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Shah Rukh Khan Flaunts New Salt-And-Pepper Look At 71st National Film Awards; King Brings The Grey Glam Charm

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PS. All images used in the article are taken from DD National’s live broadcasting of the 71st National Film Awards and Instagram.

Shah Rukh Khan made a striking appearance with his Salt-and-Pepper new look at the National Film Awards ceremony. He was dressed in a sharp black suit and crisp white shirt, while warmly chatting with his longtime friend Rani Mukerji. The actor sported a salt-and-pepper hairstyle, which many believe is his look for Siddharth Anand’s upcoming film King. This year marked a historic moment in his career, as he received his first-ever National Film Award for Best Actor for Jawan (2023).

Shah Rukh Khan Flaunts His New Salt-And-Pepper Look

Reportedly flying in from Poland, where he has been shooting King, the superstar accepted the honour from President Droupadi Murmu at the grand ceremony. His elegant look, paired with his mature charm, instantly caught attention. During the event, he was seen engaging warmly with Rani Mukerji, who was also honoured.

Adding to the celebratory mood, Sanjay Jaju, Secretary of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, introduced him as the King of Hearts. He praised his journey from Delhi theatre to global stardom, noting how his smile and dialogue have transcended borders. In response, an emotional Khan blew a flying kiss to the audience, a gesture that was captured and widely shared.

About Jawan

Directed by Atlee, Jawan was released in September 2023. It showcased Khan in a dual role—playing both the vigilante Azad and his father, Vikram Rathore. Also seen were Nayanthara, Vijay Sethupathi as Kaali, and a formidable team of female vigilantes. All these gave the story both emotional heft and adrenaline-fuelled energy.

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Also Read: 71st National Film Awards: Karan Johar’s Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani, Meghna Gulzar’s Sam Bahadur, Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s 12th Fail Win Best Films

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What Does Karanvir Malhotra's Entry Mean For King? Shah Rukh Khan And Suhana Khan's Film Just Got More Interesting | Glamsham.com
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What Does Karanvir Malhotra’s Entry Mean For King? Shah Rukh Khan And Suhana Khan’s Film Just Got More Interesting | Glamsham.com

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In the wake of Pathaan’s historic success, Shah Rukh Khan is teaming up with director Siddharth Anand and Deepika Padukone once again for another high-octane action drama called King. The movie is the big theatrical launch of Suhana Khan, and hence a hotly anticipated film both for the industry as well as the fans.

The movie has gone into an active shooting schedule, with major action scenes being filmed in Poland, among other European places. As per a Pinkvilla report, Karanvir Malhotra, who was recently seen in Andhera, has also been added to the cast list. A development source spilled the beans and said,

“Karanvir is already shooting for King in Poland. His role has a strong trajectory in the story, and he’s excited to be a part of this franchisee production headlined by Shah Rukh Khan.”

Director Siddharth Anand is working towards filming at actual, unmanipulated locations in Europe to introduce a new visual tone to the movie. The action sequences are being choreographed with the consultation of global stunt teams, which is committing to offer a world-scale spectacle.

Adding to the excitement, Deepika Padukone has posted her joy of working with Shah Rukh Khan for the sixth time. Speaking about their journey that started with Om Shanti Om in 2007, she posted on Instagram:

“The very first lesson he taught me was that the experience of making a film and the people involved matter more than its success. That’s probably why we’re back making our 6th movie together.” She included hashtags #King and #Day1, confirming her involvement.

Also Read: Shah Rukh Khan Channels Jawan Vibes in King, Suhana Khan Wows with Brown Tank Top and Beige Cargo Pants

King has an all-star cast that includes Abhay Verma, Rani Mukerji, Jaideep Ahlawat, Arshad Warsi, and Saurabh Shukla. King will have a big theatrical release in 2026, and the excitement already is reaching new heights.

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bitchy | King Charles & Camilla will spend two days in Vatican City & meet Pope Bob
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bitchy | King Charles & Camilla will spend two days in Vatican City & meet Pope Bob

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This past April, King Charles and Queen Camilla visited Italy. The backstory on the royal tour is fascinating – at the end of 2023, Kensington Palace teased a potential royal tour of Italy for the Prince and Princess of Wales. Then Kate’s medical situation and disappearance happened, and the Italian trip was no longer on the table. Suddenly, Charles and Camilla were the ones planning a visit to Rome. They ended up scheduling it around their wedding anniversary, so it felt less like a royal tour and more like an Italian vacation with some public events. The original plan also involved a stop in Vatican City to meet with Pope Francis. Franny got very ill, so the Vatican canceled on C&C. But C&C wouldn’t take no for an answer – they ended up visiting Francis anyway and getting a brief photo-op. They also got the Vatican to issue a statement about how Franny wished them well on their anniversary. The whole thing was actually pretty tacky, especially given that Francis died soon after.

