Forty years ago, Paul Reubens and Tim Burton took viewers on a ride to remember with Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. The film centers on Reubens as titular Pee-wee Herman, whose hunt for his stolen bicycle leads him to the Alamo. As a member of the L.A. comedy troupe the Groundlings, Reubens developed the childlike character and played him in the 1980s in live stage shows, an HBO special and appearances on Late Night With David Letterman. “It dawned on me that I could actually become Pee-wee Herman,” Reubens told THR in 2020 about his alter ego.
During a run of sold-out performances, the comedian landed a deal with Warner Bros. to write a Pee-wee feature. While on the studio lot, Reubens noticed people riding bikes and asked for one of his own. After being taken with the refurbished 1940s Schwinn he was given, Reubens retooled his movie to focus on the bike. “We had worked for three months, just trying to find a story,” says Michael Varhol, who co-wrote the script with Reubens and another Groundlings standout, Phil Hartman. “We found the bike, and that’s when all the pieces of the puzzle started fitting together.”
After turning down Warners’ suggested director, Reubens was granted a short window to land a better fit; he found it in Burton, who had never directed a feature but whose horror-comedy short Frankenweenie wowed Reubens. Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton and Jan Hooks rounded out the cast, while composer Danny Elfman marked the first of his many collaborations with Burton.
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure hit theaters Aug. 9, 1985, collected $40 million ($122 million today) and became a cult classic that spawned two sequels, including Netflix’s 2016 film Pee-wee’s Big Holiday from producer Judd Apatow. Reubens also played the character for five seasons of CBS’ Pee-wee’s Playhouse.
Big Adventure endures — the Alamo recently acquired Pee-wee’s bike for display. Daily, who played love interest Dottie, told THR that she frequently exchanges lines with fans: “Guys will tell me, ‘I’m a rebel, Dottie.’ And I’ll ask them to the drive-in.”
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Directed by Shazia Iqbal, Dhadak 2 is currently running in cinemas. The film stars Siddhant Chaturvedi and Triptii Dimri as the main leads. The romantic drama serves as the spiritual sequel to the 2018 film, Dhadak. Released on August 1, 2025, Dhadak 2 has completed the first three days of its release. Here’s how it is performing at the box office.
Dhadak 2 fetches Rs 4 crore on Day 3, reaches close to Rs 11.50 crore
Backed under the banner of Dharma Productions, Dhadak 2 started its journey with an opening collection of Rs 3.50 crore net on Friday. The Siddhant Chaturvedi and Triptii Dimri starrer then witnessed muted growth on Saturday as it fetched Rs 3.75 crore.
Now, on Day 3, the Dhadak sequel minted Rs 4 crore net, bringing its opening weekend collection to Rs 11.25 crore.
Days
Net Collections
Day 1
Rs 3.50 crore
Day 2
Rs 3.75 crore
Day 3
Rs 4 crore
Total
Rs 11.25 crore
Dhadak 2 is locking horns with Son of Sardaar 2
Dhadak 2 is a Hindi remake of Mari Selvaraj’s Tamil film Pariyerum Perumal, which was released in 2018. It clashed with Son of Sardaar 2 during its release at the box office. The Ajay Devgn-led action comedy is performing better than the Dhadak sequel. Speaking of which, the Son of Sardaar sequel has earned around Rs 25 crore in the opening weekend.
Co-produced by Zee Studios and Cloud 9 Pictures, Dhadak 2 also features actors like Zakir Hussain and Saurabh Sachdeva in key roles. It has more than a week to improve its performance at the box office. The Dhadak sequel will then compete with two highly anticipated movies, War 2 and Coolie, starting from August 14, 2025.
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Remember when Aretha Franklin (iconically) said “great gowns, beautiful gowns?” That was certainly the mood on the red carpets these past few days. The best dressed stars of the week all slipped into designs that were both slinky and sleek—continuing on with the easy, effortless silhouettes that go hand-in-hand with the summer season. Don’t fear though: that doesn’t mean the clean and simple frocks didn’t turn heads and make a statement. (In fact, quite the opposite.)
