Good news/bad news for Stranger Things fans. Those jonesing for any information about new episodes just got some — but they’ll have to wait until 2022 to actually see what happens.
Netflix just revealed a new peek at the upcoming fourth season, teasing the return of the global hit sci-fi show. The action in the snippet comes at a rapid-fire pace, but the residents of Hawkins, Indiana will apparently have their hands full.
“Holy mother of…” Gaten Materazzo‘s Dustin says, reacting to an unseen horror.
The growing menace can be summed up with Millie Bobby Brown‘s warning as her character, Eleven:
Just in time for holiday gift giving, Dan Levy and Eugene Levy are putting their stamp on a love letter to fans of their nine-time Emmy winning creation Schitt’s Creek: a coffee table book.
According to Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, “This beautifully produced, keepsake coffee-table book is the ultimate celebration of the series, the town, the characters, and the state of mind that is Schitt’s Creek.”
Calling the 368-page work “a gift to fans everywhere who have made the show their own,” Best Wishes captures, “the essence and alchemy of all six seasons of what is now considered to be one of the most groundbreaking comedy television series of the last decade.”
The photo-packed book will include character profiles from the Rose family — Johnny, Moira, David and Alexis — as well as of all of the characters that populate the show’s titular town.
The book will document special moments in the town’s history and of the Rose family, and will also include “special features such as the complete, illustrated catalogs of David’s knits and Moira’s wigs, Moira’s vocabulary, Alexis’s adventures, and behind-the-scenes moments from Dan and Eugene Levy and the cast of Schitt’s Creek.”
Not bad for a coffee table book that only costs around $40.
Kendall Jenner may be heading to court for allegedly failing to show up to a photoshoot and now faces a nearly $2 million lawsuit.
E! News reports that fashion company Liu Jo filed a lawsuit against Jenner on Monday, accusing the model of breach of contract for failing to show for a gig and claiming they’ve already paid her $1.35 million.
Liu Jo states they paid Jenner for two photoshoots and that she failed to show for the last one. The first photoshoot was held in July 2019 and the second was was initially slated for March 2020. The company admits the COVID-19 pandemic prohibited her from flying to London for the second shoot and both parties agreed to postpone the date.
The suit claims the reality star then “ceased responding to Liu Jo” when attempting to set a new date. The company then, according to the legal docs, “informed her that it considered her in breach of the contract and that, therefore, the contract was terminated.”
The company also states it had “no success in obtaining a refund” from Jenner, saying she has yet to pay back the amount for not attending the second shoot.
In all, Liu Jo is seeking $1.8 million in damages, claiming her “refusal to negotiate” forced the company to hire new models “and restructure its entire Spring/Summer 2021 photoshoot… due to Ms. Jenner’s refusal to uphold her end of the bargain.”
Jenner’s reps, The Society Management, dismissed the suit when speaking to E!, and claimed, “This suit is without merit. The Society Management, on behalf of Ms. Kendall Jenner, has continually offered Liu Jo alternative dates and locations to fulfill an agreement that was forced to be delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic.”
Idris Elba and Daniela Melchior say they got a rare opportunity to cultivate the characters they portray in the new DC Comics superhero film The Suicide Squad.
Elba, who plays mercenary Robert DuBois, aka Bloodsport, tells ABC Audio that he and his other cast members learned “very late in the process” that although the script was written, the character with the “central storyline” had yet to be defined.
“We didn’t know. [It could] be any one of a number of characters from the DC Universe,” he says. “So, eventually we found that it was Bloodsport.”
From there, Elba says his “first stop” was to “understand” his character’s background and motivation.
“Where he’d come from, why he’s in jail in beginning of the movie, and such,” he explains. “And then…you pull apart this story [and see] he’s the guy that put Superman in intensive care and that becomes like, ‘Kaaah! What is that about?'”
Elba says learning about who DuBois was helped him to authentically embody him.
“It was a really good place to come from,” Elba says.
His co-star Melchior, who plays Cleo Cazo, aka Ratcatcher 2, agrees, noting that it was a relief that she could have “creative freedom” and not just “go after” her father, Ratcatcher, the man who taught her how to control rats.
“And I love the fact my approach and [director] James [Gunn‘s] approach for this character — it’s really different,” she says. “And I’m really excited to know…if the fans like it, because… not all supervillains have to be born being supervillains.”
The Suicide Squad, also starring Viola Davis and John Cena, is in theaters nationwide and streaming on HBO Max.
Can you imagine what a Deadpool x Bambi crossover might look like? Ryan Reynolds did, only Disney didn’t bite.
Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox gave them the rights to the Deadpool franchise, and gave Reynolds — who plays the titular character — an idea for a short film that would have the wisecracking mercenary crossing over with the classic animated Disney movie.
“I wanted to do a short film of Deadpool interrogating the hunter who killed Bambi’s mom. But the whole gist of it is that Deadpool is actually just a huge fan,” Ryan explained in an interview with IGN. “He’s not interrogating — he just wants to know how he could be the most loathed Disney character in the history of Disney.”
Disney’s response, according to Reynolds was, “Well, I don’t think that’s ever going to happen.”
However, the studio did accept Reynolds’ next pitch for the crossover piece featuring Deadpool and Korg — the CG-body that Taika Waititi voiced and motion-performed in Thor: Ragnarok and Avengers: Endgame — which served as marketing for Reynolds’ upcoming film, Free Guy.
