Paramount Pictures(LOS ANGELES) — A Quiet Place Part II is the latest in a flurry of films seeing its release date postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Paramount Pictures has now confirmed.
The sequel to John Krasinski‘s blockbuster horror thriller A Quiet Place is now set to open September 17, 2021. It marks the fourth date for the film’s release, originally set to bow in the U.S. on March 20, 2020. It was bumped to September 4, and eventually April 23, 2021.
The Krasinski-directed sequel finds the Abbott family venturing into the unknown, where they realize the creatures that hunt by sound aren’t the only threats lurking beyond the sand path.
The first installment, starring Krasinski’s wife, Emily Blunt, earned over $340 million worldwide.
Netflix(TEXAS) — After failing to persuade former President Donald Trump to hand him a pardon, Tiger King star Joe Exotic is now turning to President Jo Biden for a chance at freedom.
The former Oklahoma zoo owner, currently serving a 22-year sentence in a Texas prison for a murder-for-hire plot against nemesis Carole Baskin, reportedly hopes his team can convince the new administration to come through with a pardon, according to emails obtained by TMZ.
Exotic is riding on Biden’s record on criminal justice and prison reform, as well as a TV special on VP Kamala Harris, which has led him to believe she can “help clean up the corruption in the DOJ and other agencies,” according to the emails.
Exotic also claims to have new evidence in his case that he hopes the Biden administration will consider.
Exotic, according to TMZ, believes he was “too gay” to ever receive a pardon from former President Trump in the first place. Biden, on the other hand, issued a sweeping executive order on his first day in office to protect LGBTQ+ people from being discriminated against.
As for his feelings about Trump, Exotic reportedly says his respect for the former president as a “straight-shooter and never backing down” changed after January 6, when he claims Trump hid out in the White House after his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Courtesy of Open Road(NEW YORK) — The Marksman grabbed upwards of $2 million to top the box office for a second week. The Liam Neeson-led thriller has collected $6.1 million in its first 10 days of release, in a theatrical landscape still hobbled by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Elsewhere, The Croods: A New Age earned an estimated $1.8 million in its ninth week of release to take second place; Wonder Woman 1984 took the third position with $1.6 million. Its global haul stands at $148 million.
The thriller video game adaptation Monster Hunter came in at number four with an estimated $820,000; and Tom Hanks’ News of the World rounded out the top five with an estimated $810,000.
Timothy Hiatt/Getty Images for Nickelodeon(LOS ANGELES) — Jojo Siwa has officially come out as a member of the LGBTQ+ community.
Over the weekend, the Nickelodeon star opened up in an IGTV, about how she’s happy to finally be living life as her true self. When it comes to Siwa’s sexual orientation and what label she identifies as, she admitted that she’s isn’t sure.
“The only reason I’m not saying what I am is because I don’t know,” she said in a later video. “I know that I’m really happy and that’s all the matters.”
In that same video, the 17-year-old YouTuber shared that since “coming out to the internet” she has become a victim of “swatting.”
“Basically, there’s this thing called swatting. We’re at our house, and all of a sudden, there was a whole bunch of police telling us to come outside the house,” she explained. “We went outside, hands up, because you have to obviously follow the rules, and then the police were saying that somebody had called and made a claim.”
“And then, all of a sudden, paparazzi came from around the corner,” Siwa continued. “It’s called ‘swatting,’ where the media will actually call the police, so that way you have to come outside your house.”
Swatting aside, Siwa maintained that she’s the “happiest” she’s ever been and even received support from her former Dance Moms co-star Abby Lee Miller.
Alongside a throwback photo of the two together, the 55-year-old reality star wrote, “I always knew the world would be a more colorful, positive, sparkly place with a kind, loving, dazzling triple threat like you in it – a shining example for the kids out there to live their BEST lives each and every day.”
JoJo Siwa speaks candidly about coming out in new Instagram Live:
Jordan Strauss/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Legendary talk show host Larry King, whose career took him from local to syndicated radio to global TV stardom, has died at age 87.
A statement from King’s production company, Ora Media, posted on King’s official Twitter announced his death “with profound sadness,” saying King “passed away this morning at age 87 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.” A spokesperson for King’s family also confirmed his death to ABC News.
On January 2, King was hospitalized for COVID-19 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, a source close to the King family told ABC News then.
King overcame several health challenges over the years, including a heart attack that led to bypass surgery and ultimately encouraged King to quit smoking. King also survived lung cancer and underwent surgery at Cedars-Sinai in 2017, and was treated for prostate cancer in 1999.
In 2019, King suffered a stroke that left him unable to walk on his left foot, and he was sometimes seen using a wheelchair afterward.” I never thought I’d be 86,” King told Page Six at the time. “My father died when he was 43, 44. I thought I would die too.” “I have no complaints. Everything that’s happened to me, I’m grateful for,” he added. “Maybe that sounds cliché, but I’m really, really grateful.”
The award-winning newsman, whose lengthy career earned him the nickname “The Iron Horse of Broadcasting,” was known for his gravelly baritone, signature suspenders and straightforward questions, a style honed over the course of tens of thousands of interviews on the radio and television.
Born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger, the Brooklyn native wanted to be on the radio from a young age. After graduating high school, he got his first radio job in Florida in the 1950s. He got his first break on-air in Miami, where he became known by the moniker Larry King, which he ultimately made his legal name.
In 1978, King began hosting the nationally-syndicated The Larry King Show on the Mutual Broadcasting System, which he hosted for 16 years before stepping down in 1994. During that time, he also made the move to TV, and hosted the CNN program Larry King Live from 1985 to 2010. Oprah Winfrey notably endorsed Barack Obama on the show during the 2008 presidential campaign.
In recent years, King hosted Larry King Now on Hulu, RT American and Ora TV, the latter a production company King co-founded with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim in 2012. King was also hosting the show Politicking with Larry King on the channels until his death.
King didn’t escape controversy over his decades-long career. Most recently, in 2019, he unknowingly filmed a Chinese propaganda infomercial in a fake interview with a Russian journalist, as reported by ProPublica. “I never should have done it, obviously,” King told the publication then.
King was recognized with two Peabody Awards and one Emmy Award, among other honors. He was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1989 and the Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 1992.
King has also authored several books, did voice work in TV shows and movies, including Shrek 2 and Bee Movie, and made cameos in TV shows and films, including Ghostbusters.
In 1988, a year after he survived a heart attack, the newsman founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation to help those with heart disease pay for their medical treatment.
A lifelong Dodgers fan, from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, King was often seen behind home plate at Dodgers Stadium.
King was married eight times to seven women and had five children. In August, 2020, he revealed that two of his children had died within weeks of each other. Andy, 65, died of a heart attack on July 28, 2020, and Chaia, 51, passed away on August 20 shortly after a lung cancer diagnosis.
King is survived by his sons, Larry, Chance and Cannon, as well as nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Paramount Pictures(LOS ANGELES) — A Quiet Place Part II is the latest in a flurry of films seeing its release date postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Paramount Pictures has now confirmed. 