At the season two premiere of Wednesday, for one, Jenna Ortega chose a skin-tight latex Ashi Studio gown that was the perfect mix of edgy and reptilian yet glamorous. It’s a level up from the usual celebrity obsession with method dressing, expanding the world of what Wednesday Addams could possibly wear to a big Hollywood affair. Another A-lister who embraced more tried-and-true formulas for method dressing this week? Lindsay Lohan, who donned a purple Ludovic de Saint-Sernin gown that was an homage to a dress her Freaky Friday character wore in the original 2003 film. Her little bedazzled Judith Leiber guitar purse? She gets an A+ for that, too.
Even the week’s more off-duty moments delivered some great summery looks. In L.A., supermodel Bella Hadid stepped out in an affordable boho-chic Mango dress, proving that a great dress need not cost a lot. In Poland, meanwhile, Jennifer Lopez enjoyed a day off in head-to-toe red—her monochromatic outfit courtesy of Valentino, of course, right down to her Rockstud slingbacks. Is it time for a Rockstud revival? We say yes.
Which were your favorite celebrity looks this week? Vote below, and check back on Friday to see who Vogue readers crowned best dressed.
The new pornography taskforce will propose legislation this autumn aimed at banning a type of “barely legal” content produced by porn star Bonnie Blue, the Guardian has learned.
The proposed action by the independent pornography taskforce, launched last month by Conservative peer Baroness Gabby Bertin, comes in response to the broadcast of the Channel 4 documentary 1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story. The programme followed the performer as she filmed herself having sex with 1,057 clients over the course of 12 hours.
Visa and Smirnoff are among a number of businesses that have pulled online advertisements from streaming of the documentary, after reviewing the content. The film was condemned by the children’s commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, for “glamorising and normalising” extreme pornography.
The documentary also includes footage of Tia Billinger, whose stage name is Bonnie Blue, in a classroom preparing to film an orgy with a group of models dressed in school uniform; the performers acknowledge that they have been selected because they look very young.
Baroness Bertin said she planned to lodge amendments to the crime and policing bill in the autumn to make it illegal for online platforms to host any content that could encourage child sexual abuse, including pornography filmed by adults dressed as children.
“This content is pushing at the boundaries. We will be trying to address the ‘barely legal’ aspect legislatively,” she said.
The Online Safety Act charged the regulator Ofcom with monitoring whether pornography sites are protecting UK viewers from encountering illegal material involving child sexual abuse and extreme content, such as portrayals of rape, bestiality and necrophilia. However, other forms of harmful pornography that are regulated offline (in cinemas, for example) are not subject to similar restrictions online. This regulatory anomaly means adults role-playing as children to create pornography that appears close to child sexual abuse imagery is not prohibited online.
The Channel 4 documentary only showed preparations for the classroom scene rather than the footage itself. Clips showing Bonnie Blue having sex with over 1,000 men were pixellated, but the programme has still been widely criticised for promoting her brand and for failing to challenge adequately her assertion that her activity is harmless.
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Bertin said the documentary would be on the agenda at the taskforce’s next meeting. “She has become extremely successful; she is an adult and it is consensual, so it may not be harming her, but it has potentially harmful effects on people who think that this is a normal way to behave,” she said. “We should be asking more about the men who arrive with balaclavas on their head to have sex with her.”
De Souza said: “For years we have been fighting to protect our children from the kind of degrading, violent sex that exists freely on their social media feeds. Now this documentary risks taking us a step back by glamorising, even normalising the things young people tell me are frightening. Bonnie Blue’s content showcases violence against women as entertainment and allows sexist ideas that women are ‘lesser’ than men to go unchecked.”
Visa’s advertisements were placed by a third-party agency, but the company requested that they be removed from online streaming of the Channel 4 documentary after staff viewed it and judged that the content did not align with its internal guidelines. Staff at the drinks company Diageo are assessing how a Smirnoff advertisement was cleared to appear during online transmission of the show, and have also subsequently pulled their advertising from streaming of the programme.
An Ofcom spokesperson said the regulator was assessing the documentary and would decide whether to launch a formal investigation.
