TIME movies

Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling and Christian Bale Team Up for Michael Lewis Adaptation

"Lost River" Premiere - The 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival
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They will appear in an adaptation of Michael Lewis' bestseller, The Big Short

Hollywood A-list dream team Brad Pitt, Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling have joined forces for a new financial drama based on a work by bestselling author Michael Lewis.

The three in-demand actors will star in an adaptation of Lewis’ bestseller The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Variety reports, which explores the years leading up to the beginning of the financial crisis in 2007. Lewis also wrote The Blind Side and Moneyball, both of which were turned into Oscar-winning films and the latter of which also starred Pitt.

Paramount and Pitt’s production company Plan B, which made 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Selma (2014), began adapting the book in 2010, according to Vulture. Adam McKay signed on to adapt and direct the film in 2012, THR reports.

[Variety]

TIME Food & Drink

Pizza Hut Will Start Serving Gluten-Free Pies

Pizza Hut

Between that and new Sriracha offerings, the chain is doing its best to stay on trend

Pizza Hut has great news for the gluten intolerant — and “meh” news for people who say they’re gluten intolerant but are really just trying to lose weight.

Starting Jan. 26, the chain will start offering 10-inch gluten-free pizzas in 24,000 of the its 6,3000 domestic locations. A slice of the gluten-free pizza’s cheese and pepperoni offerings come in at 150 and 170 calories, respectively.

Although Domino’s started offering a gluten-free pizza, it is not recommended for people with Celiac disease because it is prepared in the same kitchen as dough products. Pizza Hut worked with Udi’s and the Gluten Intolerance Group to ensure crusts are gluten-free–separating cheese, marinara sauce, and pepperoni separately from other foods. According to a press release, “Team members preparing the Gluten-free Pizza will wear gloves, bake the fresh-to-order pizza on parchment paper and use a designated gluten-free pizza cutter.”

Still, the chain asks customers to consult doctors before eating the pie, as the kitchens aren’t completely gluten-free.

Between this and its new obsession with Sriracha, Pizza Hut seems very determined to stay on trend.

TIME viral

Watch College Football Personalities Read Mean Tweets About Themselves

From famous coaches to Tim Tebow

Jimmy Kimmel is back with another installment of his show’s popular “Mean Tweets” segment. Usually he goes for celebrities like Lena Dunham and Matthew McConaughey, but this time Kimmel goes after a different demographic.

In honor of Ohio State and Oregon’s national title game, Kimmel decided to make college football stars and ESPN personalities read the horrible things people have to say about them online. Victims range from University of Oregon coach Mark Helfrich to Tim Tebow.

You would think that this bit would get old. It literally never does.

TIME celebrity

George Clooney Recycled His Wedding Tux for the Golden Globes

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Actor/director George Clooney, recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award, poses in the press room Kevin Winter—Getty Images

Stars: They're just like us

Sunday’s Golden Globes gave viewers a taste of George Clooney’s wedding to Amal Alamuddin.

Not only did the actor’s acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille award sound like wedding vows — “Amal, whatever alchemy it is that brought us together, I couldn’t be more proud to be your husband” — but he said these touching words while standing there in the very tuxedo he wore while getting hitched.

Backstage at the ceremony, Clooney admitted to reporters that his tuxedo was indeed the one he wore to his wedding.

“I have one tux. Just one,” Clooney told People in 2006. “It’s a single-button [Armani]. There’s only one mistake guys can make, and that is to try to do anything fancy. Just put on a tux. Just put a tie on, put a plain shirt on, don’t wear a bolo tie, and don’t wear a cummerbund that’s crazy.”

Well, it’s good to know he’s expanded his collection to two.

TIME Dating

Lena Dunham Thinks Tinder Is for Murderers

The cast of Girls discusses the dating app

The girls of Girls had a conversation about Tinder on People TV, and the actress’ personal reactions to the dating app are pretty in line with what their characters might think.

Zosia Mamet, who plays the curious yet naive Shoshanna, didn’t know what it was—but wanted it explained. Jemima Kirke, who plays the sexually liberated Jessa, thinks it’s a sex site. Allison Williams, the overachieving Marni, knows all about Tinder and was quick to clarify that it is “a dating app… if you’re talented at it, you can have sex eventually.”

And, finally, Lena Dunham, who plays the neurotic Hannah Horvath, sincerely believes that Tinder is a place people go when they want to be murdered.

“It’s not about being famous, it’s not about being anything, it’s not even about being in a committed relationship,” Dunham said. “I believe Tinder is a tool for murder.”

See the video at People

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TIME Food & Drink

Cadbury Creme Eggs Now Have 1 Less Egg in the Box and People Are Outraged

They also changed the recipe

Correction appended, Jan. 13

It’s a darker than dark chocolate time for Cadbury Creme Egg loyalists.

Fans of the creamy treats have expressed outrage not only over the fact that the Kraft Foods changed the recipe—no longer using Cadbury’s Dairy Milk—but also that the company reduced a pack from six eggs to five, without reducing the price.

