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| Netflix announces 'KPop Demon Hunters' immersive experience | Netflix announced Wednesday that it is launching a KPop Demon Hunters immersive experience at its Netflix House locations. The film celebrates the one-year anniversary of its premiere on Saturday. Netflix House has locations in Philadelphia and Dallas, both featuring Wednesday, Stranger Things and Squid Game experiences. The streaming service is also planning anniversary screenings and a TikTok watch party. Toys, dolls, apparel and more merchandise are launching Monday, including themed sunscreen. Derpie Tiger and Susie Bird LEGO sets are available for pre-order now. The Netflix Playground app launches six Kpop Demon Hunters minigames Saturday. |
| 'Young Guns' icons reuniting at Dallas Fan Expo | Several stars from the 1988 western Young Guns have been booked to appear at Fan Expo Dallas in September. Organizers announced that Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Lou Diamond Phillips, Dermot Mulroney and Casey Siemaszko will be participating in the event. "This is exactly the kind of once-in-a-lifetime moment Fan Expo Dallas was created to deliver," Andrew Moyes, vice President of Fan Expo HQ, said in a press release Thursday. "Young Guns wasn't just a movie -- it was lightning in a bottle. It captured the rebellious spirit of a generation and turned a group of young actors into icons. |
| Show-runner: 'Widow's Bay' blends nostalgia with tension, comedy | Parks and Recreation and Mad TV scribe Katie Dippold says a 1980s-era haunted house attraction in her native New Jersey was an inspiration for her new supernatural thriller, Widow's Bay. "We would go and I was too young for it, and it was terrifying, but I got such a joy out of going to that haunted house, screaming and running in terror and then laughing," Dippold, 46, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview. "I just love that feeling and I've just been trying to capture that feeling, putting it on the TV screen, my whole life," she said. "I think of New Jersey in the 1980s. |
| 'Gilded Age' stars tease 'juicy' Season 4 as production begins | The stars of The Gilded Age say fans should expect some "juicy" developments in Season 4. In a video released Thursday, Carrie Coon, Louisa Jacobson, Christine Baranski and other cast members announced the start of production on the new season and teased the upcoming episodes. The Gilded Age is a historical drama from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. Set in the late 19th century in New York City, the show centers on new money social climber Bertha Russell (Coon) and Marian Brook (Jacobson), the niece of old money sisters Agnes (Baranski) and Ada (Cynthia Nixon). Season 4 will find "everything Bertha has built" thrust into "a very precarious position," according to Coon. "There are really startling plot developments," Nixon added. |
| 'Outer Banks' gang 'risk everything' to avenge JJ in Season 5 teaser | Netflix is giving a glimpse of Outer Banks Season 5. The streaming service shared a teaser trailer for the season Thursday featuring Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline and Madison Bailey. Outer Banks is a teen drama series following the Pogues, a group of friends living in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Season 5 will see the group "risk everything" to avenge JJ (Rudy Pankow), who was murdered by his biological father, Chandler Groff (J. Anthony Crane), in the Season 4 finale. Jonathan Daviss, Drew Starkey, Carlacia Grant and Pollyanna McIntosh also return to star. "Season 5 finds the Pogues at their absolute breaking point following the tragic loss of JJ in Morocco," according to Netflix's Tudum. |