“We wrote the Deadpool-Korg piece…and we sent it to them, and they said, ‘yes!’,” Reynolds recalled. “So, my next call was to Taika and Taika was in. He’s also in Free Guy, so it wasn’t that hard…Taika’s an actual genius, so I was thrilled to collaborate with him as this kind of character.”
Reynolds says putting Deadpool and Korg in the same room was “amazing.”
Before 2014, only hard-core comic fans ever heard of an obscure, late ’60s comic book team called Guardians of the Galaxy. Fast-forward to today, and Star-Lord, Groot, Gamora, and a talking Raccoon named Rocket are household names, thanks to James Gunn‘s blockbuster Marvel Studios adaptations.
Nathan Fillion, who can be seen this weekend in theaters and on HBO Max in his longtime friend Gunn’s new Warner Bros. movie The Suicide Squad, said audiences have learned by now to trust the writer/director.
“When he told me…’Hey guys, I got Guardians of the Galaxy!’ I said, ‘I hated that comic. That was a dumb comic — that’s like the worst.’ He goes, ‘I know. I know just what to do with it. It’s going to be amazing.'”
“‘All right. Good luck,'” Fillion said, recalling his disbelief with a laugh.
He adds of frequent collaborator Gunn, “We know what he can do with a property. We know how he can see the possibilities and the potential. So we’re giving him this incredible Suicide Squad property. We know what’s going to happen.”
The actor, who plays the DC Comics character The Detachable Kid, adds, “From the horse’s mouth, James told me, ‘This is the best movie I’ve ever made.'”
The Suicide Squad also stars Idris Elba, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, John Cena, Jai Courtney, Pete Davidson, Daniela Melchior, Peter Capaldi, and Guardians series veterans Sean Gunn, Michael Rooker, and Sylvester Stallone.
Jennifer Anistontook to Instagram Stories to defend herself against fans who took issue with her recent interview comments that she cut off “a few people” in her life who “refused or did not disclose” that they’d gotten the COVID-19 vaccine.
One fan opined of Aniston, “But if [she’s] vaccinated she’s protected correct? Why be worried about [having unvaccinated people] around her?”
Showing a picture of herself wearing a mask apparently in her home, Aniston replied Thursday, “Because if you have the [Delta] variant, you are still able to give it to me I may get slightly sick but I will not be admitted to a hospital and or die. BUT I CAN give it to someone who does not have the vaccine and whose health is compromised (or has a previous existing condition) — and therefore I would put their lives at risk.”
She added, “THAT is why I worry. We have to care about more than just ourselves.”
The 52-year-old former Friends star then displayed a picture of a cross stitch embroidery that read, “What doesn’t kill you mutates and tries again.”
The new dramedy Mr. Corman is very personal for creator and star Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The Apple TV+ series debuts today, and he tells ABC Audio that he knows he’s been very lucky in life, and he wanted to imagine a character that perhaps didn’t have the same kind of advantages.
“I feel so grateful for so much in my life,” he says, naming his family, safety, and health as examples. “And when I think about it, I actually think that a lot of that just comes down to luck. And part of not taking my luck for granted.”
The lead character in the Mr. Corman is a teacher, and there’s a very specific reason for that — Gordon-Levitt wrote the character as an alternate universe version of himself.
“I always thought that teaching was something I would love to do,” the actor revealed. “I find teachers incredibly admirable. I wish that teachers were the heroes and valorized and celebrated in our world much more than entertainers.”
Another detail that is very intentional is the main character’s name, Mr. Corman, which Gordon-Levitt says was well thought out.
“Well, cor is also the word ancient word for heart,” he shares, adding that the character goes through highs and lows. “But I wanted the North Star to be that he’s got heart and that the show would have heart.”
“Because that’s to me, ultimately what I care about most when I’m watching something,” Gordon-Levitt admits. “I don’t care what genre it is I’m watching, if something feels like it’s got a genuine heart, then I’ll get drawn in.” (AUDIO IS ABC 1-ON-1)
The first two episodes of Mr. Corman are available to stream now on Apple TV+, with the remaining eight episodes dropping every Friday.
In season 2 of Acorn TV’s drama My Life Is Murder, star Lucy Lawless will reunite with her former Xena: Warrior Princess bestie Renee O’Connor, the AMC streaming service confirmed Thursday.
Lawless played the lead in Xena, and O’Connor portrayed her pal Gabrielle in the series, which ran in syndication from 1995 to 2001.
This time, however, their meeting will be less friendly. In My Life Is Murder, Lawless plays a cop-turned-police consultant, and in the upcoming episode in which O’Connor appears, she plays a woman suspected of involvement in the murder of her self-help-guru husband.
A trailer for season 2 of the acclaimed New Zealand-set drama just dropped. The new season starts August 30 on Acorn TV.
The plight of the poor NPC — that means non-player characters in the background of games like Grand Theft Auto — are at the center of Ryan Reynolds‘ upcoming movie, Free Guy.
In the film, Reynolds plays one of those, a bank teller named Guy — and, as NPCs often do, Guy often finds himself a victim of random crimes at the hands of online players.
In a take-off of cheesy TV slip-and-fall attorney ads, a mustachioed Reynolds asks injured NPCs: “Have you ever been shot at, body slammed, flame-throwered, hit by a train, or emotionally demeaned? We can tell you if you have a case.”
You can trust him: he calls himself the #1 Xbox NPC Personal Injury Law Firm in all of Free City — the video game Guy unwittingly thinks of as his real life home.
Free Guy hits theaters August 13 from 20th Century Studios, which is owned by Disney, parent company of ABC News.
