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The MTV Video Music Awards have an air date. The ceremony will air live from New Jersey’s Prudential Center on Tuesday, September 12, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Additional details will be announced closer to the show. The VMAs honor the best music videos of the past year with appearances and performances from music’s biggest stars…

Deadline reports What We Do in the Shadows star Matt Berry is in talks to join Jason Momoa in Minecraft, the film adaptation of the titular video game, which is the highest-selling of all time. Plot details, including Berry’s potential role, have not been revealed. The film is set for an April 4, 2025 release…

Original Blues Clues host Steve Burns is returning to his old stomping grounds. Entertainment Weekly reports he will appear in an upcoming episode of Nickelodeon’s popular kids TV show that he co-wrote and directed, titled “The Case of the Missing Thinking Chair.” Burns was the face of Blues Clues from its debut in 1996 through 2002. He was succeeded by Donovan Patton, as Burns’ cousin Joe — who also reprises his role in the episode. They join current star Josh Dela Cruz, who plays Steve’s brother and Joe’s cousin. “The Case of the Missing Thinking Chair” airs Friday, May 26, at 11:30 a.m. ET…

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The Voice revealed its season 23 winner — Gina Miles, from Niall Horan‘s team — and said goodbye to coach Blake Shelton after 23 seasons.

A shocked Miles beat out Grace West and NOIVAS from Team Blake, who placed fifth and second, respectively; D.Smooth from Kelly Clarkson’s team, who came in fourth; and Sorelle from Chance the Rapper’s team, who finished third.

However, the night also belonged to Blake, who was honored throughout the show.

Former coach Adam Levine appeared in person to say goodbye to his buddy and longtime co-star, along with many of Shelton’s past contestants, including Dia Frampton, Xenia, Jermaine Paul, Cassadee Pope, Danielle Bradbery, Swon Brothers, Todd Tilghman, Ian Flanigan, Bryce Leatherwood, Craig Wayne Boyd, RaeLynn and Sundance Head, who performed Green Day‘s “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).”

Former coaches Miley Cyrus, Camila Cabello, Jennifer Hudson, Usher, Pharrell Williams, CeeLo Green, Nick Jonas, and John Legend also sent video messages, along with NASCAR star Jimmie Johnson, Olympic champion Lindsey Vonn, Olympic track and field champ Jackie Joyner-Kersee and former NFL star Peyton Manning. Dolly Parton also sent best wishes, as well as George Strait, the last of whom said that he hoped to see Blake on the road sometime.

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It’s a whole new The Little Mermaid swimming into theaters this weekend. The live action remake of the 1989 animated Disney film stars Halle Bailey in the title role. She’s African-American, and many say the move is a huge leap forward in representation.

“The representation is so part of why I’m so excited to be part of this movie,” South African-British actress Noma Dumezweni, who plays a new character in the film, Queen Selina, mother to Prince Eric, tells ABC Audio.

“Because we have grown up in a different time. And look we all live in a small space and then when we meet the rest of the world, sometimes a lot of us get scared,” she continues. “Sometimes a lot of us go into adventure mode and want to meet other people. But the majority of people are fearful. And so what? For me, it is a fairy tale. A lot of people will see themselves. And for me, that’s when things make sense.”

And watching the film on the big screen at the premiere, adds Dumezweni, was a magical experience.

“To sit in an auditorium with thousands, literally thousands of people going, ‘Wow, this is it,'” she shares. “And that screen and the applause after each song. And I’m not singing, I was like, ‘This is it’s fabulous. It’s fabulous.'”

Jonah Hauer-King, who plays Prince Eric, recalls “I got quite lucky because most of our stuff, pretty much all of our stuff we actually could see around us, we actually experienced.”

Adds Jonah, “I don’t know how Halle and the mermaids and Melissa [McCarthy] … did it, because they were in a blue box, essentially. Whereas our palace, that kiss the girl rainforest, you know, that was all there.”

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On Tuesday, Netflix released the teaser to Skull Island, the animated spinoff of the “Monsterverse” movies that kicked off with 2014’s Godzilla. 

The snippet of the anime shows a group of humans marooned on the mysterious, monster-filled home of King Kong, tangling with its nasty inhabitants. 

The Hollywood Reporter says Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem voice star Nicolas Cantu will play Charlie, one of the marooned; the cast also includes Law & Order veteran Benjamin Bratt as Cap, The Duff‘s Mae Whitman playing Annie and The Tomorrow War‘s Betty Gilpin as Irene.

The series drops on June 22.

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In a touching new article in AARP The Magazine, Jeff Bridges speaks candidly about his battle with lymphoma, which he revealed in 2020, and a subsequent fight with COVID-19.

Bridges recalls he was on a pandemic break of shooting his FX show The Old Man when he noticed something was wrong. “I was doing some exercises while on the ground and felt what seemed like a bone in my stomach. I thought to myself, Hmm. But it didn’t hurt or anything,” he explained, so he put off seeing a doctor.

He later found out he had lymphoma and a 9-by-12-inch cancerous tumor near his stomach.

While being treated with chemotherapy, his immune system was suppressed and he contracted COVID. “Cancer was nothing compared to the COVID,” the actor recalled, explaining he spent five weeks in the hospital.

“I was in surrender mode,” he admitted. “I’d say to myself, ‘Everybody dies, and this is me dying.'”

He explained, “I fought by surrendering, which is not the same as giving up … What I really felt at the time was love. … So what I did was more like giving in to love, you know?”

Bridges said after leaving the hospital he set “really small goals.”

