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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS Reveals Groovy Characters Posters and Season Episode Titles
We are a mere month away from the season three premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount+. And it's been a long wait for fans, as the 2023 Writer's Guild Strike halted production of the third season. This resulted in a two-year delay since the season two cliffhanger ending. But on July 17, Captain Pike and the Enterprise crew return at last for new adventures exploring the Final Frontier. Paramount+ has released a series of all-new character posters for the season spotlighting the bridge crew. You can check them all out in our gallery below: Click To View Gallery These images of the Strange New Worlds cast are very reminiscent of cover art for Star Trek novels of the '70's and '80s. Back then, fans had to wait years between movies, and watch endless reruns of the original series on TV. So the novels thrived, giving Trekkers their regular fix of new adventures. Were they canon? No, but fans ate them up anyway. And many of those novels had groovy painted covers by iconic fantasy/sci-fi artists like Boris Vallejo. These Strange New Worlds posters give us all the retro feels. Additionally, Paramount+ has also revealed the episode titles for all ten episodes of season three. 'The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail' appears to be Spock-centric, as a Sehlat was his pet on Vulcan as a child. Speaking of Vulcans, another episode is 'Four-And-A-Half-Vulcans,' which is probably the episode previewed at Comic-Con last year, where the human crew is transformed into logical Vulcans. The final episode of the season is titled 'New Life and New Civilizations,' which is of course part of the iconic opening spoken-word intro since the days of William Shatner. We'll have to wait and see how it ties into the 60-year legacy of Star Trek. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season three premieres on Paramount+ with two episodes on July 17.
Mint
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Mint
Most scandalous Oscar moments in history that sent shockwaves through Hollywood
Most scandalous Oscar moments in history that sent shockwaves through Hollywood| In Photos 5 Photos . Updated: 07 Jun 2025, 09:41 AM IST Share Via The Academy Awards have seen their fair share of jaw-dropping and headline-grabbing moments, including controversial wins, shocking snubs, and more. 1/5Screenwriter Dudley Nichol grabbed headlines for becoming the first person to decline an Oscar. He turned down the Best Screenwriter award for The Informer in a show of solidarity with the Writers Guild, which was on strike at the time. (Pinterest ) 2/5In 1942, How Green Was My Valley won Best Picture over Citizen Kane, a film that critics would later hail as one of the greatest movies ever made. (Pinterest ) 3/5Elizabeth Taylor's Oscar win in 1961 came amid intense public scrutiny following her affair with Eddie Fisher, who was then married to America's sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds. She won for Butterfield 8, in which she portrayed a character she herself referred to as the slut of all time. (Pinterest ) 4/5Katharine Hepburn won for her portrayal of Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter. At the same time, Barbra Streisand took home the award for her debut performance in Funny Girl at the 1969 Oscars. However, with Hepburn absent from the ceremony, Streisand had the spotlight all to herself. (Pinterest )
Los Angeles Times
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Erin Foster nearly gave up writing. How ‘Nobody Wants This' brought her back
I didn't write for about three years before I wrote the pilot for 'Nobody Wants This.' Not a single page of anything. When I met my now-husband, Simon, I was about to turn 36 and I had just finished working on a pilot that I wrote for Fox called 'Daddy Issues.' It had been a big project for me, and after it got shot, and then not picked up to series, I needed a little break. In that time, my sister and I started some other business ventures. We worked for the dating app Bumble, we started investing in companies, and writing got further away from me. So when I met Simon and we fell in love and started our relationship, I didn't feel emotionally ready to dive back into my writing brain, where I usually dissected everything tragic and comedic about my dating life. This relationship felt different. I wanted to protect it. Also, I didn't really know what to write about. There was nothing funny about being in the first healthy and dependable relationship of my life. There was nothing entertaining about our successful dates or my family loving him. I wondered if maybe the tap had run dry, if the saying was true: being happy is not inspiring. When people asked what I did for a living, I would tell them 'I'm a writer,' because that's what I always wanted to be, and I had been a writer in the past, and my health insurance was through the Writers Guild. That made it feel very official. But when I said it, I felt like a fraud. I most certainly wasn't writing anything. I would wake up in the middle of the night with terrifying thoughts that can only come to you in your sleep — that I had done nothing with my life professionally. That I was officially a loser with a wonderful boyfriend. So my wonderful boyfriend proposed to me in August 2018, and I said, 'Yes, of course.' We decided to throw a New Year's Eve wedding, which meant we had four months to plan. This meant that I didn't have a lot of time to convert to Judaism before the wedding. This was something that came up casually the first time Simon and I ever hung out. He stated clearly that he would need to marry someone Jewish, and I made a mental note: Let him know, also very casually, that I am available to convert. All my friends growing up in L.A. were Jewish. They make great husbands, I knew all about it. Sign me up. I'm 36 years old in L.A., and a great guy with a full head of hair and no selfies in front of private planes wants to marry me. So I found a temple that had an eight-week course. I was hooked at the first meeting, where the rabbi told us that he expected us to take the class together. He said that these classes weren't for me to learn how to be Jewish for Simon. They were for us to take together to decide how we wanted our marriage to look and how we wanted our household to feel. To decide what we cared about and what we disagreed on. Once again, sign me up. It was in the middle of