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Thanks to the massive events of Stranger Things 4, anticipation for the final season, Stranger Things 5 has consistently stayed through the roof. Unfortunately, there’s going to be a bit of a wait for the new season, which fortunately, fans are prepared for after COVID derailed filming for Stranger Things 4, causing a three-year gap between seasons three and four. Thanks to the writers strike, Stranger Things 5 is looking at a very similar gap.

However, there has been a significant development for the Season 5 production, and we got all the details below:

Plot

The game-changing conclusion to Stranger Things 4 saw Vecna shatter the barrier between the real world and the Upside Down, causing cataclysmic destruction to Hawkins. As fiery rifts formed across the town, our heroes stood and watched at the fight that’s literally coming to their doorsteps. Stranger Things 4 also revealed Eleven’s role in creating the Upside Down and banishing Vecna to the supernatural realm where he only became more powerful.

While plot details for Stranger Things 5 are obviously being locked tighter than a secret lab, David Harbour has teased that the final season will “wrap it up in a bold, amazing way” and promised emotional sendoff for all of the “OG characters.”

Cast

All of the original cast members have been confirmed for Season 5. That includes Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven, Finn Wolfhard as Mike, Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas, Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin, Noah Schnapp as Will, Natalia Dyer as Nancy, Joe Keery as Steve, Charlie Heaton as Jonathan, Sadie Sink as Max, Maya Hawke as Robin, Winona Ryder as Joyce, and David Harbour as Hopper.

As you can see below in the cast photo announcing the start of production on Season 5, the gang is all here including Jamie Campbell Bower, who will be back as the wildly powerful villain Vecna:

Release Date

While there’s no official word on a release date, Stranger Things fans just got a dose of good news. The show’s official Twitter account posted a cast photo on January 8, 2024 announcing that production has started on the fifth and final season.

However, fans should strap in for a significant wait. As the epic scope of the show continues to expand, production on Stranger Things seasons require significant time for filming, editing, and CGI effects. It will most likely take at least a year for Season 5 to be completed and some reports have listed Summer 2025 as a potential release window. Could Season 5 come out sooner than that? Possibly, but the safe bet is to be prepared to wait a while.

Trailer

With Stranger Things 5 only just now starting production, fans are going to be waiting a while for a trailer. However, even if the final season isn’t arriving until 2025, there is a chance that Netflix could release a trailer some time in mid-to-late 2024 to build up hype for the epic conclusion. We’ll keep you posted on any updates.

The first four seasons of Stranger Things are available for streaming exclusively on Netflix.

Jonathan Majors sat down with Good Morning America for his first post-conviction interview following a messy domestic violence trial and, of course, he had to name-drop Coretta Scott King.

The actor, who was convicted of misdemeanor assault and harassment charges, faces up to a year in jail for his involvement in a domestic dispute with ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari. Their very public trial unearthed some damning evidence against Majors, who was painted as abusive and controlling by the prosecution. Texts and voice recordings Jabbari shared seemed to suggest the former Marvel actor envisioned himself as the next Martin Luther King Jr. In one audio clip, Majors can be heard shouting at Jabbari, likening himself to MLK, Jr. and former president Barack Obama saying, “Coretta Scott King, do you know who that is? That’s Martin Luther King’s wife. Michelle Obama, Barack Obama’s wife. The woman that supports me needs to be a great woman and make sacrifices. I’m a great man. A great man. I am doing great things, not just for me, but for my, for my culture and the world.”

In his recent GMA interview, Majors doubled down on those sentiments, saying, “It was me trying to give an analogy of what it is I’m aspiring to be, you know, these great men — Martin, President Obama — and trying to give a reference point to that. I was attempting, and I did a terrible job at it apparently, I was attempting to motivate, to enlighten, to give perspective as to what it is I was hoping to get out of the relationship.”

