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| 'Scarpetta' returning for Season 2 on Prime Video | Prime Video has renewed its crime drama, Scarpetta, for a second season. The adaptation of Patricia Cornwell's best-selling novel series stars Nicole Kidman as Virginia medical examiner, Dr. Kay Scarpetta; Jamie Lee Curtis as her sister Dorothy; and Bobby Cannavale as Kay's death investigator and Dorothy's husband Pete. Production on the second season has already begun, the cast announced in a video posted on social media Tuesday. The ensemble also includes Simon Baker, Ariana DeBose, Rosy McEwen, Jake Cannavale and Hunter Parrish. No premiere date has been announced yet. |
| Buzzcut Chalamet, blonde Pattinson appear in 'Dune: Part Three' | Warner Bros. released the teaser trailer for Dune: Part Three on Tuesday. The film opens in theaters Dec. 18. At the beginning of the trailer, Paul Atreides (Timothe Chalamet) and Chani (Zendaya) are discussing potential baby names. Paul suggests Ghanima for a girl and Chani suggests Leto, after his late father, played by Oscar Isaac in the first movie, for a boy. Later in the trailer, Paul asks his mother, Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), how his father protected the family. She tells him, "Your father never started a war." Paul shaves his head later in the trailer. The trailer also shows Robert Pattinson as Scytale with blonde hair. |
| 'Stranger Things: Tales From '85' heading to theaters | The first two episodes of Netflix's new animated series, Stranger Things: Tales From '85, are set to play in select AMC theaters on April 18, ahead of their streaming debut on April 23. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, "In the winter of 1985, snow blankets the town and the horrors of the Upside Down are finally fading. Our heroes Eleven, Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas, and Max have settled back into a normal life of D&D, snowball fights, and quiet days," a synopsis said. "But beneath the ice, something terrifying has awakened. Could it be from the Upside Down? From the depths of Hawkins Lab? Or from somewhere else entirely? Our heroes must race to solve this mystery and save Hawkins in this new story set in the Stranger Things universe. |
| Hulu orders third season of 'Paradise' | Hulu has announced it renewed its sci-fi drama, Paradise, for a third season. Starring Sterling K. Brown, Julianne Nicholson, Nicole Brydon Bloom and Krys Marshall, the series follows a group of survivors who are riding out the apocalypse in a high-tech, underground bunker in Colorado. Season 2 is streaming now, with the finale planned for March 30. "Xavier searches for Teri out in the world and learns how people survived the three years since The Day," a S2 synopsis explained. "Back in Paradise, the social fabric frays as the bunker deals with the aftermath of season one, and new secrets are uncovered about the city's origins." |
| WWE 'Raw': Oba Femi to face Brock Lesnar at 'WrestleMania' | Oba Femi answered Brock Lesnar's open challenge for WrestleMania 42 by attacking The Beast head-on on WWE Raw. Lesnar returned to Raw Monday in order to backup his longtime manager Paul Heyman against Seth Rollins. Rollins was joined by a number of his masked men and vowed to end Heyman's group known as The Vision. Lesnar arrived onto the scene and violently dispatched of the masked men before he stared down Rollins. Femi's music then hit as The Ruler marched down to the ring to confront Lesnar. Rollins has still not been cleared for competition after getting injured earlier this year. Femi quickly delivered a devastating Fall From Grace to Lesnar, which knocked out the multi-time champion. |