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Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Saturday marks the 40th anniversary of the release of director Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi film classic, Alien. The film, about a blue-collar crew aboard a deep …
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NBC/Andrew Lipovsky(NEW YORK) — Harrison Ford remembered his former Star Wars series co-star, Peter Mayhew, on Thursday night’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Mayhew, who of course played Chewbacca, the Wookiee co-pilot to Ford’s …
Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney(NEW YORK) — Avengers: Endgame star Scarlett Johansson and her boyfriend of two years, Saturday Night Live cast member Colin Jost are engaged, a rep for the actress tells Entertainment Tonight.
Adds the rep, “No date has been set for the nuptials.”
This will the first trip down the aisle for the 36-year-old Jost, who co-anchors SNL‘s “Weekend Update” with Michael Che.
Johansson, 34, has has been married twice before, first to actor Ryan Reynolds from 2008-2011, then to French journalist Romain Dauriac between 2014-2017. Johansson and Dauriac share a five-year-old daughter, Rose.
Johansson will next be seen in Taika Waititi’s war dramedy Jojo Rabbit, opening nationwide October 18.
Saturday Night Live just wrapped its 44th season over the weekend.
Will Heath/NBC(NEW YORK) — Saturday Night Live ended its season last weekend on a musical note, with Alec Baldwin’s President Donald Trump and his crew delivering a parody of Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now.”
Baldwin introduced the musical number by announcing, “I’m very excited about summer, getting in those things that I never have time for — golf, visiting friends in prison, and enjoying all the fantastic new tariffs.”
“It’s been an incredible year for our economy, it’s on fire,” he continued. “I’m on cruise control for a second term and there’s nothing the Democrats in Congress can do about it.”
The faux president opens the song with “Tonight, I’m gonna have myself a real good time.”
He’s then joined by SNL regulars Cecily Strong as first lady Melania Trump, Beck Bennett as Vice President Mike Pence, and Aidy Bryant as White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, all of whom chime in with “Don’t stop him now.”
In a callback to Kanye West’s famous SNL meltdown that ended the season opener, cast member Chris Redd, wearing a red MAGA hat, stepped in as the rapper.
Trump’s sons, Don Jr. and Eric — played respectively by Mikey Day and Alex Moffat — completed the celebration, along with Kate McKinnon as Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
Robert De Niro’s Robert Mueller briefly steps in with a “very important” massage for the American people, only to be abruptly cut off by Baldwin’s Trump, who yells, “No collusion!”
In a nod to Sunday’s Game of Thrones finale, Baldwin closes the sketch with “Tune in next season to see who lives and who dies.”
Paul Rudd hosted the show’s season 44 finale, his fourth time as guest host, with musical guest DJ Khaled.
Courtesy of HBO(NEW YORK) — (SPOILERS AHEAD) So it’s come to this — the very last episode of Game of Thrones. The 73rd and final installment of HBO’s massive fantasy epic premiered Sunday night, with only 80 minutes to close every storyline, satisfy every character arc and try to win back the more than one million grumpy fans who signed a petition to remake the season with “competent writers.”
Here’s what went down on the series finale of Game of Thrones, “The Iron Throne.”
We open with Tyrion Lannister, Jon Snow and Ser Davos Seaworth walking through the remnants of King’s Landing — burned to a crisp following Daenerys Targaryen’s “Mad Queen” moment last week, when she ignored the bells of surrender and laid waste to the city and its people.
Jon finds Grey Worm about to execute survivors and unsuccessfully tries to stop him. Meanwhile, Tyrion stumbles upon the rubble that crushed his brother and sister: Jaime and Cersei Lannister, confirmed dead.
Jon goes to meet with Dany while Arya Stark, following her dramatic escape last episode, watches him from afar. Before he can talk to her, Daenerys gives a victory speech to her Dothraki and Unsullied soldiers, and names Grey Worm her Master of War. She also declares that she won’t stop until all people in the world have been liberated from tyranny — which, as we’ve seen, involves a whole lot of dragon fire.
