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Simply once you thought Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has achieved all of it — a musical episode, an animated crossover, a documentary (upcoming in season 3), a murder-mystery episode (additionally in season 3) — the present will now delve into the puppet-verse.

An announcement video from season 4 screened throughout Saturday's massive Star Trek Corridor H panel at San Diego Comedian-Con 2025, revealing Anson Mount's Captain Pike in Muppet kind.

Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds will function a puppet-themed episode in its fourth and penultimate season, which not too long ago wrapped filming. It would see members of the usS. Enterprise crew, together with Pike, as puppets created by Jim Henson’s Creature Store.

Jordan Canning of Fraggle Rock: Again to the Rock directs the episode.

"Hit it!" Muppet Pike declares from his captain's chair…solely nobody is round to stick to his route. "You heard me say 'hit it,' proper?" he says. "Spock? Anybody? Did you go to season 4 with out me?"

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Co-showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers, and government producer Alex Kurtzman joined solid members Rebecca Romijn (Pike's Quantity One), Ethan Peck (Spock), Jess Bush (Christine Chapel), Christina Chong (La'An), and Paul Wesley (Kirk) for the Trek panel.

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The primary two episodes of season 3 dropped on Paramount+ on July 17, however the panel shocked followers in San Diego with an early screening of the third episode, "A House Journey Hour," which is that this season's Hollywood murder-mystery genre-bending episode. Trek vet Jonathan Frakes directs the episode, which sees La’An testing a prototype holodeck with a fictional case solely she will remedy.

Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds will return for a fifth and remaining season on Paramount+. Manufacturing is anticipated to interact in Toronto later this yr.

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One of the prolific actors of his era, Adam Sandler has been a bona fide film star for 3 many years and counting.

After getting his begin on Saturday Night Live within the Nineteen Nineties, Sandler rapidly turned one in all Hollywood’s most recognizable faces. During the last 30 years, he’s starred in a set of self-driven comedies between extra prestigious dramas and different tasks that exhibit his vary.

Watching all the Sandman’s motion pictures so as is not any easy activity, however Leisure Weekly has compiled a helpful record that will help you by means of. Although the actor’s whole credit are nearing triple-digits, for the needs of this record, we’ve narrowed it right down to his vital starring roles. That's proper… cameo appearances and smaller supporting elements are excluded.

Learn on as we information you thru Adam Sandler’s main motion pictures so as.

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Billy Madison (1995)

Sandler made his main debut right here because the ill-adjusted man-child of a billionaire who should go “again to highschool… to point out expensive father I’m not a idiot.” In its combination of childlike whimsy and adolescent vulgarity, Billy Madison set the template for all the actor's subsequent comedies. It’s classic Sandman by means of and thru.

Where to watch Billy Madison: Amazon Prime Video

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Completely satisfied Gilmore (1996)

On this successful farce, wannabe hockey star Completely satisfied (Sandler) enters a PGA event to save lots of his grandmother’s (Frances Bay) residence from foreclosures. Within the course of, he comes up towards villainous yuppie (as if there’s one other sort) Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald) and wins the love of Virginia Venit (Julie Bowen). This stays one in all Sandler’s most enduring motion pictures, with a brand new sequel out now.

Where to watch Happy Gilmore: Netflix

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The Wedding ceremony Singer (1998)

Sandler stars as Robbie Hart, the eponymous singer who’s left broken-hearted after his fiancé dumps him on the altar. Into his life comes spirited server Julia (Drew Barrymore), who reveals Robbie what actual love seems to be like. An unusually sweet-natured affair for ’90s Sandler, The Wedding Singer marked the primary of his collaborations with Barrymore.

Where to watch The Wedding Singer: Amazon Prime (to rent)

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The Waterboy (1998)

Primarily Completely satisfied Gilmore however with faculty soccer, The Waterboy stars Sandler (clearly) as simple-minded waterboy (clearly) Bobby Boucher. After by no means being allowed to play soccer, Bobby lastly fits up on the urging of his struggling crew’s coach (Henry Winkler). That seems to be fairly the increase, as Bobby channels his bottled-up rage right into a ruthless imply streak on the gridiron. Oh, and his love curiosity is an ex-con performed by Fairuza Balk.

Where to watch The Waterboy: Amazon Prime (to rent)

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Large Daddy (1999)

Sandler performs Sonny Koufax, a commitment-phobic idler (and intentionally unemployed regulation college grad) who abruptly finds himself elevating his roommate’s 5-year-old son (performed by Dylan and Cole Sprouse). Sonny has no thought find out how to be a dad, and it reveals, however by the tip learns all the teachings about fatherhood he wants.

Where to watch Big Daddy: Netflix

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Little Nicky (2000)

On this mixture of darkish fantasy and frat-boy comedy, Sandler performs the titular son of Devil (Harvey Keitel) and a beatific angel (Reese Witherspoon). His two brothers need to inherit the underworld crown, and take it upon themselves to create Hell on Earth. Nicky is shipped to convey them again, and dies again and again within the course of.

