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Scottish Sun
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Nepo baby with very famous rock star dad spotted in New York – can you guess his musician dad?
The youngster is the spitting image of this legendary rocker GIVE IT AWAY Nepo baby with very famous rock star dad spotted in New York – can you guess his musician dad? Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) NEW York City proved to be the perfect place for a father-son day out for this rocker and his teenager. While the musician is best known for his long-association with California, the 62-year-old traded the West Coast for East for a day in the son with his 17-year-old boy. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 4 Everly Bear Kiedis was seen spending time with his dad in New York Credit: Splash 4 Kiedis is the frontman of Red Hot Chili Peppers Credit: Getty - Contributor Anthony Kiedis, front man for iconic band Red Hot Chili Peppers, spent the day in Washington Square Park catching up with his model-in-the-making son, Everly Bear Kiedis. The 17-year-old looked just like his dear old dad, with both wearing black jeans and white shirts. While Anthony wore a red and white trucker cap on his head, Everly was seen beaming as he they sat in the park and caught up. Born in October 2007 to Kiedis and model Heather Christie, Everly is the Californication singer's only child. READ MORE NEPO BABIES FAMILY TIES Sabrina Carpenter fans only just realising she's a secret nepo-baby The singer said in 2014 "being a father is the coolest trip I've ever taken" during an interview with Louder Sound. Kiedis has been open about his past drug addiction from a young age, and was raised in Hollywood alongside his father Blackie Dammett, born John Kiedis. Blackie, who played a drug dealer in Lethal Weapon, would later admit in BBC1 documentary ONE life: Help! My Kid's a Rock Star that he introduced his son to sex and drugs from a young age. "It wasn't so unusual that I let him take a little bit of acid, or a little bit of marijuana," he said in the doc. Kiedis would later develop a crippling heroin addiction, which in itself became an inspiration for songs including Under The Bridge. Performing with the Chili Peppers since 1982, Kiedis credits being a dad to Everly for "teaching him patience" and keeping him clean. Sober since 2000, Anthony previously said: 'As every heroin addict will know, temptation is always there. But becoming a father has given me a reason to live and stay clean for good.' By 2015, Everly followed in his mom and dad's footsteps, becoming the face of a Marc Jacobs campaign alongside Kiedis. 4 The pair spent an afternoon at Washington Square Park Credit: Splash
The Irish Sun
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Nepo baby with very famous rock star dad spotted in New York – can you guess his musician dad?
NEW York City proved to be the perfect place for a father-son day out for this rocker and his teenager. While the musician is best known for his long-association with California, the 62-year-old traded the West Coast for East for a day in the son with his 17-year-old boy. 4 Everly Bear Kiedis was seen spending time with his dad in New York Credit: Splash 4 Kiedis is the frontman of Red Hot Chili Peppers Credit: Getty - Contributor Anthony Kiedis, front man for iconic band Red Hot Chili Peppers, spent the day in Washington Square Park catching up with his model-in-the-making son, Everly Bear Kiedis. The 17-year-old looked just like his dear old dad, with both wearing black jeans and white shirts. While Anthony wore a red and white trucker cap on his head, Everly was seen beaming as he they sat in the park and caught up. Born in October 2007 to Kiedis and model Heather Christie, Everly is the Californication singer's only child. The singer said in 2014 "being a father is the coolest trip I've ever taken" during an interview with Louder Sound. Kiedis has been open about his past drug addiction from a young age, and was raised in Hollywood alongside his father Blackie Dammett, born John Kiedis. Blackie, who played a drug dealer in Lethal Weapon, would later admit in BBC1 documentary ONE life: Help! My Kid's a Rock Star that he introduced his son to sex and drugs from a young age. "It wasn't so unusual that I let him take a little bit of acid, or a little bit of marijuana," he said in the doc. Most read in Celebrity Kiedis would later develop a crippling heroin addiction, which in itself became an inspiration for songs including Under The Bridge. Performing with the Chili Peppers since 1982, Kiedis credits being a dad to Everly for "teaching him patience" and keeping him clean. Sober since 2000, Anthony previously said: 'As every heroin addict will know, temptation is always there. But becoming a father has given me a reason to live and stay clean for good.' By 2015, Everly followed in his mom and dad's footsteps, becoming the face of a Marc Jacobs campaign alongside Kiedis. 4 The pair spent an afternoon at Washington Square Park Credit: Splash 4 Kiedis is legendary for songs including Under The Bridge, Californication and Dani California Credit: Getty - Contributor
Daily Mail
