The Fellowship was reforged over the weekend, when The Lord of the Rings veterans raised their glasses together on Friday.

In an Instagram post, Dominic Monaghan shared a photo of the reunion of the stars from the blockbuster franchise including himself, Orlando Bloom, Elijah Wood and Billy Boyd.

In the snap, the actors can be seen raising shot glasses and smiling while sitting together at a dining table.

"3 hobbits and an elf and the CONVERSATION tonight was VAULTED," Monaghan wrote in the caption.

The reunion took place ahead of the group’s appearance at Liverpool Comic Con in the United Kingdom this weekend.

Prior to getting together with the group, Monaghan also posted a throwback photo of the cast members last week, displaying their early days as young actors while working on the film franchise.

"This weekend we form like voltron at #liverpoolcomiccon," he captioned the post.

In response, Bloom added the comment, "Best photo [red heart emoji]."

In the Oscar-winning trilogy, which ran from 2001 to 2003, Bloom played the role of elf Legolas Greenleaf, while Wood, Monaghan and Boyd respectively played hobbits Frodo Baggins, Meriodoc "Merry" Brandybuck and Peregrin "Pippin" Took.

After the series ended, the actors continued to portray their characters in The Hobbit prequel trilogy.

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Actor Bernard Hill, who had roles in The Lord of the Rings movies and Titanic, died Sunday, his manager William Blaylock confirmed to ABC News. He was 79 years old. Hill began his career in the 1970s with roles in films like It Could Happen To You. His career would span nearly five decades with perhaps his most famous role occurring as Captain Smith in James Cameron's Titanic, in which his character donned a white beard as he went down with the ship he steered. More commercial success came years later, as Hill played Théoden, King of Rohan, in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King ...

Gen V, which starts shooting its second season this month, revealed how the show will handle Chance Perdomo's death at the age of 27 in March. "As we continue to navigate the tragic loss of Chance Perdomo, everyone at Gen V is determined to find the best way to pay respect to his memory," the show posted on its Instagram page. "We won't be recasting the role, because no one can replace Chance. Instead, We have been taking the time to space and recraft our Season 2 storylines as we begin production in May," the Post continued. "We will honor Chance and his legacy this season" ...

Meanwhile, Prime Video has dropped the trailer for season 4 of The Boys, which confirms Gen V stars Maddie Phillips and Asa Germann, who played Cate Dunlap and Sam Riordan, respectively, will be joining the series. "This country is corrupt beyond repair, so we gotta save it," Antony Starr's Homelander says in the footage. "It's not gonna be easy; we'll have to do some terrible things for the greater good. You'll no longer be beloved celebrities. You will be wrathful gods. Show me a little wrath." Amazon will debut the first three episodes of The Boys' fourth season on June 13, and on a weekly basis thereafter ... (Trailer contains uncensored profanity.)

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The Fall Guy topped the North American box office with an estimated $28.5 million in its opening weekend. The action comedy, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, was expected to grab between $30 and $40 million, according to Variety.

The movie added an estimated $25.4 million at the international box office, for a worldwide total of $65.4 million.

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, rereleased to honor May the Fourth, took second place, earning an estimated $8.1 million. The film, originally released in 1999, earned an estimated $6.4 million overseas, for a global tally of $14.5 million.

Third place went to the Zendaya-led romantic sports drama Challengers, which collected an estimated $7.65 million at the domestic box office. Its two-week global tally currently stands at over $52 million.

The second of this week's two major releases, the horror film Tarot, debuted in fourth place with an estimated $6.5 million. It added an estimated $3.7 million overseas, for a worldwide total of $10.2 million.

Rounding out the top five was Godzilla x Kong: A New Empire, snagging an estimated $4.5 million in its sixth week of release. The fifth film in the Monsterverse franchise has grossed $188 million domestically and more than $546 million globally, making it the year’s second-highest-grossing movie.

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On Saturday morning, May 4, legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola dropped a tease to his decades-in-the-making, mostly self-funded epic Megalopolis.

In the snippet, apparently from the movie's opening moments, one of the movie's many stars, Adam Driver, playing a man named Caesar, emerges from a window atop what appears to be New York City's Chrysler Building.

