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- The *Stranger Things 5* cast and creators tease what's ahead in Volume 2 and the series finale.

- "It gets very big," Matt Duffer says of the back half of the season.

- Shawn Levy on directing Volume 2 episodes: "There's a lot of ambitious sequences in it, but also some really juicy, emotional character work."

**Warning: This article contains spoilers from *Stranger Things* season 5, Volume 1. **

It's hard to imagine what the rest of *Stranger Things* season 5 is going to look like after Volume 1. The first four episodes arrived Wednesday night on Netflix and, collectively, they feel like their own contained season of television, complete with full character arcs, intense event set pieces, and one shocker of a cliffhanger. Now, fans await Volume 2, which will bring episodes 5-7 on Christmas Day, and then the 2-hour series finale come New Year's Eve.

How much bigger is the final season going to get? "It does not scale down, I will say that much," series co-creator Ross Duffer tells ** of the back half of *Stranger Things 5*. "This is one reason it's taken so long to get out and why we were filming for so long."

The final season filmed over a calendar year from January-December 2024. Ross' brother and creative partner, Matt Duffer, calls the episode 4 Demogorgon battle "the most challenging sequence we shot for the entire season" from a logistics perspective. From there, "it gets very big," he teases.

"I would say Volume 2, though, more than scaling up on the action, visual effects front, the emotional aspect of it is really what gets bigger and more impactful," Matt continues. "Obviously, we're barreling towards the end and the final episode is, in fact, the end of this story for these characters. So it's highly emotional — and much more emotional than Volume 1."

The Upside Down scene from the back half of 'Stranger Things 5'.

The stars echo a lot of the same sentiments. "I haven't even seen the Volume 2 episodes yet, but from what I remember, it just keeps getting bigger, or you keep up that stamina," Sadie Sink, our resident Max Mayfield, says. "What's smart about the volumes, too, is that it's all building to episode 4 in the first one, and we start on a higher note [in Volume 2] but then build to episode 7 and then the series finale."

"You thought Volume 1 was crazy..." Noah Schnapp, who plays Will Byers, begins, while his costar and bestie Millie Bobby Brown, who stars as Eleven, finishes that statement: "Get ready."

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The first Volume of *Stranger Things 5* left viewers with the remains of a massive Demogorgon battle, featuring a Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) appearance, that laid waste to the military base in Hawkins. As the Duffers confirmed to EW, Will was able to channel the big bad's psychic powers and destroy the monsters about to harm his friends, which adds what Matt Duffer calls a "new chess piece on the board in the battle for Hawkins."

Eleven also discovers her "sister" Kali/Eight (Linnea Berthelsen) is the thing hidden behind mystery door No. 1 in Dr. Kay's Upside Down laboratory. Meanwhile, the mind of Max has been trapped in Vecna's "mindscape" (essentially his memories) all this time while her body remains in Hawkins. Mike (Finn Wolfhard) and Nancy's (Natalia Dyer) little sister, Holly (Nell Fisher), remains with Max, while Vecna continues his hunt for the 12 children that he needs to fulfill some mysterious mission.

"The end of this volume is like a finale in itself," Charlie Heaton, who plays Will's older brother Jonathan Byers, comments. "If that was a long movie, it would end there and there'd be another one."

Joe Keery, who plays Steve Harrington, describes the later episodes as a "big swing."

Finn Wolfhard's Will and Jamie Campbell Bower's Vecna on 'Stranger Things 5'.

Shawn Levy, a longtime *Stranger Things* producer, typically directs episodes 3 and 4 of every season. Thanks to his commitments making *Deadpool & Wolverine*, he shifted gears for season 5, instead directing episode 6 and then co-directing episode 7 with the Duffer Brothers.

"I have to be cautious of spoilers. Let's just say there's a lot of ambitious sequences in it, but also some really juicy, emotional character work," Levy says of episode 6, titled "Escape From Camazotz."

