Dancing With The Stars Seasons 29 Cast Revealed

We now know who will be waltzing into the ballroom when Dancing With the Stars returns on September 14th. Tiger King star Carole Baskin, Grammy award winning rapper Nelly, Super Bowl champion Vernon Davis, Selling Sunset’s Chrishell Stause, former NBA star Charles Oakley, and Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir were among the fifteen celebrities unveiled for season 29. Joining them in the quest for the mirrorball trophy are actress Anne Heche, The Real’s Jeannie Mai, Desperate Housewives star Jesse Metcalf, Cheer’s Monica Aldama, Disney Channel actress Skai Jackson, One Day at a Time’s Justina Machado, and Catfish’s Nev Schulman. Backstreet Boy AJ McLean and The Bachelorette’s Kaitlyn Bristowe were previously announced. ABC officially revealed the full lineup on Good Morning America.

The professional dancers include Brandon Armstrong, Alan Bersten, Sharna Burgess, Cheryl Burke, Artem Chigvintsev, Val Chmerkovskiy, Sasha Farber, Jenna Johnson, Daniella Karagach, Keo Motsepe, Peta Murgatroyd, Pasha Pashkov, Gleb Savchenko, Emma Slater and Britt Stewart. The pairings have yet to be confirmed. One of the season’s most intriguing contestants is Baskin, a big-cat rights activist, who became a household name after appearing in the Netflix NFLX -0.7% docuseries which premiered in March 2020. During the GMA live announcement, Baskin admitted that she saw this as an opportunity to set the record straight about her polarizing portrayal during Tiger King. “Well Tiger King really glamorized animal abusers and villainized me for trying to stop animal abuse and so I felt really betrayed by that but what amazed me was how many people believed that false portrayal of me without doing anything to find out who I really am. So it’s been a nightmare since Tiger King aired.” When asked if she thought the show could rehabilitate her image she said, “I really hope so and the biggest thing for me is that the longer my partner and I can stay in the running and in the competition, it will keep the cats forefront in the viewers’ eye and to me that was where Tiger King missed the ball. It really should have been focused on the animals and so I’m hoping Dancing With the Stars will do that.” Baskin is also focused on the battle for the mirrorball. “I am competitive but I'm competitive with myself. I want to do the very best that I can possibly do.” Tiger King was a hit for Netflix, with 64 million households viewing within a month of its debut 34 million of which watched in the first 10 days alone. The show was one of the streaming service’s most popular in recent history and sparked feverish conversation on social media. DWTS could use some of this buzz going into the new season. The show is looking to bounce back from a steady decline in ratings, particularly in the much coveted 18 - 49 demographic viewership which is down 38% since 2017. DWTS, which debuted in the summer of 2005, enjoyed its best season ratings wise in its third season with a 5.4 rating although season five remains the most watched, amassing 20.604 million viewers. Last season ended with the lowest numbers across the board in its 15 year run with a 1.1 rating and an average of 7.998 million viewers. This season Tyra Banks takes over hosting duties from Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews. She also joins Andrew Llinares as an executive producer.

Jurassic World 3 Casts DeWanda Wise

The third movie in the latest Jurassic Park trilogy is set to be released in 2021 and will see the return of Chris Pratt as Owen Grady and Bryce Dallas Howard as Claire Dearing. It was recently announced that the upcoming Jurassic World 3 will feature old favorites Laura Dern (Ellie Sattler), Sam Neill (Alan Grant), and Jeff Goldblum (Ian Malcolm), but the exciting casting news doesn’t stop there. According to Variety, the film just cast DeWanda Wise, who is best known for starring in Netflix’s She’s Gotta Have It, in a leading role. In addition to She’s Gotta Have It, Wise has also been seen in The Twilight Zone reboot, the Netflix film Someone Great, and has appeared in episodes of many series, including Boardwalk Empire and The Good Wife. Wise hasn’t posted about the casting news on social media yet, but you can follow her on Instagram here. The new dinosaur adventure film will see the return of director Colin Trevorrow, who also helmed Jurassic World before J.A. Bayona took over for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

The upcoming movie was set up heavily by the events of Fallen Kingdom as well as the recently released short film Battle at Big Rock, which shows the state of society across the United States now that dinosaurs are roaming free on the North American continent. "Battle At Big Rock is a short film that takes place one year after the events of Fallen Kingdom," Trevorrow explained in an interview with Collider. "It’s about a family on a camping trip to Big Rock National Park, about 20 miles from where the last film ended. There have been a few sightings, but this is the first major confrontation between dinosaurs and humans." Trevorrow went on to explain that everything has been building up to Jurassic World 3, and that he's finally getting to make the movie he's planned on since he first got the gig with the first film. "The world is bigger than just the characters we’ve been following in the films," Trevorrow explained. "We’ve finally taken the story off Isla Nublar, we wanted to show a glimpse of that new reality. If this really happened, you’d see a series of random disconnected incidents that would create a pattern of chaos. I wanted to see one of those incidents."

Escape Room 2 Cast Announced

Earlier this year, director Adam Robitel's Escape Room proved to be a surprising success at the box office, despite it having been released in January, a traditionally poor month to release horror films. Between the film's box office success and narrative potential, Sony Pictures announced they would be moving forward with a sequel. Escape Room 2 has announced its cast, which Deadline confirms as being Holland Roden (Teen Wolf, Channel Zero: Butcher’s Block), Indya Moore (Pose, Queen & Slim), Thomas Cocquerel (Table 19, The 100), Carlito Olivero (East Los High, Step Up: High Water), who will join the previously announced Isabelle Fuhrman, Taylor Russell, and Logan Miller. In the original film, an intriguing invitation bring six strangers together. Initially, they think they have gathered for a highly immersive escape room, but they soon make the sickening discovery that they are pawns in a sadistic game of life and death.

Together, they move from one terrifying scenario to the next as they find clues and solve puzzles. But the players soon learn that exposing their darkest secrets may hold the key to survive. The sequel was originally slated to hit theaters in August 2020, only for reports to surface that its release was delayed until November of 2020. Deadline, however, claims the film is still set for an August release. Robitel is returning to direct the sequel, having teased to ComicBook.com earlier this year his plans for a follow-up adventure. "At the end of the day, it is about strangers in a room getting killed," Robitel shared. "There's a formula that can work. But you gotta work twice as hard each movie to reinvent the wheel but you also have to be mindful of giving the audience what they really liked about the first movie." He added, "It's a tricky rope to walk, for sure. As you said, we did fire, we did ice, we did gravity, we did gas, so coming up with other ways to slice and dice the players is tricky because the last thing we want to do with the franchise is to rely on reverse bear traps and so forth. That was done so well with Saw and that's not our franchise. So yeah, it is challenging, but if there's a will, there's a way. I can't talk too much about it, but I think we have a cool way into the sequel that I think will be exciting and expands Minos mythology a little bit without going too far. We'll see, it is tricky."