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【Title/标题】Nicole Kidman files for divorce from Keith Urban citing ‘marital difficulties and irreconcilable differences’【Source/来源】Media Outlet/媒体：E!NewsWritten by/作者：Will Reid【Transcript/文稿】Nicole Kidman has filed for divorce from Keith Urban after 19 years of marriage, bringing a surprising end to a long and seemingly successful union that brought together two superstars from the worlds of movies and music.The 58-year-old Oscar-winning actor petitioned on Tuesday to end her marriage to the 57-year-old Grammy winning country singer in a Nashville court. The documents state the couple has undergone “marital difficulties and irreconcilable differences”.Kidman and Urban, two of the biggest stars to come out of Australia in recent decades, have been red carpet fixtures throughout their two-decade relationship, with Urban joining his wife at the Oscars and Kidman attending music events such as the Academy of Country Music Awards.The filings include a marriage dissolution and childcare plan agreed on by the couple and submitted for a judge’s approval.“The mother and father will behave with each other and each child so as to provide a loving, stable, consistent and nurturing relationship with the child even though they are divorced,” says the permanent parenting plan, using language common in the state’s divorces.“They will not speak badly of each other or the members of the family of the other parent. They will encourage each child to continue to love the other parent and be comfortable in both families.”The plan asks that Kidman be the primary residential parent to the couple’s two daughters, ages 17 and 14, having them for 306 days per year with Urban taking them for the other 59.The girls have lived in Nashville all their lives and the documents give no indication that will change.The filing states that each parent earns more than $100,000 per month and neither will need childcare or spousal support.The marriage dissolution plan lays out a roughly equal division of joint assets, with each keeping all the assets that are in their own name, including the copyrights and royalties for their artistic work.The detailed agreements suggests that the divorce had been in the works for well over a month at the least. Urban signed the parenting plan on 29 August, Kidman on 6 September.It will take at least 90 days for the divorce to become final under Tennessee law.Representatives for Kidman and Urban did not respond to emailed requests for comment on Tuesday.Both raised in Australia, Kidman and Urban met in 2005 at a Los Angeles event honoring Australians and were married in Sydney the following year.The marriage was the first for Urban and the second for Kidman, who was married to Tom Cruise from 1990 to 2001. Kidman also has two older children with Cruise.The couple had publicly but lovingly described some marital difficulties, but there were still few if any signs they were headed for divorce. Media reports of their separation came just a day before the divorce filing.Last year at the premiere of the Netflix series The Perfect Couple, Kidman told the Associated Press the term didn’t apply to her and Urban.“You’re heading for trouble if you consider yourselves the perfect couple,” she said. “I’m not a believer in perfect.”A few months earlier, Urban paid tribute to Kidman, and brought her to tears, when she received the AFI Life Achievement Award.Urban said she showed him “what love in action really looks like” when his substance abuse problems emerged almost immediately after they wed in 2006.“Four months into our marriage, I’m in rehab for three months,” Urban said. “Nic pushed through every negative voice, I’m sure even some of her own, and she chose love. And here we are 18 years later.”Kidman’s film roles have included Days of Thunder, Eyes Wide Shut, Moulin Rouge and The Hours, for which she won an Academy Award for her portrayal of author Virginia Woolf. She has more recently worked in television, including the series Nine Perfect Strangers and Big Little Lies, for which she won Emmys as both actor and producer.Urban has been a major country star since the 1990s, with hits including Somebody Like You and Blue Ain’t Your Color. He has won four Grammy awards and more than a dozen ACM awards.Their split was first reported by TMZ.

【Title/标题】Trump signs executive order to transfer TikTok to US owners【Source/来源】Media Outlet/媒体：The GuardianWritten by/作者：Dara Kerr and Nick Robins-Early【Transcript/文稿】Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday outlining the terms of a deal to transfer TikTok to a US owner.Trump said the US and China had come to an agreement to allow TikTok to continue operating in the US, separating the social media platform from its Chinese owner ByteDance. Trump said the deal complies with a law that would have forced the shutdown of the app for American users had it not been divested and sold to a US owner.“This is going to be American-operated all the way,” Donald Trump said. Under the plan, US investors will take over the majority of TikTok’s operations and take charge of a licensed copy of the app’s powerful recommendation algorithm. American companies are expected to own about 65% of the US version of the spun-off company, while ByteDance and Chinese investors will own less than 20%. The new version of TikTok will be controlled by a seven-member board of directors made up of cybersecurity and national security experts, six of them Americans, according to the White House.The new US company will be valued at $14bn, according to JD Vance, who also spoke at the press conference, a number far lower than the valuation for ByteDance overall, which is estimated to be around $330bn. By comparison, Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, is valued at $1.8tn.The group of American TikTok investors is led by the US software giant Oracle, which will oversee TikTok’s US operations, provide cloud service for user data storage and get a license to take control of the app’s algorithm. White House officials have said ByteDance and Chinese officials will not have access to US user data.Along with Oracle and its co-founder Larry Ellison, Trump said at the press conference that other investors include media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the CEO of Dell computers Michael Dell. “Great investors. The biggest. They don’t get bigger,” Trump said. Vance added that more details about who is involved in the deal will be announced over the next few days.When asked if TikTok would start prioritizing Maga-related content, Trump said, “I always like Maga-related. If I could, I’d make it 100% Maga-related” but indicated that the app would continue recommending a wide variety of content as before, saying: “Every group will be treated fairly”.The deal ends months of legal limbo for one of the US’s most widely used apps, while also giving several US companies a powerful newfound influence within the social media industry. TikTok is used by about 180 million people nationwide, and Trump has credited it with helping him win the 2024 presidential election. The deal is also another foray for the Trump administration to exert influence over the tech industry, after it took a 10% stake in chipmaker Intel earlier this month and has urged companies like Apple and Nvidia to invest hundreds of billions domestically.Trump had earlier indicated that the US government would receive a lucrative fee from the US investors for negotiating the deal with China, saying last week: “The United States is getting a tremendous fee-plus – I call it a fee-plus – for just making the deal.”But on Thursday, when asked about this, the president simply said the US would take ordinary taxes from the new company, adding: “We’re gonna make money and we’re going to get a lot of money in taxes.”TikTok once faced bipartisan pushback from lawmakers over concerns about data privacy, but TikTok repeatedly denied those claims, but Congress overwhelmingly voted last year to compel ByteDance to find a US buyer or face a ban in the country.The supreme court unanimously upheld the ban in January. On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order postponing the ban and has since repeatedly delayed its enforcement. The “Saving TikTok” executive order Trump issued on Thursday says the deal complies with the law passed by Congress, is a “qualified divestiture” and “resolves” national security concerns. The divestiture from ByteDance isn’t expected to be completed for another 120 days.

