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Brooke Shields can’t wait for her upcoming film, Mother of the Bride.

The actress shared a photo on Monday with her co-stars, saying that filming is underway.

“Let the adventure begin!!” Shields captioned the post. “Filming is officially underway for our new @netflix movie #MotherOfTheBride,” she said, adding a heart emoji. “So excited to spend time with my amazing co-stars!”

The photo shows Shields with stars Rachael Harris, Sean James Steele, Benjamin Bratt and Miranda Cosgrove.

She added that she couldn’t wait for her other co-stars to arrive on set, too, and tagged Chad Michael Murray, Wilson Cruz and Michael McDonald in the post.

According to a press release from Netflix’s Tudum, the upcoming rom-com follows a woman named Lana (played by Shields), whose daughter Emma (Cosgrove) returns home from a year abroad in London and tells her that she’s getting married.

“Things only get worse when Lana discovers that the mystery man who stole her daughter’s heart just so happens to be the son of the man who broke her heart years ago,” the logline for the film reads.

He’s All That director Mark Waters is calling the shots on the comedy.

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Fans of Apple TV+’s Mythic Quest were a little confused when Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham‘s character, one-time superstar sci-fi novelist C.W. Longbottom, was abruptly written off the show last season, but Rolling Stone got to the bottom of why it happened.

The magazine reports there were “at least” two complaints of sexual misconduct against the actor, who ironically played a character described as “a walking cry for sensitivity training,” by his much younger co-workers.

According to the publication, Abraham was given a warning and told to stay away from some of the actresses on the show after the first complaint, but when a second reached co-creator and star Rob McElhenney, Abraham was dismissed.

Lionsgate, which produces the comedy, wouldn’t comment about the Amadeus veteran specifically, citing “corporate policy” on personnel matters, but told Rolling Stone, “We take allegations of misconduct seriously and investigate them thoroughly.”

ABC Audio has reached out to the actor and his attorney, but have yet to hear back.

Murray’s character met his end offscreen, in an episode that dropped in November called “Across the Universe.” The touching chapter had his coworkers discover in a message that he intended to take his own life after being given a terminal diagnosis.

Abraham went on to star in the second season of HBO’s The White Lotus, in which he played Bert, the grandfather of Michael Imperioli‘s character. In that series, Abraham’s character chased younger women, and blamed his inappropriate comments about women as being a product of his generation.

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In Netflix’s new romantic comedy The Perfect Find, Gabrielle Union plays Jenna Jones, a 40-year-old woman attempting to pick up the pieces after losing her fashion industry job and long-term boyfriend. A first look of the film has been shared, featuring photos of Gab as Jenna and her eventual love interest Eric, played by Keith Powers. He’s a younger co-worker at the job that marks her fashion comeback and also her boss’s son. The film will follow Jenna as she decides whether her secret romance is worth taking the risk.

Gabrielle says the idea for the film came to her as she and her I’ll Have Another production company were producing Robinne Lee’s The Idea of You, “a very specific story to an aging white woman.”

“I knew it wasn’t something I could just shove myself into, because it really wasn’t the right story for me,” Gab tells Vanity Fair. “It made me be on the lookout for a story that made me feel the same way.” After re-reading Tia Williams’s novel The Perfect Find, a lightbulb went off. The story also hit close to home.

“[It] really sparked something inside of me about older women and how we can oftentimes disappear from society, almost, in terms of people looking at us as like we are past our prime. That we carry no value, that no one sees value in a woman over 28, much less over 35, much less over 40,” says Union, who also serves as a producer on the film. “But baby, I’m thriving. So I wanted something that spoke to that I hadn’t done before. Which is tough, because I’ve done a lot of rom-coms. This one is new. I’m thrilled.”

The Perfect Find premieres on June 23.

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James McAvoy is re-teaming with Blumhouse, the studio behind his M. Night Shyamalan films Split and Glass, for Speak No Evil, a remake of the Danish psychological horror thriller Gaestern, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The new feature centers on a family that goes on a dream vacation, only to have it turn into a psychological nightmare. Speak No Evil is slated to open August 9, 2024…

ABC has renewed The Rookie for a sixth season, the network announced on Monday. The series stars Nathan Fillion as the LAPD’s oldest rookie officer who decides to join the force after a life-altering incident. Mekia Cox, Alyssa Diaz, Richard T. Jones, Melissa O’Neil, Jenna Dewan and Shawn Ashmore co-star…

The legal drama Reasonable Doubt has been renewed for a second season at Hulu, with The Best Man‘s Morris Chestnut joining the cast. The series, from executive producers Raamla Mohamed, Kerry Washington and Larry Wilmore, follows high-powered Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Jacqueline “Jax” Stewart — played by Emayatzy Corinealdi — as she deals with past traumas, a failing marriage, motherhood and a murder case, all while trying to keep her life together. Chestnut will play Corey Cash, “a charming, media-savvy defense attorney who often represents the underdogs. When Jax brings in Corey to help on a new high-profile case, she soon realizes that he’s more shine than substance and threatening her position at the firm”…

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Jonathan Majors has been dropped by his longtime management company, Entertainment 360, three weeks after the Creed III and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania actor was arrested following an alleged domestic dispute in New York City, sources tell Deadline.

The split was due to Majors’ personal behavior, according to the insiders.

