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Hollywood doesn’t have many “guarantees,” but there is one certainty that will always prevail: every successful franchise will be rebooted, revived, or remade at some point. Most recently, that includes the new Road House starring Jake Gyllenhaal, yet if we’re being more optimistic and longevity minded, then Cobra Kai remains the contemporary template for harnessing both nostalgia and appeal for new generations, and for a reimagining, Donald Glover’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith can provide inspiration. Can Black Panther writer and director Ryan Coogler hope to hit these latter two high bars with his planned reboot of The X-Files and also avoid the unimpressed reactions already being directed towards the upcoming reboot of The Crow?

The truth is out there somewhere. Fox Mulder would want us to believe, after all. Let’s get down to extraterrestrial business on what we know so far.

Plot

The X-Files reigned as a 1990s sci-fi monarch and ran for eleven seasons (including a two-season continuation beginning in 2016) and multiple movies. The series honed the Unresolved Sexual Tension for as long as it could hold out, and the FOX audience tuned in weekly for Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully’s (Gillian Anderson) believer-skeptic/special-agent dynamic.

How would a reboot go, and where will it land?

Coogler currently has a five-year deal with Walt Disney Television, so this series will remain in the original family. However, Variety reports that this show will probably land on Hulu, given the Disney acquisition of 21st Century Fox, which produced and propelled the original series to its FOX home. Additionally, series original creator Chris Carter has given his blessing to the project: “I just spoke to a young man, Ryan Coogler, who is going to remount ‘The X-Files’ with a diverse cast. So he’s got his work cut out for him, because we covered so much territory.”

While speaking to Inverse, Carter mentioned that the reboot will be especially difficult because, these days, “Everything’s a conspiracy… No one knows what the truth is. It’s completely subjective and relative now.” However, Carter sounds confident in Coogler’s vision:

“I just asked him what his ideas were, and he told me, and I said, ‘Those sound like good ideas,’” Carter said. “No matter what, he’s got a hard job. Casting is a hard job. Mounting it is a hard job. All the problems that I dealt with are going to be his problems.”

Cast

Officially, this category remains a mystery. A promising tidbit has arrived, however, from Gillian Anderson, who has always been resistant to the idea of joining a reboot until she heard about Coogler’s involvement. This month, Anderson told TODAY that she finds Coogler to be a “brilliant, brilliant director,” and “I cannot think of a better way around for a reboot to happen. I think he’s a bit of a genius.” She added that for Coogler, “I’m not saying no — because I think [he] is really cool, and I think if he did it, it would probably be done incredibly well, and maybe I’ll pop in for a little somethin-somethin.”

There’s also no telling whether frequent Coogler collaborator Michael B. Jordan will be involved in any way following their Fruitvale Station, Black Panther, and Creed eras. But admit it, Coogler devotees would not be mad if this development happened.

Release Date

Since these are early days for the project, the soonest we will see a potential release is 2025.

Trailer

A trailer? No way. The best we can hope for at this stage is that Coogler will write in a reference to the death of a character, who is maybe Fox Mulder, from autoerotic asphyxiation — just like Clyde Bruckman prophesied.

Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it’s easy for something to slip through the cracks. Even following along with the Uproxx recommendations on a daily basis can be a lot to ask, so every Monday we’re offering up this rundown of the best new music this week.

This week saw J. Cole shock the world and Doja Cat expand her Scarlet universe. Yeah, it was a great week for new music. Check out the highlights below.

For more music recommendations, check out our Listen To This section, as well as our Indie Mixtape and Pop Life newsletters.

J. Cole — “7 Minute Drill”

He finally did it. After Kendrick Lamar wrapped up March by dissing Drake and J. Cole on “Like That,” Cole fired back. He dropped Might Delete Later, a surprise mixtape featuring “7 Minute Drill,” on which Cole delivers jabs like saying Kendrick “fell off like The Simpsons.” If this seems corny, well, Cole agrees, as he shared at his festival over the weekend that he’d be removing the song from streaming.

Doja Cat — “Masc” Feat. Teezo Touchdown

More Scarlet is here! Doja just dropped the new deluxe edition (which ended up being officially titled Scarlet 2 Claude), and among the highlights is the Teezo Touchdown-featuring “Masc,” which features some clever turns of phrase from Doja, like, “You gave me the dick, then gave the dick without the D.”

