#hannah gillespie

[1doesnotsimplyhavejust1fandam]

Me and my two roommates when Jason Earles shows up in hsmtmts:

Roommate 1: Hannah Montana’s BROTHER?!!!

Roommate 2: DEWEY?!?!?

Me: RUDY GILLESPIE?!!??!!!

[nightingale2004]

Harry Potter next generation: Neville Longbottom x Luna Lovegood vers.

Franklin 'Frank/Frankie' Neville Lovegood- Longbottom ii

Faceclaim: Charlie Gillespie

Franklin is the first child and only son of Neville Longbottom and Hannah Abbott. He is also the big brother of Alice

He is also the stepson of Luna Lovegood and the older stepbrother of the Lovegood twins

When Frank and Alice were kids, they both heard their parents arguing one night. The next day, their mother Hannah left, and they barely ever saw her.

After that, Neville raised Frank and Alice by himself for a couple of years until he got remarried to Luna Lovegood when Frank was 10, Alice was 9, and the twins were 7

Prefers to be called Frank or Frankie

He is a Hufflepuff

He is very down to earth and is big nature lover

Loves herbology and plants.

He is secretly a potion master

He is the voice of reason for both his friends and family

He loves hiking, rock climbing, and camping.

When he first met Luna, he was very shy and didn't like her at first, but when they got to know each other, Frank became incredibly attached and loved Luna more than his dad

Neville never spoke bad about Hannah to both his children and would only tell them the good things about their mother

Frank would sometimes miss his mom, but he loves his new mom Luna much more and loves his new brothers

He wants to live in the forest in a cabin after he graduates

He's the Hufflepuff quidditch commenter at Hogwarts. He also plays Beater on the team

His patronus would be an Otter

Loves chocolate and any kind of sweets

The Weasley's love Frank and his family and see them as their own

Frankie loves his dad but doesn't say it a lot but he does show it

His love language is more action than words

He would always (and i do mean ALWAYS) bail James and his family out of trouble at Hogwarts

Frank is crazy good at photography

Frank is also good at wood craft, wood carving, and woodworking

Has a major crush on Sidra, and everyone (except Sidra) knows about it

He looks more like his dad with a hint of his mom

He loves having his dad as a teacher at Hogwarts along with Harry as a DADA professor

Frank is thinking of becoming either a healer, potion master or photographer

Frank, James, and Freddie are very close, like brothers, and often talk to each other and plan pranks together. They are also thinking of becoming a band

Gets l o st in the woods.......a lot

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Alice Augusta Lovegood-Longbottom ii

Faceclaim: Ruby Cruz

Alice is the daughter of Neville Longbottom and Hannah Abbott

She is also the younger sister of Franklin, the stepsister of the twins Lorcan and Lysander, and the stepdaughter of Luna Lovegood

She is a Ravenclaw

Before she was sorted, the hat had a debate with her being either Gryffindor or Ravenclaw, but he landed on Ravenclaw

Her favorite classes are transfiguration, divination, astronomy, arithmancy, and care for magical creatures

She loves a clear night sky so that way she can see all the stars

She knows all the constellations by heart and even makes up her own game where she renamed all the constellations

She is a daddy's girl and loves her father very much

Loved Luna the moment she first met her

If she ever got lost, she could find her way back just by looking at the starry sky

She is a HUGE animal lover, but she loves dogs more

Has a MAJOR fear of heights

She loves getting piggyback rides, especially from her brother (she jumps on his back all the time)

She hates her mom for leaving them, but she eventually forgave her for leaving and set herself free from her anger

Her patronus is a koala

She looks more like her mom with a mix of her dad

Alice has a water phobia due to one time when her whole family went sailing and she fell overboard and almost drowned

Also, the Lovegood-Longbottom family has a new edition whose name is Pandora Maryjane Lovegood-Longbottom and they all love her very much

She is a ride or die for her family and friends

Alice made friends with a centaur when she was out in the forbidden forest. She is now friends with the whole herd, and she does her best to be respectful to them and their customs and traditions

She is also really good at art. She loves painting, sketching, sculpting, and even jewelry making

She loves making jewelry and items from random materials she finds

She and Louis are art buddies

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Lysander Xenophilius Lovegood-Longbottom

Faceclaim: Dylan Sprouse

Lysander is the first son of Luna Lovegood and Rolf Scamander.

He is also the older twin to his brother Lorcan, stepson of Neville Longbottom and stepbrother to Frank and Alice Longbottom

He is also the half-brother of Pandora Maryjane Lovegood-Longbottom

Lysander is a Hufflepuff and proud

Lysander likes to be called Lys or Sander for short

When he and Lorcan were babies, his mom and dad were always arguing, and it got worse as the twins got older

Rolf and Luna tried to hide it from the twins, but Lysander would notice it and try to shield his brother from the arguments

It wasn't until the twins were 5 that their parents divorced

The twins have known the Longbottoms before their parents got together, and the twins, especially Lysander, loved them like family

Lysander is the older twin between him and Lorcan

He will say what's on his mind (most of the time is unintentional)

Will not hesitate to punch the daylights out of someone for bullying his family or any of his friends

He and Lorcan are very close, and Lys would never let an argument get between him and his brother

When Neville first started getting together with his mom, he was cautious and would pretend he didn't like him, but he liked him immediately since he made his mom happy

Despite his parents' divorce, Lysander still loves his father, and both him and Lorcan go to visit him when they can

Lys and Frank bond over plants since they both love herbology

Wants to travel the world studying unique plants and what they can or can't do

Lys is very competitive and is on the Hufflepuff quidditch team as a chaser and a beater

He loves his mom very much and is a total mama's boy

Knows how to bake

His patronus is a llama

He is more of a 'Do first, ask questions later' type of guy

Loves babysitting Pandora and calls her Pan, Panda, or Dora

Likes the Potters

He loves trying new things and new activities

Will smuggle items, no questions asked

Looks more like his father and grandfather Newt, but he does have his mother's smile and her eyes

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Lorcan Newton Lovegood-Longbottom

Faceclaim: Cole Sprouse

The second son and child, Luna Lovegood and Rolf Scamander

He is also the younger twin of Lysander and the stepson of Neville Longbottom and the stepbrother of Frank and Alice Longbottom and the half-brother of Pandora Maryjane Lovegood-Longbottom

Lorcan is a Ravenclaw like his mom

Lorcan looks like his brother except with more of his mother's features showing

Lorcan is more of an animal lover than his twin brother

He loves care for magical creatures and studying all types of magical creatures in the Wizarding world

Lorcan also loves studying about muggle animals and loves learning about how different muggle animals are from magical animals

His patronus is an alpaca

He and his mother are making an animal sanctuary

Lorcan is more a father's son, but he also loves his grandfather, Newt, and has read 'Fantastic beasts and where to find them' cover to cover about a thousand times

