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It’s time to solve that mystery.

Netflix has announced that production has started in Atlanta, Georgia, on its upcoming Scooby-Doo live-action series. The streaming service has also revealed that the show’s official title is Scooby-Doo: Origins.

The show’s previously announced main cast includes Mckenna Grace as Daphne Blake, Tanner Hagen as Shaggy Rogers, Abby Ryder Fortson as Velma Dinkley and Maxwell Jenkins as Fred Jones.

Netflix has also posted the first image of this live-action version of the Scooby-Doo gang in costume.

Additionally, Paul Walter Hauser has been cast as a series regular, although the specific role he will play has not been unveiled.

Scooby-Doo: Origins “will uncover how this mystery-solving crew, and their beloved dog, first teamed up to crack the haunting case that started it all,” according to the streamer.

Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg will serve as the show’s writers, executive producers and showrunners.

According to Netflix, the show will be a modern reimagining of the Scooby-Doo gang’s origin story.

“During their final summer at camp, old friends Shaggy and Daphne get embroiled in a haunting mystery surrounding a lonely lost Great Dane puppy that may have been a witness to a supernatural murder,” according to the show’s official synopsis. “Together with the pragmatic and scientific townie, Velma, and the strange, but ever so handsome new kid, Freddy, they set out to solve the case that is pulling each of them into a creepy nightmare that threatens to expose all of their secrets.”

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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:

HBO
Half Man: The new show from the creator of Baby Reindeer makes its premiere. 

Netflix
Running Point: Kate Hudson stars in season 2 of the comedy series from co-creator Mindy Kaling. 

Stranger Things: Tales from ’85: This animated series takes place between seasons 2 and 3 of the original show. 

Apex: Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton star in this movie set in the Australian wilderness.

Prime Video
Kevin: Aubrey Plaza lends her voice to this new adult animated series about a cat. 

Movie theaters
Michael: This music biopic tells the story of the King of Pop. 

That’s all for this week’s Weekend Watchlist – happy streaming!

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Jake Reiner, the eldest son of renowned director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Reiner, is speaking out in a rare statement, saying, “I still wake up every morning having to convince myself that, no, it’s not a dream.”

“This truly is my living nightmare,” he said in a post on Substack on Friday.

“One thing I keep coming back to is how frightened they must have been,” Jake Reiner said of his parents. “They were the last people in the world to deserve what happened to them. They deserved to be loved, they deserved to be respected, and above all they deserved to be appreciated for how much they gave to all three of us and to the world.”

Jake Reiner’s brother, Nick Reiner, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges for the deaths of their parents and is due back in court next week.

Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood home on Dec. 14, 2025. The night before, Nick Reiner — who had been living on his parents’ property — got into an argument with Rob Reiner at a holiday party and was seen acting strangely, sources told ABC News. Nick Reiner was taken into custody hours after the bodies were discovered.

Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Reiner, 68, married in 1989 and had three children: sons Jake and Nick and daughter Romy.

Jake Reiner described his parents as his “guiding lights, the foundation of who I am as a human being, and the most giving people I have ever known.”

“The love they have for me, my brother, and my sister is truly unconditional. And the love they have for each other in their marriage is something I always looked up to as the standard of what a successful relationship looks like,” he wrote.

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Scarlett Johansson is set to executive produce a TV adaptation of her film The Nanny Diaries. Deadline reports that Netflix is developing a series based on the film adaptation of Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus’ book of the same name. Johansson starred as the titular nanny Annie alongside Laura Dern, Paul Giamatti, Alicia Keys and Chris Evans in the 2007 film …

Don’t miss the moment that The Moment makes its streaming debut. The A24 film will arrive to HBO Max on May 29. It will make its HBO linear debut on May 30. Charli XCX stars in the movie that is also based on her original idea. Rosanna Arquette, Kate Berlant, Jamie Demetriou, Hailey Benton Gates, Isaac Powell, Rish Shah and Alexander Skarsgård also star …

It seems many people have been watching Euphoria season 3. Variety reports that the second episode of the third season of HBO’s drama series hit 8.5 million viewers across both HBO and HBO Max in its first three days, according to numbers measured by Warner Bros. Discovery. This matches the viewership of the season 3 premiere …

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Euphoria is so back.