The policing minister, Diana Johnson, said last week that she would discuss the ease with which children could access the documentary on Channel 4’s website with ministerial colleagues. Channel 4 requires users to be 16 to register an account, but there is no age-verification process, so children could theoretically lie about their age.
A Channel 4 spokesperson said the observational film was designed to provoke debate. “The film looks at how Bonnie Blue has gained worldwide attention and earned millions of pounds in the last year, exploring changing attitudes to sex, success, porn and feminism in an ever-evolving online world. Director Victoria Silver puts a number of challenges to Bonnie throughout the documentary on the example she sets and how she is perceived, and the film clearly lays bare the tactics and strategies she uses, with the audience purposefully left to form their own opinions.”
This summer, it’s all about the scarf. Scratch that: scarves. More scarves, the better! Just ask Anya Taylor-Joy.
According to the most stylish celebrities, the breakout trend of the season has revolved around decking yourself out in multiple silk foulards; stars have creatively wrapped themselves in a variety of eye-catching styles, be it as a skirt, or an Old Hollywood-style headscarf. You get bonus points if said scarf is in an elegant floral print or graphic pattern too, injecting your look with instant pizazz. Or, if you are Taylor-Joy, you get extra bonus points for pulling off wearing three scarves at once.
This weekend, the actor was spotted in Budapest attending the Hungarian Grand Prix, and she proved herself a fan of the scarf dressing trend already enjoyed by Kylie Jenner and Alexa Chung—by piling on the accessory in three ways in one idyllic summer outfit.
First, she tied a striped green scarf around her head, further leaning into the retro-chic vibe with a pair of black Dior cat eye sunglasses. (As expected of a house ambassador). Then, around her shoulders, she sported a butter yellow pashmina worn like a shawl, styling it with more minimal pieces like a white tank, cropped bermuda shorts, and chic Mary Jane flats.
The Home and Away actor Lynne McGranger has won the Gold Logie award for most popular personality on Australian television as she ends her record 32-year run playing the much-loved matriarch Irene Roberts.
McGranger is the longest-serving female actor in any Australian drama, having played Irene for nearly 33 years. She announced her departure in February and her final episode will air mid-August.
“I am thrilled and honoured. This is going to be pride of place next to my 1974 Wagga Wagga drama festival best actress,” she said on Sunday night, to laughter.
She thanked Home and Away’s writers and crew, saying: “Yeah, it is a soap. But it gives Australian actors and crew so much work. And we are so proud of it. Thirty-eight years the bloody thing has been going for, it just won’t die.”
The 72-year-old paid tribute to her almost all-female competition – Muster Dogs host Lisa Millar, A Current Affair’s Ally Langdon, The Voice host Sonia Kruger, I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! host Julia Morris and MasterChef Australia judge Poh Ling Yeow and Lego Masters host Hamish Blake – as “beautiful, fierce women of all ages. And I am the oldest!”
As the only male nominee, two-time winner Blake had actively campaigned against himself this year, joking to the media: “It would not be a great look if I won, so figure out your favourite lady, and get right behind her.”
McGranger also won best lead actress in a drama for her performance in Home and Away, seeing off competition from Apple Cider Vinegar actor Kaitlyn Dever and Territory star Anna Torv.
(L-R) Fisk’s Vincent Sheehan, Tom Peterson, Kitty Flanagan, Julia Zemiro and Glenn Butcher. The ABC comedy won five Logies this year. Photograph: Hanna Lassen/Getty Images for TV WEEK Logies Awards
The ABC comedy Fisk was the big winner on Sunday, taking home best scripted comedy, best lead actress in a comedy for Kitty Flanagan for the second year in a row, best lead actor in a comedy for Aaron Chen, best supporting actress for Julia Zemiro and best supporting actor for Glenn Butcher.
Flanagan thanked both ABC and Netflix “for the viewing bump” and said she was particularly pleased that families watched Fisk, a comedy set in a suburban law firm.
