Patricia Arquette is telling the story of how she almost worked with Tom Cruise.
13.02.2023 - 18:45 / variety.com
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Tubi pulled a FAST one on Super Bowl viewers on Sunday night. Tubi, the free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST), ran a clever trompe l’oeil ad that made it look as if viewers’ TVs were changing the channel right in the middle of the climactic end of the Eagles-Chiefs game. The 15-second spot, which ran in the fourth quarter of Fox’s Super Bowl LVII telecast, starts by throwing back to the game’s announcing duo of Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen. (Tubi is owned by Fox Corp.) As Burkhardt and Olsen banter in generalities about the game, an unseen hand pulls up a Tubi on-demand menu on the TV — and after a couple of audible blips, selects “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” the 2005 movie starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, before the Tubi logo flashes on the screen.
The jarring ad left many viewers confused — and angry. SEE ALSO: Super Bowl Ads: Most-Viewed Spots on YouTube “Tubi should be SUED for that commercial,” Barstool Sports’ Rico Bosco groused on Twitter. Pro softball player Haley Cruse Mitchell commented, “That tubi commercial definitely made me start a fight with my husband.” Tubi, which Fox Corp. acquired in 2020 for $440 million, mildly disturbed Super Bowl audiences earlier in the game with “Rabbit Hole,” a 60-second ad featuring gigantic, mute rabbits (gently) kidnapping people and throwing them into holes in the ground. The tagline: “Find rabbit holes you didn’t know you were looking for.” The Tubi ads were created by ad agency Mischief. Watch the Tubi “Interface Interruption” ad:
Patricia Arquette is telling the story of how she almost worked with Tom Cruise.
Patricia Arquette said she’s “a notoriously bad auditioner,” which led her to lose out on the 1996 comedy “Jerry Maguire.” “Everyone was saying, ‘Oh, this is just a formality, you’re gonna read with Tom Cruise for ‘Jerry Maguire,’ but this is your part, you got it,’ and I blew it,” the actor told Variety‘s senior culture and events editor Marc Malkin at the SAG Awards red carpet on Sunday. Renée Zellweger ended up booking the role of Dorothy Boyd in the film, to which Arquette added, “I actually think she was better for it, and she was great.”
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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Max Cutler, one of Spotify’s most senior podcast execs, is departing the streamer after nearly four years with the company. Cutler, who has served as Spotify’s VP, head of talk creator content and partnerships, will be leaving the company to “return his entrepreneurial roots,” according to a source close to Spotify. He had joined Spotify in 2019 with its acquisition of Parcast, the scripted podcast studio he co-founded. Cutler will remain at Spotify until May 1. With Cutler’s exit, Spotify head of global podcast studios Julie McNamara is assuming leadership of licensed podcast exclusives, which include its deals with Joe Rogan, Alex Cooper (“Call Her Daddy”) and Emma Chamberlain.
A woman has revealed that she broke up with her boyfriend because of the way that he reacted to Tubi‘s Super Bowl commercial and the story is going viral online.
Alex Rodriguez and his girlfriend Jaclyn Cordeiro were spotted making the most of the Super Bowl. The pair was spotted having a drink in Scottsdale, Arizona, ahead of the Super Bowl, at the Cash App & Visa h.wood Homecoming pop up experience. A-Rod’s girlfriend uses ceremonial sword to open champagne: ‘almost didn’t make it into 2023’Alex Rodriguez and Jac Cordeiro are Instagram officialRodriguez and Cordeiro were photographed walking hand in hand, talking and enjoying a drink.
pic.twitter.com/zzt0H4CsE1— CONSEQUENCE (@consequence) February 13, 2023Videos of Adele made the rounds on the internet as the Super Bowl was taking place, but she wasn’t the only one who was living their life to RiRi’s performance.Billie Eilish was also spotted dancing and lip-syncing along from her box as well.Adele and Billie Eilish’s reaction to Rihanna’s performance pic.twitter.com/nbSINSSEjY— Fer ³⁰ (@adeleisbaee) February 13, 2023Rihanna took the stage for the first time in seven years and immediately revealed that she was pregnant with her second child.During her 13-minute performance, the Grammy winner and current Oscar nominee delivered some of her biggest hits, including “Bitch Better Have My Money,” “Work,” “Diamonds,” “Only Girl (In the World),” “We Found Love,” “Rude Boy,” and “Umbrella,” all while sporting her baby bump in a bright red outfit.Adele’s support of Rihanna is not surprising given their close friendship. In 2018, Adele wrote a profile of the Barbadian pop chart-topper for Time, calling her a “gracious, loyal and funny goofball of an icon.”The “Rolling in the Deep” talent also described Rihanna as fearless and full of the right kind of attitude.Adele’s appearance at Super Bowl 2023 is the latest that saw her having a good time thanks to another well-known musician.
Ben Affleck starred in Dunkin’s first Super Bowl commercial, and the coffee company has released outtakes showing the star’s hilarious behind-the-scenes moments.In the commercial, Affleck works a Dunkin’ drive-thru window in Medford, Mass., serving donuts and coffee to unsuspected customers while sporting an employee uniform with a headset, black visor and an “America Runs on Dunkin’” shirt.The “Good Will Hunting” star shows off his silly side and his struggles working behind the register in the bloopers.The outtakes show Affleck, 50, rapidly reciting a very complicated breakfast order, causing the customer to question, “Are you alright this morning?” — unaware that on the other side of the headset is the “Argo” star.“I’m struggling,” Affleck says in one blooper, moments before he accidentally knocks over a coffee in a customer’s car.“I can’t make it function — malfunction!” the Academy Award winner exclaims. “Not as easy as it looks operating this apparatus.”The Massachusetts native even gets personal with the people in the drive-thru, asking one how his mother and father are doing before sending him off with his order.At one point, Affleck trolls a customer, telling him they’re out of both donuts and coffee and the only thing they got is water, to which the patron replies, “You’re s- -tting me.”“I’m trying to compensate with comedy for my ineptitude,” the actor admits.And if one outtake video wasn’t enough, Dunkin’ released an even further extended version of this particular scene where Affleck continues to tell this customer, “We got no sandwiches and no muffins.
