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Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday Addams is back and ready for whatever Nevermore Academy and Jericho, Vermont, throw at her in Season 2, Part 1 of which is now streaming on Netflix.

The first four episodes involve the pigtailed psychic student reacclimating to life at the school for Outcasts, which has seen a change in leadership after the death of Principal Larissa Weems (Gwendoline Christie). Now Barry Dort (Steve Buscemi) has to step up and fill her shoes, and he has a different tactic for running Nevermore. Dort has a memorable scene set to Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark,” and that is just the beginning of classic needle drops that accompany both horrific and hilarious moments in the show like those of Uncle Fester (Fred Armisen) in Episode 4.

Find the full soundtrack for Wednesday Season 2 Part 1 below:

Episode 1: “Here We Woe Again”

“My Favorite Things” by The Lennon Sisters “Un...

At San Diego Comic-Con this July, whilst promoting its current third season, it was announced that season 4 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon would be its last. It seems a shame, given the show feels as though it has only just found its true form. However, this third season does still feel somewhat like unshaped clay, with the promise of greatness lying just under the surface, if only it can be placed in the right artist’s hands.

Where we left off

The end of the second season of Daryl Dixon saw Daryl (Norman Reedus) say goodbye to the temporary life he’d made while stranded in France, and reuniting...

Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia, A Rock Ballet will make its New York stage debut this November, producers announced today.

Directed by Rob Ashford with choreography by Paul Roberts, the dance production will play at New York City Center November 14-16. The production arrives from a sold-out run of performances at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London and a UK tour.

Townshend said in a statement, “Quadrophenia is the only Who album that I solely composed and produced, and the movie that followed in 1979 launched the careers of some of the finest young actors of the time. In 2016 Rachel Fuller agreed to create an orchestral score of the album. When I first heard a demo of this version, without vocals, my first thought was that it would make a powerfully rhythmic and emotionally engaging ballet.

“Workshopped in 2023,” he continued, “that thought became a reality and I knew we had something that would resonate with new audiences,...

There’s a particular magic that happens when a filmmaker is pushed to their absolute limit, and for writer/director Joshua Elias Palmer, that moment was a two-week intensive under the formidable gaze of Hungarian auteur Béla Tarr. An experience that pulled him back from the brink of leaving filmmaking altogether and directly yielded his profoundly moving short film, Coda, an achingly poignant piece of empathetic cinema. The film absorbs you in its profound quietude, using the stark, tactile routine of caregiving—washing, feeding, enduring silence—to articulate a universe of unspoken emotion and sacrifice. It is a testament to the idea that the most resonant stories are often told not through dialogue,...

A new William Shakespeare movie directed by an Oscar winner has debuted with a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes. Shakespeare is perhaps the most notable playwright in the English language, having penned iconic Elizabethan dramas, histories, and comedies including Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet.

Innumerable movies adapted from Shakespeare plays have hit the screen from the very beginning of the art form. These range from early silent movies like 1916's The Merchant of Venice to modern adaptations such as 1999's 10 Things I Hate About You(reimagining The Taming of the Shrew) and 2006's She's the Man (reimagining Twelfth Night).

However, there are...

Adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel of the same name, “Hamnet” is an emotionally pulverizing drama that imagines how the death of William Shakespeare and Anne (or Agnes) Hathaway’s only son might have inspired the creation of his greatest tragedy; think of it as “Shakespeare in Agony.” And yet the violent beauty of this film, which rips your soul out of your chest so completely that its seismic grief almost feels like falling in love or becoming a parent, is that it’s as much about the experience of having a child as it is about the experience of losing one.

More to the point, “Hamnet” is a wrenching story about how those two experiences — so unalike in dignity — might ultimately be catalyzed by the same process of emotional transfiguration. In the first, your heart is placed into someone else’s body. In the second, that body is subsumed into the world.

Exclusive: Riz Ahmed was after the Crown Jewels. Along with filmmaker Aneil Karia and screenwriter Michael Lesslie, he wanted to take Hamlet, the most iconic of British plays, and do it about Britain today from the perspective of South Asian Hindu culture.

It’s their up-to-the-minute version of Shakespeare’s centuries-old tale about a troubled Danish prince who is visited by the ghost of his dead father who asks him to avenge his death and follow the trail of blood all the way to his supposed favorite uncle, Claudius.

To cap it all, Claudius has gone and married his late brother’s wife.

None of that’s new. We know that story. We’ve seen the stage productions. Some were godawful, but in my time, I have seen Jonathan Pryce, Kenneth Branagh, Ben Wishaw, Rory Kinnear and a handful of others excel. Benedict Cumberbatch starred in what was known as...

