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Chaos Theory Season 4 Trailer at NYCC (Exclusive)
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Chaos Theory Season 4 Trailer at NYCC (Exclusive)

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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory is going out with a roar. 

DreamWorks Animation and Netflix released the trailer for the fourth and final season of the animated entry in the Jurassic World franchise on Saturday, in conjunction with the appearance of several members of the show’s voice cast and creative team at New York Comic Con.

In their last season, the Nublar Six work to find a way to come together in order to survive the deadly dinosaur and human threats hidden within Biosyn Valley. As the trailer promises, those threats — whether of the high-flying, head-smashing, fiery, toothy or mysterious variety — will leave audiences on the edge of their seats, and holding onto their butts. 

Alongside the trailer release, executive producer and co-showrunner Scott Kreamer was joined by Sean Giambrone (voice of Ben), Kausar Mohammed (voice of Yaz), Paul-Mikél Williams (voice of Darius and Kiersten Kelly (voice of Brooklynn) at the panel to celebrate the season’s launch and “witness the end” to a story nine seasons in the making. 

As part of Saturday’s discussion, the team will recap season three, tease what’s ahead for the Nublar Six, offer behind-the-scenes insights, and share in the joy and impact of the series, which hails from executive producers Steven Spielberg, Colin Trevorrow and Frank Marshall. 

Set six years after the events at Camp Cretaceous, Chaos Theory has followed the Nublar Six as they’ve struggled to find their footing off the islands amid a world now filled with dinosaurs and the people who want to hurt them. Reunited in the wake of a tragedy, the group — initially surviving members Darius Bowman, Kenji Kon, Ben Pincus, Sammy Gutierrez and Yasmina “Yaz” Fadoula before Brooklynn’s re-emergence — comes together, before soon after finding themselves on the run. 

Catapulted into a global adventure to unravel a conspiracy that threatens dinosaur and humankind alike,  the group works to learn the truth about what happened to one of their own while picking up a few new friends along the way. That includes, as the season four trailer highlights, everyone’s favorite “huggie-wuggie monster” Smoothie. 

The series’ voice cast also features Darren Barnet (voice of Kenji) and Raini Rodriguez (voice of Sammy). Executive produced and co-showrun by Kreamer and Aaron Hammersley, with Zesung Kang serving as the supervising producer, Jurassic World: Chaos Theory will begin streaming its nine-episode final season Nov. 20 on Netflix.

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SAN MARINO, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 13: Diane Keaton attends the Ralph Lauren SS23 Runway Show at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens on October 13, 2022 in San Marino, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
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Diane Keaton Remembered by Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Henry Winkler, Ben Stiller & More

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Messages of love and admiration filled social media following the death of acclaimed actress Diane Keaton, who passed away on Saturday, October 11, at the age of 79.

Best known for her Oscar-winning role in 1977’s Annie Hall and her portrayal of Kay Adams-Corleone in 1972’s The Godfather, Keaton’s passing came as a shock to fans and colleagues alike, many of whom shared tributes honoring her life and career.

Across social media, fans and friends paid tribute to Keaton, celebrating not only her immense talent and warmth but also sharing bits of lore, from her unexpected knack for directing music videos to charming stories of school pick-ups. These memories paint a portrait of a woman who lived with humor, creativity, and a genuine connection to the people around her.

Actress, singer, and costar from The First Wives Club Bette Midler wrote a funny and touching tribute to the actress on Threads: “The brilliant, beautiful, extraordinary Diane Keaton has died. I cannot tell you how unbearably sad this makes me. She was hilarious, and completely without guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have expected from such a star. What you saw was who she was…oh, la, lala!”

Her other First Wives Club costar Goldie Hawn also paid tribute to Keaton in a post on Instagram that read: “Diane, we aren’t ready to lose you. You’ve left us with a trail of fairy dust, filled with particles of light and memories beyond imagination. How do we say goodbye? What words can come to mind when your heart is broken? You never liked praise, so humble, but now you can’t tell me to “shut up” honey. There was, and will be, no one like you.”

Hawn’s daughter Kate Hudson wrote her own tribute with the simple, “We love you so much, Diane,” and posted a clip of Keaton singing “You Don’t Own Me” from the film with her mother and Midler.

“Rest in peace, Diane Keaton. Your talent, courage, and authenticity were a true inspiration. ❤️,” wrote Kerry Washington.

Actor and director Henry Winkler wrote on X: “Diane was a really good friend of ours. We laughed a lot. What an extraordinarily talented woman. Diane, you will be so missed on the Earth. Rest sweetly as sweet as you have been to everyone you have met. Love, Henry and Stacey.”

Actor, director, and producer Ben Stiller posted: “Diane Keaton. One of the greatest film actors ever. An icon of style, humor and comedy. Brilliant. What a person.”

