In a new post on social platform X narrated in character by Daniel Craig‘s Benoit Blanc, director Rian Johnson announced the title of his third Knives Out mystery: Wake Up Dead Man.
In the animated spot, the tease for the follow-up to 2019’s Knives Out and 2022’s Glass Onion has Craig drawling, “In the beginning, the knives came out. Then behold, the glass was shattered. But my most dangerous case yet is about to be revealed.”
Like the sequel, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery will debut on Netflix in 2025.
Pour one out Friday for Kabosu, arguably the most famous dog on the Internet.
The “doge” has died at 18.
The rescued Shiba Inu not only became a meme star thanks to her suspicious expression, but a meme unto herself when the former shelter dog became the face of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin.
The dog’s owner, Atsuko Sato, posted on social media Friday that her famous four-legged friend had “crossed the rainbow bridge” at her home in Sakura, Japan. In a poetic blog post, Sato noted, “While being stroked by me/Like sleep/[She] passed away softly.”
According to the crypto site Coinjournal, Dogecoin’s price fell over 5% to $0.1535 following the news of the dog’s death.
The coin’s official X account noted in part, “The impact this one dog has made across the world is immeasurable. She was a being who knew only happiness and limitless love. Please keep her spirit and her family in your heart, and most importantly carry her with you as your story continues – we are all fortunate for hers to have touched and shaped ours.”
A farewell party for the pooch is scheduled for May 26 in Narita City, Japan.
In 2021, Kabosu’s image on an NFT sold for $4 million, a record for a meme-based non-fungible token.
Paramount+ has tapped Patrick Gibson, Christian Slater and Molly Brown to lead its Dexter prequel series, Dexter: Original Sin, which tells the origin story of Michael C. Hall’s serial killer. Gibson will play Dexter Morgan. Slater and Brown will play Harry Morgan, Dexter’s adoptive father, and Debra Morgan, Dexter’s sister, respectively. Dexter: Original Sin is the second series in the Dexter universe, following Showtime’s 2021 sequel series Dexter: New Blood, which picked up 10 years after the events of the original series finale …
The CW has given a second season renewal to its crime-solving procedural Wild Cards. The series stars Grey’s Anatomy’s Giacomo Gianniotti and Riverdale‘s Vanessa Morgan as a demoted detective and career scammer, respectively, who use their unique skills to fight crime. “Wild Cards has clearly captured the imagination of our viewers thanks to exhilarating storytelling and the crackling chemistry between Vanessa and Giacomo,” The CW Network’s Liz Wise Lyall said in a statement. “We are confident Wild Cards is the kind of smart and sexy blue-sky drama that could continually build its audience for years” …
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced Entertainment Tonight anchors Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner as hosts of the 51st Daytime Emmy Awards, airing live from Los Angeles June 7 on CBS. Frazier and Turner previously hosted the Daytime Emmys in 2022 and 2023 and are among this year’s nominees in the Daytime Personality – Daily category. The full list of nominees can be viewed on the Emmys website …
Chris Hemsworth received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, and Robert Downey Jr. was on hand to represent their Avengers co-stars, whom he asked for a three-word response to the question, “What is Chris Hemsworth,” according to Variety.
Jeremy Renner, who played Hawkeye in the Marvel films, joked, “Absurdly, annoyingly amazing.”
Mark Ruffalo, whose Hulk character was paired with Hemsworth for 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok, referenced one of the film’s famous lines: “Friend from work.”
Black Widow actress Scarlett Johansson quipped that Hemsworth was a “sensitive leading lady.”
Finally, Chris Evans, who played Captain America, sarcastically remarked, “Second best Chris.”
Downey completed the responses by saying, “I’ll bring it to the here and now: There is no one who deserves it more. He is ‘Hollywood star recipient.'”
After joking, “I wrote all of my comments myself, which is why they are going to be quite insightful and brilliant,” the actor turned serious.
