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Season 2 of Avatar: The Last Airbender is in the can and production is set to begin on the third and final season of Netflix’s live-action adaptation. You can see an on-set cast video announcement below.

The streamer also revealed new cast members who round out the Season 2 line-up. Terry Chen (Lucky Star) portrays Jeong Jeong; Dolly de Leon (Triangle of Sadness) plays Lo and Li; Lily Gau (Blue Sun Palace), is Ursa; Madison Hu (The Brothers Sun) plays Fei; and Dichen Lachman (Severance) portrays Yangchen.

They join previously announced new S2 cast members including Miya Cech, Chin Han, Hoa Xuande, Justin Chien, Amanda Zhou, Crystal Yu, Kelemete Misipeka, Lourdes Faberes, Rekha Sharma, alongside returning cast Gordan Cormier, Kiawentiio, Ian Ousley, Dallas Liu, Elizabeth Yu, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Daniel Dae Kim, Momona Tamada, and Thalia Tran.

New cast members for Season 3 include Jon Jon Briones (Ratched) as Piandao and Tantoo Cardinal...

Netflix’s live-action version of “Avatar: The Last Airbender” has added seven cast members across its upcoming second and third seasons.

Newly joining Season 2 are Dichen Lachman (“Severance”) as Yangchen, Dolly de Leon (“Triangle of Sadness”) as Lo and Li, Terry Chen (“Lucky Star”) as Jeong Jeong, Lily Gao (“Blue Sun Palace”) as Ursa and Madison Hu (“The Brothers Sun”) as Fei.

In Season 3, Tantoo Cardinal (“Killers of the Flower Moon”) will play Hama and Jon Jon Briones (“Hadestown”) will play Piandao.

They join previously announced Season 2 stars Miya Cech, Chin Han, Hoa Xuande, Justin Chien, Amanda Zhou, Crystal Yu, Kelemete Misipeka, Lourdes Faberes and Rekha Sharma, as well as series leads Gordon Cormier, Kiawentiio, Ian Ousley and Dallas Liu and returning cast members Elizabeth Yu, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Daniel Dae Kim, Momona Tamada and Thalia Tran.

News of the new cast members comes as “Avatar: The Last Airbender” wraps...

Aya Hirano, best known as the voice of Haruhi in the Haruhi Suzumiya anime series, will release her first solo digital single in 11 years on May 10, 2025, titled “evolutions. " The news was revealed during a livestream announcing the launch of the countdown for her debut's 20th anniversary project. Her official YouTube channel is now streaming a one-chorus preview video of the song. Aya Hirano "evolutions" One-Chorus Preview Video Hirano started solo singer activities with her debut single "Breakthrough" from Bandai Namco Music Live's Lantis label in March 2006, releasing 12 singles and three original albums to date. After the release of her last 12th single "Promise" in Japan in October 2013, she shifted her activities to musicals and other stage plays and was less active as a voice actor and solo singer. "Evolutions” will release from the Lantis label, where Hirano began her music career as a solo artist in 2006. Heart Company, represented...

Fabulous Lives Of Bollywood Wives: 5 Bollywood Wives We Want to See On The Next Season Of Netflix. (Photo Credit – Instagram)

As the world recovered from Covid, Netflix gave us one of the most binge-worthy series, ‘Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives.’ With the Indian voyeuristic knack that was evident with reality shows like Bigg Boss, Flbw became a guilty pleasure for many. What made it a must-watch was that it gave us a glamorous peek into the lives of some of Bollywood’s high-profile wives and their families.

There was high-octane drama, runway fashion, bitching and catfights, and the show became a huge success globally. With all eyes on Season 3 of the series, here’s a list of Bollywood wives we wish to get some inside scoop on in the coming year.

1. Gauri Khan

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The Haruhi Suzumiya franchise will be revived for its 20th Anniversary.

