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The mere mention of Grendel the classic monster from the Old English, Anglo-Saxon era epic poem, Beowulf is enough to unlock a portal buried deep within the brain of every former English student. Since its introduction to the oral tradition, the creature at the heart of Robert D. Krzykowski's cinematic take has captivated the hearts and minds of humans for thousands of years.

So it's no surprise that new details (via The Hollywood Reporter) alongside images from a Collider exclusive reveal that Grendel, as played by Jeff Bridges, is going in a deeply philosophical and darkly fantastical direction; a perfect fit for the Jim Henson Creature Shop's interpretation based on the 1971 John Gardner novel.

What Is Grendel and What Is This Movie Adapted From?

Grendel is largely considered to be a modern classic, a novel that retells the old English epic poem Beowulf from the perspective of the monster,...

The full trailer for Starz’s Outlander season seven part two promises the long-awaited new episodes are going to put fans through the emotional wringer. Jamie, Claire, and Ian return to Scotland, but as anyone who’s read Diana Gabaldon’s seventh book of the series knows, there’s plenty of turmoil ahead for the Fraser family.

“Coming off the first half of Outlander season seven, we find Claire, Jamie, and Young Ian leaving the colonies and arriving in their beloved homeland: Scotland. The perils of the Revolutionary War force them to choose between standing by those they love and fighting for the land they have made their new home,” reads Starz’s synopsis. “Meanwhile, Roger and Brianna face new enemies across time and must battle the forces that threaten to pull their family apart. As loyalties change and painful secrets come to light, Jamie and Claire’s marriage is tested like never before.

Jhon Lumsden, Sara Vickers, Peter Mullan, and Brian McCardie join ‘Outlander: Blood of My Blood’

Peter Mullan (Ozark) has joined the cast of Starz’s Outlander prequel, Outlander: Blood of My Blood. New additions to the series also include Brian McCardie (Rob Roy), Jhon Lumsden (The Famous Five), and Sara Vickers (Watchmen).

Starz announced Mullan will be playing Red Jacob MacKenzie, Laird of Clan MacKenzie and father to Ellen, Dougal, Colum, Janet and Jocasta. McCardie will take on the role of Isaac Grant, leader of Clan Grant, and Jhon Lumsden has signed on to play Isaac’s son, Malcolm, a potential suitor for Ellen MacKenzie. Sara Vickers joins as Davina Porter, a housekeeper in the Lovat household and mother to Brian Fraser.

The prequel stars Jeremy Irvine as Henry Beauchamp, Hermione Corfield as Julia Moriston, Jamie Roy as Brian Fraser, Harriet Slater as Ellen MacKenzie, and Tony Curran as Lord Lovat.

Rory Alexander, Conor MacNeill, Sam Retford and Séamus McLean Ross join ‘Outlander: Blood of My Blood’

Starz’s Outlander prequel, Outlander: Blood of My Blood, has added four actors as series regulars. Rory Alexander, Sam Retford, Séamus McLean Ross, and Conor MacNeill are confirmed to play members of Clan Fraser and Clan MacKenzie in the new addition to Starz’s Outlander series franchise.

“We are thrilled to expand our season one cast with some well-known characters from the Outlander universe. We’re so excited to welcome Rory, Sam, Séamus and Conor to the MacKenzie and Fraser clans and to explore the young journeys of these fan-favorite characters,” stated Matthew B. Roberts, showrunner and executive producer on Outlander: Blood of My Blood.

Clan Fraser has added Rory Alexander (Inland) as a young Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser, a role originated by Duncan Lacroix. The headstrong Dougal MacKenzie will be played by Sam Retford...

Warning! Spoilers about Outlander season 7, episode 7, and the Outlander books ahead.

Lord John Grey's return is likely to happen soon in Outlander season 7, as hints and storylines point to his help becoming necessary for one character in particular. Captain Richardson's role in the Outlander books, including his desire to arrest Claire for treason, suggests potential danger and conflict ahead for the characters in Outlander season 7. The introduction of Simon Fraser of Balnain and the timing of the second Battle of Saratoga hint at his death and Jamie, Claire, and Ian's imminent trip to Scotland, which could pave the way for Lord John Grey's return in part two of Outlander season 7.