Actress Octavia Spencer posted on Instagram: “Today we lost a true original. @diane_keaton wasn’t just an actress: she was a force. a woman who showed us that being yourself is the most powerful thing you can be. From Annie Hall to Something’s Gotta Give, she made every role unforgettable. But beyond the screen, she brought joy, laughter, and style that was all her own. Thank you, Diane, for reminding us that authenticity never goes out of fashion.”

 

“Diane Keaton was a muse for me. In every way. Her humor, wit, charm, fashion, and laugh. She will be so missed,” posted Pink on Instagram.

Singer Nancy Sinatra posted: “Diane Keaton has left us and I can’t tell you how profoundly sad that makes me,” she wrote. “I adored her — idolized her. She was a very special person and an incredibly gifted actor who made each of her roles unforgettable. Her light will continue to shine through the art she leaves behind. Godspeed, Diane. My heart goes out to her family and to each of us grieving this heartbreaking loss.”

Actress and activist Holly Robinson Peete wrote: “Some people you just can’t imagine not being on this earth. Diane Keaton was one of those people. Her energy was so palpable and infectious! Our kids went to elementary school together, and she showed up to carpool dressed exactly like she does in all these iconic photos – While I was in sweats and a baseball cap, Diane was impeccable …every single day! A legendary actress, spectacular mother, and true fashion icon who lived and aged with such grace. Rest in peace — you were so loved.”

“I can’t! Diane Keaton was such a talent and a BIG part of my career. She directed two videos of mine: ‘Heaven Is A Place on Earth’ and the video for ‘I Get Weak.’ She was kind and eccentric, and I was blessed to know her. RIP Diane, you will be missed,” wrote singer and Go-Gos frontwoman Belinda Carlisle.

Comedian Whitney Cummings wrote on Instagram: “She is who showed me women could be funny and weird and awkward and neurotic and human and wear blazers and laugh at the wrong times and have frizzy hair and not have to dress for dudes. I’d say Diane Keaton is perfect, but she changed my life by saying, “What is perfection anyway? It’s the death of creativity,” so instead I’ll say she’s my comedy hero.”

“Diane Keaton is gone, and though I only knew her through the light she gave on screen, I’ll miss that light deeply,” wrote fashion designer and reality TV personality Zac Posen on Instagram.

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First BAFTA North America Honours Awards Postponed
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First BAFTA North America Honours Awards Postponed

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After being announced just this past August, BAFTA North America has announced that its inaugural BAFTA Honours, originally scheduled to take place on Sunday, November 2 in Los Angeles, California, has been postponed to sometime in fall 2026. The awards will honor one winner per category across the TV, film, and video game industries. No specific reason for the shift was provided. Variety first reported the news.

“BAFTA North America is postponing its inaugural BAFTA Honours to fall 2026,” BAFTA North America said in a statement shared with IndieWire. “Further details, including the date, location and honourees, will be shared in the coming months. We are excited to bring BAFTA Honours to Los Angeles next year and present the iconic BAFTA mask to three distinguished individuals across Film, TV, and Games.”

Is This Thing On?

As IndieWire’s Marcus Jones reported in August, “Officially, the Honours are described as the first event of its kind in the United States, providing a new series of special awards across film, games, and television to recognize individuals and organizations that have had significant and positive impact on the sector.”

He continued, “The event will bestow the iconic BAFTA mask upon three distinguished honorees, marking only the sixth time that the BAFTA mask is awarded in the U.S., marking a significant milestone for BAFTA North America. IndieWire has confirmed that this news comes with final notice that BAFTA’s previous special awards ceremony in North America, the Britannia Awards, has officially come to an end.”

BAFTA special awards are a gift of the BAFTA Academy. Per BAFTA brass, the Honours represents a new chapter “that reflects the organization’s ongoing commitment to celebrating global excellence in film, games, and television, and to deepening engagement with the creative communities across North America.” With these awards, BAFTA also reasserts its interest in awarding video games and their creators, still a rarity in the usual awards space.

With this shift, the upcoming BAFTA-centric awards schedule is as follows:

BAFTA Tea Party – January 10, 2026 / Los Angeles
EE BAFTA Film Awards – February 22, 2026 / London
BAFTA Games Awards – April 17, 2026 / London
BAFTA TV Awards with P&O Cruises – May 10, 2026 / London
BAFTA Student Awards – Spring 2026 / Los Angeles
BAFTA TV Tea Party – Fall 2026 / Los Angeles
BAFTA New York Tea Party – Fall 2026 / New York
BAFTA Honours – Fall 2026 / Los Angeles

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How Diane Keaton Campaigned to Preserve LA's Architectural History
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How Diane Keaton Campaigned to Preserve LA’s Architectural History

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On a brisk February evening in 2006, around a hundred people gathered in the venerable Koreatown watering hole HMS Bounty to pay their last respects to Los Angeles’ historic Ambassador Hotel. Despite the best efforts of the Los Angeles Conservancy, the Ambassador had been torn down — and among the speakers decrying the fate of the legendary institution that evening was Diane Keaton.

