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Netflix has renewed Squid Game: The Challenge for a second season. Based on the hit namesake South Korean drama, the debut season of Netflix’s reality show-style spinoff aired just last month.Enlisting competitors from throughout England, 456 individuals competed for$4.56 million USD in prize money, the largest cash prize lump sum in game show history. More than two years after the release of the original Squid Game, the reality show maintained the top spot among Netflix’s English language shows for a few weeks after its release.Several contestants, however, have taken to social media to complain about ill-treatment while competing on the show. One user on TikTok explained that a game of "Red Light, Green Light" – which took place over a few minutes in the original Squid Game show – took s...

Kid Cudi is no stranger to the big screen, dabbling across a handful of production roles in titles including his own Entergalactic, among others such as A24's recent thrillers X and Pearl. Cudi is now readying for the release of his animated horror film Slime, which sees the musician take a starring role alongside animator Jeron Braxton, who will be making his feature directorial debut on the project.While details remain scarce at the moment, a press release describes the film as "a sonic/visual experience that marries Braxton’s distinct style with a trippy, elevating original soundtrack."“I’m always looking for what’s new and always trying to elevate what we know about music, film, TV and animation," Cudi shared in a statement to Deadline. "Jeron is a powerhouse creative at the forefront ...

Yoshihiro Togashi’s Yu Yu Hakusho 1990s manga series is coming to screens. Originally announced in 2020, Netflix has shared the first trailer for the live-action adaptation.“Long ago, the human World and the demon world were connected,” a narrator says in a voiceover. “Yokai crept into the human world to prey on humans.”Cut to paramedics failing to revive protagonist Yusuke Urameshi after he’s been hit by a car. While the event may have marked the end of his mortal life, it’s only the beginning of his journey as a Spirit Detective.He’ll embark on rigorous training under his mentor, exercise his new magic powers and ultimately, take on the demons that have found their way into the human world.While Yu Yu Hakusho has already been adapted into an anime, video game and film, fans are looking f...

The success of Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie's Barbie was beyond what anyone could imagine. Months after its release, fans still have the film fresh in their mind with many calling it one of the best movies this year. In a recent conversation for Variety's Actors on Actors series, Robbie spoke with Cillian Murphy. Murphy starred in another hotly anticipated film, Oppenheimer, which released on the same day as Barbie and sparked the "Barbenheimer" movement.In the series, Robbie revealed that before the films were released in theater, she received a call from Oppenheimer producer Charles Roven who asked her to change the release date of Barbie so that both films won't open on the same day. On moving the release date so that it did not collide with Christopher Nolan's atomic bomb epic Robbie...

Marvel Studios confirmed that it has three Disney+ series that are set to premiere in 2024.According to reports, the three titles are the Hawkeye spinoff Echo, which hits the streamer on January 10, the WandaVision spinoff Agatha: Darkhold Diaries and the revival of X-Men: The Animated Series entitled X-Men '97. Echo will see Alaqua Cox reprise her role as Maya Lopez/Echo alongside Vincent D'Onofrio, Chaske Spencer, Tantoo Cardinal, Graham Greene, Cody Lightning, Charlie Cox, Devery Jacobs and Zahn McClarnon, while Agatha: Darkhold Diaries will see Kathryn Hahn return as Agatha Harkness with a cast comprised of Aubrey Plaza, Joe Locke, Patti LuPone, Sasheer Zamata, Ali Ahn, Debra Jo Rupp, and Miles Gutierrez-Riley.X-Men '97 marks Marvel Studios' first X-Men project since regaining the fran...

Alicia Keys' semi-autobiographical musical Hell’s Kitchen saw its world premiere at New York City's Public Theater on November 19. Now not even a month post-opening night – and selling out nearly every show thus far – Hell's Kitchen is officially set to head to Broadway, opening at the Shubert Theater on April 20, 2024.Hell's Kitchen features new songs by Keys as well as many of her timeless tracks such as new arrangements of “Fallin’,” “Girl on Fire,” “No One” and “Empire State of Mind." Keys herself does not perform in the show, but, per the New York Times, spent over a decade working closely with playwright Kristoffer Diaz who wrote the book Hell's Kitchen is also loosely based off. The official synopsis reads as follows:In a cramped apartment hanging off the side of Times Square, 17-ye...

Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling are reportedly joining Jay Roach's Ocean's Eleven prequel as the parents of the Ocean family.According to Showbiz411, the duo, who recently portrayed Barbie and Ken in Greta Gerwig's Barbie, will play the parents of George Clooney and Sandra Bullock's Danny and Debbie Ocean. The prequel is supposedly set in the '60s and will see how robbery became the Ocean family's pastime, with Robbie and Gosling's characters teaching Danny and Debbie how to rob the rich. The film will also reportedly set up Clooney and Bullock's Oceans films, however a release date and plot information are yet to be announced.The rest of the cast, including the younger versions of Danny and Debbie, as well as the writer/s are yet to be announced.Stay tuned for more info on the prequel.Clic...

Nicolas Cage has hinted at the possibility of retirement. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, the long-time Hollywood veteran, known for his roles in films like Wild At Heart, Moonstruck and more discussed the ending of his film career. Telling the publication, Cage said, "I may have three or four more movies left in me. I do feel I've said what I've had to say with cinema. I think I took film performance as far as I could...I do want to get much more severe and stringent in my selection process...I want to say bye on a high note." Turning 60 in January, the actor shared that his father died at age 75, leaving him to think about his timeline as he nears the same age his father once was, "If I'm lucky I have maybe a good 15 years and hopefully more. What do I want to do with those 15 ye...

Kim Kardashian will reunite with American Horror Story co-creator Ryan Murphy for a new scripted series.The news arrives after Kardashian's role in American Horror Story: Delicate, which was praised by both critics and viewers alike. Deadline reports that the upcoming series will be a "high-end, glossy and sexy adult" legal drama, where the SKIMS founder will portray the most successful divorce lawyer in Los Angeles and founder of an all-female law firm. Plot details remain under wraps and Kardashian will be joined by three other actresses who will portray her "glamorous and accomplished law partners" and an A-list actor who will be here love interest.The show is set to premiere on Hulu (where The Kardashians currently air) and will be written by Jon Robin Baitz. Murphy, Kardashian and her...

Warner Bros. Pictures and Greta Gerwig's Barbie is set to make its streaming debut on Max on December 15.The Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling-led film will arrive on Max with an interpretation in American Sign Language (ASL), championing the film's themes of inclusivity. Barbie with ASL was produced for Max featuring ASL performer Leila Hanaumi and is "[g]rounded in research and feedback from the Deaf community, as well as counsel from community leaders." It will be displayed as a title in-app, with a special sign language symbol identifier in its key art.To celebrate the arrival of Barbie with ASL, Max will host a special community screening on December 14 in Los Angeles, with Robbie and Hanaumi joining for a post-screening conversation.“Max is the premiere destination for storytelling, so ...