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Ariana Grande is unable to talk about her role in Wicked amid the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike. But she can talk about her new tattoo, which just so happens to be her character in the upcoming film adaptation of the musical: Glinda the Good Witch.
The star revealed in a new interview with Allure — which predominantly focused on the release of Grande’s new R.E.M. Beauty foundation line — that she’s gotten the original Glinda illustration in L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz books inked on the back of her right hand since being cast in the Jon M. Chu-directed project. “This one I knew I wanted to get for a very long time,” she told the publication, showing off her hand.
“This is my most recent one,” she continued. “I waited forever to fill up this hand. And I thought, ‘I’m gonna wait for the right thing to come along,’ and yeah, that felt very right.”
Grande has many other tattoos, including a moon and sun illustration, as well as the name of her dog, Toulouse, inked on the back of her left hand. Just about all of the fingers on both her hands are adorned with designs, too, with a cloud, a heart, olive leaves, dots, a reference to the first song on her debut album — “Honeymoon” — and a thick coverup blocking out the word “Pete,” the name of her ex-fiancé Pete Davidson, which used to preside on her ring finger.
Filming for Wicked came to a halt as a result of the writers’ strike, just a few days before the project was expected to wrap. “We were only a few days away from being done, so we were SO close,” Chu told fans on Instagram. “It’s been very painful to put a halt to it all but we will be back! And we will finish properly strong when the time is right.”
Shot just outside of London, Wicked will be take place over two films, the first of which is slated for a November 2024 theatrical release. As Glinda, Grande will star opposite Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba, aka the Wicked Witch of the West, with Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Ethan Slater and more fleshing out the rest of the cast.
The project certainly hasn’t gone without its share of headlines. In July, Grande and Slater were reported to be dating shortly after the “Positions” singer’s split from husband Dalton Gomez went public. Neither of the actors have confirmed their romance.
Something doesn’t quite add up in the first trailer for the upcoming Netflix murder thriller Reptile, in which detective Tom Nichols (Benicio del Toro) tries to figure out who killed a young real estate agent. With a handful of equally shady suspects, the nearly three-minute preview opens with a weary looking Nichols saying the case he’s working on is “a real nightmare.”
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After a montage of pictures from the crime scene, we see Nichols entering a room to speak to one of the four main suspects, Will (Justin Timberlake), who was the agent’s boyfriend at the time of her death. Looking shell-shocked and haunted, Will just stares blankly when Nichols asks him what happened.
“I walked in the front door, I called out for her… no answer,” Will says flatly. “And then what?” Nichols asks.
Cut to the medical examiner asking Nichols if he can show him something strange, which appears to be a bite mark on the victim’s hand, a wound Nichols tries to recreate by biting his wife Judy (Alicia Silverstone) on the hand as she helps him try to solve the case. The movie’s tagline hints at the twisty plot, promising, “A mysterious murder. A hardened detective. A truth more dangerous than they could have ever imagined.”
Later in the trailer — set to a haunting version of Juice Newton’s “Angel of the Morning” — when Nichols asks Will who else he thinks may have been involved, he remembers that a shadowy man showed up at his house a few nights earlier “acting strange,” which leads the other investigators (Eric Bogosian and Ato Essandoh) to narrow down the suspects to four potentials: the boyfriend (Timberlake), a friend, the “weirdo” (Michael Carmen Pitt) and the woman’s ex-husband (Karl Glusman); Sky Ferreira, Frances Fisher and Matilda Lutz also star in the film, the first directorial effort from music video director Grant Singer (The Weekend, Troye Sivan).
Reptile, which will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month, will hit select theaters on Sept. 29 and Netflix on Oct. 6.
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One of the biggest streaming hits of 2023 has been a Spanish-language teen drama based on a short story originally published on Wattpad. Culpa Mia (English translation “My Fault”) tells the story of 17-year-old Noah, whose life is uprooted after her mother moves the family into her new husband’s mansion. There, Noah meets her new […]
As she prepares to unleash her nostalgic new single, Miley Cyrus is taking a look back at the last time she played one of her most famous roles. In a new clip posted across Cyrus’ social media on Monday (Aug. 21), the 30-year-old singer watches a fan-favorite scene from the series finale of her Disney […]
A New York City drug dealer was sentenced Friday (Aug. 18) to 10 years in prison for providing The Wire actor Michael K. Williams with fentanyl-laced heroin, causing his death.
