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“You’ve been wondering. You’ve been waiting. You’ve been warned,” read a set of title cards for the new trailer to the sixth season of the Emmy-winning Netflix series Black Mirror.

The series will return in June.

A collection of snippets from the forthcoming season of the dystopian series sets the mood, and it’s grim: There’s a dust-up at a clothing store that sees a woman bashing another’s head through a display case, a house fire, sleazy paparazzi and, well, dial-up internet access.

As always, the series has attracted top talent, including Emmy winner Aaron Paul, Salma Hayek Pinault, Ben Barnes, Danny Ramirez, Himesh Patel, Josh Hartnett, Kate Mara, Michael Cera, Monica Dolan, Rob Delaney, Rory Culkin and Zazie Beetz.

About the forthcoming season, executive producer Charlie Brooker tells the streaming service’s news blog Tudum, “I’ve always felt that Black Mirror should feature stories that are entirely distinct from one another, and keep surprising people — and myself — or else what’s the point? It should be a series that can’t be easily defined, and can keep reinventing itself.”

He added, “The stories are all still tonally Black Mirror through-and-through — but with some crazy swings and more variety than ever before.”

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Even a filmmaking legend can have some big-screen regrets.

That’s the takeaway from Steven Spielberg, who tells Time his decision to digitally edit out firearms from the hands of federal agents in a 20th anniversary rerelease of his classic E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial was a mistake.

Spielberg made the comments after taking the stage for a sit-down as part of the 2023 TIME100 Summit Tuesday.

The Oscar winner, who has graced the magazine six times — “Seven, I count the shark,” he joked about Jaws‘ toothy villain — looked back at his storied career.

Spielberg says of the reedit, which saw federal agents’ guns swapped out using computer graphics technology, “That was a mistake. That was a mistake. I never should have done that. Because E.T. is a product of its era. No film should be revised based on the lenses we now are, either voluntarily — or being forced to — peer through.”

He added, “I was sensitive to the fact that federal agents approached a bunch of kids with firearms exposed, and I thought I’d changed the guns to walkie-talkies.”

Spielberg expressed, “I have never should have messed with the archive of my own work. I don’t recommend anybody really do that.”

The filmmaker added, “All our movies are a kind of a signpost of where we were when we made them, what the world was like … when we got those stories out there. So I really regret having that out there.”

The same goes for a recent trend in reediting so-called “problematic” language in classic works. “It is absolutely, for me, is sacrosanct. It’s our history. It’s our culture heritage. I do not believe in censorship in that way,” he said to applause.

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(NOTE LANGUAGE) Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen came to fame for playing Michelle Tanner on Full House, but it almost didn’t happen, thanks to their co-star John Stamos.

Stamos appeared on his pal and former Fuller House co-star Josh Peck‘s Good Guys podcast, and while John is known as one of Hollywood’s, well, good guys, he hit a wall with the twins early on.

“We’re doing the scene,” Stamos recalled of the show’s pilot. “Joey [Dave Coulier] and I were changing the baby, right? And Danny [Bob Saget] is gone and said, ‘Take care of the kids.’ ‘Yeah, we got it. We got it.’ So, we’re carrying the baby downstairs and we take her in the kitchen and we hose her down. And she was screaming. Both of them. They wanted to be anywhere else but there, and so did I.”

Stamos added, “They were 11 months old, and God bless them. They kept switching: ‘This one’s not gonna cry.’ I couldn’t deal with it. And I said, ‘This is not gonna work,’ and I screamed it 10 times. I said, ‘Get rid of them, I can’t work like this.’ And so they got rid of them. They bring on these two redheaded kids,” Stamos said.

He added, “I’m sure their parents loved them and thought they were attractive … It had nothing to do with [them being] redheaded, but they weren’t attractive.”

The swap only lasted a “few days,” with John adding, “Bring the Olsens back! These kids are terrible.”

Stamos also admitted he called his manager after the first table read when co-star Jodie Sweetin “blew the roof off the place,” and said, “Get me the f*** off this … kids show,” because you “couldn’t even hear my lines they were laughing so hard at her thing.”

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When the new series Saint X premieres Wednesday on Hulu, star West Duchovny hopes you will feel the inner life of her character, Alison, despite having limited time with her.

The show, based on the popular book by Alexis Schaitkin, follows the ripple effects that occur after Alison’s untimely death while on a Caribbean vacation.