For episode 7, "I'd never gotten to do one of those classic late-season 15-character scenes in a room, breaking down the plan, explaining the mythology," he points out. "I've always loved those scenes 'cause it's so satisfying. We wait all season for the characters to intersect and come up with that plan. So I got to direct some of those days, 14-15 of our series regulars in one room. It was chaos, very hard to get anyone to pay attention. Felt like a boisterous family reunion, but very fun to get to direct that kind of scene."

Levy, a filmmaker who regularly references the works of Steven Spielberg, further teases how "certain sequences are particularly Spielbergian in their inspiration" in the episodes he directs. "Every episode [in season 5] is ambitious storytelling, but there are some sequences in episode 6, for instance, where for something to feel event-y, it needs to be more than just big and complicated. It needs to be an ambitious set piece that is also rooted in key themes or key character growth moments."

Mike (Finn Wolfhard) walks the gang through the plan of attack in 'Stranger Things 5'.

It applies to the budgets, as well. Season 5's episodes don't just look expensive, "they are!" Levy exclaims. He came to *Stranger Things 5* after directing *Deadpool & Wolverine*, and he's now busy shooting *Star Wars: Starfighter* with Ryan Gosling. By comparison, "These episodes might as well be called movies," he says.

He describes one sequence in episode 6 he wishes he could spoil.

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"I remember when I read a first season outline from the brothers and I said at that time, 'Oh my God, whatever poor son of a b---- has to do this sequence, dead meat. I wouldn't even begin to know how to figure out how to do that,'" the filmmaker recalls. "I begged them to actually change the idea. Couldn't it be something that's a little more doable? And they're like, 'No, it'll be awesome.' And then cut to, my calendar has me doing that episode and that sequence. I was the poor son of a b---- who had to figure out how to pull it off."

Wolfhard's advice is to savor it all. "I know that's stupid because I think a lot of people are gonna binge it. That's what streaming is and that's why it can be great," he says. "But also because it's the last season, my advice, if you can, try to make it last as long as you can."

It helps when there are two more episode drops through the new year.

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- John Travolta has returned to his *Grease* roots for a new holiday commercial.

- The actor channeled Danny Zuko as he performed "Greased Lightnin" as Santa Claus.

- Travolta's *Grease*-inspired performance as Santa came in a 2025 Capital One ad that debuted during the 2025 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

John Travolta has electrified the holiday season by returning to his *Grease* roots in a new holiday commercial.

The actor channeled his beloved character, Danny Zuko, from the 1978 movie musical, as he once again performed one of the film's signature hits, "Greased Lightnin," while dressed like Santa Claus as part of Capital One's Christmas ad campaign.

Debuting Thursday during the 2025 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade telecast on NBC, the new commercial sees Travolta as Santa readying his elves for another Christmas delivery, before breaking into song as they prepare to head out into the snow.

"Ho ho ho," Travolta, 71, says in the clip, while walking past an automobile-inspired sleigh.

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He continues, breaking into song as he observes, "Why, this sleigh could be frost-o-matic. Tinsel-matic!" moments before exclaiming, "It's Greased Lightnin'!"

Travolta then launches into a performance of the song, which first debuted in 1971 as part of the stage version of *Grease*, before Travolta's movie recording shot up the charts amid the movie's success in 1978.

Travolta and his backup dancers dance throughout the rest of the clip while they get the sleigh ready for Christmas.

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The star slides under, around, and even on top of the vehicle — all ahead of launching the souped-up sleigh from Santa's garage and into the sky, with help from reindeer leading the way.

After he played the part in the past, the banking company teased Travolta's return as Santa earlier this week on Instagram, with a short clip showing him working under the sleigh with text asking, "Guess who's coming to sleigh the holidays?"

Fans appeared to celebrate Travolta's return as the Christmas figure, with one commenting, "John Travolta always has been and always will be the greatest [Santa Claus] ever. He still has the best moves."

Another added, "You make Santa even more special, and your presence makes the world better. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas, John!"

Travolta's performance of "Greased Lightnin" in the ad isn't the actor's first *Grease*-centric moment of the year. In June, the actor surprised fans at a Hollywood Bowl sing-along screening of the movie.

