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| 'X-Men '97' Season 2 trailer finds the heroes 'scattered through time' | Marvel and Disney+ surprised fans Wednesday by releasing a trailer for X-Men '97 Season 2. The show, a revival of X-Men: The Animated Series, which aired for five seasons from 1992 to 1997, will return for a second season July 1 on Disney+. Season 2 opens with the X-Men, a team of Marvel Comics superheroes, "scattered through time" following the events of the Season 1 finale, released in May 2024. Cyclops (voice of Ray Chase), Jean (Jennifer Hale), Nightcrawler (Adrian Hough), Beast (George Buza), Storm (Alison Sealy-Smith), Rogue (Lenore Zann), Professor X (Ross Marquand) and Magneto (Matthew Waterson) must work to return to the 1990s and stop Apocalypse. Other voice cast members include A.J. LoCascio as Gambit and Cal Dodd as Wolverine. |
| 'Book of Mormon' original cast to perform at Tony Awards | The original stars of The Book of Mormon will perform at the Tony Awards in June. Josh Gad, Andrew Rannells, Rory O'Malley, Nikki M. James and other cast members will take the stage to celebrate the Broadway musical's 15th anniversary. Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez, who wrote the music, lyrics and book, will introduce the performance. The 79th annual Tonys will take place June 7 at Radio City Music Hall in New York and air at 8 p.m. ET on CBS. The show will also stream on Paramount+. Singer Pink will host the awards show, with cast members from The Lost Boys, Schmigadoon! |
| 'Primetime' teaser: Robert Pattinson plays 'To Catch a Predator' host | A24 is introducing the new film Primetime. The studio shared a teaser trailer for the movie Wednesday featuring Robert Pattinson as real-life former To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen. Primetime is inspired by the To Catch a Predator series that aired as part of the news program Dateline NBC in the early 2000s. The show saw Hansen help conduct hidden camera sting operations to catch alleged sexual predators. Phoebe Bridgers, Merritt Wever, Sean Bridgers, Skyler Gisondo and Anna Faris also star. Primetime marks the narrative feature film debut for Lance Oppenheim, the writer and director behind the documentaries Some Kind of Heaven and Ren Faire. The movie opens in theaters in September. |
| 'Enola Holmes 3' teaser: Millie Bobby Brown juggles wedding, kidnapping | Netflix is giving a glimpse of the new film Enola Holmes 3. The streaming service shared a teaser trailer for the movie Wednesday featuring Millie Bobby Brown as the title character, the younger sister of famed detective Sherlock Holmes (Henry Cavill). The preview shows Enola (Brown) juggle her wedding to Tewkesbury (Louis Partridge) with the kidnapping of her brother Sherlock (Cavill). Himesh Patel, Helena Bonham Carter and Sharon Duncan-Brewster also return to star. The new sequel will take Enola "far from London, where personal and professional dreams collide on a case more tangled and treacherous than any she has faced before," according to an official description. The Enola Holmes movies are based on the Nancy Springer book series. |
| 'Dutton Ranch' draws 12.9M, biggest Paramount+ original series debut | Dutton Ranch is officially the biggest original series launch in Paramount+ history. Paramount+ announced in a press release Tuesday that the Yellowstone spinoff drew 12.9 million views globally in its first week on the streaming service. The show was the No. 1 streaming series for the week of May 11, according to Nielsen. Dutton Ranch also delivered 2.9 million viewers with its two-episode debut May 15 on Paramount Network, the largest series premiere on cable since 2023. In addition, the series had the No. 1 premiere on Paramount's social media, with 99 million video views and over 2 million engagements in its first three days. |