With Smallville alum Kristin Kreuk's addictive crime drama nearing its fall return date, a couple of updates have made the rounds, the most recent of which concerns casting. Titled "Murder in a Small Town," the Fox series has become a favorite of fans and critics alike since its debut on September 24, 2024. The first season ended a few months later, on November 26 that year, after which Fox renewed the show in January 2025. The sophomore season is now expected to premiere in only a few weeks on September 23, 2025, and we have news about more stars joining up, including a Teen Wolf fan-favorite.

Earlier this month, we reported that Murder in a Small Town...

Camryn Manheim (Law & Order), Tyler Posey (Teen Wolf), Jamie Chung (Lovecraft Country), Noah Reid (Schitt’s Creek) and Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries) are set for guest-starring roles in the upcoming second season of Fox’s crime series Murder in a Small Town.

Starring Rossif Sutherland and Kristin Kreuk, Murder in a Small Town follows Karl Alberg (Sutherland), who recently moved to the quiet coastal town of Gibsons to be the new police chief and quickly learns that this gentle paradise has more than its share of secrets. As a world-class detective, Karl calls upon all his skills to solve murders that, even in this seemingly idyllic setting, continue to wash up on his shore. Meanwhile, his deepening relationship with the town librarian Cassandra Lee (Kreuk) is challenged as her career and community involvement take her in new and unexpected directions.

In the second season, Karl’s jurisdiction expands, and he...

Note: Major spoilers ahead for the final season finale of “Upload” on Prime Video

“Upload” is now complete on Prime Video — the final four episodes of the series debuted on Monday. Ironically though, despite the finale being a series finale, it does leave a potential door open.

As hinted at in the season 4 trailer, Real Nathan (Robbie Amell) did indeed survive the end of season 3, Instead of destroying him like Back-Up Nathan said, Horizen actually used Real Nathan as a test subject for the next evolution of uploading. This version would allow subjects to upload while still alive, without burning their heads off.

The thing is, the process is draining,...

The Notebook Primer introduces vital figures, films, genres, and movements in film history.Haider.First brought to South Asia in the hands of British imperial agents, William Shakespeare’s plays have since found a home in Bollywood, the Bombay (now Mumbai) film industry, where they have been adapted again and again for nearly a century. Each of these multifarious productions has absorbed the Shakespearean corpus and calibrated it to a distinctly Indian sociocultural context, indigenizing the most prestigious cultural export of the empire. Is the presence of the Bard in Bollywood a postcolonial protest, a commercialization of cultural interplay, or mere cosmopolitan hybridity? While a simple answer is futile, the narrative of Eurocentric primacy,...

The success of Anyone But You has led to much demand for a timely sequel, and Glen Powell finally has an update. Though it’s not a particularly hopeful one, the actor said in an interview that he is “still talking” about Anyone But You 2 with co-star Sydney Sweeney, and that they will only make one when “it’s the right idea,” which “requires patience.” [reported via The Hollywood Reporter]

Previously, Sweeney herself added fuel to the fiery gossip mill, claiming that the Anyone But You sequel is still being considered, saying, “You’ll just have to wait and see. It’s not a no, and it’s not a yes. It’s a ‘I...

Leonardo DiCaprio has been in some of the biggest movies of all time, but even he has one role he wishes he hadn’t passed on.

The actor, now 50, has built a legendary career with films like Titanic, Inception, The Wolf of Wall Street, Shutter Island, The Revenant, Romeo and Juliet, and Catch Me If You Can. But as he explained in an interview with Esquire, there is one movie he wishes he had taken part in.

DiCaprio revealed that he was first offered the role of Eddie Adams in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1997 film Boogie Nights. The character is a young dishwasher who gets noticed by filmmaker Jack Horner, played by Burt Reynolds, and soon becomes a famous adult film star under the name Dirk Diggler. The part ended up going to Mark Wahlberg.

The reason DiCaprio turned it down was because he had already committed to Titanic. The decision worked out for him,...

As subscription costs rise and choice diminishes on legal sites, film and TV fans are turning to VPNs and illicit streamers, with Sweden – home of both Spotify and The Pirate Bay – leading the way

With a trip to Florence booked, all I want is to rewatch Medici. The 2016 historical drama series tells of the rise of the powerful Florentine banking dynasty, and with it, the story of the Renaissance. Until recently, I could simply have gone to Netflix and found it there, alongside a wide array of award-winning and obscure titles. But when I Google the show in 2025, the Netflix link only takes me to a blank page. I don’t see it on HBO Max, Disney+, Apple TV+, or any of the smaller streaming platforms. On Amazon Prime I am required to buy each of the three seasons or 24 episodes separately, whereupon they would be stored in a library subject to overnight deletion.

