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| Ashley Zukerman: 'Silo' is in 'deep answer territory' now | Designated Survivor and The Lost Symbol actor Ashley Zukerman's Silo alternate timeline is helping to solve some of the post-apocalyptic drama's biggest mysteries. Season 3 of the series -- which is based on Hugh Howey's acclaimed sci-fi books about an underground society -- wraps up on Apple TV Friday. The latest episodes showed Zukerman's engineer and Congressman character, Daniel Keene, in flashbacks leading up to the cataclysmic events that sent people into multi-level structures embedded deep in the Earth. Spoilers ahead. Daniel was cryogenically frozen and, now known as Troy, is periodically woken up over the course of centuries to handle crises in the silos. |
| Haley Bennett calls her 'Night & Day' scientist brilliant, restless, awkward | The Last Frontier, Cyrano and The Magnificent Seven actress Haley Bennett plays a woman ahead of her time, trying to balance love and science, in the new period film, Virginia Woolf's Night & Day. In theaters Friday, the rom-com is set in 1910 England and follows Katherine (Bennett), a passionate astronomer frustrated by the men who don't take her and her work seriously. Jack Whitehall from The Studio and The 'Burbs plays William, the man she regards as a surrogate brother who supports her all things. "She's an aspiring astronomer. She's awkward and restless and completely out of sync with the world around her, including her best friend, who is played brilliantly by Jack Whitehall," Bennett, 38, told UPI in a recent phone interview. |
| 'The Unknown' teaser: Lea Seydoux stars in body-swap thriller | Neon is introducing the new film The Unknown. The studio shared a teaser trailer for the movie Friday featuring Lea Seydoux and Niels Schneider. The Unknown is a body-swap thriller from Oscar-winning Anatomy of a Fall co-writer Arthur Harari. The teaser shows David (Schneider), a Parisian photographer, encounter a young woman, Eva (Seydoux), on an assignment. "That night, at a drug-fueled party, David locks eyes with her across the room and follows her. By the morning, David wakes up in the young woman's body," an official description reads. The Unknown had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May. The film is "coming soon" to U.S. theaters. |
| Morgan Spector is Robert Langdon in photo for Netflix Dan Brown series | Netflix is giving a glimpse of its new series inspired by The Secret of Secrets. The streaming service shared a first-look photo for the show Friday to mark the start of production in Prague. The untitled series takes place in the world of the Dan Brown novel The Secret of Secrets and stars The Gilded Age actor Morgan Spector as Harvard professor and symbologist Robert Langdon. Tom Hanks previously portrayed Langdon in the films The DaVinci Code, Angels & Demons and Inferno, also based on Brown's works. Brown's Secret of Secrets follows Langdon as he "races against ancient forces -- and the clock -- to rescue a missing scientist and recover her groundbreaking manuscript," according to an official synopsis. |
| Miley Cyrus releases 'Bass Persuades,' first single from new album | Miley Cyrus is back with new music. The singer and actress, who now goes by the mononym Miley, released a single and music video for "Bass Persuades" on Thursday. The "Bass Persuades" video shows Miley crash an underground poker game and perform a choreographed dance routine with shirtless dancers wearing matching black pants. In another scene, Miley brings the dance party out onto the streets at night. "Bass Persuades" is the title track and first song to debut from Miley's forthcoming 10th studio album of the same name. The album is scheduled for release Sept. 18. Beyond music, Miley took part in the Hannah Montana 20th anniversary special earlier this year. |