07-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Mel Gibson, 69, chows down on pasta in Rome amid work on sequel to one of his iconic films
Mel Gibson was glimpsed having a laugh while chowing down on pasta in Rome - as he develops the sequel to one of his most iconic movies. The 69-year-old actor and director has apparently traveled to the capital of Italy in order to work on his upcoming film Resurrection Of The Christ. His picture will serve as the follow-up to his self-funded 2004 sleeper hit The Passion Of The Christ, directed by Gibson and starring Jim Caviezel as Jesus. The first movie began with Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane and ended with him emerging from the tomb, so the next one will presumably cover the 40 days the Bible says he remained on earth after his return from the dead. A source said Gibson is pre-production on the new film, via TMZ, and he was spotted indulging in the local cuisine in a restaurant on his downtime. When he noticed that he was being observed, he mischievously goofed off a bit, pulling extravagant faces and grinning broadly. The Braveheart star cut a casual figure during his latest outing, opting for a black V-neck t-shirt and a matching set of trousers. Jazzing up the ensemble with a necklace, the Apocalypto director slung a fashionable set of gleaming sunglasses from his shirt. The sighting comes just weeks after Gibson enjoyed an onstage reunion with Danny Glover, his co-star in another one of his legendary pictures, Lethal Weapon. The co-stars were onstage at a fan expo in Philadelphia, during which they fielded questions about the hugely successful Lethal Weapon franchise and its previously announced and long delayed fifth instalment, which will be directed by Gibson. Glover, 78 - whose Detective Roger Murtaugh famously claimed he was 'too old for this s**t' in all four Lethal Weapon instalments - was back in the spotlight some three years after his last screen appearance in 2022 black comedy American Dreamer. Joining the veteran star, Gibson, 69 - Murtagh's unpredictable and highly volatile partner Martin Riggs - showed off an enormous, greying beard as he took to his seat at the Pennsylvania Convention Center during Saturday's expo. Gibson previously confirmed that long-time co-star Danny will make an appearance in the latest film, reprising his role as LAPD Sergeant Murtaugh. The Australian star also told how he asked for Glover's blessing to direct the movie following the death of director Richard Donner - who took charge of the first four films. A source said Gibson is pre-production on the new film, via TMZ The Braveheart star cut a casual figure during his latest outing The co-stars were onstage at a fan expo in Philadelphia, during which they fielded questions about the hugely successful Lethal Weapon franchise Reiterating his intention to direct the feature in 2022, Gibson told Entertainment Tonight: 'Yeah, I am directing that. I'm really looking forward to it.' The star went on to add that his place behind the camera was bittersweet following the death of Donner in 2021. He added: 'I wish I wasn't directing it. I wish Richard Donner was still here to do it but left us untimely, and he actually asked me, he said "Hey kid, if I don't make it, you'll take the reins, huh?" I told him to shut up. 'I think it's an honor for me to be able to carry the flag for him'. And after getting Richard's blessing, Gibson told how he then turned to Glover to ask his thoughts on him directing, also confirming that his former co-star had agreed to reprise his iconic role. Gibson added: 'I called Danny [Glover] up, of course, and said "Hey, dude, is it okay with you if I direct this?", to which Glover replied "Yeah, let's go". He also insisted on having complete faith in Glover, adding: 'I know Danny's going to pull it off real well, too. He's kind of like the show pony in this one'. Gibson made the big announcement about the new film in 2021, where he began his address by paying tribute to the filmmaker who had previously spearheaded the action-comedy franchise. Gibson featured in the Lethal Weapon movies as the unpredictable and highly volatile partner of the Donald Glover character Gibson also recalled that the filmmaker had given him his blessing to continue the series in the future 'The man who directed all the Lethal films, Richard Donner, he was a big guy,' he expressed. Gibson also recalled that the filmmaker had given him his blessing to continue the series in the future. He remarked that Donner 'was developing the screenplay and he got pretty far along with it. And he said to me one day, "Listen kid, if I kick the bucket you will do it." And I said: "Shut up."' Gibson then noted that the filmmaker made a point of telling various individuals that the actor was more than capable of keeping the franchise going after his death. 'But he did indeed pass away. But he did ask me to do it and at the time I didn't say anything. He said it to his wife and to the studio and the producer. So I will be directing the fifth one.' It's understood that plans to shoot the new film are now underway after years of delays, with original screenwriter Shane Black also onboard. The film franchise also spawned a TV series, which ran for three seasons for 2021 with Clayne Crawford as Riggs and Damon Wayans as Murtaugh.
