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Netflix has released the trailer for the first part of Cobra Kai‘s sixth and final season, and this time, the team has its sights set on Sekai Taikai — “the world championships of karate.”

However, Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence, played respectively by Ralph Macchio and William Zabka, can’t seem to agree on whose method will be the most effective.

Additionally, an old nemesis, John Kreese, played by Karate Kid alum Martin Kove, returns in the trailer as the sensei of a rival dojo who tells his students, “Only through pain does a champion reveal itself.”

Meanwhile, Daniel and Chozen Toguchi — played by Yuji Okumoto — come across a box hidden under the floorboard’s of Myagi Do, the contents of which are not revealed in the trailer.

Cobra Kai season 6, part 1 premieres July 18 on Netflix, with part 2 coming Nov. 28. The third and final part will premiere in 2025.

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Oscar winner Julianne Moore, House of the Dragon‘s Milly Alcock and The White Lotus‘ Meghann Fahy are teaming up for Sirens, an “incisive, sexy limited series” for Netflix.

According to the streamer’s blog, Tudum, the show comes from Molly Smith Metzler, the writer/showrunner of Netflix’s hit show Maid, which was produced by Margot Robbie‘s LuckyChap Entertainment.

Sirens, which is also being produced by LuckyChap, will be based on Metzler’s own Juilliard School play Elemeno Pea.

Netflix teases, “The dark comedy will follow Devon (Fahy), who’s concerned about her sister Simone’s creepy relationship with her new employer, the mysterious socialite and animal activist Michaela Kell (Moore).” Alcock will play Simone.

It continues, “Michaela’s cultish, ultra-luxurious lifestyle is like a drug to Simone and Devon thinks it’s time for an intervention. When Devon tracks her sister down to find out WTF is going on, she underestimates what you’re in for when you have Michaela as an enemy.”

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While he doesn’t specifically get into what went wrong with him, Jamie Foxx recently revealed the circumstances that led to his mysterious hospitalization in 2023.

The Oscar winner was riffing with patrons at a restaurant in Phoenix, Arizona, according to a video posted to social platform X, when he recalled, “Look, April 11 last year, bad headache, asked my boy for an Advil.”

He then snapped his fingers, saying, “I was gone for 20 days. I don’t remember anything.”

He added, “My sister and my daughter took me to the first doctor. They gave me a cortisone shot.”

“The next doctor said, ‘There’s something going on up there,'” the actor continued, pointing at his head — but added, “I won’t say it on camera.”

Jamie’s daughter, Corrinne, took to social media on April 12, 2023, to reveal the actor — then working on the action film Back in Action in Atlanta with Cameron Diaz — had experienced a “medical complication.”

As his hospitalization continued, rumors began to spread about what had happened to him and how serious his condition was.

Back in March, Foxx told his fans he’s “got a story to tell.” While accepting the African American Film Critics Association’s Producer Award around that time, Foxx revealed he was in “dire straits” and will be finally shedding light on exactly what happened to him in a comedy special, according to People.

He made his first public appearance at the Critics Choice Movie Awards in December 2023 and revealed, “I’ve been through some things. You know, it’s crazy I couldn’t do that six months ago, I couldn’t actually walk,” adding it was “almost over” for him.

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Paramount+ has just announced that Richard Gere will be joining fellow Oscar nominees Michael Fassbender and Jeffrey Wright in the political thriller series The Agency.

Oscar winners George Clooney and Grant Heslov, his longtime producing partner, will executive produce through Smokehouse Pictures.

According to Paramount+, the series follows Fassbender’s Martian, “a covert CIA agent, ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites.”

The logline continues, “His career, his real identity and his mission are pitted against his heart; hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.”

Gere will play Bosko, “the London Station Chief with a storied past after serving as an 8-year undercover agent.”

“Richard Gere is in a class of his own, adored by generations of fans worldwide for his exceptional ability to infuse depth and authenticity into every role he plays,” said Chris McCarthy, Paramount Global co-CEO and president/CEO, Showtime & MTV Entertainment Studios, in the announcement. “We are delighted to have him join our extraordinary cast.”

