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Brenton Thwaites and Skylar Astin are playing World War II soldiers in the new movie Ghosts of War, which is now available to watch for DIRECTV subscribers.

The film is available now on DIRECTV and will be available for everyone else to rent on demand and on digital HD on July 17.

Alan Ritchson, Theo Rossi, Kyle Gallner, Billy Zane, and Shaun Toub also star in the war drama, which was written and directed by Eric Bress.

Here’s a synopsis: Five battle-hardened American soldiers are assigned to hold a French Chateau near the end of World War II. Formerly occupied by the Nazi high command, this unexpected respite quickly descends into madness when they encounter a supernatural enemy far more terrifying than anything seen on the battlefield.

Watch the trailer below!

NBC has announced that Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist has been renewed for a second season!

The series centers on Jane Levy‘s Zoey Clarke, who goes through an unusual event and begins to hear the inner thoughts of people around her though popular songs.

Jane starred alongside Alex Newell, Peter Gallagher, Skylar Astin, John Clarence Stewart, Mary Steenburgen, and Lauren Graham in season one.

SPOILER ALERT: At the end of the first season, Peter‘s character passed away following a battle with the neurological disease progressive supranuclear palsy.

“We were overwhelmed by the number of people who fell in love with Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist and how much joy it brought to everyone,” said Lisa Katz and Tracey Pakosta, co-presidents of scripted programming for NBC Entertainment. “We’re thrilled to bring it back and can’t wait to see how Zoey’s journey continues.”

See which shows NBC has canceled and renewed for the upcoming 2020-2021 season.

David Corenswet and Margaret Qualley starred in a live reading of the classic Shakespeare play Romeo & Juliet on Zoom and you can watch the full video here!

David‘s star is on the rise right now thanks to his new Netflix series Hollywood and Margaret had her big break last year in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Also starring in the reading were 13 Reasons Why‘s Brandon Flynn as Mercutio, Zoey 101‘s Erin Sanders as the Nurse, Pitch Perfect‘s Skylar Astin as Paris and The Prince, Orange Is the New Black‘s Jackie Cruz as Lady Capulet, The Many Saints of Newark‘s Michael Gandolfini as Benvolio, The Inheritance‘s Sam Levine as Tybalt, You‘s Kathryn Gallagher as Friar Lawrence, Broadway actor Will Hochman as Lord Montague, and the event’s director Brando Crawford as Lord Capulet.

The “Acting for a Cause” series is benefiting the Entertainment Industry Foundation and COVID-19 relief at Mount Sinai-Chicago.

A live reading of Pride & Prejudice will happen today (May 8) at 5pm ET.

It was just revealed that the Disney animated movie Hercules is going to be turned into a live-action movie and Skylar Astin is hoping to be considered for the film!

The 32-year-old actor, best known for his work in Pitch Perfect and NBC’s Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, performed a cover of the song “Go the Distance” and posted it on his Twitter account.

Skylar captioned the video with the man raising hand emoji. He captioned the second clip, “I’m also available for the soundtrack. Thank you @DisneyStudios for your consideration during this casting process.”

WHO DO YOU THINK should play Hercules?

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It’s Passover, and everyone is digitally invited!

A ton of stars came together online to sit around a virtual Seder table with music and comedy to raise funds for the CDC Foundation COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund for Tasty on Saturday (April 11).

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Seder guests included Pamela Adlon, Jason Alexander, Reza Aslan, Skylar Astin, Shoshana Bean, Mayim Bialik, Rachel Brosnahan, Rabbi Sharon Brous, D’Arcy Carden, Andy Cohen, Darren Criss, Fran Drescher, Billy Eichner, Cynthia Erivo, Beanie Feldstein, Harvey Fierstein, Tan France, Eliot Glazer, Ilana Glazer, Josh Groban, Richard Kind, Julie Klausner, Nick Kroll, Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, Dan Levy, Judith Light, Camryn Manheim, Milo Manheim, Alan Menken, Idina Menzel, Debra Messing, Isaac Mizrahi, Busy Philipps, Ben Platt, Billy Porter, Stephen Schwartz, Michael Solomonov, Shaina Taub, Nina West, Henry Winkler, Finn Wolfhard and Rabbi David Wolpe, among even more stars.

Watch them all celebrate the Jewish holiday in the one-hour digital special…

Skylar Astin shows off his ripped body and flexes his bicep during a shirtless scene in the latest episode of his NBC series Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.

In the episode, Skylar‘s character Max got a makeover from Alex Newell‘s Mo and we got to see him go shirtless while trying on clothes!

Skylar took to Twitter to share some hot shirtless content while the episode aired. The show’s creator Austin Winsberg even had a great suggestion, which the actor retweeted.

“Just a pitch. But should @SkylarAstin be in @magicmikelive?” Austin wrote. We say yes!

Make sure to tune in for Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist on Sunday nights and catch up on the first six episodes on Hulu or the NBC app.

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Andrew Rannells and Tuc Watkins pose for a cute photo together at the 2020 Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscars Viewing Party on Sunday (February 9) in Los Angeles.

The hunky actors have been dating since last year and they have worked together multiple times already. Andrew, 41, and Tuc, 53, met while doing the Broadway play The Boys in the Band and recently filmed the movie version. Now, they’re starring on Showtime’s Black Monday together.

Also at the event were Aladdin‘s Billy Magnussen, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist‘s Skylar Astin, Pretty Little Liars‘ Julian Morris, Good Trouble‘s Josh Pence with girlfriend AJ Michalka, Sex and the City‘s Jason Lewis, 9-1-1: Lone Star‘s Ronen Rubenstein, and model Jon Kortajarena.

25+ pictures inside of the actors at the party… More Here! »