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We now know the premiere date for the King of the Hill revival. Season 14 of the show will premiere Aug. 4 on Hulu. The 10-episode season will drop in its entirety. It picks up several years after the Hill family was last seen in the season 13 finale. A now-retired Hank and Peggy Hill return to find a changed Arlen, Texas, after years of working in Saudi Arabia, while Bobby has turned 21 and is navigating his adult life as a chef working in Dallas …

Rob “Gronk” Gronkowski is set to act alongside Sistine Stallone and Mischa Barton in the upcoming mafia crime thriller Bad News on the Doorstep. Deadline first reported the casting news on the upcoming film, which is set in the 1950s and follows a coming-of-age story about Frank and Gino, two Italian-American high school football prodigies …

Issa Rae will star in and produce the upcoming comedy-thriller Good People, Bad Things. According to Deadline, the film follows a woman who gets lost inside a seemingly infinite parking garage before discovering she is not alone …

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After a record-breaking Memorial Day weekend, Lilo & Stitch and Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning retained the top two spots at the box office this past weekend, with both setting new milestones in overall earnings.

Disney’s live-action remake of the beloved animated classic grossed another $63 million, which according to Variety brings its worldwide total to $610 million. That makes it the second-biggest movie of 2025, following A Minecraft Movie, which has taken in $947 million worldwide.

Meanwhile, Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning — supposedly the last outing for Tom Cruise‘s superspy Ethan Hunt — earned $27.3 million, good enough for #2 this weekend, and bringing its worldwide total to $350 million, Variety reports. The vampire thriller Sinners also topped the $350 million mark worldwide this weekend; it’s currently at #6 on the box office tally.

As for new entries, Karate Kid: Legends debuts at #3 with $21 million, as per Box Office Mojo. The film is set three years after the end of the TV series Cobra Kai, itself a spinoff of the original Karate Kid films. The horror thriller Bring Her Back debuts at #5 with $7.1 million.

In at #10 is j-hope Tour ‘Hope on the Stage’ in Japan: Live Viewing, a live movie theater broadcast of a May 31 concert in Japan by j-hope, a member of K-pop superstar group BTS.

Here are the top 10 films at the box office:

1. Lilo & Stitch — $63 million
2. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning — $27.3 million
3. Karate Kid: Legends –– $21 million
4. Final Destination: Bloodlines –– $10.8 million
5. Bring Her Back –– $7.1 million
6. Sinners –– $5.2 million
7. Thunderbolts* –– $4.8 million
8. Friendship –– $2.6 million
9. The Last Rodeo –– $2.1 million
10. j-hope Tour ‘Hope On the Stage’ in Japan: Live Viewing –– $939,173

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Stranger Things 5 officially has a release date – three of them, to be exact.

The fifth and final season of the Netflix hit will air in three parts, with the first four episodes debuting November 26; the next three episodes dropping on Christmas Day, December 25; and the final episode streaming on New Year’s Eve, December 31. Each volume will release at 5 p.m. PT.

The news was revealed during Netflix’s fan event Tudum 2025, along with a new teaser for season five. The teaser mixes footage from previous seasons with some quick glimpses of the new episodes, ending with a shot of Noah Schnapp‘s Will Byers screaming “Run!” as he faces an unknown horror.  

A synopsis for season five says the episodes pick up in the fall of 1987, with Hawkins dealing with the aftermath of the opening of the Rifts and our group of heroes uniting to find and kill Vecna.

“The final battle is looming — and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they’ve faced before,” the synopsis reads. “To end this nightmare, they’ll need everyone — the full party — standing together, one last time.”

Stranger Things stars Millie Bobby Brown, Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp and Sadie Sink.

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Loretta Swit, known for her role as Maj. Margaret Houlihan on M*A*S*H, has died at age 87. She died at home in New York City of suspected natural causes, her rep Harlan Boll confirmed.

Swit was nominated for the Emmy for best supporting actress in a comedy series from 1974 to 1983. She won the award in 1980 and 1982.

She was born Loretta Jane Szwed on Nov. 4, 1937, in Passaic, New Jersey, to Polish immigrant parents.

