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The upcoming Pete Davidson–Kaley Cuoco rom-com Meet Cute premieres September 21 on Peacock, but we got a sneak peek on Thursday with the debut of the movie’s first trailer. The “timeless New York tale of girl meets boy” follows Sheila and Gary — played respectively by Cuoco and Davidson — who instantly fall in love. However, their perfect first date wasn’t sheer luck. It turns out Sheila has a time machine, and they’ve been falling in love over and over again. Eventually, Sheila’s repeated attempts to make Gary “more perfect” go awry when he notices it’s affecting his life and personality…

Homeland‘s Claire Danes will star opposite Atlanta‘s Zazie Beetz in Steven Soderbergh and Ed Solomon’s limited series for HBO Max, Full Circle. The six-episode series follows the investigation of a botched kidnapping, which uncovers long-held secrets connecting multiple characters and cultures in New York City, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Details of Danes’ and Beetz’s roles have not been revealed…

Hulu has renewed The Handmaid’s Tale for a sixth and final season ahead of its season five premiere, according to Variety. The fifth season, per the streamer, will find Elisabeth Moss‘ June facing consequences for killing Joseph Fiennes’ Commander Waterford while struggling to redefine her identity and purpose. The widowed Serena — played by Yvonne Strahovski — attempts to raise her profile in Toronto as Gilead’s influence creeps into Canada. Bradley Whitford‘s Commander Lawrence will work with Nick and Aunt Lydia — played respectively by Max Minghella and Ann Dowd — as he tries to reform Gilead and rise in power, while June, Luke and Moira — the latter played by Samira Wiley — fight Gilead from a distance as they continue their mission to save and reunite with Hannah, portrayed by Jordana Blake…

Netflix on Thursday dropped the first trailer for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, writer-director Rian Johnson‘s highly anticipated followup to Knives Out. The film has Daniel Craig reprising his role as detective Benoit Blanc, this time traveling to Greece to solve a case with a whole new set of colorful suspects. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery also stars Edward Norton, Kathryn Hahn, Janelle Monáe, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson and Dave Bautista. It premieres December 23 on Netflix and in select theaters on a date to be announced…

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There’s a new Pinocchio in town. Benjamin Evan Ainsworth plays the puppet who becomes a boy in the new Disney+ movie, streaming now.

Ainsworth didn’t want to give too much of the film away, but told ABC Audio some of what’s new this time around, like “new characters…new songs [and] new bits here and there that are really exciting…so you’ve got to tune in to Disney+ to see it.”

What Benjamin didn’t tinker too much with was the voice Dickie Jones created in the 1940 animated Disney film, explaining, “That original is in so many hearts today and that voice is so like iconic, that I think it would be a shame to let it go.” He did, however, “put a little bit of my own energy in there to make it my own, too.”

Pinocchio also stars Tom Hanks as Gepetto, and the 13-year-old British actor says it was awesome working with “such a legend.”

“… One of the first days on set, he came around and said, ‘Hey, Ben, you want to run lines?’ I was like, oh, my gosh, Tom Hanks wants to run lines with me,” he recalls. “So it was one of those moments where it’s just kind of like, Oh, okay, yeah, cool face, yeah, let’s run some lines. And he gave me the nickname Benocchio, and it was his idea to get me this Pinocchio hat to wear on set. And it’s really fun. Really fun moments with him on set.” 

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The fourth stand-alone Thor film, Thor: Love and Thunder, is now streaming on Disney+.

As reported, the launch of the film celebrates Disney+ Day, the annual celebration of the streaming service owned by ABC News’ parent company, Disney.

Written and directed by Oscar winner Taika Waititi, the Marvel Studios movie again stars Chris Hemsworth‘s God of Thunder, as he — and his former flame Dr. Jane Foster, played again by Natalie Portman — do battle against Christian Bale‘s haunted, and haunting, Gorr the God Butcher.

The scarred, pale-faced baddie was shunned by his own god and decides that they all must die by his hand as revenge.

The movie is also available Thursday for purchase on HD digital for those who don’t subscribe to the streaming service.

The movie, which also stars Tessa Thompson, Russell Crowe, Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Pom Klementieff, and Waititi himself, hits Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD formats on September 27.

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As part of Thursday’s streamed Star Trek Day Celebration, Paramount+ released a teaser for the third and final season of its Star Trek: The Next Generation spin-off, Picard.

