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| Universal Halloween updates 'Stranger Things' for final season | Universal Studios announced updates to its Stranger Things attraction at Halloween Horror Nights on Wednesday. Halloween Horror Nights runs from Aug. 28 - Nov. 1 in Orlando, Fla. and Sept. 3 - Nov 1 in Hollywood. Stranger Things has had several attractions in past Halloween Horror Nights. This fall's attraction will reflect the final season of the Netflix series. A teaser showed mirrors exploding to reveal the Upside Down behind them. The attraction will recreate the Wheeler house, Hawkins National Laboratory, MAC-Z military baze, Upside Down and The Abyss. Monsters from the series including the Demogorgon and Vecna will also be included. The show concluded on Dec. 31. |
| Ryan Gosling to be honored with American Cinematheque Award | Ryan Gosling will be honored with this year's American Cinematheque Award. The actor, 45, will receive the honor at a gala Nov. 2 at the Beverly Hilton hotel outside Los Angeles. The annual event raises funds for the American Cinematheque non-profit organization, which plans the programming for Santa Monica's Aero Theatre, Los Feliz's Los Feliz 3 Theatre and the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The American Cinematheque Award celebrates Gosling's film career, with recent recipients including Michael B. Jordan, Jessica Chastain, Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds. |
| Alan Cumming, David Morrissey U.K. drama 'Tip Toe' to air on Starz | Starz announced Wednesday it will air the series Tip Toe later this year. Queer as Folk creator and Doctor Who writer Russell T. Davies created the five-part series. Alan Cumming and David Morrissey star as warring Manchester neighbors in the LGBTQ+ community. Lee (Cumming) operates the Canal Street bar Spit & Polish. Clive (Morrissey) is the father to two teenage boys (Jackson Connor and Joseph Evans). After 15 years as neighbors, Tip Toe follows Lee and Clive becoming enemies in a tense world. The show, commissioned by Channel 4, has premiered in the U.K. Davies was pleased to return to Starz, which aired his Torchwood: Miracle Day. "Tip Toe's launch in the U.K. |
| 'The Westies' trailer: J.K. Simmons plays Irish gang member | MGM+ is gearing up for the release of the new series The Westies. The streaming service shared a trailer for the show Wednesday featuring J.K. Simmons (Spider-Man, The Closer) as Eamon Sweeney, a member of the Irish gang known as the Westies. The Westies explores the 1980s conflicts between New York's Irish and Italian gangs, which came to a head with the construction of the Jacob Javits Convention Center on the Westies' home turf of Hell's Kitchen. "Despite being outnumbered fifty-to-one by the Five Families of the Italian Mafia, the Westies' legendary brutality and cunning have given them the leverage necessary to share the spoils through a dtente. |
| Keanu Reeves, Gard Hollinger sponsor motorcycle racer in 'Hooligans' | Samsung TV Plus released the trailer for Hooligans: The ARCH Racing Project on Wednesday. The TV series featuring Keanu Reeves and Gard Hollinger premieres July 12 at 9 p.m. EDT. Reeves and Hollinger founded ARCH Motorcycle. The series shows them sponsor a racer in the MotoAmerica Super Hooligan National Championship. The trailer shows the ARCH team building and adjusting the motorcycle Corey Alexander will race. "There are a lot of issues," Reeves says in the trailer. "I just feel so bad that we're letting Corey down." Reeves also quotes Hamlet, which he's performed on stage, with Hollinger. Hollinger responds, "To be or not to be racing?" Hooligans: The ARCH Racing Project will be six episodes airing through Sunday, Aug. 16. |