The Season 2 premiere of Next Level Chef delivered some decent ratings for Fox, thanks to the Super Bowl LVII.
According to Fox, the 2023 Super Bowl ratings are in, and the telecast scored 113 million viewers, achieving a six-year-high in viewership and making it the third-most-watched television show of all time.
Selome Hailu Fox’s telecast of Super Bowl LVII on Sunday night brought in an average 113 million viewers, according to Nielsen. That means that the Kansas City Chiefs’ victory over the Philadelphia Eagles reached a 1% larger audience than last year’s game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals on NBC. These statistics indicate Nielsen’s time zone-adjusted fast national measurements from both events, with this year’s number including viewership across Fox, Fox Deportes and digital Fox and NFL properties. Last year’s 112 million viewers came from NBC, Telemundo, Peacock, NBC Sports Digital, NFL digital platforms and Yahoo Sports mobile properties.
Cue the confetti. The Kansas City Chiefs aren’t the only ones with something to celebrate after Sunday night’s victory over the Philadelphia Eagles during Super Bowl LVII.
halftime show in Arizona on Sunday — though some viewers ridiculed her multi-level extravaganza.The “SOS” singer — who used the performance to low-key announce her second pregnancy with boyfriend A$AP Rocky — was praised in some corners and received backlash from others. The red-clad crooner could have used an “Umbrella,” however, to protect her from the cascade of memes mocking her greatest-hits set.“Me walking past someone and releasing the biggest fart of my life,” someone quipped in the caption for a video of RiRi — who turns 35 on Feb.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor The Super Bowl is over. The path to the next one is just beginning. Before most football fans put the Kansas City Chiefs’ 38-35 defeat of the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LVII behind them, Paramount Global wants to get them to look ahead to the next big NFL spectacular. CBS and various cable networks owned by Paramount Global will Monday evening air a new promo for CBS Sports’ coverage of Super Bowl LVIII in 2024. The spot shows a CBS Sports bus hitting the road on its way to cover the event, scheduled to be broadcast on both CBS and Paramount+ on February 11, 2024, from Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada (one has to assume the bus will take the scenic route, given the substantial time frame). A song from Green Day plays in the background.
Super Bowl 2023 commercial featuring spheres in the sky.“An unidentified object has been spotted over the skies,” the ad proclaimed. While the commercial is advertising “U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at the Sphere” — a series of concerts that marks the band’s first live shows in four years — many on social media were quick to point out the similarities to the Chinese spy balloon that has been making headlines.“Did you guys make this commercial before last week?” one person asked.“Read the room.
anticipation for Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show — midway through the big game, which saw the Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Philadelphia Eagles, 38-35 — was ratcheted up so high simply because the 34-year-old singer is practically coming out of semi-retirement as a performer.This was a moment that the Navy — as Rihanna’s fans are known — has been waiting for, even if it happened in a surprise club cameo downtown at S.O.B.’s.Instead, that comeback performance happened on the biggest of all stages at State Farm Arena in Glendale, Arizona. And the superstar delivered the biggest of surprises — not with any guest performers, but with the revelation that her second child is on the way.
2023 Super Bowl commercial alongside his mom, Gloria Campano, where he was tasked with selling her a cell phone. However, Cooper couldn’t complete the challenge after being savagely mocked by his sassy mom who delivered a series of spontaneous one-liners. According to Ad Age, the duo was originally meant to stick to a script for the commercial before Campano hilariously began to ad-lib.
streaming service dropped a 15-second ad on Sunday entitled “Interface Interruption,” that fooled viewers into thinking they missed part of the big game.The commercial began with Fox Sports announcers Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen speaking and it looked like the football event was back on.However, in a flash, it appeared as though someone was flipping though Tubi’s viewing library on the TV app for something to watch.People were confused and believed they had lost their TV remote and were missing the Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Philadelphia Eagles, 38-35“No, you didn’t sit on the remote. But on Super Bowl Sunday, we fooled audiences into thinking they did,” the company captioned their ad when it was posted on YouTube yesterday.Fans’ jaws dropped down when they saw Tubi’s commercial and weren’t happy with the video.“That Tubi commercial came on & I yelled at every single person in this room,” someone tweeted after its airing.Tubi should be sued for this pic.twitter.com/eHhU7Bmmzs“Tubi should be sued for this,” added another angry fan.The “Morning Brew “Twitter account joked that “Tubi really paid 7 mil to make us all think we sat on the remote…”A viewer chimed in: “I almost threw out my tv during that Tubi commercial.
Fox charged up to $7 million for a 30-second slotand big brands splashed the cash in the hopes of creating TV gold. But while a captivating commercial can be an invaluable investment, it’s hard to pull off given that around 100 million Americans are watching critically and closely.
first teased the commercial with the 50-year-old actor on Instagram last week, with a video that says, “Something’s Ben Brewing.”In January, Affleck filmed at a Dunkin’ location in Medford, Mass., where he was working at the drive-thru window, serving coffee and donuts to customers who were caught off guard by his appearance.In the commercial, Affleck sported an employee uniform with a black visor and shirt that said “America runs on Dunkin’.”He’s seen in the ad wearing a headset and taking orders, struggling to work the company’s ordering system.