But he loves his mother even more and Neville as well

He supports Lucy and Charles Weasley's petition for Dragon games

When he and Lysander were babies, they both had platinum blonde hair, but as they grew older, both their hair became darker, which is what separated their appearance

He knows he's a weirdo but he likes it

He loves all his subjects except for potions

Lorcan and Alice love reading books together in complete silence

Lorcan and Hugo love talking to each other about divination and about his seer sight (Hugo told lorcan about it)

At the start of the new blended Lovegood-Longbottom family, it was awkward for Lorcan until later where he and Neville started getting along

Lorcan considers Lysander his best friend in the whole world despite their differences, and they both know they got each other's back

Like Rolf, Lorcan has a creative writing flame and writes in the school paper, and he even made his own blog where he tries to bring awareness to a lot of topics

Loves the Weasley Potter family

He is more of a thinker than his twin

Loves Pandora and will always find ways to make her smile

Lorcan and Scorpius are also very close, and like everyone else, he finds Sidra intimidating

[sandy1907]

SEBLAINE PLAYLIST:

• Please Please Please (- Sabrina Carpenter)

• But Daddy I Love Him (- Taylor Swift)

• Touch It (- Ariana Grande)

• Set Fire to the Rain (- Adele)

• If Only (- Dove Cameron)

• Right Here Right Now (- Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens)

• All of the Girls you Loved Before (- Taylor Swift)

• Fortnight (- Taylor Swift)

• Best Friends Brother (- Victoria Justice)

• We Don’t Talk Anymore (- Selena Gomez, Charlie Puth)

• Boyfriend (- Ariana Grande, Social House)

• Can I Have this Dance (- Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens)

• Daylight (- Taylor Swift)

• Me & You (- Coco Jones, Tyler James Williams)

• Every Breath You Take (- The Police)

• The Heart Wants What it Wants (- Selena Gomez)

• Rewrite the Stars (- Zac Efron, Zendaya)

• Blank Space (- Taylor Swift)

• True Love (- Jordan Fisher, Dove Cameron)

• Fallin for Ya (- Grace Phipps)

• Betty (- Taylor Swift)

• Cardigan (- Taylor Swift)

• I Think He Knows (- Taylor Swift)

• Back to December (- Taylor Swift)

• I Love You, I’m Sorry (- Gracie Abrams)

• Bad Things (- Machine Gun Kelly, Camila Cabello)

• Ready For It (- Taylor Swift)

• Friends (- Chase Atlantic)

• History (- Olivia Holt)

• Fire on Fire (- Sam Smith)

• Afterglow (- Taylor Swift)

• Fireside (-Arctic Monkeys)

• Bad Idea Right? (- Olivia Rodrigo)

• Paparazzi (- Lady Gaga)

• If This Was A Movie (-Taylor Swift)

• Nonsense (- Sabrina Carpenter)

• Wouldn’t Change A Thing (-Joe Jonas, Demi Lovato)

• I Want It All (- Lana Del Ray)

• I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor (- Arctic Monkeys)

• I Wanna Know You (- Hannah Montana)

• I Still Do (- Why Don’t We)

• My Tears Ricochet (- Taylor Swift)

• Favourite Crime (- Olivia Rodrigo)

• Maroon (- Taylor Swift)

• Do I Wanna Know? (- Arctic Monkeys)

• Shameless (- Camila Cabello)

• No.1 Party Anthem (- Arctic Monkeys)

• Kiss You (- One Direction)

• I Knew You Were Trouble (- Taylor Swift)

• Moth To A Flame (- The Weeknd)

• All Too Well 10 Minute Version Taylor’s Version (- Taylor Swift)

• Back To You (- Selena Gomez)

• This Love (- Taylor Swift)

• Secret Love Song (- Little Mix)

• Deja Vu (- Olivia Rodrigo)

• Just For A Moment (- Olivia Rodrigo, Joshua Bassett)

• They Don’t Know About Us (- One Direction)

• Perfect Harmony (- Madison Reyes, Charlie Gillespie)

• Happier (- Ed Sheeran)

• Endgame (- Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Future)

• My Oh My (- Camila Cabello)

• Chemistry (- Asher Angel)

• I Can See You (- Taylor Swift)

• Need You Now (- Lady A)

• Guilty As Sin (- Taylor Swift)

[rottenache]

independent, selective, and private blog for multiple characters from various media. this blog will feature original character and characters that are deviated from their canon writings as well. written by lilly, twenty6. muses under the cut for the mobile users.

carrd. starter call. mains call. edits tag.

supernatural.

sam winchester ... canon ... jared padalecki/charlie gillespie. claire novak ... canon ... josephine langford. sarah blake ... canon ... camila morrone. ruby ... canon ... claudia doumit/genevieve padalecki. matías rivas ... original ... pedro pascal. samantha wess ... original ... ana de armas. selena wilson ... original ... jessica alba. william harvelle ... original ... garrett hedlund. odessa muyne ... original ... madison bailey. colton singer ... original ... hugh jackman. kiana ... original ... tara yummy. rob dunne ... original ... zoë kravitz. jean withers ... original ... hannah cheramy.

the hundred.

bellamy blake ... canon ... bob morley. clarke griffin ... canon ... eliza taylor. octavia blake ... original ... marie avgeropoulos. john murphy ... canon ... richard harmon. raven reyes ... canon ... lindsey morgan. cassie valerie ... original ... shailene woodley. luna liu ... original ... lola tung. ryan monroe ... original ... bruna marquezine. vesper sloan ... original ... madelyn cline.

dark angel.

ben mcdowell ... original ... drew starkey. apollo adonis ... original ... bob morley.

eden.

hallie anders ... original ... adria arjona. aiden birch ... original ... alan ritchson. miles zane ... original ... michael b jordan. levi adama ... original ... joel kinnaman.

fallenverse.

lucifer ... original ... hayden christensen. prometheus ... original ... jensen ackles.

the gifted / x-men.

arthur collins ... original ... rudy pankow.

[troyalexbyeder]

INTRODUCING : THE BOLTON'S

jackson elliot "jack" bolton , father , portrayed by james marsden. troy alexander bolton , portrayed by charlie gillespie. lucille hannah "lucy" bolton , mother , portrayed by liv tyler. sunny , family dog , golden retriever. cola , personal dog , miniature labrador.