Telegraph
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
The Goonies is an entire generation's favourite film. Shame it's not very good
When I started at university more years ago than I care to remember, one of the time-honoured ways of breaking the ice, after comparing what A-levels you'd done and where you'd been on your gap year, was discussing the films that you'd grown up watching as a child. For my generation, this meant pictures released largely in the Eighties and the early Nineties. Sometimes these were age-appropriate – Star Wars and Indiana Jones and the like – and sometimes they were not. (I was astonished at how many people had seen Halloween and Nightmare On Elm Street at very young and impressionable ages.) Yet one picture, above all, stood out. Everyone had seen – and apparently loved – The Goonies. When the Richard Donner -directed family adventure film was first released 40 years ago, it came out to an appropriate amount of hype and expectation. Although Donner was a well-regarded journeyman director who was best known for making the first Superman film – which is amusingly homaged in one scene – and would go on to be responsible for all the Lethal Weapon films, it was mainly promoted, and regarded, as a Steven Spielberg film. Although Spielberg is only credited as executive producer and originator of the film's story, his fingerprints are all over the finished picture and so many have considered it (along with Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist) an honorary entry into that director's distinguished canon. It was a decent box office hit on release, grossing $125 million on a budget of $19 million. Granted, this was not nearly as much as the other Spielberg-produced blockbusters of the decade – Gremlins made $213 million, Back To The Future a staggering $389 million – but it was intended predominantly as a children's film and promoted and marketed as such. It had no well-known actors in it – although several of the young cast would go on to become stars, including Josh Brolin and Sean Astin – and was not based on an existing book or television series, nor was it a sequel to anything else. Reviews were kind but hardly laudatory, and under normal circumstances it would have been fondly regarded but something of an also-ran. Instead, The Goonies has continued to lead an ongoing existence as one of the most beloved films of its decade, if not all time. A 2009 poll suggested that it was the Eighties picture that most fans wanted to see remade (followed by Labyrinth and Top Gun), and in 2017, it enjoyed the honour of being selected by the Library of Congress for the National Film Registry as 'culturally, aesthetically or historically significant.' It has had numerous pop culture allusions – most recently in Deadpool 2, when the antagonist Cable (played by Goonies star Josh Brolin) is sardonically referred to as 'One-Eyed Willie', the name of the legendary pirate from the picture – and the band the Fratellis named themselves after the film's bumbling villains. In February this year, after years of speculation, a sequel was announced, to be scripted by Potsy Ponciroli and produced by Steven Spielberg once again. One of its stars, Corey Feldman, recently commented: 'All I can say is, get us all together. Everybody is looking good. Sean's looking good. Josh is looking good. We're all looking good still, and we're all alive. Goonies never say die…There's hope.' But The Goonies has already been remade, really, in the form of the JJ Abrams film Super 8, the Netflix hit Stranger Things, or the recent Star Wars series Skeleton Crew, which sent four tykes across the galaxy in search of adventure. It is, in other words, an acknowledged and much-loved classic of cinema. So why, then, did a recent rewatch of The Goonies, to mark its 40th anniversary, leave me feeling not so much disappointed as indifferent, and bemused by the adulation that it continues to receive? There's nothing wrong with the picture as such, bar a mediocre sound design that means that it's often impossible to hear the dialogue of the various children shouting at one another. But it's also merely a serviceable, unchallenging piece of entertainment that seems bland and uninspired when compared to the other Spielberg-produced pictures from the same period. It nods towards the tedium of suburban life and how its youthful denizens look for adventure, but then does little with its own concept. It is not hard to see why it became a cult picture for audiences that grew up on it at an impressionable age, and hope that their own children would thrill to it, too. But in an era where we have far more sophisticated family viewing – The Wild Robot, Paddington 2 and Wonka, to name but three, come to mind – it may be time to accept that the nostalgic love that many bear for The Goonies is not based on any especial merits that the film has, but for their own childhood. And this is where a rather wider issue comes to hand. There are many films from the Eighties which have acquired a dubious degree of nostalgic affection over the past few decades despite not being very good. Sometimes, there is an ill-fated attempt to embrace this by remaking them; for instance, the dreadful 1984 Commies-invade-America action film Red Dawn was turned into an equally dreadful 2012 picture, proving that it was a poor idea in the first and second place alike. On other occasions, you have insanely belated sequels that manage to jettison most of what was charming or interesting about the picture in the first place. Beverly Hills Cop took cinema by storm when it came out in 1984 and made a fortune. By the time that the fourth in the series, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, was released last year, the kind of teenagers