【Title/标题】Jimmy Kimmel advocates for free speech, slams FCC chair in late-night return【Source/来源】Media Outlet/媒体：The Washington PostWritten by/作者：Emily Yahr【Transcript/文稿】After one of the more eventful weeks of his career, Jimmy Kimmel returned to late-night TV on Tuesday to a huge standing ovation from his studio audience, as he talked about the controversy that saw his show temporarily removed from ABC’s airwaves after comments he made about the killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk.During a 20-minute monologue on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” Kimmel thanked many people for their support over the past six days — and delivered a passionate call for free speech. He said he was moved to see people on both sides of the aisle criticize what appeared to be the head of a government agency suggesting that he would attempt to shut down or censor the show of a comedian he didn’t like.“This show is not important: What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this,” Kimmel said to much applause from the crowd. He added that free speech was something he was “embarrassed” to say he took for granted, “until they pulled my friend Stephen off the air, and tried to coerce the affiliates who run our show in the cities that you live in to take my show off the air. That’s not legal, that’s not American. That is un-American, and it is so dangerous.”Last Wednesday, Disney-owned ABC pulled Kimmel’s show after conservative backlash to comments he made in his Sept. 15 monologue: “We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel had said.Afterward, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr went on a podcast and called the remarks “some of the sickest conduct possible,” and suggested that Disney’s broadcast licenses could be in jeopardy. TV station owners Nexstar and Sinclair — which own a combined total of about 70 ABC affiliate stations — said they were dropping Kimmel’s show. Both companies said this week they will continue not to broadcast the show, keeping it off channels in cities including Washington.On Tuesday, Kimmel grew emotional as he emphasized that he never intended to make light of Kirk’s death, and noted that on the day Kirk was killed, he posted a message on Instagram sending love to Kirk’s family and asking for compassion. While some interpreted Kimmel’s initial comments as saying the suspect in Kirk’s shooting was part of MAGA, Kimmel said he never intended to blame “any specific group” for the actions of “a deeply disturbed individual.“That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make, but I understand that to some, that felt ill-timed or unclear or maybe both. And for those who think I did point a finger, I get why you’re upset. If the situation was reversed, there’s a good chance I would have felt the same way,” Kimmel said, getting choked up again. “I have many friends and family members on the other side who I love and remain close to, even though we don’t agree on politics at all.”“I don’t think the murderer who shot Charlie Kirk represents anyone,” he added. “This was a sick person who believed violence was a solution. And it isn’t. Ever.”Kimmel went on to say that he was grateful that he has worked for Walt Disney Co. for the past 23 years, but that he was not happy when it took his show off the air. But he said he talked it out with the executives, and he appreciated them giving him freedom to say what he wants — though he joked that they insisted he read instructions on-air about how to resubscribe to Disney+, given how many people recently canceled their subscriptions in protest.Kimmel turned serious as he said he knows that restoring his show puts Disney at risk.“Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke,” Kimmel said. “ … And I hope that if that happens, or if there’s even any hint of that happening, you will be 10 times as loud as you were this week.”The host wrapped up his monologue by saying that he hoped the silver lining of this controversy was that it brought people from the left, right and center together to speak up for the First Amendment. “We found one thing we can agree on, and maybe we’ll find another one,” he said. Kimmel became emotional again as he said he was touched by the speech that Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, delivered at his memorial on Sunday, in which she said she forgave the man who shot her husband. “That is an example we should follow. A selfless act of grace, forgiveness from a grieving widow,” Kimmel said. “And if there’s anything we should take from this tragedy to carry forward, I hope it can be that and not this.”

【Title/标题】MTV VMAs 2025 winners: Lady Gaga, Ariana Grandeand Sabrina Carpenter triumph at muted awardceremony【Source/来源】Media Outlet/媒体：The GuardianWritten by/作者：Adrian Horton【Transcript/文稿】Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande and Sabrina Carpenter triumphed at the MTV Video Music awards, taking home two moonman trophies each in a relatively muted show that once again largely celebrated female pop artists and legacy acts.Gaga, the most nominated artist of the evening with 12 nods, took home the first award at Long Island’s UBS arena, for artist of the year, winning over fellow superstars Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny and Beyoncé, all of whom were not in attendance.The Disease singer dedicated the award to the audience and her partner, Michael Polansky, then dashed off to the final show on her Mayhem tour at Madison Square Garden.“I cannot begin tell you what this means to me,” the singer said, dressed in a baroque black gown. “I hope as you navigate through the mayhem of daily life, you are reminded of the importance of the art of your life, that you can count on yourself and your simple skills to keep you whole.”Gaga’s absence was one of many in a three-hour show that was relatively light on star power and awards. The ceremony was emceed by a largely off-screen LL Cool J and handed out only seven awards during the telecast, all of them to female artists and Bruno Mars for his collaborations with two female artists: his duet with Lady Gaga, Die With A Smile, won best collaboration, while Apt, his track with Blackpink member Rosé, was crowned song of the year.“This is a really big moment for 16-year-old me and anyone else who has dreamed about being accepted equally for their hard work,” Rosé said in a lengthy and emotional speech.Sabrina Carpenter won album of the year for Short n’ Sweet and best pop artist, while Grande won best pop video and the evening’s top award, video of year, for Brighter Days Ahead, which she accepted alongside director Christian Breslauer.“This project is about the hard work that is healing all different kinds of trauma and coming home to our young selves and creating safety in our own lives, which is a lifelong process and a daily exercise,” Grande said, accepting the award. “If you’re on that journey, please continue onward, because I promise there are brighter days ahead.”As is now typical, the VMAs nodded toward the globalization and genre blends in popular music – Colombian superstar J Balvin and French producer DJ Snake teamed up for their track Noventa; multinational girl group Katseye, with members from the Philippines, South Korea, Switzerland and the US, won for Push performance of the year; and Post Malone and Jelly Roll, beaming in from their tour stop in Munich, represented the ongoing country-ification of pop with their booze-soaked anthem Losers.But the show skewed heavily toward the women in pop, with performances from Doja Cat, Canadian singer Tate McRae and Carpenter, who delivered a retro-themed performance of Tears accompanied by a who’s who of RuPaul’s Drag Race stars and ballroom icons as a statement on protecting trans rights.In recent years, the show once known for delivering culture-defining moments has been more attuned to legacy than its potential to produce new ones, introducing two new lifetime achievement awards.Mariah Carey was presented with the Video Vanguard Award by Ariana Grande, becoming the eighth consecutive woman to win the evening’s top lifetime achievement honor.“I can’t believe I’m getting my first VMA tonight. I just have one question: what in the Sam Hill were you waiting for?” Carey joked, after performing a medley of her hits.“Music videos are my way of life, of bringing music to my own life,” she continued. “Let’s be honest, sometimes they’re just an excuse to bring the drama and do things I wouldn’t do in real life … Music evolves, but fun? That is eternal.”

【Title/标题】Earth, Wind & Fire Got 24 Hours’ Notice From Sabrina Carpenter【Source/来源】Media Outlet/媒体：VultureWritten by/作者：Devon Ivie【Transcript/文稿】Prior to this weekend, the best-known duet ofPhilip Bailey’s career was the stone-cold PhilCollins classic “Easy Lover.” Now, it might be alittle shorter and sweeter. Earth, Wind & Fire werethe surprise guests at Sabrina Carpenter’sLollapalooza set on August 3, with the bandjoining Carpenter for a rump-shaking two-song setof “Let’s Groove” and “September.” Bailey, who’sserved as lead singer since 1972, credits Carpenter’sagent for conjuring up the idea. However, therewas a major time crunch leading up to theperformance, so much so that Bailey was initiallyskeptical the correct decision was made. “It wasone of those kinds of things that happened in 24hours,” he recalls. “We had to really turn this thingaround.”Earth, Wind & Fire were up in Detroit for aconcert on August 2 and had two days off beforetheir next gig in the northern Michigan town ofInterlochen. Lollapalooza, held in Chicago — thegroup’s hometown — was an easy enoughcommute for the friendly and luxurious skies.“They sent a private plane for us and ourentourage,” Bailey says. “We hopped a plane atseven in the morning, went in, and had therehearsal. It was very quick and kind of sketchy. Iwas almost concerned about it. But by thatevening, they had dialed everything in, and she didher homework on what verses she was going totake. We went out there and floated on all thatenergy.” The song choices of “Let’s Groove” and“September” were an easy decision because they“always keep the party rocking,” although Baileysays Carpenter was well versed in the band’sdeeper discography during their brief timetogether. She later wrote on social media thatEarth, Wind & Fire “raised me on the greatestsongs of all time; true soul moving timeless music.”Bailey wasn’t familiar with Carpenter’s workbesides the caffeinated earworm “Espresso,” andtime constraints for the rehearsal prevented themfrom getting to know each other a little bit better,as there were several other members of Earth,Wind & Fire to contend and choreograph with onstage, including longtime percussionist and singerRalph Johnson. “She’s very cordial, very kind, andvery approachable,” Bailey says of the pop star. “Weboth greeted each other warmly, but we didn’t havetime to talk about anything. Everybody was on atight schedule. We didn’t even have time to runover the performance thoroughly. There werethings that weren’t right during the run-through,so my people stayed there and we trusted that theywould get all that stuff ready in due time.”The results, of course, speak for themselves:Carpenter, strutting around in a sequined pinkbodysuit, looks over the moon to be in the presenceof such legendary elements. Bailey looks dashinghimself in a patterned suit, dancing the night awayto some of the most joyous hits in the Americancanon. “Sometimes things work, and oftentimesthey don’t,” Bailey explains. “Her energy and ourenergy were very compatible and complementaryto one another. How she puts her show together, interms of how it accelerates and builds, wasfantastic. Where she chose to put our segment was perfect.”Consider it a successful weekend for respecting theclassics. The night prior, Carpenter’s fellowLollapalooza headliner Olivia Rodrigo brought outWeezer for a one-two punch of “Say It Ain’t So” and“Buddy Holly,” continuing her own impressivefestival streak of highlighting rock elders foryounger audiences. (Carpenter has stated in thepast her admiration for Queen, the Beatles, andRush, in case we’re scoping out ideas for the future.You think she has the range for “Fly by Night”?)But, for now, Bailey is thrilled. “I had to askeverybody once we were done, ‘How was it?’Because you can’t really feel with that shortperformance if you’re actually meeting the mark ornot and I think we all had nerves,” he says, as if thetens of thousands of gyrating fans in the audienceweren’t enough confirmation. “We were honored tobe asked and very appreciative to her and to herfans for embracing these moments we were able to create together.

