July 2022 Entertainment News Super Quiz

“Minions: The Rise of Gru” is the title of the 2022 addition to the Despicable Me franchise. The movie made an estimated $125 million domestically for its four-day opening weekend – the biggest opening ever over the July 4th holiday weekend.

Who’s the Previous Record Holder?

Minions 2 surpassed the previous biggest opener over the July 4th weekend, “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” which made $115 million in 2011.

Were People Banned From Seeing Minions 2?

A TikTok trend featuring large groups of teenage boys dressed in suits disrupting Minions 2 screenings became viral during the movie’s opening weekend. As a result, some UK cinemas ban young people wearing suits from attending Minions 2 screenings.

Ye (the artist formerly known as Kanye West) wore all black, including a full face mask, hat, and gloves, at the 2022 BET Awards. The famed rapper came to present Sean “Diddy” Combs (formerly Puff Daddy) with the BET lifetime achievement award along with Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds.

The 90s crossover house anthem “Show Me Love” by Robin S. was prominently sampled in Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul,” the first single from her upcoming album “Renaissance,” out July 29, 2022.

What’s Beyoncé’s highest-debuting single?

Beyoncé’s “formation” holds the title of the singer’s highest-debuting single of her career, opening at No. 10 in May 2016. “Break My Soul” “debuted at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the week of June 27, after just three days of tracking. It marks Beyoncé’s seventh-highest debut on this chart.

Tom Cruise was born on July 3, 1962, making him 60 in 2022.

Where did Tom Cruise celebrate his 60th?

Cruise spent his birthday in the UK, making an appearance at the British F1 Grand Prix on July 4, 2022. On July 1, he attended Adele’s concert at British Summer Time Hyde Park Festival in London.

Any other reasons for celebration?

A few days earlier, on June 26, Variety reported that after only 31 days in theaters, “Top Gun: Maverick” had become Tom Cruise’s first movie to surpass $1 billion in ticket sales worldwide.

Lindsay Lohan was born on July 2, 1986. Lohan celebrated her 36th birthday with an Instagram picture of her with financier Bader Shammas, saying, “I am stunned that you are my husband.“

Is Lindsay Lohan Married?

The couple announced their engagement in November 2021. Both People magazine and Entertainment Tonight confirmed the marriage had taken place.

Matt and Ross Duffer are the twins who created Netflix’s “Stranger Things.” On July 6, 2022, Netflix announced it’s developing a spin-off of “Stranger Things.” The new series will be based on an original idea from the Duffer twins and will be part of a deal to develop additional projects, such as a live-action TV adaptation of the Japanese anime series “Death Note.”

Demogorgon was the original Stranger Things monster who ravaged Barb (Shannon Purser) and Dr. Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine) in season 1.

How is Stranger Things Doing in 2022?

Total viewership for Stranger Things has surpassed 1.15 billion hours, Netflix announced on July 5, 2022. Netflix’s 80s horror fantasy has become its most popular English-language series. Only one other Netflix show has reached 1 billion viewing hours: “Squid Game.”

HBO’s Succession topped the list of most-nominated shows for 2022’s 74th Emmy awards with 25 nominations, and won the awards for best drama, best writing for a drama series, and supporting actor in a drama series (Matthew Macfadyen). The White Lotus and Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso were the following most-nominated shows at 20 nods each. The White Lotus took the best limited-series award, creator Mike White took the best writing and best directing awards, and Jennifer Coolidge and Murray Bartlett won the supporting acting award. The show won 10 Emmys altogether, more than any other series. Ted Lasso took the prize for best comedy series, with Jason Sudeikis winning the lead actor in a comedy series award and Brett Goldstein taking the supporting actor award. The 74th Emmy awards aired on NBC on Sept. 12, 2022.

In a deal with BTS’ management company HYBE announced on July 11, 2022, Disney will stream a BTS documentary series and concert on its streaming services next year. In “BTS Monuments: Beyond the Star,” the group’s members will reveal their daily lives, thoughts, and plans, including music and footage from the past nine years.

What else does the BTS-Disney deal include?

The agreement also includes a recording of the group’s first performance in November 2021, following a 2-year interval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, this deal features the reality show “In the Soop: Friendcation,” which features V from BTS, Seo-jun Park from “Itaewon Class,” Woo-shik Choi from “Parasite,” singer and actor Hyung-sik Park, and rapper Peakboy taking a surprise trip. In June 2022, BTS announced it was taking a break while members worked on solo projects.

Hocus Pocus, starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy, premiered in 1993, telling the story of the three Sanderson sisters in Salem, Mass., who spent 300 years asleep before being resurrected on All Hallow’s Eve. The film failed at the ’93 box office but gained massive fan recognition over countless Halloween reruns.

Is there a 2022 Hocus Pocus?

The first teaser trailer for “Hocus Pocus 2” was released on June 28, 2022. The sequel premiered on Disney+ on Sept. 30. Watch the trailer.

Netflix’s “Day Shift” follows Jamie Foxx as a blue-collar dad who sells vampire teeth for profit. Dave Franco and Snoop Dogg are joining Foxx as members of an international union of vampire hunters. The movie streams on Netflix starting Aug. 12, 2022. Watch the first trailer.

Sopranos actor Tony Sirico, who played Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri on the classic HBO show, died on July 8, 2022, aged 79, in an assisted living facility in Fort Lauderdale. According to his manager, the actor had been living with dementia for the last couple of years.