Well, Charles and Camilla are bizarrely undeterred. They’ve apparently rescheduled a visit to the Vatican and they have plans to meet the new pope in person. Pope Leo (aka Pope Bob) has apparently agreed to all of this? Hm.

King Charles and Queen Camilla are set to meet with Pope Leo during an official state visit to Vatican City next month. The Sun reported over the weekend that the King and Queen will spend around two days in the holy city in October, an abbreviated trip following their official state visit to Italy earlier this year.

King Charles, 76, and Queen Camilla, 78, were originally set to make an official visit to the Vatican in April as part of the Italy trip. However, it was postponed due to Pope Francis’ ill health at the time. Instead, the royal couple met privately with the Catholic leader on April 9.

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, at the age of 88, following months of health struggles — which included a 38-day hospitalization, where he was treated for double pneumonia. Following Pope Francis’ death, the cardinals of the Catholic Church gathered for the papal conclave, where they selected Pope Leo XIV — previously known as Cardinal Robert Prevost — as the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church.

While the King and Queen have yet to officially meet Pope Leo, 70, in person, the Catholic leader recently extended a meaningful gesture to the royal family. Earlier this month, the Pope sent a surprise tribute to the late Katharine, Duchess of Kent, who died on Sept. 4 at age 92. The Duchess’s funeral mass on Sept. 16, conducted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, was historic as the first Catholic funeral for a member of the British royal family in modern history.

[From People]

Charles does have a commitment to embracing all people of faith, not just Anglicans. But his obsession with popes is weird, right? He’s all about popes. Why is it so important for him to get facetime with Pope Bob? Most of Europe’s Catholic royals have already met with Pope Bob, or they made a point of attending one of his first Masses. I guess Charles didn’t want to be left out. (Incidentally, I still haven’t completely absorbed the fact that the new pope is a guy named Bob from Chicago.)

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bitchy | Tina Brown: King Charles is tired of ‘haughty, Hanoverian’ Prince William
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bitchy | Tina Brown: King Charles is tired of ‘haughty, Hanoverian’ Prince William

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Two weeks ago, in the middle of Prince Harry’s four-day trip to the UK, Tina Brown’s Fresh Hell Substack landed like a bomb. Brown devoted a chunk of her Substack that week to analysis of King Charles’s relationships with his two sons. According to Brown, Charles is currently “less irritated” with Harry than Charles is with his dour, dull and lazy heir, Prince William. Brown’s colorful language and analysis of the situation gave the British media the perfect opening to breathlessly repeat everything she wrote with their own twist. Brown’s piece spelled out the big “secret” in the royalist media: that William’s laziness is a huge problem, and that William is basically having a nervous breakdown over Harry’s meeting with their father and Harry’s popularity within the UK. Well, I missed this, but Brown also wrote a New York Times column last week, published in the middle of the Trump state visit. Brown continued to analyze the melodramas within the House of Windsor.

… And yet, Charles’s first few years as monarch have been something of a quiet triumph. Seasoned by countless foreign tours, marinated in his constitutional role through years of practice and now magically aligned with so much of modern citizenry’s concerns (his decades-long campaign against pesticides and food dyes, by the way, now sounds like the sane bit of MAHA), Charles may be the last man standing who can exude global gravitas in the dumpster fire of our digitally dominated world.

It is all the more tragic that his diagnosis of an undisclosed cancer may make his reign a race against time, which added poignancy to his long-postponed reunion with his estranged son Harry last week. Charles knows that in these times of ugly political discord, a fractured royal family is a bad look. But it was also the fulfillment of paternal longing. It’s no secret that Charles desperately misses his prodigal son who, in earlier days, was always the fun, ebullient scamp compared with the haughtier, more Hanoverian William. It’s understandably enraging for William to see his treacherous younger brother, who spent the last five years trashing his family on TV and promoting a back-stabbing, best-selling book, bounding around the British charity circuit, doing a well-received side-dash to Ukraine and upstaging the photo ops of William’s own diligent engagements.

