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Tyler Posey shows off his nose ring while arriving at the 2016 IMDb Yacht Party on Friday night (July 22) in San Diego, Calif.
The 24-year-old actor joined his Teen Wolf co-stars Holland Roden, Ian Bohen, JR Bourne, Cody Christian, Dylan Sprayberry, and Khylin Rhambo for the bash after a full day of talking about the upcoming season.
Harley Quinn Smith, Gabriel Bateman, Ashley Boettcher, Nolan Gould, and Power Rangers stars Naomi Scott and Dacre Montgomery were also at the party.
FYI: Holland is wearing Schutz shoes.
25+ pictures inside of Holland Roden, Tyler Posey and more at the IMDB Yacht Party
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Captain Fantastic Movie CLIP - So They Know We"re Coming (2016) - Viggo Mortensen Movie HD Matt RossViggo Mortensen, Frank Langella, Kathryn Hahn, George MacKayUS theatrical: 8 Jul 2016
Captain Fantastic refers to its titular character, Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen), a devout woodsman and Chomskyite who stewards a forest commune of his six children, ages seven through 18, in the temperate and bountiful Pacific Northwest. Ben is a fine captain who has vigorously earned the allegiance of his tribe, each of who dutifully participate in a daily regimen of bluff climbing, running, bow hunting (no guns), and precise analytical readings and presentations of heavy works, a sample of which includes MiddleMarch, Guns, Germs, and Steel, and particle physics. Indeed, an average day at Bens communeat least in his mindwould make Iron Man competitions look like intermediate intramural fluff and even the most demanding University programs as exploitative rackets with an emphasis on regurgitation for an ultimately unquestioned existence.
While Bens militant adherence to the communes perpetuation is intriguing, Captain Fantastic the film has an at times frustratingly milder agenda, which subsumes Ben and guides him toward formulaic solutions which temper the full realization of any kind righteous philosophical bent.
When given the opportunity, Viggo Mortensen convincingly meshes roles as concerned father and wilderness commando into a richly layered, organically driven performance. There are a trove of human interest pieces on Mortensen as an earthy, hyper-intelligent polyglot whose uncompromising conviction to push the envelope is tempered by a gentle reserve. When Captain Fantastic simply lets Viggo be Viggo, the film often thrives.
At the films onset, Bodevan Cash (George MacKay) completes a deer hunting mission which doubles as a tribal rite of passageafter killing the deer with a knife, Bodevan eats a chunk of the deers heart to complete his entry into manhood. Five kids look on. Had their father been played by a lesser actor, concern or outrage may be a lasting affect which would stymie the films intellectual aspirations. However, Ben guides the ceremony with tender, almost resigned deliberation, signifying at once a captains deeply felt pride for his soldiers acceptance of a profound rite, but also a parents lamentation of the tasks potentially traumatic effects. Mortensen, his worldly and humanistic touch reflecting so many emotions at once, is an ideal surrogate for the audience to relax their outrage and reflect on Bens motivations more holistically.
The first act of Captain Fantastic operates at this high level, combining poignant dialogue, acute visual attention to commune lifes daily rigors, and expressive physical performance, to establish a lived-in feel. This segment is a terrific film within the film, and one which may leave some longing for its continuance. But if thats the case, then perhaps your film of choice is closer to Embrace of the Serpent (2016), where a full-blown chaotic relationship to the wilderness is explored, or JauJa (2015), starring Mortensen, in which there is no formulaic interference with his characters fate. In Captain Fantastic, however, the final two acts vigorously seek express formulaic reasons for Bens Thoreau-meets-Chomsky lifestyle, which gravitates Bens choice more toward an experiment.
The formulas begin to take hold when Bens departed wife and mother of six, Leslie Cash, commits suicide. A road trip to Leslies funeral commences and, just as soon as the engine revs up, the film transforms into a plot-orientated machine. One stark story device centers on whether the Cash family will honor Leslies demand, incorporated in a will, to be cremated will succeed over her ultra-rich and hippie-hating father Jacks (Frank Langella) insistence on having a Catholic funeral. The plot thickens even more excessively when Jack responds to Bens explanation of his daughters will with threats of a custody petitiona point which not only insults both Ben and Jacks intelligence, but also overwhelms the films prior nuanced character study into a sublimely fascinating family.
The same can be said for an interlude at Bens sisters home (Kathryn Hahn), which is more or less a side-by-side diagram of suburbanite conformity versus nonconformist life in the wild, with copious amounts of judgmental poo flung at the former. Theres no need for this exposition, particularly when later in the film, the split is summed up by far more elegantly when we see Rellian (Nicholas Hamilton) playing a first-person hunter game at Jackss stately home, the electronic light bathed over his face while Ben watches in a shadowy corner.
Of course, non-conformist judgments arent objectionable, as hippies have taken more than their fair share of mockery from the establishment, so why not a few films which turn matters the other way? Fair enough, but Captain Fantastic never follows through with its judgments and their consequences. There is, for example, a side-plot as to whether Bodevan will choose to attend Harvard and break away from the relatively innocuous fits of anti-social behavior, both which are formulaic if not somewhat Easy Street affairs. Ben has his great parental epiphany on none other than Jacks wide, sun kissed lawn.