Following her speech, Tyrion sidles up beside Dany, who tells him he’s committed treason for freeing Jaime when he was her prisoner. “I freed my brother,” Tyrion admits, “and you slaughtered a city.” He rips off his Hand of the Queen brooch and throws it to the ground, and Dany orders her soldiers to take him away.
After a brief encounter with Arya, who doesn’t have kind words for Daenerys, Jon finds Tyrion in his cell. Tyrion asks if Jon would’ve done the same thing Dany did. He says he doesn’t know, but Tyrion isn’t having it.
“I doesn’t matter what I’d do,” Jon declares. “It matters more than anything,” Tyrion insists.
After some back and forth about the meanings of love, reason and duty, Tyrion appeals to Jon’s sense of right and wrong. “You always try to do the right thing, no matter the cost,” Tyrion says. “Who is the greatest threat to the people now?”
Still, Jon says he won’t betray his Queen. Tyrion makes one last effort, pleading with him to imagine what his sisters Arya and Sansa would think. “Sansa doesn’t get to choose who’s queen!” Jon yells angrily. “No,” Tyrion replies. “But you do.”
We then cut to Dany, who’s about to take her seat on the Iron Throne for the first time, when Jon enters the throne room. He begs her to forgive Tyrion and her other enemies, but she says she can’t — and that she and Jon alone know what will make a good world, a better world.
“What about everyone else, all the other people who think they know what’s good?” Jon asks. “They don’t get to choose,” Dany replies. Hey, that sounds familiar!
Dany appears to convince Jon that they can “break the wheel” together. It seems that they’re back in love — until Jon’s knife pierces her flesh and he kills Daenerys Targaryen. The Mother of Dragons is dead.
As Jon weeps over Dany’s dead body, her last living dragon, Drogon roars above him, mourning the loss of his mother. Jon prepares for the blast of fire that will now kill him, but Drogon directs his fire not at Jon, but at the Iron Throne, melting it into slag.
Drogon then gently picks up Dany’s body in one massive, clawed foot, and flies away with her.
After a fade to black, we return to Tyrion in his cell. Grey Worm brings him out in shackles before an array of unfamiliar and familiar faces, including Sansa, Arya, Bran, Sam, Davos and Brienne. It’s revealed that Jon is now a prisoner of the Unsullied, too, and Grey Worm wants them both executed. After some bickering and negotiating that goes nowhere, Tyrion speaks up. “You’re the most powerful people is Westeros,” he says to the assembly, and suggests that they just pick a king or queen to rule
Edmure Tully, uncle of the Stark children, stands and starts to list his resume, but Sansa interrupts him: “Uncle, please sit,” she says firmly. Sam suggests democratic vote by the people, which earns a hearty laugh from everyone else.
They then ask Tyrion who he thinks should be ruler. He gives a long speech about the power of “good story” — and no one, in his estimation, has a better story than Bran the Broken, aka Bran Stark. After all, as the Three-Eyed Raven, he’s the “keeper of all our stories.”
Everyone’s surprised by Tyrion’s suggestion. Sansa says her brother probably doesn’t want the title, and, besides, he can’t father children. Tyrion sees this as a good thing. Rulers will no longer be born, Tyrion suggests, but chosen. When Tyrion asks Bran if he’ll accept the title, Bran replies, “Why do you think I came all this way?”
Everyone votes yes to install Bran as King, until we get to Sansa, who declares that the North will remain an independent kingdom. That’s fine with Bran, who nods in agreement. And thus, Brandon Stark is named King of Westeros. Chalk one up for the so-called cripples, bastards and broken things.
Bran then declares Tyrion Hand of the King, who says he’ll spend the rest of his days fixing the mistakes he’s made. Grey Worm, however, still demands justice — and here’s where Jon Snow comes back into the picture.
Jon Snow, it’s been decreed, will return to the Night’s Watch, which apparently still exists even after the Night King and the Army of the Dead have been defeated. So after eight seasons, Jon Snow is right back where he started.
Now clad once more in his signature giant hairy coat, Jon prepares to return to Castle Black. He walks beside Grey Worm, who tells his soldiers they’ll be sailing for Naath, the home of his late lover, Missandei.