Dressed in a black suit and shirt, he shakily makes his way to the ledge, taking in the view, before he takes a fateful step off.

However, he's heard screaming "Time stop!" and sure enough, Caesar is paused mid-step, his body leaning over to the point where gravity would have logically already taken him. There's a dizzying zoom of the height of the building from his perspective, from where we can see traffic has been stopped in its tracks, too.

Impossibly, Driver leans back onto the roof, and snaps his finger, and time and traffic resumes, and he seems to gaze at the city before him with fresh eyes. The teaser then cuts to black as ominous music plays for nearly 10 seconds until it ends.

Megalopolis reportedly centers on the rebuilding of a New York-like city after a disaster. The Oscar-winning filmmaker's cast includes Driver, Shia LaBeouf, and Coppola's sister and Godfather and Rocky franchise star Talia Shire, as well as Oscar winners Forest Whitaker, Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman; Oscar nominee Laurence Fishburne; Emmy nominee Giancarlo Esposito; Licorice Pizza's Isabelle Kusman; Saturday Night Live's Chloe Fineman and Fast and Furious series star Nathalie Emmanuel.

Megalopolis is set to premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on May 17.

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Timed in anticipation of May 4's Star Wars Day, Julien's Auctions and Turner Classic Movies have announced a cargo hold's worth of Star Wars stuff will hit the block June 13 through June 15. 

As part of the Hollywood Legends: Danger, Disaster and Disco event in Los Angeles and online, "the ultimate collection of costumes, props, behind the scenes production material, models, photographs, memorabilia and beyond from the pop culture phenomenon" is going up for auction. 

But you better be packing some serious credits — or really good credit. If past auctions are any indication, these items will go for a lot more than estimated, and they're not cheap to begin with.

Among the items up for grabs is Pedro Pascal's helmet from the Disney+ series The Mandalorian, expected to fetch between $20,000 and $30,000. 

Other items include the very head of the heroic droid K-2S0 from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, estimated to fetch between $20,000 and $30,000, and a TIE Fighter helmet as seen in that film ($40,000 to $60,000).

There are also items from 1977's original Star Wars and from the Sequel Trilogy, like the quarterstaff prop used by Daisy Ridley's Rey, estimated to sell for between $20,000 and $30,000.

Check out the collection here, and trust the Force you can win the Powerball between now and June 13.

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Night Court will stay in session at NBC. The network announced on May 3 that the show, which stars Big Bang Theory alumna Melissa Rauch and original Night Court star John Larroquette, will return this fall.

Rauch co-executive produces the show and plays Judge Abby Stone, the daughter of Night Court's Judge Harry Stone, who was played by the late Harry Anderson. She told ABC Audio before the renewal news that fans seemed to spark to one key change to the show in the second season.

"Something that we learned from the first season is that everyone wanted more 'court' in Night Court, which I absolutely love." She added, "The nature of the original, and this revolving door comedy that could come in, when you have these left-of-center cases ... can really drive that comedic engine."

The show was NBC's top-ranked comedy in primetime.

Rauch also revealed playing Abby is a bit easier than playing Bernadette, her character on the long-running The Big Bang Theory, because she no longer has to affect that character's high-pitched, nasally voice all day.

"Yeah, it's definitely different," she says with a laugh.

"I've always sort of used my voice as a way into character. The voice, the pitch or the tenor is usually how I first start dissecting the role, and then sort of figure everything else else out from there. But with Abby, I knew that I wanted it to be as close to my normal voice as possible."

She does add she "watched a lot" of Anderson in the original series to try to pick up "a similar cadence and some of his mannerisms" to bridge between the father and daughter.

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On Friday, May 3, the cast of Netflix's Emily In Paris teased the show's upcoming fourth season, as star Lily Collins revealed it will be split in two. 

Part one drops August 15, the actress explains. "Part two drops on September 12. You're welcome," she says as she blows a kiss to the camera.

The snippet also had Collins and her castmates trying to sum up the forthcoming fourth season in three words. Collins starts with "vulnerable." Other descriptors are "messy," "heartbreaking" and "l'amour," but Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, who plays Sylvie, only needed one word: "revenge."

