Netflix announces episode titles for fifth and final season of ‘Stranger Things’
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To commemorate November 6 — aka “Stranger Things Day,” aka the day Will Byers was sucked into the Upside Down — Netflix revealedStranger Things will return in 2025, as well as the titles for all eight remaining episodes of the streaming phenomenon’s fifth and final season.
“In the fall of 1987, one last adventure begins … ” Netflix teased in a series of title cards.
Here are the titles — let your imagination run as to what they could mean:
Timothée Chalamet made a surprise appearance at his own lookalike contest in New York City.
It was an unofficial event organized by his fans that was eventually disbanded by police.
A TikTok video shows the Oscar nominee walking through the crowd greeting contest attendees in Washington Square Park in Lower Manhattan.
His arrival was accompanied by cheers and screams from his fans.
“Just a typical sunday in new york city,” a user by the name of Sophie Mannes wrote in the TikTok caption, as she posted the video.
Chalamet was also seen taking a moment to pose for photos with his doppelgängers, some of whom had dressed up as his characters from Wonka and the Dune films for the lookalike contest, per images released by The Associated Press.
As the contestants began walking on a red carpet for the competition, the New York Police Department instructed the large crowd to disperse and issued organizers a $500 fine for holding an “unpermitted costume contest,” the AP reported, adding that the police arrested at least one contestant, with pending charges.
The organizers had promoted the event by posting flyers for the contest around the city, offering a $50 dollar prize to the winner, which led to social media buzz and thousands of online RSVPs.
Paige Nguyen, a producer for the YouTube personality Anthony Po, who hosted the event, told the AP, “It started off as a silly joke, and now it’s turned pandemonium.”
ABC News has reached out to the NYPD for comment but did not hear back immediately.
Angelina Jolie takes center stage as opera singer Maria Callas in a brand-new trailer for the film Maria.
In the new look released Thursday, Jolie portrays the world-famous opera singer toward the end of her life.
“The film follows the American Greek soprano as she retreats to Paris after a glamorous and tumultuous life in the public eye. ‘Maria’ reimagines the legendary soprano in her final days as the diva reckons with her identity and life,” a Netflix description of the Pablo Larraín-directed project reads.
“I’d like to walk with you through your life,” an interviewer says at the beginning of the trailer, speaking with Jolie as Callas as Puccini‘s “O mio babbino caro” plays in the background.
Callas then reflects back on a life of fame and world renown in her career as an opera singer.
“Perhaps we can speak of your life away from the stage,” the interviewer suggests at one point.
“There is no life away from the stage,” Callas responds.
The trailer then shows several more clips of Jolie onstage and surrounded by cameras.
At another point in the trailer, Callas is informed, in a devastating turn, that her “voice will not return.”
The trailer closes with a shot of Callas seated at a table with her friends and close associates.
“My life is opera,” she says. “There is no reason in opera.”
Jolie stars in the film — her first since starring in Chloé Zhao‘s Eternals in 2021 — alongside Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Haluk Bilginer and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
Maria is slated for wide release on Dec. 11, streaming on Netflix after playing select theaters on Nov. 27.
While the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned streaming service is officially mum so far, The Hollywood ReportersaysJuror #2, likely the final film from 94-year-old Clint Eastwood, will debut on Max around December.
The straight-to-streaming moves made in the past by then-HBO Max were controversial in 2021 — when the studio’s entire lineup, including Godzilla vs. Kong and Dune, debuted in theaters and on streaming on the same day. The strategy was both to build up the then-fledgling streaming service’s subscriber base and to service post-pandemic movie fans who were not ready to return to theaters.
That said, some in the industry griped the move took a toll on the films’ box office potential.
However, the trade says the Hollywood icon gave his blessing to the release plan for the older-skewing courtroom drama that stars Nicholas Hoult, J.K. Simmons and Kiefer Sutherland.
Juror #2 has already had a limited theatrical release so that it can qualify for Oscar consideration, and the critics who’ve seen it have given the movie a 91% score on the aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.
