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21-07-2025
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'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Season 3: All the Taylor Swift Easter Eggs & Other Callbacks
'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Season 3: All the Taylor Swift Easter Eggs & Other Callbacks originally appeared on Parade. The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 is packed with Easter eggs, callbacks to other Jenny Han works and other references. On July 16, the third and final chapter of the beloved Prime Video series based on the trilogy by Han kicked off. Warning: Spoilers for Season 3 are ahead. 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 At the beginning of the season, viewers see Belly Conlin () dating Jeremiah Fisher () as she starts college, followed by a three-year time jump to the summer before her senior year at Finch. A lot transpires during the first two episodes and already, eagle-eyed fans have spotted a number of references to the "Shake It Off" singer. Let's take a closer look at all of the Swift Easter eggs and other notable references in Season 3. 'Daylight' and 'Red' were featured in the Season 3 teaser trailer. To start, a teaser trailer for The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 featured two songs from Swift: "Daylight" and "Red." Her relationship with Jeremiah was symbolized by the former, while right at the end of the teaser, Conrad Fisher () appears as Swift sings, "Loving him was red." This symbolism continued during the final season itself. The colors red and blue in Belly's fashion choices reflected the lyrics of Taylor Swift's 'Red.' During the scene when Belly talks to Conrad on Jeremiah's phone, she wears red sunglasses; she also wears red at the summer house with Conrad. Similarly, she wears a lot of blue outfits in scenes with Jeremiah, a callback to "Losing him was blue," in Swift's song "Red." 'You're Losing Me' was featured at the end of Episode 1. After Belly learned that Jeremiah slept with Lacey, Swift's track "You're Losing Me" plays as they argue and Belly runs away in tears. Related: A Bye Bye Birdie poster in Belly's college dorm hints at her love for Conrad. Belly had a poster for the musical Bye Bye Birdie hanging in her college dorm room, and the main character in the play is named Conrad. Conrad's unfinished crossword puzzle features the title of another Han book. At the beach house, Belly finds a half-finished crossword puzzle from Conrad. She fills in the rest of "P.S. I Still Love You" with the word "still," completing the title of Han's sequel to To All the Boys I've Loved Before. Jeremiah and Belly dressed up as Lara Jean and Peter for Halloween. Another photo on the wall of Belly's dorm showed her and Jeremiah dressed up as Lara Jean Covey and Peter Kavinsky from To All the Boys I've Loved Before. Conrad standing over Belly after she fell was familiar, too. Fans of To All the Boys I've Loved Before and XO, Kitty likely saw the scene where Belly fell at the Cousins beach house and Conrad stood over and felt a bit of déjà vu. That's because both of the other Han-inspired shows featured similar scenes. The first two episodes of The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 are available to stream on Prime Video. A new episode will be added weekly until the series finale on Sept. 17. Next: 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Season 3: All the Taylor Swift Easter Eggs & Other Callbacks first appeared on Parade on Jul 18, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 18, 2025, where it first appeared. Solve the daily Crossword
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
Freddie Prinze Jr. says his kids weren't afraid of 1st 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' film
Freddie Prinze Jr. says his kids weren't phased by the first "I Know What You Did Last Summer" film. At the world premiere for the new "I Know What You Did Last Summer" film in Los Angeles on Monday, Prinze said his kids Charlotte and Rocky, whom he shares with wife Sarah Michelle Gellar, "didn't scream once" when they saw the original 1997 film directed by Jim Gillespie. "They were laughing because guys like James Wan made 'Saw,' which sort of changed the genre," he said, adding that he hopes this new film continues to "push the [horror] genre forward and challenge that next generation of filmmakers to do the same thing." "Horror evolves so quickly," Prinze continued. "These writers and directors are constantly trying to outdo one another ... what was scary five, 10 years ago isn't scary now." The actor, who starred in the original "I Know What You Did Last Summer" alongside Gellar, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Ryan Phillippe, stars in the new sequel directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, reprising his role as Ray Bronson. Hewitt also returns to the new film, reprising her role as Julie James. Joining Prinze and Hewitt are Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers and Sarah Pidgeon. Prinze lauded the new group and said "they earned the baton." "I didn't have to pass anything," he said. "They're so much better than I was at their age. It's not even funny. I love this cast so much, I respect their work so much, and it was a pleasure to get to work with them." The new film centers around five friends who cover up a deadly car accident that they inadvertently caused and make a pact to "keep it a secret rather than face the consequences," according to a synopsis. Like the first film, Robinson's film jumps to a year later, when the group is "forced to confront" what they did last summer, after a killer who knows the truth comes after them. The synopsis adds that the group turns to "two survivors of the legendary Southport Massacre of 1997 for help." Pidgeon, who plays Stevie Ward, described the film as "even splashier in terms of blood and gore" than previous films. "I think there's a lot of beautiful parts in the characters that touch on and give reverence and [are] referential to the original," she continued. "But it's also really standalone." "I think this can hold its own in a good way," she added. Screenwriter Sam Lansky said it was important to bring "everything that we loved about the original to carry into the world of 2025." "We just really, really wanted to take on what felt special about that first movie and give everyone who wants to go to the movies now the same jolt of adrenaline, the rush, the good time that we had seeing these movies as young people ourselves," he added. As a nod to the first film, Robinson said that fans can spot several Easter Eggs throughout the new movie. One Easter Egg in particular, Robinson said, pays special nautical tribute to the first film. "One of my favorites is Ray Bronson's boat in the first movie is 'Billy Blue,' and I recreated that sign and put it in his bar," she said. "So, there's a lot of stuff for the OG fans." Lansky added, "There are so many little things that you will find that I think you will be absolutely delighted by. And for people who are coming into it cold and experiencing this for the first time, I think they're also going to have a blast."
