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Adam Sandler is an astronaut in his next film.

The actor takes on a dramatic role in the upcoming movie Spaceman. In an official first look video for the movie, Sandler is seen in a spacesuit, walking through a forest.

“Just like you, I fled my planet,” he says in the clip. “Through galaxies, through black holes, through time. And then I found … you.”

According to the logline, Spaceman follows an astronaut who “finds his earthly life falling to pieces” as he is “sent to the edge of the galaxy to collect mysterious ancient dust.”

“He turns to the only voice who can help him try to put it back together,” the logline continues. “It just so happens to belong to a creature from the beginning of time lurking in the shadows of his ship.”

The film is based on the novel Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař. The movie is directed by Johan Renck, with a screenplay by Colby Day.

Spaceman will be available to stream on Netflix on March 1.

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Hannah Waddingham knows you miss Ted Lasso — so does she.

The Emmy-winning actress joined Good Morning America on Tuesday to discuss her holiday special on Apple TV+, and reacted to hopes for a spinoff of the soccer-centric series focused on her and co-star Juno Temple‘s characters, besties Rebecca Welton and Keeley Jones.

“If I told you that, I’d have to kill you,” Waddingham replied in her best Rebecca voice.

“Actually, in all seriousness, I don’t know. I would love there to be a world in which we can dip in and out and see them over time,” she said. “If you guys are mourning Ted Lasso, trust me, the cast are mourning it more.”

Luckily, the cast is everywhere these days, and they seem to quite enjoy each other’s company. Just last month, Waddingham teamed up with co-star Jason Sudeikis for a duet of “Shallow” at a charity event.

Waddingham told GMA the moment was “actually an accident” and a last-minute change after they realized the song they were originally going to sing wasn’t going to work, saying, “It was too low for me, too high for him.”

Despite realizing this just days before the event and taking to the stage with little to no rehearsal, the duo wowed the crowd.

Now fans can watch the West End star delivering holiday cheer in Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas. It was filmed at the London Coliseum where, as an 8-year-old, she watched her mother perform as an opera singer. Now her own daughter, also 8, is watching her on the very same stage.

For Waddingham, the experience “was the weirdest kind of serendipity.”

Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas is now streaming on Apple TV+.

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Kristen Stewart falls for a female bodybuilder in the official trailer for Love Lies Bleeding.

From A24, the film follows a gym manager named Lou (Stewart) and her relationship with Jackie (Katy M. O’Brian), a bodybuilder who gets pulled into the violent web of Lou’s criminal family.

Ed Harris co-stars as Lou’s father, who we see slinging guns and sporting a chaotic hairstyle in this new trailer. He’s being pursued by the FBI and seems to bring trouble to Lou and her new love.

“I’m gonna tell them everything you did,” Stewart’s Lou says to her father.

“Are you threatening me?” he responds.

Dave Franco, Jena Malone and Anna Baryshnikov also star in the electric love story.

Love Lies Bleeding will screen at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in January before releasing in theaters on March 8.

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Keep your lords locked up, because the ladies of The Buccaneers are coming back for another season.

Apple TV+ has announced it renewed the drama series for season 2, less than one week after the season 1 finale.

The period drama follows “a group of fun-loving young American girls [who] explode into the tightly corseted London season of the 1870s, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash as the land of the stiff upper lip is infiltrated by a refreshing disregard for centuries of tradition,” its official synopsis reads.

Kristine Frøseth, Alisha Boe, Josie Totah, Aubri Ibrag and Imogen Waterhouse starred in season 1, which was written by series creator Katherine Jakeways and based on Edith Warton’s final novel.

“It’s been a complete thrill to watch people all over the world fall in love with these characters, who’ve been brought to such vibrant life by our spectacular cast,” Jakeways said. “We know season one left audiences desperate to know what’s next for our buccaneers, so I’m absolutely delighted to have the opportunity to explore the further adventures of this smart, joyful, messy sisterhood.”

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Jack Black won a Children and Family Emmy Award for outstanding voice performance in an animated program for Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight and gave an animated acceptance speech to go with it. It is his first Emmy win.

“Kung Fu Panda, the Dragon Knight!” he began as he did a few Kung Fu Panda poses like his character, Po, does in the film.

“Thank you, this — I’m really nervous and stoked to be here,” he continued before thanking the film’s executive producer, Peter Hastings, as well as the film’s creators and co-stars.

Black also thanked former Dreamworks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg who Black acknowledged for giving him the “chance to play” Po 20 years ago.

“It’s been the role of a lifetime, I’ve had so much fun over the years,” he said.

The actor then looked at his phone to see if he had forgotten anyone on his list of people to thank. He ended his speech by thanking his wife.

“Oh my god I’m glad I looked at it,” he said. “The main person, my wife Tanya Haden. Hell yeah — dude, If I didn’t look I would have been that guy!”

“The true dragon warrior, Tanya Haden. I love you baby, this is for you,” he added before holding his Emmy in the air.

He first voiced the character of Po in 2008 with the release of Kung Fu Panda. He went on to play Po in two more Kung Fu Panda films, as well as the televisions series, The Paws of Destiny, The Dragon Knight and the short films: Secrets of the Furious Five, Secrets of the Masters, Secrets of the Scroll and Kung Fu Panda Holiday.

He will voice Po again in Kung Fu Panda 4.