“It makes me so happy to know we accidentally made a family show,” she said. “We didn’t mean to … the fact they appreciate a middle-aged lady in a baggy suit who mumbles, I have hope for the future.”
The ABC had a strong night overall, with detective show Return to Paradise winning best drama, Australian Story winning best current affairs, Muster Dogs: Collies & Kelpies winning best structured reality program, Four Corners’ Betrayal of Trust winning best news coverage or public affairs report, and Bluey winning the children’s program category for a record fourth time.
Guy Montgomery, the host of Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont Spelling Bee on ABC, also won the Graham Kennedy award for most popular new talent. The New Zealander gave a bullish speech, telling Australia: “Suck it, we have one up on your country this time!”
A recorded speech from actor Magda Szubanski plays as she is inducted into the Logies Hall of Fame. She was unable to attend due to her recent cancer diagnosis. Photograph: James Gourley/Getty Images for TV Week Logie Awards
The actor and comedian Magda Szubanski was inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame months after she revealed she had been diagnosed with cancer, with the likes of film-maker George Miller, Kath and Kim’s Gina Riley, Richard E Grant and the politician Penny Wong all paying tribute. The US comedy actor Melissa McCarthy called her “one of the funniest humans, one of the smartest humans”.
Szubanski was unable to attend the ceremony, but gave an emotional pre-taped speech. “Let’s just get this out of the way – I am not being awarded this honour because I have got the cancer. I am getting this because of 40 years of hard work – lobbying, bribing, threatening, whatever it took,” she joked. “Finally it has all paid off.”
She thanked the public for their messages of support. “The love and support I have felt, like a tsunami, from the Australian public has been overwhelming and I have to tell you, it really helps … when I go online and I look at those messages, every time my heart lifts and I feel that much stronger to deal with the cancer.”
Streaming platforms dominated the best drama nominees, but failed to win on the night. Netflix won just one award: best miniseries for Apple Cider Vinegar, its drama about the Australian fraudster Belle Gibson.
Though Apple Cider Vinegar and Netflix’s Territory dominated the drama categories, neither won. Instead, Fisk won the supporting categories, McGranger won best lead actress, and Sam Neill won best lead actor for his role in season two of The Twelve.
The former tennis player turned commentator Jelena Dokic gave an emotional speech while accepting the Logie for her documentary Unbreakable: The Jelena Dokic Story, about surviving the physical and mental abuse dealt by her father, who was also once her coach.
“To every kid and person out there, I will say, to every single girl and woman out there, never allow anyone to take your worth or happiness or smile away. Believe in your goals and dreams,” she said.
The Logies have historically been an unusual awards event, with a mix of popularly voted awards – which celebrities have always actively campaigned to win – and peer-voted awards. The system has been overhauled so that the “best” categories – formerly called “most outstanding” – are determined by a combined score, 50% of which is peer assessment and audience data supplied by the broadcasters and 50% of which is by popular vote.
The Gold Logie, the Bert Newton award for most popular presenter, the Graham Kennedyaward for most popular new talent and the new Ray Martin award for most popular news or public affairs reporter, remain determined entirely by popular vote.
Logie awards 2025: the full list of winners
Gold Logie for most popular personality: Lynne McGranger, Home and Away, Seven Network
Bert Newton award for most popular presenter: Todd Woodbridge, Nine Network
Graham Kennedy award for most popular new talent: Guy Montgomery, ABC
Ray Martin award for most popular news or public affairs presenter: Ally Langdon, A Current Affair, Nine Network
Best lead actor in a drama: Sam Neill, The Twelve, Binge/Foxtel
Best lead actress in a drama: Lynne McGranger, Home and Away, Seven Network
Best lead actor in a comedy: Aaron Chen, Fisk, ABC
Best lead actress in a comedy: Kitty Flanagan, Fisk, ABC
Best supporting actor: Glenn Butcher, Fisk, ABC
Best supporting actress: Julia Zemiro, Fisk, ABC
Best drama program: Return to Paradise, ABC
Best miniseries or telemovie: Apple Cider Vinegar, Netflix
Best entertainment program: The Voice, Seven Network
Best scripted comedy program: Fisk, ABC
Best current affairs program: Australian Story, ABC
Best comedy entertainment program: Have You Been Paying Attention?, Network 10
Best competition reality program: Lego Masters Australia, Nine Network
Best structured reality program: Muster Dogs: Collies & Kelpies, ABC
Best lifestyle program: Travel Guides, Nine Network
Best news coverage or public affairs report: Betrayal of Trust, Four Corners, ABC
Best factual or documentary program: Unbreakable: The Jelena Dokic Story, Nine Network
Best sports coverage: The Olympic Games Paris 2024, Nine Network
He might be known for singing “Positively 4th Street,” but Bob Dylan once lived in a five-story Gilded Age townhouse more than a hundred blocks north, on West 139th Street in Harlem.
