Month: April 2025

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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Netflix is teasing the Season 5 of You, which premieres on the streaming service April 24 — which will also be the show’s final season.

In the preview for Season 5 of You, viewers hear the voice of Penn Badgley’s character, Joe, seemingly addressing his wife, Kate (portrayed by Charlotte Richie). Season 5 picks up three years after the couple relocated to New York City, and finds Joe saying as he looks in a bathroom mirror: “Love tests us. I’ve been tested more than most. This is the last time. I came from nothing. A true rags-to-riches story. I’ve been through it all. Unlucky in life and in love, until I met you.  Kate, you opened doors for me I could have never imagined…Who knew I’d become the luckiest guy in New York?”

According to an official synopsis: “on the surface, it seems like Joe wants to turn a new leaf, but when he meets Bronte (Madeline Brewer), he begins to feel “a nostalgia for his former self.” Griffin Matthews, Anna Camp, Natasha Behnam, Pete Ploszek, Tom Francis and Nava Mau also star.

Netflix later released the full Season 5 trailer for YOU. The fifth and final season premieres April 24th on Netflix; watch HERE.

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Just weeks after its debut, Netflix has renewed Kate Hudson’s sports comedy, “Running Point” for Season 2.

The streamer made the announcement on Netflix’s official X account, in which series star Hudson said, “A good basketball team owner knows when to listen to the fans. So we hear you, and so did Netflix. ‘Running Point’ is officially coming back for Season 2!” Thank you so much everyone who watched the show so far! I’m just beyond thrilled because you’re really the reason why we’re able to come back and do another season. So thank you and we’ll see you next season!”

Hudson stars in Running Point as Isla Gordon, the prodigal daughter of the owner of the legendary pro basketball franchise the Los Angeles Waves. But after her brother, the president of the team, is forced to resign after a major scandal, Isla is named president. Per the official logline, “Ambitious and often overlooked, Isla will have to prove to her skeptical brothers, the board, and the larger sports community that she was the right choice for the job.” The show co-stars Brenda Song, Justin Theroux, Chet Hanks, Jay Ellis and Max Greenfield, along with Fabrizio Guido, Toby Sandeman,  Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Roberto Sanchez, Uche Agada, and Dane DiLiegro.

“Running Point” hails from writers Mindy Kaling, Ike Barinholtz, and David Stassen, with Hudson also executive producing. Jeanie Buss, president of the Los Angeles Lakers, also executive produces along with Lakers manager of special projects Linda Rambis.

Kaling said in a press release: “We are so thrilled to be able to deliver a Season 2 of Running Point to the fans of the show. We still cannot believe the response from audiences — thank you to everyone who has watched!  Thank you to our partners at Netflix, Warner Brothers, our star who brought this show to life, Kate Hudson, and of course Executive Producers Jeanie Buss and Linda Rambis, without whom there would be no ‘Running Point’.”

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