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In the new trailer for the third and final season of The Summer I Turned Pretty, Belly and Jeremiah live happily ever after — or do they? Luckily, Taylor Swift has songs for either outcome.
Released Thursday (April 24), the minute-long teaser features two of the pop superstar’s most beloved tracks, starting with Lover album closer “Daylight.” The ethereal ballad plays over an ooey-gooey montage of Lola Tung and Gavin Casalegno’s characters picking up where they left off in season two — as a couple, despite Belly previously dating Jeremiah’s brother, Conrad, who is nowhere to be found for almost all of the trailer.

As the two frolic through their college campus, make out in the library and slow dance at a party, Swift’s voice sings, “I don’t wanna look at anything else now that I saw you/ I don’t wanna think of anything else now that I thought of you/ I’ve been sleeping so long in a 20-year dark night/ And now I see daylight.”

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At the very end, however, #Jelly’s romantic fantasy is interrupted by a certain intruder: Christopher Briney’s Conrad, who shows up at the brothers’ beach house and delivers the only spoken line in the entire trailer.

“Hey,” he says as a shocked Belly opens the front door on him, while “Daylight” abruptly switches to a line from a very different Swift track. “Loving him was red,” interjects the 14-time Grammy winner’s voice on 2012’s Red title track.

The new trailer is far from the first time The Summer I Turned Pretty — which is based on the Jenny Hahn book series of the same name — has featured Swift’s music. In fact, the singer-songwriter has been one of the biggest musical contributors to the show since it premiered in 2022, with “The Way I Loved You,” “Exile” featuring Bon Iver, “Snow on the Beach” with Lana Del Rey, “Sweet Nothing,” “This Love,” “Last Kiss” and several more Swift tracks finding homes in various episodes.

The final season will put an end to the messy love triangle that has fueled the show from the beginning, with the description reading, “It’s the end of her junior year of college, and Belly’s looking forward to another summer in Cousins with her soulmate, Jeremiah … until some core-shaking events bring her first love Conrad back into her life.”

“Now on the brink of adulthood, Belly finds herself at a crossroads and must decide which brother has her heart,” it continues. “Summer will never be the same.”

Season three of The Summer I Turned Pretty arrives on Prime Video July 16. Watch the trailer above.

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens aren’t exactly the first things one would associate with the creepy and kooky Wednesday Addams, but the trailer for season 2 of Netflix’s Wednesday still features a cover of a famous, happy-go-lucky classic from The Sound of Music.
Fittingly posted on a Wednesday (April 23), the two-minute preview opens with Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday making her way back to Nevermore Academy, a journey that involves the teenager reluctantly relinquishing her many weapons to TSA agents at an airport. Meanwhile, a haunting rendition of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “My Favorite Things” plays, the tune made slightly creepier than Julie Andrews’ original Broadway and film versions through slowed, eerie vocals and horror movie-esque bells.

The trailer goes on to show Wednesday reuniting with her fellow student and dormmate Enid (Emma Myers) and squaring up with season 1 love interest-turned-villain Tyler (Hunter Doohan). Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luis Guzmán and Fred Armisen also return as their respective members of the Addams Family clan: Morticia, Gomez and Uncle Fester.

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“Nothing is what it seems in season 2,” creator Miles Millar told Netflix’s Tudum of the show’s second chapter. “Wednesday goes into this season thinking she knows Nevermore. It’s the first time she’s returned to a school willingly. But as soon as she gets back, nothing happens that she’s expecting. She thinks she’s going to be in control, that she knows where all the bodies are buried, and she doesn’t.”

One highly anticipated cast member who wasn’t featured in the trailer, however, is Lady Gaga. Though she is set to make her debut on the show this season, the 14-time Grammy winner was nowhere to be found in the sneak peek, meaning Little Monsters will have to wait a little longer to get a look at her top-secret character.

“She’s great in the show, and I don’t think she’s what people expect her to be,” Ortega teased of Gaga’s role in March, later adding on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, “She is so sweet, so humble, just a normal person, and it’s beautiful and amazing … It’s intimidating when someone is so talented but cool at the same time.”

The first batch of Wednesday season 2 episodes arrives Aug. 6, followed by Part 2 Sept. 3. Watch the trailer above.

