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Get ready for some quality family time!

In honor of the highly-anticipated release of *F9* on June 25, EW can exclusively reveal that Universal is welcoming audiences back to theaters with "Fast Fridays," a series of free screenings of the first eight *Fast & Furious* films.

Oh, and the winning doesn't stop there, *Fast* fans. Coinciding with these weekly screenings, which will begin April 30 with *The Fast and the Furious*, *EW's BINGE: The Fast Saga* will be going through each film with the stars who brought these iconic characters to life.

The schedule for the screenings and* BINGE* episodes will go as follows: *The Fast and the Furious* on April 30, *2 Fast Furious* on May 7, *The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift* on May 14, *Fast & Furious* on May 21, Fast Five on May 28, *Fast & Furious 6* on June 4, *Furious 7* on June 11, and *The Fate of the Furious* on June 18.

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"The *Fast* films are all about family, and Universal wanted to find a way to thank our huge family of *Fast* fans around the country for their passion and loyalty over the past 20 years," says Jim Orr, Universal's president of domestic theatrical distribution. "We're grateful to our theater partners for their help in making this screening series possible and we are delighted to welcome audiences back to theaters to experience the wild *Fast* ride all over again. And we cannot wait to blow everyone's minds with the release of *F9* on June 25."

The screening series will launch in more than 500 theaters across the U.S., before eventually expanding to at least 900, with AMC Theatres, Regal Cinemas, and Cinemark Theatres a few of the major chains participating. For more information on how to get tickets, go here.

And check back on EW.com next week for more on our *BINGE* of *Fast*. Until then, salud mi familia!

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Rory McIlroy wears Masters Green Jacket to Wimbledon Adam Schupak, GolfweekWed, July 1, 2026 at 3:01 PM UTC 0 Rory McIlroy made a major fashion statement at Wimbledon. The Northern Irishman took his wife, Erica, to watch some tennis at Wimbledon on Wednesday and was dressed to kill. It&x27;s become almost a sport in itself for celebrities to dress for the occasion, their outfits judged as if going to the Kentucky Derby or walking the red carpet at the Oscars.

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Rory McIlroy made a major fashion statement at Wimbledon.

The Northern Irishman took his wife, Erica, to watch some tennis at Wimbledon on Wednesday and was dressed to kill. It's become almost a sport in itself for celebrities to dress for the occasion, their outfits judged as if going to the Kentucky Derby or walking the red carpet at the Oscars. Well, McIlroy wins 9 and 8, and it's really not even that close after he showed up sporting the Green Jacket for his day at the Royal Box.

McIlroy successfully defended his title at Augusta National Golf Club in April and thus is allowed to wear the prized possession awarded to the winner of the Masters for another year off property.

McIlroy, 37, moved his residency from Florida to London last year so his daughter Poppy could go to school there. He returned to England from the U.S. two weeks ago and last week was spotted practicing at Royal Birkdale on the Lancashire Coast for the upcoming 154th British Open. This week, McIlroy enjoyed the tennis at Wimbledon, something that has become a rite of passage for men's professional golfers when they head across the pond for the Scottish Open or in advance of the British Open. The Wimbledon fortnight runs through the final round of the Scottish.

It was a European Ryder Cup team gathering of sorts with captain Luke Donald, Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose, and vice captains Thomas Bjorn and Eduardo Molinari joining McIlroy among the golfers dressed for the occasion. But as TW Legion so perfectly put it, "major flex" by McIlroy.

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For *The Vampire Diaries* creatives, casting Enzo was a particularly difficult task. Because originally, the role was going to be very different.

"You were supposed to be the third Salvatore brother," executive producer Julie Plec tells star Michael Malarkey in episode 8 of *EW's Binge: The Vampire Diaries*. Writer Brett Matthews adds, "That was always the plan, and then it went a different direction, but that's why it was so hard to find the person. We thought it was going to be a Salvatore brother, so we cast a very wide net [and] looked very hard." Ultimately, they scrapped that plan and made it so Enzo didn't share Salvatore blood, but he was a brother figure for Damon (Ian Somerhalder) for many years (and he was sired by Lily Salvatore).

But that wasn't the only plan that changed in the writers' room over the years. In discussing the *Vampire Diaries*' final season, Plec and Matthews recall the final major debate: Which Salvatore were they going to kill in the series finale? "We went back and forth in the writers' room all season long," Plec says. "We finally landed on: We're killing Damon. That's the right thing to do. He is the one with the consequence to pay. Stefan was morally a bit stronger of a character."

