“Scream 8” moving forward with writers behind canceled “Buffy” revival

TheScreamfranchise is bringing in new blood for its eighth installment.

Nora Zuckerman and Lilla Zuckerman will write the screenplay forScream 8,Entertainment Weeklyhas learned. Deadline firstreportedthe news.Kevin Williamson, who directedScream 7and wrote four of the series' installments including the 1996 original, will not return to penScream 8.

The Zuckerman sisters recently served as the showrunners for Peacock'sPoker Face. They previously worked on shows likeAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,Prodigal Son,Suits,Haven,Human Target, andFringe.Scream 8will mark their first theatrical film project, though Nora wrote the 2008 TV movieNightmare at the End of the Hall.

The Zuckermans' names also should sound familiar toBuffy the Vampire Slayerfans, as they were heavily involved with the show's now-shelved revival,New Sunnydale. The siblings penned and executive produced the pilot for the proposedHuluseries, which broughtSarah Michelle Gellarback to play the title role and featuredNomadlandOscar winnerChloé Zhaoin the director's chair. However, Hulu ultimately pulled the plug on the project after production on the pilot was completed.

The Zuckermans will be the first women to write for theScreamfilm series, which has primarily revolved around female protagonists like Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera).

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Scream 7was originally set to star Barrera andJenna Ortega, who were both introduced in 2022'sScream(the fifth installment). However, Barrera wasfired after expressing her views about the Israel-Hamas war, and Ortegaexited the filmbecause "it was all kind of falling apart." DirectorChristopher Landonthen departed the project after the cast shake-up.

After all of those developments, Campbell — who sat outScream VIdue to a pay dispute —announcedthat she and Williamson were returning to the franchise withScream 7.

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Despite garnering the worst reviews of the series by a significant margin (it currently holds a 31% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 35/100 score on MetaCritic),Scream 7is now the highest-grossing entry in the franchise with over $200 million at the global box office to date.

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Eddie Cibrian Makes Appearance in Surprise Role on ‘High Potential’ Before Season Finale

Eddie Cibrianmade a surprise appearance in the newest episode ofHigh Potential— but did everyone catch his scenes?

During the Tuesday, March 31, episode of the hit ABC series, Cibrianhad a cameo as the mayorof Los Angeles. He originally resisted having Morgan (Kaitlin Olson) on the case but eventually shared evidence with her to help with the investigation.

According to the synopsis, "Wagner joins Morgan and the team on a hunt for the crew behind a series of heists ripping through elite private vaults." They then "uncover a far more dangerous endgame a looming cyberattack that could cripple Los Angeles' core infrastructure."

The police procedural, which premiered in September 2024,follows a high-potential intellectual— Morgan — who teams up with the LAPD to help solve murders. She gets paired up with a police officer, who is initially skeptical about Morgan's involvement with the Major Crimes unit but ultimately starts to rely on her.

Which 'High Potential' Stars Are — And Aren't — Returning for Season 2 After Several Plot Twists

Season 2 picked up with the confirmation that Morgan's ex Roman was still alive after going missing for more than a decade. The only information Morgan — and all ofUs— have is that her ex worked as an FBI informant and doesn't trust the LAPD.

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"It's a pretty bumpy ride. We're going to start unpacking some pretty intense things with Morgan, as it relates to all things Roman. There are all kinds of trials and tribulations that are going to happen with the kids at home," showrunner Todd Harthan teased to Us Weekly at the time. "It's just going to get messy and complicated — hopefully in all the best ways so that the audience stays on the edge of their seats."

He continued: "Our job now as we get to the back half of the second season is to fill in some of the big blanks and progress some of the relationships. You're going to see some intense things happen between Steve Howey's character and Captain Wagner really starts to bloom in the back half. That causes some good soapy messes on multiple fronts. It's just our normal MO of just trying to mix things up and keep the audience engaged and keep them guessing."

Everything to Know About High Potential's Supersized Season 2 After Major Twist

Harthan also expressed excitementat more guest stars.

"One of the wonderful things about this particular season is now that the show is doing really well, the choices we've had for casting have been incredible," he shared. "In the back half, you're going to see some really exciting guest stars."

