Month: June 2024

Bravo officially announced the cast for Season 14 of the reality series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, revealing that actress Jennifer Tilly will appear next season.

Bozoma Saint John will joins the ensemble full-time, while Tilly and Kathy Hilton will guest star as ‘friends’ of the Housewives. Returning cast members include Garcelle Beauvais, Erika Jayne, Dorit Kemsley, Kyle Richards and Sutton Stracke.  Filming for The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season 14 is currently underway.

Saint John is the former Chief Marketing Officer at Netflix, where she exited in 2022. Tilly, who is friends with Stracke, has been recurring on RHOBH since Stracke joined the cast in Season 10; and Hilton (Paris Hilton’s mother) has been with the Bravo reality series since the show’s debut season in 2010 as the older sister to Kyle Richards and former cast member Kim Richards. Hilton has guest-starred throughout the years but officially took on a recurring role in Season 11.

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The trailer for Disney’s “Moana 2” is here, featuring the voices of Auli’i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson. Per The Wrap, the sequel takes place three years after the original film, with both Moana and Maui returning (voiced by original film stars Cravalho and Johnson, respectively).

Moana 2 is a sequel to the 2016 film Moana, which follows Moana (Cravalho), the daughter of a village chief in ancient Polynesia, as she seeks out the demigod Maui (Johnson) to help save her island’s reef. Johnson, 52, took to Instagram earlier this month to share pictures of his daughter Jasmine, 8, accompanying him to a recording session for Moana 2, writing in the caption: “That’s an official wrap (for now) on MAUI’s portion of our upcoming MOANA 2,” he captioned the photos of Jasmine watching him work and taking photos of him. “As you see I had the greatest motivation to help me push thru to keep me strong . The more down this windy road of life I go, the more I realize that my greatest and most comforting inspiration and joy, is being loved by my daughters. I have a feeling this little one already knows that about her daddy.”

The trailer for Moana 2 shows Moana and Maui reunite three years after the events of the first film as Moana sets sail on a new adventure. An official film synopsis reads: “Three years since her first voyage, Moana is on an expansive journey in search of people beyond the shores of Motunui. Joined by Maui and a brand-new crew of unlikely seafarers, Moana must journey to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she’s ever faced.”

Moana 2 opens in theaters Nov. 27; check out the trailer – here.

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Oscar-winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola shared the teaser-trailer his new film Megalopolis, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and will be released in theaters later this year.  The film marks Coppola’s first film as director in nearly 13 years (since 2011’s Twixt).

The epic sci-fi drama, described as “a Roman Epic fable set in an imagined Modern America,” is written, directed and produced by Coppola and stars Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito and Nathalie Emmanuel.

An official synopsis reads: “The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina (Driver), a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero (Esposito), who remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare. Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero (Emmanuel), the mayor’s daughter, whose love for Cesar has divided her loyalties, forcing her to discover what she truly believes humanity deserves.” 

The cast also includes Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Jason Schwartzman, Talia Shire, Grace VanderWaal, Laurence Fishburne, Kathryn Hunter and Dustin Hoffman.

See the teaser trailer for Megalopolis: here.

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Adam Levine is returning to ‘The Voice’, along with first time coach Kelsea Ballerini, for Season 27 of the long-running NBC singing competition series.

The Voice posted on X: “the OG is back in the building. Join us in welcoming @adamlevine BACK to #TheVoice for Spring 2025!”  The Maroon 5 frontman departed ‘The Voice’ in 2019 after 16 seasons; while Ballerini previously served as The Voice’s Season 16 battle advisor, and also filled in as temporary coach for team Kelly Clarkson during Season 20. Michael Bublé and John Legend will also appear as coaches for Season 27 – marking back-to-back seasons for Bublé, and Legend’s 10th season.

Levine was one of the original four coaches on ‘The Voice’ when the show premiered in April 2011, joining Blake Shelton, CeeLo Green and Christina Aguilera; Levine won season 1 with Javier Colon, season 5 with Tessanne Chin, and season 9 with Jordan Smith.

Season 26, set to premiere this fall, will feature Bublé, Snoop Dogg, Reba McEntire and Gwen Stefani as coaches.

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HBO has released the official trailer for the Season 2 of House of the Dragon, set to debut on June 16 for eight episodes. The show is a prequel to the HBO series Game of Thrones, which was based on Martin’s ‘Song of Ice and Fire’ book series.

The new season will continue to chronicle the House Targaryen civil war, based upon George R.R. Martin’s book ‘Fire & Blood.’ House of the Dragon centers on the Dance of the Dragons, a war of succession between rival factions: the Blacks, led by Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) and her husband, Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith), and the Greens, headed by Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney) and his mother, Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke). In the Season 2 trailer, “war is coming” as Rhaenyra (D’Arcy), Daemon (Smith) and their allies plan an assault on King’s Landing, the stronghold of the Greens.

Season 2 features returning cast members Matt Smith, Olivia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Eve Best, Steve Toussaint, Fabien Frankel, Ewan Mitchell, Tom Glynn-Carney, Sonoya Mizuno and Rhys Ifans. Additional returning cast includes Harry Collett, Bethany Antonia, Phoebe Campbell, Phia Saban, Jefferson Hall and Matthew Needham. Additionally, new cast members this season include: Gwayne Hightower, Simon Russell Beale as Ser Simon Strong, Clinton Liberty as Addam of Hull, Jamie Kenna as Ser Alfred Broome, Kieran Bew as Hugh, Tom Bennett as Ulf, Tom Taylor as Lord Cregan Stark, and Vincent Regan as Ser Rickard Thorne.

Check out the Season 2 trailer – here.

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Universal Pictures dropped the trailer for the initial installment of the two-part film adaptation of the stage musical, Wicked. The studio shared the trailer featuring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, posting on social media: “Pink goes good with green. #WickedMovie trailer .”  The film version of Wicked is written by Winnie Holzman and directed by Jon M. Chu (‘Crazy Rich Asians’).

Wicked, based on the Broadway musical and Gregory Maguire novel, is inspired by L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The film tells the origin story of the witches of Oz — Elphaba (Erivo), the future Wicked Witch of the West, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power, and Glinda, the future Glinda the Good, a popular young woman, gilded by privilege and ambition, who has yet to discover her true heart.  The trailer shows Glinda and Elphaba meet as students at Shiz University in the Land of Oz, forging an unlikely but profound friendship.

An official film synopsis reads: “Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads and their lives take very different paths. Glinda’s unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power, while Elphaba’s determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences on her future.”  The cast also includes Michelle Yeoh as Shiz University headmistress Madame Morrible, Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero, Ethan Slater as Boq, Marissa Bode as Nessarose and Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard of Oz.

Part One of ‘Wicked’ is set to open in theaters Nov. 27; with Part Two to follow on Nov. 27, 2025.  Take a look at the trailer: here.

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