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‘The Mummy’: Brendan Fraser Sequel Gets New Title Ahead of 2027 Release - The Hollywood Reporter

Author: Ryan Gajewski

Published At: 2026-10-15T19:31:19Z

Description: Rachel Weisz and John Hannah also reprise their roles in the latest installment in the Universal franchise.

Content: Brendan Fraser‘s forthcoming installment in Universal Pictures‘ popular The Mummy franchise is alive and well. The studio announced Thursday that the new movie will be titled The Mummy: Book of the Dead. Radio Silence duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett are set to direct the film from a script by David Coggeshall (The Family Plan). It hits theaters Oct. 15, 2027, exactly a year after the title announcement. Fraser returns as Rick O’Connell alongside Rachel Weisz as Evie O’Connell. John Hannah, Michael Johnston, Numan Acar, Kevin J. O’Connor and Oded Fehr round out the cast. The classic Universal monster property first sprang to life with Boris Karloff in the titular role of the 1932 feature The Mummy. After a number of offerings over the decades, Fraser and Weisz’s franchise kicked off with the Stephen Sommers-helmed 1999 version of the same name. Producers include Sean Daniel, who has produced five previous titles in the franchise, alongside William Sherak, James Vanderbilt and Paul Neinstein for Project X Entertainment. Clayton Townsend also produces, while Fraser and Hivemind’s Jason F. Brown serve as executive producers. Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett, who helmed 2022’s franchise-reviving Scream and follow-up Scream VI, most recently directed this year’s Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. The Mummy: Book of the Dead is a direct sequel to 1999’s The Mummy and 2001 sequel The Mummy Returns. The franchise also includes 2008’s poorly received The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, which was followed by 2017’s Tom Cruise-led The Mummy reboot. The 1999 movie spawned the 2002 spinoff feature The Scorpion King, marking Dwayne Johnson’s first lead film role. For the 25th anniversary of 1999’s The Mummy, director Sommers told The Hollywood Reporter that he continues to be pleased with the film’s lasting cultural impact. The franchise’s five theatrical features that began with the 1999 offering have surpassed $1.8 billion at the global box office. The 1999 movie centered on treasure hunter Rick heading out on an adventure with Evie and her brother, Jonathan (Hannah), where they accidentally awaken a mummy. “It’s so funny how it just never went away,” said Sommers, who also helmed The Mummy Returns. “It’s always on TV somewhere. And I know, especially because the residual checks are great. I hate to say it, but somehow, it’s endeared itself to a lot of people.”

'As famous and defiant as ever': Why Elizabeth Holmes remains the US's most fascinating fraudster - BBC

Author: Caryn James

Published At: 2026-10-15T10:52:45Z

Description: Once a symbol of tech's promise, Holmes was brought down by her false claims about a blood-testing device. Now gripping new film You Can See Everything explores her baffling character.

Content: Fielder and his co-director, Lance Oppenheim, followed Holmes, her partner, Billy Evans, and their two small children in the weeks just before she reported to prison. Her decision to give them such access seems part of a strenuous attempt to declare her innocence and reform her image. Shortly before going to prison she gave a long interview to the New York Times, resulting in an article widely criticised for being too willing to buy into her reformed, softened image as a "devoted mother" who volunteers at a rape crisis centre. Around the same time, Oppenheim heard that Holmes had reached out to film companies and had talked to A24, he told the New York audience, and he and Fielder met with the company and then with her.

Fontaines D.C.: Dopamine Chamber Album Review - Pitchfork

Author: Shaad D’Souza

Published At: 2026-10-15T04:03:00Z

Description: Read Shaad D’Souza’s review of the album.

