Devour! The Food Film Fest is the largest food film festival in the world. The annual week-long festival is a transformative food and film experience combining cinematic excellence with 100+ events, celebrated filmmakers, and high-profile chefs from around the globe. The festival welcomes 15,000 food and film lovers. It has become a destination for celebrities and notable chefs including Anthony Bourdain, Phil Rosenthal, Jacques Pépin, Gabrielle Kreuther, Dominique Crenn, Chuck Hughes, Sam Cass, Michael Städtlander, Normand Laprise, Michael Smith, Gordon Pinsent, Jason Priestley, Lidia Bastianich, and Bill Pullman. Each year, top chefs from across Canada and around the world collaborate on special dinners inspired by films.
The 13th Annual Devour! The Food Film Fest is back and in person from October 23-29 in Wolfville, the agricultural and wine heartland of Nova Scotia and the Grand-Pré National Historic Site. From Michelin star chefs to the culinary stars of tomorrow, this year’s festival will dig into Acadian, Québecois, Cajun, Creole, and French cuisine, and explore how they intersect on the screen and on the plate. The line-up includes Michelin-starred Alsatian Chef Gabrielle Kreuther from New York, legends of New Orleans’ Cajun cuisine Chef Megan “Meg” Bickford of The Commander’s Palace and Chef Stephen Stryjewski of Cochon, the rising stars of Acadian cuisine Chef Gene Cormier of Euston Park Social from Moncton and Chef Shane Robicheau from Nova Scotia, and an array of talented chefs from across North America.
Co-director Roger Ross Williams says even when you think you had heard it all, the iconic women could have kept talking: “I was worn out, and they’d want to keep going! They were so eager to tell their own stories for so long. They were eager to tell the stories from their perspective and not through the lens of the media.”
Episode two is a standout thanks to several revealing stories from Cindy Crawford, which we’ll talk more about next week. And episode four features a very vulnerable Linda Evangelista, who lets the cameras capture her at some of the lowest—and also most empowering—moments in her life. Williams and Bills give you a front row seat to the lives of these extraordinary women, and that’s where The Super Models really excels.
On that note, check out a lot more worthy offerings below. I’ll see you back here next week as ABC prepares to keep us firmly planted on the couch with the premieres of Dancing with the Stars, The Golden Bachelor, and Bachelor in Paradise.
Monday, September 18
Academy of Country Music Honors (Fox): The two-hour special honors Chris Stapleton, Clint Black, Mary Chapin Carpenter, K.T. Oslin, Kane Brown, and Tim McGraw. Four-time ACM Award winner Carly Pearce will return to host the ceremony for a third year. Performances include Lady A, Keith Urban, Trisha Yearwood, Brandy Clark, and many more. 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT
Superpower (Paramount+): In this docuseries, what begins as a light-hearted look at a comedic actor turned President of Ukraine becomes a front-row seat to history on February 24, 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine. Directors Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman were filming in Kyiv when they saw first-hand the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Volodymyr Zelensky’s inauguration as one of the most significant wartime leaders of the modern era. Streaming
Wednesday, September 20
The Super Models (Apple TV+): The fascinating four-episode docuseries drops today in which Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, and Christy Turlington reminiscence on the highs and lows of their extraordinary careers. Here’s the episode breakdowns:
Part 1: The Look: In 1983, four teenagers—Christy, Cindy, Linda, and Naomi—each step in front of a camera for the first time, igniting a seismic chain of events.
Part 2: The Fame: Christy, Cindy, Linda, and Naomi work with fashion titans and walk the most high-profile runways, leading to a music video that changes everything.
Part 3: The Power: Taking the world by storm, the women become the faces of ’90s culture until shifting perceptions and a controversial remark shake things up.
Part 4: The Legacy: As the women face life changes and find new roles as entrepreneurs, humanitarians, and mothers, they find the power in growing older. All episodes streaming
Last week, the actress and Drew Barrymore Show host revealed it would be returning without writers and would abide by strike rules in not discussing struck work. Barrymore apologized after she received pushback and said there was nothing she could do to make it OK.
“I have listened to everyone, and I am making the decision to pause the show’s premiere until the strike is over,” Barrymore wrote in a statement on Instagram Sunday. “I have no words to express my deepest apologies to anyone I have hurt and, of course, to our incredible team who works on the show and has made it what it is today.”
She concluded, “We really tried to find our way forward. And I truly hope for a resolution for the entire industry very soon.”
The news that she would be pausing the show comes days after the talk show host posted her now-deleted video apology on Instagram. She explained in the post that she was accepting responsibility and did not have a “PR machine” behind her decision to restart the show despite the ongoing writers strike.
“I certainly couldn’t have expected this kind of attention,” she said about her decision in the video. “We aren’t gonna break rules, and we will be in compliance. I wanted to do this because as I said, this is bigger than me, and there are other people’s jobs on the line.”
After a 10-month hiatus, Apple TV+‘s flagship drama The Morning Showis back for Season 3. And dare I say, it’s never been better. Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) and Bradley Jackson’s (Reese Witherspoon) personal and professional shenanigans return in full force, Billy Crudup continues his career-great performance as smooth-talking suit Cory Ellison, and in the first two episodes alone we take a trip to outer space and witness a “nuclear” cyber hack at UBA. Season 3 isn’t playing around! Returning cast members Mark Duplass, Greta Lee, Karen Pittman, and Julianna Margulies — plus stellar new additions Nicole Beharie and Jon Hamm — help dial the series’ signature brand of chaos up to 11. And episodes still to come feature high stakes, unexpected alliances, raw emotions, and storylines so outrageous you’ll be screaming at your TV screens. No matter how much time has passed, you can always count on The Morning Show for juicy drama, a painful trip down memory lane, and eventful episodes that leave you craving more.
Agatha Christie was the master of the perfectly constructed mystery; Oscar winner Hildur Guðnadóttir (“Joker,” “Tár,”) is an avant-garde cellist-composer. Yet the two meet to spine-tingling results for Kenneth Branagh’s third Hercule Poirot mystery, “A Haunting in Venice,” a loose adaptation of Christie’s “Hallowe’en Party.”
As it turns out, there’s a very good reason why Guðnadóttir might find pleasure in Christie’s work. “My grandmother, who was one of the first women doctors in Iceland and a brilliant virologist, always said that the only way to get a tiny break from your mind is to read a good detective novel or crime story,” Guðnadóttir told IndieWire.
“So, since I was very young, I have lived by this advice,” Guðnadóttir said. “And I have always wanted to sink my teeth into an Agatha Christie adaptation. When Ken approached me about this one, he was really clear from the get-go that he wanted to do something totally different from the other two movies. And he wanted to do something much more dark and moody and more like a chamber piece, and I thought that was really just very exciting.”
On a deeper level, Guðnadóttir was drawn to the psychic pain of Branagh’s retired Belgian detective in this post-World War II whodunit, which co-stars Tina Fey as Christie’s beloved Ariadne Oliver and Michelle Yeoh as a very unconventional medium. It’s about a seance that turns to murder in a haunted palazzo that was once an orphanage where children were tortured. The frightening atmosphere summons ghosts from Poirot’s past, rooted in his obsession with murder, wartime experiences, and hardened view of human nature.
Psychic pain is becoming the throughline of Guðnadóttir’s Emmy-, Grammy-, and Oscar-winning work, which also includes “Sicario: Day of The Soldado,” “Chernobyl,” “Women Talking,” and the upcoming “Joker: Folie à Deux.”
Hildur GuðnadóttirCourtesy of Camille Blake
“I’m quite a joyful person and I laugh often and loud, and I love just being happy in general,” she said. “And I think that’s probably the reason why I’m so fascinated by the darker side of the human psyche because I still spend a lot of time creating [somber] music, so I get to kind of experience both sides of the coin.
For “A Haunting in Venice,” Guðnadóttir abandoned her usual practice of creating processed musical sounds on the computer, choosing instead to compose a classical chamber score — performed by the London Contemporary Orchestra at Abbey Road — for greater intimacy. The strings and woodwinds reflected not only Poirot’s unease but also the tension and unanswered supernatural questions associated with the mysterious interior life of the palazzo.
“In this score, I was imagining what it was like to write music before and after the Second World War,” added Guðnadóttir. “In a world that has gone through a complete destruction, how do you move forward, throw out your old beliefs and build something new? The abandonment of romantic ideas and melodies, in exchange for a more abstract sense of musicality.”
This entailed experimenting with tone, both mathematically rigid and structurally open, by changing the melodic structure in more atonal ways. For example, the main theme, “Haunt,” begins the film with a simple solo cello. “It’s a sort of melodic movement that doesn’t really go anywhere,” the composer said. “It’s not happy, it’s not sad, it evokes this feeling in me of introspection. So it almost creates a space in the beginning when [Poirot’s] waking up of: Is it real? Is he dreaming or is he awake?”
Then the music gets unnervingly loud and angry with the “Seance” cue. It’s Guðnadóttir at her experimental best, the way she creates a multiphonic sound on the wind instruments with several notes at once. “So it’s like different ways of blowing into the instruments or tapping on the instruments or just taking something classical and shifting your way of approaching it,” she said. “And I thought that these types of sounds are very much of this time and fall into my line of [avant-garde] interest. How the times are shifting musically and they just lend themselves incredibly well to these supernatural aspects of the film, which you can create with these classical instruments.”
Then Guðnadóttir does a musical deep dive into Poirot’s confused state of mind with “Psychic Pain.” This occurs when he’s assaulted by supernatural forces that undermine his rational thinking and belief system. “It’s just like slow notes and, again, it’s quite sparse and creates a sense of space,” she added. “But it’s more emotional, a bit of heartache as we draw to the end of that piece. It has a slight sense of melody, a slight sense of resolve without [fully resolving].”
Turns out “A Haunting in Venice” was the perfect lead-in for Guðnadóttir’s work on the upcoming sequel “Joker: Folie à Deux.” Only this time, director Todd Phillips has added a musical dimension with the introduction of Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn, the psychiatrist who becomes obsessed with Joker (Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix) and turns into his sidekick and love interest.
“It’s been really fun to revisit the musicality of Arthur Fleck and Joker because, obviously, in the first film, the music was so present and so upfront,” Guðnadóttir said of her first movie musical. “It was such a big part of him and his story. And I think Phillips has a really strong sense of musicality.”
However, the psychic pain will be multiplied by these two kindred spirits caught in this “Madness for Two.” And it will be creatively exciting for the composer to get inside the delusional minds of Joker and Harley for some delirious musical sequences. But will Guðnadóttir be collaborating with Lady Gaga on some original songs? She’s not telling.
“I’m not allowed to give anything away about which direction it’s going in, but I’ve been doing the process quickly,” she added. “And it’s fantastic to get to do that with beautiful artists like Joaquin and Lady Gaga and Phillips. It’s a real treat for me.”
However, on Tuesday, Caballero said in a radio interview that artists like Peso Pluma had potentially invited the attention of the cartels with their lyrics. “Let’s be clear: They sing and make an apology of crime and thus they should know the risk and consequences,” Caballero told Azucena Uresti, the host of Radio Fórmula, in a phone interview.
She added that whether the authorities canceled the concert would be contingent on whether the narcomantas were the work of organized crime or ordinary citizens. Caballero, who is from the governing party Morena, moved into the military headquarters of the 28th Infantry Battalion after one of her bodyguards suffered an armed attack, and has said she is being targeted by organized crime for confiscating arms.
Other Mexican musicians have drawn attention to the risks of the genre as well. Natanael Cano, who is considered a pioneer of corridos tumbados, recently stopped mid-song during a concert in Sonora, remarking that he was “going to get killed.” The lyrics of the song, “Cuerno Azulado,” allude to drug deals and potential government involvement, including a line assumed to be a reference to Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the drug lord known as El Chapo.
Narcomantas have long been used by cartels and organized crime to leave public messages for authorities, rivals or the community at large. Popularized at the height of the drug war in the 2010s, the banners can be used to promote or assuage fear, although it is often unclear who is responsible for making them and how credible their messages are.
Peso Pluma had previously been expected to appear at a concert at the Chevron Stadium in Tijuana in March, alongside the artists Eden Muñoz, Roberto Tapia and El Fantasma. But in late February, Tapia Entertainment, which was organizing the show, said tickets would be reimbursed “due to insecurity and threats towards other events.”
Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, criticized some of the country’s current popular music in June, invoking Peso Pluma’s hit song “AMG,” about a Mercedes-Benz. “As if material things were the most important things — brand clothes, houses, jewelry, power or arrogance,” he said. “There are other options, there are other alternatives, it’s possible to be happy in another way.”
Drew Barrymore isn’t bringing back her daytime talk show until the strike ends, after all.
“I have listened to everyone, and I am making the decision to pause the show’s premiere until the strike is over,” she wrote on Instagram. “I have no words to express my deepest apologies to anyone I have hurt and, of course, to our incredible team who works on the show and has made it what it is today. We really tried to find our way forward. And I truly hope for a resolution for the entire industry very soon.”
Toronto police are investigating a stabbing and assault in Toronto’s Entertainment District that sent sent four people to hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning.
In a tweet, police said they were called to the area of Adelaide and Simcoe Streets for reports of a stabbing around 3 a.m.
Two victims were located with stab wounds and were rushed to hospital in life-threatening condition, police say. Their conditions were later downgraded to stable.
STABBING: Adelaide St. and Simcoe St 3:09 am -reports of a stabbing -police o/s -2 people transported to hospital w/ stab wounds & in life-threatening condition -2 victims were assaulted & transported to hospital w/ minor injuries -unknown suspect description#GO2172155 ^lm
Hugh Jackman, 54, gave an update on how he’s doing since his split from wife Deborra-Lee Furness, 67, for the first time on Saturday morning. The actor was walking on a sidewalk in New York City, NY, when he was approached by paparazzi with cameras who asked him questions about separation. “It’s a difficult time,” he said in a video, after admitting he doesn’t feel right talking about the situation while walking on the street.
Hugh, who wore a dark gray T-shirt and black jeans during the outing, followed up his comment with an answer about when his upcoming movie, Deadpool 3, is expected to be released amid the SAG-AFTRA strike. “Well, I can’t really know until we get back to work,” he said.
Hugh and Deborra-Lee were married for 27 years. (Andrew H. Walker/Shutterstock)
The Prisoners star and his now estranged spouse, whom he was married to for 27 years, announced their separation on Friday, in a joint statement. “We have been blessed to share almost three decades together as husband and wife in a wonderful, loving marriage,” Hugh and Deborra-Lee told PEOPLE. “Our journey now is shifting and we have decided to separate to pursue our individual growth.”
“Our family has been and always will be our highest priority,” they continued. “We undertake this next chapter with gratitude, love, and kindness. We greatly appreciate your understanding in respecting our privacy as our family navigates this transition in all of our lives.”
Hugh and Deborra-Lee smile at each other at a previous event. (Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock)
Shortly after the joint statement went public, a source told Page Six that the separation wasn’t a surprising one for the former lovebirds’ family and friends. “Friends and family knew about it,” the insider said, before also adding that trouble in their marriage may have started before Hugh returned to Broadway in The Music Man in Feb. 2022.
“Deb wasn’t at rehearsals very much,” the source added, before also claiming she “was even spotted snoozing during some of them.” Finally, the source concluded that there was no third partner involved in Hugh and Deborra-Lee’s decision to part ways, and said that they had simply become “roommates.”
We’re only a couple of weeks away from the big Google Pixel 8 reveal, but there’s already talk of what’s coming with the Google Pixel 9 – and it seems the 2024 flagship will only be offering a modest upgrade as far as its chipset goes.
According to sources speaking to Android Authority, the Tensor G4 chip fitted inside the Pixel 9 is going to be “semi-custom” and “co-designed with Samsung‘s System LSI division”. Also, it “will most likely be a smaller upgrade than initially planned”.
In other words, it looks as though Google’s long-term aim of producing a fully custom system-on-a-chip (SoC) without Samsung’s help is going to have to wait until 2025 and the launch of the Google Pixel 10 smartphones.
Android Authority compares the jump in performance to the one we got between the original Tensor chip (fitted inside the Pixel 6) and the Tensor G2 chip (fitted inside the Pixel 7) that came a year later – a jump, but not much of one.
Chips with everything
Ultimately, Google wants to get where Apple is: designing its own SoCs for its phones. It means software and hardware can be more tightly integrated, because teams from the same company are communicating together.
It also means Google could tailor its chips more specifically for what it wants its Pixel phones to do (think lots of AI and advanced image processing). It’s a bit like building your own PC compared with picking up a pre-built one.
However, custom chipsets take a long time to develop, and need a lot of resources devoting to them – which is why Google has so far been partnering with Samsung to make the silicon that has been fitted inside recent Pixel phones.
It now seems as though that will continue for the Pixel 9, which should appear later next year. In the meantime, the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro and Pixel Watch 2 launches are set for Wednesday, October 4, and we’ll be bringing you all the news as it happens.
While Big Brother houseguests can expect the unexpected in the game, a day on set for Julie Chen Moonves is a little more typical.
“I arrive hours before our live eviction to rehearse,” Chen Moonves, 53, exclusively shares in the latest issue of Us Weekly. “It’s important to go through the beats of the show ahead of time so the team is in lockstep.”
Chen Moonves has been the longtime host of the reality series since it aired its first season in 2000. The show is currently in its milestone 25th season. In addition to hosting Big Brother, Chen Moonves is also an author with her new audiobook, But First, God, dropping on Tuesday, September 19.
While the show airs three times a week, the audience — and contestants — only get to see Chen Moonves on eviction nights which happen live on Thursdays. On air, Chen Moonves hosts each live show with ease, but she puts in plenty of work behind-the-scenes to make sure the show runs smoothly each week.
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“Mic’d up and ready to go for a sound check followed by a quick rehearsal of the open of the show,” she tells Us about her final preparations before going live.
Keep scrolling to see what Chen Moonves does on the set of Big Brother:
Climate change denial must be maddening to Lonnie Thompson, a respected scientist who has scaled glaciers collecting evidence of global warming. But Dr. Thompson keeps a cool head in “Canary,” a documentary that patiently traces his groundbreaking efforts extracting ice cores from tropical mountaintops.
The film, directed by Danny O’Malley and Alex Rivest, is a portrait of perseverance. Inspired by a student research opportunity to look at polar ice cores, Dr. Thompson wondered whether other parts of the world could also yield useful ice samples. To paraphrase George Bernard Shaw, some colleagues looked at tropical glaciers and asked “why,” while Dr. Thompson saw their potential for climatology and asked “why not.”
His expeditions to the Quelccaya ice cap in Peru in the 1970s and ’80s required transporting heavy equipment and using solar power. Dr. Thompson, 75, with grandfatherly humility, recounts his career’s progress in the film’s frankly long-winded account, aided by stills, some archival footage, and scientists and family members, including his wife and research partner, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, who is a glaciologist and climatologist.
