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Exclusive: Inside Paris Hilton’s sister-in-law Maggie Reum’s lavish wedding

Exclusive: Inside Paris Hilton’s sister-in-law Maggie Reum’s lavish wedding

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Paris Hilton has gained a talented new sister-in-law, Maggie Sellers Reum, after the podcaster tied the knot with her longtime love, Courtney Reum, in a lavish wedding that took place over two nights in March. Their love story began years prior, when the Hot Smart Rich podcast host and investor met Courtney, an entrepreneur, author and investment banker, through a mutual friend at an industry event. Maggie told HELLO! that seconds after their conversation ended, she leaned over to her sister, Katie, and whispered: “I think that’s my husband.” Courtney then pulled off a romantic proposal in Paris, just hours before the French Open Men’s Final was due to start. Their song, “Higher Love”, played over the speakers as he got down on one knee with a custom 7.08-carat emerald-cut ring in hand.   © Jannet PhotoMaggie and Courtney married in a lavish LA ceremony The happy couple were glowing on March 6 and 7 as they said “I do” in front of 250 guests, including Paris, who is married to Courtney’s brother, Carter Reum, …

Maggie Aderin’s dream: To walk by the footprints of Neil Armstrong

Maggie Aderin’s dream: To walk by the footprints of Neil Armstrong

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Maggie Aderin has presented the BBC’s The Sky at Night since 2014 Paul Wilkinson Photography Maggie Aderin grew up watching Star Trek, dreaming of one day going into space. Today, she hasn’t made it into orbit, but she is one of the UK’s best-known scientists, an award-winning astronomer and broadcaster who has worked on the James Webb and Gemini telescopes. She spoke to New Scientist’s The World, the Universe and Us podcast about writing her autobiography Starchild: My life under the night sky, and how she got to where she is today. Rowan Hooper: Maggie, you’re host of The Sky At Night, you’ve been president of the British Science Association and are a science educator in general. You’ve also had a huge impact over the years speaking to tens of thousands of children. Reading Starchild, it felt like a great work of outreach because, effectively, you’re saying, “Look, I did this and so can you.” Is that part of the prompting behind it? Maggie Aderin: It is. I always say reach for the stars, no …

Maggie Gyllenhaal ‘pulled back’ the sexual violence in The Bride! after test screenings disturbed viewers

Maggie Gyllenhaal ‘pulled back’ the sexual violence in The Bride! after test screenings disturbed viewers

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Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Maggie Gyllenhaal said she was asked to tone down the sexual violence in The Bride! after viewers of the initial test screenings felt it was too much. The horror sci-fi, which marks Gyllenhaal’s second time in the director’s chair, stars Jessie Buckley as a murdered 1930s Chicago woman who is brought back to life by a groundbreaking scientist (Annette Bening) to serve as a companion to Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale). Gyllenhaal’s younger brother, Jake Gyllenhaal, and her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, also star. Speaking to The New York Times ahead of its Friday release date, Gyllenhaal, 48, confirmed: “Yes, there’s sexual violence. There’s violence.” She added, “Because it’s a big studio movie [Warner Bros. Pictures] we tested and tested it. We had big screenings in malls, where people came to see it, which I had never been a part of as an …

The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s punky revival isn’t as feminist as it thinks it is

The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s punky revival isn’t as feminist as it thinks it is

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Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The Bride of Frankenstein lives for only five minutes or so of her 1935 movie. She never speaks a word. A hiss. A scream. And, with that, her creators recognise her abhorrence and snuff out instantly the existence they toiled so hard to revive. If a filmmaker like Maggie Gyllenhaal were to lend that monstrous woman a voice, then why wouldn’t it belong to the star of her directorial debut, 2021’s The Lost Daughter, and a soon-to-be Oscar winner, Hamnet’s Jessie Buckley? In The Bride! (note the exclamation point), Buckley is a mass-destructive cyclone of female rage, thrusting and spitting and ripping out tongues and pulling her skirt up and pointing a pistol sky high with tears in her eyes and an ink stain splattered across her lips like a gunshot wound. Buckley bleached her eyebrows for the role. That means …

Pixar’s ‘Hoppers’ to Jilt Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Bride!’

Pixar’s ‘Hoppers’ to Jilt Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Bride!’

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In a much-needed win for Pixar’s core mission to provide original storytelling, Hoppers is positioned to deliver the iconic animated studio its biggest opening in nearly a decade for a non-franchise title. Conversely, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s new film, inspired by the 1935 film The Bride of Frankenstein, is in danger of being jilted at the altar. Disney is forecasting a global debut of $88 million for Hoppers. The last time a Pixar original did so well was Coco in 2017. In North America, tracking suggests it could open anywhere from $36 million to $40 million, with room for upside. It’s also expected to come in leaps and bounds ahead of Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, which Warner Bros. believes will open in the $16 million to $18 million range domestically and roughly $38 million-plus globally, although decidedly mixed reviews could ding the $80 million film. (It goes without saying that the two movies couldn’t be more different.) Hoppers has the advantage of hitting theaters in the wake of Disney Animation’s mega-blockbuster Zootopia 2, which provided further evidence that …