Nagaru Tanigawa and Noizi Ito's eccentric high school goddess rose to icon status after her debut in the Haruhi Suzumiya light novel series and KyoAni's subsequent anime adaptation. As detailed on Crunchyroll, series publisher Sneaker Bunko announced a new light novel titled The Theater of Haruhi Suzumiya during its Sneaker Bunko 25th Anniversary Festa livestream event. The publisher accompanied the announcement with a teaser visual featuring Haruhi and the other members of the S.O.S Brigade. Additionally, there will also be a revival of Haruhi's concert event, The Symphony of Haruhi Suzumiya, which will be held at Kawaguchi Cultural Center's Lilia Main Hall on January 20, 2024. Ticket Pia is holding a lottery for the tickets from Sept. 24 to Oct. 8.

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The early eighties was the perfect place for an artist like Madonna. The birth of MTV gave exposure to musicians that was unprecedented at the time, turning artists into TV stars overnight. Madonna was part of an elite few that benefitted the most from MTV's enormous influence as she went on to sell millions of albums, star in Hollywood films, and become an icon to women all over the world. Fast-forward to 2017 and a biopic of Madonna's early years is set to be produced.

The script entitled Blond Ambition written by Elyse Hollander topped the 2016 Black List of unproduced screenplays and has been bought by Universal Pictures as reported by the Hollywood Reporter. Michael De Luca who produced Fifty Shades of Grey for Universal and Brett Ratner have signed on to produce Blond Ambition along with John Zaozirny. Hollander had previously worked as an assistant to Alejandro G. Inarritu during...

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She may still be alive and kicking but the ultimate Lucky Star Madonna is all set to get her very own biopic after Universal has picked up Elyse Hollander’s script which takes the title from the megastar’s 1990 world tour Blond Ambition.

The story, which is to be set in early 80’s New York, will see Madonna Louise Ciccone working on her first album, struggling in a business that treats women badly, while also dealing with a burgeoning love life and the first hints of fame.

Only last year, Hollander’s script topped the 2016 Black List, the industry ranking that tracks Hollywood’s most-liked unproduced screenplays so it was only a matter of sitting back and waiting for the right (or best) offer to land in her hands and it couldn’t much bigger than Universal. Considering this is Hollander’s debut script after working alongside Alejandro G.

Chris here with some news to have you clutching your layered pearls. And stacked bracelets. And lace. That's right, a Madonna biopic is now in development at Universal. Whether you like it or not, get ready for Blonde Ambition.

Now before we cry foul or "too soon", the film sounds like less of a traditional biopic and more of a moment in time for the legend. Elyse Hollander's script topped last year's Black List (Hollywood's annual list of best unproduced screenplays) and follows the making of Madonna's first self-titled album. This would set the film in the early eighties before "Like A Virgin" skyrocketed her profile, but still in the era of "Lucky Star", "Borderline", and "Holiday". What will it be like to see club scene Madonna on the screen rather than the megastar? Will something like Truth or Dare have stylistic influence?

Word's out on what Madonna herself thinks about the film,...

Universal Pictures is set to produce a biopic based on the early life and career of Madonna called Blond Ambition. The script for the film comes from Elyse Hollander and it was on the 2016 Black List of best unproduced screenplays. THR offers the following info on the story:

The story is set in early 1980s New York as Madonna Louise Ciccone works on her first album, struggling in a business that treats women badly, while also dealing with a burgeoning love life and the first hints of fame.Madonna moved to New York from Michigan in 1978 to pursue dance but segued to singing and writing songs. After failing at a rock band, she switched to dance and pop. After achieving some success with a few dance singles, she began work on her debut album, Madonna, which was released in 1983. The album yielded hits "Holiday," "Borderline" and "Lucky Star," and set...

Every year since 2009, the San Francisco Film Society (Sffs) selects multiple film projects to receive the biannual Sffs/Krf Filmmaking Grant that helps fund some of the best up-and-coming narrative features that support the Bay Area filmmaking industry.