Meanwhile, PR firm The Lede Company also severed ties with the 33-year-old actor in the last month, and Majors and fashion house Valentino “mutually agreed” that he would not be attending this year’s Met Gala as one of its guests.

Majors was arrested March 25 over an alleged domestic dispute with a 30-year old woman. The unnamed victim was taken to the hospital with “minor injuries to her head and neck,” police said in a statement obtained by ABC News.

“Jonathan Majors is completely innocent … We are quickly gathering and presenting evidence to the District Attorney with the expectation that all charges will be dropped imminently,” Priya Chaudhry, Majors’ attorney, said in a statement.

Chaudhry also provided text messages that she said were sent to Majors from the unnamed woman in which she said she “was the one who used physical force on him,” not the other way around.

Majors is expected to appear before a judge May 8 as he faces multiple counts of harassment and assault from the New York City D.A.

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In an Instagram video of the final moments on set, executive producer Eric Kripke thanked the cast and crew of The Boys for wrapping the fourth season.

In an f-bomb-loaded send-off, Kripke thanked his stars and the Amazon show’s crew, calling working on the show “one of the great honors of my life.”

Shown embracing in the video were a bloodied Jack Quaid (Hughie), Karen Fukuhara (Kimiko) and Erin Moriarty (Starlight/Annie), and a relatively clean Karl Urban (Billy Butcher), Laz Alonso (Mother’s Milk) and a fist-pumping Tomer Capone (Frenchie). Not seen was Antony Starr (Homelander), so it’s likely the final shot was of the series’ heroes.

Recently ABC Audio asked executive producer Seth Rogen what he could tell us about the fourth season. “It’s just so crazy,” he expressed.

“Every time I’m like, ‘These guys have done the craziest stuff you could ever do.’ I’ll, like, watch — there’s one set piece in this new season that is, like, I’m disturbed that I work with the people who conceived of it,” he said.

The show’s fourth season will start either late this year or in early 2024.

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Clare Bowen, Charles Esten, Jonathan Jackson and Sam Palladio from TV’s Nashville will reunite for shows in Chicago, the series’ eponymous music city, and England and Scotland.

“NASHVILLE” The Reunion Tour will mark the first time in five years that the stars of the country music industry-themed drama will take the stage, beginning with a stop at Chicago’s Rosemont Theatre on Saturday, September 23. Nashville alum turned Grey’s Anatomy star Chris Carmack will join for a one-night-only performance.

Monday, September 25, will see the tour stop at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium.

The tour, which will have the stars playing music from the show, as well as original material, crosses the pond for an October 11 date in Glasgow, but will also stop in Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff and London.

Ticket information can be found online at nashvillereuniontour.com.

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Netflix’s Emmy-winning comic book adaptation Sweet Tooth finally returns on April 27, and its new trailer shows Gus (Christian Convery) and the other human-animal hybrids’ fight for survival.

The series, produced by Robert Downey Jr. and his wife and co-producer, Susan Downey, takes place after a deadly virus decimates the human population. Human-animal hybrids were born, and some survivors blame them for the extinction-level event.

Hunted and, as seen in last season’s finale, harvested for a cure for the disease they’re immune to, young Gus and his hybrid friends plot an escape from the clutches of the evil General Abbot (Neil Sandilands).

Netflix teases, “Gus and his found family find themselves on a collision course with Abbot and the evil forces that look to wipe them out once and for all.”

The trailer closes with a character saying of Gus, “That boy might be our only hope.”

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Already having become the highest-grossing video game adaptation of all time even before its second weekend in theaters, the box office gross of The Super Mario Bros. Movie is still mushrooming.

The Universal film cleared more than $691 million over the weekend and is expected to barrel past the $700 million mark by the time the sun rises on Tuesday.

In both U.S. theaters and overseas, Deadline reports, the movie enjoyed a huge Sunday, which is generally a weaker theatrical day than Friday and Saturday. The movie starring the voices of Chris Pratt, Jack Black, Charlie Day, Anya Taylor-Joy and Seth Rogen actually jumped on Sunday versus its box office take on Saturday in several major European markets.

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The LA County District Attorney’s Office confirms to KABC that the Los Angeles Police Department has presented a case involving actor Armie Hammer and that it is “under review.” It means that the LAPD has wrapped up its investigation, and now the DA’s office will review the case and decide if there is enough evidence to charge Hammer. They can decide to go with a case or not — or they can request more investigation by police.

It’s unclear what case has been presented to the DA. But Hammer has been under investigation for sexual assault since early 2021 involving an alleged rape in 2017. He has denied all accusations.

In January 2021, Hammer’s ex-girlfriend Paige Lorenze released unverified DMs that allegedly came from Hammer and claimed the actor harbored fantasies involving cannibalism. In addition, the 22-year-old alleged Hammer was “obsessed” with the idea of “taking a piece of me…and consuming it.”

A second woman, a 24-year-old who goes by the name Effie, also came forward in 2021, claiming she thought the Golden Globe nominee was going to kill her after he allegedly “violently” raped her on April 24, 2017.

Hammer’s attorneys have claimed all of his relationships have been consensual.

If you are affected by abuse and needing support, or know someone who is, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673). You can also chat online at thehotline.org or online.rainn.org, respectively.

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