While both current Walking Dead universe spinoffs are on hiatus, the official Walking Dead social media accounts are keeping fans engaged with behind-the-scenes insight into the recent second season of Dead City and the upcoming third season of Daryl Dixon. The clips, titled "Behind the Dead," drop every Monday with exclusive content on the production of the zombie-centered dramas.

The video, which dropped on Aug. 11, showcased the drama when The Dama burned in Dead City, but the Daryl Dixon material has a much more optimistic lean as it reveals the love story between young couple Justina and Roberto, which will be at the heart of the third season, releasing next month.

New Behind the Dead episode

Candela Saitta plays Justina and Huge Arbues plays Roberto, the young star-crossed lovers who catch the attention of Carol and Daryl when they find themselves stuck in a small Spanish town. The pair of...

Spanish actor-director Eduardo Casanova takes on the Black Plague and HIV/AIDS pandemics in explosive miniseries “Silence” – as well as female vampires, suddenly faced with the shortage of “uncontaminated” human nourishment.

“In so many horror films, monsters are hidden. They are living in the dark, invisible – and so are seropositive women,” he tells Variety.

“When we talk about the HIV/AIDS epidemic, also in the cinema, the focus is on gay men – even though this disease doesn’t recognize gender. You think ‘Philadelphia’. For me, that’s horrible, because you had a straight white man [Tom Hanks] playing the lead. He hasn’t experienced it himself.”

According to Casanova, “it’s the most complicated illness in the world.”

“You don’t really die from it anymore, but you still stay silent because the stigma is very, very strong. Even more so for women, because gay men, or at least white gay men,...

The Bold and the Beautiful spoilers say that the feeling might be good right now, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to last very long at all.

Of course, we are talking about Brooke Logan (Katherine Kelly Lang) and her reunion with Ridge Forrester. (Thorsen Kaye) Seeing how both of them were planning to visit Italy together, fans saw this coming from a mile away.

Brooke’s Poisonous Love Won’t Last

And while Brooke might feel like she’s on cloud nine now that she’s back in Ridge’s arms again, reality is going to hit sooner rather than later.

That’s because it’s only going to be a matter of time before Ridge does what he’s done so many times in the past, and that’s unceremoniously dumping her. You’d think that Brooke would learn from her past mistakes, but that doesn...

The works of William Shakespeare, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, have been adapted to the screen countless times over the years, including classics like Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet. According to the Guinness Book of Records, there are about 410 film and television adaptations of his work, making Shakespeare the most adapted author of all time.

A few of the most famous Shakespeare adaptations include Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, Orson Welles' Macbeth (both 1948), and Baz Luhrmann's modernized Romeo + Juliet (1996), which brought the story to a new generation. There are also secret Shakespeare adaptations, such as 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), inspired by The Taming of the Shrew, and Anyone But You (2023), based on Much Ado About Nothing.

Beyond his plays, Shakespeare's life has been reimagined on screen. Shakespeare in Love (1998), a fictionalized romantic comedy about the playwright's early career and love life,...

What’s with this new love formula in the movies? In Saiyaara, the girl is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and the boy devotes his life to looking after her. Sob!

Now in Netflix’s chic but vacuous My Oxford Year , two Oxonians(Oxy-morons?) fall for each other and …well, the rest is as predictable as Romeo and Juliet with lots of syrupy sentimentality, poetry , and retorts that seem as rehearsed as Akshay Kumar’s awards speeches.

You have to hand it to director Iain Morris and writers Allison Burnett and Melissa Osborne for endorsing banality so meticulously , as though every line of poetry uttered by the lead pair would make us care a bit more.

The meet-cute happens in a coffee shop in London where Jamie Davenport (Corey Mylchreest) hides from one of his many ex-es. An excess of ex-es, so to speak triggers of a surfeit of brashness and...

Note: This story contains spoilers from “Outlander: Blood of my Blood” Episodes 1 and 2.

As Starz prepares to bid farewell to Sam Heughan’s Jamie and Caitriona Balfe’s Claire when “Outlander” airs its final season next year, the franchise turns its attention to the fated love stories of their parents with prequel series “Blood of my Blood.”

