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On Monday morning, Marvel Studios dropped a second trailer to Deadpool & Wolverine, and it’s packed with both Easter Eggs and f-bombs.

Hugh Jackman‘s Logan is seen at a bar when Ryan Reynolds‘ titular motormouth shows up. 

“Hi, Peanut,” he says, referencing Ant-Man’s name for his daughter. “I’m gonna need you to come with me right now.” 

Logan replies, “Look, lady: I’m not interested.” 

After Wade physically tries to pick him up, Logan attempts to deploy his claws, only to suffer a performance issue, as seen in 2016’s Logan. “It’s quite common in Wolverines over 40,” Deadpool quips.

Long story short, in the timeline Wade enters to meet his idol, this version of Logan “let down the entire world,” according to Matthew Macfadyen‘s Paradox, and Logan can’t live with the guilt. 

Deadpool tries to motivate him to jump into his world to save it — but that comes after much, much fighting between the would-be allies.

The pair trade blows against a wasteland decorated with the wreckage of the 20th Century Fox logo — a reference to the studio, and both the Deadpool and Wolverine characters, now being under the umbrella of ABC News’ parent company, Disney.

“I don’t know anything about saving worlds, but you do,” DP implores, as Madonna‘s “Like A Prayer” begins, marking Logan’s change of heart.

“Let’s f****** go,” DP says, echoed by Wolvie, and the pair are seen jumping through a portal together.

Emma Corrin plays the heavy this time around, Cassandra Nova, an extremely powerful mutant and counterpart to her twin brother, Charles Xavier. Wolverine’s metal claws are no threat: She simply uses her powers to puppeteer him. 

“Boys are so silly,” she says.

Deadpool & Wolverine opens July 26.

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Actor Kevin Bacon traveled to Payson High School this weekend, 40 years after starring in the classic film Footloose on the school’s Payson, Utah campus.

Bacon made the trip Saturday after students of the school campaigned on social media for months, in hopes of drawing the actor back to the campus that propelled him to massive fame for their “Everybody Cut Footloose” themed prom.

According to a press release from Bacon’s non-profit, SixDegrees.com, a campaign with the hashtag #BaconToPayson began last fall in an effort to see the star reunited with his fictional campus before the actual campus is demolished in renovations.

“Here we are at this beautiful, beautiful spot on this beautiful, beautiful day,” Bacon began in a speech to a cheering crowd.

“It’s been a long time, it’s been 40 years … that just blows my mind,” he continued, adding, “Things look a little different around here. I’d say the thing that looks the most different is me.”

“You were all just tireless, unrelenting in your desire to have me return,” he said. “I think it’s great to see that kind of commitment to anything. I also think that it’s amazing, the power that this movie has had to just kind of bring people together and connect on the basic ideas that are behind the movie.”

Bacon said some of those themes worth remembering are standing up to authority, and standing up for your right to express yourself.

Bacon’s SixDegrees.com, “supports impactful initiatives to sustain and enrich local communities,” according to the website.

In honor of Bacon’s visit, more than 1,000 volunteers “banded together to assemble and distribute 5,000 Essential Resource Kits to young people in need of resources throughout Utah, Colorado and Nevada,” according to organizers.
 

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Deadline reports Netflix has won a competitive bidding war for the series Calabasas, an adaptation of Via Bleidner‘s book If You Lived Here You’d Be Famous By Now, which Kim Kardashian is executive producing. Calabasas follows Via, a 16-year-old Midwestern girl who’s forced to adapt to the fast-paced, superficial world of Calabasas High after her family moves to Los Angeles …

CBS has axed the sophomore dramedy So Help Me Todd and CSI: Vegas, currently in its third season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. They join Young Sheldon and Bob Hearts Abishola on the network’s cut list, along with Blue Bloods, which is in its final season, but will air its last episodes in the fall. The Equalizer and NCIS: Hawai’i are still waiting to hear their fates …

Meg Bennett, who served as both an actress and writer on the soap operas General Hospital and The Young and the Restless, died April 11 of cancer, her family tells Deadline. She was 75. Bennett began her career in 1975 on Search For Tomorrow, playing the role of Liza Walton on several episodes …

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Civil War held on to the top spot at the domestic box office, despite some tough competition from the horror film Abigail. Civil War earned an estimated $11.1 million, bringing its two-week domestic tally to $44.9 million. The film has snagged $61.7 million globally.