Dr. Thompson’s ice cores show how recent temperature changes have been highly unusual compared to past centuries. The issue of human-caused global warming gets traction in the 1990s with political and media attention, but damning clips show politicians in the 2000s affirming the urgency of the issue one moment, then backtracking into equivocation. First global warming needs to be addressed, then suddenly nobody is sure if the science is definitive.
The political inertia receives a quietly provocative parallel in Dr. Thompson’s life: He delayed treating a serious heart scare because of stubborn disbelief. The health of the planet, the film seems to say, also depends on acting before it’s too late.
Canary Not rated. Running time: 1 hour 44 minutes. In theaters.
Drew Barrymore issued a tear-filled statement on Friday apologizing to writers and unions, then doubled down on why she thinks “The Drew Barrymore Show” needs to return amid the ongoing actors’ and writers’ strikes in Hollywood.
Barrymore began her Instagram address by saying she’s aware that there’s nothing she can say to make her decision OK, but that she wanted to own the decision and take full responsibility for her actions.
“There are so many reasons why this is so complex. And I just want everyone to know my intentions have never been in a place to upset or hurt anyone. It’s not who I am,” she said. “I’ve been through so many ups and downs in my life. And this is one of them.”
Barrymore’s voice began to crack and her eyes filled with tears as she continued, “I deeply apologize to writers. I deeply apologize to unions. I deeply apologize.”
But then the daytime TV host held firm on her show’s return to production.
“I don’t exactly know what to say because sometimes when things are so tough it’s hard to make decisions from that place. … And no I don’t have a PR machine behind my decision to go back to the show,” Barrymore said. “I didn’t want to hide behind people. So I won’t. I won’t polish this with bells and whistles and publicists and corporate rhetoric. I’ll just stand out there and accept and be responsible.”
Barrymore continued by addressing the burning question of “why” she would make such a bold move that would naturally stir up animus.
“This is bigger than me. And there are other people’s jobs on the line,” she said, noting that the program wasn’t going to break any rules.
“I weighed the scales and I thought if we could go on during a global pandemic and everything that the world experienced through 2020, why would this sideline us?” she continued. “So I want to just put one foot in front of the other and make a show that’s there for people regardless of anything else that’s happening in the world, because that’s when I think we all need something that wants to be there, being very realistic in very realistic times. So that is my why.”
Fallout came swiftly for Barrymore, who has been heralded as “the millennial Oprah,” after CBS Media Ventures announced last week that the fourth season of “The Drew Barrymore Show” would premiere later this month “with a lineup of cutting-edge guests and key influencers.” No SAG-AFTRA actors — who are also on strike — are among the confirmed guests.
Members of the Writers Guild of America picketed a Monday taping of “The Drew Barrymore Show,” which the union has shamed for “planning to return without its writers.” The show’s writers all participated in the demonstration.
On Tuesday, the National Book Foundation cut ties with the daytime TV host and “rescinded Ms. Barrymore’s invitation” to host this year’s National Book Awards “in light of the announcement that ‘The Drew Barrymore Show’ will resume production.”
Times staff writer Christi Carras contributed to this report.
At the end of the My Adventures with Superman finale debut on Adult Swim, an announcement was made regarding the series’ sophomore season progress.
Only including one still promo shot of the core trio of characters, the video featured the series’ title card along with the text “Season 2 In Production.”
Adult Swim and Max initially confirmed development for Season 2 only one day after the first episode’s premiere on July 7 as a producer said that the studios “ordered two” seasons.
The full video can be seen below:
When Will My Adventures With Superman Season 2 Debut?
With this video confirming that My Adventures With Superman Season 2 is currently in development, the big question now is how long it will take for the next set of 10 episodes to make their way to Max.
Given that the series’ voice actors seemingly recorded lines for the first two seasons at the same time, Season 2 could potentially hit Adult Swim and Max as early as 2024, with the likely timeframe being sometime in the summer just the way it happened with Season 1.
Footage showing off parkour gameplay from the upcoming Skate reboot has surfaced online.
The footage, which has been circulating on social media, comes from the ongoing playtests that EA has been running for some time. These playtests, which have been opening up to more players recently, have consistently resulted in similar leaked footage.
While previous Skate titles featured the ability to get off the board and run around the environment, this footage appears to suggest that the game will feature expanded movement options.
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The game is currently in playtesting on PC, although EA has suggested that a console playtest may follow. In a blog reflecting on a year of playtesting on PC, the company told console players they haven’t been forgotten.
“We also want to give a shout-out to the console Skate community – yes, we are still currently only playtesting on PC but we promise console playtesting will be coming,” it said. “We don’t have a date to share just yet, but stay tuned.”
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The free-to-play game is the debut title from Full Circle, a Vancouver-based EA studio headed up by former Xbox Live general manager Daniel McCulloch, who spent 15 years with Microsoft’s gaming business before departing in 2020.
Skate will support cross-play and cross-progression on PC, PlayStation and Xbox consoles.
While we all love to talk about how much of a game-changer AI is going to be in film and video, there’s one tiny innovation from a long time ago that we don’t talk about enough. That’s right—the wheel. Oh man, talk about disruptive innovation! There’s nothing more groundbreaking than the wheel.
All joking aside, for filmmakers and video pros looking to speed up their workflows (and save their backs from extra heavy lifting) adding wheels to pieces of your gear can be a great way to save time and smooth out your production setups.
One of the latest pieces of production gear to get this wheel addition is this new Mini Boom Rolling Kit from Matthews which, when combined with its lockable wheels, an extending C-stand riser, and a positionable boom arm, can be the perfect tool for taking your lighting setup on the go.
Let’s take a look at this new tech innovation and explore if it might be right for you and your production needs.
Matthews Mini Boom Rolling Kit
Sold as a kit that includes plenty of parts, bells, and whistles, this Mini Boom Rolling Kit from Matthews should really be as versatile and easy to use as any C-stand-based lighting setup you might find on the market. But, of course, the key addition is the lockable wheels.
The Mini Boom Rolling Kit comes with the following pieces for your different setups:
Matthews Runway base with 3 lockable smooth-rolling casters
Matthews 40” C+ Riser with 3 sections that can extend from 45.5” to 110.5”
Matthews Mini MatthBoom Arm with 3 telescoping sections with a range from 45” to over 80”
Matthews 10 pound (4.5kg) Boa Bag for stabilization
As anyone who’s set up a C-stand light for a shot and then had to immediately move it because it was too much in frame can tell you, there are certainly times when you’ll wish for easy movement. With this Mini Boom Rolling kit, you should be able to find comfort in the fact that you’re not alone in this desire.
The Pros and Cons of Wheeled Equipment
Now, let’s address some of the obvious (and not so-obvious) pros and cons of a wheeled boom lighting setup.
The pros are all about ease of use and movability. If your light needs to be adjusted a few inches or feet, it can be as easy as unlocking the wheels, moving it over, and locking it back in place.
This Mini Boom Rolling Kit could also be a great addition to any set studio setup where you can set it up once, leave it up, and simply grab it and roll it to wherever you might need it the next time you’re shooting.
However, to work best, a rolling setup like this is going to need smooth and leveling flooring. Something you’ll find on most indoor corporate shoots perhaps, but obviously not what you’re going to get out in the field. And if you’re a true run-and-gun videographer with a completely mobile setup, this might actually end up slowing you down.
The wheels powering the Matthews Mini Boom Rolling Kit
Credit: Matthews
Price and Availability
Still, Matthews is a solid brand and this Mini Boom Rolling Kit is made from good materials that should hold up for most small to medium-sized shoots. As long as you’re not dropping thousands of pounds onto the setup you should be able to rest assured that with its steel components and top-grade materials it should do the trick with ease and reliability.
The Mini Boom Rolling Kit from Matthews which, when combined with its lockable wheels, an extending C-Stand riser, and a positionable boom arm, can be the perfect tool for taking your lighting setup on the go
Welcome to What’s On, our weekly picks of must-watch shows. Here’s what you need to watch from Sunday, September 17 to Thursday, September 21. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekend edition of What’s On drops on Fridays.]
Michael Jai White on “Outlaw Johnny Black” and his favorite Western movie
The biggies
American Horror Story (FX, Wednesday, 10 p.m.)
American Horror Story: Delicate – Official Trailer | Emma Roberts, Cara Delevingne, Kim Kardashian
Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story, a show that kept filming during the ongoing WGA strike (a.k.a. scabbing), kicks off its 12th season on FX. This iteration of the anthology, dubbed Delicate, features the return of AHS staples like Emma Roberts, Billie Lourd, Leslie Grossman, and Denis O’Hare. It also stars franchise newcomers Kim Kardashian, Matt Czuchry, Cara Delevingne, and Michaela Jaé Rodriguez.
Sex Education (Netflix, Thursday, 3:01 a.m.)
Sex Education: Season 4 | Official Trailer | Netflix
Netflix’s smart, risqué British coming-of-age series Sex Education wraps up with its fourth season. Laurie Nunn’s dramedy will go down as one of the streaming platform’s most invigorating originals—and it gets bonus points for giving Gillian Anderson such a memorable role as Dr. Jean Milburn. The show follows Moordale High students as they navigate personal issues related to sexual intimacy. In its final run, Otis (Asa Butterfield), Eric (Ncuti Gatwa), and most of their friends adjust to a new school, while Maeve (Emma Mackey) begins college in America. Look out for The A.V. Club’s review on Thursday.
Young Love (Max, Thursday, 3:01 a.m.)
Young Love | Official Clip | Max
Matthew A. Cherry expands the world of his 2019 Oscar-winning short Hair Love with the new Max animated series Young Love, which fleshes out the film’s central family: Stephen and Angela, their daughter Zuri, and (of course) their pet cat Rocky. In the show, the characters juggle social issues and multi-generational dynamics while striving to make a better life for themselves. Check out The A.V. Club’s review on Tuesday.
Hidden gems
Psycho: The Lost Tapes Of Ed Gein (MGM+, Sunday, 10 p.m.)
Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein (MGM+ 2023 Series) Official Trailer
True-crime docuseries Psycho: The Lost Tapes Of Ed Gein is an unfiltered look into the infamous grave robber and serial killer. Directed by James Buddy Day, the three-episode series includes never-before-heard recordings of Gein discussing his crimes and explores the Mad Butcher’s upbringing as well as his twisted relationship with his mother.
Neighbours (Freevee, Monday, 2:01 a.m.)
Neighbours: A New Chapter | Trailer | Coming 18 Sept
The popular Australian TV show Neighbors, which launched the careers of Margot Robbie, Guy Pearce, and Russell Crowe, returns in a new form on Prime Video’s Freevee. The soapy drama centers on the lives of the residents of a fictional suburban street, and its cast includes Pearce, Mischa Barton, Shiv Palekar, Anne Fletcher, Annie Jone, and Sara West.
The Super Models (Apple TV+, Wednesday, 12:01 a.m.)
The Super Models — Official Trailer | Apple TV+
The four-part docuseries The Super Models puts a spotlight on the careers of Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, and Christy Turlington. The show goes beyond the catwalk to look at how they got their starts, how they came to dominate the modeling world, and how they tried to shift the power dynamics of a complex industry.
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The Gold (Paramount+, Sunday, 3:01 a.m.)
The Gold | Official Trailer | Paramount+
British series The Golddramatizes the notorious 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery, in which six masked men stole $26 million worth of gold bullion, and details the long investigation that followed. The series stars Hugh Bonneville, Dominic Cooper, Jack Lowden, and Charlotte Spencer. Here’s a bit from The A.V. Club’s review:
The Gold crams in subplots and introduce new faces without proper context as it goes on, probably to look more stylized than it is. Watching it would feel like mental gymnastics if the cast wasn’t holding on for dear life.
Se7en (1995) Official Trailer – Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman Movie HD
A detective is right at the brink of retirement, taking on his final case; one that has haunted him for years. His partner, a new recruit, is eager to make his mark, still hopeful about the future and his role in justice. This dynamic has been replicated to the point of cliché, but it began with David Fincher’s haunting 1995 thriller Se7en. Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman play David Mills and William Somerset, respectively, two detectives investigating a serial killer who murders his victims according to the seven deadly sins. Both are consumed by the case in different ways, and the investigation takes over their lives, up until the reveal of a special gift inside a box.
If you have DirecTV or AT&T Uverse, chances are you have been missing some channels for the last two and a half months. That’s because the providers’ shared parent company was in a feud with Nexstar, which caused 159 local network affiliates around the country to be shut off, as well as the cable network NewsNation. As someone personally affected by this mess, I can speak to how frustrating it has been, but it looks like we finally have some good news.
According to Deadline, the two companies are working on negotiating a deal and have decided to “temporarily” restore the signal to the stations in recognition of the “patience” customers have shown since the channels first went dark on July 2nd. As this is apparently a process more complicated than flipping a switch, they are going to start with all the stations that are broadcasting NFL games with an eye toward getting that done before kickoff today. You can read the joint statement below…
In recognition and appreciation of the continued patience of DirecTV customers and Nexstar viewers, the companies have agreed to temporarily return the signals of the Nexstar-owned stations and national cable news network NewsNation to DirecTV, DirecTV Stream and U-verse while we both work to complete the terms of an agreement.
Before I get into some negative thoughts, let’s celebrate the positive. I’m so glad this is happening, at least temporarily. Not having a random channel because there’s an argument over money outside of your control is really grating as a cable customer. Not being able to see NFL games because of that same argument is a travesty. I’m glad cooler heads have prevailed. The fact that the signal is being restored is likely a sign they’ve made meaningful forward progress in the negotiations. So, there’s reason to believe this may be the end of this mess.
But even amidst good news, I also need to acknowledge how emblematic this entire carriage fight is of why so many people have bailed on cable and television in general over the last decade. This isn’t some one off case. These fights happen all the time, and yet, prices have done nothing but get higher and higher. Earlier this month, it was Disney and Charter fighting it out, which thankfully came to terms. Next month it’ll be a different cable company and some other station squabbling over money.
And all of these fights might sound good to the companies themselves in the short-term. They might even seem an economic necessity, but in the long haul, all they do is drive more customers away from paid television and toward streaming services. Cable used to be an extremely profitable business model. When I was a kid, almost everyone I know had cable, but over the last twenty years, channels have done nothing but demand more money from cable companies to carry their programming.
This has driven prices through the roof and created a situation in which certain cable companies have certain channels and don’t have others. Now, we’re at the point where even stations that are available for free through an antenna (like most of these local stations owned by Nexstar) are demanding carriage fees, which then get passed on to customers. With more consolidation in the industry likely and more consumers expected to bail on cable over the next few years, it’s likely this problem will only get worse from here, as those in the industry fight over the shrinking revenue.
I have no idea who thinks they won this negotiation, but both companies actually lost, just as they do in every single one of these standoffs because it’s driven God knows how many more customers to look at streaming service alternatives. But hey, at least we can all watch the full slate of NFL games today.
Following accusations of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse against Russell Brand covering a seven-year period at the height of his fame, which were unveiled on Saturday based on a The Times, The Sunday Times andChannel 4 Dispatches investigation, the U.K. arm of big production company Banijay said on Sunday that it has launched an “urgent” internal probe.
The Times and Channel 4 investigation into Brand found four women alleging that Brand sexually assaulted them between 2006 and 2013, while he was a BBC presenter and acting in Hollywood films. It also spoke of controlling, abusive and predatory behavior by the star, who has vehemently denied wrongdoing.
The Saturday reports further included accusations that Brand flashed his penis at a runner and pursued women in the audience for sex while working on the shows EFourum and Big Brother’s Big Mouth, which were produced by Endemol for Channel 4. Endemol and Shine Group merged in 2015 to form Endemol Shine, which Banijay acquired in 2020.
“In light of the very serious allegations raised by Dispatches and The Times/Sunday Times investigation relating to the alleged serious misconduct of Russell Brand while presenting shows produced by Endemol in 2004 and 2005, Banijay U.K. has launched an urgent internal investigation and will cooperate with any requests for information from broadcast partners and external agencies,” the company said in a Sunday statement. “We also encourage anybody who feels that they were affected by Brand’s behavior while working on these productions to contact us in confidence.”
The actor and comedian preemptively denied the allegations reported by the Times and Channel 4` in a video posted to his social media platforms on Friday. He said he received an email and a letter from a mainstream TV company and a newspaper that listed several “egregious and aggressive” acts that he “absolutely refute[s].”
“These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies, and as I’ve written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous,” he said in the video posted to his Twitter and Instagram. “Now during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about that then — almost too transparent — and I’m being transparent about it now as well.”
Banijay had issued a first reaction to the reports on Saturday. “Banijay U.K. has robust welfare procedures and policies in place which are aimed at preventing such occurrences and protecting cast, crew and staff,” it said. “Escalation protocols are also in place across all our productions to encourage anyone experiencing or witnessing inappropriate behavior on set or in the workplace to speak up. A global code of conduct, anonymous whistle-blowing line and dedicated senior HR contacts are promoted for all production teams, including on-call sheets.” Concluded the production giant: “We take our duty of care to our cast, crew and staff extremely seriously.”
About the historical allegations against Brand, Banijay U.K. had said on Saturday: “While the legacy company, Endemol, did have a code of conduct, support policies and escalation procedures in place during the period in question (2004/2005), they were not as robust as our current processes. We are sorry these women did not feel supported and protected while working on these productions and in light of these serious allegations encourage to them to contact us in confidence.”
The beauty of the best mystery movies and TV shows is that they prey on our human instinct to look for answers to questions. It can feel maddening to not know what’s going to happen next, and yet we love it when a crime thriller is impossible to predict. Even better if the mystery has you on the edge of your seat until the very last second.
Whether it’s a vintage whodunit or a terrifying small-town psychological thriller, the best mystery movies in particular never stop being fun. Trying to differentiate the bad from the good, guessing who’s lying or telling the truth, and attempting to solve a true crime thriller are all mental puzzles that are endlessly frustrating yet completely entertaining. We’re never not in the mood for more movies likeKnives Out.
So with that in mind, we’ve compiled a list of the best mystery films you can stream tonight. What is the best mystery movie of all time? We may not be able to pick just one. From Alfred Hitchcock classic movies to Oscar-winning M. Night Shyamalan thriller twists, these picks span every genre. If you’re in the mood for funny comedy, try something light like The Lovebirds. Fans of horror movies and crime thrillers will be intrigued by Get Out and Seven. Meanwhile, those who prefer a moving drama might enjoy Arrival. No matter what kind of mystery movie you’re feeling, we’ve got you covered.
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Two sisters. Two American dreams. Two very different results.