The snippet shows Gates McFadden‘s Dr. Beverly Crusher apparently in trouble, and Patrick Stewart‘s Jean-Luc Picard gets the Star Trek: The Next Generation band back together to help. Jonathan Frakes‘ William Riker, LeVar Burton‘s Geordi LaForge, Marina Sirtis‘ Deanna Troi and Michael Dorn‘s Worf all appear in the teaser.

“Jean-Luc: Wherever you go, we go,” Riker insists.

“I need a ship,” Picard says.

“We need a ship,” Riker responds.

“I can’t ask you to put yourself in danger,” Picard tells his former first officer. “Since when?” Riker laughs.

As for that ship, they find one in the brand U.S.S. Titan. “Hello, beautiful,” Riker enthuses at the ship.

Fans also discover the ship is helmed by Jeri Ryan‘s Seven of Nine. Picard asks the commander to “do us the honor,” and she calls for the ship’s engines to “engage.”

The streaming service also revealed the show will return February 16, 2023.

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(Note Language) The amount of drama surrounding Olivia Wilde‘s Don’t Worry Darling doesn’t seem to be abating, with weeks to go until its September 23 theatrical bow.

In a Vanity Fair cover story, Wilde again insisted she fired Shia LaBeouf from the film, in a role that eventually went to Harry Styles.

As reported, LaBeouf provided Variety with texts and video messages between him and the director, showing she was apparently eager to continue with him in the part, despite rumored tensions with co-star Florence Pugh.

Wilde insisted to VF the messages were “released out of context.”

“All I’ll say is he was replaced, and there was no going forward with him,” Wilde said.

Further, Wilde addressed reported tensions that story brought about with Pugh, whose apparent concerns about LaBeouf were seemingly dismissed in the communications with Shia. In one message, Wilde told the actor, “I think this might be a bit of a wake-up call for Miss Flo.”

Some pointed to the fact that Pugh has skipped press events discussing the movie as proof there’s bad blood between her and Wilde.

“Florence did the job I hired her to do, and she did it exquisitely,” Wilde offered, explaining Pugh’s absence was due to her shooting the Dune sequel.

Wilde described the swirling attention and reported tension with the lead actress “ironic,” noting the movie explores “how easy it is to strip a woman of power by using other women to judge and shame them.”

Wilde also called rumors she split with Ted Lasso Emmy winner Jason Sudeikis to get with Styles “complete horse****.”

“Our relationship was over long before I met Harry,” Olivia insisted in part. “Like any relationship that ends, it doesn’t end overnight.”

The pair co-parent their children, Otis, 8, and Daisy, 6.

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The life of the legendary Muhammad Ali will be celebrated with a new Broadway musical.

Producers announced Wednesday that the production, simply titled Ali, is now being developed.

“Muhammad has been a muse and continues to be a source of inspiration to so many artists around the world,” Lonnie Ali, who was married to the iconic athlete for 30 years, said in a statement. “I’m so proud to support this project and am thrilled to see his story brought to life on the Broadway stage.”

After winning a gold medal in boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Ali made history as the only boxer to win the heavyweight championship three different times. In 1999, Sports Illustrated named him Sportsman of the Century.

Muhammad was also a United Nations Messenger of Peace, and he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005.

Born Cassius Clay in Louisville, Kentucky, he portrayed himself in the 1977 biopic The Greatest. In 2001, Will Smith starred as the revered boxer in Ali.

After living with from Parkinson’s syndrome, Ali passed away in 2016. He was 74 years old.

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It’s the beginning of the end for The Good Fight. The Paramount+ legal drama debuts its final season today.

Christine Baranski has been in this universe for over a decade — first with The Good Wife, and then in all six seasons of The Good Fight, playing the fierce and talented lawyer Diane Lockhart.

Baranski says her time on The Good Fight — which consistently satirized American politics, starting with Donald Trump‘s presidential win — was amazing, explaining to ABC Audio, “What we did was something very original and sometimes outrageous and then sometimes so nuanced…I think it will go down as the best show of our times in terms of reflecting what was going on in these crazy six years.”

The show’s co-creator, Robert King, agrees, noting that he and his wife, Michelle, poured all of their feelings about politics into the show, and with the show ending there will be a void in his life.