Jon then meets with siblings Sansa, Arya and Bran to share a tearful goodbye. He offers Arya a chance to visit him, but she says she’s not returning North. She plans to travel west of Westeros, where “all the maps stop.”
Now we cut to Ser Brienne of Tarth, who’s flipping through a book of knights. She gets to Jaime’s page, and writes out his entire history. The passage ends, “Died protecting his queen.”
It’s now time for the first meeting of Bran’s new council, which includes Tyrion, Sam, Davos and even Bronn. Sam lays down a book titled A Song of Ice and Fire — which, of course, is the name of the George R. R. Martin book series on which Game of Thrones is based. Sam explains it tells the story of Westeros following the death of King Robert Baratheon. After Tyrion asks how he’s represented in the book, Sam sheepishly admits that he’s not mentioned.
Bran arrives in the room, his chair pushed by Brienne, and comments that his council is still missing a few members. He also asks about the whereabouts of Drogon and suggests his time is better spent looking for the dragon, presumably by using his warg powers. Podrick, now a knight, then takes him out of the room.
The council then proceeds to discuss different matters, such as feeding hungry people, finding clean water, and, at Bronn’s suggestion, rebuilding the brothels.
Meanwhile, Jon arrives back at the Wall to find his old friend, Tormund Gaintsbane. Off they ride and, as Jon gives a final backward glance, the doors close behind them.
We then get a montage of Jon, Arya and Sansa preparing for their next journeys. Arya sets sail, Sansa is declared Queen of the North, and Jon finds Ghost, who’s missing an ear, and reaches down to pet his beloved direwolf, righting a wrong from an earlier episode.
The final shot: We see Jon and Tormund lead a group of Wildlings north of the Wall as the Game of Thrones theme song swells.
Game of Thrones‘ watch has ended, but Jon Snow’s has just begun.
Niko Tavernise/Lionsgate(NEW YORK) — John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum ended Avengers: Endgame‘s three-week run at number one, beating expectations with an estimated $57 million opening weekend.
The third chapter in the John Wick film franchise, starring Keanu Reeves as the master assassin, also topped both of its predecessors’ opening weekends: the first and second films in the franchise debuted, respectively, with $14.4 million and $30.4 million. It’s also Reeves’ second-biggest opening ever, behind 2003’s The Matrix Reloaded, which collected $91.8 million.
Overseas, John Wick 3 grabbed an estimated $92.2 million, also a franchise high.
The aforementioned Avengers: Endgame dropped to second place in its fourth week of release, earning an estimated $29.4 million. It’s now the second-highest grossing film domestically, surpassing Avatar‘s $761 million and trailing only 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which earned $937 million.
Endgame‘s worldwide totals currently stand at 2.62 billion, placing it second behind Avatar‘s $2.78 billion.
Finishing in third place was Pokémon Detective Pikachu, delivering an estimated $24.8 million. The motion-capture/live-action adventure still dominated the international box office with $53.8 million.
A Dog’s Journey, the sequel to 2017’s A Dog’s Purpose, once again starring Dennis Quaid and featuring the voice of Josh Gad, opened with an estimated $8 million haul. The Hustle, in its second week of release, rounded out the top five with an estimated $6.1 million.
The weekend’s third new release, The Sun Is Also a Star, starring black-ish‘s Yara Shahidi and Riverdale‘s Charles Melton, disappointed in its debut, delivering an estimated $2.6 million.
Here are the top 10 movies from Friday through Sunday, with estimated domestic box office earnings:
1. John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum, $57 million 2. Avengers: Endgame, $29.4 million 3. Pokemon Detective Pikachu, $24.8 million 4. A Dog’s Journey, $8 million 5. The Hustle, $6.1 million 6. The Intruder, $4 million 7. Long Shot, $3.4 million 8. The Sun Is Also a Star, $2.6 million 9. Poms, $2.1 million 10. Uglydolls, $1.6 million
HBO/Helen Sloan(LOS ANGELES) — Who will sit on the Iron Throne? We’ll find out Sunday night at 9 p.m. as HBO’s Game of Thrones airs its final episode. After last week’s shocking turn of events, it’s anyone’s guess as to what will happen, but Entertainment Weekly‘s James Hibberd, who got a sneak preview, says it’s going to be memorable.