But Charles, I am told, is tiring of his elder son’s self-righteous intractability in the family feud, and wants to re-embrace Harry — if only he can keep his mouth shut. Harry’s subsequent interview with The Guardian, in which the imperturbably cocky prince said, “My conscience is clear,” suggests to his haters the futility of expecting Harry Hotspur to play the old royal game.

Here in America, we are obsessed with the process and drama of presidential politics, the burden of office, the daily colonoscopy of the White House press corps and the intolerable intrusions into our leaders’ private lives. Former First Ladies moan about the pressures they endure during hellish years in the White House bubble. But only the people born or married into the institution of monarchy know the real meaning of life in a cage, defined by duty, service and unceasing public scrutiny with no exit except death or flight. It’s more akin to taking holy orders than living a grand, red-carpet life waited on by obsequious servants — something Harry’s wife, Meghan, never understood.

[From The NY Times]

Again, this came out before this weekend’s briefing games, where the Daily Mail pitted palace sources against each other, all to further enrage the incandescent one. Charles has spent the past two weeks telegraphing the fact that he wants to reconcile with Harry in any way he can, and that the reconciliation should happen for several reasons, one of which is “putting Work-shy William on his heels.” It’s interesting, I guess, that the conversation has seemingly shifted in one month to this, where everyone is speaking openly about how much Charles hates William and considers William to be a huge disappointment. I really don’t trust William OR Charles here, they’re both clout-chasing Harry and using Harry’s name for their own deranged purposes.

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bitchy | King Charles is ‘thrilled’ about the Trump visit & ‘very pleased with the global optics’
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bitchy | King Charles is ‘thrilled’ about the Trump visit & ‘very pleased with the global optics’

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It’s interesting reading the differences between the British coverage and American coverage of the Trumps’ state visit to the UK. The British political media is mostly happy that it’s over and they seem unsettled by how the Windsors ingratiated themselves so thoroughly with the Trumps. The American coverage is more like “well, Trump wants nothing more than to be a despotic king, so he was really impressed with the dumbass carriage ride, I guess.” Everyone’s pointing out that the Trumps were localized, almost entirely, inside and around Windsor Castle. They really didn’t want the Trumps to interact with any of the locals. Meanwhile, the royalists are trying to make it sound like a good thing that Trump is such a huge fan of Prince William, Kate and King Charles. “Nazi-approved” is such a weird flex for British royalty, you know? From Vanity Fair:

The inclusion of Prince William and Princess Kate at such a high level during Trump’s state visit has been “unusual,” according to royal watchers, with both the Prince and Princess of Wales taking on more high-profile roles. As well as greeting President Trump and the first lady at Windsor, which is standard for state visits, William and Catherine were invited to have a private meeting with the Trumps which a Kensington Palace aide described as “warm and friendly.”

“It seems as though Trump has an eye on the future generation,” says Ingrid Seward, editor of Majesty magazine. “He’s obviously genuinely impressed by William and who wouldn’t be impressed by Kate. She looked incredible. It seems a lot of effort has been made for the Trumps and the Waleses to spend some time together on this trip.”

“I would expect that William and Catherine would have been quite touched and maybe a bit taken aback by so many compliments,” adds Seward. “It’s very flattering to have someone as powerful as Trump praising you and treating you like a very special friend. It’s unusual for the Head of State to be that personal, but it’s Trump’s style. The royals have to deal with so many dullards, Trump is actually really refreshing. He’s outspoken and quite exciting to be around because you don’t know what’s going to happen. Catherine looked quite taken aback when he praised her so personally. She looked a bit embarrassed, but that’s Trump. I think the royals are probably amused and bemused by it all.”

During Wednesday’s dinner in Windsor, Trump made a point about being the only US president in history to be granted the privilege of two state visits and joked about hoping he would be the only one to make King Charles laugh.

A source close to the king told Vanity Fair that Charles has said the state visit “could not be better.” Adds the source, “I understand that His Majesty the King is thrilled about the visit and very pleased with the global optics of it all. The Royal Family really did pull out all the stops.”

[From Vanity Fair]

“The Royal Family really did pull out all the stops” – again, they didn’t have much of a choice. Charles HAD to do all of this, he was outmaneuvered by Keir Starmer and Trump himself. Charles had to roll out the red carpet and entertain a decrepit old white supremacist with shiny objects. The only real choices made for this state visit were about Prince William and Kate. Kate especially didn’t have to be featured so prominently, she didn’t have to agree to sit next to Trump at the banquet (that should have been a job for Camilla), she didn’t have to agree to a solo event with Melania. Choices were also made to push William and Kate aside, especially at the welcoming ceremony, when the Waleses were literally shooed away and kicked off the dais. So… yeah, some interesting things of note happened for hardcore royal-watchers, but the broad strokes of the state visit are that it was “successful” on both sides of the Atlantic.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images.

