Новости за 19.12.2021

Disney has hit back at the civil lawsuit against Walt Disney Parks and Resorts in California. The company has filed a notice of removal and plans to take the U.S. District Court.  Disneyland rolled out a new program called “Magic Key” on Tuesday. It is meant to replace the much-loved annual pass program and to […]

Refresh for latest…: Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home has become the third biggest global opener of all-time with $587.2M. Crossing the $500M mark makes it only the sixth film ever to the milestone in a launch frame. The Jon Watts-directed MCU entry instantly becomes the No. 6 movie of 2021 worldwide (No. 3 for the […]

SUNDAY AM UPDATE: Sony is calling the opening weekend for Spider-Man: No Way Home at $253M, which is where we first saw it last night. Again, that’s the best December domestic opening, best ever for Sony, 3rd best ever among all films beating 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens domestic opening of $247.9M. Worldwide Spider-Man: […]

UPDATED, with White House comment: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has given Joe Biden’s administration a lump of coal for the holidays, saying in an interview that he will be a “no” vote on the Build Back Better Act, the cornerstone of the White House’s social and climate agenda. Manchin’s vote is critical to the chances […]

Germany is introducing a two-week quarantine for incoming Brits from Monday following the surge in Omicron cases in the UK. The measures, which will be in place until at least January 3, will apply to all vaccinated British travellers but German nationals and residents will still be allowed to enter from the UK. A negative […]

Saturday Night Live’s Christmas episode was largely curtailed as a result of Covid. The long-running NBC series aired a handful of original sketches with host Paul Rudd as well as a Tina Fey co-hosted Weekend Update. But it filled the time with a slew of classic old clips. Tom Hanks, joining the show in a […]

On tonight’s episode of Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey filled in for an absent Colin Jost—trading Weekend Update jokes with Michael Che from the front of the theater, with Tom Hanks, Kenan Thompson, Paul Rudd and the show’s skeleton crew serving as their audience. Given the fact that it’s almost Christmas, Che thought he should […]

Tom Hanks was joined by some familiar faces in a surprise appearance opening a Covid-hit Saturday Night Live hosted by Paul Rudd. The actor kicked off the show, which earlier today revealed it had sent home much of its cast and crew due to rising infections in New York, and was joined by Tina Fey, […]

Jay Johnston, who voiced Bob Belcher’s (H. Jon Benjamin) business rival Jimmy Pesto in 43 episodes of Bob’s Burgers, has been sidelined from the Fox animated series due to his alleged involvement in the January 6 Capitol Riot. The Daily Beast reported Friday about Johnston’s indefinite hiatus from the series. While any possible involvement of […]

San Francisco went green on Saturday evening as Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix Resurrections made its U.S. premiere at the city’s historic Castro Theater. Naturally, Warner Bros. opted out of the standard red carpet for the event, in favor of a green one—with Mayor London Breed also getting in on the celebration of the film, which […]

Amid the latest surge in Covid-19 cases, CNN is closing all of its offices to employees who are not required to be there to do their jobs, in a signal of a “return to 2020” when it comes to pandemic protocols. CNN President Jeff Zucker announced the new policy in a memo to employees on […]

With Spider-Man: No Way Home now out in theaters, Disney and Sony are “actively beginning to develop” where the web-slinger’s story goes next, says Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige. Feige’s comments came in an interview with The New York Times published Friday, for which he sat down with former Sony exec and franchise producer Amy […]

EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Bergin (EastEnders) has been cast in new holiday horror feature Nutcracker. Filming is currently underway. Nutcracker also stars Beatrice Fletcher, Julie Stevens, Andy Dixon, May Kelly, Stephen Staley, Christopher Monplaisir, Tony Goodall, Chrissie Wunna, and Kelly Rian Sanson. The film concerns a struggling novelist who visits her family for Christmas and finds a […]

With New York emerging as the epicenter of the latest surge in the coronavirus pandemic, tied to the fast-spreading Omicron variant, NBC’s Saturday Night Live has imposed restrictions for its taping tonight. “Due to the recent spike in the Omicron variant and out of an abundance of caution, there will be no live audience for […]

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported 27 new deaths from Covid-19, as well as 3360 new positive cases. The number of deaths and confirmed cases reported today may reflect delays in weekend reporting. But today’s data brings the County to a total of 27,413 deaths and 1,556,685  positive cases.  COVID-19 Daily Update:December […]