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| 'Spaceballs 2' gets teaser poster ahead of Comic-Con panel | Amazon MGM Studios is teasing the new film Spaceballs 2. The studio shared a poster for the movie, officially titled Spaceballs: The New One, on Monday. Spaceballs: The New One is a sequel to the 1987 comedy Spaceballs, directed, co-written by and starring Mel Brooks. The films parody Star Wars and other popular franchises. Brooks will return to star in and produce the sequel, which is directed by Josh Greenbaum and co-written by Josh Gad, Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit. Other cast members include Gad, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Lewis Pullman, Keke Palmer, Daphne Zuniga, George Wyner and Anthony Carrigan. |
| 'Love Island USA' crowns Season 8 winners, sets Aug. 31 reunion | Dating reality competition Love Island USA has crowned its Season 8 winners. Fan-favorite couple Bryce Dettloff, 30, and Trinity Tatum, 22, aka "Brinity," were announced as the new winners during Sunday's finale on Peacock. The pair beat out runners-up Aniya Harvey and Carl Schmidt and third place couple Melanie Moreno and Sincere Rhea. "Thank you, America, so much! We're so happy right now, this is [expletive] crazy. I feel like I'm living in a dream right now, this is insane," Dettloff said after the announcement. Love Island USA is a spinoff of the British reality series Love Island. The show brings together a group of singles, known as "Islanders," as they live together and form romances at an isolated villa. |
| 'Carrie' photos introduce Summer Howell as horror icon | Prime Video is giving a glimpse of the new series Carrie. The streaming service shared first-look photos for the show Monday featuring Summer Howell as the horror icon. Based on the Stephen King novel, Carrie reimagines the story of misfit high-schooler Carrie White (Howell), who has spent her life hidden away inside the walls of her home with her fiercely protective mother, Margaret (Samantha Sloyan). |
| Josh Grisetti, Broadway and 'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' actor, dies at 44 | Broadway and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel actor Josh Grisetti has died. Rob McClure, a longtime friend who starred with Grisetti in the Broadway musical Something Rotten!, announced Sunday on Instagram that the actor died Friday of an apparent suicide. He was 44. "It is with a shattered heart that I share that the brilliant Josh Grisetti took his own life on Friday," McClure wrote. "I'm not ready to even attempt to understand. My heart is with his wife and family as they try to deal with the reality of this." "Some of my all-time favorite memories were by this man's side, playing his brother onstage for years, watching him inspire students while transforming the Musical Theatre program at Cal State Fullerton ... |
| Stars pay tribute to 'Jurassic Park,' 'Peaky Blinders' actor Sam Neill | Celebrities are paying tribute to Jurassic Park and Peaky Blinders actor Sam Neill following news of his death. Neill, a Northern Ireland-born and New Zealand-raised performer whose other credits included Merlin, The Tudors, Crusoe and the Jurassic Park sequel Jurassic Park Dominion, died Monday at age 78 in Sydney. The Peaky Blinders team honored Neill, who played the villainous Chief Inspector Chester Campbell in Seasons 1 and 2, on the show's official Instagram account. "We are devastated to hear that Sam Neill has died. Sam's portrayal of Chester Campbell is one for the ages. A villain who is despicable, petty, manipulative, but also charismatic, vulnerable, funny, and supremely entertaining the watch," the post reads. |