Month: August 2023

Bradley Cooper stars as the iconic American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein in the first trailer for his upcoming film, ‘Maestro,’ the follow-up to his directorial debut, ‘A Star Is Born.’ Maestro chronicles the life of Bernstein, focusing on his tumultuous marriage to Felicia Montealegre, played by Carey Mulligan. The film also stars Maya Hawke as one of the Bernstein’s daughters, Jamie, and Sarah Silverman as Leonard Bernstein’s younger sister, Shirley.

Bernstein is best known as the music composer for West Side Story, along with other influential musicals including On The Town and scoring films like On The Waterfront. Bernstein also won 16 Grammy Awards and served as the music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1959 to 1969.

Cooper serves as the director, co-writer, co-producer, and star of Maestro, with producers Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Fred Berner, Amy Durning, and Kristie Macosko Krieger, as well as executive producers Carla Raij, Josh Singer, Bobby Wilhelm, Weston Middleton and Tracey Landon.

Maestro will premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September before hitting select theaters on November 22; it will then debuts on Netflix December 20.  Take a look at the trailer for ‘Maestro’ – here.

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Sienna Miller, 41, is pregnant with her second child, and her first child with boyfriend Oli Green. As seen in photos obtained by People, Miller revealed her baby bump while wearing a bikini while on vacation in Ibiza. Pregnancy speculation first began in July while Miller vacationed with Green, 26, and her 10-year-old daughter, Marlowe, in St. Tropez.  (Miller shares her 10-year-old with ex Tom Sturridge.)

Miller and Green were first linked in February 2022 after being spotted together in New York. They later attending a BAFTA’s afterparty together in London in March 2022 and went official on the Vanity Fair Oscar afterparty red carpet in Beverly Hills later that month.  Miller opened up to Elle UK about whether she wanted more kids in April 2022, revealing that she chose to freeze her eggs when she turned 40.  Said Miller: “Biology is incredibly cruel on women in that decade [of their 30s] — that’s the headline, or it certainly was for me. Then I got to 40 and I froze some eggs. Having been really focused on the need to have another baby, I’m just like, if it happens, it happens. That kind of existential threat has dissipated.”

Miller has been engaged several times — she split from fiancé Jude Law in 2006, rekindling their romance three years later before calling it quits for good in 2011.  Miller moved on with the father of her daughter, Tom Sturridge, whom she dated from 2011 to 2015. Miller was later engaged to Lucas Zwirner before their split in September 2020.

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Jessie James Decker is pregnant with her fourth child with husband Eric Decker.

The 35-year-old Decker shared the happy news on Instagram, sharing a video which reveals her baby bump as she takes in the view on a balcony, with Mariah Carey’s song “Always Be My Baby” playing in the background. She captioned the video “Good morning .”

The country singer and former NFL star were open to expanding their family, telling PEOPLE last fall: “Honestly, we’re not trying to have a kid —we’re also not, not trying to have one.”  Said Jessie: “We’re not planning on it, so we’re just letting lives happen. And if it happens, it’s a blessing. If it doesn’t, it wasn’t meant to be, but we’re not doing anything to not make it happen.”

Jessie and Eric, 36, tied the knot in 2013 also share children Vivianne Rose, 9, Eric “Bubby” Jr., 7, and Forrest Bradley, 5.

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Tennis legend Serena Williams and her husband, tech entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian, have welcomed their second baby girl together. The couple first shared they were expecting another baby in May at the Met Gala in New York City.

The couple first revealed their baby news on TikTok, with Williams, 41, sharing a video that begins with the family sitting at a table with daughter Olympia, as Ohanian, 40, types on a laptop in front of them. Williams gets up, returning with a tightly swaddled newborn, and Olympia leans in and plants a kiss on her baby sister’s forehead. The video ends with shots of the family of four.

Ohanian later shared the happy news on Instagram along with a family photo and the caption: “Welcome, Adira River Ohanian. I’m grateful to report our house is teaming [sic] with love: a happy & healthy newborn girl and happy & healthy mama. Feeling grateful. @serenawilliams, you’ve now given me another incomparable gift — you’re the GMOAT Thanks to all the amazing medical staff who took care of my wife & our daughter I’ll never forget the moment I introduced @olympiaohanian to her baby sister … Your peace would have been like a river, your well-being like the waves of the sea.”

Willians and Ohanian were married in 2017, the same year their daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. (who goes by Olympia) was born. Williams announced in a Vogue essay last August that she was planning to retire from tennis to focus on growing her family: “I have never liked the word retirement. Maybe the best word to describe what I’m up to is evolution. These days, if I have to choose between building my tennis résumé and building my family, I choose the latter.” 

Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian Welcome Baby No. 2

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“Barbie” has overtaken Christopher Nolan’s 2008 superhero epic “The Dark Knight” as the highest-grossing domestic release in Warner Bros. history.  It is also anticipated that “Barbie” will surpass Universal’s animated “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” ($574 million) as the biggest domestic release of 2023. “Barbie,” which just hit $1.2 billion globally, can also potentially pass “Mario” ($1.35 billion) as the highest-grossing release of the year, worldwide.

“Barbie” has remained the No. 1 movie since its release, becoming the fastest Warner Bros. film (and eighth in the studio’s 100-year history) to join the $1 billion club. If numbers remain strong, it can perhaps top 2011’s “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” ($1.34 billion) as the studio’s highest-grossing worldwide release of all time.

In addition, “Barbie” earned the biggest opening of the year with $162 million, taking over that spot held by “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” ($146 million). It also landed the biggest debut ever for a film directed by a woman, overtaking Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s 2019 blockbuster “Captain Marvel” ($153 million).

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