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Gen V Season 2 wrapped production last month, and according to actor Sean Patrick Thomas, the entire season is one massive tribute to the late Chance Perdomo. Patrick Thomas plays the superhero Polarity in the incredibly popular The Boys spin-off series. Polarity worked high up at Vought, and wanted his son, Andre (Perdormo), to take over the mantel. Chance Perdomo died in 2023 following a motorcycle accident weeks before principal photography on Season 2 was scheduled to begin. The producers made the right decision not to recast the role, and re-wrote the season around Perdomo's death to honor the actor.

Speaking to TV Line, Patrick Thomas explained that Gen V Season 2 will honor Perdomo. The actor didn't want to reveal any major spoilers, but he first confirmed that he was returning as Polarity in the second season. "I don’t want to give too much away, but Polarity will be in Season 2," he began.

The highly anticipated Cruel Intentions reboot series is now streaming on Prime Video, but before you watch the eight-episode first season, we wanted to get you familiar with the fresh ensemble of talent behind the new generation of schemers and seducers.

Set at the elite Manchester College, where reputation is paramount and Greek life reigns supreme, we follow two ruthless step-siblings, Caroline Merteuil and Lucien Belmont, who will stop at nothing to maintain their status atop the social hierarchy. When a hazing incident jeopardizes the entire Greek Life system, they resort to extreme measures to protect their power and reputation, even if it means seducing the Vice President's daughter, Annie Grover.

Now, are you ready to discover who's who in this new television series adaptation? From the cunning step-siblings to the people caught in their web of deceit, let's get to know the cast of Cruel Intentions.

Caroline Merteuil (Sarah Catherine Hook...

Lainey Wilson is at the top of the 2023 Country Music Association Awards nominations list, which were announced on September 7. She received a whopping nine bids from her industry peers, including her first ever for Entertainer of the Year. Newcomer Jelly Roll follows with five nominations. Then come Luke Combs and Hardy with four apiece. Winners will be announced at a live ceremony taking place in Nashville on Wednesday, November 8, and hosted by Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning. See the full list of contenders below.

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Entertainer of the Year

Luke Combs

Chris Stapleton

Carrie Underwood

Morgan Wallen

Lainey Wilson

Single of the Year

“Fast Car” – Luke Combs

“Heart Like A Truck” – Lainey Wilson

“Need A Favor” – Jelly Roll

“Next Thing You Know” – Jordan Davis

“Wait in the Truck” – Hardy (feat. Lainey Wilson)

Album of the Year

“Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville” — Ashley McBryde

“Bell Bottom Country...

The Country Music Association announced the nominees for The 57th Annual CMA Awards, set to air live from Nashville on Wednesday, Nov. 8 from 8 p.m. – 11 p.m., Est. The show will be hosted by Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning.

Lainey Wilson tops the list with nine nominations. Wilson is on the ballot for Entertainer of the Year, Single of the Year (“Heart Like A Truck”), Single of the Year (“wait in the truck”), Album of the Year (Bell Bottom Country), Song of the Year (“Heart Like A Truck”), Female Vocalist of the Year, Musical Event of the Year (“Save Me”), Musical Event of the Year (“wait in the truck”) and Music Video of the Year (“wait in the truck”).

Other top nominees include first-timer Jelly Roll with five nominations. Luke Combs and Hardy earned four nominations each.

Vying for the night’s highest honor, reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year Combs is nominated alongside Stapleton,...

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After Addams Family Values struggled at the box office, another film still followed a few years later. But Addams Family 3 this was not...

Were the world right, then in 1993, Addams Family Values would have got both the rich acclaim and enormous box office it merited. A deliciously playful sequel, it’s 94 minutes of tightly put together comedy, with a bunch of performers that come close to defining ‘perfectly cast’. Christina Ricci, clinging to a fence as she’s threatened with the Harmony Hut, remains a comedy highlight of 1990s cinema.

But the film didn’t really hit. As much as it was liked, its box office was less than half of the original. It was released the week before Mrs Doubtfire in the Us, and it was the latter that become the widely seen family comedy of Christmas 1993. Addams Family Values would do okay at best, but...

Disney Theatrical has released the first video of three in partnership with Wildlife Conservation Society and the Bronx Zoo in celebration of World Lion Day. This video pairs Jelani Remy Simba inThe Lion Kingon Broadway with Pat Thomas Curator, Bronx Zoo from the Wcs team at the lion exhibit to discuss these animals along with the efforts in place to help protect and preserve the species and their habitat.