Along with her Emmys, Loretta also won a People’s Choice Award, The Genie Award, The Silver Satellite Award, The Jean Golden Halo Award and the Pacific Broadcasters Award.

Her long career included roles in over 25 made-for-TV movies, including the original Cagney and Lacey. She also appeared in Games Mother Never Taught You, Hell Hath No Fury, The Execution, Dreams of Gold and A Killer Among Friends.

On the big screen, Swit acted in films such as Stand Up and Be Counted, Freebie and the Bean, Race With the Devil and S.O.B.

Swit married actor Dennis Holahan in 1983; they divorced in 1995.

In addition to her acting career, Swit was passionate about animals. She set up the SwitHeart Animal Alliance in order to prevent cruelty toward animals, and to promote nonprofit organizations and programs to protect, rescue and care for those in need.

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Sydney Sweeney is selling soap made from her bathwater.

The actress has partnered with Dr. Squatch to create a soap that was made using water she bathed in.

“You kept asking about my bathwater after the @drsquatch ad… so we kept it,” Sydney wrote in a post shared to Instagram. “Introducing Sydney’s Bathwater Bliss! A very real, very limited-edition soap made with my actual bathwater.”

This new soap was inspired by her ad for Dr. Squatch Natural Body Wash, which featured Sweeney promoting the product while bathing in a tub filled with bubbles.

The product description on Dr. Squatch’s website says the soap combines “the two best places on the planet: The outdoors and Sydney Sweeney’s bathtub.” It is described as having a blend of outdoor serenity, with notes of pine, Douglas fir, earthy moss and a bit of Sweeney’s bathwater.

Sydney’s Bathwater Bliss soap will have a limited launch on June 6. Only 5,000 bars of the soap will be made. They sell for $8 each. Dr. Squatch is running a giveaway where 100 winners will receive the bar of soap before the official drop in early June. 

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After starring in Wicked — and receiving an Oscar nomination for her performance — Ariana Grande will get to show off her comedic chops on the big screen once again.

Deadline reports that Ariana has joined the cast of Meet the Parents 4, the next installment in the Ben Stiller/Robert De Niro comedy franchise. The movie is expected to arrive Nov. 25, 2026, just over a year after Ariana’s Wicked: For Good hits theaters. 

In addition to Stiller and De Niro, original cast members Teri Polo and Blythe Danner are returning for the film, which is being directed and written by John Hamburg, who co-wrote the three previous installments. Plot details are being kept under wraps, as well as details about who Ariana will play in the film.

Overall, the three Meet the Parents films — the 2000 original, the 2004 sequel Meet the Fockers and 2010’s Little Fockers — have grossed $1.13 billion worldwide, according to Deadline.

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Meryl Streep is returning for season 5 of Only Murders in the Building.

That’s all.

On Thursday, the Academy Award winner appeared in a video with Selena Gomez to mark her return to the beloved Hulu series.

In the video, the duo recreate a famous scene from The Devil Wears Prada, in which Streep starred alongside Anne Hathaway. In the original scene, Streep’s character Miranda Priestly remarks on Hathaway’s character Andy Sachs’ clothing choices, stating that she has “no style or sense of fashion.” Andy begins to respond, before Miranda interrupts her and states that she wasn’t asking a question.

In Thursday’s video, Gomez, standing next to Streep, states flatly, “So you’re coming back for season 5.”

Streep, channeling Hathaway’s Devil Wears Prada character, replies, “Well, I think that depends on–“

Before she finishes her sentence, Gomez interjects, “No, no, that wasn’t a question.”

The caption of the video also gave a nod to the 2006 film.

“Gird your loins, Meryl is returning for Season 5! That’s all,” the caption read.

Only Murders in the Building was picked up for a fifth season at Hulu in September 2024, following the premiere of its fourth season. In addition to Streep and Gomez, the show stars Martin Short and Steve Martin.

The series follows friends Oliver Putnam (Short), Charles-Haden Savage (Martin) and Mabel Mora (Gomez), who investigate a series of suspicious murders in their upscale apartment building, The Arconia, in New York City. Streep portrays Loretta Durkin, an actress.