At the beginning of the Captain Fantastic, concerns were on whether Bens kids would weather a bluff climb in a downpour. Fireside discussions flowed about Trotsky and great literature. Now this? What happened?
Depending on the audience, the answers will vary. One could argue Captain Fantastic is a sophomoric script altered by mainstream considerations. It can also be convincingly argued that within the film itself, contemporary American life was knocking at the door, and Bens parental instincts demanded compromise.
But theres a scene midway through Captain Fantastic which underpins the films prevailing intentions. Ben, who just led his kids on a free the food mission at a Supermarket, buys a store cake likely full of artificial ingredients which he has outlawed from his commune for years. The cake is somewhat ironically in honor of Noam Chomsky day, and Ben stuffs his face with a mouthful of gooey deliciousness. The scene is a microcosm of Captain Fantastic, which has its Captain, and eats him, too.
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(Facebook/Teen Wolf)Rumor has it that Tyler Posey is the main reason why Teen Wolf will end after its sixth season.
After long speculations, it was finally announced at last week"s San Diego Comic-Con that "Teen Wolf" is coming back to MTV for its season 6 in November. However, the good news came in pair with a piece of saddening news: It will be its last season. Now, there are reports claiming that the main culprit for the cancellation of the show is no less than one of its stars, Dylan O"Brien.
According to rumors, O"Brien is to be blamed for the decision of the producers to just end the series as the production of the upcoming season has been delayed because of him. To the uninitiated, O"Brien sustained serious injuries in March this year while filming his scenes for his upcoming movie, "The Maze Runner 3: The Death Cure." Based on the report of Sugar Scape, the actor sustained concussion, facial fracture, and lacerations after the vehicle he was harnessed to slowed down ahead of the vehicle he was supposed to climb.
However, other sourcesclaim that O"Brien should not be the one to blame for the cancellation of "Teen Wolf," but Tyler Posey, who plays the role of Scott McCall, as he has expressed his intent to leave the show after its season 6 so that he can explore what could be in store for him out there in the other corners of show business.
Many believe that without Posey, "Teen Wolf" would lose its essence because of the importance of his character in the series, not to mention that the show will have a decreased popularity because of the inevitable departure of his fans supporting the show because of him.
Meanwhile, it was also learnedthat "Teen Wolf" season 6 will culminate with the series" 100th episode. As the upcoming season of the series will offer 20 more episodes, and the show will return in November, it goes without saying that viewers can still have a "Teen Wolf" brand of entertainment until 2017.
Captain Fantastic Movie CLIP - So They Know We"re Coming (2016) - Viggo Mortensen Movie HD
"It feels like one of those movies that have connected with something related to U.S. society right now," Mortensen said while smoking a cigarette on a rooftop patio after the film played at the Cannes Film Festival in May. "People get bewildered and think: "I can"t do that. I"m not going to skin a f---ing deer." But there are other things you can do."
The film is the second directing feature for Matt Ross, a veteran actor known to many as Gavin Belson on HBO"s "Silicon Valley." In "Captain Fantastic," the idyll of the family"s off-the-grid existence is challenged when their mother dies. A bus trip to her New Mexico parents (long critics of their lifestyle choices) confronts the kids with consumerist American life and teases out questions about their highly educated but socially removed upbringing. Should 8-year-olds really be climbing rock faces?
Ross acknowledges there are some autobiographical aspects to the tale. His mother, he says, was "a seeker" and he grew up partly in alternative living communities. ("They were hippie communes but they weren"t really hippie communes because it was the "80s," he jokes.) He has lived in a teepee in the summer and does, like his fictional family, celebrate Noam Chomsky Day. ("He"s my hero," he says.)
But the film, which opens locally on Friday, July 22, mostly came out of Ross" own parenting. He and his wife, who live in Berkeley, Calif., have a 13-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son.
"I had a lot of questions about being a father and a parent, and I wanted to contextualize it or dramatize it," says Ross. "And I was sort of butting up against our culture and who we are as a country."
For the shoot in Washington, Ross had his cast come out two weeks early to help build the family"s home.
"There were many things on some scale I had to learn for this," says Mortensen. "I"m not that kind of parent. I don"t have his way of reasoning. But I do connect to certain things and approve of other things. I was very happy to be in the woods."
It"s the kind of preparation that Mortensen relishes. For "The Lord of the Rings," he slept outside with his sword. For David Cronenberg"s "Eastern Promises" (Mortensen"s lone Oscar nomination), he briefly lived in Russia and suggested his character"s extensive Russian mafia tattoos. On "Captain Fantastic," he built a garden and learned to play the bagpipes.
"I like to bring objects, ideas. And I like to work with directors who aren"t threatened by that. It"s just my process and it helps me," says Mortensen, who also writes poetry, composes classical music and founded his own publishing company. "I just want to make the most of each moment we"re filming, in terms of preparing it and doing it, but also as a human being. This is part of my life. It"s not just a fiction."