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"L.A.?" he asked, quoting one of the movie's iconic lines as he made his way to the stage for the unexpected moment. "I thought you were going back to Australia!"**

Watch Travolta channel *Grease* in the new holiday commercial above.

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Like Eddie Murphy before him, Pete Davidson joined the cast of *Saturday Night Live* before he was even old enough to legally drink, but his attachment to the comedy icon started long before.**

In the Netflix documentary *Being Eddie, *the *Bupkis* star explained how Murphy helped get him through one of the darkest times of his life when he was just 8, shortly after his dad, a New York City firefighter, was killed as a first responder to the Sept. 11 attacks. **

"My mom took me to the store in the mall that had DVDs and CDs, and *Eddie Murphy Delirious *was there, and I was like, 'What's this? He looks really cool, and this could be fun," Davidson recalled of seeing Murphy clad in his iconic red leather suit on the cover of the box for his 1983 stand-up comedy special. **

Davidson said he was already "a huge Eddie Murphy fan" from more age-appropriate movies like *Shrek *and* Dr. Doolittle*, but what he discovered when he started playing his newly-purchased DVD in the back of his family's Suburban on the way home wasn't what he was used to. **

Eddie Murphy in 1983's 'Eddie Murphy Delirious'.

"Immediately, you know, 'F--- this, suck this, f--- you,' and my mom's like, 'Whoa, what, what'd you get?" he remembered. "I was dying laughing, and she was like, 'You can't watch this or any of that.'"**

But Davidson pleaded with his mother until she finally relented. **

"I was like, 'Please!' I'm laughing, and I think she saw I was enjoying myself and at a time where I really wasn't," he explained. "And she was like, you could watch this stuff as long as you don't repeat it or tell anybody, and it was a kind of a little pact we made, and that opened me to everything.**

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A decade later, Davidson would follow in Murphy's footsteps by making a name for himself at *SNL, *where he joined the cast at 20 years old, just a year older than his comedy hero had been as a new cast member in 1980. And as luck would have it, Davidson was working there in 2019 when Murphy returned to the sketch comedy show after a 35-year absence.

The next year, the *King of Staten Island *actor paid tribute to Murphy in his own stand-up comedy special, *Pete Davidson: Alive From New York*, which kicked off with Murphy's "Party All the Time" as the intro song.

Things recently came full circle for Davidson when he got to star with Murphy in this year's heist comedy *The Pickup, *and the pair quickly bonded over losing their dads as children (Murphy's father was murdered in a crime of passion in 1969).

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******"We got along real fast, and we both have a lot in common," Davidson previously told *.* "We were always the young guy amongst a bunch of older dudes. We got along really, really, really well."

The *Norbit *star shared Davidson's enthusiasm. "We hit it off famously, and it was really great working with him," Murphy told EW. "I'd love to work with him again."

*Being Eddie *is on Netflix now.

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It's hard to imagine *Wicked: For Good* without, well, "For Good." So, why did director Jon M. Chu ask his team to edit a version of the film without its songs?

"We wanted to make sure every song fit and were the right length — especially of the new ones," the filmmaker tells **, referencing the addition of "No Place Like Home" and "Girl in the Bubble" as new ballads composer Stephen Schwartz crafted for Cynthia Erivo's Elphaba and Ariana Grande's Glinda, respectively.

"So yeah, we did versions where we took the songs out — just to double check, to make sure, 'Can this story work without the song?'" Chu said. "And we realized, no, you actually need it for this movie."

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Chu admits he, at times, is "not a lyric person."

"I can't actually keep up with lyrics sometimes, and I need cinema to help me understand," he explains. "The lyrics are so deep and so good that sometimes I just need a little bit of visual help to get us there."

The director points to "No Good Deed" as one of those moments.

He feels that the song — which comes after Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey) has been captured and beaten, and Elphaba reckons with how her actions impact those around her — could come across as "a one-note declaration," so he was eager to give the character a true examination of her past.

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"When you go back and see Shiz again, it brings you back to her whole journey," he says of the flashback moments during the scene. "When you see Marissa [Bode] that way again, *Oh my God, Nessarose was so innocent*. And there was this moment where [Fiyero] looked back, and Elphaba looking at him, and then that creates this, *Did I miss my opportunity? How did this all go to s---?*"**

Millions of fans are likely grateful they're not asking the same after watching a *Wicked: For Good* without its songs.

