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The two-part season 5 finale of FX’s Emmy-nominated comedy series What We Do in the Shadows is now streaming on Hulu. 

The mockumentary series spun off from the Taika Waititi/Jermaine Clement film of the same name centers on a group of vampires living in secret on Staten Island, New York. ABC Audio caught up with the cast before the SAG-AFTRA strike.

Harvey Guillén plays Guillermo, the vampire human familiar, or assistant, to Kayvan Novak‘s Nandor the Relentless. “I was going to be content that I [just] shot the pilot, because I was like, ‘Oh, I get to … work with Taika and Jermaine and these comedians … I just want that footage … for my reel!”

He adds, “And so I can’t believe … that we’re starting production on season 6 this fall. And so it’s kind of a half a decade of our lives have been in the world of bats. And so it’s an honor. And, you know, here’s to the rest of the decade,” he adds with a laugh.

Fans have been showing their love with cosplay and making Shadows gifs popular online.

Has Novak seen it? 

“Yeah. And the fan art, too, the homoerotic fan art that keeps popping up. You know, I think people … they want Nandor and Guillermo to make passionate love to each other, and to those people watching: it’s never going to happen. All right?” the actor says, before imitating his character, “Over my dead body. I’m already dead.“

Mark Proksch plays energy vampire Colin Robinson. He says he watches just like any other fan. “I’m always excited because I forget storylines. I mean, you know, we filmed back in September, October … So it’s always exciting and … new for me when I get to watch them.”

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If you’re one of those people who wished Halloween was more than one day a year, you’re in luck: AMC has announced plans for a supersized version of its annual FearFest.

For the very first time, there will be more than 700 hours of films, series and specials curated by Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service, for fans of horror, thrillers and the supernatural.

The content will roll out across AMC, AMC+ and Shudder.

Countdown to FearFest begins on AMC on September 1 at 11 p.m. with Shudder’s 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time. It will air every subsequent Friday evening, “leading into a primetime takeover the last week of September featuring iconic horror movies every night of the week,” including the Scream and Halloween franchises, as well as Stephen King classics like The Shining and Firestarter.

September 1 will also see the Shudder and AMC+ premiere of its original film Perpetrator, starring Alicia Silverstone.

AMC will also celebrate the 50thanniversary of The Exorcist paired with its 101 Scariest Movie Moments of All Time episode on Friday, September 29, at 8:15 p.m.

In October, the scary coverage goes wall to wall, with AMC hosting Shudder movies and series each Friday night leading up to Halloween.

The 55th anniversary of Rosemary’s Baby will be celebrated on Monday, October 2, at 8 p.m., along with the Cursed Films documentary about the film.

Friday, October 6, will see a double-feature of Shudders’ V/H/S franchise; the 45thanniversary of Halloween will be celebrated with The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs special on Tuesday, October 10, at 10 p.m.

Check out all the creepy details at AMCNetworks.com.

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On Thursday night, CBS aired The Price is Right: A Tribute to Bob Barker, a one-hour special celebrating the life and career of the legendary game show host, who died of natural causes in his Hollywood Hills home on August 26 at age 99.

Barker’s longtime friend Drew Carey, who succeeded him as The Price Is Right host in 2007, hosted the special, which was co-produced by none other than Barker’s friend and Happy Gilmore sparring partner Adam Sandler.

Carey also saluted Barker’s earlier work in radio as a host of Truth or Consequences and his experience as a naval aviator in World War II.

Another recurring theme during the special was Barker’s “tireless work on behalf of all animals from whales and elephants to the cats and dogs who reminded everybody at the end of the show to get spayed or neutered.”

The show contained interview clips of the iconic figure in television, the winner of 19 Daytime Emmy Awards, including 14 in the Outstanding Host category.

The special also showed Barker’s work outside of the iconic game show’s set, with appearances in Happy Gilmore, as well as voice-over work. He played himself in animated series like Futurama, Family Guy and on SpongeBob SquarePants, which saw him playing a character called Bob Barnacle in 2015.

Sandler’s “Ode to Bob Barker” from the 2007 CBS special celebrating his 50-year TV anniversary was also shown.

