November 20, 2020 • No Comments • Entertainment News

JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Image(LOS ANGELES) — Lady Gaga has potentially nabbed her next movie role and it’s working alongside none other than Brad Pitt, Collider reports. 

If all pans out, the Chromatica singer will be joining the cast of Bullet Train — a Sony Pictures thriller based on Kotaro Isaka’s book Maria Beetle and directed by John Wick and Deadpool 2‘s David Leitch. The film follows a group of five assassins who board a bullet train in Tokyo and realize their missions share a common thread.

Whether Gaga would appear as one the assassins is unclear at the moment, but a source described her role as smaller supporting one. 

Regardless of what role the Oscar nominee takes on, she will be in great company. In addition to Pitt, Gaga would be working alongside an ensemble cast that also includes Michael Shannon, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Zazie Beetz, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, and Masi Oka.

Production for Bullet Train began in October and filming is currently underway. 

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November 20, 2020 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Jeopardy! Productions/Sony Pictures Television(LOS ANGELES) — Alex Trebek died earlier this month after his long battle with stage-4 pancreatic cancer, but not before delivering a heartfelt message to Jeopardy! viewers.

At the beginning of Thursday’s episode of the game show, which was pre-taped, Trebek shared a message in honor of Wold Pancreatic Cancer Day — a day dedicated to raising awareness and funds to battle the disease that ultimately took him.

During the short intro, the popular TV personality urged anyone who has experienced symptoms of the disease to seek out medical attention and get tested. 

“I want you to be safe. This is a terrible disease,” he said. 

Trebek, best-known for hosting Jeopardy! for over 30 years, died at the age of 80 after being diagnosed in March 2019. Despite his diagnosis, he continued working up until about 10 days before he passed. 

The episodes he recorded will run through Christmas Day.

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November 20, 2020 • No Comments • Entertainment News

ABC(LOS ANGELES) — Former president Barack Obama was Jimmy Kimmel’s guest on his ABC late night show Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday and discussed his new book, The Promised Land, as well as some ideas on how to handle removing President Donald Trump from office.

“Well, I think we can always send in the Navy Seals in there to take him out,” Obama joked, referring to his successful raid on Osama Bin Laden’s hideout in 2011.

Kimmel covered many topics during the 30-minute interview, including how many copies his book sold so far, compared to his wife Michelle Obama’s book, Becoming.

“It’s a tad more,” the former president joked, adding, “Michelle’s attitude is, boy, you go out and sell some books, that’s fine, because that will pay for some of my shoes.”

The two also discussed the passage of the Affordable Care Act, which Obama called “the best night of my presidency.”

“I knew this was a hard thing, we got it done, and I was absolutely convinced that once it took, that the American people over time would see the benefits of it,” he said. “And it survived a lot of efforts to get unwound.”

The interview ended with a touching moment when Jimmy surprised a fan named Joyce Taylor, who thought she was listening to clips of Obama reading his book, but ended up speaking face-to-face with the former president himself.

“Hey, Joyce, what’s going on?” Obama asked Taylor, who was so overcome with emotion she could barely speak.

“Okay,” she gasped.

A Promised Land is available now.

November 19, 2020 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Lucasfilm/ILMxLAB(LOS ANGELES) — For Star Wars fans, there are a lot of entertainment options this weekend: the LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special debuted on Disney+ earlier in the week, the VR adventure Star Wars: Tales from Galaxy’s Edge debuts today, and of course, a new episode of The Mandalorian drops on Friday.

As previously reported, the LEGO movie puts Rey in contact with a host of Star Wars characters from all across the movies’ timelines, in an adventure set around the Wookiee holiday Life Day.

Taking part in this movie was much more enjoyable than working on that infamous Star Wars Holiday Special back in 1978, says Anthony Daniels, the droid with the golden gams, C-3PO.

Star Wars creator George Lucas had nothing to do with the special he famously disowned — which may explain why Bea Arthur sings a torch song in that galaxy far, far away. 

“Filming it on the set in L.A. was a dismal, dismal experience,” Daniels during a virtual press conference this week. “And bear in mind this is meant to be the happiest day in the life of a…Wookiee…And…there’s, Mark [Hamill], and Carrie [Fisher], and Harrison [Ford] and me, in this very dark [set]. It was like a funeral!”

“And then you watched it, and you thought, ‘I didn’t think it was a dreadful as that!’ And it was.” 

Daniels can also be heard as Threepio in Star Wars: Tales from Galaxy’s Edge, a brand-new interactive VR adventure set on Batuu, the planet on which the Disney “Galaxy’s Edge” attraction is set. 

Friday’s 12th chapter of The Mandalorian, “The Seige,” was directed by co-star Carl Weathers. In it, his Greef Karga re-teams with Mando and Gina Carano’s Cara Dune for “a new mission.”

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November 19, 2020 • No Comments • Entertainment News

ABC(LOS ANGELES) — At 64 and 74 years old, respectively, Mel Gibson and Danny Glover are evidently not “too old for this…” er, stuff.

The pair are “absolutely” reuniting with director Richard Donner, who’s 90, for a fifth Lethal Weapon movie, Gibson told Good Morning America‘s Michael Strahan.

Gibson was promoting his role as a disgruntled Santa in the new revenge movie Fatman when Strahan asked about the movie series and the 1987 original, which many fans consider a go-to Christmas movie, because of the holiday season in which it’s set.

So will Riggs and Murtaugh ride again? 

“[A]bsolutely,” Gibson replied. “And the man behind all that, the man who brought it to the screen, and gave it the goodies is working on it right now,” Gibson said of Donner, adding, “He’s a legend.”

The last time the gang was all together — including Rene Russo and Joe Pesci — was 1998’s Lethal Weapon 4. No word on if the latter pair will also be a part of the fifth film.

Fatman, which also stars Walton Goggins and Marianne Jean-Baptiste, is now playing, and comes to Video On Demand platforms November 24.

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