[halloweend]

#HALLOWEEND an independent multimuse featuring a number of muses from halloween-esque films & shows. as beloved & established by pluto.

affiliated with: @inspotlight (all blogs), @heartfe1t (all blogs), @percentstardust/@loomiskiller/@loomisheir, & @sixbillicnsouls credits: icon banner pumpkin patch by faegfx, psd rusted flame by jessource, pinned post graphic by sweetmelodygraphics

all muses are played at 18+ in their main ages. with the exception of max mayfield who is played at 14-18+ to reflect canon

shock - the nightmare before christmas. fc: india eisley (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

wednesday addams - wednesday/addams family media. fc: jenna ortega (she/her, demisexual/demiromantic)

camryn barnes - twitches. fc: zendaya (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

daphne blake - scooby doo. fc: abigail cowen (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

robin buckley - stranger things. fc: maya hawke (she/they, homosexual/homoromantic)

sam carpenter - scream. fc: melissa barrera (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

tara carpenter - scream. fc: jenna ortega (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

joey (ana lucia) cruz - abigail. fc: melissa barrera (she/her, visuals/biromantic)

dani dennison - hocus pocus. fc: katherine mcnamara (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

mavis dracula - hotel transylvania. fc: olivia rodrigo (she/her, pansexual/panromantic)

alex fielding - twitches. fc: zendaya (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

sally finkelstein - the nightmare before christmas. fc: karen gillan (bisexual/biromantic)

pj halliwell - charmed. fc: katie douglas (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

melinda halliwell - charmed. fc: danielle rose russell (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

colette hughes - totally killer. fc: kiernan shipka (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

sammy (jessica) hurney - abigail. fc: kathryn newton (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

coraline jones - coraline. fc: isabela merced (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

needy lesnicki - jennifer's body. fc: kiernan shipka (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

johnny loughran - hotel transylvania. fc: joshua bassett (he/him, pansexual/panromantic)

wybie lovat - coraline. fc: jonathan daviss (he/him, bisexual/biromantic)

wyatt lykensen - zombies. fc: pearce joza (he/him, homosexual/homoromantic)

max mayfield - stranger things. fc: sadie sink (bisexual/biromantic)

randy meeks - scream. fc: charlie gillespie (he/him, bisexual/biromantic)

pam miller - totally killer. fc: olivia holt (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

zed necrodopolis - zombies. fc: milo manheim (he/him, bisexual/biromantic)

marnie piper - halloweentown. fc: emilia jones (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

sidney prescott - scream. fc: danielle campbell (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

tatum riley - scream. fc: madison iseman (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

alex russo - wizards of waverly place. fc: fiona palomo (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

justin russo - wizards of waverly place. fc: froy gutierrez (he/him, bisexual/biromantic)

enid sinclair - wednesday. fc: emma myers (she/her, pansexual/panromantic)

sabrina spellman - sabrina the teenage witch. fc: sabrina carpenter (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

hannah stine - goosebumps (2015). fc: odeya rush (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

xavier thorpe - wednesday. fc: felix mallard (he/him, bisexual/biromantic)

cassie traske - hocus pocus 2. fc: maude apatow (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

addison wells - zombies. fc: meg donnelly (she/her, pansexual/panromantic)

nancy wheeler - strangers things. fc: natalia dyer (she/her, bisexual/biromantic)

[allmusic]

AllMusic Staff Pick Bears in Trees And Everybody Else Smiled Back

On this album, Bears in Trees sound more polished and expansive than in their earlier ventures, but they maintain the unique flavor of an indie “dirtbag boyband” drawing from a wide variety of inspirations. Singers Callum Litchfield and Iain Gillespie’s differing voices complement each other well, touching on themes of mental health and love earnestly and with a sense of humor. The album smoothly blends styles ranging from sentimental strings to defiant electric guitar to bright ukulele into a heartwarmingly honest production.

- Hannah Schwartz

[eemcintyre]

@eemcintyre's top 118 favorite movies in alphabetical order

An admittedly random number that includes objectively "well-made" films with artistic merit, objectively considered-to-be-entertaining movies, and possibly questionable ones that I'm sentimental for or just like for whatever mysterious reason (usually a hot guy but not always). This is just what I like and the premier way to get to know me.

(Updated 09/07/24)

A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), dir. Bill Melendez

A Few Good Men (1992), dir. Rob Reiner

A New Hope (1977), dir. George Lucas

Amelie (2001), dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet

American Made (2017), dir. Doug Liman

AMY (2015), dir. Asif Kapadia

Annie (1982), dir. John Huston

Argylle (2024), dir. Matthew Vaughn

Arthur Christmas (2011), dir. Sarah Smith

Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper (2004), dir. William Lau

Barbie of Swan Lake (2003), dir. Owen Hurley

Black Swan (2010), dir. Darren Aronofsky

The Blair Witch Project (1999), dir. Eduardo Sanchez & Daniel Myrick

The Bodyguard (1992), dir. Mick Jackson

Borat (2006), dir. Larry Charles

The Breakfast Club (1985), dir. John Hughes

Camille (1936), dir. George Cukor

Casablanca (1943), dir. Michael Curtiz

Chinatown (1974), dir. Roman Polanski

Cocktail (1988), dir. Roger Donaldson

Con Air (1997), dir. Simon West

The Conjuring (2013), dir. James Wan

The Conjuring 2 (2016), dir. James Wan

The Crow (1994), dir. Alex Proyas

Cruel Intentions (1999), dir. Roger Kumble

Dallas Buyers Club (2013), dir. Jean-Marc Vallée

Die Hard (1988), dir. John McTiernan

Eddie and the Cruisers (1983), dir. Martin Davidson

Elf (2003), dir. Jon Favreau

Eloise at Christmastime (2003), dir. Kevin Lima

The Empire Strikes Back (1980), dir. Irvin Kershner

Enchanted (2007), dir. Kevin Lima

Face/Off (1997), dir. John Woo

Far and Away (1992), dir. Ron Howard

Footloose (1984), dir. Herbert Ross

Galaxy Quest (1999), dir. Dean Parisot

The Great Muppet Caper (1981), dir. Jim Henson

Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009), dir. Peter Chelsom

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), dir. Chris Columbus

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), dir. Mike Newell

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), dir. Alfonso Cuaron

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), dir. Chris Columbus

Heathers (1988), dir. Michael Lehmann

Hereditary (2018), dir. Ari Aster

High School Musical (2006), dir. Kenny Ortega

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), dir. Garth Jennings

Holes (2003), dir. Andrew Davis

The Holiday (2006), dir. Nancy Meyers

Hollow Point (1996), dir. Sidney J. Furie

Hotel Rwanda (2004), dir. Terry George

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), dir. Donald Petrie

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), dir. Jim Gillespie

I, Tonya (2017), dir. Craig Gillespie

Ice Princess (2005), dir. Tim Fywell

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), dir. Steven Spielberg

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), dir. Steven Spielberg

In a Lonely Place (1950), dir. Nicholas Ray

Insidious (2010), dir. James Wan

Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013), dir. James Wan

Insidious: The Red Door (2023), dir. Patrick Wilson

Jackie (2016), dir. Pablo Larrain

Jerry Maguire (1996), dir. Cameron Crowe

JFK (1991), dir. Oliver Stone

The Karate Kid (1984), dir. John G. Avildsen

The Karate Kid Part II (1986), dir. John G. Avildsen

Knight and Day (2010), dir. James Mangold

Laggies (2014), dir. Lynn Shelton

The Last Samurai (2003), dir. Edward Zwick

Lawn Dogs (1997), dir. John Duigan

Lean on Me (1989), dir. John G. Avildsen

Leaving Las Vegas (1995), dir. Mike Figgis

Magnolia (1999), dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

Megamind (2010), dir. Tom McGrath

Minority Report (2002), dir. Steven Spielberg

Mission: Impossible (1996), dir. Brian De Palma

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), dir. Christopher McQuarrie