Harthan concluded: "We have this wonderful main cast and we're trying to recruit — just like with Steve Howey. These actors have been just incredible. They can come into our show and hang with our wonderful cast and just add their own flavor to our world. It's been exciting and you'll see there's some really cool people popping in."

High Potentialreturns to ABC Tuesday, January 6, at 9 p.m. ET. The show is streaming on Hulu.

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“Brady Bunch” star Mike Lookinland says he went 'off the rails' after the show ended

Mike Lookinlandneeded a break after playing youngest brother Bobby on five seasons of the squeaky clean family sitcomThe Brady Bunch. And he took it.

"I lived my childhood in my 20s, because I couldn't when I was a child," Lookinland said Monday onThe Real Brady Brospodcast. "And in my 20s, I had a car and money and freedom. I was fully off the rails."

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The actor was all of eight when the sitcom premiered on ABC in 1969. When it ended five seasons and five years later, he was just beginning his teenage years.

"I'm just thankful that not every man, woman, and child had a high-def camera in their pocket when I was 25, like they do now," Lookinland said, "because it would have ruined my life."

Christopher Knight, who portrayed middle brother Peter, said that their TV parents — actors Robert Reed, who played Mike, and Florence Henderson, the actress behind Carol — were a deterrent to the cast in behaving badly.

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'We didn't wanna disappoint Florence and Bob," he said. "I mean, that was the beginning of it. It's like there's certain people that you just don't wanna disappoint. I think that was stronger with me with those two than it was my own parents."

And yet at least some bad behavior has come to light in the more than 50 years since the first incarnation of the Bradys went off the air. For instance, actress Maureen McCormick, who played elder sister Marcia, infamously wrote about struggling with drug addiction and an eating disorder in the years after the show.

Lookinland and many of his costars were part of the show's many reunion projects, including the psychedelicBrady Bunch Variety Hour(1976-1977) andThe Bradysseries in the '90s. Other appearances, such as when he, Knight, and Barry Williams, who played eldest brother Greg, were onThe Masked Singerin 2022, have been rare.

Lookinland married Kelly Wermuth in 1987, and the couple shares two children. He struggled with alcoholism, but said in 2013 that hehad gotten sober.

He now leads a small business that makes decorative countertops, fireplaces, benches, and other concrete items.

Listen to the full conversation above.

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NASA counts down for first crewed lunar mission in half a century

By Joey Roulette

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, April 1 (Reuters) - NASA is set to launch four astronauts as soon as Wednesday evening on a 10-day flight around the moon, marking the most ambitious U.S. space mission in decades and a major step toward returning humans ‌to the lunar surface before China's first crewed landing.

NASA mission managers on Monday polled "go" to launch the Artemis II mission's towering, 322-ft (98-m) ‌Space Launch System (SLS) rocket topped with the astronauts' Orion crew capsule as early as 6:24 p.m. EDT (2224 GMT) on Wednesday.

It will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida just one ​pad away from where the last moon-bound astronauts of the U.S. Apollo program lifted off more than half a century ago.

The Artemis II crew includes NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who landed in Florida from Houston on Friday.

They had been in a two-week quarantine leading up to liftoff and spent time with their families over the weekend at the Kennedy Space Center's beach house, a spot where astronauts rest before blasting off ‌into space.

"Certainly all indications are right now, we are ⁠in excellent, excellent shape as we get into count," launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson told reporters on Monday.

Weather conditions appeared favorable for an on-time liftoff, with only a 20% chance of souring within the agency's two-hour launch window on Wednesday. If ⁠the weather worsens and triggers a scrub, NASA could try again to launch any day until April 6, after which it would wait until April 30 for its next opportunity.

The launch had originally been planned for as early as February 6, and then March 6, until a pesky hydrogen leak prompted NASA to roll the rocket ​back ​to its vehicle assembly building for scrutiny.

FARTHEST TRIP IN HISTORY

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The Artemis II mission will ​send the crew on a winding, nearly 10-day journey around ‌the moon and back, sending them some 252,000 miles (406,000 km) into space - the farthest humans have ever traveled.

