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Wednesday June 03, 2026
Zac Efron has found his next role.
The actor is set to executive produce and star in an Angel Heart series for HBO and A24, ABC Audio has confirmed.
Angel Heart will be a one-hour drama written and executive produced by Black Rabbit creator Zach Baylin. The show will be based on the 1978 horror novel Falling Angel, which was previously adapted into the Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro film Angel Heart in 1987, as well as its sequel, Angel’s Inferno. Sh?gun's Jonathan Van Tulleken is set to direct and executive produce.
According to its logline, this new series follows a "down-and-out NYC paparazzi, who makes his living finding and photographing people who don’t want to be found."
He is eventually "hired by a mysterious man to find a missing woman. But the deeper he digs to find her, the more it looks like a group of powerful elites, and maybe something supernatural, are covering up the disappearance,” the logline continues.
Efron previously worked with A24 on the 2023 sports drama film The Iron Claw. He is set to appear in the upcoming thriller Famous from director Jody Hill. He'll also star alongside Will Ferrell in the new movie Judgment Day from director Nicholas Stoller.
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We now know when season 2 of X-Men '97 will arrive. The second season of the Emmy-nominated Marvel Animation series will debut to Disney+ on July 1. It will continue the story of the mutant team of X-Men who are divided and thrown across different eras in time as they make their way back home. Disney+ also released the trailer for the new season. The show's voice cast includes Ross Marquand as Professor X, Matthew Waterson as Magneto, Ray Chase as Cyclops and Jennifer Hale as Jean Grey ...
Ted Danson has found his next role. The actor is set to join Elizabeth Banks in the cast of a new Apple TV comedy series. The currently untitled show comes from creators Liz Heldens and Matt Ward. It follows a recently divorced woman named Heidi (Banks) who stumbles into coordinating her father's (Danson) retirement community sexcapades ...
The trailer for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma has arrived. Fresh off its Cannes Film Festival debut, Mubi has released the trailer for the new movie from director Jane Schoenbrun. It stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson and releases in theaters on Aug. 7 ...
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The final trailer for Steven Spielberg's film Disclosure Day has arrived.
Universal Pictures released the final trailer for the new, original event film on Thursday. It returns Spielberg to his extraterrestrial roots.
Josh O'Connor, Emily Blunt, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson and Colman Domingo star in the thriller, which is based on a story by Spielberg.
Spielberg is the top-grossing director of all time. He previously explored stories about extraterrestrial life in the films E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and War of the Worlds.
The trailer starts with Spielberg doing a direct-to-camera address.
"I am much more inclined now than I was when I made Close Encounters to really believe that we're not the only intelligent civilization in the universe," Spielberg says, before footage from the film kicks in.
O'Connor's character, Daniel Kellner, then admits he has stolen long-kept government secrets about proof of living beings not on Earth.
Spielberg continues, saying, "This is a story about us. All of us, up against the most extraordinary event in human history."
David Koepp, the writer of Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, wrote the screenplay for this new movie.
Disclosure Day arrives in theaters on June 12.
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Enola Holmes is back, this time as a bride-to-be.
Netflix has released the official teaser trailer for the third installment in the film series about Sherlock Holmes' brilliant younger sister.
Millie Bobby Brown is back as the titular detective in the movie, while Louis Partridge and Henry Cavill also return as Tewkesbury and Sherlock Holmes, respectively.
Joining them are Himesh Patel as John Watson, Helena Bonham Carter as Eudoria Holmes and Sharon Duncan-Brewster as Moriarty.
This time around, Enola is headed abroad to take on a case in the island nation of Malta.
According to Netflix, "adventure chases detective Enola Holmes to Malta, where personal and professional dreams collide in a case more tangled and treacherous than any she has faced before."
The trailer teases just exactly what the treacherous case is. We first see Tewkesbury propose, as well as Enola's direct-to-camera address reaction it: "Yes, I was surprised, too," she says.
Afterward, Enola, while en route to the church wearing her white gown, is informed that her brother Sherlock has been kidnapped. She inadvertently leaves Tewkesbury at the alter by himself, seemingly missing her own wedding ceremony.
Philip Barantini directed Enola Holmes 3 from a script by Jack Thorne, which is based on The Enola Holmes Mysteries by Nancy Springer.
In addition to starring, Brown produces the film while her husband, Jake Bongiovi, executive produces.