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ABC Audio has confirmed that legendary stage and screen actor Ian McKellen will not be able to take part in the national tour of the production Player Kings as previously thought, following a fall from the stage during a West End run of the play in June.

“Two weeks after my accident onstage, my injuries improve day by day,” McKellen said in a statement. “It’s with the greatest reluctance that I have accepted the medical advice to protect my full recovery by not working in the meantime.”

A rep for the production confirmed McKellen will not return to play Sir John Falstaff in the tour, which runs from July 3 to July 27 in the U.K. “Ian continues to recuperate very well, but he needs the time to rest and ensure a complete recovery. We continue to send him our best wishes,” the statement reads.

“As it was for the final West End performances, the role of Falstaff will now be performed by David Semark, Ian’s brilliant understudy, for all tour dates of Player Kings,” the statement concluded.

McKellen added, “I had been so looking forward to bringing Player Kings to theatre-goers in Bristol, Birmingham, Norwich and Newcastle. But I can assure them that, with David Semark now playing Falstaff, Robert Icke‘s production and his acting company remain as dazzling as ever. Go see for yourself!”

The 85-year-old revealed he spent three nights in the hospital following the mishap at London’s Noël Coward Theatre. He is expected to make a full recovery.

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Vanity Fair just published an extensive first look at the anticipated sequel to Ridley Scott‘s Oscar-winning epic Gladiator II, complete with a dramatic photo of leads Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal going mano a mano in the Colosseum.

Mescal plays Lucius, the now-grown son of Connie Nielsen‘s character, Lucilla, from the first film. The actress reprises in the November release. According to the magazine, in the years since Russell Crowe‘s Maximus gave his life to try to save the Roman republic, Lucilla sent Lucius to the northern coast of Africa, out of the reach of the Roman Empire.

He grows up resenting his mother for it.

Years later, the Romans decimate that region, Numidia, and he is enslaved. “The wrinkle is, when he gets to Rome … and has a first round in the arena, he sees his mother … in the royal box looking pretty good after 20 years. And she’s with the general who he came face-to-face with … in Numidia.”

That general is Pascal’s Marcus Acacius, a brutal general who trained under Crowe’s Maximus.

The arena face-off was intimidating for Pascal in real life. “He got so strong,” Pascal says of Mescal. “I would rather be thrown from a building than have to fight him again.”

The movie also features two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington as a wealthy arms dealer called Macrinus. “[H]e has a stable of gladiators,” Scott says. “He’s beautiful. He drives a golden Ferrari. I got him a gold-plated chariot.”

Scott mined “familiar” ground with today’s politics for his film, thanks to Rome’s sadistic sibling rulers: Joseph Quinn‘s Emperor Geta and Fred Hechinger‘s Emperor Caracalla.

“The people who are in charge are out of their minds, and everyone is too afraid to contradict,” Scott says. “That’s familiar ground right now.”

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For Suits fans — those who don’t subscribe to Peacock, that is — it’s time to do the “Greenback Boogie” once again: The show’s ninth and final season is now on Netflix.

The series, which stars Patrick J. Adams, Gabriel Macht, Sarah Rafferty, and Rick Hoffman among others, originally aired on USA Network from 2011-2019, but became a phenomenon after it debuted on Netflix in 2023, becoming the most streamed show of the year.

Until Monday, July 1, however, the show’s final season was only available on Peacock.

The ninth season of the show does not feature Meghan Markle‘s Rachel Zane — the actress had left the series after season 7 to marry Prince Harry. Adams’ Mike Ross, Rachel’s husband, also left in season 7 as the couple moved to Seattle to start their life together, but he appears as a special guest star in season 9.

The final season also features Amanda Schull, Dulé Hill, and Katherine Heigl as regulars, as the re-re-re-branded law firm Zane Specter Litt Wheeler faces turbulence when one of its namesake partners, Wendell Pierce‘s Robert Zane — Rachel’s dad — sacrifices his career to save that of Macht’s Harvey Specter.