Keaton, who died Saturday at 79, is of course known the world over for her on-screen credits, from “Annie Hall” to “The Godfather,” “Father of the Bride” and so much more. But in Los Angeles, she was also known for her passionate work in trying to preserve the city’s history. Keaton spent nearly two decades on the board of the L.A. Conservancy, and lent her voice to the org in countless campaigns to save some of the city’s historic and culturally significant homes and buildings.

“The more I got to know her, the more I understood where that passion came from,” said former L.A. Conservancy president Linda Dishman, who retired after 31 years with the org in 2023. “A lot of that came from her family and growing up in Los Angeles. Really having a connection to the stories and places that make L.A. the city that it is. She had a very genuine passion for historic preservation, not only for the buildings or the cultural landscapes, but for what they mean to people and what they would mean in the future. She definitely got the relationship with how we’re doing this for future generations.”

Keaton first became involved through her interest in historic homes — one of which, built by famed architect Lloyd Wright, she called her own. Her association with the group started when she was curious about the Spanish house owned by one of the Conservancy board members — but soon she got deeply involved with the org, speaking at one of its benefits and then joining its board.

“She was just charming, and it was great being with her, because we shared a passion for historic places,” Dishman said. “Houses were her first interest, and she bought historic houses and restored them, like the Lloyd Wright. But she very much cared about the whole architectural landscaoem and so the fight that she probably was most engaged with, because it took so long, was the Ambassador Hotel.”

Designed by architect Myron Hunt, the Ambassador Hotel opened in 1921 — back when that portion of mid-Wilshire was the outskirts of town — and soon became the glamorous playground of the rich and famous. Later, architect Paul Williams added his own touch, including a famous coffee shop, and then the Cocoanut Grove nightclub really put it on the map. The hotel saw every president visit from Hoover to Nixon — but then was the scene of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1968. The hotel declined from there, and finally shut down in 1989. After that, it became a regular location for film and TV shoots; the LA Unified School District bought the site in 2001, and after a lengthy fight with the Conservancy, which hoped to see the existing structure be adapted into the school, LAUSD was allowed to tear it down in 2005. (The Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools now sit on the property.)

“The Ambassador told so many stories about the history of Hollywood in Los Angeles that she she just was extremely passionate about,” Dishman said. “Not only about its history, but about what it could become — because that was a large part of the Conservancy’s work. Trying to show the school district that the building could become a really great learning facility. She really thought this would be a great solution.”

At the 2006 wake, Keaton expressed her disappointment (watch it here): “I wanted to join in with everyone from the Conservancy and express my heartfelt regret that our effort to save the Ambassador Hotel was lost on a confused public who could do nothing more than shrug their shoulders in apathy,” she said. “Looking at the shadow of our once glorious Ambassador Hotel, like losing a lover, I felt that familiar pounding heartbeat racing through my body, and I felt the loneliness of her last stand. I heard an echo, an echo, and maybe it was the echo of the ambassador calling me. It was almost as if she was saying to me, she was saying, ‘goodbye, Diane, Keep me in your heart, and next time, try harder.’”

At the Conservancy, Keaton did continue to work hard: Dishman noted that the star was forever allowing the org to use her name to get its foot in the door. “This is LA and sometimes it can be hard to get a meeting with an elected official, but I say I’m calling instead of a meeting, ‘Diane Keaton would like to meet with your boss’ or whatever, and people would always say yes. Even if they didn’t agree with us. Everybody wanted to meet with Diane, and even at the end of the meeting, they might not have changed their position. I think she opened the door, and it might not have saved the Ambassador, but hopefully it changed how they view preservation on another issue. She was very open with me about ‘use my name. If you want a meeting, you call and get it, and I’ll be there.’ She was willing to go the extra mile and not just do the easy stuff.

“She had a way of speaking to people about preservation,” Dishman added. “She wasn’t pompous. She just was very direct, and had so much passion that everybody wanted to come along with her.”

Among other projects, Keaton also celebrated the preservation and restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House, which she loved had some similarities to her Lloyd Wright house.

‘She always came to our benefits,” Dishman said. “She loved success stories, like this building was threatened and it gets saved. She loved the Preservation Awards. She also got involved with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She was on their board for three years. Just seeing, like at an airport in New Orleans, how people responded to her, was really a testament to who she was and how people loved her.”

