Prime Video’s video game adaptation Fallout stayed atop Reelgood Streaming Charts in the TV category for the third straight week.
The company monitors 20 million viewing decisions across all streaming platforms, week to week.
In the movie category, the Sydney Sweeney/Glen Powell romantic blockbuster Anyone But You debuted at #1 for the week April 25 through May 1.
Coming in second in TV was Netflix’s Baby Reindeer, followed by Hulu’s Under the Bridge in third, Hulu’s Shōgun in fourth place and Netflix’s new Dead Boy Detectives to round out the top five.
In the movie category, following Anyone But You was Shudder’s Late Night with the Devil in second place; Argylle took third on Apple TV+, followed by The Beekeeper on MGM+ and the Oscar-winning drama The Zone of Interest on Max.
A host of celebrities came to take their shots at Superbowl champ Tom Brady on Sunday night, as part of Netflix’s first live roast, The Greatest Roast of All Time: Tom Brady.
As one might expect, there were no shortage of outrageous jokes at Brady’s expense, most of which are unprintable, spanning his legendary career, his fitness regimen and even his divorce from Gisele Bündchen after 13 years of marriage.
Host Kevin Hart was the first to draw blood, making a joke about Gisele’s reported relationship with her former Brazilian jiu jitsu teacher Joaquim Valente. “8 classes a day!” Hart joked. “And she’s still a white belt!”
Hart then introduced the Roastmaster General, Jeff Ross, saying “there is no GOAT without a butcher.”
Ross was dressed as O.J. Simpson, at first wearing his football uniform spattered with glitter for blood.
“I just came from hell. Aaron Hernandez says hello,” Ross began of Brady’s late former teammate who was found guilty of first-degree murder in 2013. Ross said of Brady, “I dressed like O.J. because I’m about to kill this white b**** right here.”
One tense moment came during Ross’ set when he made a reference to New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft‘s arrest for soliciting prostitution at a massage parlor; the charge was later dismissed.
Brady got up and whispered to Ross, “Don’t say that s*** again,” to which Ross agreed and continued.
Other highlights included Nikki Glaser earning a standing O for her blistering set and Will Ferrell reprising his Ron Burgundy role at the podium.
Incidentally, when Brady’s rumored post-Gisele girlfriend Kim Kardashian took the podium, there was a strong undercurrent of boos from the crowd, which Hart tamped down from his seat. In the end, the crowd warmed to her short set.
L-R Wood, Monaghan, Bloom, and Boyd in 2001 – Patrick Riviere/Getty Images
The Fellowship was reforged over the weekend, when The Lord of the Rings veterans raised their glasses together on Friday.
In an Instagram post, Dominic Monaghan shared a photo of the reunion of the stars from the blockbuster franchise including himself, Orlando Bloom, Elijah Wood and Billy Boyd.
In the snap, the actors can be seen raising shot glasses and smiling while sitting together at a dining table.
“3 hobbits and an elf and the CONVERSATION tonight was VAULTED,” Monaghan wrote in the caption.
The reunion took place ahead of the group’s appearance at Liverpool Comic Con in the United Kingdom this weekend.
Prior to getting together with the group, Monaghan also posted a throwback photo of the cast members last week, displaying their early days as young actors while working on the film franchise.
“This weekend we form like voltron at #liverpoolcomiccon,” he captioned the post.
In response, Bloom added the comment, “Best photo [red heart emoji].”
In the Oscar-winning trilogy, which ran from 2001 to 2003, Bloom played the role of elf Legolas Greenleaf, while Wood, Monaghan and Boyd respectively played hobbits Frodo Baggins, Meriodoc “Merry” Brandybuck and Peregrin “Pippin” Took.
After the series ended, the actors continued to portray their characters in The Hobbit prequel trilogy.
