The next Oppenheimer? Christopher Nolan's new film is selling out already
Nolan is an anomaly, a licence for studio execs to put that deposit on a beach house. So one can only imagine their shock when Nolan said that he wanted to follow Oppenheimer with an adaptation of The Odyssey, and that he needed an estimated $250 million. A poem from the 7th century BC, panicked suits must have cried: who's going to be interested in that?
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Daily Mail
13 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
Tyra Banks reveals MORE dirty habits as she revolts with toe picking and pimple popping passions
Tyra Banks has revealed some more revolting habits. During another guest hosting appearance on Today's Jenna & Friends, Tyra, 51, admitted she loves picking out toe gunk and popping pimples. The catwalk queen, 43, who earlier this week revealed she 'cleans' leftover crumbs on her bed by eating them, first admitted with embarrassment that she's 'getting a reputation for being a gross person!' That, however, did not deter her from sharing her latest confession. 'I like to pick. I like the toe, and if it has some stuff in it, I don't mind digging it out,' she explained on Thursday. 'But I have a kit. You have to have a kit! You have to have a kit! So you have to have like some alcohol... you know, some stuff!' When Jenna asked who she does this to, Tyra revealed she will pick at anyone who desires it. 'Anyone that wants it! My mom, my friends, my man, my son, and then a pimple? Like if you had a pimple... I would be staring at you,' Tyra, who has been dating Louis Bélanger-Martin for six years, said. Tyra revealed that she struggles to contain herself at the sight of a blemish. 'I want it so bad,' Tyra said when Jenna asked what would be going through her mind upon noticing acne. 'Like I just love it. Like, Pimple Popper.... I don't watch it too much because,' she said before letting out a bizarre noise. 'It's an addiction! It's disgusting and erotic at the same time. It touches those parts of me,' she said. 'Now where do you draw the line?' Jenna asked. 'I do draw the line!' Tyra said before revealing, 'Nether regions. I'm not picking up in those! If somebody's like, 'Oh, can you check this?' I'm like, 'No, I'm not checking that.' So that's where I draw the line.' So chest up and knees down, it's on!' 'God I wish you had a pimple!' Tyra re-iterated passionately. 'I don't mind picking that... but for some reason the toe nails grosses me out,' Jenna said. 'Well sometimes they stink.... The toenail, because there's been like stuff in there, the jam,' she continued. In the background, the crew could be heard reacting with disgust as Tyra continued describing her toenail passion. 'The toe jam is up in the nail, and then you pick, and then sometimes it's different colors. Sometimes it's brown, sometimes it's green. I mean c'mon, you guys know this!' she said. 'We needed to put on some sort of time delay, what if somebody's having their cereal!?' Jenna said. It comes just days after Tyra revealed on the same show that she 'cleans' food crumbs leftover on her bed at her Sydney home 'by eating them.' The supermodel-turned-presenter isn't alone either as her mother Carolyn London and nine-year-old son York Banks Asla share her odd habits of eating ice cream and popcorn in bed, and whatever remains 'a couple days later.' 'A few days if it's not super perishable,' Tyra noted while guest-hosting TODAY with Jenna & Friends on Monday. 'Like a popcorn? I mean, come on. That's like astronaut food. It just lasts forever. You just pick it up. I'm not joking.' Gagging, Jenna asked: 'A week later you would go and eat that?' 'Yeah, if I knew it was mine in my bed, yeah,' Banks replied. The two-time Daytime Emmy winner went on to explain that she does the same on her floor since she has a 'no shoe rule' and doesn't want 'roaches.' View this post on Instagram A post shared by TODAY with Jenna & Friends (@jennaandfriends) The 51-year-old supermodel-turned-presenter isn't alone either as her mother Carolyn London (L, pictured in 2020) and nine-year-old son York Banks Asla share her odd habits of eating ice cream and popcorn in bed, and whatever remains 'a couple days later' 'I have a no shoe rule in my home so I can eat off my floor,' Tyra stressed. 'No, but I'm serious, I do that. But then I see my son doing it and I'm like, 'Don't do that!' And he's like, 'Mama, you do it!'' On the Jenna & Friends Instagram account, users were horrified like @randirobson who commented with a nauseated emoji: 'Disgusting! Would never eat in bed and then eat the crumbs later.' 'I eat in bed all the time,' Instagram user @madijayne wrote. 'But I'm not leaving popcorn in it for a few days.' Instagram user @desalvoshirley commented: 'No way do I want food in my bed! Yikes!' Over on X, user @mozingo_84 posted a cringing meme. 'Wow, Tyra eating crumbs off the floor is wild,' X user @Bintmetax scoffed. 'Definitely not a pest control hack I'd try!' X user @blackgypsy71 posted a vomit emoji and simply wrote: 'Nasty.' The SMiZE & DREAM founder has four more days of grossing out Jenna as she is serving guest host duties all week. On the Jenna & Friends Instagram account, users were horrified like @randirobson who commented with a nauseated emoji: 'Disgusting! Would never eat in bed and then eat the crumbs later' 'I eat in bed all the time,' Instagram user @madijayne wrote. 'But I'm not leaving popcorn in it for a few days' The SMiZE & DREAM founder has four more days of grossing out Jenna as she is serving guest host duties all week Tyra is next scheduled to guest star in the August 13th episode of HGTV makeover show Celebrity IOU hosted by Property Brothers Drew and Jonathan Scott. Last May, Entertainment Weekly reported that Banks sat down for an interview for an upcoming Netflix docuseries about the making of America's Next Top Model, which concluded in 2018 after 18 seasons. And though he'd never admit it, RuPaul Charles has the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show catwalker to thank for the overall format of his own Emmy-winning, reality TV competition RuPaul's Drag Race. Tyra made history in 1996 as the first African-American model to be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue - and she returned for the covers in 1997, 2019, and 2024.