Designed by lauded architecture firm McKim, Mead & White in 1891, the five-bedroom residence served as a New York home base for the legendary singer-songwriter from 1986 to 2000, when he sold to the previous owners. The 4,500 square-foot dwelling changed hands again in 2018 and has undergone several upgrades since then, including a new heating and cooling system, radiant-heat bathroom floors, soundproofed windows, and a rebuilt terrace. The property is once again hitting the market, this time for $3 million, per the Wall Street Journal.
Allyson Lubow for Sotheby’s International Realty
The living room of Bob Dylan’s former Harlem townhome.
Located in the St. Nicholas Historic District, the brick and terra-cotta dwelling is one of 32 landmarked homes all crafted in a similar style by McKim, Mead & White from the 1890s. Period details that have been preserved include hardwood floors, Palladian windows, pocket doors, architectural millwork, and decorative fireplace surrounds. The prewar layout has also largely been retained, with dual staircases and a parlor floor containing formal living and dining areas. Additionally, the eat-in kitchen is equipped with an island, butler’s pantry, and Victorian cast-iron oven by Richardson & Boynton Company.
Allyson Lubow for Sotheby’s International Realty
The facade of Bob Dylan’s former townhouse mixes brick, brownstone, and terra-cotta.
On the third floor, a pair of “co-primary” bedrooms are linked via a renovated bath with Waterworks fixtures and a walk-in shower. Notably, the home also comes with two private parking spots, one of which is secured with a garage door.
Allyson Lubow for Sotheby’s International Realty
The front parlor features preserved millwork and parquet flooring.
This is the second listing linked to Dylan to hit the market recently. Just last month, the Greenwich Village walk-up building where he lived in the 1960s listed for $8.25 million. The famously reclusive star rented a one-bedroom on the third floor for $60 a month, he revealed in his 2004 memoir, Chronicles: Volume One.
Allyson Lubow for Sotheby’s International Realty
One of the co-primary bedrooms on the third floor comes with a fireplace.
The Harlem townhouse is listed with Colin Montgomery and Stan Ponte of Sotheby’s International Realty—East Side Manhattan Brokerage.
Geoffrey Montes is an associate editor at ELLE Decor with a serious love for all things real estate and design. Before that, he worked at Architectural Digest, Galerie, and Preservation magazines, covering everything from jaw-dropping listings to world-famous architects and design events like Salone del Mobile and Homo Faber.
The Lindsay Lohan “Lohannassaince” is in full swing as the beloved actor once again returns to the big screen. While she’s busy promoting Freakier Friday — the sequel to Freaky Friday — Lohan opened up about why she didn’t act for many years, stepping out of the spotlight.
In a recent interview with The Sunday Times, Lohan spoke about her decision not to act for nine years between 2013 and 2022, after being a staple in tween and young adult movies in the late 90s and early 2000s.
“I wanted to take a minute,” Lohan told the Times. “I was losing that feeling of excitement about doing a film, and I wanted to live my own life for a bit, figure out how to have a more private life, a real life. I wanted to wait to get that itch again.”
Lohan surprised fans in 2022 when she returned to acting for Netflix’s Falling for Christmas — a rom-com that’s akin to those made popular on Lifetime and Hallmark. Lohan looked happier than she had in the later years she was in the spotlight, shrouded with controversy and legal troubles. This dubbed her new era as the “Lohannassaince,” and with her return for Freakier Friday, fans want to see more of her.
Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis attend the UK Premiere of “Freakier Friday” at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on July 31, 2025, in London, England.
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But the issues she experienced with paparazzi and harsh criticism — much like other superstars of the time, including Britney Spears — Lohan says she still has “PTSD to the extreme” from those days.
“I don’t ever want my family to experience being chased by the paparazzi the way I was. They were terrifying moments I had in my life,” she continued. “The most invasive situations. Really scary. And I pray stuff like that never comes back. It’s not safe. It’s not fair.”
In Freakier Friday, the 39-year-old Lohan is playing a mother for the first time in her career to actor Sophia Hammons’ character Lily, who plays her stepdaughter. Much like the original story, there is a body-swap conflict between the two.
While Lohan has become known for this genre of film (Parent Trap, Mean Girls, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen), she also says she felt pigeonholed for much of her career. She references the 2006 film A Prairie Home Companion, which she acted in alongside Meryl Streep, saying that “even today I have to fight for stuff that is like that, which is frustrating.”
“Because, well, you know me as this — but you also know I can do that. So let me! Give me the chance,” Lohan continued. “I have to break that cycle and open doors to something else, leaving people no choice. And in due time, if Martin Scorsese reaches out, I’m not going to say no.”
Now that Lindsay Lohan is back in the spotlight, the Times interviewer asked her what advice she would give to her teenage self.
“I would say, ‘Slow down.’ Everybody back then was, ‘Go! Go! Go!” she said. “I wish somebody could have been behind me, saying, ‘You’re all right. You can slow down, kid.’
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Marvel’s First Family might not save the day after all. “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” is quickly losing steam in its second weekend, signaling the comic book adventure isn’t connecting at the box office beyond the film’s core demographic of superhero fans.
After a healthy $117.6 million debut, “The Fantastic Four” suffered a hefty 66% drop in its sophomore outing with $40 million from 4,125 theaters. Heading into the weekend, box office analysts anticipated a decline of 55% to 60% from its opening. This painful a fall is surprising because “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” has the benefit of positive reviews and word-of-mouth, as well as a clear runway in terms of competition.
Although those ticket sales were enough to rank as No. 1 on North American charts, “The First Steps” endured one of the steeper second-weekend drops for Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe, in the company of February’s “Captain America: Brave New World” (down 68%), 2023’s “Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” (down 70%) and 2022’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” (down 67%). So far, “Fantastic Four” has generated $198 million domestically and $368 million globally. Luckily for Marvel, whose output has been wildly inconsistent in post-pandemic times, “The First Steps” is pacing to outgross this year’s prior theatrical disappointments of “Captain America: Brave New World” ($415 million globally) and “Thunderbolts” ($382 million globally).
Three new movies opened nationwide but none were competing for the same audience as “Fantastic Four.” Among new releases, Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s heist comedy “The Bad Guys 2” enjoyed the strongest start with $22.8 million from 3,852 venues. That’s directly even with the first film, which opened to $23 million in 2022 at a time when cinemas were majorly struggling to recover from COVID and studios were barely releasing any movies. The original film eventually powered to $250 million worldwide. “The Bad Guys 2,” which cost $80 million and follows a group of reformed criminals who relapse for one final con job, was embraced by audiences with an “A” grade on CinemaScore exit polls.
“This is a good opening for an animation sequel,” says analyst David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research. “With this kind of business, the movie is doing what it’s supposed to do.”
At No. 3, Paramount’s slapstick comedy “The Naked Gun” debuted to $17 million from 3,344 theaters, squarely in line with projections. It’s a promising start given the dearth of theatrical comedies. Critics and moviegoers dug the film, in which Liam Neeson stars as bumbling L.A. detective Frank Drebin Jr. (son of the late Leslie Nielsen’s Frank Drebin, his predecessor in the “Naked Gun” trilogy) alongside Pamela Anderson and Paul Walter Hauser. “The Naked Gun” scored an “A-” grade on CinemaScore and boasts a 90% average on Rotten Tomatoes, both of which should bode well for the remainder of its theatrical run. Akiva Schaffer of the Lonely Island fame directed the film, which carries a $42 million price tag.
