“A Quiet Place: Day One” was No. 1 at the box office on its opening day Friday, raking in $22.5 million, The Numbers reported.
The film, the third installment in the “A Quiet Place” franchise, centers around New York City during an alien invasion and stars Lupita Nyong’o, whom the New York Times says “commands the screen.”
It is projected to enjoy earnings of $53 million this weekend, according to Variety, which would be the highest opener for the franchise.
“Inside Out 2,” which was No. 1 for two weeks in a row, fell to second place, with $17.1 million in sales.
The Disney/Pixar flick, which was released on June 14, has already earned $902.9 million globally, and is expected to surpass the $1 billion-dollar mark this weekend, according to Deadline.
“Horizon: An American Saga,” the Western produced and directed by, and starring Kevin Costner, landed in third, with a $4.1 million-dollar take.
The Post called the film, which was also released on Friday, “an embarrassing, poorly told mess.”
Martin Mull, the droll comedian, actor, singer-songwriter and painter who found fame on the soap opera satire Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and its spinoff Fernwood 2 Night, has died. He was 80.
Mull died Thursday at home after a “valiant fight against a long illness,” his daughter, Maggie Mull, shared on her Instagram.
“He was known for excelling at every creative discipline imaginable and also for doing Red Roof Inn commercials,” she wrote. “He would find that joke funny. He was never not funny. My dad will be deeply missed by his wife and daughter, by his friends and coworkers, by fellow artists and comedians and musicians, and — the sign of a truly exceptional person — by many, many dogs. I loved him tremendously.”
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Mull also enjoyed lengthy stints in the 1990s as the befuddled principal Willard Kraft on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and as Leon Carp, the gay boss and pal of Roseanne Connor (Roseanne Barr), on Roseanne.
He played private detective (and master of disguise!) Gene Parmesan on Arrested Development and a pharmacist who wasn’t above sampling his product on Two and a Half Men. He earned his only Emmy nomination in 2016 for his performance as political operative Bob Bradley on Veep.
The clever Mull starred with frequent collaborator Fred Willard and co-wrote the 1985 Cinemax mockumentary The History of White People in America and its 1986 sequel. He also portrayed Colonel Mustard on the big screen in Clue (1985). More recently, he was one of the old guys on the Fox sitcom The Cool Kids and an acid-tripping attorney on Netflix’s The Ranch and recurred on ABC’s Not Dead Yet.
Combining his knack for song and comedy, Mull found early success in 1970 when country music star Jane Morgan recorded his parody “A Girl Named Johnny Cash,” a riff on Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue.” It stuck around on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart for five weeks.
Mull went on to play the guitar in nightclubs and sing parodies he wrote, pop tunes like “Santa Doesn’t Cop Out on Dope,” “Loser’s Samba” and “Jesus Christ Football Star.” He opened for the likes of Frank Zappa, Randy Newman, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel, and his eponymous first album, released in 1972 on Capricorn Records, featured drummer Levon Helm of The Band.
“While his peculiar sense of humor is evident on all of his albums, Mull is no Weird Al-style parodist,” Stewart Mason wrote about the offbeat performer on the AllMusic.com website. “His albums are skewed singer/songwriter, pop/rock with a strong jazz influence, which just happen to have funny lyrics.”
However, it was as Garth and Barth Gimble, the very different identical twins from Fernwood, Ohio — the mythical setting for the Norman Lear-produced Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman — that placed Mull in the national spotlight.
Designed to poke fun at America’s obsession with consumerism and pop culture, Mary Hartman starred Louise Lasser as an unassuming housewife trying not to lose her mind in the banal hell known as suburbia. Mull joined the syndicated series in 1976 for its second season and quickly became one of its most despised characters — the wife-abusing Garth.
“I thought they hired me because I was a comedian,” Mull said in a 2014 interview. “I was kind of surprised when all of a sudden we got all this Virginia Woolf-ish high drama. I didn’t like the character at all. I don’t care for violence, and wife-beating is particularly repugnant to me, so it was quite hard.”
Despite Mull’s reservations, his razor-sharp comic timing and sly, off-center approach made Garth work. Audiences cringed but laughed when Gimble locked his wife in the closet and then kissed the closet door as he left for work.
Al Burton, the series’ creative supervisor who hired Mull, figured he would be perfect for the controversial character. “Martin is one of a kind,” he said. “He has this unique hateful quality while still being an appealing performer.”
Though Garth appeared in only a handful of the show’s 325 episodes, he went out with a bang. In one of the most macabre plot twists in TV history, he met his end by being impaled on the star atop an aluminum Christmas tree in his closet.