A few years after the Ambassador wake, a fired-up Keaton wrote more about it — and the lessons she learned from that disappointment — in a Los Angeles Times editorial: “We’ve treated old buildings like we once treated plastic shopping bags — we haven’t reused them, and when we’ve finished with them, we’ve tossed them out. This has to stop. Preservation must stand alongside conservation as an equal force in the sustainability game. More older and historic buildings have to be protected from demolition, not only because it affects our pocketbooks but more important because it threatens our environment. Let’s face it, our free ride at the expense of the planet is over… When we tear down a building, we are wiping out lessons for the future. If we think of it that way, we will begin to understand the emotional impact of wasting the energy and resources used to build it in the first place.”

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Goldie Hawn Mourns Diane Keaton
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Goldie Hawn Mourns Diane Keaton

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Goldie Hawn says that her friend Diane Keaton never liked praise. But now, Hawn says, “you can’t tell me to ‘shut up’ honey.”

In a heartfelt tribute on social media, Hawn wrote that Keaton, who died at 79, “stole the hearts of the world and shared your genius with millions, making films that made us laugh and cry in ways only you could. I was blessed to make First Wives Club with you, our day starting with coffee in the makeup trailer, laughing and joking, right through to the very last day of filming. It was a roller coaster of love.”

Hawn starred opposite Keaton and Bette Midler in the 1996 film.

“We agreed to grow old together,” Hawn continued. “And one day, maybe live together with all our girlfriends. Well, we never got to live together, but we did grow older together. Who knows…maybe in the next life.”

Midler also remembered Keaton Saturday by writing, “I cannot tell you how unbearably sad this makes me. She was hilarious, a complete original, and completely without guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have expected from such a star. What you saw was who she was…oh, la, lala!”

Another beauty from The First Wives Club shared her thoughts about Keaton. In the comedy that also starred Victor Garber, Sarah Jessica Parker and Dan Hedaya, Marcia Gay Harden played Keaton’s therapist who ultimately slept with her husband (Stephen Collins).

“Oh how we are going to miss this beautiful, unique, talented, compassionate woman!” Harden wrote. “All jokes aside, indeed she did ‘work from love and grow from love’ and share it all with us!”

Harden also shared a video from one of their scenes.

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The Vampire Lestat and Talamasca Debut New Footage at NYCC
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The Vampire Lestat and Talamasca Debut New Footage at NYCC

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The casts and creative teams behind two Immortal Universe series — the third season of Interview with the Vampire and the upcoming Talamasca: The Secret Order — appeared together Friday night at New York Comic Con, where they revealed new footage for both shows, shared casting announcements, and teased what’s ahead in the Anne Rice adaptations.

In attendance on the convention’s main stage for Anne Rice’s The Vampire Lestat — retitled from Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire — were executive producers Mark Johnson and Hannah Moscovitch and cast members Sam Reid, Jacob Anderson, Eric Bogosian, Jennifer Ehle and Assad Zaman. Christopher Rice and the late Anne Rice also executive produce the latest season of the AMC/AMC+ series, which is expected sometime in 2026.

On the Talamasca front, executive producer Johnson as well executive producer, director and writer John Lee Hancock and castmembers Nicholas Denton (Guy Anatole) and William Fichtner (Jasper) appeared on Friday night ahead of the new six-episode series’ Oct. 26 premiere. Talamasca is also executive-produced by Mark Lafferty, who co-showruns with Hancock. Additional EPs include Tom Williams and Christopher and Anne Rice.

The series follows Guy Anatole, a young man on the verge of graduating from law school, when he is approached by Helen (Elizabeth McGovern), a representative of the Talamasca, a secretive agency that monitors and protects humans from the supernatural world. The Talamasca has been tracking him since his childhood, and soon he falls headlong into a world of secret agents and immortal beings charged with maintaining a fragile balance with the mortal world. The cast also includes Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Celine Buckens, Jason Schwartzman and Bogosian reprising his Interview with the Vampire role as a crossover character.

Read on for more on what the cast and creative teams behind both AMC/AMC+ series teased during their respective portions of the New York Comic Con panel.

As part of the Talamasca portion of the event, a clip featuring Interview With the Vampire star Bogosian, who portrays journalist and author Daniel Molloy, was screened for fans alongside a larger discussion previewing the series and a special appearance by Bogosian.

During the rest of the conversation, the cast and creative team discussed how they adapted an aspect of Rice’s novels that didn’t have their own book. Johnson noted that the premise of the series — “agents whose job is basically to observe, to report and not to interfere, which seldom happens” felt like a good base for this show. Hancock leaned into his own interests in the spy genre and the work of John le Carré to help shape this take on Talamasca.

In terms of how the series invites Daniel Molloy into the narrative, Bogosian teased that it ties into the novel viewers learn he wrote at the end of Interview season two, “Guy finds that there is a piece of information in the book that he needs to know more about,” which explains a bit about the scene in which the duo connect in the new series. “When we shot it, we didn’t know each other before we did the scene. And that’s actually what happened in the scene. I was working with Nick, and I kept feeling Nick’s charisma and he kept pulling me toward his energy in a way that was so positive and so empathetic.”