Maria Del Pilar Barradas-Medel and her older sister Maria Del Consuelo emigrated from Mexico nearly three decades ago. They wanted, more or less, a better life for themselves and the families they hoped for. They wanted schools and jobs — where they could make more than $5 a day — and an end to daily struggles in their home on the outskirts of Mexico City.
Maria Del Consuelo would last only a few months in Southern California, forced back home to care for their ailing newborn sister — child No. 10 in their poor, sprawling family.
Barradas-Medel stayed in the Los Angeles suburbs with her husband, Alejandro Medel. She is glad she did. Maria Del Consuelo wishes she could have too.
Maria Del Pilar Barradas-Medel works as a file clerk in a law firm, a job she says she could not have obtained had she stayed in Mexico.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Here, Barradas-Medel worked her way up from nanny to cleaning lady to file clerk in a law firm. Here, her husband went from washing cars to starting his own landscaping business. Here, her children far surpassed her own education, graduating from high school and pursuing more advanced degrees.
Barradas-Medel’s salary is humble, and the family of five has to squeeze into a one-bedroom mobile home in Azusa. But it’s a better life than she could have imagined back home. And it has allowed her to help her extended family in Valle de Chalco.
“I would do it again,” she said of her trek north half a lifetime ago. “Definitely.”
Drawing on an unprecedented poll, this series tells the stories of immigrant life in America today, putting their voices in the foreground.
Immigrants to the U.S. face extensive challenges, including widespread discrimination and economic hardships. Many report struggles in their daily lives. Nonetheless, Barradas-Medel’s emphatic yes speaks for a large majority of immigrants surveyed earlier this year in a groundbreaking nationwide poll conducted by The Times in partnership with the nonprofit KFF, formerly known as the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The poll, conducted in 10 languages using a rigorously developed survey method, was designed to fill significant gaps in what’s known about the roughly 1 in 6 U.S. adults who were born in other countries. Its size and comprehensiveness allow comparisons among immigrants of different national origins and among varied locations in the U.S. that were previously unavailable.
This is the first of many stories The Times plans to publish based on the survey’s major findings.
Alejandro Medel went from washing cars to starting his own landscaping business after coming to the U.S.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Like Barradas-Medel, who was among the poll respondents who agreed to follow-up interviews, the vast majority of immigrants say they came to the U.S. seeking better economic and job opportunities and a better future for themselves and their children.
Most say they’ve found both.
Eight in 10 immigrants surveyed said their financial situation was better because of moving to the U.S., and roughly 8 in 10 said educational opportunities for themselves or their children have improved because of immigrating.
Eight in 10 also said if they could go back in time and do it all again, they would still choose to emigrate.
And 7 in 10 who are parents said they expect that their children’s standard of living will exceed their own.
That sort of optimism was once considered an American hallmark, remarked on by commentators going back as far as the early 19th century.
In recent decades, though, that’s changed. Scholars and pollsters have charted a striking rise in national pessimism. The shift has been driven primarily by white Americans, who have grown more gloomy in most years since 2000, except for an uptick during the Trump presidency, according to data from the annual General Social Survey, a leading academic-based poll, analyzed by NORC at the University of Chicago.
Trust in American institutions has also dropped, hitting historically low levels among the population as a whole, according to polls by Gallup and others.
Among immigrants, by contrast, large majorities report at least a fair amount of trust in local schools, police and state and federal governments, the KFF/L.A. Times survey shows.
On both those measures — optimism and social trust — immigrants are upholding attitudes once widely seen as central to the American creed.
Immigrants give many reasons for coming to the U.S., but by a substantial margin, the top two are to obtain better opportunities for themselves and a better future for their children.
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1.Maria Del Pilar Barradas-Medel has her morning coffee before heading to her job.(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)2.Alejandro Medel prepares breakfast for his family at their Azusa home, something he does every day. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)3.Alejandro Medel with his 4-year-old son, Anxelo, at their home.(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Immigrants surveyed also cited greater rights and freedoms this country affords and the need to get away from unsafe or violent conditions in their homelands. Escaping unsafe conditions was cited as a major reason by half of those who have neither citizenship nor a green card and 6 in 10 of those from Central America.
The immigrants interviewed by The Times held a wide range of status under U.S. law. Some obtained citizenship through family members, others were winding through the asylum process or on temporary visas. Others were living in the country without legal authorization, in some cases for many years. Those who lacked legal status talked of losing jobs because of it and fearing deportation.
Immigrants living in the U.S. without legal status are significantly more likely to report economic difficulties and discrimination in their workplaces.
Fabio Gutierrez, 28, arrived in L.A. nearly two years ago, fleeing political persecution in Nicaragua.
“People were dying, disappearing,” he recalled. “Things got really bad … life is easier here.”
Yan Xiang, 43, left China for Pittsburgh nearly 20 years ago seeking better opportunities for herself. Gennyfer Leguizamon, 41, followed her husband — who got citizenship through his mom — from Colombia to L.A. for the sake of their children.
“My two kids are going to have the opportunity to enter into a university and make a life that’s much better than ours,” said Leguizamon, who arrived in 2019. “I know they’re going to have a better future than us.”
Phuong Ton, 41, wound up staying in the U.S. unintentionally. In Vietnam, she had a good job as an executive assistant for a Canadian insurance company. She owned a home.
Ton and her then-toddler son traveled to Texas on a tourist visa in 2018. Months into her visit, she learned her father, who had immigrated several years earlier, had colon cancer. He lived in Houston. Her older sister lived in Austin. There was no one to care for him.
So she stayed. As her father’s condition improved, she thought of going back. Then the pandemic struck. Nearly all travel was frozen.
Now, she works 36 hours a week as a clothing salesperson in Houston, raising Benjamin, now 7, as a single mother in a three-bedroom apartment she shares with a roommate. Rent is about $900 a month.
Ton said she doesn’t regret the decision to stay because of the “bright future” for her son.
“The educational system is better here, and all the benefits for children are much better here,” she said, making the decision an obvious choice.
Aaron Tong was sent to the U.S. from Chengdu, China, by his parents specifically to further his education. He had just missed the cutoff on his college entrance exam to enter a top-tier school. His dad decided the teenager should start over in the U.S.
Tong attended Purdue University, where he studied mathematics. After getting a master’s degree, he moved to Irvine in 2016. A few years later he got into sales. The 34-year-old now makes $180,000 a year as a general manager for a car-parts company.
Like Tong, most immigrants work. Two-thirds said they are currently employed. Most of the rest are either students or retirees.
Although Tong has faced anti-Asian hate incidents — a woman yelling at him to “go back to your country” and another telling him that people like him “brought COVID” — he thinks life is better here.
“The U.S., if you want to earn money, start your own business, you want to be famous, you just work hard and that’s it,” he said. “There’s no boundaries. … You can do whatever you want. Everybody’s the same. Everything’s equal.”
Not every immigrant has so positive a view. Black, Latino and Asian immigrants are more likely than white immigrants to report unfair treatment at work, such as being paid less than others for the same work or having fewer opportunities for advancement, the survey found.
Four in 10 immigrants said they have received worse treatment than U.S.-born people in stores or restaurants, in interactions with police, or when buying or renting a home. That share rises to 55% among Black immigrants.
One-third said they have been criticized or insulted for speaking a language other than English. A third said they have been told to “go back where they came from,” including nearly half of Black immigrants.
Sanika Fennell, a native of Jamaica who became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2022, said that while most white people where she lives in Killeen, Texas, have shown kindness toward her, she lives with the knowledge that being Black in America means always being prepared to be treated unfairly — even in mundane situations.
A real estate agent who’s also a combat engineer at Ft. Cavazos, Fennell recalls being challenged by a white cashier one day when attempting to make a large purchase at a store in her city.
“‘How are you going to pay for these things?” the cashier asked while in the middle of ringing her up.
“If it was a white person, she wouldn’t have stopped to ask that question,” Fennell remembers thinking.
She confronted the cashier.
“You’re underestimating the power of my purchase,” she said and walked out of the store, leaving her merchandise behind.
Juan Mata has also experienced his fair share of struggles since emigrating from Matehuala, a city in the mountains of San Luís Potosí, in central Mexico. By the 1980s, two of his sisters had moved to McAllen, Texas, on the border, and they encouraged him to come north.
Mata had long been frustrated with his job prospects. Even if he stayed in Mexico, he knew he’d have to move west to bustling Guadalajara to find a worthwhile job.
“They kept insisting —‘come on, come on’—and eventually they convinced me,” Mata said.
He was unimpressed by what he found — a job picking oranges in an old orchard, with tall, wiry trees. Picking the small amount of fruit meant working until late into the evening. It confirmed his suspicions that the promises of the U.S. — high wages and an opportunity to climb the socioeconomic ladder — were exaggerated.
He’s not alone in finding the costs of living in the U.S. daunting. Financial and economic worries and bills were by far what immigrants mentioned most when asked about their biggest concerns.
One-third of immigrants reported problems affording necessities such as food, housing and healthcare. That rose to 4 in 10 among immigrants who have children. Among those who are probably living in the U.S. without legal status or who live in a lower-income household, about half reported such difficulties.
Almost 40 years later, Mata is retired and living in Dallas’ Oak Cliff, a neighborhood well known for its Mexican population. He said he’s not optimistic about the direction the U.S. is headed.
“It’s getting more expensive every day, and yet there’s less and less work,” he said.
He often has hard conversations with his family about whether he should move back to San Luís Potosí, but one factor makes his decision to stay in the U.S. easier: danger in Mexico. Friends and family back home have to contend with powerful criminal groups, who exploit residents for “taxes” — payment for safety — he said.
In the survey, 60% of immigrants said they intended to remain in the U.S. But 1 in 8 said they want to go back to the country of their birth, and 21%, like Mata, said they’re not sure.
Close to one-fifth of Mexican immigrants said they want to move back to Mexico. More than 100,000 Mexican residents of the U.S. do move back each year, according to statistics from the U.S. and Mexican governments, largely offsetting, and in some years exceeding, Mexican migration into the U.S.
When asked if he regrets immigrating, Mata said he’d do it again. But he doesn’t have a romantic attitude about the States or Mexico: It’s a struggle to live in either one.
In their three-bedroom home in San Mateo, Johnny and Yvonne Wong keep reminders of the successes — not the struggles — that followed their immigration from Hong Kong to California in 1992.
Atop their fireplace is a photo of their son Calvin in his cap and gown, smiling for his UC Irvine graduation photo. Yvonne’s blue Mercedes SUV bears a Wharton license frame — representing the MBA Calvin earned at the prestigious business school.
Calvin Wong climbs at a gym near his home in San Mateo, Calif. The avid rock climber and child of immigrants appreciates all his parents have done for him.
(Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)
Decades ago, Yvonne asked her husband about moving Calvin to the U.S. At the time, their son was 7 and already carrying half a dozen thick textbooks in his backpack. His parents knew the life ahead in Hong Kong: long days and nights of studying for a do-or-die college entrance exam. Crushing pressure. Conformity.
They went through that life. They wanted something different for Calvin.
“It wasn’t a complex discussion or conversation,” said Johnny, 69. “She raised the point about his education, and I was like, ‘I support it 100%.’”
Life in the U.S. came with sacrifices. Yvonne and Calvin moved to California. Johnny stayed behind to continue his work as a management consultant in Asia and take care of his mother.
Until Johnny semi-retired and came to the U.S. seven years ago, he saw his son in person only two or three times a year for about two weeks at a time. He missed memories that Calvin still holds dear — like the Halloween when he dressed up in a yellow Wolverine costume.
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1.Johnny Wong prepares dinner at his home in San Mateo, Calif. Wong stayed in China until seven years ago while his wife and son were in the U.S.(Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)2.Yvonne Wong, playing badminton in San Mateo, said of her life in the U.S.: “We are not rich, but we have a rich life. Life is simple, plentiful, happy.” (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)3.Calvin Wong sees an analogy between his life in the U.S. and rock climbing: “In climbing, there are static movements where you move slowly to get to the next goal. There are dynamic movements where you have to go for it — jump and go somewhere far away.”(Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)
Yvonne missed her husband, but she too had to adjust. In Hong Kong, she had worked up the ladder to be an assistant branch manager at a bank. She did not want to take a junior position in the U.S. But she said she realized seniority doesn’t matter as much in the U.S. as long as “you are capable.” She took the job.
Most working immigrants, 68% of those surveyed, said they feel they have the right qualifications for their job, but about a quarter said they feel overqualified, having more skills and education than their job requires.
As Johnny prepared lunch on a recent afternoon for himself and Yvonne — pork spare ribs, soy sauce braised salmon, deviled egg salad and pan-fried shrimp — he said he tried “to appreciate the good side of everywhere.”
“If you are always complaining, that’s not good,” he said.
Yvonne stood next to him, giving instructions in Cantonese as she chopped bell peppers. An old Canto-pop ballad played on an iPad.
Since fully retiring a year ago, Johnny finds joy in family mah-jongg sessions on Saturday afternoons, regular qigong classes at a park, gardening in the backyard and learning how to cook Chinese food from Yvonne and myriad YouTube videos.
“We are not rich, but we have a rich life,” Yvonne said. “Life is simple, plentiful, happy.”
Calvin, who works as the senior director for the professional services firm Aon in San Francisco, said he appreciates what his parents have done for him.
He drew a parallel between his life and rock climbing, a hobby he’s passionate about.
“In climbing, there are static movements where you move slowly to get to the next goal,” he said. “There are dynamic movements where you have to go for it — jump and go somewhere far away.”
On a recent morning, the sun hadn’t yet risen when Barradas-Medel and her husband started their day.
In the kitchen, Medel chopped tomatoes, jalapeno and onion for huevos rancheros. He didn’t have a landscape job until 9:30 a.m., but woke up early to make breakfast for the family as he does every day.
The Barradas-Medel family sits down to breakfast in their one-bedroom mobile home in Azusa. “I would do it again,” Maria Del Pilar Barradas-Medel said of immigrating to the U.S.
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Hanging on a wall near the kitchen was their daughter Alexa’s pencil-drawn portrait of a young man, which helped her place in the 2022 Congressional Art Competition. Barradas-Medel accompanied her to D.C. — Alexa’s first time on a plane — to accept the award. In the living room, near his bed, Alexander had stacked boxes of Nike and Adidas shoes he bought with the money he saved working at the law firm with his mother.
Barradas-Medel, who arrived in California in 1994, often tells her children that the lives they lead are a world away from the one she had in Mexico. There, she dropped out in middle school to work as a maid to help with bills. An older and a younger sister also had to drop out. Here, Alexander obtained his associate’s degree, and Alexa recently started community college and plans to transfer to a university.
(Maria Del Pilar Barradas-Medel and Alejandro Medel)
“We’re always telling our kids they need to study,” Barradas-Medel said. “They’re going to have a better future studying.”
As Medel cooked, Barradas-Medel, dressed in slacks and a black shirt embroidered with a red rose, packed chicken and potato quesadillas, soup and salsa for herself and Alexander. Soon, the two would head to the law firm, where Barradas-Medel has worked for 11 years.
When Barradas-Medel was first hired, she had no experience and needed help to turn on the computer. Now, “she runs this office,” a paralegal said during a recent workday.
Barradas-Medel, who works in the archives, is one of the clerks responsible for maintaining case files. With every meeting and hearing, she updates the physical and digital files so the lawyers have everything they need.
By now, she knows where all the boxes are kept for different cases, and she prepares physical files weeks ahead of scheduled court hearings. Her small cubicle — decorated with pictures that her 4-year-old son, Anxelo, colored — is as well organized as her closet at home.
Maria Del Pilar Barradas-Medel and her son Alexander, 20, work in the law office in Arcadia where she has been employed for 11 years.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
In Mexico, “I never would have been able to get into a job like this one,” she says.
Her success has benefited family members on both sides of the border.
When Barradas-Medel began sending money back to Mexico — at least $100 each month — she had her mom stop working as a maid. No more of her siblings had to drop out of school to help pay the bills. Close to half of all immigrants said they send money to relatives or friends in their country of birth at least occasionally.
Her older sister, Maria Del Consuelo, said Barradas-Medel is someone who “always looks out for the family.” She credits the financial support as the reason why her son is enrolled in a university.
“Pilar is an unconditional and unique support,” Maria Del Consuelo said. “If she weren’t over there everything would be very different. Thanks to her and her effort, we’ve achieved a lot as a family.”
Maria Del Pilar Barradas-Medel and Alejandro Medel, with son Anxelo, are among a majority of immigrants who are optimistic about this country.
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Barradas-Medel, a naturally positive person, tries to live by the decal painted on her nails: “Be happy and smile”
After all, there will always be something to worry about. Rising inflation. The well-paying job Medel lost because his longtime clients decided to move. The larger homes that remain out of their price range.
But none of it could change Barradas-Medel’s mind about the decision to leave Mexico so many years ago.
“We haven’t accomplished everything,” she said, “but we have a better life than we did in our country.”
Times staff writers Tyrone Beason and Anh Do contributed to this report.
“I take new risks because of Emily, whether that’s with color palette, texture, print or shape — she helps me branch out and try new things,” Collins, 34, told Harper’s Bazaar UKin March.
While the England native is learning to take style risks with her wardrobe choices, it is also impacting her accessories. Collins has been known to sport a necklace from Logan Hollowell’s collection. The range is known for incorporating ethically sourced gemstones and conflict-free diamonds. The delicate pendants are also customizable with initials or a simple symbol.
Hollowell’s inclusion of ethically sourced pieces is sure to impress Collins, who is notably an impassioned activist for many causes.
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Anderson Cooper has spent much of his career roaming the globe, documenting the kind of stories few others are eager to cover — disease, natural disasters, genocide, war. Comfort has never been his mainstay.
But he has his moments.
In 2008, Cooper traveled to Cameroon for the CNN docuseries Planet in Peril, looking for bush hunters hunter whom epidemiologists were following in their study of viruses that jump from animals to humans, with his longtime executive producer Charlie Moore, CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta and Gupta’s producer.
Their temporary headquarters was a ramshackle hut deep in the jungle with no cell service. Once there, they split up to find bush hunters and made a plan to reunite at the hut. Gupta and his producer returned, but didn’t find Cooper and Moore there, and worried all night about his friends in the wild. Only the next day did he wake up and discover a note the pair left, explaining they’d finished very early and decided to go back to the hotel in the capital city of Yaoundé, three hours away.
On the drive back, Gupta and his producer couldn’t get the air conditioning to work in the car that Cooper and Moore had left them, and they couldn’t roll down the windows because of the dust. “It was sweltering,” Gupta recalls. “When we finally pull up to the hotel, Anderson was outside looking very contrite. He told us, ‘We’re so sorry but we left you a note.’ Then he gets in the car to drive to our next appointment, flips on a switch and the air conditioning comes on. It was like adding insult to injury at that point.”
Cooper in 1997.