Actor Bernard Hill, who had roles in The Lord of the Rings movies and Titanic, died Sunday, his manager William Blaylock confirmed to ABC News. He was 79 years old. Hill began his career in the 1970s with roles in films like It Could Happen To You. His career would span nearly five decades with perhaps his most famous role occurring as Captain Smith in James Cameron‘s Titanic, in which his character donned a white beard as he went down with the ship he steered. More commercial success came years later, as Hill played Théoden, King of Rohan, in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King …
Gen V, which starts shooting its second season this month, revealed how the show will handle Chance Perdomo‘s death at the age of 27 in March. “As we continue to navigate the tragic loss of Chance Perdomo, everyone at Gen V is determined to find the best way to pay respect to his memory,” the show posted on its Instagram page. “We won’t be recasting the role, because no one can replace Chance. Instead, We have been taking the time to space and recraft our Season 2 storylines as we begin production in May,” the Post continued. “We will honor Chance and his legacy this season” …
Meanwhile, Prime Video has dropped the trailer for season 4 of The Boys, which confirms Gen V stars Maddie Phillips and Asa Germann, who played Cate Dunlap and Sam Riordan, respectively, will be joining the series. “This country is corrupt beyond repair, so we gotta save it,” Antony Starr‘s Homelander says in the footage. “It’s not gonna be easy; we’ll have to do some terrible things for the greater good. You’ll no longer be beloved celebrities. You will be wrathful gods. Show me a little wrath.” Amazon will debut the first three episodes of The Boys‘ fourth season on June 13, and on a weekly basis thereafter … (Trailer contains uncensored profanity.)
The Fall Guy topped the North American box office with an estimated $28.5 million in its opening weekend. The action comedy, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, was expected to grab between $30 and $40 million, according to Variety.
The movie added an estimated $25.4 million at the international box office, for a worldwide total of $65.4 million.
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, rereleased to honor May the Fourth, took second place, earning an estimated $8.1 million. The film, originally released in 1999, earned an estimated $6.4 million overseas, for a global tally of $14.5 million.
Third place went to the Zendaya-led romantic sports drama Challengers, which collected an estimated $7.65 million at the domestic box office. Its two-week global tally currently stands at over $52 million.
The second of this week’s two major releases, the horror film Tarot, debuted in fourth place with an estimated $6.5 million. It added an estimated $3.7 million overseas, for a worldwide total of $10.2 million.
Rounding out the top five was Godzilla x Kong: A New Empire, snagging an estimated $4.5 million in its sixth week of release. The fifth film in the Monsterverse franchise has grossed $188 million domestically and more than $546 million globally, making it the year’s second-highest-grossing movie.
On Saturday morning, May 4, legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola dropped a tease to his decades-in-the-making, mostly self-funded epic Megalopolis.
In the snippet, apparently from the movie’s opening moments, one of the movie’s many stars, Adam Driver, playing a man named Caesar, emerges from a window atop what appears to be New York City’s Chrysler Building.
Dressed in a black suit and shirt, he shakily makes his way to the ledge, taking in the view, before he takes a fateful step off.
However, he’s heard screaming “Time stop!” and sure enough, Caesar is paused mid-step, his body leaning over to the point where gravity would have logically already taken him. There’s a dizzying zoom of the height of the building from his perspective, from where we can see traffic has been stopped in its tracks, too.
Impossibly, Driver leans back onto the roof, and snaps his finger, and time and traffic resumes, and he seems to gaze at the city before him with fresh eyes. The teaser then cuts to black as ominous music plays for nearly 10 seconds until it ends.
Megalopolis reportedly centers on the rebuilding of a New York-like city after a disaster. The Oscar-winning filmmaker’s cast includes Driver, Shia LaBeouf,and Coppola’s sister and Godfather and Rocky franchise star Talia Shire, as well as Oscar winners Forest Whitaker, Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman; Oscar nominee Laurence Fishburne; Emmy nominee Giancarlo Esposito; Licorice Pizza‘s Isabelle Kusman; Saturday Night Live‘s Chloe Fineman and Fast and Furious series star Nathalie Emmanuel.
Megalopolis is set to premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on May 17.