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Tulsa King season 2 cast: Meet the main characters
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Tulsa King season 2 cast: Meet the main characters

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“Now, he faces his most dangerous adversaries in Tulsa yet: the Dunmires, a powerful old-money family that doesn’t play by old-world rules, forcing Dwight to fight for everything he’s built and protect his family.”

Alongside Sylvester Stallone, a number of faces have returned for the latest instalment, plus some new faces who you may or may not recognise.

Read on for everything you need to know about the major players in Tulsa King season 3.

Tulsa King cast

  • Sylvester Stallone as Dwight ‘The General’ Manfredi
  • Martin Starr as Bodhi
  • Jay Will as Tyson
  • Annabella Sciorra as Joanne
  • Neal McDonough as Cal Thresher
  • Robert Patrick as Jeremiah Dunmire
  • Beau Knapp as Cole Dunmire
  • Bella Heathcote as Cleo Montagu
  • Chris Caldovino as Goodie
  • McKenna Quigley Harrington
  • Kevin Pollak as Special Agent Musso
  • Vincent Piazza as Vince
  • Frank Grillo as Bill Bevilaqua
  • Garrett Hedlund as Mitch Keller
  • Dana Delany as Margaret Devereaux
  • Samuel L Jackson as Russell Lee Washington Jr
  • Michael Beach as Mark
  • Mike ‘Cash Flo’ Walden as Bigfoot
  • James Russo as Ray Renzetti
  • Brett Rice as Theo Montague

For more information about the characters and where you’ve seen the cast before, read on.

Sylvester Stallone plays Dwight ‘The General’ Manfredi

Jay Will as Tyson, Sylvester Stallone as Dwight Manfredi and Mike Walden as Bigfoot in Tulsa King. Viacom International Inc

Who is Dwight ‘The General’ Manfredi? After serving 25 years in prison, mobster Dwight Manfredi, also known as ‘The General’, is exiled by his boss to Tulsa, Oklahoma in season 1, where he establishes a new crew and gets to work making the town his own. But his success draws the attention of plenty of sharks, old and new, who want what he’s having.

What else has Sylvester Stallone been in? This man needs no introduction, but we’ll give you one anyway. Stallone is best known for: Rocky, Rambo, The Expendables, Cobra, Cliffhanger, Demolition Man – we could go on, and on, and on.

Martin Starr plays Bodhi

Martin Starr as Bohdi, standing in his office

Martin Starr as Bohdi. Brian Douglas/Paramount+

Who is Bodhi? He owns a marijuana dispensary in Tulsa and imparts his wisdom on Dwight.

What else has Martin Starr been in? Most people will know him from comedies Silicon Valley, Freaks and Geeks, and Party Down.

Jay Will plays Tyson

Jay Will as Tyson Mitchell, leaning on a car

Jay Will as Tyson Mitchell. Brian Douglas/Paramount+

Who is Tyson? Dwight’s trusted, sharp-minded driver.

What else has Jay Will been in? He’s played leading roles in films Rob Peace and It Doesn’t Matter. Will also had a role in Prime Video’s The Marvellous Mrs Maisel.

Annabella Sciorra plays Joanne

A woman with dark hair stands on a staircase, wearing a leopard-print robe tied at the waist. She rests one hand on the banister and the other on her hip, looking intently forward. A blurred abstract painting hangs on the wall behind her.

Annabella Sciorra as Joanne. Viacom International Inc

Who is Joanne? Dwight’s younger sister, who hails from Brooklyn.

What else has Annabella Sciorra been in? Her CV includes The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Jungle Fever, among others.

Neal McDonough plays Cal Thresher

Neal McDonough as Cal Thresher in Tulsa King, wearing a cowboy hat, leaning on a fence

Neal McDonough as Cal Thresher in Tulsa King. Brian Douglas/Paramount+

Who is Cal Thresher? A “powerful and extremely territorial businessman in Tulsa”, who clashed with Dwight in season 2.

What else has Neal McDonough been in? His CV includes Desperate Housewives, superhero series Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow, action drama Boomtown, US drama Medical Investigation, legal drama Suits, Yellowstone, war drama Band of Brothers and Western crime drama Justified.

