August 25, 2020 • No Comments • Entertainment News

ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) — Turns out Kevin Hart is yet another celeb who tested positive for COVID-19, early in the pandemic — but he’s only now shared the news.

Page Six reports the comedian and actor shared his diagnosis during a stand-up performance at Dave Chappelle’s An Intimate Socially Distanced Affair outdoor comedy show in Ohio over the weekend.

“The problem is that I had it around the same time as Tom Hanks, and I couldn’t say anything because he’s more famous than I am,” Kevin joked.

A source told Page Six that Chappelle spent $100,000 on rapid testing at his shows this summer for Hart and other performers.  At the moment, it is unknown exactly what symptoms Kevin experienced, if any at all.

But Kevin really got a laugh out of a screenshot of a Facebook post by NBC News. It featured a story about Olympian Usain Bolt, who recently tested COVID-19 positive — yet the featured picture was of Kevin. 

“No comment,” Kevin wrote on Instagram. “I must of gotten really fast & tall overnight. I am also no longer doing comedy due to my Olympic training schedule. P.S this is disrespectful on so many levels…All you can do is laugh. Maybe the COVID-19 shrunk his legs and torso.”

Kevin is also awaiting the arrival of his second child with his wife, Eniko. The couple announced their pregnancy earlier this year and recently celebrated with a Bobo-chic drive-thru baby shower. The couple welcomed their first child, Kenzo, in 2017.  Kevin also has two children from his first marriage.

By Rachel George
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August 25, 2020 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Disney+(LOS ANGELES) — For fans who can’t get enough of composer Ludwig Göransson’s haunting score for the Disney+ hit The Mandalorian, help is on the way in the form of a deluxe vinyl box set from Mondo. 

Each of the eight 180-gram LPs represents the music in each of the eight episodes of the first season of the Star Wars-inspired series, which was recently nominated for 15 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Music Composition for a Series. 

The $200 limited edition set also includes exclusive artwork from Paul Mann, with the LPs housed inside a slipcase adorned with the Mando’s instantly recognizable mudhorn signet — the skull of a giant rhino-like creature the bounty hunter tangled with in the show.

Pre-orders for the box set — limited to just 3,500 units worldwide — go live this Wednesday at 1 p.m. Eastern time; the box will ship sometime in November.

Göransson, who won a Grammy and an Oscar for his score for Black Panther, is also featured in a segment of the Disney+ Gallery special on the making of Jon Favreau’s groundbreaking series. He’s now working on the score to The Mandalorian‘s second season, which should debut in October on Disney+.

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By Stephen Iervolino
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August 25, 2020 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — Saturday Night Live cast member Kate McKinnon will play Tiger King nemesis Carole Baskin in a new series, which will air across related platforms NBC, USA Network and NBCUniversal’s streaming service Peacock.

The Hollywood Reporter notes the project will be an eight-episode limited drama series, for which a premiere date has not been set. 

As any fan of Netflix’s early quarantine hit Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness could tell you, Baskin was the arch enemy of the docudrama’s Joe Exotic, a competing big cat sanctuary owner. 

Baskin repeatedly tried to shut down Exotic’s operation, citing animal abuse, something he denied. He’s now serving 22 years in prison for allegedly plotting to murder Baskin.

In 2002, Baskin had her multi-millionaire husband declared dead after he disappeared without a trace. A big part of the documentary concerns the allegations that she killed him and fed him to the tigers at her animal sanctuary, an allegation she’s denied.

The McKinnon project will be based on the Wondery podcast Tiger King, which detailed the lives of Exotic, Baskin and the other colorful cast of characters in their orbits.

This series is separate from another in-development project starring Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage as Joe Exotic.

By Stephen Iervolino
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