While "Captain Fantastic" is proudly liberal, its conclusion rests on compromise with the father"s conservative in-laws. But Ross and Mortensen, who waved Bernie Sanders flags in Cannes, are trouble by the country"s direction. "That it"s a country of immigrants has magically disappeared in some people"s minds," Mortensen, who grew up in Argentina, upstate New York and Denmark, says, shaking his head.
Ultimately, Ross hopes "Captain Fantastic" preaches only tolerance, compassion and education.
"It"s asking you to be present and not just on autopilot," says Ross. "I hope it has an impact. I hope it does."
With Ichiro Suzuki just two hits away from notching his 3,000th in the majors, we"re starting to see more and more feature stories roll in. The latest comes via ESPN the Magazine, and features Ichiro doing something unexpected: going at Pete Rose.
In fact, Ichiro states that he was "actually happy" to see Rose defensive over the "Hit King" title controversy. Here"s Ichiro"s reasoning:
"I was actually happy to see the Hit King get defensive. I kind of felt I was accepted. I heard that about five years ago Pete Rose did an interview, and he said that he wished that I could break that record. Obviously, this time around it was a different vibe.
In the 16 years that I have been here, what I"ve noticed is that in America, when people feel like a person is below them, not just in numbers but in general, they will kind of talk you up. But then when you get up to the same level or maybe even higher, they get in attack mode; they are maybe not as supportive. I kind of felt that this time."
Whoever has your heart as the real "Hit King," you have to concede Ichiro has a point here. There"s a very human tendency to get defensive and petty toward those who are on the same or a higher level.
Rose -- perhaps spurred by Ichiro"s more favorable standing among fans and the press -- seemingly feels that Ichiro is a threat to his legacy. That probably explains why Rose has felt the need to get snippy about Ichiro"s accomplishments -- and why Ichiro felt the need to brush off his comments publicly.
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Operational efficiencies and favorable commodity costs helped The Cheesecake Factory Inc. post an 11-percent increase in second-quarter net income, the company said Wednesday.
For the June 28-ended quarter, the Calabasas Hills, Calif.-based company reported net income of $38.6 million, or 78 cents per share, compared with $34.7 million, or 69 cents per share, a year ago.
Revenue rose to $558.9 million, from $529.1 million a year ago.
Same-store sales for the casual-dining chain increased a modest 0.3 percent for the core Cheesecake Factory brand, including a roughly 2.9-percent increase in menu pricing and a 0.2-percent benefit from menu mix. Traffic declined 2.7 percent for the quarter, which executives blamed in part on regional economic challenges in Texas and Florida.
But David Overton, The Cheesecake Factory chairman and CEO, said the chain outperformed the casual-dining industry and delivered its 26th consecutive quarter of positive same-store sales.
Capturing operational efficiencies, coupled with a benign commodity cost environment, enabled us to offset industry wage inflation and drive strong margins and earnings growth during the quarter, Overton said in a statement.
The company rolled out its mobile payment app CakePay nationwide during the quarter. MasterCard is expected to feature the app in an upcoming TV ad campaign for the Masterpass digital wallet solution, Overton said.
The chain also opened the first Cheesecake Factory in China, a flagship location at the Disneytown area of Shanghai Disney Resort, under a licensing agreement.
Overton said the chain has expanded its test of delivery with a third-party provider to most restaurants across California.
In fiscal 2016, The Cheesecake Factory plans to open as many as eight company-owned restaurants domestically, and four to five under licensing agreements internationally.
The Cheesecake Factory Inc. ended the quarter with 202 restaurants, including 180 of the namesake brand, 12 Grand Lux Cafes and one RockSugar Pan Asian Kitchen.
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US officials announced that four cases of the virus has been contracted via mosquito bites in the state, where McIlroy resides with his fiance Erica Stoll in the coastal town of Jupiter, in a plush mansion he purchased in 2012.
When deciding against representing Ireland in golfs first appearance at the games in 104 years, McIlroy claimed that it was his desire to start a family with Stoll that precluded him from taking part.
He said: "After speaking with those closest to me, Ive come to realise that my health and my familys health comes before anything else. Even though the risk of infection from the Zika virus is considered low, it is a risk nonetheless and a risk I am unwilling to take.
"I will continue to endeavour to make my fans and fans of golf proud with my play on the course and my actions off it."
For Graeme McDowell the development will be far more jarring as his Floridian wife Kristian is expecting their child very soon.
McDowell followed McIlroys lead in forgoing the Olympics, stating that he was unwilling to travel beyond the America in the immediate build up to his childs birth for fear of contracting the virus.
I made my decision many months ago before I made the team, that I would not play or travel outside the US, where I and my family live, in the weeks running up to the birth.
Both McIlroy and McDowell, along with Shane Lowry and Darren Clarke, yesterday failed to make the cut at the US PGA Championship. Padraig Harrington will be Irelands sole representative in New Jersey over the weekend.
