Month: July 2024

In April, Tate McRae kicked off her Think Later World Tour in support of her December 2023 sophomore LP of the same name. The North American leg only just began, and McRae will perform at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on Thursday, July 11.

Below, learn everything you need to know ahead of time.

What Time Is Tate McRae On Stage For The Think Later World Tour?

According to setlist.fm, which is updated by fans who attended, McRae’s sets have consistently begun around 9 p.m. local time. In Paris, France, McRae is said to have taken the stage at 9:10 p.m. local time, but she apparently was on stage by 8:50 p.m. local time in Woodinville, Washington on July 7 and 9:05 p.m. local time in San Francisco, California on July 9.

Tate McRae’s Think Later World Tour Setlist

1. “Think Later”
2. “Hurt My Feelings”
3. “Uh Oh”
4. “What’s Your Problem?”
5. “Feel Like Sh*t”
6. “Calgary”
7. “Stay Done”
8. “Messier”
9. “Cut My Hair
10. “Rubberband”
11. “Exes”
12. “Guilty Conscience”
13. “We’re Not Alike”
14. “She’s All I Wanna Be”
15. “You Broke Me First”
16. “Run For The Hills”
17. “Grave”
18. “10:35” (Tiësto cover)
19. “Greedy”

Tate McRae’s 2024 Tour Dates: Think Later World Tour

07/11 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre
07/14 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre
07/17 — Austin, TX @ Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park
07/19 — Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall
07/20 — Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
07/21 — Rogers, AR @ Walmart AMP
07/24 — Cincinnati, OH @ The Andrew J Brady Music Center
07/27 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage
07/28 — Sterling Heights, MI @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre
07/30 — Maryland Heights, MO @ Saint Louis Music Park
08/01 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory
08/03 — Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza
08/03 — Chicago, IL @ Official Lollapalooza Aftershow at House Of Blues Chicago
08/06 — Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater
08/07 — Indianapolis, IN @ Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park
08/09 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway
08/10 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway
08/11 — Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena
08/13 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem
08/14 — Philadelphia, PA @ Skyline Stage at Mann
08/16 — Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater
08/17 — Atlanta, GA @ Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park
08/19 — Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center
08/22 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
10/29 — Tokyo, Japan @ Toyosu PIT
10/31 — Singapore, SG @ The Star Theatre
11/02 — Bangkok, TH @ UOB Live
11/04 — Quezon City, PH @ New Frontier Theater
11/08 — Perth, AU @ Red Hill Auditorium
11/10 — Brisbane, AU @ Riverstage
11/12 — Sydney, AU @ Hordern Pavilion
11/15 — Adelaide, AU @ AEC Theatre
11/17 — Melbourne, AU @ Margaret Court Arena
11/19 — Auckland, NZ @ Spark Arena
11/21 — Wellington, NZ @ TSB Arena

Long after the days when Keri Russell’s haircut changed Felicity‘s trajectory, the lead actress of FX’s The Americans remains a magnetic and reliable TV presence who can nab streaming clicks with the best of them. In The Diplomat, Russell once again finds herself (as Kate Wyler) not only in a complicated job but a heavily-featured marriage, and although her newest series does contain some adrenaline-fueled moments, a large focus rests on the messiest relationship of the thriller/dramedy show.

The Diplomat launched in April 2023 as an instant Netflix hit, and viewers soon began asking for a second season with Netflix making the rare call of a swift renewal. Not only does that mean more onscreen Russell — which she celebrates, and she recently told Dinner’s On Me podcast host Jesse Tyler Ferguson that she is “super thankful to have a job right now because so many of my friends do not” — but we will also not be left hanging by that explosive cliffhanger season finale. Let’s talk about what has been revealed thus far.

