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Warner Bros. has apparently summoned Beetlejuice back to the land of the living.

Variety says the studio will reunite Michael Keaton with director Tim Burton for a sequel to the 1988 classic — and Burton will be directing the star of his hit Netflix show Wednesday, Jenna Ortega, in the lead role, to boot.

The trade also notes that Winona Ryder will be back to reprise her role as onetime goth girl icon Lydia Deetz, with Ortega playing her daughter.

The project will hit theaters September 6, 2024, and Wednesday creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar will be writing the script, according to the trade.

The 1988 film had Keaton playing the horny human haunter who is summoned by a recently deceased couple (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) to rid their beloved country home of a yuppie family from the city.

But they get more than they bargained for with Keaton’s character, who unfortunately takes a shine to the still-living family’s depressed teen daughter Lydia, who befriends the friendly ghosts.

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Normally, you have to watch a reality show to see who becomes the baddie, but E! has taken the legwork out of the equation with an upcoming series called House of Villains.

Joel McHale will host the Big Brother-style “outrageously sinister competition elimination series,” which E! says “brings 10 of reality television’s most iconic and infamous villains under one roof.”

“They must outsmart, out-manipulate and out-scheme each other through a series of challenges in order to win a cash prize and the title of ‘America’s Ultimate Supervillain.'”

The show was part of NBCUniversal’s announcement of its upcoming unscripted shows on Tuesday.

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The jury members for the 83rd annual Peabody Awards have made their picks, and the Star Wars Disney+ series Andor, ABC’s Emmy-winning Abbott Elementary and Apple TV+’s workplace dramedy Severance are among this year’s winners in the Entertainment category.

The organization spotlights “the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and streaming media.”

Others included Donald Glover‘s Emmy winner Atlanta, AMC’s Better Call Saul, and HBO’s quirky and mostly Spanish-language comedy series Los Espookys, starring Fred Armisen.

Of Andor, the organization says it “tackles that familiar galaxy with … a keen-eyed commitment to mirroring our own mundane trials and tribulations as it follows scavenger Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), who unwittingly becomes radicalized in the wake of a police state intent on crushing any and all signs of the Rebel Alliance.”

The jury says of Abbott, “The show isn’t content to present funny scenarios absent any social context; Abbott Elementary insists on surfacing the structural issues that make its teachers work so hard.”

Previous “groundbreaking” Peabody winner Atlanta “transcended its original success by introducing an anthology-style structure … allowing the final two installments of Atlanta to display a wealth of creativity and insight.”

All the winners will be celebrated on Sunday, June 11, at a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles — Peabody’s first in-person ceremony since 2019 and the first time the event will be held in LA.

Here’s a list of the winners in the Entertainment category. A full list across all genres can be found here.

Abbott Elementary – (ABC)

Andor – (Disney+)

Atlanta – (FX)

Bad Sisters – (Apple TV+)

Better Call Saul – (AMC)

Los Espookys – (HBO Max)

Mo – (Netflix)

Pachinko – (Apple TV+)

Severance – (Apple TV+)

We’re Here – (HBO Max)

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Nick Cannon‘s multiple jobs are essential to taking care of his 11 children. In an interview with Los Angeles Times, he revealed he needs to earn at least nine figures to maintain his lifestyle.

“When you think about my lifestyle, I have to generate at least $100 million a year,” Cannon said. He reveals he had children with six women because of their desires to be mothers and the belief that he could manage them all.

“A lot of them are in the same age group,” he said. “And I just wanted to give them what they desired. I kept saying, ‘I can handle it.’” His decisions, however, have resulted in him being “villainized” and called a deadbeat by those who think he can’t be present for all his children.

Nick says he has calendars for each child, brings his kids to meetings and drives them around, focusing on the quality of their dates rather than the amount of time he spends with them.

“It’s not about what I do for you or what I say to you, it’s about how you feel when I’m with you,” he said. “If you feel loved when you see your dad, that’s what’s gonna resonate.”

