by admin | Oct 2, 2025 | Articles, Cinemablend Articles
The revelation that Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are divorcing after nearly two decades together shocked many. The couple, who have two teenage children, seemed to be as solid a celebrity couple as any, and more so than many. While there are few details regarding what, if anything, specifically happened to cause the split, the couple now has to navigate a celebrity divorce.
As happens when any major stars split, there is a lot of property and a lot of money that needs to be separated between the two parties. A decent chunk of that money could be coming Keith Urban’s way, due to a stipulation in the couple’s prenuptial agreement that’s being called the “cocaine clause.”
Keith Urban’s Pre-Nup “Cocaine Clause”
Hello Magazine is reporting that, in an attempt to help keep Urban sober, a clause was allegedly placed in their pre-nup that stated that Kidman would pay Urban $600,000 for every year he remained sober during their marriage.
E! News has apparently seen the divorce petition, which goes into significant detail about how many of the couple’s assets will be split, and there is no mention of such a large payout to Urban. In fact, there’s almost nothing changing hands between Urban and Kidman at all.
According to the divorce petition, there will be no spousal or child support payments. Kidman is set to be the custodial parent, with the two children, aged 17 and 14, spending 59 days of the year with their dad.
Urban and Kidman are each keeping the cars that are in their names and their own personal items like clothing and jewelry, and the pair have already come to an agreement regarding the splitting up of shared items like furniture, appliances, and art.
Considering that it looks like the former couple have been working on these decisions for some time, and have come to an agreement on many things, and that there’s no mention of Kidman paying Urban any money at all, it appears that even if the pre-nup clause is genuine, the pair have seemingly decided not to enforce it.
Fans have been looking for details that may explain the couple’s split. Whatever the details, it appears the split is being handled as quickly and easily as possible, which indicates both sides will be fine.
by admin | Oct 2, 2025 | Articles, Cinemablend Articles
There are lots of little things celebrities do when they are getting ready for red carpets. Everything from hair and nails to jewelry and makeup is usually carefully thought out and aligned when celebrity fashion is involved. Celebs often look their best on red carpets, but going glam is not always the most realistic representation of who people are and what they really look like. Which is why I’ve been so enamored with Dakota Johnson showing off her tan lines this summer at all kinds of events.
Listen, tan lines are super common in the summer. Even celebrities get busy posting gorgeous vacation pics and busting out their summer black bikinis, like Johnson did with mom Melanie Griffith earlier this summer. So, you’d think that red carpets would be filled with tan lines. But thanks to the magic of the spray tan (and makeup), tan lines don’t crop up as much as you’d think.
However, Dakota Johnson made the summer of 2025 the summer tan lines were OK on the carpet. She showed them off in full force at the 59th Karlovy Vary Film Festival, for one example.
a sheer web dress for Madame Web. However, I applaud her getting real about how summer means bikini lines, and that it’s OK to keep them on full display. She did it again whilst wearing this Splitsville premiere dress:
That dress was by Gucci, and while my eyes are certainly drawn to the shiny material, it’s clear she didn’t worry about her tan lines too much.
more wintry looks from Johnson of late, but next summer, let’s bring on the sock lines, shorts lines, bikini lines and more!
by admin | Oct 2, 2025 | Articles, Cinemablend Articles
Despite It Ends With Us hitting theaters in the summer of 2024, the drama surrounding that movie continues. When Blake Lively filed a suit against Wayfarer Studios, a long legal saga began, including Justin Baldoni’s defamation case against Lively and Ryan Reynolds, as well as the New York Times for its reporting of the drama. Now that publication is suing for legal fees, leading the actor/director’s lawyers to issue their own response. Lets break it all down.
The director of It Ends With Us (streaming now with a Netflix subscription) filed his defamation suit in January of 2025, targeting Lively as well as the New York Times for running a story about the alleged smear campaign aimed at the actress. Baldoni’s defamation case was tossed out back in June, and now Deadline reports that the NY Times is suing “Around $150,000 in attorney’s fees, damages and more.” The filing reads:
book to movie adaptation are likely going to keep coming.
Lively and Baldoni have spent a ton of money and time on this battle, and if the latter has to cough up money for the New York Times it’ll be even more expensive. One can only imagine the cost of their legal fees after nearly a year of back and forth.
It Ends with Us is streaming on Netflix, and Blake Lively has a number of projects lined up on the 2026 movie release list and beyond. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for Justin Baldoni. At least, not according to his IMDb.
by admin | Oct 2, 2025 | Moviephone News, News
(Left) Jeremy Irons stars as Wallace Westwyld in director David Ayer’s ‘The Beekeeper,’ an Amazon MGM Studios film. Photo Credit: Daniel Smith. © 2024 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved. (Right) Christopher Lambert as Connor MacLeod in 1986’s ‘Highlander.’ Photo: 20th Century Fox.
Preview:
- Jeremy Irons is boarding the new ‘Highlander’.
