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Cameras have started rolling on Myron Bolitar.

Netflix has announced that production has started on the upcoming TV series adaptation based on writer Harlan Coben’s longest-running book series. The new show is shooting in New York City.

Colin Woodell will star as the titular sports agent. Also starring are Riverdale‘s KJ Apa and Orange is the New Black actress Diane Guerrero. They play Win Lockwood and Esperanza Diaz in the show.

“After an injury ends his NBA dreams, Myron Bolitar reinvents himself as a sports agent — using charm, smarts, and a ruthless partner to navigate the high-stakes and dirty world of sports, where saving his clients often means risking himself,” according to the show’s official logline.

Woodell’s Myron Bolitar is described as “a former college basketball star whose NBA career came to an abrupt end,” according to Netflix. “Myron reinvented himself as a sports agent. He built his agency — MB Sports — on an unwavering belief in overlooked athletes, with the same heart and fierce competitive drive he once brought to the court.”

The main cast also includes Jabari Banks, Chloe Fineman, Jamie McShane and Ben McKenzie. Melissa Benoist, Griffin Dunne, Bebe Neuwirth, Isaiah Hill, Ra’Mya Latiah Aikens, Amanda Warren, Quincy Isaiah, Charlie Tahan, Jamie Hector and Sandrine Holt make up the rest of the ensemble.

Emmy winner David E. Kelley and Kyle Long are set to co-showrun, write and executive produce the series. House of the Dragon‘s Greg Yaitanes will direct multiple episodes of the show.

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The AMC series Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire is coming back for a fourth season. This renewal announcement came during a panel at San Diego Comic-Con. It arrives after season 3 of the show, which was called The Vampire Lestat, ended its run. Season 4 of the series will be known as Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned. A teaser for the upcoming season, which will debut to both AMC and AMC+, has also been released …

Another adaptation of one of Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s books is in the works. Deadline reports that Netflix is adapting his book Happy Old Year into a series. Paiva’s work I’m Still Here was adapted into an Oscar-winning movie by director Walter Salles …

A stage musical adaptation of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is set to make its North American premiere Off Broadway in New York City this fall. The show will premiere at the Public Theater with its first preview on Oct. 8. Its official opening date will be Oct. 21 and it will run until Nov. 15. Dead Outlaw Tony nominee Andrew Durand will star as the titular man who defies the rules of age. The musical is based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story. It won the Olivier Award for best new musical in 2025 …

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The Odyssey continued its journey at the box office this weekend, coming in at #1 again with $87 million in its second week of release.

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic poem has now made $286.4 million domestically and $639.6 million globally. The film stars Matt Damon as Odysseus, alongside a star-studded cast including Anne Hathaway, Himesh Patel, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Zendaya and Charlize Theron.

In at #2 this weekend was the live-action Moana with $10.5 million, followed by Toy Story 5 with $10 million.

The only new releases to crack the top 10 were Hadestown: The Musical at #4 with $9.7 million and Motor City at #9 with $1.6 million.

Here are the top 10 films at the box office:
1. The Odyssey — $87 million
2. Moana — $10.5 million
3. Toy Story 5 — $10 million
4. Hadestown: The Musical — $9.7 million
5. Minions & Monsters — $9.6 million
6. The Invite — $2.64 million
7. Evil Dead Burn — $2.61 million 
8. Young Washington — $1.99 million
9. Motor City — $1.6 million
10. Obsession — $1.5 million

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Black Panther has a new star.

David Jonsson is stepping into the role of the Marvel superhero for Black Panther 3, director Ryan Coogler announced during the studio’s Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con Saturday.

Jonsson will be playing T’Challa’s son Prince T’Challa II, who takes up the mantle of Black Panther from his late father. His character was introduced as a young boy in 2022’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Letitia Wright will be returning as Shuri and Winston Duke will be reprising his role as M’Baku in the third film.

The late Chadwick Boseman played T’Challa/Black Panther in the first Black Panther film in 2018. He died of colon cancer in 2020 at age 43.

Black Panther 3 will arrive in theaters on Dec. 15, 2028.

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Ryan Gosling is officially joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The Project Hail Mary star will play Ghost Rider in a new Marvel Studios film set to hit theaters in 2028, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige announced Saturday during the studio’s Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con.

Shawn Levy, who previously directed Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine, will direct the upcoming film, according to Marvel.

Feige introduced Gosling during the panel, with the actor taking the stage to cheers from the crowd.

“Wow, is this really happening?” Gosling said. “As you know, this is a character I’ve wanted to play for a very long time.”

Gosling then told the audience that “only one director” could bring Ghost Rider to the screen before welcoming Levy to the stage.

Gosling and Levy recently worked together on the upcoming Star Wars: Starfighter, which is set to hit theaters May 28, 2027.

Levy said the two began discussing ideas for Ghost Rider while working together on the Star Wars film.

“As Ryan started talking about his vision for this character, we started riffing,” Levy said. “And I finally said, ‘Bro, let’s ride.’ So guys, we’ll see you in 2028.”

The upcoming film will bring Ghost Rider to the MCU after the character previously appeared on the big screen in two Sony films starring Nicolas Cage.

Cage first portrayed Johnny Blaze, a motorcycle stuntman who becomes the supernatural Ghost Rider, in 2007’s Ghost Rider. He reprised the role in the 2012 sequel, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.

Gosling’s Ghost Rider will mark the character’s first appearance in a Marvel Studios film.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 3 teaser trailer has arrived.

Prime Video released the new trailer for the upcoming third season on Friday. It debuted during a panel at San Diego Comic-Con for the fantasy series.