Nick is father to Moroccan, Monroe, Golden, Powerful Queen, Zion, Zillion, Legendary, Onyx, Rise, Beautiful and Halo; his son Zen passed away from brain cancer at five months old. The actor was recently criticized for struggling to remember all their names, but his ex-wife and mother of their 12-year-old twins, Mariah Carey, often checks on his well-being.

“She’s high frequency. She always asks me, ‘You aight? How you doin’?’ he said in an upcoming episode of The Jason Lee Show. “When we talk daily, she’s just checking in on my spirit.”

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Bachelor in Paradise alums Brandon Jones and Serene Russell have ended their engagement.

Taking to Instagram on Monday, May 8, the pair, who met and got engaged during season 8 of the dating show, made a joint post announcing the end of their relationship.

“After many months, today we have ultimately decided to end our engagement,” they captioned the post. “We have tried to work privately on our relationship which has been incredibly challenging in the public eye. This has been immensely hard to accept and painful, as there is a lot of love between the two of us.”

They added, “We are deeply hurting and can only ask that there be no hate. The best path for us at this time is to try and move forward and heal from this as individuals.”

Included in the post were several photos and videos of Brandon and Serene’s time together. 

The break up news comes six months after their engagement aired during the Bachelor in Paradise season 8 finale. 

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Scarlett Johansson revealed to Variety that she and her fellow Avenger Chris Evans assembled at the home of their superhero ally Jeremy Renner as he recovered from his near-fatal snowplow accident.

The April visit was kept private, but she and longtime friend Evans told the trade about it in her new cover article.

“I was honestly so f****** happy to see him,” Scarlett said. “I didn’t know if I was ever going to see him again.”

ScarJo’s Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow and Renner’s Clint Barton/Hawkeye shared a special bond in the Marvel movies and it transferred offscreen, too.

She added, “To not only see him again but to see him thriving and in such an amazing space, mentally. He’s a very spiritual person in general and a very soulful person. And you can see that in his work. … He has such a depth to him. And I just was so happy to see that he is full of life and light, and he’s also hilarious. We laughed a lot.”

Evans added there were, “No tears at all. A lot of laughs and smiles and hugs. Leave it to Jeremy to take something this potentially tragic and turn it into something so inspiring.”

Renner suffered more than 30 broken bones and blunt trauma injuries when he was pulled under the vehicle in an attempt to stop it from sliding into his nephew near his home outside Reno, Nevada.

His recovery has been called miraculous.

Johansson tells the trade she and the others on the still-active Avengers text chain — including Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth and Robert Downey Jr. — rallied for their fallen comrade.

“We’re like, ‘OK, you beat us all. That’s it. You won,'” she says, adding of his recovery, “That’s like real superhero stuff. It’s unbelievable.”

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Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kim Zolciak-Biermann has filed for divorce from her husband, former NFL player Kroy Biermann, after 11 years of marriage.

According to legal documents obtained by TMZ, Kim has cited the marriage as “irretrievably broken with no hope of reconciliation” as the reason for the split. She is seeking primary physical custody of their four minor children — Kroy Jr., 11, Kash, 10, and 9-year-old twins Kane and Kaia — as well as joint legal custody.

The Don’t Be Tardy star is also requesting spousal support and the legal restoration of her maiden name.

The filing comes amid the couple’s financial struggles, including $1.1 million in unpaid taxes to the IRS from 2013, 2017, and 2018, as well as $15,000 in unpaid taxes to the state of Georgia from 2018.

Kim and Kroy first met at a charity event in May 2010 when he was playing with the Atlanta Falcons. Their relationship was featured on RHOA and they tied the knot on Nov. 11, 2011, at their former estate in Roswell, GA.

Kim is also mom to Brielle, 25, and Ariana, 21, who Kroy legally adopted in 2013.

