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Christopher Nolan fans scrambled to get tickets to his upcoming film The Odyssey on Thursday. Variety reports demand for IMAX screenings and other premium large format screenings of the film was so high this week that AMC’s ticketing app paused briefly. Those attempting to buy tickets also waited in virtual queues for up to an hour. Nolan’s take on Homer’s epic also received an R rating, the outlet reports, making it one of the most expensive R-rated movies in history. The film arrives in theaters on July 17 …

Joshua Jackson has joined the season 3 cast of Your Friends & Neighbors. Deadline reports that Jackson has joined the ensemble in a major recurring role. He joins season 3 newcomer Michelle Monaghan, who will be a series regular. The news comes ahead of the show’s season 2 finale, which debuts on Friday …

Devil May Cry has been renewed for a third and final season. Netflix announced that the animated series has been renewed for season 3, which will end the adaptation of the popular Capcom game. Adi Shankar showruns the series about the portal between the human and demon realms and the demon-hunter-for-hire named Dante in the middle of it all …

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In the new John Carney movie Power Ballad, Nick Jonas plays a former boy band member who steals a song from Rick — a wedding singer played by Paul Rudd — and uses it to establish his solo career. Nick said he really wanted work with Carney and Rudd, but took on the role of Danny in the film because he could relate to it on several levels.

“I’ve lived a lot of these experiences,” he told ABC Audio. “And not just the career stuff and the fame aspect of Danny’s life, but the songwriting and the journey to find yourself, push the envelope, do something different, the pressure that you can feel.”

That pressure is what leads Danny to claim Rick’s song as his own. Rick then crashes out, and begins regretting putting his own music career on hold to have a family. Nick says the movie asks the question, “How far would you go to get everything you ever wanted, and at what cost?”

Carney told ABC Audio that he chose Nick because it was important to him to cast an actual musician in the role of Danny. 

“He just has stood on so many stages in the world. He walks onto a stage and he just is natural, he knows how it works,” Carney said. He added that an actor “can’t carry that off as well as a real singer who’s been onstage since he was like 6.”

As for Rudd, he shows off some very impressive singing and guitar skills in the film. But he didn’t look at it as a way to surprise people with his hidden talents.

“I’m always just like, ‘Oh God, I hope I don’t fall on my face,'” he said. “But I feel that with just about every job I do. … It’s more of just, ‘I hope it’s believable.'”  

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Sadie Sink has found her next TV project.

The Stranger Things actress is set to star in and executive produce The Marriage Plot for FX. It will be a limited series based on Jeffrey Eugenides’ 2011 novel of the same name.

The Marriage Plot tells the story of three recent college graduates who are “caught in an all-consuming love triangle as they reconcile their youthful romantic aspirations with looming adulthood and make life-altering choices about love and identity,” according to an official description from FX.

Succession‘s Will Arbery is writing the project while Widow’s Bay director Hiro Murai is helming. The series will stream on Hulu.

“The Marriage Plot is a perfect fit for FX: ambitious, character-driven storytelling that offers another great opportunity to partner with exceptional artists,” Gina Balian, the president of FX Entertainment, said. “We look forward to building on our partnerships with Will and Hiro, both of whom are extraordinary talents who we are proud to work with again.”

This marks Arbery’s second FX series order in less than a year. His original show Seven Sisters was picked up by the network in December.

Next up for Sink is an appearance in this summer’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day. She is also set to executive produce the film adaptation of the play John Proctor Is The Villain for Universal Pictures.

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Ice Age: Boiling Point is preparing to heat up movie theaters.

Disney and 20th Century Studios have released the official teaser trailer for the sixth theatrical film in the Ice Age franchise. The upcoming animated movie marks the next chapter in the iconic herd’s prehistoric misadventures.

Manny, Diego, Sid, Scrat and his beloved acorn are back in the minute-long teaser, which finds the gang getting shot out of a volcano.

They’re taken “straight into a dinosaur-and-lava-filled madcap adventure to visit never-before-seen corners of the treacherous Lost World,” according to an official description from Disney.