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), dir. Christopher McQuarrie

Mission: Impossible III (2006), dir. J.J. Abrams

Mr. Right (2015), dir. Paco Cabezas

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), dir. Jeremiah S. Chechik

National Treasure (2004), dir. Jon Turteltaub

Natural Born Killers (1994), dir. Oliver Stone

Oklahoma! (1955), dir. Fred Zinnemann

The Outsiders (1983), dir. Francis Ford Coppola

The Pacifier (2005), dir. Adam Shankman

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), dir. John Hughes

The Preacher's Wife (1996), dir. Penny Marshall

Pretty in Pink (1986), dir. John Hughes

Pride and Prejudice (2005), dir. Joe Wright

The Princess Diaries (2001), dir. Garry Marshall

Raising Arizona (1987), dir. Joel & Ethan Coen

Return of the Jedi (1983), dir. Richard Marquand

Roman Holiday (1953), dir. William Wyler

Sabrina (1954), dir. Billy Wilder

Scream (1996), dir. Wes Craven

Se7en (1995), dir. David Fincher

Sense and Sensibility (1995), dir. Ang Lee

The Shining (1980), dir. Stanley Kubrick

The Silence of the Lambs (1991), dir. Jonathan Demme

The Sound of Music (1965), dir. Robert Wise

Stretch (2014), dir. Joe Carnahan

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), dir. Anthony Minghella

A Time to Kill (1996), dir. Joel Schumacher

Titanic (1997), dir. James Cameron

Tropic Thunder (2008), dir. Ben Stiller

The Trouble with Angels (1966), dir. Ida Lupino

Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990), dir. Anthony Minghella

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), dir. David Lynch

Ulterior Motives (1992), dir. James Becket

Valkyrie (2008), dir. Bryan Singer

Vanilla Sky (2001), dir. Cameron Crowe

Vertigo (1958), dir. Alfred Hitchcock

The Way, Way Back (2013), dir. Jim Rash & Nat Faxon

West Side Story (1961), dir. Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins

Where the Heart Is (2000), dir. Matt Williams

White Christmas (1954), dir. Michael Curtiz

Zodiac (2007), dir. David Fincher

(500) Days of Summer (2009), dir. Marc Webb

[mvmvmvmvmvmvmvmvmvmvmv]

The Baroness of Jazz

By Barry Singer

Oct. 17, 2008

IF the mysterious Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter is at all remembered today, it is for her proximity to the deaths of two legendary jazz musicians. In 1955 Charlie Parker died on a sofa in her Fifth Avenue home; 27 years later Thelonious Monk died after secluding himself for years in her New Jersey house.

Both deaths made the baroness an immediate target of tabloid headlines and a long-term subject for scurrilous gossip. Almost no one, though, beyond the insular jazz world, could possibly know her whole story: how, until her death in 1988, she championed jazz as both a friend and a generous, if rather unlikely, benefactor.

A Rothschild heiress, she offered her home to countless jazzmen as a place to work and even live, while quietly paying their bills when they couldn’t find work. She chauffeured them to gigs around New York, toured with them as a kind of racial chaperon, and was even known to confront anyone she felt was taking advantage of her friends because they were black.

“I always likened her to the great royal patrons of Mozart or Wagner’s day,” the saxophonist Sonny Rollins said in a telephone interview. “Yet she never put the spotlight on herself. I try not to talk publicly about people I knew in jazz. But I have to say something about the baroness. She really loved our music.”

The baroness first materialized in New York jazz clubs in the early 1950s like some film noir siren, right down to the raven hair and long cigarette holder. She seduced the music’s greatest figures with her friendship, the revolutionists of the bebop era: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and many others. Her illustrious family has long refused to discuss her. But now a new book, “Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats” (Abrams Image), offers a window into her personal life, providing details even her jazz intimates were probably unaware of.

The book is primarily a collection of candid photographs of the musicians taken by the baroness, and a compilation of their varied responses to a favorite question: “What are your three wishes?” On Oct. 30 an exhibition of her original notebooks collecting these snapshots and wish lists will open at the Gallery at Hermès in New York.

“Three Wishes” arrives with the implicit sanction of the Rothschild family, including a six-page introduction by a granddaughter, Nadine de Koenigswarter. The book offers more concrete information about the baroness than has ever before appeared between covers. But the source of her extraordinarily deep bond with jazz musicians remains elusive.

She was born, her granddaughter writes, in London on Dec. 10, 1913. Her full name was Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild, according to her 1935 wedding announcement in The New York Times. She was the granddaughter of Nathan Mayer, the first Lord Rothschild, and the great-granddaughter of Mayer Amschel, the Rothschild patriarch who, from the Frankfurt ghetto, orchestrated his family’s rise. Her father was Nathaniel Charles Rothschild, a partner in the family bank, whose greater passion was entomology, a hobby at which he was both gifted and exceedingly accomplished. According to a great-niece, Hannah Rothschild, who is completing a documentary about her for the BBC, the baroness’s father was plagued by clinical depression that sometimes led the family to hospitalize him. He killed himself in 1923, at 46.

Nica Rothschild, as she was known, became an aviation enthusiast and an accomplished pilot. At 21 she met a kindred spirit at Le Touquet airfield in France. Baron Jules de Koenigswarter, 31, was a French mining engineer, banker and pilot. He was also a widower with a young son, and like Nica, he was Jewish. The baron quickly proposed after just three months; her response was flight to New York. They were married at City Hall in October 1935.

The couple took up residence in Abondant, a 17th-century chateau not far from Normandy. Their first-born child, Patrick de Koenigswarter, recalled in May in an interview published in The National, an Abu Dhabi newspaper, that when the Nazis invaded France, the baron, a lieutenant in the reserves, was called up. His father “left my mother a map, with instructions: If the Germans get to this point, take the children and escape any way you can to your family in England.” Shortly thereafter, his mother did, accompanied by a nanny and a maid, on what proved to be the last train out of Paris. The baron’s mother dismissed her son’s entreaties and instructions. She died at Auschwitz.

