The cast of Supernatural landed in Orlando, Florida this past weekend for Creation Entertainment’sSupernatural conventions.
The event took place at the Doubletree Hilton at the Entrance to Universal Orlando, and it was a jam-packed few days filled with fun, laughter, and so many great moments. Cast members such as Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Rob Benedict, Richard Speight, Jr., Briana Buckmaster, Kim Rhodes, Ruth Connell, Matt Cohen, Adam Fergus, Samantha Smith, DJ Qualls, and more attended, making the weekend one to remember.
Many of our staff were there including multiple staff photographers, and you can see some of the photos from the convention below.
With just four episodes left of Riverdale‘s sixth season, it’s getting time to prepare for the seventh and final season of The CW series. Ahead of season 7, premiering midseason on the network, the drama will be returning for one final panel at San Diego Comic-Con next month!
While not much information has been revealed about the panel as far as who all will be participating and when, Warner Bros. Discovery has announced that Riverdale will take its final SDCC bow in Hall H.
Season 7 of Riverdale was announced earlier this year, while it being the final season was announced last month during The CW’s Upfronts. Based on the beloved Archie Comics series, Riverdale premiered in 2017 and has since been a cult favorite.
It currently stars KJ Apa, Cole Sprouse, Camila Mendes, Lili Reinhart, Madelaine Petsch, Vanessa Morgan, Drew Ray Tanner, Casey Cott, Erinn Westbrook, and Mädchen Amick. Notable former cast members include the late Luke Perry, Skeet Ulrich, Marisol Nichols, Mark Consuelos, and Molly Ringwald.
Riverdale returns Sunday, July 10 at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT on The CW for the final episodes of season 6. Season 7 premieres midseason 2023! As always, stay tuned for more updates.
The teaser trailer for the highly-anticipated Hocus Pocus sequel, Hocus Pocus 2, has been released by Disney. The film reunites the Sanderson sisters, with original cast members returning including Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy.
The film will arrive right before the start of the spooky season, launching exclusively on Disney+ on September 30.
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Here’s the synopsis for the film:
It’s been 29 years since someone lit the Black Flame Candle and resurrected the 17th-century sisters, and they are looking for revenge. Now it is up to three high-school students to stop the ravenous witches from wreaking a new kind of havoc on Salem before dawn on All Hallow’s Eve.
The film also stars Sam Richardson, Doug Jones, Hannah Waddingham, Whitney Peak, Belissa Escobedo, Lilia Buckingham, Froyan Gutierrez, and Tony Hale. It’s directed by Anne Fletcher and produced by Lynn Harris, Ralph Winter, David Kirschner and Adam Shankman.
Welcome to the latest installment of our 2022 Pride Month Series! Each weekday in the month of June, we will be highlighting a different member of the LGBTQIA+ community who we think is a great example of representation and dynamic characterization. We will focus on fictional characters, celebrities, and activists alike — the positive voices within the LGBTQIA+ community and in mainstream media.
Alice Oseman, whose name you may remember from our Heartstopper article, finally released her novel Loveless in the US earlier this year, and today we’re taking a moment to highlight the book’s main character Georgia Warr. So if you have not had a chance to read the book yet, this is your moment to do so, because from here on, we’ll be diving deep into Georgia and her story.
Loveless kicks off as Georgia and her two best friends — Pip and Jason — head off to university. However, Georgia feels as though she is already behind everyone else when she gets there because she has never dated or even kissed someone. Not because she doesn’t want to! Georgia loves the idea of dating and kissing and having sex and falling in love, but it just doesn’t seem like something she can actually do. So, upon arriving at university and meeting her obviously sexually experienced roommate Rooney, Georgia decides to ask for help figuring it all out. Unfortunately, Rooney’s help isn’t actually all that helpful. Ultimately it is Georgia’s rather accidental connection at the university’s Pride Society that helps her figure it out: she’s asexual and aromantic.
Throughout the book, and her first year at university, Georgia begins to explore what being part of the “A” in LGBTQIA+ means for her. It challenges the way she understands love, as everything she sees in real life, fictional media, and even in her own imagination tells her that love at its most basic boils down to sex and romance. Georgia is forced to reevaluate the way she views the world, and, more importantly, her own role in it. The path she had always imagined for herself no longer fits who she is, but she is determined to get her life on the right track, whatever that track is.