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To this day, Gupta still brings up being marooned. “Every time Sanjay is somewhere, in the hallway or doing a story on location for [Anderson Cooper] 360, he’ll joke, ‘I’m still looking for the note,’ ” Cooper says. “But I don’t know that I would’ve done anything differently. If you had been in my shoes, I think you would’ve left the place we were in as well.”
Cooper, 56, caught the international-news bug early on. “After my dad died, my mom and brother and I would eat dinner on TV trays watching the news. I grew up watching CBS Evening News and a lot of folks on ABC,” Cooper recalls during a Zoom interview. He was particularly captivated by foreign correspondents, he says. “I’m probably the only kid in high school who knew who Bob Simon was. He was based in Israel for a long time. I thought that would be the most incredible thing.” (By the time he was in fourth grade, the future CNN anchor was creating grids of TV shows he’d watch after school, from Magilla Gorilla to a 4:30 p.m. movie carried on WNBC to the nightly news and primetime lineup — and later the late night shows, sometimes leaving him exhausted. “I would allow 15 minutes for dinner and 15 minutes for homework,” he says.)
For Cooper, it was an escape from a home life that at that point — and still later — was defined by tragedy. He was the son of Gloria Vanderbilt, who hailed from one of the most famous families of America’s Gilded Age and herself was known for being at the center of an infamous custody battle dubbed the Trial of the Century when she was a child. When he was 10, his father, screenwriter Wyatt Cooper, a stabilizing figure with whom he was close, died during open-heart surgery in 1978. A decade later, Anderson’s older brother, Carter, jumped to his death from a balcony at their mother’s New York City penthouse. Anderson wasn’t there, but his mother witnessed the suicide.
He was also close to his mother, but never considered himself a Vanderbilt. “My dad grew up very poor on a farm in Mississippi. His family seemed like hardy stock who knew how to till the land.” I looked at both of my parents and thought, ‘I’m following the Cooper model.’ My last name is Cooper and I’m incredibly happy it wasn’t Vanderbilt. I think the baggage that comes with that is almost insurmountable.And I don’t think I could have had the career I had if my my last name was Vanderbilt.” But for years he stayed quiet about the reality of his upbringing and never corrected people — from Oprah to this publication — when they’d assume he never needed to work. His parents had told him that there was no pot of gold waiting for him, a point reiterated by his dad in front of the famous 1869 statue of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt in New York’s Grand Central Station. College would be paid for, but not much more. To chip in, Cooper modeled as a boy and waited tables at Mortimer’s on the Upper East Side as a teenager. After graduating from Yale, he began traveling the world with little more than a backpack and a camera. On his quest to tell urgent far-flung stories, he helped usher in a new era of more humanistic reporting by television anchors.
From left: Cooper, father Wyatt Cooper, brother Carter and mother Gloria Vanderbilt. The happy family portrait at their home in Southampton, Long Island, was followed by tragedy when Cooper’s father died in 1978 during open-heart surgery. Ten years later, Carter died by suicide.
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Decades later, Cooper has fully come into his own, professionally and personally, as the veil of grief that has pursued him almost his entire life finally begins to lift — the result of becoming a father of Wyatt, 3, and 1-year-old Sebastian, and processing the deaths of his father and brother, in no small part through his heart-wrenchingly personal podcast exploring loss and grief, All There Is With Anderson Cooper. As the 18-time Emmy winner celebrates the 20th anniversary of Anderson Cooper 360, he is also plotting his podcast’s second season, premiering Nov. 1; producing an estimated 10 segments a year as a 60 Minutes correspondent; hosting the Sunday CNN show The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper; and launching his latest book, Astors: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune, which he co-wrote with Katherine Howe. His empire, so to speak, is in full bloom. His CNN salary alone is said to be $12 million a year — and he remains the most watched CNN primetime anchor.
“I think reporting is forever different because of Anderson,” says Gupta, who has (mostly) gotten over the Cameroon episode. “He has a desire to shine a light on places that quite frankly would not get any attention were it not for him and a few others.” Adds Cooper’s co-host of CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live and friend Andy Cohen: “I think he is the most trusted person on television, which is an impossible feat, especially in this day and age. He’s steady, he’s reliable and he’s smart. He’s also a centrist. I think there’s something both relatable and aspirational about him.”
There wasn’t a big celebration for AC360’s 20th, as the introverted and introspective journalist — Moore says he often snaps his fingers close to Cooper’s face to bring him back to the present — preferred a low-key, informal toast on the Hudson Yards set after the Sept. 7 broadcast. Those attending included Mark Thompson, whose hire as the new chairman and CEO of CNN Worldwide was announced while Cooper was on vacation with his two sons in Colombia. Thompson succeeds Chris Licht, who was ousted in June by Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav after a tumultuous year at the helm of the company.
Cooper is effusive when asked about Thompson, who formerly served as CEO of The New York Times Company and, before that, as director general of the BBC. The two first met when Cooper was co-moderating a 2019 presidential debate with CNN colleague Erin Burnett and New York Times then-national editor Marc Lacey. “I was impressed by him then,” says Cooper of Thompson, “so I’m thrilled and excited about his involvement. I talked to him while I was on vacation, and then met with him a couple of days after I returned.”
Cooper has tried to ignore the drama and headlines surrounding Licht’s leadership and departure, and when asked about it, he gives a diplomatic response — don’t expect any dish here. “Nobody likes the place they’re working at to be a place where stories are being leaked. It was depressing. I didn’t really read much about it, but just to see the morale and the layoffs, all of that was concerning,” he says. “I’m not somebody who has a lot of meetings with management. I certainly had a couple of meetings with Chris. If he asked me something, I would give him an honest opinion. I also don’t think it’s responsible to go into details of what I said to somebody who’s no longer here. And look, I wish him and his family well. It’s sad the way the whole thing happened. But morale here has really bounced back, and we’re really focused. No one’s looking backward, no one’s wringing their hands, and we’re plunging ahead.”
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Looking back, Cooper recalls his post-college attempts to get a journalism gig — he remembers being particularly desperate to work as a news assistant at ABC News to no avail. He signed on instead as fact-checker for Channel One, a now-defunct network that beamed into schools across the United States, but they wouldn’t hire him, either, even after he moved to Vietnam for a year and shot five freelance stories the network aired. In 1992, he declared he was going to Africa for three months and would shoot 10 stories if they let him take him a Hi8 camera. Channel One hired him as its chief international correspondent time after his first piece on the famine and civil war in Somalia. Cooper also did a piece on the genocide in Rwanda, where he filmed mutilated bodies and body parts strewn in roads and ditches. Someone wrote a story about his pieces that made its way to Amy Entelis at ABC (now an executive vp for talent and content development at CNN whose duties include overseeing AC360). She hired Cooper as an ABC News correspondent in 1995 after viewing a tape of his work. Says Cooper, “I thought it was a friend of mine pranking me because the idea that someone from ABC News would reach out to me after I couldn’t get a desk assistant job two years earlier was just incomprehensible.”
Says Entelis, “To this day, that tape sticks out in my mind. He was doing international news in one-man-band style — shooting, reporting and presenting it. But it wasn’t so much that he did everything himself, it’s that it got you very close to the story. The traditional international reporters were more at arm’s length and big-picture, and he really brought you into the story in a very different way. You felt much more of a connection to the story.”
At the recent AC360 toast, Cooper learned from Entelis that his unorthodox style caught some at ABC by surprise. Some of his stories on Weekend News were five minutes long, including several he shot with his own camera. “There were apparently lots of calls to Amy, like, ‘Who is this person? And why is he allowed to wear a plaid shirt?’ I feel very blessed that I’ve been able to be myself.”
After Cooper rose to anchor ABC’s overnight show World News Now before taking a brief hiatus from journalism to host a new reality game show, The Mole, CNN lured him into its fold in the aftermath of 9/11. First, he co-anchored the morning show with Paula Zahn, then hosted Anderson Cooper 360 in the 7 p.m. ET slot. In 2005, his extended coverage of Hurricane Katrina catapulted him to prominence and boosted ratings across primetime, leading CNN to move AC360 to 8 p.m. He continued to travel the world, earning additional acclaim in particular for his work during the 2010 Haiti earthquake. “I’ve been able to do a week of stories in eastern Congo for CNN,” Cooper says. “CNN is the only place left, and 60 Minutes, that will send you to places that may not be at the top of people’s lists of interest. But they are great stories.”
Cooper has always tried to bear witness to those suffering from tragedy and
disaster, such as during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans
in 2005. “I never wanted to be this all knowing, all-seeing anchor.”
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Politics started to dominate coverage with the arrival of Donald Trump in the White House as CNN and its rivals tried to feed their respective audiences. Cooper refused to play the partisan card. “I know there’s been a movement toward opinion-based anchoring, especially in primetime,” says Moore, “but we’ve been at this for 20 years, and he doesn’t traffic in opinions and never has.” Despite Cooper’s stance, he came under fierce scrutiny in May when he defended CNN’s decision to air a town hall with Donald Trump hosted by Kaitlan Collins, telling his AC360 viewers that Trump is a presidential candidate, like it or not. The blowback from his peers in the media was swift because the event had a campaign rally vibe and Trump insulted host Collins, calling her a “nasty person.”
Until now, Cooper hasn’t spoken publicly about being criticized or whether he would do anything differently. “I would have probably ridden it out,” he says of the attack on CNN, versus saying anything on his show. At the same time, he said there were merits to the message he was trying to relay. “I understood why people were upset. I wasn’t saying the town hall was a great idea, but I don’t think one can pretend that this person is not the leading candidate for the Republican nomination.” He also disabuses the notion that anyone, such as Licht, asked him to speak out on AC360. “That is certainly not the case.”
Moore likewise has conflicting feelings. “The backlash and all the conversation around Anderson’s comments were unfortunate. It was a shitstorm,” he says. “But I do believe the contents of the message were sound..” Moore pauses, however, when asked if he’d do anything differently were he able to go back in time: “I don’t know the answer to that.”
In 2016, Cooper became the first publicly out gay man to moderate a
presidential debate. He’s seen here with fellow moderator Martha Raddatz, of
ABC.
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When Cooper was cleaning out his mother’s apartment, he decided to record his thoughts and emotions. He cared for his mother deeply, and was her protector (their tender bond was documented in Liz Garbus’ 2016 documentary Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper). He’d never thought of doing a podcast before, but an idea took shape as he sorted through pictures, letters and other memorabilia bridging him to his complicated past, particularly the deaths of his father and brother. (His mother died at age 95, so her passing was less complicated.) He checked in with Moore, and All There Is With Anderson Cooper was born. Guests during the first season included Stephen Colbert, whose father and two brothers were killed in a commercial airline crash, and Molly Shannon, who was 4 years old when her mother, sister and cousin were killed in a car crash. Her father was at the wheel. “For me, doing the podcast feels very much like I’m a foreign correspondent,” Cooper says. “I’m in this foreign world of grief and I’m trying to find my way and understand it and ask questions about it. I’m proud of a couple of things in my career, and this is certainly one of the things I’m very proud of. We’re all walking with these losses, but you’re not allowed to talk about it.”
Anderson’s first podcast guest was Wendy Goodman, the design editor of New York Magazine who had known Gloria Vanderbilt since she was a child. He asked her to come to his mother’s apartment. “He announced to me that he was going to do this podcast, and asked if could he record me. And then we were in Gloria’s bedroom and he burst into tears. I think it’s remarkable that he’s become so open and vulnerable. The podcast frees him to express himself. And Anderson has just done an incredible service to people by sharing his own story, and letting them share theirs with him.”
Adds Moore. “Without a doubt, the podcast is some of the most raw, emotional work he’s ever done. And it has been legitimately cathartic.”
Toward the end of the first season of All There Is, Cooper solicited voicemails from viewers to share their own stories. The response was overwhelming: He received 46 hours’ worth of voicemails from 1,000 people, but was able to listen to only about 200 before the final episode. Cooper chokes up as he recalls listening to those messages over the course of the past year, which resulted in the decision to pursue a second season as he finally processes his brother’s suicide and father’s sudden death after all these decades. “I realized that I’m a fraud and have not grieved,” he says. “I also realized there’s been a throughline from the time I was a little kid to working at Channel One when I was just starting out. There’s a reason I wasn’t trying to work in local news that could get me a job at a network. I wanted to go places where people were suffering, and going as a reporter would allow me to do that.”
Mutual respect is palpable among the people Cooper is close with, including Moore and Cohen. A friend tried to set the latter up with Cooper in 1995, but Cohen made the mistake of invoking Gloria Vanderbilt’s name within a minute of their first phone call. Romantic flub notwithstanding, they became friends, as two young gay men in New York City who would run into each other at The Roxy and other clubs. (Cooper didn’t come out of the closet publicly until 2012, although he’d long been open with his friends and family.) Their friendship spilled into their professional lives with their live touring show AC2: Deeper Talk and More Shallow Tales in 2015, and with Cohen joining Cooper in 2017 as co-host of CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live, where they instituted the popular ritual of taking shots every hour.
The second season of Anderson Cooper’s podcast about grief and loss debuts Nov. 1.
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The Licht regime banned alcohol this year, however, after Cohen became a bit tipsy last year and trashed Ryan Seacrest in jest. “I was kind of annoyed, but it’s their airtime and their show. I think ultimately we felt the show was just as good” without the shots, Cohen says. “The whole thing was not well handled,” says Cooper of the ban. “But again, that was one of those things that sort of seemed to be out of my control.” Cohen is hopeful the pair will be back to shot-taking when ringing out 2023.
There is a waste-no-moment vibe to Cooper, who was convinced he would die when he was 50, just like his dad and his dad’s dad, so he never made a long-range plan. He finally confessed his fear to his doctor when he was 51, who promptly told him he was nuts. A weight lifted, Cooper fulfilled his desire and became a dad. He hadn’t felt ready emotionally or financially to settle down until he was 40, but thought he’d be dead in 10 years, so he put the idea of fatherhood aside. “It’s certainly the best thing that’s ever happened to me and is healing in all sorts of ways that I never imagined,” he says of his two sons, whom he co-parents with former boyfriend Benjamin Maisani in a renovated firehouse in New York’s West Village.
After his first son was born, Cooper realized Wyatt deserved to know about his entire lineage, and not just the Cooper side. Since he knew so little about the Vanderbilts, he partnered with author Katherine Rowe and wrote the 2021 bestselling book Vanderbilts: The Rise and Fall of An American Dynasty. Rowe next wanted to write about the Astors — a rival Gilded Age family — and Cooper agreed (the book hits shelves Sept. 19.) But it doesn’t mean Cooper’s feelings have changed; he feels no more like a Vanderbilt than he did before (and never once has he watched the HBO series The Gilded Age).
Having kids has slowed Cooper down some, but he still jumps at the chance to go to hotspots, such as Ukraine. “I’ll do two-day trips here or there, but it’s got to be something that I am very passionate about or that’s really an important story,” he says. “Parenthood makes me think twice about the risk that I take.”
There’s determination in everything Cooper does. And he’s a perfectionist. He often finds himself sprinting to the set of AC360 after making sure he’s read every last page provided by the AC360 news writers each night. “I like to make sure it’s in my voice and change things. I’m doing that up until the last moment,” he says. “It worries the people in the control room all the time. There have been times when I’ve forgotten my pass and been locked in the stairwell. I desperately call Charlie to come and get me. I just like to be working up until the last minute.”
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It has been 33 years since the second-most bankable star in Hollywood stepped into the movie business. Despite achieving modest fame before his first show, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air became the turning point in Will Smith’s career trajectory. The show instantly became a hit and a watershed moment for hip-hop and black television. The NBC sitcom hit the small screens in September 1990 and recently celebrated its 33-year anniversary.
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Smith celebrated the memorable day by posting on his Instagram account in front of the iconic mansion in the show. Following the anniversary celebrations, a special co-star from the American sitcom also shared a heartfelt post on Twitter.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air gets a special mention from this co-star
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Many publications referred to the Andy and Susan Borowitz show to be the greatest sitcom of all time. It was the time when hip-hop was gaining momentum in the industry, and the series strategically capitalized on its growing popularity. Recently, a regular from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air shared a heartfelt post to celebrate thirty-three years of the classic sitcom. Tatyana Ali, who was eleven years old when she entered the franchise, posted a picture of the ensemble on Saturday.
33 yrs ago my life was changed forever. Not because I was on a tv show, but because I met some of the most amazing, nurturing ppl I’ve ever known. I can’t express in words what an impact the cast & entire crew of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air had on the little girl in this photo ♥️ pic.twitter.com/5bjJk3TvsP
The actress and singer captioned her post saying how her life changed 33 years ago when she got her big break in the 90s show. However, more than being a part of Fresh Prince,the actress felt grateful for meeting such amazing and nurturing people. The Outstanding Youth Actress winner said, “I met some of the most amazing, nurturing ppl I’ve ever known“. In Ali’s words, she could not “express in words what an impact the cast & entire crew” had on her.
The ASCAP Film and Television Music Award-winning show not only had a huge impact on the cast but also saved the Men In Black actor from bankruptcy.
How Fresh Prince of Bel-Air helped Will Smith financially
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The now 54-year-old was at the peak of his career in the ’90s as he made his transition from being a Grammy-award-winning rapper to an actor. He released several hit numbers in those years and also amassed a net worth of $6 million. Despite having a lucrative career, the actor found himself in a deep financial crisis. The IRS accused him of not paying his taxes. This crisis was mainly because the actor lacked a good financial management team and spent most of his earnings on luxury.
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Even in his autobiography, Smith admitted how he carelessly spent his money on extravagant purchases like cars, jewelry, and homes. Additionally, he did not even plan on investing his money properly, which caused him a debt of $2.8 million in back taxes. Owing to the crisis, Smith gave away almost seventy percent of his earnings from The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air to pay taxes. It was not until the third season that the After Earth actor finally recovered from the debt.
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Science is a very humbling subject in society. It’s something that a majority of people around the world love to study, and yet there are a lot of parts of it that have to do with us understanding our own mortality. Add that to science fiction films, where, yes, the word fiction is a part of it, but there is a lot drawn from reality implemented into the story. If the genre does anything well, besides maybe giant monsters at times, it makes us question our existence and the dreadful end to all of whatever this is.
Now, some of these films are not necessarily deeply rooted in that type of material. But they do touch on it at times. And one way of doing that is to literally have the entire cast, or at least the ones you were rooting for, get killed off. Here are 10 science fiction films that do just that.
Seeking A Friend For the End of the World (2012)
Focus Features
Let’s start with some comedy, if that’s what you want to call it. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World is a rom-com about two neighbors (Keira Knightley and Steve Carell) who help each other fulfill their final wishes as an asteroid heads straight for Earth to destroy it. You get very invested in the performances of the two leads; it’s comical and heartfelt. But just as you are wrapped around their fingers, you remember one thing: the world is coming to an end, and they’re going to die. And that is exactly what happens; there is nothing done by the government to stop the asteroid. This is not a Michael Bay film; the world indeed comes to an end.