【Title/标题】Box Office: ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Clobbers $57 Million Opening Day — Second-Biggest of the Year【Source/来源】Media Outlet/媒体：VarietyWritten by/作者：By J. Kim Murphy【Transcript/文稿】“The Fantastic Four: First Steps” stretched its arms around $57 million from 4,125 theaters across Friday and preview screenings. Per Disney‘s numbers, that’s the second-biggest opening day of the calendar year, ranking just behind “A Minecraft Movie” ($57.11 million). The film is playing Imax and other premium large format auditoriums.It also just edges out Marvel Studios‘ comic book banner rival, DC Studios’ “Superman,” which began with a $56.1 million opening day just two weeks ago. It’ll be a close call on whether “Fantastic Four” can keep pacing ahead to beat the $125 million three-day opening of “Superman.”It’s the best first day kick-off for a Marvel Cinematic Universe entry since “Deadpool & Wolverine” dominated the box office 12 months ago. And like that R-rated smash, “Fantastic Four” is based on Marvel characters that were acquired by Disney after the studio’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox in 2019, demonstrating some value to that $71 billion merger. Three previous big-budget “Fantastic Four” entries were produced at Fox, from 2005 to 2015. (There was also an unreleased 1994 feature, spearheaded by Roger Corman as a means to retain film rights for German producers. It circulates among diehards.)With a story that has little connection to other Marvel Cinematic Universe entries, “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” has presented itself as a relatively fresh entry point to audiences. Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who lead the film as Marvel’s first family, are all MCU newcomers. “First Steps” also has the benefit of strong reviews and good audience sentiment (pollster Cinema Score turned in an “A-” grade among ticketbuyers).At a production cost of $200 million, plus much more to market and distribute, the film will need to hold as one of the biggest grossers of the year to turn a profit in theaters. Marvel’s two previous 2025 releases, “Captain America: Brave New World” and “Thunderbolts*,” launched to $88.5 million and $76 million respectively. Both ended up losing money theatrically.Disney hopes to gain some momentum with the Matt Shakman-directed “Fantastic Four,” ahead of the studio’s extensive hiatus from superhero films. Marvel is producing “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” the fourth Tom Holland-led entry set to release July 2026. But Sony is distributing that film. Disney will have nearly a year and a half to plan for its next MCU installment, the mega-team-up “Avengers: Doomsday,” set for December 2026.Second place goes to Warner Bros.’ “Superman,” which added $7.1 million on Friday. It’s down 57% from its daily total a week ago, now competing with a newer superhero spectacle. The cinematic universe-rebooter should fly to a $289 million domestic total after its third weekend, which will put it ahead of “Sinners” ($278 million) to have it rank as the fourth-highest grossing North American release of the year.Universal’s “Jurassic World Rebirth” is sliding to third in its fourth weekend, adding another $3.6 million on Friday. The seventh entry in the dinosaur series is projecting $13 million for its fourth weekend, which would be another good hold at a 45% drop. Total domestic gross is expected to pass $301 million through Sunday — only the third release of 2025 to get into the triple hundreds.Fourth looks to go to “F1.” Warner Bros.’ release of Apple Studios’ racing thriller added $1.8 million Friday, down just 37% from its daily total a week ago. At a production cost of $250 million, theatrical profitability is a questionable prospect at best for the Brad Pitt-led feature. But it has put up strong holds since debuting a month ago. The film looks to hit a $165 million domestic total through Sunday.Paramount’s IP revival “Smurfs” rounds out the top five, adding $1.72 million on Friday and projecting $5.6 million for its second weekend. After a low opening, that’s a 49% second-weekend drop, showing some relative staying power as the only new animated offering to families. Domestic total will hit $22.9 million through the first 10 days — a disappointing result against a $58 million production budget.

【Title/标题】Mattel’s newest Barbie has diabetes【Source/来源】Media Outlet/媒体：LA TIMESWritten by/作者：Piper Heath【Transcript/文稿】Dressed in a matching polka dot tank top and ruffled skirt with blue chunky heeled boots and a mini purse, Mattel’s newest Barbie may look like previous dolls at first glance.But this particular doll stands out with a wearable insulin pump on her waist, a glucose monitor on her arm and a phone showing her blood sugar readings, making her the El Segundo-based toy company’s first Barbie with Type 1 diabetes.The doll continues Mattel’s expansion of representation across its flagship brand. The Barbie Fashionistas line features more than 175 looks across various skin tones, body types and disabilities, including previous additions like a blind Barbie, a Barbie with Down syndrome and a Barbie with hearing aids.The company’s commitment to representation has proved commercially successful. In 2024, the top 10 most popular Barbie Fashionista dolls globally included the blind Barbie and the Barbie with Down syndrome.The Fashionistas series also includes dolls with vitiligo, prosthetic limbs and wheelchairs. The wheelchair-using doll has consistently been a top performer since its introduction in 2019.Krista Berger, senior vice president of Barbie and global head of dolls at Mattel, said Barbie helps shape children’s early perceptions of the world. Reflecting medical conditions like T1D ensures “more kids can see themselves in the stories they imagine and the dolls they love.”The doll was developed with Breakthrough T1D, the leading global Type 1 diabetes research and advocacy organization. The partnership ensured medical accuracy while incorporating diabetes awareness symbols through the clothes’ blue coloring and polka dot pattern.Aaron J. Kowalski, chief executive of Breakthrough T1D, said the partnership is about “bringing greater visibility to a condition that affects so many families.”The doll launched Tuesday during Breakthrough T1D’s 2025 Children’s Congress in Washington, D.C. The event brings together more than 170 children living with Type 1 diabetes, giving them face time with members of Congress to advocate for ongoing funding for Type 1 diabetes research. This year they asked members of Congress to renew funding for the Special Diabetes Program.The Special Diabetes Program’s current funding expires after September. The program, first allocated by Congress in 1997, faces uncertainty amid recent cuts to federally-funded projects.Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition affecting nearly 9 million people globally, with about 352,000 children living with diabetes in the United States. The CDC reports that 1.7 million individuals 20 or older live with Type 1 diabetes and use insulin.The new Barbie is available through Mattel Shop and retailers nationwide.