Ashley Park, who plays Mindy, used up her three words with "not finished yet." After stalling in French, Lucas Bravo, who plays Gabriel, spent his three on "Holy f****** s***!"

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(NOTE LANGUAGE) After marathon movies like the Oscar-winning Oppenheimer and the nominated Killers of the Flower Moon, it seems Americans are longing for some shorter entertainment.

According to a new poll of 2,000 Americans that was conducted by Talker, the ideal length of a movie for our collective attention spans is 92 minutes.

For the record, movies that clock in at that length include 2004's Dodgeball, 1988's Beetlejuice and 1999's Toy Story 2.

Just 15% of those polled say movies should be more than 2 hours, the survey says.

Just 2% say a movie should be more than 2 and-a half hours long.

Incidentally, shortly after Pete Davidson rapped about his need for a short-a** movie on Saturday Night Live, Netflix posted a section dedicated to movies that get you in and out around 90 minutes.

Survey questions, methodology and results have not been verified or endorsed by ABC News or The Walt Disney Company.

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Have no fear, your reality roundup is here! Here's a look at what happened in the world of reality television this week:

Gypsy Rose: Life After Lockup (Lifetime)
Gypsy Rose Blanchard may have been released from prison a few months ago, but she says in the new trailer for her Lifetime series Gypsy Rose: Life After Lockup, she does not feel free. "I feel like I am in a different form of prison,” Blanchard says. The show, which premieres June 3, will cover everything from death threats Blanchard received on Instagram to the fallout of her marriage to Ryan Anderson, whom she married in 2022 during her prison sentence.

Vanderpump Rules (Bravo)
Bravo boss Andy Cohen has given his perspective on Vanderpump Rules taking a production pause over the summer. During the May 1 episode of his SiriusXM show Andy Cohen Live, Cohen was asked about the popular show taking a break. “We used to do this all the time with the Housewives. ... We would say, ‘You know what, let’s put cameras down for four or five months and come back to them,'" Cohen said. "Sometimes you do want people to live their lives and see how things develop ... so I think it's a very good idea.”

The Real Housewives of New Jersey (Bravo)
A new sneak peek for season 14 of The Real Housewives of New Jersey is here. It shows off familiar faces Teresa Giudice, Melissa Gorga, Dolores Catania, Margaret Josephs, Jennifer Aydin, Danielle Cabral and Rachel Fuda, who are all returning as full-time Housewives, and also features an explosive table fight. Bravo also released this season's taglines, including gems like, "I'm bougie, unbothered and above your drama" from Cabral, and "It's hard not to burn bridges when you're on fire" from Gorga.

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Saturday, May 4, is Star Wars Day, and the official website of that galaxy far, far away is helping fans celebrate.

In addition to deals and discounts on Star Wars games and other goodies, there are a host of food and beverage recipes to get fans in party mode. Among those are instructions to whip up a traditional Chandrillan Squig, named after the little worm that gives the bevvy an extra kick, as seen in the acclaimed series Andor.

Don't worry, the worms are made of gelatin.

There's also a Correllian iced coffee recipe, complete with a Millenium Falcon-shaped hunk of ice, or you can bake a batch of Bad Batch cookies, named after the Star Wars animated series about the titular clones on the run.

This year, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace comes back to theaters to celebrate its 25th birthday, promising a sneak peek of the upcoming Disney+ series Star Wars: The Acolyte.

Some theaters are doing movie marathons of every so-called Skywalker Saga films — that's episodes one through nine.

If you prefer to stay at home, all of the films are available on Disney+, as will be the debut of the animated Star Wars: Tales of the Empire. Even if you don't subscribe, the Star Wars movies will be running on FX throughout the weekend.

Disney is the parent company of ABC News.

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Global action superstar and Everything Everywhere All at Once Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh will receive the highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, at the White House on Friday, May 3.

Yeoh was among 19 honorees, named by President Joe Biden, who "made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors."

Former talk show giant Phil Donahue was also among the honorees in the announcement, as were politicians including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former Senator John Kerry, former Vice President Al Gore and entrepreneur-turned-former New York City mayor and presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg.

Others who will receive the honor this year include Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman in space, and Opal Lee, an educator and activist who helped make Juneteenth a federally recognized holiday.

