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Jennifer Garner doesn't let her kids use social media. Garner, 50, explained the tactic she's used to keep her kids offline during an appearance on the "TODAY" show. "I just said to my kids, ‘Tell me — show me the articles that prove that social media is good for teenagers, and then we’ll have the conversation," the "13 Going on 30" actress explained.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director With “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” grossing $204.6 million domestically and $377 million globally in its debut over the five-day Easter weekend, it’s all but certain Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment will move forward with a “Super Mario” sequel. Jack Black, who voices the villainous Bowser in the blockbuster, is already thinking ahead, telling GameSpot that Pedro Pascal is his pick to voice Wario should the sequel bring in a new villain. “It’s not a given that Bowser will return,” Black said. “You know, I did a few ‘Kung Fu Panda’ movies, and it was a different villain every movie. They may do the same thing.” “You know, what if there is a more powerful, more evil villain?” Black continued. “Then I may need to be turned to help Mario and the rest to defend our universe against some other unseen force of evil. Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Wario! Pedro Pascal is Wario.”

Charna Flam In preparation for her latest production, “Tiny Beautiful Things,” costume designer Alana Morshead “stalked every book [Cheryl Strayed] wrote and everything [she] ever said, and put it into this show.” Hulu’s newest limited series “Tiny Beautiful Things” released all eight episodes on April 8, andis based on Strayed’s best-selling collection of her “Dear Sugar” advice column, “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar.” Kathryn Hahn stars as Clare, a mother and wife whose world begins to crumble — just in time for her to become an advice columnist.  Morshead immersed herself in the author’s previous work, diving into “Wild” and “Brave Enough,” in an effort to bring Strayed’s story to life through costuming nods and references to the author’s personal history. “It’s such a personal story,” Morshead told Variety.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and wants Pedro Pascal to play Wario.Black stars as Bowser in the new film, which was released this week and has proved an early hit at the box office.Talking to Game Spot, the star and Tenacious D singer looked ahead to a potential sequel, and the idea that Mario’s arch-rival, Wario, may be introduced.“It’s not a given that Bowser will return,” he said.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie has been released, starring Jack Black.Released via the Lyrical Lemonade YouTube channel, ‘Peaches’ sees Jack Black dressed in a shiny green suit with a red headdress, paying tribute to Bowser, the character he voices in the Super Mario Bros. animated film.Watch the music video below.Directed by Cole Bennett, the music video for ‘Peaches’ places Black in a peach-coloured mushroom hut as he belts out his ballad for Princess Peach, portrayed in the film by Anya Taylor-Joy.In a statement, per Rolling Stone, the film’s co-director Aaron Horvath revealed: “Jack Black is an incredible singer and musician, so we spent a night writing the song and sent the demo to Jack.

Hunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from “Love,” the finale of the limited series “Tiny Beautiful Things,” now streaming on Hulu. Hulu’s “Tiny Beautiful Things” ends on a serene note, with a hospital bed in the middle of a horse pasture and a single spoken word: “love.” The moment is one of the few shared between Kathryn Hahn and Merritt Wever in the limited series, which is based on author Cheryl Strayed’s life and her time writing an advice column called “Dear Sugar.” Wever plays Frankie, the free-spirited mother of Hahn’s character Clare, who (like Strayed’s mother) dies suddenly of lung cancer at the age of 45. The story primarily takes place in the present day as a grown-up Clare (played by Hahn) grapples with the trauma of having lost her mother, while Wever’s character exists in flashbacks to the 1990s when Clare was in her 20s and played by Sarah Pidgeon.

J. Kim Murphy It’s a box office Koopa d’état. “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” continues to super smash its opening projections, drawing $55 million from 4,343 theaters on Friday. Released Wednesday, the film has already earned $137 million in domestic ticket sales. If every dollar were a coin, that would amount to 1.37 million 1-Up mushrooms. That’s a lot of extra lives. The Universal and Illumination film is still on track for a $195 million opening in North America over the five-day Easter weekend frame. That’s way ahead of the $150 million projections that were being reported at the start of the week. Even more impressively, “Super Mario Bros.” now looks to leap to a $368 million global debut. That would become the biggest ever opening for an animated film, though that comes with a huge caveat. The current record holder, 2019’s “Frozen II,” earned $358 million over a traditional three-day window.

