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  • Chase Sui Wonders Teases ‘The Studio’ Season 2 Is “Pushing The Needle” A Week Into Filming

    With production on Season 2 of The Studio officially underway and Hollywood going through a rollercoaster of changes, the industry can expect many more laughs at its expense.

    Chase Sui Wonders, who plays junior studio exec Quinn Hackett in the Apple TV+ series, teased to Deadline that co-creators Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg “are definitely pushing the needle” with the sophomore season of their Golden Globe-winning satire.

    “It’s definitely a level up,” she said at Sundance Film Festival. “We’ve already started filming, and I think everyone is laughing harder and louder than they did last season, even in our first week.”

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    Wonders continued, “I can’t say much, but there are some familiar faces that you’ll be very excited to see making fun of themselves.”

    After the show won the Golden Globe for Best Television Series — Musical or Comedy this month, as well as Best Actor for Rogen, he told press there were “a few people we roped in tonight” for cameos, adding, “This is a good poaching ground for us.”

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    (L-R) Chase Sui Wonders, Seth Rogen, Kathryn Hahn and Ike Barinholtz in ‘The Studio’

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    “Several things happened today and leading up to this event that we’ve written directly into the show,” noted Rogen, adding that production would begin the following week.

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  • Apple TV+ won big at the Primetime Emmys with Severance and The Studio

    Streaming platforms once again dominated the 2025 Primetime Emmy awards (77th edition), while network TV was shut out of the the major filmed categories. Apple TV+ came out on top with seven total wins including four for The Studio: Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actor (Seth Rogen), Outstanding Directing (Rogen and Evan Goldberg) and Outstanding Writing. “I’ve never won anything in my life,” Rogen said during his off-the-cuff acceptance speech. “When I was a kid I bought a used bowling trophy.”

    Apple+ also garnered two acting awards for Severance, including Britt Lower (Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series) and Tramell Tillman (Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series). However, HBO Max’s medical drama The Pitt surprisingly pipped Severance for the Best Outstanding Drama Series, while also earning Noah Wyle and Katherine LaNasa drama series awards for Outstanding Lead Actor and Outstanding Supporting Actress, respectively. HBO Max also scooped awards for its comedy series Hacks with Jean Smart taking the Outstanding Lead Actress trophy and Hannah Einbinder winning for Outstanding Supporting Actress.

    Netflix took the prize for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series with critical darling Adolescence, with that same show earning Stephen Graham, Owen Cooper and Erin Doherty Emmys for lead actor and supporting actor and actress, respectively (at 15, Cooper is the youngest-ever male winner of a Primetime acting Emmy). That show also won Emmys for outstanding directing and writing for a limited or anthology series or movie.

    The Emmys showed again how prestige and money continue to shift from networks to streamers. CBS’s only Emmy was for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, a show it canceled in August. NBC won for the Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special, while cabler HBO took prizes for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Outstanding Scripted Variety Series and Outstanding Writing) along with The Penguin (Cristin Milioti for Outstanding Lead Actress) and Somebody Somewhere (Jeff Hiller for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series).

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  • Seth Rogen Loves TMNT So Much He Busted His Head Open With Nunchucks

    Seth Rogen Loves TMNT So Much He Busted His Head Open With Nunchucks

    During a press junket interview for the upcoming animated film, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, actor and co-writer Seth Rogen revealed that he’s been enamored with the heroes in a half shell for so long that he’s got the battle scars to prove it. More precisely, Rogen cracked his dome open playing with nunchucks like Michelangelo, as many of us have.

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    TMNT: Mutant Mayhem follows younger versions of the turtle quartet as they try to gain popularity among their fellow New Yorkers by putting a stop to the villainous Superfly’s crime wave. The animated film includes a star-studded cast of Hollywood actors in supporting roles including Rogen as Bebop, Ice Cube as Superfly, John Cena as Rocksteady, and action-movie legend Jackie Chan as Master Splinter, to name a few.

    Speaking with Empire Magazine, Rogen revealed that his fanboy-related TMNT injury came soon after his father gifted him his pair of nunchucks.

    “Part of the reason I did karate was because of the Ninja Turtles,” Rogen said. “Me and [co-writer Evan Goldberg] both did karate together. My dad got me nunchucks that I cracked my head open with, because I was obsessed with the Ninja Turtles, and Michelangelo specifically.”

    Goldberg added to Rogen’s painful recountings of his ninja faux pas, divulging that it was more than Rogen’s head that the comedy actor broke when displaying his nunchuck skills, saying “Seth had just got these nunchucks. He was like, ‘Yo, check this out, I want to show you this awesome move,’ and just immediately shattered a huge chandelier from his parents’ house into a billion pieces. It took us, like, five hours to clean. On a sitcom, you’d be like, ‘This is too broad.’”

    “It was instantaneous,” Rogen added. “It was as though what I was trying to show him was my ability to destroy a lamp.”

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    In retrospect, it’s probably best that Rogen fancied Mikey instead of Leonardo or Raphael. One could only imagine the kind of physical and property damage a kid could do if left unattended in a house with twin katana or two sais.

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem hits theaters on August 2.

       

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