Roger Friedman

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HBO’s “The Last of Us” is having a bad time and may not recover. This past Sunday, the zombie drama dropped by 100,000 viewers from the previous week. Total linear viewers came to 652,000. That’s because series lead Pedro Pascal, who played Joel, was violently killed off. Since then, the show has been turned over to Ellie, played by Bella Ramsey and her pregnant lover, Dina. They’re on a quest for revenge over Joel’s death. At the end of the episode, they beat one of their enemies to death.

2 days ago | showbiz411.com | Roger Friedman

Bruce Springsteen kicked off the new leg of his tour in Manchester, England tonight. Watch him rail against Donald Trump, calling him corrupt and incompetent.

2 days ago | showbiz411.com | Roger Friedman

You always have to say this for Tom Cruise: he’s all in on every movie he makes. He’s as devoted to movie making as he is to Scientology. You can’t question his devotion to a project. So when “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning” was released, and was a disappointment, he and director Christopher McQuarrie had their work cut out for them. They’d already filmed a lot of the sequel, “Dead Reckoning Part II,” during the making of the first installment.

2 days ago | showbiz411.com | Roger Friedman

You can watch the Mission Impossible Final Reckoning red carpet in Cannes below. It’s star studded but reports from my spies say there’s no big party after the screening. They say, “Tom has get on a plane immediately.”Of course he does!The New York premiere is set for Sunday night at Lincoln Center. Also, no party. Right now, a huge structure is being built on the Lincoln Center Plaza for the red carpet. It looks like a military installation.

2 days ago | showbiz411.com | Roger Friedman

HBO Max is alive!Warner Bros. is reversing course and naming its streaming service, MAX, with its old moniker. It’s like Classic Coke. Now HBO Max will once again stream the shows of HBO and originals. MAX sounded like it was something to with Mad Max, or the name Woody Allen and Tony Roberts used for each other in “Annie Hall.”David Zaslav, the quixotic owner of Warner Bros.