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Universal’s 2008 film, The Incredible Hulk, will finally air on Disney+ now that the rights, held by Universal for 15 years, have reverted to Marvel Studios.

“Smashing news. Marvel Studios’ The Incredible #Hulk arrives tomorrow on #DisneyPlus,” the streamer tweeted on Thursday. The film — starring Edward Norton in the titular role, who was replaced by Mark Ruffalo starting with 2012’s The Avengers — followed the origin story of Bruce Banner’s exposure to gamma radiation that transformed him into the raging green monster.

The movie also stars Tim Roth as Emil Blonsky, a soldier who was turned into the monstrous Abomination to go toe to toe with Hulk. The Pulp Fiction star reprised the dual role briefly on the big screen in 2021’s Shang-Chi, and more extensively in Disney+’s She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.

Also starring in Hulk are Liv Tyler and Tim Blake Nelson, who will reprise their respective roles as Betty Ross and Samuel Sterns in Captain America: Brave New World, hitting theaters July 26, 2024.

In that film, Harrison Ford will take over the role of Thunderbolt Ross, previously played by the late William Hurt who appeared as the character in Hulk, and throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe, ending with 2019’s Avengers: Endgame. 

The Incredible Hulk launches Friday, June 16 on Disney+. Disney is the parent company of ABC News.

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Billions will officially end with season 7, Showtime announced on Thursday. The 12 episode season is set to launch on Paramount+ August 11, before making its cable TV debut on Showtime August 13. In season 7, “alliances are turned on their heads. Old wounds are weaponized. Loyalties are tested. Betrayal takes on epic proportions. Enemies become wary friends,” per the cable network. And Damian Lewis‘ Bobby Axelrod returns, “as the stakes grow from Wall Street to the world.” Billions also stars Paul Giamatti, Maggie Siff, David Costabile, Asia Kate Dillon, Dola Rashad, Jeffrey DeMunn, Sakina Jaffrey, Daniel Breaker and Toney Goins…

NBC is bringing back Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, according to Deadline. Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom Protecting the Wild, hosted by Peter Gross, premieres Saturday, October 7. The original series premiered on NBC in 1963, co-hosted by Marlon Perkins and Jim Fowler. It moved to syndication in 1971 and aired until 1988. It was revived in 2002 on Animal Planet, running through 2011. Gross succeeded Perkins, who retired in 1985. Perkins died in 1986, followed by Fowler in 2019…

Glenda Jackson, the two-time Oscar winner who took a break from acting to spend 23 years in the British Parliament before returning to acting, died peacefully after a brief illness at her home in Blackheath, London, her agent Lionel Larner announced in a statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. She was 87. Her many accolades included the best actress Oscar for 1969’s Women in Love and A Touch of Class in 1973; a pair of Emmys for her performance as Elizabeth I in the BBC miniseries Elizabeth R; and a Tony for the 2018 Broadway revival of Edward Albee‘s Three Tall Women. She recently completed filming The Great Escaper opposite Michael Caine, according to Larner…

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Dylan Sprouse and model Barbara Palvin took to their respective Instagrams on Thursday, June 15 to confirm their engagement after five years of dating.

“With the power invested in V I am a Sprouse to be,” Palvin wrote, alongside a photo from her and Sprouse’s joint V Magazine cover shoot, showing the two dressed as a bride and groom in front of a wedding cake.

“Sprouses to be,” The Suite Life of Zack & Cody star captioned a different picture from the shoot.

Zach revealed in the V Magazine article — conducted by his twin brother and Suite Life co-star Cole Sprouse — that the engagement actually took place back in September of 2022.

“We didn’t necessarily feel the need to be fully transparent with the public about that aspect of our engagement,” the 30-year-old actor explained, “What we wanted to do…is make something that was kind of tongue-in-cheek about the nature of private versus public. We’re playing with the idea of perception.”

“I knew we were building this story up. So, I’m very happy that we ended up doing it our way,” Barbara, 29, added.

The couple, sparked engagement rumors back in March, when Palvin was spotted with a diamond ring on that finger and had been referring to Sprouse as her fiancé, according to Us Weekly.

Sprouse and Palvin have been mum on their wedding plans, except to reveal that it will take place in Palvin’s native Hungary.

“I know there was no way we would have not had a wedding in Hungary because my parents would have killed me,” she joked.

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On Thursday, June 15, AMC dropped the second season trailer to its acclaimed Indigenous-centered drama series, Dark Winds.

Once again, Zahn McClarnon stars as Lt. Joe Leaphorn, who in season 2 teams up with deputy-turned-private eye Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon) “when their separate cases bring them together in pursuit of the same suspect,” according to AMC.

The network teases, “They find themselves in the high desert of Navajo Country chasing a killer who’s turned his sights on them to protect a secret that rips open old wounds and challenges Leaphorn’s moral and professional code.”

The show is based on the iconic Leaphorn & Chee book series by Tony Hillerman and co-produced by McClarnon, Robert Redford and Game of Thrones universe creator George R.R. Martin.

This season also features Star Trek: Picard‘s Jeri Ryan as Rosemary Vines, “a femme fatale whose physical frailties hide her naked ambition as she plays Jim Chee, leaving a trail of bodies in her wake.”

Dopesick‘s Nicholas Logan also stars this season as Colton Wolf, “a twisted assassin with a secret that puts him on a collision course with Lt. Joe Leaphorn.”

The six-episode second season will debut on AMC and AMC+ in July.

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Al Pacino has become a father for the fourth time, ABC Audio has confirmed. 

The 83-year-old’s 29-year-old producer girlfriend, Noor Alfallah, gave birth to a son named Roman Pacino, according to a rep for the Godfather icon, who said, “No other statements or comments will be provided.” 