Harriet Slater and Jamie Roy play Jamie’s parents, Ellen MacKenzie and Brian Fraser, who struggle with what the actors liken to a “Romeo and Juliet” conflict coming from rival clans, while Hermione Corfield and Jeremy Irvine play Claire’s parents, Julia Moriston and Henry Beauchamp, who unite amid the treacherous conditions of WWI only to be split up again.

As the newcomers took on the roles, they faced a careful balancing act of finding “core similarities” between their characters and either Jamie or Claire, while trying not to replicate Heughan’s or Balfe’s performance.

In the Netflix dramedy Too Much, a brokenhearted American, Jess, makes the move across the pond, inspired in part by daydreams of stately castles, rolling green hills and dashing gentlemen professing their ardent admiration. She finds, instead, a scruffy musician in a dirty bathroom stall. The connection they strike up may not be the stuff fairy tales are made of, but it’s all the sweeter for being so raw and messy and real.

Or … maybe not. Starz’s latest Diana Gabaldon-based saga, Outlander: Blood of My Blood, is precisely the sort of thing that inspires moonstruck fantasies like Jess’ in the first place, filled as it is with scenic vistas, time-traveling contrivances and prettily suffering soulmates overcoming impossible odds. It’s also a reminder of how incomparably potent such a story can be when it’s done just right. Richly imagined, audaciously epic and, above all, unabashedly and deliriously romantic,...

It’s Thursday, August 7, 2025, and the weekend is closer than it ever was this week. What better way to head into it than by keeping your mind sharp and your momentum strong with The Atlantic Games?

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Today’s Stacks puzzle is back to requiring 5 words to stack and discover. And these words are not easy today.

In 2017, MCU starTom Holland performed a forever iconic lip sync to Rihanna's "Umbrella" in a battle against his now-fiancé Zendaya, and now, he's opening up about it. Lip Sync Battle was a reality competition show that first aired on Paramount Network (formerly Spike) on April 2, 2015. The show ran for 5 seasons from 2015 to 2019.

Lip Sync Battle's concept involved two different celebrities competing against each other every week, who would have to prepare two lip-sync performances, and then the audience would decide the winner. In addition to Holland, many other notable celebrities who have appeared on the show include Channing Tatum, Kathy Bates, Kaley Cuoco, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, and more.

While a guest on Gordon Ramsay's talk show Scrambled, Holland opened up about his 2017 performance in Lip Sync Battle in drag, and how wearing fishnets was his idea. During Ramsay's show, Holland admitted that he loved showcasing his...

Nearly three decades ago, James Olivas’ mother and father met during a production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s political musical Evita.

“It’s a fun little coincidence that we have going on,” the theater star tells The Hollywood Reporter. “And it makes me doing the show now especially exciting for them.”

As if by fate, Olivas now finds himself as one of three leads in the West End production of Evita that’s taken London by storm since mid-June: he plays husband to Rachel Zegler‘s Eva Perón, Argentine president Juan Perón, who rose to power in 1946.

Director Jamie Lloyd — best known for his Tony-winning Sunset Boulevard revival as well as the Tom Holland-starring Romeo and Juliet — breathes new life into the 47-year-old Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical with a sharp, sexy take on Eva’s life and career. It tackles head-on the couple’s climb up the political ladder,...

James Gunn’s Massive Net Worth Revealed — The Superman Director’s Bank Balance Will Shock You!(Photo Credit –Facebook)

James Gunn, over the years, has established himself as one of the most accomplished directors in Hollywood, as he has a few million-dollar movies under his belt. His works are known both in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Dcu. From taking control of the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy in the Marvels to directing Suicide Squad for the DC and now taking over the DC Studios and releasing a Superman reboot movie featuring David Corenswet – he has done it all.

Born on August 5, 1966, in St. Louis, Missouri, Gunn’s interest in movies ignited when he used to watch low-budget horror films like Friday the 13th. His creative mind has always been quite flourished since he was a kid. However, in the early phase of his career in the film industry,...

Earlier this week we shared a sneak peek at the upcoming book Screaming and Conjuring from author Clark Collis that put the spotlight on James Gunn’s horror comedy Slither, and we’re back with another Gunn-themed excerpt from the must-read horror book.

This particular exclusive excerpt is all about James Gunn and Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead, the 2004 remake of the George A. Romero masterpiece that Gunn scripted and Snyder directed. Yes, two filmmakers who would go on to bring very different depictions of Superman to the big screen got their start working together on a classic horror remake!

While Dawn of the Dead is fondly remembered as one of the best remakes from that particular period of time, the initial response to the project wasn’t exactly kind. In fact, James Gunn – who had previously written the Scooby-Doo movie at the time – even received death threats.

Thus far, The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 has been an unusual ride.