Sam Levinson’s drama series has finally returned for season 3. Now that we’re two episodes into the third season, viewers are situated in the time jump and have met the many new characters who become part of Rue, Cassie, Nate, Maddy and Jules’ journey.

One of those new characters is Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje [ah’-duh-WAH-lay ah’-kuh-NO-yay ag-BAH-zhay]‘s Alamo, who is Rue’s (Zendaya) new boss. He spoke to ABC Audio about what it was like to join the series in its third season.

“It was really exciting to be invited and to be a part of the journey of Euphoria,” Akinnuoye-Agbaje said. “These performances of this young cast — Zendaya, Alexa Demie, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi — they were some of the most powerful performances I’ve seen on TV in many years. So the bar was set really high. And I was just happy to come on board and try to be a part of raising that bar.”

Akinnuoye-Agbaje continued, saying fans will be “taken on a roller-coaster ride” over the course of the season.

“We follow these characters that they’ve [grown] to love in high school into the real world and see the cost of some of the choices that they make dabbling on the wrong side of the law, which is the realm in which Alamo lives,” Akinnuoye-Agbaje says.

Above all else, Akinnuoye-Agbaje says season 3 continues to put a spotlight on one of the show’s main themes. 

“Most importantly, I think the subject matter that it addresses in this season, as it did in the previous ones, [is] the drug use and the impact of fentanyl on the younger generation,” Akinnuoye-Agbaje said. “It really does spotlight and highlight it in a real way, and I was happy to see that and be a part of that.”

New episodes of Euphoria air Sundays on HBO.

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The new Michael Jackson biopic Micheal opens in theaters Friday, and while Diana Ross was good friend of the singer, she won’t be represented in the film.

Vampire Diaries star Kat Graham was cast to play Ross in the movie, but she revealed on social media that her part of the film has been cut.

“Ahead of the April 24 release of the Michael Jackson film, I want to share that certain legal considerations affected a few scenes, including the ones I filmed with an incredible cast,” she wrote on X. “Unfortunately, those moments are no longer part of the final cut, though the team worked hard to preserve as much of the story as possible.”

Graham didn’t go into detail about the scenes. Variety reported in early April that the film went through $15 million worth of reshoots and cut out scenes pertaining to Jackson’s child molestation accusations because a settlement with one of the singer’s accusers, Jordan Chandler, prevented his portrayal in the film.

Michael stars Michael’s nephew Jaafar Jackson in the title role, with Colman Domingo playing the star’s father, Joe Jackson.

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Get ready for some news that may leave you totally buggin’.

Peacock is no longer moving forward with the Clueless sequel series it had in development, ABC Audio has confirmed.

The show, which had planned to bring Alicia Silverstone back to her iconic role of Cher Horowitz, was announced to be in development at the streaming service in April 2025.

While exact plot details for the show had never been revealed, we know that it was meant to pick up with what happened in Cher’s life many years after the events of the 1995 film Clueless.

Along with Silverstone, the original movie starred Paul Rudd, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy, Donald Faison, Elisa Donovan, Breckin Meyer and Dan Hedaya.

In an appearance on Today in August 2025, Silverstone said she was “really excited” about the TV show.

“I think we’re going to try really hard. The goal is to make it honor what everyone loves about Clueless and Cher,” she said.

Silverstone also said she wanted to pay tribute to the source material while creating something new.

“So we want to honor that, but also bring something fresh and new to it. I’m confident that we’ll be able to do that, but we’re in baby stages right now,” Silverstone said.

While the show is no longer moving forward at Peacock, Variety, which first broke the story, reports CBS Studios and Paramount are still high on the project and expect it to “generate significant interest in the marketplace” when it’s taken out to buyers again.

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Body horror is on full display in the Clayface teaser trailer.

DC Studios and Warner Bros. Pictures have released the first trailer for the upcoming thriller film from director James Watkins. It stars relative newcomer Tom Rhys Harries as the titular Gotham City villain.

According to its official description, Clayface “unravels one man’s horrifying descent from rising Hollywood star to revenge-filled monster in a story that explores the loss of one’s identity and humanity, corrosive love, and the dark underbelly of scientific ambition.”

