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Time of India
39 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
'She was being used for clout': Taylor Swift is shocked by Blake Lively drama amid Florida getaway with Travis Kelce
is living her dream life in Florida with her boyfriend, , but the billionaire pop star's name continues to be associated with the infamous legal drama between her ex best friend, and actor . Tired of too many ads? go ad free now While the court has now given permission to access Blake Lively's private texts with Taylor Swift, things are pretty disturbed between the two stars. Taylor Swift's feelings about Blake Lively are pretty clear as she lives her life with Travis Kelce Recently, according to Page Six, a source revealed that, 'She (Taylor Swift) will forever be furious at how Blake quite clearly was using her for clout and leverage in her dealings with Justin.' The source added, 'She really hates that Blake would even think like that, let alone write the things she did in that text,' For the unversed, when Justin Baldoni filed a $400 million lawsuit against Blake Lively and her husband, Hollywood actor, Ryan Baldoni, he had also leaked some of his texts with Lively, to prove his innocence. In some of those leaked texts, it was apparent that Blake Lively had used her then best friend, Taylor Swift's name to gain more leverage. In one of the texts that Blake Lively had sent to Justin Baldoni, she had called herself Game of Thrones' 'Khaleesi' and called Taylor Swift her 'dragon' along with Ryan Reynolds. While a lot has been said about Taylor Swift's friendship with Blake Lively, the popular billionaire pop star has maintained her silence and has not supported Lively in public. Travis Kelce has been spotted looking fitter on his date nights with Taylor Swift Taylor Swift is currently in Florida where she has been with Travis Kelce for a few weeks now as the NFL star preps for the upcoming season. As for Travis Kelce's relationship with Taylor Swift, according to the Daily Mail, a source has revealed that, 'Taylor and Travis are treating this relationship as their last relationship, and when they get engaged, when they get married and when they start a family, it will be exactly when it is meant to happen.' Taylor Swift has been focusing on being a supportive girlfriend to Travis Kelce after he recorded a pretty average score last season and ended up losing the championship. Also Read:
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Warner Bros. Discovery Restructures Games Division to Focus on ‘Harry Potter,' ‘Game of Thrones,' DC and ‘Mortal Kombat' IP
Warner Bros. Discovery is restructuring its games division to focus on four of its core IP's: Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, DC and Mortal Kombat. As part of the move, Warner Bros. Games Montréal studio head Yves Lachance, NetherRealm studio head Shaun Himmerick and Warner Bros. Games New York studio chief Steven Flenory have all been promoted to senior vice presidents. Lachance will oversee the development teams working on the 'Harry Potter' and 'Game of Thrones' games, Himmerick will oversee the teams working on 'Mortal Kombat' and DC games and Flenory will oversee the teams behind game and publishing technology, customer service, quality assurance and user research. The trio will report to WBD global streaming & games CEO JB Perrette. 'Our company is home to some of the biggest franchises in the world, and we are optimizing our team structure to develop long-term franchise roadmaps to delight players and fans of 'Harry Potter,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Mortal Kombat' and DC games,' Perrette said in a statement. 'We are very fortunate to have a strong stable of development and technology talent, and Yves, Shaun and Steven are respected leaders with excellent track records in their areas of expertise. I'm looking forward to working closely with them and the team as we work to make the best games possible for our key franchises.' The new leadership structure follows the departure of former games chief David Haddad in January. The restructuring comes after games revenue dropped 48% during WBD's first quarter of 2025 due to no new releases during the period, compared to the release of 'Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League' in the prior year period, as well as higher carryover from 'Hogwarts Legacy' and 'Mortal Kombat 1' in the prior year. It also comes as the David Zaslav-led media giant is gearing up for a split of its global linear networks and studios and streaming businesses in mid-2026. In addition to Warner Bros. Games, the studios and streaming business will house Warner Bros. Television Group, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, DC Studios, HBO and HBO Max, Warner Bros. Tours, Retail and Experiences, as well as studio production facilities in Burbank and Leavesden. Executives have said that the streaming business is on track to generate at least $1.3 billion in profit by the end of 2025 and reach at least 150 million streaming subscribers by the end of 2026, which it plans to achieve through a combination of expanding Max internationally, strategic distribution partnerships and driving higher penetration of its ad-supported tier. Meanwhile, the studios business is targeting at least $3 billion in annual profit, with a specific timeline for achieving that remaining unclear. Global Networks will include CNN, TNT Sports in the U.S., Discovery, top free-to-air channels across Europe, Discovery+ and Bleacher Report (B/R). It will retain a 20% stake in the studios and streaming business to help the company deleverage and is expected to take the majority of WBD's roughly $37 billion in gross debt. The post Warner Bros. Discovery Restructures Games Division to Focus on 'Harry Potter,' 'Game of Thrones,' DC and 'Mortal Kombat' IP appeared first on TheWrap.
