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Wicked: Part Two is already defying gravity and expectations.

The film has officially been renamed to Wicked: For Good, Universal Pictures announced on the social platform X on Monday.

“You will be changed. Wicked: For Good, only in theaters November 21, 2025,” the official Wicked Movie account posted.

Wicked: For Good follows the second act of the Tony-winning Broadway musical, and will include fan-favorite songs such as “For Good” and “As Long As You’re Mine.” It opens in theaters on Nov. 21, 2025, as originally planned.

Jon M. Chu directed both Wicked films, which star Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Yeoh.

Wicked released in theaters on Nov. 22 and has made over $359 million domestically at the box office. This makes it the highest-grossing Broadway adaptation in the history of the domestic box office. 

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Grant Ellis is ready to hand out roses and find his future wife on The Bachelor.

On Monday, ABC dropped a promo for season 29 of the reality dating series, in which Ellis reintroduces himself to Bachelor Nation ahead of the season’s Jan. 27 premiere.

“I’m Grant, and I’m your new Bachelor,” he says. “I’m a New Jersey boy, a mama’s boy, I’m a day trader, I’m an athlete. I’m really a goofball.”

“I’m looking for love. I want a wife. I’m searching for that happiness,” he continues. “To get what you want out of life, you have to take a chance. Love is a choice. Love is hard. But ultimately, the hardest things have the biggest reward.”

As the clip comes to a close, Ellis adds, “Let the journey begin!”

Ellis was named the newest Bachelor lead in August following his elimination on Jenn Tran‘s season of The Bachelorette.

In a video message to Good Morning America following the announcement, Ellis revealed what he is looking for in a wife.

“I’m looking for a love that’s kind and understanding. Some qualities I’m looking for in a potential partner is somebody who’s adventurous, somebody who’s affectionate and somebody who’s loving,” he said at the time. “I can’t wait for this incredible journey to get kicked off. It’s going to be so fun, and I hope you guys tune in. Peace!”

The Bachelor season 29 premieres Jan. 27 on ABC and streams the next day on Hulu.

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It’s time to check-in for The White Lotus season 3.

The new teaser trailer for the third season of the popular HBO and Max series dropped on Monday, and it finds its cast arriving at a White Lotus resort in Thailand.

There is one familiar face amongst the brand-new cast: Natasha Rothwell, who played spa manager Belinda Lindsey in season 1 of the show, returns for this season.

“I’m on an exchange program,” Rothwell’s Belinda says in the trailer. “I’m starting to feel like something good is going to come out of this.”

Parker Posey, Michelle Monaghan, Leslie Bibb, Dom Hetrakul, Jason Isaacs, Walton Goggins, Aimee Lou Wood, Tayme Thapthimthong, Sarah Catherine Hook, Sam Nivola and Patrick Schwarzenegger make up the rest of the star-studded cast.

BLACKPINK‘s Lisa also has a role this season. She seems to play an employee at the White Lotus, as she introduces guests to the resort at the beginning of the trailer.

The season’s tagline is “seeking peace can be a trip.” Scenes from the trailer show off characters relaxing at a spa and seeking out stress management mediation sessions.

However, in classic The White Lotus fashion, there seems to be danger that comes with paradise.

“I almost died today! But we got the room comped, didn’t we babes? That was cool,” Wood’s character tells Goggins’ character in the trailer.

“Yeah, you did a great job, babe,” he replies.

The White Lotus season 3 premieres Feb. 16 on Max.

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Superman is one step closer to flying into theaters.

The DC Studios superhero film released its first major official promotion material on Monday. Director James Gunn not only posted a motion poster for the film to Instagram, but he also shared a Reel announcing that the teaser trailer for the film will drop on Thursday.

The motion poster features David Corenswet in costume as Superman, with the tagline “Look up.” An updated version of the iconic John Williams Superman theme plays alongside the new poster.

“Look up. #Superman is only in theaters July 11,” Gunn’s caption reads.

The Reel features the iconic Superman logo spinning, before the words “teaser trailer Thursday” flash on the screen.

Superman also stars Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Skyler Gisondo, Sean Gunn and Anthony Carrigan. It arrives in theaters on July 11, 2025.  

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Kelly Reilly, Luke Grimes and more are saying goodbye to Yellowstone.

Several cast members took to social media to mark the end of the series — co-created, written and often directed by Taylor Sheridan — as it aired its final episode on Sunday, Dec. 15.

Reilly, who played Beth Dutton, shared a post on Instagram, writing in the caption, “Whatever the future holds this is the ending of the show we have been making for the past 7 years. Words cannot convey how I feel about the people I got to work and create with over the seasons. I have made true life long friends.”

“The support from the crew and the trust and dedication of the cast. The words I got to say and the woman I got to inhabit. It changed me. It lit me up. It challenged me in every way possible and I will forever be grateful for it,” she added.

Reilly ended with a message to the show’s fans, writing, “Thank you the audience we made it for, for being on this journey with us. We really cared about making something special for you all.”

Grimes kept his message short and sweet as he bid farewell to his character, Kayce Dutton, and the show.

“End of an era,” he wrote in an Instagram post. “Goodbye Kayce. You are a better man than I. To my yellowstone family, thank you for the experience of a lifetime.”

Kelsey Asbille, who played Kayce’s wife, Monica, reflected on her onscreen partnership with Grimes.

“To share the screen with Luke over these past 7 years was such a dream,” she wrote in the caption of an Instagram post.

Yellowstone aired for five seasons between 2018 and 2024, and has spawned several spinoffs and created a television universe.

