Omar Epps attends the ‘Red Clay’ screening during the 2025 Annual Atlanta Film Festival at Plaza Theatre on May 03, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Carol Lee Rose/Getty Images)
Omar Epps has joined the cast for an upcoming untitled football drama that will be making its way to Hulu. ABC Audio has confirmed he’ll be taking on the recurring role of an offensive coordinator who was formerly an NFL player.
Epps will join a cast starring Christopher Meloni and This Is Us alum Mandy Moore, who will portray Lauren, daughter of William H. Macy‘s Hank.
The logline for the Dan Fogelman series has yet to be disclosed, but it’s “set inside the world of the NFL with a generational family component,” according to a press release.
The untitled series will be Fogelman’s second series on Hulu. His show Paradise, starring This Is Us star Sterling K. Brown, premiered in January.
Maria Zhang, Miya Cech, Dallas Liu, Gordan Cormier, Kiawentiio Tarbell and Ian Ousley on the set of ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender.’ (Katie Yu/Netflix)
Production has officially wrapped on Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Netflix has revealed that the live-action reimagining of the popular Nickelodeon animated series has finished production on its third and final season.
To commemorate the occasion, Netflix shared a photo of some of the cast from one of their last days on set.
The photo features Gordon Cormier (Aang), Kiawentiio (Katara), Ian Ousley (Sokka), Dallas Liu (Zuko), Miya Cech (Toph) and Maria Zhang (Suki).
“That’s a series wrap on Avatar: The Last Airbender… and exciting Season 2 updates are coming very soon,” Netflix shared to Instagram on Monday.
Netflix renewed Avatar: The Last Airbender for two seasons, which were filmed back-to-back, after the success of season 1.
While the series has finished filming through its third season, season 2 has yet to premiere. Netflix shared that in season 2, “the stakes have never been higher as Aang, the young Avatar, learns to master the four elements (Water, Earth, Fire and Air) to restore balance to a world threatened by the terrifying Fire Nation.”
“When we started working on season 2, we gathered three forces: integrity, hope, and joy. And here we are almost three years later wrapping the end of production with an immensely talented and devoted team that met those ideals and exceeded them,” the show’s executive producer and writer Christine Boylan told Netflix’s Tudum. “I am eternally grateful to be part of this important, hilarious, action-packed team who is bringing this epic live action story to the world.”
Sydney Sweeney as Christy Martin in the movie ‘Christy.’ (Eddy Chen)
Sydney Sweeney is opening up about the low box office performance of her latest film, Christy.
The actress, who portrays boxer Christy Martin in the biographic drama film, took to Instagram to share the impact the film had on her life and how that means more to her than box office numbers.
“i am so deeply proud of this movie,” Sweeney captioned a photo carousel of photos from her time on set. “proud of the story we told. proud to represent someone as strong and resilient as Christy Martin. this experience has been one of the greatest honors of my life.”
Sweeney wrote that the film “stands for survival, courage, and hope.”
“through our campaigns, we’ve helped raise awareness for so many affected by domestic violence. we all signed on to this film with the belief that christy’s story could save lives,” Sweeney wrote.
The actress ended her post by thanking everyone who went to the theaters and also those who will see the film in the future.
“if christy gave even one woman the courage to take her first step toward safety, then we will have succeeded. so yes I’m proud,” Sweeney wrote. “why? because we don’t always just make art for numbers, we make it for impact. and christy has been the most impactful project of my life. thank you christy. i love you.”
Christy earned $1.3 million during its opening weekend at the box office, making it one of the worst openings ever for a film released in over 2,000 North American theaters.
A poster for ‘With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration.’ (Netflix)
We now know when With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration will arrive to Netflix.
The upcoming installment of Meghan Markle‘s series arrives to the streaming service on Dec. 3. It will run just under an hour.
The episode finds the Duchess of Sussex letting audiences in to her Montecito, California, home as she shares her tips and tricks for how to make the holiday season even more special.
