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Former Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson returns to Studio 8H in the new promo for this weekend’s season 49 premiere.

In the clip, Bowen Yang and Chloe Fineman find Davidson wandering around the studio floor, eating a bag of potato chips. Yang asks Davidson, who exited the SNL cast in May 2022, what he’s doing in the studio.

“My apartment’s under construction, so I’m just living here,” Davidson says.

Fineman tells Davidson that, unfortunately, only the cast and hosts are allowed to be in the studio. “Oh, OK,” Davidson says with a shrug. “I’ll do that.”

This marks Davidson’s first time hosting the long-running sketch comedy series. He was set to host SNL back in May, before the WGA strike halted the remainder of season 48.

Now he’ll host the season 49 premiere on Saturday, October 14, alongside musical guest Ice Spice.

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Fans of Matt Murdock will have to wait a bit longer to find out what he’s been up to.

The upcoming Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again is going through a massive shake-up. The original version of the show is officially dead and looking to, well, be reborn, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Marvel plans to undergo a massive creative overhaul of the project and has parted ways with the show’s head writers, Chris Ord and Matt Corman.

The series shot only a handful of the scheduled 18-order batch of episodes prior to the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike in June. Marvel head Kevin Feige is now planning an entire creative reboot of the series.

Apparently, after Feige and other executives reviewed the available footage, they decided the show was not working. They now plan to move forward with a new vision, and are on the search for new writers and directors for the project.

Daredevil: Born Again stars Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock, the blind superhero-lawyer, in a role he reprises after playing him for three seasons on the popular Netflix series Daredevil.

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A fundraising effort for Mary Lou Retton, the American gymnast who became a sports icon when she won Olympic gold in 1984, has reached its goal as she continues to battle a very rare form of pneumonia, according to her daughter.

Retton, 55, has been hospitalized in the intensive care unit for over one week and is “not able to breathe on her own,” Retton’s daughter, McKenna Kelley, shared on Instagram this week.

Kelley, one of Retton’s four daughters and a gymnast who competed for Louisiana State University, linked to a fundraising page for her mom, whom she said is not insured.

“We ask that if you could help in any way, that 1) you PRAY! and 2) if you could help us with finances for the hospital bill,” Kelley wrote on the fundraising page. “ANYTHING, absolutely anything, would be so helpful for my family and my mom.”

As of Wednesday morning, the page had exceeded its stated $50,000 goal and had raised nearly $175,000 and counting.

Kelley did not share further details on her mother’s condition or the health battle she is facing, writing, “Out of respect for her and her privacy, I will not disclose all details.”

Retton is most famous for her performance in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, where she scored a series of perfect 10s to become the first American to win an Olympic individual all-round gold, according to her official Olympics biography.

In 2018, Retton competed on season 27 of ABC’s dancing competition show, Dancing with the Stars.

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Michael Strahan graced the judges’ table on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars Tuesday night.

The Good Morning America co-anchor joined judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough as a guest judge for DWTS Motown night.

“Motown is incredible music. Motown is a vibe. Motown is perfect for tonight, because along with great music we have great dancing,” said Strahan, expressing his excitement for the evening.

He started the evening by complimenting Brady Bunch actor Barry Williams‘ performance in the ballroom.

“I looked at you and I said, ‘That’s a matador. No bull wants to mess with him,'” said Strahan.

Strahan also lauded Bachelorette star Charity Lawson after her performance to “My Girl” with dancer Artem Chigvintsev.

“It was very fluid. It’s like you were meant to dance,” said Strahan. “It’s like watching water rolling over rocks.”

Singer Jason Mraz and his partner Daniella Karagach tied for the highest scores of the night with reality star Ariana Madix and her partner Pasha Pashkov. Both duos scored a 34 out of 40.

Model Tyson Beckford and his dance partner Jenna Johnson had the lowest scores of the night — a 20 out of 40 — and were eliminated.

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Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White are brothers with bulging biceps in the new trailer for The Iron Claw.

From A24, the sports drama is based on the true story of the Von Erich brothers, who, under the instruction and shadow of their father, made history in the professional wrestling world in the early 1980s.

Efron stars as Kevin Von Erich, the eldest living son in the family, while White plays Kerry Erich, who Holt McCallany‘s patriarch Fritz Von Erich describes as his favorite son.

The trailer opens with narration from Efron’s Kevin as he warms up in the wrestling ring.

“Ever since I was a child, people said my family was cursed. Mom tried to protect us with God. Pop tried to protect us with wrestling,” Efron says. “He said if we were the toughest, the strongest, nothing could ever hurt us. I believed him. We all did.”

