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As America approaches its 250th anniversary, 20/20 co-anchor Deborah Roberts and ABC News national correspondent Will Reeve are celebrating the occasion by highlighting some of the nation’s greatest stories, triumphs and innovations in Disney Celebrates America: The Pursuit of Happiness.

Roberts says the special arrives at a time when many Americans are experiencing “so many complicated emotions” about the country.

“We had a chance to think about where this country has been, the diversity of this country, the inventiveness of this country, the difficulties that people have faced in this country so we sort of use that as a backdrop but to highlight so many things about our country,” she tells ABC Audio, mentioning her coverage of the Savannah Bananas, Pan Am flight attendants and more.

She notes the country has a lot to celebrate and reflect on, highlighting it’s beauty, uniqueness and resilience.

“This is a country that has not only been through a lot, we’ve been built through love and sweat and tears and sacrifice, but there’s also a lot to look at and to stand in wonder of,” Roberts says. “There are a lot of moments that are worth celebrating and also moments that are worth…contemplating and wondering…how we might be better and stronger as a country.”

Ultimately, Roberts hopes the special gives viewers a sense of joy.

“There are a lot of people who might be a little conflicted right now because of the politics in this country about how they feel about celebrating,” she says. “I hope people will take away a real feeling of depth and of heart and exploration from this special and also too, of course, just some fun.” 

Disney Celebrates America: The Pursuit of Happiness airs Monday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and streams next day on Disney+ and Hulu, with Roberts hosting from Walt Disney World Resort and Reeve from Disneyland.

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Like the claw machine in the very first movie, Toy Story 5 is keeping its grips tight on the #1 spot at the box office.

According to Box Office Mojo, the fifth installment in the long-running Pixar series added $70 million in its second weekend following its $160 million debut, which marked the best domestic opening for any movie so far in 2026. It’s total domestic gross is now close to $300 million.

Supergirl, however, had a harder time taking off in its debut week. The latest installment in the DC Universe, starring Milly Alcock as the Kara Zor-El, took second place with an opening weekend of $38 million.

The horror sensation Obsession stands at #3 with an extra $9.8 million, bringing its total domestic gross to over $230 million. Jackass: Best and Last, the swan song for Johnny Knoxville and company’s comedy stunt series, debuted at #4 with $8.4 million, while Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi epic Disclosure Day rounded out the top five with $8.1 million.

Here are the top 10 films at the box office:

1. Toy Story 5 — $70 million
2. Supergirl — $38 million
3. Obsession — $9.8 million
4. Jackass: Best and Last — $8.4 million
5. Disclosure Day — $8.1 million
6. Backrooms — $4.3 million
7. Scary Movie — $3 million
8. BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Calamity — $3 million
9. Masters of the Universe — $2.2 million
10. Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu — $1.6 million

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Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour have said goodbye to Hawkins, but they aren’t saying goodbye to working together.

The Stranger Things co-stars are teaming up for a brand-new Netflix series.

Brown and Harbour are set to star in and executive produce an upcoming spy drama show from A24 that has received a straight-to-series order at Netflix. The pair will play father and daughter once again in the new series, which comes from Emmy-winning Adolescence writer Jack Thorne.

The currently untitled thriller follows “disgraced FBI agent turned security expert Matt Wolfe (Harbour)” who “is drawn back into the world he left behind when his estranged daughter, Rebecca (Brown) — now an FBI agent determined to follow in his footsteps — vanishes on a mission, forcing him to return to a field that has evolved beyond him,” according to an official description from the streamer.

“We are delighted to bring this spy drama to life with an extraordinary group of talent we’ve been fortunate to collaborate with before,” Jinny Howe, the Netflix head of scripted series in US and Canada, said. “Jack Thorne’s ability to find the deeply human story inside a thriller is unmatched, and watching Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour reunite — this time as estranged father and daughter on opposite sides of a crisis — is something audiences are going to love. A24 is the perfect partner to bring this story to our members around the world.”

Brown’s husband, Jake Bongiovi, and her father, Robert Brown, will executive produce the show for PCMA Productions.

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The first trailer for Disney’s Descendants: Wicked Wonderland is here.

The next installment in the popular Descendants franchise, which follows the children of Disney heroes and villains, sees the return of Red and Chloe, played by Kylie Cantrall and Malia Baker. The new trailer was released Friday.