Personally, there’s still something “off” about the execution of what’s transpiring. The time jump hasn’t served the storyline well, and possibly even hindered it.

The characters don’t quite feel like themselves, and as we’re nearing the halfway point of the season, I still don’t know where it’s going or how I’m supposed to feel.

(Erika Doss/Prime Video) Is Tsitp Intentionally Undercutting Its Own Love Triangle?

However, for a series that prides itself on a coveted love triangle and often sacrifices much of the narrative to it, it’s the first time since the series began where I’m left uncertain about what the game plan is.

As previously noted, the only reasonable way the series can write itself out of whatever they’ve done thus far is for...

For more than a decade now, “Outlander” has held mooning fans (and single-show Starz subscribers) in thrall, captivating with its time-traveling love story, historical drama and very spicy sex scenes. And yet, given that it’s based on a series of books by Diana Gabaldon, the show’s ending is in sight, with its eighth and final season due out early next year.

Fortunately for Starz (and for kilt-lovers), Gabaldon’s “Outlander” universe has always been sweeping and expansive. While she wrote the original series of books, spanning decades and continents, Gabaldon was tucking away backstory details in her mind, building a family history for main characters Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall.

And thus began “Outlander: Blood Of My Blood,” the new prequel series from Starz. Framed around source material from executive producer Gabaldon, the series follows the romantic arc of two couples: Jamie’s parents, Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy...

Outlander: Blood of My Blood actor Rory Alexander has told ScreenRant what is going on with the Frasers in the upcoming prequel series. Alexander plays a younger version of Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser in the Outlander spinoff, and sat down with ScreenRant at the San Diego Comic-Con to discuss the series along with several of his castmates.

Joining Alexander were Outlander: Blood of My Blood showrunner Matthew B. Roberts and executive producer Maril Davis, as well as Harriet Slater (Ellen MacKenzie), Hermione Corfield (Julia Moriston), Jeremy Irvine (Henry Beauchamp), Sam Retford (Dougal MacKenzie), and Seamus McLean Ross (Colum MacKenzie).

Speaking with ScreenRant's Tatiana Hullender, Alexander shared some of the ways that the Fraser family is different in the prequel than in Outlander. "Where Clan Fraser is right now is Lord Lovat, and Lovat is in disgrace," the actor said, explaining that Brian Fraser's father is "a turncoat, a spinless jelly...

Every Emmy acting nominee gets to submit a specific episode for voters to consider as they fill out their final ballots. Gold Derby has confirmed the episodes submitted by the 7 nominated performers for Best Drama Supporting Actress.

Read on below to learn the which episodes nominees like Patricia Arquette, Katherine Lanasa and Parker Posey submitted for their respective series.

Best Drama Supporting Actress

Patricia Arquette as Harmony Cobel in Severance

Episode: "Sweet Vitriol"

Recap: Cobel returns to her seaside hometown and discovers that life there has moved on without her. Attempts to reconnect with old friends and family end poorly, and she heads back to Lumon HQ.

Emmy history: This is Arquette's sixth Primetime Emmy nomination; she previously won Best Limited/Movie Supporting Actress for The Act (2019) and Best Drama Actress for Medium (2005).

Carrie Coon as Laurie Duffy in The White Lotus

Episode: "Amor Fati"

Recap: After experiencing some...

“Washington Black,” Hulu’s new limited series, is an action-adventure story about a bright 11-year-old boy with a talent for science that is both a daring hero’s journey and a sober reminder of a time when people were treated as property. These two themes run concurrently. It is a production that presents a challenge to the cast and crew to show the viewpoints and emotions of both sides well. And they do, for the most part.

Of the four episodes available to critics, the show doesn’t stray from the prize-winning book of the same name by Canadian writer and series co-producer Esi Edugyan. Edugyhan based parts of the book on the true story of 19th-century former slave Andrew Bogle. The fictional George Washington Black aka “Wash,” is born on a Barbados sugar plantation sometime in the 19th century. Under any other circumstance his curious mind might have led him to attend college,...

On the July 15 episode of The Young and the Restless, Cane confided in Chance about Damian’s murder. He is dead. So, so dead. So very, very dead. But is he? Is he really? We have questions.

Before the Beginning

Damian (Jermaine Rivers — who said goodbye to Y&r) ended up with a knife in his back. Cane (Billy Flynn) told Chance (Conner Floyd) that he needs to figure out who did it and why. Pronto! The cause of death sure seems to be the stabbing.

But then, why was Damian complaining of dizziness beforehand? Why did he say he thought his drink had been poisoned? Were the two just a coincidence? Real life has coincidences. Fiction should not.

