ENTERTAINMENT

Duffer Brothers are already gearing up for a new Netflix project. Still a year out from the release of the final season of Stranger Things, the new horror series on Netflix has been greenlit. The series is from Haley Z. Boston and titled Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen. The official synopsis describes the show as "an atmospheric horror series set at a wedding, following a bride and groom in the week leading up to their ill-fated nuptials. That’s not a spoiler – just read the title..." Boston is the creator of the series and will also be the executive producer and showrunner. The Duffer Brothers will serve as executive producers with Hilary Leavitt and Andrea Sperling which have existing deals with the streaming platform. The Duffer Brothers commented on the script stating, "We were k...

The official trailer for Part 1 of Netflix's Simone Biles Rising documentary is here.The teaser hears EGOT winner Viola Davis narrate an excerpt from Dr. Maya Angelou Poem, "Still I Rise" — the inspiration for the four-episode docuseries' title but also Biles' mantra, which she has tattooed on her. "Simone Biles has unfinished business. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she was one of the biggest stories leading into the Games. But in sport, as in life, competitions do not always go as planned," the official synopsis reads."And for Simone, the world had a front row seat as her private struggle with mental health exploded on the international stage – forcing her to withdraw from the competition. Since then, Simone has put in the hard work: facing the difficult traumas of her past, learning to man...

Ice Cube and his production company Cube Vision are officially expanding their partnership with Paramount Global. The multi-hyphenate business mogul has signed a first-look TV deal with the company. In the past, Ice Cube has worked alongside Paramount for various projects. He has previously partnered with the studio for Cube Vision's Big3 basketball league that airs on CBS as well as an unscripted series titled Hip Hop Squares for VH1. As for other Paramount films, Cube voiced Superfly in the Paramount animated film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. With the new deal, Ice Cube is slated to develop projects across all platforms. Amongst his first projects is an scripted series that is in development at Showtime Studios at the moment which is said to explore "the cutthroat world o...

The first trailer is out for A24’s psychological thriller A Different Man, starring Sebastian Stan as a man who undergoes extreme reconstructive surgery to change his face.Stan dons prosthetic makeup to portray Edward, an aspiring actor with neurofibromatosis, a condition that causes benign tumors to grow on nerve tissue. The makeup was based on Adam Pearson, a real-life actor with neurofibromatosis.Pearson plays Oswald, a man who is starring in a play based on Edward’s life. While Edward is praised for his looks post-surgery, he becomes obsessed with Oswald and the role he was born to play.A Different Man was written and directed by Aaron Schimberg and also stars Renate Reinsve. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January and went on to win Stan the best actor award at the Ber...

Australian-American actress Nicole Kidman has become synonymous with murderous television. From Big Little Lies to The Undoing, Kidman has a knife to our throats and stars in Netflix's latest thriller, The Perfect Couple.Guided by Danish director Susanne Bier, she brings her suspicious expertise to The Perfect Couple — melding her works in Bird Box and The Night Manager for a truly cynical experience. Based in the hyper-wealthy boroughs of Nantucket, Kidman plays famous novelist Greer Garrison Winbury as she plans her son's glamorous wedding to Amelia Sacks (Eve Hewson). While preparing for the party of a lifetime, an unexpected body washes up on the shore of their lavish beach house, and the police interrogate the family under suspicion of murder. Liev Schreiber, Dakota Fanning, and Megha...

Neon has released the trailer for Anora, the Palme d'Or winner at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.Helmed by Sean Baker, the comedy-drama stars Mikey Madison and Mark Eidelstein as Anora/Ani, a stripper, and Ivan "Vanya" Zakharov, the son of a Russian oligarch. The pair get involved in a whirlwind romance, fall in love and elope, however Ivan's parents are unhappy with the marriage and travel to New York to force him into getting an annulment.The film become the first American film to take home the Palme d'Or since 2011, earning a 10-minute standing ovation at the end of its screening at Cannes.Watch the trailer above. Anora premieres October 18 in the United States.Read more at Hypebeast