This time around, Red and Chloe are forced to deal with the fallout of a changing past and face a new villain named Maddox Hatter, portrayed by Leonardo Nam, as they try to save the Queen of Hearts and Wonderland.

Rita Ora reprises her role as the Queen of Hearts, with Paolo Montalban as King Charming, Melanie Paxson returning as the Fairy Godmother and Brandy as Cinderella.

Wicked Wonderland will also welcome new cast members Liamani Segura as Pink, Red’s younger sister; Brendon Tremblay as Max Hatter, Maddox’s son; and Alexandro Byrd as Luis Madrigal, Luisa Madrigal’s son.

Descendants: Wicked Wonderland premieres on Disney Channel on July 16 and will be available to stream on Disney+ starting July 17.

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Disney+ has given a pilot order to a series based on the 2006 film Aquamarine. Deadline reports the project will be for both Disney+ and Disney Channel and will star one of the original film’s actors, Emma Roberts. She will also produce it. The original film’s director, Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum, is set to return at the helm, with The Bold Type creator Sarah Watson on board to write the pilot. The pilot follows a teenager named Coral who moves to a seaside town and discovers her mother was a mermaid just as magical powers awaken in herself. Disney is the parent company of ABC News … 

Heated Rivalry star François Arnaud is set to make his Broadway debut. The actor will appear in a revival of Richard Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain. Joining Arnaud is Superman actor David Corenswet, who also makes his Broadway debut in the production. Yvonne Strahovski will also appear in the revival, which starts performances in February 2027 …

Michael Gandolfini is the latest actor to join Daniels’ upcoming, untitled event film. Deadline reports Gandolfini joins Matt Damon, Sandra Oh, Sean Kaufman and Charles Melton in the Universal Pictures film. Daniels are the filmmaking duo of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who helmed the best picture-winning movie Everything Everywhere All at Once …

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The Bear is taking its last reservations.

All eight episodes of the Emmy-winning drama’s fifth and final season are now streaming on Hulu. The season takes place over the course of one day in the titular Chicago restaurant, where everything that could possibly go wrong does — and then some. Adding to the pressure is the threat of imminent closure by The Bear’s chief investor, Olivier Platt’s Uncle Jimmy.

“I think it makes so much sense for everybody to throw themselves into this last service, to be existing with these characters in real time. … It amps everything up, you know?” Jeremy Allen White, who plays Carmy Berzatto, told ABC Audio.

“There’s more struggle, there’s more urgency, time is important, stakes rise, and so yeah, I thought structuring the last season this way was just a great, great idea, and ended up being really effective.”

The season also picks up right after Carmy’s season 4 finale decision to leave The Bear in the hands of Sydney, Natalie and Richie. That means Ayo Edebiri [EYE-oh eh-deh-BEE-ree]’s Sydney finds herself in charge in the most stressful of circumstances, before finally breaking down. 

“It’s a lot to get to do inside and have it build,” she told ABC Audio. “And so when it does come out in those physical moments, that’s always really fun for me. I feel like my body is, like, Laffy Taffy.”

As for Ebon [EH-ben] Moss-Bachrach’s front-of-house manager Richie, he refuses to give up and goes overboard in trying to motivate the staff to keep going.

“It is a very aggressive optimism, maybe, I would say,” he laughs. “It feels nice to play someone who has that generosity, who wants to take care of everyone.” 

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We now have our first look at Robert Eggers’ Werwulf.

Focus Features posted the first photo and official description for the upcoming film to Instagram on Thursday. Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as a character called Man in the movie. The photo features him in the forest surrounded by dogs and holding a large spear. 

Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe also make up the film’s cast. All three actors previously worked with Eggers in his film Nosferatu.

Focus Features’ first-look post describes Taylor-Johnson’s Man as “a 13th-century man haunted by his bestial metamorphosis.”

The film’s tagline has also been released. It reads, “Werwulf is a harrowing tale of devotion, damnation, and the devil within.”

Werwulf is set to release on Christmas Day. This is similar to Nosferatu, which released on Christmas Day in 2024.

Nosferatu became Focus Features’ second-highest-grossing movie in the U.S. It made $90.5 million in theaters after its December 2024 release.