But Mull’s stay in Fernwood was just getting started. In the last month of the series’ run, he reappeared as Barth Gimble, a smarmy type who had trouble adjusting to small-time life. For reasons never quite revealed (it was hinted his situation involved an underage girl in Miami), Barth decided it best to lay low in Fernwood.
When Mary Hartman ended in 1977, Lear created the spinoff Fernwood 2 Night. Produced by Alan Thicke, it featured Barth as a leisure suit-wearing talk show host whose insufferable ego had him believing he was the Tri-County’s answer to Johnny Carson.
Joining the show was Gimble’s sidekick, Jerry Hubbard (Willard). Much to Gimble’s constant annoyance, Hubbard was the epitome of cluelessness. When a female guest brought the discussion around to gynecology, Hubbard innocently asked if a cure had been found for that.
“Barth would host the town’s premiere talk show, bringing on guests to recall their UFO sightings and anchoring segments such as ‘Talk to a Jew,'” Rolling Stonewrote in 2015. “Martin Mull and Fred Willard don’t get nearly enough credit as a crack comic duo, and the show’s skewering of the format’s cliches — made to seem even cheesier by the public-access production values — set the pace for the faux-sincere showbiz parodies and fake late-night programming (see Larry Sanders) that would become a comedy staple in the years to come.”
Fernwood 2 Night became a cult hit, and many of Lear’s friends asked to be on it. The producers couldn’t figure out a way to make sense of all these famous folks showing up in a small Ohio town, so they moved the show to the fictitious Alta Coma, California, the “unfinished furniture capital of the world.” Renamed America 2-Night, the show now had Gimble and Hubbard interviewing Burt Lancaster, Carol Burnett, Charlton Heston and Jim Nabors.
Martin Mull (right) and Fred Willard on the 1995 ‘Roseanne’ episode “December Bride.”
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Martin Eugene Mull was born in Chicago on Aug. 18, 1943. His father, Harold, was a carpenter, and his mother, Betty, an actress and director. He was raised in North Ridgeville, Ohio, and New Canaan, Connecticut.
His original plan was to become a painter, and he studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, receiving a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and a master’s in painting. To earn money for tuition, Mull organized bands, and the experience opened his eyes to the world of entertainment.
His first album included the songs “Ventriloquist Love” (sample lyric: “Whenever I kiss you / your lips never move”) and “I Made Love to You in a Former Life.” He followed that with a 1973 live LP, Martin Mull and His Fabulous Furniture in Your Living Room!! — which also featured Mull doing stand-up bits — and 1974’s Days of Wine and Neurosis.
Mull was recommended to Lear after someone spotted him at a nightclub performance.
After his initial TV success, Mull was signed by ABC Records, which released his albums I’m Everyone I Ever Loved and Sex and Violins, which earned a Grammy nomination in the best comedy recording category and was produced by Frank DeVol, who played bandleader Happy Kyne on Fernwood 2 Night.
He created (with Steve Martin and Craig Kellem) and starred as a Seattle television commentator on the CBS sitcom Domestic Life, but it lasted just 10 episodes in 1984. He lasted longer on Roseanne, on which Leon in 1995 married a character played by Willard in one of TV’s first gay weddings.
Mull also had recurring roles on The Jackie Thomas Show, The Ellen Show, Dads, Life inPieces and American Dad!, among other shows.
He starred alongside Tuesday Weld in Serial (1980), directed by Bill Persky, appeared as himself in Robert Altman’s The Player (1992) and showed up in such other films as FM (1978), Mr.Mom (1983), O.C. and Stiggs (1985), Far Out Man (1990), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Jingle All the Way (1996) and Killers (2010).
Survivors include his third wife, Wendy Haas, whom he married in 1982, and Maggie, a TV writer-producer (Life in Pieces).
Lizzy Musi, a race car driver who starred on Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings and multiple Discovery spinoffs, died June 27 of breast cancer at her North Carolina home, her father announced on social media. She was 33.
Musi was diagnosed triple-negative Stage 4 breast cancer in April 2023 and had been chronicling her fight with the disease on Instagram.
“I can’t even begin to explain everything I’ve been going through and dealing with this cancer diagnosis – a lot of people had their doubts about me,” she toldDrag Illustrated in August. “I’m very thankful and blessed that I can keep doing what I’m doing.”
Musi was a longtime racer who last year became the first female driver to win an event on Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings, driving a nitrous-boosted 2012 Camaro dubbed The Aftershock. (Watch video of her win at Tulsa Raceway Park from Episode 4 of Season 2 below.) She won three consecutive races during that 2019 season.