The baron joined de Gaulle’s Free French forces and was assigned to the Congo. At his instigation his wife next moved their two children to the United States, placing Patrick de Koenigswarter and his younger sister, Janka, with the Guggenheim family on Long Island. The baroness then somehow rejoined her husband in Africa with the Free French, serving in various capacities including ambulance driver and ending the war as a decorated lieutenant.

One little-known wartime detail lends a different sense to her later arrival in the New York jazz world. Her husband’s extended family, as well as her Hungarian-born mother’s, were nearly all killed in the Holocaust. The baroness’s adoption of New York’s predominantly black jazz family in the war’s aftermath thus seems less the act of a louche dilettante than of a survivor bent on resurrection and rebirth.

“I believe that she could no longer live in any ivory tower after what she saw in the war,” Hannah Rothschild said in a telephone interview. “Privilege offered no protection. The fate of her own mother-in-law proved that. She had experienced the very depths of prejudice herself firsthand.”

The baron entered the French diplomatic service after the war, settling his wife and children first in Norway and then in Mexico. “My father was a very controlling person,” Patrick de Koenigswarter said. “He was adamant about punctuality, while Nica was notorious for being late. She missed appointments, sometimes by days.” He continued, “It didn’t help that my father had no particular interest in the subjects that fascinated her: art and music.”

The baroness always credited her brother, Victor, a jazz fan and amateur pianist who studied with Art Tatum and Teddy Wilson, with introducing her to jazz. Shortly before her death, though, she revealed in a rare interview for the Monk documentary "Straight, No Chaser" the moment when her interest in jazz music escalated into something more.

“I was in the throes of the diplomatic life in Mexico,” she remembered of the years 1949 to 1952, “and I had a friend who got hold of records for me. I used to go to his pad to hear them. I couldn’t have listened to them in my own house, with that atmosphere. I heard them and really got the message. I belonged where that music was. This was something I was supposed to be involved in in some way. It wasn’t long afterwards that I cut out.”

It is well known in jazz circles that the great project of the baroness’s life was the torturously unstable Monk, whom she served as a surrogate wife right alongside Monk’s equally devoted actual wife, Nellie. The baroness paid Monk’s bills, dragged him to an endless array of doctors, put him and his family up in her own home and, when necessary, helped Nellie institutionalize him. In 1958 Monk and the baroness were stopped by the police in Delaware. When a small amount of marijuana was discovered, she took the rap for her friend and even served a few nights in jail.

People have always asked why. What drew her to him so intensely? Was it sex, drugs or groupie-esque infatuation? Clearly her steadfast devotion to Monk’s music propelled their relationship, which both maintained was platonic. In light of her father’s history, though, it seems possible that the underlying bond was love and childhood loss. In Monk, she may have been drawn to the same anguished brilliance that had consumed her father, whom she could not save.

he introduction to “Three Wishes” still leaves unanswered many questions that pursued the baroness throughout her life. Did she abandon her children in her headlong embrace of the jazz life, or were they taken from her? Did she enable addiction in the musicians she loved? Did she buy them drugs? Did she use drugs herself?

These questions once loomed large in her mystique. As her back story deepens, however, their sense of enormity recedes. The baron divorced his wife in 1956 after the scandalous publicity surrounding Charlie Parker’s death in her home. Shaun de Koenigswarter, the couple’s youngest son, recently confirmed that the baron also got custody of the three younger children, Berit (born in 1946), Kari (1950) and himself (1948). “I am the only child who never lived with my mother after she settled in New York in 1953,” he said in an e-mail message, adding that his four siblings lived with her during different periods.

That the baroness in fact lost custody of her three youngest children as a consequence of her love of jazz further illuminates the maternal quality of her presence on the scene. Is it any wonder that she clung to her musicians like family?

“She realized that jazz needed any kind of help it could get,” Mr. Rollins said, “especially the musicians. She was monetarily helpful to a lot who were struggling. But more than that, she was with us. By being with the baroness, we could go places and feel like human beings. It certainly made us feel good. I don’t know how you could measure it. But it was a palpable thing. I think she was a heroic woman.”

It has taken the actual family she left behind a long time to arrive at a similar conclusion. “Not all members of our family were enthused about the life she chose to lead (especially our father!),” Shaun de Koenigswarter wrote. “But over the years, many of those who had initially disapproved — particularly in light of the many viciously biased and racist press reports about her — came to understand and appreciate what she was all about.”

The saxophonist Sonny Rollins, photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter.

Thelonious Monk was among the many jazz musicians befriended (and photographed) by Pannonica de Koenigswarter, right.

Thelonious Monk by Pannonica De Koenigswarter

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#SPCCKYSTCRIES an independent multimuse featuring a number of muses from halloween-esque films & shows. as beloved & established by pluto.

affiliated with: @inspotlight (all blogs), @heartfe1t (all blogs), @percentstardust/@loomiskiller, & @sixbillicnsouls

sideblog to @grvdged , all followbacks will be from there & a full set of rules can also be found there. note: all muses are played at 18+ in their main ages. with the exception of max mayfield who is played at 14-18+ to reflect canon

shock - the nightmare before christmas. fc: india eisley

wednesday addams - wednesday/addams family media. fc: jenna ortega

camryn barnes - twitches. fc: zendaya

daphne blake - scooby doo. fc: abigail cowen

robin buckley - stranger things. fc: maya hawke

sam carpenter - scream. fc: melissa barrera

tara carpenter - scream. fc: jenna ortega

dani dennison - hocus pocus. fc: katherine mcnamara

mavis dracula - hotel transylvania. fc: olivia rodrigo

alex fielding - twitches. fc: zendaya

sally finkelstein - the nightmare before christmas. fc: karen gillan

pj halliwell - charmed. fc: katie douglas

melinda halliwell - charmed. fc: danielle rose russell

colette hughes - totally killer. fc: kiernan shipka

coraline jones - coraline. fc: jodelle ferland

needy lesnicki - jennifer's body. fc: kiernan shipka

johnny loughran - hotel transylvania. fc: joshua bassett

wybie lovat - coraline. fc: jordan fisher

wyatt lykensen - zombies. fc: pearce joza

max mayfield - stranger things. fc: sadie sink

randy meeks - scream. fc: charlie gillespie

pam miller/hughes - totally killer. fc: olivia holt/julie bowen

zed necrodopolis - zombies. fc: milo manheim

marnie piper - halloweentown. fc: sadie sink

sidney prescott - scream. fc: danielle campbell

tatum riley - scream. fc: madison iseman

justin russo - wizards of waverly place. fc: froy gutierrez

enid sinclair - wednesday. fc: emma myers

sabrina spellman - sabrina the teenage witch. fc: sabrina carpenter

hannah stine - goosebumps (2015). fc: odeya rush

xavier thorpe - wednesday. fc: felix mallard

cassie traske - hocus pocus 2. fc: maude apatow

addison wells - zombies. fc: meg donnelly

nancy wheeler - strangers things. fc: natalia dyer

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Michael Fitzpatrick (max thieriot) × Logan Hayes (aaron taylor-johnson)