“I was on set 13 months ago and I think I know how it ends,” Hibberd tells ABC Radio. “I don’t know for sure…but I can say the final episode deals with the aftermath of Dany’s devastating attack on King’s Landing and how that impacts all the characters.”
“Plot-wise, I can’t really say much more than that,” he notes. “But I do think it’s an episode that fans won’t wanna miss and will be talked about for a very long time.”
Hibberd says the ending won’t be like The Sopranos finale, which baffled and enraged fans, but it won’t please everyone.
“I think it’s going to be a bit more of a traditional, satisfying ending in a lot of respects,” he says, adding, “I don’t expect the divided reactions to end with the finale.”
As for the legacy of Game of Thrones, Hibberd believes that the show made TV networks realize that series in genres previously deemed “too geeky or too niche” — like adult fantasy — could actually work. In addition, he says the Emmy-winning series changed TV with its scope and its bravery.
“It certainly blew apart the notion that TV shows have to have a limit to their scale of production,” he explains.
“And I think its bold storytelling moves…make difficult for a standard TV drama nowadays to do the usual TV thing of telling basically the same story week after week without any consequence…to the characters.”
Michael Yarish/CBS(LOS ANGELES) — Last night’s series finale of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory drew 18 million viewers — the show’s highest numbers since 2015, Variety reports.
The two-part episode — which saw Jim Parson’s Dr. Sheldon Cooper and his onscreen wife, Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler, played by Miyim Bialik, share the Nobel Prize for physics — won Thursday night’s highest-rated show.
The show’s spin-off, Young Sheldon, which aired after The Big Bang Theory finale, drew a strong 13 million viewers, and those fans who stuck around were rewarded with a touching coda.
On Young Sheldon, we saw a lonesome young Sheldon, tearfully regretting his lack of friends — only to have the camera cut to the bedrooms of children who were revealed to be the younger versions of his future Big Bang BFF’s Penny, Howard, Raj, Bernadette and Leonard, and his future wife, Amy.
Photo by Lester Cohen/WireImage(LOS ANGELES) — Will Smith and Queen Latifah are heading back to their musical roots with their latest project.
Netflix has announced that Smith and Latifah are teaming up to produce a contemporary version of Romeo and Juliet, in the form of a hip-hop musical.
The new iteration is said to follow a young Brooklyn waitress and an aspiring musician from a wealthy family, whose “unconventional romance forces them to confront their life choices.”
The feature film will be written and directed by Solvan “Slick” Naim, an Algerian-American writer, rapper and actor from Brooklyn. Naim has directed episodes of shows like Netflix’s The Get Down and the John Singleton FX drama, Snowfall.
Latifah will produce through Flavor Unit Entertainment, and Smith through his Overbrook Entertainment.
This is the latest project for Latifah, who earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 2002’s Chicago and recently appeared in Lee Daniels’ musical drama Star. Meanwhile, Smith will next be seen in Disney’s Aladdin, which hits theaters on May 24.
L-R: Eden Duncan-Smith, Dante Crichlow — Netflix/Linda Kallerüs(NEW YORK) — Stefon Bristol is over the moon about See You Yesterday, his directorial debut for Netflix.
Bristol’s film follows two high school prodigies who develop a time machine and later use it to save a family member’s life when he’s wrongly shot by police. Although Bristol’s film has been described as “sci-fi meets Black Lives Matter,” the director says the inspiration behind his time-travel feature is much broader.
“The movie is derived from inspiration from Back to the Future, 12 Monkeys, Primer, Run, Lola Run,” Bristol tells ABC Radio, citing earlier films. “You name it. And not just nostalgia in that sense, but also with the Caribbean culture as well. There’s a lot of old-school music in this film.”
