“Plaintiff Jane Doe, by and through her undersigned counsel, hereby gives notice that the above-captioned Action is voluntarily dismissed with prejudice,” reads the document. “Counsel for Plaintiff have discussed this matter with counsel for each Defendant, who acknowledge and consent to this submission.”
Back in December, attorney Tony Buzbee came forth on behalf of his Jane Doe client claiming the hip-hop titans assaulted her when she was 13-years-old. Shortly after the accusation, Jay-Z released a statement vehemently denying the claims. “These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one,” he wrote. “Whomever would commit such a crime against a minor should be locked away, would you not agree?”
At this time, Jay-Z nor Diddy have not publicly addressed the civil case being voluntarily dropped. In addition, Tony Buzbee has not issued a statement discussing the reason his client no longer wishes to pursue this matter.
Powerhouse producing duo Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are used to causing a ruckus, including for studios. Remember The Interview? Rogen will never forget when he heard about President Obama addressing the North Korea-angering movie by trolling North Korea. Such studio scramblings might be part of the reason why Rogen and Goldberg envisioned The Studio for Apple TV+, which also stars Rogen in between seasons of his other Apple TV+ series, Platonic. Let’s not waste any more time in gathering hints on what to expect from this scathing comedy series.
Plot
As with The Boys (an ongoing heavy hitter from Rogen and Goldberg’s producing portfolio), expect biting comedy and a satiric takedown from within this movie’s subject matter. Rogen will portray Continental Studios chief Matt Remick, who is his own worst cinematic enemy. He ruins movies (because he loves them, and he loves zombie diarrhea, too) like a certain executive that Rogen and Goldberg encountered early in their Hollywood lives.
As Rogen told Indiewire, this executive was giving them “terrible notes,” and then he “looked up at us and was like, ‘You know, I got into this job because I love movies and now it’s my job to ruin them.’” Rogen did admit, “I am very worried that real-life people will recognize themselves in the show,” but those given a heads up on this subject “are mostly flattered.”
The first season will include a Bryan Cranston character inspired by Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s eccentric suit choices. Here’s a peek:
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Rogen revealed that Cranston’s original attire was planned as a “blue suit kind of” dude, but “then I had met with David Zaslav and he was in like a suede cowboy jacket with big flashy glasses with gold on them,” and the rest is TV history. Also, “As crazy as Bryan is on the show, he very much fits into the realm of what these guys are actually like, for better or worse.”
Apple TV+ has provided a series synopsis:
Seth Rogen stars as Matt Remick, the newly appointed head of embattled Continental Studios. As movies struggle to stay alive and relevant, Matt and his core team of infighting executives battle their insecurities as they wrangle narcissistic artists and craven corporate overlords in the ever-elusive pursuit of making great films. With their power suits masking their never-ending sense of panic, every party, set visit, casting decision, marketing meeting and award show presents them with an opportunity for glittering success or career-ending catastrophe. As someone who eats, sleeps and breathes movies, it’s the job Matt’s been pursuing his whole life, and it may very well destroy him.
Trailer
This teaser takes the form of a fake trailer for Duhpocalypse, which is a zombie survival movie starring Johnny Knoxville and Josh Hutcherson. The latter gets a shot of zombie diarrhea to the face, and the former then puts him out of his misery: “We all gotta die sooner or later, buddy.” Indeed.
From there, studio execs agonize over the trailer being banned, and Rogen’s studio head insists that the liquified poop is essential to the project’s artistic vision, so it’s going nowhere.
Cast
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Seth Rogen is officially the running the joint as Matt Remick. He will be accompanied by Rebecca Hall, Olivia Wilde, Ike Barinholtz, Chase Sui Wonders, Kathryn Hahn, Catherine O’Hara, and Brian Cranston.