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Actor James McCaffrey, best known as the voice of Max Payne in the titular video game trilogy and for playing Jimmy Keefe in the FX series Rescue Me, died Sunday, December 17, following a battle with multiple myeloma, according to TMZ. He was 65. McCaffrey’s other TV appearances include New York Undercover, Sex and the City, Suits, Blue Bloods, Jessica Jones and the daytime soap As the World Turns. On film, he appeared in The Orphan Killer, Camp Hope and Excuse Me for Living, among others …

Emmy-winning actress and activist America Ferrera will receive the eighth annual SeeHer Award at the 29th annual Critics Choice Awards. The SeeHer Award, per the Critics Choice Association, “honors a woman who advocates for gender equality, portrays characters with authenticity, defies stereotypes and pushes boundaries.” The award will be handed out at the gala hosted by Chelsea Handler, which will air live on The CW Sunday, January 14 …

Trolls Band Together will be available on digital platforms to own or rent on December 19. The third installment in the animated Trolls franchise picks up with Poppy and Branch, voiced respectively by Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake, attempting to rescue Floyd, played by Troye Sivan, while reuniting Branch’s brothers after the boyband phenomenon BroZone was disbanded. Timberlake’s former *NSYNC partners provide voices for the members of a Troll boy band called Kismet. To date Trolls Band Together has grossed $88 million domestically and $183 million worldwide …

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Jamie Foxx couldn’t be more thrilled for his daughter’s latest life update!

The Academy Award winner shared a series of photos on his Instagram account Monday to congratulate his daughter Corinne Foxx on her engagement to her boyfriend Joe Hooten.

In the black and white photos, Corinne Foxx and Hooten can be seen embracing each other with her beautiful diamond ring on display.

Jamie Foxx penned a heartfelt note in the caption, gushing over the young couple.

“You are a perfect example of what being in love is….” he wrote. “You care about each others life mental and physical… and you have each other’s back… congratulations on your engagement…”

Continuing his note with a message to his soon-to-be son-in-law, he wrote, “When you whispered to me a while back that you were gonna ask my baby girl to marry you I had tears of joy in my soul… [folded hands, heart emoji].”

To his daughter, he added, “You have… and have always had a special place in my heart… you deserve love abundantly… so again congratulations you too… can’t wait to walk you down that [a]isle.”

Corinne Foxx announced her engagement to boyfriend Hooten on Sunday by posting similar photos to her Instagram account.

“From the first time I saw you, I knew you were my forever [ring and heart emoji,” she wrote in the caption of her post.

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Disney has dropped Jonathan Majors from future productions as the Marvel villain Kang, the studio said on Monday evening.

The studio’s decision came just hours after the actor was found guilty of one count of third-degree assault and one count of second-degree harassment, but acquitted of two other counts of assault and aggravated harassment in a split verdict. Both counts he was convicted on were misdemeanors.

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Majors, 34, had been charged with assault and aggravated harassment, all misdemeanors, stemming from a March altercation with his then-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, in New York City.

The actor is scheduled to be sentenced for the two guilty counts on Feb. 6. He faces up to a year in prison on the two misdemeanor counts, though that sentence is unlikely for a first-time offender.

Marvel first announced Majors in the role of Kang in December 2020. He was set to play Kang in multiple movies and TV shows, including Avengers: Kang Dynasty which is slated for a 2026 release date.

The character’s complex history in the comics allowed for Majors to play multiple versions of Kang in each film and TV show.

Majors made his first appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe playing “He Who Remains,” a Kang variant, in the season one finale of the Disney+ series Loki, which premiered in July 2021.

Majors played another version of the character, Kang the Conqueror, in 2023’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and another variant, Victor Timely, in the second season of Loki, which premiered a few months later.

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Everybody has their favorite Christmas movie, but the industry analysts at Samba TV say they’ve unwrapped the data on the ones being watched the most this year.

Jon Favreau‘s Elf, starring Will Ferrell, was streamed by 9 million households in the U.S. between November 10 and December 10, topping all the competition, according to data shared exclusively with USA Today.

The outlet explains Samba considers a “watch” a given household watching at least five minutes of a given film.

Coming in second was Chevy Chase and company in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, which was streamed by 8 million households in that time; Home Alone ranked third, with 7.1 million views.

When it comes to new holiday fare, Netflix’s Best. Christmas. Ever! starring Jason Biggs and Heather Graham was watched by 2.3 million households, good enough for fourth place.

Netflix’s The Family Switch, starring Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms, tied for fifth with another new entry, Eddie Murphy and Tracee Ellis Ross‘ Candy Cane Lane on Prime Video. Both titles were streamed in 1.9 million households in the U.S.

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Marvel star Jonathan Majors was found guilty of one count of assault and one count of harassment, but acquitted of two other counts of assault and aggravated harassment in a split verdict Monday.

The verdict came after about five hours of deliberations over portions of three days.

Majors, 34, was charged with assault and aggravated harassment, both misdemeanors, stemming from a March altercation with his then-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, in New York City.

He had pleaded not guilty.

The mixed verdict signals the jury believed Majors recklessly assaulted his ex-girlfriend, but did not intentionally do so; it also suggests the jury did not believe Majors intentionally committed aggravated harassment inside an SUV, but did believe he harassed her outside the vehicle by picking her up off the ground and throwing her back inside.

Majors did not appear to react as the verdict was read. He and his lawyers stood facing the jury as the forewoman announced the verdict on each of the four counts.

The actor is scheduled to be sentenced for the two guilty counts on February 6. He faces up to a year in prison, though that sentence is unlikely for a first-time offender.

The judge also renewed an order of protection that prevents Majors from having any contact with Jabbari.

Majors, who has played the role of Kang in several Marvel films and TV shows, was accused of assaulting Jabbari in the back seat of a for-hire Cadillac Escalade after she grabbed his phone when a message from another woman popped up.

Prosecutors claimed the incident in the SUV left her with a cut behind her ear and a broken finger.

The defense claimed that Jabbari was the aggressor and physically attacked Majors so blatantly that the driver of their car called her “psycho girl” — and that he was left bloodied and ran to a hotel to hide from her.

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