Plot

The most pressing question of the season finale is whether Kate Wyler’s husband, fellow diplomat Hal (Rufus Sewell) — who has a very different style, both personally and professionally, from Kate — might have been pushed out of this mortal coil. Sure, other characters could have lost their lives in that explosion, too, but whether Hal lives or dies is integral to the tone of The Diplomat because theirs is such a miserable marriage, which realistically will not end unless Hal does die. Vanity Fair actually explored that issue with one of the show’s consultants, ex-CIA official Kari Amelung, who reveals that married diplomats will delay splits because a divorce filing will cause them “to forfeit coveted overseas assignments to return to the States.” So, they will “just live in hatred [with each other],” which does speak to this show’s layers.

As viewers will recall, the season ended with the revelation that Rory Kinnear’s British PM Nicola Trowbridge had been the culprit of the attack on a British aircraft carrier. Not only that, but that second explosion throws not only Kate’s professional but also her personal life into disarray, and show creator Debora Cohn called this fully intentional to Tudum: “I wanted to bring together all of the different dynamics of the political relationships and the personal relationships in one event that splits apart all at the same time.”

Sewell might have also provided a clue on Hal’s fate by expressing hopes for a long-lived series: “All I know is that if you resolve it one way or another too quickly, we’re screwed … I like to think there are enough problems to last us [a few seasons].” Hmm. Russell, for her part, told Deadline that Cohn is “such a pro. She knows what she’s doing. I’m assuming she had that plan for a while, but I was completely surprised.”

Beyond that resolution about the second explosion, there will be a key shake-up in dynamics because Vice President Grace Penn will soon be seen rather than merely spoken of. Penn will be portrayed by Allison Janney, and Russell did tell Dinner’s On Me that she was nervous about her new colleague:

“I thought, ‘Oh God, well… she’s so good and also she’s so tall and I’m such a shrimp and I’ll look stupid and I won’t look smart and blah, blah.’ I mean like it’s bizarre what your stupid brain does. And we had really heavy dialogue scenes together and I thought, Oh, it’s not going to work and I’m going to look bad. And, and I went into the makeup trailer in the morning, Janney’s there and we meet each other quickly and she nice as can be, tall, like statuesque, quiet and slumping in her chair, how tall girls do. And I went and just in one second I went, ‘She’s just like us.’”

You can’t really blame Russell for feeling that way. Surely, she has seen I, Tonya, but Janney’s presence should loom large throughout the second season, and hopefully, more concrete plot details will surface soon.

Cast

Obviously, Keri Russell will return as Kate Wyler, and Allison Janney will visually surface as Vice President Grace Penn. Given the nature of the season finale’s final scenes, we have no way of knowing whether Hal Wyler has survived, now has there been confirmation that the Netflix series will being back Rory Kinnear as Prime Minister Trowbridge, David Gyasi as Austin Dennison, or Ali Ahn as Eidra Graham.

Release Date

The Diplomat is slated to return before 2024 ends.

Trailer

Until Netflix drops a trailer, it’s never a bad time to revisit The Americans, which is streaming in full on Hulu.

The United States men’s national team will have a new manager leading them into the 2026 World Cup on home soil. According to Doug McIntyre of Fox Sports, U.S. Soccer made the decision to sack manager Gregg Berhalter just over one year after it announced that he would come back to lead the team following the expiration of his contract and a lengthy search for his replacement.

The decision was made after the USMNT flamed out of the group stage at Copa America, which was widely viewed as an opportunity to show that the team took a step forward following its elimination in the round of 16 at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Back then, Berhalter led the team through a tricky group before falling to European power The Netherlands.

This time around, the Americans fumbled their final opportunity to make any sort of major statement in a competitive international tournament ahead of 2026. The team started off group play with a 2-0 win against Bolivia that was defined by their inability to finish off chances and run up the score, before a shambolic game against Panama in which standout winger Timothy Weah received an inexplicable red card 18 minutes in. While Folarin Balogun was able to put them ahead despite being a man down not long after, the U.S. almost immediately conceded, then spent the entire second half letting Panama have the ball before José Fajardo scored with about 10 minutes left in the game.