【Title/标题】Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom Split, End Their Engagement After 7 Years Together【Source/来源】Media Outlet/媒体：US WEEKELYWritten by/作者：Erin Crabtree, Kaitlin Simpson and Amanda Williams【Transcript/文稿】Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom have called it quits after nearly a decade of dating.“Katy and Orlando have split but are amicable,” a source close to the pair exclusively tells Us Weekly. “It’s not contentious at the moment. Katy is of course upset but is relieved to not have to go through another divorce, as that was the worst time in her life.”According to the insider, Perry, 40, and Bloom’s split has been “a long time coming” as things between them “have been tense for months.” (The pair, who share 4-year-old daughter Daisy, have been apart since Perry kicked off her Lifetimes tour earlier this year.)For now, Perry is “keeping busy” on tour “and is distracted,” the insider shares, revealing that while on the road, the pop star is “renting out” her Westcott Estate in Montecito, California.“But she and Orlando have always lived in their other Montecito home as their primary residence,” the source continues, adding that the duo were “planning on making the Westcott home their family home but plans have changed” and “have been living apart since Katy has been on tour.”Perry and Bloom were first romantically linked in January 2016, after they were spotted at multiple Golden Globes afterparties together. The couple briefly split in March 2017, but were back together by February 2018. Perry and Bloom got engaged on Valentine’s Day in February 2019 — and one year later, she announced in March 2020 that she was pregnant with the pair’s first baby. Their daughter, Daisy Dove, arrived that August. (Bloom is also the father of son Flynn, 14, with ex-wife Miranda Kerr.)News of Perry and Bloom’s breakup comes after reports of tension in their relationship.“They have been spending more and more time apart,” a source exclusively told Us in June. “They’ve grown apart and aren’t living the same lives anymore.”According to a second insider, the former couple’s inner circle was well aware of the couple’s relationship rough patch.STORIESUp Next - Influencer Addressed Why She Ended Marriage Days Before Husband Killed Her Us Weekly ShortsKaty Perry and Orlando Bloom have called it quits after nearly a decade of dating.“Katy and Orlando have split but are amicable,” a source close to the pair exclusively tells Us Weekly. “It’s not contentious at the moment. Katy is of course upset but is relieved to not have to go through another divorce, as that was the worst time in her life.”According to the insider, Perry, 40, and Bloom’s split has been “a long time coming” as things between them “have been tense for months.” (The pair, who share 4-year-old daughter Daisy, have been apart since Perry kicked off her Lifetimes tour earlier this year.)For now, Perry is “keeping busy” on tour “and is distracted,” the insider shares, revealing that while on the road, the pop star is “renting out” her Westcott Estate in Montecito, California.Celebrity Splits of 2025 Stars Who Have Called It Quits This YearRelated: Celebrity Splits of 2025: Stars Who Have Called It Quits This Year“But her and Orlando have always lived in their other Montecito home as their primary residence,” the source continues, adding that the duo were “planning on making the Westcott home their family home but plans have changed” and “have been living apart since Katy has been on tour.”Celebrity Splits of 2025 Stars Who Have Called It Quits This Year Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom GettyImages 2170441693: Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom. Robin Marchant/Getty ImagesPerry and Bloom were first romantically linked in January 2016, after they were spotted at multiple Golden Globes afterparties together. The couple briefly split in March 2017, but were back together by February 2018. Perry and Bloom got engaged on Valentine’s Day in February 2019 — and one year later, she announced in March 2020 that she was pregnant with the pair’s first baby. Their daughter, Daisy Dove, arrived that August. (Bloom is also the father of son Flynn, 14, with ex-wife Miranda Kerr.)News of Perry and Bloom’s breakup comes after reports of tension in their relationship.GettyImages-2203094056-Katy-Perry-and-Orlando-Bloom-Split-End-Their-Engagement.jpg: Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom attend the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 2, 2025, in Beverly Hills, California. Taylor Hill/FilmMagic“They have been spending more and more time apart,” a source exclusively told Us in June. “They’ve grown apart and aren’t living the same lives anymore.”According to a second insider, the former couple’s inner circle was well aware of the couple’s relationship rough patch.“It’s an unspoken thing that they are having issues and have for a while now,” the second source said. “Everyone around them knows.”The second insider added that Bloom was keeping his struggles with Perry “close to the vest,” but had been “out and about more often” without her while she was on her Lifetimes Tour, which kicked off in April.“Katy has been very busy working, and they are apart often,” the second source told Us. “That has caused tension.”Throughout their years of dating in the spotlight, the couple have been forthcoming about their ups and downs, with Perry sharing via Instagram in April 2023 that they “continuously put in the work” to maintain their relationship.As for Bloom, he explained in April 2024 how the pair’s fame affected their romance.“I wouldn’t change it for anything, even when sometimes it feels like, ‘How do we do this?’” Bloom said on Trevor Noah’s “What Now?” podcast at the time. “Because we’ve got these two giant careers and lives — and hers is even … it’s like a universe sometimes.”

【Title/标题】Box Office: Danny Boyle’s ‘28 Years Later’ Bites Off $5.8M in Previews, Pixar’s ‘Elio’ Takes in $3M【Source/来源】Media Outlet/媒体：The Hollywood ReporterWritten by/作者：PAMELA MCCLINTOCK【Transcript/文稿】Universal’ How to Train Your Dragon won the Juneteenth holiday box office race on Thursday with $9.7 million in ticket sales as it heads into its second weekend with an early domestic haul of nearly $125 million.The live-action remake of DreamWorks Animation’s celebrated 2010 animated film is confident it will stay atop the chart in its sophomore outing despite the entry of two new summer event pics, Danny Boyle‘s 28 Years Later and Pixar’s Elio, both of which took advantage of the holiday by starting previews early in the day. (How to Train Your Dragon has a huge advantage in playing in Imax cinemas, and is eying bringing in another $35 million domestically this weekend.)Boyle’s zombie sequel, from Sony, is reporting a preview gross of $5.8 million, enough to place second on Thursday — at least unofficially (previews grosses are ultimately folded into the opening-day gross, or in this instance, Friday’s haul). Sony is suggesting a weekend opening the $28 million to $30 million range, while tracking shows Boyle’s film coming in at $30 million or more.So far, however, 28 Years Later, isn’t going over so well with audiences despite glowing reviews. Presently, the Rotten Tomatoes critics’ score is 92 percent, while the audience score is only 69 percent.28 Years Later — the first in a planned trilogy — reunites Boyle with writer Alex Garland 25 years after 28 Days hit big screen and became a cult classic. Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams and Ralph Fiennes star in the pic, which is set nearly three decades after the events of the first film.Elio — an original film about a young boy whose wish to travel to outer space and interact with aliens comes true — earned $3 million from Thursday previews and select special access Wednesday screenings.Tracking showed the animated film opening to $30 million in North America, although it is now eying an opening in the $20 million to $23 million. That means Pixar is braced for the movie suffering the worst three-day opening ever for the storied animation studio behind Elemental ($29.6 million) in June 2023 and its very first film, 1995’s Toy Story ($29.1 million), not adjusted for inflation. (Toy Story opened over Thanksgiving and amassed $39 million over the long five-day holiday weekend.)At the time, Elemental‘s opening was called nothing short of a debacle, yet it turned into sleeper hit on its way to earning nearly $500 million globally. Pixar and parent company Disney are confident that Elio will have the same sort of staying power throughout the summer when kids are sprung from school. So far, Elio is graced with a better critics score on Rotten Tomatoes than Elemental. There’s not yet an audience score on RT.Pixar has been struggling to find its footing in a world where original animated stories don’t open to the heights they once did — think north of $70 million — in the post-pandemic world. And during the pandemic years, then-Disney CEO Bob Chapek decided to send three Pixar titles straight to Disney+ domestically, including Turning Red, Luca and the Oscar-winning Soul, a decision rivals said taught families to wait to watch a film at home. (All three were considered streaming hits.)But Pixar and Disney reversed course and are once again committed to telling original theatrical stories, mixed in with known IP, such as last year’s blockbuster and record-shattering Inside Out 2, the top-grossing pic of 2024, the top ever title for Pixar and the top animated of all time with more than $1.69 billion in worldwide ticket sales, not adjusted for inflation.