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Freeform dropped the trailer for Cruel Summer season 2 on Monday. The Jessica Biel-produced thriller series “follows the rise and fall of an intense teenage friendship. Approaching the story from three different timelines surrounding Y2K, the season twists and turns as it tracks the early friendship between Megan, Isabella and Megan’s best friend Luke, the love triangle that blossomed, and the mystery that would impact all of their lives going forward,” per the network. Sadie Stanley, Lexi Underwood, Eloise Payet, Griffin Gluck, KaDee Strickland, Lisa Yamada and Sean Blakemore star, with Paul Adelstein and Braeden De La Garza appearing in recurring roles. Cruel Summer premieres June 5, at 9:00 p.m. EDT on Freeform, with a special two-episode premiere before moving to its regular 10 p.m. time slot…

We’re getting our first look at Meg 2: The Trench, a sequel to 2018’s The Meg, which followed a group of scientists whose submarine was attacked by a Megalodon — a giant shark thought to be extinct. Jason Statham, who reprises his role from the first film, now faces three giant sharks. Wu Jing co-stars, along with Cliff Curtis, Sienna Guillory, Skyler Samuels, Page Kennedy, Shuya Sophia Cai and Sergio Peris-Mencheta. The first movie grossed $530 million worldwide. Meg 2: The Trench opens in theaters August 3…

CBS has canceled True Lies and East New York, both after a single season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. True Lies, a reboot of James Cameron‘s spy-action comedy film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, will air its series finale May 17, while procedural East New York, which centers on the officers and detectives of the NYPD’s 74th precinct in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York, will wrap May 14…

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Angelina Jolie took to Instagram on Monday to pay tribute to her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who died of breast and ovarian cancer in 2007, at age 56.

“Tomorrow would have been my mother’s 73rd birthday. She passed away 15 years ago, after a long struggle with breast and ovarian cancer,” the post, accompanied by a photo of Jolie as a young girl posing with her mother, began.

“In June, I will be a month away from the age when she was diagnosed,” Jolie, 47, continued. “I have had preventive surgeries to try to lessen chances but I continue to have check ups.”

She went on to write, “My mom loved [Jimi] Hendrix. And would always sign her letters Kiss the Sky. It took on new meaning after she passed. Sending my love to those who have also lost loved ones and strength to those who are fighting at this very moment for their lives and the lives of those they love.”

“And to other women, please take the time to look after yourself and go for your mammograms and blood tests or ultrasounds, particularly if you have a family history of cancer,” the Maleficent star added.

Jolie elected to have a double mastectomy in 2013 after being diagnosed with the BRCA1 gene, which put her at high risk for developing breast cancer.

Following an ovarian cancer scare two years later, she had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed in a hysterectomy procedure.

“I simply feel I made choices to improve my odds of being here to see my children grow into adults, and of meeting my grandchildren,” Jolie wrote in a 2019 Time magazine essay. “My hope is to give as many years as I can to their lives, and to be here for them.”

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While news that Kevin Costner‘s wife of 18 years, Christine Baumgartner, had filed for divorce came as a surprise to fans, People reports it wasn’t a surprise to those closest to her.

The Yellowstone patriarch had been pivoting away from that hit show — in fact, it was just announced Yellowstone will be ending when season 5 finishes — to another Western he directed and starred in, called Horizon.

While the former show is shot in Montana, the latter was filmed in Utah.

“She wasn’t happy about it,” a source tells the magazine. “Christine wants them to spend family time at their Santa Barbara home. During filming, Kevin is not around very much. His absence has been very hard for her.”

The Dances With Wolves Oscar winner was described as “obsessed” with Horizon, even though he knew the location time was causing static at home.

Another source tells People the “in demand” Costner has been known to be particularly driven when it comes to his passion projects like Horizon, and Yellowstone‘s “success and excitement over the new project probably took his attention away from his family more than he realized.”

The 68-year-old Costner, a father of seven, had three children with Baumgartner, 49: sons Cayden, 16, and Hayes, 14, and 12-year-old daughter Grace. He was previously married to Cindy Silva from 1978 to 1994, and the pair had three children: Annie, 39, Lily, 36, and Joe, 35.

After his first divorce, Costner had son Liam, now 26, with former girlfriend Bridget Rooney.

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