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Sivako! The official trailer for Avatar: Fire and Ash has arrived.

Audiences who visited the movie theater to see The Fantastic Four: First Steps on its opening weekend were treated to the trailer debut of Avatar: Fire and Ash. Now it makes its official release for all fans to get their first glimpse of the new landscapes, clans and creatures in the third film in the Avatar franchise.

James Cameron returns to Pandora to direct a new story for Na’vi leader Jake Sully, his wife, Neytiri, and the rest of the Sully family.

Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña are back in their lead roles alongside an ensemble cast that includes Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Oona Chaplin, Cliff Curtis, Britain Dalton, Trinity Bliss, Jack Champion, Bailey Bass and Kate Winslet.

“You can not live like this, baby. In hate,” Jake Sully says to Neytiri in the trailer.

Also in the trailer are a new group of Na’vi called the Mangkwan clan, who appear to have the ability to control fire. We see parts of the Pandoran forest burned down as it looks like these people have aligned with the villainous Miles Quaritch.

“Your goddess has no dominion here,” Chaplin’s Varang, the leader of the Mangkwan clan, says right before the trailer ends.

The original Avatar film is the highest-grossing film of all time worldwide. It was released in 2009. Its sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, debuted in 2022 and is currently the third-highest-grossing film of all time worldwide.

Avatar: Fire and Ash flies into movie theaters and IMAX screens on Dec. 19.

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Hannah Brown is officially off the market.

Brown, a former star of ABC’s The Bachelorette, announced she married Adam Woolard over the weekend.

In a joint Instagram post on Sunday, Brown shared a stunning wedding photo with Woolard, introducing themselves as “Mr. and Mrs. Woolard.”

The nuptials, which took place on Saturday at Domaine du Mont Leuze in France, were attended by 101 guests, according to People.

“We wanted something really timeless and classic, and really just the celebration of our love with our friends and family,” Brown told the outlet.

For the special day, Brown wore a corseted ball gown with intricate leaf embroidery, paired with Jimmy Choo Staz Mesh Bow Pointed Pumps, while Woolard looked sharp in a classic black tuxedo.

Brown met Woolard on a dating app, and they announced their engagement in August 2023, sharing a sweet carousel of photos on Instagram, including one where they touched foreheads as Brown showed off her engagement ring.

In addition to appearing on season 23 of The Bachelor and season 15 of The Bachelorette, Brown also competed on season 28 of Dancing with the Stars, winning the competition with her pro partner Alan Bersten.

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Gwyneth Paltrow is putting a polished spin on one of the summer’s messiest viral moments.

Nearly two weeks after former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron was seen in a now-infamous moment on a jumbotron at a Coldplay concert with the company’s former Chief People Officer Kristin Cabot, the Goop founder made a surprise appearance in a new video for the tech company.

The ad, posted on Astronomer’s social media accounts, features Paltrow seated at a desk delivering a calm, corporate-style message: “I’ve been hired on a very temporary basis to speak on behalf of the 300-plus employees at Astronomer. We’ve had a lot of questions over the last few days.”

She then goes on to handle what she says are the “most common” questions they’ve gotten — such as “OMG! What the actual f?” — by ignoring them and instead restating what it is that Astronomer does, which is, apparently, “data workflow automation.”

The caption reads: “Thank you for your interest in Astronomer.”

Paltrow was previously married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, whose band was performing when the jumbotron footage was captured at the July 16 show in Boston.

The video of the incident, which showed a man and a woman appearing to embrace and then ducking after being put on screen, quickly spread online and sparked speculation about the executives’ identities and marital status.

Byron and Cabot have not commented on the viral video.

Astronomer later confirmed that both Byron and Cabot had exited the company.

Byron was placed on leave pending an investigation and has since resigned. Cabot’s departure was announced Thursday.