The current record for the farthest spaceflight at roughly 248,000 miles is held by the three-man crew of the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, which was beset by technical problems after an oxygen tank exploded and was unable to land on the moon as planned.

Humans have not left Earth's orbit since the final Apollo mission in 1972.

NASA launched its first Artemis mission without crew in 2022, sending the gumdrop-shaped Orion spacecraft on a similar path around the moon and back.

Artemis II will pose a greater ‌test of Orion and the SLS rocket. The astronauts on board will test critical life-support ​systems, crew interfaces and communications. They will also take manual control of Orion in space ​roughly three hours after launch to test its steering and maneuverability, ​a key feature should its automated systems fail.

Lockheed Martin builds Orion, while Boeing and Northrop Grumman have led the development ‌of SLS since 2010, a program partly known for its ​ballooning costs at an estimated $2 billion to $4 ​billion per launch.

Elon Musk's SpaceX andJeff Bezos' Blue Origin are racing to develop lunar landers that NASA will use to put its astronauts on the lunar surface.

The Artemis II mission is a key early step in the agency's multibillion-dollar Artemis program that envisions a long-term ​settlement on the lunar south pole. NASA is pressing ‌hard to land its first crew of astronauts there on the Artemis IV mission by 2028, before China does around 2030.

Artemis III ​had been set to be the agency's first astronaut moon landing, but new NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman in February added an ​extra test mission before the landing.

(Reporting by Joey Roulette; Editing by Jamie Freed)

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US Supreme Court considers Trump's effort to limit birthright citizenship

By Andrew Chung

WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to consider the legality of President Donald Trump's directive to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States, a contentious plan tied to his efforts to curb immigration that would upend the long-held understanding of a key constitutional provision.

The ‌justices will hear arguments in his administration's appeal of a lower court's decision that blocked his executive order directing U.S. agencies not to recognize the citizenship of ‌children born in the United States if neither parent is an American citizen or legal permanent resident, also called a "green card" holder.

Trump plans to attend the arguments, according to his official schedule.

His policy violated citizenship language in the ​U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment as well as a federal law codifying birthright citizenship rights, the lower court found, acting in a class-action lawsuit by parents and children whose citizenship is threatened by the directive.

Limiting who qualifies for citizenship at birth is a top priority for the Republican president, who issued the order last year on his first day back in office as part of a suite of policies to crack down on legal and illegal immigration. Critics have accused him of racial and religious discrimination in his approach to immigration.

The 14th Amendment has long been interpreted as guaranteeing citizenship ‌for babies born in the United States, with only narrow exceptions ⁠such as the children of foreign diplomats or members of an enemy occupying force.

The provision at issue, known as the Citizenship Clause, states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they ⁠reside."

The administration has asserted that the phrase "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" means that being born in the United States is not enough for citizenship, and excludes the babies of immigrants who are in the country illegally or whose presence is lawful but temporary, such as university students or those on work visas.

Citizenship is granted only to the children of those whose "primary allegiance" is to the United States, including ​citizens ​and permanent residents, the administration has argued. Such allegiance is established through "lawful domicile," which lawyers for the administration ​define as "lawful, permanent residence within a nation, with intent to remain."

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'BIRTH TOURISM'

The ‌administration has said that granting citizenship to virtually anyone born on U.S. soil has created incentives for illegal immigration and led to "birth tourism," by which foreigners travel to the United States to give birth and secure citizenship for their children.

An eventual ruling by the Supreme Court endorsing the administration's view could affect the legal status of as many as 250,000 babies born each year, according to some estimates, and require the families of millions more to prove the citizenship status of their newborns.

The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 in the aftermath of the Civil War of 1861-1865 that ended slavery in the United States, and overturned a notorious 1857 Supreme Court decision that had declared that people of African descent could never be U.S. citizens.

Concord, ‌New Hampshire-based U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante last July let the challenge to Trump's order by these ​plaintiffs proceed as a class, allowing the policy to be blocked nationwide.

The challengers have said the Supreme Court already ​settled the question of birthright citizenship in an 1898 case called United States v. ​Wong Kim Ark, which recognized that the 14th Amendment grants citizenship by birth on U.S. soil, including to the children of foreign nationals.

