Christian Bale: ‘Tons of People’ Laughed at Me Over the Idea of Playing ‘Serious’ Batman

TMZ, Momoa was driving his Oldsmobile down a winding road in near Calabasas in Los Angeles on Sunday (July 24) when a cyclist crossed over into his lane, striking the front-left side of the car.The motorcyclist was reportedly taken to hospital and treated for bruising to their leg along with a thumb injury but managed to avoid anything more serious. Momoa was also uninjured.

K-pop act Girls’ Generation have confirmed the title and release date of their long-awaited comeback album.On July 25 at midnight KST, SM Entertainment shared the first teaser for the eight-member act’s forthcoming studio album ‘Forever 1’, due out on August 8. The new concept .gif file features Girls’ Generation’s logo floating before a bright pink sky and reads “coming soon”.Girls' Generation 소녀시대 The 7th Album〖FOREVER 1〗 ➫ 2022.08.08#GirlsGeneration #소녀시대#FOREVER1 pic.twitter.com/j9wf44AkKc— Girls' Generation (@GirlsGeneration) July 24, 2022‘Forever 1’ will be the girl group’s first comeback as a complete act since their 2017 album ‘Holiday Night’ and their seventh studio album overall.

JoJo Siwa is “exposing” some celebrities!

Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp have shared the latest in their long line of Sunday Lunch videos, this time taking on AC/DC‘s 1980 hit ‘Back In Black’.Their rendition opens with Fripp – clad in an Angus Young-esque schoolboy costume – playing the song’s distinctive opening guitar riff. Toyah handles lead vocals, flicking rubber bands at the camera.The performance closes with Toyah pouring a glass of ice cubes down Fripp’s shirt.

Every Friday we round up all the new music we’ve covered over the preceding week into a Spotify playlist.

It’s the stuff sexy daydreams and night-time fantasies are made of; who hasn’t seen a dubiously acted porno with three willing participants getting their freak on? But as anyone who has stumbled through one can attest, it rarely works out like you’ve seen in the movies! The very first time you do it, you feel like you’ve hit the jackpot! It’s gonna be so hot! And then you’re there in the room and the vibe is weird, you’re with two other single fellas which just makes it harder to tee up the energy because, like, why doesn’t that one look anything like his obviously ancient profile pic and why is that one over there eating the potpourri!?Or the other commonly fantasised about experience – being the guest star in another couple’s boudoir. It’s a veritable minefield of mistakes to manoeuvre. Don’t look at that one too closely, the husband might get jealous.

OneRepublic have announced they’ll be heading to Australia and New Zealand next March for their ‘Live In Concert’ tour.The American pop-rock band will be joined by Sydney rapper Masked Wolf for the run of Australian shows, kicking off on March 10 at Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena. They’ll play Sydney’s Super Aware Theatre the following night, wrapping up at Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Hall on March 14.They’ll then fly to Auckland to perform at Spark Arena on March 16, finishing in Wellington on March 18.Registered fans can access pre-sale tickets from 11am AEST this Wednesday (July 27) while general tickets will be available here from 12pm AEST on Friday (July 29).A post shared by Masked Wolf (@maskedwolf)OneRepublic’s most recent single ‘I Ain’t Worried’ arrived in May, appearing on the soundtrack for Top Gun: Maverick.

This season has puppy love, weird dates, insane challenges and of course, Sophie Monk.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefHong Kong-produced crime action film “Detective Vs Sleuths” again took top honors at the mainland China box office with a $14.2 million weekend gross. The film was in its second weekend at the top and its third week of release. Consultancy firm, Artisan Gateway reported that the film has now advanced to a 17-day cumulative score of $85.3 million (RMB580 million).“Lighting Up the Stars,” which enjoyed three weekends at the top of the chart before falling to third place, bounced back to second.

has died. He was 89.Rafelson died on Saturday at his home in Aspen, Colorado, according to multiple  reports.

Kevin Bacon is stepping out for the premiere of his new Peacock horror film!

Nicky Hilton Rothschild is giving fans a first glimpse at her baby boy!

Telsa founder Elon Musk denied an alleged affair with the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, which was reported as the reason for the couple’s divorce earlier this year. In a tweet late Sunday evening, Musk said a recent Wall Street Journal report alleging he was the cause of the divorce is "total bs" and that he and Sergey "are friends." "This is total bs. Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night!" Musk tweeted.

A damaging row has broken out between the Scottish and UK governments over soaring IT costs for a new benefits system.

A treasure hunter struck lucky by discovering a pot of gold worth hundreds of pounds.

Scots could be set to swelter in more heatwaves expected next month, according to forecasters.

A librarian at the high security state hospital Carstairs was forced to help cover a shift on a ward as a recruitment shortage plunges the facility into a staffing crisis. Whistleblowers claim the failure to attract new staff to the hospital is putting current staff and patients at risk and said "it's an accident waiting to happen."

Grieving families left heartbroken by the not proven verdict are hopeful it will be scrapped after a Scottish Government consultation on the issue. Stewart Handling, father of tragic teenager Grace Handling, and Marie Kearney, whose son Craig died after being run over by a taxi, believe the consultation could finally trigger change.

Alicia Vikander is looking back at her struggles to start a family.

EXCLUSIVE: The LVMH eyewear brand Thélios has become an official sponsor of the Venice Film Festival and will set up shop during the event at the Hotel Excelsior.