Where to watch Little Nicky: Amazon Prime (to rent)

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Mr. Deeds (2002)

Lovable small-town goofball Longfellow Deeds (Sandler) inherits his uncle’s property, which incorporates a big mansion and a sprawling media firm. As these inside the group work to undermine Deeds, enterprising reporter Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder) tries to get near him for an unique scoop on this remake of Frank Capra’s Mr. Deeds Goes to City (1936).

Where to watch Mr. Deeds: Amazon Prime (to rent)

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Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

An ungainly, emotionally risky small-business proprietor (Sandler, in a transformative position) will get on the fallacious aspect of a seedy intercourse hotline mogul (Philip Seymour Hoffman) simply as he meets the lady of his desires (Emily Watson) in Paul Thomas Anderson’s fidgety, surreal, intermittently darkish romantic comedy. The actor’s first position that correctly showcased his dramatic potential, Punch-Drunk Love stays a profession spotlight (if not excessive level).

Where to watch Punch-Drunk Love: Amazon Prime (to rent)

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Eight Loopy Nights (2002)

The star comic adopted up his uncharacteristically complicated flip in Punch-Drunk Love with this animated Hanukkah comedy, which is something however contemplative. After falling on the fallacious aspect of the regulation after an inebriated spree, Davey Stone (Sandler) is sentenced to assist referee a failing child’s basketball crew coached by aged Whitey (additionally Sandler).

Where to watch Eight Crazy Nights: Amazon Prime (to rent)

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Anger Administration (2003)

Delicate-mannered Dave Buznik (Sandler) is sentenced to anger administration after a misunderstanding on a aircraft. Pressured right into a live-in association with therapist Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson), Dave begins to grasp the confrontational, problem-solving energy of anger. A comedy wherein the message appears to be that getting offended is definitely good for you, Anger Management is notable for Nicholson’s efficiency and his enviable chemistry with Sandler.

Where to watch Anger Management: Amazon Prime (to rent)

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50 First Dates (2004)

Henry Roth (Sandler) is a womanizer who lastly meets the love of his life (Barrymore). There’s only one downside: She suffers from short-term reminiscence loss courting again to a tragic accident; they hit it off at some point, he returns the following, solely to find she has no thought who he’s. Henry, in fact, is undeterred, because the film finds varied methods to embrace and twist the core premise.

Where to watch 50 First Dates: Netflix

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Spanglish (2004)

After PTA, James L. Brooks was the following auteur to benefit from a distinct aspect of Sandler’s skills. This time he performs a neurotic chef making an attempt to navigate his restaurant; his basketcase, type-A spouse (Téa Leoni); their adolescent children; his blunt-instrument of a mother-in-law (Cloris Leachman); and his inconveniently sizzling new housekeeper (Paz Vega). Messy and idiosyncratic in a really Brooks means, this seriocomic effort flopped on the field workplace… however we nonetheless actually need to strive that sandwich.

Where to watch Spanglish: Netflix

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The Longest Yard (2005)

It is a surprisingly easy remake of the 1974 Robert Aldrich/Burt Reynolds traditional, wherein prisoners face off towards the guards in a high-stakes soccer sport. This one finds Sandler and his costars (together with Chris Rock and Reynolds, returning to play the wizened outdated con) in comparatively extra dramatic mode, merging the intense however enjoyable vibes of the unique with Sandler’s goofier comedian impulses.

Where to watch The Longest Yard: Hulu

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Click on (2006)

Sandler principally makes an attempt to make his It’s a Fantastic Life (1946) with Click on, solely with fast-forwarding by means of your life as a substitute of suicide, and a magical gross sales clerk (Christopher Walken) as a substitute of a guardian angel. It’s the story of a workaholic dad (Sandler) who will get a magical distant that may cease, quick ahead, and rewind time. that saying, ‘Don’t meddle with the previous’? Effectively, not one of the characters on this film do.

Where to watch Click: Amazon Prime (to rent)

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Reign Over Me (2007)

On this drama from indie filmmaker Mike Binder, Sandler performs a person who misplaced all of it on 9/11 — spouse, kids, and with them any sense of goal he as soon as had — who reconnects with an outdated faculty buddy (Don Cheadle), now a buttoned-up lawyer. Sandler helps Cheadle loosen up, and Cheadle helps him heal.

Where to watch Reign Over Me: Amazon Prime (to rent)

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I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)

Sandler and Kevin James play two heterosexual firefighters (learn: essentially the most macho) and greatest pals who should fake to be homosexual for the needs of a (well-intentioned) life insurance coverage rip-off. That is a kind of motion pictures the place a easy plan with a easy goal will get sophisticated because the characters go to elaborate lengths to tug off a ruse.

Where to watch I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry: Amazon Prime

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You Don’t Mess With the Zohan (2008)

Judd Apatow produced this parody of motion motion pictures, which stars Sandler because the titular Zohan, an Israeli counterterrorism commando who strikes to America to meet his dream of changing into a hairdresser. Zohan is a singular mixture of style and cultural parody which, regardless of its thorny political territory, isn’t mean-spirited.

