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'Cobra Kai' season three premiering a week early on Netflix

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Guy D’Alema(LOS ANGELES) — Merry Christmas, Cobra Kai fans.

Season three of the martial arts series will be dropping on Netflix one week earlier than initially planned. The show will debut January 1 now, instead of January 8, so you can enjoy your first binge-watch of the new year.

In a video announcement for the new premiere date, Johnny Lawrence, played by William Zabka, deems January 8 too long of a wait and promptly adjusts the date on the Netflix site.

“I heard you all whining about Season 3 taking forever. So I called the pawn shop and the guy walked me through this Netflix thing. Dude knows his stuff. Now you get it a week early. See you on New Year’s, nerds,” a message from Johnny reads.

The cast of Cobra Kai will also be joining hosts David Spade, Fortune Feimster and London Hughes on The Netflix Afterparty on January 2.

Cobra Kai, based on The Karate Kid film series, has already been renewed for a fourth season.

By Andrea Tuccillo
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Taraji P. Henson reveals the "dark moment" she had amid the COVID-19 pandemic

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ABC(LOS ANGELES) — Taraji P. Henson is opening up about being in a “dark place” amid the COVID-19 pandemic. 

On Wednesday, during the Facebook Watch series, Peace of Mind with Taraji, the Empire actress, 50, revealed that she had thoughts about taking her own life. 

“For a couple of days, I couldn’t get out of the bed, I didn’t care. That’s not me. Then, I started having thoughts about ending it,” she candidly admitted to her co-host Tracie Jade and licensed psychologist Dr. LaShonda Green.

After explaining that she had recently purchased a gun, Henson shared she thought, “‘I could go in there right now, and just end it all.'”

The Oscar nominee added that it crossed her mind about how her son, Marcell Johnson, would react to her death but told herself that “he’ll get over it” because he’s an adult.

Henson experienced these thoughts for two nights in a row before she realized she needed to tell someone how she was feeling. And when she did, she was able to overcome those “dark” thoughts. 

“‘Oh my god, I feel so much better,” she recalled thinking. “I’m not gonna do it now.'” 

Green asserted that it’s “very normal” to “feel lonely” and “to not want to do it anymore” before adding that opening up about those thoughts can be a very cathartic experience.

By Danielle Long
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"Promising Young Woman" is a story of revenge says director Emerald Fennel

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Courtesy of Focus Features(LOS ANGELES) — The new movie Promising Young Woman is all about believing women. The dark, comedic drama, out Christmas Day, stars Carey Mulligan as a woman looking for revenge after a sexual assault, and it’s winning rave reviews for writer and director Emerald Fennell, who tells ABC Audio the idea for the film started with a simple word – revenge.

“I wanted to write a revenge movie that felt, you know, female led revenge movie that felt kind of closer to what I expect a kind of woman might do if she wanted to get revenge,” says Fennell, who many may know for playing Camilla Parker-Bowles on The Crown.

Revenge aside, Promising Young Woman also shines a light on the movement to believe women which is something that Mulligan admits has progressed but more still needs to be done.

“This is such a seismic shift that will ultimately need to happen, but for sure things are moving. These conversations are public,” she explains. “People are speaking out, and it’s astonishing to witness people’s bravery.”

The English actress adds that in the wake of the “Me Too” movement films like Promising Young Woman can help push the movement forward. 

“The more kind of concrete stuff that can get put in place, the better,” Mulligan says. “But that’s talking in a very sort of narrow world view of just my my industry. But in the broader scheme of things, I do think that art contributes to that conversation, which is why what Emerald’s made, I think, will ultimately be really important because it will continue that conversation.” 

By Danielle Long
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Golden Globes under fire after relegating 'Minari' to the Best Foreign Language category

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A24 Film(LOS ANGELES) — “[It’s] the film equivalent of being told to go back to your country, when that county is actually America.”

That’s the word from The Good Doctor star and producer Daniel Dae Kim, after the film Minari was not included on the list of potential nominees in the Best Picture Category for the upcoming Golden Globes.  The movie, produced by Brad Pitt, stars Will Patton, The Walking Dead‘s Steven Yeun and Han Ye-ri.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organizers of the annual awards show, instead relegated Minari to the Best Foreign Language category — leading critics like Kim to cry foul. 

While characters in Minari predominantly speak in Korean, previous Best Picture nominees have included Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds — in which the mostly foreign cast spoke German and French — and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel, in which Spanish was mostly spoken.

Critics are calling the decision racist. Last year’s The Farewell, directed by Lulu Wang and featuring characters speaking in Chinese, was similarly treated by the HFPA at the 2020 Golden Globes.

Wang sounded off on the similar snub, saying, “I have not seen a more American film than Minari this year. It’s a story about an immigrant family, in America, pursuing the American dream. We really need to change these antiquated rules that characterizes American as only English-speaking.”

Simu Liu, who stars in the upcoming Marvel movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, commented, “Minari is an American movie, written and directed by an American filmmaker, set in America, with an American lead actor and produced by an American production company. What could be more American than that?”

The HFPA insisted to IndieWire that its rules dictate that only movies “with 50 percent or more English dialogue” are eligible for its top categories.  

By Stephen Iervolino
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'The Toy Stores That Made Us'' second season shows COVID's effect on small businesses

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ABC News/Steve Iervolino(NEW YORK) — The Netflix series The Toy Stores That Made Us comes from one of the streaming service’s most prolific producers, Brian Volk-Weiss. The guy behind The Movies That Made Us, The Holiday Movies That Made Us, and The Toys That Made Us, is, not coincidentally, a toy collector himself.

As he gave ABC Audio a virtual tour of his collectibles-laden office shelves, he explained how the second season of the show isn’t just playing around. 

Season two deals in part with COVID-19’s effects on small businesses like the esoteric private shops profiled in the series, he explains. “…We literally did it as to try and bring something back of a positive nature to the stores that are so important to me and many other people.”

He adds, “The majority of the profit is going directly to the stores, and if you ask the stores, as equally important to them as the money, maybe even more so is the exposure, because it just drives people to their online stores. So that’s why we did it. And that was our motivation. And it’s ended up just being a ton of fun making it.”

Speaking of, shooting at the shops had a major perk, Volk-Weiss confesses. “I’m always worried this could be some sort of like show business insider trading, but almost every episode I like, I’ll be watching a rough cut and then I’ll text the owner. I’ll be like, ‘Is that E.T. Finger light still available?’ Like, ‘Is that that Megatron Man from U.N.C.L.E. gun Transformer still available?”

He says with a laugh, “…So yeah we’ve locked 10 episodes. I think I’ve got six things from those 10 episodes.”  

Unwrap the second season of The Toy Stores That Made Us on Christmas Day.

By Stephen Iervolino
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