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Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Are New Parents

-Congrats to Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra, who’ve welcomed a baby girl via surrogate.

–Adele posted a tearful video about cancelling her Vegas residency the day before she was set to start. “We’ve tried absolutely everything we that can to pull it together in time, and for it to be good enough for you, but we’ve been absolutely destroyed by delivery delays and COVID… half my team and half my crew are down with COVID they still are and it’s been impossible to finish the show.” It’s a heartbreaking video but god, I hope she figures out a way to make it up to the fans who’d already travelled to Vegas for this weekend’s show. She’s clearly there already so I wonder if she could host an event for any ticket holder who can prove they booked their hotel before she made the announcement or something?

-Another rough day in celebrity deaths. Singer Meat Loaf has died at aged 74, while comedian Louie Anderson has died at 68 following a battle with cancer.

-Covid keeps screwing up Tom Cruise‘s plans. Mission: Impossible 7 & 8 have both been delayed to 2023 and 2024, respectively.

–Jennifer Coolidge told Jimmy Fallon that Ariana Grande doing an impression of her on his show helped her career. The actress, who starred in Grande’s “Thank U Next” music video, shared, “You should know, it was sort of the beginning of a lot of cool things that happened for me. I was going through a dead zone, not much was going on. Then Ariana did this imitation on your show and you encouraged her. And then this ball got rolling.”

-Meanwhile, she’s returning to The White Lotus for season two, thank god.

-Supernatural fans, rejoice: a cast-heavy rewatch podcast series is coming.

–Cynthia Nixon responded to Chris Noth’s removal from the finale of HBO Max’s And Just Like That following allegations of sexual assault. “I think we were very lucky that those changes were able to be made. And I think we are very proud of our show.”

-Speaking of And Just Like That, Sarita Choudhury (who plays Carrie’s real estate agent Seema) says she was “shocked” by the flak the show got.

–Whoopi Goldberg is back in the trailer for Star Trek: Picard’s second season.

–Bill Paxton’s family can seek punitive damages against Cedars-Sinai in a wrongful death suit. The late actor’s family claims the hospital and his doctor covered up their negligence by not performing an autopsy and they didn’t learn one hadn’t been done until after the actor had been cremated.

-Um, should I be watching Peacemaker? ‘Cause this clip of Adrian Chase/Vigilante is amazing (and not cause it stars the cute guy from Bridgerton and UnREAL).

-Sony has yet to secure a date for Spider-Man: No Way Home in China, but the country will allow Woody Allen’s recent romcom a release.

–Will Forte returns to his SNL roots in the promos for this weekend’s show.

–Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial debut, When You Finish Saving the World starring Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard, is getting good reviews out of Sundance.

-Apple TV’s “Everyone but Jon Hamm” commercial is cute.

–Sam Claflin plays a stodgy author whose book becomes a bestseller in Mexico when the translator (Verónica Echegui) rewrites it in Amazon’s Book of Love, which debuts Feb 4.

–Bruce Willis, Luke Wilson and Devon Sawa star in the trailer for Gasoline Alley.

Tom Cruise Thinks Tenet’s Worth Dying For

–Tom Cruise posted a video about going to see Tenet in a crowded theatre and saying “Welcome back to the movies everybody.” I know this was shot in London, but this still feels wildly irresponsible. It doesn’t help that he’s wearing a vented mask.

-I agree with this take on how Christopher Nolan has handled this whole thing has really soured my view of him.

-Some major film publications are refusing to review The New Mutants because Disney did not make screening links available or offer socially-distanced press screenings to film critics.

-In a new interview Jon Hamm says he’s already seen a cut of Top Gun: Maverick and gives it two thumbs up: “It just has that amazing Tom Cruise, tentpole blockbuster, summertime thing. It’s so good. Obviously, Tom knocks it out of the park and all the young kids are great in it. It’s the movie equivalent of a fist pump. You’re just like, ‘Yes!’ It’s exactly what it’s meant to be.”

–Meghan Markle and Gloria Steinem sat down to record a backyard chat to talk about representation, women’s rights, and voting. In the preview video, their dogs make a surprise appearance.

-I loved Fringe and am seriously considering a quarantine rewatch, but actress Jasika Nicole is right about how terrible the show’s running joke about mispronouncing her character’s name was. She also tweeted that at the beginning, she wasn’t given rides to work despite all the regular cast members getting it, and that one director refused to learn her name. “It was so bad that josh [Jackson] found a name tag, wrote the phonetic spelling of my name on it, and put it on his shirt, knowing the director would pay attention to HIM, might show me some respect that way. josh was trying to use his power/clout for good. Still didn’t work tho.”