How has the South Park subreddit been passing the time during the long wait between seasons 26 and 27? Well, the top post from the past year reads in part, “100 hours well spent,” and it shows stained glass versions of the anime-style depictions of Cartman, Kyle, Stan, and Kenny from the classic season 8 episode “Good Times With Weapons.” It’s really cool! But I think I speak for all South Park fans when I say this: we’re ready for new episodes.
Here’s everything we know about season 27 of Comedy Central’s South Park.
Plot
Here’s a few things we know about South Park season 27:
1. It won’t be the final season.
During a conversation with Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw last year, South Park co-creator Matt Stone said, “We don’t have an end in sight… I will say, honestly, it’s because it is still such an awesome sandbox. You know, we are working on a movie right now, a live-action movie, and when we get back to South Park, it is going to be like, ‘Oh, right, here we go.’ I cannot wait to hang out with those characters again, to be cheesy about it, but we love doing South Park.”
2. There will be no more Trump jokes.
“We’ve tried to do South Park through four or five presidential elections, and it is such a hard thing to — it’s such a mind scramble, and it seems like it takes outsized importance,” Stone told Vanity Fair. “Obviously, it’s f*cking important, but it kind of takes over everything and we just have less fun.” Co-creator Trey Parker added, “I don’t know what more we could possibly say about Trump.”
3. Blame Canada, I mean, Kendrick Lamar
Last year was the only second time since South Park premiered in 1997 that an entire calendar year went by without a new episode (“The End of Obesity” doesn’t count, as it was special). Why was that? It has to do with the movie that Stone mentioned earlier. “We are working on a movie. We are doing a movie with Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free and their company [pgLang],” he said. “And we are working on it, and it will hopefully come out July 4th weekend, opposite Jurassic Park which is pretty funny.” Stone said that Lamar is “very involved, and Dave Free is very, very involved. Every day they are working on it. But that is what we are doing, and then we will do South Park.”
Cast
If you’re reading a post about season 27 of South Park (hi!), chances are high that you know Trey Parker and Matt Stone voice nearly every character on the show. But there a few exceptions, including Mona Marshall, April Stewart, and Kimberly Brooks as most of the ladies, and Adrien Beard as Token.
Release Date
In that interview with Bloomberg, Stone shared that South Park is “coming back with one episode” near the beginning of this year, presumably a new special, “and a bunch more in the second half of 2025.” No dates have been confirmed by Comedy Central or Paramount yet, though.
Trailer
There’s no season 27 trailer, but here’s a fun bit of trivia for you: the most-watched video on the official South Park Studios YouTube channel is “The Boys Pee On Their Teacher” from season 8’s “Preschool.” Sure, why not!
After a week of action, Unrivaled’s 1-on-1 Tournament came to a close on Friday night, as the semifinals and finals took place in Miami to crown a champion — who would walk away with $200,000.
The final four were Napheesa Collier, Azura Stevens, Arike Ogunbowale, and Aaliyah Edwards, with both Collier (over Stevens) and Edwards (over Ogunbowale) winning their semifinal matchups 11-2 to reach the Best-of-3 Finals. The two traded wins in the first two games to 8, with Edwards winning the opener 9-6 and then Collier evening things up with a 9-4 win to setting up a winner-take-all Game 3.
There, Collier continued to roll as the reigning WNBA DPOY (and MVP runner-up) asserted her will to the tune of an 8-0 win over the young Edwards, fittingly on a turnaround fadeaway from the middle of the floor — a shot she leaned on throughout the tournament on her way to the win.
With that win, Collier earned the crown as the Queen of Unrivaled’s 1-on-1 tournament and lifted the $200,000 check. Collier’s Lunar Owls teammates all took home $10,000 a piece with the win as well, while Edwards won $50,000 for coming in second and Ogunbowale and Stevens took home $25,000 each for making the semis.
