5 Quick Questions: Who is General Aladeen?

General Aladeen is Sacha Baron Cohen’s character in The Dictator.

News fact:

Screenshot: 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards

General Aladeen made a surprise visit to the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards as Sacha Baron Cohen won the 2021 Comedic Genius Award on Sunday's May 16, 2021 ceremony. Also “interrupting” Baron Cohen’s speech were fictional characters, Ali G, Bruno, and Borat. Watch the bit.

Bonus Question:

Who were the winners of the MTV Comedic Genius Award before Sacha Baron Cohen?

MTV has previously given the award to only three comedians: Melissa McCarthy, Kevin Hart, and Will Ferrell.

Screenshot: 2021 MTV Film & TV Awards

Comedian Colin Jost slimed wife Scarlett Johansson for her Generation Award at the 2021 MTV Movie and TV Awards in Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards style. "MTV, you got slimed," said Jost. "That's Nickelodeon," Johansson blurted. "I'm very, very sorry," he said, as he promised to "get a towel." Watch it.

What’s the MTV Generation Award?

The award celebrates "beloved actors whose diverse contributions to both film and television have turned them into household names." Actors who previously received the award include Sandra Bullock, Jim Carrey, Reese Witherspoon, Adam Sandler, and Tom Cruise.

The movie Look Who’s Talking (1989) teamed up John Travolta as a new father and Bruce Willis as his baby’s voice.

New Fact:

Deadline has learned that Bruce Willis and John Travolta are starring together again for the first time since Pulp Fiction, 27 years ago, in the action pic Paradise City. Production started Monday, May 17, 2021, in Maui, Hawaii. Chuck Russel (The Mask) is directing the film about a renegade bounty hunter and a Hawaiian crime kingpin.

AT&T owns CNN, HBO, and Cartoon Network by acquiring Time Warner Inc., which the phone giant completed in 2018.

WarnerMedia Discovery 2021 Merger:

According to May 16, 2021, Bloomberg report, AT&T Inc. is preparing to spin off its media business and merge it with Discovery Inc. - which indicates a surprise reversal for a company that spent $85 billion to acquire the assets less than three years ago. The idea is to combine Discovery’s reality-TV empire with AT&T’s vast media holdings, building a business that would be a formidable competitor to Netflix Inc. and Walt Disney Co.

Utopia Planitia (loosely, the plain of paradise) is the largest recognized impact basin on Mars, with an estimated diameter of 3300 km - The Martian region where the Viking 2 lander touched down and began exploring on Sept. 3, 1976.

What’s new?

The Chinese Zhurong rover touched on Utopia Planitia on May 14, 2021, as a part of the Tianwen-1 mission. Its height is about 1.85 m (6.1 ft), and it has a mass of about 240 kg (530 lb). After the rover deployment, the orbiter would serve as a telecommunications relay for the rover while conducting its orbital observations of Mars.