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Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story on Netflix: Trailer

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Nearly every kid in America knows the rhyme: Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41. So it’s only fitting that twisted nursery rhyme stands at the center of the first trailer for “Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story,” the fourth season in Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s Netflix anthology series.

The Lizzie Borden murder case is among one of the best-known in American history. On Aug. 4, 1892, Lizzie’s father, Andrew Borden, and her stepmother, Abby Borden, were found dead in their Massachusetts home. Both had been repeatedly struck by an axe in broad daylight. Lizzie was originally tried for the crimes and received widespread scrutiny for her contradictory testimony about the day in question. However, she was ultimately acquitted and no one was charged for the murders.

Tuesday’s trailer begins with a piano ominously playing a series of notes. But as the classic rhyme starts, the trailer cuts to several shots of Ella Beatty as Lizzie covered in blood and images of axes, as well as various erotic moments such as a woman pulling another woman’s legs apart and someone sensually gripping a post.

“When the repressed daughter of a wealthy New England family and her rebellious maid find themselves trapped in a house built on humiliation and cruelty, they escape into a fantasy of sex, power and revenge,” a press release for the upcoming series reads. “The gruesome unsolved murders that follow don’t just shock the world — they give birth to an icon who refuses to live imprisoned in a cage, choosing instead to forge her own legend: shocking, monstrous and gloriously free.”

In addition to Beatty, “The Lizzie Borden Story” stars Vicky Krieps, Charlie Hunnam and Rebecca Hall, with Billie Lourd, Joey Pollari, Sarah Paulson and Jessica Barden. There will be eight episodes in this new season.

Ian Brennan serves as creator, writer and executive producer for “Monster” Season 4. He EPs alongside Murphy, Max Winkler, Eric Kovtun, Scott Robertson, Louise Shore, Nissa Diederich, Todd Kubrak, Carl Franklin and Tanase Popa. Winkler will also direct the first three episodes, as well as Episode 5, Episode 7 and Episode 8, while Sarah Adina Smith will direct Episode 4 and Episode 6.

“Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story” premieres Sept. 17 on Netflix.

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Possession Remake: Callum Turner, Margaret Qualley Movie Sets Release

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A remake of Possession is set to take over theaters.

Paramount is set to release filmmaker Parker Finn‘s reimagining of the 1981 supernatural feature on June 11, 2027. Callum Turner, Margaret Qualley, Diego Calva, Madeline Brewer, Emory Cohen, Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Paul Dano round out the cast.

Finn (Smile) helms Possession from his own script that is based on writer-director Andrzej Żuławski’s original film. The 1981 feature centered on a woman going through a divorce who begins exhibiting bizarre behavior.

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Joe Scarborough Condemns Trump’s Vaccine Order as Dangerous

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“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough condemned President Trump‘s Monday executive order reducing the number of federally-recommended childhood vaccines, calling it “so stupid” and “so dangerous.”

“That’s just not true. I’ve studied that. That’s absolutely not true,” Scarborough said Tuesday morning, in response to a clip of Trump asserting in the Oval Office that the MMR vaccine needs to be divided into three separate vaccinations in order to be “not at all lethal” and “just very effective.” Co-host Mika Brzezinski echoed Scarborough’s sentiments.

“Physicians and scientists have said the single MMR shot is safe and effective, and breaking it up could leave children vulnerable to dangerous diseases for longer,” Brzezinski noted, adding, “Trump yesterday also repeatedly suggested the number or timing of vaccines could play a role in rising rates of autism, despite scientific consensus and decades of studies that have firmly concluded there is no link.”

“I have a child who is on the spectrum, and this is something I have studied intensively,” Scarborough told “Morning Joe” viewers. “There’s not a single legitimate study that suggests vaccines play any role in the rise of autism. If there were, I would have been telling you about it over the past 20 years.”

“To see that happening in the Oval Office yesterday is what everybody feared would happen when Bobby Kennedy Jr. was put into that position,” Scarborough added of RFK Jr.’s appointment as Health and Human Services secretary.

You can watch the full “Morning Joe” segment yourself in the video below.

Scarborough and Brzezinski continued to hammer the dangerous potential of Trump and RFK Jr.’s ongoing vaccine claims.

“This is so stupid and it’s so dangerous, and it spreads so much disinformation,” Scarborough said. “Because of the lies, because of the conspiracy theories, now there are parents out there that are going to be frozen in place because they heard this coming out of the Oval Office and [they won’t] do what parents have done for generations to protect their children from terrible diseases.”

“High vaccination rates in the United States given on a medically recognized schedule have prevented the spread of potentially deadly diseases,” Brzezinski explained. “A study published in 2024 by the CDC found that, for children born from 1994 to 2023, routine vaccinations prevented approximately 508 million cases of illness, 32 million hospitalizations and more than 1.1 million deaths.”

Scarborough, Brzezinski and co-hosts Willie Geist and Jonathan Lemire all expressed befuddlement over Trump’s repeated reluctance to push back against Kennedy on any of his anti-vaccine rhetoric and policies.

“He’s just letting Bobby Kennedy Jr. run roughshod over him and endangering children in this country,” Geist said, prompting Lemire to add, “This is deeply dangerous.”

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt To Star In ‘Gaijin’ Drama At Hulu

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EXCLUSIVE: Hulu, the streaming home of FX’s Emmy record-breaking Shōgun, is developing another drama about a Westerner’s adventures in Japan, this time set in the 21st century. The project, titled Gaijin, Japanese for foreigner or outsider, comes from Shōgun co-executive producer Shannon Goss. It is executive produced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt with an eye for him to star. Lionsgate Television is the studio.

Inspired by Ivan Orkin’s real-life story that led to the creation of Ivan Ramen, Gaijin is about an American culinary school dropout who spontaneously moves to Tokyo with his young son following his wife’s death. Desperate to maintain a connection to his wife’s home country, Ivan (Gordon-Levitt) plunges headfirst into life in Japan. He moves in with his in-laws, whom he barely knows and barely likes, and takes action on a long-held dream of opening his own restaurant – in this case, a ramen shop. Through hardships, culture clashes and humorous moments lost in translation, Ivan will, over the course of the series, take on the Herculean task of building a business and rebuilding a life.

Goss and Orkin executive produce alongside Gordon-Levitt and Jared Geller via Hit Record and Nickel City Pictures’ Mark Fasano, Matthew Goldberg, Michael Blustein and Andrew Gottlieb.

New York chef Orkin became famous for opening successful ramen shops in Tokyo, Japan before expanding Ivan Ramen to his home town and London and starring on Season 3 of Netflix’s Chef’s Table.

Goss is a writer/co-executive producer on Shōgun, sharing in the Outstanding Drama Series Emmy win for Season 1. She also recently co-executive produced AMC’s The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. Goss is repped by WME and 3 Arts.

Gordon-Levitt, recently seen in Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man, has coming up movies Pendulum for Vertical, in which he stars alongside Phoebe Dynevor, Jacki Weaver and Norman Reedus, and AI thriller 2034 for Netflix, which he co-wrote and directed, with Rachel McAdams, Jeff Daniels, Joel Edgerton, Caleb McLaughlin and Alfre Woodard starring. 3rd Rock From the Sun alum Gordon-Levitt, whose recent series credits include Mr. Corman, Super Pumped and Poker Face, is repped by WME and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

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