Considering Bristol’s family is from the Caribbean and his passion has always been to explore sci-fi, the young director admits See You Yesterday was the perfect fit for him. However, even though Bristol loves the end result, he’s hesitant to offer his thoughts on what viewers should take away from the film.
“I’m not going to tell what is the message because I want people to interpret it their own,” Bristol explains. “And then once this whole interpretation is happening out, I could come in and tell people what I wanted. I just want to see how it plays out first.”
See You Yesterday, starring Eden Duncan-Smith and Dante Crichlow, is now available on Netflix.
HBO(LAS VEGAS) — Unless you’ve recently been incinerated by a dragon, you already know Game of Thrones airs its final episode Sunday.
Not surprising, the sports betting site BetOnline.AG is letting you put money on just how the show will end. You can bet on everything from who will be killed and how — dagger? dragon? poison? — to which character will speak last on the series.
You can also bet on how high critics will score the episode on Rotten Tomatoes, and — because this is Game of Thrones — whether or not there’ll be nudity in the finale.
Here are BetOnline.AG’s odds for the final episode of Game of Thrones:
First Stark to Perish Arya -200 Sansa 3/2 Bran 6/1
How Many Starks will Perish in Final Episode? Over/Under 1.5 Starks
Method By Which Daenerys Targaryen Perishes Sword or Dagger -600 Daenerys Targaryen Survives 3/1 Axe 8/1 Hanging 10/1 Takes Own Life 10/1 Arrow 16/1 Physical Force 20/1 Poison 22/1 Fire 66/1
Jon Snow to Survive by End of Season 8? YES -800 NO +500
Method By Which Jon Snow Perishes Jon Snow Survives -600 Sword or Dagger 3/1 Fire 5/1 Axe 6/1 Hanging 6/1 Physical Force 16/1 Arrow 20/1 Takes Own Life 20/1 Poison 25/1
Will Tyrion Lannister Perish in Final Episode? YES +300 NO -500
Will Grey Worm Perish in Final Episode? YES +200 NO -300
Named Characters Dragon Will Kill in Final Episode Over/Under 1/2 Characters
Last Character to Speak in Final Episode Samwell Tarly 1/1 Jon Snow 2/1 Tyrion Lannister 2/1 Bran Stark 5/1 Sansa Stark 10/1 Daenerys Targaryen 12/1 Arya Stark 14/1 Bronn 20/1
Will The Four Remaining Starks be Shown Together? YES -180 NO +140
Will There be Nudity in Final Episode? YES +260 NO -420
Episode 6 Metascore Rating via Meta Critic Over/Under 74.5 Metascore
Episode 6 Score via Rotten Tomatoes Over/Under 5.5 score
Photo by Matt Roberts/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Millions of fans, both famous and not, are gearing up for Sunday night’s series finale of Game of Thrones. One on the celebrity end of the spectrum is Milla Jovovich.
The Resident Evil series star is a huge fan of author George R.R. Martin’s still-unfinished book series A Song of Ice and Fire, on which the show’s based, and in fact, Milla and her husband, director and producer Paul W.S. Anderson, are adapting another of Martin’s works for the big screen.
The pair have been busy developing the author’s short story “In The Lost Lands” for the big screen. And while they’ve been working for a year and a half on the script, they’re sure to be putting the work aside to tune in for the GoT finale Sunday night.
“It’s just such a bummer, man!” she tells ABC Radio about the Emmy-winning show coming to an end. “I feel like they could just go on and on with that!”
Like millions of fans, Milla’s eager for Martin to finish the last two books in his series: The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring.
“I just think that is crazy,” she says of the fact that the most recent book in the series, A Dance with Dragons, came out in 2011. “He needs to just write those books and finish them — because I read the whole series of course, and I’m just like waiting to know, like, what’s his ending? Anyway, it’s all really interesting. Can’t wait for Sunday!”
Game of Thrones airs for the last time Sunday evening at 9 p.m.
Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney(NEW YORK) — Avengers: Endgame star Scarlett Johansson and her boyfriend of two years, Saturday Night Live cast member Colin Jost are engaged, a rep for the actress tells Entertainment Tonight.
