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Warner Bros.(LONDON) — Production on The Batman has been halted due to a COVID-19 infection on the set. 

Shooting was underway this week in the U.K. when someone involved in the production tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Vanity Fair is reporting that person was the movie’s star, Robert Pattinson.

Warners Bros. did not comment on Pattinson specifically, but shared this statement with Vanity Fair: “A member of ‘The Batman’ production has tested positive for Covid-19 and is isolating in accordance with established protocols. Filming is temporarily paused.”

The shutdown comes only days after the film resumed shooting on the Warner Bros studio in Leavesden, England, just north of London, since production was put on hold in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The film currently has roughly three months of material remaining to shoot. No word yet on when production will resume.

The Batman stars Pattinson in the title role and Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman, along with Colin Farrell, Jeffrey Wright and Peter Sarsgaard among the supporting cast.  The first trailer for the film was released August 22 during DC’s all-day online FanDome event.

The Batman‘s currently scheduled for release in October 2021.

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Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Following a battle with COVID-19, Alyssa Milano is continuing to share her journey with fans regarding the lingering effects of the virus.

The actress took to Instagram Wednesday to share that while she’s physically feeling better, taking aspirin every three days to thin her blood, along with various supplements such as fish oil, zinc and vitamins D and C, she still suffers from serious side effects.

“I still have occasional heart palpitations. I still forget my words (absolute worst part),” the 47-year-old explains. “But it’s not nearly as bad as it was a few weeks ago. I feel better. I had a CT scan of my lungs and a cardiac MRI and both were normal.” 

Last month, Milano revealed that she’d contracted the virus in April, which led to a multi-week battle that included loss of her sense of smell, plus body aches and feeling like she couldn’t breathe, among other symptoms. 

Although she survived, Milano confesses, “I get super scared sometimes, though. Not of getting sick again but of my loved ones getting sick. I don’t ever want them to have this thing,” she continues, calling the virus a “beast.” 

“So I vacillate between being so grateful and so terrified,” she says. “Grateful that it was me who got sick and terrified that friends or family will be sick.”

Milano says she took two COVID-19 tests at the end of March, both of which came back negative. She later took an antibody test via finger prick that came back negative, but when she received another antibody test through blood work, the results were positive.

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Photo by: Robert Trachtenberg/NBCUniversal(NEW YORK) — Lyric Lewis is promising fans will “definitely be satisfied” with the upcoming season of Peacock’s A.P. Bio. 

In fact, Lewis, who reprises her role as history teacher Stef Duncan, tells ABC Audio that the new season will honestly make you laugh.

“Season three is so funny. And I’m not even tooting our own horn, but ‘toot toot,’ she says. “What the writers and [executive producer Mike O’Brien] came up with for this season — the audience will definitely be satisfied.”

Lewis goes on to tease that the upcoming season will offer new and unexpected experiences from their characters.

“You get to see Jack in a vulnerable way that we haven’t quite seen him yet,” she says. “We get to see way more Paula Pell, which we all want. Way more Durbin [and] the kids kind of get into just more mischief in a different type of fun way.”

As far as her character Stef, Lewis says it was “a lot of fun” filming since she and her character were actually “pregnant in real life.”

“So Stef Duncan is pregnant on the show [and] the fun thing that’s not too much of a spoiler is that Stef’s baby might be related to somebody in that school,” she says. “OK! So it’s just so fun in a different way and I cannot wait to stream it with everybody else.”

Season three of A.P. Bio, also starring Glenn Howerton and Patton Oswalt, is now available to stream on Peacock.

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Nicola Dove © 2020 DANJAQ, LLC AND MGM. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.(LOS ANGELES) — Fans of James Bond are getting another look into the latest installment with a new trailer for No Time to Die ahead of its November 20 release date. 

The Bond franchise released the third preview of its 25th film today. The two-minute clip shows Daniel Craig in the title role engaging in his usual high-intensity stunts and spy missions, matched against villain Safin, portrayed by Rami Malek. 

Lashana Lynch is also featured in her action-packed role as the newest elite 00 agent.

Secret missions and shoot-outs among sweeping landscapes shot all appear in the trailer as Craig ominously says in the opening line, “The past isn’t dead.” 

Among the returning cast are Christoph Waltz and Ralph Fiennes as Blofeld and M, respectively, with Ben Whishaw reprising his role as Q and Naomie Harris as Eve Moneypenny.

No Time to Die marks Craig’s final appearance as Bond. It was originally scheduled for release in April, but the premiere date was pushed back to November due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  

The theme song, co-written and recorded by Billie Eilish, was released in January.

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The mission that changes everything begins… #NoTimeToDie in cinemas this November. pic.twitter.com/nBP6aUrwDy

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Jamie Trueblood/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images Family via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — It’s been three years since Pretty Little Liars wrapped up its seven-season run on Freeform, but sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that a new take on the hit series is in the works.

Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is said to be spearheading the project, which will feature an all-new story and fresh new characters.

No networks are attached to the project as of yet, but sources tell THR that HBO Max is being targeted as a possible home for the revival.

Pretty Little Liars aired on Freeform for seven seasons between 2010-2017, and spawned several spinoffs: Pretty Little Liars: Ravenswood in 2014 and Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists in 2019.  Each lasted just one season.

Pretty Little Liars castmates Lucy Hale, Ashley Benson, Troian Bellisario, Tyler Blackburn, Ian Harding, Shay Mitchell, Janel Parrish and Sasha Pieterse held a virtual reunion back in May, and at the time, Hale said she was open to the idea of a PLL series or movie, just not in the near future.

“I feel like we’d need a little more time to pass. I feel like we would get more out of it if we were, like, 10 years down the road,” she she told Entertainment Weekly.

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