In March, it was announced that Renée Zellweger would also join the star-studded cast.

The new season is currently in production.

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Kit Connor is being eyed for the Elden Ring film adaptation. The Heartstopper star is in talks with director Alex Garland to star in his upcoming adaptation of the popular video game for A24, Deadline reports. Connor recently starred in Garland’s latest film, Warfare, also for A24. Elden Ring is an action role-playing game set in a dark fantasy world that allows its players to go on adventures within dungeons and epic environments …

Laid has been laid to rest. The comedy series has been canceled after one season on Peacock, Variety reports. Stephanie Hsu starred in and executive produced the show about a woman who finds out her former lovers are all dying in unusual ways. Zosia Mamet and Michael Angarano co-starred in the eight-episode series …

Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow has his next project. Deadline reports Trevorrow is set to direct and produce a conspiracy thriller for Paramount Pictures. Ryan Reynolds will also produce the currently untitled film, which is set in the 1980s and follows the journalist who first broke the story of Area 51 …
 

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Horror directing duo Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou are back for another round of scares with Bring Her Back. The film follows Piper, a vision-impaired teenager played by Sora Wong, and her older brother Andy, played by Billy Barratt. After the death of their father, the two are forced to live with a foster parent, played by Sally Hawkins.

Danny says the senses play a major role in how they filmed the movie.

“There was a visual language for every character, and there was also an audio language that, like, accompanied everyone,” says Danny. “With Piper, to really get close up on the hand and convey touch.”

Wong is a person with low vision, which Barratt says played a role in how the two formed their onscreen sibling bond as Piper and Andy.

“There were days where she’d wear, like, a mask so it blocked her vision completely, and we’d link arms and I’d sort of practice telling her what our surroundings were,” Barratt says.

Bring Her Back is Wong’s first acting credit.

“At the start, I think I couldn’t disassociate myself with Piper, and that’s, like, not great because you can get lost in the character,” says Wong. “Towards the end it was like I could become me, and then I could turn into Piper.”

Bring Her Back follows Danny and Michael’s 2022 film, Talk to Me, and both feature important scenes set at a house party. Danny tells ABC Audio it’s important to show characters having fun, even under horrific circumstances.

“I like that both films have a montage that in one lens you can look at it and go, ‘Oh, that’s really fun.’ And then you look at it through another lens, you’re like, ‘Actually that’s a little bit messed up,’” he says.

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She’s still all that.

Rachael Leigh Cook and Freddie Prinze Jr. are reuniting in the upcoming holiday film The Christmas Affair. Cook confirmed the news in a post shared to Instagram on Thursday.

“I [heart] Freddie, my FOX Family, New York and Christmas,” Cook captioned her post, which included a screenshot of Deadline‘s article about the news. “I could not be more excited to announce this !!!”

Cook and Prinze will play superstar sportscasters Natalie and Gabe in The Christmas Affair. The pair form an unlikely alliance with each other after their respective spouses are caught cheating on them weeks before Christmas.

“As holiday chaos and media attention mount, they begin to fall for each other,” the official synopsis reads. “But is this just a rebound…or the start of a real Christmas romance?”

Cook and Prinze starred as lovebirds Laney and Zack in the 1999 rom-com She’s All That. This new film marks their second collaboration and comes over two decades after they acted alongside each other in the ’90s classic. Both actors will also executive produce The Christmas Affair.

Jennifer Gibgot, who co-produced She’s All That, will also produce The Christmas Affair for Fox Entertainment Studios. Fox’s head of scripted, Hannah Pillemer, said the company is excited to grant the Christmas wish of rom-com fans with Cook and Prinze returning to the silver screen together.

“This iconic couple stole our hearts over 25 years ago, and we are grateful to work with them on this all-new romantic comedy filled with holiday magic,” Pillemer told Deadline.

Prinze’s wife, Sarah Michelle Gellar, also shared the news to her Instagram Story. “So excited for this,” she wrote alongside a link to Cook’s post.

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