Right at the beginning of the sonic explosion of Robert Pattison’s post-Twilight acting career was this indie called High Life. A24 released a science fiction film about a man named Monte and his baby daughter, who are the lone survivors of a mission gone wrong out in the farthest reaches of the solar system. The rest of the crew of this mission dies one by one, and by the end, we are left with Monte and his baby entering a black hole with their fates remaining uncertain. High Life co-stars the new scream queen on the block, Mia Goth and is directed by Claire Danes, who fills the film with so much dread under her direction.
Ready to feel tense? Then Mickey Keating’s indie sci-fi horror film Pod will do just that for you. The plot centers around two siblings who make a trip up to their brother’s cabin in the woods for a family intervention. They end up finding him in the middle of a mental breakdown, and to make matters worse, he says he has a creature locked up in his basement. Pod uses its budgetary constraints quite well; the creature effects are scary, and it makes this list because eventually, that said creature gets its hands on the film’s characters and kills all of them.
Beneath The Planet of the Apes (1970)
20th Century Fox
Beneath the Planet of the Apes is the sequel to the classic film, Planet of the Apes. The film is about an astronaut played by James Franciscus who is in search of Taylor, Charlton Heston’s character from the previous film. On this mission, he uncovers an underground world of humans living a very grotesque life on a planet governed by apes. The group of telepathic humans worship a nuclear bomb, and as the apes slowly start to invade their habitat, well, you can probably figure out what comes next.
A compelling and thought-provoking film that has an A-list cast to it. Bet you’ve never heard of it, though. 2007’s Sunshine stars the likes of Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, and Rose Byrne. It’s about the earth’s sun and how it’s dying, and how a team of eight men and women is sent out into space to try and revive the dying star. The ending is bleak for those who don’t make it and yet hopeful for those who survive. The crew accomplishes their mission as they save the earth from the destruction of its dying son, but in return, they lose their lives on the mission. Sunshine is one of the most underrated films in the genre of the last twenty years.
Knowing (2009)
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Knowing is a prime example of having a bleak topic like the world coming to an end, and yet it fails in its execution. That’s the late 2000s for you, everything had to be a blockbuster that made a last-ditch effort in its film’s final moments to be artsy as well. Knowing is about an MIT professor (Nicolas Cage) who gains knowledge of a sequence of events throughout time that are supposed to trigger the end of the world. The fact that this film was marketed to be such a blockbuster in early 2009 makes for the ending to be a huge shock. Audiences got bummed out by this because, in fact, the world does come to an end in the movie.
Radius (2017)
Epic Pictures Group
Radius is a science fiction thriller-mystery about an amnesiac man who wakes up and comes to learn that anyone who comes within a certain distance of him suddenly dies. With that plot alone, of course, you can imagine that most of these characters aren’t going to make it. The Canadian-produced indie focuses around Liam (Diego Klattenhoff), whose aura can level anyone within fifty feet of him. However, he has a co-pilot, Jane Doe (Charlotte Sullivan), who awoke from the car crash Liam woke up from. She is the only one not affected by Liam’s curse.
Of course, we end up learning more about Jane and Liam’s dynamic as her name is revealed to be Rose, and Liam is a serial killer who abducted Jane’s twin sister. In the film’s final moments, Jane suffers a bullet wound, and it is unclear if she is going to make it. As for Liam and everyone else, they’re goners due to a climactic confrontation.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
By the time the trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Storydropped, fans were jumping for joy all the way till it was released in theaters, and then the realization hit: all the characters you are rooting for in the film end up sacrificing themselves in order for the rebel alliance to gain an upper hand. Rogue One is a prequel to 1977’s original Star Wars film. As it is about the discovery of the Death Star’s plan. The rebel alliance holds blueprints of the empire’s plan and knows what they’ll do next. Led by Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones), a band of rebels raids a data bank on the planet Scarif and transfers the information over to the fleet. They complete their mission and, in doing so, sacrifice themselves as the Death Star destroys the planet they are on.
The JJ Abrams-produced found footage film Cloverfieldis about an unidentified giant alien creature that levels New York City. The marketing push for this film felt like Blair Witch, but with a bigger budget. Audiences would see the teaser trailer and think it seemed too real. All the characters who were enduring this chaotic real-life creature feature met their demise by the end of the film.
Even in the film’s final moments, its two love interests find themselves huddled together in Central Park, with the alien doing destruction close by. We hear them saying “I love you” to one another, then the camera seems to break and the film ends.
Melancholia (2011)
Magnolia Pictures
Lars von Trier is indeed a controversial and polarizing filmmaker, but we can all agree that Melancholiamay be his most beautiful film, and yet it is about the world ending. Kirsten Dunst delivers what some feel is her best performance as a woman who just recently had a lavish, upscale wedding, and then she and the rest of the world learn of an impending planetary collision as a rogue planet will collide into Earth, destroying all life.
What separates this film from most of the others on this list is how abstract it is with its commentary on depression and acceptance of one’s mortality in the face of the end of your life. Von Trier challenges his audiences and does so by following through with the earth being destroyed by the other planet. It’s a tragic yet beautiful film that’s jarring, visceral, and unforgettable.
In an interview with the official PlayStation Blog posted after a new Final Fantasy VII Rebirth trailer debuted as part of Sony’s latest State of Play presentation, Hamaguchi stressed that these new takes on the story of Final Fantasy VII are a trilogy of standalone games, not one game split into three parts.
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“Because of this, each game’s balancing is done independently and a player’s levels and abilities will not carry over from one game to the next,” Hamaguchi said. “However, we have created some special bonuses for fans who played the previous game, allowing them to start with a little something extra.”
That “something extra” is summon materia for those who have save files on their PlayStation 5 for Final Fantasy VII Remake and/or Final Fantasy VII Remake’s Yuffie-centric DLC, Episode INTERmission, according to an official Square Enix blog. Remake players who dive into Rebirth will score a Leviathan materia, while those with INTERmission saves will earn a Ramuh materia. It certainly makes sense that players won’t be able to bring their max level characters from Remake into Rebirth, but at least fans who have played the previous entry will get a little bit of an early power boost as a reward.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s new trailer gave fans their best look yet at the next installment in the trilogy. The jam-packed trailer showed off the return of iconic locations like the Golden Saucer and Costa del Sol, new open world traversal mechanics, enhancements to Remake’s battle system, a slew of minigames, glimpses of summons like Odin and Alexander, and much, much more. Characters that weren’t fully playable in Remake, like Red XIII, will be playable in Rebirth, though additional characters that join the party over the course of Rebirth’s story won’t be playable until the unnamed third entry in the trilogy, according to Hamaguchi.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will be released on February 29, 2024 for PS5 and will come with two discs. It’s available for preorder now.
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Mark Tchelistcheff receives his best doc award from Devour Food Film Fest at their Berlinale party.
Mark Tchelistcheff Director / Producer of “André – The Voice of Wine” a documentary which took 7 years in the making won an award last october at Devour Festival but could not pick it at the closing award ceremony (as he had already left). Lia Rinaldo and Michael Howell, the fest organizers, brought his trophy all the way from Nova Scottia and handed it during the wonderfull Berlinale reception at the Canadian embassy on Potzdamer Platz. http://andrethevoiceofwine.com
The award winning film André The Voice of Wine, narrated by BAFTA winner and Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes, is about one of the founding fathers of American wine, a globally influential wine personality and the force behind the California winners of the 1976 “Judgment of Paris” – the true back story of the film Bottle Shock.
A cinematic love letter about a modest, uncompromising man’s journey from his earliest connection with vineyards in pre-revolutionary Russia to his rise to the pinnacle of wine culture in Europe and the United States. André Tchelistcheff was born into an aristocratic family in Moscow, remarkably survived the upheaval of the Russian revolution and civil war, then studied wine making in France. In 1938 the owner of Beaulieu Vineyard lured him to California’s Napa Valley, where his professionalism, knowledge of science, dedication to innovation, the depth and breadth of his multi-cultural background along with his unmatched palate helped move the American wine industry from a virtually moribund state after the repeal of prohibition on to its post-war renaissance. For over five decades, Andre worked with numerous wineries that together helped establish the American wine industry. His philosophy of life and his love for wine continue to influence generations of wine makers throughout the world.
Film director, and André’s grandnephew, Mark Tchelistcheff, has spent the better part of a decade creating a film that chronicles the extraordinary life of his uncle André. Mark has assembled an illustrious team of filmmakers including multiple Academy Award winner Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, The Unbearable Lightness of Being), whose poignant directorial advice helped shape the film, crisp editing from BAFTA winner Michael Chandler (Amadeus, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg, Mishima in Four Parts) and a stirring original score from award winning composer Alexei Aigui (I’m Not Your Negro, Le Petit Poucet, Moloch Tropical).
Brad Anderson is set to direct George A. Romero’s final film Twilight of the Dead, produced and financed by multi-platform production company Roundtable Entertainment. Roundtable recently announced a partnership with the Romero estate to bring Twilight of the Dead to the screen.
Anderson expressed: “George Romero’s 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead may have been the first real horror movie I ever saw and its shock value, its keen social relevance, and even the means by which it was made were all hugely inspirational to me. George’s “indie spirit”, his Do-It-Yourself approach to filmmaking – outside of the main industry; on a shoestring budget; collaborating with family and friends – is exactly how I made my first film, and to some extent still make films now. Night of the Living Dead, and many of those that followed, wove together straight up horror with pointed social commentary. This unexpected combination is what elevated George’s films, and for me it is exactly what is most exciting about Twilight of the Dead. This too is a zombie movie in which limbs fly and heads roll, but one that is also about social transformation, one that asks the question: What is it to be human? It is also a horror movie with “heart” and, dare I say, hope. As a filmmaker who relishes combining and reinventing genres, the chance to bring to life (so to speak!) this last installment in George Romero’s zombie franchise is a true honor and a privilege.”
“Brad is the ideal filmmaker to bring this project to life. Both Brad and George began their careers in the independent film scene and have directed seminal movies in the genre space and beyond. Brad has had tremendous success both commercially and critically and Roundtable is thrilled to have him onboard to direct” remarked John Baldecchi. “Twilight of the Dead is the seventh and final chapter of the Dead series and we think Brad is the perfect storyteller to bring this cinematic tale about the human condition to life.”
Twilight of the Dead is produced by Suzanne Romero, John Baldecchi, Ardvella Entertainment’s Stephanie Caleb, Paolo Zelati, and Sarah Donnelly, with Executive Producers Dominic Ianno, Alex Dundas, Jason Resnick, Chris Roe, and Luis Riefkohl. George A. Romero and Paolo Zelati penned the treatment, with the screenplay written by Joe Knetter, Robert Lucas, and Paolo Zelati. Stephanie Holbrook is casting the film. While specifics are currently undisclosed, Twilight Of The Dead plans to be in production later this year.
Roundtable Entertainment was launched in early 2022 by media executives Dominic Ianno, John Baldecchi, Griffin Gmelich, and Alex Dundas, and adds Twilight of the Dead to its impressive portfolio of IP.
About Roundtable Entertainment
Launched by experienced leaders from across the entertainment industry, Roundtable Entertainment is a powerhouse, multi-platform studio creating a slate of premium content for the global audience. Built to meet the growing demand for diverse content, Roundtable curates distinctive high-value feature films, buzzworthy unscripted shows with celebrity talent, exclusive original series, and FAST channels specializing in wide-ranging topics, including the exhilarating world of action-sports. The company synergizes content creation with distribution, effectively exploiting IP across an ever-expanding spectrum of media platforms. For more information, visit www.roundtable-ent.com.
Jonathan Majors‘ trial date has once again been delayed, and the actors’ team attempted to have the trial dismissed as a whole during a rescheduled hearing.
In the rescheduled hearing (via Deadline), which took place on Friday in New York City, Judge Michael Gaffey heard arguments from both the Manhattan District Attorney’s office on the sharing of evidence, as well as a motion from Majors’ defense team to dismiss the matter.
No official ruling was made on the motion, however. Instead, the Criminal Court judge told the D.A.’s office that they have until October 6, 2023, to respond, by which the defense has to reply to that decision by October 13. From there, the judge will make an official ruling by October 25, marking that as the next key date in Majors’ ongoing legal matter.
Similar to last week, Majors was once again not in attendance at the Manhattan courtroom. However, the judge did note that should a trial start, Majors will be required to attend in person (via Variety).
What is Jonathan Majors going to court for?
Jonathan Majors faces three counts of third-degree assault, second-degree aggravated harassment, three counts of third-degree attempted assault, and second-degree harassment. These stem from an incident in March in which he’s accused of assaulting a 30-year-old woman. Police cite that Majors allegedly struck “[the victim] about the face with an open hand, causing substantial pain and a laceration behind her ear.” Additionally, he allegedly grabbed her hand and neck, “causing bruising and substantial pain.”
A previous report from ABC News notes that Majors made the 911 call himself, which police responded to. The call was “purportedly over concerns about his girlfriend, whom he lives with in a penthouse apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood.” After police arrived, the girlfriend told officers they were in a taxi together after returning from a bar and that Majors physically attacked her. Majors was then arrested after police noticed marks on the woman.
Róisín Murphy’s forthcoming album, Hit Parade, a long-distance collaboration with German producer DJ Koze, took shape in unconventional ways. The Irish singer has described tracking vocals to the German producer’s beats and sending them back, only to have him turn around and work her singing into a new song in a different key, over a different beat, in a totally different mood. A throwaway line might become the chorus; a snippet from one of her voice messages could turn into the intro. (“Before you know it, we could actually split one song into four other songs,” Murphy said.) So it seems strangely fitting that Murphy should take the unconventional step of releasing Moodymann’s remix of album opener “What Not to Do” before the original version has even been released.
Suffice to say that Moodymann’s mix is in a different key, over a different beat, and in a totally different mood. Where Koze’s production is lumbering and slightly sinister, Moodymann swaps in lithe electric bass and a jazzy, syncopated groove, in which ride cymbals and cowbell tap out son clave patterns around splashes of Rhodes keys. Murphy’s vocals bob in and out of time and tune, and Moodymann himself offers occasional interjections, cooing and wooing and ad-libbing, his voice low and gravelly. Though the original came into being through painstaking iteration, this version sounds spontaneous, like a handful of musicians jamming in a room together. Koze and Murphy’s songwriting process took the form of a game of telephone; Moodymann filters the fragments of their conversation into something effortless and new.
After an exciting first Thursday Night Football game, Week 2 of the 2023 NFL season continues with a matchup between two teams who won their season-opening games. The Green Bay Packers head to Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Georgia to take on the Atlanta Falcons today.
The Green Bay Packers have an opportunity to start the season with back-to-back road wins for the first time in franchise history. Starting quarterback Jordan Love will be looking to build on the momentum from throwing three touchdowns in last week’s win over the Chicago Bears. Meanwhile, the Falcons came back in the fourth quarter against the Carolina Panthers, winning 24-10.
Here is everything to know about how to watch the Packers vs. Falcons game live today, plus our recommendations for the best ways to watch every NFL game this year.
When is the Packers vs. Falcons game?
The 2023 NFL regular season battle between the Green Bay Packers and Atlanta Falcons is set to kick off Sunday, September 17, at 1:00 p.m. ET (10:00 a.m. PT).
How to Watch the Packers vs. Falcons Game Online
The Packers vs. Falcons game will be airing on FOX. If you don’t have cable, the most cost-effective way to watch today’s game is through a live TV streaming subscription to Sling TV.
Right now, there is a Sling TV deal offering 50% off your first month — bringing the Orange package with ESPN down to just $20 and the comprehensive Orange + Blue package down to $30. Sling TV comes with 50 hours of free cloud-based DVR recording space, perfect for recording all the season’s top NFL matchups.
As the official streaming service of the National Football League, NFL+ allows you to watch live NFL games on your mobile device. Starting at $40 per year (or $7 per month), NFL+ has access to NFL Network for live local and primetime regular and postseason games on your phone and tablet. You can also upgrade to NFL+ with NFL RedZone and watch up to eight NFL games simultaneously.
For a limited time, you can save 20% on a yearly subscription, which brings the cost of NFL+ down to $40/year. If you upgrade to NFL+ Premium for $15/month, you’ll get access to live local and primetime games on mobile, NFL RedZone, NFL Network, game replays and more.
ESPN’s standalone streaming service, ESPN+, is another option for watching today’s Packers vs. Falcons game along with the rest of this season’s NFL games airing on ESPN. With it, you’ll be able to watch the ManningCast airing on ESPN2, too. ESPN Plus costs $10 per month or $100 with an annual subscription.
How to Watch the Packers vs. Falcons Game Online for Free
With Fubo’s sports-focused live TV streaming service, you’ll have nearly every channel you’ll need to watch the NFL regular season. Every game broadcast nationally or on NFL Network will also be available to stream on Fubo, which comes with 1,000 hours of cloud DVR storage and a seven-day free trial.
2023-2024 NFL Season Schedule
Below, view the schedule for the 2023-2024 NFL football season with game times, television stations and streaming services. Note that some games have yet to be scheduled.