- Henry Cavill is starring alongside Russell Crowe.
- Chad Stahelski is in the director’s chair.
Though the cameras may not have started rolling last month as originally planned thanks to star Henry Cavill injuring himself during training, the ‘Highlander’ reboot is still moving forward, aiming to begin production early next year.
And the latest piece of casting has been announced via The Hollywood Reporter, as Jeremy Irons –– who was an antagonist in ‘The Beekeeper’ and is set to reprise the role in the sequel and is on our screens as the troubled law professor father of Jennifer Aniston’s character in ‘The Morning Show’, has joined the movie to play a villain.
Irons joins a cast that also already includes Russell Crowe, Karen Gillan, ‘Black Bag’s Marisa Abela and ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’s Dave Bautista, who is aboard as a version of the villainous Kurgan
When it does finally kick off, shooting is scheduled to take place in Scotland, England, and other locales such as Hong Kong.
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What was the story of ‘Highlander’?
(L to R) Christopher Lambert as Connor MacLeod and Clancy Brown as The Kurgan in ‘Highlander’. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
The 1988 original revolves around Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert), a Scottish Highlander born in the 16th Century who is somehow immortal. He has survived through the centuries, and learns from Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez (Sean Connery), that he is part of a race of many who can only die when beheaded.
The power of the slain immortal is absorbed into the victor, and they are all competing for “The Prize” –– enough power to rule Earth forever. Connor’s biggest threat is the Kurgan, a murderous brute of an immortal who wants that power for himself and Connor must face him at an event known as The Gathering.
There can, as the tagline famously reads, only be one.
Stahelski on the story for the new movie
Chad Stahelski attends ‘Wick Is Pain’ Screening At Beyond Fest at Aero Theatre on May 08, 2025 in Santa Monica, California. Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Lionsgate.
Here’s what Stahelski had to say about the plot and changes:
“We’re bringing it forward from the early 1500s in the Highlands to the beyond present-day New York and Hong Kong. There’s big opportunity for action… and it’s a bit of a love story — but not how you think.”
The script for the new movie has so far seen work from Ryan J. Condal, Michael Finch and Kerry Williamson.
Finch’s script is the most recent draft, and it is taking some diversions from the original as it builds out a more complex and deeper world.
Cavill is MacLeod, with Crowe as a version of Ramirez. Bautista is playing the Kurgan, the movie’s top villain, while Gillan is MacLeod’s Scottish and very mortal wife. Djimon Hounsou is an immortal warrior from Africa, while Abela is MacLeod’s modern romantic interest. Max Zhang and Drew McIntyre are also in the cast, with McIntyre taking the role of Cavill’s brother.
Irons will be the movie’s other antagonist, the leader of a secret order called The Watchers, who are keeping an eye on the immortals and see them as a threat to humanity.
When will the new ‘Highlander’ be on screens?
Amazon MGM Studios has yet to confirm a release date for the movie, and it may yet appear later given the production delay.
(L to R) Sean Connery as Juan Sánchez-Villalobos Ramírez and Christopher Lambert as Connor MacLeod in 1986’s ‘Highlander.’ Photo: 20th Century Fox.
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by admin | Oct 2, 2025 | Articles, Moviephone Articles
(L to R) Daniel Day-Lewis as Ray and Sean Bean as Jem in director Ronan Day-Lewis’ ‘Anemone’, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features / © 2025 FOCUS FEATURES LLC.
Opening in theaters October 3 is ‘Anemone,’ directed by Ronan Day-Lewis and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, Safia Oakley-Green, and Samuel Bottomley.
Related Article: Daniel Day-Lewis to Return to Acting for His Son’s Movie ‘Anemone’
Initial Thoughts
(L to R) Daniel Day-Lewis as Ray and Sean Bean as Jem in director Ronan Day-Lewis’s ‘Anemone’, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features / © 2025 Focus Features, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
It’s been eight years since the great Daniel Day-Lewis last appeared in a motion picture – ‘Phantom Thread,’ one of my least favorite Paul Thomas Anderson films – so the news of his return was rightly regarded with lots of anticipation.
But while Day-Lewis remains a riveting, magnetic presence on screen, the film itself, ‘Anemone,’ ends up somewhat of disappointment. Co-written by the actor with his son, Ronan Day-Lewis – who also makes his feature directorial debut here – ‘Anemone’ is painstakingly slow in stretching a thin, rather well-worn plot to two hours. The younger Day-Lewis pulls off some gorgeous imagery (as befitting his work as a painter), but aside from that and the acting by his father and Sean Bean, there’s not enough here to make this a welcome return for the three-time Oscar winner.