The administration ‌contends that the 1898 precedent supports Trump's order because, according to the ​court's ruling in that case, at the time ​of his birth, Wong Kim Ark's parents had permanent domicile and residence in the United States.

The Supreme Court is expected to rule by the end of June.

The court last year gave Trump an initial victory in the birthright citizenship context in a ruling restricting the power of federal judges to curb presidential policies nationwide. Though arising from ​early-stage judicial rulings declaring Trump's directive unconstitutional, the court's ruling did ‌not resolve its legality.

The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, has backed Trump on other major immigration-related policies since he returned to the presidency. It ​let Trump expand mass deportation measures on an interim basis while legal challenges play out, such as ending humanitarian protections for migrants or allowing them to ​be deported to countries where they have no ties.

(Reporting by Andrew Chung; Editing by Will Dunham)

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Luigi Mangione due in court in bid to delay federal trial over CEO killing

By Luc Cohen

FILE PHOTO: Luigi Mangione appears at the Manhattan Supreme Court

NEW YORK, April 1 (Reuters) - Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down a health insurance executive in Manhattan, is due in federal court on Wednesday for ‌a hearing on his bid to delay a trial on charges that could land ‌him in prison for the rest of his life.

In-person jury selection is currently scheduled to begin on September 8 for Mangione's ​federal trial on stalking charges stemming from the December 4, 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Opening statements are scheduled for October 13.

Lawyers for Mangione, 27, are seeking to delay the federal trial until January because he also faces a separate trial on New York state murder charges starting on June 8. ‌They argue that the overlapping schedules ⁠would inhibit Mangione's ability to prepare for the federal trial.

"Mr. Mangione is now in the position of needing to prepare for two complicated and serious trials ⁠at the same time," his lawyers wrote in a March 18 letter to Manhattan-based U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett.

Mangione has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

PROSECUTORS OPPOSE DELAY

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Prosecutors with the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office have said ​they oppose ​delaying in-person jury selection and opening statements in the ​federal case.

But they said in a March ‌21 court filing that they were open to modifying the timeline for distributing and reviewing screening questionnaires to roughly 800 prospective jurors to make sure Mangione has the chance to evaluate them. The questionnaires are currently scheduled to be distributed on June 29.

Mangione has been jailed since his arrest in Pennsylvania five days after the shooting death of Thompson, who led UnitedHealth Group's health insurance business, outside a ‌Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan.

DEATH PENALTY OFF THE TABLE

Mangione ​initially faced a possible death sentence in the federal case. ​That was taken off the table in ​January, when Garnett dismissed the federal murder charge he faced. Garnett called that ‌charge legally incompatible with the two stalking charges ​he still faces. Federal ​murder statutes carry different legal requirements than comparable state laws.

Mangione could still face a life sentence if convicted of the federal stalking charges and 25 years to life in prison if ​found guilty at the state trial.

While ‌public officials widely condemned Thompson's killing, Mangione became a folk hero of sorts to ​some Americans who decry high costs for U.S. medical care and health insurer practices.

(Reporting ​by Luc Cohen in New YorkEditing by Bill Berkrot)

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Movies and TV shows casting across the US

The glitz and glam of Hollywood captures the attention of Americans starting from an early age. Beyond celebrities' Instagram Stories and red carpet poses, there are actors out there paying their dues and honing their craft in pursuit of a sustainable career or a fulfilling sideline. Submitting to casting calls is a big part of that journey.

Movies and TV shows casting across the US

Whether you're a working actor or an aspiring one, you might be curious to know which movies and TV shows are casting roles near you.Backstagecompiled a list of projects casting right now across the U.S., and which roles they're looking to fill.

