Month: May 2023

NBC revealed the performers taking the stage for its final two episodes of Season 23 of The Voice. Lewis Capaldi and Alex Newell will take the stage during Monday’s penultimate live show; and CeeLo Green, Diplo & Lily Rose, Maroon 5 and Toosii will perform during the 2-hour live season finale on Tuesday.

To pay tribute to departing, longtime coach Blake Shelton, Camila Cabello, Jennifer Hudson, Nick Jonas, John Legend, Adam Levine, Gwen Stefani, Usher, Pharrell Williams and Dolly Parton will appear on Tuesday’s episode.

Shelton and his fellow Season 23 coaches – Chance the Rapper, Kelly Clarkson and Niall Horan – will also perform alongside finalists Gina Miles, Noivas, D. Smooth, Sorelle, Grace West. Season 24 of The Voice will comprise of coaches Horan, Legend, Stefani and Reba McEntire.

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The first full length trailer for “The Walking Dead: Dead City” was just released. ‘The Walking Dead’ spinoff series reunites Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Megan) and Lauren Cohan (Maggie) together again as an unlikely team forced to work together on a trip to New York City. “Dead City” takes place at an undetermined time in the future after the events of “The Walking Dead”. Maggie calls on Negan to help her rescue her son Herschel after he’s kidnapped during a raid on her community.

“The Walking Dead: Dead City” is the first spinoff series to drop since the main show ended in 2023. Several more spin-offs are also in the works including one focused on Rick Grimes and Michonne as played by Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira.

The full synopsis for “The Walking Dead: Dead City” reads: “The Walking Dead: Dead City follows the popular Maggie (Cohan) and Negan (Morgan) characters traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.” Gaius Charles and Željko Ivanek also star in the upcoming series, which debuts on AMC on Sunday, June 18 at 10 p.m. ET with subsequent episodes airing on AMC on Sunday nights at 9 p.m. ET.

Check out the new trailer for “The Walking Dead: Dead City” – here.

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Focus Features shared a trailer for the romantic comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, the sequel to My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016).  Starring Nia Vardalos and John Corbett, the film follow the life of Fotoula “Toula” Portokalos (Vardalos), a woman with a large Greek-American family.

In the new sequel, Toula and her husband, Ian (Corbett), return to Greece for a family reunion following the death of Toula’s father, Gus, played by Michael Constantine in the first two films (Constantine died at age 94 in August 2021). Elena Kampouris, Louis Mandylor, Gia Carides, Joey Fatone, Gerry Mendicino, Andrew Martin and Lainie Kazan also star.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, written and directed by Vardalos, and produced by Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, will open in theaters Sept. 8. Take a look the trailer – here.

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Warner Bros. has announced that “Beetlejuice 2” will hit theaters on Sept. 6, 2024, serving as the sequel to Tim Burton’s 1988 film about a pesky poltergeist. Michael Keaton is returning as Beetlejuice and “Wednesday” star Jenna Ortega will portray the daughter of Lydia Deetz, the character played by Winona Ryder in the original.  Additional cast members include Ryder, as well as Justin Theroux in a yet-to-be-revealed role. Production is expected to commence in London on May 10.

In the first film, a recently deceased married couple (played by Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) are miffed by the new family that moved into their home (portrayed by Catherine O’Hara and Jeffrey Jones, with Ryder as their teenage daughter)   The couple contact Beetlejuice, a devious ghost from the Netherworld, who promises to help them haunt the house’s new inhabitants. “Beetlejuice” grossed $74.7 million and inspired a Tony-nominated stage musical.

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According to Deadline, the upcoming film adaptation of It Ends with Us has added Jenny Slate to the star-studded cast. Slate is confirmed to play Alyssa, Ryle’s younger sister (Ryle will be played by Justin Baldoni). Blake Lively is already set to star as Lily, with Brandon Sklenar set to play Atlas Corrigan. Baldoni will direct and executive produce It Ends with Us, with additional executive producers Lively and Hoover, as well as Steve Sarowitz and Andrew Calof.

Based on the bestselling novel by Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us follows Lily Bloom, a woman who relocates from small-town Maine to Boston to start her own business. Though she’s faced troubles along the way, Lily knows what she wants from life and sets out to get it. Enter Ryle Kincaid, a neurosurgeon who seems like the perfect match for Lily. However, Ryle is averse to relationships, further complicating things. Lily and Ryle’s romance only continues to face obstacles when Lily’s old flame Atlas enters the picture, putting her relationship with Ryle at risk.

‘It Ends with Us’ does not currently have a release date.

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Apple TV+ has released the first trailer for the upcoming limited series, “The Crowded Room” has been released.  The 10-episode psychological thriller follows Danny Sullivan (Tom Holland), a young man arrested in connection to a shooting in Rockefeller Center in New York in 1979. Amanda Seyfried plays Rya Goodwin, an interrogator who speaks with Sullivan about the shooting and details of his background.

The series also stars Emmy Rossum, Sasha Lane, Will Chase, Lior Raz, Laila Robins, Christopher Abbott and Henry Eikenberry. The first three episodes are set to premiere on June 9 on Apple TV+, with subsequent episodes airing weekly.

Take a look the trailer for “The Crowded Room” – here.

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