Where to watch You Don’t Mess With the Zohan: Hulu

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Bedtime Tales (2008)

Sandler is as soon as once more in babysitter mode, this time as a disenchanted man tasked with caring for his niece and nephew. He begins telling them fantastical tales, which we then see enacted by Sandler and his supporting solid. The tales, it seems, begin to develop a wierd behavior of coming true in the true world.

Where to watch Bedtime Stories: Disney+

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Humorous Folks (2009)

Apatow directed this dramedy a few film star (Sandler) who, after a most cancers prognosis, begins reexamining his unsatisfying life. Within the course of, he takes an aspiring stand-up (Seth Rogen) below his wing and reconnects with an ex (Leslie Mann). Along with taking sharp (if affectionate) meta-swipes at Sandler’s film profession, Funny People subverts its major hook, crafting a personality portrait of a man set as much as have a life-changing epiphany… after which doesn’t. Sandler is sensible as a model of himself, and the film is equal elements spiky and cuddly.

Where to watch Funny People: HBO Max

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Grown Ups (2010)

Sandler groups with outdated buddies Kevin James, David Spade, and Chris Rock for this loosey-goosey story of childhood pals reuniting at a lake home with their respective companions and children. Hijinks ensue.

Where to watch Grown Ups: Netflix

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Jack and Jill (2011)

This foolish vacation comedy options Sandler as each illiberal brother and odd-job twin sister (Jill) whereas everybody else seems to be on in horror. Advert-man Jack’s try and get Al Pacino for a brand new industrial turns into… a subplot about Al Pacino changing into romantically fixated on Jill.

Where to watch Jack and Jill: Amazon Prime (to rent)

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Simply Go With It (2011)

Plastic surgeon Daniel (Sandler) convinces his assistant (Jennifer Aniston) to pose as his ex-wife throughout a household getaway to be able to shield a lie he advised to his hopeful paramour (Brooklyn Decker). Which lady will grow to be the correct one? May the supermodel prove to not be the whole lot she’s cracked as much as be? May Aniston’s “mousy” assistant grow to be his real love? We shan’t inform.

Where to watch Just Go With It: Hulu

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Resort Transylvania (2012)

Genndy Tartakovsky’s characteristic calls again to traditional Common and Hammer horror whereas bringing to life a fleshed-out animated world. Dracula (Sandler) and his daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) run a resort for monsters, which Mavis endangers by bringing human boyfriend Johnny (Andy Samberg) to remain. Overprotective within the excessive, the centuries-old bloodsucker must conform to Johnny’s insupportable fashionable methods.

Where to watch Hotel Transylvania: Peacock

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That’s My Boy (2012)

You’d be arduous pressed to seek out any subtext on this story of a scabrous manchild (Sandler) inflicting chaos on the wedding ceremony of his estranged son (Samberg), whom he fathered as a pre-teen together with his grownup schoolteacher (Susan Sarandon). That is a kind of Sandler motion pictures the place the kitchen sink is totally overflowing and the whole lot is chaos.

Where to watch That’s My Boy: Hulu

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Grown Ups 2 (2013)

The boys are again on the town for this follow-up to the massively profitable authentic movie, solely the city on this case, for protagonist Lenny (Sandler), is his childhood hometown. It’s extra of the identical, however isn’t that what you got here for?

Where to watch Grown Ups 2: Netflix

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Blended (2014)

The third collaboration between Sandler and Barrymore is that this household journey. The celebrities play single dad and mom, each of whom are coping with the fallout from their prior marriages (one divorce, one loss of life) and an entire lot of child drama (5 in whole). A blind date turns into one thing rather more on a visit to Africa, the place slapstick and googly eyes ensue.

Where to watch Blended: Amazon Prime

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Males, Girls, & Kids (2014)

Sandler performs a suburban dad in an sad (and untrue) marriage in Jason Reitman’s ensemble drama, which believes itself to be Quick Cuts (1993) meets American Beauty (1999) however is absolutely simply Determined Housewives with a “fashionable know-how is making us extra disconnected” hook.

Where to watch Men, Women, & Children: Amazon Prime (to rent)

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The Cobbler (2014)

Only a few months earlier than his Finest Image-winning Highlight (2014) arrived in theaters, director Tom McCarthy launched this curious style mashup. Sandler is the eponymous cobbler, who discovers a magical stitching machine that enables him to dwell as his purchasers when he places on their sneakers. Sure, it’s like that outdated saying, however fully literal.

Where to watch The Cobbler: AMC+

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Pixels (2015)

Former online game wiz-kid Sam Brenner (Sandler) should assemble a crack crew of nerds to extinguish a risk when Earth comes below assault by an alien race taking the type of Pac Man and different beloved console characters. Kevin James performs the President of america, a truth that may go uncommented upon right here.

Where to watch Pixels: Hulu

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Resort Transylvania 2 (2015)

Mavis and Johnny are set to be married and embark on a street journey to fulfill his dad and mom. In the meantime, whereas Dracula is decking his resort out for the event and reconciling with the melancholic emotions of seeing his daughter stroll down the aisle.

