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Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

RENEWALS

Apple TV has given the Jon Hamm-led drama Your Friends & Neighbors an early third season renewal. (Deadline)

Netflix has given a second season renewal to the new drama Finding Her Edge and the streaming also renewed the Ted Danson-led comedy A Man on the Inside. (Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter)

AMC has given a 4th season renewal for Dark Winds. (Variety)

PULLED FROM THE SCHEDULE

For whatever reason, NBC has pulled the return of the medical drama Brilliant Minds, which was to be back after The Olympics comes to a close. It would seem that the show MIGHT return at some point later in this TV season or over the summer. (Variety)

BOX OFFICE AND STREAMING MOVIE NEWS

Jessica Chastain and Chris Pine will star in the upcoming box office movie This Is Pleasure that will follow Margot (Chastain) as accusations of misconduct unravel the career of her closest friend, the charming publisher Quin (Pine). Margot must decide whether loyalty, forgiveness or truth will define the end of their long, heady friendship. (Variety)

Helena Bonham Carter, Outlander’s Caitriona Balfe, rising star Emma Laird (The Brutalist) will join Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins in the upcoming box office movie The Housekeeper, which is the inspiration for Rebecca. Set against the wild, brooding landscape of Cornwall, the story centers on Danni (Balfe), the housekeeper at Manderville Hall, a grand historic house owned by the wealthy and widowed Lord Grenville-Whithers (Hopkins). When the young writer Daphne du Maurier (Laird) arrives, Danni is drawn into a clandestine and intoxicating affair. For one, it is an all-consuming love; for the other, an awakening of long-suppressed desires. Their fragile secret threatens to unravel under the watchful gaze of Adelaide (Bonham Carter), Lord Grenville-Whithers’ calculating niece. (Variety)

Chris Pratt and Linda Cardellini will star in the Apple TV movie Way of the Warrior Kid that focuses on how middle school has been a nightmare for Marc (young actor Jude Hill), a good kid who’s bullied by his classmates and feels like he’s behind in everything, from academics to P.E. to just making friends. That changes when his injured Uncle Jake (Pratt), a decorated Navy SEAL, comes to spend the summer and recuperate with Marc and his mom, Sarah (Linda Cardellini). To help Marc defend himself, Jake devises an ambitious program he calls “Operation Warrior Kid” based on his SEAL training. Instead of teaching his nephew how to fight, Jake shows Marc what real courage is, facing down his own demons along the way. (Deadline)

Benedict Cumberbatch will star in the thriller flick Last Flight about a U.S. man who helped persecuted people find safe passage out of Iraq and Afghanistan. (Deadline)

Meryl Streep will portray legendary singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell in an upcoming biopic about the icon with Anya Taylor-Joy reportedly set to play the younger version of Mitchell. (Radio Times)

Chris Hemsworth will star alongside Taron Egerton and Zazie Beetz in the upcoming crime flick Kockroach, taking over for the departing Channing Tatum, in the story of a mysterious stranger who takes on New York’s criminal underworld, transforming himself into a larger-than-life crime boss in a city where power is everything.” (Deadline)

Javier Bardem and Kate Hudson are set to star in Hello & Paris, the film adaptation loosely inspired by the Deborah McKinlay novel That Part Was True that will focus on what happens after a prickly first encounter in Paris between a fiercely independent landscape architect and a crisis-ridden bestselling novelist who begin a sparky, transatlantic exchange over books and recipes—only to discover that the one thing harder than being alone might be choosing not to be”. (Deadline)

Kerry Washingon and James Marsden will star in the upcoming Netflix film An Innocent Girl, a psychological thriller about a young and ambitious woman seduced by a high-powered D.C. couple who draw her into a dangerous world of sex, power and murder. (Variety)

Alexander Ludwig and Emma Roberts will star in the upcoming feature film Hal that is inspired by the true story behind the founding of humanitarian organization Convoy of Hope that will follow Hal Donaldson, a journalist shaped by early hardship who believes his voice is his path forward. When he meets Doree, a gifted musician, their relationship becomes the foundation that steadies him as his career takes him to places marked by deep suffering. As Hal witnesses crisis and inequality firsthand, the line between observing and acting begins to blur. Confronted with the limits of telling stories alone, he is drawn toward a calling that requires more than words — setting in motion the events that lead to the creation of Convoy of Hope. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!