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One of the big reveals on the 2025 TV schedule so far is Sacha Baron Cohen officially joining the MCU as the supervillain Mephisto in Ironheart. Following his arrival in the Disney+ series earlier this month, the Borat actor is pulling a popular Marvel actor move and showing off a truly insane body transformation. (Take

Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan aren’t friends anymore, but the former doesn’t hesitate to give his former pal credit wherever it’s due. The past several years have seen Barkley not only talk up Jordan’s skills on the basketball court but also defend him from Scottie Pippen’s criticisms. His Airness came up during another discussion that

I know that Ted Lasso Season 4 is in the works, but there’s been a Jason Sudeikis-sized hole in my heart ever since this show’s divisive third season concluded in May 2023. Though I love Shrinking and other great shows available with an Apple TV+ subscription, I’ve spent the past couple of years looking for

Sex and the City is a HBO show that got people talking, and it’s remained a vital part of pop culture for decades. It’s spinoff, And Just Like That, is in the midst of Season 3 for those with a Max subscription, and I religiously watch every Thursday. The season has been fun, but if

There is something so infectious about a dance sequence that, even in movies and TV shows in which they occur pretty much out of nowhere and, in theory, should not work, they still do in most cases. In fact, some of the most iconic and beloved numbers in pop culture history do not even come

The box office can be a pretty exciting horse race to follow, even if you’re just focusing on the here and now. So far on the 2025 movie schedule, we’ve seen two weekends of Superman’s box office deliver #1 finishes, nabbing a handful of milestones along the way. Two more notable thresholds can now be

Warning: MAJOR SPOILERS for The Sandman Season 2, Volume 2 are ahead! Although The Sandman doesn’t technically end until the bonus episode “Death: The High Cost of Living” is released to fans who have a Netflix subscription, the series’ main storyline has now concluded. For the most part, these final episodes of The Sandman Season

Such is the power of FNAF’s animatronics that not even M3GAN 2.0 could avoid references to the upcoming video game adaptation sequel in its own marketing. Now we finally know what the second coming of Freddy Fazbear will look like thanks to Blumhouse unleashing the first Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 trailer on an unsuspecting

If you’re a fan of Disney, you’ve obviously heard of the best Pixar films or many of the upcoming MCU movies. The two franchises may be the corporation’s primary moneymakers. However, I must admit that I never really found much overlap between the two. That makes some sense. It’s animation versus live-action; why would there

Celebrity deaths have a way of breaking the internet, as fans and loved ones collectively mourn. The Cosby Show star Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s death is definitely that category, and details about his drowning are still trickling out. The latest report offers more context about what happened, and revealed that a surfer managed to save the late

Warning! The following contains spoilers for the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode “Shuttle To Kenfori.” Stream it with a Paramount+ subscription and read at your own risk! After a fun two-episode premiere, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds‘ third installment seemingly resolved one of the most controversial plot lines of Season 2. “Under The Cloak

Massive spoilers ahead for the new I Know What You Did Last Summer movie! The horror genre’s renaissance is showing no signs of slowing down, to the delight of fans like me. Some of the best horror movies returned with new sequels, including the new I Know What You Did Last Summer. The sequel was

In many cases, a satisfying story sees the protagonist undergo a dramatic change. Sometimes, this means the character adopts new personality traits, for better or worse, but there are also some notable instances in which they change from the outside, often in wild and even unsettling ways. If you have the stomach for it, come

Adam Sanlder is a Swiftie, like many of us, and I love that for him so much. He’s such a big fan, in fact, that he said he could be a “professional” Taylor Swift fan. However, she’s not the only pop star he has gushed about. Recently, the Happy Gilmore 2 star also had some

The Survivor 50 players have been back from Fiji for a few weeks now. They’re all obviously on very aggressive NDAs and can’t speak about the results of what happened, but they have been approved to make innocuous social media posts and give interviews to hype other projects. I’ve mostly tuned these comments out, but