In terms of who Guy is, “he’s got some ambition, but he also has something else going on. He’s got this disability. He’s heard voices for years, since he was a kid, and he’s always thought that that was something, that was a mental illness of sorts, so he’s heavily medicated himself, but he actually does find out that he has the mind reading. And that’s what begins to happen with Daniel Malloy in this scene, and I think that maybe gives him a little bit more leverage in all of it.”

In terms of Jasper, Fichtner noted that his character is misunderstood. “That was part of the joy of working on this. I’ve said it a million times. If it’s not on the page, it’s not on the stage, and what John Lee and the entire writers and Mark Lafferty, co-showrunner, put together was something that was so grounded in this world that it was a pleasure to discover who Jasper is,” he said. “It’s just wonderful to figure out what is driving this guy, which are very real things to him.”

After an exclusive clip featuring monsters known as “revenants,” the panelists discussed having to film late at night due to the nature of the show’s vampiric characters. “A lot of stories, Guy is interacting with vampires, and if you’re shooting with vampires, you have to shoot between a certain hour of nighttime. So we shoot 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. a lot of the time,” said Denton. “That’s a heavy hit, but I think it kind of brings us together. We get into that loopy stage where we’re kind of shooting, we’re not really sure what’s going on and everything feels kind of possible.”

While discussing the rest of the cast, Hancock noted that Helen “is prone to half-truths when necessary. Somebody that you might not trust” but that “Elizabeth also has such a maternal instinct. She has such a beautiful, soft face and her voice is — you want her to read every book to you in the car. So when you’ve got that mixed, do I trust her? It makes it really perilous for Guy.”

Bogosian noted his invitation into the latest series was wonderful. “It’s a pretty simple formula. We have these three different series that create a universe, so what you end up with is the sum of the three is greater than the three. You then start to have this. It just opens up the imagination that it goes off in so many different directions,” he said.

For Johnson, weaving the series together isn’t deliberate, as “all three of them on one hand couldn’t be more different. But they have themes and characters, and I think concerns all tied together.” But, he added, “We have a certain amount of shared actors who come and go, but we’re going to be very judicious about it and make sure that when Eric Bogosian shows up in another show that there’s a reason for it.”

The Vampire Lestat

As part of the NYCC panel, the series made several new casting announcements, including Sheila Atim (The Woman King) in the role of Akasha, Noah Reid (Schitt’s Creek) in the role of Larry, Ryan Kattner (Destroy All Neighbors) in the role of Salamander, Seamus Patterson (Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities) in the role of Alex and Sarah Swire (The Boys) in the role of TC. The panel also featured a new, extended look at The Vampire Lestat for the packed main stage appearance.

The panel kicked off with a question about why the show and its characters resonate so much, with Reid noting that it’s likely because what’s happening is “so fucked up.”

Speaking to where his character of Louis begins the season, Anderson said, “You can only own the night for so long. I feel like Louis is a really, really moving, beautiful place at the end of season two. That’s all real, and I think he’s found a sense of being in the present. However, I’m stealing this from Hannah as she said this earlier. You can put the dress on the wall, you can put the portrait on the wall, but ultimately, his child died, and that’s not something you just get over.”

In terms of where Daniel begins, Bogosian shared that he’s still acclimating. “It’s not easy. When you become a vampire at different stages in your life. In my case, it’s very late in life, so there’s a lot of Daniel as a human being in his struggles with it,” he said. “If you go all the way back to the very first moments of our series, Daniel’s kind of a grumpy guy hanging around his house in his socks watching TV, pissed off… and pissed off guys with power can be dangerous.”

For Armand, “He’s a bad daddy,” according to Moscovitch. “You know when a little kid has a stuffed animal when they’re very small, and they just drag it around for years and years, and it only has one eye for a while, and it’s all torn up? That’s his approach to Daniel,” Bogosian said. Added Zaman, “It’s tattered, it’s broken, but it’s mine.” At another point in the panel, Zaman noted that in terms of where Armand ends up in the upcoming season, the character’s focused on “his relationship with himself, and that informs how everyone else fits around it or doesn’t.”

In terms of how the rock-star setting changes things up, Johnson noted that “what Roland and Hannah and this cast have come in [and done] this season is so unpredictable and so surprising. On one hand, it makes total sense. These are the characters we know and we love, but it is the most — somebody just described as the most fucked-up — surprising. Reminds me of those movies that have just changed my way of looking at things.” He added it’s also “so wild and unexpected and jaw-dropping and funny and yes, like the first two, really romantic.”

Speaking to the arrival of Lestat’s mother, Gabriella, Ehle noted that “she kind of creates chaos. She kind of thrives in creating it. She’s had so little agency in her life, and she was married at 15 to somebody she didn’t choose. He was horrible, and she had no hope, but she had this boy, and she had her hopes in him in a really fucked up way. Several really fucked up ways.”