Scripted TV, Cupertino Attractive College Students in Bathing Suits

- Project type: scripted show- Roles:--- Talent To Portray Attractive College Athletes and College Students at Pool Party (background / extra, 18-35)- Casting locations: New York City, NY- Learn more about the scripted showhere

'The Movie Lovers'

- Project type: feature film- Roles:--- Various Roles (supporting, 18+)--- Moviegoers (background / extra, 18+)--- DSA Members (background / extra, 18+)- Roles pay up to: $150- Casting locations: Austin, TX- Learn more about the feature filmhere

Netflix Film 'AIG'

- Project type: feature film- Roles:--- Chic Party Guests (Celebrities, Musicians, Politicians etc.) (background / extra, all genders, 18-75)- Roles pay up to: $224- Casting locations: New York City, NY; Jersey City, NJ; Hoboken, NJ- Learn more about the feature filmhere

'GS' A24 Chinatown Series

- Project type: scripted show- Roles:--- Actor (lead, female, male, 35+)- Roles pay up to: $224- Casting locations: Brooklyn, NY; Long Island City, NY; Queens, NY; Manhattan, NY- Learn more about the scripted showhere

People to Portray African American Male Pedestrians & Event Guests (NON SAG AFTRA COVERED)

- Project type: scripted show- Roles:--- African American Male Peds & Event Guests (NON SAG AFTRA COVERED) (background / extra, male, 18-50)- Roles pay up to: $187- Casting locations: New York City, NY- Learn more about the scripted showhere

'The Gilded Age,' Season 4

- Project type: scripted show- Roles:--- Male Photo Double (SAG-AFTRA Covered) (background / extra, male, 45-65)- Roles pay up to: $262- Casting locations: New York City, NY; Manhattan, NY; Queens, NY; Brooklyn, NY; Jersey City, NJ- Learn more about the scripted showhere

'House of Highlights: Sports Trivia Show'

- Project type: reality TV- Roles:--- Sports Fan Ages 50-60 (real people, 50-60)--- Sports Fan Ages 5-10 Years Old (real people, 5-10)--- Sports Fan Ages 60-70 (real people, 60-70)- Roles pay up to: $150- Casting locations: New York City, NY- Learn more about the reality TV showhere

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'Safe Haven MC'

- Project type: vertical series- Roles:--- Cash (lead, male, 25-35)- Roles pay up to: $4,400- Casting locations: Brooklyn, NY; New York, NY- Learn more about the vertical serieshere

'Lights Out: Who's Out' Vertical Thriller Series

- Project type: vertical series- Roles:--- Richard (lead, male, 40-50)--- Mia (lead, female, 25-30)--- Liam (lead, male, 25-30)- Roles pay up to: $4,800- Casting locations: Worldwide- Learn more about the vertical serieshere

'Minivan,' College Students (Non-SAG)

- Project type: scripted show- Roles:--- College Students (background / extra, 18-29)- Roles pay up to: $187- Casting locations: New York City, NY; Yonkers, NY; Purchase, NY; Rye, NY; Nanuet, NY- Learn more about the scripted showhere

'The Gilded Age,' Season 4, Troy, NY

- Project type: scripted show- Roles:--- Event Guests (Non-SAG-AFTRA Covered) (background / extra, 18+)--- Event Guests (SAG-AFTRA Covered) (background / extra, 18+)- Roles pay up to: $224- Casting locations: Troy, NY; Albany, NY; Schenectady, NY- Learn more about the scripted showhere

'Sunday,' Universal Pictures

- Project type: feature film- Roles:--- Satanic Protesters (background / extra, 18-60)- Roles pay up to: $1,870- Casting locations: Brooklyn, NY; New York, NY; East Meadow, NY- Learn more about the feature filmhere

'I Dream of Pizza'

- Project type: feature film- Roles:--- Roberto (lead, male, 25-35)- Roles pay up to: $17,000- Casting locations: Worldwide- Learn more about the feature filmhere

Docu Series, Barstow, CA Locals

- Project type: documentary series- Roles:--- Featured Mother of Missing Men (background / extra, female, 18+)- Roles pay up to: $120- Casting locations: Barstow, CA; Newberry Springs, CA- Learn more about the documentary serieshere

'Out The Kitchen'

- Project type: scripted show- Roles:--- Tough Officers- Tent. Work Apr. 24 (SAG-AFTRA Covered) (background / extra, 25-55)--- NYPD- Tent. Work Apr. 1 (SAG-AFTRA Covered) (background / extra, 25-55)--- Older Criminal (SAG-AFTRA Covered) (background / extra, male, 70-99)- Roles pay up to: $224- Casting locations: New York City, NY- Learn more about the scripted showhere

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