Queen Consort Camilla may be a part of the royal family now — but she was already a queen in her children’s eyes before her marriage to King Charles III.

Welcome to the vineyard! Bravo is taking fans to a new destination this spring with the premiere of Summer House: Martha’s Vineyard.

LFO, a popular 90s music group known for the smash hit "Summer Girls," has lost one of its founding members. Brian "Brizz" Gillis died on Wednesday at the age of 47. His cause of death is currently unknown.

One of the founding members of LFO has died.

Alan Carr has dedicated a touching tribute to his friend Paul O’Grady. Paul died ‘unexpectedly but peacefully’ on Tuesday evening aged 67, his husband Andre Portasio confirmed. On Wednesday, Alan, 46, revealed that shortly before his untimely death, Paul had been asked whether he thought he’d go to heaven, and his response was hilarious.

Harrison Ford and Tim Blake Nelson are spending the day filming the upcoming Captain America 4!

Angelina Jolie‘s lunch with David Mayer de Rothschild was strictly business!

Angelina Jolie moving on – and moving up – from her ex Brad Pitt with David Mayer de Rothschild? The two have all eyes on them following their recent outing.The Oscar winning actress was spotted having lunch, which reportedly lasted three hours according to Page Six, with the billionaire environmentalist, who is heir to the centuries-old Rothschild fortune, in Los Angeles on Thursday.The two made celebrity-favorite Nobu Malibu the destination of their highly-publicized, and lengthy, lunch.WATCH: Angelina Jolie opens up about her sustainability effortsMORE: Brad Pitt lists $40m mega-mansion amid divorce battle with Angelina JolieFor their outing, both of them kept their attire simple, with Angelina, 47, opting for a black pantsuit with side cut-outs on her waist, paired with her signature oversized black sunglasses and black pumps, while David, 44, donned a dark gray sweater with navy pants and a charcoal gray blazer. While little is yet known about the nature of their marathon lunch — although Angelina's philanthropic interests go far and wide — David is not exactly a low-profile figure himself.Born in London, he is the youngest of Victoria Lou Schott and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild's three children.MORE: Angelina Jolie just perfected the coffee run in a 90s throwback slip dressHe is both an environmentalist and an adventurer who has gone on epic expeditions: a 100-day crossing of the Arctic from Russia to Canada and an 8,000 nautical mile sailing journey from San Francisco, to Sydney on a sustainable ship he himself invented called the Plastiki, made primarily out of recycled plastic bottles.

It might feel longer, but it’s only been two weeks since “Everything Everywhere All At Once” triumphed at the 95th Academy Awards. And, thankfully, this is a year where there has been no fallout from a physical altercation on stage, an unnecessary ceremony at Union Station, or a Best Picture envelope mishap.

Depeche Mode kicked off their 2023 world tour in the US last night (March 23) – check out photos, fan-shot footage and the full setlist below.The synth-pop duo – comprising Dave Gahan and Martin Gore – delivered a 23-track set at the Golden 1 Center arena in Sacramento, California. To open the concert, they performed ‘My Cosmos Is Mine’ from their new album ‘Memento Mori’ for the first time.They also debuted ‘Speak To Me’ and ‘Soul With Me’ from the record, and played their recent single ‘Ghosts Again’.Elsewhere, Depeche Mode dedicated a live rendition of their 1990 single ‘World In My Eyes’ to their late bandmate Andy Fletcher.

Matt Baker loves animals and has often been pictured with one of his pet dogs throughout the years.It's no wonder, then that one of his memorable canine companions – and beloved Blue Peter co-star – Meg left a particular hole in his heart after she died.But as the presenter revealed in an interview with the Radio Times a few years ago, the border collie has been immortalised in the BBC archives.WATCH: Countryfile's Matt Baker flooded with support as he shares family newsThe doting dad-of-two told the publication that he once took Meg with him when he reported a piece about the long-running radio soap opera The Archers, and the pup ended up on the show!MORE: Matt Baker opens up about future of his young children and their role on family farmWhat's more, as the presenter revealed, she's made regular appearances since. Speaking in 2017, Matt said: "She came with me when I was doing a piece about the show, and it turned out their bank of sound effects was lacking the bark of a working dog."So they recorded her, and now whenever you hear a dog bark on The Archers, that's Meg".