According to the film’s official synopsis, it will chronicle the Von Erich family’s tragedies and triumphs as “the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.”

Additionally, The Iron Claw has scored an interim agreement from SAG-AFTRA, which allows its actors to conduct publicity for the film’s release.

Lily James, Harris Dickinson, Stanley Simons and Maura Tierney also star. Directed by Sean Durkin, The Iron Claw releases in theaters just ahead of Christmas on December 22.

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Alec Baldwin may face new charges in the Rust criminal case after a New Mexico judge on Tuesday ordered Baldwin and Rust producers to turn over documents related to the movie’s preproduction planning, according to Deadline.

Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer ruled Tuesday that Rust producers must give prosecutors internal documents pertaining to Baldwin’s full role on the film. Criminal charges against Baldwin in the death of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins were dropped earlier this year, but the special prosecutors in the case have not ruled out refiling manslaughter or other claims against him down the line.

Baldwin was a producer on the film, as well as the star, and production documents and files could shed light on what Baldwin’s financial arrangements were for Rust, including how much he stood to profit from the film, and how much he knew about cost and safety corners that may have been cut.

Baldwin has insisted that he did not pull the trigger on the gun that killed Hutchins on October 21, 2021, even though forensics tests and investigations by both the FBI and independent experts suggest it would have been near impossible for the gun to have gone off by itself. No explanation for how live rounds got on the set of Rust has emerged yet.

The movie’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who’s still facing an involuntary manslaughter charge, has been arguing the production companies prevented her from doing her job properly, claiming the film’s tight budget denied her additional firearm training.

Rust wrapped up filming earlier this year.

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Martin Scorsese believes you have the strength to make it through all 3 1/2 hours of his newest film, Killers of the Flower Moon.

In a recent interview with The Hindustan Times, the acclaimed filmmaker defended the length of the new drama, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone.

“People say it’s three hours, but come on,” Scorsese said. “You can sit in front of the TV and watch something for five hours. Also, there are many people who watch theatre for 3.5 hours. There are real actors on stage, you can’t get up and walk around. You give it that respect, give cinema some respect.”

The film will be available to all on Apple TV+ after the theatrical release on October 20. Scorsese said that the big screen is the best way to watch his movie.

“Are we intending to make a blockbuster? No, we’re making a movie, which should [be] watched on the big screen,” Scorsese said. “Other pictures I made? Maybe not. Sometimes, it’s the strength of the picture too, if it plays well on a smaller screen, that’s interesting. Killers could play on a small screen, but in order to truly immerse yourself, you should take out the time.”

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Dying to know what’s happened in the lives of this year’s Love is Blind contestants? You’re in luck.

Netflix has announced they’re dropping a pretaped season 5 reunion special on Sunday, October 15. The move to pretape follows last year’s technical difficulties during the season 4 live reunion special, which caused up to 16-hour delays for certain viewers.

The announcement video wasn’t afraid to poke fun at last year’s difficulties. After a brief montage of the cast getting ready, a crew member crosses the word live off a sign that reads, “Live reunion today,” changing it to simply say, “Reunion today.”

One thing’s for sure about the season 5 reunion, as the announcement trailer says: “It’s not live, but it’s unmissable.”

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If you’ve ever hoped Seinfeld had a different ending, you may just be in luck.

The popular TV series, which ran for nine seasons on NBC and finished its run 25 years ago, might just return in some kind of form, according to star Jerry Seinfeld.

At a stand-up show in Boston, Massachusetts, on Saturday, October 7, a fan asked Seinfeld how he felt about the ending of the show. The comic responded by saying he had a little secret regarding the series finale and that he’s talked with co-creator Larry David about some kind of new project.

“Something is going to happen that has to do with that ending. It hasn’t happened yet,” Seinfeld said. “Just what you are thinking about, Larry and I have also been thinking about. So you’ll see.”

The series finale of Seinfeld, of course, infamously found Seinfeld’s Jerry, Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), George (Jason Alexander) and Kramer (Michael Richards) arrested and locked in prison.

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Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford are officially parents for the third time.

The Oscar-nominated actor confirms in a new interview with Vogue that she and the Mumford & Sons frontman welcomed a new baby. The article notes that Mulligan had given birth six weeks before the interview took place and before the SAG-AFTRA strike, which began in July.

Mulligan and Mumford got married in 2012. They also share daughter Evelyn and son Wilfred, who were born in 2015 and 2017, respectively.

Mulligan didn’t share the new baby’s name or sex, so it remains to be seen whether the name Mumford & Sons will also describe Mumford’s family.

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