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Following last week’s teaser, Netflix has dropped a new trailer for Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, the second installment in Ryan Murphy‘s Monsters series. The clip opens with Kitty and José Menendez, played respectively by Chloë Sevigny and Javier Bardem, sitting for a family portrait with sons Lyle and Erik, portrayed by Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch, respectively. “I need to know what’s going on with you and the boys,” Kitty is heard saying in a voice-over. “It is over. Stop. I’m going to fix this family,” José replies. Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story debuts Sept. 19 on Netflix …

Kelly Monaco is saying goodbye to Port Charles after more than two decades. WABC-TV reports the actress will make her final appearance on the ABC soap opera General Hospital sometime this fall. Monaco, who has played Sam McCall on the daytime drama since 2003, is exiting the series due to storyline changes, which have yet to be revealed. Monaco is also known for being the season 1 winner of the Mirrorball Trophy on Dancing with the Stars …

Community alum Joel McHale has landed a guest starring role on the third season of Yellowjackets, according to Variety. No further details on his character have been released. The series follows a high school soccer team after a plane crash, then decades later when the survivors are adults. A premiere date for the Paramount+ with Showtime show’s third season has yet to be announced …

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Jimmy Fallon‘s daughters, Winnie, 11, and Frances, 10, recently marked a new milestone, attending their first sleep away summer camp, and the Tonight Show host says it was “traumatic” for him and his wife.

“I don’t know why they asked us to go,” Jimmy tells E! News. “I go, ‘Why would you want to go somewhere else? You have such a great life here with dad and mom.’ They’re like, ‘We’re ready to go.’ And they had the best time.”

However, Fallon, 49, says he and his wife, Nancy Juvonen, didn’t handle the situation quite so well.

“It was so sad for me and my wife,” he shared. “You couldn’t talk to them. There was a call time between 10:30 and 10:45. It was like they were in prison.”

“It’s like, ‘I’m coming to get you out honey. You didn’t do anything wrong. I’m coming to get you,’” joked Fallon. “It was a very traumatic summer for us. They’re growing up and it’s all kind of happening.”

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Nicole Kidman is an actress who has done it all — well, almost.

The Big Little Lies star, 57, opened up about her desire to do a “classic horror” film in an interview with L’Officiel as the magazine’s September 2024 global cover star.

“I’ve not done classic horror yet,” she said, clarifying, “Hardcore horror.”

“I’m putting it out there, because I watch hardcore horror,” the Australian actress added.

Kidman lauded last year’s horror breakout Talk to Me from twin filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou, two Aussies known as RackaRacka on YouTube, and director Ti West, who won fans over with the trilogy of X, Pearl and Maxxxine in recent years.

It’s not as though Kidman hasn’t dabbled in the genre throughout her career. Look no further than the likes of 2001’s The Others, 2013’s Stoker and 2017’s Killing of a Sacred Deer, all of which took a psychological approach to horror.

Kidman said she thought James Wan — co-creator of the Saw franchise and creator of The Conjuring franchise — wanted her to star in a horror project when he sought her out for Aquaman.

“I’d really wanted to work with him in horror,” she recalled.

Kidman can next be seen alongside Harris Dickinson in A24’s Babygirl, in theaters Dec. 25.

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On the Aug. 27 installment of Christina Applegate‘s podcast, MeSsy with Christina Applegate and Jamie–Lynn Sigler, the pair welcomed Christina’s TV dad and former Married with Children co-star Ed O’Neill.

His TV daughter’s introduction revealed the relationship rubbed off on the pair, even off camera. “I don’t even know how to explain this person. He raised me, so if you don’t like anything about me, it’s his fault.”

She continued, “If you do like anything about me, also his fault. Years, years of my life spent with this man and he’s an incredible actor, he’s an incredible human being.”

Applegate, who is now 52, met O’Neill when she was 15. He played family patriarch Al Bundy on the sitcom that ran on Fox from 1987 to 1997.

Christina went on to star in movies like the Anchorman franchise and shows like Dead to Me before becoming an advocate for multiple sclerosis.

O’Neill, of course, went on to star on Modern Family for 11 seasons.