More: Find out what happens next on Y&r.

In Fair Verona, Where We Lay Our Scene

What if Damian was poisoned? But what if it was one of those poisons like in Romeo and Juliet?...

Netflix's Heartstopper movie gets an encouraging update from star Joe Locke. Based on Alice Oseman's webcomic of the same name, the fan-favorite teen dramedy has so far run for three seasons. It tracks the blossoming love story between Charlie (Locke) and Nick (Kit Connor), as well as the trials and tribulations of their teen years.

In lieu of a fourth season, Netflix has greenlit a Heartstopper movie that will bring the story to a close. Filming began back in June, with Oseman providing updates on its progress on social media. It is assumed most of the core cast will return alongside Locke and Connor.

Speaking with BBC News to share the announcement of his West End debut, Locke provided his own update about the Heartstopper movie. He revealed where the movie is in the filming process and shared his own brief thoughts on the ending itself, saying:

It's going great,...

According to reporting by The Guardian, a Shakespeare festival in the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk opened with a demonstration, not a play. Hundreds gathered on the theater steps to demand the release of Ukrainian prisoners of war, as the ongoing conflict with Russia cast a shadow over the artistic proceedings. Later that day, the audience experienced Romeo and Juliet in a striking promenade performance staged in an abandoned factory and the crypt-like basement of the theater. One cast member had recently left the production after signing a military contract. Shakespeare’s plays have seen renewed popularity across Ukraine during the war. Kyiv theaters are currently staging King Lear, Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet. Translator and poet Yuri Andrukhovych, who adapted the...

Disney’s Zombies franchise has become an unexpected cultural phenomenon, transforming from a modest 2018 television movie into a four-film series that reflects the shifting landscape of American teen entertainment. Paul Hoen’s continued stewardship of this universe demonstrates how Disney Channel Original Movies have adapted to serve both nostalgic audiences and new viewers across international markets.

Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires finds protagonists Zed and Addison navigating their post-high school lives, their planned summer camps derailed by a supernatural crisis involving warring vampire and daywalker factions. This premise serves as both narrative device and cultural metaphor, exploring how American coming-of-age stories have evolved to address increasingly complex themes of identity and belonging. The film’s bloodfruit conflict—a resource struggle that splits ancient allies—mirrors contemporary anxieties about environmental scarcity and inherited conflicts that resonate across cultures.

The franchise’s maturation reflects broader changes in how American entertainment addresses young adult audiences.

Rachel Zegler's casting became a topic of conversation leading up to the unsatisfying live-action Snow White release, and now she's speaking out about the online hate she received.

“It’s really alarming at times," Zegler told i-d magazine. Reportedly, she was sent a death threat while appearing in the play Romeo and Juliet; she responded by tagging the FBI in her X/Twitter reply. “I can really only echo [Hacks actor] Hannah Einbinder in saying that a platform becomes a responsibility, and that responsibility is ours to use as we please."

The day the trailer for Snow White was shared online, the actress famously posted, “and always remember, free palestine," on her X account. Zegler has additionally been outspoken about the current president of the United States and his administration.

and always remember, free palestine.— rachel zegler (she/her/hers) (@rachelzegler) August 12, 2024

“My compassion has no boundaries, is really what it is,...

With Jamie Lloyd’s radical revival of Evita currently lighting up the stage and sidewalk in front of the London Palladium, industry chatter is intensifying around a possible 2027 Broadway transfer. According to Baz Bamigboye of Deadline, sources close to the production are tight-lipped, but insiders suggest that aligning schedules for a New York run is already being quietly considered. Industry whispers also suggest Zegler is being eyed for Maria in a potential Sound of Music revival at Lincoln Center, though no plans have been confirmed. If it happens, the revival would mark Zegler’s Broadway musical debut, she previously appeared in Romeo and Juliet opposite Kit Connor in 2024. Though a 2026 transfer is reportedly off the table due to scheduling conflicts, including Tim Rice’s upcoming Chess...

Rachel Zegler is starring in one of London’s hottest West End productions right now, as former first lady of Argentina Eva Perón, in Evita.

Posters are plastered around the city and ads line the tube (the London subway), but there’s one creative decision that may be doing a better job at marketing the show than anyone imagined, luring hundreds of spectators to the London Palladium every night.

Director Jamie Lloyd — considered playhouse royalty after his revival of Sunset Boulevard, as well as the Tom Holland-starring Romeo and Juliet — is breaking the fourth wall of theater by having Zegler, star of Snow White and West Side Story, perform live to the street outside.