Alice Oseman
Georgia struggles with self-acceptance throughout the book, and especially once she comes to terms with her sexuality. Asexuality and aromanticism are more common now than they used to be, but they’re still not terms that everyone is familiar with the way they might be gay or lesbian. Plus, even if someone has heard of the terms, many people deny that they are valid. Even within the LGBTQIA+ community, the “A”s are often dismissed as ‘not really queer,’ and within all of this, Georgia really has to fight to accept that her sexuality is valid. One of the best moments in the book comes when she finally does accept it:
“Aromantic. Asexual. I came back to the words until they felt real in my mind, at least. Maybe they wouldn’t be real in most people’s minds. But I would make them real in mine. I could do whatever the fuck I wanted.”
Alice Oseman
As someone who realized that they are on the asexual (ace) and aromantic (aro) spectrums in their late twenties, this book is a really special read. From virgin shaming to adults pressuring her to explore relationships to feeling left behind by friends because of their relationships, many of the issues Georgia deals with in the book are things I dealt with myself when I was younger. Loveless is the best representation of my journey to discovering my sexuality I’ve seen, and I imagine that there are many others who feel the same! Georgia’s story offers ace/aro readers a place to see themselves represented in a way that they haven’t been before, and it reminds readers that just because someone is ace/aro, it doesn’t mean that they are incapable of love — their love just looks different. You might think of love as purely romantic or sexual, but it can be found in strong family bonds or self-love, or, as we see in Georgia’s case, in platonic friendships.
Ultimately Georgia discovers that she is not, in fact, loveless, but is seen and valid just as she is. A message that everyone, asexual/aromantic or otherwise, can take to heart this Pride.
Stay tuned to more Pride Month Spotlights here at Nerds and Beyond!
While season 2 may have ended, that doesn’t mean you still can’t get your kicks out of your favorite show. Kung Fu season 2 will be available on HBO Max on July 15!
Kung Fu follows Nicky Shen, a young Chinese-American woman who, in the midst of a quarter-life crisis, fled to a monastery in China for three years — only to return to her home changed, with crime and injustice terrorizing her neighborhood. With the help of her family and friends, Nicky takes to the streets with her Shaolin training to protect the community and people around her while seeking justice for wrongs committed against her Shifu, who was murdered in China.
Kung Fu features Olivia Liang, Eddie Liu, Shannon Dang, Jon Prasida, Kheng Hua Tan, Gavin Stenhouse, Vanessa Kai, Tony Chung, Tzi Ma, Yvonne Chapman, Vanessa Yao, Annie Q., Ludi Lin, JB Tadena, and Kee Chan.
First reported by Deadline, Emma Roberts will join Dakota Johnson and Sydney Sweeney in Sony Pictures’ upcoming Marvel film, Madame Web. Roberts is a regular on FX’s American Horror Story and a fan-favorite Ghostface from Scream 4, Jill, though those are far from the only projects she’s known for.
S.J. Clarkson will direct Madame Web from a screenplay by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, who also penned the Morbius script for Sony. Madame Web is one of several upcoming movies for Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, alongside Morbius, which is releasing April 1, Kraven the Hunter starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, which is due in 2023, and more untitled projects.
Madame Web was previously announced to have a release date of July 7, 2023. You can follow our coverage for the film here.
GISH has announced the first round of special guests who will be doing livestreams during the 2022 scavenger hunt. The guests include Our Flag Means Death actor Samba Schutte.
GISH is an international scavenger hunt where competitors participate in teams to complete as many tasks as possible. The tasks include charitable acts, arts and crafts, and doing the weird and wonderful.
Participants can also join special guests for livestream panels where the guest will help to create a task for teams to tackle. Alongside Schutte, author and creator Sam Maggs, author Patrick Weekes, space explorer Bobak Ferdowsi and astronomy and space journalist Fraser Cain have also been announced as panelists.
The scavenger hunt will run July 30 through August 6. It costs $25.01 to register for the hunt, and a portion of every registration will go to Nova Ukraine, which helps to relocate medically fragile and disabled refugees.
