Many expected a Switch 2 reveal this fall. Instead, it looks like Nintendo fans will close out 2024 without even an official tease. But that hasn’t stopped rampant speculation and alleged leaks from filling the information void. A new video shows what could be a first look at the Switch 2’s new and improved Joy-Con—if…
The end of an era is coming when Stranger Things Season 5 debuts on Netflix, bringing the strange horror of Hawkins to its conclusion. Stakes are at an all-time high for the Duffer Brothers to stick the landing, lest they suffer a Game of Thrones-like crash-and-burn as fans react to the finale. Speaking with the Podcrushed podcast with hosts Penn Badgley, Nava Kavelin, and Sophie Ansari, Maya Hawke, who plays Robin Buckley in the series, said fans can expect plenty to chew on as the season is massive.
“We’re making, basically, eight movies,” Hawke told the group. “The episodes are very long.”
According to Maya Hawke, Stranger Things Season 5’s production has been incredible to witness throughout 2024, with bold decisions about the show surfacing nonstop. The final season takes place roughly three years after Season 4, explaining why the Hawkins kids are all grown up and still scarred by their abnormal and traumatic past.
“They are very intense and serious about the quality of the continued writing, and so it takes a long time to write each season and a long time to shoot them.”
Speaking of episodes, we recently learned the titles of the final chapters to come, including “The Crawl,” “The Vanishing of [Name Redacted],” “The Turnbow Trap,” “Sorcerer,” “Shock Jock,” “Escape from Camazotz,” “The Bridge” and “The Rightside Up.” Everyone involved with the show is keeping details close to the chest, careful not to reveal any spoilers before what could be the most prominent series launch in Netflix history.
Stranger Things Season 5 finds character favorites returning for the show’s final bow, including Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven, Finn Wolfhard as Mike, Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas, Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin, Sadie Sink as Max, Maya Hawke as Robin Buckley, and Jamie Campbell Bower as the Freddy Krueger-like Vecna. Matthew Modine also returns as Doctor Brenner, though we don’t know how.
It’s wild how Stranger Things can disappear for years at a time, but fans continue to crave more. I guarantee that Stranger Things Season 5 will be the talk of the town when it drops, with everyone from diehard fans to keyboard warriors weighing in on the show’s final bow.
Are you excited about Stranger Things Season 5? What do you think about each episode being as long as a movie? Let us know in the comments section below.
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While fans of the Showtime series Yellowjackets (read our review of season 2 HERE) patiently wait to see the bonus episode that’s going to air sometime between the second and third seasons, it was recently announced that Yellowjackets season 3 is set to premiere on February 14th – and with that date swiftly approaching, a batch of first batch images have been unveiled via Entertainment Weekly! One can be seen at the top of this article, and more can be found below.
Yellowjackets is described as “equal parts survival epic, horror story, and coming-of-age drama.” The story centers on a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the Ontario wilderness. The series will chronicle their descent from a complicated but thriving team to warring, cannibalistic clans, while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later, proving that the past is never really past and what began out in the wilderness is far from over.
Created, written, executive produced by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, the series stars Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Ella Purnell, Sammi Hanratty, Sophie Thatcher, Steven Krueger, Amy Okuda, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Courtney Eaton, and Liv Hewson. New cast additions in Yellowjackets season 2 included Elijah Wood (the Lord of the Rings trilogy), Lauren Ambrose (Servant), Simone Kessell (Obi-Wan Kenobi), Nicole Maines (Supergirl), François Arnaud (The Borgias), Nia Sondaya (Truth Be Told), and guest star Jason Ritter (Freddy vs. Jason). Lyle and Nickerson serve as showrunners with Jonathan Lisco. To find out what the show’s creators had to say about the action-packed third season, which picks up after a bit of a time jump, click over to the Entertainment Weekly link.
We’ve previously heard that Yellowjackets season 3 will be adding characters played by Community‘s Joel McHale and two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry and Million Dollar Baby). McHale has a guest star role, while Swank will have a recurring role. We’ve heard “she’ll make her first appearance in the latter stages of the season.”
I’m all caught up on Yellowjackets, and while I thought season 2 was a step down from its predecessor, I’m eagerly looking forward to season 3. Are you a Yellowjackets fan, and will you be tuning in when season 3 has its premiere in February? Let us know by leaving a comment below – and take a look at these images while you’re scrolling down:
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Lego is getting in on all the Cyber Monday deals and sales with a host of discounts on many different items, including some Star Wars and Disney-themed Lego sets and accessories.
Lego is getting in on all the Cyber Monday deals and sales with a host of discounts on many different items, including some Star Wars and Disney-themed Lego sets and accessories.
Nobody has been in more Wes Anderson movies than Bill Murray, having only been left out of three of his films. While Covid knocked him out of Asteroid City and he might have felt shoehorned into Henry Sugar, the reason he wasn’t in Anderson’s debut, Bottle Rocket, came down to a bias against a first-time director.
But that wasn’t because of Bill Murray, who, while notoriously hard to contact, was actively being sought out by Wes Anderson. But according to Murray, “My agents never gave me the script because he was a nobody.” And now we can see why he prefers to cut out all middle men.
The drive to get Bill Murray to appear as Abe Henry — the role that eventually went to James Caan (who had trouble adapting to Anderson’s style) — wouldn’t just be coming from Wes Anderson but pretty much everybody else who believed in the director (and the short film which inspired Bottle Rocket). And as Murray was being pursued for Anderson’s sophomore film, Rushmore, people were working overtime to make sure he had Anderson on the radar, amassing a practical video store of copies of his debut. “I like to say that I have the largest collection of video cassettes of Bottle Rocket, the first movie…I’ve still never seen Bottle Rocket. But I have a lot of [VHS] of it…They just kept sending them to me, sending them to me, sending them…”
Despite some controversy surrounding Bill Murray over allegations of inappropriate behavior on the set of Aziz Ansari’s Being Mortal, Wes Anderson has said that he will continue to work with the actor. He has even cast him in his upcoming film, The Phoenician Scheme. And by this point, we have to assume Anderson is one of the lucky ones with Murray’s number. Lousy agents!
What is your favorite collaboration between Bill Murray and Wes Anderson? What makes it work better than the others? Give us your pick below!
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Disney Dreamlight Valley is home to an absolutely staggering amount of ingredients that you’ll need to find if you want to make every meal in the base game and its two expansions. And speaking of expansions, The Storybook Vale hasn’t shied away from adding a wide variety of new meals and new ingredients to make them.…
Disney Dreamlight Valley is home to an absolutely staggering amount of ingredients that you’ll need to find if you want to make every meal in the base game and its two expansions. And speaking of expansions, The Storybook Vale hasn’t shied away from adding a wide variety of new meals and new ingredients to make them.…
We are officially in December, which means the promo campaign for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is ramping up. Trailers are playing before every age-appropriate film in theaters, Times Square has billboards with Sonic and Shadow’s faces on them, and merchandise fills every toy store. That includes a new promotion with…
We are officially in December, which means the promo campaign for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is ramping up. Trailers are playing before every age-appropriate film in theaters, Times Square has billboards with Sonic and Shadow’s faces on them, and merchandise fills every toy store. That includes a new promotion with…