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Based on a true story, the film stars Vishal Jethwa and Ishaan Khatter as two best friends bonded amid India’s harsh social and political climate.
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“Of course it sparks a range of emotions, from joyful memories to grief and immense sadness,” Matthew Reeve, whose dad’s framed “S” from his Superman costume now hangs in his own son’s room, told E! News. And to hear his sister and half-brother, for the first time, “tell certain parts of the story from their perspective, challenging is not the right word.”
Will, who was 13 when his mom died, understood the sentiment. “We’re so protective over each other, we’re so close with each other, we love each other so much,” he said, “that there were hard parts there, to see how this shared experience affected each of them in their own ways.”
He added, “Seeing my mom and dad in all their glory brings me back to a happy place, but one that’s tinged with sadness, of course. And I give space and hold weight equally for those things, because that’s part of the human experience.”
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Bollywood actor Vikrant Massey has achieved a historic milestone by winning the prestigious National Award for Best Actor for his extraordinary performance in the film 12th Fail. Known for his consistent dedication, emotional depth, and natural screen presence, Vikrant has now firmly cemented his place among the most talented actors in Indian cinema. In 12th Fail, Vikrant portrayed the inspiring real-life story of IPS officer Manoj Kumar Sharma, who rose above poverty, failures, and countless obstacles to achieve his dream of joining the Indian Police Service.
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Vikrant Massey Won National Award For 12th Fail
With his subtle yet powerful acting, Vikrant brought Sharma’s struggles and resilience to life, leaving a lasting impact on audiences across the country. His performance was not just convincing, it was deeply moving, making viewers feel every challenge, every emotion, and every triumph of the character. For Vikrant, winning the National Award goes beyond personal recognition, he said it symbolizes the power of perseverance and the importance of telling stories that inspire.
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Industry veterans, directors, and fans have praised Vikrant’s achievement, calling it a win for authentic storytelling and meaningful cinema. Industry people said that his journey from a television actor to a National Award-winning performer is an inspiring story in itself and a mirror of the determination of the very characters he often portrays on screen.
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Vikrant Massey is ready to showcase his versatility once again with his upcoming film White, which is a highly anticipated historical biopic where he steps into the role of spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. With such bold and diverse choices, Vikrant is continuously redefining the meaning of versatility in Bollywood, proving himself as one of the most dependable and dynamic actors of his generation.
Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar and author Twinkle Khanna have one of the most celebrated relationships in the industry, and it all began with a unique bet. While the couple first met as co-stars on a film set in the 1990s, they officially sealed the deal in 2001 after an unconventional agreement. In a candid conversation on the show Aap Ki Adalat, Akshay revealed the legendary story of how the box office failure of Aamir Khan’s film Mela paved the way for their marriage.
Akshay recalled proposing to Twinkle when her highly anticipated film, Mela, was about to be released. At the time, they were having an affair, but Twinkle was not ready to commit to marriage. “Let’s get married?” Akshay asked. She gave him a condition, stating that she would only marry him if Mela did not do well at the box office. Everyone in the industry, including Twinkle, had full confidence in the film, which featured a star-studded cast and was directed by Dharmesh Darshan. It was considered a guaranteed hit.
However, as destiny would have it, the film underperformed. “Sorry Aamir Khan sahab, that film of yours didn’t work. But I got married because of you,” Akshay quipped with a laugh, giving a humorous nod to the film’s role in his love story. Their wedding was just as unconventional as the bet itself. They got married on the terrace of a friend’s house in a small, intimate ceremony. Akshay revealed that they were both shooting separately until 6 pm on their wedding day, a testament to their busy professional lives.
Twinkle Khanna-Akshay Kumar Love story
Over their years of marriage, Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna have become famous for their contrasting yet complementary personalities. Twinkle, a best-selling author and columnist, has a well-known “no filter” attitude. She speaks her mind, a quality that initially surprised Akshay. He recounted an incident early in their marriage when he took her to a trial show of one of his films. When the producer asked her how she liked it, she bluntly replied, “It’s a sh*t movie.” A shocked Akshay thought the producer would never cast him again. He tried explaining the need for diplomacy to Twinkle, but she simply stated, “No, I am like this. I’ll call a spade a spade.” This candidness has become her trademark, both in her writing and her public appearances.