“You get eight days with her and that’s it,” Duchovny told ABC Audio. “It was really important to me to do such a deep dive and make her so full of life because after she dies, her identity is in the hands of the stories that are told about her, the media, her family memories. It’s not her anymore.”

Betsy Brandt and Michael Park play Alison’s parents, and Brandt says having children of her own helped her tap into the grief her character experiences.

“I have a kid not much younger than Alison is,” Brandt says. “Reading the book was so helpful to me. And I did look up some things about grief. What was very interesting to me too was the recovery, because they have another child, and they have to make the choice to recover.”

Also a parent in real life, Park says he too used his own experiences to help understand his character.

“My youngest daughter is 18, and so she’s not too far off from Alison’s age,” Park says. “Every time she goes out, it’s scarier now, after this show. To tell you the truth, it’s scarier now.”

And while Duchovny says the story tackles a tough subject matter, she also says Alison was a light in the darkness.

“She’s got her internal struggles – but she’s the only one really enjoying herself for most of the show,” Duchovny said. “That was challenging too, to be the happy one amidst the grief.”

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After a new trailer debuted as part of Warner Bros. Discovery’s Tuesday takeover of the annual industry expo CinemaCon in Las Vegas, The Flash unspooled at an evening screening for attendees — and ran away with rave reviews.

While official reviews are under embargo, social media buzzed about the film, which stars embattled actor Ezra Miller as Barry Allen/The Flash.

Thanks to The Scarlet Speedster’s zooming through time in an effort to save the lives of his parents, the movie brings him face-to-face with both himself and two Batmen, Michael Keaton, reprising from the 1989 Tim Burton classic Batman, and Ben Affleck, making his reported final appearance as the Caped Crusader/Bruce Wayne.

“The Flash is hands down one of the best superhero films of all time,” gushed critic Scott Menzel — a take that was echoed by many when the lights came up in Vegas.

Fandango’s Erik Davis agreed, tweeting the ending left him “in tears,” and calling the movie, “Everything you want from a superhero film & more.”

Gizmodo’s Germain Lussier noted in part, “It’s Back to the Future meets Spider-Man: No Way Home with all the humor & heart of the former and action and surprises of the latter…”

Collider’s Steven Weintraub addressed Miller’s run-ins with the law, for which the actor, who uses they/them pronouns, sought mental health treatment. “I know Ezra Miller has made a lot of mistakes but they are soooooo good in this movie,” noting director Andy Muschietti, veteran of the blockbuster It franchise, “has crafted something special.”

Other critics highlighted Sasha Calle‘s performance as Superman’s Kryptonian cousin Kara Zor-El/Supergirl, with Slashfilm’s Jenna Busch calling her “awesome.”

The Flash, which also stars Michael Shannon and Ron Livingston, speeds into theaters June 16.

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The Shark Is Broken, a stage comedy that takes a behind-the-scenes look at the classic 1975 movie Jaws, is heading to Broadway, Sonia Friedman Productions and Scott Landis announced on Tuesday. Ian Shaw — son of the late Robert Shaw, who starred as the shark hunter Quint in the film — wrote and stars in the production that “imagines what happened on board ‘The Orca’ when the cameras stopped rolling during the filming of Stephen Spielberg’s blockbuster.” Casting for the roles of Roy Scheider‘s Martin Brody and Richard Dreyfuss‘ Matt Hooper will be announced at a later date. Previews for The Shark Is Broken will begin July 25, at the John Golden Theatre with an official opening set for Thursday, August 10…

Frasier alum Peri Gilpin, who played Roz Doyle, producer of the Seattle-based radio show, hosted by Kelsey Grammer‘s titular character will guest star in the Paramount+ sequel series, according to Deadline. When Frasier ended its run in 2004, Roz was promoted to station manager. Her role in the new series has yet to be revealed. Bebe Neuwirth is also set to return as Lilith Sternin in the sequel. The new series also stars Anders Keith as David, son of Niles and Daphne — played respectively by David Hyde Pierce and Jane Leeves. Pierce will not return for the sequel…

“This summer, everything changes,” reads the caption to the teaser trailer for season 3 of Netflix’s The Witcher, which will mark Henry Cavill‘s final season on the show. “Now, for the first time, I understand real fear,” Cavill’s character Geralt of Rivia is heard saying at the beginning of the clip, which also reveals the fantasy drama will return in two separate parts, premiering June 29 and July 27. Cavill announced he was leaving the Netflix series on Oct. 29 and that Liam Hemsworth was taking over the role for season 4…

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Rumer Willis is a mom.