Where to watch Hotel Transylvania 2: Peacock

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The Ridiculous 6 (2015)

Within the first effort of Sandler’s profitable Netflix deal, White Knife (Sandler) and his 5 half-brothers got down to discover their long-lost father (Nick Nolte), who’s discovered himself in sizzling water with a number of robust hombres.

Where to watch The Ridiculous 6: Netflix

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The Do-Over (2016)

A frenetic motion comedy, Sandler’s second Netflix characteristic, regarding two idiots (Sandler and Spade) who faux their deaths to keep away from petty issues and tackle the identities of two males needed by ruthless gangsters. As common, Kathryn Hahn steals the present.

Where to watch The Do-Over: Netflix

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Sandy Wexler (2017)

Sandy Wexler (Sandler) is a downtrodden L.A. agent who finds his ticket again to the massive time within the type of a talented singer (Jennifer Hudson). A love letter to Sandler’s personal agent, Sandy Wexler is sweet-natured as each a rom-com and a showbiz satire — and options an incredible punchline of a late cameo.

Where to watch Sandy Wexler: Netflix

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The Meyerowitz Tales (New and Chosen) (2017)

Sandler and Ben Stiller star as brothers on reverse coasts who reunite in New York to see their father (Dustin Hoffman) fêted for his creative profession. Noah Baumbach directed this movie, which stands out as the most Baumbachian factor he’s made so far. Sandler, as common when within the fingers of a filmmaker exterior the Completely satisfied Madison steady, reveals off a deep nicely of emotional reserves.

Where to watch The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected): Netflix

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The Week Of (2018)

Robert Smigel, higher referred to as Triumph the Insult Comedian Canine but additionally a frequent Sandler collaborator, directed this wedding ceremony farce. Sandler and Rock play fathers on each side of the aisle who discover themselves reckoning with household catastrophes within the lead-up to their children’ nuptials.

Where to watch The Week Of: Netflix

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Resort Transylvania 3: Summer season Trip (2018)

Dracula falls in love with Kathryn Hahn’s Erika Van Helsing (oop) throughout a sunny cruise to varied tropical climes as a result of, hey, it’s the third installment and what else is there to do?

Where to watch Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation: Amazon Prime (to rent)

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Homicide Thriller (2019)

Sandler and Aniston reteam for this breezy romp by means of Europe. This time, the celebrities play Nick and Audrey, a dissatisfied married couple who, throughout a jaunt to boost their union, discover themselves framed for a billionaire’s homicide.

Where to watch Murder Mystery: Netflix

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Uncut Gems (2019)

Howard Ratner (Sandler, inexplicably missed on the Oscars) is a jewellery retailer proprietor and degenerate gambler who finds his life unraveling throughout an especially worrying week wherein the whole lot he holds expensive hangs within the steadiness: His household, his mistress, his bets, and that euphoria-inducing black opal that has lastly, in the end, arrived at his store. A masterclass of tension cinema, Uncut Gems confirmed that Sandler nonetheless has new methods up his sleeve.

Where to watch Uncut Gems: Amazon Prime (to rent)

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Hubie Halloween (2020)

Hubie (Sandler) is a simple-minded man who finds himself the topic of maximum pranks from individuals in his city, which appears to perform as one large highschool. He will get the prospect to redeem himself when a assassin begins knocking off locals.

Where to watch Hubie Halloween: Netflix

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Hustle (2022)

One other terrific dramatic efficiency from Sandler anchors this above-average basketball drama. He performs a disenchanted basketball scout (Sandler) who has an opportunity at redemption after discovering a promising prospect in Europe.

Where to watch Hustle: Netflix

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Homicide Thriller 2 (2023)

On the success of their first solved thriller, Nick and Audrey are actually skilled personal investigators working at their very own company. When their pal is kidnapped, the couple danger the whole lot they maintain expensive to seek out out who’s behind all of it.

Where to watch Murder Mystery 2: Netflix

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You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (2023)

Sandler performs onscreen father to his real-life daughters Sunny and Sadie, who play sisters and greatest buddies Stacy and Ronnie, respectively. Forward of their bat mitzvahs, the ladies are torn in reverse instructions as a result of boys, pals, and teenage hormones.

Where to watch You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah: Netflix

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Leo (2023)

Sandler voices the titular reptile who, after discovering he doesn’t have a lot time left, plots to flee the classroom terrarium wherein he’s spent most of his life. Alongside the best way, he turns into a form of de-facto therapist and sounding board to all the children in school.

Where to watch Leo: Netflix

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Spaceman (2024)

An astronaut (Sandler) on an prolonged solo mission contemplates his previous errors and displays on his marriage (to Carey Mulligan) whereas waging a relationship with a pleasant spider (voiced by Paul Dano) on this cosmic melodrama.

Where to watch Spaceman: Netflix

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Completely satisfied Gilmore 2 (2025)

Sandler reprises one in all his most well-known roles on this sequel to the 1995 traditional. Unique solid members Bowen, McDonald, and Stiller return alongside newcomers Margaret Qualley, Travis Kelce, and Dangerous Bunny. There’s additionally a task in there for Sandler’s daughter, Sunny. Let the video games start!

