“The Mummy” sequel starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz gets major update

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We finally know when theMummyfranchise will reawaken.

Universal Pictures has officially added the next installment of the adventure franchise to its release calendar, giving the film a theatrical release date of May 19, 2028.

The Mummy 4, which has yet to receive an official title, will seeBrendan FraserandRachel Weiszreturn to play Rick and Evelyn O'Connell. The duo first starred together in 1999'sThe Mummyand reprised their roles in 2001'sThe Mummy Returns. Fraser came back for a third installment, 2008'sThe Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, but Weisz did not join him. In her absence, Maria Bello played Evelyn.

The upcomingMummysequel will be helmed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who previously directed the fifth and sixthScreammovies as well asReady or Notand its upcoming sequel,Ready or Not 2: Here I Come.

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The script will be written by David Coggeshall, who pennedOrphan: First Killand theFamily Planfilms.

Fraserpreviously teasedthat the new sequel will fulfill the dream he's had for theMummyfranchise for more than two decades. "The one I wanted to make is forthcoming," hetold the Associated Pressin November . "And I've been waiting 20 years for this call. Sometimes it was loud, sometimes it was a faint telegraph. Now? It's time to give the fans what they want."

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TheWhalestar said thatTomb of the Dragon Emperorwasn't quite what he envisioned for the nextMummymovie. "The one I wanted to make was never made," he said. "The third one was a model of … how can I say this to the AP reporter? NBC had the rights to broadcast the Olympics that year. So they put two together and we went to China."

Though the upcoming sequel will mark Fraser's first movie in the series in 20 years, Universal'sMummyfranchise hasn't been completely dormant sinceTomb of the Dragon Emperor. The studio previously revived the property with a 2017 reboot starring Tom Cruise (simply titledThe Mummy) that was intended to launch an interconnected Dark Universe.

TheMummyuniverse has also persisted in a series of spinoffs revolving around the character Mathayus, also known as the Scorpion King, who was first played by Dwayne Johnson inThe Mummy Returns. Johnson headlined the theatrical spinoffThe Scorpion Kingin 2002, and the franchise received four more direct-to-video installments with other actors in the lead role, the latest of which was released in 2018.

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Additionally, Warner Bros.' New Line Cinema will release an unrelatedMummyfilm in April, helmed byEvil Dead Risefilmmaker Lee Cronin. The film is aptly titledLee Cronin's The Mummy, and will star Jack Reynor and Laia Costa.

Universal's first-everMummyfilm, Karl Freund'sThe Mummy, hit theaters in 1932. The studio released four sequels to that film in the 1940s, and produced the comedy spinoffAbbott and Costello Meet the Mummyin 1955. The British company Hammer Film Productions also made fourMummymovies inspired by Universal's series between 1959 and 1971.

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Erin Andrews Reveals How She Came Up with the Name of Her Clothing Brand WEAR: 'My Brain Was ... Going Nuts' (Exclusive)

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• Erin Andrews is celebrating a decade of WEAR, her women's clothing line

• The FOX Sports broadcaster officially launched the brand in 2019

• She spoke to PEOPLE at popular restaurant Che Fico in San Francisco ahead of the Super Bowl

Erin Andrewsis going back towearit all began.

The FOX Sports broadcaster marked 10 years since she was first inspired to create her own women's clothing line with a celebration at Che Fico in San Francisco on Feb. 5, as part ofSuper Bowl 2026week.

Exactly a decade ago, Andrews tells PEOPLE she was in town for the 2016 Super Bowl and to host what the NFL calls a "chalk talk." Then, inspiration struck.

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"You talk about your job and what it's like on the sideline, what it's like to cover a Super Bowl," she explains. "And then they asked me to wear the gear that was in the convention center, obviously advertising the Super Bowl."

Andrews says the merchandise very clearly wasn't "made by a woman for women," and she couldn't stop thinking about the "white space" in the industry. Andrews knew women needed sports attire they felt good in.

"So then that whole night I was sitting there, and my brain was kind of going nuts," Andrews tells PEOPLE.

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The broadcaster ended up going to dinner at popular San Francisco eatery Flour + Water that same evening, where she says the big idea happened.

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"There was a paper, obviously a tablecloth, and I had a pen and I just said, 'You guys, this is something. This is what we need to do.' So then I started writing my name and trying to figure out what we'd call [the brand]. Everybody calls me EA in the industry and I wrote, 'EA.' Okay, what do we do?" she says, recalling her thought process.

"And then WEAR came about. And then we were saying like, if you separate 'WEAR,' [you get] 'we are.' We are football, we are basketball, we are confident, we are strong. And 10 years ago, that's what happened," she adds.

Andrews officially launched WEAR back 2019. She says the biggest business lesson she's learned in the last seven years is all about having "patience."

"It all doesn't happen overnight, which I'm still trying to navigate," she says with a laugh.

