Following a stint with depression, a lost eyeball and the death of his entire family in Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, Chris Hemsworth is back to his galactic shenanigans.
Here’s what we know about Marvel’s next voyage to the cosmos 🔨
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A billionaire investor wants to create a new 'sustainable' and 'equitable' city in the middle of the US desert 🇺🇸🏜️
150,000 acres; 5 million people; opening in 2030.
Here's what we know about the ambitious project 👇
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🎬Is there a trailer?
No. According to Marvel, the film wrapped on July 1, no doubt to the relief of Hemsworth’s biceps.
Spider-Man: No Way Home took its time giving fans a first look – the trailer dropped only three months ahead of its planned release. Thor could follow suit
Portman will reportedly assume the mantle of Mighty Thor. See, Thor is more of a title than a name, and Foster’s character will find herself worthy of carrying the Mjolnir hammer and joining Hemsworth for arm day at the gym. Get ready to meet the Goddess of Thunder
The new James Bond movie ‘No Time to Die’, co-written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, will finally be released later this month 🎬
We sat down with James Bond’s newest 00 colleague to talk lockdown, west London and being proud to be Black 💪
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🎬What's Thor: Love and Thunder about?
According to reports, it will at least partially focus on Thor’s adventures with the Guardians – whose roles are reportedly minimal – but will also reunite the hero with his beloved Jane Foster, the human scientist played by Natalie Portman
🇯🇵 But a Japanese man is reminding athletes they don’t need to win to prove they’re the best.
Each morning he stands outside the Olympic Village and holds up a sign that says ‘Good morning athletes! Even if you don’t get a medal, you’re still the best!! So believe in yourself!'
Hiddleston’s Loki will reportedly not appear. This reality’s version of the character is officially dead, and the actor is currently preoccupied over at Disney+ for his Loki solo outing.
No word yet on whether Kat Dennings’ D’Arcy – last seen in WandaVision – will return
Meet the former trial lawyer who's making waves on TikTok - 2.7 million followers and counting - with Korean recipes and kindness 🇰🇷🍚
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Not all heroes wear capes, some wear stars. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Five-star Knightsbridge hotel @TheBerkeley is feeding frontline workers (again) at its ‘999 Drive-thru’ - daily, 9am-5pm.
It's open to @Ldn_Ambulance, @LondonFire and London @metpoliceuk.
Tell your frontline friends!
🚍 The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, comes as early as 7.15am and holds up the sign every time a bus transporting Olympic athletes passes by.
He stays here for around two hours each day
Global warming can be difficult to properly visualise. If you’re not directly threatened by rising sea levels, suffering water shortages or ravaged by wildfires, how do you know it’s really happening?
📍Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Amsterdam, Rotterdam and the Hague sit low, flat and close to the North Sea. The Dutch are famed for their flood defences, and it seems the country’s dikes, dams, barriers, levees and floodgates will become even more essential in the years to come
The pair will be faced with the grave threat of Gorr the God Butcher, played by Christian Bale in what promises to be his most terrifying villain turn since Vice.
In the comics, he's a murder-crazed powerhouse. Things could get apocalyptic – or Ragnarockic – for our heroes
📍New Orleans, USA
Without the city’s system of levees, New Orleans would be severely threatened by rising sea levels. Even with them, the damage looks catastrophic. The Biloxi and Jean Lafitte wildlife preserves look particularly vulnerable to being totally submerged
⭐What is Wakanda Forever about?
The film will reportedly explore Wakanda as it opens itself to the world after generations of thriving in the shadows.
Rumours have swirled that the film will put the kingdom of Wakanda up against the inhabitants of the Lost City of Atlantis
⭐What will the film be called?
Its official title will be Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, taking its name from the Wakandan battle cry made famous by Boseman.
The mantra — adopted frequently by Boseman — became less a catchphrase and more a powerful signifier of Black unity
Netflix’s new Marilyn Monroe movie Blonde has been slapped with an NC-17 rating, or an 18 in UK terms, for sexually explicit content, making it the first release on the streamer to be given the adult-only certification
🎬Will Love and Thunder keep Ragnarok’s tone?
Waititi told Empire, ‘It’s the craziest film I’ve ever done. If you wrote down all the elements of this film, it shouldn’t make sense…I mean, you’d never work again. Maybe I won’t after this’
Expect things to get delightfully batty
📸His efforts haven't gone unnoticed. Appreciative athletes have posted pictures of him on Instagram and turned him into a viral star of the Games.
The man will be standing outside the village every day until the end of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Sunday August 8.
What a legend
German heiress Anna Delvey was a New York socialite, entrepreneur and ridiculously loaded high-flyer.
Except, she wasn’t really any of those things.
Now Shonda Rhimes is bringing her tale to Netflix 👇
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The day of the Queen's funeral will start at 9am when Big Ben will chime with its bell hammer muffled with a leather pad and then the Queen’s funeral cortege will arrive at Westminster Abbey at 11am. There will be a minute’s silence held around the country as she enters the abbey
🎬Who is returning for the film?
