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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin informed that Pete Davidson “is no longer able to join the NS-20 crew on this mission,” and they “will announce the sixth crew member in the coming days.” The 28-year-old Saturday Night Live star had been slated to depart on March 23 alongside Marty Allen, SpaceKids Global founder Sharon Hagle, Tricor International CEO Mark Hagle, entrepreneur Jim Kitchen, and Commercial Space Technologies President George Nield; however, his aspirations to visit earth’s orbit came to an end.To date, it is unknown the reasons why the Staten Island native won’t join the A-listers already launched to the edge of the milky way in a Blue Origin shuttle. Pete would have been the fourth celeb breaching the atmosphere after Michael Strahan, William Shatner, and Jeff Bezos.In January, Pete Davidson and his girlfriend Kim Kardashian arrived at Bezos‘ estate in Los Angeles.

NEW YORK -- Pete Davidson has bowed out of a short ride to space on a Jeff Bezos rocket.The “Saturday Night Live” star is no longer able to make the flight, which has been delayed for nearly a week, Bezos' space travel company said Thursday night. No other details were provided.The company announced earlier this week that Davidson would be one of six passengers on Blue Origin's next flight.

Pete Davidson is set to join Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin flight next week.The Saturday Night Live comedian will be the third celebrity to join a flight on Bezos’ space travel venture, following William Shatner last October and Michael Strahan in December.Davidson will be on board for the launch currently scheduled for March 23. Blue Origin promises several minutes of weightlessness above the surface of the Earth, before parachuting and landing in the desert of West Texas.Other passengers for next week’s flight include CEO and investor Marty Allen, Sharon and Marc Hagle, teacher and entrepreneur Jim Kitchen, and former NASA manager George Nield.Meanwhile, Pete Davidson finally broke his silence and responded to Kanye West in relation to their ongoing feud.Davidson, who is dating West’s estranged wife Kardashian, has been the subject of public attacks from Kanye in recent weeks and months, including songs and music videos in which the rapper threatened violence against the Saturday Night Live comedian.According to now-deleted screenshots reportedly posted to Instagram by his friend and collaborator Dave Sirus, Davidson engaged in a lengthy text conversation with Kanye.

NEW YORK -- Pete Davidson is heading to space.The “Saturday Night Live” star is among the six passengers on the next launch of Jeff Bezo's space travel venture Blue Origin, the company announced Monday.The launch is scheduled for March 23 and Davidson will be the third celebrity on a Blue Origin flight. William Shatner was on a flight in October, blasting off from West Texas and reaching a height of roughly 66 miles above Earth on the 10-minute jaunt.Former NFL great and “Good Morning America” co-host Michael Strahan flew on Blue Origin's second passenger flight in December, joining astronaut Alan Shepard's daughter on the journey.

Sandra Bullock and Daniel Radcliffe attended the premiere of their new film ‘The Lost City’ at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, TX and posed together while smiling and looking stylish.

Sandra Bullock appeared at SXSW in Austin, Texas, for the premiere of her new movie “The Lost City”.

LONDON -- Polish Nobel literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk and Israeli novelist David Grossman are both in the running, for a second time, for the International Booker Prize for fiction in English translation.Tokarczuk’s “The Books of Jacob” and Grossman’s “More Than I Love My Life” are among 13 books on the long list for the award, whose 50,000-pound ($66,000) prize money is split between a book’s author and its translator.Both are previous winners: Grossman in 2017 for “A Horse Walks into a Bar” and Tokarczuk for “Flights” in 2018, the same year she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.The list announced Thursday features works from 12 countries on four continents, including “Tomb of Sand” by India’s Geetanjali Shree; “Heaven” by Japan’s Mieko Kawakami; “After the Sun” by Denmark’s Jonas Eika; and “Elena Knows” by Claudia Piñeiro of Argentina.Translator Frank Wynne, who is chairing the judging panel, said the books circled the globe and ranged “from the intimate to the epic, the numinous to the profane.”Six finalists are set to be revealed on April 7 and the winner will be announced on May 26.The International Booker Prize is awarded every year to a book of fiction in any language that is translated into English and published in the U.K. or Ireland.

EXCLUSIVE: George Robinson, the star of Netflix’s Sex Education, is attached to headline the movie Still Life based on the award-winning Texas Monthly 2009 article of the same name written by Skip Hollandsworth.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe “One Piece” live-action series at Netflix has added six new cast members, Variety has learned.Morgan Davies (“The End,” “The Evil Dead: Rise”), Ilia Isorelýs Paulino (“The Sex Lives of College Girls,” “Me Time”), Aidan Scott (“Action Point,” “Between the Devil”), Jeff Ward (“Brand New Cherry Flavor,” “Hack”), McKinley Belcher III (“Ozark,” “The Good Lord Bird”) and Vincent Regan (“300,” “Troy”) have all joined the series.They join previously announced cast members Iñaki Godoy, Mackenyu, Emily Rudd, Jacob Romero Gibson and Taz Skylar. The new cast members will appear as the following characters: Davies as Koby, Paulino as Alvida, Scott as Helmeppo, Ward as Buggy, Belcher as Arlong, and Regan as Garp.

Bullet Train, an action thriller starring Brad Pitt as a deadly assassin, has been released.Directed by David Leitch (Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde), Bullet Train stars Pitt as Lady Bug, an experienced assassin who boards a Japanese bullet train filled with other professional killers who have been sent to fulfil their own assignments.Based on the novel Maria Beetle by Kōtarō Isaka, the film also stars Joey King, Andrew Koji, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Zazie Beetz, Masi Oka, Michael Shannon, Logan Lerman, Hiroyuki Sanada, Karen Fukuhara, Benito A Martinez Ocasio aka Bad Bunny, and Sandra Bullock.In the trailer shared by Sony Pictures, Pitt is shown encountering another assassin played by Bad Bunny, soundtracked by Bee Gees track ‘Stayin’ Alive’.Lady Gaga was originally cast for Bullock’s role but she was forced to exit the project over scheduling conflicts with Ridley Scott film House Of Gucci.Along with Bullet Train, Pitt is set to make an appearance in upcoming film The Lost City alongside Bullock and Channing Tatum. He’s also been cast in Babylon from director Damien Chazelle (La La Land, Whiplash), set to be released in December.

Brad Pitt is engaged in an epic battle royale on a high-speed train in director David Leitch’s highly anticipated “Bullet Train”.

The debut trailer for Brad Pitt‘s upcoming action movie, Bullet Train, just debuted online!

Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock's action movie about five assassins aboard the same bullet train out of Tokyo, which is based on the Japanese novel  by Kotaro Isaka.In the trailer, Pitt's character sets out for his first mission back to work, which is relayed to him by Bullock's character. Once onboard the bullet train, though, it soon becomes clear that the mission won't be as easy as he thought, with several others trying to accomplish the same thing.What ensues is a star-studded, action-packed adventure, complete with quippy one-liners, epic stunts and jaw-dropping fight scenes.«Everything that's ever happened to you has led you here.

The Shinkansen, or as it’s known in English, the Japanese bullet train, is a high-speed railway that connects every region of Japan to its capital, Tokyo. It’s one of the busiest railway lines in the world, and there’s never been a single derailment or collision in its history.

South by Southwest Conference and Festivals today announced a final round of Keynotes and Featured Speakers for the 36th annual Conference taking place in Austin, TX from March 11-20, with Ron Howard, Ted Lasso stars Brett Goldstein and Brendan Hunt, actor-filmmaker Gillian Jacobs, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, former U.S. representative Beto O’Rourke, and musicians Brian Eno and Nathaniel Rateliff among the notable additions.