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Legendary film and television actor Dick Van Dyke is giving credit to neighbors and other good Samaritans for helping him escape a raging wildfire in Malibu, California.

In an interview with Los Angeles ABC station KABC, the Mary Poppins star reflected on the close call as he wrestled with a fire hose and grew tired before neighbors and good Samaritans saved him before the Franklin Fire closed in on his home last week.

“I have a fire hose, which I put in the pool, and it makes a nice big stream,” he told KABC. “I got it out and it was in snarls, and I’m down on the ground wrestling with this thing, trying to get it undone and the fire is coming over the hill … I didn’t realize, but I had exhausted myself.”

“I couldn’t get up. They had to pick me up and carry me to the car,” Van Dyke said. He said the group also put out the fire, which was burning his guest house.

“They saved my house and my life, these guys. Otherwise, I wouldn’t even be here,” he said.

In the interview with KABC, Van Dyke also discussed his 99th birthday, which he celebrated on Friday, sharing that the secret to his long and prosperous life is to avoid being hateful. “Haters don’t live very long,” he said.

“The funny thing is I’ve never met a 99-year-old person, so I don’t know how to behave. How do you act when you’re 99?” he joked.

Van Dyke was one of about 20,000 people under evacuation as the Franklin Fire swept the coastal community beginning Monday, Dec. 9. As of Sunday, the more than 4,000-acre fire was 42% contained and had destroyed at least nine structures, including four homes, and damaged six additional homes, officials said.

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Hayley Atwell looks to be returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The actress is reported to be reprising her role as Agent Carter in the upcoming superhero movie Avengers: Doomsday, according to Deadline. The film is being directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, with Marvel president Kevin Feige producing. While plot details remain unknown, the film is expected in theaters on May 1, 2026 …

Anne Hathaway is staying booked and busy. The actress will star alongside Dave Bautista in an untitled action comedy film for Amazon MGM Studios, Deadline reports. Inspired by actual events, the film follows agents who posed as a couple in order to infiltrate a global crime enterprise …

Jim Carrey says he’d return to another one of his famous movie characters, but only under one condition. In a recent interview for Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Carrey said he would reprise his role in a sequel to The Mask if it felt right. “Oh gosh, you know, it has to be the right idea. If somebody had the right idea, I guess … It’s not really about the money,” Carrey said to ComicBook. “I joke about the money … But I never know. You can’t be definite about these things.”

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Moana 2 is riding a wave of box office success that just won’t quit.

The Disney animated sequel brought in $8.5 million at this box office this past weekend; nearly 50% down from last weekend but still good enough for first place. It’s domestic haul to date is over $337 million, according to Box Office Mojo.

Coming in second place for the second week in a row was Wicked: Part 1, with just under $7.3 million, followed by one of this week’s new releases: Marvel’s Kraven the Hunter, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ariana DeBose. It brought in just under $2.5 million.

Another new release, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim — an anime film set more than 180 years before Peter Jackson‘s The Lord of the Rings trilogy — came in sixth place with 1.1 million.

Here are the top 10 films at the box office:

1. Moana 2 – $8.5 million
2. Wicked: Part 1 – $7.25 million
3. Kraven the Hunter – $ 2.45 million
4. Gladiator II – $2.29 million
5. Red One – $1.3 million
6. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim – $1.1 million
7. Interstellar (Re-release) – $995,000
8. Pushpa: The Rule – Part 2 – $446,000
9. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever – $405,000
10. Queer – $241,000

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Jamie Foxx is recuperating after his representatives said he was hit by glass at a Beverly Hills restaurant where a fight with other people allegedly broke out Friday night.

The Oscar winner required stitches following the incident at Mr. Chow restaurant on Camden Drive, his representative told KABC.

Foxx “was at his birthday dinner when someone from another table threw a glass that hit him in the mouth,” the representative told the station.

Officers were called in and determined the report was unfounded but there had been a physical fight between parties, according to the Beverly Hills Police Department.

Investigators called the incident a battery and have not made an arrest as of Saturday evening. The probe is ongoing.

It’s unclear if Foxx was involved in the altercation or was an innocent bystander from the other table but the injuries are not believed to be serious, according to sources with knowledge of the investigation.

“The devil is busy,” Foxx wrote in a social media post early Sunday morning, “but I’m too blessed to be stressed.”

“When your light is shining bright…they try to bring you to darkness…but they don’t know that you’re built for it,” Foxx added.

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Jennifer Love Hewitt is slated to reprise her role as Julie James in the new I Know What You Did Last Summer film.

The actress shared the news on Friday in an Instagram post that was also shared on the film’s official Instagram page.

“It’s never too late to go back,” she wrote in the caption of the post. “Julie James is returning. I know what you will be doing next summer!”

In the image, Hewitt is looking into a mirror with notes taped all around that include the film’s title.

Hewitt starred as Julie James in the 1997 film of the same name, which also starred Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Ryan Phillippe.

The film followed a group of friends stalked by a hook-handed maniac after hoping to hide a tragic accident.

It earned over $125 million worldwide and led to the 1998 sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.

Earlier in December, a photo of a hook and a film slate was shared on the official Instagram page for the upcoming movie to mark that production was underway.

In September, ABC News learned that Prinze would also be joining the cast for the new film. The actor portrayed Ray Bronson in the horror film.

In addition to Prinze and Hewitt, the cast of the upcoming Sony Pictures film will include Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers and Jonah Hauer-King.

The new I Know What You Did Last Summer film is slated to arrive in theaters in summer 2025.

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