CHRISSIE HYNDE joined ARCADE FIRE for the Pretenders' "Don't Get Me Wrong" in London. COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS plays the World Cafe. KYLE CRAFT plays the World Cafe. LAURA VEIRS plays the World Cafe. "DON'T FEAR THE REAPER," as a surf instrumental. GEORGE HARRISON & ERIC CLAPTON: "Taxman." Obligatory. TOM PETTY talks Evlis Presley for a new HBO documentary. HUEY LEWIS and The News is canceling all its future performances because Lewis has suffered serious damage to his hearing. SISTER ROSETTA THORPE joins the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. MARK KNOPFLER skips Dire Straits' Hall of Fame induction.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Rampage tops the chart with 34.5MM...but that's kinda weak against a 120MM budget (even though overseas grosses are doing well). The real story may be that A Quiet Place places with 32.6MM on a leggy (esp for this genre) 35 percent drop; for part of the weekend, it seemed as though it might beat The Rock (one wonders if Rampage is getting some creative accounting in its estmates). John Krasinski's third film closes in on 100MM after 2 weekends against a 17MM budget. Truth or Dare shows with 19MM against a 3.5MM budget -- and in its own way, this showing makes A Quiet Place's hold all the more impressive. Ready Player One drops to the fourth slot with 11.2MM on a 55 percent drop; Spielberg can be thankful that foreign markets are soaking in nostalgia for a 1980s many of these countries never experienced in the first place. Blockers rounds out the Top Five with 10.3MM on a 50 percent drop and will likely make a tdy profit befoe becoming a candidate for cult status (if there is such a thing in the internet era). MILOS FORMAN, a filmmaker who challenged Hollywood with his subversive touch, and won the Oscar for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus, died on Friday. He was 86. "He was the Czech new wave émigré who brought the spirit of anti-Soviet rebellion to Hollywood and made its sly comic strategies and humanist passion flower in dozens of different ways." R. LEE ERMEY, a Golden Globe-nominated actor best known for his role as Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, has died at 74. SAG-AFTRA a union that represents actors, is calling for an end to auditions in private hotel rooms and residences after a series of sexual harassment allegations against powerful Hollywood figures. THE INCREDIBLES 2 has another new trailer online. WILL FARRELL was taken to the hospital Thursday night following a crash in Aliso Viejo, Calif., according to the California Highway Patrol. The actor was not seriously hurt. OLIVIA MUNN is dating Spanish actor Álex González. GEORGE CLOONEY is reducing his role in Hulu's forthcoming Catch-22 miniseries. MARTIN SCORSESE will direct a doc about the great SCTV for Netfilx. ART BELL, whose nationally syndicated paranormal, supernatural and conspiracy themed show Coast to Coast AM kept many awake at night – for good reasons and bad – died at his Pahrump, Nevada home on Friday the 13th. Bell was 72.
THE OLDEST LIVING GORILLA enjoys a birthday cake as he turns 61 years old at the Berlin Zoo, where he was raised from a two-year-old baby. DOG RESCUERS are buying animals from the breeders they scorn. THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE raced through the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday to save an estimated 500 hundred hypothermic sea turtles. TARANTULAS as a burger topping.
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