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Ready, set, binge! Here's a look at some of the new movies and TV shows streaming this weekend:

Hulu
The Veil: Elisabeth Moss plays an international spy in the new action series.

Welcome to Wrexham: Follow the incredible story of the Welsh football club that defeated the odds in season 3 of the documentary series.

Prime Video
The Idea of You: Romance lovers, rejoice. Anne Hathaway stars alongside Nicholas Galitzine in the new film.

Max
Turtles All the Way Down: The Fault in Our Stars author John Green is back with a new movie based on his most recent novel.

Hacks: Jean Smart returns to her Emmy-winning role in the season 3 premiere of the comedy series.

Netflix
Unfrosted: Jerry Seinfeld makes his directorial debut with a film about the creation of Pop-Tarts.

That’s all for this week’s Weekend Watchlist – happy streaming!

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Kevin Spacey has gone on the attack regarding a new U.K. documentary called Spacey Unmasked that will feature interviews with men that purportedly had interactions with the embattled Oscar winner.

The documentary will air on the U.K.'s Channel 4 on May 6 and 7, but could come to our shores thanks to a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns Max.

In a post on X, Spacey expressed, "Over the last week, I have repeatedly requested that @Channel4
afford me more than 7 days to respond to allegations made against me dating back 48 years and provide me with sufficient details to investigate these matters."

He continued, "Channel 4 has refused on the basis that they feel that asking for a response in 7 days to new, anonymized and non-specific allegations is a 'fair opportunity' for me to refute any allegations made against me."

Spacey added, "I will not sit back and be attacked by a dying network's one-sided 'documentary' about me in their desperate attempt for ratings. There's a proper channel to handle allegations against me and it’s not Channel 4."

Spacey, who in 2023 was found not guilty in a U.K. court of multiple charges of sexual assault dating back decades, added, "Each time I have been given the time and a proper forum to defend myself, the allegations have failed under scrutiny and I have been exonerated."

He also implored fans to "tune in" to his social media "to see my response" to the two-part doc.

For its part, Channel 4 insisted to Variety that it gave Spacey "sufficient opportunity to respond" to the project.

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Twilight actress Kristen Stewart and Dune's Oscar Isaac have been tapped to lead the cast of the thriller Flesh of the Gods, according to Deadline. Isaac and Stewart will play a married couple in 1980s Los Angeles who are "seduced into a glamorous, surrealistic world of hedonism, thrills and violence," per the outlet. The film is set to shoot later this year ...

Paul Walter Hauser seems to be everywhere lately, and he's about to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe, according to Deadline. The Richard Jewell star has been tapped for an undisclosed role in Marvel's upcoming Fantastic Four movie. As previously announced, Pedro Pascal will play Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby will portray Sue Storm/the Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn will take on the role of Johnny Storm/the Human Torch, Ebon Moss-Bachrach will play Ben Grimm/the Thing and Julia Garner will play Shalla-Bal, a version of the iconic Silver Surfer. The Fantastic Four is set to hit theaters July 25, 2025 ...

Netflix has dropped the official trailer for Eric, the drama series starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Eric follows Cumberbatch as a father desperately searching for his 9-year-old son, who disappears one morning on the way to school, per the streaming service. Gaby Hoffmann, McKinley Belcher III, Dan Fogler and Phoebe Nicholls also star, along with Clarke Peters, Ivan Howe, David Denman, Bamar Kane, Adepero Oduye, Alexis Molnar and Roberta Colindrez. Eric begins streaming May 30 ...

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As part of its announcement of its 2024-25 season, CBS announced it has tapped Drew Barrymore to be the center square in an all-new version of the classic TV game show Hollywood Squares. 

Squares has been slated for a midseason bow. Like previous iterations of the show, contestants play tic-tac-toe with star-filled cubes for cash and prizes. "The celebrities are asked questions and the contestants judge the legitimacy of their answers to win the game," CBS explains for the uninitiated.

The host of her eponymous hit chat show is also producing Squares through her Flower Films banner. 

The series will premiere in January as part of CBS' Game Show Wednesdays lineup, paired with returning shows The Price Is Right at Night and Raid the Cage.

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