The List for Tuesday May 5th 2020

With Mothers Day just around the corner some of your favorite country stars are talking about moms and being moms – Thomas Rhett Says His Wife, Lauren, Is A Good Mother … “She’s definitely calmer than I am. Like, I kind of get anxious a lot with our kids, like, ‘Is this okay that they’re doing this?’ And Lauren’s just like, ‘Honey, she is two. She is fine.’ But I think that’s just kind of like the perfectionist in me just wantin’ to make sure I’m doing everything right. But yeah she’s a very good, laid back mother.”

Carly Pearce Is Missing Her Mother While Quarantining … “Knowing that my mom is gonna be alright, and being able to really be around her. Even though I’m going to see her, I’m staying at a different house. I’m not going to be really around her. She has stage four COPD. So this is a really, just terrifying time for my family of … she already has probably 30 percent lung use. So, I am literally one of those people that’s like, ‘Do this for my mom if you’re not doing it for anybody else.’ It’s killing her to not be able to be around me. So, this coronavirus has taken a hit in my immediate family of just trying to make sure she’s all right.

It’s official – Nicolas Cage will portray the “Tiger King” Joe Exotic in an eight-episode scripted series about the imprisoned big-cat owner. The limited series — which is not to be confused with the Kate McKinnon “Tiger King” scripted show in the works at UCP — hails from Imagine Television and CBS TV Studios. No network or platform is currently attached to the show, which has the working title “Joe Exotic,” but an individual with knowledge of the project said it will be taken to mark in the next few days. so, hold on to your hats…it’s gonna get bumpy – Here’s the synopsis for the series: The story centers around Joe Shreibvogel, an eccentric, exotic zookeeper in Oklahoma who fights to keep his park — even at the risk of losing his sanity. The series will live in the lion’s den with Joe, explore how he became Joe Exotic, and how he lost himself to a character of his own creation. The show is based on the Texas Monthly article “Joe Exotic: A Dark Journey Into the World of a Man Gone Wild,” by Leif Reigstad. Lagana and Paul Young optioned the rights through Lagana’s overall deal at CBS Television Studios in June of 2019.

Tom Cruise and Elon Musk’s Space X are working on a project with NASA that would be the first narrative feature film — an action-adventure — to be shot in outer space. It’s not a “Mission: Impossible” film and no studio is in the mix at this stage but look for more news soon.

Sylvester Stallone tells Entertainment Tonight that he is developing a sequel to Demolition Man. “We’re working on it right now with Warner Brothers. It’s looking fantastic. So, that should come out, that’s going to happen.”

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