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Matthews adds, "Damon's a fairly obvious choice," noting that the writers really fell in love with the idea of Damon compelling Stefan (Paul Wesley) to let him die. But when executive producer Kevin Williamson proposed that it should be Stefan that dies, they started to rethink their plan. "It felt like dying for Stefan freed him from a lot of weight, whereas it felt like living for Damon freed him to go and be the man that he was always supposed to be," Plec says.

Of course, both Salvatores were meant to die in the original ending Plec and Williamson came up with during the show's second season. In that ending, "The boys would sacrifice themselves to save Elena so that Elena could go and have a life and be human and live," Plec recalls during the podcast. "To save her, they would die together, and that was always the pitch. And then when Nina [Dobrev] left, it felt like the show can't be as much about protecting Elena's happiness, although that's important to us, but we want to protect the bothers' happiness, we want them to get something out of this. Then it shifted to: We can't kill both of them for her because that feels somehow like nobody got what they wanted. Let's find a different way to give one of these brothers the happiness that they need and the other brother the closure that they need."

(One other way Dobrev leaving changed the plan? Plec says, "I thought that by the time we came back to the end of the series, whenever it was, that Elena would've found her way back to Stefan and Damon would've found a different path.")

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- *Yellowstone* creator Taylor Sheridan said he doesn't like how most films rely on dialogue rather than action to move a story forward.

- He cited Marvel movies as an example of films that use "information dumps."

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Well, don't expect Taylor Sheridan to go see Marvel's *Spider-Man: Brand New Day* when it arrives in theaters next month.

The writer and co-creator of *Yellowstone *is not a fan. The topic came up Sunday on the *Bill Simmons Podcast* when Sheridan explained his screenwriting work.

Sheridan noted that, when he was starting out, he wanted to simply do what everyone else was *not *doing.

"What everyone else was doing was taking shortcuts," Sheridan said. "Essentially, breaking all the very basic, fundamental rules of storytelling. Because they couldn't figure out their story."

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He added, "With a movie, you're supposed to *show* me what's happening. The camera is supposed to move the story. The dialogue is supposed to tell me how the people in this world feel about what's happening or what they hope to do or what they wish they hadn't done or had done. So, if you stick to that one basic rule from the beginning, never have a character tell me something that the camera could show me."

That's when the superhero studio entered the chat, and Sheridan wasn't giving them a compliment.

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Danny Ramirez and Anthony Mackie star in Marvel's 'Captain America: Brave New World' in 2024.

"All these Marvel movies do it, ad nauseam," Sheridan said of the company behind hit franchises such as *Captain America*, *The* *Avengers*, and, yep, *Spider-Man*. "Where they will just have information dumps that you have to follow to get to the action rather than actually moving plot with action."

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In Sheridan's view, this way of storytelling is a recent development.

"It didn't used to be this way when Steve McQueen was a movie star at Paramount and Bobby Evans ran the studio because writers were turned loose. Directors were turned completely loose," he said. "There weren't endless rewrites. There weren’t meetings with executives about tone and mood and all this nonsense."

He charged that "the studio executives and the network executives — these are marketing executives, for the most part. Or maybe they studied law or whatever. Then they came, got a job in the mailroom at CAA or WME, and hated that s---. So then they ended up as an intern at some network. Then, through attrition, they find themselves the head of development. Well, what do you know about developing story? You know nothing. So they get terrified, panicked that the audience won’t get it because they actually have no storytellers.”

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My answer's going to be Burton Roberts. One, because he's my best friend. Two, he survived cancer when he was given zero chance of survival. He's actually healthy enough to compete again and he's one of those guys that got voted out because he was a threat. He was a strong threat back in the day. And so selfishly, I'd love to see Burton Roberts come back and play again.

Aubry Bracco

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One player I'd want to see come back and play *Survivor* again is Malcolm Freberg. Malcolm got a raw deal on *Survivor: Game Changers,* and I love him.

Charlie Davis

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Charlie Davis of 'Survivor 50'.

I would go with Jerri Manthey. That was my answer of someone I missed seeing on the season 50 cast. So yeah, I'd love to see her again.

Chrissy Hofbeck

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You know who I'm bringing back? I'm bringing back Francesca, because I am sorry, but that girl deserves to have a season where she is not voted out first and she can show people how awesome she can be.

Benjamin “Coach” Wade

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Benjamin 'Coach' Wade on 'Survivor 50'.