Breathing down Civil War‘s neck was the aforementioned Abigail, with an estimated $10.2 million in North America for a second place finish. A24’s reimagining of the 1936 film Dracula’s Daughter, starring Alisha Weir, added an estimated $5 million overseas, for a global total of $15.2 million.

Godzilla x King Kong: The New Empire finished the weekend in third place, delivering an estimated $9.5 million in its fourth week of release.

Guy Ritchie‘s WWII comedy The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare — starring Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson, Cary Elwes, Henry Golding, and Eiza González — opened with an estimated $9 million at the domestic box office, good for a fourth place finish.

Rounding out the top five was the Japanese anime spy-action comedy Spy x Family Code: White, earning an estimated $4.9 million in its opening weekend in North America. Kung Fu Panda 4 was close behind, grabbing an estimated $4.6 million in its seventh week of release.

Elsewhere, Dune: Part Two 2, already the highest-grossing film of 2024 so far, is nearing $700 million worldwide.

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While Universal Television is officially mum, Variety says Star Wars sequel trilogy star Domhnall Gleeson and Sabrina Impacciatore from HBO’s Emmy-winning The White Lotus have joined the cast of its follow-up to The Office.

The show will feature an ensemble cast as the original did, reports the trade, which also notes it’s not a reboot of the American version of the show — which itself was a reboot of Ricky Gervais‘ English flagship. But it will be set in the same “universe” as the Steve Carell/John Krasinski NBC sitcom.

That show’s producer, Greg Daniels, along with Nathan For You co-creator Michael Koman, are developing the new series, as previously reported.

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John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman and Harvey Keitel reunited on the red carpet for the 30th anniversary celebration of Pulp Fiction in Hollywood.

The anniversary event at the iconic TCL Chinese Theatre was held Thursday as part of the opening night gala for the 15th TCM Classic Film Festival, which runs until Sunday.

Travolta, Jackson, Thurman and Keitel were all special guests for the anniversary presentation of Quentin Tarantino‘s Oscar-winning crime epic.

Travolta and Jackson played hitmen in Pulp Fiction, with Travolta in a comeback — and Oscar-nominated — role as Vincent Vega and Jackson earning a Best Supporting Actor nomination as Jules Winnfield.

Thurman portrayed Mia Wallace, the former actress wife of Ving Rhames‘ crime boss character Marsellus Wallace; Keitel was the fixer Winston Wolf. Bruce Willis played the washed-up boxer Butch Coolidge in the movie, which also starred Christopher Walken, Rosanna Arquette and Eric Stoltz.

On the red carpet, Travolta was talking about the movie’s legacy with reporters when he was surprised by his former Welcome Back, Kotter co-star Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, who played Freddie “Boom Boom” Washington to Travolta’s fellow Sweathog Vinnie Barbarino. The pair hugged and conversed with each other before promising to catch up afterward.

Travolta was on the carpet with his 24-year-old daughter, Ella Bleu Travolta, about whom Hilton-Jacobs commented, “The last time I saw her she was that big,” gesturing as short as his thigh.

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The April 13 episode of Saturday Night Live featured a sketch that has already landed in the history books for one of the longest-ever cast member crack-ups — and now the Beavis and Butt-Head sketch has more than 10.5 million views on YouTube alone.

The bit had Heidi Gardner playing a journalist, asking Kenan Thompson‘s expert about artificial intelligence, when he became distracted by a man seated behind the reporter: Ryan Gosling, dressed and made up to look exactly like Beavis.

Swapping him out for Mikey Day, who was transformed into Butt-Head, didn’t help. 

