Disney+On Thursday, Disney+ revealed that Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard s tribute to the creator of The Muppets will debut on the streaming service May 31. Howard directed Jim Henson: Idea Man, which the streaming service teases "takes us into the mind of this singular creative visionary, from his early years puppeteering on local television to the worldwide success of Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, and beyond."Featuring "unprecedented access to Jim s personal archives, Howard brings us a fascinating and insightful look at a complex man whose boundless imagination inspired the world," Disney+ continues. Henson died May 16, 1990, at age 53 of bacterial pneumonia, but his legacy lives on in a myriad of characters he brought to life, from Kermit the Frog and Big Bird to the fantasy film The Dark Crystal.The documentary was also produced by Howard and his longtime Imagine partner Brian Grazer.Disney is the parent company of ABC News.&nbs
Disney/Scott KirklandAfter kicking off the first three shows of his Killed the Cowboy Tour, Dustin Lynch is officially in the groove of things and ready for an exciting trek."We ve got the plan down and we ve got some reps under our belts now. So now it s just about getting comfortable," Dustin told ABC Audio at Sunday s CMT Music Awards.Comfort, however, was recently shaken up when one of Dustin s band members had a family emergency to attend to, almost leaving them drummer-less."We had a big wrench thrown into the mix. My drummer just had a baby two nights ago. So [on Saturday night], believe it or not, it was like, Okay, will the show go on? And it did," Dustin recounts. "His drum tech jumped up on and absolutely crushed it for us.""You know, the show must go on, and I m just so blessed to be surrounded by such professional, awesome people," the country star adds.Dustin s saddling up for
Warner Bros. PicturesThe night of April 9, Warner Bros. released the teaser trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux. Starring Joaquin Phoenix who won an Oscar for playing the title character, aka Arthur Fleck, in the blockbuster 2019 original the sequel also stars Lady Gaga as the Clown Prince of Crime s eventual queen, Harley Quinn.The trailer is set to a rendition of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David song "What the World Needs Now Is Love." First we see Phoenix s Fleck in prison, where he meets Gaga s Harleen Quinzel, who is clearly an admirer."I m nobody," a bedraggled-looking Harleen tells him. "I haven t done anything with my life like you have."We then see Joker in full makeup onstage, clutching a microphone, while Harleen and Fleck seem to watch from the audience. "Let s get outta here," she whispers to him. Suddenly, she s in full glam, waltzing with Joker, intercut with footage of her wearing her normal clothes, waltzing
Disney/Frank MicelottaAshley McBryde s no stranger to getting unsolicited advice. Sometimes the advice resonates, but sometimes it doesn t.Reflecting on the counsel she s received, Ashley says she s gleaned an important life lesson that inspired "The Devil I Know.""We’re all constantly getting advice from every direction. We are told to do this and told to do that, whether it’s by social media or wherever it is you’re getting your opinions from," Ashley tells the press while sharing the backstory of her latest single."The truth is, things go a lot better when you just trust your gut," she notes.Ashley candidly chronicles this self-belief in the anthemic "The Devil I Know."As the chorus goes, "Momma says, get my ass to church/ Daddy says, get my ass to work/ Doctor says I gotta give up on these smokes/ Everybody s got something to say/ About how I gotta change my ways/ But I got something to say of my own/
Apple Original FilmsChanning Tatum and Scarlett Johansson team up in the trailer to Fly Me to the Moon, a comedy-drama set against NASA s first mission to the moon.Tatum replaced both Jason Bateman and Chris Evans as the lead of the Apple Originals movie once called Project Artemis. He plays Cole Davis, a NASA launch director who is forced to collaborate with Johansson s savvy ad shark Kelly Jones.As Apple teases, "sparks fly in all directions" as Kelly boosts NASA s public image by getting the astronauts product endorsements from everything from Omega watches to Rice Krispies. "When I m done, those men are gonna be bigger than The Beatles," she insists.However, the pair soon have to collaborate on a top-secret mission: faking the moon landing on a Hollywood-type set to fool the Soviets in case the real mission fails. The comedy-drama, from the Arrowverse s Greg