ENTERTAINMENT

Prime Video dropped off the official trailer for Untrapped: The Story of Lil Baby, the upcoming documentary exploring the life of the Grammy-winning rapper. The preview includes several interviews with notable figures in Lil Baby‘s life, including Drake, Young Thug and Quality Control CEO Pierre Thomas, among others, each of whom provides comments on the Atlanta rapper’s impact. Later, Lil Baby himself provides context to his story, revealing that his outlook on life changed after he was arrested and sent to prison. “After I got locked up again, my perspective changed,” he says. “America has a system in place and it’s designed for us to fail. It’s a trap. I couldn’t go back to prison, [so] I became an artist with something to say and people to stand for.” “I’m blessed to be able to te...

Following the release of The Boys Season 3 finale last week, the series’ showrunner Eric Kripke has confirmed that certain storylines from Season 3 will lead into the debut season of its The Boys Presents: Varsity spinoff, leading to the possibility of seeing familiar characters. “There’s definitely crossover, and we’re doing our best to design a universe that sees some of the issues and storylines in Season 3 hand off to the first season in Varsity,” Kripke told Deadline. “Like there’s a presidential campaign happening in the background of that season, and there are certain things that are happening at that school that are both in reaction to Season 3 of The Boys. There’s Soldier Boy, etcetera, but also some new storylines that are happening in that season of the spinoff that we have to p...

The Television Academy on Tuesday unveiled the 2022 Emmy Awards nominations, during a special announcement program hosted by chairman and CEO Frank Scherma, as well as Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s JB Smoove and Brooklyn Nine-Nine‘s Melissa Fumero. HBO‘s Succession leads the pack as the most-nominated program with 25 nods, including one for outstanding drama, followed by HBO’s The White Lotus and Apple‘s Ted Lasso, which each received 20 nominations. Several additional programs received double-digit nominations, including Hacks (17), Only Murders in the Building (17), Euphoria (16), Barry (14), Dopesick (14), Severance (14), Squid Game (14), Ozark (13), Stranger Things (13), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (12) an...

Entertainment and music mogul 50 Cent has officially signed on to produce and star in the upcoming horror movie Skill House from Proxima Media. The film will also be produced under his compay G-Unit Film & Television banner. According to Deadline, 50 Cent joins a cast that is led by TikTok star Bryce Hall and other additions like Lea Pipes, Paige Vanzant, McCarrie McCausland, Ivan Leung, Neal McDonough and more. The film is slated to be directed by Josh Stolberg who will be examining “social media and influencer culture, and what those new to the sphere are willing to do to attain fame.” This project adds to 50 Cent’s repertoire of projects in the film and TV industry, recently executive producing, directing and co-starring in Starz’s hit series Power. He has now expanded that universe...

A24 has dropped off the second official trailer for Bodies Bodies Bodies, an upcoming dark comedy film directed by Halina Reijn. The two-minute preview sees Bee (Maria Bakalova) attend a party with her rich girlfriend Sophie (Amandla Stenberg), who hangs with a group known to be rather “nihilistic” on the internet. According to an official synopsis, “When a group of rich 20-somethings plans a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game goes awry in this fresh and funny look at backstabbing, fake friends, and one party gone very, very wrong.” Aside from Bakalova and Stenberg, the film stars Pete Davidson, Amandla Stenberg, Myha’la Herrold, Chase Sui Wonders, Rachel Sennott, and Lee Pace. The slasher entry will mark Reijn’s sophomore effort, following her directorial debut ...

Zendaya has made Emmys history as the youngest producing nominee as an executive producer on Euphoria, which received an Outstanding Drama nod. Additionally, the 25-year-old actress has become the youngest two-time acting nominee for her role on the HBO drama series. Zendaya, who received four total nominations for this year’s Emmys, made history last year as the youngest lead actress drama winner (Euphoria) and the second-ever Black woman to win the award, after Viola Davis took home the trophy in 2015 for How to Get Away With Murder. Additionally, with two entries in the original music and lyrics category (Euphoria’s “Elliot’s Song” and “I’m Tired”), the top-shelf polymath is now the first Black woman to receive nominations for both acting and songwriting in the same year. Euphoria,...