The actor revealed how when he was cut as a rookie player for the Pittsburgh Steelers, he returned to Youngstown, Ohio, broke and was “thinking about” making money through a friend’s connection by working with the mafia.

Instead, he followed his dream to move to New York and become an actor, logging much dramatic stage work, until a turn in Of Mice and Men onstage — “NOT A COMEDY!” he laughed — led to Married with Children.

Applegate later said, “Nobody could have played Al like you,” due to his real-life blue-collar background.

She also shared how nurturing her onscreen mom Katey Sagal is: “You can lay in her lap and feel safe.”

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With the smash hit neo-Western Yellowstone riding back to Paramount Network on Nov. 10 for the second half of its fifth — supposedly final — season comes a report two of its stars may carry a sixth season.

Deadline says Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser, who respectively play firebrand Beth Dutton and her ranch boss hubby Rip Wheeler, have reportedly been in talks “for months” to return for a Yellowstone season 6. 

Puck News reported a short time ago that Hauser, Reilly and Luke Grimes — who plays Beth’s brother, Kayce — were likely moseying over to the Yellowstone spin-off when season 5 wraps up. 

That show, then called 2024, has been rebranded The Madison and won’t star the trio, but instead Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Fox.

So far there’s nothing official about a sixth season of Yellowstone.

Series lead Kevin Costner won’t be returning to Yellowstone when its fifth season rides off into the sunset — it’s unknown what will happen to his John Dutton.

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The Blake Lively/Justin Baldoni film It Ends with Us has been a smash hit, but could offscreen drama between the lead actress and her co-star producer-director prevent them from reuniting for the onscreen drama’s sequel?

With box office totals for the $25 million movie possibly reaching as high as $300 million before its run ends, Variety estimates, the movie has become the best-earning project for both leads — and will make a fortune for Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios production shingle.

There’s even a follow-up book to the original from Colleen Hoover called It Starts with Us, which technically could spin a sequel.

However, an insider tells the trade, “There’s probably no world where these two will work together again,” adding, “This is uncharted territory.”

Neither star has directly addressed the rumored bad blood, which some reports say stemmed from Lively overriding Baldoni on the final cut of the movie. Other whispers were that Baldoni was allegedly something of a bully on set. Lively also took flak for promoting a film about an abusive relationship as if it was a rom-com.

There’s also the matter of her husband, Ryan Reynolds, allegedly rewriting a scene without either telling Baldoni — and possibly while the Writers Guild was on strike in 2023.

Whatever the real story is, it’s obvious that a sequel to a blockbuster won’t be the no-brainer it usually is in Hollywood.

Baldoni’s abusive character, Ryle, has a smaller role in the second book, but he’s still a producer and the rights-holder on any potential follow-up, so he and Lively still would have to cooperate to get it made.

As for directing the sequel, he told Entertainment Weekly at the movie’s premiere, “I think there are better people for that. I think Blake Lively’s ready to direct.”

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One of the hardest Broadway shows to get tickets to this fall might have gotten easier — a little bit. 

Due to overwhelming demand, Tony-winning director Sam Gold‘s forthcoming Romeo + Juliet starring West Side Story‘s Rachel Zegler and Heartstopper lead Kit Connor will have a four-week extension, running through Feb. 16.

Previews for the show start on Sept. 26, ahead of an official opening on Oct. 24.

Both stars make their Broadway debut in the hotly anticipated adaptation of Shakespeare‘s famous play, which will also feature music from Grammy winner Jack Antonoff.

Fans were so excited for the team-up that upon its announcement back in April they crashed the production’s website. 

Of the play, the producers tease, “Left to their own devices in their parents’ world of violent ends, an impulsive pair of star-crossed lovers hurtle towards their inescapable fate. The intoxicating high of passion quickly descends into a brutal chaos that can only end one way.”

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The teaser trailer for Emilia Pérez has arrived.

In the new trailer for the Jacques Audiard-directed film, Selena Gomez stars alongside Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón and Adriana Paz in a film that is described as “an audacious fever dream that defies genres and expectations,” according to its synopsis.

The film “follows the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness,” according to the synopsis.

