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Duck & Goose is back for season 2, though an exclusive clip finds them disagreeing on how best to help a friend. Based on Tad Hills' New York Times bestselling books of the same name, the animated show centers on the eponymous young friends and their various adventures, namely their unique dynamic of learning to accept their differences to solve challenges presented to them. Home Economics' JeCobi Swain and We Baby Bears' Connor Andrade lead the cast of Duck & Goose.

Ahead of its return on Apple TV+, Screen Rant can exclusively present a new Duck & Goose season 2 clip.

The clip, as seen above, shows the eponymous duo making an exciting climb up the back of a new friend, Mateo Gallegos' Moose. However, while Duck and Goose may have spotted the root cause of Moose's problems, they find themselves again disagreeing on just how best to help him.

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AppleTV+ has unveiled its kids’ and family summer slate, which features new Peanuts content coming to the streamer this summer alongside its returning series.

The new Peanuts content includes the third season of “The Snoopy Show,” which premieres on June 9, and “Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie,” a special that follows “endearing introvert Marcie as she helps her friends in her own unique way” which premieres on August 18.

In an expansion of its partnership with WildBrain, the tech giant will also debut two new original series in 2024: “Camp Snoopy,” featuring Snoopy and the Beagle Scouts along with Charlie Brown and friends as they enjoy an adventure-filled summer outdoors and “Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin,” a special uncovering the origin story of one of Peanuts’ most beloved characters and how he ultimately makes friends with Charlie Brown and the gang.

Additional classic Peanuts titles from Mendelson/Melendez Productions and Peanuts Worldwide will...

Fresh from seeing “Elvis” become his highest-grossing film of all time in the U.K., Australian director Baz Luhrmann is set to be one of the leading speakers at this year’s Royal Television Society (Rts) conference in London, set to take place later this month.

Luhrmann, who has also created series such as “The Get Down,” will be in conversation with British host Edith Bowman, discussing “the power of creativity.”

Also joining the lineup are head of interactive at BBC Studios Tom Burton, Vicki Dobbs Beck, VP for immersive content at Lucasfilm and ILMxLAB, BBC technology correspondent Marc Cieslak and Jan Koeppen, president of The Walt Disney Company Emea.

Gama Gbio, development producer at Entertainment, Expectation, Isabelle Henriques, Co-CEO and COO of Klang Games; Nina Hossain, journalist and newscaster at ITN, Daisy Lilley, manager for Unscripted Series, U.K. at Netflix; Kevin Lygo, managing director of media and entertainment...

Arrow Video digs its sharp talons into Wes Craven's dirt 'n' Bowie Knife slaughter-fest horror picture, yet another strange travel advisory not to go anywhere, 'cause strangers might be cannibals. But hey, the movie works, and like much of Craven's filmography, it sticks its neck way out into dangerous territory. The Hills Have Eyes Blu-ray Arrow Video (Us) 1977 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 89 min. / Street Date October 11, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Martin Speer, Dee Wallace, Russ Grieve, John Steadman, Michael Berryman, Virginia Vincent, James Whitworth Cinematography Eric Saarinen Art Direction Robert Burns Film Editor Wes Craven Original Music Don Peake Special Effects Greg Auer, John Frazier Produced by Peter Locke Written and Directed by Wes Craven

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

With Wes Craven now passed on, we're left with the situation of a modern American horror director with an extremely successful body of work for analysis. Both an educator and a sometime adult filmmaker,...

Contract negotiations are always tough, but these were downright tragic. And when they were over in the wee hours of Sunday morning, both sides raised a glass to toast their fallen comrades – one from each side who'd died suddenly and unexpectedly during negotiations for a new SAG-aftra commercials contract. The death of SAG-aftra president Ken Howard on March 23 had cast a pall over the negotiations. Doug Wood, the ad industry's chief negotiator, remembers getting the…...

Valerie Wood-Harber remembers the phone call like it was yesterday. "Quinten isn't breathing," her 14-year-old brother Cameron told her, referring to their 15-year-old brother, who suffered from Chromosome Ring 9, a rare disorder that made it difficult for him to walk, talk and eat on his own. "I can't wake him up," Cameron told her on Jan. 4, 2013. "Come here now." By the time she got there - making the four-hour drive from Fayetteville, Arkansas, where she lived, to Oklahoma City, where they lived, in just under two hours - Quinten was dead. Wood-Harber, who had filed a complaint with the state...

Valerie Wood-Harber remembers the phone call like it was yesterday. "Quinten isn't breathing," her 14-year-old brother Cameron told her, referring to their 15-year-old brother, who suffered from Chromosome Ring 9, a rare disorder that made it difficult for him to walk, talk and eat on his own. "I can't wake him up," Cameron told her on Jan. 4, 2013. "Come here now." By the time she got there - making the four-hour drive from Fayetteville, Arkansas, where she lived, to Oklahoma City, where they lived, in just under two hours - Quinten was dead. Wood-Harber, who had filed a complaint with the state...

Last night at Gotham Hall in New York City, The Somaly Mam Foundation (Smf) honored four individuals with the inaugural Voices for Change Award for their outstanding support of the Foundation’s mission of ending sex slavery and empowering survivors as part of the solution. The Awards were presented at the Foundation’s annual Gala, Life Is Love, which was hosted by Katie Couric and feature a live fund-a-need auction with Seth Meyers as well as a performance by Cat Power. This year’s Voices for Change Award honorees are Douglas Wood; The Estèe Lauder Companies; acclaimed fashion photographer Norman Jean Roy & Joanna Jean Roy; and Smf volunteer, Samira Panah. Also in attendance were host committee members AnnaLynne McCord, Petra Nemcova and Ron Livingston as well as guests, Dianna...