On Tuesday, the actress, 34, and her boyfriend Derek Richard Thomas, a musician, shared a joint Instagram post featuring a photo of their newborn baby.

“Louetta Isley Thomas Willis You are pure magic,” the couple wrote in the caption.

“Born at home on Tuesday April 18th,” they added. “You are more than we ever dreamed of.”

Rumer first announced she was expecting in December, posting a photo of her belly on Instagram.

Her sisters and mother Demi Moore have supported her on her journey to motherhood.

In December, Moore shared a photo of herself at one of Willis’ ultrasound appointments. Moore’s daughters Tallulah Willis and Scott LaRue Willis were also seen in the photo.

At the time, Demi wrote that it was an “honor to witness” her daughter’s journey to motherhood.

“Saying hello to the little nibblet!! Overjoyed for you, my sweet Rumer,” she wrote in the caption. “It’s an honor to witness your journey into motherhood, and can’t wait to welcome this baby into the world!”

Moore shares all three daughters with actor Bruce Willis. Bruce also has two daughters with his wife Emma Heming Willis, 8-year-old Evelyn Penn and 11-year-old Mabel Ray.

Louetta is Demi and Bruce’s first grandchild.

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Ted Lasso fans, halftime is over and the second half of the third season starts Wednesday.

We’ve seen six episodes, and just six are left in this season that’s going to mark a big change in the show in some way, shape, or form. Nick Mohammed plays Nate Shelley on the show — he started in season 1 as lovable, but turned villainous season 2. So how are fans treating him in season 3?

“I wouldn’t say it’s love. I would say less hate,” he tells ABC Audio. “I feel like whereas there was a real visceral reaction to what Nate did at the end of season two and, you know, maybe rightly so, I feel like people are now a bit more kind of intrigued as to whether we’re going to see some kind of accountability or a redemption or something.”

Fans will have to continue watching to see if that happens, but Mohammed did give a little hint about what to expect as the season goes forward.

“Narratively things sort of sort of step up … heading towards the season finale,” he shares. “And, you know, whether it’s the very end, very end forever and ever, who knows? We know that there’s quite a lot of unfinished business as far as Nate’s concerned.”

Brendan Hunt, who co-created the show and plays Coach Beard, also chimed in.

“Up through episode five, it’s been some real peaks and valleys. And, you know, the show is made of peaks and valleys, much like Earth,” he says. “But things got about as low as they can ever get in five. But then in six they all go to Amsterdam and everyone seems to have gotten something they need. So going forward, let’s see if those things bear fruit.”

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On Tuesday, CBS and free streamer Pluto TV announced they’ll both be taking part in this year’s Tony Awards, with the latter airing The Tony Awards: Act One.

The broadcast will be a preshow of “live, exclusive content” that will run up to the 76th annual Tony Awards airing live on CBS and streaming on Paramount+ on Sunday, June 11.

Act One will stream from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. ET before the main event begins at 8 p.m., hosted by Academy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Ariana DeBose, from the historic United Palace in New York City’s Washington Heights.

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Writer/director James Gunn had teased his upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 as an origin story for Bradley Cooper‘s beloved, bruising Rocket, and a new clip of the film exclusive to Collider shows just that.

For the uninitiated, Rocket was the subject of illegal animal experimentation that turned him into the character fans have come to love.

This clip shows Rocket in his youth, where he and other animals are being held — and experimented upon — by a character they call Sire.

The anthropomorphic animals have all been equipped with various implants and given the ability to speak, and one by one, they choose names for themselves as they dream of freedom.

An otter voiced by Linda Cardellini names herself Lylla, as opposed to her serial number, 89Q12. A walrus dubs himself Teefs (Asim Chaudhry), while a rabbit (Mikaela Hoover), cruelly retrofitted with spider legs and a metal speaker over her face, chooses Floor, as that’s where she finds herself.

The little raccoon known as 89P13 says, “Someday I’m gonna make great machines that fly. And me and my friends are gonna go flying into the forever and beautiful sky: Lylla and Teefs, and Floor and me, Rocket.”

As heart-wrenching as the scene is, Gunn insists to Collider that no real animals were harmed in the making of the film.

He commented, “I was very, very careful about what we see in terms of animals being hurt because it is something I’m incredibly squeamish about, and people are squeamish about. So I think the difficult stuff to watch in the movie … is because of the idea of what’s happening more than what you actually see.”

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 launches May 5 from Marvel Studios, which is owned by ABC News’ parent company, Disney.

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