“Beyond the cape and the hammer is a contagious Aussie charm. You are a remarkable human being. You are a legend,” he began. “Chris is a bit daunting to describe. He’s very elusive because of the pretty packaging. However, upon further inspection … down under … he has a true wit and depth of soul and it has been my sincere pleasure to know you. You keep us Hollywood folk on our toes because you’re just a real deal.”
Hemsworth tells Variety he thought he was receiving the honor in 2019, when the Avengers stars put their handprints in cement outside Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theatre.
“I thought that was the Walk of Fame! … I thought, ‘Oh cool, I’m getting a star,’” Hemsworth said. “And someone told me, ‘No, that’s not what this is.’”
(NOTE LANGUAGE) The mighty Thor nearly met his match on First We Feast’s hit series Hot Ones.
Chris Hemsworthtook his seat with host Sean Evans, and although he began with saying “I like my spice,” he struggled toward the end of the Gauntlet of Death of sauces.
In between, as is tradition, he answered a series of questions — though the last few were peppered, pun intended, with the action hero having some trouble with the heat.
Of his new movie Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Hemsworth compared his character, Dementus, with playing Thor, explaining, “There’s a certain amount of restrictions, expectations to play a hero … to play a villain is fun. The shackles are off.”
The third sauce was manageable, though he added his earlier nonchalance was “going to bite me in the a** — literally.”
At the halfway point, Hemsworth started popping the tops off the bottles and pouring more of the hot stuff on, but the cracks started showing toward the end.
After tasting a sauce called Da Bomb, with 135,600 Scoville heat units, Hemsworth told Evans, “I don’t wanna play anymore” and reached for the milk for the first time to try to cut the heat.
He even gargled with it, admitting, “I’m scared.” He then started slamming ice water — and crunching the ice — to no avail.
The set medic brought him a bowl of what appeared to be either sour cream or ice cream to douse the flames, and he kept spooning it into his mouth for the remainder.
Hemsworth soldiered on through the next sauce — 700,000 heat units’ worth — saying, “It’s like being sunburned, then sunburned again.” He struggled to answer his remaining questions.
Before biting his last wing, he told Evans, “I love you, goodbye,” and took a bite, ultimately besting the Gauntlet.
Even though she grew up a Jehovah’s Witness and doesn’t celebrate Christmas, Quinta Brunson has the perfect holiday gift in mind for herself.
The Emmy-winning creator, writer and star of Abbott Elementaryrevealed on The Drew Barrymore Show Wednesday that she wants to ghostwrite one of those Hallmark Channel Christmas movies.
“My TV doesn’t leave that channel during Christmastime,” she told Drew. “Neither me or my husband celebrate Christmas, but I love them so much and I really want to ghostwrite one.”
The revelation left Barrymore’s mouth open in surprise, but Quinta’s expression showed she wasn’t playing.
She added that if she gets her wish, you might not even know it. “It’s gonna be under a fake pen name. It won’t be me so you guys don’t know, because I don’t want you to be biased.”
She added, “I want you to just enjoy the movie — or not enjoy it — the same way you do the other ones.”
Quinta added, “I think I’d be good at it. I hope they let me.”
The Hallmark Channel aired more than 40 new holiday-themed movies last season, and not every one centered on a career woman who doesn’t have time for the holidays, but nonetheless finds the Christmas spirit after being stranded in a small town.
AMC has dropped a behind-the-scenes tease at the upcoming second season of its hit spin-off, The Walking Dead: Dead City.
The series teamed up Lauren Cohan‘s Maggie with Jeffrey Dean Morgan‘s Negan — the man who murdered her husband, Glenn — to rescue her son, Hershel, from one of Negan’s former goons-turned-warlord in a zombie-ravaged New York City.
The sneak peek doesn’t reveal much — it’s mostly the cast members mugging, some quick shots of stunts and, of course, plenty of undead. But the network also released a logline for the show, which will return in 2025 on AMC and AMC+.
“In season two, in the growing war for control of Manhattan, Maggie and Negan find themselves trapped on opposite sides,” AMC says. “As their paths intertwine, they come to see that the way out for both is more complicated and harrowing than they ever imagined.”