Axel Zimmermann (aidan turner) × Eirik Ulriksson (alexander ludwig)

Gabriel (jamie campbell bower) × Sigrid Eiríksdóttir (davika hoorne)

Ryker Maddox (charlie gillespie) × Elias Ashcroft (ben barnes)

Yvonne Beaumont (laura harrier) × Adelaine Romani (sydney sweeney)

Alejandro Valdez (danny ramirez) × Cristiano Romani (jack gilinsky)

Joshua Morrison (luke pasqualino) × Devin Bahar (bella hadid)

Isabelle Blackwood (taylor momsen) × Mieka Shaw (madison beer)

Noah Johnson (channing tatum) × Selin Aksoy (dilan çiçek deniz)

Liam Williams (cam gigandet) × Edward Sinclair (jonathan bailey)

Riley Voss (gideon adlon) × Alejandro Valdez (danny ramirez)

Selene Thorne (phoebe tonkin) × Isabelle Blackwood (taylor momsen)

Astrid Thorsdóttir (katheryn winnick) × Michael Fitzpatrick (max thieriot)

Dominic Reyes (jon bernthal) × Joshua Morrison (luke pasqualino)

Caroline Mae Whitaker (josefine frida pettersen) × Gabriel (jamie campbell bower)

Valeria Álvarez (eva de dominici) × Noah Johnson (channing tatum)

Iris Marlowe (margaret qualley) × Yvonne Beaumont (laura harrier)

Han Ji-seok (lee do-hyun) × Axel Zimmermann (aidan turner)

Isabella Ainsworth (hannah dodd) × Liam Williams (cam gigandet)

Sienna Moretti (mikey madison) × Ryker Maddox (charlie gillespie)

Eleanor Whitmore (anne hathaway) × Ryker Maddox (charlie gillespie)

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Saturday, November 30 — SWYNRP Character Wishlist

First I'm going to list some characters that I'd like to play.

Joy Hepburn (FC: Lana Condor)

I still have a lot of love for Joy as a character and hopefully one day I might get to tell her story again.

2. Roxanne Martin (FC: Sadie Stanley)

Another character that I would love to tell her story again.

3. Professor Milo Thatch (FC: Jonathan Bailey)

I always have ideas for him and never feel like I can get the story right. Maybe one day.

4. Romeo "Roo" DeRosa (FC: Froy Gutierrez)

I have an idea for him but nothing concrete yet. I just feel like he would be a great addition to Pride University and bring some drama to the dorms.

5. Grace Tilly (FC: Nicola Coughlan)

Another character I would jump at the chance of telling her story once I figure out what I want to do with her story. She's just an interesting character and the fact that she is "immune" to magic intrigues me even more.

6. Terrence Sparrowman (FC: Chase Stokes)

I find him interesting as a fairy because he probably does deep down care about the Magick and Fairy politics in Swynlake but he is too busy enjoying himself to actually show he cares. He just wants to have a good time and not get judged for it. Plus, he likes showing off his magic to anyone who will watch.

7. Sylvia Marpole (FC: Quinta Brunson)

I find her interesting and the fact she has a magical artifact and that's the Pagemaster Bookmark. I used to watch that film when I was younger and I just love the idea of a character having that kind of power especially a librarian.

8. Prince Naveen Charles of Maldonia (FC: Anirudh Pisharody)

He is a character I would love to tell the story of one day. He is someone that would definitely cause drama in the Pride U circle and he would live for the attention.

Now, some characters I'd want to be brought in for connections.

Ron Stoppable (FC suggestions: Aidan Gallagher, Alex Wolff or anyone you think would fit)

Kim needs her partner in solving crime and who doesn't love a dynamic duo. Please someone apply for him!

2. Bonnie Rockwaller (FC suggestions: Camila Mendes, Alisha Boe & Isabela Merced or anyone you think could fit)

Kim needs a good nemesis that isn't Dr Drakken and someone who knows her history from Middleton. Plus, they have the same abilities which would be a very interesting dynamic for the both of them. Also who doesn't love a strong female. Please someone apply for her!

3. Monique Fox (FC suggestions include: China Anne McClain, Precious Mustapha & Lexi Underwood or anyone you think could fit)

Another strong female from the Kim Possible universe. I could see her and Kim becoming fast friends and gossiping about the hotties in Swynlake plus all the other drama that happens there. Please someone apply for her!

Next, characters I'd like to see in the RP.

Mindy Di Stefano (FC suggestions: Mimi Keene, Vanessa Morgan & Hannah van der Westhuyse)

2. Maximillian Goof (FC suggestions: Charlie Gillespie, Jonathan Daviss & Xolo Maridueña)

3. Ashlé Boulet (FC suggestions: Sarah Jeffrey, Elisha Applebaum & Savannah Lee Smith)

Finally, some FCs I'd like to see on the dash.

Victoria Justice

2. Arden Cho

3. Ncuti Gatwa

4. Zoe Colletti

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Life and Trust Unofficial Cast List

Last updated: 12/17/24

*performer originated role

Dates indicate first recorded performance and last recorded performance.

Life and Trust Cast List with Portraits

Life and Trust Character Images

Current:

Collin Baja (JG Conwell, Valentin) 9/30/24 - Current

Ian Bedford (JG Conwell 1929) 9/25/24 - Current

Tony Bordonaro (Officer Harold*) 6/17/24 - Current

Sophie Bortolussi (Dr. Marie Rontgen-Vane*) 6/17/24 - Current

Casey Bronwyn Howes (Mrs. Vaudeville*) 6/17/24 - Current

Nathaniel Buchsbaum (Lenny Ned Lyons, Stanford Wagner, Mr. Vaudeville*) 6/17/24 - Current

Doug Burkhardt (Mephisto, Valentin) 11/22/24 - Current

Marc J Cardarelli (JG Conwell, Lenny Ned Lyons*) 6/17/24 - Current

Catheryn Clifford (Isis) 11/21/24 - Current

Jonathan Colafrancesco (Stanford Wagner) 12/22/24 - Current

Aaron Dalla Villa (Aleister, Basil Conwell, Dorian Gray, Lenny Ned Lyons, Mephisto, Mr. Vaudeville) 6/17/24 - Current

Tiffany Violet de Alba (Con Artist, Gertrude Davenport, Evelyn, Marie Rontgen-Vane, Megaera) 6/17/24 - Current

Erik Debono (Dorian) 11/27/24 - Current

Victoria DeRenzo (Evelyn) 8/21/24 - Current

Charles-Alexis Desgagnés (Aleister, Dorian Gray, Officer Harold, JG Conwell, Dr. Kellogg, Stanford Wagner) 6/17/24 - Current

