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| Ken Jeong, REI AMI bring K-Pop energy to 'Shark Week' 2026 | Masked Singer, Community and The Hangover icon Ken Jeong and K-Pop Demon Hunters star REI AMI have recorded a Shark Week theme song called "Om-A-Nom." The pair will also be seen kicking off the beloved Discovery channel summer programming block with the special, K-Pop Shark Heroes, Sunday night at 8 p.m. ET. A highlight of the documentary will be REI AMI going on her first scuba dive. Through next Saturday, viewers can tune in for 20 new shark shows with titles such as Air Jaws: Red, White & Breach, Invasion of the Mega Sharks, Bull Shark Dinner Bell, Jurassic Shark and Chum Island: Catching a Killer. Closing out this year's series will be Thresher Shark: Stun to Kill Saturday at 9 p.m. ET. |
| SDCC: 'Black Panther 3' in the works, Gosling to star in 'Ghost Rider' | Marvel has announced that a third Black Panther movie is now in the works and Ryan Gosling is set to star in a new Ghost Rider comic-book adaptation. Oscar-winning filmmaker Ryan Coogler told the crowd at San Diego Comic Con Saturday that David Jonsson will play T'Challa, a character named after his late superhero father (played by Chadwick Boseman before his death in 2020.) The movie, which follows 2018's Black Panther and 2022's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, is expected to open in theaters in December 2028. Gosling and director Shawn Levy also appeared on stage to announce Ghost Rider, with Gosling in the driver's seat, would be coming to theaters in 2028, as well. Nicolas Cage previously starred in a 2007 film adaptation. |
| Mike Flanagan's 'Carrie' gets a trailer, release date | Haunting of Hill House creator Mike Flanagan's eight-episode adaptation of Stephen King's Carrie got a trailer and release date this weekend. The horror drama is slated to debut Oct. 7. "Carrie is a bold, timely, and surprising reinvention of the classic comingofage story, adapted as a television series for the first time by visionary show-runner Mike Flanagan. The series follows misfit highschooler Carrie White (Summer H. Howell) who has spent her life hidden away inside the walls of her home with her fiercely protective mother, Margaret (Samantha Sloyan,)" a summary said. |
| Famous birthdays for July 26: Jeremy Piven, Kate Beckinsale | Those born on this date are under the sign of Leo. They include: -- Writer George Bernard Shaw in 1856 -- Psychologist Carl Jung in 1875 -- Writer Aldous Huxley in 1894 -- Actor Vivian Vance in 1909 -- Writer Jan Berenstain in 1923 -- Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick in 1928 -- Musician Darlene Love (Blossoms/Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans) in 1941 (age 85) -- Musician Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones) in 1943 (age 83) -- Actor Helen Mirren in 1945 (age 81) -- Musician Roger Taylor (Queen) in 1949 (77) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in 1955 (age 71) -- U.S. |
| Lukas Gage calls 'Rosebush Pruning' script 'wild,' 'oddly emotional' | Smile 2, The White Lotus and Euphoria alum Lukas Gage says he wanted to star in Rosebush Pruning the minute he read the script for the dark comedy about a caustic, wealthy American family who moves to Spain. "I thought it was the wildest, most bold, insane-in-the-best-way-possible script I've ever read and I thought it didn't give any easy answers and it was uncomfortable and oddly emotional and touching," Gage, 31, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview. Directed by Karim Anouz and written by Efthimis Filippou, the film is now playing in theaters and co-stars Callum Turner, Elle Fanning, Pamela Anderson, Jamie Bell, Riley Keough, Tracy Letts and Elena Anaya. |