Morgan and Cohan not only return in front of the cameras, but behind it for the sophomore frame, serving again as executive producers along with Scott M. Gimple, chief content officer of The Walking Dead universe.
Steven Spielberg will once again team up with Universal Pictures for an as-yet-untitled project that the studio just teased only as an “event” picture slated for May 15, 2026.
According to Deadline, the project will have the Oscar-winning director partnering up again with his frequent collaborator David Koepp, the guy behind the keyboard for 1993’s Jurassic Park and its 1997 sequel; 2005’s War of the Worlds; and 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
The trade points out the pair’s previous collaborations have netted north of $3 billion at the box office.
Incidentally, Uni’s new 2026 slate shows Spielberg’s mysterious project sandwiched between a sequel to the global blockbuster Super Mario Bros. Movie, slated for April 3, 2026, and another secret project.
The untitled entry from The Daniels — Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the Oscar winners behind Everything Everywhere All at Once — is scheduled to debut June 12, 2026.
Winona Ryder, as a now-adult Lydia Deetz, personally introduces the brand-new trailer to the anticipated sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
“Here’s a preview,” she says, wearing a goth black dress and matching bangs. “Be warned. It’s intense.”
Opening with the first few words of a choral version of Harry Belafonte‘s “Day-O: The Banana Song,” the trailer opens at the funeral of Lydia’s dad, played by Jeffrey Jones in the original.
“Death is hard,” Lydia consoles her daughter, Astrid, played by Jenna Ortega. “Sometimes I think life is harder,” she replies.
The score turns ominous, with Astrid exploring the attic seen in the first film. Her mom warns in voice-over, “When I was a teenager, a trickster demon terrorized my entire family, and tried to force me to marry him. I believe he was gone forever until you found this in the attic.”
Lydia’s referring to a leaflet advertising the services of a “bio-exorcist” — Michael Keaton‘s “Ghost with the Most.”
“Ew, who’s Beetlejuice?” Astrid asks.
“Don’t ever say that name!” Lydia warns, to which the defiant teen replies by repeating it.
“If you say his name three times he will appear,” her mom insists.
Sure enough, she does, and he does. “The Juice is loose,” he enthuses.
In spite of their history, Beetlejuice and Lydia appear to team up, blowing a hole through the barrier between the crazy characters from the world of the undead and those still breathing.
“The living, the dead. Can they co-exist? That’s what we’re here to find out,” Lydia says.
Also glimpsed in the trailer are Beetlejuice veteran Catherine O’Hara and franchise newcomers Monica Bellucci — who’s apparently the only entity who can scare Keaton’s character — as well as Willem Dafoe, and Justin Theroux.
The official trailer for Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F is here, and Eddie Murphy again brings the laughs — and the action.
Plot details are scarce, but the trailer shows that once again Foley uncovers something big going down in the exclusive ZIP code, and has to rely on new and old friends to bring it to light.
The trailer features Axel chasing down perps in a helicopter, a snowplow and a moving truck, crashing them, in order, into a golf course, countless cars and even the front door of a bad guy’s mansion.
The last one was intentional.
At one point in the tease, Axel is put in the back of a tiny cop car. “This is very embarrassing. Part of me’d rather get locked up than get put in this little Fisher-Price looking squad car,” he quips. “Y’all are the LEGO cops.”
Axel is teaming up with a new partner this time: Detective Bobby Abbott, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Abbott references the old Beverly Hills Cop movies, noting that Axel was in the 90210 in 1984, 1987 and 1994 — the release years for the other films — but that he hasn’t been there in 30 years.
“This place has changed a bit,” Abbott tells Axel.
However, some familiar faces appear in the fourquel, including Judge Reinhold and John Ashton as, respectively, former Detectives Billy Rosewood and John Taggart, as well as returning players Bronson Pinchot and Paul Reiser, who respectively reprise as Serge and Detective Jeffrey Friedman.
Kevin Bacon also joins the cast as Captain Grant, as well as Taylour Paige as Foley’s estranged daughter Jane, the latter of whom won’t even take his one phone call after getting locked up.
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, directed by Mark Molloy, begins streaming July 3 on Netflix.