While Edwards didn’t win, her performance over the course of the week in which she took down a pair of top seeds in Breanna Stewart and Ogunbowale and pushed another in Collier all the way in the Finals was quite the statement. She had a solid rookie year but was pretty far out of the spotlight in Washington where she wasn’t really a focal point for the Mystics last year, but she showed she has the skills to compete with the absolute best in the WNBA — and the Mystics should perhaps look to feature her diverse on-ball offensive game that she showed in this tournament a bit more.
Reacher as a Prime Video/Amazon series brings us a more physically accurate rendition of Lee Child’s wandering hero than the Tom Cruise movies did. At least, Alan Ritchson comes close enough at 6’3″ to the 6’5″ hulking ex-military cop with “hands like dinner plates.” Yet in the third season, based upon the Persuader novel, the undercover Reacher and his guns look positively average compared to his biggest (size-wise) foe ever, Paulie.
Amazon previewed a few punches to come, and in a new teaser, Paulie attempts to get Reacher’s number on how much he can bench press, and the Big Guy doesn’t know and doesn’t care: “Because it’s stupid.” That turns into Reacher quickly outsmarting Paulie (who deftly punches himself), which is only the beginning of their mutual grumbling toward each other.
Exactly how massive is the Bigger Guy? Persuader features Reacher’s observation that Paulie looks “like a cartoon.” He is about 200 pounds heavier and at least half a foot taller than Reacher:
“I have to center myself quite carefully to walk through a standard thirty-inch doorway. This guy was at least six inches taller than me and probably ten inches wider across the shoulders. He probably outweighed me by two hundred pounds. Maybe by more. I got that core shudder I get when I’m next to a guy big enough to make me feel small. The world seems to tilt a little … He must have been gobbling steroids like candy for years.”
One of the more charmingly silly qualities of Reacher is that we’re supposed to believe that his physique withstands potato chips, pork rinds, and pie as often as possible. Alan Ritchson, on the other hand, has to work like hell, eat clean, and ingest 4,500 calories daily to stay jacked. Meanwhile, the man who portray’s Paulie, Oliver “The Dutch Giant” Ritchers, is 7’2″ in reality and has been named the world’s tallest pro bodybuilder by Guinness World Records. Perspective is probably everything when lining up comparison shots of Reacher and Paulie, but the dude is undeniably a giant.
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Unsurprisingly, Ritchers maintains his voluminous physique with even more food than Alan Ritchson does. He recently told Empire that he ate 7,000 calories per day to prepare for the Paulie-Reacher showdown. And he previously claimed to Men’s Health that he’s so good at eating that he can swallow 1000 calories (including 70 grams of protein) in 3 minutes. Yikes.
Euphoria is back. Well, almost: After several delays, the hit series has officially begun shooting its long-awaited third season.
With the cameras rolling, reports of the show’s cast switch-ups and additions are circling online. Today (February 14), a list of the newest actors joining the roster was revealed. According Deadline, Rosalía is among the newest faces. Although this would not mark the “Tuya” singer’s debut onscreen role (having appeared in 2019’s Pain And Glory), fans are excited nonetheless.
In fact, Rosalía supporters hope she and ex-girlfriend Hunter Schafer appear in a scene or two. Others set to appears in season 3 include Marshawn Lynch, Kadeem Hardison, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Priscilla Delgado, James Landry Hébert, and Anna Van Patten.
Schafer, Zendaya, Eric Dane, Jacob Elordi, Sydney Sweeney, Alexa Demie, Maude Apatow, Colman Domingo, Chloe Cherry, and Martha Kelly are set to return. Sadly, at this time, past cast members Barbie Ferreira, Storm Reid, Nika King, Algee Smith, and Dominic Fike are reportedly not returning to Sam Levinson’s breakout hit.
It is important to keep in mind that the influx of Euphoria news does not mean the show will come back this calendar year. At the earliest Euphoria will not return to your TVs until 2026 at the earliest.
It’s been five years since Haim’s last album, Women In Music Pt. III. Since then, Danielle talked about drunk-texting Bono and sang with Bruce Hornsby; Alana starred in Paul Thomas Anderson’s excellent Licorice Pizza; and Este called Taylor Swift’s Midnights the “album of the century.” The group also toured with Swift on The Eras Tour and visited Sesame Street. Yet: no album!