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Cochran, for sure. Oh gosh, are you kidding me? There’s only been one Dragon Slayer, but there's also been one Cochran. There are people that come that are like the poor man's Cochran that try to be witty and clever, but they can't hit that nail on the head as succinctly as Cochran. So, for me, it would be Cochran, hands down.

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Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick on 'Survivor 50'.

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You know what? I've never said this before, but I've been thinking about it a lot. Coby Archa. Coby was hilarious and he loves the game and he wreaks havoc out there and enjoys every second of it. I think he would be a blast to watch again.

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Joe Hunter on 'Survivor 50'.

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Shauhin from season 48. That's who. And the reason why I want Shauhin is he is underestimated in terms of his strategic gameplay, his social gameplay, he’s a challenge beast, and also his ability to understand the game. He could adapt to any season you put him in.

Emily Flippen

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Emily Flippen on 'Survivor 50'.

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There are so many people who I want to see come back and play again. I have to shout out Kaleb from season 45 though, because he’s a person that I personally experienced who has so much more still to offer, and he is electric when you put him on camera. So I'd love to see him play again.

Christian Hubicki

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Christian Hubicki on 'Survivor 50'.

I really want to see Rob Cesternino. He got screwed on fricking *Traitors*. I want to see him play again. I was rooting for him so hard on that show. I want to see him back on *Survivor*.

Genevieve Mushaluk

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Sam Phalen and Genevieve Mushaluk on 'Survivor 47'.

I would love to see Sam Phalen play *Survivor* again. He was so fun to play with and he's brilliant, incredibly kind, fun, and everything I like and look for in a *Survivor* player.

Rizo Velovic

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Rizo Velovic on 'Survivor 50'.

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I'm gonna have to do a homer pick first. Sophi Balerdi from season 49. I would love for her to come back. But besides the homer pick, there's something about Malcolm's *Game Changers* exit that really pains me to this day. I gotta say Malcolm Freberg in hopes that RizGod 3.0 will be there with him.

Tiffany Ervin

Tiffany Ervin on 'Survivor 50'

Tiffany Ervin on 'Survivor 50'.

I want Kyle to come back and play again. I know Kyle has already won, but I was so devastated when he got hurt this season and I feel like he deserves another chance. I want to see him give it another go.

Jonathan Young

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Jonathan Young on 'Survivor 50'.

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I think I would like to see Drea play again. Drea Wheeler from season 42. She is a strong woman, and I think that she had a little bit of a disadvantage on season 42 because I didn't know that she wanted to work with me, and I would be with her if she played again.

Savannah Louie

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Sophi Balerdi and Savannah Louie on 'Survivor 49'.

Sophi Balerdi needs to come back ASAP. She is an incredible gamer. She has an incredible social game, incredible strategic game, and I would love to see her play this game again.

Rick Devens on 'Survivor 50'

Rick Devens on 'Survivor 50'.

Gavin Whitson. Get him out there! People don't understand how hilarious Gavin is, and I think if he came back to play *Survivor* again, you would see all that Southern wit come out full tilt, and he'd give you a little bit more Rick Devins in his game and it would just be outstanding.

Ozzy Lusth and Mike White on 'Survivor 50'

Ozzy Lusth and Mike White on 'Survivor 50'.

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The number one player I would like to see come back and play again would have to be Mike White. I would love to see Mike just get one more shot at the game.

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JP Morgan’s Top 3 Stocks for 2026: The Halftime Scorecard Trey ThoelckeTue, June 30, 2026 at 12:50 PM UTC 0 Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock.comQuick Read GEV surged 69% YTD and cleared J.P. Morgan&x27;s $1,000 target, while BFAM and CELH, the two highestupside picks, both fell more than 30%. Celsius hit 138% revenue growth and a 21% U.S. energy drink share in Q1, but the Alani Nu integration crushed margins and sank the stock. BFAM plans to close 45 to 50 centers in 2026 and faces securities fraud investigations after disclosing $45 million in impairment charges.

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GEV surged 69% YTD and cleared J.P. Morgan's $1,000 target, while BFAM and CELH, the two highest-upside picks, both fell more than 30%.

Celsius hit 138% revenue growth and a 21% U.S. energy drink share in Q1, but the Alani Nu integration crushed margins and sank the stock.

BFAM plans to close 45 to 50 centers in 2026 and faces securities fraud investigations after disclosing $45 million in impairment charges.

Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and Celsius Holdings didn't make the cut. Grab the names FREE today.

Back on December 27, 2025, we wrote about J.P. Morgan's three overweight picks for 2026 with the highest implied upside: Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NYSE: BFAM), Celsius (NASDAQ: CELH), and GE Vernova (NYSE: GEV). At the halfway point of the year, the scoreboard tells a counterintuitive story. The pick with the lowest percentage upside, GE Vernova, has cleared its target. The two names J.P. Morgan flagged with the largest implied gains have moved in the other direction.

We compared each stock's move since the original call to J.P. Morgan's full-year 2026 target, weighing operational drivers, beat-and-raise cadence, and Wall Street's current consensus. Counting down from worst to best:

3. Bright Horizons Family Solutions

J.P. Morgan had a 2026 price target of $160 for this stock. Shares closed at $70.89 on June 29, 2026, leaving it down 30.1% year to date. That is the deepest hole of the trio.

The Q4 2025 report looked fine on the surface, with adjusted EPS of $1.15 versus $1.12 consensus and revenue of $733.70 million. The problem: management disclosed plans to close 45 to 50 centers in 2026, nearly double the prior estimate, paired with $45.1 million in impairment and lease-termination charges. Multiple law firms initiated securities fraud investigations after the revision. Labor-market softness and enrollment pressure in full-service child care have hit the thesis hard, even as Back-Up Care generated more than $725 million in 2025 revenue.

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Wall Street still carries an analyst target of $91.11, the forward P/E is 15x, and FY 2026 guidance calls for adjusted EPS of $4.90 to $5.10 on revenue of $3.075 billion to $3.125 billion. The setup is reset-to-recover, but the J.P. Morgan target looks out of reach without a clean operational quarter.

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2. Celsius

J.P. Morgan's Celsius target was $68. Shares finished at $29.79 on June 29, 2026, down 34.9% since the beginning of the year. The frustrating part is that fundamentals are working. Q1 2026 delivered revenue of $782.62 million, up 137.7% year over year, beating consensus by 2.89%, with EPS of $0.41 versus the $0.293 estimate. Celsius reached a 20.9% dollar share of the U.S. energy drink category.

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The market punished integration noise. Folding Alani Nu into PepsiCo's distribution network compressed gross margin to 48.3% from 52.3%, Rockstar retail sales declined 13%, and a $24.6 million legal settlement accrual showed up in the quarter. CEO John Fieldly framed it as "a defining period for Celsius Holdings."

Wall Street still carries an analyst target of $58.52 with 20 Buy or Strong Buy ratings against zero Sell ratings, and the forward P/E has compressed to 19x. J.P. Morgan's $68 target is roughly the old high-water target, and clearing it requires margin recovery to the low-50s that management has guided toward.

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1. GE Vernova

GE Vernova was the lowest-implied-upside pick of the three, and it is the runaway winner. J.P. Morgan's $1,000 target has already been cleared: shares closed at $1,102.51 on June 29, 2026, up 68.7% year to date and 112.2% over the trailing year.

The driver is the AI and data-center power buildout. Q1 2026 revenue of $9.30 billion grew 15.8% year over year, with orders surging 71% organically to $18.30 billion. Electrification booked $2.40 billion in data-center equipment orders in Q1 alone, exceeding all of 2025. Backlog reached a record $150 billion in Q4 2025, and management is targeting 110-plus GW of combined gas turbine backlog and slot reservation agreements by year-end 2026. The 2026 guidance was raised again: revenue of $44.5 billion to $45.5 billion, adjusted EBITDA margin of 12% to 14%, and free cash flow of $6.5 to $7.5 billion.

CEO Scott Strazik said, "Demand is accelerating for our Power and Electrification solutions from a diverse set of customers, with our backlog growing by more than $13 billion quarter-over-quarter." The consensus analyst target of $1,211.72 is just above current levels, the forward P/E is 37x, and shares trade 7% below the 52-week high of $1,181.95. The thesis is intact; the easy money is already on the table.

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The Halftime Verdict

J.P. Morgan's lowest-upside name carried the franchise. GE Vernova's year-to-date move blew through the $1,000 price target, while Bright Horizons and Celsius, the two picks with the most implied upside, have undercut their targets by a wide margin. Secular tailwinds like AI-driven power demand can outrun even the most aggressive Wall Street price targets, while consumer and services names dependent on labor markets and brand integrations can stall regardless of how compelling the entry-point math looked in December.

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