Week 2
Sunday, September 17
Green Bay Packers at Atlanta Falcons, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Las Vegas Raiders at Buffalo Bills, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Baltimore Ravens at Cincinnati Bengals, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Seattle Seahawks at Detroit Lions, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Indianapolis Colts at Houston Texans, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Kansas City Chiefs at Jacksonville Jaguars, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Chicago Bears at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Los Angeles Chargers at Tennessee Titans, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
New York Giants at Arizona Cardinals, 4:05 p.m. EDT (Fox)
San Francisco 49ers at Los Angeles Rams, 4:05 p.m. EDT (Fox)
New York Jets at Dallas Cowboys, 4:25 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Washington Commanders at Denver Broncos, 4:25 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Miami Dolphins at New England Patriots, 8:20 p.m. EDT (NBC)
Monday, September 18
New Orleans Saints at Carolina Panthers, 7:15 p.m. EDT (ESPN)
Cleveland Browns at Pittsburgh Steelers, 8:15 p.m. EDT (ABC, ESPN+)
Week 3
Thursday, September 21
New York Giants at San Francisco 49ers, 8:15 p.m. EDT (Prime Video)
Sunday, September 24
Indianapolis Colts at Baltimore Ravens, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Tennessee Titans at Cleveland Browns, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Atlanta Falcons at Detroit Lions, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
New Orleans Saints at Green Bay Packers, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Houston Texans at Jacksonville Jaguars, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Denver Broncos at Miami Dolphins, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Los Angeles Chargers at Minnesota Vikings, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
New England Patriots at New York Jets, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Buffalo Bills at Washington Commanders, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Carolina Panthers at Seattle Seahawks, 4:05 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Dallas Cowboys at Arizona Cardinals, 4:25 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Chicago Bears at Kansas City Chiefs, 4:25 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Pittsburgh Steelers at Las Vegas Raiders, 8:20 p.m. EDT (NBC)
Monday, September 25
Philadelphia Eagles at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 7:15 p.m. EDT (ABC, ESPN+)
Los Angeles Rams at Cincinnati Bengals, 8:15 p.m. EDT (ESPN)
Week 4
Thursday, September 28
Detroit Lions at Green Bay Packers, 8:15 p.m. EDT (Prime Video)
Sunday, October 1
Atlanta Falcons vs. Jacksonville Jaguars at Wembley Stadium in London, England, 9:30 a.m. EDT (ESPN+)
Miami Dolphins at Buffalo Bills, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Minnesota Vikings at Carolina Panthers, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Denver Broncos at Chicago Bears, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Baltimore Ravens at Cleveland Browns, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Pittsburgh Steelers at Houston Texans, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Los Angeles Rams at Indianapolis Colts, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers at New Orleans Saints, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Washington Commanders at Philadelphia Eagles, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Cincinnati Bengals at Tennessee Titans, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Las Vegas Raiders at Los Angeles Chargers, 4:05 p.m. EDT (CBS)
New England Patriots at Dallas Cowboys, 4:25 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Arizona Cardinals at San Francisco 49ers, 4:25 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Kansas City Chiefs at New York Jets, 8:20 p.m. EDT (NBC)
Monday, October 2
Seattle Seahawks at New York Giants, 8:15 p.m. EDT (ESPN)
Week 5
Thursday, October 5
Chicago Bears at Washington Commanders, 8:15 p.m. EDT (Prime Video)
Sunday, October 8
Jacksonville Jaguars vs. Buffalo Bills at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England, 9:30 a.m. EDT (ESPN+ and NFL Network)
Houston Texans at Atlanta Falcons, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Carolina Panthers at Detroit Lions, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Tennessee Titans at Indianapolis Colts, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
New York Giants at Miami Dolphins, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
New Orleans Saints at New England Patriots, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Baltimore Ravens at Pittsburgh Steelers, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Cincinnati Bengals at Arizona Cardinals, 4:05 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Philadelphia Eagles at Los Angeles Rams, 4:05 p.m. EDT (Fox)
New York Jets at Denver Broncos, 4:25 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Kansas City Chiefs at Minnesota Vikings, 4:25 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Dallas Cowboys at San Francisco 49ers, 8:20 p.m. EDT (NBC)
Monday, October 9
Green Bay Packers at Las Vegas Raiders, 8:15 p.m. EDT (ESPN)
Week 6
Thursday, October 12
Denver Broncos at Kansas City Chiefs, 8:15 p.m. EDT (Prime Video)
Sunday, October 15
Baltimore Ravens vs. Tennessee Titans at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England, 9:30 a.m. EDT (ESPN+ and NFL Network)
Washington Commanders at Atlanta Falcons, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Minnesota Vikings at Chicago Bears, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Seattle Seahawks at Cincinnati Bengals, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
San Francisco 49ers, at Cleveland Browns, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
New Orleans Saints at Houston Texans, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Indianapolis Colts at Jacksonville Jaguars, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Carolina Panthers at Miami Dolphins, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Detroit Lions at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
New England Patriots at Las Vegas Raiders, 4:05 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Arizona Cardinals at Los Angeles Rams, 4:25 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Philadelphia Eagles at New York Jets, 4:25 p.m. EDT (Fox)
New York Giants at Buffalo Bills, 8:20 p.m. EDT (NBC)
Monday, October 16
Dallas Cowboys at Los Angeles Chargers, 8:15 p.m. EDT (ESPN)
Week 7
Thursday, October 19
Jacksonville Jaguars at New Orleans Saints, 8:15 p.m. EDT (Prime Video)
Sunday, October 22
Detroit Lions at Baltimore Ravens, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Las Vegas Raiders at Chicago Bears, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Cleveland Browns at Indianapolis Colts, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Buffalo Bills at New England Patriots, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Washington Commanders at New York Giants, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Atlanta Falcons at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Pittsburgh Steelers at Los Angeles Rams, 4:05 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Arizona Cardinals at Seattle Seahawks, 4:05 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Green Bay Packers at Denver Broncos, 4:25 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Los Angeles Chargers at Kansas City Chiefs, 4:25 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Miami Dolphins at Philadelphia Eagles, 8:20 p.m. EDT (NBC)
Monday, October 23
San Francisco 49ers at Minnesota Vikings, 8:15 p.m. EDT (ESPN)
Week 8
Thursday, October 26
Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Buffalo Bills, 8:15 p.m. EDT (Prime Video)
Sunday, October 29
Houston Texans at Carolina Panthers, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Los Angeles Rams at Dallas Cowboys, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Minnesota Vikings at Green Bay Packers, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
New Orleans Saints at Indianapolis Colts, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
New England Patriots at Miami Dolphins, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
New York Jets at New York Giants, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Jacksonville Jaguars at Pittsburgh Steelers, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Atlanta Falcons at Tennessee Titans, 1 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Philadelphia Eagles at Washington Commanders, 1 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Cleveland Browns at Seattle Seahawks, 4:05 p.m. EDT (Fox)
Baltimore Ravens at Arizona Cardinals, 4:25 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Kansas City Chiefs at Denver Broncos, 4:25 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Cincinnati Bengals at San Francisco 49ers, 4:25 p.m. EDT (CBS)
Chicago Bears at Los Angeles Chargers, 8:20 p.m. EDT (NBC)
Monday, October 30
Las Vegas Raiders at Detroit Lions, 8:15 p.m. EDT (ESPN)
Week 9
Thursday, November 2
Tennessee Titans at Pittsburgh Steelers, 8:15 p.m. EDT (Prime Video)
Sunday, November 5
Miami Dolphins vs. Kansas City Chiefs at Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt, Germany, 9:30 a.m. EST (ESPN+ and NFL Network)
Minnesota Vikings at Atlanta Falcons, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Seattle Seahawks at Baltimore Ravens, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Arizona Cardinals at Cleveland Browns, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Los Angeles Rams at Green Bay Packers, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Houston Texans, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Washington Commanders at New England Patriots, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Chicago Bears at New Orleans Saints, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Indianapolis Colts at Carolina Panthers, 4:05 p.m. EST (CBS)
New York Giants at Las Vegas Raiders, 4:25 p.m. EST (Fox)
Dallas Cowboys at Philadelphia Eagles, 4:25 p.m. EST (Fox)
Buffalo Bills at Cincinnati Bengals, 8:20 p.m. EST (NBC)
Monday, November 6
Los Angeles Chargers at New York Jets, 8:15 p.m. EST (ESPN)
Week 10
Thursday, November 9
Carolina Panthers at Chicago Bears, 8:15 p.m. EST (Prime Video)
Sunday, November 12
Indianapolis Colts vs. New England Patriots at Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt, Germany, 9:30 a.m. EST (ESPN+ and NFL Network)
Cleveland Browns at Baltimore Ravens, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Houston Texans at Cincinnati Bengals, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
San Francisco 49ers at Jacksonville Jaguars, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
New Orleans Saints at Minnesota Vikings, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Green Bay Packers at Pittsburgh Steelers, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Tennessee Titans at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Atlanta Falcons at Arizona Cardinals, 4:05 p.m. EST (CBS)
Detroit Lions at Los Angeles Chargers, 4:05 p.m. EST (CBS)
New York Giants at Dallas Cowboys, 4:25 p.m. EST (Fox)
Washington Commanders at Seattle Seahawks, 4:25 p.m. EST (Fox)
New York Jets at Las Vegas Raiders, 8:20 p.m. EST (NBC)
Monday, November 13
Denver Broncos at Buffalo Bills, 8:15 p.m. EST (ESPN)
Week 11
Thursday, November 16
Cincinnati Bengals at Baltimore Ravens, 8:15 p.m. EST (Prime Video)
Sunday, November 19
Dallas Cowboys at Carolina Panthers, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Pittsburgh Steelers at Cleveland Browns, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Chicago Bears at Detroit Lions, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Los Angeles Chargers at Green Bay Packers, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Arizona Cardinals at Houston Texans, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Tennessee Titans at Jacksonville Jaguars, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Las Vegas Raiders at Miami Dolphins, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
New York Giants at Washington Commanders, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers at San Francisco 49ers, 4:05 p.m. EST (Fox)
New York Jets at Buffalo Bills, 4:25 p.m. EST (CBS)
Seattle Seahawks at Los Angeles Rams, 4:25 p.m. EST (CBS)
Minnesota Vikings at Denver Broncos, 8:20 p.m. EST (NBC)
Monday, November 20
Philadelphia Eagles at Kansas City Chiefs, 8:15 p.m. EST (ABC, ESPN, ESPN+)
Week 12
Thursday, November 23 (Thanksgiving)
Green Bay Packers at Detroit Lions, 12:30 p.m. EST (Fox)
Washington Commanders at Dallas Cowboys, 4:30 p.m. EST (CBS)
San Francisco 49ers at Seattle Seahawks, 8:20 p.m. EST (NBC)
Friday, November 24
Miami Dolphins at New York Jets, 3:00 p.m. EST (Prime Video)
Sunday, November 26
New Orleans Saints at Atlanta Falcons, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Pittsburgh Steelers at Cincinnati Bengals, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Jacksonville Jaguars at Houston Texans, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Indianapolis Colts, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
New England Patriots at New York Giants, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Carolina Panthers at Tennessee Titans, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Los Angeles Rams at Arizona Cardinals, 4:05 p.m. EST (Fox)
Cleveland Browns at Denver Broncos, 4:05 p.m. EST (Fox)
Kansas City Chiefs at Las Vegas Raiders, 4:25 p.m. EST (CBS)
Buffalo Bills at Philadelphia Eagles, 4:25 p.m. EST (CBS)
Baltimore Ravens at Las Angeles Chargers, 8:20 p.m. EST (NBC)
Monday, November 27
Chicago Bears at Minnesota Vikings, 8:15 a.m. EST (ESPN)
Week 13
Thursday, November 30
Seattle Seahawks at Dallas Cowboys, 8:15 p.m. EST (Prime Video)
Sunday, December 3
Los Angeles Chargers at New England Patriots, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Detroit Lions at New Orleans Saints, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Atlanta Falcons at New York Jets, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Arizona Cardinals at Pittsburgh Steelers, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Carolina Panthers at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Indianapolis Colts at Tennessee Titans, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Miami Dolphins at Washington Commanders, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Denver Broncos at Houston Texans, 4:05 p.m. EST (CBS)
Cleveland Browns at Los Angeles Rams, 4:25 p.m. EST (Fox)
San Francisco 49ers at Philadelphia Eagles, 4:25 p.m. EST (Fox)
Kansas City Chiefs at Green Bay Packers, 8:20 p.m. EST (NBC)
Monday, December 4
Cincinnati Bengals at Jacksonville Jaguars, 8:15 p.m. EST (ESPN)
Week 14
Thursday, December 7
New England Patriots at Pittsburgh Steelers, 8:15 p.m. EST (Prime Video)
Sunday, December 10
Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Atlanta Falcons, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Los Angeles Rams at Baltimore Ravens, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Detroit Lions at Chicago Bears, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Indianapolis Colts at Cincinnati Bengals, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Jacksonville Jaguars at Cleveland Browns, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Carolina Panthers at New Orleans Saints, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Houston Texans at New York Jets, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Minnesota Vikings at Las Vegas Raiders, 4:05 p.m. EST (Fox)
Seattle Seahawks at San Francisco 49ers, 4:05 p.m. EST (Fox)
Buffalo Bills at Kansas City Chiefs, 4:25 p.m. EST (CBS)
Denver Broncos at Los Angeles Chargers, 4:25 p.m. EST (CBS)
Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys, 8:20 p.m. EST (NBC)
Monday, December 11
Green Bay Packers at New York Giants, 8:15 p.m. EST (ABC, ESPN, ESPN+)
Tennessee Titans at Miami Dolphins, 8:15 p.m. EST (ESPN)
Week 15
Thursday, December 14
Los Angeles Chargers at Las Vegas Raiders, 8:15 p.m. EST (Prime Video)
Sunday, December 17
Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Green Bay Packers, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
New York Jets at Miami Dolphins, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
New York Giants at New Orleans Saints, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Houston Texans at Tennessee Titans, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
San Francisco 49ers at Arizona Cardinals, 4:05 p.m. EST (CBS)
Washington Commanders at Los Angeles Rams, 4:05 p.m. EST (CBS)
Dallas Cowboys at Buffalo Bills, 4:25 p.m. EST (Fox)
Philadelphia Eagles at Seattle Seahawks, 4:25 p.m. EST (Fox)
Baltimore Ravens at Jacksonville Jaguars, 8:20 p.m. EST (NBC)
Monday, December 18
Kansas City Chiefs at New England Patriots, 8:15 p.m. EST (ESPN)
Week 16
Thursday, December 21
New Orleans Saints at Los Angeles Rams, 8:15 p.m. EST (Prime Video)
Saturday, December 23
Cincinnati Bengals at Pittsburgh Steelers, 4:30 p.m. EST (NBC)
Buffalo Bills at Los Angeles Chargers, 8 p.m. EST (Peacock)
Sunday, December 24
Indianapolis Colts at Atlanta Falcons, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Green Bay Packers at Carolina Panthers, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Cleveland Browns at Houston Texans, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Detroit Lions at Minnesota Vikings, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Washington Commanders at New York Jets, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Seattle Seahawks at Tennessee Titans, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Jacksonville Jaguars at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 4:05 p.m. EST (CBS)
Arizona Cardinals at Chicago Bears, 4:25 p.m. EST (Fox)
Dallas Cowboys at Miami Dolphins, 4:25 p.m. EST (Fox)
New England Patriots at Denver Broncos, 8:15 p.m. EST (NFL Network)
Monday, December 25
Las Vegas Raiders at Kansas City Chiefs, 1:00 p.m. EST (CBS, Nickelodeon)
New York Giants at Philadelphia Eagles, 4:30 p.m. EST (Fox)
Baltimore Ravens at San Francisco 49ers, 8:15 p.m. EST (ABC, ESPN+)
Week 17
Thursday, December 28
New York Jets at Cleveland Browns, 8:15 p.m. EST (Prime Video)
Saturday, December 30
Detroit Lions at Dallas Cowboys, 8:15 p.m. EST (ABC, ESPN, ESPN+)
Sunday, December 31
Miami Dolphins at Baltimore Ravens, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
New England Patriots at Buffalo Bills, 1 p.m. EST(CBS)
Atlanta Falcons at Chicago Bears, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Tennessee Titans at Houston Texans, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Las Vegas Raiders at Indianapolis Colts, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Carolina Panthers at Jacksonville Jaguars, 1 p.m. EST (CBS)
Los Angeles Rams at New York Giants, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Arizona Cardinals at Philadelphia Eagles, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
New Orleans Saints at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
San Francisco 49ers at Washington Commanders, 1 p.m. EST (Fox)
Pittsburgh Steelers at Seattle Seahawks, 4:05 p.m. EST (Fox)
Los Angeles Chargers at Denver Broncos, 4:25 p.m. EST (CBS)
Cincinnati Bengals at Kansas City Chiefs, 4:25 p.m. EST (CBS)
Green Bay Packers at Minnesota Vikings, 8:20 p.m. EST (NBC)
Sylvester Stallone was supported by his wife, Jennifer Flavin, during the premiere of his documentary, Sly, which took place during the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday.
The 77-year-old performer and his wife, 55, stayed close to one another while posing for several photos on the red carpet of the star-studded event.
The actor — who recently shadowboxed with Pope Francis during a trip to Italy — was joined by several other individuals, including Don Herzfeld, Rebekah Chaney and his brother Frank during the premiere.
Stallone opted for a navy blue jacket and a matching pair of slim-fitting pants during the event.
The star of the Expendables franchise completed the look with a jet-black shirt and a matching pair of leather shoes.
Man of the hour: Sylvester Stallone was supported by his wife, Jennifer Flavin, during the premiere of his documentary, Sly, which took place during the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday
Power couple: The 77-year-old performer and his wife, 55, stayed close to one another while posing for several photos on the red carpet of the star-studded event
Not alone: The actor, who recently shadowboxed with Pope Francis during a trip to Italy, was joined by several other individuals, including Don Herzfeld, Rebekah Chaney and his brother Frank during the premiere
Flavin opted for a fashionable black lace dress as she accompanied her husband to the event.
The reality television personality contrasted the dominant tone of her outfit with a pair of silver high-heeled shoes.
The entrepreneur carried a chic clutch with her for the length of the premiere, and she accessorized with various pieces of jewelry.
Her gorgeous blonde hair cascaded onto her shoulders and she opted for a soft glam makeup look that complimented her natural beauty.
Stallone’s brother Frank looked cool in a checkered jacket which was worn on top of a black button-up shirt.
The Far From Over singer completed his look for the evening with slim-fitting jeans, brown shoes and wide-framed glasses.
Herzfeld opted for an all-black outfit that was comprised of a three-piece suit, shirt and tie as he spent time at the premiere.
Chaney donned a flowing green dress that paired well with her bright red hair while she posed for several photos.
Stylish: Stallone opted for a navy blue jacket and a matching pair of slim-fitting pants during the event. The star of the Expendables franchise completed his look with a jet-black shirt
Fancy footwear: The performer strolled the red carpet in a pair of leather shoes
All dressed up: Flavin opted for a fashionable black lace dress as she accompanied her husband to the event
Tying it off: The reality TV personality stood silver high-heeled shoes and she accessorized with various pieces of jewelry
Beautiful: Her gorgeous blonde hair cascaded onto her shoulders and she opted for a soft glam makeup look
Longtime couple: Stallone and Flavin have been married since 1997
Proud parents: The pair share daughters Sophia, 27, Sistine, 25, and Scarlet, 21
On the small screen: The lives of the performers and his family are chronicled in the reality series The Family Stallone
Christian Thompson remained shirtless underneath a jet-black jacket, which was paired with flared-out trousers.
Sasha Exeter showed off her toned arms while wearing a sleeveless dark gray top and a matching bottom during her time on the red carpet.
Television broadcaster Tyrone Edwards was also pictured while jokingly uppercutting the star of the Rocky franchise.
It was announced that Sly would be premiering during the Toronto International Film Festival this past June.
The documentary looks back on the life of the performer and chronicles his navigation of career highs and personal lows.
The feature’s director, Thom Zimny, recently spoke to USA Today and expressed that he was able to uncover aspects of Stallone’s personality that had previously been withheld from the public while working on the movie.
‘I’ve loved all (Stallone’s) films since childhood, but I started to realize in the making of this that I was getting a side of a man that just had not been seen before,’ he said.