【Title/标题】Inside ‘Anora’s’ Oscar Victory: How Scrappy Indie Neon Pulled Off Its Second Best Picture Win in 5 Years【Source/来源】Media Outlet/媒体：VarietyWritten by/作者：Brent Lang, Tatiana Siegel【Transcript/文稿】In the run-up to the Academy Awards, Neon took a unique approach to scoring the season’s top prize for “Anora.” While other studios spent their money on tried-and-true strategies, from tastemaker screenings to glossy ads, Neon pulled up a tow truck in front of a Los Angeles auto body shop for a pop-up “Anora” merchandise sale in November — complete with branded T-shirts and thongs. Some 300 fans queued up before the vehicle even arrived. And for its first screening of the film about a Brooklyn escort who marries a Russian oligarch’s kid, the boutique distributor filled the audience with sex workers rather than Oscar voters.“We follow the beat of our own drum,” says Tom Quinn, Neon’s CEO. “The idea of pandering to the campaign as opposed to being who you are as a film is a big, stark difference. We never play to the campaign. We always play to the film, filmmaker and audience — in that order.” The strategy may be unconventional, but it’s hard to beat the results. For the second time since it launched in 2017, Neon captured the best picture statuette. For context, neither the legacy studio Disney nor the deep-pocketed Netflix has ever landed a single best picture Oscar, never mind two. Neon, with a staff of 60 people, has pulled off the achievement twice in five years, making the indie film company the hottest label in town. “They have climbed to the top of the mountain,” says Marc Simon, a veteran film finance attorney. “And they’ve reached the pinnacle by being disciplined and smart. They know when to take swings and how to manage risks.” This year, Neon’s rivals spent lavishly, with one entertainment company said to have plunked down $60 million on a single film’s awards-season campaign. By his standards, Quinn spent a lot — $18 million on the marketing, distribution and awards campaign of “Anora.” In other words, three times the budget of Sean Baker’s movie itself. Still, it was slightly less than the $20 million that the company spent on “Parasite,” its first best picture winner. Some of the coverage of “Anora’s” victory has focused on it being one of the lowest-grossing best picture winners in history, having earned $16.1 million domestically and $41.4 million globally to date. Neon controls domestic rights to the film, while Universal Pictures International handles most overseas territories. Quinn thinks the skeptical coverage of “Anora’s” box office results misses the point. The film will be profitable after digital rentals and licensing deals are considered.“[Box office] is not the only revenue stream,” he says. “‘Anora’ is No. 1 across every entertainment platform — Amazon, Apple. That is massive.”David Thion, the producer of “Anatomy of a Fall,” which Neon guided to a best picture nomination and an original screenplay Oscar in 2024, praised Quinn for being scrappy. Thion noted it was Quinn’s idea to make the film’s scene-stealing dog a central part of its campaign. He also appreciated Quinn’s candor.“Tom told us from the very start, ‘We’re going to demand a lot from you’” Thion says. “‘It’s going to be very intense, you will have to set your own limits, and we will listen to the signs you will send us.’ That was an important message.” In late 2023, Neon nearly sold itself to Steven Rales, a billionaire industrialist, for a reported $100 million, only to see the deal collapse at the eleventh hour. When the pact failed, there were rumors that the studio, like many other indies in the post-Covid era, was in trouble. The narrative has clearly changed. In the past few months, Neon nabbed its fifth Palme d’Or in a row for “Anora” at Cannes while its low-budget horror movies “Longlegs” and the still-playing “The Monkey” became box office breakouts, earning $127 million and $31 million worldwide, respectively. The company says that 2024 was its most financially successful year to date. “Neon has established themselves as one of the preeminent art-house distributors in a very short time and recently embraced one of the most consistent and profitable box office genres in the history of Hollywood — horror,” says analyst Jeff Bock at Exhibitor Relations. “This pivot could legitimately see the indie darling copy A24’s blueprint and expand their reach, boosting their bottom line exponentially.” There’s been chatter that Neon and A24 are locked in an art-house death match to be the hippest player in cinema. But Quinn insists that’s not the case, saying the A24 team could not have been more gracious when “Anora” triumphed on Oscar night over its film, “The Brutalist.” “The industry thinks there’s a rivalry, and there’s not,” he says. “It’s good headlines. I thought they might be our biggest competitor. But as it turns out, our biggest competitor has been Netflix. They desperately tried to beat us to buy ‘I, Tonya’ and ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire,’ and we ended up losing out to them on ‘Hit Man,’ ‘May December’ and ‘Fair Play.’ There’s a slew of movies where I’m the second-highest bidder [to Netflix].”

【Title/标题】‘SNL’ 50th anniversary: Everything you need to know about the special【Source/来源】Media Outlet/媒体：New York PostWritten by/作者：Alexandra Bellusci【Transcript/文稿】Live from New York, it’s almost Sunday Night!And “Saturday Night Live” viewers are gearing up for the sketch comedy show’s 50th anniversary special airing on Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.The “SNL 50: The Anniversary Special” is a three-hour live telecast from Studio 8H, which will celebrate the long-running series’ half-centennial on air. Iconic cast members from past and present are set to make an appearance, including Jane Curtin, Amy Poehler, Chevy Chase, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Will Ferrell, and more. Production designer Keith Raywood, who has been with “SNL” for 40 seasons since 1985, revealed just how big the special episode will be.“We [will] have about 450 people in the studio, which is essentially about 200 people more than we would normally have,” he told The Post.Raywood noted that the audience will be full of the special guests’ friends and family. “Imagine all the people who have been on the show – those cast members and hosts. It’s a lot of people [there to see them]. And, those seats don’t normally exist,” he continued. It’s sure to be a star-studded evening to commemorate everything that made the NBC variety show the pop culture phenomenon that it is.The special will air live at 8 p.m. ET Sunday on NBC and Peacock.Red carpet coverage starts at 7 p.m. ET on NBC with “SNL” alum Leslie Jones, “Sunday Today” host Willie Geist and comedian Matt Rogers interviewing the stars.Creator and host of the viral chat show “Chicken Shop Date,” Amelia Dimoldenberg, will be the correspondent for the red carpet livestream.Viewers can watch on all “SNL” social and digital platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok.The milestone moment in comedy will bring together some of the greats.Chevy Chase, Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin and Laraine Newman, four of the surviving original cast members, are set to return.Other alums set to return include Adam Sandler, Amy Poehler, Andy Samberg, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Fred Armisen, Jason Sudeikis, Jimmy Fallon, Kate McKinnon, Kenan Thompson, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Molly Shannon, Pete Davidson, Seth Meyers, Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, Will Ferrell and Will Forte.“It’s so exciting,” Shannon said of the special on “Today” Thursday. “But I also forget I get nervous. There’s nothing like live performance. … I forget the adrenaline. So it’s so exciting. But it feels like coming home.” Current cast members will also join in on the special. The roster will be: Michael Che, Mikey Day, Andrew Dismukes, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, Marcello Hernández, James Austin Johnson, Colin Jost, Michael Longfellow, Ego Nwodim, Sarah Sherman, Kenan Thompson, Devon Walker and Bowen Yang.

【Title/标题】Kendrick Lamar puts the final nail in his Drake feud with subtle (and not-so-subtle) digs at the Super Bowl halftime show【Source/来源】Media Outlet/媒体：YahooWritten by/作者：Kelsey Weekman【Transcript/文稿】A week after winning five Grammys for his Drake diss track “Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar took a victory lap at the Super Bowl halftime show.During the under-15-minute set, Lamar played several new songs from his latest album GNX, as well as a few older hits, backed by a fleet of dancers.His performance was introduced by Samuel L. Jackson wearing an Uncle Sam costume.He played the opening notes of “Not Like Us,” pausing it to say that he’d like to play the fan-favorite song, but “you know they love to sue.” Drake filed a lawsuit on Jan. 15 against Universal Music Group, the record company he and Lamar are both signed to, alleging defamation and harassment over the song.“Not Like Us” was released toward the end of an exchange of diss tracks between the two rappers last summer. Lamar emerged victorious with the most streams and the most Grammys.X users seemed to support Lamar’s end of the feud as well. Though Drake is an enormously popular artist, many have turned on him in support of Lamar.After playing a few songs, Lamar returned to “Not Like Us,” looking directly into the camera as he sang, “Say, Drake, I hear you like ‘em young.”He censored the lyrics that call Drake a pedophile, but still sang the part where he says, “tryna strike a chord and it's probably A minor.” The crowd gleefully sang along.SZA joined him onstage to perform “Luther” and “All the Stars.” She frequently collaborates with Lamar, but she’s also one of Drake’s exes. The two dated in 2009.Another one of Drake’s past flames present onstage was Serena Williams, who danced as Lamar performed.Lamar performed “TV Off,” one of his newest songs, which wasn’t part of his back-and-forth feud with Drake but does diss him lyrically.At the end, the lights behind Lamar stated, "GAME OVER."His victory lap isn’t over, though — it’s continuing online. Between 9 p.m. on Sunday and midnight ET on Monday, streams of Lamar’s music spiked by nearly 175% on Spotify compared to last week at the same time, according to data the streaming service sent Yahoo Entertainment.Several songs from his setlist saw substantial streaming spikes, with “Not Like Us” taking the crown at a 430% increase. “Humble” followed with a 300% increase, and “All the Stars (with SZA)” went up 290%. SZA also saw an 80% increase in Spotify streams herself after her halftime show appearance.Lamar and SZA will be taking the show on the road. After their performance, they announced new dates for their “Grand National” tour, which kicks off in April. Chances are they’ll break the internet again when tickets go on sale this week.