Geek Tyrant
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
James Gunn Says SUPERMAN Is Packed With Easter Eggs, Including a Mural That Tells the Story of DC's Metahumans — GeekTyrant
James Gunn is making it clear that Superman is a love letter to the deep lore of DC Comics, and according to the filmmaker, fans should keep an eye out for Easter egg because they are everywhere in the film. At a recent fan event in London's Leicester Square, where 30 minutes of Superman footage was screened ahead of its July 11 release, Gunn, producer Peter Safran, and cast members David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and Nicholas Hoult offered a few insights into what fans can expect. Among the highlights? Gunn's tease about just how loaded this film is when it comes to deep-cut DC references. "This is the most Easter egg-laden movie I've ever made. I have a lot of easter eggs in this movie. I mean every character in the movie is practically from the comic books. 'Everyone in Lex's control room — all those people are characters from the comics… Every street in the movie is named after a comic book writer or artist." But the real gem here might be the massive mural Gunn teased, which appears in a key scene and offers a glimpse into the long and mysterious history of metahumans in the DCU. Gunn explained: 'Most of the businesses are either named after either a comic book writer or artist, or they are named after businesses that exist within the DC Universe, on the page. 'Later on, there's an iconic scene with a huge, huge mural in the background that tells you the story of metahumans in the DCU and that's going to be really, really fun when we release those images to the public. So the stuff goes deep, it's really really fun and it was really fun creating the world. 'That was one of the reasons why I like DC a lot because it isn't New York and Los Angeles, it's Gotham and Central City and Evergreen. It's really creating another world, with other rules and other things that are common." According to rumors, this mural may include the Justice Society of America, hinting that the new DCU won't be treating Superman as the first hero, but rather the latest in a long line of costumed champions. If true, that tracks with the way Gunn has talked about building a DCU with legacy and myth baked into its foundations. It also echoes Young Justice and its metagene concept, where most Earth-born metahumans owe their powers to ancient bloodlines or mystical events, many of them traced back to Vandal Savage. This is pretty cool!
Yahoo
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
15 'Jurassic World Rebirth' callbacks to 'Jurassic Park'
Warning: This article contains spoilers about . Jurassic World Rebirth screenwriter David Koepp may have actively worked to not feature so many callouts in the film to previous installments of the franchise, but director Gareth Edwards? Not so much. "It's funny, you spend your life as a filmmaker trying not to copy your heroes, and it just keeps happening," Edwards tells Entertainment Weekly. Rebirth, the seventh Jurassic movie (in theaters now), is littered with Easter eggs and visual callbacks to past entries — some more overt than others. There are also references to past works of Steven Spielberg; Edwards points out a Back to the Future magazine is sitting in the gas station where the Delgados are hunted by Mutadons. "At one point we got told to dial them down, to be honest," he recalls. "Frank Marshall [producer], David Koepp, Steven Spielberg, they've all been involved in a lot of those films that we're referencing. They would be the three that would be like, 'Stop being so referential. This is your movie, go do your own thing.' But you're probably the three people in the world that can't fully appreciate how amazing all these other films are because you made them. As someone who's a fan of those films, I get a kick out of this." Here are 15 of those Jurassic Park-specific callbacks that can be seen in Jurassic World Rebirth. When we first meet Rupert Friend's Martin Krebs, the Big Pharma representative looking to hire "situational security" expert Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) to assemble a team and retrieve dinosaur DNA, the camera zooms in for a close-up of his reflection in his car's side mirror. It reads "objects in mirror are closer than they appear." A famous scene from 1993's Jurassic Park features a similar side-mirror close-up as Laura Dern's Ellie Sattler, Jeff Goldblum's Ian Malcolm, and Bob Peck's Robert Muldoon flee from a stampeding T. rex in their Jeep. Edwards reveals he originally shot a scene featuring the side-mirror bit for the end of the film when Martin is driving away from the Mutadons in a Jeep. "It got cut out," the director says, but notes, "It's on the DVD extras, a very short moment." "I was like, 'I'm not gonna get that gag in, am I?'" he recalls. "So then when we went to New York, it was the last thing we filmed in the whole movie, as we