It put the team in a situation where they needed to beat South American juggernaut Uruguay, one of the favorites to win the entire tournament, and hope Panama did not obliterate Bolivia if they were to go through to the knockout stage. Try as they might, the Americans could not break down the resilient Uruguayan defense, and thanks to a controversial goal on a free kick, Uruguay was able to secure a 1-0 win that sent the United States home.

The calls for Berhalter’s job began almost immediately. Whether it was the Fox Sports panel after the game, USMNT fans on Twitter who have been skeptical of Berhalter since the convoluted process that led to his initial hiring in 2018, or those in attendance in Kansas City who chanted “Fire Berhalter,” American fans wanted someone to take responsibility for this, and because you can’t trade out the players from the so-called “golden generation” who have struggled to live up to that reputation once they step outside of North American competition, the obvious choice was the manager whose stated goal from day one has been to change the way the world views American soccer.

In a way, that has happened during the Berhalter era, but not in the way he imagined. For years, the USMNT has been defined by a willingness to play as a collective, to run through a brick wall if it meant being the first player to get to the ball, in running fast and trying hard and white knuckling it against more talented teams that hammer you, but finding a way through sheer determination to get the goal(s) that you need to gut out a result. It’s not the most aesthetically pleasing style of play in the world, and at some point their luck would run out and they’d get blitzed by Argentina or Belgium or someone, but you knew when the United States stepped onto the pitch, the other team was going to have to earn a result after 90 absolutely miserable minutes of being dragged into the mud.

Berhalter wanted the team to take a more progressive, front foot approach that resembles some of the top club teams in the world. He spoke frequently about the team’s system, which was designed to create chances by having players do their jobs, and if they managed to piece everything together within said system, opportunities to score goals would come. The games where this worked looked beautiful, but too often, the team would line up against top teams and come up short, and the benchmark for an international team — how you perform in major tournaments — looked pretty similar to how it’s always looked once the team got outside of CONCACAF if you just looked at the results. Much was made about the lack of a signature win against a team other than the least talented Mexico team in decades during Berhalter’s tenure.

There must, of course, be responsibility put on the players, and the necessary criticism that comes from, well, everything. The golden generation moniker has been thrown around for years, and while most of the players who make up said golden generation have yet to enter their primes, it’s nevertheless a collection of talented individuals who have spent years playing alongside one another in both the youth and senior national team set-ups. And yet, when the games kick off, the chemistry that you’d presume was built up for years over years never seems to be there.

The question is whether that is the fault of the players, the fault of Berhalter, the fault of their clubs, the fault of U.S. Soccer as an institution, the fault of the fans or the pundit class or god knows whomever else. Maybe it’s everyone and everything, all formed into one disgusting blob of hope and aspiration that ran into the harsh reality that men’s soccer in this country is not — and never will be, based on our current trajectory — as good as we’d like. Or maybe it was just because Gregg Berhalter wasn’t a good enough manager for a national team. At the very least, we’ll figure out if that was the singular thing holding the USMNT back. And if more went into it, well, maybe U.S. Soccer will spend the next two years before anything and everything it does gets put under the most intense microscope in the sport trying to fix those problems, too.

You know a meme has reached peak saturation when even the notoriously techno-phobic Eminem is referencing it to promote his new albums. The “Hawk Tuah” girl, Hailey Welch, has been all over the place since her memorable street interview went viral on TikTok (including concerts with Zach Bryan and Shaquille O’Neal), and now, her catchphrase is part of the rollout for Eminem’s new album, The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce).

Em quoted the spitting onomatopoeia in the caption of a video featuring the grave of “beloved antagonist” Slim Shady (who apparently died at the ripe old age of 27). A passerby spits on the tombstone, which bears a familiar quote from the chorus of “Without Me,” then walks away… missing a hand bursting up out of the ground, suggesting that rumors of Mr. Shady’s demise might have been greatly exaggerated.