Content: Dopamine Chamber, the fifth album by Fontaines D.C., is fueled by a hardwired sense of sadism. The general thrust of the album is right there in the title, but frontman Grian Chatten is savvy enough to know that screaming phone bad is just another performance, like how governments keep blowing past their carbon emission targets, or how all the AI companies are in agreement that somebody should put some limits on this thing. So rather than make an angry record about technology, or a scary one with the sad impotence of a Black Mirror episode, Fontaines have made a seductive one: a sleek stadium-rock record that sparkles like a lab-grown diamond the size of your fist. It whispers directly to its listener, promises we can live for a million years, that you can go on dreamingand that maybe the best thing to do before oblivion is dissociate with a finely crafted pop song. By its end, Dopamine Chamber has promised you the world and hollowed you out, leaving you in the kind of blue-light shame familiar to camgirl addicts or online gamblers: If Chatten and co. push one idea on this album, its that most of us have padded ourselves with vices to the point that its hard to process much of anything anymore. But before they steal your watch, Fontaines have the good manners to show you a few unreal landscapes: Dopamine Chamber evokes ice palaces ruled by hostile monarchs, palatial pan-European jazz clubs, romantic holidays set against the apocalypse. Forget the all-in-this-together spirit that stadium-rock bands, which Fontaines now emphatically are, are supposed to dish out by the truckload: This is cruel, beautiful feel-bad music. No score yet, be the first to add. Bass player Conor Deegan has said that Dopamine Chamber stems, at least in part, from the question: Where do you escape to? True to that, its gorgeously rendered songs can feel a little like potemkin villages masking darker environments. It also emphatically answers the question of the bands last couple of years: Whats the point of Fontaines D.C. in a stadium setting? The five-pieces 2024 record Romance was a commercial success in the UK and Ireland, but a stark departure from the soused post-punk of their first three records as Chatten, Deegan, and bandmates Conor Curley, Tom Coll, and Carlos OConnell took inspiration from Britpop, Lana Del Rey, and the Cure. The sound was big and rapturous, a far cry from the seamy, hyperliterary world of 2022s Skinty Fia. Chattens writing had not lost its essencethat of a witty, wired omniscient narratorbut the album itself didnt necessarily leave Fontaines any room to grow.

R.J. Mitte Remembered by ‘Breaking Bad’ Casting Director Sharon Bialy - The Hollywood Reporter

Author: Sharon Bialy, as told to Scott Feinberg

Published At: 2026-10-15T02:34:37Z

Description: Bialy reflects on the audition, appeal and legacy of the cerebral palsy-afflicted actor, who she and her partner Sherry Thomas brought to the attention of Vince Gilligan, and who died on Oct. 12 at just 34.

Content: Sharon Bialy of Bialy/Thomas & Associates is a revered, Emmy-nominated casting director who is perhaps best known for Breaking Bad, but has also cast many other high-profile projects including The Walking Dead, The Handmaid’s Tale, Barry, Dead to Me and Pluribus. Below, she pays tribute to the actor R.J. Mitte, who died on Oct. 12 at the age of 34. * * * The first time I met R.J. Mitte was when he came in to audition for the role of Walt Jr. on Breaking Bad. Vince Gilligan wrote the character as having cerebral palsy because he’d had a college roommate with that affliction and wanted to pay tribute to him. My partner, Sherry Thomas, and I, and Vince and his producers, Melissa Bernstein and Mark Johnson, were very firm on only casting the part with somebody who had CP. We had never done a search for an actor with cerebral palsy, and we knew we had to search the entire country. We couldn’t just do the standard posting, because we wanted to explain what we were trying to accomplish with the part and the show — that a husband and wife had a son who had cerebral palsy, but it wasn’t really talked about. We reached out to cerebral palsy organizations all across the country, as well as local schools and nonprofits that supported disabilities. I’ve kept notes on my sessions with the actors I have auditioned for every job I’ve ever done, and I just found my notes for Breaking Bad. It was Feb. 23, 2007 when R.J. came in to audition. He was 14 at the time, so he came with his mother. He was repped by a small agency at the time. He might have done a commercial audition or two, but he was very green, so we spent a lot of time together working on the scene, because he hadn’t had an opportunity for a role this big. It didn’t matter that he’d never done anything before, because he was so joyful and happy to be there. He was completely open to playing with the scene, and after the audition he was willing to talk about the struggles he’d gone through as someone dealing with cerebral palsy. He’d had years of physical therapy in order to be able to walk without crutches, and years of speech therapy in order to be able to be understood. We filled Vince in on his personal history. We ended up seeing approximately 20 actors before narrowing it down to two. We flew both R.J. and the other actor out to New Mexico because Vince was already there in pre-production, so they both read with Bryan Cranston and Anna Gunn. After that, there was quite a bit of discussion, because it wasn’t a matter of one actor being better than the other — they were quite different from each other, and there were a lot of things taken into consideration. I felt strongly about R.J. for a variety of reasons. One plus was that he was so good-looking. I remember saying to Vince, “How great would it be if he was on the cover of Teen Beat magazine, a young actor with cerebral palsy?” The other actor may have been a little harder to understand. Vince’s writing was so beautiful, and we wanted to make sure that the audience would be able to hear all the dialogue. Eventually, Vince told R.J. directly that the part was his. But we also called R.J. and his mom to celebrate. Over the years, we stayed in touch with R.J. as best we could. Because Breaking Bad was shot on location in New Mexico, we didn’t spend much time on set; I would see him when we went to New Mexico, but most of our interactions were at Emmys parties and things like that. And during one hiatus from the show, we also cast him in a guest spot on the TV show Vegas. It was incredibly meaningful when, in 2011, Sherry and I were honored with the Media Access Award for fostering opportunities for actors with disabilities, and R.J. presented it to us. We didn’t get to spend as much time with him as the rest of the Breaking Bad family, who are just gutted, but we spent enough time with him to get to know and love him. The fact that he took his own life came as a big surprise to most of us. But given how hard life is today for all actors, I can only imagine how much harder it must have been for an actor with a disability, especially one who went from being a series regular on an amazing show with amazing people, to then having to go back out there and fight tooth and nail again just to be able to do what you love. When people think of R.J., I hope they will remember how talented he was, how he overcame so many struggles, how he approached everything with joy and fearlessness, and how he advocated for other people with disabilities to be considered for roles of all sorts. I know that I will remember all of that, and his million-megawatt smile. If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988.