With a tagline like “Journey into the (F)unknown,” you know some odd things are going to be happening this summer. If you want to join in, make sure you head over to the GISH website to register now!
One of the most wholesome families on television is making their way to Digital and physical formats next month. Beginning on July 12, viewers can bring home the Belcher family’s latest adventure in The Bob’s Burgers Movie. The movie will be available in UHD, HD, and SD Digital formats on July 12, with Blu-ray combo pack and DVD formats available for purchase the following week on July 19. A 4K Ultra HD SteelBook® edition will be available exclusively through Best Buy.
The Bob’s Burgers Movie follows the Belchers as they gear up for the summertime, their busiest time of year for the restaurant. Their plans are severely derailed when a sinkhole opens right in front of the entrance. With Linda and Bob already struggling with loans, they try and find a way to make up their potential lost revenue. Meanwhile, Tina, Gene, and Louise become involved in a murder mystery that may be the restaurant’s saving grace.
H. Jon Benjamin, John Roberts, Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman, and Kristen Schaal reprise their roles as the titular Belcher family for the movie. Additional voice cast includes Larry Murphy, Kevin Kline, Zach Galifianakis, and David Wain. The screenplay was written by Loren Bouchard and Nora Smith, and directed by Bouchard and Bernard Derriman.
The Blu-ray and DVD formats come with a number of bonus features, including:
Audio commentary from Benjamin, Roberts, Mintz, Mirman, Schaal, Bouchard, Derriman, Smith, and production designer Ruben Hickman
Making-Of featurette about the process of turning the FOX series into a feature film
Theatrical short titled “My Butt Has a Fever” seen only in select theaters. The theatrical version and a behind-the-scenes animatic version will be included.
Deleted scenes both with and without audio commentary
Animated extra animatics for “Sunny Side Up Summer,” “Lucky Ducks,” “Not That Evil,” and the end credits
Animated extras about the animation process for select scenes from the movie
Along with the Digital release, The Bob’s Burgers Movie will be available to stream on Hulu on July 12.
Watch the opening musical number from the movie below.
The second season of Walker is set to arrive on HBO Max next month! You can catch up with the series on July 23 when it arrives on the streaming service.
The first season is currently available to watch there, and with the second season arriving soon, it’s the perfect time to catch up on the show before the third season airs this fall.
You can see all of our coverage of the series so far, here.
Walker stars Jared Padalecki, Ashley Reyes, Keegan Allen, Odette Annable, Molly Hagan, and Mitch Pileggi.
Welcome to the latest installment of our 2022 Pride Month Series! Each weekday in the month of June, we will be highlighting a different member of the LGBTQIA+ community who we think is a great example of representation and dynamic characterization. We will focus on fictional characters, celebrities, and activists alike — the positive voices within the LGBTQIA+ community and in mainstream media. Today’s spotlight is on Netflix’s Heartstopper.
Pulled directly from Alice Oseman’s hit webcomic/graphic novels of the same title, Heartstopper is a feel good, queer, teen romance that follows a group of teens as they discover who they are and what love is. With all the ups and downs that you’d expect from a coming-of-age story, but none of the dark/dramatic tones that have plagued queer teen shows in the past, Heartstopper is undoubtedly one of the biggest LGBTQ+ releases this year. With characters representing nearly every aspect of the queer spectrum, Heartstopper offers a lot to talk about in it’s first season. So we’re going to keep things simple in this article and focus on the series’ main couples/characters: Nick and Charlie, Tara and Darcy, and Elle.
Nick and Charlie
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From the first moment they step onscreen as Nick and Charlie, Kit Connor and Joe Locke bring the boys to life as though they’d sprung directly out of Oseman’s drawings. So, while we did devote an article to Nick and Charlie last year, we couldn’t just skip over the way the show brought their story to life onscreen.
Nick grows so much in this first season. From realizing that his so-called friends are actually homophobic bullies, to making new friends, to discovering that he’s bisexual, to coming out the the important people in his life, Nick changed a lot in just eight episodes. Some of the show’s most heartwarming moments come out of this change. For example, Charlie’s constant reassurance that Nick does not need to come out until he is ready is so wonderful to see, and is key to allowing Nick to become comfortable enough to come out. Not to mention the tense yet wonderful conversations between Nick and Tao as they navigate how their individual relationships with Charlie impact each other.
