Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Bradley Cooper and more party at Taylor Swift’s Rhode Island getaway
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a star-studded gathering at Taylor Swift‘s place in Rhode Island, but the tradition returned over the weekend, according to multiple reports.
Back from the European leg of the Eras Tour, Taylor reunited with her boyfriend Travis Kelce and a bunch of pals at her Rhode Island mansion — the historic home that inspired her song “The Last Great American Dynasty.”
People,TMZ and The Daily Mail reported that Travis and Taylor were joined byBlake Lively and Ryan Reynolds; Travis’ brother Jason and his wife Kylie; Bradley Cooperand his daughter Lea, 7; and Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, his wife Brittany and their daughter Sterling, 3.
The last time Taylor and Travis had been seen together prior to the gathering was when Travis went to Taylor’s shows in Germany on July 13 and 14.
Netflix has debuted a teaser to Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, producer Ryan Murphy‘s follow-up to his Emmy-winning DAHMERMonster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
The tease starts with a simple title card to set up the story, as a car pulls up to a mansion: “On August 20, 1989, Lyle and Erik Menendez murdered their parents.”
The title characters are shown from behind striding toward the home, then entering it, with one of them holding a shotgun. As it fades, there’s the sound of a rifle being racked and a pair of gunshots.
The tease also revealed the premiere date: Sept. 19.
Newcomers Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch portray Lyle and Erik Menendez; their parents, unseen in the teaser, are portrayed by Javier Bardem (Jose) and Chloë Sevigny (Kitty).
Nathan Lane also stars as investigative journalist Dominick Dunne, who covered the trials for Vanity Fair.
In real life, the brothers were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
DAHMER reached 1 billion view hours in its first 60 days on Netflix, making it only one of four series to achieve the milestone. The series went on to earn multiple awards, including a Best Actor trophy for lead Evan Peters and a Best Supporting Actress Emmy for Niecy Nash-Betts.
Marvel Studios just debuted a video to commemorate the 85th birthday of Marvel Comics, honoring the creatives and their characters upon which the Marvel Cinematic Universe was built.
The video features interview snippets with the late Stan Lee, long the public face of the company, as well as Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige, Angela Bassett — the first performer to be nominated for an Academy Award for a Marvel movie — and more.
There are also clips of now-classic Marvel movies like 2008’s Iron Man, 2012’s The Avengers and 2016’s Black Panther, plus sneak peeks of forthcoming films like Captain America: Brave New World, the team-up Thunderbolts, and Disney+ shows Daredevil: Reborn and the Wakanda Forever spin-off series Ironheart.
The comics label began in 1939 as Timely Comics, but was rebranded Marvel Comics in June 1961. Shortly thereafter, it created characters that became classics.
“I often look back at the 1960s and the famous Marvel Bullpen with Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko creating Spider-Man, The Avengers, The X-Men and The Fantastic Four,” Feige says. “‘The House of Ideas’ — it’s called that for a reason.”
The end of the clip features Sebastian Stan, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell and Hannah John-Kamen suited up in a scene from 2025’s Thunderbolts, plus the longest peek yet of Harrison Ford‘s President Thaddeus Ross transforming into his alter ego Red Hulk from Anthony Mackie‘s first movie as Captain America, which debuts in February 2025.
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For Brian Jordan Alvarez, creator and star of FX’s latest comedy series, English Teacher, it all goes back to high school. Specifically, it can all be traced back to a certain English teacher who changed his life.
“I went to a very English-forward high school called St. Andrew’s-Sewanee in Tennessee for three years of my high school experience,” Alvarez told ABC Audio at the Disney Upfront event in May. “I had [a teacher] named Claire Reishman in high school, and she really taught me to write in a really meaningful way. I always think back on that.”
In the new sitcom Alvarez plays Evan, a teacher at the center of many different competing energies.
“The parents, the students, the administration. Everybody wants something different,” Alvarez said. “Everybody has a different definition of what’s right.”
Alvarez said he owes “it all to my high school English teacher.”
“Now I’m out here playing a high school English teacher,” Alvarez said. “I always think when I’m writing, I go, ‘Maybe that’s where I learned how to write,’ because I didn’t formally study screenwriting or anything.”
While Alvarez couldn’t disclose if his viral character TJ Mack will make an appearance on English Teacher, he did tease it happening in the future. “We can only hope. Well, maybe the energy of TJ Mack will infuse English Teacher. Maybe we can get a TJ Mack cameo in season 2, season 3,” Alvarez said.
And he couldn’t let the interview go without sneaking in a Lady Gaga reference.
“There could be a hundred people in a room and all of them would be watching English Teacher,” Alvarez said.
English Teacher premieres Sept. 2, on FX. You can also stream it on Hulu and Disney+.