Twinkle recently revealed on her new chat show, Two Much, that Akshay even has a codeword for her when he wants her to be quiet: “chashma pehen lo (wear your glasses).” This playful signal is a nod to her unfiltered nature and a part of their hilarious relationship dynamic.
Akshay admitted that their differing views go beyond just diplomacy. “She thinks left, and I think right. We’re completely different,” he explained. However, he emphasized that their marriage works because their few similarities are so strong that they make up for the big differences. “There’s one thing common between us — we both like to sleep and wake up early. So, that has made our life very simple. We also like watching films. We also don’t like parties and going out. So, things begin to match gradually. The 20% similarities are so strong that they make up for the 80% dissimilarities.”
The Jolly LLB 3 actor also revealed their shared love for horror films. “She likes to watch horror films only with me. She feels a little scared, but enjoys it too. But she can’t watch it alone. She always watches with me,” he said. This small, shared passion highlights the simple joys that define their long-lasting relationship. Twinkle, who has since become a successful writer and interior designer, never looked back at her acting career. Her decision to pivot to writing has proven to be a resounding success, and she has never missed the profession she never truly wanted.
On the work front, Akshay Kumar will next be seen in Priyadarshan’s horror comedy Bhooth Bangla, which is scheduled for release next year.
The Story of How Jelly Rolly & Bunnie Xo Met
Bunnie Xo and Jelly Roll‘s love story began in Las Vegas.
As she recalled on Bussin’ With The Boys, she met the singer in August 2015 when he performed at the Las Vegas Country Saloon. This was before Jelly Roll was famous. At the time, he was living in a van, and he estimated about 20 people were at the show.
Instead, their spark took center stage.
“When I met him, I tell everybody it’s the most f–king cliché s–t, but literally my soul was like, ‘There you are,'” Bunnie said on the podcast in 2023. “And he’s not my type. I’m not his type. He loves Taylor Swift. That’s his type.”
Still, a romance didn’t form right away. Bunnie was in an unhealthy relationship, she continued, and Jelly Roll was doing his own thing. But in October 2015, they reconnected. And as Bunnie put it, she was “just smitten.”
After her ex went to prison, she added, she told a friend to give Jelly Roll her phone number. Bunnie said the musician would call and text her for advice on his daughter Bailee from a previous relationship.
However, Bunnie noted her bond with Jelly Roll shifted from platonic to romantic in July 2016 when he returned to Vegas to film some videos and they slept together.
“We’re like s–t-faced drunk,” she remembered. “I’m trying to get it up, get it in, get it on and get it out, and this guy was like, ‘What’s your five-year plan?'”
So, they discussed their goals, and Bunnie recalled Jelly Roll saying, “OK, cool. Let’s do it.”
These days, it’s common parlance for TV fans to talk about a show “jumping the shark” when it starts declining in quality, usually due to some unexpected plot point or storyline. The origins of the expression date back nearly half a century, to the Happy Days episode “Hollywood, Part 3,” which aired on September 20, 1977 — the episode in which Henry Winkler’s Arthur “The Fonz” Fonzarelli accepts a challenge to jump over a shark while waterskiing. The episode has long baffled fans — but as it turns out, one of classic TV’s oddest moments was set into motion by Winkler’s father, who insisted his son tell producers about his waterskiing skills.
For some fans, including comedian Jon Hein, that episode was the beginning of the end of Happy Days. Hein popularized the phrase “jump the shark” through his website of the same name, after recalling a college discussion with friends about when shows started going downhill, as he told Michigan Today in 2016. During that chat, Hein’s roommate said, “When Fonzie jumped the shark.”
EXCLUSIVE: Pete Earley and Gerald Shur’s nonfiction book WitSec: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program is being developed for TV at HBO, from Peter Chernin’s Chernin Entertainment. Justin Piasecki (Relay) and David Kob (Foundation) will serve as writers on the project.
TheWitsec series follows a DOJ lawyer and a hardened mob hitman, both fed up with the corrupt institutions around them, who form a precarious alliance to convict criminal titans and save lives in the rogue origins of the Witness Protection Program.
Witsec will be executive produced by Alex Jackson of Chernin Entertainment, Earley and Miriam Shur.
