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Meryl Streep’s next project is in the works.

Netflix has announced plans to make a limited series adaptation of the award-winning novel The Corrections. Streep is set to star as Enid in the small-screen version of the bestselling book by Jonathan Franzen.

American Fiction writer and director Cord Jefferson will helm the series from a script written and adapted by Franzen. Additionally, Jefferson and Streep will both executive produce the project.

The Corrections is described as a comedic and tragic portrait of a Midwestern family and three adult siblings who resist their mother’s wish for one last Christmas together, “each undone by the delusional ambitions that were supposed to save them from becoming their parents,” according to a description from Netflix.

The novel was published in 2001 and became a #1 New York Times bestseller. It follows older couple Enid and Alfred, as well as their children, Gary, Chip and Denise, during a tense holiday gathering.

There is currently no word on further casting or when audiences can expect to watch the show.

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Wizards Beyond Waverly Place is ready to cast one last spell.

Disney+ and Disney Channel have announced that the Wizards of Waverly Place spinoff series will return for its final chapter this summer. Production on the new episodes starts next week.

Selena Gomez will make her directorial debut as she helms the premiere episode of this final chapter in the Russo family’s story. In addition to directing, Gomez will reprise her role of Alex Russo over the course of multiple episodes and continue executive producing.

Wizards Beyond Waverly Place stars David Henrie as Justin Russo and Janice LeAnn Brown as the young wizard Billie. Alkaio Thiele, Max Matenko, Taylor Cora and Mimi Gianopulos also make up the main cast.

This final chapter of Wizards Beyond Waverly Place is being billed as a special four-part event.

“Billie, still reeling from losing Alex at the end of season 2, discovers that the only way to rescue her mother is to reunite with her long-lost father,” according to an official description from Disney. “As her family bands together to find Alex, Billie realizes that their combined power is the only way the Russos can defeat the evil plaguing them.”

Disney Channel released a teaser for the new episodes on Thursday. The video features a moment from the emotional ending of season 2, with Billie and Alex embracing each other.

“Hold on tight for some news,” the video says, before announcing the upcoming new and final episodes.

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Buffalo Bills star Josh Allen and his Oscar-nominated wife, Hailee Steinfeld, are new parents.

The couple announced Thursday that they had welcomed their first child, a daughter.

“Our baby girl has arrived!!” they wrote in a joint message shared in Steinfeld’s Beau Society newsletter. “We’re feeling incredibly grateful and blessed and savouring these early moments. Thank you so much for the love and well wishes.”

The message featured an illustration of a stork carrying a baby, whose blanket bore the Beau Society logo.

The quarterback and Sinners star, both 29, did not share further details about their daughter’s birth or her name.

Allen and Steinfeld wed last May in Santa Barbara, California, after announcing their engagement in November 2024.

The couple announced on social media in December that they were expecting their first child.

In an interview with Bustle published last November, Steinfeld opened up about the couple’s relationship and wanting kids with Allen, saying, “I literally thank God every day that I found my person, and it’s the greatest thing in the world.”

“Life makes sense,” Steinfeld added. “Everything makes sense. I feel like I am stepping into the version that I’ve always dreamed of being, having so much to do with being with him.”

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The official trailer for the second season of Beef is here.

Netflix has released the full-length trailer for season 2 of the popular Emmy-winning anthology series from A24 and creator Lee Sung Jin.

This season features a brand-new story with a completely different cast of characters. Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny star in season 2. The incident that sparks the new “beef” is a Gen Z couple witnessing an alarming fight between their millennial boss and his wife.

“Newly-engaged Ashley Miller (Spaeny) and Austin Davis (Melton), both lower-level staff at a country club, become entangled in the unraveling marriage of their General Manager, Joshua Martín (Isaac), and his wife, Lindsay Crane-Martín (Mulligan),” according to its official synopsis. “Through favors and coercion, both couples vie for the approval of the elitist club’s billionaire owner, Chairwoman Park (Youn Yuh Jung), who struggles to manage her own scandal involving her second husband, Doctor Kim (Song Kang Ho).”

The trailer shows off the moment of Ashley and Austin witnessing the alarming fight between Joshua and Lindsay. It also features Ashley asking Lindsay some advice about marriage, which she describes to be a “temporary Band-Aid” that covers “the immense pain of knowing you picked the wrong person.”

“Don’t people say you shouldn’t be looking for the right person, but actually, the right wrong person?” Ashley says at the end of the trailer.

There will be eight 30-minute episodes in season 2. Lee returns as its creator, showrunner and executive producer. The first season’s stars, Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, also return to executive produce season 2, joined by Mulligan, Isaac, Melton and Spaeny as executive producers.

Beef season 2 arrives to Netflix on April 16.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda has found his next project.

The Hamilton creator will direct the film adaptation of Dave Malloy’s musical Octet. 

“I haven’t stopped thinking about Octet since I saw Annie Tippe’s premiere production in November of 2019. Dave Malloy’s score is versatile, brilliant and grows more relevant with each passing year. It won’t leave me alone so here we are,” Miranda said in a press release.

According to an official synopsis, Octet “follows an octet of people struggling with digital dependency, charting their compulsions using only the analog vibrancy of their own voices.”

Miranda also took to Instagram to share the news of this upcoming film. He said he’s been working with Malloy on adapting the production to the big screen “for the past six years.”

“Now we get to make the movie,” Miranda wrote. “And what a joy to officially partner with Julie Oh, my ride-or-die in the movie business since tick, tick…Boom! Thank you to everyone on our team at 5000 Broadway for their work in making this a reality.”

