Clay Enos(LOS ANGHELES) — Merry Christmas to all! Wonder Woman 1984 finally has a release date.
After multiple delays, it’s been announced that the highly anticipated film, starring Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, and Kristin Wiig, will debut on Christmas Day, December 25. And, as an added bonus, fans have two ways to watch.
Wonder Woman 1984 will premiere both in theaters and on HBO Max, at no additional cost to subscribers.
There is no release date for international theaters, but for countries where HBO Max is accessible, the movie will be available to stream beginning on December 16 for one month.
Gadot, who portrays the iconic superhero, shared the exciting news in a tweet on Wednesday.
“The time has come,” she wrote on Twitter. “At some point you have to choose to share any love and joy you have to give, over everything else. We love our movie as we love our fans, so we truly hope that our film brings a little bit of joy and reprieve to all of you this holiday season.”
“Watch it in theaters, where it is made safe to do so (check out the great work theaters have done to make it so!) And available in the safety of your home on HBO Max where it is not,” she added. “Happy holidays to all of you. We hope you enjoy our film as much as we enjoyed making it.”
Wonder Woman 1984 was originally scheduled for release on June 5 before it was postponed to August 14 and then October 2 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
ABC“Wine, Beer, Whiskey,” the latest hit from Little Big Town, continues a tradition the band started with smashes like “Pontoon” and “Day Drinking.”
“We’re a country band and we’ve done pretty well writing drinking songs,” Kimberly Schlapman says, “so we thought, ‘Let’s just do that again.'”
“Wine, Beer, Whiskey” came together on the road, as Kimberly, Karen Fairchild, Jimi Westbrook, and Phillip Sweet had just composed the Nightfall track “Problem Child” with writers Topher Brown and Sean McConnell. After that, they needed a change of pace.
“Phillip, who we call our cruise director,” Kimberly explains, “is like, ‘Whoo! Let’s take a break from that. Hey, anybody want something to drink? We’ve got wine, we’ve got beer, we’ve got whiskey.'”
“And then… Topher or Sean started playing something on the guitar,” Kimberly continues, “and somebody in the room sang, ‘The wine, the beer, the whiskey.’ And then we were all like, ‘Oh, we have to write that!'”
Once they started, it didn’t take long.
“Everybody sat back down,” Kimberly recalls. “Several of us had a wine, a beer or a whiskey, and in like twenty-five minutes, we had written that song, which is the fastest we’ve ever written a song.”
Kimberly goes on to reveal that “Wine, Beer Whiskey” is actually her three-year-old daughter Dolly‘s favorite song, adding that it’s “not serious. It’s just for fun.”
Her new children’s book, A Dolly for Christmas, tells the story of Dolly’s adoption, after her daughter Daisy desperately wanted a sibling, following Kimberly’s struggles with miscarriage and infertility.
You can also tune in to see Little Big Town on CMA Country Christmas, Monday, November 30 at 9 p.m. ET on ABC.
Courtesy of Rodolfo LopezBy ASHLEY SCHWARTZ-LAVARES, ERIELLE RESHEF, LAUREN PEARLE, and HALEY YAMADA, ABC News
(TEMPE, Az.) — New mothers often experience many sleepless, tired nights taking care of their newborns. But for Reyna Lopez, the past five months have been a brutal nightmare — she was diagnosed with COVID-19 just two months since giving birth.
“I had a fever. I had chills. I would get very dizzy and lightheaded when I would have any movement — sitting down, standing up, just turning my head. I was getting nauseous. My body was hurting,” said Reyna.
The 31-year-old tested positive for the coronavirus in June. She was admitted to a hospital in Tempe, Arizona, just a few months after giving birth to her son, Noah.
Lopez was released from the hospital at the end of October after spending months in the intensive care unit on a ventilator. Afterward, she had to go into isolation from Noah, her two elder daughters and her husband, Rodolfo.
“Our life got flipped upside-down,” Rodolfo Lopez said. “We have three kids. My 4-year-old kept asking, ‘Where’s mommy? Where’s mommy?’ “It’s just three months of that. It’s just this numbing pain.”
Like many of the 11 million Americans who’ve been infected by the virus, Reyna Lopez is part of a group of people who experience lasting symptoms even after the virus has left the body, known as “long-haulers.”
“I still am on oxygen,” she said. “I try not to be as much. That way I can get my lungs stronger. But my taste has completely changed. So there’s a lot of foods that I don’t eat anymore that [once] were my favorite.”
Despite her symptoms, Lopez said that she’s slowly turning the corner now that she is back with her family making up for time lost.
“My kids keep me going. My husband thinks I’m spoiling them, but I’m just making up for it,” said Lopez.
An estimated 10% of people diagnosed with COVID-19 go on to experience prolonged symptoms, according to the British Medical Journal. That translates into over a million Americans who could potentially experience debilitating symptoms long after they’ve recovered from the infection.