Piasecki is currently writing his as-yet-untitled original thriller feature for Amazon MGM Studios. He also has his feature Stakehorse at Amazon, which has Justin Lin attached to direct and Hidden Pictures attached to produce. His feature Relay was released this fall by Bleecker Street and is directed by David Mackenzie and stars Lily James, Riz Ahmed and Sam Worthington. Piasecki is repped by Paradigm, Range and Hansen Jacobson Teller Hoberman.
Kob recently was elevated from executive producer to co-showrunner on Foundation for Apple TV+ and Skydance, after being with the show since Season 1. The sci-fi series recently was renewed for a fourth season. He is repped by Paradigm and Signature Management.
Founded three years ago, Chernin Entertainment is a global content studio whose projects span scripted, unscripted and documentary content. Its labels include Chernin Entertainment (film, TV and indie), North Road Television, Words + Pictures and Kinetic Content, among others.
Recent projects include the action-comedy Back in Action and Fear Street: Prom Queen, both of which debuted at No. 1 on Netflix’s most-watched list. Its upcoming film slate includes Apex and sci-fi 11817 — both for Netflix — as well as Altar with Kyle MacLachlan and January Jones. On the TV front, they released the Jason Momoa-led Chief of War and Starz’s P-Valley, with The Backrooms (fka Man on Fire) with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve coming soon to Netflix. Earlier this year, Chernin Entertainment signed a multi-year first-look film deal with Apple TV+.
Addison Rae is on her way to scream queen status. As showcased in a new trailer for Ryan Murphy’s upcoming Monster: The Ed Gein Story posted Tuesday (Sept. 16), the TikTok sensation is set to appear in her latest horror project, playing the victim of a brutal murder.
The latest installment of Murphy’s true-crime anthology series, as the title suggests, will focus on serial killer Ed Gein, who was suspected of killing women and robbing graves in the 1950s. Rae reportedly plays one of his alleged victims, teenager Evelyn Hartley, with the trailer showing a disturbing scene in which she is tied to a chair wearing nothing but her underwear while the titular character (portrayed by Charlie Hunnam) forcibly shoves her head downward.
At one point, the camera zooms in on Rae’s face, and she looks properly terrified as Hunnam lurches toward her.
Premiering Oct. 3, The Ed Gein Story will mark the third edition of Murphy’s Netflix show. Previous subjects have been Jeffrey Dahmer and Lyle and Erik Menendez.
Rae has previously tested out her horror acting chops by starring in Eli Roth’s 2021 slasher film Thanksgiving. Before that, she made her acting debut in 2021’s He’s All That.
The social media star has also been growing her music career this year, unleashing debut album Addison in June. The LP reached No. 4 on the Billboard 200. In an August Billboard cover story, Rae told senior writer Kristin Robinson about embracing new adventures, from music to acting. “I really just never give up and never quit, no matter what,” she said. “Really, what it comes back to is that I’m fearless — I’m not afraid of much. It doesn’t really take me much to try something new and go all in, and here, I went all in.”
Check out Rae in the trailer for The Ed Gein Story above.
Sometimes, paparazzi shots from a set can spoil the plot of the upcoming movie or series. But there is one advantage to losing the element of surprise: fashion inspo. A perfect example of this is a recent look worn by actor Sarah Pidgeon as she plays Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy on the set of American Love Story, a new series from Ryan Murphy about the style icon and her marriage to John F. Kennedy Jr.
In the 1990s Bessette-Kennedy made her mark in fashion, becoming a style icon that designers and fans alike pinned to their mood boards. She was the original queen of what we now call “quiet luxury.” She shaped her minimalist looks without frills, prints, or excessive accessories. Instead, she focused on well-tailored wardrobe essentials. At her wedding to JFK Jr., for example, she wore a simple white silk slip dress cut on the bias.
So naturally, images from the set of Murphy’s upcoming series about the couple, American Love Story, have found their way onto every Instagram feed. As a result, there’s been a renewed appreciation for the Bessette-Kennedy’s fashion.
Her minimalist style from the 1990s has proved to still be as relevant as ever, so it’s not surprising that I was recently taken with a photograph of Pidgeon as Bessette-Kennedy on the streets of New York. The actor was wearing a black knit cardigan, khaki pants, a pair of square-heeled sandals, and a Birkin bag.
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The look is so quintessentially “quiet luxury” that I instantly added it to my fall mood board. Assuming you’d like to do the same, I shopped out a few similar pieces for you, below.