Lana Topham‘s obsessive quest for the perfect Pink Floyd at Pompeii film cut began in 1994, when guitarist David Gilmour requested unedited footage from the concert shot in 1971. If found, says Topham, the band’s restoration director, these rushes could have been used for a more evocative edit of Pink Floyd‘s only major concert film, which documented the band in happier, more experimental days, long before they turned into feuding rock megastars. But, she recalls: “Despite my extensive search, I was unable to locate the rushes. I found every laboratory that existed in Britain and France and every storage facility.”
Then came a breakthrough. In 2020, working with film technician Marie-Louise Fieldman, Topham discovered a trove of film cans labeled “Pompeii” at a London storage facility, where they had been relocated over the years from Gilmour’s own warehouse. These were not the film rushes, or unedited raw footage, which could have provided alternate camera angles and unseen footage. But they were almost as good: The original, 35-millimeter “first-cut negatives,” as Topham calls them, which provide “the ultimate source of quality,” allowing for more sophisticated color-grading and film restoration. “Restoring from a negative is a whole different ballgame from a print,” she says. “These prints that are out there, back in the day, were used for running in cinema and used over and over again. Once you find one, it’s not ideal.”

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Those negatives became source material for Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII, which opens a worldwide IMAX run on Thursday (April 24). A remixed Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII album is also due May 2, marking the first time a full-length live album will document the concert. 

Shot at the Roman Amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy, in 1971 and first released in 1972, Pink Floyd at Pompeii captures the band looking impossibly young, performing a full concert to a small group of spectators consisting of camerapeople, roadies and “a few local kids that had talked their way in,” according to Mark Blake’s 2008 book Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd. Drummer Nick Mason‘s massive gong matches the drama of the ancient-ruin surroundings, complete with gargoyles and other sculptures, as the band emphasizes material from 1971’s Meddle, including “Echoes” and “One of These Days.” In subsequent versions of the film, filmmakers added performance material from London’s Abbey Road Studios and a Paris soundstage.

“It is a crucial film, because it’s the closest you’ve got to a Pink Floyd concert film during the ’70s,” Blake says. “They did film The Wall, but that was never released, and it’s floating around the Internet, and it’s not very good. It’s like Led Zeppelin — you’ve got The Song Remains the Same. It’s the only thing available to the public.”

The band has reissued the film numerous times, including a director’s cut DVD in 2003. And while the version shown at select IMAX theatres contains no revelatory content — “People have already seen it,” Blake says — it’s startlingly vibrant, the Italian sky impossibly blue, the multicolored butterflies on Mason’s T-shirts poised to float into real life. (The new version is also a boon for Sony Music, which purchased some of Pink Floyd’s recorded-music assets last October for $400 million and now owns the rights to the film; the new release will also likely improve the band’s streaming numbers and social-media views.)

The recently discovered negatives allowed for this kind of coloring, with help from colorist Andy Lee. “The problem with working from a print is there are limitations of what you can do, restoration-wise,” Topham says, describing Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII as having “a three-dimensional feeling” that brings to life even trivial details such as “the logo on the speakers and the red tape on Nick’s drumkit.” 

“The technology now has enabled us to get the full, glorious detail of the film. You can literally see the fingerprints on David Gilmour’s Strat,” Blake adds. “It’s a cliche, but it kind of puts you right there in the amphitheatre with them.”

Penn Badgley may be getting ready to say goodbye to You, but so is superfan Cardi B.
And during an interview on The Jennifer Hudson Show Wednesday (April 23), the actor opened up about having had the rapper’s support throughout the hit Netflix series’ run one day ahead of the fifth and final season’s premiere. “We’ve still never met,” Badgley said of Cardi. “It’s a strictly online thing.”

The Whipshots founder has been vocal in her love for You and the Gossip Girl star for years, with the two stars famously fangirling over each other on what was still Twitter in 2021. At one point, Cardi changed her profile picture on the platform to a still of Badgley in the serial-killer drama, after which he returned the favor by switching his own to a snap of the hip-hop titan — an exchange the actor told Hudson was “surreal.”

As rumors of a possible Cardi cameo swirled in the years that followed, You eventually featured the musician’s “I Like It” in the first episode of its fourth season. And in March, Cardi was tapped to announce the trailer for season five, sharing her review: “Girl, I am shook.”

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But given the fact that the show will come to a close Thursday (April 24) and Badgley’s revelation that he and Cardi still haven’t met, hopes that she’ll make an appearance may be dashed for good. “We’ve definitely tried,” he told Hudson. “We’ve even tried to make it a fun, like, capture it, but between our schedules — she’s busier than I am, I guarantee you.”

While on the talk show, the actor also teased how the series — which premiered on Netflix in 2018 and finds Badgley portraying strangely charming stalker-murderer Joe Goldberg — will wrap up. “We’re sending him off in I think the best fashion we can,” he said of his character. “I will inevitably miss him. I’ve gotten to do a lot of bizarre things, a lot of intense things. It’s like, you know what? I can put him to bed, but kind of like a dysfunctional little brother, I’ll miss him a little.”

“It’s a very satisfying ending,” he added. “It does justice to the character, to the show, and also to the viewer.”

Watch Badgley talk about Cardi on The Jennifer Hudson Show above.