Later, while discussing what source material they used to put the latest season together, Moscovitch noted that the writing team was pulling from multiple books, including Merrick, The Vampire Armand, and The Queen of the Damned. “In terms of how we chose which pieces of The Vampire Lestat to use this season, because we’re running through the subjectivity of Lestat it has to do with what he wants to remember, what he’s willing to remember and then what memories are going to come for him, whether he likes it or not.”

Speaking after the extended look played in the room, Anderson spoke to Louis and Daniel’s relationship this season after the fallout from the book. “It’s interesting their dynamic this season because the book was released without Louis’ consent. I wish Louis had learned about the Cloud,” he joked. “I think it sets up a really interesting dynamic between them because ultimately Louis trusted Daniel, and Daniel trusted Louis, and Louis didn’t stop him from being killed and resurrected.”

During the panel, the cast and creative team teased a season that ultimately “reinvents [the characters] so completely, and the season itself is so radical because we’ve changed the lead character,” said Moscovitch during the panel. “So the whole story is run through a different perspective now.”

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Diane Keaton, Hollywood legend and The Godfather star, dies aged 79
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Diane Keaton, Hollywood legend and The Godfather star, dies aged 79

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Diane Keaton has died aged 79, it has been confirmed by People magazine.

According to the outlet, the legendary actress died in California. Further details are not available at this time, and her loved ones have asked for privacy, according to a family spokesperson.

Keaton was one of the best-known film stars, with a career spanning five decades. She received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA, Golden Globes, and nominations for the Emmy and Tony Awards.

Diane Keaton as Annie Hall and Woody Allen as Alvy Singer in Annie Hall. MGM

News of Keaton’s death comes as a shock to many across the globe and in Hollywood, with her most defining role coming in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972) alongside Al Pacino. She went on to reprise the role in the acclaimed franchise’s second and third films.

Keaton became known for her frequent collaborations with Woody Allen, having worked together on Play It Again, Sam, Sleeper, and Love and Death. It was her fourth film with Allen, Annie Hall, that earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress.

She went on to star in numerous films, including Baby Boom, Father of the Bride and its sequels, The First Wives Club, and Book Club, as well as Finding Dory, Manhattan Murder Mystery, and The Family Stone.

More recently, Keaton starred in 2024’s Arthur’s Whiskey and Summer Camp, with the latter marking her final performance on the big screen.

Keaton is survived by her two children, daughter Dexter and son Duke.

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Cast, Premiere Date, Trailer, More
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Cast, Premiere Date, Trailer, More

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Star Trek fans may have said goodbye to two of the Paramount+ series in the franchise in the last two years (Picard in 2023, Discovery in 2024), but there are new additions still to come. One of them is Starfleet Academy, and now, thanks to the panel at 2025 New York Comic Con on Saturday, October 11, we know when it will premiere: January 15. We also now the full roll-out schedule for their first season.

During the panel, Paramount+ also released a new trailer, which you can watch above, introducing the cadets, teasing interactions between Holly Hunter’s captain and chancellor and Paul Giamatti’s villain, and more.

Plus, Stephen Colbert shared in a video, which you can watch below, that he will be the voice of Starfleet Academy’s Digital Dean of Students, giving daily announcements to the students and alerting them of anything that needs their immediate attention.

This new series was first said to be in development in February 2022. Just over a year later, it was announced that Paramount+ had picked it up to series (in March 2023).

“Admission is now open to Starfleet Academy! Explore the galaxy! Captain your destiny! For the first time in over a century, our campus will be re-opened to admit individuals a minimum of 16 Earth years (or species equivalent) who dream of exceeding their physical, mental and spiritual limits, who value friendship, camaraderie, honor and devotion to a cause greater than themselves. The coursework will be rigorous, the instructors among the brightest lights in their respective fields, and those accepted will live and study side-by-side with the most diverse population of students ever admitted. Today we encourage all who share our dreams, goals and values to join a new generation of visionary cadets as they take their first steps toward creating a bright future for us all. Apply today! Ex Astris, Scientia!” co-showrunners and executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau said in a statement at the time.

“We are excited to introduce Star Trek fans to a whole new generation of Starfleet officers in training as they navigate the rigors of the Academy and the brink of adulthood in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy,” added Domenic DiMeglio, Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Data, Paramount Streaming. “Introducing new characters and compelling storylines, this all-new original series will serve as a fantastic addition to the franchise and Paramount+, bringing new generations of viewers and long-term Star Trek fans alike together to enjoy the next chapter in the iconic Star Trek universe.”

The series has yet to premiere, but it has already been renewed! Below, we’re taking a look at everything we know about the latest Trek series. Keep checking back for updates!

When will Star Trek: Starfleet Academy premiere?