Cara Diaz (Emma) 8/29/24 - Current

Mia Dilena (Gretchen, Naima Conwell*) 6/17/24 - Current

Brendan Duggan (Aleister (finale only), Farouk, Sgt. F. Bryant, Dr. Kellogg, Megaera (intro only), Valentin, Woland) 6/17/24 - Current

Zachary Eisenstat (Dr. Kellogg, Valentin, Woland*) 6/17/24 - Current

Raymond Ejiofor (Stanford Wagner*) 6/17/24 - Current

Patrick Ferreri (Dr. Kellogg) 9/8/24 - Current

Kim Fischer (Aleister*, Lenny Ned Lyons) 6/17/24 - Current

Jennifer Florentino (Gretchen*) 6/17/24 - Current

Reshma G Gajjar (Hella*) 6/17/24 - Current

Douglas J Gillespie (Aleister, JG Conwell, Officer Harold, Dr. Kellogg, Stanford Wagner) 6/17/24 - Current

Annie Grove (Con Artist*) 6/17/24 - Current

Alonso Guzman (Farouk*) 6/17/24 - Current

Rachel Harris (Sibyl Rontgen-Vane) 11/25/24 - Current

Dorchel Haqq (Emma, Gretchen, Hella, Isis, Naima Conwell, Sibyl Rontgen-Vane) 6/17/24 - Current

Eriko Jimbo (Con Artist, Dr. Marie Rontgen-Vane, Megaera, Mrs. Vaudeville) 6/17/24 - Current

Karl Kenzler (JG Conwell 1929*) 6/17/24 - Current

Majella Bess Loughran (Gertrude Davenport, Gretchen, Dr. Marie Rontgen-Vane, Mrs. Vaudeville) 6/17/24 - Current

Jodi McFadden (Gertrude Davenport*, Evelyn) 6/17/24 - Current

Nando Morland (Basil Conwell*) 6/17/24 - Current

Ny Opong (Megaera) 12/15/24 - Current

Kevin M Pajarillaga (Basil Conwell, Lenny Ned Lyons, Marco, Mephisto, Mr. Vaudeville) 6/17/24 - Current

Marla Phelan (Naima, Zavia*) 6/17/24 - Current

Randolph Curtis Rand (JG Conwell 1929*) 6/17/24 - Current

Luca Renzi (Marco*) 6/17/24 - Current

Gabriella Sibeko (Naima Conwell, Sibyl Rontgen-Vane*, Mrs. Vaudeville) 6/17/24 - Current

Tori Sparks (Evelyn, Dr. Marie Rontgen-Vane, Megaera*) 6/17/24 - Current

Hannah Straney (Evelyn) 1/5/25 - Current

Derek Tabada (Dorian Gray, Sgt. F. Bryant, Farouk, Marco, Valentin, Woland) 6/17/24 - Current

Tony Torn (JG Conwell 1929*) 6/17/24 - Current

Mike Tyus (Mephisto*) 6/17/24 - Current

Ryan Vancompernolle (Isis*) 6/17/24 - Current

Jacob Michael Warren (Valentin*) 6/17/24 - Current

Maleek M Washington (Sgt. F. Bryant*) 6/17/24 - Current

Madeline A Wright (Emma, Gretchen, Hella, Isis, Naima, Sibyl Rontgen-Vane, Zavia) 6/17/24 - Current

Resident Directors/Vacation Swings:

Steven Apicello (Aleister, Mephisto, Woland)

Evelyn Chen (Hella, Megaera)

Christopher “Cree” Grant (Stanford Wagner)

Lauren Ylango-Grant

Jesse Kovarsky (Mr. Vaudeville)

Parker Murphy (JG Conwell*, Mephisto)

Former:

Bria Bacon (Emma*) 6/17/24 - 8/5/24

Heather Lang (Evelyn*) 6/17/24 - 8/19/24

Brandin S Steffensen (Dr. Kellogg*) 6/17/24 - 9/2/24

Robert Vail (Dorian Gray*) 6/17/24 - 10/30/24

Guests:

Andrew Barth Feldman 10/28/24

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mwfcs? homens e mulheres pls

chegou a parte que eu gosto hehehehe

f: renee rapp, hannah dodd, alexa demie, grace van dien, taylor russell, havana rose liu, alisha boe, zendaya, sadie soverall, ashley moore, niamh mccormack, ayo edebiri, camila morrone, ava capri, kim lip, suzanna son, francesca reale, sab zada, maris racal, india love, emilia mernes, ava capri, gracie abrams, faouzia ouihya, claudia sulewski, anna cathcart, isabela merced, jenna ortega, jessie mae alonzo, ruby stokes, phoebe dynevor, fukutomi tsuki, sophie thatcher, tashi rodriguez, olivia rodrigo, maggie lindemann, jessica alexander, megan suri, maitreyi ramakrishnan, ayesha madon, asher yasbincek, hunter schafer, ella purnell, courtney eaton, milly alcock, emily carey, phia saban, savannah steyn, quintessa swindell, maia roberts, brittany o'grady, ryan destiny, ashley puzemis, sofia black d'elia, ama qamata, haley lu richardson, stefanie scott, madelyn cline, kristine froseth, rachel hilson, marlo kelly, emily alyn lind, madison iseman, auli'i cravalho, freya allan, mackenzie foy, sharon alexie, benedetta gargari, camila mendes, cierra ramirez, danielle rose russell, danna paola, giorgia whigham, lovie simone.

m: park serim, jan buxaderas, alex fitzalan, gabriel guevara, jacob elordi, henry eikenberry, avan jogia, damson idris, joshua stradowski, maxence danet-fauvel, jeff satur, taylor zakhar perez, jordan fisher, david castro, nicholas cirillo, keith powers, jeremy allen white, drew starkey, charles melton, joshua heuston, thomas weatherall, darren barnet, noah centineo, brenton thwaites, zethphan smith-gneist, michael cimino, evan mock, felix mallard, dylan minnette, froy gutierrez, barret carnahan, gavin leatherwood, ross lynch, ruairi o'connor, harry collett, tom glynn-carney, jabari banks, luka sabbat, algee smith, rome flynn, will poulter, charlie gillespie, chase stokes, léo daudin, jonathan daviss, caelan moriarty, willem de schryver, alex aiono, aramis knight, archie renaux, deaken bluman, jorge lopez, mason gooding, reece king, rudy pankow, drake rodger.

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LIAFF SPECIAL #14: Upfronts 2024 - Amazon e Disney

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Eccoci con la seconda parte del LIAFF Special di questo mese, incentrato sugli Upfronts. Quest'oggi parleremo di due colossi, ovvero Amazon e Disney, che hanno tenuto le loro rispettive presentazioni nella giornata del 14 Maggio.

