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After watching 13 Reasons Why's Katherine Langford flip old Arthurian legends on their head as the sword-wielding Lady of the Lake in Netflix’s Cursed, fans were left with a number of questions: Like, would we ever see Nimue again? Is Arthur the king we know he is, the king he is inside? Can Pym and the Red Spear have their own spinoff series, if we ask nicely? But it would seem the show's title was a self-fulfilling prophecy: Cursed has been canceled after only one season on Netflix. The Hollywood...

Margot Robbie has some tiny, plastic shoes to fill, but with director Greta Gerwig paving her dream-house driveway, Barbie's less likely to stumble in those stilettos. Variety confirmed on July 9 that Little Women director Gerwig will helm the live-action Barbie film, with Robbie attached as Mattel's size-zero superstar. Under Gerwig's stewardship, the blonde icon who's juggled careers as a president, doctor, teacher, fashion designer and Tokyo-bound Olympian will be forced to confront her feminist critics. Revealed Robbie in a cover story with British Vogue, “Right, it comes with a...

Marvel is making good on its promise that Wakanda is forever, as the studio moves forward on the second Black Panther following the first's massive 2018 box office haul and seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. The sequel's future was initially in doubt following the tragic death of 43-year-old star Chadwick Boseman in August 2020 after a four-year battle with colon cancer. But on December 10, 2020, the official Disney+ Twitter confirmed plans for the next installment, tweeting, "Black Panther 2, opening July 8, 2022, is being written &...

Rihanna and her boyfriend of over six months A$AP Rocky went out last night in New York City, and Rihanna generously offered paparazzi a peek at her summer date-night look. The singer was photographed in a Rolls Royce with Rocky, wearing a mint Prada bucket hat and sunglasses. She opted to go casual for this outing, pairing a vintage The Cramps band tee with jeans, white heels, and a layered green and white necklace. Rocky complemented RiRi in a black ensemble. Getty Images Getty Images Getty Images Getty Images Rihanna...

Gossip Girl's gone prestige. Less than a decade after the original CW series went off the air in 2012, showrunner Joshua Safran has revived the beloved teen drama for the social media era, installed a new cast, and drenched it all in decadence. It's fitting that the new Gossip Girl should find its way to HBO Max, the prestige network's steadily growing streaming service, given the production value the show demanded. As Safran explained to Vulture, the old Gossip Girl was the new girl in town. “The first time, there...

If you think you’ve missed Game of Thrones after that lackluster finale in 2019, it’s nothing compared to how much Game of Thrones has missed you. The defining fantasy series for years—and a harbinger of capital, cultural and otherwise, for HBO—Game of Thrones was one of the last few bastions of appointment viewing, a cultural phenomenon that was practically criminal not to watch. So, it’s not exactly surprising to learn HBO is eager to haul us all back to Westeros (and beyond). After months of drama surrounding the final season...

Ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, Simone Biles is starring in a seven-part docu-series on Facebook Watch, Simone vs Herself, about her journey preparing for the games. In the latest episode, "What More Can I Say," Biles opens up about being a survivor of sexual abuse. Biles is one of many young women who suffered at the hands of disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. In 2018, Nassar was sentenced to life in federal prison for multiple criminal counts of sexual assault on minors and child pornography. Like many other...

Spoilers for season 1 of Outer Banks below. Watching Netflix’s soapy teen drama Outer Banks left us longing for a tan, a fictional summer romance, and a sun-drenched vacation—especially after more than a year in pandemic-induced quarantine. But more than anything, it left us craving a second season to make sense of the show’s wild final episode. Thankfully, our Outer Banks fantasies are coming true: Netflix confirmed there will be a second season dropping this summer.Outer Banks follows the socioeconomic warfare between the elite Kooks and working-class Pogues in the...

Where Normal People leads, Conversations With Friends will follow. The 12-part series based on Sally Rooney's 2017 novel is officially in production in Northern Ireland as of April 26, 2021, per the show’s Instagram account. Conversations With Friends follows the wild success of miniseries Normal People, which premiered to critical acclaim and socially distanced fan fervor in April 2020 before garnering several Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. This content is imported from Instagram. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able...

The Perry-Bloom family is on the move this summer. Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, and their 10-month-old daughter, Daisy, and Bloom’s 10-year-old son, Flynn, are on a European vacation together. Per E!, they arrived in Italy from Prague in mid-June, then hopped to Greece, and now they are in Turkey. Perry shared a pic of the couple in an infinity pool at the Six Senses Kaplankaya resort with the caption, “🖤 infinity & beyond 🖤 .” This content is imported from Instagram. You may be able to find the same content...

Long before “Leave Britney alone” became a punchline and #FreeBritney a battle cry, Britney Spears was fighting for her freedom. In a series of bombshell revelations released as part of public testimony during a June 23 court hearing, the pop superstar and early-aughts icon alleged that her father’s protracted conservatorship, under which she’s spent the past 13 years, is “abusive.” The testimony came on the heels of a New York Times report first published June 22, which outlined how the star had wrestled with her father behind the scenes for...

Olivia Wilde and Harry Styles are still going strong six months after news broke that the two are romantically involved. The are reportedly on a romantic trip in Tuscany right now, after Styles wrapped shooting My Policeman in London. On the heels of the trip news, a source told Entertainment Tonight that the two are very happy—and serious. “It’s obvious that this was not a rebound or a short fling,” the source said. “They care so much about each other and have a deep connection.” The source continued: “They’re pretty...

Terry Crews takes Vanity Fair's infamous lie detector test. Does he enjoy working out more than he likes playing with his kids? Does he still use Old Spice? Can he play the flute better than Lizzo? Who is his favorite Wayans brother? Is he willing to set the record straight on whether or not ’White Chicks 2’ is happening? 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' airs Thursday at 8:30pm ET/PT on NBC. Still haven’t subscribed to Vanity Fair on YouTube? ►► http://bit.ly/2z6Ya9M Want to stay in the know? Subscribe to Vanity Fair Magazine and...

Too Hot to Handle season 2 is all wrapped up. Another cast of sexless horny people come and gone. So sad. Not to worry: Netflix has reportedly already filmed season 3. The two seasons were filmed back to back in Turks and Caicos. This means Netflix is just sitting on a full season of this reality show where the contestants are tasked with staying completely celibate despite their extremely high libidos. Just think about the people we are waiting to meet. Could we have another Harry Jowsey and Francesca Farago?...