Robert Patrick plays Jeremiah Dunmire

Sylvester Stallone as Dwight Manfredi and Robert Patrick as Dunmire, sat across a table from one another in a low lit bar

Sylvester Stallone as Dwight Manfredi and Robert Patrick as Jeremiah Dunmire. Viacom International Inc

Who is Jeremiah Dunmire? He’s a big player in the liquor business. Jeremiah is described as “powerful” and “forceful”.

What else has Robert Patrick been in? His credits include Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Scorpion, The Unit, The X Files, Peacemaker, 1923, among others.

Beau Knapp plays Cole Dunmire

Beau Knapp as Cole, wearing a dark shirt, talking to someone.

Beau Knapp as Cole Dunmire. Will Hart/NBC via Getty Images

Who is Cole Dunmire? Jeremiah’s son. He is described as “a trust fund country boy with crazy in his eyes”.

What else has Beau Knapp been in? You might know him from SEAL Team, The Bikeriders and The Good Lord Bird.

Bella Heathcote plays Cleo Montague

Bella Heathcote, standing in front of a black backdrop with advertisements on it, having her photo taken.

Bella Heathcote. Amanda Edwards/Getty Images

Who is Cleo Montague? Mitch’s ex-girlfriend. The pair still have sizzling chemistry. Cleo’s father runs a distillery, which the Dunmires want.

What else has Bella Heathcote been in? Her credits include The Man in the High Castle, Fifty Shades Darker, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and Scrublands.

Chris Caldovino plays Goodie

Chris Caldovino and Sylvester Stallone are seen on the film set of Tulsa King, camera man to theior left, walking down a city street wearing suits

Chris Caldovino and Sylvester Stallone are seen on the film set of Tulsa King. Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images

Who is Goodie? He was the Invernizzi family’s consigliere, but is now on Dwight’s team.

What else has Chris Caldovino been in? He has appeared in Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos.

McKenna Quigley Harrington plays Grace

A woman with short, wavy blonde hair and a tattoo on her neck that reads “LOVE” sits at a table, holding a bingo marker. She wears a floral lace top with a visible chest tattoo and gold necklace, looking intently ahead. People in orange clothing are blurred in the background.

McKenna Quigley Harrington as Grace. Viacom International Inc

Who is Grace? She’s part of Dwight’s crew and works with Bodhi at the dispensary.

What else has McKenna Quigley Harrington been in? This is her most prominent role to date.

Kevin Pollak as Special Agent Musso

A man in a suit and tie with graying hair and a beard speaks intently to another man outdoors. The background is blurred greenery with pink flowers.

Kevin Pollak as Special Agent Musso. Viacom International Inc

Who is Special Agent Musso? He works for the FBI. Musso has a mountain of incriminating evidence on Dwight, who is now at his beck and call.

What else has Kevin Pollak been in? You might know him from A Few Good Men, The Usual Suspects, The Whole Ten Yards, End of Days, and The Marvellous Mrs Maisel.

Vincent Piazza as Vince

Vincent Piazza as Vince sat at a desk

Vincent Piazza as Vince. Brian Douglas/Paramount+

Who is Vince Antonacci? He was ‘Chickie’s’ main capo but has since taken over following his murder.

What else has Vincent Piazza been in? He’s appeared in Boardwalk Empire and vampire thriller The Passage.

Frank Grillo as Bill Bevilaqua

Frank Grillo as Bill, talking on the phone

Frank Grillo as Bill. Brian Douglas/Paramount+

Who is Bill Bevilacqua? A gangster based in Kansas City. He killed ‘Chickie’ in season 2 and formed a business alliance with Dwight.

What else has Frank Grillo been in? You might recognise him from US drama Kingdom, The Purge, US soap Guiding Light, Captain America, Prison Break and survival thriller The Grey.

Garrett Hedlund as Mitch Keller

Garrett Hedlund as Mitch, leaning against a wall

Garrett Hedlund as Mitch. Brian Douglas/Paramount+

Who is Mitch Keller? Part of the Manfredi crew. He was working at the bar, but is now running a car showroom, which he hates.

What else has Garrett Hedlund been in? He’s best known for Friday Night Lights, Troy, Pan, Tron: Legacy, Inside Llewyn Davis and Eragon.

Dana Delany as Margaret Devereaux

Dana Delany as Margaret., talking to Dwight

Dana Delany as Margaret. Brian Douglas/Paramount+

Who is Margaret Devereaux? The wealthy owner of a horse ranch. She is romantically involved with Dwight.