【Title/标题】‘Ne Zha 2’ Crosses $1B At China Box Office; First Movie Ever To Milestone In A Single Market【Source/来源】Media Outlet/媒体：DeadlineWritten by/作者： Nancy Tartaglione【Transcript/文稿】With today’s running business included, Chinese blockbuster Ne Zha 2 has topped RMB 7B ($960.5M) in China, far and away setting a new record for the biggest gross ever by a film in a single market worldwide. In reaching the milestone, this animated sequel overtakes 2015’s Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens which was long the title holder for highest gross in a single market, that being $936.7M from North America.Ne Zha 2 has been on a tear since it released during the Lunar New Year corridor in China (January 28-February 4). It set the single-film box office record for the holiday in the market’s history, and this past Thursday surpassed The Battle at Lake Changjin to become China’s biggest film ever. The next record to fall will be when Ne Zha 2 soon hits $1B in China, thereby becoming the only film ever to reach that mark in a single market. Maoyan has been upping its predictions throughout the week, now forecasting a staggering RMB 10.8B ($1.48B) China finish. As of 5pm local time today, which is a working day in the market, it’s at RMB 7.06B/$968.8M.Directed by Yang Yu (aka Jiaozi), Ne Zha 2, which is due for release in North America via CMC on Feb 14, is loosely based on a classic Chinese myth and is set after the events of the previous 2019 film. It centers on the titular boy with magical powers and his friend Aobing as their souls are saved but their physical forms face dissolution. Aided by the immortal Taiyi Zhenren to reconstruct their bodies, the heroes face numerous challenges (including a bevy of sea monsters) as they attempt to overcome a crisis that threatens the existence of humankind.While China saw a downturn in 2024 as box office slipped 25% from the previous year, the start to 2025 is an encouraging sign with the Spring Festival logging a new overall record for box office during the annual holiday period. Total Mainland grosses reached RMB 9.51B ($1.3B) from January 28-February 4, outstripping the previous record of RMB 8.02B.A promotional scheme launched this past December by the China Film Administration to offer subsidies to the moviegoing public through February, alongside other campaigns at regional levels, helped spur traffic, but momentum hasn’t flagged.The jury is still out on what this means for Hollywood going forward as Chinese tastes have turned more towards local fare. There is some cautious optimism that the return of audiences to cinemas could spill over to studio movies as well. As we’ve previously noted, the situation will become clearer when we see the performance of key titles in the latter half of 2025, particularly Zootopia 2 and Avatar: Fire & Ash.

【Title/标题】2025 Oscars: Universal’s Film Empire Nabs Historic 25 Noms, Netflix Leads Individual List With 16【Source/来源】Media Outlet/媒体：The Hollywood ReporterWritten by/作者：PAMELA MCCLINTOCK【Transcript/文稿】When it comes to this year’s Oscar nominations, the love was spread across the distributor scoreboard, from legacy Hollywood studios and their specialty divisions, to streamers and maverick indie distributors.Netflix walked away with the most of any individual distributor on Tuesday with a total of 16 nods after Emilia Pérez landed a spot in 13 categories, the most of any film this year and setting a new record for a non-English-language film. And it’s just one shy of the all-time record for any film (All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land each landed 14).Next up on the Academy’s scorecard of top-nominated individual distributors was powerhouse A24 with 14, including 10 for The Brutalist. The movie, which swept the Golden Globes, will use its front-runner status as it continues to expand in theaters, where it has earned a promising $5.9 million despite only playing in several hundred cinemas to date.Universal Pictures‘ Wicked likewise scored 10 noms in a major win for a film that is both an awards darling and a commercial studio hit. For years, many have attributed the declining interest in watching the Oscars telecast to the fact that many of the nominees are arthouse films that may only play in a smattering of top markets. Wicked has grossed north of $800 million to date at the global box office, making it the top-grossing film vying for best picture. Cynthia Erivo, who is up for best actress, and Ariana Grande, who is up for best supporting actress, have huge followings, which could help the telecast.Universal’s larger film empire, which includes Focus Features and DreamWorks Animation (home of sleeper hit The Wild Robot), made history on Tuesday in nabbing a combined 25 nods, its best showing ever. It surpassed last year’s then-record 18 that was led by Christopher Nolan’s best picture winner Oppenheimer.This year, Universal Pictures proper led with 13 noms, followed by Focus with 11. This is the third year-in-a row in which both labels have a title in the best picture race. Focus has Conclave, which walked away with eight noms to tie with Brokeback Mountain and Milk to rank as the most nominated film in Focus’ history. And Conclave was one of the top-grossing specialty titles of 2024 after successfully making the leap from the arthouse to the multiplex. To date, it has grossed north of $76 million globally.Searchlight Pictures, landing 10 nominations, helped Disney’s vast film empire pick up a total of 15 nominations, including eight for A Complete Unknown and two for A Real Pain. Disney is also home of 20th Century Studios and National Geographic Films, which also earned nods.A Complete Unknown is another best picture contender that is doing real box office business, earning nearly $60 million to date after opening on Christmas Day. And, of course, Pixar and Disney’s Inside Out 2, which is up for best animated feature, is the top-grossing animated film of all time with nearly $1.7 billion in worldwide ticket sales.Rule-bending indie distributor Noen also made a strong showing in picking up seven noms — six went to Palme d’Or winner Anora. It bested Warner Bros.’ five noms and Paramount’s three. Warners’ noms were all for Legendary’s Dune: Part Two, another best picture contender and box-office heavyweight, which grossed $705 million globally.

