Updated 07/09/2019

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WarnerMedia cable network Adult Swim has set the linear television premiere date for mecha-anime series gen:lock. Starring Michael B. Jordan, gen:lock is set 50 years in the future, where an oppressive authoritarian force threatens to conquer the world. A daring team is recruited to pilot a new form of weaponized neuroscience that powers devastating mecha, but they must be willing to sacrifice everything to save the world.

Cameron Boyce, an actor best known for his roles in the Disney Channel series Jessie and the Descendants TV movie franchise, has died at age 20. “He passed away in his sleep due to a seizure which was a result of an ongoing medical condition for which he was being treated,” a Boyce family spokesperson reported.

Vin Diesel announced on Instagram that Charlize Theron and Helen Mirren are returning for Fast & Furious 9. Both actresses’ characters were introduced in 2017’s Fate of the Furious. Theron played cyberterrorist Cipher who forced Diesel’s Dom to turn coats on his street family and operate for her. Mirren played Magdalene Shaw, the mother of Deckard (Jason Statham) and Owen (Luke Evans). Mirren will be seen again as Magdalene in the Fast & Furious spinoff Hobbs & Shaw on Aug. 2.

Stranger Things goes full Marvel movie at the end of its third season by including a credits scene that mysteriously sets up where the franchise will go next in the all but assured to happen Stranger Things 4. The credits scene is set in Kamchatka, Russia, and finds two Russian soldiers feeding an imprisoned man to a Demogorgon.

It looks like things will never be the same for Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes. The two singers continued to spark romance rumors this weekend after they were spotted stepping out for brunch in West Hollywood, Calif. Photographers caught the dynamic duo holding hands and wrapping their arms around each other for a sweet hug.

MoviePass has indefinitely shut down all services, calling it a “temporary hold” to deal with unspecified “maintenance related issues,” but the company also says it intends to use the time to “recapitalize.” MoviePass services went offline beginning 5:00 a.m. Edt on July 4. In a press release announcing the move, posted Wednesday, the company said it was “temporarily interrupting” services in order to finish an “improved version” of MoviePass “based on an enhanced technology platform.”

Renée Zellweger’s big 2019 started with a juicy role in Netflix’s guilty pleasure What/If and is set to continue with a starring role as Judy Garland in the upcoming biographical drama Judy, her first major awards vehicle in over a decade.

Sales veteran Daniela Elstner, best known as the head of Paris based sales company Doc & Film international, has been appointed as the new managing director of French cinema promotional body Unifrance.

Amazon has given a 10 episode series order to an ensemble comedy from Girls Trip writer Tracy Oliver and executive producer Amy Poehler The untitled single camera comedy, previously titled Harlem, centers on the lives of four black women, friends from their college days at NYU, as they navigate sex, relationships and chasing their dreams.

Major Crimes, a new true crime anthology series from David Ayer based on the “most daring heists, robberies, and crimes in Los Angeles history” is in the works at Entertainment One. Each season of the show will be focused on a single crime and take an in-depth look at both the detectives and criminals behind the case.