She will share how her friends and family deck the halls together, go over the details for how to create a holiday feast, give crafting ideas meant to inspire homemade gifts and many more how-tos that audiences can follow along with at home.
“It’s a holiday wonder with warmth, tradition, and a generous dose of joy,” according to a press release from Netflix.
If you are looking to get into the holiday spirit before the new episode drops, the Duchess’ brand, As ever, has also shared a recent drop of seasonal gifts, such as hand-poured candles and hot toddy mulling spice kits.
Chrishell Stause is saying goodbye to Selling Sunset. The reality TV star told Bustle that if the show is renewed for season 10, she will not be part of it. “I’m lucky to have other forms of employment, because it’s no longer good for my mental health,” Stause told the outlet …
Comedian Nate Bargatze has found his next project. He is set to host an all-new game show called The Greatest Average American. The show, which will air on ABC and stream the next day on Hulu, will find contestants guessing how everyday Americans think and live. It premieres on Feb. 25, 2026 …
Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver are joining forces for a new thriller film. Deadline reports the duo will star in Useful Idiots, which will be directed by Joseph Cedar. Streep will play a veteran journalist who covers the New York luxury property market …
Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi attend the World Premiere of 20th Century Studios “Predator: Badlands” at TCL Chinese Theatre on November 03, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Frazer Harrison/WireImage)
The latest Predator movie made prey out of all the other offerings at the box office.
Predator: Badlands, the ninth film in the long-running sci-fi action horror franchise, debuted at #1 with a total gross of $40 million in its first weekend, according to Box Office Mojo.
Romantic drama Regretting You nabbed second place with $7.125 million, while horror sequel Black Phone 2 took #3 with an additional $5.3 million.
Two new releases rounded out the top five: Sarah’s Oil, with $4.458 million, and Nuremburg, with $4.147 million.
Here are the top 10 films at the box office:
1. Predator: Badlands — $40 million 2. Regretting You – $7.125 million 3. Black Phone 2 — $5.3 million 4. Sarah’s Oil — $4.458 million 5. Nuremburg — $4.147 million 6. Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc — $3.6 million 7. Bugonia — $3.5 million 8. Die My Love— $2.83 million 9. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere — $2.2 million 10. Tron: Ares — $1.8 million
Tyler Perry speaks onstage during the Tyler Perry’s Finding Joy Atlanta screening at Regal Atlantic Station on November 02, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images for Amazon)
Tyler Perry is sharing the wealth with families who lost benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), ABC News has learned. He donated nearly $1.4 million to organizations, including Baby2Baby, Meal on Wheels Atlanta and Atlanta Food Bank, who are helping impacted families.
“If you’ve never been poor then you may not fully understand the life changing impact SNAP benefits mean to hard-working people, to our seniors and to our children,” Tyler says in a statement to People. “For millions of people, it could mean extreme hunger. For newborns, it could mean a lack of access to formula.”
The SNAP program “provides food benefits to low-income families…so they can afford the nutritious food essential to health and well-being,” according to the official USDA website. With the government shutdown in place, the benefits were halted on Nov. 1, affecting nearly 42 million low-income Americans, according to ABC News.
A federal judge had ordered the Trump administration pay and fully distribute the SNAP benefits for the month of November, but Trump sought to get the order blocked. The Trump administration asked the appeals court to make a decision by 4 p.m. ET Friday.
Krysten Ritter attends the Los Angeles premiere of ‘Stone Cold Fox’ at The London West Hollywood at Beverly Hills on Nov. 2, 2025, in West Hollywood, California. (Paul Archuleta/Getty Images)
Kiernan Shipka headlines a new ’80s-set thriller called Stone Cold Fox, where the star must flee a dangerous relationship with a drug dealer named Goldie, played by Krysten Ritter.
“I don’t know what that says about me, but I seem to have a lot of fun when I play roles like this, Goldie in Stone Cold Fox, also Lady Vengeance in Dexter: [Resurrection],” Ritter tells ABC Audio. “I just love an opportunity to be unapologetically bad.”