conversion classes when I was telling my manager and producing partner, Oly Obst, about the fascinating people I was meeting there and how different everyone's stories were. Then he looked at me and said, 'That's a show.' I totally agreed with him but wondered who would write it, since I had forgotten how to write. We cobbled together a rough pitch for 20th Century Fox, a studio I had worked with before that had always supported my ideas. They bought it in the room. Every time I talked about the idea, people seemed to click into it very easily. Falling in love later in life, two people from different worlds trying to make it work. Jewish, non-Jewish. It seemed clean. When I finally sat down to start writing it, I was so nervous. I was positive I had lost my touch. No chance I still know how to do this. But after a few dusty runs at a few scenes, it started to come to me. I wanted to create a male lead who was warm and funny and honest and romantic, someone who could handle a strong and complicated woman. A couple who we would really believe could be together in the real world. I wanted to tell the story of all the interesting things that happen in a good relationship and how hard it can be to be with someone who wants to be with you too. It became so clear who these two people were and what connected them. Once the pilot was finally written (and it wasn't fast), we took it out to sell it. Every. Single. Network. Passed. Every one of them! Pass. Pass. Pass. Pass. 'We don't see where it goes.' 'There's not enough conflict.' 'It feels small.' I was about to head back to Loserville. Time to brush up on the recipes I had learned during COVID. We just had one last pitch to Netflix. A pipe dream. I was so dejected by that point, I didn't even let myself get nervous about the response, because I was ready for the last and final rejection. But … spoiler alert, they bought it! I was officially a real writer.
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Suspended Writers Guild West Member Reacts to Strike Discipline Vote: 'This Was Never, Ever a Clear-Cut Case'
On Friday, the results of a Writers Guild of America West vote over discipline for members accused of breaking strike rules signaled a divided union, at least on this issue. In the cases of three writers, disciplinary measures initially decided by the union's board were upheld, but by tight margins (between 52 and nearly 55 percent). A fourth writer's 'public censure' sentence over a Facebook post considered offensive was overturned in favor of an alternative action, months after the union publicly admonished the member, with 62 percent voting to throw out the punishment. More from The Hollywood Reporter Trump Finds His Class War Wedge Issue in Hollywood: Movie Tariffs What Donald Trump Is Really After With Movie Tariffs Teamsters Cheer Trump's Movie Tariffs, Rip Studios For "Fleeing" America Julie Bush, a union member for roughly 15 years since she got her card through Sons of Anarchy, was one of the members whose discipline was confirmed by the proceedings on Friday. On May 22, weeks after the 2023 writers' strike began, Bush sent a non-signatory company a revision of a pilot she had written. Writers are forbidden by the union's Working Rule 8 from working with non-signatory companies, but Bush says the company had promised it would eventually become a signatory and she was working with the union to make that happen. Once the work stoppage began, strike rules dictated that union members couldn't work for struck companies, which the company wasn't at that point. Bush has said she 'deeply regret[s]' sending the script, which created 'confusion and hurt regarding guild rules;' the union called it 'scab writing.' Eventually, a five-member trial committee and the union's board didn't find Bush guilty of breaking strike rules. Instead, Bush was disciplined for engaging in conduct 'prejudicial to the welfare of the guild' (an infringement of an article in the union's constitution) and of writing for a non-signatory company. She was sentenced by the board to a suspension until 2026 and was permanently forbidden for holding non-elected office in the union, a harsher punishment than the one that the trial committee initially recommended. Now, members have voted to ratify that temporary exile. In an interview, Bush discussed why she decided to file an appeal in the first place, her feelings about the close results and why she's planning on reporting recent proceedings to the Department of Labor and National Labor Relations Board. The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to the WGA West for comment. What is your initial reaction to today's results? I'm obviously disappointed. The guild [has been] my main community since I first got to L.A. with a dream, and I continue to love these people and the guild. I had received so many wonderful messages that I guess I sort of fooled myself into thinking that I would prevail. So I'm pretty upset right now, I'll be honest. And I'm surprised and upset and disappointed. But the way that the Guild has evolved in recent years, they've sort of become this kind of top-down, authoritarian structure where no dissent will be brooked. Everybody has to march one way. And so in a way, I shouldn't be surprised at all. I really do feel like that's what this is all about, and I feel like that's what drove this outcome. I'm wondering if you can respond to the vote tally that the Writers Guild provided, because in your case and others the results were close. In my case, the actual vote was 745 in favor of upholding and 686 in favor of restoring the trial committee's decision. That's the difference of just 59 votes. I have never in all my years in the guild — that's 10 years as a full, current, active member — seen a guild vote come in at less than 90 percent one direction. This is almost a literal 50-50 tie. So I just told Van Robichaux, who was the wonderful guild member who represented me through this entire ordeal for free, in an act of incredible solidarity, 'I hope that you are very proud of what you have done here.' Because this is a great act of David and Goliath here that he and I undertook. So I believe that this marks a turning point. I believe that guild members are ready for a change, and I think that that's what this vote is signaling. Why did you decided to appeal the ruling in your case — what thinking went into that? When they were first making noise about charging me, I couldn't believe it because I knew that it was questionable, very debatable whether I had broken any rules. I knew from the start that