The filmmaker went on to speak about the actor as an individual and discussed how he saw the performer as an inspirational figure.
Suited up: Stallone’s brother Frank donned a checkered jacket during the event, which was worn on top of a black button-up shirt
Contrast: The Far From Over singer completed his look for the evening with slim-fitting jeans, brown shoes and wide-framed glasses
Two of a kind: John Herzfeld opted for an all-black outfit that was comprised of a three-piece suit, shirt and tie, while Rebekah Chaney donned a flowing green dress
Making an impression: Christian Thompson remained shirtless underneath a jet-black jacket, which was paired with flared trousers
Gorgeous: Sasha Exeter showed off her toned arms while wearing a sleeveless dark gray top and a maxi skirt
Television broadcaster Tyrone Edwards was pictured jokingly uppercutting Stallone on the red carpet
Going wide: It was announced that Sly would be premiering during the Toronto International Film Festival this past June
He described the Rambo star as ‘a guy who refused to back down or be told he couldn’t do it. It’s a very inspiring story on many levels.’
The filmmaker added: ‘It’s a theme that you find again and again throughout his life, that journey of pushing himself.’
Zimny concluded by stating that, although Stallone likely viewed the film’s production process as a whole to be particularly reflective, he was not planning on stepping back from his career anytime soon.
‘I don’t see him as settling, and this film was catching up with him for a minute to reflect, if anything,’ he stated.
Priyanka Chopra recently shared a series of photos on Nick Jonas’s birthday. Both got married in a beautiful ceremony in Rajasthan in December 2018
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas are one of the most adorable couples. Their videos and photos are often viral. Well, the actress always accompanies her husband Nick at every concert. Just like this in which both are seen sharing a kiss during an event. The act was caught in a video which has gone viral on social media.
In the video, which was shared on a fan page, we can see Priyanka wearing yellow colour attire. She gives a hug to Nick and a kiss too. Nick is on the stage performing. Fans are super excited to see them. Recently, she shared a bundle of her fondest moments with him on Instagram and also penned a heartwarming note. The note read, “Celebrating you is the greatest joy of my life. You have pushed me in ways I didn’t know was possible.. shown me peace like I have never known.. and loving like only you can.. I love you my birthday guy! I hope all your dreams always come true… Happy birthday baby @nickjonas.”
Watch the video here:
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas are each others biggest cheerleaders. Time and again, they profess their love for each other and are not shy from doing so, be it on public or on social media. Back in 2021, Nick had opened up about how Priyanka Chopra has supported him, when one of his albums under-performed and he was heartbroken. “My wife showed me incredible support and love after Spaceman album came out. I am really proud of the album I made. But it didn’t quite perform like I wanted it to,” Nick shared on his YouTube channel.
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas got married in a beautiful ceremony in Rajasthan in December 2018, blending Western and Indian traditions. Their love story continues to enchant fans worldwide. The couple expanded their family by welcoming their daughter, Malti Marie Chopra Jonas, through surrogacy in January 2022.
On the work front, she will be seen in Farhan Akhtar’s upcoming film Jee Le Zaraa, where she will be starring alongside Alia Bhatt and Katrina Kaif.
Kutcher announced he was resigning effective immediately from his role as board chairman at Thorn, an organization whose goal is to address the role the internet plays in child sex trafficking and abuse. Kutcher founded the group with his then-wife, Demi Moore, in 2009.
“After my wife and I spent several days of listening, personal reflection, learning, and conversations with survivors and the employees and leadership at Thorn, I have determined the responsible thing for me to do is resign…. I cannot allow my error in judgment to distract from our efforts and the children we serve,” Kutcher wrote in a letter shared by Thorn.
In it, he apologized to survivors of sexual assault for the letter he wrote that defended Masterson’s character. Neither Kunis nor Kutcher argued that Masterson was not guilty, but they vouched for the person they knew him to be.
“The character statement I submitted is yet another painful instance of questioning victims who are brave enough to share their experiences. This is precisely what we have all worked to reverse over the last decade,” Kutcher wrote.
Masterson, 47, was sentenced last week in Los Angeles County to 30 years to life in prison after being convicted of two counts of rape. The May verdict followed his second trial that stemmed from accusations made by three women he met through the Church of Scientology.
“I do not believe he is an ongoing harm to society and having his daughter raised without a present father would [be] a tertiary injustice in and of itself,” Kutcher wrote in his letter to Superior Court Judge Charlaine Olmedo.
Kunis, who was also a star on “That ’70s Show,” wrote another letter on Masterson’s behalf.
“From the very beginning, I could sense his innate goodness and genuine nature,” Kunis wrote. “His caring nature and ability to offer guidance have been instrumental in my growth both personally and professionally.”
In a video posted to Instagram, the couple clarified why they wrote the letters a day after they were publicized.
“They were written for the judge to read and not to undermine the testimony of the victims or retraumatize them in any way,” Kutcher said. “We would never want to do that. And we’re sorry if that has taken place.”
Kunis is also stepping down from her role as an observer on the Thorn board, according to a story in Time, which first reported the resignations.
“We would not be the Thorn that we are today without Ashton’s contributions. He has played a significant role in the impact we have made, and we are grateful for his participation over the last 15 years,” the organization said in a statement.
The Spider-Verse has shown “anyone can wear the mask.” It’s a beautiful sentiment, but let’s face it, the odds a radioactive spider grants us super arachnid powers is probably close to zero. (Yes, “probably.” We refuse to give up all hope.) That doesn’t mean we can’t experience what it’s like to be a friendly neighborhood hero, though. We can be a beloved webbed-slinger in video games, and the next chance we’ll have to do that will expand our horizon—and our wardrobe. Two new trailers for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 reveal a full closet worth of incredible Spidey-suits and an even bigger map to explore.
MANY New Spider-Man Suits Are on the Horizon
The first of two new trailers from Insomniac Games and PlayStation for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 highlight the game’s Digital Deluxe edition. This promo features the many, many, many suits players can opt to use in the game, which will see “Peter Parker and Miles Morales face the ultimate test of strength inside and outside the mask as they fight to save the city, each other and the ones they love, from the monstrous Venom and the dangerous new symbiote threat.”
The game will include the following options for Spidey-ware:
5 unique Miles Morales suits
EnC0ded Suit design by Kris Anka
Biomechanical Suit design by Jerad Marantz
Tokusatsu Suit design by Julia Blattman
Agimat Suit design by Anthony Francisco
Red Spectre Suit design by Sweeney Boo
5 unique Peter Parker suits o Aurantia Suit design by Raf Grassetti
Apunkalyptic Suit design by Jerad Marantz
Tactical Suit design by Joel Mandish
Stone Monkey design by Victoria Ying
25th Century Suit design by Anthony Francisco
Insomniac Games/PlayStation
Pre-ordering Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will also get a few more suits. Those who buy it ahead of its October 20 release will nab an Arachknight Suit for Peter with three color variants and a Shadow-Spider Suit for Miles that also comes with three color variants. Pre-orders will get an early unlock Web Grabber gadget.
Is that…too many suits? No, no, that’s not a thing. We truly need all the suits. Especially since we’ll have even more places to show them off.
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2‘s other new trailer, narrated by Insomniac Games’ Senior Creative Director Bryan Intihar, shows the expanded map players will encounter in the game.
Peter and Miles’ open-world adventures will let them go to their respective home burrows, Queens and Brooklyn. Those long-overdue additions to Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will double the original release’s New York City’s map. And how will you traverse so much ground fast enough to save the day? With new web wings that will help each Spider-Man zip through the air.
These new Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 trailers provide even more insights into the new aspects players will find in the game. But the most important one remains the same. It will let us wear the mask. Many, many, many versions of the mask.
The wait is almost over. The Resident Evil 4 Separate Ways DLC is going to be released on September 21. This update will come complete with an expansion to the game’s Mercenaries mode. This add-on for Resident Evil 4 will expand on the original game’s story and bring Ada Wong’s perspective as she courses through the events of the main game.
In the original Resident Evil 4 game, Separate Ways followed Ada as she operates from behind the scenes of Leon’s story. The chapter expanded the game’s story and brought with it some explanations behind some of the events in the game. Of course, the majority of the actions that Ada did to help Leon were also done to help herself.
The Separate Ways Add-on will also come with Resident Evil 4’s VR mode, which will allow players to experience the full campaign and Leon S. Kennedy’s struggle in vivid first person.
The DLC will come accompanied by a new update for the Mercenaries mode on September 21. One of the highlights of the Mercenaries update is the playable appearance of Albert Wesker, one of the big villains of the Resident Evil series. This update will also bring other playable characters and an expansion on the additional mode that allows players to take on arcade-like challenges with preset weaponry and custom abilities.
Resident Evil 4 Remake is available right now on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. The game will also be available on iPhone 15.
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A journalist from Mexico obsessed with Shiny Eevees, he wears his profession with pride as he researches current-day stories and plays JRPGs and horror games.
A decade and a year ago, Blackmagic Design (BMD) made a statement with a 2.5K cinema camera that shot CinemaDNG RAW files for under $2,995. While aesthetics trumped ergonomics and battery life left a lot to be desired, the camera landscape would never be the same.
Since then, several other BMD cameras continued to push the boundaries of capability and affordability. Even today, there are few cameras more affordable than one from Blackmagic.
Now, the camera that started it all is getting an update, bringing Blackmagic Design into the world of full-frame. The Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K (BMCC 6K) is here with a full-frame sensor and an L-mount.
Is this camera everything we’ve hoped for? Have a seat. Let’s chat.
The BMCC 6K
Filmmakers have been requesting a lot of features from BMD’s upcoming cameras. While some of them have come to fruition, others have not. Internal NDs? Check. In body stabilization? Check(ish). A box-style camera? Those folks still have to wait. Maybe forever.
Despite some of our unfulfilled wishes, full frame is finally here.
A 36x24mm sensor
Blackmagic Design
The BMCC 6K offers a brand new full-frame sensor in a body similar to the Pocket line, only a little bit taller and thinner (we’ll touch on this more a bit later).
The L-mount is an excellent addition that moves away from EF lenses and opens up an entire world of glass. Not only will creatives have their choice of L-mount lenses from Sigma and Leica, but a whole collection of third-party options—even anamorphic ones.
How autofocus will function remains to be seen
Credit: Blackmagic Design
Thanks to a 20mm flange distance, you can adapt practically any non-mirrorless lens on the market, used or not. However, due to this flange distance, BMD had to remove the internal NDs found on the Pocket 6K Pro.
In lieu of this, the BMCC 6K will include an OLPF filter similar to the new USRA 12K, which should open the door to it being Netflix-approved, if that’s something you care about (but I know a few DPs that would love that).
The new camera will be able to record BRAW in a wide range of aspect ratios. From 6048 x 4032 (Open Gate 3:2) up to 36 fps to 1920 x 1080 (1080 HD 16:9) in up to 120 fps.
With all these recording modes, creatives can also simultaneously capture H.264 proxies. These will be pre-LUT and should make post-production more efficient.
BMCC 6K I/O
Blackmagic Design
Since the BMCC 6K uses the Pocket-style body, creatives will find the usual I/O from the BMPCC 6K Pro. This includes the 5″ 1500 nit rear screen, an NP-F570 battery, 13+ stops of dynamic range, native dual iso of 400 and 3200, the built-in gyro, and the ability to use the 6K Pro accessories such as the battery grip and EVF. However, a new addition to this camera is a CFexpress card slot.
All the Pocket 6K Pro accessories are compatible with the BMCC 6K
Credit :Blackmagic Design
The Elephants In The Room
For some, this might be the dream camera, but I can already hear the internet tearing this camera apart. No box-style body? No NDs? Where did BMD get this sensor?
Well, I think I can provide some answers.
The new sensor wasn’t developed in-house like the one for the Ursa 12K. This means it won’t have a symmetrical color pattern. When you crank up the frame rate, it will crop in. What kind of images it’ll be able to produce remains to be seen, but if previous cameras are anything to go by, it won’t be anything to scoff at.
Put on a Kipon focal reducer and you’re in medium format territory
Credit: Blackmagic Design
As for why there is no box-style body? I can only assume, but from where I sit, it’s to bring the cost down.
The BMCC 6K full-frame cinema camera will cost $2,595.
That’s the cheapest full-frame cinema camera on the market. It’ll also come with DaVinci Resolve Studio. That’s a $295 software suite you get for free.
Is This Camera For You?
Yes. This is one of the few cameras I can recommend right off the bat, barring any issues that might come up during launch. This is a new sensor, after all.
If you’re just starting out and looking for a full-frame ecosystem, the BMCC 6K Full-Frame Cinema Camera is a great purchase.
But even if you’re a veteran, the BMCC 6K should be an amazing tool for any production.
Sure, BMD cameras have had their issues in the past. We can pixel-peep it to death when it’s finally out in the wild. But the Pocket cameras (of all generations) have been used in Hollywood movies as stunt cams, B and C cams, and even saved the production of All Rise during the pandemic.
DP David Harp used over a dozen Pocket 6Ks to shoot Season 2 of the series when other productions were shut down due to the lockdown.
I can’t see why the Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K won’t be just as capable. It will just offer a bigger sensor, a mirrorless mount, and an OLPF filter to increase those capabilities.
I know a few filmmakers who would can’t wait to use this camera. Whatever your feelings are about BMD, you can’t deny that they push the competition to do better. When the Sony FX30 came out, I wondered what Blackmagic would release in order to compete. The BMCC 6K is the answer, and I’m excited to see how it’ll be used.
Laurabeth Cabbot, a Los Angeles professional hairstylist, also points to scalp stimulation as her number one tip for hair growth. “Scalp stimulation therapy is a great way to stimulate your hair follicle,” she says. “You can find certain specialists that are specifically trained in scalp stimulation treatments such as scalp acupuncture, because sometimes even natural remedies can help.” If you’d rather DIY, there are plenty of at-home scalp-stimulating massagers, though my personal favorite is Body Proud’s adorable duck scalp brush.
Girl + Hair Scalp & Hair Strengthening Oil
Body Proud Exfoliating and Cleansing Body and Scalp Brush
“Anything that helps manipulate the scalp helps promote hair growth,” adds Mena, which can even includes brushes and how you use them. “I always tell my clients to brush their scalp with a boar-bristle brush,” he says, citing the infamous Mason Pearson brush as his favorite for the job. “Just part your hair, section it, and comb the scalp. This manipulates the scalp, helps to produce your natural oils, and it can help make your hair grow.”
Dr. Henry agrees, saying that a healthy scalp is essential for optimal hair growth. “Regular scalp massages with gentle pressure can help stimulate blood circulation to the hair follicles,” she says. “And this increased blood flow brings more nutrients and oxygen to the hair roots, promoting healthy hair growth.” And this is important even if you’re using scalp serums and oils. “They will be most effective in conjunction with a multitargeting supplement or other treatment,” she adds.
Dr. Green and Dr. Henry also point to hair supplements as excellent way to provide nutrients that support hair growth. “Nutrafol is a popular physician-formulated and clinically tested dietary supplement formulated with ingredients that target hair health from within,” says Dr. Henry. “It typically includes a blend of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and botanical extracts. These nutrients can help address underlying factors that might contribute to hair thinning and promote a conducive environment for hair growth.”
Further, Nutrafol’s ingredients like biotin, saw palmetto, marine collagen, and horsetail extract are believed to support hair follicles, improve circulation, and provide essential nutrients for hair vitality.
Another option, which both Dr. Green and Mena recommend, are Viviscal Hair Growth Supplements. “Nutrafol is formulated with saw palmetto, ashwagandha, natural ingredients, and a propriety blend created to address causes of hair health such as hormones and nutrition,” says Dr. Green, “and Viviscal supplements contain proprietary and essential vitamins, such as B vitamins, biotin, and vitamin C, that are proven to thicken hair and increase growth.”
Nutrafol Women Hair Growth Supplement
Viviscal Hair Growth Supplements
Frequent trims & good hair care habits
Cutting your hair may feel counterintuitive, but both Hurtado and Cabbot say that it’s a must when it comes to promoting hair growth. “Getting rid of dry split ends allows hair to grow healthy and long and maintains the hairstyle,” says Hurtado.
“While procedures, serums, and vitamins are all effective treatment options, changing your hair routine can promote hair growth,” Dr. Green reiterates. Sometimes hair growth is simply a matter of taking better care of your hair—which, of course, includes those dreaded regular trims. “Heat styling, using straightening or curling irons, breaks down the bonds in your hair, leading to decreased moisture. Try opting for no-heat styles or, if you need to use heat, use a heat protectant that can stand the temperature you are using,” Dr. Green continues. “Using chemicals, dyes, and relaxers on your hair can damage the hair and cause breakage. Avoid these processes, use them less frequently, or use semipermanent dyes over permanent ones.”
Thickening treatments
Another way to bolster hair growth? Incorporating robust hair-repair and thickening products into your routine to ensure your hair recovers from damage and stays its healthiest.
Reality home shows can be overly produced to create excitement and may not accurately portray the real estate process.
“Tiny House Nation” and “My First Place” are examples of real home shows where the experiences of buyers and builders are genuine.
“Million Dollar Listing,” “Selling Sunset,” “Fixer Upper,” “Property Brothers,” and “Love It Or List It” are examples of home shows that have been found to have elements of fakeness or manipulation.
The world of reality television can be quite confusing, but that doesn’t keep fans from indulging in their favorite shows, no matter how unrealistic they can come across. Sometimes, reality TV lovers can’t help but wonder how much is true and how much is entirely scripted. How far do producers go to make the audience’s favorite series seem either wholly fake or real?
As exciting as getting a new apartment, selling a home, or decorating a space is, these reality home shows aren’t always as authentic as they seem. Sometimes, they’re overly produced in a way to make the show more exciting without the viewer realizing it. Even popular shows concerning the realtors are dramatized to keep viewers locked in on the process. Which home shows are real, and which might be fake?
Real: Tiny House Nation
Tiny House Nation lasted for five seasons on the FYI and A&E channels. The show focused on home renovators John Weisbarth and Zack Giffin creating tiny homes for clients who wanted smaller spaces. The show ended in 2019 but is now streaming on Netflix.
Tiny Life Consulting confirms that Weisbarth and Griffin created small homes in no longer than two weeks. Both men admitted they slept around two hours a night because they were working so hard to make the houses a success for the show. As for the people buying the homes, they, too are 100% real and financially responsible.
Fake: Million Dollar Listing
Million Dollar Listing started in Los Angeles in 2017 before branching out to New York, Miami, and San Francisco. However, the two cities that are the most popular with fans are Los Angeles and New York due to the characteristics of the realtors.
As popular as the Bravo show is, TV Over Mind proves the show is fake in many ways. As a reality show, some of the scenes were reshot or forced to make it look like the realtors were just waking up in the morning when it was late in the afternoon. Although Ryan Serhant swears the show is accurate, some deals aren’t.
