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Clockwise from top: The Vampire Lestat, Cape Fear, Masters of the Universe, and Scary Movie.
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If anyone was going to kick off Pride month, it would be the brat prince himself — The Vampire Lestat — and the Tony Awards. Both extravagant, both musical, both inviting applause, both airing on Sunday. One features rock-star vamps and the other features the rock-star vamp. But aside from vamps, there’s the return of Cindy and Brenda, a trip back to the villa, and Amy Adams in a good project, thank God.
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For two seasons, AMC’s Interview With the Vampire has been a somber, romantic, impressively layered series adapting Anne Rice’s novel for a modern queer audience. In a new series, all that is blown up by moving on to Rice’s sequel, which switches protagonists, writing styles, and tones. Now the focus is on the titular Lestat (Sam Reid), who deals with how betrayed he feels by former lover Louis’s (Jacob Anderson) interview by starting a rock band and going on tour. Normal coping stuff. —Roxana Hadadi
➽ Lestat is real (well, for one night only), and Vulture visited the set of The Vampire Lestat and lived to tell you all about it.
➽ In theaters; read the full review.
John D. MacDonald’s novel The Executioners continues to bear fruit. This time, after the 1962 and 1991 film adaptations from directors J. Lee Thompson and Martin Scorsese, it’s a miniseries from creator Nick Antosca. The general story is the same: An ex-convict (Javier Bardem) is released from prison and goes after the lawyers who failed to get him off years before (Patrick Wilson and Amy Adams). The southern-accent work alone will make this one a must-watch. —R.H.
Interesting timing for the Scary Movie franchise to come back just as people seem itching for fresh horrors. But it is great to see Anna Faris and Regina Hall reunite. There are about ten years of new scary movies to skewer.
A group of 20-somethings trying to make it in this job market, and we’re not supposed to point at the television and say Industry? Mindy Kaling’s new series follows postgrads as they navigate their work-life balance in Manhattan.
No matter the quality, Jennifer Lopez in a rom-com is enough to get people to at least consider pressing play. Co-written by Ted Lasso star Brett Goldstein, Office Romance stars Lopez and Goldstein as an unlikely couple, a lawyer, Daniel Blanchflower, and his boss, Jackie Cruz.
This year’s Radio City Music Hall ceremony is hosted by the aerial gymnast (and occasional pop singer) known as P!nk. You can look forward to performances from the nominees, of course, even spectacles like Cats: The Jellicle Ball and The Lost Boys. For any Capital One Mastercard cardholders out there: You can snag a ticket presale for the ceremony, purchase VIP-ticket packages, or grab a ticket to the official Tonys Watch Party via Capital One Entertainment. We’ll be watching and covering it live, too.
➽ Watch live on Sunday, June 7, at 8 p.m. ET on Paramount+ and CBS.
Islanders, it’s time to go back to the villa. If you felt left out of the thing all your friends were watching last summer, now’s the time to start, because this show is on most nights of the week, and if you don’t get onboard early, it’s so hard to catch up. —Kathryn VanArendonk
The preposterously popular YouTube animated series The Amazing Digital Circus jumps over to theaters for its series finale: a feature-length edit of the last two episodes. The independent effort from creator Gooseworx and Glitch Productions is already taking off at the box office. —Eric Vilas-Boas
Nothing like a wistful gay movie to get you in the mood for Pride. In Harry Lighton’s feature directorial debut, Harry Melling plays Colin, a lonely barbershop-quartet singer who crosses paths with a biker gang at a local pub. There he meets the hot and enigmatic biker Ray (Alexander Skarsgård) who draws Colin into his BDSM tastes. Pillion is too concerned with Colin’s journey to be labeled as a rom-com, but it can be sweeter than you’d expect.
➽ Plus, Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert is on Paramount+, Oz Perkins’s Keeper is on Hulu, and Pixar’s Hoppers is on Disney+. Busy weekend.
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