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Instead of a retirement announcement with all the hype around LeBron James’ “The Second Decision,” the Los Angeles Lakers player has announced the latest collaboration with the Hennessy brand.

In a promo released Oct. 7, the future NBA Hall of Famer recreated the scene from his announcement from his special, The Decision, when he decided to join the Miami Heat in 2010 to join fellow basketball stars, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. In the new clip, he “announced” that he is taking his talents to . . . Hennessy.

The Decision has been made. Cheers to year 23.@KingJames #HennessyxLeBron #TheSecondDecision #HennessyVSOP pic.twitter.com/WnXMZTiEPS

— Hennessy (@Hennessy) October 7, 2025

The Hennessy V.S.O.P Limited Edition by LeBron James will be available in select markets in October, furthering the partnership that James has had with the cognac brand since 2024.

“It’s an honor to continue this partnership with Hennessy. Our first collection was about a shared pursuit of excellence and boundary pushing, and this new limited edition is another chapter in that story. The design features my crowning gesture, which is special for me and stands for celebration and connection. That’s what this bottle is made for.”

Due to the teaser clip posted earlier this week, fans speculated that LeBron was possibly going to announce his retirement from the game, setting off a price surge for the Lakers’ last home game of the season against the Utah Jazz.

Before LeBron posted that announcement on social media, the lowest price for one ticket for that game, taking place April 26, 2026, was listed at $82, according to Vivid Seats. After word got out, that amount shot up to $850 for a single ticket.

LeBron will be entering his 23rd NBA season, which will break former Toronto Raptors’ Vince Carter’s record of 22 seasons, which he currently shares with him.  

The Lakers will start their regular season on Oct. 21 against their Western Conference rival, the Golden State Warriors, at Crypto.com Arena.

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Marvel Studios has released the first teaser for their upcoming series Wonder Man, which will now premiere in January 2026, pushed a few weeks from its original December 2025 date. The teaser confirms the meta-nature of the new Disney+ series starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. From what we can gather from the teaser, “Wonder Man” was a superhero movie from the 1970s, now rebooted in the modern day by an A-list director. Simon Williams is an actor looking to play the character in the newly reimagined movie. You can watch the brief teaser from Marvel Studios right here:

The trailer opens with the reclusive foreign director Von Kovak making his first franchise movie, played by Superman’s Zlatko Burić. In a very meta commentary on the state of superhero fatigue, he says “Why make one more superhero story? Everyone is tired of superheroes.” But he says the franchise connected to him deeply. The teaser is full of Easter eggs to Marvel Comics. It seems an actor named Brent Willard, who looks very David Hasselhoff-esque, portrayed Wonder Man on screen. The costumes he wears look just like his comic book outfits from the ’80s West Coast Avengers series, and his ’90s black and red look. In old footage, we see movie Wonder Man fighting cheesy aliens at Vasquez Rocks. That’s the real-world location in California where Star Trek filmed Captain Kirk fighting the Gorn.

It seems that Marvel Studios will split the difference between the different versions of comics Wonder Man. His adventuring superhero aspect, powered by ionic energy, will likely stay in “the movie within the show” part of things. Meanwhile, Simon Williams, Hollywood actor, that is also a big part of Wonder Man lore. And it seems that part will be embodied by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. This is looking to be the most meta Marvel project to date. And this new teaser just made us more excited for its debut.

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The Vampire Lestat, the follow-up series to AMC’s Interview with the Vampire, is currently filming in Toronto. But at New York Comic Con, executive producers Johnson and Hannah Moscovitch, along with
cast members Sam Reid (Lestat), Jacob Anderson (Louis), Bogosian (Daniel), Assad Zaman (Armand), and Jennifer Ehle (Gabriela), previewed the series’ return in 2026, with a special extended look trailer. Not only that, but several new cast members were announced, including the anticipated reveal for who will play the ancient Akasha, Queen of the Damned, and mother of all vampires. But first, take a peek at the extended teaser trailer preview for The Vampire Lestat:

In addition to this The Vampire Lestat teaser trailer, we also learned that playing Akasha, the role originated by the late Aliyah in the film Queen of the Damned, is The Woman King actress Sheila Atim. Joining her as Lestat’s bandmates are Noah Reid (Schitt’s Creek), in the role of “Larry”, Ryan Kattner (Destroy All Neighbors), in the role of “Salamander,” Seamus Patterson (Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities), in the role of “Alex,” and Sarah Swire (The Boys), in the role of “TC.” Fans of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles will recall that T.C. is short for Tough Cookie.

Before Lestat recruited them, they were a garage band called Satan’s Night Out. If a fourth season gets greenlit on AMC, Akasha will be front and center. We don’t have a look at Akasha in action yet, but the new The Vampire Lestat teaser trailer does give us our first look at Assad Zaman as Armand in Interview with the Vampire season 3, and our first glimpse at Delainey Hayles returning as Claudia. And is that the vampire Bruce, we see? Hopefully for the next and last time.

We also got a preview of the crossover between Interview with the Vampire and the upcoming series Talamasca: The Secret Order, which shows newly turned vampire Daniel Molloy having a clandestine meeting with Talamasca agent Guy Anatole, played by Nicholas Denton. You can watch that extended scene right above.

All of this has us incredibly excited for Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe. Now, if you’ll excuse us, we’ll be watching that The Vampire Lestat teaser trailer another thousand times. We can barely wait for more.

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When you’re pulling into a Chipotle parking lot, you probably don’t expect to witness anything wild. Maybe a long line or a missing online order, at most.

But for one man in New York, TikToker Jayden (@jayden_moffitt), that trip turned into a front-row seat to something more chaotic.