The grant is presented in tangent with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and is the largest granting body for independent narrative feature films in the U.S. The winners of the grant will be announced in November, with one or more of the fifteen projects eligible to receive upwards of $250,000 for assistance in post-production, screenwriting, or packing.

The fall 2016 finalists are as follows:

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“Buoyancy” – Rodd Rathjen, writer/director:

Chakra, a Cambodian teenager, leaves his family to seek a better life in Thailand, but is soon sold onto a Thai fishing trawler and enslaved at sea indefinitely, working 22 hours a day with little food.

Just like a prayer, Showtime is taking you there — more specifically, to Madonna‘s latest world tour.

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The concert film Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour will premiere Friday, Dec. 9 at 9/8c, the premium network announced Friday. The project, co-directed by Danny B. Tull and Nathan Rissman, contains footage from all around the world, combining on-stage and behind-the-scenes moments.

In addition to newer Madonna jams, like “Living for Love” and “Bitch I’m Madonna,” Madge’s Rebel Heart Tour set list also includes classic favorites like “Material Girl” and “Lucky Star.

Furious 7 exceeded all expectation when it hit theaters last year. Sure, given actor Paul Walker's untimely and tragic death, it was expected that many would pay their ticket just to see how the series would pay homage to its lead, but no one expected it to do the numbers it did. By the end of its theater run, the film took in over $1.5 billion worldwide, currently placing it at number six in all time worldwide box office grosses.

That's definitely a lot of pressure going into Furious 8, which will only be the second film not to feature Paul Walker. But the production has moved forward with the rest of the cast intact and Straight Outta Compton director F. Gary Gray at the helm. When all said and done, the franchise seems to be in safe hands.

Production for Furious 8 has been underway for the past few months, though...

No doubt about it. We live in a world where comic books and superheroes are mainstream and saturated in Hollywood, so much so that many are starting to see these stories as predictable and formulaic. But in reality, those types of stories only scratch the surface of what's available in the comic books, which are generally able to take greater storytelling risks than films. This superhero craze has also bled over into television, and with series like Daredevil and The Flash, filmmakers are able to explore different aspects of the properties that could never be shown on the big screen. This is also something that executive producer Noah Hawley hopes to do with the upcoming FX series, Legion.

In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Hawley expressed his interest to take the genre in a whole new direction. Rather than go the traditional route, he almost wants to deal more...

The X-men have always been one of the more interesting of the superhero film franchises. Whereas most of them back in the day featured maybe a couple supers, the X-men films were chock-full of mutants -- both good and bad. In a way, they were team-up films before team-up films were a thing. Nowadays, Fox has effectively split up their X-men into three separate properties: X-men, Wolverine, and Deadpool. If all continues as planned, they'll eventually add New Mutants and Gambit to the mix, and if Deadpool continues its hot streak, we seem destined for an X-force film series as well. This opens the floodgates for all kinds of characters, including one we just saw in X-men: Apocalypse.

I'm speaking, of course, of Psylocke, played by Olivia Munn. While the character didn't get a whole lot to do in the most recent film, that's not to say her role in...

Video memories and nostalgia blur together in Jennifer Reeder‘s classic installation piece, Lullaby, in which personal footage of ’80s cheerleading tryouts and ballet classes is set to a heavily slowed down and distorted version of Madonna’s early hit, Lucky Star.

Media appropriation in underground film has existed since the 1960s, but in 1999 — when Reeder produced Lullaby — combining personal and popular video sources was not a particularly common practice, especially given the cruddy quality of the analog equipment of the time.

However, Reeder brilliantly exploits that cruddiness by not hiding it and even calling attention to it through several methods, such as slowing down the footage intensely; keeping the bad tracking distortions of the VHS tape; and especially by heavily distorting the Lucky Star soundtrack. This manipulation works to let the audience know that we are looking at an artifact of a bygone era and acts as a commentary...