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Somebody once told me Donkey is getting his own movie.

DreamWorks Animation has officially announced that a Shrek spinoff film centered on the character of Donkey is headed to movie theaters. It will arrive on big screens on June 30, 2028.

The studio announced the news on Instagram Thursday.

“Start heating up those waffle irons. DONKEY is setting out on his very own adventure June 30, 2028,” the post’s caption reads.

The new movie will be an origin story following how Donkey came to be, according to Deadline, which broke the story. Eddie Murphy will once again voice the animated talking animal.

The Lego Batman Movie‘s Charlie Bean is set to direct Donkey, while Matt Flynn will co-direct. Rebecca Huntley will produce it.

Murphy previously spoke about this upcoming Donkey spinoff in an interview with Screen Rant in July 2025.

“We’re doing a Donkey one, and that’ll [be released] three years from now,” Murphy said at the time. “Donkey‘s going to be like how Puss in Boots had his own movie, Donkey’s going to have his own movie — [his] own little story with his dragon wife and his kids that are half-dragon and half-donkeys. They’ve written this funny story.”

A fifth Shrek film is set to release in theaters a year ahead of the Donkey movie on June 30, 2027.

DreamWorks previously made two other Shrek spinoff films. Puss in Boots was released in 2011, while its sequel, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, debuted in 2022.

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Somebody once told me Donkey is getting his own movie.

DreamWorks Animation has officially announced that a Shrek spinoff film centered on the character of Donkey is headed to movie theaters. It will arrive on big screens on June 30, 2028.

The studio announced the news on Instagram Thursday.

“Start heating up those waffle irons. DONKEY is setting out on his very own adventure June 30, 2028,” the post’s caption reads.

The new movie will be an origin story following how Donkey came to be, according to Deadline, which broke the story. Eddie Murphy will once again voice the animated talking animal.

The Lego Batman Movie‘s Charlie Bean is set to direct Donkey, while Matt Flynn will co-direct. Rebecca Huntley will produce it.

Murphy previously spoke about this upcoming Donkey spinoff in an interview with Screen Rant in July 2025.

“We’re doing a Donkey one, and that’ll [be released] three years from now,” Murphy said at the time. “Donkey‘s going to be like how Puss in Boots had his own movie, Donkey’s going to have his own movie — [his] own little story with his dragon wife and his kids that are half-dragon and half-donkeys. They’ve written this funny story.”

A fifth Shrek film is set to release in theaters a year ahead of the Donkey movie on June 30, 2027.

DreamWorks previously made two other Shrek spinoff films. Puss in Boots was released in 2011, while its sequel, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, debuted in 2022.

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The official trailer for the upcoming Sense and Sensibility film has arrived.

Daisy Edgar-Jones will star as Elinor in the adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel, which arrives to theaters on Oct. 16.

Also starring are Esmé Creed-Miles as Marianne Dashwood, Caitríona Balfe as Mrs. Dashwood, Frank Dillane as John Willoughby, George MacKay as Edward Ferrars, Herbert Nordrum as Colonel Brandon, Bodhi Rae Breathnach as Margaret Dashwood and Fiona Shaw as Mrs. Jennings.

Georgia Oakley directs the movie for Focus Features and Working Title. Bestselling author Diana Reid adapted Austen’s book for the film’s screenplay. This adaptation is “an irresistible new take on Jane Austen’s iconic Sense and Sensibility: a charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood,” according to an official description.

Sense and Sensibility, of course, follows sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. It shows the journey of their love lives, losses and financial uncertainty, all of which they navigate as complete opposites in emotional approach.

The new trailer shows off this take on the classic story, with sisters Elinor and Marianne navigating their lives and considering the possibility of romantic love.

“The man who loves me must burn with it, with all his passions, without the lightest restraint or hesitation,” Creed-Miles’ Marianne says in the trailer.

The trailer ends with Marianne saying, “I think a man ought to be at least artificially passionate or he’d be sincerely dull,” before admitting to her sister, “I require so much.”

The film marks the third Austen adaptation for Focus Features and Working Title after the 2005 Pride & Prejudice film and 2020’s Emma. Sense and Sensibility was previously brought to the screen by Ang Lee in his 1995 film starring Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant.

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