GloRilla — “Wanna Be” Feat. Megan Thee Stallion

GloRilla just dropped her new Ehhthang Ehhthang mixtape, calling for a big hip-hop collab (between Nicki Minaj and Cardi B) on “Aite.” She went ahead and made one happen herself, though, on “Wanna Be,” which sees her teaming up with Megan Thee Stallion.

Charli XCX — “B2B”

The Brat era is approaching, and Charli XCX has made it clear that she’s veering away from the straightforward pop of her 2022 album Crash. That’s true on the two new songs she dropped last week, which are better suited for a sweaty night in the club than pop radio.

Kehlani — “After Hours”

After teasing an upbeat new album for this year, it looks like Kehlani is starting to deliver on that, as “After Hours” indicates. The tune samples the drums from Nina Sky’s 2004 favorite “Move Ya Body,” and she told Zane Lowe of that artistic decision, “Because those drums, when they drop, it’s so recognizable and everybody just loses it. It’s one of those things where it drops and everybody goes, ‘Woo,’ and bends their knees and puts their hands on their knees.”

Bryson Tiller — “The Multiverse Freestyle”

Video game design might be in Bryson Tiller’s future, but for now, he’s sticking to music with the self-titled album he just released. It’s his first project since 2020’s Anniversary, and he confidently sounds like he never left on “The Multiverse Freestyle.”

Conan Gray — “Fainted Love”

Conan Gray has gone all in on the ’80s for his new album, Found Heaven. It’s not a low-effort nostalgia grab, either, as Gray has done an exemplary job at bringing the decade’s synth sounds to modern day on songs like “Fainted Love.”

Khruangbin — “Hold Me Up (Thank You)”

Khruangbin’s A LA SALA is out now, and they blessed the release with a delightful video for “Hold Me Up (Thank You),” starring an industrious chinchilla (sorry, a “Khruangchilla”).

Vampire Weekend — “Prep-School Gangsters”

On the latest episode of the Indiecast podcast, Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen discuss how the new Vampire Weekend album Only God Was Above Us changes the band’s sound just enough while staying true to the core of what they’re about, which songs like “Prep-School Gangsters” evidence.

NxWorries — “86Sentra”

Anderson .Paak and Knxwledge have been teasing a return of their duo NxWorries and actually manifested it in 2022 with a one-off single. At last, though, the news fans have been waiting for is here: A new album is finally on the way. The two introduced it to the world last week with “86Sentra,” which Uproxx’s Aaron Williams describes as having “a groovy, bass-driven beat, and scintillating, swaggering verses from .Paak in classic rap braggart mode.”

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After forty years of hosting the classic game show, Pat Sajak announced that this season of Wheel of Fortune will be his last. Unlike the scandal on Jeopardy!, finding a replacement was a relatively drama-free process as Ryan Seacrest was tapped to be the new host. While the idea to leave is tempting, Vanna White is going to stay on Wheel of Fortune where she’s become just as iconic a fixture as Sajak. (A long overdue pay raise didn’t hurt either.)

As for the exact date of Sajak’s last episode, Sony Pictures Television has kept that information under its hat — until now. The beloved host’s final episode of Wheel of Fortune has been confirmed, and we have the details.

When Will Pat Sajak’s Last ‘Wheel Of Fortune’ Episode Be?

According to Deadline, Pat Sajak’s final episode will air on Friday, June 7. His last time spinning the wheel was reportedly filmed last week, marking the end of an iconic run that started back in 1981:

He originally was recruited by creator Merv Griffin to take over for the outgoing Chuck Woolery, having already hosted two unscripted game pilots called Press Your Luck and Puzzlers. In the 1980s, Sajak did double duty, hosting a daytime version on NBC and a syndicated version in the evening. When the show hit its 36th in 2018, Sajak became the longest-running host of any game show, surpassing The Price Is Right‘s Bob Barker.

Sajak will walk away from his iconic Wheel of Fortune hosting gig with three Emmy awards under his belt and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the TV Academy that he was awarded in 2011.

(Via Deadline)

First, there was The Godfather trilogy. Then nothing for decades until X… then Pearl… and now, finally, MaXXXine.