Gardner’s reaction was priceless — she lost her composure for nearly a minute at the mere sight of Day in his makeup, complete with Butt-Head’s braces and exposed gums. 

However, Thompson smirked but didn’t break.

He tells Variety, “I cracked so hard at dress rehearsal. I haven’t had a break like that in a while where I was in tears and I couldn’t talk.” 

He recalled, “I was frozen. I was literally quivering and then I started to panic … I can’t talk without cry-talking. … It could throw off everything!”

He goes on to call Gosling a “real one” and a “gem” in general, and commends him for pulling his weight during the sketch. “He’s a professional, so he’s playing it very real.”

Gardner recently told Vulture that breaking during the skit left her feeling anxious and unprofessional.

She said, “I tried to tell myself in between dress and the live show, ‘You can’t laugh like that again.’ I was trying to imagine seeing him in my head so I was prepared for it, but I just couldn’t prepare for what I saw. I really tried.”

Luckily, the cast can catch its breath this week: SNL is a rerun.

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On Friday, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the nominees for the 51st annual Daytime Emmy Awards.

Among this year’s nominees were Tamron Hall, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Hudson and Kelly Clarkson for their eponymous chat shows, as well as Whoopi Goldberg and the other ladies of ABC’s The View. And of course, in the Drama category, cast members from classic soaps like The Bold and the Beautiful, General Hospital and Days of Our Lives. 

Incidentally, after winning everything and an Oscar for Oppenheimer, Robert Downey Jr.‘s Max series Downey’s Dream Cars scored a nom in the Lifestyle Programs category.

Projects starring Zooey Deschanel and Selena Gomez — respectively, What Am I Eating? with Zooey Deschanel on Max and Selena + Chef: Home for the Holidays on Food Network — were recognized in the Culinary Programs category.

All of the nominees can be found here. The Daytime Emmy Awards will air June 7 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS Television Network, and stream live and on-demand on Paramount+.

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On Thursday night’s installment of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, he announced he’s taking his show on the road this summer for the first time.

Colbert noted The Late Show will broadcast from Chicago’s “so creatively named” Auditorium Theatre during the week of this year’s Democratic National Convention in the Windy City.

The week of shows will kick off Monday, August 19, and run through Thursday, August 22, on CBS, streaming live and on-demand on Paramount+.

Colbert said Chicago holds “a special place” in his heart, joking, “and it’s not just all the Polish sausages I ate that’s still lodged in my aorta.”

He “cut his teeth” as part of Chicago’s famous second city troupe during his 11-year-stay, Colbert explained.

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Savannah Chrisley is opening up about her life after her parents Todd and Julie Chrisley‘s imprisonment and sharing her hope for their future.

The couple, who became famous for their show Chrisley Knows Best, were sentenced in November 2022 to a combined 19 years in prison on charges including fraud and tax evasion. Todd was sentenced to 12 years in prison and 16 months of probation, while Julie was ordered to serve seven years in prison and 16 months of probation.

Their case is returning to court on Friday as they seek an appeal to review what they consider a court error.

In an interview with Nightline’s Juju Chang, ahead of her parents’ appeal hearing on Friday, Savannah reflected on the moment she bid farewell to Chris and Julie before the pair reported to prison in January 2023.

“Just watched them stand in their bedroom, just hugging and kissing and not knowing,” Savannah recalled.

“You know, at this point, you just hear 12 years, seven years. And that’s a long time to be away from someone that you’ve been together with for 30 years, almost,” she continued.

Since her parents’ imprisonment, Savannah, 26, has been raising her younger family members: her little brother Grayson, 17, and niece Chloe, 11. The latter has been raised by Todd Chrisley and Julie Chrisley due to their son Kyle Chrisley‘s struggles with substance abuse.

Asked whether there was any doubt that she would be the one to take on the responsibilities as their guardian, Savannah replied, “Oh, I think it was just an unspoken thing that we just knew.”

Tune into Nightline at 12:37 a.m. ET for the exclusive interview.

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