The premiere post-tiff destination (September 20-25th) in the film community and a major leg up for narrative and non-fiction films in development, the Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) announced a whopping 140 projects selected for the Project Forum at the upcoming Ifp Independent Film Week. Made up of several sections (Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers program, No Borders International Co-Production Market and Spotlight on Documentaries), we find latest updates from the likes of docu-helmers Doug Block (112 Weddings) and Lana Wilson (After Tiller), and among the narrative items we find headliners in Andrew Haigh (coming off the well received 45 Years), Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls and Madame Bovary), Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty), Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries), Jorge Michel Grau (We Are What We Are), Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal (Stranger Things) and new faces in Sundance’s large family in Charles Poekel (Christmas, Again) and Olivia Newman (First Match). Here...

What’s made Hot Chip one of the most intriguing groups of the past decade is that, above its elastic foundation of beats, its music oozes casually brilliant songcraft and nervy twinges of experimentalism. These qualities were underlined on Rubbed Out, the 2008 solo debut by Hot Chip cofounder Alexis Taylor. Start And Complete is the new full-length by Taylor’s supergroup, About Group, but in many ways, it’s Rubbed Out II. Despite the presence of high-profile collaborators Charles Hayward of This Heat, John Coxon of Spiritualized, and British avant-jazz vet Pat Thomas, Start And Complete is Taylor’s ...

My friend Matthew, who wrote the book Boy Culture (which his blog is named after), recently interviewed the late Sal Mineo's boyfriend Courtney Burr, who is an acting teacher, in connection with a newish book on one of the most important Young Hollywood stars of the 1950s and 60s. The book in question was written by Michael Gregg Michaud. Burr had previously declined requests to help with other Mineo related books because he felt they were just after the sensationalistic aspects of the actor's legend (his sex life or his murder in the 70s -- famously none of the legendary trio from Rebel Without a Cause lived long enough to die of natural causes).

It's a lengthy interview for those of you who are interested in Sal Mineo or the difficulties for "exotic" actors or queer actors in showbiz history. The bit where Burr talks about Sal's career choices...

Busy Hollywood! The latest news goes like this: James Franco has optioned the film rights to Sal Mineo: A Biography, written by Michael Gregg Michaud.

Franco intends to write and direct the film, but at this time has no plans to star, although, according to some reports, Franco could change his mind later on.

Will that happen? Lets wait and see, in the meanwhile here are more details.

“One of the hottest stars of the 1950s, Mineo grew up as the son of Sicilian immigrants in a humble Bronx flat. But by age eleven, he appeared on Broadway in Tennessee Williams’s The Rose Tattoo, and then as Prince Chulalongkorn in the original Broadway production of The King and I starring Yul Brynner and Gertrude Lawrence.

This sultry-eyed, dark-haired male ingénue of sorts appeared on the cover of every major magazine, thousands of star-struck fans attended his premieres, and millions bought his records,...

James Franco entered our pop culture landscape with his fine Golden Globe-winning performance as James Dean in a 2001 TV movie. Now, the actor wants to make a movie about Dean's "Rebel Without a Cause" co-star, Sal Mineo according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Franco has optioned film rights to a just-released biography of Mineo as a potential writing-directing vehicle. No word yet on whether he's going to star, and honestly, he should! He's perfect for the part!

Mineo became the youngest performer nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar for "Rebel." His promising life was cut short when he was murdered by a pizza deliveryman at age 37.

Mineo also had a conflicted sex life -- proposing marriage to Jill Haworth and keeping a secret affair with his male lover Courtney Burr. Artist and photographer Michael Gregg Michaud documented this in the book, "Sal Mineo: A Biography."

This is an intriguing project,...

According to THR James Franco has optioned the film rights to Sal Mineo: A Biography, written by Michael Gregg Michaud and intends to write and direct the film, but not star. This is the latest in a series of options by Franco following his recent acquisitions of The Adderall Diaries and Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir.

Actor Sal Mineo was twice nominated for an Academy Award, and enjoyed success as a stage director and recording artist, but most people remember him chiefly for playing troubled, violence-prone youths. His most memorable role was Plato, James Dean’s damaged, love-starved best friend, in the teen angst classic Rebel Without a Cause (1955). His performance resulted in an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor, and his popularity quickly developed.

His acting ability and exotic good looks earned him roles as a Native American boy in Tonka, and as a Jewish emigrant in Otto Preminger’s Exodus,...

James Franco has optioned the film rights to Sal Mineo: A Biography, written by Michael Gregg Michaud. According to THR, Franco intends to write and direct the film, but at this time has no plans to star. This is the latest in a series of options by Franco: The Filmmaker, following his recent acquisitions of The Adderall Diaries and Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir.

At age 16, Mineo was the youngest actor to earn a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination, for 1955’s Rebel Without a Cause. He lived a life “full of sports cars, motor boats, famous friends, and some of the most beautiful young actresses in Hollywood,” before he was stabbed to death in 1976, at 37 years old. Hit the jump for the official description of Michaud’s bio.

One of the hottest stars of the 1950s, Mineo grew up as the son of Sicilian immigrants in a humble Bronx flat.