【Title/标题】Hoda Kotb thanks 'Today' viewers for 'the ride of a lifetime' as she signs off for the last time【Source/来源】Media Outlet/媒体：Yahoo! EntertainmentWritten by/作者：Suzy Byrne【Transcript/文稿】It’s the end of an era as Hoda Kotb signed off as Today co-anchor and Hoda & Jenna co-host. There was no shortage of sweet moments over the four hours of TV, with one brief preemption announcing President-elect Donald Trump's "unconditional discharge" sentence.While there was plenty of news to deliver on Kotb's last day — the Los Angeles County fires, Jimmy Carter’s funeral — it was also very much a “Hoda-bration,” which is what NBC dubbed her week-long send-off. There were montages, colleague tributes, celebrity tributes and lots of tears.As the news show kicked off Friday morning, co-anchor Savannah Guthrie teased that the day would be about celebrating “everything everyone adores about Hoda filled with special surprises and a lot of joy.”The female anchor team — the first ever on the show — held hands as Kotb, wearing a white pantsuit, said, “One last time. Let’s do this.”Kotb revealed in a behind-the-scenes video that Guthrie — who wore black for the occasion — gifted her a bracelet that says “With you” in cursive as well as a ring that says, “Love.” She said, “I feel loved and held.”Each member of the Today team paid tribute to Kotb in a video. Guthrie, who said Kotb was “like a sister to me,” said, “I love you deeply. I always tell you: Whether you are sitting next to me or not, whether we get up at 4 o’clock in the morning or not, you will always be by my side.”Al Roker talked about his near-death health scare in 2022, when Kotb visited him nearly every day at the hospital — so often people could have mistaken her for a doctor.Craig Melvin, Kotb’s replacement, said, “Hoda doesn’t do interviews. She has conversations [in which] she’s peering into your soul.” He talked about how encouraging she has been of him. (Kotb wished him luck on Monday, when he takes over, joking she won’t be watching because she’ll be sleeping in.)Carson Daly spoke of Kotb’s good energy, how she’s always singing and dancing on the set, and he dedicated Coldplay’s “All My Love” to her.Keith Morrison, who worked with Kotb on Dateline earlier in her 26-year career with NBC News, talked about mentoring her as she learned to narrate stories. He said, “We will miss our Hoda.”NBC correspondent Maria Shriver was there to discuss Kotb's next act professionally: launching a business in the wellness space. Shriver told her, "You're made for this... You're going to help people come alive."Kotb, a breast cancer survivor, is known for her good energy and sharing inspiring quotes on her Instagram. The team said she added the “morning boost” segment, an uplifting story that airs after a series of tough news stories. Kotb said Jenna Bush Hager will take over the “boost,” handing her Hoda & Jenna co-host a metallic baton to commemorate the transition.The fans in the plaza were ready to say goodbye to Kotb. There was a big crowd of people with posters and glasses that spelled out “Hoda.” Kotb quipped that a security guard outside told her, “The next time you retire, do it in July,” as it’s an especially cold week in New York.There were a ton of celebrity tributes, from Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, who appeared in person, to pre-taped ones from Oprah Winfrey and Kristin Chenoweth. Jamie Lee Curtis also had an orb made for Kotb inscribed with, “Every today with you is a better day.”Kotb said her decision to leave was made around her two young daughters, Haley and Hope, both of whom made an appearance. They said they were excited that their mother would be home on Monday morning to walk them to school.Mother and daughters were serenaded by Kermit the Frog, who sang, “Rainbow Connection,” the song Kotb sings to her girls each night. Kotb became emotional listening to it, especially when her colleagues joined in.Other family members supporting Kotb on her last day included her sister, brother, sister-in-law and nieces. She said her mother, Sameha, who has supported her as a working mom through the years by taking the kids to school, was "at home watching," having previously made several long trips to New York City from the suburbs where Kotb moved over the summer.The 8 a.m. hour ended on the plaza, with everyone rocking purple hats and Kotb thanking "every person who came out here. I read your cards. I got your bracelets. I got the scarves you crocheted. I read the texts. I got everything. I want to say from the bottom of my heart, thank you," she said. "I love you."The celebration picked up on Hoda & Jenna at 10 a.m. Bush Hager started by saying their final show together would be "a love letter" to Kotb, and the woman of the hour replied, "I think I'm ready."They talked about letting the emotions flow and not trying to stop them. Bush Hager joked that the show was "brought to you by Kleenex."Kotb debuted on the fourth hour in 2007 and in 2008 began co-hosting with Kathie Lee Gifford. The current hosting team of the more light-hearted lifestyle show began in 2019 after Gifford departed.

【Title/标题】2025 Golden Globes winners announced: See the full list, from Best Actress surprises to Emilia Pérez dominationNikki Glaser hosted a ceremony that skyrocketed Demi Moore into the Oscars race, while "Shōgun" and "Hacks" won big among TV contenders.【Source/来源】Media Outlet/媒体：Entertainment WeeklyWritten by/作者：Joey Nolfi【Transcript/文稿】With the holidays in the rearview mirror, the 2025 Golden Globes winners rang in the new year with a fresh class of awards season darlings at the top of a heated race — including several stunning surprises and shutouts along the way.Across Sunday night's ceremony hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, the Golden Globes revealed its annual roster of winners in both film and TV categories, with many movies and performances in contention at the Globes — like Mikey Madison (Anora), Angelina Jolie (Maria), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), and Ariana Grande (Wicked) — also expected to cross over into Oscars territory when the Academy announces its nominations on Jan. 17.Best Film winners in the Drama and Musical or Comedy categories, respectively, included The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez, with the latter emerging as an industry-favorite musical drama that followed up its steamrolling of the European Film Awards in December with four Golden Globe wins — the most for any film this year. Given the Jacques Audiard-directed movie's prominence with both the EFA — which shares significant crossover membership with the Academy — and the Globes, Emilia Pérez may now be the Best Picture contender to beat. That scenario feels even likelier after previously presumed frontrunner Anora lost all of its competitive categories at the Globes.One of those losses came in the Best Actress category, where Demi Moore triumphed over Anora's Madison, whom many predicted would win the award. Moore's performance in The Substance generated career-best reviews for the Hollywood icon, who will now likely go head-to-head with the Globes' Musical or Comedy winner, I'm Still Here's surprise victor Fernanda Torres, on Oscar ballots. Torres overtook strong competition from Maria's Jolie and Babygirl's Nicole Kidman to become a new leader among a crowded category.On the supporting side, Emilia Pérez star Zoe Saldaña was the first winner of the night, while Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain) was honored with Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role.Among TV projects, Shōgun racked up the most significant haul of Golden Globes statuettes, with four overall wins, including three individual acting wins for stars Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai, and Tadanobu Asano.Baby Reindeer and Hacks tied for the second-higest tally of TV wins, with each project earning two awards each.Ahead of the main ceremony at a special gala on Friday, Golden Globes honorees Viola Davis and Ted Danson received the Cecil B. DeMille Award and Carol Burnett Award, respectively, for career achievement in film and TV.The rest of the film and TV winners were presented during the televised ceremony, featuring presenters like Davis, Moore, Anya Taylor-Joy, Catherine O'Hara, Colin Farrell, Colman Domingo, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Elton John, Glenn Close, Jennifer Coolidge, Melissa McCarthy, Michelle Yeoh, Mindy Kaling, Nicolas Cage, Salma Hayek, Seth Rogen, and Zoë Kravitz, among others.See the full list of 2025 Golden Globes winners below.Best Motion Picture — DramaWINNER: The BrutalistA Complete UnknownConclaveDune: Part TwoNickel BoysSeptember 5Best Motion Picture — Musical or ComedyAnoraChallengersWINNER: Emilia PérezA Real PainThe SubstanceWickedBest Motion Picture — Non-English LanguageAll We Imagine as LightWINNER: Emilia PérezThe Girl With the NeedleI'm Still HereThe Seed of the Sacred FigVermiglioBest Motion Picture — AnimatedWINNER: FlowInside Out 2Memoir of a SnailMoana 2Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most FowlThe Wild RobotCinematic and Box Office AchievementAlien: RomulusBeetlejuice, BeetlejuiceDeadpool & WolverineGladiator IIInside Out 2TwistersWINNER: WickedThe Wild Robot

