It seemed like the end of the road for the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” The popular kids franchise had inspired a half-dozen movies of declining quality, with the live-action 2016 adventure “Out of the Shadows” suffering from the kind of withering reviews and bad box office returns that derail a film series. But Paramount and Nickelodeon CEO Brian Robbins and Nickelodeon Animation and Paramount Animation president Ramsey Naito had an offbeat idea for how they could make the Turtles cool again.

No nose, more problems? In Cyrano, the new film based on the stage musical by Erica Schmidt, the titular outcast Cyrano de Bergerac doesn’t have his famously large nose. Instead, he’s played by Emmy Award winner Peter Dinklage, who has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia, at his most dashing and heroic, spinning swords and swinging onto stages. As those familiar with the Netflix YA romance The Half of It (or the original by Edmond Rostand) know, Cyrano quietly pines for his old friend Roxanne (Haley Bennett), going so far for her happiness that he helps a new guy, Christian (Kelvin Harrison Jr.

Girls just wanna have fun! Gal pals Ashley Tisdale and Vanessa Hudgens and a crew of bikini-clad ladies, including Vanessa's lookalike younger sister Stella Hudgens, dancer Laura New and GG Magree, got their twerk on Saturday as they partied poolside. Friends that twerk together, stay together! The ladies made sure to post a slew of videos and pics on social media. Tisdale, who is married to musician Christopher French, posted a video on her Instagram of the gaggle of girls during their all-out twerk fest.

People use shovels and snow blowers to clear snow in Grafton, Massachusetts, on Sunday. Photograph: Amanda Sabga/ReutersPeople use shovels and snow blowers to clear snow in Grafton, Massachusetts, on Sunday. Photograph: Amanda Sabga/ReutersUS newsWinter storm brings heavy snow and freezing rain to parts of US north-eastMeanwhile, Sierra Nevada storm with heavy snow in the west shut down a stretch of interstate and leaves thousands without power A major winter storm bringing heavy snow and freezing rain to some communities spread across New England on Sunday morning, sending residents scurrying to pull out their shovels and snowblowers to clear sidewalks and driveways.

Gallery Launch Gallery Getty Lionel Messi has found a pretty good way to get over Argentina's disastrous World Cup exit ... load up your smokeshow wife on a yacht and float on over to Ibiza. Messi rounded up his fam -- including Antonella Roccuzzo -- for an expensive and relaxing boat trip. Of course, Messi's Argentina squad got bounced from the World Cup in late June after a pretty pathetic performance .