HBO Max(NEW JERSEY) — The premiere of The Many Saints of Newark, an upcoming film that serves as a prequel to HBO’s long-running series The Sopranos, has once again been delayed, according to Variety.
The film, which will simultaneously debut on HBO Max, was originally scheduled to open in September of 2020, and later rescheduled for March, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has been delayed until September 24. Sources tell the trade that the latest change was made in hopes it’ll premiere on the festival circuit and better position itself as an awards contender.
The Many Saints of Newark, set amid the clash between the African-Americans and Italians of Newark, New Jersey, which touched off the 1960s Newark riots, stars Leslie Odom Jr., Jon Bernthal, Vera Farmiga, Ray Liotta, and Michael Gandolfini, the latter of whom is reprising the Tony Soprano role originated by his late father, James Gandolfini.
ABC(LOS ANGELES) — (NOTE LANGUAGE) It’s been almost three years since Gwyneth Paltrow announced she would be taking a break from acting and now she’s revealing what it would take to get her back on a set.
“I would have to be f****** a writer,” she joked while speaking with supermodel Naomi Campbell on her YouTube show No Filter with Naomi.
“But that’s sort of it. If my husband writes something and wants me to do it, I’ll do it,” said Paltrow, who is currently married to Glee co-creator Brad Falchuk. “But right now… I can never say never.”
The 48-year-old Oscar-Award winning actress added that she wouldn’t mind getting back on the theatre stage some day.
“I really loved doing theatre,” she shared. “It’s really the actor’s medium, right? You’re on stage, you’re in control of your performance.”
In June 2017, Paltrow, who is the founder and CEO of the lifestyle brand Goop, explained that her business played a role in her decision to take a step back from acting.
“I’m still going to do a little bit here and there, but this really requires almost all of my time,” Paltrow admitted during an appearance on the Today show. “I’m in the office all day, every day. I have a pretty big team — we’re almost 85 people — so I kind of need to be at work.”
L-R: Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn in 2015 — Denise Truscello/WireImage(LAS VEGAS) — Siegfried Fischbacher, the surviving member of famed entertainment duo Siegfried and Roy, has died in Las Vegas from pancreatic cancer, a rep for the legendary illusionist confirmed to ABC News. Fischbacher was 81.
His sister, a nun who lives in Munich, told the German news agency dpa that she was able to talk to him on the phone before he died and they prayed together.
“I could pray with him and tell him that I will always be with him in my heart,” she said.
The legendary performers changed the face of the Las Vegas Strip with their impressive illusions and white tiger-taming acts in a career that spanned 50 years.
Fischbacher was born in Rosenheim, Germany, on June 13, 1939, and met Horn in 1957. Siegfried and Roy began performing in Las Vegas in 1967. Before they opened an extravagant show at The Mirage Resort and Casino in Las Vegas in 1990, the German duo had built a successful brand as entertainers around the world, performing everywhere from cruise ships to casinos.
After thousands of performances together, Fischbacher and Horn’s show at The Mirage came to an unexpected close in 2003 following an onstage incident involving Horn and his white Bengal tiger, Mantecore, which seriously injured Horn.
The duo stepped back onstage for one final performance on March 1, 2009, when they held a benefit show for the Cleveland Clinic’s Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas. They said it raised $14 million.
The duo sat down with 20/20 in 2019 for “Siegfried & Roy: Behind the Magic,” a two-hour special on their storied career. In May, the duo shared the following message of love and support for those affected by COVID-19:
“Everyone in the United States and around the world impacted by this health crisis remain in our prayers. We know the real magic in all of us caring, cheering, loving and thanking one another will return everyone to good health and happiness. We can’t wait until it is possible for all of us to hug each other safely again. Love to all, Siegfried & Roy.”
Funeral services will be private with plans for a public memorial in the future, according to a statement from Fishbacher’s rep.
ABC/Lorenzo Bevilaqua(LOS ANGELES) — (NOTE LANGUAGE, NATURE) Armie Hammer has broken his silence about the alleged DMs that depicted bizarre and disturbing messages from him. Due to the controversy, the Golden Globe-nominee has dropped out of a movie where he was set to star alongside Jennifer Lopez.
In a statement toEntertainment Tonight, Hammer called the allegations “bulls*** claims” and added, “but in light of the vicious and spurious online attacks against me, I cannot in good conscience now leave my children for four months to shoot a film in the Dominican Republic.”
“Lionsgate is supporting me in this and I’m grateful to them for that,” the Call Me By Your Name star concluded.
A spokesperson for the upcoming film confirmed Hammer’s role will be recast and added, “Given the imminent start date of Shotgun Wedding, Armie has requested to step away from the film and we support him in his decision.”
The alleged DMs from Hammer went viral over the weekend, where an Instagram user claimed that the 34-year-old actor messaged her about his sordid fantasies, which included his desire to drink her blood. Those allegations have not been confirmed.
However, skeptics brought up Hammer’s 2013 interview with Playboy, where he identified himself as a “dominant lover” and enjoyed “grabbing women by the neck and hair” in the heat of the moment.
In the same interview, the Lone Ranger star spoke of Elizabeth Chambers, whom he was married to at the time, and revealed that marriage changed his tastes for the better.
“It gets to a point where you say, ‘I respect you too much to do these things that I kind of want to do,'” he had said.
After that interview was printed, Hammer jokingly told E! News, “Don’t drink during an interview” and remarked that “hindsight is 20/20.”
Greg Doherty/Getty Images for Brooke Lewis and Mark Bellas(NEW YORK) — Reality TV personality Jon Gosselin recently revealed a scary bout with COVID-19 that landed him in the hospital with a 104.8 fever and close to being put on a ventilator.
“I was in a wheelchair. I had to wait in the ER,” Gosselin tells Dr. Mehmet Oz in a sneak peak of Thursday’s The Dr. Oz Show posted on the syndicated program’s official Twitter page.
“[The ER] was packed…and then they put me on a gurney and put me in the hallway in the waiting room, so I could get a temporary room, and then once they evaluated me and once they drew my blood and did all my blood work, all of a sudden I’m getting antibiotics, steroids and a plasma antibody transfusion for COVID,” he recalls. “It happened really fast.”
Adds the former Jon & Kate Plus 8 star, “And then they moved me…up to…a more permanent room, and then I just remember sleeping…It was just surreal.”
HBO Max(NEW JERSEY) — The premiere of The Many Saints of Newark, an upcoming film that serves as a prequel to HBO’s long-running series The Sopranos, has once again been delayed, according to Variety. 