What else has Dana Delany been in? She’s best known for Desperate Housewives, war drama China Beach and medical comedy drama Body of Proof. You might also have watched her in films Light Sleeper, Tombstone, True Women and Wide Awake.

Samuel L Jackson plays Russell Lee Washington Jr

Sylvester Stallone and Samuel L Jackson in Tulsa King, sat at a table with a bottle of whisky on it, and a reserved sign.

Sylvester Stallone and Samuel L Jackson in Tulsa King. Brian Douglas/Paramount+

Who is Russell Lee Washington Jr? He befriended Dwight during a 10-year stint in prison, but is then sent to Tulsa by New York’s Renzetti crime family to take Dwight out once and for all. He will star in his own series, NOLA King, in 2026, which sees him return to New Orleans, the home he abandoned 40 years ago, to rekindle his relationship with his family, friends, and to take control of the city he left behind. But in doing so, he he incurs the wrath of his former employers in New York, and makes himself vulnerable to old NOLA foes, both criminal and cop.

What else has Samuel L Jackson been in? Well, where to begin? You might have watched him in any of the following: Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Do the Right Thing, The Hateful Eight, Django Unchained, Snakes on a Plane, and a variety of MCU titles in which he plays Nick Fury, plus many, many more.

Additional Tulsa King cast includes:

  • Michael Beach (Mayor of Kingstown) plays Mark – Tyson’s father. He was also almost killed in a car bombing in season 2.
  • Mike ‘Cash Flo’ Walden plays Bigfoot – Dwight’s bodyguard.
  • James Russo (Not a Stranger) plays Ray Renzetti – a New York mob boss.
  • Brett Rice (Sully) plays Theo Montague – Cleo’s father.

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After Exiting Kalki 2989 AD Sequel, Deepika Padukone Reunites With Shah Rukh Khan For King ‘We’re Back…’ Deets Inside!

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The makers of Kalki 2898 AD recently confirmed that Deepika Padukone, who was part of the 2024 cast, will not be returning for the film’s sequel, surprising fans and sparking conversations online. 2024 marked a special year for Deepika, as she welcomed her daughter, Dua. While fans eagerly await her comeback on the big screen, her professional journey has faced a few hurdles. Earlier this year, her exit from Prabhas’s Spirit caused a major stir. Though she had announced a project with Atlee, her departure from Kalki 2898 AD made headlines. Yet, the actress remains unfazed, recently revealing her collaboration with Shah Rukh Khan for King.

Deepika Padukone to Reunite with Shah Rukh Khan for King

Deepika Padukone’s exit from two major projects has sparked questions about her work ethic, especially after a list of her alleged demands surfaced following her departure from Spirit. While nothing has been officially confirmed, the reports affected her image. Amid the speculation, Deepika shared a heartfelt post on Instagram, holding hands with Shah Rukh Khan to announce her role in King. In the caption, she reflected on how King Khan, her first co-star in Om Shanti Om, taught her valuable lessons, while subtly hinting at her exciting next chapter, writing:

Deepika and SRK photo

“The very first lesson he taught me almost 18 years ago, while filming Om Shaanti Om, was that the experience of making a movie, and the people you make it with, matter far more than its success. I couldn’t agree more and have applied that learning to every decision I have made. And that’s probably why we’re back, making our 6th movie together?”

Deepika Padukone has shared the screen with Shah Rukh Khan in several films since her debut, including Happy New Year, Chennai Express, Pathaan, Jawan, and more. Most of their projects have been massive box office hits, establishing them as one of today’s most successful on-screen pairings. Excited by the big announcement, Deepika’s husband, Ranveer Singh, couldn’t contain his excitement and highlighted their special bond while commenting: “Bestest Besties”

Deepika Padukone reportedly joined King after a shoot delay

Shah Rukh and Deepika Pathaan look

Deepika Padukone is set to reunite with her Pathaan director, Siddharth Anand, and Shah Rukh Khan for King, raising fans’ excitement even higher. A Pinkvilla report earlier confirmed that she is officially on board and was scheduled to start shooting in May 2025. While her post includes the hashtag “Day 1,” it’s unclear whether it refers to a past moment or a recent update. The report also noted that Deepika was initially unavailable, taking time off to focus on her newborn and fitness, but a delay in King’s schedule eventually aligned perfectly with her timeline.

