'Freaky Friday' sequel coming to theaters in 2025, Walt Disney Company announces



The Walt Disney Company announced that production has begun on the sequel to the 2003 film "Freaky Friday," which starred Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis.

"Production on the sequel to Freaky Friday — the studio’s hit comedy from 2003 starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan — began today in Los Angeles. The film will be released in theaters nationwide in 2025," according to the Disney.

'Tess and Anna discover that lightning might indeed strike twice.'

"Curtis and Lohan reprise their roles as Tess and Anna Coleman. Other returning cast members from the original film include Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Haley Hudson, Lucille Soong, Stephen Tobolowsky, and Rosalind Chao. They are joined by Julia Butters, Sophia Hammons, Manny Jacinto, and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan," the announcement notes.

In the original movie, the Curtis and Lohan played a mother and daughter who awoke one day to the shocking discovery that they had switched bodies, though by the conclusion of the film, they go back to normal.

"A sequel to the beloved 2003 film with a multigenerational twist, the film picks up years after Tess (Curtis) and Anna (Lohan) endured an identity crisis. Anna now has a daughter of her own and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the myriad challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might indeed strike twice," the Walt Disney Company noted.

The announcement indicated that Curtis is a producer and Lohan is an executive producer.

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'I'm not wearing a mask': As mandates appear to be making a comeback, Kevin Sorbo and others are not mincing words



Actor Kevin Sorbo is not mincing words on the issue of face masks. "I'm not wearing a mask. You can stay home if you don't feel safe," Sorbo declared on X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter.

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Sorbo's comments likely convey sentiments shared by many other people as mask mandates seem to be reappearing due to COVID-19 concerns.

Morris Brown College, which is located in Georgia, recently announced a mask mandate, and Lionsgate has reportedly instituted a mask mandate for certain floors of a Santa Monica, California, office.

"I'll go to jail before I wear a mask!" conservative commentator Graham Allen has posted.

"We don’t have to wait and see if they impose mask mandates again. If we say NO like we should've done in the first place, and refuse to comply, the mandates mean NOTHING. It's actually up to us, not politicians," conservative commentator Liz Wheeler posted.

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis recently posted a photo of herself sporting a mask and encouraged people to wear one when required or when in a public area if they are not feeling well.

"And we're BAAAAACCCCKKKK. No, not Michael Myers but masking will be. COVID is on the rise. SO MANY friends now are really sick. BE MINDFUL. WEAR A MASK if required or even if you feel unwell and are out in public spaces," Curtis wrote.

"Stay at home If you're scared But leave the rest of us The hell alone," Jordan Peterson wrote when sharing an article that covered Curtis' comments. "Enough medical fascism."

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Dems, Media, Celebrities Call For Gun Control Hours After Nashville School Shooting

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Video: Jamie Lee Curtis uses plural pronouns to refer to her Oscar trophy



Actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who recently won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the film "Everything Everywhere All at Once," said during an appearance on "Today" that she is using they/them pronouns to refer to her Oscar trophy.

"Here they are," Curtis said, stroking the statue. "In support of my daughter Ruby," the actress said, "I'm having them be a they/them."

"I'm gonna just call them them, they/them," she said, adding, "They are doing great." She also added that "they're settling in."

Jamie Lee Curtis gets emotional talking about her Oscar win youtu.be

Curtis has two children through adoption, and one of them identifies as transgender. In 2021, AARP reported that Curtis said that she and her husband "have watched in wonder and pride as our son became our daughter Ruby."

The award marks Curtis' very first Oscar win.

When Daniel Scheinert, who wrote and directed "Everything Everywhere All at Once" with Daniel Kwan, accepted the Oscar for directing the film, he thanked his parents "for not squashing my creativity when I was making really disturbing horror films, or really perverted comedy films, or dressing in drag as a kid," which he said is a "threat to nobody."

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert Accept the Oscar for Directing www.youtube.com

Scheinert made the comment amid ongoing cultural controversy over whether children should be exposed to drag queens at drag shows or other events like Drag Story Hour.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is actively promoting Drag Story Hour. "My office is proud to host a Drag Story Hour read-a-thon," she noted in an Instagram post. "Families with children are invited to join Attorney General James, Drag storytellers, and city and state elected leaders," a graphic advertising the event states.

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Actress Jamie Lee Curtis says new 'Halloween' movie mirrors Jan. 6 riots: 'A mob of angry people who don't trust the government'



Actress Jamie Lee Curtis said "Halloween Kills" — the newest iteration in the famous slasher movie franchise — actually mirrors the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol.