–Jennifer Garner posted a cute video making fun of herself for crying over the finale of The Office.

-Great interview with 51 comedians on the jokes they’d like to steal if they could get away with it.

–Soleil Moon Frye pieced together hundreds of hours of footage she shot in the ’90s while growing up in Hollywood and cut it into a documentary that Hulu just picked up called KID 90. Look at these photos of her with baby Leonardo DiCaprio, Jared Leto, Tobey Maguire and Cuba Gooding Jr!

–Jake Johnson reading thirst tweets about himself is a good time.

-This is a good review of Lovecraft Country.  I was blown away by last week’s premiere, but the follow up episode was surprisingly shaky.

-Here’s Brendan Gleeson as Trump in the trailer for HBO’s limited series The Comey Rule.

–Natalia Dyer says she feels protective of her younger Stranger Things costars: “I generally feel like, to me, it’s oversexualizing them. I feel protective over the younger kids even though they’re not kids anymore, they’re teens. They’re all great people and all having to grow up in very crazy circumstances.”

-In the first Enola Holmes trailer, Millie Bobby Brown is on the case. Henry Cavill, Sam Claflin, and Helena Bonham-Carter costar in the upcoming Netflix film. This is a *very* good trailer!

–Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan fall in love in the trailer for Ammonite. It will premiere at TIFF — which, thanks to the fact that the festival will be mostly digital this year, anyone in Canada can get tickets to! Digital screenings are $19 each and you get the movie for 24 hours. Tickets go onsale to the general public on Sept 5.

Our First Look At Catching Fire’s Finnick

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Sam Claflin in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lionsgate)

-With the exception of that sideways shot released a while ago, we haven’t gotten a good eyeful of the guy who’s playing Finnick in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. But now Lionsgate has released a better photo of him…and it’s not bad. He’s no Jesse Williams, but he’ll do.

–Jennifer Lawrence spent a portion of Comic Con’s Catching Fire panel talking about snot messing up her kissing scenes with Josh Hutcherson, so that’s pretty boss.

-In other Comic Con news, the always awesome Bryan Cranston wore a Walter White mask and wandered around chatting with fans, who had no idea he was the real deal.

–This is the best photo that’s ever come out of Comic Con. Anyone else kind of feel like this sums up Tom Cruise‘s entire life these days?

-Also at Comic Con, Zoe Saldana tried to make a denim jumpsuit work, failed miserably.

–Dan Harmon talked about Donald Glover leaving Community by saying “We’re gonna make eye contact with the tragedy that is his departure, and we’re gonna turn it into a story and we’re gonna feel the feels and laugh the laughs and deal with it.”

–Kate Middleton just had a baby boy. Twitter is overheating as we speak.

-I’ve got mixed feelings about this: THR is reporting that Cory Monteith‘s final film will debut at TIFF.

-Meanwhile, Glee creator Ryan Murphy gave a few interviews over the weekend on the fate of Monteith’s character Finn, saying “The right thing to do…is to have that character pass.”

-This might be the thinnest I’ve ever seen Colin Firth. I don’t like it.

–O.J. Simpson wants to team up with Charlie Sheen? No no no no no no no no no no!

–Florence Welch showed up at a random cover band’s party, got drunk, and sang “Get Lucky.” Turns out she doesn’t know all the words either.

–Helen Mirren doesn’t have a daughter, but if she did she’d give her the most awesome advice ever.

–Miley Cyrus thinks it’s adorabs that people refuse to believe she’s singing about ecstasy in “We Can’t Stop.”

–Lindsay Lohan‘s mother has been banned from participating in her rehab treatment after a drunken phone call a few weeks ago. Sounds about right.

-Friends are reportedly worried that Emma Roberts is following in Lindsay’s footsteps.

-Hugs from Beyonce should carry medical warnings. One fan fainted following her warm mid-concert embrace.

-In case you missed it, Full House‘s Jesse and the Rippers reunited on Fallon Friday night. Lori Loughlin showed up at the end for a smooch, because those two just can’t stop trolling us.

-A new trailer for The Walking Dead‘s season four has landed. Wait, is that D’Angelo from The Wire?! Just when I think I’m out, they pull me back in…