“It is going to be very frustrating to not be able, because your instinct, when you see something that outrages you, or ‘Oh my God, that is the stupidest thing, let’s satirize it,'” he says. “Your first instinct is write it. Now we’ll be like, okay, let’s tell our daughter, let’s get her on the phone. We’ll do a little one-act for her of this.”

Michelle seconds that, sharing, “We will react. We just won’t have a TV show to react with.”

As for what can we expect from The Good Fight‘s final season, Robert says, “I think our sense was always that this was going to end with some kind of explosion, because our main title is about explosions…So to honor that does not mean everybody lives on a farm somewhere and starts growing alfalfa.”

(Trailer contains uncensored profanity.)

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Zach Cregger, veteran of The Whitest Kids You Know, stepped behind the camera for the first time as the writer and director for the new horror film Barbarian, and he tells ABC Audio the response to the nightmare-inducing film has been “a dream.”

In the movie, which debuts in theaters Friday, Georgina Campbell plays a young woman who finds her rental home has been doubled booked — and the red flags keep piling up from there.

Bill Skarsgård, who played Pennywise the Clown in the It movies, and Justin Long also star.

The movie is already being hailed as a “horror classic” and “brilliant” by critics, scoring a 94% from the aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

Moviegoers who caught a sneak peek two weeks ago were similarly blown away but vowed online not to spoil the film.

“It’s a dream,” Cregger enthuses. “I mean, it has been universally positive. People are talking about the movie in the way that I maybe in my heart of hearts hoped that they would. And I’m just I’m so excited for the world to be able to watch it.”

Cregger directed the movie but left the creepy coming attraction to the folks at 20th Century Studios, which was for the best, he jokes: “The trailer I would have cut together would not have been as good.”

The filmmaker teases, “It doesn’t spoil the movie. A lot of people think it does.”

“I can promise you it does not … you just can’t predict it from the trailer, I promise!” Cregger vows.

He also adds, “This is the perfect movie for a theater. It’s a roller-coaster ride. And you don’t want to watch a roller-coaster ride on your phone. You want to go to the theme park, and you want to get on the ride, you know?”

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In a brief announcement on the Royal Family’s official Twitter, it was confirmed that Queen Elizabeth II has died at age 96.

The longest-reigning monarch in British history, “died peacefully” Thursday at her summer home, Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

In her 70 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II had a ringside seat to history, and as such, has been portrayed on the big and small screen many times during her reign.

In fact, since taking the throne at age 27, the monarch had been immortalized onscreen countless times, according to IMDB, and has appeared as herself in more than 270 productions.

Queen Elizabeth II was portrayed by performers in projects ranging from serious based-on-real life dramas like the Oscar-winning 2010 film The King’s Speech, and 2006’s The Queen, but she’s also been played for laughs, with appearances in 1988’s The Naked Gun and 2002’s Austin Powers in Goldmember.

Freya Wilson played a fiery young queen-to-be in The King’s Speech.

Helen Mirren won an Oscar for playing the monarch in The Queen.

In the two comedies, the queen was portrayed by lookalike Jeannette Charles.

That said, the queen, herself, had shown a sense of humor over her reign, like when she took part in a skit at the open of the 2012 Olympics in London, alongside Daniel Craig in character as 007. A stand-in for the queen parachuted out of a helicopter along with the super spy to kick off the games.

Elizabeth II was also portrayed in her teen years in 2015’s A Royal Night Out. That film dramatized a legendary true story of the queen-to-be, who had been a truck mechanic and driver for a women’s branch of the British Army during WWII, secretly partying amongst the commoners on VE Day. Sarah Gadon played the celebrating royal in that production.

Most recently, Netflix’s Emmy-winning royal family drama The Crown has seen Elizabeth taking the spotlight, portrayed respectively by actresses Claire Foy and Olivia Colman.

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A rep for Oscar winner Nicolas Cage and his fifth wife, Riko Shibata, tells People the pair has welcomed a new baby girl.

August Francesca is the third child for the 58-year-old Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent star, and the first for 27-year-old Shibata, who Cage married in February of 2021.

“Mother and daughter are doing fine,” a rep tells the magazine.

Cage has two other children: 31-year-old Weston, 31, with ex-girlfriend Christina Fulton and 16-year-old Kal-El, with ex-wife Alice Kim.

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