The original voice cast of Ray Romano, Denis Leary and John Leguizamo return to their roles of Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the sloth. Also returning are Simon Pegg as Buck and Queen Latifah as Ellie. The characters of Crash, Eddie and Baby Scrat also appear in the teaser.

The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild‘s John Donkin directs Ice Age: Boiling Point while Lori Forte produces.

Blue Sky Studios produced the franchise’s first five films. This marks the first theatrical Ice Age movie since Blue Sky Studios was dissolved by The Walt Disney Company in 2021 after it was acquired in 2019.

The original movie premiered in theaters in 2002, while the franchise’s most recent installment, Ice Age: Collision Course, debuted to theaters in 2016.

Ice Age: Boiling Point arrives in theaters on Feb. 5, 2027.

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You’re invited to watch the new trailer for The Invite.

A24 has released a brand-new trailer for its upcoming romantic comedy film from director Olivia Wilde.

The Invite is Wilde’s third directorial effort after her films Booksmart and Don’t Worry Darling. It is based on director Cesc Gay’s Spanish-language film Sentimental. Will McCormack and Rashida Jones wrote its screenplay.

In addition to directing, Wilde stars alongside Seth Rogen, Edward Norton and Penélope Cruz.

The movie follows married couple Joe (Rogen) and Angela (Wilde), who invite their upstairs neighbors Hawk (Norton) and Pina (Cruz) over for dinner, “where everything that could go wrong goes wrong,” according to an official description from the studio.

“Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?” the film’s official synopsis reads.

The trailer finds Joe and Angela preparing to host Hawk and Pina for dinner before the other couple arrives.

“What is this?” Joe asks Angela, who says, “That’s a rug.”

“Did you buy this rug because the neighbors are coming over?” he asks, causing her to say, “Oh my God.”

When Pina and Hawk finally arrive, Joe apologizes for having a bit of a contentious environment.

“We love a contentious environment,” Hawk says in response.

The Invite arrives in select theaters on June 26 and everywhere on July 10.

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Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe are rolling along into a new collaboration. Deadline reports Groff has joined the cast of the Vietnam War thriller Trust the Man, where he’ll act alongside Radcliffe. This reunites the actors after they starred and both won Tonys for their performances in the most recent Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along. Trust the Man will be written and directed by Will Graham …

The trailer for Anya Taylor-Joy’s new limited series Lucky has arrived. Apple TV is set to release the show’s first two episodes on July 15, and will follow with new episodes every Wednesday until the Aug. 19 finale. Lucky is based on The New York Times bestseller by Marissa Stapley, which follows a multimillion-dollar heist that goes sideways. Starring alongside Taylor-Joy are Annette Bening, Timothy Olyphant, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Drew Starkey …

Tickets for Supergirl are now on sale. DC Studios co-head James Gunn made the announcement in a post shared to Instagram on Wednesday. “Get tickets now and tag who you’re bringing to see #Supergirl,” he captioned his announcement post. Milly Alcock plays the titular cousin of Superman, Kara Zor-El, in the new film, which is directed by Craig Gillespie. It flies into theaters on June 26 …

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Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos executive produce a new six-part docuseries called Squatters: Get the F*** Out of My House.

The docuseries, which follows ordinary people blindsided by manipulators who know exactly how to weaponize tenant protections, is now available to watch on Hulu. Ripa and Consuelos spoke to ABC Audio about the unbelievable true stories included in the series.

“The title didn’t come out of nowhere. This is what these very frustrated homeowners keep saying because they are so desperate,” Ripa said.

Consuelos said that the squatters featured in the show “are so good at finding the loopholes in the law … to frustrate the owners of the homes.”

“We’ve sold homes,” Consuelos said. “You just assume you’re selling your home, and you go check on it, and you’re not gonna find a family that has moved into your house.”

Not only that, but you don’t assume you’ll find multiple families there and discover that “they’re leasing the house from a man who claims that’s his house,” Consuelos continued.

While the married couple have never encountered squatters on any of their properties, Ripa says she has a friend who dealt with squatters.