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The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is coming back for one final ride. The show has been renewed for a fourth and final season on AMC. Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride will return for the eight-episode final season, which is set to start production later this month. This renewal comes ahead of the third season’s premiere, which is coming on Sept. 7. AMC also released the official trailer for the upcoming season 3 …

Love Island USA is breaking records at Peacock. The reality show has received over 18 billion minutes viewed on the streamer, according to a press release. This makes the recent season 7 Peacock’s most-watched original season of all time …

The premiere date for the sixth and final season of Solar Opposites has been revealed. All 10 episodes of the show will drop Oct. 13 on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+. In the upcoming season 6, the crew faces their biggest challenge yet: living on a budget. “When their consumerist habits and expensive hobbies are gone, only their true selves will remain … but will they like who they find?” the official synopsis reads … 

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Marvel’s latest superhero film had a Fantastic first weekend.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the long-awaited film starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn as the superhero team known as Marvel’s First Family, debuted on top of the box office with $118 million, according to Box Office Mojo.  It’s the year’s fourth-biggest debut, following A Minecraft Movie, Lilo & Stitch and Superman.

The Fantastic Four — the super-stretchy, brilliant Reed Richards; his wife Sue, who can turn invisible; her brother Johnny Storm, who can burst into flames and fly; and their friend Ben Grimm, a nearly indestructible, rock-like creature — had been the subject of three previous movies. The first two, in 2005 and 2007, were commercially successful but critically panned. The most recent attempt to bring the team to life, in 2015, was both a critical and commercial flop. This latest film has won critical praise as well as audience approval.

As for Superman, it fell from last week’s top position to #2 with $24.8 million. Jurassic World: Rebirth was at number three, with $13 million. The week’s new debuts included the romcom Oh, Hi! at #9 with $1.12 million and The Home, a horror film starring Pete Davidson, in at #10 with just over a million dollars.

Here are the top-10 films at the box office this week:

1. The Fantastic Four: First Steps –– $118 million
2. Superman –– $24.8 million
3. Jurassic World: Rebirth — $13 million
4. F1: The Movie — $6.2 million
5. Smurfs — $5.4 million
6. I Know What You Did Last Summer — $5.1 million
7. How to Train Your Dragon — $2.8 million
8. Eddington — $1.66 million
9. Oh, Hi! — $1.12 million
10. The Home — $1 million

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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is paying tribute to Hulk Hogan.

Hogan, the two-time WWE Hall of Famer and former world champion, whose real name was Terry Gene Bollea, died Thursday, according to Clearwater, Florida, police and WWE. He was 71.

On Friday, Johnson, also a professional wrestler and actor, took to Instagram to remember Hogan, calling him “a childhood hero” to millions of little kids, including him.

Johnson also recalled the moment that Hogan gifted him a headband as a kid after Johnson had returned the one he caught from Hogan in the crowd at Madison Square Garden in 1984.

“You were shocked and so happy after the match because you told me that was your very last headband, and if it weren’t for me, you’d have no way of getting that exact one made again,” Johnson wrote. “You promised me that you would get more made and give me a Hulkster headband of my own as a thank you gift.”

He continued, “A month later in Madison Square Garden, you did just that. You kept your word, with a handshake and a ‘thanks kid’. And that meant the world to that little 12 year old boy.”

Johnson also recalled the moment he faced off with Hogan at Wrestlemania X8 in 2002. While Johnson won the match and Hogan passed him the torch that night, the actor said that Hogan “drew the house.”

“You sold out every arena and stadium across the country in your prime as Hulk Hogan, on your way to becoming the greatest of all time,” he said. “From deep in my bones, and on behalf of this wild and crazy world of professional wrestling that we love, I say to you now, and forever, thank you for the house, brother… thank you, for the house.”

Johnson was among the many celebrities and figures in the wrestling world who shared tributes to Hogan on social media following Hogan’s death.

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(SPOILER ALERT) Fans of The Buccaneers were left in shock after a main character died in this week’s episode.

While in pursuit of saving Jinny (Imogen Waterhouse) and her baby, Freddie, from his brother, Lord Richard Marable died at the end of season 2’s sixth episode. Worse, he died at the hands of said brother, Lord James Seadown (Barney Fishwick).

ABC Audio spoke to Josh Dylan, who played Richard on the show, about what it was like to film the emotional episode.

