Dennis Quaid on eloping during pandemic, buying Ronald Reagan memorabilia ahead of biopic role

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It’s no secret that television and film production faced wildly unprecedented challenges over the past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with shows and movies delayed or halted in the middle of shooting, some never to resume again.

Sony is reporting the Thursday night previews to Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway which began at 4pm yesterday at 2,572 theaters, and the long-awaited Will Gluck directed sequel grossed $900K. The first Peter Rabbit in February 2018 didn’t hold any previews.

£5.4 billion spending on tech for over-60s and boosted their mental health as families ensure they stay in touch, reveals new research from Capital One UK. Around 16.9 million UK adults have bought a new device or given a second-hand one to someone aged 60-plus since March last year, the research found.

Jon M. Chu’s long-awaited feature adaptation of the Lin-Manuel Miranda/Quiara Alegría Hudes Tony-winning musical In the Heights finally hits theaters and HBO Max this Friday, and in a recent Fandango poll of 1,300-plus moviegoers, 96% of ’em say it’s the first movie they plan to see since the pandemic shuttered theaters.

PORTLAND, Maine -- Vinyl record sales surged during the pandemic as music lovers fattened their collections, and audio cassettes began a comeback as well, keeping business spinning at record stores.Easing restrictions on indoor shopping and continued interest in vinyl records provide stores — and shoppers — something to cheer on Saturday, the first of two Record Store Day dates.

Tiger King series on Peacock has cast Dennis Quaid as Rick Kirkham.Joe Exotic (working title) will see Quaid playing Exotic’s reality show producer Kirkham, opposite John Cameron Mitchell as Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel himself.The new show will also star Kate McKinnon as Carole Baskin, Brian Van Holt as John Reinke, Nat Wolff as one of Joe’s husbands Travis Maldonado, and Sam Keely who will play John Finlay.Joe Exotic will be based on the Wondery podcast, and, per Deadline, follows “big cat

Dennis Quaid is the latest to join Peacock’s upcoming scripted series on Joe Exotic. Quaid will play Rick Kirkham, who was Joe’s reality TV show producer.Based on the Wondery podcast “Joe Exotic,” hosted and reported by Robert Moor, the limited series will center on Carole Baskin, a big cat enthusiast, who learns that fellow exotic animal lover Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel is breeding and using his big cats for profit.

Dennis Quaid is jumping on the “Tiger King” train. The actor has signed on to play reality show producer Rick Kirkman in the Peacock limited series, tentatively titled “Joe Exotic”.

Dennis Quaid has entered the tiger’s den and will join Peacock’s Joe Exotic (working title) as Rick Kirkham.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Dennis Quaid will play Rick Kirkham in the upcoming Peacock series “Joe Exotic.” Kirkham, an American journalist based in Norway, was the “Tiger King’s” reality show producer. Quaid joins previously announced series leads Kate McKinnon, who will play Carole Baskin, and John Cameron Mitchell, who will play Joe Exotic.

Permanent vacation! Kourtney Kardashian purchased a new home in the Palm Springs, California, area last week, a source exclusively tells Us Weekly.

failed 1981 attempt to assassinate then-President Ronald Reagan, has churned out a half-dozen original love songs and covers of works by Elvis (“Can’t Stop Falling in Love”), Bob Dylan (“Blowing in the Wind”) and more on his 5-month-old YouTube channel. On December 11, 2020, a guitar-strumming Hinckley, 66, posted his first video — an original diddy titled “Majesty of Love” — that has garnered over 64,000 views.

Refresh for updates: Paramount’s A Quiet Place Part II grossed $4.2M yesterday, which is the best Tuesday recorded at the domestic box office since the onset of Covid in mid-March of last year.

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