The last time Lord John Grey appeared on Outlander was in season 7, episode 2, but some storylines since then have hinted at his return happening soon. After Outlander season 7, episode 2, “The Happiest Place on Earth,” unexpectedly introduced Brianna to her biological half-brother William,...

Starz’s Outlander season seven episode eight, the mid-season finale, finds Jamie thrust back into battle. Directed by Joss Agnew from a script by Luke Schelhaas, episode eight – “Turning Points” – will air on Friday, August 11, 2023. (Midnight on the Starz app and 8pm Et/Pt on Starz.)

The cast is led by Caitriona Balfe as Claire Fraser and Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser. Season seven also stars Sophie Skelton as Brianna Randall Fraser Mackenzie, Richard Rankin as Roger Wakefield MacKenzie, David Berry as Lord John Grey, and John Bell as Young Ian.

Charles Vandervaart plays William Ransom, Izzy Meikle-Small is Rachel Hunter, Joey Phillips is Denzell Hunter, and Caitlin O’Ryan is Lizzie Wemyss. Paul Gorman returns as Josiah and Kezzie Beardsley, Hugh Ross is Arch Bug, Sarah Collier is Murdina Bug, Mark Lewis Jones is Tom Christie, and Alexander Vhalos plays Allan Christie.

“Turning Points” Plot: Jamie fights in the pivotal Second Battle of Saratoga.

The promo video for Starz’s Outlander season seven episode seven teases the battle of Saratoga and that we’ll get to spend more time with Buck MacKenzie aka the Nuckelavee. Directed by Joss Agnew from a script by Luke Schelhaas, episode seven – “A Practical Guide for Time-Travelers” – will air on Friday, July 28, 2023.

The cast is led by Caitriona Balfe as Claire Fraser and Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser. Season seven also stars Sophie Skelton as Brianna Randall Fraser Mackenzie, Richard Rankin as Roger Wakefield MacKenzie, David Berry as Lord John Grey, and John Bell as Young Ian.

Charles Vandervaart plays William Ransom, Izzy Meikle-Small is Rachel Hunter, Joey Phillips is Denzell Hunter, and Caitlin O’Ryan is Lizzie Wemyss. Paul Gorman returns as Josiah and Kezzie Beardsley, Hugh Ross is Arch Bug, Sarah Collier is Murdina Bug, Mark Lewis Jones is Tom Christie, and Alexander Vhalos plays Allan Christie.

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Starz’s Outlander season seven episode six will find Jamie and Claire hustling to stay ahead of the British, while in Roger and Brianna’s world a mystery is set to be solved. Directed by Tracy Deer from a script by Sarah Haught, episode six, “Where the Waters Meet,” will air on Friday, July 21, 2023.

The cast is led by Caitriona Balfe as Claire Fraser and Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser. Season seven also stars Sophie Skelton as Brianna Randall Fraser Mackenzie, Richard Rankin as Roger Wakefield MacKenzie, David Berry as Lord John Grey, and John Bell as Young Ian.

Charles Vandervaart plays William Ransom, Izzy Meikle-Small is Rachel Hunter, Joey Phillips is Denzell Hunter, and Caitlin O’Ryan is Lizzie Wemyss. Paul Gorman returns as Josiah and Kezzie Beardsley, Hugh Ross is Arch Bug, Sarah Collier is Murdina Bug, Mark Lewis Jones is Tom Christie, and Alexander Vhalos plays Allan Christie.

Starz’s Outlander season seven episode five will find Jamie and Claire making it to Fort Ticonderoga. The promo video also shows Brianna and Roger opening a letter with news about her parents’ time at the fort. Directed by Tracy Deer from a script by Taylor Mallory, episode five – “Singapore” – will air on Friday, July 14, 2023.

The cast is led by Caitriona Balfe as Claire Fraser and Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser. Season seven also stars Sophie Skelton as Brianna Randall Fraser Mackenzie, Richard Rankin as Roger Wakefield MacKenzie, David Berry as Lord John Grey, and John Bell as Young Ian.