She also appeared on Discovery’s Street Outlaws spinoffs Locals Only, Gone Girl and Fastest in America. “No prep” means that the racing surface is left unprepared to simulate street conditions.
In July 2014, Musi became the first woman to win a Pro Nitrous national event at the Professional Drag Racers Association U.S. Drags. Musi was featured often in Drag Illustrated magazine and covered its February 2014 issue and was director of the family business Musi Racing in Mooresville, NC. Her father Pat Musi is an eight-time PDRA pro street world champion and renowned engine builder.
“Surrounded by her Family, in the comfort of her own home, Lizzy was called to heaven at 11:25pm tonight,” Pat Musi’s Facebook post reads. “Thank you for all the prayers and support throughout her battle. At this time, the family would like to have time to process, [grieve] and make arrangements in peace. We will give an update as soon as we have information to share.”
IATSE and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers said Thursday that they have reached a a tentative agreement on all issues for the Area Standards Agreement, the companion contract to the Basic Agreement that got its own tentative deal Tuesday night.
The latest agreement between the union and reps for the studios and streamers means that pending ratification, there will be no IATSE strike coming this summer.
“Members and signatories will have the opportunity to review the agreement in the form of a detailed summary in the days to come, followed by a Memorandum of Agreement (M.O.A.) at a later date,” the two sides said in a joint statement today.
The news comes after Tuesday night the two sides reached a deal on the Basic Agreement more than a month ahead of the expiration of that contract, whic covers the around 50,000 members of the mainly Los Angeles-based 13 West Coast Locals.
The tentative Area Standards Agreement deal came after two days of talks. The pact reps IATSE’s 23 Locals across the nation and their 20,000 members.
Remaining for a clean sweep of Hollywood labor deals is the AMPTP‘s contract talks with the Teamsters. Those negotiations are expected to ramp up again ahead of the current contract’s July 31 expiration date. It’s unclear how much progress those negotiations have made, but both IATSE and the Teamsters previously signaled they were uninterested in extending their contracts past this date to accommodate further talks.
In an enormous cultural loss reminiscent of the degaussed tapes incidents in the early days of television, Paramount Global has removed the online archives to ComedyCentral.com, TVLand.com, MTVNews.com, and CMT.com from public access.
The move takes away a quarter century or more of online content. It is unclear if the content has been saved for future use.
In a statement, a Paramount Global spokesperson said the takedowns came as part of a broader website strategy across Paramount. “We have introduced more streamlined versions of our sites, driving fans to Paramount+ to watch their favorite shows.”
The writers, editors and videographers on the sites were apparently given no warning of the changes, sparking outrage that their work has now vanished.
Michael Alex, part of the team that launched MTV News in 1996, posted to Facebook about the move. “It’s a huge loss and a waste of something extremely valuable to anyone who cares about the history of great music,” he wrote.
The comedycentral.com website hosted clips from all episodes of The Daily Show since 1999, and bits of Stephen Colbert’s The Colbert Report, among other content.
A notice on Comedy Central’s website states, “While episodes of most Comedy Central series are no longer available on this website, you can watch Comedy Central through your TV provider. You can also sign up for Paramount+ to watch many seasons of Comedy Central shows.” A similar notice appears on TVLand.com.
Production on the long-awaited sequel to 2003′s “Freaky Friday,” starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, is officially underway.
On Monday, Disney unveiled a behind-the-scenes photo from the set of “Freaky Friday 2,” showing Curtis and Lohan in character as body-swapping mother-daughter duo Tess and Anna Coleman, respectively.
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“The Colemans are back and coming to theaters in 2025!” the studio wrote on social media.
Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan on the set of "Freaky Friday 2." The film is due out next year.
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Directed by Nisha Ganatra, “Freaky Friday 2” will pick up with a now-adult Anna who is raising a daughter of her own and is set to become a first-time stepmother.
According to press notes, Tess and Anna will “discover that lightning might indeed strike twice” as they “navigate the myriad challenges that come when two families merge.”
In addition to Curtis and Lohan, actors Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray and Rosalind Chao are among those who will also reprise their roles from the 2003 film.
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“Freaky Friday,” based on Mary Rodgers’ 1972 novel, follows a mother and daughter as they magically switch bodies. Though the 2003 movie is the best known among modern audiences, the book was previously adapted for the screen in 1976 with Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris and again in 1996 with Shelley Long and Gaby Hoffmann.
A stage musical adaptation premiered in 2016 and was produced for the Disney Channel two years later.
Curtis and Lohan at the Los Angeles premiere of "Freaky Friday" in 2003.
