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Will Ferrell that their famous “More Cowbell” Saturday Night Live sketch from 2000 ruined his life, the latter has revealed.The sketch paid tribute to Blue Öyster Cult’s 1976 classic ‘(Don’t Fear) The Reaper’, with Walken playing a producer, Bruce Dickerson, ordering Ferrell’s Gene Frenkle to play the cowbell with more enthusiasm, to the chagrin of the rest of the band.Over two decades on, Ferrell, who wrote the sketch, admitted in Peacock’s SNL 50: Beyond Saturday Night documentary series that Walken came to resent it over the years – as he found out when he visited the actor – who was appearing in Martin McDonagh’s A Behanding In Spokane on Broadway – in 2010.“I went to see [Walken] backstage, and he’s like, ‘You know, you’ve ruined my life… every show, people bring cowbells for the curtain call and bang them,” Ferrell said. “It’s quite disconcerting.’”Walken didn’t take part in the instalment of the docuseries looking at the sketch, but has previously said, via the New York Post, “I don’t understand why it follows me around like it does….

Sky News, Cineworld is looking to close up to a quarter of its 100 UK cinemas in total, and renegotiate rental agreements on around 50 sites.The chain, which currently operates 100 cinemas in the UK, plans to close cinemas in Glasgow Parkhead, Bedford, Hinckley, Loughborough, Yate and Swindon Circus. Further closures are expected this summer.A spokesman told The Mirror: “We are implementing a restructuring plan to provide our company with a strong platform to return our business to profitability, attract further investment from the Group, and ensure a sustainable long-term future for Cineworld in the UK.”Recently, Hugh Grant lamented the “unbearable” closure of a London Picturehouse cinema on Fulham Road after 94 years in operation.

Hugh Grant has spoken out against the closure of his local Picturehouse Cinema in southwest London on the eve of screens going black at the venue which has been home to a cinema theater for nearly one hundred years.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Hugh Grant recently took to X (formerly Twitter) to mourn the closing of his local U.K. movie theater. Cineworld announced earlier this month it was closing down Picturehouse, a boutique arm of movie theater chains that includes Grant’s beloved Fulham Road cinemas.

Hugh Grant has lamented the “unbearable” closure of a London Picturehouse cinema on Fulham Road after 94 years in operation.Picturehouse, the UK boutique cinema arm of ailing Cineworld, announced the closure on July 11 of its Fulham Road cinema last month.Grant, who lives close to the cinema, described it as “strangely unbearable” on Twitter/X and went on to decry streaming platforms, which many argue are behind a drop in people attending the cinema.Grant wrote: “Fulham Rd cinema closing after 94 years. Strangely unbearable. Let’s all sit at home and watch <content> on <streaming>.

Paul Giamatti celebrated his win at the 2024 Golden Globe Awards in a fun way!