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Before Sarah Michelle Gellar became a Primetime TV Icon with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, before she became a big-screen icon with Cruel Intentions, she was a Daytime TV Icon with All My Children. On AMC, she played Kendall Hart, the daughter of the legendary Erica Kane. She ultimately crushed the character and conquered daytime soaps before exiting to star in Buffy and a zillion other TV shows and movies. An audience at a fan event in Brazil recently gave Smg her well-deserved flowers with thundering applause and a standing ovation. Gellar felt the emotion.

Applause, Applause

It all happened at the Ccxp, the 2024 Comic Con Experience, held in São Paulo, Brazil, from December 5 to 8. Gellar made an appearance there promoting Showtime’s Dexter prequel, Dexter: Original Sin. She and her cast mates appeared on a panel for the upcoming serial killer drama.

Read This: Sarah Michelle Gellar looks back at her AMC days.

If you were a fan of the 1999 cult classic “Cruel Intentions,” by now you’ve likely already devoured its TV adaptation, which dropped Nov. 21 on Prime Video.

With the “Cruel Intentions” series leaving off just before Caroline Merteuil (Sarah Catherine Hook) has a total fall from grace, Hook and her costars, Zac Burgess and Savannah Lee Smith, are all in to continue the twisted story in a potential Season 2, despite not yet scoring a renewal from the streamer.

In the meantime, there’s plenty of scandalous, soapy shows that might fill the “Cruel Intentions” void, from edgy 2000s classics like “Gossip Girl” and “Pretty Little Liars” to recent releases like “Tell Me Lies” and “The Sex Lives of College Girls.”

Keep on reading to get the full breakdown of what to watch next after binging the new “Cruel Intentions” series.

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[This story contains spoilers from the first season of Prime Video’s Cruel Intentions.]

If you were a young adult in the late ‘90s, you almost certainly knew Sean Patrick Thomas.

Before he was Jimmy James in the Barbershop franchise, spent four seasons as Detective Temple Page in CBS police drama The District or, more recently, portrayed Gene Mobley, partner of Mamie Till and father-figure to Emmett in Till, the sharp-jawed, warm-eyed actor had carved out his own corner of YA drama success.

During that time, he would star in films like Save the Last Dance and Halloween: Resurrection, roles that would follow his memorable turn as Ronald Clifford in Roger Kumble’s Cruel Intentions. Thomas took on the role of the music tutor to the rich, naive and virginal Cecile Caldwell (Selma Blair), with whom he falls in love with before their relationship is sabotaged by the ruthless, scheming step-sibling duo of Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe...

Warning: The following contains spoilers for the Cruel Intentions finale. Proceed at your own risk!

Fans of the movie Cruel Intentions will, of course, recall that Ryan Phillippe’s character, Sebastian, met a tragic end at the conclusion of the 1999 film. His TV counterpart, Lucien, however, got a reprieve as the Prime Video series wrapped up Season 1.

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For a certain age group (that shall not be dated), there’s two memorable MTV Movie Award winners for Best Kiss that immediately come to mind: Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams’ rain-soaked The Notebook smooch, and Cruel Intentions’ infamous lip-lock between Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair’s characters.

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Taylor Swift‘s upcoming album The Tortured Poets Department is clearly going to deal with heartbreak and she’s getting fans prepared by releasing playlists of her music that represent the five stages of heartbreak.

The 34-year-old singer has teamed up with Apple Music to release the five playlists, two weeks before her upcoming album is released.

The playlists include songs that fit the five stages of heartbreak: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance.

Head inside to see which songs landed on each playlist and for Taylor’s comments…

Taylor hand-picked the songs for each playlist and she also commented on each stage of heartbreak.

Denial

Taylor says: “This is a list of songs about getting so caught up in the idea of something that you have a hard time seeing the red flags, possibly resulting in moments of denial and maybe a little bit of delusion. Results may vary.

Wendy Williams’ guardian Sabrina Morrissey has filed a lawsuit against A+E Networks for exploiting the former daytime talk show host when creating the Where Is Wendy Williams? docuseries. New unsealed court documents show that Morrissey is accusing the network of humiliating Wendy and filming her in an obviously poor state. She also says producers lied to Wendy about what the documentary would be about. Continue reading for details on the lawsuit and what’s next for Wendy Williams.