And the star’s new relationship with actress Meagan Good seems to be more in line with those aspirations. After calling her an “angel” and admitting he’s “truly blessed” to have her support, Majors invoked the name of King once more, saying, “She’s held me down … like a Coretta.”

Aaron Rodgers played four snaps of football this season for the New York Jets before tearing his Achilles, but the former 4-time MVP managed to remain in headlines throughout the season thanks to his weekly appearance on The Pat McAfee Show.

It was there that Rodgers pushed his plans to return from a torn Achilles in record time, insisting he was going to give it a go again this season all the way until it was time for that to be the case and he cited the combination of the Jets not being good enough and his Achilles not being healthy enough to play NFL football again just yet. Beyond that, he continued to float various conspiracies and blast ESPN (the network he was being paid to be a guest on), but it was all his typical ramblings and wasn’t until recently that he really got himself into hot water.

That was when he decided to say on live television that Jimmy Kimmel (who, like McAfee, is a very highly paid Disney employee) would show up on the Jeffery Epstein list when court documents were unsealed. Kimmel quickly responded by threatening legal action against Rodgers, which prompted a half-assed apology from McAfee on the grounds that Rodgers was “just talking shit,” a full-assed apology from ESPN, and the ball now being in Kimmel’s court as to whether he wants to really escalate things further by taking this to court.

With that as the backdrop for what Rodgers has been up to this season, let’s check out his latest quote to the media about the Jets going into next season.

I’ll give him this, he is absolutely correct. The Jets should come into next season with the explicit goal of eliminating distractions and focusing on the work needed to be done on the field to win, because they’re beyond the point of anyone respecting any talk from them until they do that. However, many were quick to point out that Rodgers will probably need to heed his own advice and maybe not do a weekly national TV appearance in which he maybe sets himself up for lawsuits if he is serious about the whole “cut the BS that has nothing to do with winning.”

We’ll find out if he and the team manage to do that in 8 months when the Jets return to the field.

It happened. This morning, January 8, Kid Cudi finally revealed the tracklist for Insano. In September, Cudi announced that he had “to push Insano back til January,” and now, it is one of Uproxx’s “Most Anticipated Albums Of 2024” list. It will also be one of the first significant drops of the year, as Insano is due out this Friday, January 12.

The 21-song tracklist boasts features from A$AP Rocky, DJ Drama, Lil Wayne, Lil Yachty, Pharrell, Travis Scott, Young Thug, and the late XXXTentacion. “At The Party” featuring Pharrell and Scott arrived in November, a worthy consolation prize to fans still crushed from December 2022, when Cudi put to bed any hope of a collaborative album from Cudi and Scott.

“INSANO is to be enjoyed from the beginning to the end,” Cudi wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “Please if u can, refrain from jumpin around just to hear the features. Experience it like a film, put it on and let it ride. Trust me. I designed it that way for the best experience possible [smiley emoji, peace-sign emoji, praying-hands emoji, stars emoji] thanx.”

See the full Insano tracklist below.

1. “Often I Have These Dreamz” Feat. DJ Drama
2. “Keep Bouncin’”
3. “Get Off Me” Feat. Travis Scott
4. “Most Ain’t Dennis”
5. “Wow” Feat. A$AP Rocky
6. “ElectroWaveBaby”
7. “A Tale Of A Knight”
8. “Cud Life”
9. “Too Damn High” Feat. Lil Yachty
10. “Getcha Gone”
11. “At The Party” Feat. Travis Scott & Pharrell
12. “Mr. Coola”
13. “Freshie”
14. “Tortured”
15. “X & Cud” Feat. XXXTentacion
16. “Seven” Feat. Lil Wayne
17. “Funky Wizard Smoke”
18. “Rager Boyz” Feat. Young Thug
19. “Porsche Topless”
20. “Blue Sky”
21. “Hit The Streetz In My Nikes”

Insano is out 1/12 via Republic Records. Find more information here.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Since entering the public domain, Mickey Mouse, er, the “Steamboat Willie” version of Mickey Mouse has already appeared in one cheaply-made horror movie trailer (with more to come). There’s also a video game called Infestation: Origins in the works and memes showing Mickey steering the OceanGate submersible, among other catastrophes.

