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| Millie Bobby Brown, David Harbour reunite for new Netflix series | Stranger Things veterans Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour are reuniting for a new Netflix series. "Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour are reuniting as father and daughter in an all-new series!" the streaming service said Friday. "From Adolescence co-creator Jack Thorne and A24. A disgraced FBI agent is forced back into the field when his estranged daughter, who followed in his footsteps, vanishes on a mission." No title or premiere date have been announced yet. Brown played Eleven and Harbour portrayed her adopted father Hopper for five seasons of Stranger Things, a supernatural drama set in the 1980s. The finale dropped Dec. 31. Brown will next be seen in the Netflix movie, Enola Holmes 3. |
| Kristen Stewart, Alia Shawkat dumpster dive in 'Wrong Girls' pics | Neon released three photos from the upcoming movie The Wrong Girls on Friday. The Wrong Girls opens Aug. 14. Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat play two stoner roommates involved in a case of mistaken identity. One photo shows the duo emerging from a dumpster. Another shows them inspecting a briefcase in their apartment. A third picture shows costars Lakeith Stanfield and Kate McKinnon. The Wrong Girls also stars Zack Fox, Seth Rogen, Kumail Nanjiani, Tony Hale and Geena Davis. Stewart's wife, Dylan Meyer, wrote and directed the film. Meyer co-wrote Moxie and XOXO for Netflix. The Wrong Girls is her feature film directorial debut. |
| John Carpenter announces new single releasing Tuesday | John Carpenter and bandmates Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies announced Friday that they will be releasing a new single on Tuesday. "The Ferryman" will be the second track from Cathedral, following "Lord of the Underground." Cathedral is a graphic novel coming Aug.4 with a soundtrack album coming Aug. 7. Each track corresponds to a chapter of the graphic novel. "The Ferryman" introduces the subterranean character. John Carpenter said the story was inspired by a dream he had in 2024. "It was so cinematic and vivid," John Carpenter said in a statement. "I thought, 'I have to score this.' It's kind of our first heavy metal album. |
| 'Lee Cronin's The Mummy' to stream on HBO Max July 3 | HBO Max announced Friday that Lee Cronin's The Mummy will begin streaming on the service July 3. HBO will premiere the film July 4 at 8 p.m. EDT. The film opened in theaters April 17 at No. 3 behind The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and Project Hail Mary. The summer horror boom continued with Obsession and Backrooms in May. Cronin's take on The Mummy features a family dealing with the return of a missing girl after eight years lost in the desert. Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, Natalie Grace and Veronica Falcn star. Blumhouse's Jason Blum and Atomic Monster's James Wan produce with John Keville. Cronin is among the executive producers. Cronin's first feature film, The Hole in the Ground, premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. |
| Angelina Jolie: 'Couture' character is more than her cancer | Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie says her late mother Marcheline Bertrand was a tremendous inspiration for her performance in the film, Couture. Opening in theaters Friday, Couture follows Maxine (Jolie), an American filmmaker working the assignment of a lifetime at Paris Fashion Week and dealing with a divorce back home when she learns she has aggressive breast cancer. "My mom told me once, when she'd been living with it a few years, she said, 'All anybody ever asks me about is cancer,'" Jolie, 51, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview. "She stopped getting asked, was she writing? Was she reading?" the actress recalled. [Cancer] became too much of an identity. |