In brief: ‘The Lowdown’ season 2 gets official trailer and more
We now know the premiere date for Ted: The Animated Series. Peacock has announced it will debut the upcoming show on Dec. 17. A teaser trailer for the series is also now available to watch. Seth MacFarlane, Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried and Jessica Barth lend their voices to the animated equivalents of the characters they originated in the live-action Ted films …
Here’s the lowdown on season 2 of The Lowdown. The official trailer for the upcoming sophomore season of the FX series has arrived. Ethan Hawke stars in and executive produces the show that follows a citizen journalist who’s always getting into trouble. Tommy Lee Jones and Betty Gilpin join the cast this time around …
Ariana Madix is trading in the Love Island USA villa for a TV soundstage. The reality TV show host is set to star in a drama series that’s in development at Peacock. The show is called Future Housewives. It’s set in an asteroid colony called New Beverly Hills that’s filled with wealthy socialites who juggle beauty regimens, rivalries and scandals …
Kit Connor and Joe Locke appear in this key art promoting ‘Heartstopper: Ending on a Hi.’ (Netflix)
Heartstopper is about to say goodbye, but Netflix wants you to say hi to its behind-the-scenes special celebrating the series.
The streaming service has announced that Heartstopper: Ending on a Hi will debut on July 24. The behind-the-scenes special draws on unseen archival footage across all of the seasons of Heartstopper and its upcoming film.
Franchise creator Alice Oseman, the cast and executive producer Patrick Walters all come together along with some of the show’s many fans in this new special.
“Through candid interviews and fan voices, it charts the show’s creative journey, cultural impact, and lasting legacy – a love letter to the community it brought together. Because every ending is also a beginning. Somewhere, someone is about to say ‘hi’ for the very first time,” according to a description from Netflix.
Luke Hyams directed Heartstopper: Ending on a Hi. It arrives a week after the debut of the film Heartstopper Forever on July 17.
Wash Westmoreland directed Heartstopper Forever, which was written by Oseman.
Kit Connor, Joe Locke, William Gao, Yasmin Finney, Corinna Brown, Kizzy Edgell, Tobie Donovan, Jenny Walser, Rhea Norwood and Leila Khan star in the movie and behind-the-scenes special.
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.
Ryan Gosling and Flynn Gray on the set of ‘Star Wars: Starfighter.’ (Ed Miller/Lucasfilm)
Fans will be able to visit a galaxy far, far away in IMAX.
Disney and Lucasfilm have announced that the original 1977 Star Wars film, as well as the upcoming Star Wars: Starfighter, are set to debut on IMAX screens in 70mm film in 2027.
The original film will be presented in IMAX for the first time ever, whether it be digital or on film, in celebration of its 50th anniversary. That rerelease heads to theaters on Feb. 19, 2027. The film, which was later renamed Star Wars: A New Hope, will be screened in a newly restored version in a select amount of IMAX 70mm film locations. It will also play digitally in select theaters.
The latest Star Wars film, Star Wars: Starfighter, is set to release on the 50th anniversary weekend of the original film’s premiere. It debuts on May 28, 2027, as a filmed for IMAX release that was shot with IMAX-certified film cameras. The movie has been converted to IMAX 70mm film prints for release in a select number of IMAX film locations, according to a press release from Lucasfilm.
Ryan Gosling stars as the cynical rogue Kade Auberon in the Shawn Levy-directed film. As he’s “confronted by his mysterious past, he is hurled into a dangerous adventure across the galaxy that puts him on a crash course with destiny,” according to the movie’s official description.
Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Aaron Pierre, Jamael Westman, Daniel Ings, Flynn Gray and Amy Adams also star in the upcoming, standalone Star Wars film.
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