Elon Musk allegedly had an extramarital affair with Nicole Shanahan, the wife of billionaire Google co-founder Sergey Brin, according to a report in the published on Sunday.The report, citing sources familiar to those involved, claims that Musk and Shanahan had a «brief affair,» which subsequently led Brin to file for divorce earlier this year, and ended a long-standing friendship between Brin and Musk.On Sunday evening, Musk took to Twitter to deny the report, saying, «Yeah, the character assassination attacks have reached a new level this year, but the articles are all nothing-burgers.» The Tesla CEO went on to say, «I work crazy hours, so there just isn’t much time for shenanigans. None of the key people involved in these alleged wrongdoings were even interviewed!»Musk continued, galvanizing his supporters to call out the publication for its reporting, tweeting, «Call them out on it, I guess.

Gary Sinise performed with his Lt. Dan Band in Nashville, Tenn., to close out a weekend of events honoring 250 graduates from the Snowball Express program as part of the Gary Sinise Foundation, which benefits children and spouses of fallen military members and first responders. "The music is really just part of the overall mission of supporting our veterans and military families and first responders," Sinise told Fox News Digital.

Elon Musk is setting the record straight.

SPOILER ALERT: the house guest evicted on the July 24 episode of “Big Brother” is revealed below.The “Big Brother” Season 24 house guests evicted their first contestant on Sunday after a week of constantly shifting tides and newly formed alliances.Joe “Pooch” Pucciarelli and Taylor Hale were on the chopping block this week. Pooch was sent home in a landslide vote, making him the second contestant to exit the house after Paloma Aguilar decided to leave the competition on her own last week.

Rafelson was one of the leading figures of the New Hollywood movement in the 1970s, working with stars like Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern and Jessica Lange. With “Five Easy Pieces” in 1970, Rafelson earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, with Nicholson earning a Best Actor nomination in a career-launching performance as an oil rig worker forced to reunite with his upper-class musician family after hearing the news that his father is dying.

The ex-chief of a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland has reportedly died in a fall. Sam ‘Skelly’ McCrory, a former leader of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), passed away in Scotland over the weekend.

reported Sunday.According to The Insider, upon learning of his wife Nicole Shanahan’s affair with Musk, Brin told his financial advisers to sell off all of his investments in Elon Musk companies, including Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company.The affair last fall between Musk and Shanahan fractured Brin and Musk’s longtime friendship and prompted a divorce for Brin and Shanahan, which was filed by Brin in early January, Insider reported.According to Insider, Brin cited “irreconcilable differences” in his filing for a dissolution of marriage with Shanahan.Brin, a board member of Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, previously invested $500,000 into Tesla in 2008. According to The New York Times, Google and Fidelity invested $1 billion in SpaceX in 2015.The Journal has not obtained information regarding the size of potential other investments  “or whether there have been any sales.”Musk is the richest person in the world, worth an estimated $240 billion, while Brin ranks eighth, with $95 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.Musk will also head to court in October for trying to call off the $44 billion purchase of Twitter, which he agreed to in April.

@NC5 are sad to report that our longtime sports anchor and friend Mark Howard passed away at home early today,” Steve Laymen announced in a tweet Sunday. “Mark knew as much about sports in this market as anyone you’ll find and had a great sense of humor.

weird drama and unexpected moves since day one, after the house seemed to turn on Taylor Hale immediately, largely due to the machinations of Paloma Aguilar.Eventually, Taylor ended up on the chopping block alongside Terrance Higgins, and on the day of reckoning, with almost the entire house chomping at the bit to kick Taylor out -- the houseguests learned some shocking news: Paloma had decided to self-evict for personal reasons.This threw a monkey wrench in one of the big twits that had planned, and effectively served as a «get out of jail free» card for Taylor, and to a lesser extent Terrance.After that fiasco, the houseguests competed in a Head Of Household Competition, which Jasmine Davis ended up winning and therefore became the HOH.When it came time to put some people up on the chopping block, Jasmine stuck with Taylor. Then, in a move of incredible hubris, Joe «Pooch» Pucciarelli volunteered to be a pawn, because he was sure he was solid with everyone in the house, and could easily help get Taylor out.There's a well-known rule in the house: never volunteer to be the pawn, because the pawn goes home.This old adage proved to be true yet again, and the show made no mystery of it at all.

Chris Rock and Kevin Hart, but also a third — none other than Dave Chappelle. As a surprise opener on Rock and Hart's «Only Headliners Allowed» tour,  Chappelle was met by boisterous applause from the MSG crowd as he walked on stage to Radiohead's song, «Karma Police.»Chris Rock Kevin Hart & Dave Chappelle on the same stage together at MSG pic.twitter.com/UnNOMGccqz«Had to sneak my way in here,» Chappelle joked according to video shared from the event. The controversial comedian then went on to reference his latest headline-spurring event.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefNew release titles “Alienoid” and “Minions: The Rise of Gru” dominated business at the South Korean box office over the weekend. “Alienoid,” a sci-fi fantasy about the search for a legendary sword across different eras, opened on Wednesday and consistently, but narrowly, bested its animated rival. “Alienoid” earned $5.19 million between Friday and Sunday for a 32% market share, having played on more than 1,800 screens.

Joni Mitchell delighted fans by teaming up with Brandi Carlile for a rare appearance on stage.

Big Sean and Jhene Aiko are stepping out for dinner.