Story and Direction
(L to R) Actor Daniel Day-Lewis and director Ronan Day-Lewis on the set of ‘Anemone’, a Focus Features release. Credit: Maria Lax / Focus Features © 2025 Focus Features, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
‘Anemone’ opens with what chillingly looks like children’s drawings of the Troubles in Ireland and the conflict between the IRA and the British Army, immediately giving us an idea of the story’s backdrop. But the main narrative itself is revealed only sluggishly, as Jem Stoker (Sean Bean) leaves his partner Nessa (Samantha Morton) and her son Brian (Samuel Bottomley) on a quest to see his estranged younger brother Ray (Daniel Day-Lewis), who has exiled himself to a cabin deep in a remote forest for 20 years with virtually no contact from his family.
There’s a palpable unease between the two men at first, with the paranoid and incommunicative Ray only gradually opening up to his sibling. As the film continues, we find out – bit by bit – that Jem is deeply religious while Ray is not (with his own very good reasons, which he recounts in a long monologue as disgusting as it is bizarre), that both men were subjected to a brutal upbringing from their father, and that both also served in the military during the Troubles – with Ray in particularly wracked by memories that he can’t let go. But Jem is on a mission to bring his brother back with him in order to deal with a family situation that has reached the point of crisis.
(L to R) Ronan Day-Lewis and Daniel Day-Lewis at the premiere of ‘Anemone’. Photo: Focus Features.
In the end, that storyline is just not enough to sustain any momentum, and ‘Anemone’ begins to drag in all the wrong places, just as the critical revelations begin to fully come to light. There are lots of scenes of Ray or Ray and Jem walking through woods or along beaches, which only pad out the essential slimness of the narrative. And that narrative itself doesn’t necessarily tell us anything new that we haven’t seen in tales like this before, of absent, violent, or disengaged fathers, or of men traumatized by the institutions in which they were raised and the legacies they bequeath their sons.
Ronan Day-Lewis and cinematographer Ben Fordesman pull off a number of gorgeous, painterly compositions – while working primarily in muted greens, blues, and browns – but the director also shows his relative greenness behind the camera with some awkwardly showy moves as well. More hallucinatory sequences are mysterious seemingly just for the sake of it, while other scenes – like a massive hailstorm battering down on the characters – seem heavy-handed in their symbolism, as is the fact that the flower of the title, which Jem and Ray’s father used to grow, continues to bloom outside Ray’s cabin.
Cast and Performances
Sean Bean stars as Jem and Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Ray in director Ronan Day-Lewis’s ‘Anemone’, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features / © 2025 Focus Features LLC.Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features / © 2025 FOCUS FEATURES LLC
‘Anemone’ is a small movie, with just five main speaking parts, but of course Daniel Day-Lewis is the main attraction here. And he brings all of his skills to bear in what is certainly an enigmatic, shape-shifting character. Ray Stoker is at times reclusive, misanthropic, cruel, and cold, with a hint of violence churning under the surface; but Day-Lewis subtly, masterfully peels back the hard exterior to show us vulnerability, hurt, and even love. His work meets the moment in a movie that needs him to essentially give it purpose.
Two often underrated actors get a chance to shine here as well. Samantha Morton’s role as the woman at the nexus of the lives of these three men is less well-defined, unfortunately, but Morton does what she can and creates a portrait of a woman for whom a hard life has not quite destroyed her heart just yet. And we have to give it up for Sean Bean, another great British actor who often doesn’t get the credit he deserves, as Jem, the grounded, decent, pragmatic counterweight to his impulsive and tormented brother. Spoiler alert: Bean also avoids the fate that usually befalls his characters in films, which is nice to see.
Final Thoughts
(L to R) Daniel Day-Lewis, Ronan Day-Lewis and Sean Bean at the premiere of ‘Anemone’. Photo: Focus Features.
As we stated earlier, Daniel Day-Lewis is an actor one can always watch for his total submersion into whatever character he’s playing, and he’s lost none of that powerful presence in the eight years he’s been away. ‘Anemone’ is worth seeing if you are a DDL completist, while Ronan Day-Lewis certain has enough visual acumen to point toward a promising career as a filmmaker. Bobby Krlic (aka The Haxan Cloak) also contributes a haunting, guitar-driven score that adds a lot of atmosphere.
But by the time it reaches a climax that should be emotional but doesn’t quite get there, ‘Anemone’ doesn’t offer enough of a compelling reason for Daniel Day Lewis’ return, except for the fact that the film – like its subject matter – is a family affair.
‘Anemone’ receives a score of 50 out of 100.
(L to R) Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Bean at the premiere of ‘Anemone’. Photo: Focus Features.
What is the plot of ‘Anemone’?
A mysterious shared history has left brothers Ray (Daniel Day-Lewis) and Jem (Sean Bean) Stoker estranged for 20 years, with Ray living in self-imposed exile. But a family crisis forces Jem to track Ray down in his cabin deep in the woods and ask him to revisit the most troubling moments of their past.
Who is in the cast of ‘Anemone’?
- Daniel Day-Lewis as Ray Stoker
- Sean Bean as Jem Stoker
- Samantha Morton as Nessa Stoker
- Samuel Bottomley as Brian Stoker
- Safia Oakley-Green as Hattie
‘Anemone’ opens in theaters on October 3rd.
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