USA Today
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Pedro Pascal lookalike winner looks more like Pedro Pascal than Pedro Pascal
Pedro Pascal lookalike winner looks more like Pedro Pascal than Pedro Pascal At first glance, it might appear like Pedro Pascal crashed his own lookalike contest in New York City over the weekend. Not that Pascal needed the $50 and year of free burritos that made up the grand prize or anything, but with Marvel's The Fantastic Four: First Steps set to hit theaters next month, it wouldn't have been surprising if Pedro was doing some fun promotion work. Nope. Not the case. The truth is the actual Pedro Pascal lookalike winner looked so much like Pedro Pascal that, well, we had to convince ourselves he is not, in fact, Pedro Pascal. The winner, Pedro No. 5, is better known as George Gountas. Entertainment Weekly notes Gountas does have some experience in the industry — he's serves as a lighting director for The Daily Show as well as providing the same services for stand-up specials featuring Trevor Noah, Ramy Youssef, Pete Davidson, and Chris Rock. But his uncanny resemblance to Pascal became pretty hard to ignore over the past few years. Per the New York Post: 'It started when the 'Game of Thrones' came out the first time — that's when we first heard it,' Gountas' wife, Jenny Gania, said of people noticing her hubby's likeness to the 50-year-old Chilean-born actor, who famously starred as bounty hunter Din Djarin in 'The Mandalorian.' 'Then some kids started noting it, too, so I was like, when we saw this [contest], I was like, 'It's Father's Day. You have to go. It's going to be your Father's Day treat,' ' Gania said she told her husband. 'It's funny, because he's not on social media at all. But now he's going to be everywhere." The competition featured 30 Pedros and was organized Son Del North chef and co-owner Annisha Garcia, who got the idea after Pascal infamously bashed New York's Mexican food scene during a 2023 appearance on Hot Ones. Obviously the only thing left to do is put the Timothée Chalamet, Glen Powell, Jeremy Allen White and Pedro Pascal doppelgängers in a movie and see what happens.
Time Out
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' review
This review is from 2019. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe returns for 2025 in a production based upon Sally Cookson's original that's redirected by Michael Fentiman, with set and costume design by Tom Paris. Katy Stephens stars as the White Witch. Kind of caught halfway between 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Wind in the Willows', it's fair to say that CS Lewis's 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' – with its well-spoken child heroes, twee talking animals and heavy Christian vibes – can be left looking a bit old-fashioned. Endlessly adapted long before the current era of sophisticated CGI-driven fantasy, has its time passed now that everything from 'His Dark Materials' to 'The Wheel of Time' is being adapted for the telly? Truthfully, the answer to that question probably lies with the fate of Netflix's imminent lavish adaptation. But for now, we have a very smart stage version from Sally Cookson, that balances the stiff-upper-lipped charms of the book with a real sense of the encroaching wildness – even madness – of the fantastical kingdom of Narnia. The opening section is jolly hockey sticks à gogo, with the audience cast as wartime child evacuees, spirited away from the Blitz on the same train as Lewis's young heroes the Pevensies. By the end, it's become something that feel rapturously wild, as Narnia awakes in a frenzy of colour and feeling from the century-long magical winter placed on it by Laura Elphinstone's sleekly malevolent White Witch. Yes, Lewis shoved loaded, fairly blatant Christian allegory into his story, chiefly in the death and resurrection of the noble lion Aslan. But it was never as straightforward as 'The Bible'-but-with-lions, and Cookson's take feels more indebted to ancient rites of death and rebirth that Christianity absorbed. Aslan, in particular, is out there, a glowing-eyed psychedelic monstrosity with blue wings that