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Red, White, and Royal Blue Movie Casts Its Alex and Prince Henry

Amazon Prime Video’s adaptation of Red, White, and Royal Blue has officially cast its Alex and Prince Henry. In a tweet posted on June 1, author Casey McQuiston announced that Prince Henry will be played by Nicholas Galitzine, and Taylor Zakhar Perez will play Alex. Deadline also announced that Uma Thurman will be joining the cast Alex’s mom, President Ellen Claremont. Also joining the cast, according to Amazon Studios’ Instagram, will be Clifton Collins Jr., Stephen Fry, Sarah Shahi, Rachel Hilson, Ellie Bamber, Aneesh Sheth, Polo Morín, Ahmed Elhaj, and Akshay Khanna. The movie will be directed by playwright Matthew López in his feature debut. Filming is set to begin in Britain this month.

Freedom to Read Advocates Sound Alarm as Obscenity Lawsuit Advances in Virginia

A lawsuit in Virginia is ordering two popular authors and their publishers to defend their works against obscenity charges, and Freedom to Read advocates are sounding the alarm. The lawsuit alleges that two books for sale in a Virginia Beach Barnes & Noble—Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir Gender Queer and A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas—are “obscene for unrestricted viewing by minors.” The court’s order raises the possibility of a restraining order that would forbid the books to be public displayed and restrain booksellers and libraries from selling or loaning the books to minors without parental consent.

In a statement issued this week, Freedom to Read advocates—including NCAC, ALA, the Virginia Library Association and other organizations—argue that the obscenity action aims “to prevent readers from making a personal choice to read these books,” and to “criminally prosecute librarians, booksellers, and publishers” for making materials they disapprove of available to the public. “If persons like the petitioners obtain similar orders every time they have objections to a book, it will chill the freedom to read and stifle the voices of authors and publishers,” the statement reads. “The undersigned organizations strongly urge Virginians–and all Americans–to stand against any attempt to use government action to dictate what we can read and how to think about what we read. Prohibiting the sale and distribution of books is an affront to our democratic values and threatens each person’s and each family’s individual liberties. It is contrary to our principles of democracy to allow anyone, regardless of their beliefs or political position, to determine what other Americans can read.”

The Boys Season 3 Welcomes Hollywood A-List Star for Cameo

The first three episodes of The Boys Season 3 have been released on Amazon Prime video, and the first episode includes a surprise cameo from an A-list star. Oscar winner Charlize Theron has joined the season as Stormfront. Or rather, a version of Stormfront. To find out how Theron factors into the story, you watch The Boys season 3 now.

The Best Bridgerton Fan Fiction

Fill the void between seasons and books with the best Bridgerton fan fiction for each sibling (and then some).