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| 'Prodigies': Will Sharpe, Ayo Edebiri series gets first-look photos | Apple TV is giving a glimpse of the new series Prodigies. The streaming service shared first-look photos for the show Friday featuring Will Sharpe (The White Lotus Season 2) and Ayo Edebiri (The Bear). Prodigies is a romantic comedy created, written, directed and executive produced by Sharpe, who stars with Edebiri as Ren and Didi, respectively, two 30-something former child prodigies who have been in a relationship since they were nine. The show follows the couple as they reexamine their longtime relationship and "begin to question whether their very ordinary existence is living up to the extraordinary promise of their childhood. |
| Crystal Hefner calls out Playboy movie, asks Jessica Biel to drop role | Crystal Hefner, a former Playmate and the widow of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, is calling out a new film set in the Playboy world. Hefner, 40, criticized the upcoming movie Playmates and asked star Jessica Biel to drop her role as a fictional wife of Hugh Hefner in a post addressed to the actress Thursday. "Please reconsider playing Hugh Hefner's 'wife' if this film intends to romanticize him or the Playboy world. I was actually his wife, and I experienced sexual, emotional, financial and physical abuse in that relationship," Hefner wrote. "I hope everyone involved in this film takes the time to listen to the women who lived it before helping Hollywood turn it back into nostalgia," she added. |
| Britney Spears shares unreleased 'Britney' song 'She'll Never Be Me' | Britney Spears has shared an unreleased song from her hit 2001 album, Britney. The singer and actress, 44, officially released the track "She'll Never Be Me" on Friday. "She'll Never Be Me" appears on the upcoming Britney 25th anniversary edition album, along with 10 other additional songs. The original version of Britney features such singles as "I'm a Slave 4 U" and "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman." The Britney 25th anniversary edition is slated for release Nov. 6. Spears previously released a 2-LP deluxe vinyl 25th anniversary edition of her 2000 album, Oops!...I Did it Again, in May 2025. The singer's most recent album, Glory, was released in 2016, while her latest single, "Mind Your Business" with will.i.am, debuted in 2023. |
| 'Kid Sister' will be the last role Simone Nathan plays | Simone Nathan said her comedy series Kid Sister, premiering Sunday on ChaiFlicks, will be the last one in which she acts. Nathan created the New Zealand show which aired in that country in 2022. Nathan plays Lulu, a Jewish woman dating a gentile, Ollie (Paul Williams). When she gets pregnant, she considers her future with Ollie, potentially letting her brother (Joseph Nathan) and sister-in-law (Kira Josephson) adopt the baby, and deals with her parents. In a recent Zoom interview with UPI, Nathan said Kid Sister cured her of the acting bug. "I still don't want to act and I'll hopefully never have to do that again," Nathan, 35, joked. "You have to get up so, so early, then go to hair and makeup for hours, then stand up all day. |
| Movie review: 'Social Reckoning' loses thread of Facebook scandal | In 2010, The Social Network was a vital dramatization of the creation of a platform that had already taken over society. Even with documented Facebook misconduct to cover, The Social Reckoning, in theaters Friday, lacks the relevance of its predecessor. In 2019, Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White) joins the Wall Street Journal's San Francisco office to investigate Facebook. Facebook data scientist Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) tips him off to Facebook recommending extremist groups to its users. In 2021, Mark Zuckerberg (Jeremy Strong) prepares to testify before Congress with crisis manager Raya Akinola (Wunmi Mosaku). The film bounces back and forth as Horwitz and Haugen's investigation catches up to the hearings. |