Ariana Madix is going to deliver the drama!
07.07.2023 - 14:21 / usmagazine.com
Hallmark Channel movies transport viewers into a different world, and the network’s royal-themed films bring a whole different level of fantasy.
While fans expect to suspend reality, when it comes to Hallmark’s royal rom-coms — there are almost too many tropes to count. The main culprit? Boy meets girl — and girl is blindsided by the revelation that her partner is royalty.
Take A Royal Queens Christmas, which focuses on Dee Dee (Megan Park), who unbeknownst to her, meets Prince Colin (Julian Morris) while delivering sweets for her cousin. Colin’s off-the-grid country of origin makes it possible for Dee Dee to fall for the prince before knowing his true identity, a trope that is in almost all the royal Hallmark productions.
Another cliché, which is Us-approved, is the story of an American who is hired by the royal family to help the king — or his child —and ends up finding her own happily ever after.
A Royal Runaway Romance, meanwhile, flips the script a little bit with the princess being the hopeless romantic and her suitor a seemingly normal American bodyguard. The 2022 film leans into the trope of boy falling for girl while trapped in a car for days only to learn when their road trip comes to an end they are each other’s perfect match.
Although Hallmark does stick to a formula of sorts — the queen always hates the foreigner, but eventually comes around when her son threatens to give up the throne — each royal movie does give the viewer a mini fairy tale that is wrapped until in two hours or less.
Cliché or not, riding in a one-horse open sleigh with a man who turns out to be next in line for the throne of a small country is a trope Hallmark fans want to see. And, lucky
Ariana Madix is going to deliver the drama!
Ariana Madix isn’t taking it easy on her ex, Tom Sandoval, now that Scandoval has simmered down.
Ariana Madix isn't taking it easy on her ex, Tom Sandoval, now that Scandoval has simmered down. has started filming season 11, and a source tells ET Madix has been laying into Sandoval since the cameras went up.«Filming is underway for 'Vanderpump Rules' and Tom and Ariana have filmed together. She has been laying into him while filming and doesn’t have time for any of his nonsense,» the source says.
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Rachel Leviss, formerly Raquel, hasn’t signed on for season 11 of Vanderpump Rules, but the rest of the cast is moving forward full steam ahead, with even exes Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix filming together.In early March, Sandoval and Madix announced the end of their relationship after being together since 2013 when she first joined the show.
A bomb cyclone storm, a condom scavenger hunt, two emotional breakups, and one crucial email dominated Thursday's episode of the Max reboot, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) proved she's still working girl goals as she kicked off the episode rearranging her laptop in the perfect configuration for a Zoom interview only to have the interviewer ask her favorite lip color when she was trying to discuss her new memoir about the death of her husband, Mr. Big (Chris Noth).
Kelly Rowland shared that spoiling Beyoncé and Jay-Z‘s gender reveal for Blue Ivy was her biggest mistake calling it the “worst moment ever”.The former Destiny’s Child singer discussed the moment on Billy Mann’s Yeah, I F**ked That Up podcast. She explained how she didn’t realise that she had revealed the gender until she saw the headlines circulating the next day.“Oh my God. When I made a mistake and told the sex of (Beyoncé)’s baby when she was pregnant with Blue,” Rowland told Mann after being asked about her biggest mistake.“That was the worst moment ever.
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Is finally hitting its stride? The reboot is four episodes into its sophomore season, and Thursday's episode proved to be its best yet. With Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) back in New York City, the original gang, including Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Charlotte York Goldenblatt (Kristin Davis), and honorary member Anthony Marantino (Mario Cantone), is able to meet up for lunch for some gossip and dirty talk, just like the old days. There are quips about Miranda's new fluid lifestyle with Anthony calling her «Rachel Maddow.» There are not-so-subtle euphemisms on Charlotte's part — mayo, confetti, and a finale of fireworks (Happy July 4th!), no less — and at the heart of it, there's the friendships fans of the original series have come to know and love. But Miranda is also forced back into all parts of her old life, including staying in her former home with ex Steve Brady (David Eisenberg), who has taken to shirtless boxing with a punching bag and her depressed son, Brady (Niall Cunningham), who is home recovering from a tough breakup. The family goes to therapy, and Brady verbalizes what we've all been thinking as Miranda stays silent. «This is not who she is, just so you know,» he tells the therapist. And it's not who Miranda is.
The Stockholm Film Festival has set SkyShowtime as its new official streaming partner in an agreement that will also see the streamer host the festival’s rising star award for new talent.
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Marta Balaga The Karlovy Vary Film Festival, which takes place in an elegant spa resort in the Bohemian region of the Czech Republic, is set to get political during its 57th edition, but in a subtle way. “I am not sure if you can even use the word ‘subtle’ when talking about politics, but it doesn’t always have to be in your face. You can be political by showing the existential struggles of an elderly lady who gets framed by some crooks,” says artistic director Karel Och, mentioning Stephan Komandarev’s “Blaga’s Lessons,” which will vie for the Crystal Globe. While the main competition features many stories about people trying to return home or simply find their place in the world, he adds, the festival will also celebrate Iran with a separate section “Another Birth. Iranian Cinema Here and Now.” “Before our consultant Lorenzo Esposito came up with this name, we thought about ‘Iranian Underground,’ but you can be political also by being poetic. We are not telling our audience how to react. We want them to be our partners,” notes Och. Observing that satire is also making a comeback.