The Guardian
24 minutes ago
- The Guardian
How KPop Demon Hunters became the surprise Netflix smash of the summer
School is out, young audiences are available, and yet still, Hollywood animation is having a bad summer at the box office. In contrast to last year, when Inside Out 2 and Despicable Me 4 occupied two of the season's top three (and combined for about $2.7bn worldwide), it seems entirely possible that not a single fully animated movie will crack the top 10. Adding insult to injury: the Disney-Pixar original Elio has been trounced by 'live-action' remakes of Lilo & Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon, which faithfully reproduce old cartoons with bland new actors and CG visual effects. With younger audiences steered toward those movies and seemingly also welcomed into big-tent hits like Superman and Jurassic World: Rebirth, it's all the more remarkable that Netflix has somehow managed to have its biggest animated movie ever. KPop Demon Hunters, about a trio of women who form a pop group while moonlighting as, yes, demon hunters, was released in June – on the same weekend as Elio, no less – and has become a soundtrack-selling, replay-friendly phenom. Netflix numbers can be opaque, but there's confirmation in Golden, a centerpiece song from the movie, hitting #2 on the Billboard charts. When was the last time a Disney movie made a play for song of the summer? Animation seems like a safe bet for budget-conscious streaming content. After all, the much-lamented cost of a movie ticket is tripled or quadrupled when bringing a family (and then maybe tripled again if they want snacks). On a per-person basis, streaming a new cartoon is the more affordable option. But even after poaching film-makers from major animation studios, the streamers have struggled with original material; Netflix's The Sea Beast isn't anywhere near as good as Moana, with which it shares a co-director, and its Over the Moon (the directorial debut of Glen Keane, a longtime Disney animator) is downright ghastly. Spellbound, from Skydance's attempt to start their own animation house led by the disgraced former Pixar honcho John Lasseter, arrived with barely a peep last Thanksgiving. Most of the time, the Netflix charts are dominated by older animated titles from established studios like DreamWorks and Illumination. So why did KPop Demon Hunters break through? Maybe it helps that it isn't an in-house Netflix production; the movie was actually produced by Sony Pictures Animation, the studio that worked such genre-bending magic with the Spider-Verse movies. KPop isn't quite as ambitiously style-forward as that series, but it shares the same basic visual approach of intentionally choppy but eye-catching, shapeshifting animation that imitates both comic-book splash pages and anime, splattered in purple and pink hues. It's not clear when Sony decided they would pursue a streaming release, but Netflix previously distributed the similarly manic (and original) The Mitchells vs the Machines when the pandemic delayed its planned theatrical release. The Netflix-Sony cartoons seem to indicate that maybe there's more cultural cachet in standing out from the animation crowd, rather than doing off-brand versions of Disney-style songs and Pixar-style secret worlds. In particular, KPop Demon Hunters seems freer to capitalize on a cultural trend than its mainstream competition. Disney has become so self-conscious about its own iconography that its last non-sequel in-house animated feature, Wish, was an extended 100th-anniversary celebration for its parent company, packed with references to their animated classics. Their big release for this fall is Zootopia 2, a stringing out from a great original idea they debuted almost a decade ago. The other big US animation houses are similarly sequel-fixated; the last big animated release of the summer is The Bad Guys 2, from DreamWorks. Not only is KPop Demon Hunters not a sequel, nor even a comics adaptation, it feels engaged with a world outside of its parent company, no matter how heightened its wild fantasy action becomes. By making the central characters a K-pop group, the movie finds something that breaks the princess/talking animal/scrappy kid hegemony. It's about young-adult characters with major responsibilities (even if those responsibilities involve the equally fantastical pop-girlie grind and Buffy-esque demon-fighting), carried out with an aspirational big-sister energy that younger kids can watch with wide-eyed admiration usually reserved for Disney princesses. American interest in K-pop may have even peaked; technically, the optimal time for this movie might have been circa 2021 – not coincidentally, the year the movie's production was announced. But though KPop Demon Hunters has some adult themes and scary monsters, it's also pitched young enough that it's almost better-equipped than if it had come at the height of the BTS craze. The movie very much repackages K-pop for an even-broader audience of native English speakers (something K-pop itself has been doing for years at this point) in a way that draws from the trend's fandom without relying exclusively on it. Demon Hunters also constructs a fantasy version of the pop machine, particularly the astonishing levels of training