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HBO has decided to cancel its Emmy-winning sci-fi drama “Westward” after its recent fourth season. The series’ cancellation came less than three months after its fourth season concluded in August. The cast included Evan Rachel Wood, Ed Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Aaron Paul and Thandiwe Newton. Newton earned a best supporting actress Emmy in 2018, and the series received more than 50 nominations and won nine awards from the TV academy. The series debuted in 2016 as a ratings success for the cable channel; however, viewership fell in the third season and again in the fourth.

In a statement, HBO said: “Over the past four seasons, Lisa and [Jonathan] have taken viewers on a mind-bending odyssey, raising the bar at every step. We are tremendously grateful to them, along with their immensely talented cast, producers and crew, and all of our partners at Kilter Films, Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television. It’s been a thrill to join them on this journey.”

Last month, co-creator Jonathan Nolan said in an interview that he hoped HBO would order a fifth season to properly end the show’s story, which has chronicled a robot uprising that changed the fate of humanity. Said Nolan at the time: “We always planned for a fifth and final season. We are still in conversations with the network. We very much hope to make them.” Co-creator Lisa Joy added that the series has always been working toward a specific ending: “Jonah and I have always had an ending in mind that we hope to reach. We have not quite reached it yet.”

Inspired by the 1973 film titled “Westworld,” the series was initially set in a Western-style amusement park that allowed guests to realize their fantasies with the help of androids. The show later broadened into a artificial intelligence vs. human global conflict. Nolan said in a statement: “We’ve been privileged to tell these stories about the future of consciousness — both human and beyond — in the brief window of time before our AI overlords forbid us from doing so.”

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Aubrey Plaza has been added to the cast of Agatha: Coven of Chaos, Marvel’s upcoming WandaVision spinoff series for Disney+. The series will star Kathryn Hahn as the powerful witch Agatha Harkness. In addition, Ali Ahn (Raising Dion) and Maria Dizzia (The Staircase) are also set to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe in unspecified roles on ‘Agatha.’

‘Agatha: Coven of Chaos’ will also star Emma Caulfield, who appeared in WandaVision as a nosy neighbor to Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany), as well as ‘Heartstopper’ actor Joe Locke. Plaza is reportedly playing a villainous role, while details about Ahn and Dizzia’s characters are being kept under wraps.

Plaza broke out on NBC’s Parks and Rec and is currently appears on season two of HBO’s The White Lotus. Ahn most recently lent her voice to the animated comedy “Little Demon,” which also stars Plaza, and has appeared on shows like “Raising Dion”, “Orange Is the New Black” and “Billions”. Dizzia recently appeared in the film “The Good Nurse” and has also been featured on “Orange Is the New Black,” “13 Reasons Why,” “The Staircase,” and “The First Lady.”

Agatha: Coven of Chaos is expected to drop on Disney+ sometime in 2023.

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20th Century Studios has shared a teaser trailer for the new sci-fi film Avatar: The Way of Water, featuring Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldaña.  Avatar writer and director James Cameron also returns as executive producer, writer, and director for the sequel.

Avatar: The Way of Water is the sequel to the original Avatar (2009), which was set in 2154. The new film takes place more than 10 years later and once again follows the struggles between the Na’vi race and humans on the fictional moon Pandora. Worthington and Saldaña return as Jake Sully, a former Marine, and Neytiri, a Na’vi princess.

The trailer also features the couple’s children, Neteyam (Jamie Flatters), Lo’ak (Britain Dalton), Tuktirey (Trinity Bliss) and Kiri (Sigourney Weaver in a new role). Stephen Lang returns as the villainous Colonel Quaritch, while Kate Winslet, Michelle Yeoh, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, Edie Falco and Jemaine Clement have joined the cast.

Avatar: The Way of Water opens in theaters Dec. 16. Take a look at the trailer – here.

‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ Trailer: Return To Pandora With A Mighty Heartbeat

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Disney+ is sharing the trailer for the new film ‘Disenchanted,’ tweeting the teaser with the caption: “Discover a fairy tale with a wicked twist. #Disenchanted, an Original movie, starts streaming November 18 on #DisneyPlus.”  The trailer for the musical fantasy film features Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Idina Menzel and Maya Rudolph.  Disenchanted also stars Yvette Nicole Brown, Jayma Mays and Oscar Nunez, with Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz returning as songwriters, and Menken composing the score.

Disenchanted is a sequel to the 2007 film Enchanted, also starring Adams and Dempsey. The pair reprise their roles as Giselle (Adams), a woman from the fairytale kingdom of Andalasia, and Robert (Dempsey), a New York attorney and single father. The new film sees Giselle and Robert married and living with Robert’s daughter, Morgan (Gabriella Baldacchino), in the suburb of Monroeville. When Gisele uses a magic wand to wish for a fairytale life, the spell backfires and she starts to become a wicked villain.

Disenchanted starts streaming Nov. 18 on Disney+. Take a look at the trailer – here.

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Lupita Nyong’o is set to star in the new film A Quiet Place: Day One. Nyong’o, 39, is in final talks for the ‘A Quiet Place’ spinoff at Paramount.

Day One is based on an idea by John Krasinski, who directed and starred in the first two ‘A Quiet Place’ films. The spinoff will be directed by Michael Sarnoski, known for his directorial debut, ‘Pig’. Krasinski and his wife, actress Emily Blunt, are not expected to reprise their roles from the first two films. In addition to the spinoff, there is a third film in the Quiet Place series slated for release in 2025.

The original A Quiet Place opened in 2018 and was followed by A Quiet Place Part II in 2021. The franchise takes place in a post-apocalyptic world populated with monsters with hypersensitive hearing.

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