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Get ready to celebrate 'Star Wars' Day with a new convention, the CEO of NBCUniversal addresses all that 'Trolls World Tour' drama and Joel McHale reveals he received serious backlash over one surprising 'Tiger King' reunion special question.

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00:00Get ready to celebrate Star Wars Day with a new convention.

00:02The CEO of NBCUniversal addresses all that Trolls World Tour drama,

00:06and Joel McHale reveals he received serious backlash over one surprising Tiger King reunion question.

00:12First, May the 4th be with you.

00:14While many fan conventions have been put on hiatus as the world continues to cope with COVID-19,

00:19that isn't stopping fans from celebrating Star Wars Day.

00:22THR's Neha Joy has more.

00:23New York Comic Con and Star Wars celebration organizers ReadPop have teamed up for a virtual convention

00:28to celebrate next week's special day called an online revelry,

00:32May the 4th be with you, and Revenge of the 5th.

00:35The celebration will feature multiple virtual events, including live-tweeting the movies

00:39and episodes of both Star Wars The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels,

00:43as well as Q&A sessions and discussions with the writers and actors associated with the franchise.

00:48Next, who knew a movie about musical trolls could cause so much drama?

00:52NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Schell addressed the recent industry debate about Universal Pictures' decision

00:57to break the theatrical window for Trolls World Tour and release the film on PVOD amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

01:03Schell told analysts on a first-quarter earnings conference call on Thursday that the Trolls sequel was ready to go,

01:08and the company had worked hard on it and spent a lot of money on it,

01:11and consumers, quote,

01:12desperately needed a family and kids offering.

01:14Once upon a time, there were two trolls.

01:16They saved the world.

01:18Pretty cute, right?

01:20Schell concluded that he expects consumers are going to return to the theaters,

01:23and PVOD will be part of the film business as a complementary offeree, quote,

01:28not a replacement.

01:29And Comcast CFO Mike Cavanaugh said,

01:31while recent movies have had digital success,

01:33the company will, quote,

01:34determine our future distribution approach on a title-by-title basis.

01:37And remember when Tiger King ruled quarantine?

01:40Joel McHale is speaking out against the backlash he received

01:42after hosting Netflix's Tiger King special from some not-so-cool cats and kittens.

01:47Neha has more on that story, too.

01:48Speaking this week with Conan O'Brien,

01:50McHale says he was shocked to receive backlash over a question he asked

01:53while hosting The Tiger King and I,

01:55a special episode of the wildly popular docuseries,

01:58Tiger King Murder, Mayhem, and Madness.

02:01And then people gave me such shh for asking if Joe Exotic should be in jail.

02:06The host says he was taken aback considering the question wasn't exactly out of left field.

02:11They were like, how dare you?

02:12How dare you?

02:13And I was like, 19 felonies?

02:16For much more on all these stories, head to THR.com.

02:18For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

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