looks like a fusion of lion and dragon, with a human avatar in the form of musclebound, fur-clad Wil Johnson, who's more barbarian shaman than Christian priest. It if it's not as overly dark as many fantasy books, it's perhaps easiest to remember it for all the cute stuff at the beginning, as the youngest of the children, Lucy, steps through a wardrobe into snowbound Narnia and befriends the neurotic faun Mr Tumnus. It's harder, perhaps, to recollect that by the end a sort of strange incarnation of Father Christmas has given the kids real weapons and they have engaged in a bloody fight to the death with the White Witch's army of demons. Indebted more to childhood fantasies of pretend sword battles than grim psychological realism, the journey from youthful innocence to stabbing killer wolves in the face is a pretty full-on trajectory to realise on stage, and with the exception of John Leaders's uptight Edmund, the Pevensies here don't really make the impression that the lion or the witch do. But if a slight lack of psychological acuity is the trade-off for embracing the full-on weirdness of the book, it's worth it. Cookson and designer Rae Smith delight in the novel's eccentricities rather than fight them: their Narnia is a DIY-inflected nirvana where a very funny sight gag about talking animals communicating via cans on strings can sit next to Elphinstone being genuinely terrifying, swelling to enormous height as cackling fiends gather around her. Pretty much everything in the book is retained, and if the first half slightly struggles to find a coherent tone to process it all, in the second half it arrives at its destination – a wilderness of pure imagination, unshackled, ecstatic and pagan.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Pedro Pascal lookalike winner looks more like Pedro Pascal than Pedro Pascal
At first glance, it might appear like Pedro Pascal crashed his own lookalike contest in New York City over the weekend. Not that Pascal needed the $50 and year of free burritos that made up the grand prize or anything, but with Marvel's The Fantastic Four: First Steps set to hit theaters next month, it wouldn't have been surprising if Pedro was doing some fun promotion work. Nope. Not the case. The truth is the actual Pedro Pascal lookalike winner looked so much like Pedro Pascal that, well, we had to convince ourselves he is not, in fact, Pedro Pascal. The winner, Pedro No. 5, is better known as George Gountas. The winner of Pedro Pascal lookalike contest in New York City📹 jameskleinmann | instagram — Pedro Pascal Daily (@pascalarchive) June 15, 2025 Entertainment Weekly notes Gountas does have some experience in the industry — he's serves as a lighting director for The Daily Show as well as providing the same services for stand-up specials featuring Trevor Noah, Ramy Youssef, Pete Davidson, and Chris Rock. But his uncanny resemblance to Pascal became pretty hard to ignore over the past few years. Per the New York Post: 'It started when the 'Game of Thrones' came out the first time — that's when we first heard it,' Gountas' wife, Jenny Gania, said of people noticing her hubby's likeness to the 50-year-old Chilean-born actor, who famously starred as bounty hunter Din Djarin in 'The Mandalorian.' 'Then some kids started noting it, too, so I was like, when we saw this [contest], I was like, 'It's Father's Day. You have to go. It's going to be your Father's Day treat,' ' Gania said she told her husband. 'It's funny, because he's not on social media at all. But now he's going to be everywhere." The competition featured 30 Pedros and was organized Son Del North chef and co-owner Annisha Garcia, who got the idea after Pascal infamously bashed New York's Mexican food scene during a 2023 appearance on Hot Ones. Pedro Pascal says there's no good Mexican food in New York 🫢 — First We Feast (@firstwefeast) March 10, 2023 Obviously the only thing left to do is put the Timothée Chalamet, Glen Powell, Jeremy Allen White and Pedro Pascal doppelgängers in a movie and see what happens. This article originally appeared on For The Win: Pedro Pascal lookalike winner looks more like Pedro Pascal than Pedro Pascal
