Shailene Woodley joins Paradise. Spiderman is coming back. A new member of the Kelce family. Listen for MUCH MORE!
In casting news, Shailene Woodley is joining the cast for Season 2 of Paradise! Production for the hit Hulu series has already begun, and while the entire cast hasn’t been officially announced, we know Sterling K. Brown is most definitely back as Xavier Collins. Shailene will join in a recurring role. Season 2 will explore what happened to the rest of the world outside the underground bunker as Xavier sets out to search for his wife. We don’t know when Season 2 will premiere, but updates are promised as production continues. Also, gay icon Liza Minnelli will appear on the Season 17 finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race on April 18.
Coming out of ComicCon — The official title for Tom Holland’s fourth Spider-Man movie has been revealed. Spider-Man: Brand New Day stars Tom Holland, as Spider-Man, of course, with his fiancée Zendaya as MJ. Sadie Sink is rumored to play Gwen Stacy, who was portrayed by Emma Stone in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Brand New Day picks up after the events of No Way Home, where everyone, including MJ and Ned, forgot Peter Parker’s secret identity because of Doctor Strange’s spell. It hits theaters July 31, 2026! And everyone went crazy when Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. reunited on stage to present the first look at their upcoming I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot. Both starred in the 1997 original and its 1998 sequel as Julie James and Ray Bronson. The clip they presented at ComicCon shows a scene between a young couple played by Madelyn Cline and Joshua Orpin. After Madelyn’s character had a rough day, her boyfriend tells her to upstairs and take a nice long bath. She drops in a bath bomb that looks an awfully lot like blood….while something bloody and awful is happening to her boyfriend downstairs. The crowd erupted when Freddie’s character Ray shows up at a town hall meeting to remind everyone, “This isn’t the first time there has been violence like this in Southport.” And Jennifer got an even bigger reaction when she pops up later and asks that iconic line, “What did you do last summer?”
Tick tock, TikTok! Unless its Chinese owner ByteDance finds a US-approved buyer by this Saturday, it’s getting shut down. But President Trump says believes a deal will come through before then. Last year, Congress required ByteDance to divest its shares by January 19, but when President Trump took office, he extended that deadline to April 5. But this past weekend, President Trump told reporters on Air Force One, “We have a lot of potential buyers. There’s tremendous interest in TikTok. The decision is going to be my decision. I’d like to see TikTok remain alive.” So would its more than 170M American users. Trump reportedly is holding a meeting on possible investors to buy TikTok today.
Jason Kelce and Kylie Kelce introduced their newborn daughter to her Uncle Travis virtually while recording the latest episode of their New Heights podcast, out today. Travis said he’d only seen one photo and didn’t even know the baby’s name yet. Kylie said she wanted to name the baby Finn, but Jason wouldn’t let her, so that’s her nickname now. The baby’s official name is Finnley Anne. She joins big sisters 5-year-old Wyatt, 4-year-old Elliotte, and 2-year-old Bennett. Two days after giving birth on Sunday, Mama Kylie was already back at work recording her Not Gonna Lie podcast. Her postpartum special episode drops tomorrow.
Val Kilmer daughter Mercedes announced that her father passed away from pneumonia yesterday. He was 65. Back in 2014, Val was diagnosed with throat cancer. After chemo and radiation treatments which required two tracheotomies, Val had to use an electric voice box to communicate. His memoir, I’m Your Huckleberry, named for his famous line in Tombstone, was published in 2020. The following year, Val announced he had beaten cancer, and that same year, Val — a documentary about his life, was released. His son Jack provided his dad’s voice. Even though he was cancer-free, Val continued to battle health complications requiring ongoing treatment, which ultimately ended with his death at home yesterday. Val started out as a stage actor in the early 80s before making his big screen debut as rock star Nick Rivers in 1984’s spy spoof Top Secret! The next year, he landed a role in the science fiction comedy Real Genius, but things really took off for Val when he starred as Lt. Tom “Iceman” Kazansky in Top Gun, which became the highest-grossing movie of 1986. Other acting credits include channeling Jim Morrison in 1991’s The Doors, starring as the tuberculosis-ridden Doc Holliday in 1993’s Tombstone, and replacing Michael Keaton as the Caped Crusader in 1995’s Batman Forever. There were so many other movies along the way, but he made his final appearance as an actor in 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick, reprising his role as Iceman.