“I actually really, really enjoyed filming that episode. It’s probably the most enjoyable bit of filming, possibly across the seasons,” Dylan said. “It was intense. But, you can’t be conscious of it being a sad thing when you’re doing it, obviously.”

Alisha Boe, who plays Richard’s wife, Conchita, also spoke about the shocking development.

“It’s really sad because [Richard and Conchita] had worked so hard for their relationship at that point and they were really coming to a place of finding joy,” Boe said. “When you think about the circumstances, it’s really, really heartbreaking.”

Boe said it was sad and strange to continue making season 2 without Dylan by her side.

“I was really sad because, Josh, you wrapped, what, middle of the season? We had two more months left without you,” Boe said. “As Alisha, I really missed Josh. And that was strange because it was a weird thing. I associated The Buccaneers with working with Josh. So that was really sad to not have you for the rest of the season. That was really heartbreaking.”

Josie Totah, who plays Mabel on the show, also shared why she thinks Lord Richard’s death was so devastating.

“He’s arguably the most lovable male character in the whole show,” Totah said.

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If you thought we were done with The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping cast announcements, think again.

Iris Apatow and Edvin Ryding are among the several new names joining the upcoming Lionsgate film’s ensemble cast.

Apatow will play Prosperina while Ryding will play Vitus in the film. Their characters are the two Capitol University students who are assigned to the District 12 tributes prep team.

Apatow is an actress and the daughter of Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann. Ryding is known for his starring role in the Netflix teen drama series Young Royals.

Also announced to be joining the film’s cast are Jax Guerrero and Sandra Förster as Tibby and Hersilia, respectively.

They all join a star-studded cast led by relative newcomer Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy. Also part of the ensemble are Whitney Peak, Mckenna Grace, Glenn Close, Kieran Culkin, Elle Fanning, Ralph Fiennes, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Maya Hawke, Jesse Plemons, Billy Porter and Lili Taylor.

Francis Lawrence is directing the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins‘ novel from a screenplay by Billy Ray.

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping arrives in theaters on Nov. 20, 2026. 

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We are getting our first real look at the upcoming sequel to the 1984 rock mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap.

A trailer for the film, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, has just been released, following the band Spinal Tap – Michael McKean as lead guitarist David St. Hubbins, Christopher Guest as frontman Nigel Tufnell and Harry Shearer as bassist Derek Smalls – as they attempt to stage a reunion concert 40 years after the first film.

The clip features snippets of the original film, and gives fans a look at what the band members have been doing for the past 40 years, as they’re once again followed by a documentarian, played by the film’s director Rob Reiner.

The trailer also gives us a glimpse of some of the A-list cameos in the film. Paul McCartney turns up to comment on a lyric from Spinal Tap’s song “Big Bottom,” noting the line “I’d like to sink her with my pink torpedo,” is “literature,” while Elton John joins them on stage for a performance of “Stonehenge.”

The band’s bad luck with drummers continues, as the trailer notes they’re short a drummer because their last one “sneezed himself into oblivion.” The band offers Questlove the gig, but he turns them down, sharing, “I don’t want to die,” while they try to assure him they’ve only lost 11 drummers.

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues opens in theaters Sept. 12. In addition to McCartney and John, it will feature cameos by Garth Brooks, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and Metallica‘s Lars Ulrich.

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Days of our Lives is going to continue for many more days of our lives. The long-running daytime drama series has been renewed for two more seasons at Peacock. The show will continue its run as one of the longest-running scripted TV shows in the world with the upcoming seasons 62 and 63 …

Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor star as star-crossed lovers in the new trailer for The History of Sound. MUBI has released the official trailer for the film, which arrives in theaters on Sept. 12. The romance movie follows two young men who meet during World War I and set out to record the voices of the Americans around them …

The official teaser for Netflix’s Train Dreams has arrived. Joel Edgerton stars alongside Felicity Jones in the movie based on Denis Johnson‘s novella. The film follows logger and railroad worker Robert Grainier and the life he leads in the rapidly changing early 20th century America …

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