This weekend’s final newcomer, Neon’s body-horror nightmare “Together” landed in sixth place with $6.8 million over the traditional weekend and an encouraging $10.8 million during its first five days of release. Real-life husband and wife Dave Franco and Alison Brie star in “Together” as a co-dependent couple who become frightningly close after a mysterious force causes horrific body changes. Audiences gave the film a “C+” on CinemaScore, though that harsh a grade isn’t surprising since they likely left the theater feeling very disturbed. In fact, Neon has been leaning into the on-screen trauma to promote the movie, offering free couple’s therapy for partners who see “Together” during opening weekend. Neon shelled out $17 million to buy the movie at Sundance, marking one of the richest deals in the festival’s history.
Elsewhere at the box office, “Superman” descended to fourth place with $13.9 million in its fourth weekend of release. The Warner Bros. and DC Studios adaptation has generated $316.2 million domestically and $551.2 million globally to date.
Universal’s “Jurassic World Rebirth” rounded out the top five with $8.4 million in its fifth weekend of release. The dinosaur epic, which rebooted the long-running property with Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali, has grossed $317 million in North America and $766 million globally.
Prince Harry has denied that he gave Prince Andrew “a bloody nose” during a fight at a family gathering in 2013.
According to an excerpt from a new biography of the disgraced Duke of York, published in the Daily Mail on Saturday, the pair had a heated argument that escalated into a physical altercation. “Punches were thrown over something Andrew said behind Harry’s back”, the author Andrew Lownie claimed.
The alleged fight began when “Harry told [his uncle] he was a coward not to say it to his face. Harry got the better of Andrew by all accounts, leaving him with a bloody nose before the fight was broken up.”
Lownie’s biography, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, also claimed that Andrew told his nephew marrying Meghan Markle, now the Duchess of Sussex, would “not last more than a month”.
He allegedly “accused Meghan of being an opportunist and thought she was too old for Harry, adding that his nephew was making the biggest mistake ever,” and told his nephew he had gone “bonkers”, accusing him of not doing “any due diligence into her past” before they got engaged in 2017.
Prince Andrew has kept a low profile since he was stripped of his royal and military titles in 2021. Photograph: Chris Radburn/Reuters
Late on Saturday, a spokesperson for Harry and Meghan said: “I can confirm Prince Harry and Prince Andrew have never had a physical fight, nor did Prince Andrew ever make the comments he is alleged to have made about the Duchess of Sussex to Prince Harry.”
The duke and duchess have also sent a legal letter to the Daily Mail over the publication of what their spokesperson described as “gross inaccuracies, damaging and defamatory remarks”.
The Guardian has approached Buckingham Palace and representatives for the Duke of York for comment.
Prince Andrew fell from grace after a disastrous Newsnight interview in 2019 about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, the late American financier and convicted sex offender. The duke was stripped of his royal and military titles in 2021.
The book claims that Harry and his brother William had “problematic” relationships with Andrew for years, and that Andrew was also rude about William’s wife Catherine, the Princess of Wales.
King Charles has allowed his younger brother to stay in the Royal Lodge, a 30-room mansion in Windsor Great Park owned by the crown estate. However, last year the king ended Andrew’s allowance, estimated at £1m annually, raising questions about future arrangements.
The source quoted in Lownie’s biography claims that the Prince of Wales is keen to “evict” the duke and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, who lives with Andrew though the couple divorced in 1996.
According to Entitled’s source: “[William] also loathes Sarah … and can’t wait for the day when his father throws them both out. If Charles doesn’t, I guarantee you the first thing William does when he becomes king is to get them evicted.”
Harry broke ties with his family citing the “toxicity” of royal life and alleged racism towards his wife, moving with his young family to Canada and then the US in 2020. In 2022, he published a memoir, Spare, in which he detailed strains in his relationships with his father and brother.
Earlier this year, he told the BBC he had “forgiven” his family and would “love a reconciliation”.
