Disney+ is rolling out a cheaper, ad-supported subscription tier later this year. There’s no word on the price, but Disney+ now costs $7.99 a month, or $79.99 a year.
Papa John’s is currently hiring any baseball player who has extra free time due to the MLB lockout. Atlanta Braves players DANSBY SWANSON and JOC PEDERSON already did a shift last Friday, making pizzas and folding boxes at a Georgia location.
“The Batman” crushed it at the box office this weekend, making $128.5 million in its first three days. That’s the second largest opening since the pandemic started, behind “Spider-Man: No Way Home” . . . which had a $260 million debut back in December. A new poll says that Ben Affleck was the best Batman . . . followed by Michael Keaton. Voice actor Kevin Conroy came in third. Rounding out the Top 5 were Christian Bale and Adam West.
NBC is doing a “Survivor” knockoff called “Million Dollar Island”. 100 contestants will compete for $1 million during a 50-day stay on a deserted island. There’s no word yet when it’ll air.
PARKER MCCOLLUM won Best New Male Artist and LAINEY WILSON won Best New Female Artist for tonight’s ACMs. The cool part is how THEY found out. MIRANDA LAMBERT told each one during a SURPRISE Zoom call. Parker was at his mom’s house in Fort Worth, Texas. [I] was getting ready for a random interview . . . opened his computer and the video popped up and Miranda was on there. Lainey had a similar experience. It was Thursday and she thought she was doing an interview with a TV station in Vegas . . .she clicked the Zoom link and sees Miranda pop up and was thinking she might’ve like, ‘I clicked on the wrong link.
You might be seeing JASON ALDEAN have a very uncomfortable moment at tonight’s ACMs. It’ll be when he’s introducing somebody. “I’m setting an artist up to sing. I think it’s the first time I’ve ever done that. I know you have to read a teleprompter. If you see me up there squinting, it’s because I can’t see. “I’m that guy on my phone with the largest font you can get, because I can’t see it anymore. I need Lasik.”
GARTH BROOKS and TRISHA YEARWOOD spent time with Jordan and Jennifer Turpin on Saturday in San Diego. They’re two of the 13 Turpin siblings who escaped their parents’ “House of Horrors” in Perris, California in 2018. Jennifer and Jordan shared photos and videos of the concert and them hanging out.
MORGAN WALLEN’s “Dangerous: The Double Album” is unstoppable. It’s spent more weeks in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 than any other country album in history. It’s been there for 60 weeks, which passes Taylor Swift’s previous record of 59 weeks for her album, “Fearless”.
MILEY CYRUS found out that a young fan was selling his toys so he could see her at Lollapalooza in Argentina . . . so she gave him tickets.
Amanda Gorman is 24. America’s National Youth Poet Laureate.
Jenna Fischer is 48. Pam on “The Office”.
Lynn Swann is 70. NFL Hall of Famer.
Franco Harris is 72. NFL Hall of Famer.