Where to watch Happy Gilmore 2: Netflix

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The Dude introduced the Grid to San Diego Comedian-Con 2025.

Jeff Bridges walked out to wild applause on the conference panel for Tron: Ares on Friday, riffing on his iconic line from The Large Lebowski after being teed up by host Kevin Smith. "The Grid abides," he declared to an adoring crowd.

Ares marks Bridges' first film efficiency since 2018's Unhealthy Occasions on the El Royale, and his second display efficiency (following FX's The Previous Man) since he was identified with most cancers in 2020. He famously starred as pc programmer Kevin Flynn within the authentic Tron, which hit theaters in 1982.

The remainder of the starry Ares solid — Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith, Hasan Minhaj, Cameron Monaghan, and Gillian Anderson — joined the 75-year-old Oscar winner on stage. So did Steven Lisberger, the creator of Tron, and Ares director Joachim Rønning.

Earlier than the solid got here out on stage, the Corridor H viewers was handled to a clip from the movie, which confirmed Bridges from the unique Tron enjoying an arcade sport, together with different SFX photographs from the groundbreaking film. Scenes from Ares then performed, together with futuristic helicopters, new footage, and a speech from Peters that was featured in a latest trailer.

"It's not a lot that Tron was forward of its time," Lisberger advised the gang, "it's that everybody else was late."

Bridges later confided that Leto needed to be referred to as by his character's identify, Ares, on set, and that he tried to get acquainted with him, calling him "Ar." To which Leto, who professed to being a giant fan of Bridges', replied, "You may name me no matter you need."

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"I simply needed to journey a light-weight cycle," added Lee, referring to the franchise's signature neon bikes.

Bridges went on to poke enjoyable at Leto's notorious Methodology performing method, calling him "a thesbo," which drew laughs from the viewers.

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After the banter, extra footage from the upcoming movie was proven, together with a light-weight cycle chase scene.

The unique Tron pioneered CGI particular results 4 a long time in the past, and finally impressed the 2010 sequel Tron: Legacy. The franchise has additionally spawned the animated sequence Tron: Rebellion; a number of Disney Parks rides; and numerous video video games, comics, and novels.

Whereas the earlier two Tron motion pictures primarily adopted human characters who’re sucked into the world of the titular online game, Tron: Ares will see AI beings invade the true world for the primary time.

Intheaters Oct. 10, Tron: Ares additionally boasts a soundtrack by 9 Inch Nails, following within the footsteps of Legacy's electrifying Daft Punk rating.

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The inventive minds behind the King of the Hill reboot are excited to introduce followers to "some new individuals" that've joined the household.

The whip-smart animated sitcom chronicling the suburban exploits of the Hill household and their mates and neighbors within the fictional small city of Arlen, Tex., is returning after 15 lengthy years off the air. Throughout a Friday panel at San Diego Comedian-Con 2025, showrunner Saladin Okay. Patterson, unique sequence creators Mike Decide and Greg Daniels, and returning stars Pamela Adlon, Lauren Tom, Toby Huss, and Kathy Najimy mentioned their return to Arlen, together with a few of its model new residents.

"It was necessary within the present, the world has modified a bit bit since Hank and Peggy have been gone," Patterson mentioned. "Casting has modified a bit bit too since Hank and Peggy have been gone, so far as, actors match the characters that they're portraying."

The King of the Hill panel started with a screening of the complete second episode of the brand new season. Whereas some issues concerning the Hills, the alley gang, the residents of Rainey road, and the world round them are comfortingly acquainted, there are many contemporary new additions. And tweaks too — King of the Hill season 14 not solely introduces new characters, however recasts the voices behind a number of characters of coloration.

Probably the most thrilling new addition to the King of the Hill forged is the legendary Keith David, who performs a personality named Brian Robertson. Brian moved into the Hill home whereas Hank (Decide) and Peggy (Najimy) decamped for Saudi Arabia on an Aramco challenge in the course of the present's hiatus.

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The Hills haven’t solely moved again to Arlen, however into their previous home, and Brian's blissful to hitch Hank, Dale (Johnny Hardwick/Toby Huss), Boomhauer (Decide), and Invoice Dauterive (Stephen Root) in the course of the alley gang's alley hangs.

Although it was at all times savvily written alongside cultural strains and already boasted a forged of characters from a various array of backgrounds, King of the Hill was criticized throughout its unique run for casting a number of white actors to voice characters of coloration.

The reboot recasts a number of of those characters, with Kenneth Choi taking up for Huss because the voice of Laotian-American businessman Ted Wassanasong, Ki Hong Lee changing Adlon as his boastful son, Chane, Ronny Chieng relieving Huss of the function as Kohng Koy "Kahn" Souphanousinphone, the Hills' Laotian-American subsequent door neighbor, and Native American actor Tai Leclaire taking up the function of Bobby's buddy Joseph Gribble from Breckin Meyer, who himself took over for Brittany Murphy in 2000.

Patterson enthused that the reboot's inventive staff "received very fortunate in having the ability to have so many individuals who had been massive followers of the present, like Ronnie Chieng, who grew up watching the present. He was a fan of it and got here and joined us."