Enola Holmes 3 will make its streaming debut on July 1.
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Robert Pattinson stars in the official teaser trailer for Primetime.
A24 released the first trailer for the upcoming drama-thriller film on Wednesday. The minute-long first look at the film finds Pattinson in character as Chris Hansen, the host of To Catch a Predator.
The film comes from Lance Oppenheim, who directs from a script by Ajon Singh. Along with Pattinson, the movie stars Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, Matthew Maher and Bokeem Woodbine.
Its official logline reads, "In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history." In a similar vein, the film's poster includes the tagline, "Are you ready to make television history?"
The trailer for Primetime features hidden camera footage, as well as glimpses of Pattinson in character as Hansen. We also hear Pattinson's impression of the host, as he says, "What would have happened if I wasn't here? You see how this looks, right? At the end of the day, a man must be held accountable for the decisions that he makes. Do you agree?"
His voice-over impression continues, with him saying, "Do you watch television? Well, there's something you should know. I'm Chris Hansen, with Dateline NBC. And you're about to be a part of television history."
The trailer ends with a different voice saying, "We're going to be the #1 show on TV."
To Catch a Predator ran from 2004 to 2007 on NBC. It aired only 20 episodes, but was massively popular at the time.
While an official release date has yet to be announced, A24 says the movie is coming soon.
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Dutton Ranch has made Paramount+ history. The Yellowstone spinoff garnered the biggest original series launch in the streaming service's history, according to numbers from the company. It generated 12.9 million global streaming views in the seven days following its premiere ...
We now know which theater the Evita Broadway revival starring Rachel Zegler will take place in. The venue for the previously-announced production will be New York's Winter Garden Theatre. Performances begin on Feb. 27, 2027, with an opening night of March 25, 2027. Jamie Lloyd directs the revival of the Tim Rice-Andrew Lloyd Webber musical ...
Paddington Bear is one step closer to coming back to the big screen. Variety reports that a new pair of writers have signed on to write the British icon's latest film adventure. Armando Iannucci, the Emmy winner and Oscar nominee known for creating Veep, will be joined by his fellow Emmy winner and Veep writer Simon Blackwell to pen Paddington 4. Additionally, the outlet reports Dougal Wilson, who helmed Paddington in Peru, is in talks to return for the fourth film ...
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A new study has found that talking animals and men named Chris are more likely to star on the big screen than women over 60.
The study was conducted by the Centre for Aging Better through research from the Age Without Limits campaign. It revealed that the 100 highest-grossing films in the U.K. from the years 2023 through 2025 are four times more likely to have a talking animal as the lead character than an actress older than 60.
Additionally, six of the 100 movies starred an actor named Chris, while only five starred a woman older than 60.
In response to the study, actress Emma Thompson said, "Women are half the population and we get older. So where are the stories about us? The older we get, the more interesting we are. I want to see more films centre ageing women, we are compelling, relatable, and overdue for centre stage. Older women don’t need permission to exist on screen. They already exist in the world, cinema just needs to catch up."
The five actresses older than 60 to lead a film in the past three years are Jennifer Saunders in Allelujah, Nia Vardalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, Diane Keaton in Book Club: The Next Chapter, Demi Moore in The Substance and Jamie Lee Curtis in Freakier Friday.
Meanwhile, the Chrises who make up the films led by men named Chris are Chris Pratt in The Super Mario Bros Movie, Pratt in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Pratt in The Garfield Movie, Chris Pine in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Chris Hemsworth in Transformers One and Christian Friedel in The Zone of Interest.
Going further, The Garfield Movie is both a movie starring a guy named Chris and a movie starring a talking animal.
Survey questions, methodology and results have not been verified or endorsed by ABC News or The Walt Disney Company.
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Fans will get their chance to claim free tickets to Steven Spielberg's latest film, Disclosure Day.
Universal Pictures has announced a chance for moviegoers to find free tickets to the upcoming movie in celebration of tickets going on sale. This Wednesday, 1,000 vibrant origami cardinals are set to appear in key locations across major cities in the U.S.
At each of the locations, 100 of the origami birds will contain unique Fandango codes for two free tickets to see Disclosure Day in theaters.
The cities participating are New York, Los Angeles and Kansas City, Missouri. New York City participants can go to Brookfield Place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET; Kansas City participants should head to City Market from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. CT; and Los Angeles participants can go to Lake Hollywood Park from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. PT.