scouted, I just said to the person who provides the vehicles, 'Is there any way you could just get the "objects appear closer" on the wing mirror?'" Jonathan Bailey's introduction as paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis comes when Zora and Martin find him in the nearby museum. A black banner with red and white lettering descends behind a dinosaur skeleton exhibit. One of the most famous scenes from Jurassic Park is a shot from the ending of a T. rex roaring in the destroyed theme park lobby as a banner with the same color scheme and typography falls to the ground. Traversing through the dino-infested jungles of Ile Saint-Hubert, Henry mentions that he studied under Dr. Alan Grant, the character Sam Neill played across three movies in the Jurassic franchise, starting with the flagship film. Edwards shares with EW how the team added subtle Easter eggs to Bailey's Henry to enhance this connection. "I designed a little patch that went on his bag that was the Snakewater canyon," he says, referring to the fossil dig site from the opening of Jurassic Park. "It was as if it was a national park badge of that dig site, as if [Henry] had worked there as a kid." Costume designer Sammy Sheldon Differ then noticed a triangular piece of metal on Alan's belt in that first movie. "It's a digging sort of spade," Edwards says. "You just open it and it's for scratching away at the dirt and stuff. We had that on Jonathan's belt. We liked the idea that Alan Grant had given it to him as a gift when he retired, or whatever the canon would be." Koepp pulled a line of dialogue from Michael Crichton's books and gave it to Bailey's Henry. "Which is, 'You used technology to bring back something from 65 million years ago, but it's a different planet,'" Koepp paraphrases. "The oxygen levels are different, solar radiation is different, the temperatures are different, everything is different about it. What makes you think that it's all going to go fine?" Xavier Dobbs (David Iacono), Teresa Delgado's (Luna Blaise) stoner boyfriend, wanders off to take a leak. With his back turned, a raptor strikes a familiar and terrifying pose (one featured many times through the Jurassic films) as it prepares to pounce on him. The scene takes a turn when a Mutadon (a mutant raptor-pterosaur hybrid) snatches the raptor before it can carry out the deed. Zora's team walks into an open field of tall grass where they stumble upon two Titanosaurs mid mating ritual. They all gaze up in wonder and awe, trigging John Williams' classic Jurassic Park theme music. It's a very similar scene to the first film, with the same music, when Neill's Alan and Dern's Ellie stare gobsmacked at the sight of a living brachiosaurus eating leaves from the top of a tree. The Delgado family takes a rest in the jungle. Teresa and her little sister Isabella (Audrina Miranda) take a snooze as they rest their heads against their dad, Reuben (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), who's sitting on the ground, resting his back against a thick tree root. Alan has a similar moment with Tim (Joseph Mazzello) and Lex (Ariana Richards) in Jurassic Park. The trio takes a snooze just before a veggie-eating dinosaur comes looking for snacks in their tree. A scene from Crichton's first novel involving a raft and a swimming T. rex was cut from Spielberg's Jurassic Park, but Koepp, who also co-wrote that film with the author, revisited the material for Jurassic World Rebirth. In the book, it's Alan and the two kids traveling downriver en route to the visitor center when they encounter the gargantuan predator. In the new film, it's the Delgado family attempting to flee a T. rex. After extracting DNA from the egg of a baby Quetzalcoatlus, Henry drops the syringe, which teeters on the edge of the mountain side. To get it, the paleontologist, dangling from Zora's rope, attempts multiple times to swing himself along the rocks to grab it. The sequence visually calls back to Alan's desperate moment in Jurassic Park where he attempts to swing himself out of harm's way on a rope before an attacking T. rex can push a Jeep on top of them. There are multiple moments in 1997's The Lost World: Jurassic Park involving the combination of a gas station and a dinosaur: on Isla Sorna when Goldblum's Ian & Co. encounter raptors, and later in the film, when a T. rex pokes its head at a station in San Diego. In Jurassic World Rebirth, it's a group of Mutadons that terrorize the Delgados and Zora's remaining team at an abandoned gas station on Ile Saint-Hubert. Edwards actually takes credit for the gas station scene, which was a different location in the original script. "My first movie at film school, my graduation film, was set in a gas station with creatures," he explains. "I loved American movies, and in England, nothing feels like America at all apart from a gas station.... Then my first movie, Monsters, this low-budget film set in Central America, the third act is at a gas station. Then I started getting paranoid. 