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Katy Perry is loved up with Justin Trudeau in new photos

Katy Perryis sharing more insights intoher romance with Justin Trudeau.

In a Feb. 10Instagram post, the 41-year-old singer included two photos of herself and the former Canadian prime minister cozying up and enjoying winter activities.

"♥️ Let love be the revolution ♥️," Perry captioned the carousel of images.

In one photo, Trudeau, 54, captured a selfie of them wearing helmets and cheesing for the camera on a snowy mountaintop. In the second picture, Perry and Trudeau pose together at a hot pot dinner. She alsoshared a photoof what appears to be instructions on how to solve a Rubik's Cube on stationery for the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada.

Trudeau served as prime minister starting in 2015 andannounced his resignationamid political pressure in January 2025.

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Winter Olympics 2026: U.S. curler Rich Ruohonen speaks out against ICE presence in his home state: 'What's happening in Minnesota is wrong'

On a day when Korey Dropkin and Cory Thiesse made U.S. curling history withan Olympic silver medal in mixed doubles, U.S. curler Rich Ruohonen used the platform to turn the spotlight on his home state of Minnesota.

Ruohonen, a St. Paul native, spoke in a news conference about the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) presence in his home state that's resulted inthe shooting deaths of U.S. citizens Renee GoodandAlex Pretti by agents.

Those killings and ICE's aggressive enforcement tactics on the streets of Minneapolis have prompted outrage andprotest in Minnesota and beyond. Ruohonen, a lawyer, cited the U.S. Constitution to declare that "there's no shades of gray" and that "what's happening in Minnesota is wrong."

'What's happening in Minnesota is wrong'

Ruohonen opened his statement by saying he's "proud to be here to represent Team USA and to represent our country."

He then turned his attention to Minnesota.

"This stuff is happening right around where we live," Ruohonen said. "I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution, and it allows us freedom of press, freedom of speech, protects us from unreasonable searches and seizures and makes it that we have to have probable cause to be pulled over.

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"And what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear. I really love what's been happening there now — people coming out, showing the love, the compassion, integrity and respect for others that they don't know and helping them out. And we love Minnesota for that."

Ruohonen, 54, is a two-time national champion curler who's twice competed for Team USA in the curling world championships (2008, 2018). He's never competed in the Olympics.

He's an alternate at the Milan Cortina Games for the men's curling team helmed by skip Danny Casper. He's not guaranteed to compete. But if he plays, he'll become the oldest U.S. athlete to ever compete in the Winter Olympics.

He went on to speak about what it means to have the opportunity to compete in the Olympics.

"I want to make it clear that we are out here, we love our country," Ruohonen continued. "We're playing for the U.S., we're playing for Team USA, we're playing for each other, and we're playing for our family and our friends that sacrificed so much to get here today. ...

'What the Olympics means is excellence, respect, friendship, and we all, I think, exemplify that. And we are playing for the people of Minnesota and the people around the country who share those same values."

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Justin Verlander returns to the Detroit Tigers on a $13 million, one-year contract

LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Justin Verlander is going back to his first big league team, agreeing to a $13 million, one-year contract with the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday.

Verlander, who turns 43 on Feb. 20, is looking to rebound from a frustrating year with San Francisco. The deal for the three-time AL Cy Young Award winner includes $11 million in deferred payments starting in 2030.

Verlander's 266 victories are tied with Bob Feller and Eppa Rixey for 34th on baseball's career list, while his 3,553 career strikeouts are eighth and closely trailing Don Sutton with 3,574.

Verlander said he needed a "relentless pursuit of finding something, anything to make it click" in turning his struggles around last year with the Giants. His 2.60 ERA from July 23 through the remainder of the season ranked fourth in the National League with a minimum of 60 innings pitched.

Verlander returned June 18 after being sidelined for a month bya strained right pectoral muscle. The right-hander wants to keep pitching after a disappointing season in which he began 0-8 and was winless in his initial 16 outings before a win at Atlanta on July 23.

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He went on to finish 4-11 with a 3.85 ERA and 137 strikeouts over 29 starts spanning 152 innings. He has 266 wins, still far off from joining the 300-win club but something he could approach with a strong, healthy 2026.

"First half, quite difficult. Happy I was able to find some mechanical fixes to kind of get back in the right direction and pitch well in the second half," Verlander said following his final outing Sept. 27. "I think obviously you'd always rather it go well, but it's nice to be able to turn it around, especially after a few months it gets really draining and it's tiresome. You've just got to come in every day and have a positive mindset and keep working hard."

Verlander signeda $15 million, one-year contractwith San Francisco last January andhad a forgettable home debut for the Giants. The Giants often struggled to provide him with enough run support.

The second-half turnaround mattered to Verlander, who limited foes to a .228 average over his final 13 appearances. He allowed two or fewer earned runs in 10 of his last 13 starts.

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