Disclosure Day is a new, original event film from Spielberg that returns him to his extraterrestrial roots.
Josh O'Connor, Emily Blunt, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson and Colman Domingo star in the thriller, which is based on a story by Spielberg.
David Koepp, the writer of Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, wrote the screenplay for this new movie.
Spielberg is the top-grossing director of all time. He previously explored stories about extraterrestrial life in the films E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and War of the Worlds.
Disclosure Day arrives in theaters on June 12.
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The final trailer for Toy Story 5 has arrived just as tickets for the film have gone on sale.
Disney and Pixar have released a brand-new look at the upcoming animated sequel film. Everyone's favorite toys — including Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), Jessie (Joan Cusack) and Forky (Tony Hale) — are back in this new look that shows off how Jessie feels about the new high-tech, frog-shaped smart tablet Lilypad, and the threat she brings to playtime.
Lilypad, voiced by Greta Lee, calls the cowgirl "Jessica," which causes her to lash out at the device. Later, we see many toys gathered into a cardboard box and put into the garage.
"Are we getting donated?" Rex the dinosaur (Wallace Shawn) asks, after which Karen Beverly (Melissa Villaseñor) says, "Mmm, doughnuts!" Her partner, Forky, has to tell her, "No, sweetie. Do-na-ted!"
Joining the cast of the film is music superstar Bad Bunny. He plays the role of Pizza with Sunglasses. The cameo character is described as "effortlessly cool and mysterious" and "is a member of a small but mighty community of forgotten toys that live in an abandoned backyard shed."
Also announced as part of the film's voice cast is Alan Cumming. He will take on the voice of Evil Bullseye, a playtime alter ego of the lovable character Bullseye.
"While Woody’s trusty steed still lacks the power of speech in the world of Toy Story, Cumming provides Bullseye’s voice during a funny playtime sequence in the film," according to a press release.
Toy Story 5 is directed by WALL-E and Finding Nemo helmer Andrew Stanton and co-directed by Kenna Harris. Randy Newman returns to score his fifth Toy Story film. The movie rides like the wind into theaters on June 19.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus is set to make her Broadway debut.
The actress will take to the stage in the first Broadway revival of the Tony Award-winning play Other Desert Cities.
Louis-Dreyfus will be joined by a cast that includes Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Lily Rabe and Stranger Things star Joe Keery, who also makes his Broadway debut in the production.
Other Desert Cities is scheduled for a 16-week limited engagement at New York's Hudson Theatre. Performances begin on Sept. 29 with an opening night set for Oct. 18. The show will run until Jan. 17, 2027.
Tony Award winner John Benjamin Hickey is set to direct the revival of the play, which was written by Jon Robin Baitz. The show follows a family who have a huge secret.
"On Christmas Eve, the sunlit Palm Springs home of a politically connected family becomes a battleground of memory, loyalty, and legacy when a daughter returns with a memoir and the power to expose the explosive truth they’ve kept hidden. As the past comes into focus, the question isn’t just what happened, but who owns a family’s story, and what is the cost to tell it," according to an official description.
Baitz said he had more or less "talked myself out of imagining Other Desert Cities back in New York."
"But John Hickey is family to me, and I trust him completely. We go back longer than I ever imagined: he hears a play – its ideas, its feeling, its music – with an intelligence and knowingness that anchors a room," Baitz said. "And with this company of actors, a playwright dreams about, I thought that if there were still something alive in it, they would find it."
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It seems Tom Hardy will exit the Paramount+ series MobLand after season 2. Deadline reports that the actor will not return to the show if it gets renewed for a third season. Season 2 has yet to premiere, but it has wrapped filming. The outlet reports that Hardy completed the season amid friction between him and the series' writer, executive producer and showrunner Jez Butterworth ...
Ben Stiller and Mike Judge are teaming up for a comedy series at Apple TV. Variety reports that the show, which is currently titled Protective Custody, will star Stiller as a disgraced financier accused of massive fraud ...
The first look at The Boys spinoff series Vought Rising has arrived. Prime Video shared the first trailer for the upcoming show, which is set to debut in 2027. It stars Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash and is set in the 1950s. This prequel follows the origins of Vought International ...
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It seems progress is being made on a sequel to the Michael Jackson biopic Michael.
