It’s been over two years since the last episodes of Euphoria, so fans have been anxiously awaiting the return of the HBO series for some time. Unfortunately, it was confirmed earlier today that production on Euphoria season 3 has been officially paused, and new information has emerged which hints that when the series does finally return after this delay, there will be a major change.

According to The Wrap, Euphoria creator Sam Levinson is planning on a time jump between the second and third seasons, which will find the characters out of high school. Sources told The Wrap that HBO wanted to give Levinson “more time to break the story, because there’s a lot more back and forth now that the show is changing in this way,” hence the delay. Production was originally slated to begin in the next couple of months, but the cast has been allowed to “pursue other opportunities” while the new scripts come together.

As Euphoria stars Zendaya, Sydney Sweeny, and Jacob Elordi have seen their careers take off in major ways, some have wondered if they don’t have time for the series anymore. But the cast has always expressed their willingness to return and in a statement, HBO said that it “remains committed to making an exceptional third season.“

In an interview with GQ last month, Euphoria recurring guest star Colman Domingo described Levison’s writing style, saying that he’s someone “who writes and rewrites and writes and rewrites again,” adding that he is “interested in the existential question of who we are right now. Our souls, That’s what he wants to figure out with season 3.” It remains to be seen when production will begin on Euphoria season 3 after this delay, but I think fans would rather Levinson take his time to get it right. As it stands, it’s expected that the new season will premiere sometime in 2025.

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Fresh off his Oscar win for Oppenheimer, Deadline reports that Cillian Murphy has set up one of his next projects, a feature adaptation of Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America by Mark A. Bradley.

Blood Runs Coal takes place in the late 1960s and will feature Cillian Murphy playing Chip Yablonski, a labor attorney who fights to get justice for his father, Jock Yablonski. The elder Yablonski was a second-generation coal miner and activist who fought for better working conditions and health benefits for his fellow miners. However, he butted heads with union president Tony Boyle, and when Yablonski decided to run against him, Boyle used embezzled union funds to order the murder of his opponent. Yablonski was killed, along with his wife and daughter, with Chip Yablonski barely escaping the same fate as he had left the house the day prior. Jez Butterworth will pen the script for Blood Runs Coal with John-Henry Butterworth

In addition to Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer took home seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, and Best Original Score.

Murphy has plenty of projects on his slate, including Small Things Like These, a historical drama in which he plays a devoted father and coal merchant who discovers startling secrets kept by the convent in his town, along with some shocking truths of his own. The film made its debut at the Berlin International Film Festival last month. He will also star in Steve for Netflix as a headteacher of a last-chance reform school who struggles to keep his students in line, while also grappling with his spiraling mental health. It’s also expected that he will reprise his role of Thomas Shelby in the upcoming Peaky Blinders movie.

There’s also a chance Murphy might appear in the long-awaited 28 Days Later sequel, 28 Years Later. While he’s onboard the project as an executive producer, it hasn’t been revealed if he’ll make an appearance in the film as well. “It’s for [Danny Boyle and Alex Garland] to speak about, I suppose, but I think it’s been brewing for a while,” Murphy said last month. “The first movie was so important for me as an actor. I love working with those guys. Alex has an idea, and Danny directing is just huge. Watch this space.“

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Shout! Studios have released the first trailer for The Dead Don’t Hurt, a Western starring Viggo Mortensen, who also wrote, directed, produced, and composed the music for the film.

As a big Western fan, I’m always eager to check out a new entry in the genre, and it looks like I’ll have to check out The Dead Don’t Hurt, as the trailer paints a dark, gritty story with some powerful performances. The film follows Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps), a fiercely independent woman who starts a relationship with Holgen Olsen (Mortenson), a Danish immigrant. They start a life together, but when Olsen leaves to fight in the Civil War, Vivenne is left to fend for herself.

This marks Mortenson’s second time behind the camera, as he made his feature directorial debut with Falling, a 2020 drama which followed a middle-aged gay man who moves his homophobic father (Lance Henriksen) to the home he shares with his husband after he starts showing symptoms of dementia.

Our own Chris Bumbray caught The Dead Don’t Hurt at the Toronto International Film Festival last year and quite enjoyed it. While he admits that the plot is “pretty old school,” he also said that it’s never been done in the style Mortenson uses. “It works as a solid Western and modern deconstruction of the genre,” Bumbray wrote. “The performances are terrific, and the story comes to a haunting, unexpected end that will stick with you long after the credits roll.” You can check out the rest of Bumbray’s review right here.

