Sylvester Stallone reportedly up for seasons 3 and 4 of ‘Tulsa King’
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Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan‘s other hit show, Tulsa King, could reportedly be headed to a third and fourth season — and beyond.
According toVariety, star and executive producer Sylvester Stallone is nearing a deal for at least two more seasons of the Paramount+ series, which has him starring as a displaced East Coast mob boss out of water in Oklahoma.
That said, there’s no official word from the streamer, and the series has yet to be renewed.
Tulsa King also stars Andrea Savage, Garrett Hedlund, Vincent Piazza, Martin Starr, Dana Delany and Annabella Sciorra. Yellowstone vet Neal McDonough and Marvel movie baddie Frank Grillo joined for the current second season.
Gladiator II star Paul Mescal has been announced as the guest host for the Dec. 7 episode of Saturday Night Live, with musical guest Shaboozey. The announcement was made during the NBC late night sketch comedy show’s Nov. 16 episode featuring Charli XCX as host and musical guest. Gladiator II — also starring Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, Connie Nielsen and Denzel Washington — opens in theaters Nov. 21 …
The U.S. postal service announced it will honor the late Betty White with her own stamp, coming out in 2025. The comedic actress, who died Dec. 31, 2021 at the age of 99, entertained TV audiences for seven decades on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls, among others and was also an animal advocate. Dale Stephanos created the digital illustration based on a 2010 photograph by Kwaku Alston. Greg Breeding, an art director for USPS, designed the stamp …
Netflix‘s livestream of the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight attracted 60 million households, peaking at 65 million concurrent streams according to the streaming service. The co-main event fight featuring Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano was seen in nearly 50 million homes. The bouts, held at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, resulted in victories for Paul and Taylor …
Fans of the 2016 Disney animated film Moana can revisit their favorite characters with the new sequel, Moana 2, which is in theaters Wednesday. The film picks up three years after the original film, with Moana, voiced by Auliʻi Cravalho, setting out on a new journey with the demigod Maui, voiced by Dwayne Johnson.
Taking on the challenge of following up such a successful film are directors Jason Hand, David Derrick Jr. and Dana Ledoux Miller, who discussed their approach to the sequel with ABC Audio.
Derrick says one of the most important things in making this movie was “finding that universal connection that people have with Moana,” explaining, “I think when we came back to tell her story, it was just coming back with an old friend.”
“I think Moana’s superpower is her empathy, and I think that’s an incredible characteristic, and it leads and guides all of her decisions,” Hand adds. “So we used that when we were making the sequel.”
Hand also says it was important to maintain the relationships from the first movie: “Moana and Maui together is like magic. To see both Auliʻi and Dwayne come back into the booth and recreate that, that’s something … we definitely needed to have again.”
And Ledoux Miller says they didn’t really concern themselves with picking up specific elements from the original film.
“It was really about how can we tell the best story for Moana,” she says. “It was really about pushing Moana to become a better leader and to help her grow up.”
But that doesn’t mean there aren’t parts of the film that should feel familiar to fans of the original.
“We’re fans of the first film,” she says, “so having Easter eggs and callbacks just kind of came naturally to us.”
Good Morning Americacaught up with Emmy presenter Niecy Nash-Betts and her wife, Jessica Betts, at the event’s after-party Sunday, and they spoke about queer representation on TV.
“Everyone wants to be fully seen,” Niecy said, “and, you know, we are happy to be representations of that.” Niecy and Jessica tied the knot in 2020.
She continued, “We applaud when others are [a] representation of that, and I just think that TV has to look like the real world at some point.”
During Sunday night’s ceremony, Niecy took the stage in the program’s salute to TV cops, joining NYPD Blue‘s Jimmy Smits and Miami Vice veteran Don Johnson. Niecy played Deputy Raineesha Williams on the beloved comedy series Reno: 911.
“Raineesha brought two important things to being a cop,” Nash-Betts said from the stage. “A marginal knowledge of the law and the belief that you can’t fight crime if you ain’t cute.”