Charlie, on the other hand, is more constant in the show thus far. His sexuality is clear for moment one, and, while it is made clear that he has been bullied for it in the past, he seems to be fairly comfortable in who he is. Charlie is exactly the kind of friend every young queer needs: supportive yet not pushy. He gives Nick the breathing room he needs when it comes to deciding when to come out, and despite hating to be someone’s secret again Charlie never pushes.
The beauty of Charlie and Nick’s story is that it is a very typical teen romance: slightly nerdy person goes through rough breakup, meets the hot popular person by accident, has huge crush on hot popular person but they’re just friends, hot popular person realizes that maybe they should be more than friends, a sprinkling of drama, a kiss, some more drama, and slightly nerdy person and hot popular person end up together. It is every teen movie. However, it is also so much more. Nick and Charlie’s relationship is a solid one built on support and caring, and for every queer viewer it is a reminder that just because a relationship may not be what the world sees as normal doesn’t mean that it isn’t good or beautiful.
Tara and Darcy
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Tara and Darcy are absolutely iconic. From the first moment Corinna Brown and Kizzy Edgell first grace our screens they draw your eye. Even in French class when they are artfully dodging Elle’s questions about who they’re dating, the two can’t hide how much they care about each other. An established couple from the outset, Tara and Darcy’s storyline doesn’t involve any will they/won’t they drama. Their story is literally that of a healthy couple dealing with their issues. In this case the main issue is how coming out as a couple changes the way they’re treated by their peers.
Tara truly struggles with the way people change how they perceive her after she and Darcy make their relationship public. However, Darcy doesn’t let her go through it alone. She is there for Tara every step of the way, reminding Tara, and viewers, that it’s okay to need support and that the people who truly care about you are happy to provide it. Darcy has already been through this when she came out, and she is happier now, she just wants Tara to get there too. Their whole relationship is a beautiful example of what can happen when teens are allowed to be their authentic selves — one that inspires Nick to go after what he really wants with Charlie.
Elle
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One of the best, yet most subtle storylines in the first season is Elle’s. Viewers first meet Elle as the missing member of Charlie’s quartet of friends for whom Tao continues to buy apple juice at lunch. However as soon as the perspective shifts to Elle sitting at her desk texting, the reason for her absence suddenly becomes clear: she’s moved to a different school – one that better fits her gender.
This transition is probably the most explicit statement the show makes about Elle being trans, and it is exactly the reason that her storyline so special. The show’s primary characters never act as though Elle is or has ever been anyone other than who she is now — which is unheard of in media! She is never deadnamed, she is never referred to by the wrong pronouns, and aside from a few reminiscences her time before transitioning is simply not mentioned. This is in direct opposition to most media featuring trans people where their transition is usually central to the story, and it is SO refreshing.
Not only is her story not transition centered, but she is treated as a normal teen who does normal teen things. She learns to make new friends, she goes to school, she discovers she has a crush on her best friend. Okay, maybe that last one isn’t completely normal, but still. She is a relatable character, and not just for trans teens but for everyone. She is not defined by the fact that she is trans, and her story is so much better for it. Plus, the way her friends, new and old, treat her is the perfect example to teens, and everyone, of how they should act around the trans people in their life.
Before we wrap this section, we need to take a moment to give some much deserved praise to Yasmin Finney. Elle is one of the best representations of a trans teen in media today, and as a trans women herself Yasmin plays the role to perfection. From the first moment she appears onscreen, Yasmin brings Elle to life in a way that is relatable, personal, and impossible to forget. Elle was amazing in the webcomic/graphic novels, but Yasmin has made her truly unforgettable.
Netflix
With such wonderful characters and stories kicking off Heartstopper in its first season, it’s no wonder that Netflix has already renewed the show for two more seasons. Fans can look forward to more great queer stories from these wonderful characters, plus Oseman has promised even more representation coming in season two! She has hinted at the fact that Isaac is asexual/aromantic, and we can look forward to that and so much more in the coming seasons.
Be sure to check back here for all the Heartstopper updates as it moves into season two, and stop by all month for more Pride month sporlights.
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