulder escape or the truck chase, the action is always driven by wit and desperation.Raiders of the Lost Ark never wastes time or effort, simply creating a flawless template for action-adventure movies.
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‘The Raid 2’ (2014)
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Some of the greatest action movies are foreign productions, and while the first Raid was a masterclass in minimalist action, its sequel, The Raid 2, is an ambitious crime saga that expands the world without losing the visceral impact. Rama (Iko Uwais) goes undercover in a ruthless crime syndicate to root out corruption, resulting in plenty more blood-pumping fights and drama.
The film features some of the most complex and brutal choreography ever captured on film, including a muddy prison-yard riot and a climactic kitchen fight that is widely considered one of the best 1-on-1 duels in history. The cinematography is absolutely stunning, synchronizing movement to create an exhaustive feel in the best way possible, making The Raid 2 a must-watch action movie.
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‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ (2015)
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Three decades after the previous films, George Miller returns to the wasteland with what many consider the greatest action film of the 21st century. Mad Max: Fury Road follows the titular character played by Tom Hardy, as he reluctantly becomes entangled with Furiosa (Charlize Theron), a rebel leader fleeing a tyrannical cult leader with his five wives in tow. What follows is essentially a two-hour-long chase sequence across a scorched desert.
What makes Mad Max: Fury Road flawless is its commitment to visual storytelling, as Miller strips away any unnecessary exposition. The film is a masterclass in pacing; even when the vehicles stop moving, the tension never dips. With its heavy reliance on practical stunts, vibrant color palette, and a percussion-heavy score that beats like a heart, Mad Max: Fury Road is a relentless, beautiful, and perfectly tuned engine of a movie.
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‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ (1991)
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Sequels often struggle to live up to the original, but James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day didn’t just meet expectations, it obliterated them. Eleven years after the original film, a new Terminator, also played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, is sent back in time, but this time his mission is to protect a young John Connor (Edward Furlong) from the liquid-metal T-1000 (Robert Patrick).
Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a perfect loop of emotion and action, balancing groundbreaking CGI with stunning visual effects. Featuring some of the greatest scenes in action movies, including the hallway shootout at the mall and the final showdown in the steel mill, the stakes are constantly escalating. There isn’t a single scene that doesn’t serve the plot or the characters, making Terminator 2: Judgment Day the definitive, perfect blockbuster and standout action sensation.
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‘Aliens’ (1986)
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Right after one James Cameron action masterpiece is another action-packed sequel that defines its franchise. Aliens takes place 57 years after the first, spending that time in cryosleep. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) returns to the planetoid LV-426 with a team of Colonial Marines to investigate a lost colony, facing ten times the challenge as before.
Aliens took the haunted-house-in-space from the first one and built on it, creating a slow-burning tension that culminates in unbearable dread. It is an explosion of action that never lets up, introducing fan favorite characters that make their fate that much more painful. Aliens is a well-constructed action phenomenon that climaxes in a legendary moment that went down in cinematic history.
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‘Hard Boiled’ (1992)
John Woo is an iconic director who has pioneered the action genre, particularly through his magnum opus, Hard Boiled. When a gang kidnaps his partner, a cop must now go undercover in order to take down a powerful triad leader while trying to save his friend.
Hard Boiled moved action away from typical hard-hitting grittiness in favor of a ballet of bullets that made gunfights elegant and thrilling. This visually stimulating action movie features exploding environments and dual-wielding pistol fights that accentuate its fast pace. Hard Boiled is a badass classic that is a feast of technical coordination, making it one of the most important action movies.
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‘The Matrix’ (1999)
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Keanu Reeves is an action icon, and one of his best movies is arguably The Matrix. Neo is a computer programmer who realizes that he and the rest of humanity are living in a simulation. Learning that robots control the world, he joins the revolution but must choose between an ideal fantasy and a harsh reality.
The film’s bullet time effects and wirework choreography became instant staples of the genre, but what makes The Matrix flawless is how it integrates these elements into its philosophy. Neo grew as a character with every minute, making every shootout and action sequence feel earned. The Matrix is a perfect fusion of philosophical sci-fi and revolutionary action that hasn’t gone out of style since 1999.
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‘Speed’ (1994)
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Reeves has not one, not two, but three flawless action movies that never lose a step throughout, with the best being Speed. Jack Traven is a cop who finds himself in a tricky situation: the bus he is on is rigged with a bomb, and if it drops below 50 miles per hour, it will explode. With the help of the passengers and other cops, they try to keep the bus at a high speed while finding a way to defuse the bomb.
Everyone needs to breathe, but Speed will leave viewers breathless, forcing them into a constant state of shock with its non-stop, high-octane exhilaration. The tension is constant, forcing the characters to solve increasingly impossible problems at high speed. Speed is a tightly focused movie that uses its cramped feeling on an open highway to create suspense unlike anything felt before, proving it is a perfect action movie from start to finish.