The third film in Ti West’s A24 trilogy continues to follow the pornographic career of Maxine, played by Mia Goth (who should have been nominated for an Oscar for Pearl), as she moves to Los Angeles in the 1980s to become a Hollywood actress. But her path to stardom includes a run in with a private detective and, possibly, serial killer the Night Stalker.

You can watch the trailer above.

“I see MaXXXine as a superhero movie – that’s how I read the script,” Goth told SFX Magazine. “Maxine, as a character, has come a long way. She’s a survivor, she’s gone through a lot. When we meet her again, in this new world that she’s in, she’s really fought for everything that she has, and she’s not about to give that up. She’s going to fight for what she has. She’s a badass. There’s a strength to her. And she’s a really proactive, determined, focused woman. She goes after what she wants, and she’s not really going to take no for an answer.”

Here’s the official plot synopsis:

In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.

MaXXXine, which also stars Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Lily Collins, Halsey, Giancarlo Esposito, and Kevin Bacon, opens in theaters on July 5.

Country music star Morgan Wallen was arrested on Sunday night for allegedly throwing a chair off the sixth floor of Eric Church’s Chief’s Bar in Nashville, Tennessee. “At 10:53p Sunday evening Morgan Wallen was arrested in downtown Nashville for reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct. He is cooperating fully with authorities,” his attorney, Worrick Robinson, confirmed in a statement to Billboard.

According to an arrest report obtained by local News Channel 5, “some Metro Nashville police officers were standing in front of Chief’s Bar on Broadway Sunday night when a chair fell from above them, hitting the ground just feet from where they were standing.” After staff members of Chief’s (which opened its doors on Friday) identified Wallen as the chair tosser, the report reads, authorities obtained video of “lunging and throwing an object over the roof.”

The “Last Night” singer was reportedly seen laughing afterwards.

Wallen was arrested and charged with three felony counts of reckless endangerment and one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct. His bond was set at $15,250 and he was released jail around 3:30 a.m local time. His court date is on May 3, the same day he’s scheduled to play Nashville’s Nissan Stadium as part of the One Night at a Time World Tour.

Every single week, our TV and film experts will list the most important ten streaming selections for you to pop into your queues. We’re not strictly operating upon reviews or accrued streaming clicks (although yes, we’ve scoured the streaming site charts) but, instead, upon those selections that are really worth noticing amid the churning sea of content. There’s a lot out there, after all, and your time is valuable.

10. Godzilla Vs. Kong (Warner Bros. Pictures film streaming on Max)

With Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire giving a piggyback ride and an adorable nap to viewers in theaters, you might want to brush up on this predecessor picture, in which Godzilla and Kong definitely were not working together. How times change! Once you catch up on these monsters’ historical dynamic, then it will be cool to move onto the “slobberknocker” of a current popcorn movie.

9. A Gentleman In Moscow (Showtime series streaming on Paramount+)

Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who are married IRL, have been upfront about their use of an intimacy coordinator for their racy activity in this series. McGregor, of course, portrays the titular gentlemen, the Russian aristocrat Count Alexander Rostov, in this adaptation of Amor Towles’ same-named novel. Rostov finds himself sequestered in a hotel in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, which has deemed him an outlaw. However, he is not immediately executed but, instead, imprisoned within the attic of a luxurious hotel. For a story that is set in such limited surroundings, the happenings are surprisingly voluminous.

8. The Gentlemen (Netflix series)

Again, there are perhaps too many “gentlemen” to go around these days on TV, but with people tuning in, how can you expect Guy Ritchie to slow down on one of his favorite qualifiers? Exactly — he will not. Soon enough, Ritchie will bring us The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare, starring Henry Cavill and Alan Ritchson, who is wearing glasses so that you don’t automatically view him as Reacher. In this series, Theo James portrays the heir to a weed empire, which does trace back to The Gentlemen, the 2019 movie starring Matthew McConaughey, but this series is not a remake.

7. Shōgun (FX series streaming on Hulu)

This show is so over that “Christian nonsense,” and those meme-able moments will last long after FX probably puts this epic story to bed. That’s likely what shall happen regarding future seasons, even though the ratings have been pouring in since this show began. Even with none of John Blackthorne’s famous dong, the masses have flocked to see this new adaptation, and FX’s epic rendering of the lushly layered character and story will be regarded fondly for many years to come. A second season is up to FX.