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Both Curtis and Lohan have been hinting about the possibility of “Freaky Friday 2” in interviews for some time.
“As I went around the world with ‘Halloween Ends,’ people wanted to know if there was going to be another ‘Freaky Friday.’ Something really touched a chord,” Curtis told The New York Times in May 2023. “When I came back, I called my friends at Disney and said, ‘It feels like there’s a movie to be made.’”
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Lohan confirmed on SiriusXM’s “Andy Cohen Live” in March that a sequel was in the works, but she stayed mum on details.
“I don’t want to say too much. And we’re both excited,” she said. “I’m gonna speak for Jamie.”
Lohan welcomed her first child, son Luai, with husband Bader Shammas in July 2023.
In 2022, she returned to acting after a near-decade hiatus, taking a starring role in the Netflix comedy “Falling for Christmas,” and in January, she had a surprise cameo in the movie musical adaptation of “Mean Girls,” which starred Reneé Rapp.
Justin Timberlake is grateful for his fans following his DWI arrest.
After briefly admitting "it’s been a tough week" at his concert Friday in Chicago, on Saturday night, Timberlake expanded on his gratitude, without directly mentioning his arrest.
"This [tour] is just something that keeps watching over me, more so on this tour than any other," the singer said, according to People. "And that's that mostly all of us here in this room tonight, in this arena tonight, have grown up together. So many of you come up to me and say, 'I grew up with you, man.'"
"... I want each and every one of you to know I've grown up with you," he continued. "You have been such a big and beautiful part of my life and sometimes I can't find the words to show my gratitude that you guys just keep riding with me and riding with me."
Justin Timberlake addressed his audience at his concert Saturday, saying, "You have been such a big and beautiful part of my life and sometimes I can't find the words to show my gratitude that you guys just keep riding with me and riding with me" per People.(Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
He also noted, per the outlet, that whether someone was a fan from his *NSYNC days or his solo work, he appreciated they’re support, thanking them for being "here right now and I just wanna say you guys keep loving me and coming back and spending and sharing this experience with me."
"And from the bottom of my heart, I want you to know that until I'm somewhere off this earth, I will never forget each and every one of you," Timberlake said. "You made my life so special. And tonight in Chicago, you have made us feel loved."
Saturday was Timberlake’s second night at Chicago’s United Center, and his 22nd overall show on his Forget Tomorrow World Tour.
During Friday’s concert, his first appearance on stage following his arrest, he told the audience, "It’s been a tough week," adding, "I know I'm hard to love sometimes but you keep loving me right back."
Timberlake also said fans, whether they've been with him since his *NSYNC days or are newer, have "made my life so special."(Michael Buckner/Billboard via Getty Images)
He has two upcoming shows on June 25 and June 26 at New York City's Madison Square Garden, per his tour schedule.
Timberlake was arrested in his gray 2025 BMW in Sag Harbor on Long Island around 12:15 a.m. on June 18. He failed to stop at a stop sign and was unable to stay in the right lane before he was pulled over, then "performed poorly on all standardized field sobriety tests," according to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital.
He was described as having "bloodshot and glossy" eyes, a "strong odor of an alcoholic beverage was emanating from his breath" and he was "unable to divide attention," per the documents. He also exhibited "slowed speech" and was "unsteady afoot" and performed poorly on all standardized field sobriety tests.
According to the documents, Timberlake said he’d only had one martini and was following some friends home. After his arrest, he was taken to a police station in nearby East Hampton, where he refused a breathalyzer test.
Justin Timberlake's mugshot taken at the Sag Harbor Police Department was released last week.(Sag Harbor Police Department)
Page Six reported that the Sag Harbor police officer who pulled Timberlake over said he didn't know who the singer was or recognize his name. As captured on body camera footage, the officer allegedly responded, "What tour?" when the performer said under his breath that the arrest was "going to ruin the tour."
The "Sexy Back" singer was charged with one count of driving while intoxicated along with citations for failure to keep right and failure to stop at a stop sign, the district attorney's office confirmed to Fox News. He is expected to appear virtually for his first court hearing in the matter on July 26.
According to Page Six, the arresting officer allegedly didn't recognize Timberlake and asked, "What tour?" when Timberlake supposedly said the arrest, was "going to ruin the tour."(Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
On Wednesday, Timberlake's lawyer, Ed Burke, commented on his client's arrest, telling Fox News Digital, "I look forward to vigorously defending Mr. Timberlake on these allegations. I will have a lot to say at the appropriate time but am currently awaiting full discovery from the District Attorney’s office."
Fox News Digital's Christina Coulter, Lauryn Overhultz, and Caroline Thayer contributed to this report.