Real: My First Place
My First Place follows the struggles and adventures of people looking to buy real estate for the first time. The show truly resonated with audiences and ran for an impressive 22 seasons. Everything fans can think of regarding the perils of buying a house is depicted on the show, including unexpected expenses and auction wars.
Because all of these things are a bit too familiar for anyone who’s ever been in the shoes of first-time home buyers, there’s a powerful possibility the show is real. Unlike many other reality home shows, this one isn’t all fun and games and is a true lesson for anyone who wants to enter the turbulent waters of home-owning.
Fake: Selling Sunset
Selling Sunset was released in 2019 on Netflix and became an instant hit. The show focuses on the brokerage company, the Oppenheim Group, and those who work for the company. Like Million Dollar Listing, Selling Sunset doesn’t just focus on the work, it follows the stars home as they balance their personal lives and life at work.
However, Women’s Health showed that the show might not be as accurate as it portrays. A TikToker proved that her house was established as a possible listing on the show. But the reality is her home wasn’t on sale, and she never met the agent, Christine.
Real: Flip Or Flop
Flip Or Flop does a beautiful job of marrying the exciting world of renovations with the uncertain real estate market economy. The show’s overall premise is that real estate agents Tarek and Christina buy old homes and flip them into houses they sell and make some serious profit.
Even though there have been some questions on whether or not the profit they make is accurate, there’s no reason to believe the show is fake. Tarek and Christina buy houses and put all the work into renovating and selling them. Compared to other reality home shows, this one seems pretty accurate.
Fake: Fixer Upper
Fixer Upperoriginally ran from 2013 to 2018, and it followed married couple Chip and Joanna Gaines in their struggles to turn fixer-upper places into beautiful homes. They aim to give the citizens of Waco, Texas, the house of their dreams through extreme renovations.
One of the best parts of the show is that they show their clients three houses needing repair, and the client chooses one. The client already owns the house they end up picking. Plus, all the beautiful interior design Joanna decides only gets to stay if the homeowners are willing to pay. At least the renovation is real.
Real: Tiny Luxury
Tiny Luxury represented a breath of fresh air compared to other reality home shows. As opposed to showing or building everyone huge mansions that were always over the top, the show focused on homeowners who wanted to trade their big houses for smaller places to live a more stable lifestyle.
While it’s pretty challenging, it’s a fun and inspiring show. Thanks to an interview with the LA Times, the show was real. What happens after the show is unclear, but it’s believable many people stay true to their new ways of life.
Fake: Beachfront Bargain Hunt
Who doesn’t want to own a beach house in a dream location that overlooks the ocean? Beachfront Bargain Hunt was a hit with audiences. Following home-buyers who tried to find their dream beach house for a decent price—meaning, not a fortune—there was plenty to be excited about.
However, the show isn’t entirely as accurate as one might think. There was even an instance where a realtor was contacted to be on the show, with a series of demands: the clients had to have already purchased a home, it had to be under a specific price, and, of course, beachfront. She used her own home on the show, and they all pretended it was summer while it was cold.
Real: Hoarders
Hoarders has been around for many seasons and snatched a Primetime Emmy. Following the lives of different people with hoarding issues, the show is a guilty pleasure for many.
Over its entire run, a whisper hasn’t questioned the show’s reality. Television will go to great lengths to ensure viewers, but faking hoarding isn’t one of them. Hoarders is probably one of the most accurate reality television shows out there.
Fake: Property Brothers
Reality television is a sucker for anything family-related. That’s probably one of the reasons why twin brothers Jonathan and Drew Scott became such a hit in the first place. One is a realtor; the other one is a contractor. Together, they help families choose a fixer-upper that is then renovated.
To be able to be on the show, families need to be in the process of buying or renovating a house, which makes the realtor’s part of the show completely fake. Plus, the timelines on the show are entirely unrealistic, although that’s the lesser of two evils. The best part was always seeing a family falling in love with a house and believing they couldn’t have it.
Real: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Very few reality home shows leave us weeping and holding our chests like Extreme Makeover: Home Edition did. There’s a reason why the show aired for nine seasons and won two Primetime Emmy Awards. And a lot of it had to do with the fact that the stories of the families featured on the show were heartbreaking.
But the show was quick to warm hearts when the team worked day and night to rebuild the houses of these families. Like other shows, some parts were genuine, while others were fake.
Fake: Love It Or List It
Love It Or List Ithad a pretty interesting premise and was educational. It showcased the sometimes over-the-top competition between an interior designer and a realtor. While the first one focused on decorating the homeowner’s existing house, the latter found a new one. In the end, contestants had to choose between their newly decorated house or the new one found by the realtor.
The show was on the air for a few years, but plenty of relevant information soon came up. Including a couple who sued the show for leaving holes and paint in their house and another contestant who disclosed the show filmed both potential endings and chose the one, the producers liked best, whether it was true or not.
Ending a two-and-a-half month impasse, DirecTV and leading station owner Nexstar Media Group have agreed to restore the signals of dozens of stations as the companies work to finalize a carriage renewal.
About 159 ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and CW affiliates as well as cable network NewsNationwent dark July 2 due to a fight over distribution terms. The rift was followed by a shorter but even more closely tracked one between Disney and Charter, which ended last week after a 10-day outage.
Nexstar is the No. 1 local-station owner in the U.S., and DirecTV is the country’s third-largest pay-TV provider. Top markets affected by the fight included L.A., Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Denver, including such marquee stations as KTLA and WGN. The exact number of DirecTV subscribers affected has been a matter of dispute. Nexstar has said it is more than 10 million of DirecTV’s base of almost 13 million, while DirecTV has maintained the number is significantly lower.
“In recognition and appreciation of the continued patience of DirecTV customers and Nexstar viewers, the companies have agreed to temporarily return the signals of the Nexstar-owned stations and national cable news network NewsNation to DirecTV, DirecTV Stream and U-verse while we both work to complete the terms of an agreement,” the companies said in a joint statement in the early hours of Sunday.
Given the large number of local stations and metro areas involved, signals will be restored on a rolling, station-by-station basis, a source indicated, with the goal of lighting back up the stations showing Sunday NFL games. Week 2 of the NFL season starts today.
The mid-summer timing of the impasse did not help to hasten a deal, but the return of college and NFL football created additional pressure, as in the case of Disney-Charter.
Drake has pushed back the release date of his next album For All the Dogs to October 6 due to his ongoing It’s All a Blur Tour with 21 Savage. The rapper broke the news in an Instagram story posted early this morning (viewed by Pitchfork). “Okay my dilemma I am faced with is either cancel shows to finish the album or I complete the mission and drop the album before the last show,” he wrote. Drake continued: “I owe you all these memories we are building and anywhere we have missed to-date we will be spinning back for sure. For All the Dogs October 6th. It’s only right…”
On Friday (September 15), Drake dropped his For All the Dogs single “Slime You Out,” his first-ever collaboration with SZA. The rapper teased the track with with a photo of Halle Berry getting slimed at the 2012 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards. Berry later said that Drake did not get her permission to use the image, however Drake only used it in an Instagram teaser, not as the official single art.
Drake announced For All the Dogs back in June with the release of his poetry book, Titles Ruin Everything. In newspaper ads promoting the book, Drake included a QR code that led to a website with the following message: “I made an album to go with the book. They say they miss the old Drake girl don’t tempt me. FOR ALL THE DOGS.”
In August, Drake shared the For All the Dogscover art, which features white dog with red eyes drawn by his 5-year-old son, Adonis Graham. He announced the original release date earlier this month. Drake and 21 Savage will wrap up their It’s All a Blur Tour on October 7 at the Scotiabank Arena in Drake’s hometown of Toronto.
This article was originally published on Saturday, September 16 at 9:50 a.m. Eastern. It was last updated on September 16 at 10:54 a.m. Eastern.
The federal government’s efforts to gather Canadian grocery executives for a summit to tackle food inflation is “disingenuous” and unlikely to bear much fruit, analysts say.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday announced he was summoning leaders from Canada’s biggest grocers together on Monday, calling for a plan to stabilize food inflation and warning tax measures were on the table should Canadians continue to face undue pain at the grocery store.
“It does not make sense in a country like Canada that our largest grocery chains should be making record profits while Canadians are struggling to put food on the table and we’re seeing record usage of food banks,” Trudeau said.
Loblaw president Galen G. Weston, Metro CEO Eric La Fleche and Walmart Canada CEO Gonzalo Gebara will all attend the meeting on Monday, spokespersons for the executives’ individual companies confirmed to Global News.
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Representatives for Sobeys parent company Empire Co. Ltd. and Costco did not respond to requests for comment before publishing deadlines.
The calls come as Canadians continue to face price hikes at the grocery store even as overall inflation cools.
The latest consumer price index from Statistics Canada showed inflation was up 3.3 per cent year-over-year in July, while food prices at the grocery store were up 8.5 per cent in the month. While still elevated, that’s slowed from annual price hikes of 9.1 per cent in June and of more than 11 per cent last fall.
Sylvain Charlebois, the director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University, will also attend the meetings in Ottawa on Monday as an unpaid observer. He said it’s not a surprise to see Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne step up to take on food inflation, as the cost of living has become the “number one concern” for Canadians right now.
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The Liberals have made a concerted effort to tackle affordability concerns for months, including announcing a so-called “grocery rebate” in the 2023 federal budget this spring.
But since that time, the Conservative Party has widened its lead over the Liberals in the polls.
Liberal caucus gathers as party slumps in the polls
Abacus polling released Thursday showed the Conservatives have a 15-point lead over the Liberals, with affordability issues topping voters’ agendas.
Back in July, when the Conservatives first edged out the Liberals in Ipsos polling, CEO Darrell Bricker told Global News that it wasn’t a matter of the opposition gaining traction, but rather a growing “fatigue” with the Trudeau government.
“People are really not that happy with the direction of the country at the moment and they lay a lot of the blame for that right now on the Trudeau administration,” Bricker said at the time.
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Michael von Massow, a food economist with the University of Guelph, told Global News that his “cynical” view of the grocer summit is that it’s a “vague” and “disingenuous” proposal to give the appearance of action on food prices.
“We’re seeing this government get hammered about affordability,” he said.
“It appears to be something to take heat off of them, rather than something that will really fundamentally affect affordability for Canadians.”
What can the grocer summit accomplish?
Grocery executives may be an “easy target” for Ottawa, von Massow said, but that doesn’t mean the grocers themselves can solve food inflation with a snap of their fingers.
Grocers may be on the front-lines of where Canadians feel price pressures, but he noted that ignores the roles played by other players in the supply chain and global factors such as the war in Ukraine.
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“This will not address the war in Ukraine, this will not address extreme weather events. It frankly doesn’t even address food prices further up the value chain,” von Massow said.
The Retail Council of Canada also argued in a statement to Global News that rising vendor costs are what’s driving increased prices at the grocery store.
“Grocers are always prepared to have good faith discussions with government about our industry, challenges with the food supply chain, or with affordability for Canadians,” spokesperson Michelle Wasylyshen said.
“But we are not going to get anywhere with discussions that time and time again fail to look below the surface as to the true cause of rising grocery prices.”
The Competition Bureau’s probe of concentration in Canada’s grocery sector said that food inflation could be limited in the long run by promoting more competition in the market, but did not lay the blame for the current bout of inflation on profiteering by grocers.
Loblaw’s Weston also defended the company’s “reasonable profitability” in testimony before members of Parliament earlier this spring.
‘How much profit is too much profit?’: Singh grills Loblaw executive on food inflation
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has pitched imposing a windfall tax on large corporations to discourage companies that could be taking advantage of elevated inflation to price gouge consumers.
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Both von Massow and Charlebois told Global News that if a windfall tax or other punitive measures were implemented, as Trudeau hinted, it likely wouldn’t have the effect of bringing down prices at the grocery store.
Charlebois said any additional tax burdens put on the grocers would instead likely be passed on to the consumers themselves, in effect backfiring on the federal government.
Trudeau’s tax threat could succeed as the “stick” to get the grocers in the room to talk about what’s possible to improve affordability in the sector, he added.
From a public relations perspective, Charlebois believes it would be wise for the grocers to show up in Ottawa.
“It would be ill-advised for CEOs to miss the meeting.”
Food inflation set to ‘greatly fall’ anyways
Regardless of what concrete measures come out of the meeting with the grocers, von Massow and Charlebois said it’s likely food inflation will continue to ease through the rest of the year.
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While ongoing extreme weather events have been a persistent fuel for food inflation in recent months, last year’s inflation figures were especially impacted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Charlebois said there “hasn’t been a major surprise this year” to repeat the eye-popping price pressures of 2022.
Forecasts from the Agri-Food Analytics Lab expect inflation will slow to between five and seven per cent before the end of 2023.
Charlebois said that by April or May of next year, the gap between overall inflation and food inflation should fully close, giving Canadians a bit more sense of peace on their shopping bills.
“That’s a big one because when people see that difference, that’s when they’re really spooked at the grocery store. They see a big difference between what’s going on at the grocery store versus what’s happening with the economy,” he said.
‘That’s horse manure’: Shoppers angry about soaring food prices as inflation sinks to 2.8%
Some grocers are also expecting price pressures to ease in the months ahead.
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Empire CEO Michael Medline said during a call with analysts on Thursday discussing the company’s first quarter earnings that he expects food inflation is going to “greatly fall” in the months to come. He noted, however, that inflation’s path is “choppy” and consumers remain “skittish” as it relates to price sensitivity.
Putting out a public call for grocers to act on food inflation is, in this situation, a no-lose situation for the Liberals, von Massow argued.
Either food inflation declines as predicted and the Liberals are able to take credit because they “put pressure on the grocers,” von Massow said, or if price pressures remain elevated, they can impose a tax and say that they’re looking out for the consumer.
“To a large degree, I think it is the government trying to say we are doing something without providing a lot of detail to make a compelling argument that they are actually doing something,” he said.
— with files from Global News’ Sean Boynton, Kyle Benning, Saba Aziz
It’s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off.
Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I’m still playing now, around 18 months after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it’s fun, but also difficult.
What’s more, its makers (now the online dictionary Merriam-Webster) are also keeping it fresh in the form of a variant called the Daily Sequence, which sees you complete four puzzles consecutively, rather than concurrently.
But Quordle is tough, so if you already find yourself searching for Wordle hints, you’ll probably need some for this game too.
I’m a Quordle and Wordle fanatic who’s been playing since December 2021, so I can definitely help you solve Quordle today and improve your game for tomorrow. Read on for my Quordle hints to game #601 and the answers to the main game and Daily Sequence.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Your Quordle expert
Your Quordle expert
Marc McLaren
Marc is TechRadar’s UK Editor in Chief and has been playing Wordle and Quordle for more than a year. He’s authored dozens of articles on the game for TechRadar and its sister site Tom’s Guide, including a detailed analysis of the most common letters in every position. His Wordle streak recently reached the 500 mark and he’ll be inconsolable if he loses it. Yes, he takes it all too seriously.
Quordle today (game #601) – hint #1 – Vowels
How many different vowels are in Quordle today?
• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 3*.
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).
Quordle today (game #601) – hint #2 – total vowels
What is the total number of vowels in Quordle today?
• The total number of vowels across today’s Quordle answers is 6.
Quordle today (game #601) – hint #3 – repeated letters
Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain repeated letters?
• The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 0.
Quordle today (game #601) – hint #4 – total letters
How many different letters are used in Quordle today?
• The total number of different letters used in Quordle today is 14.
Quordle today (game #601) – hint #5 – uncommon letters
Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?
• Yes. One of Q, Z, X or J appears among today’s Quordle answers.
Where Wordle challenges you to guess a new five-letter word each day, Quordle presents you with four puzzles to solve. And rather than complete them in turn, you do so simultaneously. You get nine guesses, rather than the six for Wordle, but the rules are otherwise very similar.
As with Wordle, the answers are the same for every player each day, meaning that you’re competing against the rest of the world. And also as with Wordle, the puzzle resets at midnight so you have a fresh challenge each day.
The website also includes a practice mode – which I definitely recommend using before attempting the game proper! – and there are daily stats including a streak count. You also get Quordle Achievements – specific badges for winning a game in a certain number of turns, playing lots of times, or guessing particularly hard words.
Oh, and it’s difficult. Really difficult.
What are the Quordle rules?
The rules of Quordle are almost identical to those of Wordle.
1. Letters that are in the answer and in the right place turn green.
2. Letters that are in the answer but in the wrong place turn yellow.
3. Letters that are not in the answer turn gray…
4. …BUT the word you guess appears in all quadrants of the puzzle at the same time, so an A could turn green in one square, yellow in another and gray in the final two.
5. Answers are never plural.
6. Letters can appear more than once. So if your guess includes two of one letter, they may both turn yellow, both turn green, or one could be yellow and the other green.
7. Each guess must be a valid word in Quordle’s dictionary. You can’t guess ABCDE, for instance.
8. You do not have to include correct letters in subsequent guesses and there is no equivalent of Wordle’s Hard mode.
9. You have nine guesses to find the Quordle answers.
10. You must complete the daily Quordle before midnight in your timezone.
What is a good Quordle strategy?
Quordle needs to be approached in a different way to Wordle. With four puzzles to solve in nine guesses, you can’t blindly throw letters at it and expect to win – you’ll stand a far better chance if you think strategically.
That’s the case in Wordle too, of course, but it’s even more important in Quordle.
There are two key things to remember.
1. Use several starting words
Firstly, you won’t want just a single starting word, but almost certainly two or three starting words.
The first of these should probably be one of the best Wordle starting words, because the same things that make them work well will apply here too. But after that, you should select another word or possibly two that use up lots more of the most common consonants and that include any remaining vowels.
For instance, I currently use STARE > DOILY > PUNCH. Between them, these three words use 15 of the 26 letters in the alphabet including all five vowels, Y, and nine of the most common consonants (S, T, R, D, L, P, N, C and H). There are plenty of other options – you might want to get an M, B, F or G in there instead of the H, maybe – but something like that should do the trick.
If all goes well, that will give you a good lead on what one or sometimes two of the answers might be. If not, well good luck!
2. Narrow things down
Secondly, if you’re faced with a word where the answer might easily be one of several options – for instance -ATCH, where it could be MATCH, BATCH, LATCH, CATCH, WATCH, HATCH or PATCH – you’ll definitely want to guess a word that would narrow down those options.
In Wordle, you can instead try several of those in succession and hope one is right, assuming you have enough guesses left. It’s risky, but will sometimes work. Plus, it’s the only option in Hard mode. But in Quordle, this will almost certainly result in a failure – you simply don’t have enough guesses.
In the scenario above, CLAMP would be a great guess, as it could point the way to four of the seven words in one go.