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"Such a pure Kahn," Daniels added. Patterson mentioned that the switch-ups have "been actually enjoyable. That's added to a number of the pleasure, the household feeling, simply inviting some new individuals to the household."

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This potential Scrubs storyline is simply what the physician ordered. No, actually.

Sarah Chalke, who starred as Dr. Elliot Reid throughout all 9 seasons of the celebrated medical sitcom, is sharing the toe-tapping plot level that she'd like to see included within the present's forthcoming reboot.
'I can't tease any plot particulars as a result of I don't know any as a result of it's all so new," Chalke explains whereas visiting Leisure Weekly's San Diego Comedian-Con video suite for Rick and Morty. "Somebody simply requested me if I’ve any requests for the plots and I simply mentioned, 'Flash mob. I wanna be within the flash mob.' So, I don't know the way that works into the storyline, however I feel there's a method."

After listening to Chalke's dream storyline, her Rick and Morty costars — Chris Parnell, Ian Cardoni, Harry Belden, and Spencer Grammer — instantly soar up from their seats and start busting a transfer.

"You needed a flash mob?" Parnell, who performs Jerry, jokes. "Right here we go, guys."

However, in true Rick and Morty vogue, the well-intentioned gesture rapidly goes off the rails.

"No, that's not how we practiced it, you guys!" Belden shouts. "It was step left, then flip. Alright. Alright. Reduce! Let’s go once more!"

Nonetheless, Chalke can't assist however be charmed by their efforts.

"Not the flash mob I used to be dreaming of," she teases, earlier than turning again to her costars. "You guys are attempting to make my desires come true? This is the reason I like all of them a lot."

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Earlier this month, Leisure Weekly confirmed that Chalke and fellow Scrubs alum Donald Faison, who performed Dr. Christopher Turk, could be becoming a member of Zach Braff within the upcoming revival. Chalkecelebrated the information on Instagram by posting a throwback photograph of her, Braff, and Faison with the caption: "YAY!!!!"

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Along with the trio, authentic collection creator Invoice Lawrence can be scrubbing in as an govt producer on the revival.

"Scrubs means so very a lot to me," he mentioned in a press release. "So excited for the possibility to get the band again collectively."

An official logline for the collection reveals that it’s going to comply with Braff's J.D. and Faison's Turk as they "scrub in collectively for the primary time in a very long time," including, "medication has modified, interns have modified, however their bromance has stood the check of time. Characters new and outdated navigate the waters of Sacred Coronary heart with laughter, coronary heart and a few surprises alongside the way in which."

The unique Scrubs, which ran from 2001 till 2010, adopted the trials and tribulations of J.D. and his friends as they labored on the fictional Sacred Coronary heart Hospital.

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The Boys and Gen V proceed to feed one another.

Erin Moriarty and (presumably) Nathan Mitchell, who painting the supes Starlight and Black Noir on the mothership Amazon drama, arrive on the college-set spinoff in a serious manner, as seen on the brand new Gen V season 2 Comedian-Con trailer.

One other large shock sees Ethan Slater, who performs Boq within the Depraved and Depraved: For Good motion pictures, be a part of the solid as Thomas Godolkin, the scientist and founding father of Godolkin College, making an look in flashbacks.

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This season, Jaz Sinclair's blood-bending Marie Moreau is on the run from Vought forces. When she's attacked by Dogknott, a supe first launched on Gen V season 1 by means of actor Zach McGowan, Moriarty's Starlight is available in to avoid wasting her.

The brand new Gen V season clearly picks up after the occasions of The Boys season 4, which ended with Homelander (Antony Starr) taking on the U.S. authorities and his cronies "disappearing" members of the Boys. Starlight was capable of escape by flying off. Now she has a plan to struggle again, however she wants Marie to take action.

Vought is resuming Mission Odessa, which those that comply with The Boys will bear in mind is the top-secret initiative referenced in season 4. We don't know what it entails particularly past that it's a "excessive safety venture of the strictest confidence" and that, per the trailer, it was spearheaded by Thomas Godolkin. Starlight tells Marie, "I want you to cease it."

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So Marie re-enrolls at God U, pretending like every part is OK when actually she's there to smell out Mission Odessa. In the meantime, there's a brand new dean, Hamish Linklater's Cipher, who beforehand ran the Elmira Grownup Rehabilitation facility the place Marie, Emma (Lizze Broadway), Jordan (London Thor/Derek Luh), and Andre (Probability Perdomo) have been being held captive on the finish of Gen V season 1.

Cipher has large plans to unlock the potential of his college students by pushing them to their bodily limits. He believes Marie "may very well be probably the most highly effective supe to ever come out of Godolkin," much more highly effective than Homelander. And perhaps that's the place that is all heading. The Boys mothership present is heading in the direction of its fifth and remaining season, premiering subsequent 12 months, and thus far, nobody appears highly effective sufficient to take down the dictator supe. May Marie be the important thing?

