According to Variety, Newton has been cast in the second season of Wednesday, the Addams Family spinoff starring Jenna Ortega. No details have been revealed about who Newton would be playing, but we do know that she is joining the cast alongside Steve Buscemi (Boardwalk Empire) who is also coming onboard this season.

With the death of Gwendoline Christie’s character Larissa Weems by the end of the first season, it’s possible that either Newton or Buscemi could be playing a character who will be taking over as the head of Nevermore Academy. Though I think that Buscemi could definitely play the principal of goth Hogwarts, it’s likely he could be introduced as another member of the Addams Family—Cousin Itt; he has a distinctive enough voice, and we should expect to see more of Wednesday’s quirky family as the show goes on.

Going back to Newton though, the series is going to need someone to fill in the imposing hole that Christie has left in the series, and I can see Newton very much filling it. She was such a powerhouse performer in Westworld, and Wednesday may not be as cerebral, but there’s definitely room for Newton to show off her chops.

No release date has been announced for the second season of Wednesday, but you can catch the first season now on Netflix.

It’s not clear if we’re going to get a second season yet, but director Jonathan Nolan already knows who he could bring onboard for Fallout Season 2. In an interview with IGN, Nolan was asked on which celebrities would want to be on the show, and Nolan confirms that Westworld star Aaron Paul might want in. He says:

Aaron Paul. Yeah, Aaron Paul was at the premiere, a human being I love so much. And he was very polite. He was very enthusiastic about the show. There was sort of an unspoken kind of like, “What’s up, man?” But we’ve been hearing from so many people, and it’s kind of fun to see the Fallout fans come out of the woodwork. People you’ve known a long time and you realize, “Oh, you’ve been playing this whole time.” So it’s been a lot of fun.

With the world being as vast as it is, there’s definitely plenty of room for Paul to show up, whether as a guest character or a main cast member. Notable celebrity cameos for the first season include Matt Berry, Fred Armisen, and Chris Parnell.

One cameo I would personally love to have in the series is Rick and Morty and Community creator Dan Harmon; who has played Fallout and is known to put showrunner cameos in his series like with Micthell Hurwitz (Arrested Development) and Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad).

For now, fans are still waiting on the announcement of a second season, but a lot of people have been raving about the show—both longtime fans of the games and newcomers. Hopefully Paul will be free to have a substantial role in the future.

A second season of Fallout hasn’t been officially greenlit, but you can watch the whole first season now available on Amazon Prime Video.

Just in, they’ve dropped a new featurette which gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the world of the Vault-Dwellers and the Brotherhood of Steel. Check this out:

The three main characters of the series is said to be exploring the world of the three factions. We have Lucy (Ella Purnell) who is going to give us a look at what it was like to live in the Vaults; Maximus (Aaron Moten) who is a member of the Brotherhood of Steel; and The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) who looks to be a former Vault-Dweller who somehow found a way to survive in the apocalyptic wasteland.

There’s more to the story of Fallout if you’ve checked out the games, but we don’t know just how far the series is expected to go. If they plan to go on further than one season, then there’s definitely a lot more ground they can cover.

I’m just worried that with Amazon releasing the full season on day one, it means that they don’t have too much faith in the series. Hopefully that won’t be the case when it finally comes out, because I do think the world if very interesting and I’d like to see where Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy want to take it after their work on HBO’s Westworld.

All episodes of Fallout are set to drop on April 11 on Amazon Prime Video.

The show, set in an alternate dystopia heavily inspired by 50s Americana is set to premiere this April, and a lot of fans are curious about what Nolan and his team are going to bring to the series. As it turns out, pleasing fans is the last thing on Nolan’s mind.

“It’s kind of a fool’s errand to try to figure out how to make [other] people happy,” Nolan tells T3,  “You’ve got to make yourself happy. And I’ve made myself very happy with the show.”

Though Nolan does say that he isn’t trying to please the other fans of Fallout, he does confirm that he’s a huge fan of the franchise himself, having spent an entire year getting obsessed with Fallout 3. He shares, “It started, for me, with Fallout 3,  which devoured about a year of my life… I was an aspiring young writer at that point, and it almost derailed my entire career. It’s so ludicrously playable and fun… seriously, the games were just incredible.”

With Nolan’s approach, he says that he does believe that as long as he’s pleased with his own project, then other fans like him who’ve also enjoyed the games would also find something to love about his series.

If properties like Avatar: The Last Airbender on Netflix and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power have proven anything, it’s that IPs with huge established fandoms are always hard to please. So while we should expect some people to absolutely trash Fallout when it releases; we can be rest-assured there will be some that share Nolan’s taste that would think the show was a great adaptation.

Catch Fallout when it premieres on Amazon Prime Video on April 12.