Pacino made headlines in May when it was confirmed he and Alfallah were expecting, with the mom-to-be reportedly around eight months along when the news broke. 

Pacino also has a 33-year-old daughter, named Julie Pacino, from his relationship with acting coach Jan Tarrant, as well as 22-year-old twins Anton and Olivia Pacino from his time with Vacation actress Beverly D’Angelo.

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The mostly undead gang from What We Do in the Shadows is coming back July 13 on FX, and to spread the word, FX has dropped a new trailer.

The fifth season of the acclaimed show picks up where the last season left off: Harvey Guillén‘s Guillermo has lost his patience with Nandor (Kayvan Novak) and decides to find someone else to make him a vampire.

However, in the trailer, we learn the transformation isn’t going smoothly — particularly what should be his transformation from a bat and back. Matt Berry‘s Lazlo is trying to guide him, but offering about as much help as one would expect from the self-centered character.

Meanwhile, Colin Robinson, who survives by draining people’s energy, has found a perfect job to do just that — local politics. The coming attraction even shows that Colin will finally get into bed with Natasia Demetriou‘s Nadja, who in the trailer is also trying to find a sexual partner for the ghost of her deceased human form, which as viewers know has inhabited a creepy little doll version of the vampire.

The Staten Island-set show also features a vampire trip to the mall, according to the trailer, which shows Nandor trying to convince a cashier to use a cutout photo of Ryan Seacrest as a coupon.

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As part of its Halloween Horror Nights this year, Universal Studios has announced it’s bringing the scares of HBO’s smash video game adaptation The Last of Us to its visitors in a new themed haunted house experience.

In a very spooky trailer, a young woman is playing the hit game online with her friends when a real outbreak interrupts her connection, and the game’s — and series’ — undead “Clickers” begin stalking into her home.

Producers of the attraction tease, “You and your squad must stay silent if you want to survive Clickers and more as the gritty world of Naughty Dog’s video game comes to life.”

The promo video ends with some visitors screaming their heads off as they walk through a room in a post-apocalyptic home.

The attraction takes place on select nights from September 6 through Halloween night at Universal’s Orlando and California parks.

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As part of its Halloween Horror Nights this year, Universal Studios has announced it’s bringing the scares of HBO’s smash video game adaptation The Last of Us to its visitors in a new themed haunted house experience.

In a very spooky trailer, a young woman is playing the hit game online with her friends when a real outbreak interrupts her connection, and the game’s — and series’ — undead “Clickers” begin stalking into her home.

Producers of the attraction tease, “You and your squad must stay silent if you want to survive Clickers and more as the gritty world of Naughty Dog’s video game comes to life.”

The promo video ends with some visitors screaming their heads off as they walk through a room in a post-apocalyptic home.

The attraction takes place on select nights from September 6 through Halloween night at Universal’s Orlando park; the Halloween Horror Nights annual event will also take place in the California park.

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In a lengthy interview in the German publication ZEITmagazin, embattled actor Kevin Spacey details his life after he became ensnared in the #MeToo movement and how he’s aiming for a career comeback.

The interview was published as Spacey faces sex assault charges in a U.K. court on Friday, June 16, less than a year after a New York City jury cleared him in a civil trial from another accuser, actor Anthony Rapp. Rapp claimed Spacey made sexual advances on him in 1986, when Rapp was 14.

Spacey pleaded not guilty to multiple charges of sexual assault in a London court in July 2022. The charges stem from men who said the two-time Oscar winner sexually assaulted them in England almost 20 years ago.

To the publication, Spacey reportedly said of the accusations, “The moment scrutiny is applied, these things fall apart. That’s what happened in the Rapp trial, and that’s what will happen in this case.”

The interviewer noted interactions the actor had with the public while she spent time with him were overwhelmingly positive. “I draw my resilience from encounters like that,” he comments.

Spacey intimates that’s also the case in private with filmmakers and producers to this day. “It’s a time in which a lot of people are very afraid that if they support me, they will be cancelled,” he says.

“But I know that there are people right now who are ready to hire me the moment I am cleared of these charges in London. The second that happens, they’re ready to move forward.”

Spacey claims in the downtime, he’s been working on himself and his craft, recently in a voiceover role in a low-budget thriller. “Just because I was being benched for a while, I’m not going to stop working,” he says. “I don’t want to get rusty. I’m ready.”

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ABC News Studios has announced an upcoming summer slate of true crime shows bound for Hulu.

First up is The Ashley Madison Affair on Friday, July 7. The three-part series will explore the titular “discreet affairs” site, which was hacked, exposing the identities of users who weren’t single but were ready to mingle. “Upon the exposé-style demise of Ashley Madison, the public soon discovered that perhaps the site’s unfaithful users were not the only ones with a secret,” producers tease.

Betrayal: The Perfect Husband premieres Tuesday, July 11. Based on ABC Studios’ popular podcast, the three-part series centers on high school teacher Spencer Herron‘s sexual assaults against his high school students — and how his wife’s vision of their perfect marriage was anything but. The series “features emotional interviews with multiple women who say they were involved with Herron and the one student who put an end to the twisted teacher’s reign of sexual improprieties.”

Thursday, July 27, will see Mother Undercover drop: a four-part series about a group of moms who took matters into their own hands to spare their kids from “murder, international kidnapping, mass suicide and judicial corruption.”

Thursday, August 3, will see the premiere of Demons and Saviors. It’s the three-part story of Christina Boyer, a woman speculated to have telekinetic abilities who was sentenced to life for murdering her 3-year-old daughter. The program follows a group of amateur detectives “consumed by their obsession to exonerate her” by exploring her claims of innocence, her troubled upbringing and her alleged abilities.

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