6. 3 Body Problem (Netflix series)

The Game of Thrones creators, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, have a multi-season plan for their new sci-fi series, and they are publicly pushing hard to see their dream come true. Will Netflix pull that trigger? We shall see. This certainly isn’t what the creators are used to, given the massive guaranteed success of the HBO show, but Netflix is keeping its cards hidden until full viewership numbers roll through. If those wishes are granted, then we will see how humanity continues to prepare for the arrival of space aliens after people couldn’t resist the curiosity of poking that space bear.

5. Sugar (Apple TV+ series)

Colin Farrell is gearing up to appear in Max’s Penguin series, but for the moment, he’s starring as private detective John Sugar, who must track the disappearance of a powerful Hollywood producer’s granddaughter. In the process, Sugar also digs up family secrets that were buried for damn good reasons. Yes, this is a modern spin on film noir, but how could you resist a member of the the Irish renaissance portraying the newest gumshoe on streaming TV?

4 We Were The Lucky Ones (Hulu series)

Historical drama fans must be in heaven these days with Masters of the Air, Shōgun, and Manhunt ongoing. The series does, however, run somewhat parallel to Masters of the Air in that it revolves around the WWII-era experiences of the Polish-Jewish Kurc family. Joey King and Logan Lehman lead the cast as the siblings go into hiding, some unsuccessfully, as Hitler’s troops swirl around them. The series adapts Georgia Hunter’s same-named 2017 book.

3. Ripley (Netflix series)

Everybody remembers Matt Damon in The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Andrew Scott is fully shaking off his “Hot Priest” days to don Tom Ripley’s grifter duds, this time in a more visually-striking medium, from the looks of this trailer. This series is, of course, based upon Patricia Highsmith’s series of novels, and the title character takes a job in the 1960s that sets him on the deceit-filled path to murder. Whether this debut will lead to adapting more books in further seasons, we shall have to wait for that news.

2. Road House (Amazon Prime film)

Jake Gyllenhall is no Patrick Swayze, nor does this movie pretend that he is. This is more like a Road House in a parallel universe but with all the same punching and kicking moves that you would expect to see in a movie with this title. The cast includes Conor McGregor, J.D. Pardo, Jessica Williams, Billy Magnussen, and Lukas Gage, and this movie also cannot take every liberty taken back in the 1980s. That makes the story difficult to smoothly translate for 2024, but this film does well enough as a guilty pleasure, even if Doug Liman was not thrilled to see the project go straight onto streaming.

1. Invincible (Amazon Prime series)

Too quickly, it’s season finale time, but the excellent news is that there was a third-season renewal well in advance, so hopefully, scripts are already close to being locked, and production can happen faster this time around. Fortunately as well, there’s still plenty of Robert Kirkman-created adventures elsewhere on TV, too, including about 80 total seasons of The Walking Dead franchise. Alright, that’s an exaggeration, but once all the spin offs conclude, that figure might not be off the mark. When it comes to Invincible, however, it’s all down to Mark to figure out how to ward off the Vitrumite Empire, so that future seasons of this conflict will bring us more Omni-Man. That father-son dynamic is what it’s all about, but it doesn’t hurt to have many other characters (voiced by everyone from Walton Goggins to Rhea Seehorn) maneuvering around the intergalactic conflict, too.

Even the cast of Stranger Things doesn’t know how the show ends. During a press tour for her dad’s film, Wildcat, actress Maya Hawke (who also stars in the biopic of Flannery O’Connor) told Collider that she hasn’t “gotten to read the final scripts yet. So I haven’t had a reaction and I actually genuinely know nothing about the last two episodes of the show.”

But Hawke, who plays Robin on the Netflix series, has read the scripts for the first six episodes. “It’s extremely exciting,” she said. “It’s always wonderful when the kind of riddle of a world that gets built, starts to get resolved and questions start to be answered. I think it was mind-bogglingly wonderful for me and I think audiences will feel that way too. It’s really an emotional thing to go into filming this last season, so I’m excited.”

Little is known about the final season of Stranger Things, other than Max is in the hospital and everyone wants more bloodshed. Also, now that Millie Bobby Brown is engaged to Bon Jovi’s son, will “You Give Love a Bad Name” be the “Running Up That Hill” of season five? That wedding isn’t going to pay for itself. Bon Jovi needs the Kate Bush bump in streaming royalties.