There’s Emilia (Gascón), a “fearsome cartel leader,” and Rita (Saldaña), an “unappreciated lawyer stuck in a dead-end job” who is enlisted by Emilia to help fake her death “so that Emilia can finally live authentically as her true self,” the synopsis for the film continues.

Audiard elaborated more on the film in an interview with Netflix’s Tudum and said it was inspired by Écoute, a novel by Boris Razon. The Emilia Pérez director and writer said halfway through reading the book, he came across a transgender drug dealer who wishes to have surgery.

“As the character wasn’t that developed over the following chapters, I decided to start my story there,” Audiard said.

Also starring Édgar Ramirez, Emilia Perez screened at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May.

Gomez recently posted to Instagram photos from when she was working on the film and a video from when she found out she landed the role.

Saldaña also took to Instagram to share a post from rehearsals and learning choreography with Damien Jalet.

“In that moment, I felt a sense of pure joy and fulfillment, like a little girl dancing in her living room and dreaming of the day she would be on stage (or on set) doing what she loves,” she captioned the post.

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“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” seems to be the order of the day in the action-packed new trailer to the forthcoming Sonic The Hedgehog 3.

According to Paramount Pictures, “Sonic (Ben Schwartz), Knuckles (Idris Elba), and Tails (Colleen O’Shaughnessey) reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before.”

Shadow is voiced by none other than Keanu Reeves, and his character goes John Wick mode on the heroes: He can teleport, fly and has the strength to best even Elba’s punchy Knuckles in hand-to-oversized-hand combat.

“Shadow’s story began much like yours did, Sonic,” a military man advises the heroic hedgehog. “But where you found family and friends, Shadow found only pain and loss.”

The producers continue, “With their abilities outmatched in every way, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance in hopes of stopping Shadow and protecting the planet.”

“He’s too powerful,” Sonic says. “I can’t believe I’m saying this, but we need you-know-who.”

That “you-know-who” is Jim Carrey‘s nefarious Dr. Robotnik, looking a little worse for wear when we first see him.

However, after a much-needed makeover to get him looking like his old self, he declares, “If I can’t rule the world, I might as well save it!”

Sonic The Hedgehog 3 opens in theaters in December.

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NBC has announced that The Kelly Clarkson Show will kick off its sixth season Sept. 23 with a rooftop party at the show’s 30 Rock headquarters. The upcoming season will include guest appearances from Kristen Bell, Halle Berry, Jim Carrey, Colin Farrell, Anna Kendrick, Uma Thurman, Kate Winslet and Zachary Quinto, as well as the cast of Emily In Paris and the cast of Wicked …

Make that Emily in Rome as the Netflix rom-com Emily in Paris moves to the Italian capital for part two of its fourth season. The streaming service released the trailer for season 4, part 2 on Monday. “Emily (Lily Collins) has everything she wants, but is it what she needs? From skiing in the French Alps to taking a Roman holiday, she’s ready for her next adventure,” reads the tag line for the upcoming season. Emily in Paris season 4, part 1 hit Netflix on Aug. 15. Part 2 drops on Sept. 12 …

Comedy Central has revealed Sept. 25 as the premiere date for Everybody Still Hates Chris, along with a first-look image. The series is an animated version of Chris Rock‘s sitcom Everybody Hates Chris, which ran for four seasons from 2005 to 2009. Rock returns as Adult Chris to narrate the reimagined series, with America’s Got Talent host Terry Crews voicing Chris’ dad, Julius, The Neighborhood‘s Tichina Arnold voicing Chris’ mother, Rochelle, and Saturdays‘ Tim Johnson Jr. as the voice of Young Chris …

Deadline reports The Good Wife creators Robert King and Michelle King are developing another legal drama for CBS. Tentatively titled Cupertino, the potential series is described as a “David vs. Goliath legal show set in Silicon Valley,” according to the outlet …

Hulu has picked up The Spot, a drama starring and executive produced by Kate Winslet, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series, created and scripted by writer Ed Solomon, who also directs, follows a successful surgeon — played by Winslet — whose husband suspects that she may be responsible for a child’s hit-and-run death, according to THR …

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