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Martin Scorsese has made plenty of crime sagas in his time, but Killers Of The Flower Moon will be his first Western crime saga. The story, which is based upon David Grann’s bestselling narrative nonfiction book of the same name, follows the Osage community in the 1920s. They had grown extremely wealthy due to their oil windfall after being relegated to seemingly undesirable land. That status attracted predators, and a string of murders followed.

The film debuted this year in Cannes to critical accolades, and since that May premiere, fans have been impatiently waiting for this event to hit theaters. Let’s talk about what to expect from Killers Of The Flower Moon.

Plot

Expect to see significant differences from structure of the book, which carried a subtitle, The Osage Murders And The Birth Of The FBI, and placed a hefty focus upon Agent Tom White, who was the lead agency investigator on this case under former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

The film (which is already over three hours long) doesn’t invest as much time on White, who was originally going to be played by Leonardo DiCaprio until Scorsese shifted plans (as Deadline detailed earlier this year), and “started over, seizing on the chance to tell a story that would resonate in a modern era.” In the film’s final incarnation, Jesse Plemons portrays White with DiCaprio shifting into the shoes of shifty Ernest Burkhart.

Lily Gladstone portrays the indomitable Mollie Burkhart, and the film gestated for years (even shooting through the pandemic) before the world finally got a glimpse beyond this now-infamous still:

Grann, while recently speaking to us about his latest book, The Wager, revealed his experience on the Oklahoma set.

“I was really struck by the level of care, both in developing the story and the level of research,” Grann explained. “The production team would often ask me questions about the research, but they did their own as well. They filmed on location, which was really important, and most important of all, they worked very closely with members of the Osage nation to tell the story in a faithful and sensitive way. Chief Standing Bear appointed several ambassadors of the nation to work with the movie people, and so many Osage were involved in the process…. I saw a very powerful scene when I visited. Several Osage were playing the roles and were astonishingly good.”

The film is preceded by the following synopsis:

At the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world overnight. The wealth of these Native Americans immediately attracted white interlopers, who manipulated, extorted, and stole as much Osage money as they could before resorting to murder. Based on a true story and told through the improbable romance of Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), Killers of the Flower Moon is an epic western crime saga, where real love crosses paths with unspeakable betrayal.

Cast

In addition to DiCaprio and Gladstone, Killers Of The Flower Moon also stars Robert De Niro, Jesse Plemons, Brendan Fraser, John Lithgow, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, Tantoo Cardinal, and Jillian Dion.

Release Date

As with Grann’s The Wager, this shall be an Apple TV+ film that debuts in theaters on October 20 and later streams at the source.

Trailers

You want a real trailer? Here’s two masterful examples.

Drea de Matteo joined OnlyFans as, in a sense, a protest against vaccine mandates. “I guess you could say I was a bad girl because I did not follow the rules a couple of years ago. So, I don’t want to be at the mercy of mandates or strike or anything like that ever again,” she told Fox News Digital.

The actress, who played Adriana on The Sopranos, said that she’s had to “switch careers and figure new things out” because she’s considered “a savage” in the entertainment industry for not getting vaccinated against a virus that’s killed over six million people. de Matteo was dropped by her agent, she claimed, and nearly lost her home. “People find that hard to believe that I was never really paid very much money for any of the jobs I’ve done,” she continued. “People think I’m f*cking made of gold, and I’m not. I’ve worked job to job. And I’ve turned down tons of jobs in the past just to be with my children because their dad’s on the road, and he’s not around as much.”

de Matteo figured “everybody’s in their underwear and being sexy on Instagram and I don’t do that, but I can do that and get paid for it,” so she signed up for OnlyFans. “I just don’t care. I don’t. I’d rather save my family than save face,” she said. “Listen. For the people who think it’s something crazy, it’s not what you think it is. And for the people who think it’s something crazy, it’s exactly what you want it to be.”