Sharing his love of Dragon Ball Z, Castlevania animator Naseer Pasha recently shared his fan film inspired by the anime series produced by Toei Animation based on the latter 325 chapters of Akira Toriyama‘s original Dragon Ball manga. Pasha directed, animated, and storyboarded the 11-minute video and worked with the Canadian independent creative team, Studio Stray Dog, on the animation Titled “LEGEND – A DRAGON BALL TALE,” the film features a frenetic pace showing alternate events taking place at the World Martial Arts Tournament. Kicking off with Goku facing off against Chi-Chi, things start to get out of hand with the appearance of Vegeta and Broly. Go through various Super Saiyan form changes, the trio engages in a massive battle filled with clashes, charge ups and ki-based attacks. Pas...

For those who’ve watched Thor: Love and Thunder and stayed through the credits, you’ll know that Marvel Studios fully intends for Thor to return to the MCU in another film, but as it turns out, that decision came as a complete surprise to director Taika Waititi. Speaking Insider in a recent interview, Waititi revealed that he was just as surprised as anybody when the message appeared on screen. “That was a surprise to me, too. I’m not joking,” the New Zealand native said. “I saw it in the theater and I was like, ‘Oh, sh-t. Really?’ Even Chris was like, ‘What?’ But, of course he’ll be back. He’s the best character. I mean, I may be a little biased, but he’s the most fun to watch.” He continued by saying he’d love to come back for Thor 5, but only if lead actor Chris Hemsworth also...

Wyatt Russell has opened up about the return of his The Falcon and The Winter Soldier character,John Walker/Captain America/U.S. Agent. In an interview with Collider, Russell revealed that he has no idea whether or not he will reprise his role again in the MCU. Despite the likeliness of him returning in the upcoming Captain America film and the recently announced Thunderbolts, “I haven’t really even thought about, if the character comes back, what I hope he becomes. There are so many different ways that you can go with it. I just hope that whatever it is, is continued along this line of this struggle with self,” Russell said. “That is something that I can do, as well as I think it needs to be done. As long as he has that conflict within himself, he can have a change of mind, and ...

For many Marvel fans, meeting the mysterious Illuminati was one of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness‘ biggest moments, but as it turns out, none of the cast members were actually on set together at all during production. Speaking to Esquire in a recent interview, Black Bolt actor Anson Mount revealed that they had to use other body doubles during the shoot and cut together shots that ultimately brought everyone together. No, [Patrick Stewart] was actually not there! He was shooting Picard,” the actor explained. “That was a very interesting shoot because my role came up in the reshoots. As you can imagine, several of the actors were quite busy. Patrick was not there. Chiwetel [Ejiofor] was not there. [John] Krasinski‘s contract wasn’t even done. He wa...

Marvel Studios‘ Thor: Love and Thunder debuted with a total of $143 million USD at the domestic box office — just slightly behind its projections of $150 million USD. According to reports, the Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman-led film opened in 4,375 North American theaters and although it fell behind its estimates, Love and Thunder still surpassed the $123 million USD opening of its 2017 predecessor Ragnarok. The movie also holds the third-biggest opening weekend of 2022 so far after Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness‘ $185 million USD and Jurassic World Dominion $145 million USD. Love and Thunder exceeded its projections in the international box office, earning $159 million USD from 47 markets to push its global total to $302 million USD. Variety adds that the film proved to ...

After releasing the final official chapter of its manga earlier this year with a special chapter announced for later this year, the popular anime series Dr. Stone has now confirmed the release of Season 3 for April 2023. Titled Dr. Stone: New World, season three will see the return of genius teenager Senku as he continues to find a way to revive the rest of humanity, restore civilization, and find the cause of the cataclysmic event that turned all of humanity into stone. Yusuke Kobayashi (Food Wars) is expected to return to voice Senku, while Makoto Furukawa (One Punch Man) is set to return as Senku’s muscular friend Taiju. For those that have yet to catch up, below is the series’ official synopsis: “One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himsel...