Court-Appointed Guardian Calls Out A+E Networks For Exploitation

Sabrina Morrissey, Wendy Williams’ court-appointed guardian, is accusing A+E Networks of “humiliating” the daytime TV icon. She alleges that producers filmed her in an “obviously disabled state.” Furthermore, the docuseries “cruelly implies” that the way she is acting is due to substance and alcohol abuse. Wendy was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and progressive aphasia in May of 2023.

Additionally, Morrissey alleges that Wendy...

Vampire Weekend have returned with “Classical,” the latest slice of their forthcoming album Only God Was Above Us.

Built from a rustling acoustic guitar line and a cymbal-heavy drum beat from Chris Tomson, “Classical” is more vibrant and restless than Vampire Weekend’s prior singles. “Untrue, unkind, and unnatural/ How the cruel, with time, becomes classical,” Ezra Koenig sings in the pre-chorus, eventually landing on an anthemic, harmony-laden refrain where he asks “Which classical remains?” The song also features a daring, slightly dissonant bridge with a haywire sax solo courtesy of Henry Solomon.

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The song also arrives with a music video directed by longtime collaborator Nick Harwood and featuring the band, Ray Suen, drum tech Josh Goldsmith, and A-list producer Ariel Rechtshaid. Throughout the green screen-heavy video, Vampire Weekend performs “Classical” amidst clips of classical European architecture — columns, gothic churches, statues, 800 year-old paintings, and even Stonehenge.

If the golden era of the high school movie was the 1980s, packed with John Hughes’ tales of wistful outsider girls and horny nerds, then mid-late ‘90s was the reprise. This was the era of Valley Girls (Clueless), the make-over movie, and of course modern updates of classic literature. Cruel Intentions fits into this category and takes it to the next level. It’s a teen high school movie full of shagging and spitefulness which has genuine consequences and treats its characters like adults, while allowing them the naivety of youth. It’s 25 years old, and it’s still sexy as fuck.

Based on the novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ which was filmed memorably as 1988’s Dangerous Liaisons, starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer, Cruel Intentions had wonderfully salacious material to work with but big shoes to fill.

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Sony‘s untitled Karate Kid film is ready to make Ben Wang‘s heart go pitter-pat after adding Cruel Summer actress Sadie Stanley to the cast. Stanley plays the romantic lead opposite Ben Wang (American Born Chinese) in the forthcoming marital arts drama, which also stars Joshua Jackson, Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio.

Plot specifics remain a mystery, though we hear Sony will move the story to the East Coast and focus on a teen from China who finds identity and strength in martial arts. During his journey of self-discovery, Wang’s character meets a disciplined martial arts master. With Chan and Macchio both appearing in the film, there’s a chance Wang’s character could train under two teachers. Jonathan Entwistle

Sadie Stanley made her mark on Hollywood as the title character of the live-action Kim Possible movie. After guest spots on shows like Coop and Cami Ask the World,...

In the early 1950s, EC Comics was the bad boy of comic publishers. Its comics such as Tales From the Crypt, Weird Science and Two-Fisted Tales sold millions in mid-century America. Unfortunately, its stories — at times shocking, horrifying, and even progressive — also drew scrutiny and backlash, and the company found itself in the cross hairs of censorship and regulation at the height of the McCarthy era. The company ultimately shuttered, with the last comic hitting newsstands and drug stores in 1956.

Now, seventy years after the creation of the self-regulatory body Comics Code Authority, the infamous comics company is blasting out of the crypt and returning with a brand new line of comics.

Oni Press, the publisher perhaps best known for the breakout indie hit Scott Pilgrim, has partnered with William M. Gaines Agent, Inc., the rights holders of the EC line, to launch all-new stories with A-list comics creators beginning this summer.

This is Day 76 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

The morning after the WGA strike was called to an end, the SAG-AFTRA picket lines thinned out at Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney, with significantly fewer stars, however, a handful of scribes continued to turnout for their thespian brethren.

Elated about the WGA strike’s end, For All Mankind writer Bradley Thompson, beamed at the Disney gates, “About freakin’ time!”