Malloy is set to adapt his own musical’s book for the film’s screenplay. He will also executive produce the project.

“I am over the moon that Lin-Manuel is turning Octet into a movie! I was utterly gobsmacked by his work on tick, tick…Boom!, and feel so honored to have such a beacon of the musical theater world bring this piece into a new life,” Malloy said. “As a brilliant storyteller, fellow internet junkie, and dear friend, I know he’s going to make something amazing. And our cast is completely ridiculous.”

While the film’s cast has yet to be officially announced, Miranda teased that is on the way.

“Full cast soon …,” he wrote on his Instagram Story.

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Beef season 2 is cooking up something new. Netflix has announced that a new trailer for the upcoming season will arrive Thursday. Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Cailee Spaeny and Charles Melton star in the season, which arrives to the streaming service on April 16 …

Fight Club is returning to theaters. Tickets are now on sale for a one-night-only rerelease of the David Fincher film. This 4K rerelease will be available to watch on the big screen on April 22 …

Odessa A’zion has found her next role. Variety reports the Marty Supreme breakout star has joined the cast of Anatomy of a Fall director Justine Triet’s upcoming movie, Fonda. Ewan Mitchell, Cherry Jones and Benedict Wong have also signed on to star in the film …

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Trinity Bliss joined the world of Avatar when she was only 7 years old.

The 16-year-old actress has spent the better part of her life training, filming and promoting her breakout role as Tuk Sully, the youngest child of Neytiri and Jake Sully, in both Avatar: The Way of Water and Avatar: Fire and Ash. The latter film is now available to watch on all digital platforms.

“I have grown up with her, and she’s just such a big part of me and she’ll live in me forever because of that,” Bliss said. “I just saw myself in her in so many ways and I think that was, like, an exciting thing about discovering in her and through her and who she is from the training process to filming.”

Bliss relates to Tuk being the youngest child in the Sully family.

“We both just want to keep up with the older kids, and prove our worth and not be underestimated,” Bliss said. “She’s much more fearless than me, and I wish I could embody that. But even just the fact that she’s mixed race, I saw myself in her in so many ways.”

It’s no secret that Bliss wants to continue Tuk’s story in two more potential Avatar sequels. She says Tuk has been “stuck in this time capsule of being 8 and 9” while she was able to age in real life.

“I would just love to explore her in Avatar 4 and 5, and just see who she is as a teenager and who she evolves into, especially because in the time jump that happens in [Avatar] 4, so much happens to our characters that makes them grow so much in ways they really shouldn’t have to, but in ways that are also so important to who they are,” Bliss said. “I’m so excited at the idea of getting to see her in that way and play her at the age I’m at now.”

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James L. Brooks is set to be honored with the inaugural Industry Icon Award at the Peabody Awards.

The Oscar winner will receive the first-ever award of this kind at the 86th annual awards ceremony, which is set to take place on May 31. The program’s board of jurors made the announcement on Wednesday.

Other honorees at the ceremony include Amy Poehler, who will receive the Career Achievement Award, as well as Sterlin Harjo, who is set to receive the Trailblazer Award. Additionally, the historic programmer PBS Kids will be given the Institutional Award.

“James L. Brooks has shaped the way we understand television as both an art form and a cultural force. His work blends humor, humanity, and sharp social insight in ways that have influenced generations of storytellers. It’s an honor to recognize his extraordinary legacy with the inaugural Industry Icon Award,” Jeffrey Jones, the executive director of the Peabody Awards, said in a press release.

Brooks is being honored with this award due to his “enduring impact and leadership in shaping the media landscape,” according to The Peabody Awards. Over the course of his career he co-created The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, The Simpsons and Room 222. On the film side, he is known for his movies Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News and As Good as It Gets.

Nominees for the 2026 Peabody Awards will be announced on April 7 and April 9. The winners will be announced later that month.

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A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder now has a season 2 release date.

Netflix has announced that the second season of the young adult mystery series will debut on May 27. The series stars Wednesday‘s Emma Myers as the young detective Pippa Fitz-Amboi.

“After solving the Andie Bell case, Pip (Myers) is determined to fix the fallout – and stay away from any more investigations. But as Max Hastings’ (Henry Ashton) trial approaches, Connor’s (Jude Morgan-Collie) brother Jamie (Eden H-Davies) suddenly disappears, and Pip finds herself in a race against time to find him,” according to the season’s official logline.

Season 2 will consist of six 45-minute episodes. The show is based on Holly Jackson’s Good Girl, Bad Blood. Jackson adapted season 2 for the small screen along with Poppy Cogan.

Zain Iqbal, Asha Banks, Yali Topol Margalith and Freddie England also star in season 2.

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Happy Feet is dancing its way to Broadway. The Oscar-winning animated film is being adapted into a brand-new stage musical. This production will be based on the Warner Bros. movie directed by George Miller. Tony Award-winning director Michael Arden is set to helm the show from a book written by Douglas Lyons. Happy Feet will feature the hit songs from the movie, as well as a new lineup of chart-toppers that audiences will know and love, according to a press release …

The official trailer for Backrooms has arrived. A24 is set to release the upcoming film in theaters on May 29. It’s based on a series of viral found-footage videos from the movie’s director, Kane Parsons. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett and Lukita Maxwell star in the horror movie …

Jane Austen fans, rejoice. The trailer for The Other Bennet Sister is here. This TV series is a spinoff of Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice. It focuses on Elizabeth Bennet’s often overlooked sister, Mary Bennet. Ella Bruccoleri stars as Mary in the series, which also features Richard E. Grant, Indira Varma and Tanya Reynolds as part of its ensemble …

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