The official logline reads: “The Dead Don’t Hurt is a story of star-crossed lovers on the western U.S. frontier in the 1860s. Vivienne Le Coudy (Vicky Krieps) is a fiercely independent woman who embarks on a relationship with Danish immigrant Holgen Olsen (Viggo Mortensen). After meeting Olsen in San Francisco, she agrees to travel with him to his home near the quiet town of Elk Flats, Nevada, where they start a life together. The outbreak of the civil war separates them when Olsen makes a fateful decision to fight for the Union. This leaves Vivienne to fend for herself in a place controlled by corrupt Mayor Rudolph Schiller (Danny Huston) and his unscrupulous business partner, powerful rancher Alfred Jeffries (Garrett Dillahunt). Alfred’s violent, wayward son Weston (Solly McLeod) aggressively pursues Vivienne, who is determined to resist his unwanted advances. When Olsen returns from the war, he and Vivienne must confront and make peace with the person each has become.“

The Dead Don’t Hurt will open on approximately 500 screens nationwide on May 31st.

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It turns out that a small but useful menu inside your modern Windows PC was designed and built in one day in 1994. It was meant to be a temporary stopgap until something better was created to replace it. That never happened, and now, 30 years later, the guy behind that original menu has revealed the story behind it.

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It turns out that a small but useful menu inside your modern Windows PC was designed and built in one day in 1994. It was meant to be a temporary stopgap until something better was created to replace it. That never happened, and now, 30 years later, the guy behind that original menu has revealed the story behind it.

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Most of Dragon’s Dogma 2‘s classes (or “vocations”) are carryovers from the series’ 2012 entry. However, since this is a sequel Capcom’s newly released high-fantasy action-RPG does feature some new vocations for you to unlock. One of them, the Darth Maul-serving Mystic Spearhand, is a class that’s super easy to unlock…

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Most of Dragon’s Dogma 2‘s classes (or “vocations”) are carryovers from the series’ 2012 entry. However, since this is a sequel Capcom’s newly released high-fantasy action-RPG does feature some new vocations for you to unlock. One of them, the Darth Maul-serving Mystic Spearhand, is a class that’s super easy to unlock…

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Arnold Schwarzenegger revealed on his Arnold’s Pump Club podcast that he recently had surgery to have a pacemaker implanted and is thankfully on the road to recovery.

“Last Monday, I had surgery to become a little bit more of a machine: I got a pacemaker,” the Terminator actor said. “First of all, I want you to know I’m doing great! I had my surgery on Monday, and by Friday, I was already at a big environmental event with my friend and fellow fitness crusader Jane Fonda. Nobody would ever have thought I started the week with a surgery.“

Schwarzenegger continued, “I want to thank my whole team at the Cleveland Clinic. All of the doctors and nurses took amazing care of me and made the surgery as painless as possible.” The actor has previously had three open-heart surgeries, with two surgeries in 1997 to replace his pulmonic valve and aortic valve. He had surgery to get both replaced in 2018 and 2020 and has had his condition monitored closely. “I stayed in touch with my medical team and visited in person at least once a year to get a full check-up and see how my heart was doing,” he said. “That’s life with a genetic heart issue. But you won’t hear me complaining.“

After a normal checkup, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s doctor told him that he needed to get a pacemaker implanted as soon as possible. “I told them I’d stop in Cleveland on my way home from the UK, and we’d do it. Monday, I went under and got my new machine part installed,” he explained. “Like I said, by Friday, I was out doing my normal environmental work, and nobody knew anything. I can’t do my serious training in the gym for a while, but I will be 100% ready for FUBAR [season 2] next month!“

The actor added that although sharing this news “goes against so much of my upbringing in Austria,” he wanted fans who are suffering from their own health challenges to know that they’re not alone. “I could have kept it a secret. But I know that we have more than 750,000 subscribers now — the village is a city now — and a lot of you are probably dealing with your own health challenges,” Schwarzenegger said. “I want you to know you aren’t alone. And if you’re putting something off out of fear, I hope I inspire you to listen to your doctors and take care of yourself.“

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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will throw a ton of enemies at you. Luckily, you’ll have a wide variety of healing spells, magic attacks, unique abilities, and weapon skills at your disposal. And while you can also buff your party, you can debuff your enemies too, making them more susceptible to your attacks.

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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth will throw a ton of enemies at you. Luckily, you’ll have a wide variety of healing spells, magic attacks, unique abilities, and weapon skills at your disposal. And while you can also buff your party, you can debuff your enemies too, making them more susceptible to your attacks.

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