Michele Fazekas returns as showrunner, whereas the solid additionally consists of Maddie Phillips as Cate Dunlap, Asa Germann as Sam Riordan, and Sean Patrick Thomas as Polarity. Thomas has been bumped as much as collection common in season 2.

The primary three episodes will premiere Sept. 17 on Amazon Prime Video.

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Jackass Eternally? Not for Bam Margera.

The previous professional skateboarder and stunt performer declared himself completed with the slapstick Jackass franchise that propelled him and costars Johnny Knoxville and Steve O, amongst others, to fame within the 2000s. The harm, he mentioned, has been completed within the wake of his fallout and authorized troubles together with his former stunt bros.

"They’ve new dudes, and what they did to me, making me go to therapy and paying for it, after which not placing me in a film, and I needed to go to court docket over it," Margera informed CinemaBlend in an interview revealed this week. "You couldn't provide me sufficient cash to need to do one other Jackass with them. The harm has been completed."

Margera additionally dismissed revival curiosity of his spin-off collection Viva La Bam, which featured a collection of antics that concerned his family and friends, together with his unassuming mother and father, Phil and April. “I simply really feel like that sort of present has utterly run its course," he mentioned.

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Co-created by Knoxville, Spike Jonze, and Jeff Tremaine, debuted on MTV within the fall of 2000 and have become a cultural phenomenon, following Margera and co. as they carried out a collection of harmful and infrequently crude stunts and pranks. The three-season collection would go on to spawn 4 movies, the newest being 2022's Jackass Eternally.

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A key member of the franchise, Margera had a restricted function in that entry. He was fired from the movie for breach of contract referring to his substance use. He filed a lawsuit in opposition to his former collaborators and Paramount Photos in 2021 that alleged wrongful termination because of this, however dropped it the next 12 months after reaching a non-public settlement.

Knoxville left the door open for more Jackass films sooner or later whereas chatting with Selection final 12 months. “Somebody wrote [Jackass Forever] was the final one, however we by no means mentioned it was the final one,” Knoxville mentioned. "I imply, it might go on, we might do one other one if we needed. I don’t know if we need to, however we might let the outdated guys are available in and have enjoyable, however put it extra on the younger forged. I don't know. After [the first two films], we’re like ‘By no means.’ After which there we made a 3rd one and now we make a fourth one. So, we’re by no means saying by no means.”

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• A 9-year-old little one died on the Hershey chocolate firm's Hersheypark resort in Pennsylvania.
• In response to a park assertion, a lifeguard tried life-saving measures after noticing the kid was "in misery."
• The kid was later transported to a neighborhood hospital, however was unable to be revived.

A 9-year-old little one died Thursday night time following a tragic incident on the Hershey chocolate firm's Hersheypark theme park in Pennsylvania.

The park launched a press release in a single day asserting the dying of the kid after a lifeguard observed that the teenager was "in misery" contained in the water-centric Boardwalk space of the vacation spot.

“From the second our lifeguard workforce acknowledged {that a} little one was in misery, they carried out an instantaneous rescue, adopted by steady, coordinated life-saving efforts by our lifeguards, on-site first responders, and medical personnel," the assertion from CEO John Garden reads. "The kid was transported directly to Milton S. Hershey Medical Heart, the place, regardless of everybody's tireless efforts, the kid didn’t get well."

The assertion continues, noting that the workforce's "hearts break for this little one and the kid’s household" and that they "prolong our deepest condolences" for the household's loss, and that they’ll launch no additional private particulars on the matter.

Garden provides that "the security of our visitors has all the time been our highest precedence" and "within the coming days, we’ll conduct an intensive inside overview and cooperate totally with authorities" to find out what precipitated the incident.

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The park additionally asks for privateness for the household and workforce members concerned, and that they “will present updates as acceptable” as they “help everybody concerned” within the tragedy.

Although the assertion doesn't point out a fashion of dying, native Pennsylvania information signifies that the kid drowned on the Boardwalk, which options an assortment of water-based points of interest and rides.

Leisure Weekly has reached out to the Derry Township police division in addition to to representatives for Hersheypark for remark.

Hersheypark opened in 1906 as a vacation spot for workers of the Hershey Chocolate Firm, and later developed right into a resort vacation spot themed to Hershey's merchandise. It at present options an assortment of curler coasters and rides themed to candies like Jolly Rancher, Twizzlers, and extra.

Although lethal accidents at amusement and theme parks are uncommon, there have been notable, headline-making deaths involving kids at waterparks within the latest previous.

In 2016, Caleb Schwab, the 10-year-old son of Kansas state legislator Scott Schwab, was decapitated whereas using the Verrückt waterslide on the Schlitterbahn Kansas Metropolis waterpark.

Expenses had been later filed in opposition to the proprietor and designer of what was as soon as the tallest waterslide on this planet, although they had been ultimately dropped in 2019.

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Different latest theme park incidents that made headlines embody a backstage fireplace at Epcot at Walt Disney World in Florida, and riders who jumped off of a raft trip after turning into caught on the attraction at Six Flags Over Texas in June 2024.