The surviving Guardians – Chris Pratt, Pom Klementieff, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Vin Diesel and Sean Gunn (plus probably an unconfirmed Bradley Cooper, given Thor and Rocket Raccoon’s bromance) – are on board, along with Tessa Thompson
🥇Olympians work hard to qualify and compete in the Games, but there are only three medals up for grabs in each event, leaving the majority of athletes inevitably disappointed
The film will also see the return of Jaimie Alexander’s Lady Sif, Thor’s sometimes love interest who was off-world during Ragnarok.
Goldblum’s Grandmaster is also slated to return alongside director Taika Waititi’s comic-relief rock-monster Korg
📍Savannah, USA
Savannah sits in a hurricane hotspot. The Savannah River in the north and Ogeechee River in the south could spill out into the nearby marshland. By 2050, the city is predicted to experience once-per-century historical flood levels every year
Local historians are hoping Edelweiss is bought by someone interested in the heritage of the place, rather than developers. The houses are all named after their original owners. And the properties come with 50 acres of land in one of the most beautiful regions in Canada. Dreamy
Ah, London Film Festival, how we love thee. And this year, it's bigger and bolder than ever before.
Pick up tomorrow's mag for our highlights and in the meantime, here's a head start on our @RealChalamet interview: timeout.com/TimotheeChalamet
Marvel head Kevin Feige told Deadline and the BBC respectively:
“We’re not going to have a CG Chadwick and we’re not recasting T’Challa"
"(Boseman's performance was) iconic… and it's for that reason that we will not recast the character"
📍Venice, Italy
Venice faces a twin threat: sea levels are rising and the city itself is sinking – by two millimetres every year. Like New Orleans, it has flood-defence systems in place, but as the crisis worsens, these will be more difficult (and expensive) to maintain
👋 He says he initially started holding up welcome signs on July 22 – a day before the opening ceremony – but changed his sign to its current supportive message on July 26, after seeing so many people obsessing over the medal count
❌Glinda the Good Witch of the North
Movie: The Wizard of Oz
When Dorothy lands in Oz, it’s Glinda pulling all the strings, sending her on a quest to rid the land of her biggest rival. Dorothy is just a pawn in her Machiavellian quest to become the most powerful witch in Oz
🎬Who's new to the cast?
It appears Russell Crowe will be on hand to play Zeus.
Melissa McCarthy was also spotted on set wearing Hela’s signature headwear, potentially spoiling a gag involving a recreation of Ragnarok with Damon, Neill and Luke Hemsworth reprising their cameos
There are over 3000 known sites of deserted medieval villages across the UK.
Eerie, tragic and almost certainly haunted, these are the spookiest.
Don't visit alone...
👻👇
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🔴What does ‘lying in state’ mean?
Traditionally, lying in state is when a well-known public figure or monarch dies and their body is placed on view in a state building so that the populace can pay their respects in person
🎥Robert Pattinson on ‘The Twilight Saga’
‘There's a lot of stuff in the Twilight world that doesn't make sense. It's like, why are they still going to high school? Like, up until last year? They're a hundred years old’
Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk seems to be MIA this time. But the cast list does include the curious return of Matt Damon, Sam Neill and Luke Hemsworth, last seen as actors forced to re-enact Asgard’s history at the whims of an in-disguise Loki
❌Willy Wonka
Movie: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Those Oompa Loompas absolutely did not sign on to dislodge a chunky German kid from a chocolate pipe. Wonka may talk about dreams, but in reality he’s a nightmare boss at best and slave labourer at worst
The UK’s seaside towns are having a renaissance right now.
Here’s our pick of the very best places for a coastal getaway
🏖️👇
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📍Kolkata, India
Much of west Bengal has thrived for centuries because of its fertile landscape, but that has become a cause for concern in Kolkata. Like Ho Chi Minh City, it could struggle during monsoon season as rainwater has less land to run off into
🤷So we shouldn’t work in the office but we can go partying. Makes total sense, right?
If you ask us, that doesn’t necessarily sound like the most foolproof plan to stop the spread of a virus. So that got us thinking: what’s next? And what’s the UK’s ‘Plan C’?
That’s why projects like Climate Central are essential. This website creates maps that show which parts of the world could find themselves underwater due to rising sea levels as early as 2030
📍Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok could be the city worst hit by global warming in the short term. It sits just 1.5 metres above sea level. It's also built on clay soil, which makes it more prone to flooding. By 2030, its main airport, Suvarnabhumi International, could be underwater
Lore and Ingels’s ambitious plan would see an entire city built from scratch in the desert of the western USA 🤠
Within 40 years, the duo intend to establish a fully-contained city, which will be extended over 150,000 acres and have a population of five million 📈
The putative heroes of a few classic movies are often not as golden as they appear.
Here's our definitive list of goodies who are actually baddies
🎬👇
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There’s a new Bridgerton spinoff coming and it’s a prequel and origin story – or ‘oriquel’, if you will. It’s the story of Queen Charlotte’s younger years, it’s written and produced by Shondaland big cheese and Bridgerton creator, Shonda Rhimes, and has just gone into production
Despite claims from Lore that Telosa could be ‘the most sustainable city in the world’, people were quick to question building another desert city when Las Vegas is already facing the dire consequences of severe water shortages 🌊
Telosa would be almost ten times its size ✖️
📍Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The areas most at risk are its eastern districts – particularly the flat, heavily built-up marshland of Thủ Thiêm. While the centre is unlikely to be underwater by 2030, it will almost certainly be more vulnerable to flooding and tropical storms