The alarming phenomenon has prompted a slew of post-COVID-19 care centers to open across the U.S. Dr. Zijian Chen, director of the Mount Sinai Center for Post-COVID Care in New York City, says long-hauler symptoms can affect a person physically and cognitively.
“You have patients with cognitive dysfunction, you have difficulty concentrating, having very bad fatigue, and also patients who are very [physically] deconditioned,” said Chen.
According to the Mount Sinai Health System, the majority of long-haulers they’ve treated are between 20 and 40 years old, they’re most often women and they have no known underlying health conditions.
Chen said the center was launched in May when the city was recovering from its apex of viral cases.
“Many of these patients admitted to the hospital, they knew [they needed] some sort of follow up… We wanted to make sure that when they went home that they had a good landing place and that we’re continuing their care,” said Chen.
She added that the demand for post-disease care is increasing across the country, and that that hospitals in other states have begun to open their own care centers.
Along with physical care, COVID-19 patients often are left wanting more information and a support network of others affected by the illness.
Diana Berrent, a New York mother of two and a COVID-19 survivor, founded Survivor Corps. The nationwide group of COVID-19 survivors crowdsources firsthand knowledge about life after the virus.
Berrent said she founded the group after her own personal experience with the virus.
“I went into isolation in one world and I came out to a very, very different world,” said Berrent. “You have a novel virus, and you have no information whatsoever… I started having gastro[intestinal] issues. I couldn’t find anything on the internet.”
The group’s Facebook page now has nearly 120,000 members who share their experiences, advice and support. Many of its members say they’re still fighting long-term symptoms and report feeling anxious or depressed.
“Sometimes you just need to talk to somebody who understands what you’re going through. And Survivor Corps offers that,” said Berrent. “As a collection, it is inspiring just people coming together in a moment of need to help each other and help each other through.”
The group has also helped researchers examine trends in the long-hauler virus population, including a recent survey by Indiana University’s School of Medicine, which found that fatigue is the most common of the top 50 symptoms reported by long-haulers.
Chen said that scientists are still trying to figure out the best way to care for these patients. He said that the number one way to prevent long-term effects is to protect yourself from getting the virus in the first place.
“Listen to your doctors and your health officials,” he said. “Wear a mask and social distance, because the best way to prevent yourself from getting long-term symptoms is actually to prevent yourself from getting COVID in the first place.”
L-R: Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda in “Hamilton”/Disney+(LOS ANGELES) — Since Broadway has been shut down for months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tina Fey and NBC are bringing the Great White Way directly to your home — with some big-name musicians participating as well.
Since Broadway has been shut down for months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tina Fey will host One Night Only: The Best of Broadway, airing December 10 on NBC. The two-hour special will feature performances from the casts of top Broadway musicals as they “take over the streets of New York City,” according to NBC. In addition, Kelly Clarkson will perform, as will country star partner Brett Eldredge, her duet partner on her new holiday song, “Under the Mistletoe.” The legendary Patti LaBelle will sing as well.
Meanwhile, Josh Groban, who’s starred on Broadway in the past, will make an appearance, as will Hamilton‘s Leslie Odom Jr., Billy Porter, John Stamos, Kristen Bell, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sean Hayes, Nathan Lane, Lance Bass, Vanessa Williams, as well as the cast of Harry Potter & the Cursed Child, and Alanis Morissette, whose album Jagged Little Pill inspired the hit Broadway musical of the same name.
Also performing are the casts of the Broadway musicals Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations, Chicago, Jagged Little Pill, Diana: The Musical, plus Jersey Boys, Mean Girls and Rent. There will also be a sneak peek of shows opening in 2021.
Your donations during this special will help the thousands people in the Broadway community that have been put out of work due to the pandemic. You can go to BroadwayCares.org/help2020 to donate.
ABCLuke Combs continues his winning streak atop theBillboardTop Country Albums chart.
This week, the singer spends his 34th week at number one with his sophomore album, What You See Is What You Get, making him the first artist since the chart debuted in 1964 to have two albums sit in the top spot for at least 34 weeks.
The “Beer Never Broke My Heart” hitmaker has now surpassed Garth Brooks, who previously held the record when his 1990 album, No Fences, spent 41 weeks at number one, while follow-up Ropin’ the Wind sat at the top of the chart for 33 weeks in 1991.
Additionally, Luke’s debut album, This One’s for You, spent 50 weeks at number one, tying with Shania Twain‘s record for her hit 1997 album, Come On Over.
Luke has the deluxe edition of his sophomore album, What You See Ain’t Always What You Get, to thank for the boost. The new project boasts pop hit “Forever After All,” which soared to number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 during its debut week.
His current single “Better Together” is also climbing the country charts.
Clay Enos(LOS ANGHELES) — Merry Christmas to all! Wonder Woman 1984 finally has a release date.