Stranger Things season five is expected to premiere in 2025.

(Via Collider)

John Calipari is no longer the head basketball coach at the University of Kentucky. After a day of rumors linking Calipari to the coaching vacancy at Arkansas, multiple reports indicate that Calipari is on his way to Fayetteville.

Reports began to circulate on Sunday evening linking Calipari to the Arkansas job, and eventually, Matt Norlander of CBS Sports brought word that Calipari “entered into serious talks” with the school about the position. The job opened earlier in April when Eric Musselman left the Razorbacks to become the next head coach at USC.

Calipari has been the head coach at Kentucky since 2009, and led the program to a national championship in 2012. However, in recent years, his tenure has been defined by his inability to live up to expectations on the court in spite of Calipari’s ability to recruit — the program missed the NCAA Tournament in 2020-21 due to a sub-.500 record, then failed to make it out of the first weekend in each of the last three years. In two of those appearances, they lost to a double-digit seed, as they fell to 15-seed Saint Peter’s in 2022 and 14-seed Oakland in 2024.

There were reports that Calipari’s job could have been in trouble following the Oakland loss, but Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart announced that he would return in 2024-25. That, of course, was before the Arkansas job opened up, and now, Calipari will only return to Lexington next year as the head coach of the Razorbacks for an SEC game.

On February 5, the country music scene was rocked following the announcement of Toby Keith’s death. The “Red Solo Cup” singer’s battle with stomach cancer brought forth a wave of tear-jerking moments of reflection online for supporters.

Tonight (April 7), the late musician’s musical friends came together at the 2024 CMT Awards to deliver a touching tribute through song. Before Brooks & Dune kicked off the medley of Keith’s biggest hits, Roger Clemens reflected on their friendship, which, of course, included an appreciation for college baseball.

Brooks & Dunn began with Keith’s 1993 track “Should’ve Been A Cowboy.” Mica Roberts also joined the duo. Up next was Sammy Hagar, who stepped out of his rocker persona to embrace his country flair with a joyous rendition of “I Love This Bar.”

After that, Lukas Nelson and Riley Green took to the podium to set the stage for the tribute’s closing performance. Lastly, Lainey Wilson gave her heartful performance of Keith’s 1999 song “How You Like Me Now.”

With his children Krystal Keith, Stelen Keith Covel, and Shelley Covel Rowland present, Clemens delivered a send-off toast for them and Keith’s widow Tricia Lucus. “Raise your Solo cups,” he said. “Whiskey for my men and beer for my horses.”

Watch the performances below.

Fans of Keith showed their supporter following his death by pushing his album, 35 Biggest Hits, to the top of the ‘Billboard 200’ chart.

When Night 1 of WrestleMania ended with The Rock and Roman Reigns defeating Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins to set up a “Bloodline Rules” match between Rhodes and Reigns in the main event on Night 2, the world knew we were in for plenty of run-ins during the Undisputed WWE World Championship match.

Rhodes and Reigns worked 21 minutes of an incredible match by themselves, getting a chance to put their skills in the ring on display before it became a delightful run-in and spot-fest. It started with Jimmy and Jey Uso continuing their brotherly feud and was followed by John Cena appearing to a massive pop, which naturally brought out The Rock.

Cena was a surprise, but given his activity with WrestleMania in recent years, not a complete shock. After Cena took a Rock Bottom, Seth Rollins showed up to the Shield music (making fans briefly wonder if we might get a truly shocking Dean Ambrose appearance) and got rocked by a Superman punch, which seemed to end the run-ins on the Cody side. That was until the lights went out and the bell tolled, sending the Philly crowd into a frenzy.

The Rock, staring at the ramp, awaited the Undertaker’s arrival, but the Dead Man was already in the ring behind him, ready to hit a chokeslam to help clear the ring for Cody’s moment.

The main event was done incredibly well all things considered, with a nice balance of having an actual match for 20 minutes and letting the two main combatants shine before giving the crowd the big pops and shock entrances. The Undertaker certainly wasn’t on most lists of folks who would run-in on The Rock, but it was a delightful surprise and helped Cody finish his story.