January 22, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

NBCUniversal(NEW YORK) — Yes, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is well aware of that viral photo of himself bundled up during Joe Biden’s inauguration. At least, he is now.

Nearly immediately after the picture went public — with a grumpy looking Sanders, arms folded, legs crossed, his hands stuffed into comically giant crocheted mittens — it was being Photoshopped into everything from kids soccer games, to Baby Yoda’s floating pram in The Mandalorian. Not that the former presidential candidate was aware of it initially.

“Not at all,” the 79-year-old Democrat declared on Thursday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, when asked if he knew his picture basically broke the Internet.  Sen. Sanders insisted of his meme-ready outfit, “I was just sitting there trying to keep warm.”

Sanders also explained that the now sought-after mittens were a gift “from a woman who lives in Essex Junction, Vermont, she is a school teacher and a very very nice person. And she’s been somewhat overwhelmed by the kind of attention that is being shown to her mittens,” Sanders said.

In fact, she’s apparently been inundated with orders for those looking to steal Bernie’s look, but she apparently refused, saying, “I’m not going to quit my day job, and I’m a mom.”

By Stephen Iervolino
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January 22, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

HBO/Helen Sloane(LOS ANGELES) — Another Game of Thrones prequel, Tales of Dunk and Egg, is in early development at HBO, according to Variety.

The potential show, would be based on George R. R. Martin’s series of fantasy novellas, which follow the adventures of Duncan the Tall — a.k.a. Dunk, and a young Aegon V Targaryen — a.k.a. Egg, 90 years prior to the events of A Song of Ice and Fire.

While Variety reports the project is a high priority for the cabler, neither a writer nor talent are attached as of yet.

That’s not all though.

Entertainment Weekly reports HBO has also been meeting with several top writers — Rome creator Bruno Heller among them — pitching other ideas based on Martin’s works. They include a prequel series based on Robert’s Rebellion — the war for the Iron Throne that upended Westeros a couple of decades before the events in Thrones.

HBO had previously given a series order to another GoT prequel project, House of the Dragon. This one is set 300 years before the events in GoT and explores the beginning of the end for House Targaryen.

For book fans, the series, from Martin and original GoT producer Ryan Condal, is reportedly largely based off of Martin’s Fire & Blood novel, which came out in 2018.

By George Costantino
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January 22, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Nicola Dove © 2020 DANJAQ, LLC AND MGM. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.(LOS ANGELES) — James Bond, the Marvel Comics vampire anti-hero Morbius, and the Ghostbusters have faced many enemies, but they can’t best COVID-19. 

No Time to Die, Daniel Craig’s last mission as 007, was originally supposed to come out last April. It was first pushed to November in an attempt to outrun the virus, before being bumped to this April 2. It will now be pushed to October 8 of this year, MGM notes. 

The date change, and continued pandemic uncertainty have caused a release date logjam for the studio, Variety reports. 

October 8 was slated for 007 co-producer Sony Pictures to debut its Morbius, starring Oscar winner and 30 Seconds to Mars front man Jared Leto, but it will now open January 21, 2022. The superhero film was supposed to come out March 19, after being bumped from July of 2020.

Sony Pictures’ Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway was supposed to come out April 2, but it’s been bumped to June 11 — the already-rescheduled release date for Ghostbusters: Afterlife. That film, another 2020 release date refugee, will reportedly now open November 11.

The studio’s Cinderella, with singer Camilla Cabello, has also been bumped again, from February 5 to July 16. That, in turn, ran into the release window for Uncharted, the video game adaptation starring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg — that action adventure will now come out February 11, 2022. 

By Stephen Iervolino
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January 22, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Apple TV+(NEW YORK) — As it does every Friday, Apple TV+ has dropped the latest episode of the Peabody Award-winning show Dickinson.

Hailee Steinfeld produces and stars as the acclaimed poet, in a series that uses modern music and sensibilities to deliberately tweak what you may have thought you have known about her life.

“What a great change for Emily Dickinson to be introduced to a younger audience this way versus the way I think we might have been taught about her in our early school years, where it almost seemed like medicine to learn about her poetry,” co-star Jane Krakowski laughs to ABC Audio.

The Tony winning and Emmy nominated actress plays Emily’s homemaker mom. She says Dickinson “was [always] depicted to people in such a sort of spinstery solemn way,” and the series, “really shakes that image away, and gives her a whole other persona, which I think the Dickinson scholars believe was more like what she was like.”

She adds with a laugh of the real-life poet, “she was much more of a fun person to be around and not as spinstery as we thought.”

Krakowski played a spoiled actress in 30 Rock, and a socialite former trophy wife in The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, so to see her character in Dickinson declare to her husband, “I belong in the kitchen!” is quite the change.

“Totally,” the actress agrees, “which was one of the reasons I really wanted to be a part of it…because I felt it was very different than…other parts that I had played.”

She adds of the series, “It lives sort of in a hybrid…some of it is very comedic and then some of it isn’t. And so that’s really fun for me to get to have that mix in there.” 

By Stephen Iervolino
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January 22, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Michael Kovac/Getty Images for WCRF(LOS ANGELES) — After over a year-long hiatus, Olivia Jade Giannulli has returned to YouTube. 

The 21-year-old beauty influencer returned to the platform on Thursday to share a vlog chronicling a day in her life. Before jumping into that though, she addressed her recent appearance on Facebook Watch’s Red Table Talk where she apologized for her family’s involvement in the college admissions scandal. 

Jade’s parents, Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli, were both sentenced to prison last year after pleading guilty to the charges related to the scandal. Loughlin, 56, served two months and was released in December and Mossimo, 57, is currently serving his five-month sentence. 

“I am really excited because obviously I haven’t filmed in a really long time and I’m just grateful to be back on YouTube,” Olivia began. “I wanted to film this little intro part just because I didn’t want to just start the vlog and me not address anything.”  

After directing viewers who may have any questions regarding the college admissions scandal and why she returned to YouTube, Olivia clarified in an “editor’s note,” “I don’t mean to say that in a dismissive way or a pretentious way.”

“I think what I was trying to get across was I felt like the thing I wanted to do the most was apologize for so long and I felt like I got to do that at Red Table,” she explained.

Oliva added that she’s looking forward to putting the past behind her and moving forward. 

“…Although I can’t change the past, I can change how I act and what I do going forward,” she said. “I don’t want to keep rehashing things. I just want to move on and do better and move forward and come back and do what I love, which is YouTube.” 

By Danielle Long
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