Like with every adaptation, fans are wondering how exactly this would be connected to the established canon of the games, and Nolan says that it’s essentially like writing the story for the next Fallout game. “Each of the [Fallout] games is a discrete story – different city, distinct protagonist – within the same mythology,” explains Nolan to TotalFilm, “Our series sits in relation to the games as the games sit in relation to each other. It’s almost like we’re Fallout 5. I don’t want to sound presumptuous, but it’s just a non-interactive version of it, right?”

With a world that has very dense lore and a huge landscape, it would be pretty easy to just make some new characters that just exist in that world. Albeit, it does seem that the story in the series is going to take some inspiration from the games, what with Ella Purnell’s character seemingly looking for her long lost dad (Kyle MacLachlan).

Then again, I’m just guessing that plot point based on the trailer.

With Nolan’s brother being infamous for adapting Batman on the big screen, he also explains how adapting Fallout is kind of like the same task. “Fallout, in my career, is closest to the work we did in adapting Batman, where there’s so much storytelling in the Batman universe that there is no canonical version of it, so you’re free to invent your own,” says Nolan.

We don’t know how Fallout will be received when it comes out, but so far I think everything looks fantastic. Fingers crossed they have another Last of Us on their hands (and not another Halo).

Watch out for Fallout when it premieres on Amazon Prime Video on April 12.

Check these out:

This 3-3, we celebrate Vault 33 and its outstanding residents, like Lucy. It’s a blast down there! pic.twitter.com/qARKwfbcrh

— FALLOUT (@falloutonprime) March 3, 2024

Need a boost? Then stop by our settlement at SXSW later this week, where you can earn and redeem bottle caps in exchange for supplies! pic.twitter.com/QpSVZeOdHX

— FALLOUT (@falloutonprime) March 3, 2024

If you do journey to our SXSW settlement, you may encounter lifeforms that have suffered intense and prolonged radiation exposure. Please use extreme caution at all times! pic.twitter.com/5EcW19CHRg

— FALLOUT (@falloutonprime) March 3, 2024

With the world of Fallout having some rich lore behind it, it does look like the show is going to be exploring characters that belong to three different factions from the game.

Lucy (Ella Purnell) is a vault-dweller who finds herself going outside into the Wasteland; Maximus (Aaron Moten) is a member of the Brotherhood of Steel and is in charge of restoring order to the post-apocalyptic world; and The Ghoul (Walton Goggins), who is a bounty hunter who used to belong to a vault based on the trailer.

You’ll also notice that the fictional product of Nuka Cola is prominent in all three posters. In the game Nuka Cola caps are considered a form of currency and are highly valuable.

We don’t know how the Fallout series will fare when it releases, but with a great world and some great producers behind it, we should expect something special when it comes to this adaptation.

Here’s the official description for the series:

In a future, post-apocalyptic Los Angeles brought about by nuclear decimation, citizens must live in underground bunkers to protect themselves from radiation, mutants and bandits.

Amazon’s Fallout series is set to premiere on April 12.

The series is set to come out early next year, and we have our first teaser for the show giving us a look at Vault-dwellers, the Brotherhood of Steel, and more. Watch this:

The official description reads:

Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird and highly violent universe waiting for them.

Probably the biggest hook of this show besides the IP is that the series is being run by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, both whom are behind HBO’s fantastic sci-fi series Westworld. We don’t know how much of the Westworld vibe will make its way to Fallout, but it does seem like Fallout will have more room for whimsy and silly violence.

Besides Purnell, the show also stars the likes of Aaron Moten, Chris Parnell, Kyle MacLachlan, and Walton Goggins.

The world of the show is definitely interesting, and with the games being so popular, this could be Amazon’s attempt at getting a video game adaptation that receives The Last of Us-level of critical acclaim.

Fallout premieres on Amazon Prime Video on April 12, 2024.

THR reports that Westworld has been cancelled after four seasons. We don’t have any specifics as to why the series was cancelled, but it could have something to do with new WB head David Zaslav trying to build franchises with mass appeal. Though Westworld does have a lot of critical acclaim, it has never been able to gain the same kind of general audience appeal as Game of Thrones did.

The cancellation comes as a huge disappointment, but some can say that it had already been foreshadowed by the last season. Joy and Nolan’s Kilter Films did have to say this about the show not getting picked up for a final season:

“We’ve been privileged to tell these stories about the future of consciousness – both human and beyond – in the brief window of time before our AI overlords forbid us from doing so.” – Kilter Films pic.twitter.com/vYlFiEI5qU

— Westworld (@WestworldHBO) November 5, 2022

Though the series did start out with a solid, contained story, future seasons of Westworld were rife with more existential themes and convoluted narratives. Though there are fans who find a lot of this storytelling enjoyable, I guess it wasn’t able to tickle the fancy of your general audience member. You think it’s because it didn’t have enough nudity to keep people satiated? House of the Dragon still managed to continue without any exposed breasts.