That might be changing soon, however.
There’s only one post on Haim’s official Instagram account, and it’s all photos from Danielle’s star-studded birthday party on Thursday, February 13. There’s a lot of smooching. The caption reads, “(ha)i’m single.. haim single?”
Earlier that day, each of the Haim sisters also shared coordinated photos on Instagram. Danielle is wearing a shirt that says “I’m single,” while Alana’s reads, “I’m ???” Finally, there’s Este with her “I’m taken” shirt (she wore a bracelet reading the same thing at Danielle’s party).
Either she’s engaged, or Haim is up to something (they’ve clearly been spending time with Taylor Swift with all these Easter eggs). It’s good news either way!
In other good news, Alana has two more roles lined up: she’s in PTA’s new movie, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall, and Teyana Taylor, as well as Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind with John Magaro and Josh O’Connor.
The third season of Yellowjackets kicks off with a hunt. That shouldn’t surprise longtime fans of the Showtime survivalist thriller – which returns to our small screens on Feb. 14th. After all, its protagonists are fueled by hormones and bloodlust and the kind of cutthroat competitive drive that can only be forged in the locker room of a high school girl’s soccer team. But this time, the prize at the end of the race isn’t the crispy flesh of one of their teammates, it’s something more wholesome… which makes all the biting and screaming and scheming that much more terrifying.
Sometimes, the worst kinds of horrors happen in broad daylight, and Yellowjackets seems intent on testing that theory this time around.
To recap – because it has been two years since the show wrapped its second season – the Emmy nominated series’ second season, a messy, claustrophobic gore-fest set in the dead of winter, was darker, even more barbaric, than its first, taking big swings but ultimately getting bogged down by an unfocused narrative that lacked the stamina to straddle decades.
Season three – we’ve seen the first four episodes – still proves to be a showcase for its younger cast with the teen survivors running wild, quite literally, as they build their own civilization, with all its rules and rituals, via twig-fortified huts and antler headdresses. But their fucked-up version of summer camp bleeds into something more sinister in the present as Shauna (Melanie Lynskey), Misty (Christina Ricci), Lottie (Simone Kessell), Tai (Tawny Cypress), and Van (Lauren Ambrose) battle paranoia and a sneaking suspicion that the “wilderness” – that sentient, mystical deity that turned their teenage selves into its own murderous avatars – has somehow followed them home.
In many ways, the show’s third season has tapped into its roots; bigger conspiracy theories take a backseat to the brutal political machinations of teenagers who prove hierarchies aren’t confined to high school halls and the line between mysticism and mental illness is blurred further as storylines in the past and present become tainted by the supernatural. It also gives its older stars something meatier to chew, keeping things interesting as the grown-ups become more unsettled by the mundanity of “normal” life.
We chatted with some of the cast to preview this season’s biggest surprises, most shocking deaths, and most pressing questions. Here’s what to remember – and what to know – in their words.
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Back To The Wilderness
Sophie Thatcher, who plays Young Nat, and Sammi Hanratty, who plays Young Misty, told us season three’s change of scenery altered the vibe on set in interesting ways.
“Last season, we were on a quiet studio stage and it was hard to not over fixate on things,” Thatcher explains. With the team’s cabin swallowed up by flames that may or may not have been started by their missing adult supervisor (they’re looking for you, Coach Scott), the cast and crew went back on location to where they shot season one, building a kind of DIY utopia for these feral teens to eventually destroy. “I feel like a better actor when I’m outside, in the elements,” Thatcher continues. “I had a day where I was just napping inside my hut. I actually treated it like my home. There was so much beauty in that first season and it was so cool going back to that feeling of immersion.”