After almost two months of negotiations, SAG-aftra has reached a tentative deal on its commercials contracts with the advertising industry. The union and the Joint Policy Committee have been negotiating since Feb. 14 and had to extend talks past the original March 31 deadline. Early on Saturday they announced a tentative deal had been struck. The deal, details of which haven’t been released, now goes to the National Board of Directors for approval at its April 20-21 meeting. After the board approves it, the package will be sent to the membership for ratification thereafter. For now, union leadership would only say they've made “essential gains.” “I couldn’t be more pleased," Roberta Reardon, SAG-aftra national co-president who chaired the negotiating committee. “These contracts provide our members with the solid foundation they need to sustain their careers and families.” David White, the SAG-aftra national executive director and chief negotiator, added: “We worked...

SAG-aftra announced Tuesday that Feb. 14 will be the start of talks between it and the advertising industry. As anticipated, New York will play host to the deal making. The union will be hoping that Douglas Wood, a partner at Reed Smith LLC in New York and the ad industry's lead negotiator, brings more than chocolates to the table. Having had a labor dispute with the ad industry in 2000, performers go into next year's talks with the strength of a merged union. One of their main concerns: how to effectively monetize and track ad viewership that must be measured in an increasing number of ways. Wood has played down the possibility of an issue arising that could lead to a work stoppage. In 2000, he told Backstage in a recent interview, there was a disagreement over whether online advertising would be covered by union rules. After the strike, the parties agreed it would be.

Update: SAG, AFTRA reach commercials contract

Another deadline has come and gone, and SAG has another expired contract.

Although commercials contract negotiations have been ongoing at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in New York since Feb. 23 (with a week off in March), SAG and AFTRA have not yet reached a tentative agreement with the ad industry repped by the Joint Policy Committee. The old contract expired Tuesday at midnight, and until a new agreement is reached union performers will operate under most of the parameters of the existing deal.

So, what now? Since SAG and AFTRA have not pitched their members on a strike authorization, what few leaks there have been have indicated that progress, however slow, is being made, meaning an extension of negotiations is the likeliest answer.

"Most likely the parties will agree to an extension while they continue their negotiations," says Ivy Kagan Bierman, an industry labor lawyer and partner at Loeb & Loeb.

Any sense of victory or relief stemming from a tentative deal for a new commercials contracts between performers' unions and the ad industry may be short-lived. The focus is already swinging back to the impasse facing SAG and the AMPTP over a new TV-theatrical agreement.

That contract has been expired since June 30, and no official actions have taken place since the SAG national board rejected the AMPTP's last, best, final offer on Feb. 21. Back-channel talks are ongoing.

In the meantime, the proposed commercials contracts, which would run from April 1, 2009, to March 31, 2012, will take a month or more to ratify. The SAG-aftra joint negotiating committee announced in the early morning hours of Wednesday -- a mere seven hours after the old contracts officially expired -- that it was recommending the tentative deal unanimously. The joint national board will now vote on whether to pass it on to their memberships for a ratification vote.

Ad industry’s lead negotiator blogs that he's “cautiously optimistic” both sides will agree on a pact soon.

By Lauren Horwitch

The clock is ticking on SAG and AFTRA’s contract covering commercials. The pact -- which has been extended twice -- is set to expire on Tuesday at midnight.

A news blackout has been in place since the contract’s negotiations began in New York on Feb. 23 and resumed March 21 after a brief break. However, the ad industry’s lead negotiator, Douglas Wood, said Monday on the Ana/Aaaa Joint Policy Committee on Broadcast Talent Union Relation blog that he is “cautiously optimistic” that both sides will agree on a new pact soon.

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"Little Miss Sunshine" star Abigail Breslin will be very busy this year. The child star has booked three big screen projects, including one with Johnny Depp.

As per Variety, the 12-year-old actress Academy Award-nominee will be starring opposite the "Pirates of the Caribbean" thesp for Paramount Pictures' animated adventure flick "Rango." The film will focus on a household pet, voiced by Depp, who goes on an adventure to discover his true self.

Also in the pipeline is another pic titled "The Wild Bunch," which revolve on a team of common wildflowers and plants that are attacked by an evil army of genetically modified cornstalks. Breslin will voice the lead character, while Doug Wood will direct.

The child actress is also in talks to appear in the Columbia horror comedy, "Zombieland," which stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone.

Alongside two other major roles, Little Miss Sunshine star Abigail Breslin is set to star in Columbia Pictures' Zombieland opposite Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone. Shooting in Atlanta, Georgia next month, the film is set in a world overrun by zombies, where two men (Harrelson, Eisenberg) join forces and cross paths with a pair of con-artist sisters (Stone, Breslin). In addition, Breslin will also voice the lead character in toon The Wild Bunch, a film which revolves around a team of common wildflowers and plants that are attacked by an evil army of genetically modified cornstalks. Animation Lab, the nascent Israel-based company, is producing the Doug Wood-helmed film. Willem Dafoe, Willie Nelson, Elizabeth Hurley and Chris Klein round out the voice cast.

Abigail Breslin, who earned an Oscar nomination for Little Miss Sunshine and more recently starred in Nim’s Island and Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, will lend her voice for two animated flicks and run from zombies. The trades are reporting that the young star will star opposite Johnny Depp in Gore Verbinski's animated adventure Rango for Paramount Pictures. The film centers on a household pet (Depp) who goes on an adventure to discover his true self. Breslin will also voice the lead character in The Wild Bunch. The animated flick revolves around a team of common wildflowers and plants that are attacked by an evil army of genetically modified cornstalks. Doug Wood is directing and Willem Dafoe, Willie Nelson, Elizabeth Hurley and Chris Klein round out the voice cast. And finally, moving from animation to live-action, Breslin is joining the horror comedy Zombieland. She’ll share the screen with Woody Harrelson,...