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Netflix to Release Third Installment of Jacob Elordi’s “The Kissing Booth” Next Year

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There’s more Kissing in Jacob Elordi’s future…

Netflix will release a third installment of the 23-year-old Spanish-Australian actor and Joey King’s teen rom-com The Kissing Booth.

Jacob Elordi

Vince Marcello, who adapted and directed the first two films from the novels Beth Reekles originally self-published through Wattpad, has already finished shooting the third film, and he’s already in post-production on it.

King, an executive producer on the films, revealed the news during a livestream fan event. 

The film was quietly shot in tandem withThe Kissing Booth 2 in South Africa, and it’ll be released in 2021. 

The third installment will pick up where the second one ended. 

The second film’s plot: It’s the summer before Elle heads to college, and she has a secret decision to make. She has been accepted into Harvard, where boyfriend Noah is matriculating, and also Berkeley, where her BFF Lee (Noah’s brother) is headed. Which path should she choose?

The first installment became the most re-watched Netflix film of 2018. Besides King, Elordi and Courtney, also back will be original cast members Taylor Zakhar Perez, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Meganne Young and Molly Ringwald. 

Marcello wrote the script with Jay Arnold. 

Elordi’s previous credits include Deep Water, Bad Dream and 2 Hearts.

Netflix Releases Trailer for Jacob Elordi’s “The Kissing Booth 2”

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Jacob Elordi’s back in the Booth…

Netflix has released the official trailer for The Kissing Booth 2 starring the 23-year-old Australian actor of Spanish descent and Joey King.

Jacob Elordi

Elordi and King reprise their roles from the first film as the couple’s relationship is challenged by distance.

The trailer for the Netflix sequel, which dropped Monday, picks up exactly where the first movie left off. After deciding to date her best friend Lee’s older brother Noah (Elordi), Elle (King) spends the summer with Noah until Harvard‘s fall semester brings their days together to a halt. With her boyfriend now on the East Coast, Elle must face senior year and college decisions without him. 

As luck would have it, high school sports star Marco (Taylor Zakhar Perez) and Harvard student Chloe (Maisie Richardson-Sellers) join the equation, complicating the couple’s dynamic. 

“So many beautiful girls at Harvard, experienced girls,” the popular girls tell Elle, who eventually finds pictures of Noah with Chloe. “With different zip codes, breakups are basically automatic.”

Boys aside, Elle has more decisions to make as her time in high school comes to an end. 

“Lee and I have dreamed of going to Berkeley, ever since we found out that’s where our moms became besties,” she says.

Despite Lee (Joel Courtney) and Elle’s plan to go attend the same college, Noah suggests his girlfriend join him at Harvard, inciting tension between the two childhood friends once again. 

The trailer features Lee and Elle recruiting Marco for their kissing booth, flashy images from a school talent show, Elle sharing a tender moment at the beach with the school jock and Noah and Marco meeting face to face.

“As soon as I start to figure out one thing, something or someone changes and makes me question everything,” Elle says.

The film, directed by Vince Marcello, starts streaming on Netflix on July 24. 

Gonzalez Named to Washington’s State Supreme Court

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Judge Steven Gonzalez has been appointed to Washington state’s highest court.

Governor Chris Gregoire appointed the King County Superior Court judge this week to serve on the State Supreme Court, becoming only the second Latino justice to serve on Washington state’s high court.

Judge Steven Gonzalez with Governor Chris Gregoire

The half-Mexican Gonzalez will replace Justice Gerry Alexander, who will retire at the end of the year due to mandatory retirement laws.

“He is a legal scholar with deep experience in court, both on the bench as a Superior Court judge and as an Assistant U. S. Attorney and Assistant City Attorney prosecuting cases of international terrorism, child prostitution and hate crimes,” said Gregoire during the announcement. “His experience with profoundly important issues, close study of the law and perspective as a trial court judge will make Judge Gonzalez an excellent Supreme Court Justice.”

Charles Z. Smith—an African-American of Cuban descent—was the state’s first ethnic minority on the court. He was appointed in 1988 and served until 2002 when he reached the state’s mandatory retirement age of 75.

Gonzalez’s appointment to the state’s highest court was lauded by leaders in the Latino community.

“It gives our community a lot of hope,” Estela Ortega, executive director of Seattle Latino group El Centro De La Raza told The Seattle Times. “Our young kids who are coming up who can see a role model like Steve Gonzalez.”

“I don’t think that anyone can deny that Judge Gonzalez brings a unique background, a unique perspective to our Washington state Supreme Court,” said Governor Gregoire.

Gonzalez was appointed to the King County Superior Court in March 2002 and was elected by voters later that same year. He was re-elected in 2004 and 2008.

Prior to his time on the court, he served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the state’s western district and a trial attorney in the domestic violence unit for the City of Seattle.

Gonzalez received his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley‘s law school.

His term on the court begins in January, and he’ll have to run for election in November.