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Netflix’s smash Wednesday is getting a doll makeover, with Mattel paying tribute to Jenna Ortega‘s title character and her spooky friends at Nevermore Academy.

The Wednesday Addams Collection not only includes toys from its younger-skewing Little People line from Fisher Price, but also new dolls in its Monster High collection of Wednesday and Emma Myers‘ Enid.

“Inspired by the characters from the show, these ghoulishly gorgeous dolls and miniaturized figurines will have fans channeling their inner macabre as they listen to ‘Goo Goo Muck’ while playing out adventures and recreating favorite scenes from the iconic TV series,” the ad copy reads.

The second season of Wednesday will debut on Netflix in 2025.

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Travis Kelce‘s Hollywood career is taking off, with possibly two new roles, including one the Happy Gilmore superfan made no bones about begging to get. 

The host of the forthcoming Prime Video game show Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? came up when Adam Sandler appeared Tuesday evening on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. 

“We have something nice for Travis. He’s going to come by,” Sandler said of avid golfer and NFL star Kelce’s participation in the anticipated Happy Gilmore 2. 

Adam also said of Travis, “What a big, handsome guy — and funny and cool as hell.”

On the New Heights podcast back in May, Kelce said he’d do “anything” to be in the Gilmore sequel, including being a “f****** extra.” 

Sandler has employed his sports heroes in the past: former NFL stars like Michael Irvin in 2005’s The Longest Yard, NBA legends Shaquille O’Neal in 2012’s Grown Up 2, Kevin Garnett in 2019’s Uncut Gems, and a handful of ballers in 2022’s Hustle, including Juancho Hernangómez.

As reported, Travis will make his acting debut in Ryan Murphy’s TV series Grotesquerie, and according to Variety, he’s in talks to star in the action flick Loose Cannons from John Wick series director Chad Stahelski and his stunt-centric 87Eleven Entertainment banner.

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Julianne Moore stars in the teaser trailer for The Room Next Door, Pedro Almodóvar‘s first-ever English language film. Tilda Swinton costars in the Sony Pictures Classics film that will make its debut at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 2 and open in theaters on Dec. 20. The story follows Moore’s Ingrid and Swinton’s Martha, women who were close friends while they worked together at a magazine, but have fallen apart as time has gone on. “After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation,” the film’s official description reads …

Ilana Glazer is set for a new comedy special. The comedian’s new special, called Human Magic, is coming to Hulu. There is currently no release date, though the special was taped in Toronto in May 2024 during Glazer’s 48-city tour across North America. It marks their second stand-up special after 2020’s Ilana Glazer: The Planet is Burning, which is available to stream on Prime Video …

Timothy Olyphant is teaming up with Owen Wilson for a new series at Apple TV+. The untitled golf comedy series, which was picked up for 10 episodes back in March 2024, also stars Peter Dager, Marc Maron, Mariana Treviño, Lilli Kay and Judy Greer. Variety reports Olyphant joins the cast as a guest star, playing a successful former golf pro …

Sophie Turner is headed back to our TV screens. She stars in the trailer for the upcoming CW series Joan as the titular single mother. The series, which marks Turner’s first onscreen role in two years, premieres Oct. 2 …

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Justin Baldoni‘s It Ends With Us has reached a major milestone.

The romantic drama passed $100 million at the domestic box office on Tuesday, after only its 11th day of release.

This makes it the top-grossing movie of Baldoni’s career. It’s also close to being star Blake Lively‘s highest-grossing live-action movie at the domestic box office — It Ends With Us just needs to pass 2011’s Green Lantern, which earned $116.6 million, to achieve that marker.

Speaking of It Ends With Us, star Brandon Sklenar took to social media to defend the book’s author, Colleen Hoover, and “the women of this cast” amid online rumors and backlash about the film during the lead-up to its release. In a post Sklenar shared to Instagram on Tuesday, he addressed “all this stuff swirling online.”

“Colleen and the women of this cast stand for hope, perseverance, and for women choosing a better life for themselves. Vilifying the women who put so much of their heart and soul into making this film because they believe so strongly in its message seems counterproductive and detracts from what this film is about,” Sklenar wrote.

“It is, in fact, the opposite of the point … What may or may not have happened behind the scenes does not and hopefully should not detract from what our intentions were in making this film,” Sklenar continued. “It’s been disheartening to see the amount of negativity being projected online.”

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Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce from husband Ben Affleck on Tuesday after two years of marriage, according to legal documents obtained by ABC News.

The Hollywood power couple married in July 2022 in Las Vegas. Lopez announced their marriage on her website, sharing at the time, “We did it. Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out love is patient. Twenty years patient.”

The next month, the couple celebrated their nuptials at a second wedding ceremony in Georgia.

In 2003, the couple was engaged to be married but postponed their nuptials and ultimately went their separate ways.

Affleck went on to marry Jennifer Garner in 2005; they announced their separation in 2015 and finalized their divorce in 2018. The exes share three children: Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12.

Lopez married her third husband, singer Marc Anthony, in 2004; they announced their split in 2011 after seven years of marriage. The former couple shares 16-year-old twins Max and Emme.

Following Lopez’s breakup with her ex-fiancé Alex Rodriguez in 2021, Lopez and Affleck rekindled their relationship.

