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The iconic scream queen finishes off John Carpenter’s legendary “Halloween” franchise with David Gordon Green’s final trilogy installment “Halloween Ends,” out October 14. Curtis will play Laurie Strode one final time after hunting Haddonfield serial killer Michael Myers for 44 years across 13 films. “It was deeply emotional and cathartic,” Curtis told Salon about parting ways with the character. “I mean, when you call her a final girl — I never really understood how important that name was until I made this last movie....

As Season 1 enters its second half, let’s look at the pros and cons of Episodes 1-6 to better assess how HBO’s latest juggernaut can get even better (and bigger?) from here. Episode 6 “The Princess and the Queen” jumps ahead more than any other so far, catching up with Alicent and Rhaenyra around 10 years after Episode 5, with the characters now played by Olivia Cooke and Emma D’Arcy. A lot has happened since Rhaenyra’s wedding, yet somehow not much at all....

“House of the Dragon” has no problem keeping it all in the family when it comes to romantic relationships. The now-infamous (and viral) scene between Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (Milly Alcock) and her uncle Daemon Targaryen (Matt Smith) at a brothel was long in the making with an intimacy coordinator on set for the “Game of Thrones” prequel series. And while Rhaenyra and Daemon are literally niece and uncle in the series, their steamy kiss has led to fans shipping the inevitable couple who seek to keep the Targaryen bloodline pure....

“I was 100 perfect working on a specific lens for each feeling,” Peters said. “So we have three sets of lenses and two or three separate special lenses that radiates throughout the series.” For the opening of the show, where we meet Ptolemy puttering around his cluttered apartment, Peters used a set of “Falcon” lenses from L.A. shop Camtec, which Peters explained retain a high level of sharpness but don’t pop a lot of color....

It starts, as so many horrible things do, without even a glimmer of the terror to come. Young wife and mother Reem (Masa Abd Elhadi) has stopped by her friend Huda’s (Manal Awad) salon to get her hair styled, maybe even cut. The two chat easily about all manner of things, from the trouble of Facebook to the latest drama with a frenemy from the neighborhood. Reem’s charming baby Lina fusses nearby, she mentions problems with her untrusting husband, and Huda fixes her a cup of coffee to enjoy while getting a trim....

The “Avatar: The Way of Water” director defended the label that the long-awaited “Avatar” sequel is a typical “family story from Disney.” With a whopping three-plus hour runtime, Cameron explained that the film dives deeper into the parental dynamics between Jake (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) and their shared civic duty with Pandora. The couple are now also parents to five children, a mix of biological and adopted kids. “People say, ‘Oh my God, a family story from Disney?...

“You know, they talked about having Gandolfini at one point replace him,” Gandolfini told Gervais (via Insider). “Did you know that?” Schirripa added, “I think before James Spader and after [Steve] Carell, they offered [Gandolfini], I want to say, $4 million to play him for the season — and HBO paid him $3 million not to do it. That’s a fact.” When Carell decided to leave “The Office” at the end of season seven, high profile guest stars such as James Spader joined the series playing characters that served as the replacement for Carell’s Michael Scott....