Cadbury said it was “totes emosh” that the creme eggs are back on sale in a Facebook post Friday:

Fans proved “emosh,” too. But not in a good way.

Cadbury has taken to Twitter to defend its product changes, blaming its decision to sell five-packs on “economic factors.”

The company is now using a “standard cocoa mix chocolate” in its recipe, according to The Sun.

“It’s no longer Dairy Milk. It’s similar, but not exactly Dairy Milk. We tested the new one with consumers,” a spokesperson said. “It was found to be the best one for the Creme Egg, which is why we’ve used it this year. The Creme Egg has never been called the Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Creme Egg. We have never played on the fact that Dairy Milk chocolate was used.”

Read next: One Good Reason to Eat Chocolate Today

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Correction: The original version of this story misstated the company that manufactures Cadbury Crème Eggs. It is Mondelez International.

TIME Heart Disease

How Optimism Might Be Good for Your Heart

New research links a positive attitude with cardiovascular health

A new study finds that an optimistic outlook on life might be good for your heart—and not in the metaphorical, warm-and-fuzzy kind of way.

People with an upbeat, can-do attitude also have significantly better cardiovascular health, according to researchers at the University of Illinois.

“Individuals with the highest levels of optimism have twice the odds of being in ideal cardiovascular health compared to their more pessimistic counterparts,” said lead study author Rosalba Hernandez. “This association remains significant, even after adjusting for socio-demographic characteristics and poor mental health.”

The study analyzed the mental health, physical health and levels of optimism of 5,100 adults ranging from 45 to 84 years of age. Heart health scores—based on American Heart Association-approved metrics including blood pressure and body mass index—increased alongside levels of optimism.

This isn’t the first study that has linked overall positivity to heart health. In 2012, Harvard researchers found associations between optimism, hope, and overall satisfaction with life with reduced risk of heart disease and stroke.

Read next: 6 Signs You’re Not Working Out Hard Enough

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TIME Markets

Saudi Prince Says We’ll ‘Never’ See $100 Oil Barrels Again

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Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal visits Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees northeastern Jordan Jordan Pix—Getty Images

"You better believe it is gonna go down more," Alwaleed bin Talal said

Saudi royal prince Alwaleed bin Talal says in a new interview that the days of $100-a-barrel oil are a thing of the past, as oil prices continue to drop around the globe.

Asked by USA Today if prices, recently below $50 a barrel, would continue to plunge, Talal answered:

If supply stays where it is, and demand remains weak, you better believe it is gonna go down more. But if some supply is taken off the market, and there’s some growth in demand, prices may go up. But I’m sure we’re never going to see $100 anymore. I said a year ago, the price of oil above $100 is artificial. It’s not correct.

He also categorized theories that the U.S. and Saudis are colluding to keep prices low to hurt Russian President Vladimir Putin as “baloney and rubbish.”

Read more at USA Today

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TIME Television

How The Simpsons Paid Tribute to Charlie Hebdo

The sign of solidarity came during an episode penned by Judd Apatow

As the Hollywood elite flashed “Je Suis Charlie” insignia on their tuxedos and ball gowns during the Golden Globes on Sunday night, Fox’s The Simpson’s also paid tribute to the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, the site of last week’s deadly terrorist attack in Paris.

Before the final commercial break of “Bart’s Best Friend,” an episode Judd Apatow wrote 24 years ago that didn’t air until Sunday, a silent animation flashed of Maggie standing in front of a red, white, and blue background while holding a tattered flag that reads “Je Suis Charlie.”

The image replicates French artist Eugène Delacroix‘s Liberty Leading the People.

TIME animals

Koalas May Not Need Tiny Mittens for Burned Paws After All

If you tell the Etsy-loving people of the internet that injured koalas need little mittens to help their burned paws heal, your request for gloves will apparently be answered overnight.

Thursday, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) asked the public to make special mittens to koalas that had been injured in the brushfires raging throughout Southern Australia. The organization even provided a pattern.

“Injured koalas typically come into care with severe burns, especially on their paws, caused by contact with burning trees or from fleeing across fire grounds,” the IFAW told the Guardian.

“These injuries need treatment with burns cream and paws need to be protected with special cotton mittens. Just like any burns victim, koalas’ dressings need changing daily, meaning a constant supply of mittens is needed by wildlife carers. Some burned koalas can take up to a year to fully recover.”

Come Friday, the IFAW tweeted that their call for mittens had been met with an outpouring of tiny marsupial paw-protectors:

But while the mittens might be cute, they may be totally unnecessary — or so the Australian Marine Wildlife Research & Rescue Organization would have you believe.

“Mittens are NOT required as these will only impeded the animals ability to eat or hold onto trees limbs whilst in care,” the organization wrote in a Facebook post urging people to donate money rather than bust out their sewing machines.

The Daily Dot notes that the confusion is reminiscent of the conflicting reports as to whether oiled penguins actually need small knit sweaters in their cleaning and recovery.

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