(Via Fox News Digital)

Taylor Swift is having the time of her life. The “Anti-Hero” star had lots of fun at the VMAs the other night, and her concert film for The Eras Tour broke AMC’s record for the biggest single-day ticket sales.

It seems like it was ages ago that she was rumored to be dating The 1975’s Matty Healy. However, there was talk of his possible appearance on Swift’s re-recording of 1989. Now, that has been debunked, according to Billboard. A spokesperson for Swift told the publication that “neither Matty Healy nor [The] 1975 are on this album.”

It was in June that it was reported that Swift and Healy broke up. “According to a friend close to the situation … Taylor is in fact ‘single’ again, although it’s still unclear exactly why they’ve now split up,” TMZ reported, adding that they “haven’t been seen in public together since May 25 when they were out on a dinner date.”

There has already been gossip speculating another Swift relationship, this time with Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs. A source reportedly told The Messenger, “Taylor and Travis have been quietly hanging out. She saw him when she was in NYC a few weeks ago.” A source also reportedly told TMSPN, “Taylor Swift had scheduled to go to a place she frequents with Travis Kelce.”

Ron DeSantis stopped by Fox News on Wednesday night where the Florida governor attempted to shake off criticisms that he’s a weird dude who doesn’t know how to act around other humans. The moment of levity came at the end of his interview with Sean Hannity when DeSantis started lobbing a football into the crowd like people sometimes do.

Oddly, DeSantis came off the most normal looking while Hannity delivered one of the strangest transitions to Tulsi Gabbard. We honestly have no idea what the heck the Fox News host is saying here:

While DeSantis may have looked like a normal, all-American guy who loves him some sportsball, his humanity was not on full display earlier in the interview when he once again trotted out his tough guy act and vowed to leave anyone bringing drugs across the border “stone cold dead.”

DeSantis trotted out a similar line while talking to CBS News earlier in the day. The governor promised to deploy the U.S. military to the border, but don’t worry, they won’t be shooting women with babies. Anyone wearing a backpack, well…

Via Daily Mail:

‘If there’s a woman with a baby, they’re not a cartel member,’ DeSantis acknowledged. ‘There’s not going to be authorization to just shoot somebody like that.’

He added: ‘But when somebody’s got a backpack on, and they’re breaking through the wall, you know that that’s hostile intent and you have every right to take action under those circumstances.’

While sanctioning extrajudicial killings sounds pretty bad, the important thing is that Ron DeSantis knows how to throw a football. That’s really what elections are all about, are they not?

(Via Aaron Rupar on Twitter)

Alleged phantom fart dropper Whoopi Goldberg has recovered from her Covid stint, and thank god that someone is here to distract us from Matthew McConaughey’s foot rubs for Joy Behar. The needle-dropping moments of this show still exist, though, and this particular one might remind you of a certain tweet from Stephen A. Smith.

“Whoops” feels accurate here. The panel discussed Mitt Romney’s decision to take his salmon-ketchup sandwiches and head into the sunset, and then (completely out of the blue) Whoops looked over at Alyssa Farah Griffin and point-blank asked, “Are you pregnant?” Naturally, that led to this reaction.

Alyssa quickly denied being with child: “No! Oh my god.” She added, “You can’t say that when my mother-in-law is here, who’s been dying for me to get pregnant!” Whoopi didn’t appear to want to sink into a hole like most people do when they make the mistake of asking that question. Instead, Whoopi asserted, “I just got a vibe.” And later: “Forgive me, you have this… I see a glow.” Watch it happen after the 2:30 mark below.

Alyssa, meanwhile, did what many women do and wondered if “my tummy” was the cause of the question. The former White House Director of Strategic Comms also revealed that she is open to having a child, but it’s not happening at the moment. One strike for Whoops.