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- Hayden Panettiere tells EW that she still carries around lessons Wes Craven taught her on the *Scream 4 *set.

- Panettiere recalls "memories of the timing of things" — how Craven would slow the action down to "a snail's pace," but "after he put it together and edited everything, he was so right."

- She also says that the late horror auteur "set an amazing example for how I would like to be as a director, as anybody on set."**

Hayden Panettiere takes a little piece of her *Scream 4 *director, Wes Craven, with her everywhere she goes.

"I love the fact that I got to work with Wes Craven. He is amazing," Panettiere tells ** in an interview conducted in September. "I'm so sad that he left us far before his time. But he had an incredible impact on my life and on me as an actor, which I now utilize when I go into other projects."

Panettiere made her entrée into Craven's cinematic meta-slasher universe in 2011, over a decade after the release of the last entry in the franchise that the horror maven kicked off in 1996. She would return in the flesh for 2023's *Scream 6*, after providing a voice cameo to the previous year's fifth franchise entry, simply titled *Scream*. Craven died in 2015, but Panettiere says his memory endures in everything she does, thanks to the impact of some sage advice.

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When asked about the biggest pearl of wisdom Craven passed along, Panettiere recalls "memories of the timing of things. So, when you're sitting, he would be like, 'This is going to feel very slow. It's gonna feel like you're moving in slow motion, but when you put the music in and you edit it together, you have to build up that anticipation and you have to hit it right on the nail on the head. You can't be a moment over. You gotta be right on the nose.'"

The director behind not only the *Scream *films but the *Nightmare on Elm Street *franchise would tell Panettiere to "'Move slow, or move slower,' and I would be like, 'Geez, this feels like I'm moving at the pace of a snail.' But watching it afterwards," she remembers, "after he put it together and edited everything, he was so right."

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Panettiere speaks of Craven with the highest esteem. "He was so spectacular. I mean, he taught me also how to be on set. I would love to direct at some point in my life, and he was such a fabulous — his spirit, the person that he was, how kind he was. He really was an amazing example. He set an amazing example for how I would like to be as a director, as anybody on set, but as a director if I hopefully direct in the future," she says, adding with a mischievous smirk, "You don't have to be an ass!"****

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Panettiere's career began in childhood; her first role, in the 1998 Jennifer Aniston-led romantic comedy *The Object of My Affection*, came when she was just 9 years old. Despite being only 36, she has nearly three decades of acting experience to her name, and in that time, has landed numerous memorable parts, from the indestructible cheerleader Claire Bennet on *Heroes*, to the rebellious country star Juliette Barnes on *Nashville*.

Still, *Scream*'s tough and snarky Kirby Reed holds a special place in her heart.

"I love that character. She is so powerful, and she is such a tomboy," she says. "I felt like I got to take the parts of me that people didn't know existed and put them into her. Like, I am that edgy tomboy who sticks to her guns."

To Panettiere, "you can't really define" Kirby, who plays a major role in saving the day in *Scream 6*. "You can't put your finger on on her. She loves guys, she loves girls, she loves the world that she lives in. She is sassy. And I got to bring all of those parts of me that I felt like I had to hide for years, I think, out in her, because I was so terrified that I was going to offend somebody."**

Erik Knudsen, Rory Culkin, Marielle Jaffe, and Hayden Panettiere in 'Scream 4'.

*Scream 7 *is just around the corner, though Panettiere's participation hasn't yet been confirmed.

Last month gave fans their first look at franchise star Neve Campbell's return to the series after she sat *Scream 6 *out amid a contractural dispute. In the official synopsis released by studio Paramount Pictures, the latest entry sees "a new Ghostface killer emerges in the quiet town where Sidney Prescott has built a new life. Her darkest fears are realized as her daughter becomes the next target. Determined to protect her family, Sidney must face the horrors of her past to put an end to the bloodshed once and for all."

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