You read that right. During the show, Zegler, in her West End debut, leaves the stage of the Soho theater for the exterior balcony where she belts out the iconic “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina.

Derek Dixon is an actor who hails from Raleigh, North Carolina. He later moved to New York City, where he continued his studies at Marymount Manhattan College and later the T. Schreiber Studio. Dixon appeared as Dale in 86 episodes of The Oval. The show was created by Tyler Perry for BET+.

The series, starring Brad Benedict and Kron Moore, explores the drama that goes down at the fictional White House. On June 18, it was reported that Dixon filed a lawsuit against Perry, accusing him of s*xual assault. He claimed that the creator made “unwanted advances” towards him.

Derek Dixon appeared in three other projects besides The Oval Derek Dixon as Dale in a still from Tyler Perry’s The Oval | Credits: Tyler Perry Studios

Derek Dixon’s first collaboration with Tyler Perry was on the show Ruthless, which was a spinoff of The Oval. Besides Perry’s two shows,...

Music supervisor is a job that is part professional music nerd, part aural detective and part crate-digging business affairs exec. 5 Songs is a Deadline series that highlights the work of these below-the-line workers through songs and stories.

What do Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Joan Jett, BTS, Rob Zombie and Tchaikovsky have in common? Their songs were all used in Amazon ballet drama Étoile.

Étoile came from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino and followed the the dancers and artistic staff of two world-renowned ballet companies in New York and Paris as they embark on an ambitious gambit to save their storied institutions by swapping their most talented stars.

It starred Luke Kirby, Lou de Laâge, Gideon Glick, Charlotte Gainsbourg, David Alvarez, Ivan du Pontavice, Taïs Vinolo, David Haig, Lamay Zhang and Simon Callow.

The series may have been canceled after one season but there’s still...

Musicals can feel like a tough sell with their flashy songs and dance routines, but some films break through with gripping stories, sharp wit, or raw heart. These movies win over even those who cringe at spontaneous singing, feeling more like great cinema than stagey spectacles.

We’ve selected 10 movie musicals that ditch the Broadway fluff, ranked from captivating to unforgettable. Here’s why these films will hook you, even if musicals aren’t your vibe.

10. The Blues Brothers – English (1980) Universal Pictures

Jake and Elwood Blues race to save their orphanage with soulful tunes and wild car chases. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd’s deadpan humor keeps it grounded and gritty.

The soundtrack, featuring Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles, feels like a live show, not a musical. We’re hooked by its chaotic, soulful energy.

9. School of Rock – English (2003) Paramount Pictures

Jack Black’s fake teacher turns kids into a...

With bare-faced cheek, this bardless take replaces all the original language with olden-days-effect prose – adding singing, dancing and a pointlessly starry cast

Director and former stage actor Timothy Scott Bogart is best known for having made Spinning Gold, a biopic of his father Neil Bogart, the New York music producer and founder of the 70s disco-era label Casablanca Records. Now he has confected a syrupy new musical take on Romeo and Juliet, with music by his brother Evan Kidd Bogart (who won a Grammy for his work on Beyoncé’s single Halo).

Bogart retells the basic story but with Shakespeare’s language all removed and replaced with olden-days-effect prose: a kind of bardless Baz Luhrmann. Ultimately – with what I do have to admit is some amiable cheek – Bogart contrives to do for this play what Nahum Tate did for King Lear. It’s really pretty bland, and with each turn...

It’s funny how the memory of a demonic teenage girl who feasts on human flesh can spark nostalgia. But that’s how it works with Amanda Seyfried and Adam Brody.

The stars of two of this season’s buzziest shows — the harrowing cop drama “Long Bright River” for Seyfried and the hit romantic comedy “Nobody Wants This” for Brody — met almost 20 years ago on the set of Karyn Kusama’s cult horror classic “Jennifer’s Body.” Seyfried played the nerdy and devout best friend of Jennifer, the aforementioned demon, played by Megan Fox, while Brody was cast as a douchey aspiring rock star who performs a satanic ritual meant to bring fame, and winds up creating a monster.

Considered a flop at the time, the film found new life and cross-generational fans in subsequent years. It also provided the perfect occasion for a reunion for the actors, who have even...