A version of this story was previously published in Vogue France.
Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan are following up again on the success of their 2022 miniseries Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, which was originally conceived as a limited series but returned with an acclaimed second installment in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. Season 3 centers on Ed Gein, set to be portrayed by Charlie Hunnam, an infamous serial killer whose story inspired some of Hollywood’s biggest horror films.
When will Monster Season 3 premiere?
The exact premiere date for Monster: The Ed Gein Story is October 3 on Netflix.
Who stars in Monster: The Ed Gein Story?
Joining Hunnam is Laurie Metcalf, who will portray his on-screen mother, Augusta Gein. Suzanna Son also stars as Adeline Watkins, Gein’s former romantic partner. Tom Hollander will play Alfred Hitchcock, and Olivia Williams will portray Alma Reville. Additional cast members include Vicky Krieps as Ilse Koch, Olivia Williams as Alma Reville, Lesley Manville as Bernice Worden, Joey Pollari as Anthony Perkins, Charlie Hall as Deputy Worden, Tyler Jacob Moore as Sheriffy Schley, Mimi Kennedy as Dr. Mildred Newman, Will Brill as Tobe Hooper, and Robin Weigert as Enid Watkins.
Is there a trailer for Monster: The Ed Gein Story?
Yes. Netflix dropped the full trailer for the series on September 15, and it’s definitely not for the faint of heart. With the chilling tagline, “You’re the one that can’t look away,” the trailer shows Hunnam seemingly addressing the viewer directly while leading them through the most nightmarish moments of Gein’s atrocities. Watch the trailer above.
The first teaser for the series was released on September 4, showing an investigator searching through Ed Gein’s home to find fragments of skin scattered throughout. It featured the first glimpse of Hunnam as Gein.
What is Monster Season 3 about?
The synopsis for Monster: The Ed Gein Story reads as follows: “Serial killer. Grave robber. Psycho. In the frozen fields of 1950s rural Wisconsin, a friendly, mild-mannered recluse named Eddie Gein lived quietly on a decaying farm – hiding a house of horrors so gruesome it would redefine the American nightmare. Driven by isolation, psychosis, and an all-consuming obsession with his mother, Gein’s perverse crimes birthed a new kind of monster that would haunt Hollywood for decades. From Psycho to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to The Silence of the Lambs, Gein’s macabre legacy gave birth to fictional monsters born in his image and ignited a cultural obsession with the criminally deviant. Ed Gein didn’t just influence a genre — he became the blueprint for modern horror.”
“Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s groundbreaking anthology series returns with its third, most harrowing installment yet,” the synopsis continues. “Monster: The Ed Gein Story tells the story of how one simple man in Plainfield, Wisconsin, became history’s most singular ghoul. He revealed to the world the most horrific truth of all — that monsters aren’t born, they’re made…by us.”
Who was Ed Gein?
Gein was born and raised in Wisconsin, where he endured a toxic household. According to Britannica, his father was an alcoholic, and his mother was verbally abusive. Although his older brother often stood up for him, Ed remained deeply attached to his mother and her religious beliefs. Throughout the 1940s, the family was further torn apart by the tragic deaths of each member, shattering Ed.
According to Biography, Gein became a recluse but continued to work odd jobs to support himself. As residents of Plainfield began to disappear, he became a suspect. Eventually, Gein solved the mystery for them by confessing to two murders during questioning.
Gein’s actions shook up the small town, earning him the nicknames, “Butcher of Plainfield,” “Plainfield Ghoul,” and the “Grandfather of Gore.” Though he was eventually found guilty of murder and later died from cancer in 1984, his gravesite has become a tourist attraction, and his various appearances in the media have kept him alive.
Why did Murphy and Brennan choose Gein?
With so many serial killers to choose from, it begs the question: Why Gein? In an interview with Collider, Murphy shared some insights into the team’s decision-making process, speaking on how influential Gein has been to the horror genre. In addition to Psycho, Murphy noted his impact on films like The Silence of the Lambs, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and American Psycho.
The title, The Original Monster, also revealed by Murphy in the interview, suggests this season will broaden its scope and focus not only on the circumstances surrounding Gein’s crimes, but also the role of the entertainment industry in immortalizing him. Given the series’ previous criticisms, this could be the angle it needs for continued success.
Monster: The Ed Gein Story, October 3, Netflix