Em’s spent much of the rollout for the album poking fun at his alter ego, from making him the anachronistic butt of the joke in his “Houdini” video to putting him to the chainsaw in the video for “Tobey” to zipping him into a body bag on the album’s cover. Whether all this means Eminem’s truly retiring the rap persona — or just trolling all of his haters yet again — remains to be seen.

The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce) is due 7/12 via Shady Records/Aftermath/Interscope. You can find more info here.

We can all be sure that as society evolves, many things that seem normal today will be cringeworthy to people in the future, whether it’s our fashion, politics, civility, or how we treat the environment.

If we look back just 30 years ago, same-sex marriage was illegal, people routinely smoked in bars and restaurants and it was fashionable to wear platform sneakers.

So, when we look back on the world of 2024, there are bound to be many things that we’ll be embarrassed about in 30 years, especially when we are forced to live with the repercussions of the decisions we make today. On a lighter note, we’ll all also have clouds full of photos of ourselves wearing hairstyles and clothes that look utterly ridiculous in hindsight.

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We asked the Upworthy community to share their thoughts by asking a big question on Facebook: “What’s something that’s accepted now that we’ll be embarrassed about in the future?” Our readers responded with funny takes on current fashion and concerns about technology use and how we treat our fellow human beings.

Here are 21 things we accept today that we’ll probably be embarrassed about in the future.

More than a few current fashion trends will look silly in the coming years.

“Yoga pants. I love them to death, but I can easily see them as the parachute pants of tomorrow.” — Deborah

“Barn doors in your house.” — Joyce

“Tattoos all over the body.” — Vicki

“People wearing socks and sandals.” — Jeremy

“Wearing pajamas in public.” — Ivy

“Huge, over-sized false eyelashes.” — Patricia

Hopefully, people in the future will be more considerate when using technology than we are today.

“Walking around with your eyes locked on your phone. Or eating at a table with 4 people looking at their phone. One day, we will either fall off a cliff or realize life is what is happening off the screen.” — Elise.

“Texting in the presence of another person.” — Kate

We can also hope that in the near future, we will be able to solve many of today’s pressing public policy issues so that the next generation will live happier and healthier lives.

“Lack of healthcare for everyone.” — Sharon

“Making the planet unlivable for human beings.” — Karen

“Spending hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer’s money to build a sports arena for a billionaire. Then charging the taxpayers outrageous amounts to attend events there.” — Stacy

“How the US is systematically clawing back women’s rights to decide what they do with their bodies. It’s beyond shameful.” — Jason.

“Allowing guns everywhere.” — Amy

“That we drive fossil fuel-powered vehicles.” — Heidi

Some people are concerned about the way students and their parents behave in modern-day America.

“Parents trying to run schools: yelling at teachers for their child’s poor performance, yelling at principals when their child gets in trouble, book banning based on an individual’s religious ideologies, etc.” — Beth.

“Entitled children talking back to their parents and teachers.” — Connie

“Cry rooms at universities where students can go and work out their anxiety and cry and be upset if their professor uses words that are too difficult for them. Universities are institutes of higher learning, not institutes of babysitting. That will be an embarrassment in the future, as it is an embarrassment to me and many others now.” — Della

In 30 years, we may be embarrassed to look back on the level of general civility in 2024.

“Panic buying of toilet paper during the pandemic.” — Tony

“Ageism. It’s everywhere, all the time, and no one seems to mind. No one is defined by the amount of time they’ve spent on the planet but it’s used as an identity and as a weapon (ask any teenager, 40-year-old woman, or retiree…). I can only hope that one day it will be a source of embarrassment that we were all so dismissive and judgmental.” — Rosy.

“Human beings living on the street.” — Andrea

“Torturous killing of animals for food.” — Mae

While this list may seem like a litany of complaints people have about living in the modern world, it should give people hope. If we’ve overcome past embarrassments, today’s can be fixed as well.