Ritter, who also starred in shows like Breaking Bad and Jessica Jones, says Goldie was an opportunity to expand upon her series of dark performances.
“I think Goldie was a way for me to push that even further and really play around,” she says. “It is very different from what I’ve done, it’s completely unhinged and just so fun.”
In addition to being set “sometime in the ’80s,” according to an early title card, Stone Cold Fox is also steeped in the aesthetics of the era, from film grain, to heightened fight sequences that incorporate stop-motion animation.
“I love when people are going to take a big swing. I love a visual language and a big stamp like that,” says Ritter, crediting director Sophie Tabet.
For Goldie, Ritter and the film’s costuming team turned to Martin Scorsese’s Casino.
“That movie is so incredible and Sharon Stone’s wardrobe and everything, all of that, was a big inspiration. And I’m wearing the fur coat — obviously mine’s fake.”
The movie also stars Kiefer Sutherland, who is an ’80s icon in his own right. Ritter says she’s such a fan of Sutherland’s performance in the 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys, she even has a T-shirt featuring one of Sutherland’s lines from the movie.
“And I wore it for the first day working with Kiefer — like a dork!” says Ritter.
Jennifer Lawrence appears on ‘The Tonight Show.’ (Todd Owyoung/NBC)
Jennifer Lawrence is sharing new details about the Miss Piggy film she is developing with Emma Stone.
The actress revealed what originally sparked the idea for the movie centered on the iconic Muppet, which ColeEscola is writing, in a recent appearance on The Tonight Show.
“So, during lockdown, one of my good friends who is not in the industry—it was also kind of around cancel culture, it was like both things were kind of happening at once. We were all locked up in our rooms, naughty people were being locked up in prison,” Lawrence said.
After setting up the backstory, Lawrence described how the premise was derived.
“Miss Piggy is a feminist icon, and she said it would be so funny if Miss Piggy got canceled. Now, that is not the plot, necessarily, but it got the wheels turning,” Lawrence said.
The actress also noted that “there hasn’t actually been” a solo film centered around Miss Piggy before.
“I started kind of producing it. But Emma Stone is the Muppet-head. Also, Emma Stone is a shark. Emma Stone will turn around in a leather jacket with a cigar and be like, ‘Hey kid, let me tell ya a thing or two about Hollywood,'” Lawrence said. “I’m just the ideas guy. So I went to her to be like, ‘What do we do?'”
Lawrence originally shared the news of the project on the Las Culturistas podcast episode that was released on Wednesday.
Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler, Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair, Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler, Joe Keery as Steve Harrington, Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers and Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson in ‘Stranger Things’ season 5. (Netflix)
(SPOILER ALERT)Stranger Things fans have been given a chance to return to the Upside Down a few weeks early.
Netflix has released the first five minutes of the fifth and final season of Stranger Things, and they may leave audiences surprised with where and when the season starts.
Season 5 begins with a scene that canonically takes place in season 1. It opens with Will Byers, played by NoahSchnapp, on Nov. 12, 1983 — six days after he originally went missing.
A de-aged Schnapp acting as 12-year-old Will is confused and shaking with fear inside of the Upside Down’s version of Castle Byers. He sings the song “Should I Stay or Should I Go” by The Clash to himself in an attempt to calm himself down. His older brother, Jonathan (Charlie Heaton), introduced that song to him in the series’ pilot episode.
A demogorgon then crashes inside of Castle Byers. Will makes his escape after shooting the creature with a hunting rifle. The young boy climbs a tree to try to outwit the demogorgon, but it scales up after him, causing Will to plummet to the ground, unconscious.
The creature pulls Will to the Upside Down’s version of Hawkins Library, straight to the villainous Vecna (JamieCampbell Bower).
“You and I, we are going to do such beautiful things together, William,” Vecna says to the boy.
Netflix is releasing season 5 in three different drops. The first four episodes arrive on Nov. 26, just ahead of Thanksgiving, while the following three episodes will debut on Dec. 25. The series finale of Stranger Things premieres on Dec. 31.