“At first, they’d say, ‘How long can you stand?’ For a while, my record was 45 seconds before I’d collapse. And then they were saying: ‘Oh, look, you’re standing for a minute! That’s so cool, now can you walk five feet?'” he recalls.

He met a goal of walking his daughter Hayley down the aisle in August 2021; that September, he announced his cancer was in remission.

Bridges, who feared he’d never work again, returned to finish shooting The Old Man in October 2021, calling it “like a dream.”

The mass in his stomach is now the size “of a marble,” Bridges said, and he’s about to start work on season 2 of the spy drama.

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Robert De Niro‘s Tribeca Enterprises company announced that his 1993 directorial effort, A Bronx Tale, is coming back in a special 30th anniversary edition on Blu-ray, 4K UHD and video on demand platforms. 

The anniversary edition will be released September 12.

Written by and co-starring Chazz Palminteri, and based on his hit one-man play, the movie starred De Niro as a hardworking bus driver and father in the New York City borough whose son (Lillo Brancato) falls under the influence of Palminteri’s mob boss Sonny LoSpecchio.

In the announcement, De Niro noted, “As my directorial debut, A Bronx Tale helped me to see what it’s like on the other side of the camera. I’m excited to present this newly restored 30th Anniversary Edition and hope that it will be enjoyed by new audiences everywhere.”

Palminteri said, “As an actor and writer, A Bronx Tale was the spark that lit my career. … I was blessed to have Robert De Niro direct my script and make a perfect film that will last for generations to come.”

Additionally, Tribeca announced there will be a special 30th anniversary screening of the film on Saturday, June 17, to close out this year’s Tribeca Festival, which was founded by De Niro and longtime collaborator Jane Rosenthal. They will join Palminteri for a Q&A panel after the screening. 

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Tuesday is National Turtle Day, and what better way for Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies to celebrate than by announcing they’ve bumped up the release of the upcoming animated movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.

The movie, co-written and co-produced by The Boys‘ Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, will now hit theaters August 2.

The film features the voices of Rogen, along with his pals Paul Rudd and his The Neighbors co-star Rose Byrne, as well as Hannibal Buress, John Cena, Jackie Chan, Ice Cube, The Bear‘s Ayo Edebiri, The Mandalorian‘s Giancarlo Esposito, Maya Rudolph and Post Malone, among others.

The studios tease, “After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O’Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them.”

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For Netflix freeloaders, the free streaming buffet is coming to a close. On its media site, the streaming giant revealed its long-rumored plan to stop the practice of users sharing their passwords. 

In an email to subscribers, Netflix wrote, “Your Netflix account is for you and the people you live with — your household. Everyone living in that household can use Netflix wherever they are — at home, on the go, on holiday — and take advantage of new features like Transfer Profile and Manage Access and Devices.”

That said, for people who don’t live under your roof, well, they’re out of luck, unless you’re feeling generous. 

For an extra $7.99 a month, you can add an outside user to your account, the streaming giant says.

A similar policy was launched overseas last year for Netflix’s global users.

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Apple TV+’s Reese Witherspoon-produced, Jennifer Garner-starring drama series The Last Thing He Told Me has become the most-watched limited series since the streaming platform launched in 2019, ABC Audio has confirmed.

Based on Laura Dave‘s bestseller, the show sees Garner’s Hannah and her stepdaughter Bailey (Angourie Rice) looking for Hannah’s husband, Owen (Game of Thrones‘ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), who vanishes, and leaves only a cryptic note and a duffel bag full of cash.

The series drew 4.5 million unique viewers in its first 31 days of streaming, and now ranks only behind the Emmy-winning phenomenon Ted Lasso and Shrinking, the dramedy series starring Harrison Ford and co-creator Jason Segel.

Rice explains having the author of the book on board as a producer made all the difference. “What’s so incredible about Laura Dave is that she knows the story inside out. She has an answer for everything,” Rice tells ABC Audio.

“But she’s also curious about what you think and what you want to bring to it. And I think that incredible combination of flexibility, but also complete understanding of the world and the characters and the story that she has created, that is just such a joy and such a treat as an actor to have access to that on set every day,” she adds.

Aisha Tyler plays Hannah’s bestie Jules and said the show appeals to fans of the book, as well as those who haven’t read it. “Like I played (video game) The Last of Us, and then I loved the series because it was just more of what I love about the game,” she says, adding those who have read the novel get “like a super-sized serving of the world that they loved.”

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With all the subtlety of a tank — literally, he crushes a Mercedes in the open — Arnold Schwarzenegger appears in a new Netflix spot teasing the streaming giant’s summer slate.

“No one likes action more than I do, so that’s why I accepted the big new job of chief action officer,” Arnold says, before signing off on an explosion — and teasing Chris Hemsworth‘s upcoming Extraction 2; Jennifer Lopez‘s Mother; Heart of Stone; the upcoming season of The Witcher; and, of course, his upcoming action comedy series Fubar, among others.

“Nobody knows action more than I do, and nobody hits like Netflix,” the action icon says in the clip.

While Mother is already available for streaming, Fubar debuts Thursday, May 25, followed by the action comedy Blood and Gold the next day.

Schwarzenegger’s documentary Arnold drops June 7; Bloodhounds premieres June 9; Extraction 2 on June 16; and the reboot of the action series iNumber Number debuts on June 23.

The Witcher returns June 29, while the action comedy The Out-Laws drops on July 7, followed by the reboot Bird Box Barcelona on July 14. Jamie Foxx‘s They Cloned Tyrone drops on July 21, and Gal Gadot‘s techno thriller Heart of Stone debuts on August 11.

The sizzle reel also teased as “coming soon” the Asian gangster series The Brothers Sun with Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh and the action picture Lift with Kevin Hart.

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