Before Bridgerton joined the club, there was only one title to appear more than once in Netflix‘s top-10 list of the most popular English language series: Stranger Things. Season 4 of the the Duffer Brothers’ sci-fi/horror show is in second place, behind only Wednesday, while season 3 is #9. But with all due respect to Penelope Featherington, and Jenna Ortega, and the creepy doll on Squid Game, Stranger Things is Netflix’s signature show. So, as you’re well aware, anticipation is high for season 5 — which is also the final season.

Here’s everything we know about Stranger Things season 5, including the plot, cast, and premiere date.

Plot

Stranger Things season 5 begins with the sound of “COLD WIND.” If that doesn’t get you excited, maybe this will? The final season will be “heartbreaking,” “bonkers,” and “completely insane.” It’s eight episodes long, which doesn’t sound like a lot considering how many mysteries still need to be solved, but some — if not all — of the episodes will be movie length.

“We’re making basically eight movies,” Maya Hawke, who plays Robin (and Anxiety in Inside Out 2), said on the Podcrushed podcast. “Season 4 and season 5 are very connected. Season 4 had a part I and part II because they separated them, so the last two episodes came out at a different time, which is unusual for streaming. But this is its own season. It is a continuation, but it’s the finale. And it has been a long time since last season.” (Note: she said “eight movies” instead of “an eight-hour long movie,” a small but important distinction, because an eight-hour movie sounds terrible.)

Unlike in season 4, where the characters were spread across the globe, season 5 will be more “isolated,” according to Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler). “Not being around everyone all the time was definitely a bummer about filming 4, but 5 is the opposite,” he told The Hollywood Reporter. “We’re all together all the time, and a bunch of us live around the corner and across the street from each other in real life. So the cast is really seeing each other a lot, and we’re in a lot of the same scenes, which has been really great.”

And yes, at long last, there will (probably) be deaths. And maybe time jumps.

Cast

Most of the familiar faces will be black, albeit three years older than the last time we saw them. The confirmed season 5 cast includes “wifey” Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven), feet fan David Harbour (Jim Hopper), Winona Ryder (Joyce Byers), Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler), Noah Schnapp (Will Byers), Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin Henderson), Caleb McLaughlin (Lucas Sinclair), Sadie Sink (Max Mayfield), Charlie Heaton (Jonathan Byers), Natalia Dyer (Nancy Wheeler), Joe Keery (Steve Harrington), Maya Hawke (Robin Buckley), Brett Gelman (Murray Bauman), Priah Ferguson (Erica Sinclair), Jamie Campbell Bower (Vecna), Cara Buono (Karen Wheeler), and Amybeth McNulty (Vickie).

Newcomers include The Terminator legend Linda Hamilton. “I don’t know how to be a fangirl and an actress at the same time,” she said about appearing on the show. “I’m gonna work on that.” As for Joseph Quinn, who played Eddie Munson in season 4, the A Quiet Place: Day One and Gladiator II star teased that “chances are high” he’ll spend more time with his former co-workers. Maybe the Quiet Place cat can make a cameo? And/or be the one to kill Vecna.

Release Date

Stranger Things returns for its fifth and final season in 2025. They’re halfway through filming!

Trailer

Netflix hasn’t released a trailer, or even a teaser, for season 5 yet. So why not hop into a proverbial DeLorean (1980s reference!) and re-watch the season 1 trailer, which is somehow eight years old. One of the highest-rated comments: “Then this series turned out to be the best Netflix series ever.”

It’s been six years since “Bluey” debuted in Australia, and since then, the show has grown into a global phenomenon. Though it’s aimed at kids, the series has created a passionate following among people of all ages who adore the heart and humor the Blue Heeler dogs from down under have to offer.

And it’s been just over seven years since an adorably cheeky little girl, Harper, made her way into the world, and she has also grown into a viral Aussie phenomenon.