The teaser, which runs for just over a minute, finds Harries in character as the titular villain. He lies down, covered head to toe in bandages, on what appears to be a hospital bed. As he rests, we see moments from his Hollywood past in quick flashbacks. It is all cross-cut with imagery of his body and face changing in many different ways.

The Batman director Matt Reeves is producing Clayface from a script by Mike Flanagan, who is known for his Netflix horror projects The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass. DC Studios co-head James Gunn also produces the project, which marks the studio’s first-ever foray into the horror genre.

Naomi Ackie, David Dencik, Max Minghella, Eddie Marsan, Nancy Carroll and Joshua James also star in the upcoming film.

Clayface opens in theaters just ahead of Halloween on Oct. 23.

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All adventurous women do … write a bestselling book.

Lena Dunham is celebrating her new memoir, Famesick, reaching the top spot on The New York Times bestseller list.

The Girls creator took to her social media on Thursday to share a video of herself learning that her memoir reached #1 on the prestigious list. In the video, Dunham gets a call from her team telling her the good news.

Afterward, Dunham puts her head in her hands and starts to cry. The person on the other end of the call tells her she sold almost 60,000 copies of Famesick in week one alone.

“You’re joking guys,” Dunham says. “No way!”

The post’s caption goes in depth on Dunham’s feelings about the accomplishment.

“Screaming, crying, throwing up. Which, to be fair, I do a lot of in this book- but this time it’s for a much more joyful reason: I am bowled over by the support you have shown Famesick,” Dunham wrote. “Almost two decades into my career, I know enough to know what a rare and special thing is to feel seen and heard, and this release has given me the opportunity to see and hear so many of you. I missed that.”

Dunham goes on to write that she doesn’t take any of this for granted.

“I am honored by every book in every pair of hands/ears and that Famesick made the #1 spot on the NYTimes, London Sunday Times, USA TODAY, and Indie Bookseller Bestseller lists,” she wrote, before finishing with, “Thank you. Truly.”

Famesick was published on April 14. According to a description from Penguin Random House, it is a “rowdy, frank reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between” that finds Dunham wondering “whether fulfilling her creative ambitions has been worth the pain.”

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A Secret Lives of Mormon Wives show based in California, a new reality show from Khloe Kardashian and a new season of Project Runway were among the new projects announced Wednesday at Hulu’s second Get Real House event

The event, hosted by talk show host and actor Scott Evans, delivered a series of announcements about Hulu’s upcoming unscripted slate.

Here are some of the upcoming new shows coming to Hulu:

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County
The show that originated in Utah will air a new installment this year featuring a group of young moms in Orange County, California.

The moms “collide in a community where beliefs are not just their religion; they are their identity. While some defend their way of life, fighting against modernity, others embrace change, becoming a platform to disrupt the status quo,” according to a show description.

The series, which does not yet have a release date, stars Aspyn Ovard, Bobbi Althoff, Avery Woods, Salomé Andrea, McCall DaPron, Chandler Higginson, Ashleigh Pease and Madison Bontempo.

Project Runway
Model Heidi Klum will return for a new season of Project Runway in July.

Twenty-two designers will compete for a chance to take their fashion careers to the next level, according to a press release from Disney Entertainment Television Publicity.

The upcoming new season will feature a crossover with some of the Dancing with the Stars cast members, who will hit the Runway catwalk. 

Project Runway will premiere on Hulu, Disney+ and Freeform on July 9.

The Girls from executive producer Khloé Kardashian
Many may know Khloé Kardashian on The Kardashians, but the reality star and entrepreneur is stepping behind the camera for the new reality series The Girls.

As an executive producer, Kardashian is bringing a new show to Hulu about her “inner circle of real-life besties” as they raise children and run businesses and survive “brutally honest group chats.”

The Mob hosted by Parker Posey
A new reality competition series The Mob will also be coming to Hulu, with Emmy-nominated actress Parker Posey as host.

The series will send a group of celebs to an Italian villa where they will “shake down, hustle and whack their way to win up to $250,000 in cash prizes,” a press release says.

“Every episode, they will tackle mob movie-inspired jobs to survive,” the press release adds. “But every mob family needs a don, and whoever they choose will have absolute power — deciding who makes money, who stays, and who ultimately gets whacked.”

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