The era of Hulkamania may never truly end, but its founding father is sadly no longer with us. One of the biggest and most influential pro wrestlers in the history of sports-entertainment, Terry Bollea — better known to fans around the world as Hulk Hogan — is dead. The WWE Hall of Famer was 71

Those of you who regularly read The King Beat are already well-aware that 2025 has been a special blessing for Stephen King fans. A little over half-way through the year, we’ve seen the release of two new King movies (The Monkey and The Life Of Chuck) and the debut of a new King TV show

Spoiler alert! This story discusses the Season 4 premiere of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, which aired on July 23. Stream the episode with a Hulu subscription if you don’t want to know how the celebs did. A new season of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is underway on the 2025 TV schedule,

We’ve come a long way with movie magic. CGI technology and filmmaking techniques have made anything on the big screen possible. However, occasionally directors decide to go the practical route, as sometimes technology doesn’t capture a moment the same way tangible effects do. This was the case in Pete Davidson’s upcoming horror movie, The Home,

The mystery genre has continued to hold its own in pop culture today, with hits like Only Murders in the Building skyrocketing in popularity. And, arguably, Rian Johnson’s 2019 Knives Out started this new wave of whodunits. Among his star-studded cast was, of course, the veteran of all things thrilling, top scream queen, Jamie Lee

Most actors would probably agree that getting started in the business can be difficult. One thing, however, that can help tremendously is landing guest roles on television shows, like the many that appear on the 2025 TV schedule. This is exactly one of the ways that Emmy winner/Oscar nominee Sterling K. Brown made a living

Watch Under The Bridge online Swipe to scroll horizontally Watch Under The Bridge: Preview True crime fans won’t want to miss this gripping eight-part drama. Starring a talented cast led by Academy Award-nominee Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon), it delves into the real-life murder of 14-year-old Reena Virk in British Columbia by a

For some, the crop of 2025 movies from July could be summed up with a word: “SuperFantastic.” So maybe that’s more of a portmanteau, but with DC and Marvel putting forth hopeful narratives of optimism, that means you have to have some pretty nasty villains for balance. The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Ralph Ineson and

There’s no arguing the impact that Christopher Meloni continues to make on the 2025 TV schedule — and pop culture as a whole — after over two decades of playing detective Elliot Stabler on Law & Order: SVU and Organized Crime. However, Meloni’s got something new in the works, as he’s set to portray an

While masked killers in horror movies are able to return time and again without much worrying about the ages of the costumed performers, it’s a wholly different ball game for actors whose faces become synonymous with the characters. Such as it goes for Doug Bradley, who entered horror history’s hallowed halls as Hellraiser’s key Cenobite,

From his role in Perks of Being A Wallflower and Percy Jackson, Logan Lerman has been what we call an “internet boyfriend” for over a decade now, and he continues to claim that title with a new performance in upcoming 2025 movies like Oh, Hi!. But I certainly didn’t expect the actor’s recent reaction to

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a well-oiled machine at this point, one that constantly releases new content in theaters and streaming with a Disney+ subscription. While OG fans have spent years watching the Marvel movies in order, the younger generations weren’t alive to were very young when it all began with Iron Man in 2008.

Being a celebrity doesn’t make you immune to being cut from a 2025 movie like Happy Gilmore 2. Much like John Malkovich’s deletion from The Fantastic Four: First Steps, there’s a new entry on the list of cut content fans are going to want to see. Sadly, WWE superstar Nikki Garcia is the latest actor

When it comes to upcoming video game movies, there are few that I’m looking forward to seeing more than Simon McQuoid’s Mortal Kombat II. Set for release near the end of the 2025 movie schedule, the latest adaptation of one of my favorite games looks like it’ll have everything I want in a Mortal Kombat

I can’t believe we have to wait until the end of the 2025 TV schedule to catch the second season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, because wow, does it look good! San Diego Comic-Con’s Hall H panel for the show just happened, and it concluded with the first trailer that gives us a taste