‘The Bride!’ review: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘Frankenstein’ is a riot

‘The Bride!’ review: Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘Frankenstein’ is a riot

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What Maggie Gyllenhaal has done in her reimaging of The Bride of Frankenstein is utterly deranged. And thank God.  No shade to brilliant director James Whale, whose 1935 Universal sequel The Bride of Frankenstein is both exhilarating and cheekily queer. But — as Gyllenhaal has repeated frequently on The Bride!’s press tour — his titular monstress never speaks a word in her few short minutes of screen time. Still, as that original Bride, Elsa Lanchester made this she-beast an instantly compelling marvel who has become truly iconic, an intoxicating mix of high femme and the horrific.  Gyllenhaal smartly pulls these stylistic elements into her Bride!, as her revived Bride coughs up black bile that stains her lips in a perfect Cupid’s bow, with a chic and unnerving stain creeping up her high cheekbones. Gyllenhaal also borrows from Whale the inspired choice to have her lead actress play both the Monster’s Mate (as Lanchester was originally credited) and the author who birthed her, Mary Shelley. However, far from the prim, giggling lady presented in The Bride of Frankenstein, …

Jake Gyllenhaal reads meaningful note sister Maggie left for him in Late Show couch

Jake Gyllenhaal reads meaningful note sister Maggie left for him in Late Show couch

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Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Jake Gyllenhaal received a sweet note from his older sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal, during his Monday appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. At the end of his interview, host Colbert informed Jake, 45, that Maggie, 48, had tucked a piece of paper for him in the couch cushion during her visit on the show the night before to promote their new movie, The Bride!, in which Jake stars and she directs. “I don’t know what she left you,” Colbert said, as the Oscar-nominated actor unfolded the paper. “You’re a beast,” the note read. Explaining the meaning behind her three-word message, Jake shared that he once wrote the phrase on Maggie’s dressing room mirror ahead of one of her Broadway shows when she was having a tough time. The two have since made it a tradition to leave the motivational message …

‘The Bride’ Director Maggie Gyllenhaal Was Asked to Cut Some Violence

‘The Bride’ Director Maggie Gyllenhaal Was Asked to Cut Some Violence

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Maggie Gyllenhaal, who helmed The Bride, is revealing why Warner Bros. asked her to cut some of the film’s sexual violence. During a recent interview on The New York Times’ The Interview podcast, the actress-filmmaker opened up about her experience directing her first major studio film and the challenges that came with that, including The Bride undergoing test several test screenings. “There’s sexual violence. There’s violence. Because it’s a big studio movie, we tested and tested it. We had big screenings in malls, where people came to see it, which I had never been a part of as an actress or a director before. So fascinating,” she recalled. “And one of the things that they brought up was the violence: Is it too violent? And I was talking about it with a girlfriend of mine, who said — and she wasn’t being reductive — ‘I wonder if you had been a man making this movie, if you would have had the same response.’” Following the feedback at the screenings, Gyllenhaal said Warner Bros. “asked to take …

Maggie Gyllenhaal opens up about changing relationship with brother Jake: ‘In the past, I’ve had to be separate’

Maggie Gyllenhaal opens up about changing relationship with brother Jake: ‘In the past, I’ve had to be separate’

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Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Maggie Gyllenhaal has opened up about her evolving relationship with her brother, Brokeback Mountain star Jake. Gyllenhaal, 48, spoke to The New York Times ahead of the release of the Frankenstein-inspired movie The Bride!, which she directed and which features her brother in a supporting role. “We’ve never been estranged,” she told the publication, “but we’ve never been as close as we are now. “We’re finally, maybe in the last five years, more and more and more, even each day, really interacting, which is hard for people to do.” The Gyllenhaal siblings both started out as child actors, and were the offspring of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Achs. Jake was the first to find stardom, something that Gyllenhaal admitted was a source of “envy” at the time. “In general, I am very interested in envy,” she mused. “What creates …

The best new popular science books of February 2026 include titles by Maggie Aderin and Michael Pollan

The best new popular science books of February 2026 include titles by Maggie Aderin and Michael Pollan

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Space scientist Maggie Aderin has a new book out this month Steven May / Alamy Stock Photo It’s nowhere near early enough for those of us in the northern hemisphere to start struggling against winter’s somnolent spell, so there’s no need for excuses as you take to your bed with a pile of good books. And there’s plenty to keep you occupied while you eschew the chilly outdoors. This month, we have climate hope from a well-placed environmental reporter, formerly of this parish, an honest memoir from a star scientist and a jaw-dropping account of the commodification of women’s bodies. Given the Valentine’s Day fun this month, we also have a book that may challenge what we thought we knew about finding love. It’s always good to get all the help we can in that department – enjoy! “On clear moonlit nights we sometimes step outside and howl at the moon together. It is cathartic, primal and a really good laugh. I am not sure what our neighbours think about it, though.” That’s Maggie Aderin, …