Netflix and the Duffer Brothers have revealed a first look at the upcoming fifth and final season of Stranger Things. The featurette was posted to social media and gave fans a first look at the cast in the upcoming season, giving a behind-the-scenes look at the Hawkins kids. The actors reflected on their time on the show with Millie Bobby Brown, who plays Eleven, recounting, "I started when I was 10, I’m now turning 20 years old." Noah Schnapp said, "It's just so exciting, I think this is going to be the best season yet." The final season is expected to finish filming around Christmas, currently just halfway done. The next season is slated to arrive sometime next year.In the social media post, Netflix teased, "Take it all in, nerds...we've hit the halfway mark of filming the final season a...

Timothée Chalamet is already gearing up for his next project, which is slated to be an A24 film from Josh Safdie. Titled Marty Supreme, the fictional film is said to follow a professional ping pong player named Marty Reisman.The film will be produced by Chalamet alongside Eli Bush and Anthony Katagas while Safdie and Ronald Bronstein are slated to pen the script. Marty Supreme brings Safdie and A24 together once again, both of which have worked together on two features, the popular Adam Sandler Uncut Gems and Good Time.. A24 took to X to reveal the upcoming film starring Chalamet, "Josh Safdie's MARTY SUPREME starring @RealChalamet. Coming soon." While the film is fictional and loosely based on the real Marty Reisman's life, it touches on his relationship with the sport. Reisman died in 20...

A war is raging between humans and machines in Netflix’s animated take on Terminator. In Terminator Zero, an AI called Skynet gained self-awareness in 1997 and has since been on a mission to eradicate humans. The series is set between two timelines, 1997 and in the wartorn 2022.A soldier named Eiko (Sonoya Mizuno) must travel back in time to prevent the course of events by protecting scientist Malcolm Lee (André Holland), who is working on an AI that’ll combat Skynet. Lee struggles to grapple with the moral complexities of his own work and simultaneously being hunted by an assassin from the future.“You can’t see it yet, but you’ve been on a collision course your entire life,” Eiko says in a voiceover. “There’s no going back, not really. It will never, ever stop.”The trailer also offers gli...

Neon's Longlegs has debuted with an impressive $22.6 million USD in the box office.As per Variety, Osgood Perkins's indie horror film, which stars Nicolas Cage, Maika Monroe, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee and Dakota Daulby, cost under $10 million USD to produce and used a similar budget for its marketing and distribution. Longlegs marked Neon's biggest debut so far and even triumphed over Columbia Pictures' Fly Me to the Moon, with its marketing inspired by the cult favorite The Blair Witch Project; an old school website detailing the crimes of the film's serial killer was created, as well as a valid phone number that would play a message from Cage's evil character.“This has been a really wild ride,” said Elissa Federoff, Neon’s chief distribution officer. “Working with t...

Despicable Me is becoming one of the most popular animations to date. Following the release of Despicable Me 4 arriving in theaters and gaining great traction at the international box office, the films have now become the first animated franchise in history to cross the $5 billion USD mark. The beloved fourth sequel brought back Steve Carell as the reformed supervillain Gru and Will Ferrell as Maxime Le Mal, his former schoolmate turned evil rival. Currently playing in almost 80 foreign markets, the Universal and Illumination film earned $11.8 million USD in China alone, where it debuted 35,000 screens and 11,000 locations in the country. Despicable Me 4 goes up agains Disney and Pixar's smash hit sequel Inside Out 2 earning $777.5 million USD globally to make it the fifth highest-grossing...

A production start date for Euphoria season three has officially been set.HBO announced that filming will begin in January 2025 with Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi and Hunter Schafer all set to return. “I am thrilled that we are ready to begin production on Euphoria in January,” said Francesca Orsi, HBO's head of drama. “We could not be happier with our creative partnership with Sam and this incredible cast. We look forward to bringing this new season of Euphoria to life for the fans.”Sam Levinson's series last aired in January 2022 and has been put on pause for several years due to several reasons, including the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes of 2023, Levinson's rework on the scripts and most likely the busy schedule of its A-list cast. The Hollywood Reporter adds that season three may ...