The show also delved into Barker fandom, with Price Is Right contestants who were more excited to meet the host than to spin the show’s famous wheel and those who even named their pets after the animal rights activist.

The tribute is now streaming on Paramount+.

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If Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour was an immediate sell-out, it only stands to reason that TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR concert film would follow suit.

The film has now set a new record for single-day advance ticket sales revenue for one movie at AMC: $26 million. That breaks the previous record of $16.9 million set by Spider-Man: No Way Home.  It set that new record less than three hours after tickets went on sale.

AMC will now add additional showtimes for the film “when necessary and available,” the theater chain said in a statement.  Currently, the movie will play at least four times per day on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at every AMC location in the U.S. 

Tickets are on sale via AMCTheatres.com and Fandango.com. They cost $19.89 for adults — because of Taylor’s album 1989 — and $13.13 for children, because 13 is her favorite number.

And speaking of the number 13, Taylor has now scared away a big horror film planned for the fall.

The Exorcist: Believer originally planned to debut October 13 in order to be in theaters on Friday the 13th.  But since that’s now the day that Taylor’s movie premieres, the horror sequel has been moved to October 6, Variety reports.

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Taylor Swift’s influence has prompted a change of plans for The Exorcist: Believer. Universal Pictures has advanced the film’s release to October 6, a week earlier than its initial schedule, after the singer announced Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert film would release on October 13. “Look what you made me do. The Exorcist: Believer moves to 10/6/23,” producer Jason Blum wrote on X, adding “#TaylorWins”…

Netflix has greenlit a sophomore season for the docu-series Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal, set to debut with three episodes on September 20, Variety reports. The upcoming installment continues its dive into the real-life saga of Alex Murdaugh, who was convicted of his murdering his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, in 2021. Season 2 unravels the events preceding and succeeding the fateful murders, with testimonies from key witnesses including Murdaugh family’s former housekeeper, Blanca Turrubiate-Simpson, caregiver to Libby Murdaugh, Mushelle “Shelly” Smith, Alex Murdaugh’s cousin Curtis Edward Smith, and juror Gwen Generette…

After the summer success of Suits on Netflix, Peacock has strategically added Pearson, the short-lived spin-off starring Gina Torres, onto its streaming platform. Originally airing in 2019, Pearson ran for one season before facing cancellation six weeks after the season finale. Torres reprised her role as the formidable attorney Jessica Pearson, in the series that delves into the gritty realm of Chicago politics. The ensemble cast also features Bethany Joy Lenz, Morgan Spector, Chantel Riley, Simon Kassianides, Eli Goree, and Isabel Arraiza. Suits also streams on Peacock, including its ninth and final season, which is currently unavailable on Netflix…

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It’s the end of the road for The Equalizer. The third film in the Denzel Washington franchise hits theaters this weekend, and we’re told it’ll be the last. So why is now the right time to say goodbye?

“We’ve done as much as we can do with McCall, I believe, up to this point, right?” Director Antoine Fuqua tells ABC Audio. “The first one is finding his purpose. The second one is making peace with the past. This one is just finding a place and finding a home. And I think he’s done that in this film. And so from that point I believe let Robert McCall sail off into the Mediterranean, you know, and have a little peace for a while.”

It’s a journey to get to that peace, though. Fuqua says, “It starts off, he’s in a darker place.”

“And so you have to see him go through a physical and mental journey to get back to himself,” he adds. “And so I think that at some point, where else do you go? You know, what else do you do?”

Even with this being the third film in The Equalizer trilogy, Fuqua shares that the theme of all three can be wrapped up in one word: Justice. 

“You know the best of us. It seems that what people walk away with is that we all want justice more than money and fame or anything else. People want justice. And I think that’s very important,” he says.

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ABC Audio has confirmed that AMC has secured interim agreements with SAG-AFTRA that will allow work to continue on three of its shows in spite of the ongoing strikes.

The agreements cover The Walking Dead spinoffs Daryl Dixon and The Ones Who Lived, as well as its Interview with the Vampire series, the network confirmed, without providing any additional comments.

The first season of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon debuts September 10, but it has been renewed for a second season that is already shooting in Europe. Interview‘s first season was set in New Orleans, but its second season was already underway in Prague.

