Sophie Skelton as Brianna MacKenzie, Richard Rankin as Roger MacKenzie, Caitriona Balfe as Claire Fraser and Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser in ‘Outlander.’ (Starz)
The time has come to say goodbye to the time travel romance Outlander. The series’ eighth and final season premieres on Starz Friday.
It promises to be an emotional conclusion to the Fraser family’s story, which began with Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire’s (Caitriona Balfe) years-spanning love story and expanded to include their daughter, Brianna (Sophie Skelton), and her husband, Roger (Richard Rankin).
The first couple of episodes are a family reunion of sorts with the characters coming back together after some time apart. Skelton says “every scene had a bittersweet feeling” as members of the show’s large cast began to wrap.
“It was almost like death by a thousand cuts really,” Rankin adds. “You had one person wrap one day, then the next day, and then the next day. And people did get quite emotional.”
Multiple endings for the series were shot, and while Rankin says he knows which one was chosen, Skelton says she’s still in the dark.
“I actually, I’m kind of intrigued to see it with the fans,” she says. “I actually haven’t even asked, so I don’t know. Yeah, I’m in it with you guys.”
While the end is near, Skelton and Rankin both say if they could time travel to relive any moment on set, they’d go back to the beginning.
“Maybe my first day, I feel,” Skelton, who joined the show in season 2, says. “It might be cool to go back and just, I don’t know, relive what I was thinking. … It’d be fun to go back now with the knowledge I’ve got and just be like, ‘Mate, just go for it. Do something rogue with Brianna.’”
Rankin agrees, adding that he was “perhaps a little shy” when he first started and would go back to “just maybe have a little word with myself and, you know, maybe be a bit bolder.”
Honoree Snoop Dogg accepts the Ultimate Icon Award onstage during the 2025 BET Awards at Peacock Theater on June 9, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. (Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET)
Another day, another gig for Snoop Dogg. Deadline reports he is set to star in God of the Rodeo, a true crime thriller from filmmaker Rosalind Ross.
Snoop will also produce the film with his Death Row Pictures partner Sara Ramaker, Giannina Scott for Cara Films and Ridley Scott for Scott Free Productions, while Ross writes and directs.
“Linking up with Scott Free Productions and working with Ridley Scott and Giannina Scott on God of the Rodeo is life changing and an honor,” Snoop said in a statement. “Rosalind Ross brought a story with heart and grit, and that’s what I’m about. Me and the team at Death Row Pictures stepping in as producers, I’m acting in it, and Death Row Records is building the soundtrack—and this one got soul. … We’re bringing an important story and something special to the screen.”
Giannina Scott said she is “excited and blessed to have Snoop join the cast,” calling him “one of the most gifted and influential artists alive.”
Ross added, “It’s a thrill and an honor as a filmmaker to bring the legendary swagger, soul and eccentricity of Snoop to this story in what will be a completely transformative role for him.”
While Snoop’s exact role has not yet been revealed, God of the Rodeo — based on reporting by Daniel Bergner— is set against the brutal backdrop of Louisiana’s Angola Prison in 1967.
It follows Buckkey, an inmate serving a life sentence “who finds a glimmer of redemption” in Angola’s first inmate rodeo, according to Deadline. He later learns the rodeo is less of an opportunity and more of “a grueling fight for survival designed to satiate the public’s” desire for bloodshed and the warden’s sense of power.
Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides in the ‘Dune: Part Three’ trailer. (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Dune fever is kicking in.
The first tickets for Dune: Part Three have gone on sale eight months ahead of the film’s release date. Notably, all of the screenings already sold out within hours of the announcement that they had gone on sale.
The tickets are specifically for IMAX 70mm screenings during the film’s opening weekend, which is Dec. 17 through Dec. 20. They will take place in select cities across the globe. For the time being, there is only one showing available for 7 p.m. at each theater’s local time.
Participating theaters are located in cities such as Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, London, Vancouver, Dallas and Miami.
Those who lucked out and were quick enough to snag the first-released tickets for Dune: Part Three will receive a limited edition collectable filmstrip. The filmstrips will be handed out on a first come, first served basis while supplies last and will only be available to pick up in person at the theatre during the qualifying screening of the film.
If you missed out on the first tickets, don’t fret. The official Dune social accounts teased that tickets for even more screenings will be available soon.
“Sign up for ticket alerts at http://imax.com/dune70mm to be notified as soon as more showtimes are added,” the post’s caption reads.
Timothée Chalamet stars as Paul Atreides in the film, which also stars Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Jason Momoa, Florence Pugh and Isaach De Bankolé. Charlotte Rampling, Anya Taylor-Joy and Javier Bardem also appear in the ensemble alongside newcomers Nakoa-Wolf Momoa and Ida Brooke.
Dune: Part Three opens in theaters and on IMAX screens everywhere on Dec. 18.
