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Anya Taylor-Joy is joining The Lord of the Rings The Hunt for Gollum, adding a high-visibility name to Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema’s next theatrical entry tied to Middle-earth. The film is directed by Andy Serkis, who is also returning as Gollum, the character he portrayed through performance capture in Peter Jackson’s earlier Middle-earth films. Public reporting has described Taylor-Joy’s character as Seren, a Sindar Elf created for the screen and tied to Thranduil’s forest kingdom. The Lord of the Rings The Hunt for Gollum is currently dated for Dec. 17, 2027. The project has drawn attention because it is expected to revisit a narrow period connected to the search for Gollum before the core events of The Fellowship of the Ring move into motion. The casting of Taylor-Joy adds a new character to a story built around familiar names, returning creative figures, and a franchise audience tracking confirmed details. Anya Taylor-Joy Casting Puts a New Elf Character in Focus Taylor-Joy’s casting places a newly written character near the center of conversation around the film. Seren does not appear in J.R.R. Tolkien’s published works, according to entertainment reports describing the role. That detail gives the production room to add

Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino are stepping back into one of the most recognizable friendships in 1990s comedy, with production now underway on a sequel to Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion. 20th Century Studios has confirmed that Kudrow and Sorvino are reprising their roles as Michele Weinberger and Romy White, the two Los Angeles friends who turned a high school reunion into one of the decade’s most quoted comedy setups. The new film is planned for release on Hulu in the United States, though no official premiere date has been announced. The sequel brings back a title that has remained visible through cable airings, streaming, social media references, costumes, and renewed attention to female-led comedies from the 1990s. The original film opened in 1997 and followed Romy and Michele as they prepared for their ten-year high school reunion in Tucson, Arizona. Worried that their lives might not impress former classmates, they created a false story about having invented Post-it Notes. That premise helped build the film’s comic identity, but the bond between the two lead characters gave it staying power. Romy and Michele were stylish, insecure, loyal, and unusually confident in their own logic. Their friendship gave the film