“He owns properties in California and he said that this is his life,” Ripa said. “There’s so many times that he has leased a property to a tenant who’s never paid rent and then he cannot evict them and so it is a part of his life.”

Through those experiences, Ripa said her friend has “had to become better than the squatters.”

“It is very common. I keep saying we could do episodes not just in each state, we could episodes in every county of every state or in every borough,” Ripa said. “It’s not a unique thing.”

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Mason Thames has joined the John Wick universe.

The actor is set to star in the upcoming Lionsgate film Caine, ABC Audio has confirmed. Caine will be a John Wick spinoff directed by and starring actor and martial artist Donnie Yen as the titular fan-favorite character from John Wick: Chapter 4.

As previously announced, Rina Sawayama has also been cast in Caine. She will reprise her role as Akira. Also part of the cast is Stranger Things actor Dacre Montgomery.

Thames’ role is currently being kept under wraps, as is the film’s logline. According to Lionsgate, it will continue Yen’s story arc through the events of John Wick: Chapter 4, “as Caine has been freed from his obligations to The High Table.”

The film is currently in production, with John Wick star Keanu Reeves producing.

The Batman Part II writer Mattson Tomlin, who also wrote the adaptation of the Reeves-created comic book  BRZRKR, wrote the screenplay with Michael McGrale.

Lionsgate says Caine will be “shaped by Yen’s signature approach to action filmmaking, blending precision choreography with emotional storytelling.”

Thames recently finished production on the live-action adaptation of How to Train Your Dragon 2. He will appear in the upcoming Green Day inspired film Nimrods as well as the Dave Franco and O’Shea Jackson Jr. starring film Idiots.

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Backrooms is now the highest-grossing A24 film at the domestic box office.

The Kane Parsons-directed film crossed $100 million in the North American box office on Wednesday, A24 confirmed to ABC Audio.

This makes it the studio’s first film to reach such an achievement. It surpassed the Timothée Chalamet film Marty Supreme‘s domestic total of $96 million in only six days.

According to the studio, Backrooms’ global box office number stands at $144 million as of Wednesday. This means Backrooms is close to surpassing the best picture Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once‘s worldwide total of $148 million to become A24’s second highest grossing movie. Marty Supreme is currently A24’s highest grossing movie worldwide with a total of $191.3 million.

Backrooms opened in theaters on May 29. It brought in more than $81 million at the domestic box office in its opening weekend, off a $10 million budget. This made it the biggest debut in history for an original horror film, as well as the biggest debut for a first-time filmmaker on a non-franchise film. At 20 years old, Parsons is the youngest director to have a #1 film at the box office.

The horror film is based on Parsons’ popular YouTube series. It stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve as two people who enter a secret doorway into a maze of seemingly endless rooms.

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The 2026 ESPY Awards are almost here and this year, the annual awards ceremony honoring the best in sports will feature a new host.

Comedian Marcello Hernández will present the star-studded evening, which is returning to New York City this year. Hernández is taking over duties from comedian Shane Gillis, who hosted last year from Los Angeles.

“It is an honor, and frankly feels crazy to be hosting the ESPYS this year in New York,” Hernández said in a statement Wednesday. “I’m sure the energy is going to be great.”

Hernández is described by ESPN as an “avid sports fan” who played soccer at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio.

The ESPYS, which first began at New York City’s Madison Square Garden in 1993, will take place on Wednesday, July 15 at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.

The 2026 ESPYS will air live at 8 p.m. ET on ABC and stream on the ESPN app. The awards ceremony will also be available to stream on Disney+, Hulu, the ESPN App, and ABC Video on Demand on July 16.

Craig Lazarus, executive producer of the ESPYS, called Hernández a “natural fit” to serve as this year’s ESPYS host.

“Marcello is one of the most electric, young comedians today. His genuine enthusiasm for sports and his ties to New York City make him a natural fit to host this year’s ESPYS,” Lazarus said in a statement. “We are excited to partner with him to celebrate the best moments in sports and look forward to the fresh take he’ll bring to the show.”

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