VisionQuest Episode 3 Clip Teases Twisted Family Dynamics As New Poster Hints At Ultron's Plan - ComicBookMovie.com

Author: JoshWilding

Published At: 2026-10-14T20:10:00Z

Description: VisionQuest Episode 3 Clip Teases Twisted Family Dynamics As New Poster Hints At Ultron's Plan

Content: The first clip from episode 3 of VisionQuest, "Reboot," has been revealed, and it finds Vision attempting to calm down a very inquisitive and understandably angry Tommy Shepard.  Complicating matters is the fact that a killer drone is honing in on their location; there's also the small matter of the AIs inside Vision's head making their opinions known. E.D.I.T.H., Dum-E, and U show up, as does the ever-snarky Ultron (with a killer line about why Dum-E is his "favourite"). Marvel Studios has also released a new poster for VisionQuest, hinting at Ultron's influence over his son. There may be no strings on him, but it certainly looks as if he'd like to attach some to the synthezoid that resides in the body once meant to be his.  The second episode of the Disney+ series showed a particularly brutal side to the White Vision, something Paul Bettany addressed during a recent interview with GamesRadar+.  "When we find Vision, he has had his memories restored, but he seems unable or perhaps unwilling to attach any feelings to them, and I think that's a really human thing to do," the actor explained. "It was fun to think of him getting frustrated because I don't think we've ever seen that." "I think we've seen Vision be quite measured and contained, and to see him get angry in yes, ruthless ways, but also later on in sort of funny, frustrated ways with potentially his son in a situation that we will all recognize, like a father teaching their son to drive or whatever, just being really frustrated with them. It was really fun to play or have all of these new experiences for Vision and different facets of him." Check out this new VisionQuest clip and poster below.  Vision must unravel the mystery of whether or not Thomas Shepherd is his son in this clip from VisionQuest, streaming on Disney+. #IGNFanFest ">https://t.co/XXhOuE9mxo IGN (@IGN) October 14, 2026 > status: SYSTEM COMPROMISED Stream the first two episodes of Marvel Televisions #VisionQuest now, only on Disney+. ">https://t.co/M7PxJKAyp6 Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) October 14, 2026 In our review, we concluded, "Paul Bettany and James Spader are masterful in VisionQuest, a staggering achievement by Marvel Studios and Terry Matalas that understands its characters, does right by them, and delivers one of the best MCU stories ever told." In VisionQuest, Vision, rebooted and having escaped from those who sought to weaponise him, has been in hiding. Searching for new meaning, he consults the AI personas embedded in his programming, including F.R.I.D.A.Y., E.D.I.T.H., J.A.R.V.I.S., and the infamous Ultron. His discreet existence ends when a bounty placed on his head thrusts him on the run with Thomas Shepard, a mysterious boy who may be Vision's son, reincarnated. As Vision evades capture, he must confront his nature, resist Ultron's influence, and unravel the enigma that is his young companion if hes to survive. VisionQuest stars Paul Bettany, James Spader, Ruaridh Mollica, Todd Stashwick, T'Nia Miller, Lauren Morais, Orla Brady, Diane Morgan, Polly Frame, Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, with Emily Hampshire and James D'Arcy. The series premieres on Disney+ on October 14.