Irvin Cartagena, 40, of Aibonito, Puerto Rico, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams. Cartagena had pleaded guilty in April to conspiring to distribute drugs.
Williams overdosed in his Brooklyn penthouse apartment in September 2021. He died hours after authorities said he bought the heroin from Cartagena on a sidewalk in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood in a deal recorded by a security camera.
Williams famously portrayed Omar Little, the rogue robber of drug dealers, in HBO’s The Wire, which ran from 2002 to 2008. In addition to his work on the critically acclaimed drama, Williams also starred in films and other TV series such as Boardwalk Empire.
Cartagena faced a mandatory minimum of five years in prison and could have faced up to 40 years behind bars.
“I am very sorry for my actions,” he said before the sentence was announced. “When we sold the drugs, we never intended for anyone to lose their life.”
Abrams noted that those who knew Cartagena said that he was “helpful and humble and hard working” when he was not using drugs himself.
“I’m hopeful that with treatment, … it will help you move forward on a more productive and law-abiding path,” the judge said.
In a statement, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams noted that those who participated in the sale of drugs to Williams already knew that someone else had died from drugs they were peddling.
Prosecutors said Cartagena and others continued to sell fentanyl-laced heroin in Manhattan and Brooklyn even after Williams died, although Cartagena eventually fled to Puerto Rico, where he was arrested in February 2022.
In a defense submission prior to sentencing, Cartagena’s lawyer, Sean Maher, said his client was paid for his street sales in heroin to support his own use.
“In a tragic instant, Mr. Cartagena was the one who handed the small packet of drugs to Mr. Williams — it easily could have been any of the other men who were there or in the vicinity selling the same drugs,” Maher wrote. “Sentencing Mr. Cartagena to double digits of prison time will not bring back the beautiful life that was lost.”
Prosecutors in a presentence submission had requested a sentence of at least 12 years while the court’s Probation Department had recommended a 20-year term after citing Cartagena’s 14 prior convictions for drug-related crimes, including burglary, robbery and prison escape.
Abrams, though, said the recommendations were “simply too high.”
“This sentence, while severe, is sufficient but not greater than necessary,” she said.
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Need a new series to be hooked on? Prime Video just dropped a fresh show that’ll leave you guessing with each episode. Harlan Coben’s Shelter is based on the novel of the same name and is full of mystery and suspense that won’t just captivate fans of the novel.
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The show first aired on Thursday (Aug. 18) and currently has the first three episodes available to watch. Viewers can expect to follow Mickey Bolitar (Jaden Michael) who, after the traumatic death of his father, moves to a the town of Kasselton in New Jersey. With his mother in rehab, he’s left in the care of his aunt and navigates his new life and school. When a creepy old woman appears and tells him his father is alive and a girl is kidnapped all within the same timeframe, Mickey begins to think he’s going crazy and, with the help of a couple new friends, tries to unravel the mystery surrounding his father’s death and it’s possible connection to the girl’s disappearance.
In true Coben fashion, the show brings just as much thrill, suspense and cliffhangers that’ll help take you through the rest of the summer — and potentially have you begging for more.
Other cast members in the show include Adrian Greensmith, Sage Linder, Abigale Corrigan, Constance Zimmer, Tovah Feldshuh, Hunter Emery, Didi Conn, Brian Altemus, Lee Aaron Rosen, Samantha Bugliaro and Manuel Uriza.
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Scandoval continues to live on. Vanderpump Rules favorite Scheana Shay released a new song called “Apples” on Friday (Aug. 18), and based on the scathing lyrics, it seems like she got inspiration from her friendship breakups after Tom Sandoval cheated on his longtime girlfriend Ariana Madix with her best friend, Raquel Leviss. For “Apples,” Scheana teamed […]
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Who’s ready to rumble? This weekend, Aljamain Sterling and Sean O’Malley finally face off against each other during the UFC 292: Sterling vs. O’Malley match occurring Saturday (Aug. 19) on ESPN+. Sterling, the bantamweight champion, will be defending his crown and title as O’Malley, a fast-rising challenger hopes to overthrow him. Women’s strawweight Zhang Weili will also welcome Amanda Lemos during the co-main event.
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The main card event along with preliminary fights will be taking place live at TD Garden in Boston. For fans who weren’t able to snag travel deals to see the fights live, you’ll have to rely on streaming options to catch all the action.
