Month: December 2024

Netflix announced that it has renewed Outer Banks for a fifth and final season.

Per Deadline, co-creators/executive producers Jonas Pate, Josh Pate and Shannon Burke said in a statement: “We imagined a mystery that would lead to a five-season journey of adventure, treasure hunting, and friendship. It seemed impossible that we would really get to tell the whole five-season story, but here we are at the end of our fourth season, still chopping away.”

The trio added that Season 4 “was our longest and hardest — but most rewarding — to produce” and that the season ends with a feature-length episode “which we think is our best, most powerful episode. We hope you feel the same way. We hope to bring our beloved Pogues home in the way we imagined and planned years ago .. We hope you’ll join us for one more paddle out to the surf break.”  (read the note in its entirety HERE).

Outer Banks stars Chase Stokes and Madelyn Cline as lovers from opposite social castes.  The series also stars Madison Bailey, Jonathan Daviss, Rudy Pankow, Carlacia Grant, Drew Starkey, Austin North, Fiona Palomo, J. Anthony Crane, Pollyanna McIntosh, Brianna Brown, Rigo Sanchez, Mia Challis and Cullen Moss.

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Comedy Central announced that Jon Stewart will continue to host The Daily Show through December 2025, keeping him as a once-a-week host and full-time executive producer of the show.

The news comes just over nine months after Stewart made a deal to return to the show after an eight year absence, hosting the show once a week (usually Monday nights) through the presidential election. The 61-year-old comedian said in a statement: “I’ve truly enjoyed being back working with the incredible team at The Daily Show and Comedy Central. I was really hoping they’d allow me to do every other Monday, but I’ll just have to suck it up…”  Desi Lydic, Ronny Chieng, Michael Kosta and Jordan Klepper step in to host The Daily show when Stewart is out.

Chris McCarthy, Paramount Global Co-CEO and president/CEO of Showtime & MTV Entertainment Studios, shared: “Jon’s incisive intellect and sharp wit make him one of the most important voices in political and cultural commentary today. His ability to cut through the noise and deliver clear-eyed insights is exactly what we need, which is why we are thrilled to have him leading The Daily Show for another year.”

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‘Jumanji 3’ is set for a Dec. 11, 2026 theatrical release. Per Variety, the film franchise will return to theaters for the third installment starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Karen Gillan, Kevin Hart and Jack Black.

Jake Kasdan, who directed 2017’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and 2019’s Jumanji: The Next Level, is returning to helm the next chapter. In addition to the three Jumanji movies, Kasdan and Johnson collaborated on Red One, the holiday movie co-starring Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, J.K. Simmons and Kiernan Shipka that recently premiered in theaters.

The blockbuster Jumanji franchise follows a group of teens who get sucked into a video game and have to meet numerous challenges to get home. The originally 1995 film Jumanji — starring Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt and Kirsten Dunst — followed a similar plotline, but involved a board game instead of an electronic one.

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Universal Pictures has released a new trailer for Wolf Man, a re-imagining of the Lon Chaney classic.

In Wolf Man, Christopher Abbott plays Blake, a father bitten by a wolf after his family is in an automobile accident. Taking refuge in a cabin, his wife Charlotte (Julia Garner) and daughter Ginger (Matilda Firth) begin to notice his changes. Sam Jaeger, Benedict Hardie, Ben Prendergast, Zac Chandler, Beatriz Romilly and Milo Cawthorne also star.

The official synopsis reads: “The film follows Blake (Abbott), a San Francisco husband and father, who inherits his remote childhood home in rural Oregon after his own father vanishes and is presumed dead. With his marriage to his high-powered wife, Charlotte (Garner), fraying, Blake persuades Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit the property with their young daughter, Ginger (Matilda Firth). But as the family approaches the farmhouse in the dead of night, they’re attacked by an unseen animal and, in a desperate escape, barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. As the night stretches on, however, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable, and Charlotte will be forced to decide whether the terror within their house is more lethal than the danger without.”

Leigh Whannell wrote and directed Wolf Man; with Ryan Gosling and Jason Blum producing and Whannell, Beatriz Sequeira, Mel Turner and Ken Kao serving as executive producers.

Wolf Man opens in theaters on Jan. 17; see the trailer: HERE.

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A24 has shared the first trailer for the new film The Brutalist, a historical drama co-written by Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold and directed by Corbet.

Described as “a staggering American epic,” The Brutalist follows László Toth (Adrien Brody), a visionary Jewish Hungarian architect who escapes post-World War II Europe and arrives in America “to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce) recognizes his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost…”

The Brutalist premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in September, and also stars Joe Alwyn, Stacy Martin, Emma Laird, Isaach de Bankolé and Alessandro Nivola.

The Brutalist will open in theaters Dec. 20.; see the trailer: HERE.

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Apple TV+ is teasing the new series Prime Target, sharing first-look photos and revealed a premiere date of January 22, 2025.

The conspiracy thriller is created and executive produced by ‘Sherlock’ and ‘Doctor Who’ writer Steve Thompson, with Leo Woodall starring as Edward Brooks, a brilliant young math postgraduate on the verge of a major breakthrough. The cast also includes Stephen Rea, David Morrissey, Martha Plimpton, Sidse Babett Knudson, Jason Flemyng, Harry Lloyd, Ali Suliman, Fra Fee and Joseph Mydell.

An official synopsis reads:  “If he succeeds in finding a pattern in prime numbers, he will hold the key to every computer in the world. Soon, he begins to realize an unseen enemy is trying to destroy his idea before it’s even born, which throws him into the orbit of Taylah Sanders (Quintessa Swindell), a female NSA agent who’s been tasked with watching and reporting on mathematicians’ behavior. Together, they start to unravel the troubling conspiracy Edward is at the heart of.”  

The eight episode series will launch with the first two episodes on Jan. 22, followed by one episode weekly, every Wednesday through March 5.

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