Harper lives next door to Brandon and Jordan Nolan, the twin music duo Take Two, in Sydney. Her interactions with their family seem like they come straight out of an episode of “Bluey,” right down to the uncanny similarity between Harper’s voice and the young “Bluey” cast members (whose identities remain anonymous).

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Many of the interactions take place through the fence between their yards and Harper is never shown fully (a wise choice). The neighbors will share things over or under the fence, with Harper pranking the guys more than once with something that looks like food but contains dirt.

In a particularly hilarious video, Harper shares the “legit” cheesecake and ice cream she made as part of their bake-off competition. Seriously, 5-year-old Harper sounds just like Bluey’s little sister, Bingo, with the quick wit to match.

Watch:

@alwaystaketwo

Replying to @Zoe_heem My 5yr old neighbour challenged us to a bake off.. here is her cake!! Is it safe to eat but?? 🤷🏼‍♀️🍰 (Part 3) 👩‍🍳♥️ #foryou #fyp

Harper also met Brandon’s baby boy, Grayson, when she was 5, and that video is also an instant classic.

@alwaystaketwo

Replying to @46username Part 2 of my 5yr old neighbour meeting my son for the first time 😆♥️👶🏻 she loves him but still hates us.. 🤷🏼‍♀️ #foryou #fyp

When she was 6, Brandon went for a walk with her and talked to her about him moving 10 minutes away. Her reaction is perfect.

@alwaystaketwo

Today I had to tell my 6yr old neighbour I’m no longer going go be her neighbour anymore.. *NOT CLICK BAIT* 😭💔🏠 ##foryou##fyp(Like for Part 2)

Now that she’s 7, her voice sounds a bit more like Bluey than Bingo, and still just as surreal to hear in real life asking questions like, “Have you been achieving much in life?”

@alwaystaketwo

My 7yr old neighbour’s dad is a doctor👨‍⚕️😡👊🏻 and he couldn’t fix my shoulder after I paid him.. here’s my argument with her #foryou #fyp

It’s hard not to hear the resemblance to the “Bluey” characters, as evidenced by the comments.

“Is that bluey and bingo on the other side of the fence!? 😅”

“Literally thought ‘how could bluey and bingo are their neighbors?'”

“There needs to be an episode of Bluey where they get new neighbors and the girls befriend them like this.”

“Bluey and Bingo living next door is wild.”

“Please tell me that we all think the same thing because we are parents? It took me one second to say Bluey!”

“Omg I’m not the only one that thought omg BINGO!!!”

You can follow @alwaystaketwo on TikTok for more fun with Harper and her neighbors.

With LeBron James inching towards retirement and guys like Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant not too far behind, there are constant discussions of who will be the NBA’s next “face of the league.” That will have to get sorted out on the court by the various young stars in the conversation, as you don’t get that title without winning titles — or, at the least, competing for them regularly.

It’s not just fans and media that want to figure that out, but sneaker companies and brands are placing their bets on who will be the league’s next big star. Jayson Tatum leads the league in endorsement deals and just got the NBA 2K25 cover fresh off his first championship, while his USA Basketball teammate Anthony Edwards also got some big news on Wednesday when word broke that he had a new deal with adidas to make him the face of their basketball division, paying eight-figures annually.

Edwards has gotten off to a tremendous start to his career and has brought the Timberwolves into the title conversation. He’s also one of the most unique and engaging personalities in the game, and his launch of the AE1 with adidas was extremely well-received. Edwards will hope to take on a starring role for Team USA in Paris this summer, and if he and the Wolves continue their ascent, adidas will probably get some strong returns on their investment in him as the biggest star on their hoops roster.

Sarah Tudzin has carved out a space in the music industry as a go-to producer and engineer, working with folks like Boygenius, Weyes Blood, Speedy Ortiz, and more. She kicks ass with her project Illuminati Hotties, too, and there’s a new Hotties album on the way. Power was announced last month, and ahead of the project, Tudzin has shared a new single, the title track.