I had not broken any strike rules, and that was actually confirmed by the trial committee, and I knew that it was debatable and questionable whether I had even broken Working Rule 8. And so the fact that the SRCC [Strike Rules Compliance Committee] even indicted me to the board, that the board recommended me to the trial committee, at each step, I was surprised because I didn't think I had broken any rules and I honestly believe that each of those groups didn't understand the rules clearly. I think that this was a case of these groups being just so eager to find any scapegoat so that they could take somebody to the membership to be like, 'See, see, we got somebody.' This was just never, ever a clear-cut case of me doing anything wrong, ever. Can you explain the 'alternative action' that you proposed as your punishment and why you felt that was appropriate? What the board came up with in their new appeals process that they completely invented, which was not part of the [guild] constitution, they said to me, 'You need to propose your own alternative action that the members will vote on.' And so I said, okay, so I'm going to participate in this new imaginary, made-up process, under protest, because I was afraid that if I didn't participate that I would then waive my right to appeal. So I submitted the specific language of my alternative action. I was very careful with how I worded it because as writer, we understand that the wording of language, particularly in something this heated, is very important. In my memory, the way I worded it was something like, 'Restore the decision of the trial committee: A private letter of censure and three-year ban from serving as a captain.' That was the exact punishment that the trial committee handed down to me. The problem is that when I actually saw the ballot that the election department submitted to the membership to vote on, they stripped that important context from the language of my alternative action [that this was the original punishment proposed by the trial committee]. So then they just had it saying, 'Julie Bush's alternative action is private letter of censure and three-year ban on serving as captain.' And then I actually saw members debating it in the private WGA Facebook group, and they were actually saying, 'Why did she want to be a captain so badly if she doesn't even understand the rules?' And the entire point is that's not the punishment I made up for myself; that's the punishment the trial committee assigned for me. So the election department stripping away that language, it actually makes a big difference. Has your view on the guild changed since undergoing this process? Yes, definitely. I used to be one of those people that completely 100 percent backs the board, whatever the board says, I'm your soldier. And I just don't feel that way anymore. I've just really come to realize that they don't necessarily know what they're doing and that they don't even know the rules that well, and that while they purport to be experts in these matters, they're just not, and they don't even know the laws that well. What are your next steps following today's result? We're going directly to the Department of Labor and the NLRB. I'm going to send them everything I have and sort of let them determine exactly what to call what's happened here. Anything else you'd like to add? The message I just want to convey is I have wanted to be a writer my entire life; this is my identity. This experience has been absolutely devastating for me. Getting into the guild was one of the best things that happened to me my entire life, and I can't believe this has happened to me. It's been absolutely devastating, horrifying, crushing. It will take me years to get over this, if ever. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. 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Business Upturn
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Upturn
The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3: Release date, cast and plot details – Everything we know so far
By Aman Shukla Published on April 25, 2025, 18:30 IST Last updated April 25, 2025, 11:01 IST The highly anticipated third and final season of The Summer I Turned Pretty is set to captivate fans with its heartfelt drama, nostalgic summer vibes, and the resolution of Belly's iconic love triangle. Based on Jenny Han's bestselling novel trilogy, the Amazon Prime Video series has become a cultural phenomenon, especially among young adults. As we gear up for the last chapter at Cousins Beach, here's everything you need to know about The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3, including its release date, cast, plot details, and more. Release Date for The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 is slated to premiere on July 16, 2025, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. This marks a two-year gap since Season 2, which aired in July 2023, largely due to delays from the 2023 Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Unlike previous seasons, which had seven and eight episodes, Season 3 will feature a supersized 11 episodes, making it the longest season yet. The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 Cast The core cast is returning to bring the emotional story to life. Here's who you can expect to see in Season 3: Lola Tung as Isabel 'Belly' Conklin, the protagonist navigating her love for the Fisher brothers. Christopher Briney as Conrad Fisher, the brooding older brother who's been a central figure in Belly's heart. Gavin Casalegno as Jeremiah Fisher, the charming younger brother and Belly's current partner. Sean Kaufman as Steven Conklin, Belly's supportive older brother. Rain Spencer as Taylor, Belly's loyal best friend. Jackie Chung as Laurel Park, Belly's mother and a key figure in the family dynamics. Plot Details for The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 Season 3 will adapt We'll Always Have Summer , the third book in Jenny Han's trilogy, with a two-year time jump. The story picks up with Belly in college, now in a committed relationship with Jeremiah. The pair attend Finch College together, where Belly plays volleyball, and their romance is described as sweet and rooted in their lifelong friendship. However, a major event—Jeremiah's infidelity—shakes their relationship, forcing Belly to confront her feelings. The summer i turned pretty Aman Shukla is a post-graduate in mass communication . A media enthusiast who has a strong hold on communication ,content writing and copy writing. Aman is currently working as journalist at