received by a lot of K-pop acts; here, all the girls' hard work is entirely at the behest of their own artistic vision, and they rise-and-grind off the couch voluntarily, not because a music label is forcing them. It's probably no accident that the lower reaches of the movie's audience are probably also discovering their own music for the first time – and making their preferences known on the charts, as a whopping nine songs from KPop Demon Hunter are currently on the Billboard Hot 100. That closeness to the pop world also allows the movie to make pop stars its dauntless heroines and devious villains all at once. (The demons disguised as a boy band sing an infectious ditty called Soda Pop that even the movie's demon-savvy characters can't really resist.) So much pop taste formation involves sussing out what you find irresistible versus what you find deeply annoying, two qualities that can reverse themselves with surprising ease. Even if KPop Demon Hunters is ultimately more about self-acceptance and friendship than the dynamics of pop music, it's letting a younger audience try out pop fandom. In that way, it welcomes those viewers into the kind of faux-grownup world that they often get from PG-13 live-action superhero movies. As with superheroes, the response to this movie's success will mostly be 'make sequels to this specific movie, forever' with a possible dash of 'streaming animation is really happening this time!' It shouldn't be, though. In the wake of so many sequels from Disney, Pixar, Illumination and DreamWorks, KPop Demon Hunters is a reminder that kids in particular hunger for novelty, probably more so than their nostalgia-drunk adult counterparts. Despite their ongoing enthusiasm for any number of cartoon franchises, family audiences aren't just waiting around for Despicable Me 5. They are hoping, conscious or not, for something with more pop.
Daily Mail
43 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
Donald Trump's bizarre comment to Harrison Butker goes viral as Kansas City Chiefs kicker visits White House
Donald Trump left Harrison Butker red-faced on Thursday after telling the Kansas City Chiefs star he's a 'good-looking sucker' during a speech at the White House. Butker was one of several professional athletes invited to the White House by Trump for an executive order signing that will reestablish the Presidential Fitness Test - an initiative to promote young Americans staying active and healthy. As well as the Chiefs kicker, golfer Bryson DeChambeau, WWE icon Triple H and former New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor were also in attendance for the signing. Every athlete was given the chance to speak at the White House after being introduced by Trump, and Butker received some awkward praise from the president on the day. As well as calling him 'the best in the business' when it comes to kicking, Trump turned around and told Butker in a bizarre moment: 'You're a handsome guy, by the way. It's usually not my thing, but he is a good looking sucker'. The embarrassed NFL player couldn't help but laugh along with the rest of the room in a moment which quickly went viral online. Trump to Harrison Butker: You're a handsome guy, by the way. It's usually not my thing, but he is a good looking sucker — FactPost (@factpostnews) July 31, 2025 Butker, who has claimed three Super Bowl rings during his eight-year career with the Chiefs, sparked controversy last year when he referred to women as 'homemakers' in a contentious speech at Benedictine College. The Georgia-born kicker also hit out at the LGBTQ+ community and Joe Biden's pro-abortion stance when addressing students at the college, which divided opinion across America. Trump gushing over Butker's looks was not the only part of his speech which garnered attention on Thursday, nevertheless. The 79-year-old found himself tongue-tied at one point as he attempted to pronounce Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa's last name, which is pronounced 'Tun-go-val-oa.' He sounded out the last name of the signal caller, who is of Samoan descent, before butchering it anyway and pronouncing it 'Ta-go-valiah.' ' Tua... Tag-o-valiah, the quarterback who has really been fantastic,' Trump said. 'When he's not injured, he's great. He's got to stay healthy. But he's a great guy.' Trump signed executive orders as Butker and his fellow athletes watched on before lating passed out souvenir pens. Butker is a three-time Super Bowl winner after spending the last eight years with Kansas City First established by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966, the Presidential Fitness Test created a program to reward excellence in physical education. Participants would typically run, do sit-ups, pull-ups and push-ups to compete. Other activities in the test included running, jumping, a 50-yard dash, and a softball throw. Former president Barack Obama ended the test in 2012, replacing it with a more tailored assessment on individual health rather that physical feats. 'President Trump wants every young American to have the opportunity to emphasize healthy, active lifestyles — creating a culture of strength and excellence for years to come,' White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to reporters.