All About King movie

Happy New Year movie

King is an upcoming action thriller featuring Shah Rukh Khan, marking his first film alongside his daughter, Suhana Khan. Initially directed by Sujoy Ghosh, the project was later taken over by Siddharth Anand after Ghosh’s exit. The film’s ensemble cast reportedly includes Abhishek Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Fahim Fazil, Jaideep Ahlawat, and several others.

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'Tulsa King' Officially Renewed For Season 4 With New Showrunner
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‘Tulsa King’ Officially Renewed For Season 4 With New Showrunner

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Paramount+ has formally renewed Taylor Sheridan’s popular crime drama Tulsa King, starring Sylvester Stallone, for a fourth season. The news comes on the night of the Season 3 red carpet event in New York and ahead of the season’s Paramount+ debut on Sunday, Sept. 21. There is a change at the helm for Season 4, with Terence Winter returning as executive producer and head writer and Season 3 showrunner Dave Erickson exiting, Deadline has learned exclusively.

Tulsa King, from Paramount TV Studios and 101 Studios, was earmarked for a two-year (Seasons 3 and 4) renewal when series star and executive producer Stallone closed a new deal last November to continue on the show for two more seasons. Season 3 renewal was announced in March, with Season 4 expected to follow.

This is not envisioned as Tulsa King‘s final chapter, I hear. According to sources, talks are underway with Stallone for a new two-year deal and, if the series’ ratings continue to be strong, it could go to six seasons.

Boardwalk Empire creator Winter served as executive producer and showrunner on Tulsa King‘s first season. He stepped down as showrunner after the end of the season before rejoining the series as Head Writer/executive producer in Season 2. He was based largely in the writers room, with producing director Craig Zisk handling on-set showrunner duties.

“We all got on the same page creatively,” Winter said about his return at the time.

Tulsa King went back to having a formal showrunner in Season 3 with Mayor of Kingstown showrunner Erickson taking on those duties. Erickson, who recently also stepped down as showrunner of the upcoming Tulsa King spinoff series, NOLA King, starring Samuel L. Jackson, will now focus solely on Mayor of Kingstown. NOLA King will be introduced on Tulsa King, with Jackson guest starring on Season 3.

This marks a full-time return to Tulsa King for Winter, who was a consultant in Season 3. Like in Season 2, there is no separate showrunner.

Tulsa King‘s second season delivered Paramount+’s most watched global premiere at the time with 21.1 million viewers for the opening episode. It was the #1 global Paramount+ original series in 2024 and a Top 10 original series across all SVODs in Q4.

In Season 3, as Dwight’s (Stallone) empire expands, so do his enemies – and the risks to his crew. Now, he faces his most dangerous adversaries in Tulsa yet: the Dunmires, a powerful old-money family that doesn’t play by old-world rules, forcing Dwight to fight for everything he’s built and protect his family.

(L-R) McKenna Quigley Harrington, Bella Heathcote, Martin Starr, Vincent Piazza, Dana Delany, Sylvester Stallone, Annabella Sciorra, Frank Grillo, Garrett Hedlund and Jay Will attend the Tulsa King panel on Sept. 16, 2025 in New York City.

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The series also stars Martin Starr, Jay Will, Annabella Sciorra, Neal McDonough, Robert Patrick, Beau Knapp, Bella Heathcote, Chris Caldovino, McKenna Quigley Harrington, Mike “Cash Flo” Walden, Kevin Pollak, Vincent Piazza, Frank Grillo, Michael Beach, James Russo, with Garrett Hedlund and Dana Delany.

Jackson will appear in Season 3 as Russell Lee Washington Jr. before headlining NOLA King.

Produced by Paramount Television Studios and 101 Studios, Tulsa King Season 3 is executive produced by Sheridan, Sylvester Stallone, Dave Erickson, David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin, Bob Yari, Jim McKay, Sheri Elwood, Ildy Modrovich and Keith Cox. Erickson also serves as showrunner. The series is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

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Billie Jean King Cup Livestream 2025: Where to Watch the Women's Tennis Tournament Online
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Watch 2025 Billie Jean King Cup Finals: Livestream Tennis Online Free

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The world’s best female tennis players are in Shenzhen, China this week for the 2025 Billie Jean King Cup. Originally called the Federation Cup, the international team tennis competition changed its name in 2020 in honor of activist and former World No. 1 Billie Jean King.

Eight countries qualified for this year’s event, including the U.S. and Italy, which took home the win in the 2024 finals. The 2025 Billie Jean King Cup takes place from September 16 to 21.