The Ones Who Lived, the reunion of Andrew Lincoln‘s Rick Grimes and his partner Michonne, played by Danai Gurira, is in the post-production stage, Deadline reports; the series will come out in 2024.

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Meg Ryan took a break from appearing in movies for years — not counting her face seen in a photo in Top Gun: Maverick — and to comic legend Carol Burnett, she opened up about returning to her rom-com roots with her forthcoming release, What Happens Later.

The pair chatted on the phone together in early July, ahead of the SAG-AFTRA strike, for Interview magazine about the movie that Ryan co-wrote, directed and starred in opposite David Duchovny.

“I hadn’t done a role in a really long time, but it was fun with David,” said Ryan, 61. “A lot of it was done in two shots. I’m proud of that.”

“Truly, the easiest part was acting in it,” Ryan expressed. “I want to direct again just so I can sit in the chair, because I’m sure there’s a lot of things I missed.”

The pair play ex-lovers snowed in at the airport, reminiscing about their lives together and the decades since their split.

As “perfect” as Duchovny was for the part, Ryan explained, she never “really knew” the actor personally.

“We’d only met a couple of times, maybe 20 years ago,” she recalled. “But I remembered, more than all of his other amazing work like The X-Files and Californication, him on The Larry Sanders Show. He played himself as a guest and he was so absurd and funny.”

As she worked on the script over the beginning of the pandemic, “We got to know each other over these Zoom calls and some of those conversations found their way into the script, too.”

Meg added, “I set up everything beforehand so that once we were there, it was just David and I trying to tell the truth.”

What Happens Later opens in theaters October 13.

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If you happened to be sailing around Brooklyn, New York, recently, you might have spotted a lot of big stars on a 38-foot boat.

It seems that to celebrate Robert Downey Jr.‘s 18th wedding anniversary to his producer wife Susan, their former Perry Mason star Matthew Rhys and his wife, Keri Russell, sprung for a cruise around New York City.

Their anniversary was August 27.

According to video posted by Downey on Thursday, August 31, both couples — along with Paul Bettany and his Oscar-winning wife, Jennifer Connelly, were along for the ride.

Bettany, who played JARVIS, the voice in Iron Man’s head, was seen capering on the vessel and struggling with replacing a door on the craft, as the others laugh — and Downey criticizes him.

“He’s gonna lose his toes,” Connelly jokes.

“Thanks Matthew Rhys for the anniversary charter on the Rarebit,” Downey said, highly recommending the charter from the company Moveable Feast. “The less than helpful first mate Paul Bettany…no comment,” he added.

The charter is open to noncelebrities, too, of course, offering rides on New York Harbor “on one of the last of the Hemingway class boats, built right here in Brooklyn!”

The trips “serve cocktails and light snacks as we cruise to the Statue of Liberty and other highlights on the rivers,” according to its website.

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Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson are doing their part to help those devastated by the recent wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui.

The duo teamed up to establish the People’s Fund of Maui, which will see cash distributed directly to people who were displaced by the events that claimed the lives of at least 115 people, with hundreds more still missing.

Winfrey and Johnson kicked off the fund with an initial $10 million donation and say they’ve collaborated with an advisory board from the local community, as well as respected elders, to launch the fund.

Adult residents 18 and older in Lahaina and Kula who were affected by the wildfires are eligible to receive $1,200 per month to help them recover from the disaster.

“I have been meeting with people throughout the community that were impacted by the fires over the last few weeks, asking what they most needed and how I could be of service,” Winfrey said in a press release. “The main thing I’ve been hearing is their concern about how to move forward under the immense financial burden.”

Johnson noted in the release that while the world was watching the wildfires, they also “witnessed the great spirit and resilience of our Polynesian culture and the tremendous strength of the people of Maui.”

“Even in the most difficult of times, the people of Maui come together, and we rise — that’s what makes us stronger,” he said. “We are beyond grateful to be working alongside esteemed community leaders of Maui to launch the People’s Fund of Maui.”

To contribute to the People’s Fund of Maui, click here. All net proceeds will go directly to those impacted by the wildfires.

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