Hanratty, who surprised her castmates with a pregnancy announcement ahead of season three’s shoot, had a different take. “It’s not my favorite, running on twigs that are all uneven while trying to protect the belly,” she joked. But both actresses referenced a sequence in episode four that the cast shot outside, one that proves pivotal for the group’s storyline in the past. “There’s nothing like nights while we’re filming,” Hanratty teased. “There’s an eeriness about it, especially when we’re doing some crazy shit. It’s like, ‘Wow, we’re really doing it.’ It feels so much more real when we’re out in the wilderness.”
And while Lynskey wasn’t traipsing around the forest with her younger co-stars, she did reveal she reads all of her younger counterpart, Sophie Nélisse’s, scripts, and some seasons-spanning questions do get answered this time around.
“There’s a lot of very shocking moments and there are also a lot of answers in a way that I found personally very satisfying,” she says. “There’s one particular wilderness storyline that I think is so exciting and so unexpected and fun.”
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Moving On From Natalie’s Death
One of the most shocking twists on the show so far was Juliette Lewis’ surprise exit at the end of season two. When Misty, Van, Shauna, and Tai confronted Lottie at her cult compound, Natalie got caught in the crosshairs, cosplaying as a pin cushion for Misty’s fentanyl-filled syringe. And everyone – the characters and the cast – is still reeling from the loss in season three. Ricci and Lynskey have both admitted to missing Lewis’ presence on set with Ricci diving into how Nat’s death is fueling Misty’s storyline in the present.
“Like a lot of trauma survivors and people with PTSD, she’s having trouble connecting with her emotions,” the actress explains. “Her whole life has been moving forward and overcoming these very intense things that she went through as a child. So she can’t connect to her grief as we see in the first episode or so. When she finally is able to, she starts to confront her friendships and some realities that I think everyone’s been aware of. It’s been really fun to see.”
Lynskey warns though that audiences won’t have much room to grieve Nat as the pace picks up this season.
“I have a very hard time processing when there’s any kind of death on the show. So for me, I could use a beat before then you have to go through another one, but that’s not how the season is going. It’s been like one thing after another.”
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A New Threat Emerges
Speaking of processing trauma, the Sadeckis are struggling to cope with the fallout from season two. Murder, mayhem, and witnessing your matriarch get chased down by homicidal housewives in animal masks does not a happy household make. Shauna’s anger is closer to the surface than ever with Lynskey teasing she’s ready to “fuck shit up,” while her daughter Callie (Sarah Desjardins in a series regular role, finally) is relentless in her pursuit of the truth.
“Callie’s trying to understand what’s going on so she can understand her mom, and so she can understand herself,” Desjardins explains. “There’s the whole aspect of nature versus nurture. ‘Am I like her? How much am I like her? How do I feel about the fact that I might be like her?’ I feel like Callie’s in a very different place to where her parents are at, and it’s kind of forcing her to mature and almost step into an adult role. In some moments it seems like nobody else is going to do it.”
Certainly not her dad Jeff. Warren Kole’s been playing the perfect TV himbo for two seasons now but the events of season three might just push Shauna’s ride or die to the breaking point. “He’s proving to be quite egocentric in how he’s handling things,” Kole says, adding he still doesn’t know when “enough is enough for someone like Jeff to let go of his loyalties, to release that, accept the realities of the situation and maybe protect his daughter a little better than he’s been doing. To change his priorities a little bit.”
“There’s a real sadistic pleasure in exploring that,” he adds.
And a surprise visit from Lottie, fresh from the loony bin and ready to stir a bit more chaos, doesn’t help the family in finding a bit of normalcy. The show’s resident “Goop sorceress” is reeling from the loss of her community and harboring a strange interest in Shauna’s daughter.
“We’re seeing Lottie in a completely different headspace this season,” Kessell says. “She’s a lone wolf. She’s on her own sort of self-destructive mission She sees something in Callie that I think harks back to their time in the wilderness, a fragility and a darkness that’s taking her back to a time which was so primal and so authentic. I think that’s what Lottie is searching for and that becomes so weird and twisted.”