How to Watch the Billie Jean King Cup Finals Online Free

Viewers in the U.S. can watch the Billie Jean King Cup on TV through Tennis Channel. Don’t have cable? Grab this free trial to DirecTV Stream to watch the Billie Jean King tennis tournament online. DirecTV Stream’s free trial includes a live feed of Tennis Channel, and lets you watch the matches on your phone, laptop, tablet or TV.

Another way to watch the Billie Jean King Cup finals online for free? Use Fubo, a live TV streaming service that also includes Tennis Channel as part of its lineup. Fubo has a seven-day free trial that you can use to livestream Billie Jean King Cup tennis online for free. Fubo’s free trial includes free DVR, so you can record the women’s tennis matches to watch a replay back on-demand later.

How to Watch the Billie Jean King Cup Finals With VPN

You can also watch the Billie Jean King Cup with a virtual private network like NordVPN. Use the VPN to stream live coverage of the tournament through BBC in the UK, beIN Sports in France or CBC in Canada. Set your VPN location to the country of your choice and live stream the tennis tournament free with those international broadcasters.

NordVPN is currently offering a promotion that gets you access from just $3 a month — a 73% savings. Save more when you sign up for an annual plan.

We also like ExpressVPN, which you can use to watch Billie Jean King Cup coverage from outside the U.S. Plans to ExpressVPN start at just $3.49/month for a basic streaming package.

In addition to letting you watch Billie Jean King tennis matches online, you can use your VPN to watch TV shows, movies and other live sports from channels around the world.

2025 Billie Jean King Cup Final: Matchups, Predictions

Similar to the Davis Cup for men, the Billie Jean King Cup pits the world’s top countries together for a best-of-three rubbers format with two singles matches and one doubles match per day.

This year’s finalists are China, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Spain, Ukraine and the United States.

The U.S. holds the all-time record for wins, with 18 titles, and they are favored to win again this year, led by recent U.S. Open semifinalist Jessica Pegula. Kazakhstan and Italy are also considered contenders.

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Prince Harry ‘closer’ to bringing kids to U.K. after King Charles meeting - National
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Prince Harry ‘closer’ to bringing kids to U.K. after King Charles meeting – National

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Prince Harry — after meeting with his father, King Charles III, for the first time in almost two years last week — says he’s warming up to the idea of introducing his kids to their estranged family members.

During an exclusive interview with The Guardian, the Duke of Sussex, 41, said he would like to bring his American-born children, Princess Lilibet, 6, and Prince Archie, 4, whom he shares with his wife, The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, to his home country.


The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attending the 2025 Invictus Games in Whistler, Canada. Picture date: Monday February 10, 2025.

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“Yes, I would. This week has definitely brought that closer,” he told the British outlet on an overnight train to Kyiv after a short trip to the U.K.

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Not much is known about the recent meeting between Harry and his father, other than they sat down for a cup of tea.


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The Duke, who became entirely estranged from the Royal Family after he released his tell-all memoir Spare, did not share a great deal about the rift at the behest of his father.

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He did provide some novel tidbits about himself, including that he hates cycling because he has a “bony ass,” and that boxing and “hitting the hell out of a bag” help him to relieve stress.

The outlet went on to describe him as an “informal” person who walked around in his socks and made dad jokes during the overnight train ride to the capital of Ukraine.


Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, is met at the train station on September 12, 2025 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, has arrived in Ukraine on an unannounced visit at the invitation of the Ukrainian government.

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Harry, who is not on speaking terms with his brother, Prince William, the Prince of Wales, said, “my conscience is clear,” while alluding to wanting to spend more time in the U.K. despite his public criticisms of his family.

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His comments mark a shift in outlook from earlier this year, when Harry told the BBC he did not “see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back to the U.K.,” after losing a legal bid to retain his publicly funded police security detail provided to him when visiting Britain.

“They’re going to miss, well, everything,” he said. “I love my country. I always have done. Despite what some people in that country have done,” the prince, whose security was downgraded when he left England for the U.S., continued.


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“I miss the U.K., I miss parts of the U.K., of course I do,” he also told the BBC in May. “I think that it’s really quite sad that I won’t be able to show my children my homeland.”

Before his most recent visit, Harry last saw his father in person in February 2024, days after the King announced his cancer diagnosis.

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During their latest meeting, the Duke of Sussex was seen arriving at Clarence House at around 5:20 p.m. local time on Sept. 10. He was pictured leaving just under an hour later, according to People.

The two have been distant since Harry and his wife, Meghan, left royal life and moved to California in 2020.


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