Month: April 2025

Apple TV+ released the first trailer for F1, an Apple Original Films production starring Brad Pitt as a former Formula 1 driver who returns to the sport after 30 years.

The film, directed by Joseph Kosinski (Top Gun: Maverick), stars Pitt as Sonny Hayes, a former Formula 1 hotshot whose promising career was cut short by an accident on the track in the 1990s. Hayes is brought back into the Formula 1 fold by his former teammate, Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), who hires the veteran driver to save his struggling team by racing alongside a new partner, rookie driver Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris).

The trailer, featuring “The Chain” by Fleetwood Mac, shows the relationship between Hayes and Pearce quickly turn adversarial. The trailer’s YouTube description reads: “As the engines roar, Sonny’s past catches up with him and he finds that in F1, your teammate is your fiercest competition — and the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone.” 

There will also be appearances by real life Formula One drivers, including Lewis Hamilton, George Russell, Max Verstappen, Sergio Pérez, Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz Jr., Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri, Fernando Alonso, Lance Stroll, Pierre Gasly, Esteban Ocon, Valtteri Bottas, Zhou Guanyu, Nico Hülkenberg, Kevin Magnussen, Daniel Ricciardo, Yuki Tsunoda, Logan Sargeant and Alexander Albon.

“F1” premiers in theaters on June 27. The film will also be released on Apple TV+ at a later date.

Check out the new trailer – HERE.

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Jeff Daniels will guest-star in Season 3 of Apple TV+‘s Shrinking, playing Jimmy’s (Jason Segel) father. Details of how Jimmy’s dad is introduced on the show are being kept under-wraps for now. Shrinking will be Daniels’ first on-screen role in a comedy series.

Daniels, a two-time Emmy winner, joins a cast that also includes Harrison Ford, Christa Miller, Jessica Williams, Luke Tennie, Michael Urie, Lukita Maxwell and Ted McGinley; co-creator Brett Goldstein recurred in Season 2.

Jimmy is a therapist mourning the death of his wife Tia (Lilan Bowden) and raising his teen daughter Alice (Lukita Maxwell), while getting support from his colleagues Paul (Harrison Ford) and Gaby (Jessica Williams), as well as neighbors Liz (Christa Miller) and Derek (Ted McGinley). Season 2 ended with Jimmy forgiving the drunk driver (Goldstein) who caused the accident that left him widowed, and for how he had previously handled his relationship with his daughter, Alice.

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Max is previewing J.J. Abrams’ crime drama series “Duster” starring actor Josh Holloway.

An official synopsis reads: “Duster explores the life of a gutsy getaway driver for a growing crime syndicate that goes from dangerous to wildly, stupidly dangerous when a tenacious young agent comes into town hellbent on taking his crime family down.”

Duster reunites Abrams, one of the creators of Lost, and Holloway – who portrayed Sawyer on the show throughout Lost’s six-season run. The upcoming series also stars Rachel Hilson, Keith David, Sydney Elisabeth, Greg Grunberg, Camille Guaty, Asivak Koostachin, Adriana Aluna Martinez and Benjamin Charles Watson.

Duster” is set in the 1970s Southwest as a getaway driver gets entangled in a crime network that is threatened by the arrival of a young agent in town. Hilson stars as the first Black female FBI agent, and in the trailer released Wednesday, Holloway’s character, Jim, encounters Nina (Hilson).

Abrams and showrunner LaToya Morgan penned the first pair of episodes and are among the executive producers.

Duster premieres May 15 at 9 p.m. EDT on HBO and Max, with the eight episodes dropping weekly through the finale on July 3.  See the trailer: HERE.

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Deadline confirmed that Gabriel Luna will join Chris Pratt in Season 2 of Amazon Prime Video’s military thriller drama The Terminal List.

The series takes its inspiration from Jack Carr’s book series, with his sophomore novel True Believer inspiring Season 2. Pratt, who also serves as an executive producer on the show, will reprise his role as James Reece, a Navy SEAL; while Luna will portray CIA Ground Branch officer Freddy Strain (per Variety.). The character is described as “Former SEAL Team 6 Senior Chief and current officer with CIA’s Ground Branch, Freddy Strain is a man of two worlds – equal parts elite sniper and dedicated family man. His belief that James Reece survived the events of ‘The Terminal List’ S1 will pull the ‘Most Wanted Man on the Planet’ out of hiding and back into the fray. Reece shows Freddy that desperate times can call for operating outside the lines, while Freddy’s commitment to family, country, and cause will help guide Reece on his path to redemption.”

An official release date for Season 2 has not yet been revealed, with filming expected to begin soon.

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Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital vehicle, which included pop star Katy Perry and journalist Gayle King, launched into space on Monday, April 14. The Blue Origin mission marks the first all-female spaceflight since 1963, according to the company, following Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo spaceflight in 1963.

New Shepard safely completed the historic trip that lasted approximately 10 minutes. just above the Kármán line — an invisible boundary at an altitude of 62 miles (above sea level) that is widely accepted as the edge of space — before the capsule descended under parachutes and landed in the Texas desert.

The all-female crew took off at 9:30 a.m. EDT in Blue Origin’s New Shepard (known as NS-31) from the company’s Launch Site One, around 30 miles outside of Van Horn, Texas. They touched down at 9:39 a.m. as the crew parachuted back down to Earth and landed in their capsule near the rocket at 9:42 a.m. The crew emerged from the capsule shortly after 9:50 a.m.

Joining Perry and King as part of the NS-31 mission crew were: Lauren Sánchez, a former journalist who is Jeff Bezos’ fiancée; Aisha Bowe, a former NASA rocket scientist; Amanda Nguyen, a bioastronautics research scientist; and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn.

Oprah Winfrey, who was on hand for the launch, posted a video of her best friend King and the rest of the NS-31 crew as they drove to the launchpad Monday, during which King appeared to wipe away tears. Also among the onlookers at the launch site was Perry’s daughter Daisy and her partner Orlando Bloom, Kris Jenner and Khloé Kardashian.

King kissed the ground as she climbed out of the capsule, saying: “I am glad I did it. I have no regrets. I’m stepping away from my comfort zone. I may now get my ears pierced,” she joked. King then followed by paraphrasing a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt: “Courage is doing something that scares you, but you do it anyway.”

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Disney has shared the trailer for Freakier Friday, the sequel film to 2003’s Freaky Friday starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Twenty-two years after the original film’s debut, Curtis and Lohan are reprising their roles as Tess and Anna Coleman, respectively.

Per Deadline, the story picks up years after Tess (Curtis) and Anna (Lohan) endured an identity crisis. Anna now has a daughter of her own and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the myriad challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might indeed strike twice. An official synopsis reads: “Years after Tess and Anna endured an identity crisis, Anna now has a daughter and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might strike twice.”

A trailer for the film released Friday shows the mother-daughter duo visiting a psychic (Vanessa Bayer). Tess and Anna leave in a hurry but the next day, they appear to have switched places with Anna’s daughter and her “soon-to-be stepdaughter.” (Tess and Anna switched bodies in the original 2003 film).

Other returning stars from the original film include Chad Michael Murray, Mark Harmon, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Haley Hudson, Lucille Song, Stephen Tobolowsky and Rosalind Chao. Julia Butters, Sophia Hammons, Manny Jacinto and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan also star.

Freakier Friday will premiere on August 8; see the trailer – HERE.

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