Demi Lovato performed a mashup of “Heart Attack (Rock Version),” “Sorry Not Sorry (Rock Version),” and “Cool For The Summer (Rock Version)” at Tuesday’s (September 12) 2023 MTV Video Music Awards, which Taylor Swift thoroughly enjoyed from the audience.

Those are three of the 10 tracks on Lovato’s Revamped, an album that finds them “breathing new life into the songs that played such a huge role in my career,” as they wrote on Instagram when announcing the project. Revamped is due out on Friday, September 15. In addition to the MTV VMAs, Lovato celebrated their release week by visiting The Howard Stern Show on Monday, September 11.

Stern asked Lovato if “Cool For The Summer” captured their experience of falling in love with a woman, and Lovato confirmed they’d written it “before I came out as bisexual, at the time.” Lovato added that their stepfather already had a hunch about their sexuality before officially coming out because of “Cool For The Summer.”

Later, Lovato said they did not tell the woman at the center of “Cool For The Summer” that it was written about her and doesn’t believe that she ever found out, even though the song dropped in 2015.

“Sometimes, I write songs, and I just leave them — let them be,” Lovato said. When Stern asked whether the woman is famous, Lovato giggled and quipped, “What if she is?”

That further piqued Stern’s interest, pressing, “Is she?” Lovato confirmed that it is about a famous woman, whom they were secretly involved with, but they will never privately tell the woman or explicitly identify her publicly because “I’m in a relationship now, and I feel like that would be inappropriate.”

Watch the full clip above and watch Lovato’s 2023 MTV VMAs performance below.

Revamped is out 9/15 via Island. Find more information here.

Have you ever seen something in a movie or online and thought, “That’s totally fake,” only to find out it’s absolutely a real thing? That’s sort of how this house in Pennsylvania comes across. It just seems too fantastical to be real, and yet somehow it actually exists.

The home sits between Greencastle and Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, and houses a pretty unique public secret. There’s a cave in the basement. Not a man cave or a basement that makes you feel like you’re in a cave, but an actual cave that you can’t get to unless you go through the house.

Turns out the cave was discovered in the 1830s on the land of John Coffey, according to Uncovering PA, but the story of how it was found is unclear. People would climb down into the cave to explore occasionally until the land was leased about 100 years later and a small structure was built over the cave opening.

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The idea was to make it accessible to visitors and use the cave as a tourist attraction, and the small structure was eventually built into a two-story house. But it was closed to the public in 1954 after the land was purchased for limestone mining and it remained closed for nearly 70 years. (In the words of Stephanie Tanner, “How rude.”) Sometime during that 70-year closure, the home that contains the cave was purchased by Dara Black, and in 2021, it reopened to the public.

Currently, the home is occupied by Black, but to gain access to the cave you can simply book a tour. The best part about booking a tour is that you only have to make a donation to enter. It’s a pay-what-you-can sort of setup, but since someone actually lives in the home, you can’t just pop in and ask for a tour. You have to go during the “open house” times available.

According to the Black-Coffey Caverns Facebook page, they treat the tours truly as an open house, complete with snacks and drinks. There’s a waiting room area where people can chat and eat their snacks while they wait for the tour to start. They also offer cave yoga once a month. According to Uncovering PA, the tour takes about 45 minutes to complete and there are about 3,000 feet worth of passageways.

Imagine living on top of a cave and just taking strangers on a waltz under your floorboards essentially. It makes me wonder if the house is quiet at night or if you can hear echoes of the cave sounds while you’re trying to sleep. From the Facebook page, it appears that the cave doesn’t have any lights, but there were pictures with some Christmas lights mounted to the cave walls. Otherwise, you have to use flashlights.

Hopefully, no mischievous children decide to play hide and seek or you just might have to call in a rescue crew. Literally. But what an unbelievable “pics or it didn’t happen” kind of story to tell. It’s not every day you run into someone that has a door that leads you to an underground cave.

