In brief: ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ season 3 trailer and more
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Carrie Coon stars in the official trailer for the upcoming film The Liberation. The actress plays Rita, a New Jersey housewife and Holocaust survivor living in the 1980s. When she encounters a spiritual leader played by Lily James, Rita leaves her family to join an all-women commune. Bella Ramsey, Odessa Young and Tracy Letts also star in the upcoming film, which is slated for wide release on Jan. 8 …
The official trailer for season 3 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians has arrived. The third season of the show based on Rick Riordan’s bestselling book series premieres on Disney+ Nov. 20. Its first two episodes will be available to stream at that time, followed by two new episodes dropping each week that follows. Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri and Charlie Bushnell star in the season, which finds Percy and his friends racing to save Annabeth from the forces of Kronos …
Hayden Panettiere attends the LA premiere of ‘Blonde’ at TCL Chinese Theatre on Sept. 13, 2022, in Hollywood, California. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic via Getty Images)
Hayden Panettiere was remembered on Monday as an “amazing talent.”
The actress, who launched a career as a child actor, including an appearance in Remember the Titans, and later became a TV star with leading roles in Heroes and Nashville, died over the weekend at age 36, according to her representatives.
Panettiere also starred in Raising Helen, Ice Princess and several Scream films.
Panettiere’s former co-stars and industry colleagues paid tribute to her this week.
“What an amazing talent you were….so gifted,” Viola Davis, the Oscar-winning actress who co-starred with Panettiere in the 2016 film Custody, wrote in the caption of an Instagram post Monday morning.
Davis described Panettiere as “an old, wise soul with such a deep heart,” adding, “I wish the world had more time with you because I had a burning curiosity about who you were becoming.”
SAG-AFTRA, a union representing performers and broadcasters, wrote in a social media post, “Our hearts are with her daughter, family, friends & fans.”
Bethany Joy Lenz, who starred alongside Panettiere on the soap opera Guiding Light in the late 1990s, paid tribute to her former co-star in an Instagram post.
“I’m crushed. I knew the wild little blonde. Was she nine? Ten? I was eighteen,” Lenz wrote alongside a carousel of photos, including several shots of Panettiere as a young girl. “She ran through the Screen Gem studio hallways at 222 E44th St. laughing and playing games in between Guiding Light blocking and camera rehearsals. Long, unruly curls trailing behind her. She knew her lines and everyone else’s. Her intelligence was astonishing.”
Lenz wrote that Panettiere “understood scenes and nuance and human struggle like no child I’d ever seen on camera” and would “sit with you for a great conversation, then giggle and go play.”
“These are moments of how I knew you, in glimpses over 26 years. I don’t know how to process this. I am praying for you to know the peace of God now and always,” she added.
Heather Matarazzo also remembered Panettiere in a post on Instagram.
“Devastated…….. We first met on the [Long Island Rail Road] traveling to NYC for auditions when we were both kids,” she wrote. “Every time our paths crossed, my heart always filled up. She was special. She was a Sprite of a being and such a talent. Truly a light…. Love you, Hayden.”
Panettiere died in South Carolina, her representative told ABC News early Monday morning, and an investigation into her death is “ongoing.”
Further details surrounding Panettiere’s death were not immediately available.
Panettiere had been candid about her struggles from child stardom through adulthood. She released a memoir in May titled This Is Me: A Reckoning.
She was the mother to one child, her daughter Kaya Klitschko, whom she had in 2014 with her ex-fiancé, heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko.
Peter Cullen attends The Paley Honors: A Gala Tribute To Hasbro’s Centennial at Cipriani 42nd Street on October 23, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
Peter Cullen, a voice actor who starred as Optimus Prime in Transformers and as Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh, has died at the age of 85.
Cullen died on Wednesday at his Los Angeles home, his agent, Kevin Motley, confirmed to ABC News on Thursday.
No cause of death was given.
“Peter Cullen passed away peacefully, surrounded by his loving family — and held in the hearts of his many friends and countless fans worldwide,” the family said in a statement. “His family asks that you honor his remarkable legacy by serving your communities and leading others with compassion, integrity, and loyalty and always remember ‘be strong enough to be gentle.'”
Cullen had more than 200 acting credits over his decadeslong career. In addition to his roles in several Transformers and Winnie the Pooh movies and shows, he voiced characters in Knight Rider and Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers and provided vocal effects for the 1987 film Predator, according to IMDb.
He was also the announcer on The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour in the 1970s, which gave him his break into acting.
In a 2014 interview with NPR, the Canadian-born Cullen said he first learned he had a talent for voices when he was a child, living and working on a farm.
“One of the greatest memories I have is, I had a full dairy barn where I would collect milk pails with my brother, Larry,” Cullen said. “I found one day that I made a loud noise and all the cows looked up to me. … And I walked down the center of that aisle with these cows looking at me and I said, ‘This is fantastic.’ I must have been 8 years old … and I was the king of the cows.”
Cullen said that his second favorite role after Optimus Prime was voicing an animal, gloomy donkey Eeyore, in Winnie the Pooh.
“I enjoyed doing Eeyore because he was simply charming,” Cullen told NPR. “And I get an awful lot of reactions from, especially, young kids, when I go up and just say [in Eeyore’s voice], ‘Hello. Thanks for noticing me.'”
He continued, “And to see their faces light up, that to me is one of the great joys.”
Cullen’s gift of impersonations grew from animals to humans, which he said in a 2023 interview launched him into a career in comedy, first in Canada and then in Los Angeles.
When asked for his advice for young people, Cullen said to find something that you’re good at, or something that you want to do, and stick with it.
“No matter what it is, it’s like working a muscle, the more you work it, the bigger it gets,” he said. “And, if you do something you love, that’s what I tell kids, if you find something you love to do, do it, stick with it, and you’ll never work a day in your life. You love it, it’s just a holiday.”
A24 released a new trailer for the upcoming drama-thriller film on Thursday. It finds Pattinson in character as Chris Hansen, the host of To Catch a Predator.
Primetime comes from Lance Oppenheim, who directs from a script by Ajon Singh. Along with Pattinson, the movie stars Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, Matthew Maher and Bokeem Woodbine.
Its official logline reads, “In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.” In a similar vein, the film’s first poster includes the tagline, “Are you ready to make television history?”
This new trailer follows Pattinson in character as Hansen as he surprises a predator, played by Tony Revolori.
“Won’t you have a seat right there?” Pattinson says to the man. “I’m Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC, and we’re doing a story on adults who try to meet teens online. You see how this looks, right?”
Later, we see an NBC executive speak to Pattinson’s Hansen and Weaver’s character, who is his producer.
“I don’t really like your show. But America loves it. So I need to move you. To Catch a Predator. Nine p.m. Primetime,” he says.
To Catch a Predator ran from 2004 to 2007 on NBC. It aired only 20 episodes, but was massively popular at the time.
Primetime releases in theaters nationwide on Sept. 25.