【Title/标题】The Haunted New Twist in the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni Scandal【Source/来源】Media Outlet/媒体：SlatedWritten by/作者: JILL FILIPOVIC【Transcript/文稿】There’s a new twist in the dispute between actors Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, and it says a lot more about our society than it does about them.Last month, Lively filed a legal complaint that claimed Baldoni and film producer Jamey Heath not only sexually harassed her on the set of their blockbuster hit It Ends With Us, but that they, along with their production company Wayfarer, hired a crisis public relations firm to smear her reputation this past summer after the film’s release. The New York Times reported on the details of the allegations made in the complaint, which include messages from the crisis PR representatives asserting they could easily “bury” Lively. Baldoni and Heath deny any wrongdoing.The response to the story was gigantic—in part because the smear campaign against Lively was successful even beyond the scope of what the crisis PR firm could have hoped to accomplish. As one of the crisis PR reps who orchestrated the campaign put it in a message, uncovered via subpoena, the amount of bashing Lively was subjected to online was “actually sad because it just shows you have people really want to hate on women.”Baldoni, known previously for his role on the CW’s Jane the Virgin, was dropped by his talent agency. He had branded himself as a feminist—and after the Times’ report, an honor he received in December at a star-studded event for men who “elevate women” and “promote gender equality” was rescinded. His female co-host on a podcast called “Man Enough” quit the show.The documentation seemed incontrovertible, with far-reaching implications. It showed, as the Times put it, “an additional playbook for waging a largely undetectable smear campaign in the digital era.”The new twist is that Baldoni, Wayfarer, and crisis communications representatives have now sued the Times for libel for its reporting, claiming some $250 million in damages. Baldoni and Wayfarer don’t dispute that they hired a crisis PR firm, but say they did so out of “a legitimate need for public relations protection” from Lively herself, as they feared she was on the brink of taking some interactions out of context, or of blowing them out of proportion. What happened on set, they argue, wasn’t actually sexual harassment, and Lively’s claims that it was are simply false. In fact, the lawsuit implies, she was just a diva. (And supposedly, they’re going to sue Lively soon, too.)Baldoni and Wayfarer’s version of events, as detailed in the new lawsuit, is a funhouse mirror of Lively’s. In her telling, sexual harassment is clear. In theirs, the interactions were professional, or simply personal, but not in any way inappropriate. And so this is where we are, in 2025, post-#MeToo, three decades after the Anita Hill hearings: still quibbling over what sexual harassment even is.Lively says that Baldoni showed her a video of his nude wife giving birth, something she found shocking and wildly inappropriate. Baldoni says he did so in the context of discussing a birth scene in the film, and that the video is not pornographic but rather “deeply personal with no sexual overtone.” His wife, Baldoni’s suit says, condoned his showing it. In Lively’s telling, Baldoni conveyed his wife’s consent by saying, “She isn’t weird about this stuff,” which Lively understandably took to imply that it might be weird for her to not welcome it.Lively also alleges that when filming a scene without sound, Baldoni went off-script and out of character and ran his lips over her neck, telling her she smelled good; she says he also barged into her dressing room when she was breastfeeding. Lively says Baldoni and Heath talked about their past addictions to pornography, which made her extremely uncomfortable. When she tried to shut it down by saying she had never seen porn, she alleges Baldoni announced that claim to a larger group, compounding her discomfort.Baldoni’s lawsuit doesn’t respond in detail to every allegation, but says that Lively often nursed in meetings and other professional settings and in fact invited him into her trailer while she was pumping. But Lively is far from the only villain in Baldoni’s and his colleagues’ telling. The New York Times itself, they say, has squandered its reputation as “Times reporters have ever more frequently veered spectacularly from their own journalistic guidelines.” When partisans deride the Times as “fake news”—a rallying cry for Donald Trump and his followers—they do so, the Baldoni suit says, “with some justification.”This is perhaps the most fascinating element: A self-styled male feminist (Baldoni) defending himself by saying that the woman is lying and his actions weren’t harassment, and then referencing the words of an incoming president who is notorious for being accused of sexual abuse many times over—and who was found liable for it by a jury.It’s totally possible that Baldoni and his co-defendants (and co-plaintiffs) are correct that Lively is a diva who made unreasonable demands and ostracized him. But even if Baldoni’s version of events are true, it’s a bit rich that a male feminist—who claims he made this movie simply to help raise awareness about domestic violence and help survivors—would refuse to take a hard look at the acts that are not in dispute, including showing a video of his wife giving birth to a work colleague. Lively has given birth to four children; she doesn’t need to watch an unsolicited video of her co-star’s nude wife to know what it entails.

【Title/标题】Nikki Glaser Says She’s Not Touching ‘It Ends With Us’ Controversy During Golden Globes【Source/来源】Media Outlet/媒体：DEADLINEWritten by/作者：Glenn Garner【Transcript/文稿】As Nikki Glaser prepares to host the 82nd Golden Globes, she’s staying away from politics and the latest Hollywood drama.The comedian, whose special Someday You’ll Die is nominated for Best Stand-Up Comedy Performance, recently explained that she’s “not gonna go so hard that anyone’s gonna be offended” during her hosting gig on Sunday’s awards show, airing live at 8pm ET on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.“I’ve made a point not to, and that’s not to disappoint anyone who’s hoping I’m going to pull a Ricky Gervais,” Glaser told Yahoo Entertainment. “I’m not Ricky Gervais. This isn’t my last Golden Globes, this is my first one. He really went hard on his last one. He was ready to burn some bridges [because] it didn’t matter anymore.”After Blake Lively officially filed a lawsuit against It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni, accusing him of sexual harassment and retaliation, Glaser explained that she’s staying away from the behind-the-scenes controversy in her jokes.“I think the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni thing is such a hot-button thing right now that even a mere mention of it will seem like I could be on the wrong side of things, even though I would never be,” she said. “I also don’t want to give his name any — I’m mad I even know his name, to be honest with you, so I don’t need to say it anymore.”Glaser also plans to avoid the topic of politics after Donald Trump secured presidential re-election against Vice President Kamala Harris, explaining that “people are just tired of hearing about it, even though it’s looming and it’s in the air.”“There will be a nod to it, but it will not be too heavy-handed,” said Glaser. “I’ve made a good point not to go too hard.”Following her breakout performance on Netflix’s The Roast of Tom Brady, Glaser was announced as a first-time Golden Globes host in August. In November, she was also announced as a first-time nominee.

【Title/标题】What We Know About Meghan Markle’s Netflix Lifestyle Show Ahead Of January Debut【Source/来源】Media Outlet/媒体：ForbesWritten by/作者：Mary Rouloffs【Transcript/文稿】Meghan Markle is set to make her return to the small screen later this month with a new lifestyle show called "With Love, Meghan," a Netflix original lifestyle series born out of her and Prince Harry’s Archewell Productions’ $100 million deal with the streamer.A nearly two-minute-long trailer released by Netflix on Thursday shows Markle wandering the rows of a meticulously kept garden, choosing fresh flowers, harvesting honey, kneading homemade bread and working in the kitchen with a lineup of famous friends.Netflix says the eight-episode show, which will release in full Jan. 15, "reimagines the genre of lifestyle programming, blending practical how-to’s and candid conversation with friends, new and old."Actress Mindy Kaling, chefs Alice Walters and Roy Choi, Godmothers Bookstore co-founder Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, “Suits” star Abigail Spencer, Prince Harry and other stars all make appearances in the trailer, with Kaling declaring her time in the duchess’ kitchen “one of the most glamorous moments of my life.”The show is directed by Michael Steed, the man behind the "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown" series, and showrunner Leah Hariton, who also made the Daytime Emmy-nominated "Selena + Chef" show with Selena Gomez.An upcoming lifestyle series from Markle was first announced by Netflix last April, shortly after Markle launched a lifestyle brand called American Riviera Orchard in March of 2024 that has yet to produce any content or products."We're not in the pursuit of perfection, we're in the pursuit of joy," Markle says in the trailer for “With Love, Meghan.” "Love is in the details."Before she became engaged to and later married Prince Harry, Markle ran a lifestyle blog called The Tig on which she interviewed celebrities, talked fashion and revealed personal details of her early life and career as an actress. She closed the site in 2017.“With Love, Meghan" is the fifth project to come out of the reported $100 million deal with Netflix Harry and Meghan made after announcing their departure from the British royal family. "Polo," a five-part series on the sport of professional polo, debuted in December but didn't crack the streamers' top 10. Their first project, a tell-all 2022 documentary called "Harry & Meghan" was watchedfor 81.55 million hours in its first week and became the platform's most-watched documentary premiere. The couple's production company also created “Heart of Invictus,” a documentary following athletes participating in the Prince Harry-founded sporting event for wounded veterans, and “Live to Lead,” a docuseries on impactful world leaders.In January 2020, 18 months after they were married and less than a year after welcoming their first child, Harry and Meghan announced they would be stepping down as senior royals, citing bullying from the British media, racism within the family and general mistreatment. The couple moved to California, where they had one more child, and have since launched several business ventures to varying degrees of success. The couple created a charity organization and an audio and video production company using the name Archewell and signed deals with Netflix and Spotify worth $100 million and $20 million, respectively. In 2023, the couple's Spotify partnership ended after they reportedly failed to meet “productivity benchmarks.” Last March, Markel announced American Riviera Orchard as a lifestyle brand that, in an LLC filing in Delaware, said it would create an online retail store selling tableware, cutlery, cookbooks, servingware, coffee and tea services, kitchen textiles, jams and jellies, oils and other foods. The brand has hit several road bumps, including the rejection of a trademark request and reports no CEO has been found to lead the business, and has gone nowhere since the announcement. No posts have been made on the brand’s Instagram since last March and the company’s website has been empty.