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Sylvester Stallone reportedly up for seasons 3 and 4 of ‘Tulsa King’

Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan's other hit show, Tulsa King, could reportedly be headed to a third and fourth season -- and beyond.

According to Variety, star and executive producer Sylvester Stallone is nearing a deal for at least two more seasons of the Paramount+ series, which has him starring as a displaced East Coast mob boss out of water in Oklahoma.

That said, there's no official word from the streamer, and the series has yet to be renewed.

Tulsa King also stars Andrea Savage, Garrett Hedlund, Vincent Piazza, Martin Starr, Dana Delany and Annabella Sciorra. Yellowstone vet Neal McDonough and Marvel movie baddie Frank Grillo joined for the current second season.

Keira Knightley turns up the action in trailer to Netflix spy series ‘Black Doves’

Keira Knightley gets back to action in the new trailer for Black Doves, a six-part spy thriller set at Christmas and bound for Netflix on Dec. 5.

Knightley co-stars with Ben Whishaw in the spy series, in which she plays Heleb Webb, "a quick-witted, down-to-earth, dedicated wife and mother — and professional spy," according to the streamer.

She's been passing her politician husband's secrets to her spy organization, called the Black Doves, for a decade, but when her secret lover, Jason, is assassinated, she's teamed up with Wishaw's assassin, Sam, to uncover the truth.

"As his past threatens to catch up with him, his task is to protect Helen as she investigates who killed Jason and why," Netflix continues. "Together they uncover a vast, interconnected conspiracy linking the murky London underworld to a looming geopolitical crisis."

Knightley's character is shown taking out enemies hand-to-hand and leaping from an exploding building. She later looks shocked when a mysterious voice over the phone reveals her cover is blown, meaning her family is in danger.

The series will also star Sarah Lancashire, Ella Lily Hyland and Andrew Buchan.

Courtney B. Vance talks ‘blessing’ of getting a Hollywood Walk of Fame star

On Thursday's installment of The Jennifer Hudson show, Emmy winner Courtney B. Vance talked about his anticipation of receiving one of the biggest honors in showbiz, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Vance is following in the Walk of Fame footsteps of his award-winning wife, Angela Bassett.

"Angela got hers I think back in '07, and the [children] were 2," he said of their fraternal twins, Bronwyn Golden Vance and Slater Josiah Vance, who are now 18.

"Aw, they were babies!" J. Hud gushed to a throwback photo of the family at Bassett's ceremony.

Grotesquerie star and executive producer Vance said they still need to schedule his ceremony, but added, "It's such a blessing to be in the class of '24-'25."

Vance will be in good company: When the next slate of nominees was announced back in June, it was revealed that some of the actor's "class" will include actress Nia Long, actor-director Bill Duke, Sherri Shepherd, Fantasia, Colin Farrell and Jane Fonda.

According to the organization's website, upcoming star ceremonies are usually announced 10 days prior to dedication.

Matthew McConaughey on the power of ‘no’

Matthew McConaughey says it took turning down a $14.5 million payday for Hollywood to take him seriously in dramatic roles.

The actor appeared on tennis pro Nick Kyrgios' Good Trouble podcast and revealed he left Hollywood for Texas because he kept getting scripts for romantic comedies.

After a string of successful ones, like How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days and The Wedding Planner, he wanted more.

"When I was rolling with the rom-coms, and I was the 'rom-com dude,' that was my lane and I liked that lane. That lane paid well ... I was so strong in that lane that anything outside that lane – dramas and stuff that I want[ed] to do ... Hollywood said, 'No, no, no. You should stay there.'"

He added, "So, since I couldn't do what I wanted to do, I ... moved down to the ranch in Texas."

He reportedly told his wife, Camila Alves McConaughey, "I'm not going back to work unless I get offered roles I want to do."

The actor and author says he stuck to his guns even after studios sweetened the deal with a potential paycheck as high as $14.5 million. "That was probably seen as the most rebellious move in Hollywood by me because it really sent the signal, 'He ain’t f****** bluffing,'" McConaughey recalled, noting the gambit worked.

He insists, "The devil's in the infinite yeses, not the no's. 'No' becomes more important than 'yes.'"

McConaughey says N-O is even more important if you've become successful. "We can all look around and see we've over-leveraged our life with yeses and going, 'I'm making C-minuses and all this s*** in my life because I said yes to too many things.'"

Anthony Mackie talks ‘Captain America: Brave New World’; Marvel’s Kevin Feige reveals Fantastic Four’s future

While at Disney's APAC Content Showcase Wednesday at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, Anthony Mackie shed a little light on his upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe entry, Captain America: Brave New World.

The movie, which debuts in theaters Feb. 14, will be Mackie's first after his character Sam Wilson took on the mantle of Captain America in the Disney+ show The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

According to Deadline, Mackie said his character — which fans met as a veteran counselor in Captain America: The Winter Soldier — is staying true to his roots.