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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
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🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
🐦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?
The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
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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.
Parasite
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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.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
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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.
Oppenheimer
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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.
Birdman
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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.
No Country for Old Men
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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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Amanda Batula appears to have reunited with West Wilson just hours after issuing a public apology for the romance drama.
In a photo shared by a fan account via social media on Friday, April 10, Amanda, 34, and West, 31, could be seen at the Blind Tiger Alehouse in New York City. According to the Instagram account, the photo was snapped at around 7p.m. EST. Celebrity gossip account Deux Moialso shared snaps of Amanda and West looking cozy via Instagram.
It is unclear at this stage whether Amanda and West were out and about by themselves or whether they had been joined by friends for the outing.
The sighting comes just hours after Amanda shared an apology via her Instagram Stories earlier on Friday.
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“Hi guys, l’ll keep this short and sweet,” Amanda wrote. “I’ve obviously been MIA, but I wanted to come back on and say that I’m truly sorry to everyone I’ve disappointed and hurt, especially those I know personally who I’ve reached out to individually.”
Amanda vowed to “try to start living life with some sense of normalcy,” a decision she said was “for the sake of my mental health.”
She added, “If you see me out or posting online, please know that this still weighs very heavily on me. I’m not ignoring what’s happened or what’s unfolded.”
Amanda Batula.(Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for SiriusXM)
The reality TV star said she planned to clear up any lingering questions at the upcoming Summer House reunion.
“I’ll be at the reunion and will be addressing any and all questions honestly and directly there,” she concluded.
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Amanda and West previously addressed the nature of their relationship via an Instagram statement made on March 31 after speculation mounted that the Summer House costars were hooking up amid her split from Kyle Cooke.
Summer House fans called out Amanda Batula and West Wilson’s touchy-feely dynamic before the costars confirmed their romance. While most eyes were on Kyle Cooke after he called Amanda a “f***ing dumbass bitch” during the March 24 episode of Summer House, some were fixated on how West, 31, jumped in to defend Amanda, 34, and […]
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“We’ve seen the growing online speculation, so while this is still very new, we wanted to provide some clarity,” read an Instagram statement on March 31. “It was never our intention to purposely hide anything. Given the complicated relationship dynamics involved and the scrutiny that comes with being on a reality show, we needed a little space to process things privately before speaking on it.”
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Amanda and West further explained how their relationship dynamic changed.
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“We’ve shown up for each other as friends over the years, through all the highs and lows, and what’s developed recently was the last thing either of us expected,” they continued. “Our connection grew out of a genuine, longstanding friendship, which made it especially important for us to approach this with care.”
The pair faced backlash for their burgeoning relationship due to West previously dating Amanda’s best friend and Summer House costar, Ciara Miller, in 2023.
Of this cast, alongside Zendaya, Ferguson is having an incredibly busy year. Starting with the eventual box office flop Mercy, an AI-based sci-fi thriller that co-starred Chris Pratt, Ferguson then released two projects in quick succession, joining a stacked ensemble in the long-awaited Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, followed swiftly by The Magic Faraway Tree, the new fantasy film based on the 1939 children’s novel. With Ferguson having an impressive year, it is perhaps less surprising that another of her many movies is back in the U.S. streaming charts.
The film in question is The Girl on the Train, the 2016 adaptation of Paula Hawkins’ best-selling novel that starred Emily Blunt as Rachel. Unlike the upcoming Dune: Part Three, which is expected to earn close to $1 billion at the box office, The Girl on the Train earned a respectable $174 million against a reported budget of just $45 million. A decade on, and viewers have returned to the often overlooked adaptation, as it ranks as one of the ten most-watched movies on Starz in the U.S., at the time of writing.
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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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What Did Collider Say About ‘The Girl on the Train’?
Rebecca Ferguson scared outside her home, holding her baby, in Girl on the TrainImage via Univeral
Despite earning a promising box office haul, The Girl on the Train was less successful with critics. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the movie received a 44% score, with the consensus reading, “Emily Blunt’s outstanding performance isn’t enough to keep The Girl on the Train from sliding sluggishly into exploitative melodrama.” In Perri Nemiroff‘s review for Collider at the time, she was slightly more positive in her response, saying:
“Taylor needed to knock it all out of the park in order to deliver a winning adaptation. Even the slightest misstep is going to be magnified in this type of film and threaten the credibility of the narrative, and unfortunately that is what happens here.”
The Girl on the Train is streaming on Starz. Stay tuned to Collider for all the latest streaming stories.
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Release Date
October 5, 2016
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Runtime
112 minutes
Writers
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Erin Cressida Wilson
Producers
Celia D. Costas, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, Marc Platt
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