What are the details?

Curtis — who starred in the first "Halloween" released in 1978 — told Entertainment Weekly that in the franchise's 2018 flick (also called "Halloween"), writers David Gordon Green and Danny McBride focused on "female trauma" — and did so "before the #MeToo movement, where women were standing up and saying, 'Me too, I suffered trauma at the hands of others, and I am not going to be quiet any more.'"

She said the 2018 movie was "about a woman who had been traumatized for 40 years and was taking her life back. Now, you might say, 'Wow, weren't they lucky that they made a movie that crested right when the female trauma conversation was happening globally?'"

But Curtis said Green and McBride's work on the new film "Halloween Kills" in a way foretells the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol, as the movie is "about rage, about a mob of angry people who don't trust the government, who don't trust the police, who don't trust the authorities to get the job done. They're going to do the job themselves."

Image source: YouTube screenshot

She added to EW:

And then look what happened on Jan. 6 in the United States of America. A mob descended on the Capitol, and were it not for those four brave officers as well as all of the other Capitol police, D.C. police, and civilians who stood up and held the line, [think about] the possibility of what that mob could have done to members of Congress. These people were coming to kill people. That's what the movie's about. Now how the f*** did David Gordon Green and Danny McBride know that the follow-up to trauma was rage? So if you ask me what scares me, rage scares me. Unbridled, unrestrained, out-of-your mind rage, that yields mob mentality and mob rule. That scares me.

Here's the "Halloween Kills" trailer:

Halloween Kills - Official Traileryoutu.be

Anything else?

Curtis has made her sociopolitical sentiments very well known over the last few years.

On the eve of the release of the 2018 "Halloween," she linked the years of trauma her character, Laurie Strode, endured to the Christine Blasey Ford-Brett Kavanaugh controversy, which was the top headline at the time.

Ford accused then-Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her over three decades before, when they were teenagers; Kavanaugh was soon confirmed to the high court.

"And the heroine of 'Halloween' is a woman who suffered a trauma when she was 17 like Dr. Ford when she was 17," Curtis said. "And it changed and shaped her life, and now she is taking back the power which is what all of these brave women have done."

Also:

  • Prior to the 2020 election — as tens of millions voted by mail — Curtis was mocked for tweeting a photo of a U.S Postal Service vehicle on a tow truck and adding that the tow truck driver was wearing a red cap with white letters: "Conspiracy? Outright attempt at stealing the election by denying the access of the USPS? Let it not happen!"
  • In July, Curts threw her support behind the transgender movement by saying she and her husband Christopher Guest "have watched in wonder and pride as our son [Thomas] became our daughter Ruby."

Jamie Lee Curtis says she 'watched in wonder and pride' as her son Thomas 'became' her daughter Ruby



Hollywood star Jamie Lee Curtis said recently that she is proud of her son for becoming transgender.

In her cover story interview for AARP The Magazine's upcoming issue, the 62-year-old "Knives Out" actress said that she and her husband Christopher Guest, 73, "have watched in wonder and pride as our son became our daughter Ruby."

The actress added that Ruby "and her fiancé will get married next year at a wedding that I will officiate."

Ruby, 25 — formerly Thomas — is a computer gaming editor who was born a biological male and has appeared at recent red carpet events with Curtis and Guest still appearing to represent as a male. But evidently that has changed over the last few years.

With his permission, Curtis publicly shared the update for the first time with AARP. Curtis and her husband have another child, 34-year-old daughter Annie, who is married and is a dance instructor.

In the interview, Curtis went on to explain that her son's gender transformation is loosely aligned with her own psychological transformation, or the "great mental migration," as she calls it. She described her life as a "constant metamorphosis" these days.

"I am somebody who sheds every day," Curtis said. "Let's get rid of that, I don't need that. It's all about old ideas that don't work anymore."

One of the biggest "old ideas" that she has shed recently is the notion that gender is fixed, the magazine reported.

"Bursting with ideas and hungry for knowledge, the actress is making up for lost time," AARP reported, adding that Curtis is a woman "in full bloom."

It's possible that Curtis's new progressive revelations are a symptom of being cooped up inside for too long during the pandemic. The actress allegedly hadn't shaken anyone's hand since the start of the pandemic until shaking the hand of AARP interviewer Meg Grant:

"Oh my God, look what just happened," she reportedly exclaimed. "I didn't put my elbow up. I didn't try to not connect. I connected with you. Yours is the first human hand I've shaken in more than a year!"

The magazine was careful to note that Curtis is fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and was aware that Grant has been vaccinated, as well.