"He's still a [counselor]. He's still serving soldiers, but at the same time, now he's a leader of his community in the country," Mackie reportedly said.

Unlike Chris Evans' Steve Rogers, however, Wilson never took the super soldier cocktail that gave Steve's Cap his superior strength.

"When you don't have the serum, you have to be smart and engineer different ways of [fighting]," the actor said, explaining that "he uses more of his brains than brawn. He uses more of his wit than his fist."

That said, the trailer to the movie shows him going toe-to-toe with Harrison Ford's Red Hulk.

The trade also reports head Kevin Feige made a virtual appearance and revealed that The Fantastic Four: First Steps is about to wrap, and with its debut in July, "Marvel's First Family ... [goes] right into the next Avengers movies."

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Pamela Hayden, the voice of Milhouse and others on ‘The Simpsons’, saying goodbye to Springfield

"Is this the untimely end of Milhouse?" Pamela Hayden, a 35-year veteran of The Simpsons, will have her last performance on the long-running animated series on Sunday.

Hayden, who famously voices Bart's friend Milhouse Van Houten but also lends her voice to the town bully Jimbo Jones, as well as other residents of the fictional animated town, is stepping away from the show.

The Simpsons' official social media platforms bade a fond farewell to the performer, writing, "Thank you for 35 years of Milhouse and so many more, Pamela Hayden!"

The message came with a reel of Hayden's work, both in the recording booth and her characters as their animated selves throughout the years.

"As you retire from The Simpsons, we celebrate you," an animated title card reads. The actress also says her "main guy" Milhouse might be dismissed as a nerd, but the thing she loves about him is that "no matter how many times he gets knocked down, he gets back up, again. I love the little guy."

"Your voice made us laugh and fall in love with Milhouse," the title card concludes. "We will miss you!"

The Simpsons airs Sundays at 8 p.m. ET on Fox and streams the next day on Hulu.

It's not known who will voice her characters going forward.

Denzel Washington opens up to ‘Esquire’ about his faith and sobriety

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Denzel Washington is one of the most famous people on the planet, but he shows a new side of himself in a first-person feature in Esquire.

Denzel looks back at having "one foot" in the rough streets of Mount Vernon, New York, growing up, and tracks his life from then to today.

In his youth, Denzel explained, "I shot dope just like they shot dope, but I never got strung out. And I never got strung out on liquor. I had this ideal idea of wine tastings and all that — which is what it was at first. And that's a very subtle thing. I mean, I drank the best."

He said he'd down two bottles of "the best" on the daily, but clarified, "I never drank while I was working or preparing. I would clean up, go back to work. ... However many months of shooting, bang, it's time to go. Then, boom. Three months of wine, then time to go back to work."

Denzel said he'll be sober 10 years this December.

Now 70, Washington says his "little brother" Lenny Kravitz hooked him up with a trainer. "Things are opening up for me now — like being seventy," Denzel says.

"It's real. And it's okay. This is the last chapter — if I get another thirty, what do I want to do? My mother made it to ninety-seven."

Of his faith, Denzel says, "I know now. God is real. God is love. God is the only way. God is the true way. God blesses. It's my job to lift God up, to give Him praise, to make sure that anyone and everyone I speak to the rest of my life understands that He is responsible for me."

"I'm unafraid. I don't care what anyone thinks," Washington says, adding of his faith, "you can't talk like that and win Oscars. ... It's not talked about in this town. It's not talked about."

Taika Waititi on ‘letting go’ of his ‘Reservation Dogs’ and ‘What We Do in the Shadows’

(L-R) Jermaine Clement, Jonny Brugh, Taika Waititi in 'Shadows' - FX/Russ Martin

While fans are sad to see the Emmy-nominated shows Reservation Dogs and What We Do in the Shadows ride off into the sunset — or in the case of the vampire mockumentary Shadows, sunrise — the executive producer on both programs, Taika Waititi, tells ABC Audio he has no trouble saying goodbye.

"It's easy for me to let go," Waititi tells ABC Audio with a laugh. "I don't dwell on things."

"I love my kids and my family, and that's pretty much the only things ... I hold on to really tightly," he continues.

Waititi says he's grateful for the praise both shows got, particularly how Reservation Dogs raised the profile of Indigenous stories. But as for the mockumentary show Shadows, which began as a low-budget 2014 film of the same name that he also starred in, he says the current sixth and final season is time to go.

"Shadows, in particular, you know, it's being out for so long. I thought that was like, you know, I never thought that we'd stretch that idea out for so long. And I'm really proud of it. But it's definitely time for that thing to die."

Waititi's latest project as a producer is the comedy series Interior Chinatown, now streaming on Hulu.

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