February 11, 2019
Here's the Scoop...
I didn't get out to see 'Lego Movie 2', but I did stay home and play Legos with my kids...does that count?
Chris Pratt's animated adventure The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part is the No. 1 movie in North America this weekend, earning $34.4 million, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday.
Coming in at No. 2 is What Men Want with $19 million, followed by Cold Pursuit at No. 3 with $10.8 million, The Upside at No. 4 with $7.2 million and Glass at No. 5 with $6.4 million.
Rounding out the top tier are The Prodigy at No. 6 with $6 million, Green Book at No. 7 with $3.6 million, Aquaman at No. 8 with $3.3 million, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse at No. 9 with $3 million and Miss Bala at No. 10 with $2.7 million.
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Fleetwood Mac's Buckingham suffers vocal cord damage during heart surgery
Lindsey Buckingham's wife Kristen said the Fleetwood Mac music icon is recovering at home after recent emergency open heart surgery.
"Each day he is stronger than the last," Kristen Buckingham said in a statement posted on Twitter Friday. "While he and his heart are doing well, the surgery resulted in vocal cord damage. While it is unclear if the damage is permanent, we are hopeful it is not."
Lindsey Buckingham, 69, was the lead guitarist and vocalist for Fleetwood Mac off and on since 1975 until last year.
Last April, the rock band announced it had fired Buckingham, and Mike Campbell from Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and Neil Finn from Crowded House would replace him on Fleetwood Mac's concert tour.
Rolling Stone said Buckingham was ousted because singer Stevie Nicks refused to work with him.
"After 43 years and the finish line so clearly in sight, it's hard to escape the conclusion that for the five of us to splinter part would be the wrong thing," Buckingham wrote band co-founder Mick Fleetwood in an unsuccessful bid to win back his job last year. "At the moment, the band's heart and soul has been diminished. But out center, which has seen us through so much, is only laying dormant."
Buckingham has been performing as a solo artist in recent months.
"We are saddened by this news. Our thoughts and love go out to Lindsey and his entire family. We are hopeful for his speedy recovery," his former bandmates tweeted Friday after hearing he suffering a health crisis.
Reports: Danai Gurira leaving 'Walking Dead' next season
Black Panther actress Danai Gurira will leave The Walking Dead in the show's upcoming 10th season, media reports said.
Deadline said Gurira, who has played Michonne since Season 3, has signed on to appear in a handful of episodes in Season 10.
However, The Hollywood Reporter said Michonne might also turn up in the three planned Walking Dead TV movies starring Andrew Lincoln, who played Michonne's partner Rick Grimes on the zombie-apocalypse drama.
"I'll just say Michonne is obviously a huge part of the story of The Walking Dead," showrunner Angela Kang told Insider this week. "We absolutely love Danai. Anything that's contract-wise, that's for people to work out, but we have a lot of exciting stories to tell with her going forward. We're thrilled for what's in store for her. That's as much as I can say right now."
AMC has not publicly commented on the reports.
The second half of Season 9 is to begin Sunday.
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LOOSE LIPS:
"It was a little tough for me at first ... Readjusting to people caring about me, getting that love that I shut out ... Honestly, therapy, just talking to somebody just helped me out a lot. As a man you get a lot of slack for it ... I don't really subscribe to that. Everyone needs to unpack and talk."
--Michael B. Jordan, on how therapy helped to pull him out of the isolation he'd embraced to get into character for Black Panther, to Oprah Winfrey on her SuperSoul Conversations TV special
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Which 'Game of Thrones' cast member will star in Netflix's 'Last Sons of America'?
'Veep' set for March 21 return; 'Deadwood' to air in the spring
Season 7 of the political comedy Veep is scheduled to premiere on March 31, HBO announced.
This will be the seventh and final season for the show, which stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tony Hale, Anna Chlumsky, Reid Scott, Timothy Simons, Matt Walsh, Sufe Bradshaw, Kevin Dunn, Gary Cole and
Sam Richardson. Filming wrapped in December.
Deadline reported that the long-awaited Deadwood movie, which will serve as the sequel to the cable network's western series, will air this spring, although no specific date has been disclosed yet.
Returning from the original cast are Ian McShane, Timothy Olyphant, Molly Parker, Paula Malcomson, John Hawkes, Anna Gunn, Dayton Callie, Brad Dourif, Robin Weigert, William Sanderson, Kim Dickens and Gerald McRaney.
The project began filming in November.
Hallmark orders new Christmas movies, Kristin Chenoweth to star
Hallmark has ordered three new Christmas films that will debut on the Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries in 2019.
Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth of Wicked fame is set to star in Hallmark Channel's The Christmas Song in November alongside Scott Wolf.
The feature will follow Chenoweth as a youth choir director who finds a boy with a golden voice (Kevin Quinn), much to the surprise of his widowed father, portrayed by Wolf.
"So excited to announce #TheChristmasSong with @scottwolf & @KevinGQuinn1, directed by the one-and-only @EricRClose! Anybody else already excited for @hallmarkchannel's #CountdownToChristmas?" Chenoweth said on Twitter Friday.
Country star Blake Shelton will be executive producing his second Christmas feature which will appear on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries in November after he executive produced 2018's Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas.
Shelton's untitled film will feature his music and will be focused on an emotional homecoming during the holidays.
Melissa Claire Egan, Marc Blucas, and Patti Murin will be starring in Holiday for Heroes on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries in November. The project centers around a solider (Blucas) and a woman (Egan) who exchange letters with each other for a year.
Hallmark also announced plans to air fan-favorite Christmas movies every Friday night throughout the year and to debut a new holiday film in July.
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Which 'Game of Thrones' cast member will star in Netflix's 'Last Sons of America'?
Peter Dinklage will lead the cast of the Netflix movie Last Sons of America.
The film will be an adaptation of the BOOM! Studios graphic novel by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Matthew Dow Smith.
Johnson tweeted his thanks to all involved in the project "for taking a chance on a no-name's 1st book."
"I won't forget it," Johnson said.
Josh Mond wrote the movie's screenplay and plans to direct it.
"In the not too distant future, Americans are no longer able to conceive and children have become a valuable commodity around the globe," a synopsis said. "Brothers Jackie and Julian are operating as adoption agents in Colombia, securing deals with families willing to give their children up for a presumably better life in America. When the brothers suddenly find themselves with their backs against the wall, Jackie makes a grave mistake that sends them spiraling into a dark mystery at the root of their world's status quo; a mystery much darker than they might be able to bear."
The eighth and final season of Game of Thrones is to premiere on HBO on April 14.
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