UFC is a pay-per-view event that will be livestreaming on ESPN+ for $80. Get the UFC 292 live feed here.
The main card event starts at 10 p.m. ET, with preliminary matches beginning at 8 p.m. ET. Other fights you can catch that night include Ian Machado Garry vs. Neil Magny (welterweights), Mario Bautista vs. Da’Mon Blackshear (bantamweights), Marlon Vera vs. Pedro Munhoz (bantamweights), Brad Tavares vs. Chris Weidman (middleweights), Gregory Rodrigues vs. Denis Tiuliulin (middleweights), Austin Hubbard vs. Kurt Holobaugh (lightweights) and more.
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Sterling and O’Malley will enter the ring at 10 p.m. ET on Saturday, and you’ll be able to catch every moment of it through pay-per-view on ESPN+. UFC 292 can be purchased through ESPN+ for $80 if you’re a current subscriber.
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The emotional season two finale of Prime Video’s The Summer I Turned Pretty definitely hurt to watch — but it was especially painful if you’re Team Conrad, and even more so if you’re a Swiftie.
Two of the most devastating songs in the Taylor Swift canon were used in Thursday night’s (Aug. 17) season closer — Folklore‘s Bon Iver collaboration “Exile” and Midnights deluxe track “Bigger Than The Whole Sky”– making moments where leading lady Belly breaks Conrad’s heart or says goodbye to a dying Susannah all the more gut-wrenching. And while the episode definitely had its fair share of happy moments (particularly for Jeremiah supporters, iykyk), one of the only things fans could talk about afterward was the evil genius of using Swift’s songs so strategically.
The use of “Exile” was a particular standout, simply because of how perfectly it described the scene at hand. Belly, played by Lola Tung, ends things for good with her ex-boyfriend, Chris Briney’s Conrad, and instead chooses to be with his brother Jeremiah, portrayed by Gavin Casalegno. Belly and Conrad’s main issue as a couple was their inability to communicate or fully understand each other, as reflected in each word of “Exile”: “I never learned to read your mind (never learned to read my mind)/ I couldn’t turn things around (you never turned things around)/ ‘Cause you never gave a warning sign (I gave so many signs).”
“actually footage of me when exile started playing in the summer I turned pretty,” tweeted one fan, sharing a video of someone literally plunging a knife into their TV screen.
“THEY DID NOT PUT ‘bigger than the whole sky’ OVER THAT SCENE,” wrote another, referencing the moment in the episode when Belly visits her unofficial second mom Susannah, played by Rachel Blanchard, for the last time shortly before Susannah passes away from cancer.
In the song, Swift describes a loss that’s just as indescribable and hard to process as Belly’s loss of her close family friend: “Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye/ You were bigger than the whole sky/ You were more than just a short time.”
This is far from the first time The Summer I Turned Pretty music supervisors have used Swift’s discography this season; in fact, the “Anti-Hero” singer’s music has been featured heavily throughout both installments of the show, which is based on Jenny Han’s novels of the same name. Tracks like “Lover,” “False God” and “The Way I Loved You (Taylor’s Version)” were included in the series’ debut season, while season two has boasted “august,” “Back to December (Taylor’s Version),” “Snow On The Beach,” “Sweet Nothing,” “Last Kiss (Taylor’s Version),” “Delicate,” “This Love” and more.
Luckily, fans have some time to recover before the next season of The Summer I Turned Pretty arrives, almost inevitably bringing with it more sad, beautiful, tragic Swift synch placements. The show was officially renewed for a third season, though work on the next chapter won’t begin until the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes are resolved.
See the best reactions to The Summer I Turned Pretty‘s double Swift knockout below:
episode 8 having the flashback of susannah telling belly to look after conrad with bigger than the whole sky, exile playing when conrad leaves the motel and conrad’s final scene being him unpacking junior mint at the beach house pic.twitter.com/Y0sBj42F7B— ruby ✭ | tsitp spoilers (@lolatungluvbot) August 12, 2023
Three months after the release of the live-action Little Mermaid movie starring Halle Bailey, we now know who will bring the famous mermaid and her underwater pals to life once more in the upcoming animated series based on the film, Disney Junior’s Ariel. Disney Junior announced Friday (Aug. 18) that 11-year-old actress Mykal-Michelle Harris (Raven’s […]
