Catching you up on the entertainment headlines of the day with "Top Gun: Maverick" making $19.3M in previews, BTS heading to the White House, and "Ozark” reclaiming the throne as number one in the Nielsen streaming ratings.

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Hello. Hello everyone. Welcome to Between Bells. I'm baker Machado. I'm in adobe. Thank you so much for joining us. A huge our ahead coming up guys, I hope you're sitting down for this one. We're gonna be joined by the food god. He's going to talk about his new food truck project and we're gonna play a very fun game with him. We love games here. Plus we recap the week's most bizarre headlines and guys, there's a lot we're not sure how we only chose three, but we did. Yeah. And then a little bit later. Yes, it's the return of this week in trivia. Although we should note our executive producer slash host of that program, Connor White, not in today, so make it work. So you and I are going to be hosting this. But until then let's get you caught up in some of the top entertainment headlines we're following for you today. And Top Gun Maverick flying into theaters, the long awaited sequel to the iconic 1986 movie opening for previews on thursday before launching in 4700 theaters today. Top Gun to earning a massive $19.3 million in its early previews, marking the best preview gross in paramount's history and also the best for any memorial Day release. The action film easily headed for the biggest opening of Tom Cruise's career at the box office. Official tracking has a four day gross of at least $92 million. Which by the way, that's on the conservative side. Top Gun Maverick could soar well past $100 million after the weekend. The fans have been eagerly awaiting the release as it's been delayed two years because of the pandemic overseas. The Top Gun sequel has yet to secure a china release date and it won't open in south Korea for at least two more weeks now. Matthew Belloni you know who I'm obsessed with over news, he is now even projecting 100 and $25 million on this particular movie. So maybe 100 might be the benchmark for it to clear and anything over that would be incredible. But even still to think of all of the movies that tom Cruise has done over the course of his career, that Mission Impossible franchise. The list goes on to think that he's never crossed $100 million ever on a box office opening weekend is really incredible. But again every review so far stellar. Still a 97% rating on rotten tomatoes even after all the previous. Even after all the previous people still read this before. I haven't seen a movie that's not comic book related or superhero related Do this well and get this much hyped by the way. I just read this yesterday. Those navy planes to rent $11,000 an hour an hour. That was crazy. It was crazy to think of how much money they had to spend just to read all those because those planes by the way are sort of like the big draw especially if you're seeing it like an imax theater and everything. I was gonna say you you gotta are you planning maybe not this weekend, but I think I think I'm seeing it too very soon. And BTS is heading to the White House. The K pop group will meet with president joe biden on Tuesday may 31st to celebrate the end asian pacific american heritage month BTS plans to address a api representation and anti asian discrimination amid a wave of anti asian hate crimes here in the U. S. These incidents have reached unprecedented levels. Anti asian hate crimes increased 339% nationwide last year. That's according to the center for the study of hate and extremism to address the matter, biden has signed the Covid 19 hate crimes act into law that happened in May of 2021. The law provides law enforcement with resources to identify, investigate and report hate crimes and ensure information on these horrific incidents is more accessible to the api community. Last year. BTS was named special presidential envoy for future generations and culture by the U. N. Now the biden administration has called on celebrities and influencers like Olivia Rodrigo. Remember when she went to the White House to address certain obstacles and connect with young americans BTS or really even when Olivia Rodrigo went, do you remember just all the hype and the media frenzy around them, especially for that younger demographic BTS has such a huge following. I love that they're bringing this into the fourth look and they've done this with Tiktok stars when it came to misinformation about Covid as well. The by administration really sort of tapping into the pop culture zeitgeist of who's really big and famous, sort of get a lot of these messages out and you're absolutely right, you can't get a bigger person or a bigger group that is BTS. Meanwhile, Ozark back on top once again, that's because the final episodes of the netflix series helped it climb to the top spot in Nielsen's streaming rankings between april 25th to May the first. Ozark was the number one title by a long shot. It racked up 2.58 billion minutes of viewing time just for that week. That marks the crime dramas, 18th billion minute week since Nielsen began measuring those streaming content viewer numbers, Grace and Frankie also jumped up the list with its release of its final episodes. The series starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin draws an audience that is 76% white and female. According to Nielsen. The series finished second with 701 million minutes of viewing time. Moon Knight came in third selling Sunset and Britain round out the top five. Shondaland has already revealed Britain has also been renewed for season three and season four? So obviously those numbers incredibly good for Ozark. Not surprising, especially given the fact that it's the final season of of that series. But a lot of experts also think that those numbers going to completely change now for Nielsen numbers, given the fact that Stranger Things that's coming out this week. And so how much does that sort of changed sort of the top 10 there for netflix? I think I've watched every one of those shows in the top five except selling Sunset. Oh yeah, you remember seeing too much and selling Sunset. It's not that well. Look, somebody that loves the reality show selling, selling Sunset's. Okay, there's better options out there. But look, it's really, really, really popular, obviously.