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A restaurant in Volusia County is ready for its close-up. Filming will begin next week in New Smyrna Beach for a new Apple Original Films production starring Brad Pitt. The movie, as yet untitled, is about Formula 1 racing and it's by the team behind "Top Gun: Maverick." Some scenes will be filmed at Pappas Drive-In and Family Restaurant on North Dixie Freeway, and employees will be extras. Daytona International Speedway confirms production will also take place in the coming days during Road Before the Rolex 24 and Rolex 24. The movie is expected to be released in the summer of 2025.
A full reconstruction of a Triceratops skeleton is coming to the University of Colorado's Boulder campus. The dino is a cast of various bones found in the 19th Century that were later assembled into a complete skeleton. The triceratops was a plant-eating dinosaur that lived in areas including what's now Colorado nearly 70-million years ago.
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2024/01/16/full-triceratops-skeleton-now-calls-boulder-home
It appears Arnold Schwarzenegger ran into some problems at an airport in Germany. TMZ says the actor and former governor of California was stopped after trying to take an "unregistered" luxury watch through customs. Schwarzenegger was reportedly detained for three hours. He agreed to prepay potential taxes on the watch, but a credit card machine failed for an hour and an ATM machine had too low of a cash withdrawal limit. Schwarzenegger is expected to auction the watch in Austria to benefit his nonprofit that supports clean energy efforts.
A school here in Florida is giving you a chance to choose its next mascot. Florida State College Jacksonville says the search is down to three finalists based on voting by students, employees and the community. The top three choices were Kraken, Manta Ray and Sea Dragon. You can choose your favorite at the website FSCJ.edu/Mascot. Voting lasts through next Tuesday.
A Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band is joining Super Bowl festivities. Green Day is set to headline EA Sport's Super Bowl party "The Madden Bowl." The event is going down on February 9th at the House of Blues in Las Vegas. In a statement, Green Day said they're going to bring the loudest show of Super Bowl Weekend.
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/green-day-super-bowl-party-hedliner-ea-sports-1235581052/
The Tampa Bay Bucs might need noise-canceling headphones in their helmets when they play at Detroit this Sunday. That's because Lions fans are loud. How loud are they? Last weekend, they broke the decibel record at Ford Field. During the Super Wild Card matchup between the Lions and Los Angeles Rams, the crowd volume reached 133-point-six-decibels. The CDC says that's the equivalent to the sound of a jet engine. Meanwhile, NBC said the game averaged 35-point-eight-million viewers on all platforms, which makes it TV's most watched prime time show since last year's Super Bowl.