If you want to see what a cave tour looks like starting from the outside of the house, check out the video below:

This article originally appeared on 1.30.23

A quick look at Salam Hayek‘s Instagram account finds that she’s having the best summer ever. Here’s one bikini photo. Here’s a bikini photo. Here’s a third bikini photo. Here she is eating a birthday cake, just to shake things up. Here’s another bikini photo (this time for #NationalBikiniDay).

What’s her secret to staying fit? Mediation (and sweating out the stress in a sauna). “I really believe it is,” the Magic Mike’s Last Dance actress told Entertainment Tonight. “People say it’s exercising. I think it’s meditation. You have to find your way. For me, exercising is hard… It’s really, really difficult to have the discipline to do it. But meditation is a walk in the park, because it’s my own form of it.”

Hayek celebrated her 57th birthday earlier this month. “I’m so happy to be alive and so profoundly grateful for all the blessings!!!! My beloved family, my precious friends, my health, my work that keeps me going, my empowering team, my relationship with animals & nature, and the love of all my loyal fans. Happy 57th birthday to me!!!” she wrote on Instagram to mark the occasion, along with, you guessed it, a bikini photo.

(Via Entertainment Tonight)

The Eagles have toured for more than 50 years. The “Hotel California” band is currently on The Long Goodbye Final Tour to “give all our fans a chance to see us on this final round,” they explained in a statement on their website. Hopefully, audiences will have fun but not get too rowdy, like they did in June.

The setlist is important considering this is their last tour; they’ve got to fit in all the hits, whether that’s “Take It Easy” or “One of These Nights,” as well as deep-cuts that die-hards have always wanted to hear.

Check out their setlist from September 11 at Boston’s at TD Garden, according to setlist.fm.

1. “Seven Bridges Road” (Steve Young cover)
2. “Take It Easy”
3. “One of These Nights”
4. “New Kid in Town”
5. “Take It to the Limit”
6. “Best of My Love”
7. “Witchy Woman”
8. “Peaceful Easy Feeling” (Jack Tempchin cover)
9. “Tequila Sunrise”
10. “In the City” (Joe Walsh song)
11. “I Can’t Tell You Why”
12. “Lyin’ Eyes”
13. “Life’s Been Good” (Joe Walsh song)
14. “Already Gone” (Jack Tempchin cover)
15. “The Boys of Summer” (Don Henley song)
16. “Funk #49” (James Gang cover)
17. “Life in the Fast Lane”
18. “Heartache Tonight”
19. “Rocky Mountain Way” (Joe Walsh song) (encore)
20. “Desperado” (encore)
21. “Hotel California” (encore)

Leave Selena Gomez alone. She dropped “Single Soon” in August — no, it is not about The Weeknd — and seems to be looking forward to finally releasing her next album, confirming “there’s not one sad song” on the record. She just wants to have fun, but everybody else keeps ruining it for her.

Gomez attended the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday night, September 12, where she accepted Best Afrobeats alongside Rema for their ubiquitous “Calm Down” collaboration. While sitting next to Rema in the crowd, Gomez scrunched up her face in apparent disapproval when Chris Brown was announced as a nominee for Best R&B. Cameras caught her reaction, and people on the internet did the rest.

“I will never be a meme again,” Gomez wrote on her since-expired Instagram Story. “I’d rather sit still than be dragged for being myself. Much love.”

This is the second time this month that Gomez has watched a candid reaction of hers become fodder for strangers. For as famous as she is, as long as she’s been famous, and as many times as people have taken something about her and ran with it, I imagine it never stops being an uncomfortable experience, to say the least.

On September 3, Gomez was one one of several celebrities present at BMO Stadium for Lionel Messi’s first-ever Major League Soccer game in Los Angeles since signing with Inter Miami in July. Messi had his shot saved — the rarest of sights — and Gomez’s mouth dropped to the floor.

Gomez played along and posted a screengrab of herself to her Instagram Story from the viral video, writing, “Mood.”