There was a time in anime, approximately late ’90s to early 2000s, when it wasn’t just trying to be edgy. It was bathing in it. Blood was everywhere, trauma was the default, and fan service felt both gratuitous and oddly melancholic. If you were like me growing up at this time then anime felt like it was maturing with you… just in the most unhinged way possible! But this wasn’t just an anime thing. Music had Eminem spewing raw angst and controversy. Video Games gave us Devil May Cry and Resident Evil , all style, horror, and cool-factor. Comics had CyberSix and Witchblade , dripping with violence and latex. Wrestling hit its Attitude era, swapping our favorite cartoonish heroes for rated R crotch chops and beer-soaked chaos. Anime during this era was riding that same wave, but part of a wider movement. Almost as if to ditch its reputation of...

At university, Masakazu Kaneko began experimenting with films, starting with 8mm and 18mm. At the Film School of Tokyo he took classes from Takahisa Zeze. In 2017 he made his first feature “The Albino’s Trees” which was screened in many international festivals. He continued with his second feature “Ring Wandering” which also brought him the attention of international critics and audiences.

While “Ring Wandering” is a blend of fantasy and drama, Kaneko’s new feature “River Returns” is more of a period drama. However, the story of two people from different social strata falling in love has a lot to say about social hierarchies and how they get in the way of human connection and cooperation.

In our interview, Masakazu Kaneko talks about the project’s inspirations, its relevance for the present and the importance of harmony.

What can you tell us about the inspiration for “River Returns”?

The movie...

Top 10 Highest-Grossing Indie Movies (Photo Credit – Prime Video)

When you think of blockbuster movies, some of the biggest studios in the world, like Disney, Warner Bros., or Universal, likely spring to mind. But the world of indie cinema has had its fare share of box office successes too. There are many reasons that “indie” movies, usually ones unaffiliated with the major studio system, can work so well on small(er) budgets, and by the reckless hands of writers and directors who pour their whole hearts into the project.

Yet a few manage to break through into the mainstream, making hundreds of millions worldwide and redefining what’s possible for independent film. In this list, we are going to discuss the top 10 highest grossing indie movies based on their box office revenues (per Box Office Mojo). These indie films, whether horror masterpieces or comedic gems, defied expectations and hurdles to make...

Lola Petticrew and Anthony Boyle have known each other for almost 20 years, ever since they were a couple of kids from West Belfast looking to break into acting. The first play they did together was a local production of “Romeo and Juliet,” the mere mention of which makes Petticrew’s stomach churn. “We were on a chessboard. Four people came to see it; two of them left,” Petticrew, who uses they/them pronouns, said with a laugh during a recent joint Zoom interview with Boyle. “I had Goth makeup on; Anto looked like Ziggy Stardust. That was a s—show.”

Their many subsequent TV and stage collaborations “incrementally got better,” as Boyle put it. (And they’ve each done well on their own: Petticrew costarred with Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the 2023 indie “Tuesday” and Boyle appeared in “Masters of the Air” and “Manhunt.”) But none had the impact of “Say Nothing,...

We’ve been hearing rumblings of a reboot of the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes franchise for a long time. Seventeen years, in fact. That’s when it was announced that the duo behind the internet web series Ask a Ninja would be writing a remake. That didn’t pan out, but six years ago, filmmaker Dustin Ferguson said he was about to film the first attack scene for a Killer Tomatoes reboot. Then we never heard another thing about it. Now, Deadline has announced that a new entry in the franchise, titled Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, is set to receive a limited theatrical release this Halloween, courtesy of Anchor Bay Entertainment – and we don’t have to worry about this project falling apart, because it has already wrapped production!

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence is being referred to as a reboot simply because it...

Netflix recently announced its decision to conclude Heartstopper with a movie, rather than another season.

The show premiered in 2022 and is based on a webcomic series created by Alice Oseman.

Dedicated fans widely loved the first three seasons.

(Netflix/Samuel Dore)

Heartstopper is known for its creative animations and storytelling style, which is similar to the comics. It’s also known for its queer representation.

Not many shows like Heartstopper exist to show young queer people and the realistic challenges they face. The range of LGBTQ+ representation in the show is also pointed out as revolutionary.

So, fans have fought to keep Heartstopper going. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end.

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Everybody wants this: The second season of Netflix rom-com Nobody Wants This will premiere on Oct. 23.

The series stars Kristen Bell as Joanne, a podcaster who finds love with an attractive rabbi named Noah (Adam Brody). It also features Timothy Simons, Jackie Tohn, Stephanie Faracy, Michael Hitchcock, Tovah Feldshuh, Paul Ben-Victor, Emily Arlook, Sherry Cola, and Shiloh Berman. Guest stars for Season 2 include Leighton Meester, Miles Fowler, Alex Karpovsky, and Arian Moayed.

The cast was on hand yesterday to announce the premiere date at an Emmys event at the the Academy Museum in Los Angeles.