Now it’s Adult Swim‘s turn to get in on the fun.

This 15-second loop, which shows black and white “Mickey” getting intimate with the words “public domain bitch,” aired on Adult Swim sometime late on Sunday night, January 7th. It’s honestly more entertaining than 80 percent of the Golden Globes that were happening at the same time.

Jennifer Jenkins, director of the Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain, explained what you can’t do with public domain Mickey. Namely: “Do not confuse consumers into thinking that your creation is produced or sponsored by Disney as a matter of trademark law. One way to help ensure that your audience is not confused is to make the actual source of the work – you or your company – clear on the title screen or cover, along with a prominent disclaimer indicating that your work was not produced, endorsed, licensed, or approved by Disney.”

But having the mouse hump the word “bitch”? That’s fair game.

(Via Reddit)

21 Savage has one of the more interesting backstories in hip-hop, so much so that it’s being made into a movie.

The rapper teased the project, a biopic called American Dream: The 21 Savage Story, on Instagram yesterday, January 7. He did so with a promotional image featuring himself, Donald Glover, and Stranger Things star Caleb McLaughlin, the latter two of whom will be playing Savage at different points in his life, it appears. The post was also co-authored by Glover’s Instagram account.

The image notes the movie is “coming soon.” The Epic Records and Slaughter Gang logos are on the poster, so they’re presumably involved in the production.

For now, that’s pretty much all there is to know about the movie. The poster includes a link to a website for the film, 21savage.americandream.com, but it does not appear to be active yet as of this post.

Meanwhile, aside from the movie, 21 Savage fans can also expect a new album in the near future. In December, Savage billboards started popping up in Atlanta, presumably in promotion of a new project. This came after a performance in the UK, during which he said, “London, I love y’all. I hope this ain’t my last time seeing y’all. And my album finna drop, so y’all get ready.”

Should Billie Eilish find herself asking, “What Was I Made For?” — the title of her and Finneas’ Barbie single — I hope she stumbles upon this post on X (formerly Twitter) by Keith Nelson Jr.: “Billie Eilish has been able to legally drink alcohol for one year and has one of the most decorated careers in music history.” Zero lies told. Seven Grammys, two Golden Globes, one Oscar. And her most recent Golden Globe victory came on Sunday night, January 7, when she and Finneas accepted Best Original Song, Motion Picture for “What Was I Made For?”

Eilish handled the one-minute-long acceptance speech. “You know, it was exactly a year ago, almost, that we were shown the movie, and I was very, very miserable and depressed at the time,” she said, in part. “Writing that song kind of saved me a little bit, and a year later, here we are. And it’s really surreal. I feel incredibly, incredibly lucky and grateful.” Eilish ended on a joke (?) about the star-power in the room, noting, “You guys scare the living hell out of me — everyone in this room — but thank you so much.”

Of course, objective onlookers can see that Eilish has no reason to feel intimidated. To equate critical acclaim, fame, and accolades to self-esteem would be stupid, but for the sake of this article, it is worth noting that “What Was I Made For?” is nominated four times at the upcoming 2024 Grammys and is expected to receive a nod at the 2024 Oscars as well.

Eilish’s forthcoming third solo album is among Uproxx’s “Most Anticipated Albums Of 2024” list, as Finneas relayed the LP is “85 percent done” within a Mr. Porter profile published last month. However, over the weekend, Eilish and Finneas gave a more specific update to The Associated Press.

“It’s happening,” Eilish said. “We are almost finished, by days, with this album, but it’s not coming out soon. Soon-ish.” Finneas added, “We’re just almost done making it.”

Watch Eilish’s acceptance speech above, and watch Eilish and Finneas’ backstage interview below.