Lionsgate Studios Motion Picture Chair Adam Fogelson said he's "really excited about the progress we’re making" on a sequel to Michael during the company’s quarterly earnings call on Thursday.
"All the conversations that we’ve been having with all of the appropriate parties continue to go exceptionally well, and I would say that there is a ton of incredibly entertaining Michael Jackson story, and much of the biggest and most popular parts of his music catalog that were not touched upon in the first film,” Fogelson said on the call.
As for what events from Jackson's life would be covered in a potential second film, Fogelson said the studio "can go forwards and backwards in telling this story."
"There are so many other events that happened, even in the time frame of the original movie, that weren’t touched upon. So we’re very, very confident that we’ve got an incredibly entertaining movie that will appeal once again to a global audience as the pieces come together," Fogelson said.
The Lionsgate executive also said the studio has "25% to 30% of a second movie already shot from the prior production activity."
"Obviously that will have some benefit ultimately. But we’ll make sure we make a big and satisfying movie for a global audience once again, so I wouldn’t want to quantify exactly what that’s going to look like. But undoubtedly that 25% to 30% will be material,” Fogelson said.
Michael opened in theaters on April 24. Directed by Antoine Fuqua, the film starred the King of Pop's nephew Jaafar Jackson and also featured Colman Domingo, Miles Teller and Nia Long.
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We now know who Charlie Heaton will play in the Peaky Blinders universe.
Netflix and the BBC have revealed that Heaton is set to play Tommy Shelby's eldest son in the upcoming Peaky Blinders sequel series. A photo of Heaton on set in costume as Charles Shelby has been released along with the announcement.
Heaton's character had been a mystery since his casting was announced in April. Jamie Bell also joins the sequel series, taking over the role of Charles' half brother, Duke, who was originally portrayed by Barry Keoghan.
The upcoming Peaky Blinders sequel series is written and created by Steven Knight. It is currently being filmed in and around Digbeth Loc. Studios in Birmingham, England.
This new Peaky Blinders era is set a decade after World War II. It follows the race to rebuild Birmingham as it becomes "a brutal contest of mythical dimensions," according to a description from Netflix.
"Having fought a violent war, much of it behind enemy lines, Charles Shelby is now embracing normality. He hasn’t seen his half-brother Duke ... in years. Charles severed all ties to the Peaky Blinders gang, and the hedonistic Shelby lifestyle. But can you ever escape your own blood?" the show's logline reads.
Jessica Brown Findlay, Lashana Lynch and Lucy Karczewski are also set to star in the series, in roles that Netflix says will be revealed at a later date.
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Ready, set, binge! Here's a look at some of the new movies and TV shows coming to theaters and streaming services this weekend:
Prime Video
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War: This film based on the TV series stars John Krasinski as the titular CIA analyst.
Apple TV
Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed: Tatiana Maslany and Jake Johnson star in the new original series.
Netflix
The Boroughs: This new series comes from the executive producers of Stranger Things.
Ladies First: A man wakes up in a parallel world dominated by women in this new satire film.
Movie theaters
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu: Pedro Pascal stars in the first theatrical Star Wars film in seven years.
I Love Boosters: Keke Palmer leads director Boots Riley's latest film.
That’s all for this week’s Weekend Watchlist – happy streaming!
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The official trailer for Avatar: The Last Airbender season 2 has arrived. Netflix is set to release the second season of the live-action reimagining of the beloved Nickelodeon animated series on June 25. In season 2, the gang of Aang, Katara and Sokka "regroup and set off on a mission to convince the elusive Earth King to aid in their battle against fearsome Fire Lord Ozai," according to an official description. It stars Gordon Cormier, Kiawentiio, Ian Ousley, Dallas Liu, Elizabeth Yu, Miyako and Momona Tamada ...
A24 has finished production on director Dev Patel's revenge action thriller film The Peasant. Deadline reports that with the project wrapped, it marks the studio's first production to film in India. Along with Patel, the film stars Christian Friedel, Sebastian Bull, Saurabh Sachdeva, Anasuya Sengupta and Vipin Sharma ...
Julianne Moore has found her next project. Variety reports that she is set to executive produce and star in a new comedy film for Netflix. The currently untitled movie comes from Higher Ground, the production company founded by former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. It follows a mother who panics when her daughter is offered a promotion that will force her to move across the country ...
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