'Do I just not have any other ideas?'" Fleeing the Mutadons, the Delgados take refuge in the convenience store attached to the gas station. Isabella and her dino pal, Dolores, hide in the freezer, causing a Mutadon to get confused by seeing its own reflection in the glass. The creature then stalks the family as they hide among the aisles. Tim and Lex were similarly hunted by raptors in the kitchen of the theme park's managerial offices on Isla Nublar during the events of Jurassic Park. A Mutadon is also a hybrid of a raptor and a pterosaur, further emphasizing the similarities between the two films. "I wanted a moment like that in our film," Edwards says. "I was trying to find an excuse, and I was wondering what it could be. I ended up doing the gas station. You feel like you're going to have to refuel these cars. Once you get in there, you're trying to think of any gags you can. I liked this idea of reflections. At one point, I wanted it to be flooded, and then I started going, 'This is a bit too straightforward.' Then the production designer and the art department built all that refrigerator stuff. When I looked at the set, I thought, 'Well, that's a great hiding place.'" To help the others get away from the Distortus rex, Mahershala Ali's Duncan Kincaid waves a red flare at the monster as a distraction. The D. rex attacks and for a moment, it's presumed Duncan didn't survive, but he's later recovered floating in the river. This might as well be his Jeff Goldblum moment. As Ian in Jurassic Park, the actor waves a red flare at the T. rex in a misguided attempt to help the others escape. The dinosaur leaves him gravely injured, but Dern's Ellie later finds him alive among the wreckage. Koepp points to another moment from Crichton's books that made its way into the script for Jurassic World Rebirth. He cites The Lost World, where a Jeep careens down a mountain as raptors attack. "I use bits of that," he says. "There's a Jeep careening down a mountain [in Rebirth] and menaced by, at first, a Mutadon." That would be Martin's vehicle, though his escape plan backfires when he finds himself in the clutches of the D. rex. A big Easter egg that calls back to Jurassic Park has been staring us down the entire time. Isabella Delgado sports a T-shirt that features a pelican. "It's the same breed at the end of Jurassic Park," Edwards confirms to EW, referring to the flying pelican scene at the very end of that movie. "And in Spanish it says, 'Life finds a way,' but it's an old T-shirt, so you don't really notice, hopefully." Speaking of are the new pelicans. The end of Jurassic World Rebirth ends in a similar manner as the first film, only instead of the survivors gazing out peacefully from their helicopter at a flock of pelicans, they are looking at a pod of jumping dolphins from their the original article on Entertainment Weekly
Time of India
28-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Death Stranding 2 is full of Hideo Kojima's bizarre Easter Eggs, even his team didn't want them
Hideo Kojima I Credits: Kojima Productions Hideo Kojima is back with another wild ride, and this time, he's not holding back. Death Stranding 2: On The Beach brings more emotional storytelling, haunting visuals, and intense gameplay, but it's also hiding something else. The renowned video game developer himself has packed the game with Easter eggs, and he admits, many of them might just make players cringe. From strange references to subtle sky messages, the legendary game creator has sprinkled his signature style all over the sequel, whether you like it or not. Kojima went full 'Kojima' In an interview with GameSpark , Kojima openly said that most of the Easter eggs were his idea and his team didn't even want them. 'Even if I asked the staff to add them, they just pretended not to hear,' he joked. But he went ahead anyway, hiding secrets that players will only notice on a second or third playthrough. 🙏👍🫶😍🙇🏻🎮🎬 — HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) June 26, 2025 Some are funny, some are just plain weird, but all of them are very "Kojima." Easter Eggs that might make you 'cringe' Kojima warned players that some Easter eggs could make them uncomfortable. Want an example? Looking at the stars in a hot spring at night might show you some unexpected things, if you zoom in closely. He says it's all for the players who love to explore and dig deeper into the game's world. Cameos, self-references, and odd surprises HIDEO Kojima san <-> Feet Fetish, dates back to MGS IV days (Quiet🤫)If you know, you know! ->— Pure PlayStation (ピュア プレイステーション) (@Pure_PS) June 25, 2025 Just like Death Stranding, the sequel features tons of familiar faces. Kojima said many celebrities came to the studio asking to be included in the game. Not all of them made it in, but many were scanned and saved for later use. On top of that, there's a character named Neil who looks and sounds a lot like Snake from Metal Gear, a clear nod to Kojima's past work.