“Power” sees Tudzin reckoning with her existence in light of a significant loss. She does so over a breezy but melancholy indie rocker fleshed out by some lush orchestral arrangements.

Tudzin says of the song, “‘Power’ is a reckoning with mortality. It was the song I avoided writing every time I sat down with a guitar until it finally fell out of me. In it I’m asking over and over, how am I supposed to participate in earthly existence after the passing of my mom, who so selflessly gave me her confidence, who instilled my power? There is no answer, and there is no sign.”

Given that Tudzin has kept busy with her aforementioned production and engineering duties, Power will be the first Illuminati Hotties album since 2021’s Let Me Do One More.

Listen to “Power” above.

Power is out 8/23 via Hopeless Records. Find more information here.

When it comes to the beloved comedy Freaky Friday, it really is never too late for a sequel. Who wouldn’t want to know what Chad Michael Murray’s leather jacket-wearing, motorcycle-riding Jake is up to 20 years after his peak? Well, we are about to find out.

Freaky Friday hit theaters in the summer of 2003. The movie followed Jamie Lee Curtis as Tess, a therapist and mom to Anna, Lindsay Lohan, her stubborn teenage daughter. After not seeing eye-to-eye, the two swap bodies and have to see what it’s like in each other’s shoes.

Disney had already made multiple adaptations of Mary Rodgers’s 1972 novel of the same name, but none of them had Jamie Lee Curtis, so it really took off! Then, in 2022, while promoting another long-awaited sequel Halloween Ends, Curtis revealed that she had been begging Disney for another Freaky movie. It seems like they started to take her seriously after she won her Oscar.

“As I went around the world with Halloween Ends, people wanted to know if there was going to be another Freaky Friday,” Curtis told The New York Times last year. “Something really touched a chord. When I came back, I called my friends at Disney and said, ‘It feels like there’s a movie to be made.’” Luckily, Lohan was also on board to return after her brief acting hiatus, so everything slowly began to fall into place.

The upcoming sequel is currently titled Freaky Friday 2, though that could change. Disney could take a page out of the Twisters book and call it Freaky Fridays, but it’s too soon to tell just how many Fridays we are working with here. Check out everything we know so far about the Freaky Friday sequel:

Plot

While Disney loves to keep plot points under wraps…it doesn’t always happen. Earlier this year, parts of the audition scripts and cast description were released online, seemingly confirming the plot.

The story reportedly follows Anna (Lohan) as she prepares to marry a British restaurant owner named Eric. Anna has her own 14-year-old daughter named Harper, while Eric has a teen named Lily. The two don’t meet eye-to-eye, much like Anna and her mom Tess (Curtis) did in the original flick. The script also states that “Harper should channel ‘Anna’ (Lindsay Lohan) and Lily should channel ‘Tess’ (Jamie Lee Curtis).” So it looks like it’ll be just as goofy as its predecessor. At some point, the girls will probably swap bodies, but its unclear if Anna and Tess will have the same switcheroo as they did last time.

Hopefully Pink Slip will reunite after all this time!

Cast

Lohan is returning as Anna, the formerly rebellious teen who switched places with her mom all those years ago. Curtis also returns as Tess, Anna’s mother.

According to Variety, former Y2k heartthrob/ current Hallmark Christmas movie regular Chad Michael Murray will return, as well as Mark Harmon, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Haley Hudson, Lucille Soong, Stephen Tobolowsky, and Rosalind Chao. New cast members include newly dubbed Hottest Man Alive Manny Jacinto plus Julia Butters, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, and Sophia Hammons.

Release Date

An exact date has not been revealed, but it will be released in theaters in 2025, and not on Disney+ as it was previously thought.

Trailer

While there isn’t a trailer, some behind-the-scenes clips were posted in June of the iconic duo outside their trailers. So… it’s not much, but it’s something!