‘Interview With The Vampire’ trailer heads back to 1910 New Orleans

R. Kelly in a high-profile child porn case, prosecutors will get a second crack at the disgraced Grammy winner.The 55-year-old R&B singer is slated to appear in federal court in Chicago on Monday to begin what in many ways is a do-over of his 2008 state trial, where shocking video he took of himself sexually assaulting and urinating on a 14-year-old girl was prosecutors’ “Exhibit 1.” However, this time around, the victim is expected to testify.

During a panel at the Summer TCA press tour on Wednesday, the cast of AMC’s adaptation of “Interview With the Vampire” discussed how (and why) they’re not trying to “compete” with the 1994 film adaptation starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. In fact, series leads Jacob Anderson (who plays Louis) and Sam Reid (who plays Lestat) were enthusiastic that the two versions can coexist as the new interpretation has the privilege of drawing from the complete series of books.“I love that movie. And I’ve always loved the work of Anne Rice, so I was very excited to be a part of reigniting it,” Reid said during the panel.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe team behind AMC’s “Interview With the Vampire” series weighed in on the use of intimacy coordinators on set during a panel for the Television Critics Association summer press tour.“We worked with an intimacy coordinator quite extensively,” series star Sam Reid said. “I think it’s really important working with an intimacy coordinator.

How you doin,’ Wendy Williams? According to the queen of daytime, she’s making her way back into the spotlight.

Wendy Williams? According to the queen of daytime, she's making her way back into the spotlight. The former talk show host has resurfaced in a new promo for her upcoming eponymous podcast, .

Did you know that Chris Pine‘s dad is also an accomplished actor?

Though the cultural zeitgeist is a few years removed from Banksy mania, street art remains a potent weapon for political and social criticism. The relationship between graffiti and vandalism is still hotly contested, but what might happen if an ambitious street artist took his designs even further… like, for instance, into someone’s living room? That’s the premise of “I Came By,” an upcoming Netflix thriller from British Iranian writer-director Babak Anvari.

Denise Van Outen "has her sparkle back" following her new romance, according to her good friend Duncan James. The 44-year-old Blue member has been close friends with The Only Way Is Essex voice over star Denise, from Basildon, for a number of years. The two have worked together on various projects, with Duncan even stepping in to replace Denise's parter Eddie Boxshall on Celebrity Gogglebox following their split at the end of the year.

Denise Van Outen finally ‘has her sparkle back’ since her split from Eddie Boxshall, her pal Duncan James has said. The Blue star, 44, and actress, 48, have been close friends for years, with Duncan even replacing Eddie as her guest on Celebrity Gogglebox after the couple’s breakup. Denise and Eddie ended their relationship in January this year after seven years together.

EXCLUSIVE: Griffin Dunne (This Is Us), Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction), Richard Benjamin (Michael Crichton’s Westworld), Miles Heizer (13 Reasons Why) and James Norton (Little Women) will lead the cast of an as-yet-untitled film from writer-director Noah Pritzker (Quitters).

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeUsher has signed on to executive produce “Storyville,” a new series about the birth of the Jazz Age in development from Starlings Television. The multi-Grammy Award-winning performer will exec produce along with creators and showrunners Bill Macdonald (“Rome”) and Walt Becker (“Wild Hogs”).“Storyville” is set in New Orleans and follows the tale of five brothel madams as they fight to control the red light district.

Known for his sketch comedy and podcast series “Who’s This Now?” (2014), stand-up comic, Chris Estrada, has mostly been something of an underground cult sensation in comedy. But that’s about to change with “This Fool,” a new series he co-created for Hulu, inspired by his life, his stand-up, and how he dealt with relationships, high school, money, and more.

“Weinstein Effect” is still lingering Monday, five years after mainstream reports of Harvey Weinstein’s dark sexual reign of terror first came to light.Author Ken Auletta’a bombshell new book, “Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence,” dives deep into the ugly truth of the disgraced film producer’s downfall. “[He] had some notion in his head that his body was attractive,” the author, 80, told Fox News, despite witness testimony that he smelled of feces, had genitals scarred to the point they “looked like a vagina” and a back full of “uncomfortable” blackheads.Still, “he really thought he was God’s gift, a Don Juan,” added Auletta, who spoke to multiple former Miramax film studio employees, Weinstein accusers and even his business partner brother, Bob Weinstein, for the exposé.In one chapter, the famed media critic for New Yorker magazine recounts how Jessica Mann — an ex-actress who claimed Weinstein, 70, raped her — testified on the stand that he smelled like “poop” and his private parts looked “deformed.”“I remember the district attorney passed around pictures [at his 2020 trial] … and the jurors barely looked at them.

Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson patrol the city of New Orleans in the first trailer for AMC’s Interview With a Vampire series.

debuted a new trailer during San Diego Comic-Con 2022. The extended look at the series comes ahead of its debut in October, the same night as the return of . Based on the late author’s legendary gothic novel, the series tells the “epic story of love, blood and the perils of immortality” as it follows Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid), Claudia (Bailey Bass) and journalist journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian). After becoming annoyed by “the limitations of life as a Black man in 1900s New Orleans, Louis finds it impossible to resist the rakish Lestat’s offer of the ultimate escape: joining him as his vampire companion.

Love Island viewers were left horrified as Luca Bish's new kink was revealed on Unseen Bits on Saturday night (July 23). The fishmonger is coupled up with international dressage rider Gemma Owen, the daughter of legendary footballer and pundit Michael Owen. Viewers have previously been left recoiling after seeing him merrily sucking on Gemma's toes on the hit ITV2 dating show - and more than once.

It’s hard to argue that the late author Anne Rice has had a large impact on the modern image of vampires; instead of dark and creepy castle-dwelling old men, the writer instead helped give popular culture the young sexy vampire with her Lestat de Lioncourt novels for better or worse. A character was played by Tom Cruise in the 1994 feature film “An Interview With The Vampire,” which also featured actors such as Brad Pitt, Christian Slater, Antonio Banderas, and a young Kirsten Dunst.

Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, who? The new cast of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire took over Ballroom 20 at San Diego Comic-Con Saturday to share the first official teaser for the AMC series set for Oct. 20.