Amazon: un debutto non indifferente

Per il suo primo Upfront in assoluto, tenutosi al Pier 36, Amazon ha messo in campo tutte le risorse a propria disposizione per dimostrare quanto sono espansi nel mondo dell'intrattenimento e non solo. Naturalmente non sono mancati annunci importanti fra cinema e TV, alcuni già noti, altri un po' meno, ma comunque ben accolti. Riscopriamoli assieme:

Come preannunciato nei giorni scorsi, Amazon ha mostrato un primo sguardo alla seconda stagione di The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, che debutterà sulla piattaforma il 29 Agosto. In poco più di un minuto, sono state condensate immagini potentissime, che fanno presagire una stagione ricca e movimentata, il che renderà molto felici i telespettatori.

Amazon ha ufficialmente ordinato a serie Tomb Raider, adattamento televisivo della celebre saga videoludica prodotto da Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Il progetto fu già annunciato nel 2023, ma ora ha finalmente preso il via, nella speranza che possa dare linfa nuova a una IP che sullo schermo non ha avuto un trattamento tanto dignitoso.

Altra serie annunciata da Amazon è Spider-Man Noir, personaggio Marvel già apparso in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse e noto ancor prima dai fumetti del 2009. A dargli il volto sarà Nicolas Cage, già doppiatore del personaggio in Into the Spider-Verse e la storia sarà molto simile a quella fumettistica, che vede un investigatore privato anziano lottare contro il crimine nella New York degli anni '30.

Naturalmente Amazon ha puntato anche sui titoli più visti della piattaforma e premiandoli a dovere. Infatti The Boys avrà una quinta stagione, con la quarta che arriverà fra meno di un mese, Cross, ufficialmente presentato durante l'evento, avrà una seconda stagione, con la prima prevista per fine anno, Mr. and Mrs. Smith tornerà con una seconda stagione, che non avrà Donald Glover e Maya Erskine come protagonisti, Reacher tornerà con la terza stagione l'anno prossimo e The Summer I Turned Pretty tornerà nell'estate 2025 con ben 11 episodi. Sempre sul piano televisivo, Amazon ha ordinato altre due serie, una ancora senza titolo, con protagoniste Hannah Waddingham e Octavia Spencer, di genere action-comedy e Elle, prequel di Legally Blonde.

Per quanto riguarda i film, Amazon ha diversi titoli in programma, fra cui The Pickup, con protagonista Eddie Murphy, You're Cordially Invited, una rom-com con Reese Witherspoon e Will Ferrell e Heads of State con protagonisti John Cena e Priyanka Chopra-Jonas. Ma soprattutto è stato confermato un sequel di Road House, che è il film più visto della piattaforma, dove Jake Gyllenhaal tornerà nei panni di Dalton.

Disney: la sicurezza delle IP

La giornata del 14 Maggio prosegue con l'Upfront Disney, tenutosi al North Javits Center di New York. Disney ha deciso di puntare sulle sue IP e su alcuni nuovi progetti che hanno già suscitato la curiosità di molti spettatori. Andiamo a riscoprire insieme tutte le novità:

Emma Stone è salita sul palco dell'evento per parlare di Kinds of Kindness, nuovo film che la vedrà nuovamente diretta da Yorgos Lanthimos, ma anche di Cruella 2, sequel del film di Craig Gillespie, la cui uscita è prevista per il 2025.

Selena Gomez ha parlato del ritorno dei maghi di Waverly nella serie sequel Wizards Beyond Waverly Place, prevista su Disney+ per fine anno, per poi venire raggiunta dai suoi fedeli compagni Steve Martin e Martin Short. Il trio ha presentato la quarta stagione di Only Murders in the Building mostrando un frizzante trailer, con i nuovi episodi in arrivo dal 27 Agosto.

In casa Marvel sono stati mostrati i prossimi titoli televisivi, che saranno etichettati con la dicitura Marvel Television, per distinguerli dai film e dai prodotti d'animazione. Il 18 Settembre esordirà Agatha: All Along, serie incentrata su Agatha Harkness, mentre nel 2025 vedremo il debutto di Daredevil: Born Again, che arriverà nel mese di Marzo e sarà composta da 9 episodi, e di Ironheart, che riporterà sugli schermi Riri Williams dopo la sua apparizione di Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Sul fronte ABC, è stata presentata la serie High Potential, che vede Kaitlin Olson nel ruolo di una madre single con tre figli e una mente eccezionale che le permette di risolvere casi complicati, talento che la porterà a far coppia con un esperto detective.

L'altra serie ordinata da ABC, ovvero Doctor Odyssey, è stata presentata con un brevissmo teaser. La serie vede Joshua Jackson nel ruolo di un medico, che si ritrova a salvare vite a bordo di una nave da crociera.

Durante l'evento sono state presentate alcune serie di Hulu/FX, fra cui Natalia, con protagonista Ellen Pompeo, Paradise, serie di Dan Fogelman che vede James Marsden e Sterling K.Brown nei rispettivi ruoli del presidente degli Stati Uniti e della sua guardia del corpo, Dying for Sex con Michelle Williams e la seconda stagione di The Bear.

TO BE CONTINUED…

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Thursday, November 30 – SWYNRP Character Wishlist

First of all, I'm listing all the Kim Possible characters because I would love any if not all to be taken up by someone.

Ron Stoppable [x] (FC suggestions include: Froy Gutierrez, Owen Joyner & Jacob Dudman)

Wade Watts [x] (I have no FC suggestions for him so any you would feel would work)

Bonnie Rockwaller [x] (FC suggestions include: Camila Mendes, Alisha Boe & Isabela Merced)

Monique Fox [x] (FC suggestions include: Precious Mustapha, China Anne McClain & Lexi Underwood)

Next, it has to be someone who could be a connection to Roxanne Martin.

Maximillian Goof [x] (FC suggestions include: Charlie Gillespie, Jonathan Daviss & Xolo Maridueña)

Then everyone's favourite librarian.

Sylvia Marpole [x] (FC suggestions include: Quinta Brunson, Troian Bellisario & Lucy Hale)

Of course, got to add someone who has the best power ever.

Grace Tilly [x] (FC suggestions include: Eliot Salt, Nicola Coughlan & Raven Goodwin)

Then the Prince that everyone would love to get to know.

Prince Naveen Charles of Maldonia [x] (FC suggestions include: Anirudh Pisharody & Suraj Sharma)

Can't leave out some characters that could be connected to Joy Hepburn.

Mindy Di Stefano [x] (FC suggestions include: Mimi Keene, Vanessa Morgan & Hannah van der Westhuyse)

Antonio Coleman [x] (Don't really have any suggestions but I would just love to see his character on dash.)

Finally, I would love to see any of these FCs on dash too!

Danny Griffin

Jack Quaid

Jensen Ackles

Arden Cho

Zoe Coletti

Ncuti Gatwa