Charles Vandervaart plays William Ransom, Izzy Meikle-Small is Rachel Hunter, Joey Phillips is Denzell Hunter, and Caitlin O’Ryan is Lizzie Wemyss. Paul Gorman returns as Josiah and Kezzie Beardsley, Hugh Ross is Arch Bug, Sarah Collier is Murdina Bug, Mark Lewis Jones is Tom Christie, and Alexander Vhalos plays Allan Christie.

Starz’s Outlander season seven episode three ended with a few emotional goodbyes (including one between cat mom Claire and Adso) as Jamie, Claire, and Ian began their journey to Scotland. The teaser promo for episode four, “A Most Uncomfortable Woman,” shows that journey will be interrupted by unexpected reunions.

Episode four was directed by Jackie Gould from a script by Marque Franklin William. “A Most Uncomfortable Woman” will air on Friday, July 7, 2023.

The cast is led by Caitriona Balfe as Claire Fraser and Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser. Season seven also stars Sophie Skelton as Brianna Randall Fraser Mackenzie, Richard Rankin as Roger Wakefield MacKenzie, David Berry as Lord John Grey, and John Bell as Young Ian.

Charles Vandervaart plays William Ransom, Izzy Meikle-Small is Rachel Hunter, Joey Phillips is Denzell Hunter, and Caitlin O’Ryan is Lizzie Wemyss. Paul Gorman returns as Josiah and Kezzie Beardsley, Hugh Ross is Arch Bug,...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Outlander Season 7, Episode 3, “Death Be Not Proud.”] After Outlander‘s fiery cliffhanger at the end of Season 7’s second episode, “The Happiest Place on Earth,” fans finally learned the fates of Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) and their Fraser’s Ridge settlers after Wendigo Donner (Brennan Martin) set the big house ablaze. As viewers will recall, Wendigo was searching for a gem so he could travel through the stones back to his own time, but in searching for the fine item, Arch (Hugh Ross) and Murdina Bug (Sarah Collier) handed over a piece of metal Jamie recognized as the lost Jacobite gold. Once they escaped the blaze that burned the big house down, Jamie questions Mr. Bug about the gold. The pair get into a tiff over the rights to such a treasure, and Mr. Bug reveals that he’d stolen the gold piece by piece out of...

Lallybroch, here we come!

Claire and Jamie make plans to return to his ancestral home in this week’s Outlander, and the trip couldn’t happen at a better time, given that their house on Fraser’s ridge is now just a pile of cinders and stolen gold. (More on the gold part, and its lethal fallout, in a moment.)

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There is nearly no topic that Jamie and Claire Fraser can’t make romantic, as evidenced by this exclusive sneak peek from Friday’s Outlander (Starz, 8/7c).

Although they look as snuggly and in love as ever — and they are! — the subject at hand isn’t the sexiest: The Frasers are musing about how they’ll handle arrangements in the event that one of them dies before the other. Hot!

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Starz’s Outlander season seven episode two ended with the big house going up in flames. The teaser for episode three, “Death Be Not Proud,” shows the Frasers are alive and well, but someone in their community has died.

The promo video also provides a brief look at Brianna and Roger in their own time and reveals that Jamie has had another dream of Claire in the 20th century.

Season seven episode three was directed by Jacquie Gould from a script by Tyler English-Beckwith. “Death Be Not Proud” will air on June 30, 2023.

The cast is led by Caitriona Balfe as Claire Fraser and Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser. Season seven also stars Sophie Skelton as Brianna Randall Fraser Mackenzie, Richard Rankin as Roger Wakefield MacKenzie, David Berry as Lord John Grey, and John Bell as Young Ian.

Charles Vandervaart plays William Ransom, Izzy Meikle-Small is Rachel Hunter, Joey Phillips is Denzell Hunter,...

Hey, "Outlander" fans. We're back to let you know that the Starz people do plan to serve up another new episode of Outlander next Friday night, June 30, 2023. That's right, guys. Starz is going to deliver the next, new episode 3 of Outlander's current season 7 next Friday night, and we're going to give you as much spoiler info as we can about it. We were able to track down a couple of new, official teaser descriptions for this new episode 3 straight from Starz's official episode 3 press release synopsis. So, that is what we're going to dive into for this spoiler session. Let's do it. For starters, we've got an official title for this new episode 3 of Outlander season 7. The writers decided to call it, "Death Be Not Proud." It sounds like episode 3 will feature some very scandalous, intense, dramatic, interesting and possible action-filled scenes as a dangerous secret gets exposed. A...

