Rock Report - August 15

Sad news from the “Star Wars” family.
“Sausage Party” had a strong debut…was it enough for #1?
Rick Astley & AC/DC together at last! (…yup.)

Yeah, some unfortunate news over the weekend,
Kenny Baker passed away.
He played R2-D2 in the first six “Star Wars” films.
There were tributes from Mark Hamill and George Lucas.
Baker was 81.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpvaHOZur4k

Thomas Gibson was recently let go from “Criminal Minds”
over an incident with a producer.
Apparently, he’s lawyered up and is considering a suit
against CBS.
Gibson was let go from “Criminal Minds” this past Friday.

“Suicide Squad” brought in $43.8 Million, good for #1 this past weekend.
“Sausage Party” had a strong debut with $33.6Million
and “Pete’s Dragon” debuted with $21.5 million.
These are all playing in town,
Click here for show times.

Yup. Rick Astley singing AC/DC.
Yup.
(I have nothing else to say to this.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3bpiDlTMe0

Vin Diesel took to his Facebook page
to lodge a complaint about the new xXx movie: It’s too short!
He said that it was amazing and his costars were terrific
BUT, at 90 minutes, he wanted more.
Looking forward to this!
“xXx 3” is out in January.

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