Timed in anticipation of May 4’s Star Wars Day, Julien’s Auctions and Turner Classic Movies have announced a cargo hold’s worth of Star Wars stuff will hit the block June 13 through June 15.
As part of the Hollywood Legends: Danger, Disaster and Disco event in Los Angeles and online, “the ultimate collection of costumes, props, behind the scenes production material, models, photographs, memorabilia and beyond from the pop culture phenomenon” is going up for auction.
But you better be packing some serious credits — or really good credit. If past auctions are any indication, these items will go for a lot more than estimated, and they’re not cheap to begin with.
Among the items up for grabs is Pedro Pascal‘s helmet from the Disney+ series The Mandalorian, expected to fetch between $20,000 and $30,000.
Other items include the very head of the heroic droid K-2S0 from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, estimated to fetch between $20,000 and $30,000, and a TIE Fighter helmet as seen in that film ($40,000 to $60,000).
There are also items from 1977’s original Star Wars and from the Sequel Trilogy, like the quarterstaff prop used by Daisy Ridley‘s Rey, estimated to sell for between $20,000 and $30,000.
Check out the collection here, and trust the Force you can win the Powerball between now and June 13.
Night Court will stay in session at NBC. The network announced on May 3 that the show, which stars Big Bang Theory alumna Melissa Rauch and original Night Court star John Larroquette, will return this fall.
Rauch co-executive produces the show and plays Judge Abby Stone, the daughter of Night Court‘s Judge Harry Stone, who was played by the late Harry Anderson. She toldABC Audio before the renewal news that fans seemed to spark to one key change to the show in the second season.
“Something that we learned from the first season is that everyone wanted more ‘court’ in Night Court, which I absolutely love.” She added, “The nature of the original, and this revolving door comedy that could come in, when you have these left-of-center cases … can really drive that comedic engine.”
The show was NBC’s top-ranked comedy in primetime.
Rauch also revealed playing Abby is a bit easier than playing Bernadette, her character on the long-running The Big Bang Theory, because she no longer has to affect that character’s high-pitched, nasally voice all day.
“Yeah, it’s definitely different,” she says with a laugh.
“I’ve always sort of used my voice as a way into character. The voice, the pitch or the tenor is usually how I first start dissecting the role, and then sort of figure everything else else out from there. But with Abby, I knew that I wanted it to be as close to my normal voice as possible.”
She does add she “watched a lot” of Anderson in the original series to try to pick up “a similar cadence and some of his mannerisms” to bridge between the father and daughter.
On Friday, May 3, the cast of Netflix’s Emily In Paristeased the show’s upcoming fourth season, as star Lily Collins revealed it will be split in two.
Part one drops August 15, the actress explains. “Part two drops on September 12. You’re welcome,” she says as she blows a kiss to the camera.
The snippet also had Collins and her castmates trying to sum up the forthcoming fourth season in three words. Collins starts with “vulnerable.” Other descriptors are “messy,” “heartbreaking” and “l’amour,” but Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, who plays Sylvie, only needed one word: “revenge.”
Ashley Park, who plays Mindy, used up her three words with “not finished yet.” After stalling in French, Lucas Bravo, who plays Gabriel, spent his three on “Holy f****** s***!”
(NOTE LANGUAGE) After marathon movies like the Oscar-winning Oppenheimer and the nominated Killers of the Flower Moon, it seems Americans are longing for some shorter entertainment.
According to a new poll of 2,000 Americans that was conducted by Talker, the ideal length of a movie for our collective attention spans is 92 minutes.
For the record, movies that clock in at that length include 2004’s Dodgeball, 1988’s Beetlejuice and 1999’s Toy Story 2.
Just 15% of those polled say movies should be more than 2 hours, the survey says.
Just 2% say a movie should be more than 2 and-a half hours long.
Incidentally, shortly after Pete Davidsonrapped about his need for a short-a** movie on Saturday Night Live, Netflix posted a section dedicated to movies that get you in and out around 90 minutes.
Survey questions, methodology and results have not been verified or endorsed by ABC News or The Walt Disney Company.