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 1 will premiere on Thursday, January 15, 2026, with the first two episodes. The rest of the 10-episode season will be released weekly on Thursdays, with the finale dropping on March 12.

What is Star Trek: Starfleet Academy?

The series will follow the adventures of a new class of Starfleet cadets as they come of age in one of the most legendary places in the galaxy. This young group of cadets will come together to pursue a common dream of hope and optimism. Under the watchful and demanding eyes of their instructors, they will discover what it takes to become Starfleet officers as they navigate blossoming friendships, explosive rivalries, first loves, and a new enemy that threatens both the Academy and the Federation itself.

Who’s in the Starfleet Academy cast?

Holly Hunter stars as Nahla Ake, the Chancellor of Starfleet Academy and Captain of the U.S.S. Athena, who also happens to be a long-lived half-Lanthanite.

“It feels like we’ve spent our entire lives watching Holly Hunter be a stone-cold genius,” said Kurtzman and Landau in a statement.  “To have her extraordinary authenticity, fearlessness, sense of humor, and across the board brilliance leading the charge on Starfleet Academy is a gift to all of us, and to the enduring legacy of Star Trek.”

Paul Giamatti has been cast in the recurring role of part Klingon, part Tellarite Nus Braka, the season’s villain with an ominous past connected to one of the cadets.

Said Kurtzman and Landau, “Sometimes you’re lucky enough to discover that one of the greatest actors alive is also a huge Star Trek fan, and meeting Paul was one of those miraculous moments for us. The sheer delight with which he dove in on Starfleet Academy is only surpassed by the gratitude we feel about him joining our incredible cast.”

Discovery‘s Mary Wiseman (Sylvia Tilly), Tig Notaro (Jett Reno), and Oded Fehr (Admiral Vance) and Voyager‘s Robert Picardo (The Doctor) are reprising their roles. Notaro and Picardo join as series regulars, and Fehr and Wiseman join as guest stars.

And playing cadets are Kerrice Brooks, Bella Shepard, George Hawkins, Karim Diané, Zoë Steiner, and Sandro Rosta.

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Rosta is Caleb Mir, an orphan with a troubled past – and unlikely Starfleet cadet. Diané is Jay-Den Kraag, a Klingon cadet who dreams of becoming a medical officer. Brooks is Series Acclimation Mil, a.k.a. Sam, the first of her kind to ever attend Starfleet Academy. Hawkins is Darem Reymi, an aspiring captain from a wealthy home world. Shepard is Genesis Lythe, an admiral’s daughter determined to make her own name in Starfleet. Steiner is Tarima Sadal, a Betazoid and daughter of the president of Betazed.

Gina Yashere recurs as Commander Lura Thok, a Klingon/Jem’Hadar hybrid who is the chancellor’s First Officer and Cadet Master.

And at New York Comic Con 2024, it was announced that Tatiana Maslany will be a recurring special guest star in Season 1. No character details have been revealed.

Is there a Starfleet Academy trailer?

Yes, and more than one! In addition to the one at the top, there’s also the trailer that was released at 2025 San Diego Comic-Con. It offers a look at the series’ iconic campus in San Francisco plus the new starship and integral part of the Starfleet Academy campus, the U.S.S. Athena.

“You are all the first Academy class to return to our campus in San Francisco after more than 120 years,” Captain Ake tells the cadets. “Some of you are here for your families, some for yourselves. Together, you are the best and the brightest from across the galaxy, a tapestry that is Starfleet. You will learn the skills that shaped our greatest officers. Like them, we’ll ask you to give more of yourselves than you know you have. To dream without limitations, whatever challenges came before today led you to this moment. You, here now, you weave together the future, so go out and seek, explore, boldly go where no one has gone before. It is my great honor to welcome you all to Starfleet Academy.”

Be sure to watch the video — below — to the end for a look at Giamatti’s villain, plus check throughout to see the names of legendary characters (the James T. Kirk Pavilion is just one instance!).

Will there be a Starfleet Academy Season 2?

Yes! At New York Comic Con 2024, the series was given an early renewal for Season 2. The news came as the show was still in production on Season 1 in Toronto.

Who’s behind the new series?

Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau serve as co-showrunners and executive produce the series alongside executive producers Gaia Violo, Aaron Baiers, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Jenny Lumet, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth, Frank Siracusa, and John Weber. The series’ premiere episode is written by Gaia Violo and directed by Alex Kurtzman. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment.

Plus, Jonathan Frakes, Trek legend and director extraordinaire, told TV Insider he’s “[looking] forward to Starfleet Academy” when discussing his work behind the camera still to come in May 2024.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Series Premiere, January 15, 2026, Paramount+

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Dieane Keaton Dead: Oscar Winner Was 79
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Dieane Keaton Dead: Oscar Winner Was 79

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Diane Keaton, the iconoclastic and left-of-center Oscar-winning film and fashion icon, has died, according to a family spokesperson who shared the news with People magazine. She was 79 years old. Further details about her death were not made available. She received four Academy Award nominations, winning in 1977 for “Annie Hall,” the film that turned her into a household name and one of the most recognizable figures in American movies. Keaton received an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2017.