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Martin Mull, the comic, actor and musician best known for roles in Roseanne, Clue, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and many others, has died at age 80, according to his daughter. “I am heartbroken to share that my father passed away at home on June 27th, after a valiant fight against a long illness,” Maggie Mull wrote on her Instagram. His rep, Jennifer Craig, confirmed Mull’s death to ABC News: “Yes this is sadly true.” His pretentious talk show host Barth Gimble in the short-lived, but cult favorite 1977 talk show satire Fernwood 2 Night, with Fred Willard playing his sidekick, introduced Mull and his comedic sensibility to America. Mull also made notable appearances on shows including Arrested Development, Two and a Half Men, Community and Veep. Mull’s memorable film roles included Mr. Mom, as the supercilious boss of Terri Garr‘s character …

Domenic Rains, who plays Dr. Crockett Marcel on the NBC medical drama Chicago Med, is leaving the series after four seasons, according to Deadline. It’s still not known if he’ll reprise his role as a guest star in the show’s upcoming 10th season. Marcel was introduced as a recurring character at the start of season 5, with Rains promoted to a series regular shortly after. He also appeared on the other One Chicago series in crossovers …

Apple TV+ has canceled The Big Door Prize after two seasons, according to TV Line. The comedy centered on “a small town that is forever changed when a mysterious machine appears in the general store, promising to reveal each resident’s true life potential,” according to the streaming service. Bridesmaids‘ Chris O’Dowd and A Black Lady Sketch Show‘s Gabrielle Dennis starred in the series …

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A Quiet Place: Day One debuted with an estimated $53 million — a franchise best, but it wasn’t enough to overtake Pixar’s Inside Out 2, which topped the box office for a third straight week with an estimated $57.4 million. Its domestic tally is now at $469.3 million — the fifth highest animated movie of all time in North America.

Variety reports that globally, Inside Out 2 is the 11th-highest-grossing animated film of all time, and the only film to cross the $1 billion mark so far this year.

Pixar is owned by Disney, the parent company of ABC News.

A Quiet Place: Day One, starring Lupita Nyong’o, settled for second place at the North American box office. It took in $98.5 million worldwide.

Kevin Costner‘s western, Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1, opened in a distant third place, earning an estimated $11 million.

Bad Boys: Ride or Die added an estimated $10.3 million in its fourth week of release, bringing its domestic tally to $165 million. Globally, the fourth Bad Boys movie has grossed $332 million.

Rounding out the top five was the sci-fi flick Kalki 2898 AD, which opened Thursday, June 27. It’s delivered an estimated $11 million over four days and has collected $66 million worldwide.

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Jenna Ushkowitz is about to become a mom to baby #2.

The Glee actress is expecting her second child with husband David Stanley, she announced on Instagram on Friday.

“Baby #2 on the way,” Ushkowitz captioned photos of her showing off her baby bump. “We are pregnant and so excited and grateful. It has been a journey, (I will share more soon) but in the meantime, enjoying this exciting time.”

The actress told People when she first found out she was pregnant again, she did not believe it was real.

“I was actually on vacation in New York visiting my family at the time,” Ushkowitz said. “And when I was packing, I had a Clearblue Early Digital Pregnancy Test in my closet and I was like, ‘Let me just pack it just in case.'”

She ended up packing the pregnancy test in her suitcase, and it was a good thing, too.

“The day before we left the trip, I was like, ‘Something feels very familiar about this feeling and let me just take this test.’ I did. And when pregnant came up, my jaw dropped,” Ushkowitz said. “I was shocked. And then overjoyed, of course.”

Ushkowitz also says her 2-year-old daughter, Emma, understands there’s a baby in her tummy, though she doesn’t quite grasp the entirety of the situation.

“She says, ‘I’m a big girl. I’m a big sister.’ And she understands baby. So to an extent, she knows what’s going on. She’ll figure it out real soon,” Ushkowitz said.

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