Their strange, shared bond poses a threat to Shauna’s control over her family, deepening the rift between her and her daughter as yet another face from the past pops up to heighten her paranoia. “She’s really doing her best to move beyond it and be a normal person, but she’s still so angry,” Lynskey says. “I think Shauna has a lot of resentment towards Lottie because her child that died, that was the greatest trauma of her life, was taken by this weird cult and used as this kind of symbol of something, this mystical being. She doesn’t feel like she got the chance to grieve in the way that she wanted or needed to. So now here she is in the present day and here Lottie comes again, trying to get this baby.”
The supernatural has stayed on the fringes in the present timeline so far, but in season three it’s a driving force, reminding the older Yellowjackets of the pact with the wilderness they made all those years ago. Whether their circumstances are pushing them to do evil things, or whether the evil was within them all along, is the central thread that connects the past and present this season and the show’s biggest strength is in exploring that thorny question of human nature and its destructive limits.
Cypress admits to wanting to have the audience “crying and throwing up” while watching the series. From what we’ve seen, season three achieves that and then some.
Since retiring from the NFL, Marshawn Lynch has carved out quite the post-playing career in front of the camera. During his playing days with the Bills, Seahawks, and Raiders, Lynch proved to be one of the most unique personalities in the NFL who is always being his raw, authentic self.
He made the transition into a media career, fittingly, in a unique way, as he didn’t join a studio show or broadcast booth, but found a way to capitalize on people’s love of Marshawn being Marshawn by going out into the world and doing scene pieces, interacting with the locals, for Amazon’s Thursday Night Football coverage. He has also taken a somewhat unexpected turn into the acting world, taking on roles in Bottoms and, most recently, Love Hurts, showing his ability to take his larger than life personality and have it translate on the big screen.
For his next role, Lynch will move to the TV world as one of the new cast members on HBO’s Euphoria, where he’ll join Zendaya and company for Season 3 of the hit show. His quote for the press release on the casting news was perfectly Marshawn.
“I’m hella juiced about the show and getting a chance to work with the people in front and behind the camera,” Lynch said. “At the end of the day, I’m just thankful for the opportunity.”
We’ll have to wait to find out what role Lynch is playing in the show, as it will take a time jump out of high school for the third season — which, sadly, means we won’t see Lynch possibly trying to play a high schooler, which would’ve been incredible.
The Walking Dead is notorious for longevity, for worse or better. The original season ran eleven seasons, ending in 2022, and Robert Kirkman’s comics ran for sixteen years and finally called it quits in 2019, but a shortage of source material has never been a hindrance to franchise architect Scott Gimple. Heck, adorable scruffmonster Daryl Dixon didn’t even exist in the comics, and Norman Reedus’ standalone series is cranking away on its third season. Dead City will also unfurl a second outing in Manhattan, and Rick and Michonne are likely moaning and boning as we speak but could still return.
That says nothing of the Fear The Walking Dead‘s eight freaking seasons, a few from The World Beyond, and a few dashes of Origins episodes. The question right now, however, isn’t whether there will be additional stories coming but if this zombie of a franchise will ever truly die or simply keep walkin.’
How Long Will The Walking Dead Spin Offs Continue?
Possibly “forever,” according to Gimple, who sees no reason to shut down the hordes, as he admitted to Variety:
“I think it can go on forever. Robert Kirkman pitched it as the zombie movie that never ends. And even though he ended the comics, I am trying to fulfill his vision and keep it going in classic ways, with characters you know, that you wouldn’t even expect very different experimental way.”
You heard him. The Walking Dead could ironically live forever, perhaps even longer than 2032 when that pesky asteroid could hit earth, and Daryl will be in the midst of his fifteenth season in Aruba. Maybe Negan and Lucille will be waiting to grand slam that rock. Don’t laugh, you know you’d love to see it.
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