Lopez told People in 2022, “It’s a beautiful love story that we got a second chance.”

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Emily In Paris had a magnifique debut on Netflix: According to the streaming service, the show starring Lily Collins and Ashley Park kicked off its fourth season with 19.9 million viewers; the first five episodes of the fourth season topped the streamer’s English language TV list for the week of Aug. 12 through Aug. 15 with 56,500,000 hours viewed. 

The remaining five episodes of season 4 drop on Sept. 12. 

On the movie side, Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry‘s action flick The Union topped the streamer’s English language films chart. The feature, which also stars J.K. Simmons, had more than 33,100,000 views since its debut on Aug.16. 

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Netflix has debuted a teaser to Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, producer Ryan Murphy‘s follow-up to his Emmy-winning DAHMER Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.

The tease starts with a simple title card to set up the story, as a car pulls up to a mansion: “On August 20, 1989, Lyle and Erik Menendez murdered their parents.”

The title characters are shown from behind striding toward the home, then entering it, with one of them holding a shotgun. As it fades, there’s the sound of a rifle being racked and a pair of gunshots.

The tease also revealed the premiere date: Sept. 19.

Newcomers Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch portray Lyle and Erik Menendez; their parents, unseen in the teaser, are portrayed by Javier Bardem (Jose) and Chloë Sevigny (Kitty).

Nathan Lane also stars as investigative journalist Dominick Dunne, who covered the trials for Vanity Fair.

In real life, the brothers were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

DAHMER reached 1 billion view hours in its first 60 days on Netflix, making it only one of four series to achieve the milestone. The series went on to earn multiple awards, including a Best Actor trophy for lead Evan Peters and a Best Supporting Actress Emmy for Niecy Nash-Betts.

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Patrick J. Adams, who played Mike Ross on the streaming smash Suits, is suiting up to join the Yellowstone universe. 

Adams has joined The Madison, the spin-off from series creator Taylor Sheridan that will star Michelle Pfeiffer.

Producers MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios also just announced that Elle Chapman, Beau Garrett and Amiah Miller have joined the cast of the show, which is described as “a heartfelt study of grief and human connection following a New York City family in the Madison River valley of central Montana.”

Adams will play Russell McIntosh, “a young investment banker who has followed the life path set before him from the start.” 

Chapman will play Paige McIntosh, “a somewhat self-centered woman who indulges in a luxurious New York lifestyle provided by her parents and investment banker husband.”

Garrett will play Abigail Reese, “a resilient and sardonic New Yorker, who is a recently divorced mother of two,” and Miller will play Abigail’s eldest daughter, Bridgette.

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Ryan Reynolds paid tribute to his Deadpool franchise co-star Rob Delaney and memorialized Delaney’s late son, Henry, in an emotional Instagram post Monday.

Delaney played Peter, initially the only non-superpowered member of Deadpool’s very short-lived superhero team X-Force, beginning with 2018’s Deadpool 2. 

“There’s more to @robdelaney than some realize,” Reynolds wrote. “He’s one of the most subversively funny people I know. He’s a beautiful, acerbic and vulnerable writer. If you stayed through the credits of Deadpool & Wolverine, you might notice a credit saying, ‘For Henry Delaney’. Henry is Rob’s son. And Rob lost his little boy to a brain tumor in 2018. Right as we finished Deadpool 2.”

Reynolds wrote, “I’ve always kicked my own a** because I didn’t place a tribute to Henry over the end credits of DP2. If there’s a bright side, even more people are seeing Henry’s name in the credits of Deadpool & Wolverine. And at long last, father and son are sharing the same screen.”

Reynolds says Delaney “has a vivid perspective on unimaginable grief. And he takes an unfiltered, rage-ful [sic] loving, sad and hilarious (yes, HILARIOUS) look at grief through his book, A HEART THAT WORKS,” Ryan says, calling it “an incredible piece of writing which explores the kaleidoscopic colours of emotion Henry’s passing revealed.”

Reynolds concluded, “I’m lucky to know Rob. And I’m lucky to have friends willing to put themselves on the line to make others feel less alone.”

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt‘s daughter has officially been granted a name change.

On Monday, the former couple’s 18-year-old daughter dropped Pitt’s surname and changed her name to Shiloh Nouvel Jolie. Until the switch, her name was Shiloh Jolie-Pitt.

Shiloh, who turned 18 on May 27, filed paperwork to legally remove “Pitt” from her name on May 30, according to court documents.

The reasons behind her decision to change her name remain undisclosed.

ABC News has reached out to Pitt’s representatives for comment.

In July, Shiloh issued a legal notice in the Los Angeles Times for several weeks stating that she proposed a name change from Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt to Shiloh Nouvel Jolie.

The legal notice was to comply with California law, which requires those petitioning to change their last name to show cause in a newspaper at least four weeks in a row before the court date to avoid a delay in the process.

Shiloh’s name change comes eight years after Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in 2016. They were reportedly declared legally single in 2019 by a judge, but their divorce has yet to be finalized. They are also parents to Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, and 16-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.

Over the years, the actors have been embroiled in legal battles over custody of their children and disagreements related to their shared business interests and properties, including a French winery.

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