Outlander cast members and series creatives are confirmed to attend the 2023 Atx TV Festival running June 1-4 in Austin, Texas. The festival announced Outlander stars will make the trip to Texas on June 1st – “World Outlander Day” – in support of the upcoming seventh season of the popular romantic time-traveling drama. Starz has set a June 16 launch date for the new season.

The Atx panel will include a first look at season seven.

In other news, Starz has released the titles of the first eight season seven episodes:

Episode 1 – “A Life Well Lost,” which sounds incredibly ominous. Episode 2 – “The Happiest Place on Earth.” Can we assume they’re not talking about Disneyland? Episode 3 – “Death Be Not Proud,” which is also the name of an incredibly moving 1949 book by John Gunther. Episode 4 – “A Most Uncomfortable Woman,” which could be about any female in the Outlander world. Episode 5 – “Singapore.” Interesting. Episode 6 – “Where the Waters Meet.

Death Be Not Proud: Bing’s Chilly Portrait of Death a Cultural Critique of Contemporary China

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Joan Rivers wanted her own funeral to be a thoroughly Hollywood affair.  The 81-year-old comedienne, who died while hospitalized at New York's Mount Sinai hospital on Thursday, included some characteristically breezy thoughts on the somber subject in her 2012 book, I Hate Everyone ... Starting With Me.  On page 54, in a chapter entitled "Death Be Not Proud," she conjures up a game plan for the surreal scenario. The paragraph is addressed to her daughter, Melissa Rivers, who released the Thursday statement announcing her mother's passing. The book excerpt, perhaps fittingly, began to trend on social media in

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Death be not proud nor funny nor moving nor remotely interesting in “Best Man Down,” a forgettable indie that shifts tone from comedy to drama without any feel for either. It’s a waste of a few talented actors, to say nothing of the audience’s time. At the Arizona wedding reception of Scott (Justin Long) and Kristin (Jess Weixler, “The Good Wife”), he’s worried about how much everything costs while she looks forward to lounging in Cabo with a cocktail. Scott’s best man Lumpy (Tyler Labine) quickly becomes a more pressing concern, spilling tequila on the bridal gown and generally getting.

Actress Ashley Judd has paid tribute to late racing driver Dan Wheldon by recalling a John Donne poem and tweeting it to followers on Sunday - hours after the Indy 300 ace was killed in a crash.

Judd was cheering on husband Dario Franchitti at the Las Vegas racetrack on Sunday when Wheldon's car was flipped into the air after hitting another vehicle, before crashing into a nearby fence. He was taken to a local hospital, but died from his injuries.

The actress was left devastated by the events surrounding the 33 year old's death and she took to Twitter.com to share her grief with fans.

She wrote, "As we continue to absorb Dan's accident - we forget, remember, re-experience shock, denial, anger, pain - I'm reminded of a favorite poem.

"Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull (sic), for, thou art not so, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow, Due not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me (sic). From rest & sleepe, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure then from thee, much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee doe goe, Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie. One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally, And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die (sic)."...

Ashley Judd, wife of racer Darlo Franchitti, was at the Las Vegas racetrack Sunday when racecar driver Dan Wheldon was killed in a crash. Judd tweeted, "As we continue to absorb Dan's accident -- we forget, remember, re-experience shock, denial, anger, pain -- I'm reminded of a favorite poem: Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow, Due not,...

Late Indy racer's car was sponsored by Timberlake's William Rast clothing line.

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Dan Wheldon

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Justin Timberlake paid tribute Monday (October 17) to late Indy racer Dan Wheldon, who was killed Sunday in a horrific 15-car crash at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Wheldon's car was sponsored by Timberlake's clothing line, William Rast, and the two men were said to be friendly.

"I was deeply saddened to hear the news on Dan Wheldon's unfortunate and untimely death," Timberlake said in a statement. "He was a great driver and a strong supporter of William Rast Racing. My thoughts and prayers are with his family in their time of loss."

British driver Wheldon, 33, the father of two young children with wife Susie Behm, was airlifted to a local hospital in the wake of the crash, which sent his car hurtling through the air after it struck another racer's vehicle.