Personally, I have my fingers crossed that HBO greenlights a straight-to-streaming film like El Camino, but for now, I think we’ll just have freeze all motor functions.

Catch Westworld now available on HBO Max.

Check the trailer for Westworld‘s newest season out here: 

With the show not being shy with trying to be obscure about their plot, we have a preview that barely gives anything away about the story. It’s unclear if William has died in the series, but it looks like he’ll be having a taste of his own medicine this time around—being controlled by “Charlores”. We also see that characters like Bernard and Caleb have their own kind of arcs to follow; and its possible that Maeve has once again found herself in one of the parks.

I do have a question about the structure at 0:50 because it looks pretty much like the Millennium Clock that we see in HBO’s Watchmen series. I doubt it has any machinery that’s made to entrap a quantum being like Doctor Manhattan though.

We don’t know how long HBO plans to run Westworld, but I think the series has been pretty consistent so far when it comes to quality. Hopefully it will be able to complete its story—unlike another cool sci-fi property, Raised by Wolves, which HBO recently cancelled.

Westworld 4 premieres on HBO Max on June 26.

Watch the preview for Westworld Season 4:

We don’t really know what kind of story the fourth season of Westworld is going to bring, but we do know that the whole plot has moved out of the park and into the human world. Besides returning characters like Maeve and another version of Dolores; we also have Season 3’s new face Caleb, who has managed to break out of his pre-determined life after the destruction of Rehoboam.

The show admittedly looks pretty different from the first season, with the departure of actors like Sir Anthony Hopkins and James Marsden. Nevertheless, Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy have managed to stick true to the themes of control and humanity, and they’re using the science-fiction genre to the best of its abilities.

We don’t know where Westworld Season 4 could go, but I’m excited to see what Nolan and Joy have planned down the line. I’ll admit, I’m a tad confused as to who’s who anymore, but I’m pretty sure someone on Youtube has already meticulously explained everything in a non-dramatic, easy-to-digest way—just in time for the premiere.

It’s unclear how long Westworld has to go in terms of its story, but hopefully it doesn’t end up like the final season of Game of Thrones—which a lot of fans still can’t shut up about.

Westworld 4 premieres on HBO Max on June 26.

According to Deadline, Phoenix Rising will tell the story of Evan Rachel Wood as she goes through her experiences of ‘emotional, physical, and sexual abuse’ from rock figure Marilyn Manson. It’s because of Wood opening up about her experience that the Phoenix Act was passed in California; and it extends the statute of limitations for domestic violence cases in the state.

For context, Wood was said to have met Manson back in 2005 with the two announcing their engagement in 2010. The marriage was called off a few months later, but only recently did Wood come out about the details of the abuse that she experiences during her time with him.

So far, Manson (named Brian Warner), has denied all these claims, and his lawyer has told The Independent that Wood’s accusations are ‘the most brazen and easiest to disprove.’

The documentary will be split into two parts, Phoenix Rising: Don’t Fall and Phoenix Rising: Stand Up. The first part is set to release on HBO on March 15 with the second following the very next day. For HBO Max subscribers though, both episodes are set to come out on the 15th.

Actress and activist Evan Rachel Wood takes her experience as a survivor of domestic violence to pursue justice, heal generational trauma, and reclaim her story in a culture that instinctively blames women. The film intimately charts her journey as she moves toward naming her infamous abuser for the first time.

Phoenix Rising comes to HBO Max on March 15.

Talking to British Vogue, Newton reveals that she was originally given the name Thandiwe (which means beloved in Shona). It was said that her name had been gradually shortened to ‘Thandie’ in an effort to make her fit in as a child, and the ‘w’ in her name had been missed out in her first acting credit—hence, ‘Thandie’ just stuck.

Moving forward though, Newton has emphasized that she will be credited with the name Thandiwe moving forward. She says, “That’s my name. It’s always been my name. I’m taking back what’s mine.”

Part of the change is also the changing climate of Hollywood and the industry’s treatment of cultures that aren’t white. Newton says:

“The thing I’m most grateful for in our business right now is being in the company of others who truly see me. And to not be complicit in the objectification of Black people as ‘others’, which is what happens when you’re the only one.”

The interview extensively covers Newton’s career and even delves into her abusive ‘relationship’ with Australian director John Duigan. It also highlights Newton’s attitude toward representation in the industry and her views on parenthood. You can read the whole thing here.

While everyone is waiting for Newton on her Westworld return, you can watch out for her in the movie All The Old Knives starring Chris Pine and Laurence Fishburne.