With a new scribe deal that contains big leaps in AI guardrails, residuals and data transparency for writers, Station 19 and Cruel Summer co-ep Anupam Nigham told Deadline, “It feels good that we got them to come up from $86M to $233M [annually] over three years.”

With movement made on the writers room minimum staffing front, the new deal will see that by Dec. 1, development rooms, otherwise known as pre-greenlight rooms, and regular writers rooms for television and Hbsvod series will have requirements regarding the...

The upcoming Peacock drama series “Hysteria!” is rounding out its main cast.

Anna Camp Emjay Anthony, Chiara Aurelia, Kezii Curtis and Nikki Hahn have all been cast in the series. They join previously announced cast member Julie Bowen.

The show was originally ordered at Peacock in August 2022. Per the official series description, “When a beloved varsity quarterback disappears during the ‘Satanic Panic’ of the late 1980s, a struggling high school heavy metal band of outcasts realize they can capitalize on the town’s sudden interest in the occult by building a reputation as a Satanic metal band, until a bizarre series of murders, kidnappings, and reported ‘supernatural activity’ triggers a leather-studded witch hunt that leads directly back to them.”

Dylan Campbell (Anthony), Jordy (Aurelia), and Spud (Curtis) are a trio of outcasts who use their town’s Satanic Panic to their advantage by rebranding their heavy metal band Dethkrunch into a Satanic metal group,...

Lexi Underwood, Sadie Stanley, Griffin Gluck, Lisa Yamada, KaDee Strickland, and Sean Blakemore in ‘Cruel Summer’ (Freeform/Frank Ockenfels)

It’s taken two years, but Freeform’s finally set a premiere date for the second season of Cruel Summer. Season one of the coming-of-age anthology series debuted in April 2021 and wrapped up in June 2021. Season two will launch on June 5, 2023.

The second season will kick off with the release of the first two episodes at 9pm Et/Pt. Additional new season two episodes will air on Mondays at 10pm Et/Pt.

The first season starred Olivia Holt, Chiara Aurelia, Michael Landes, Froy Gutierrez, Harley Quinn Smith, Allius Barnes, Blake Lee, and Brooklyn Sudano. Sadie Stanley, Lexi Underwood, Griffin Gluck, KaDee Strickland, Lisa Yamada, and Sean Blakemore star in season two, with Paul Adelstein and Braeden De La Garza appearing in recurring roles.

Bert V. Royal created the series, and Elle Triedman...

Tagline: "Beware of those You Trust." Kruel is an indie horror and thriller title from director Robert Henderson. The film deals with a psychotic ice-cream man and disappearing victims. Also, this title is being repped by Maxim Media Marketing, for a future release. Kruel stars Kierney Nelson, Dakota Morrissiey and Adam Vernier. A preview of the film's release is hosted here. Jo O'Hare (Nelson) tells paranoid stories of a sadistic ice-cream man. Her stories become more credible as neighbours begin to disappear. Now, Jo is being targeted by this serial killer. And, this killer will not stop, until everyone is chilled to the bone. A trailer for Kruel was released late in 2014. The clip shows Jo and the killer antagonizing each other. As well, a movie poster has recently been revealed for the film. The graphic shows the center of all of the murder, an innocuous looking ice-cream salesman. A...

Welcome back to another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes new photos from Kruel and Zombie Killers: Elephant’s Graveyard, a teaser trailer for The Three, first episode details on webseries, Housed, and much more:

First Photos from Kruel: “Beware of those you trust.

Boo Reese Productions in association with Sunset Undiscovered announce the worldwide release of “Kruel” with Maxim Media Marketing, Inc. and Breaking Glass Pictures.

“Kruel” was produced, written and directed by Robert Henderson. Tom Riska, Duane A. Sikes, Colleen Henderson, and Kierney Nelson serve as executive producers. Ryan Cimino and Cristina Cimino of Sunset Studios serve as supervising producers. The film will be released by Maxim Media Marketing in North America and internationally by Broken Glass Pictures. “Kruel” stars Kierney Nelson in her debut role as Jo O’Hare. The film was edited by Matt Lennon...