The Barbie soundtrack is a Warner Music release. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Draymond Green was reinstated by the NBA on Sunday, rejoining the Warriors team after what became a 12-game suspension following his latest incident in which he swung around wildly and hit Jusuf Nurkic in the face.

It was the second suspension Green was given for crossing the line on the court, having served a 5-game suspension for choking out Rudy Gobert during an altercation earlier in the season. After that punishment, Green was defiant, angry that the league was punishing him for past actions and felt they were not being fair to him. However, his tone was considerably different after hitting Nurkic, as he agreed to seek some professional help for his anger issues and impulse control on the floor as part of the agreement for his indefinite suspension.

On Monday, Green brought back his podcast with Volume Sports and in his first episode back he detailed the conversations he had with the league and how Adam Silver talked him out of retiring.

“I told him, ‘Adam this is too much for me. … This is too much. It’s all becoming too much for me — and I’m going to retire,’” Green said. “And Adam said, ‘You’re making a very rash decision and I won’t let you do that.’ We had a long, great conversation — very helpful to me. Very thankful to play in a league with a commissioner like Adam who’s more about helping you than hurting you…helping you than punishing you. He’s more about the players.”

In the immediate aftermath there were a few small rumblings that Green might call it a career, but those went away pretty quickly and it seems that’s because there was some consideration of that in the moment by Draymond but he was quickly talked out of it. It would have been a pretty sad way for Green’s career to come to an end, and hopefully he can write a much better final chapter of his career than getting constantly suspended for crossing the line on the court. The Warriors certainly need his presence and need him at his best, and the next month will likely determine how they proceed with Green back in the fold, as they need to assess what changes must be made at the deadline to try and maximize this roster.

Looking for an anime that’s also a cooking show? I didn’t think I was either until I watched the first episode of Studio Trigger’s Delicious in Dungeon on Netflix.

Based on the beloved and recently-concluded manga by Ryōko Kui, Delicious in Dungeon is about a group of adventurers in a Dungeons and Dragons-like campaign who are forced to get creative with their culinary options. In the first episode, they eat Huge Scorpion and Walking Mushroom Hotpot, which tastes better than it sounds (don’t forget the slime!).

Netflix is bypassing their all-at-once binge model (thank you, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure fans) in favor of weekly, single-serving episodes on Thursdays. There’s only one episode on the streaming service so far, so it’s easy to catch up.

Here’s more:

When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a dungeon, the party loses all its money and provisions…and a member! They’re eager to go back and save her, but there is just one problem: If they set out with no food or coin to speak of, they’re sure to starve on the way! But Laios comes up with a brilliant idea: “Let’s eat the monsters!” Slimes, basilisks, and even dragons… none are safe from the appetites of these dungeon-crawling gourmands!

You can watch a trailer for Delicious in Dungeon below.

After making her debut in Hawkeye, Alaqua Cox is back as Echo in a new solo tale that finds her hunted down by the Kingpin (Vincent D’Onoforio) after trusting him for years as a mentor. The series will see Echo confront her past and lock horns with Daredevil (Charlie Cox) in the highly-anticipated new MCU outing from showrunner Sydney Freeland.

With Echo‘s release date fast approaching, we got you covered on what time you can start streaming the new Marvel series:

What Time Will ‘Echo’ Come Out?

Following in the footsteps of Ahsoka and Loki, Echo will premiere during Tuesday night primetime at 9 PM ET/6 PM ET on January 9. However, here’s where things switch up. Echo will be release its full season at once (five episodes in total) and also stream on Hulu where it may find a wider audience to thanks its TV-MA rating, a first for the latest batch of MCU series.

Here’s the official synopsis:

Streaming exclusively on Disney, the origin story of Echo revisits Maya Lopez, whose ruthless behavior in New York City catches up with her in her hometown. She must face her past, reconnect with her Native American roots and embrace the meaning of family and community if she ever hopes to move forward.

Echo slams into both Disney+ and Hulu at 9 PM ET on January 9, 2024.