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| 'Fallout' Season 3 adds 3 to cast, begins filming this month | Prime Video announced casting for Season 3 of Fallout on Thursday. Emily Mortimer, Manny Jacinto and Thomasin McKenzie are joining the cast. Additionally, Prime Video confirmed that production on Season 3 begins in Los Angeles this month. Aaron Paul officially joined Season 3 in May. Based on the video game series, Fallout stars Walton Goggins, Ella Purnell, Kyle MacLachlan, Moises Arias, Aaron Morten, Annabel O'Hagan, Dave Register and Frances Turner in a post-apocalyptic drama. Season 2 took Lucy (Purnell) and The Ghoul (Goggins) to New Vegas. Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner adapted the games and showrun. |
| NBC announces civilian 'Traitors' fall premiere date | NBC announced the premiere date for The Traitors: New Blood on Thursday. The season will premiere Sept.17 at 8 p.m. EDT with a two-hour episode. Subsequent episodes air Thursdays at 8 p.m. on NBC. New episodes stream Fridays on Peacock. New Blood will feature civilian participants. The show is casting 22 Americans from a search of 60,000. Previous seasons featured reality stars competing in challenges in a Scottish castle. The first four seasons streamed on Peacock. Alan Cumming returns as host. Season 3 won five Primetime Emmys, including one for Cumming as host, Outstanding Reality Competition, and Outstanding Directing, Cinematography and Editing for a Reality Competition. |
| 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. |