Her collaborations with Woody Allen began onscreen with director Herbert Ross’ “Play It Again, Sam” in 1972, the same year she starred as Kay Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather.” Her comedic appeal was cemented in Allen films — the two were also romantically involved — like “Sleeper’ and “Love and Death” before the title character in “Annie Hall” changed the course of her career and the course of movies. Before that, though, she had starred with Allen in the stage version of “Play It Again, Sam” in 1969 and in the musical “Hair,” propelling her from her birth city of Los Angeles to New York. Keaton for most of her life resided in Los Angeles, where she flipped and designed houses. As a single parent — she made being single and evasive of later romantic partnerships part of her identity, too — she adopted her daughter Dexter in 1996 and son Duke five years later.

Jafar Panahi and Martin Scorsese

She never quite fit into any box comfortably, but brought to her roles both a nervous energy and focused intensity. The same year as “Annie Hall,” she also starred in the controversial, cautionary morality tale “Looking for Mr. Goodbar” as a schoolteacher of deaf children who is tormented by the men she dates in New York City; it’s certainly her darkest role and was an early beacon of a propensity for drama as much as comedy.

After her Best Actress win for “Annie Hall,” she also received Oscar nominations for “Reds,” “Marvin’s Room,” and “Something’s Gotta Give,” the Nancy Meyers film largely seen as her big-screen comeback in 2003. That was also the film that launched a late-career stretch of romantic comedies and movies for older audiences in which she largely plays a version of herself: neurotic, quirky, unfiltered, and in impeccable head-to-toe tailoring.

Making guardedness and affable self-deprecation part of her identity, Keaton was known for wearing turtlenecks, gloves, and hats that kept her largely covered up, saving emotional vulnerability for her performances. Ralph Lauren gave much of the credit for the “Annie Hall” costumes to Keaton herself, and wide-legged pants, blazers, vests, ties, and oversized hats — all a playful, Chaplinesque spin on tailored menswear — became signatures in her look: Keaton is recognizable in any of her films because she always appeared to have a hand in her characters’ styling.

The recent “Book Club” films exemplify her late-career attitude. There was a sense in Keaton’s late years that she wanted to have a good time onscreen with collaborators she enjoyed, such as the “Book Club” series co-stars Jane Fonda and Candice Bergen.

MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY, Diane Keaton, 1993. (c) TriStar Pictures/ Courtesy: Everett Collection.
‘Manhattan Murder Mystery’©TriStar Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection

A throughline of her film career was working with top filmmakers to deliver complicated performances that pushed her against comfortability, whether in Allen’s darker efforts (like “Interiors,” or aspects of “Manhattan” as a self-defeating intellectual) or with Coppola, Warren Beatty (“Reds,” and another collaborator with whom she was romantically involved), or a box-office favorite like Charles Shyer with the 1987 feminist comedy “Baby Boom.” In 1993, she reteamed with Allen for the last time on the delightfully anxious New York comedy “Manhattan Murder Mystery.”

Around that time she had been at the end of a relationship with her “Godfather” co-star of all three films, Al Pacino. She detailed that relationship movingly in her wonderfully frank and fresh memoirs “Then Again” (2011) and “Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty” (2014), two books where you really feel her voice ringing through rather than a ghost memoirist taking dictation.

Comedies really became Keaton’s preferred genre in the last 30 years or so, from the delightfully camp “The First Wives Club” in 1996 to films like “And So It Goes,” “The Book Wedding,” and “The Family Stone” more recently. Don’t forget she also played Justin Bieber’s grandmother in the 2021 music video “Ghost” and starred as a sparky nun on HBO’s “The Young Pope.”

She also had credits behind the camera, including as the director of “Hanging Up” and the documentary “Heaven” as well as episodic television, including on Season 2 episodes of “Twin Peaks” in its early run. These directorial projects were less successful; those “Twin Peaks” episodes especially are not in the series’ annals even as she was largely following the series rulebook on a job for hire. But they showed a curiosity and collaborative spirit, which she maintained through to the end. The last movie she starred in was 2024’s “Summer Camp” with Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard.

Her belovedness was no better exemplified recently than in 2017 when Woody Allen, then already well into being on shaky ground with Hollywood, made a rare public appearance at the AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony to present the honor to his dear friend, ex-partner, and most important collaborator. As far as American movies are concerned, she’s up there as one of the most recognizable, inimitable, and singularly stamped stars of all time; her impact on Hollywood will be impossible to recreate, but it’s not like any of the essential films she starred in is going anywhere any time soon.

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