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The Mighty Nein and The Legend of Vox Machina are each set in the identical fantasy world of Exandria however are separated by continents and time. The previous, to premiere on Amazon's Prime Video this Nov. 19, is about about 20 years after the latter.

Nonetheless, the members of Essential Position, who make up the principle forged and govt producers of each exhibits, tease some form of crossover between the 2 when The Mighty Nein hits screens.

"A skosh. Just a bit skosh. Very, very tiny bit," Marisha Ray, who voices Keyleth on Vox Machina and Beau on The Mighty Nein, says throughout an interview at Entertainment Weekly's Comic-Con studio.

"It will get a bit wild," Sam Riegel, Scanlan on Vox and Nott on Nein, provides. "We've needed to play a number of characters on the similar time usually and it's a little bit of a thoughts F."

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Set on the earth of Exandria on the continent of Wildemount, The Mighty Nein follows a bunch of misfits who’re thrust collectively after a sequence of cascading occasions involving a stolen relic from the Kryn Dynasty.

Additionally among the many forged are Liam O’Brien as Caleb Widogast, a matted human wizard adept at fireplace magic; Laura Bailey as Jester Lavorre, a prankster whose finest good friend is an invisible god named the Traveler; Travis Willingham as Fjord Stone, an orphaned half-orc sailor who washes ashore after a shipwreck with mysterious magical powers; Taliesin Jaffe as Mollymauk Tealeaf, a purple-skinned, horned flamboyant tarot reader for a touring carnival; and Ashley Johnson as Yasha Nydoorin, a barbarian lady and a roving mercenary from the wastes of Xhorhas within the Kryn Dynasty.

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In a earlier interview with EW, showrunner and EP Tasha Huo teased "a variety of enjoyable intersections" between The Mighty Nein and The Legend of Vox Machina. "We wish to guarantee that everybody understands these two tales do occur in the identical world on the similar time, despite the fact that they're separated by, I feel, 20 years," she mentioned.

Per Bailey, each one in all them as imagined eventualities of their heads of their characters from each exhibits assembly — timelines be damned. "I really feel like all of us wish to flirt with our different characters 'trigger it's so dumb," Johnson says.

"I've additionally been making my characters kiss in my head for a very long time," O'Brien jokes.

Watch the livestream of EW's Comedian-Con studio above. The forged of The Legend of Vox Machina and The Mighty Nein may be seen on the 4:42:15 mark.

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Anthony Mackie says he was stunned to listen to that he — and never simply certainly one of his costars — had obtained an Emmy nomination this month.

"I used to be at work…and I look over and all people's like, 'Congratulations!'' And I used to be like, 'Oh, what white dude obtained nominated?'" Mackie informed host Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday's episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. "Trigger I'm the white dude legend in the case of nominations and wins."

The Captain America: Civil Battle veteran was on a set when he realized that he'd been nominated within the class of Excellent Visitor Actor in a Comedy Sequence for his work in Apple TV+'s The Studio. His competitors is Jon Bernthal from The Bear, but in addition a number of actors from the identical sequence as him: Bryan Cranston, Dave Franco, and a few legendary administrators named Ron Howard and Martin Scorsese, who performed variations of themselves within the Hollywood-centric sequence.

"So I made Ryan Gosling well-known, I made Jeremy Renner well-known, I made Bryan Cranston well-known," Mackie joked, "I made — now — Ron Howard well-known. I'm like, 'If you wish to get nominated, I'm the dude.'"

Good issues do appear to occur to actors after they work with Mackie, who teased in a 2024 interview with EW that he was liable for Gosling's success, having costarred with Gosling within the 2006 film Half Nelson, for which Gosling obtained his first finest actor Oscar nod. Then, in 2008, Mackie costarred with Renner in The Damage Locker, for which, yep, Renner was nominated for his first Oscar in the identical class.

Mackie additionally costarred with Cranston in 2016 TV film All of the Method, for which the Breaking Unhealthy star was Emmy-nominated for Excellent Lead Actor in a Restricted Sequence or a Film. It wasn't Cranston's first nomination, however certainly the Mackie impact was in play.

After all, none of them, particularly Howard — who may fill a shelf with the Emmys, Oscars, Golden Globes, and even the Grammy that he's received — is hurting for business accolades.

When Fallon quipped that Mackie is the "secret sauce" in luring awards, he agreed.

"I’m the jelly within the doughnut, you realize what I'm saying?" Mackie stated.

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Fallon famous that The Falcon and the Winter Soldier's star personal nod is in a extremely aggressive class, to which he agreed.

"So the best way I have a look at it," Mackie stated, "I'm very honored and proud to be nominated. However the actuality of it’s, I'm excited to be in second place, as a result of it's Ron Howard and Scorsese. So certainly one of them goes to take it, however they're going to take votes from the opposite particular person, so I'm going to be in second."

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Mackie stated he doesn't care about taking house the award.

"Profitable is being nominated towards Scorsese and Ron Howard," he stated. "As a result of certainly one of them gonna must say, 'Rattling, I misplaced to Anthony Mackie.'" He teased that his rivals are "shaking."

The Emmys air Sept. 14 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBS.

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