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Four years after the first film broke box office records, Jon M. Chu’s follow-up has found a new writer to replace screenwriters Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim. Deadline confirmed that Warner Bros. and Color Force have tapped Chinese-Australian writer Amy Wang to pen the sequel, which will star Constance Wu and Henry Golding. Wang is a story editor on Netflix’s “Brothers Sun,” and has also worked on “From Scratch.” Additionally, Wang is also writing and directing a horror film for Paramount Players/QC Entertainment....

Well, if “Cruella” leading lady Emma Stone has any say, she’s hoping it’ll be the Sea Witch, Ursula, from Disney’s “The Little Mermaid.” The response came via a recent interview with Stone at Variety. “She’s an octopus and the world you would get to live in, like Ursula’s parents and what happened there,” Stone said. “You’ve never really seen a non-human Disney villain be explored in that way.” Ursula will be seeing the remake treatment in some form....

“Dave” stars David Andrew Byrd, AKA Lil Dicky, who co-created the series alongside Jeff Schaffer. The show is executive produced by the pair along with Saladin K. Patterson, Ben Sinclair, Luvh Rakhe, Kevin Hart and Hartbeat Productions, Scooter Braun, Greg Mottola, Marty Bowen, Mike Hertz, and SB Projects’ James Shin and Scott Manson. The series is produced by FX Productions. Season 2’s guest stars include CL, Kendall Jenner, Hailey Bieber, Benny Blanco, Kyle Kuzma, Doja Cat, J Balvin, Rae Sremmurd (Swae Lee & Slim Jxmmi), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lil Yachty, Lil Nas X, Kevin Hart and more....

“You know, what happened was I’ve turned down many versions of ‘The Exorcist 2.’ I’ve said no every time,” Burstyn said. “This time they offered me a whole bunch of money and I still said no. And then they surprised me and they came back and said, ‘We doubled the offer.’ I said, ‘OK, let me think about this.’ I thought, ‘That’s a lot of money. Let me think about it....

But since the series ended in 2004 those who once dreamed of having Carrie Bradshaw’s (Sarah Jessica Parker) life are realizing it wasn’t a bed of roses. The show’s been criticized for its lack of racial diversity, despite being set in New York, as well as its dated depictions of the queer community. It’s a series of traits that have followed Star onto his other projects, including his most recent success “Younger,” which has also been critiqued for lacking characters of color....

The March production start date means Season 2 will begin filming exactly a year later than planned. Cameras were about to begin rolling on “Euphoria” Season 2 in March 2020 when the pandemic forced the entire industry into shutdown mode. Levinson and his Emmy-winning “Euphoria” actress Zendaya pivoted to writing and filming “Malcolm & Marie” as the start date on “Euphoria” Season 2 continued to be delayed. To ease the pain of the long hiatus, the “Euphoria” crew filmed two special bridge episodes (one centered around Zendaya’s Rue, the other centered around Hunter Schafer’s Jules), both of which are now streaming on HBO Max....

Where to Watch ‘Everything’s Gonna Be Okay’: Hulu (The series originally aired on Freeform.) The pilot for “Everything’s Gonna Be Okay” is still a marvel. What it accomplishes in such a short time — setting up a new family dynamic between Nicholas (Josh Thomas) and his two younger half-sisters (Kayla Cromer and Maeve Press) after their father dies unexpectedly — is paired so expertly with a perfect balance in tone. It’s more than your standard “there’s comedy in every tragedy” premise, where characters laugh through their grief....