See your "Friends" on the big screen. Deck out your place with "Friends" decor. Heck, buy the "Friends" Lego set and pretend it's for your kid. If you're a "Friends" superfan, there are lots of ways to celebrate the show's 25th anniversary in September.
"It transcends generations," Maryellen Zarakas, a Warner Bros. senior vice president, said of the show that ended in 2004 after 10 seasons. "Everybody still goes through growing up into your 20s when you get your first job, your first heartbreak, your first time your friends really become your family."
The studio has partnered with a range of companies to celebrate the quarter-century mark. Fans broke Fathom Events' website, for about 15 minutes anyway, when tickets went on sale for three days of movie-house screenings of popular episodes. A dozen episodes are hitting movie theaters Sept. 23, 28 and Oct. 2. Each night includes four "Friends" episodes that have been newly remastered in 4K resolution from the original 35mm camera negatives. There will also be never-before-seen extras.
Pottery Barn takes a turn at "Friends' " merchandise with everything from mugs to tea towels and a reissue of the famous apothecary coffee table that Rachel tried to pass off as flea market to roommate Phoebe, who was not a Pottery Barn fan. The Season 6 episode was aptly named "The One with the Apothecary Table."
Are you ready for some football?
Carrie Underwood came up with the perfect idea for this season's "Sunday Night Football" opener as the NFL celebrates its 100th anniversary. This season, the show will open with the original "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night" song, but this time Underwood will be joined by Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Joan Jett. Jett's band, the Blackhearts, also performs. A preview of the new opener will air during Sunday's preseason game between Pittsburgh and Tennessee. "Waiting All Day for Sunday Night" was adapted from Jett's 1988 hit "I Hate Myself for Loving You." Pink performed it first in 2006, followed by a country version sung by Faith Hill for six seasons and then Underwood, who did her own version from 2013 to 2015.
dismissed: Charges against a man accused of stealing Frances McDormand's Oscar statuette from an Academy Awards after-party have been dropped. The trial for Terry Bryant was to begin Tuesday, but Los Angeles prosecutors said in court that they were unable to proceed with the case against the 58-year-old. A judge then granted a defense motion to dismiss it. McDormand won the award for best actress for "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" on March 4, 2018, and lost the statuette after having it engraved at the post-show Governors Ball. Associated Press video shows Bryant leaving the party holding an Oscar.
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