Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images via Getty ImagesThe trailer for the upcoming film adaptation of Colleen Hoover s bestselling novel It Ends with Us, starring Blake Lively, has arrived.In the Justin Baldoni-directed film, arriving in theaters August 9, Lively plays Lily Bloom, a young woman who has dealt with a traumatic upbringing, and is now starting a new life and business opening a flower shop in Boston.She meets Ryle Kincaid (Baldoni), a neurosurgeon, and the two quickly fall for each other.The trailer gives a glimpse of their characters falling in love, set to Taylor Swift s "my tears ricochet," before showing how Ryle s abuse impacts their relationship."Fifteen seconds. That’s all it takes to completely change everything,” Lily says in the trailer.Hoover has previously said the book, which touches largely on domestic abuse, was inspired by her mother s own escape from abuse."If one day you had a daughter, what would you say to her if she came to you a
In this 2011 file photo, female U.S. Marines are shown marching. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)(WASHINGTON) Soon to be released Pentagon figures will show a significant almost 19% reduction in the number of service members who say they have experienced some type of unwanted sexual contact over the previous survey conducted two years ago, according to a U.S. official.There was also a drop in the number of sexual assault reports involving service members filed last year, according to the official.Every two years, the U.S. military carries out an anonymous survey that Defense Department officials believe is a better indicator of the prevalence of sexual assault in the military than the annual reports where victims may be reluctant to step forward to report a sexual assault.This year s survey indicated close to 29,000 reported unwanted sexual contacts, an almost 19% reduction from the 35,800 reported in the survey carried out in 2021.The Pentagon survey defines unwanted sexual contact
Riddick - Universal Pictures Home EntertainmentVin Diesel s next adventure as the night vision-enabled intergalactic anti-hero Riddick will get underway on August 26, according to Variety.Riddick: Furya, the fourth film in the sci-fi franchise that started with 2000 s Pitch Black, is named after the character s home planet to which he finally returns, "a place he barely remembers and one he fears might be left in ruins," says the trade, quoting from the movie s logline.It is there, the trade continues, "he finds other Furyans fighting for their existence against a new monster and some of these Furyans are more like Riddick than he could have ever imagined."Aside from comics and video games, the original film also spawned 2004 s The Chronicles of Riddick and 2013 s Riddick, all of which were written and directed by The Fugitive veteran David Twohy, who s back with Vin as star and producer for the fourquel. Diesel has been mum about the project on social medi
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) President Joe Biden will deliver a major speech denouncing antisemitism on Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol.The remarks are part of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum ceremony marking the Days of Remembrance to honor the memory of the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust as well as other victims of Nazi persecution."He will speak to the horrors of Oct. 7 when Hamas unleashed the deadliest day for Jewish people since the Holocaust," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Monday. "And he will speak to how since Oct. 7, we ve seen an alarming rise in antisemitism in the U.S. in our cities or communities and our campuses."Jean-Pierre also said Biden will highlight his administration’s national strategy to counter antisemitism and protect Jewish Americans.Biden s high-profile address comes at a fraught political moment, as a possible Israeli invasion of Rafah looms and college protests