Appearing on the panel were showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, as well as cast members Benjamin Walker, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Owain Arthur, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Charlie Vickers and Daniel Weyman. Season 3 newcomer Jamie Campbell Bower also participated in the panel.

Season 3 finds Middle-earth at war. “Five years have passed since the fall of Eregion. Sauron’s armies have marched across the whole of the world, conquering all in their path. Only a few isolated pockets stand between the Dark Lord and total victory – Khazad-dûm, where the Dwarves are now sealed deep within their mountain halls, and the elven realms of Lindon and Rivendell, which are protected by their Three Rings,” according to the season’s official description.

“But deep in the land of Mordor, in his newly completed tower of Barad-dûr, the Dark Lord toils day and night, obsessed with harnessing a power that will bring the last of his enemies to their knees: One Ring to rule them all,” the description continues. “Now, all the free peoples of Middle-earth – Dwarves, Elves, Men, and Wizards alike – must find a way to come together, in a race against time to prevent Sauron from achieving his goal of utter domination of all life.”

The panel also revealed that Simon Pegg will take on the voice of the Balrog.

The first four episodes of season 3 are set to premiere on Nov. 11. They are followed by episodes five and six premiering on Nov. 18 and the final two episodes dropping on Nov. 25.

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Sky Yang and Sean Kaufman are taking on a popular book film adaptation.

The actors have joined the cast of the movie adaptation of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, ABC Audio has learned.

They join star Daisy Edgar-Jones, who is set to play Sadie Green in the upcoming Paramount Pictures film adaptation of Gabrielle Zevin’s bestselling novel. Yang will play the role of Sam Masur while Kaufman will take on the character Marx Watanabe.

CODA director Siân Heder will write and direct the upcoming film based on script drafts written by Mark Bomback and Zevin.

The film is a modern love story about two friends who meet during childhood and reunite as adults. Together, they create video games and find intimacy “in digital storytelling that eludes them in their real lives,” according to its official synopsis.

“The relationship explores the intimacy, passion, and heartbreak of creative collaboration, set against the visually groundbreaking worlds brought to life by the rising video game industry of the 1990s-2000s,” the synopsis continues.

Zevin will executive produce while Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausner will produce for Temple Hill.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow spent over a year on The New York Times Best Sellers list. It has sold over 4 million copies worldwide, including 2 million in North America alone.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow will be released in theaters on Nov. 12, 2027.

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The teaser trailer for Blade Runner 2099 has arrived.

Prime Video released the new trailer for its upcoming limited series on Friday. It was first revealed onstage during a panel at San Diego Comic-Con with stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer.

“Fifty years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, Los Angeles has been reborn, just not by humanity. Cora, a fugitive in a final bid to stop running, takes on one last identity: a Blade Runner. Forced to partner with Olwen, a Replicant days from dying, she hunts down a runaway hiding a truth that could collapse their fragile city,” according to an official description of the show.

The trailer finds Schafer’s Cora monologuing about the state of the world.

“We already fought a war. We lost. Replicants. They keep taking it all away. Not much longer until we have nothing. Until we are nothing,” she says.

All of the limited series’ eight episodes are set to premiere on Nov. 25.

Dimitri Abold and Lewis Gribben also serve as series regulars alongside Yeoh and Schafer. Katelyn Rose Downey, Daniel Rigby, Johnny Harris, Amy Lennox, Sheila Atim, Matthew Needham, Tom Burke and Maurizio Lombardi are recurring guest stars on the show.

Silka Luisa serves as showrunner on the series while Ridley Scott, Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson executive produce.

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Chris Anne Affleck, the mother of actors Ben Affleck and Casey Affleck, has died, according to an obituary posted online. The former school teacher was 83.

According to the obituary published this week, Chris Affleck was born in New York City in 1942 and died in early June 2026.

She was given “six months to live” in December 2025, and attended her grandson’s high school graduation prior to her death, according to the remembrance. The obituary does not state her diagnosis or the cause of her death.

ABC News has reached out to representatives for Ben Affleck and Casey Affleck for comment.

The mother of the two Hollywood actors attended Nightingale-Bamford School in New York and “made the most of an elite education while remaining skeptical of the tightly cloistered world it represented,” according to the obituary.

Chris Affleck graduated from Harvard, pursued a career as a public school teacher and taught literacy classes in Mississippi, the obituary said.

Along with her two sons Ben and Casey, she is survived by five grandchildren: Indiana, Violet, Atticus, Fin and Sam.

According to the obituary, Chris Affleck pursued a life of political and social activism, volunteering on the Obama campaign, organizing with Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine and helping found the Sustainable Cape project in Massachusetts.

Ben Affleck famously brought his mother to the Oscars with him in 1998 alongside Matt Damon and his mother.

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The lineup for the 2026 Venice Film Festival has been revealed. Films from directors Martin McDonagh, Florian Zeller, Danny Boyle, Werner Herzog and Lance Oppenheim are all set to open at the festival. Among them are McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine, which stars John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell; Zeller’s Bunker, a psychological thriller starring Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz; Boyle’s Ink, starring Guy Pearce as Rupert Murdoch; and Oppenheim’s Primetime, which comes from A24 …

Speaking of Primetime, the Robert Pattinson-starring film has also received a theatrical release date. The movie is set to debut nationwide on Sept. 25. Its plot follows Pattinson as Chris Hansen, the host of To Catch a Predator, as he made TV history with the show’s premiere in 2006 …

Audiences have been changed for good by Jon M. Chu’s Wicked films. Fans may have another opportunity to witness the story of Elphaba and Glinda, as the film’s official Instagram is teasing a live Wicked concert. “Everyone, we have an announcement,” the post is captioned. Wicked in Concert seems to be a version of the film that includes a live orchestra, and the post teases more information will be “coming soon” …

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