Month: June 2025

Brian Wilson, legendary co-founder and chief songwriter for The Beach Boys, has died at the age of 82.

Wilson’s family announced his passing on social media on Wednesday, June 11, featuring a recent photo of Wilson smiling on a bench. Their statement read: “We are heartbroken to announce that our beloved father Brian Wilson has passed away. We are at a loss for words right now. Please respect our privacy at this time as our family is grieving. We realize that we are sharing our grief with the world. Love & Mercy.”

Wilson co-founded the Beach Boys in 1961 and played a huge role in developing the popular “California sound” that became a signature of the era. Hits include “Surfin’ USA,” “In My Room,” “Little Deuce Coupe,” “Surfer Girl,” “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “Good Vibrations,” “God Only Knows” and more. He served as the rock band’s songwriter and co-lead vocalist and also played bass guitar and keyboard alongside brothers, Dennis and Carl Wilson, cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine, as part of the group’s original lineup (per PEOPLE).

The Beach Boys were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and were honored in 2001 with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition, Wilson won two Grammy Awards for his solo work, one for “Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow” in 2005 and another for “The Smile Sessions” in 2013. He was also recognized by the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007 and earned a Golden Globe nomination in 2016 for writing an original song featured on the soundtrack of the biopic, Love & Mercy.

Wilson was married twice, first to Marilyn Rovell, from 1964 to 1979, and then to Melinda Kae Ledbetter, whom he married in 1995. Wilson’s family announced in May 2024 that he was dealing with “major neurocognitive disorder”-  the term used to describe what was previously known as dementia — and was placed under a conservatorship following the passing of his wife, Melinda, earlier that year.

Wilson is survived by his two daughters, Carnie and Wendy, whom he shares with his first wife; as well as five children he adopted with Ledbetter: Daria, Delanie, Dylan, Dash and Dakota Rose.

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Marvel Studios has shared the debut trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, starring Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic), Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm (the Invisible Woman), Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm (the Human Torch), and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm (the Thing).

Set to hit theaters on July 25, the Marvel Studios film dropped the trailer following its first reveal at Disney’s CinemaCon. Directed by Matt Shakman, the movie brings a fresh spin to the beloved comic book team, who originally debuted in 1961.

Rounding out the cast of The Fantastic Four: First Steps are Ralph Ineson as the cosmic threat Galactus, Julia Garner as the Silver Surfer, along with Paul Walter Hauser, Natasha Lyonne, and John Malkovich (in undisclosed roles).

Check out the trailer – HERE.

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Searchlight Pictures is previewing The Roses, a new film starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman, with a new trailer for the upcoming movie — described as a “reimagining” of the 1989 film ‘The War of the Roses’ starring Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito.

The film sees Cumberbatch, 48, and Colman, 51, portray married couple Theo and Ivy, whose picture-perfect life together goes awry when Ivy’s career takes off while Theo is fired from his job as an architect. Andy Samberg, Allison Janney, Belinda Bromilow, Sunita Mani, Ncuti Gatwa, Jamie Demetriou, Zoe Chao and Kate McKinnon also star.

A film synopsis reads: “Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Colman) and Theo (Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites.”

The Roses opens Aug. 29; see the trailer – HERE.

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Netflix has greenlit a six-episode limited series based on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

Emma Corrin, Jack Lowden and Olivia Colman are set to play lead roles in the series, which comes from writer Dolly Alderton and director Euros Lyn. BBC Studios’ Lookout Point is producing the series, which is set to begin filming later this year in the U.K.

Alderton said in a statement: “Once in a generation, a group of people get to retell this wonderful story and I feel very lucky that I get to be a part of it. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is the blueprint for romantic comedy — it has been a joy to delve back into its pages to find both familiar and fresh ways of bringing this beloved book to life. With Euros Lyn directing our stellar cast, I am so excited to reintroduce these hilarious and complicated characters to those who count Pride and Prejudice as their favourite book, and those who are yet to meet their Lizzie and Mr Darcy.”

Corrin will play Elizabeth Bennet, the intelligent and unconventional second daughter of the Bennet family; Lowden plays Mr. Darcy, the wealthy, gruff member of the gentry whose romance with Elizabeth fuels the story; and Colman plays Mrs. Bennet, Elizabeth’s mother.

Corrin said: “Playing Elizabeth Bennet is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. To be able to bring this iconic character to life, alongside Olivia and Jack, with Dolly’s phenomenal scripts, is truly the greatest honor. I can’t wait for a new generation to fall in love with this story all over again.”

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