who had thrilled to the exploits of Eddie Murphy in the first picture would now be in their mid-50s, if not older. Sometimes, Eighties pictures are simply terrible, and have been misremembered as being better than they are because of the kind of tiresomely ironic nostalgia that sees people turn up at cinemas to shout out dialogue from mediocre movies while dressed up as the characters. Revisiting St Elmo's Fire recently, I realised that a dreadful, self-important and navel-gazing picture has been given undue attention partly because of a cast who (in some cases, at least) went onto better and greater things, but partly also because someone, somewhere decided that the film was worthy of memorialising with a high-profile documentary about its actors. It does not make the original film better, but what it does is to continue its prominence in popular culture. Actors are as prone to this kind of false memory syndrome as fans, too. When the Tom Cruise racing drama Days of Thunder came out in 1990, it was swiftly (and rightly) dismissed as a failed attempt to remake Top Gun with fast cars. Now, however, Cruise has decided that, rather than a boring and overwrought piece of flash, the picture is an underrated masterpiece that merits its own sequel, three and a half decades later. He is wrong, but like many of his other pictures from this period, there is a yawning gulf between the quality of the original film and the false memory that its admirers have of it. (What next, Far and Away 2?) There are genuinely great films from the Eighties and early Nineties that heartily deserve their cult status, and stand up extremely well today, from the Indiana Jones films and Back to the Future to Blade Runner and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. All of these are eminently rewatchable and worthy of all the plaudits that they have received, and continue to receive, because of their wit, originality and chutzpah. Yet even here, there has been an unwelcome tendency to besmirch the legacy – there was absolutely no need for the dire, Spielberg-less Dial of Destiny ever to exist – and persistent rumours about forthcoming remakes, spin-offs and the like just show what a dire state contemporary Hollywood is in when it comes to intellectual property. If and when The Goonies gets a sequel, no doubt it will send a whole new generation back to the original. They may well be underwhelmed by it. But this will not stop the first tranche of its fans believing – despite the obvious evidence to the contrary – that it is a great picture. For them, that is all that matters. As Thomas Wolfe so famously wrote, 'you can never go home again'. Perhaps rewatching this silly, loud and endearingly goofy film is as close as many of its fans will ever get to going home once more themselves.
Perth Now
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Mel Gibson reveals the reason behind Lethal Weapon 5 delay
The fifth 'Lethal Weapon' movie has been stuck in development hell because "the studios are having a lot of problems", Mel Gibson has said. The 69-year-old actor is set to reprise his role as LA police officer Martin Riggs as well as direct the long-awaited sequel, though Gibson has revealed Warner Bros. has been facing internal issues that have slowed development down - despite the next 'Lethal Weapon' having "a really good screenplay". Speaking to Screen Rant, he said: "For some reason, the studios are having a lot of problems. I don't know what the deal is. 'I'm not sure what the problem is, but it is a really good screenplay." 'The Passion of the Christ' director teased that the fifth 'Lethal Weapon' movie was the best entry in the series, and described it as "a lot of fun" and "really emotional". He said: "I sat down with a writer and we did two or three drafts of screenplays and it came out pretty good. In fact, I think it's the best of all of them. It's a lot of fun and got really emotional." Gibson has starred opposite Danny Glover in the 'Lethal Weapon' franchise since its debut in 1987, with the late Richard Donner helming the series behind the camera until the latest entry 'Lethal Weapon 4' in 1998. However, since Donner's passing in 2021 at the age of 91, the Oscar-winning filmmaker has picked up directing duties for the fifth 'Lethal Weapon'. The 'Mad Max' star said during an appearance on the 'Inspire Me' podcast: "I'm going to direct the fifth film in the Lethal Weapon series. "Richard Donner, who did the other four, sadly passed away and he was a good friend. He kind of tasked me with carrying the flag home on that one so it'll be an honour for me to do that." Gibson and the creative team for the fifth 'Lethal Weapon' movie have been building on a script written by the late Donner. He said: "We've used what was there and we kept kind of poking at it and working at it. I'm pretty happy with it. It's good, I had a lot of fun doing it. "It's funny, but it's pretty serious too. It tackles a couple of hard issues. I'm looking forward to it." As well as Gibson's Martin Riggs, Glover's Roger Murtaugh is also confirmed to be returning for the fifth 'Lethal Weapon'. Gibson previously revealed that changes behind the scenes at Warner Bros. had caused delays on the next 'Lethal Weapon', and said at the time he hoped the movie would start shooting at the beginning of 2025 - though the flick is yet to enter production. The 'Braveheart' actor explained: "The only delay is now with all the shake-up at Warners, with Discovery coming in and the new boss, and they chop everyone else up and throw them away and get new people. "It always takes time for these companies to regroup, so that's been a delay, but I'm pretty confident we'll get this one up on its feet, probably shoot it in the first quarter of the New Year."
