As everybody is aware of, the Tremendous Bowl is the most important occasion in Hollywood—er, I imply sports activities.
The gradual evolution of the championship sport right into a night-long bonanza of showbiz spectacle reached its inevitable apex Sunday evening with a Tremendous Bowl that came about in Los Angeles, permitting the strains between sporting occasion and leisure to lastly blur fully.
Fittingly, the official telecast on NBC kicked off with an homage to Hollywood, with Halle Berry welcoming the TV viewers to the sport by outlining how a lot a great soccer sport and nice film have in frequent. To rejoice the primary time in three a long time that the Tremendous Bowl has been in L.A., the Hollywood-themed opening vignette additionally featured appearances from Kevin Hart, Carrie Underwood, and Peyton Manning. (In response to Selection, elements of the TV spot have been truly filmed in Nashville and Denver.)
As Berry toured sound phases the place new films centered round soccer have been being made, Manning and Underwood bought some good jokes in—he was sad to be taught that he could be Shane Falco’s backup in The Replacements 2, whereas Underwood reworked the lyrics for “Earlier than He Cheats” for a musical model of The Blind Aspect. However the bulk of the TV spot was an artfully-edited montage of well-known films about soccer, together with Any Given Sunday, Friday Evening Lights, Hoosiers, Little Giants, and, uh, Forrest Gump.
Seems an important sport in sports activities is de facto in regards to the magic of films.
For a Hollywood-themed opening, the vignette may very well be the least star-studded ingredient of Sunday’s telecast.
Recording artists Jhene Aiko and Mickey Guyton carried out minutes after the spot aired, the latter completely torching her rendition of the nationwide anthem. Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar will headline the halftime present. Film trailers for upcoming blockbusters will seemingly anchor most industrial breaks—the primary one after the opening spotlighted The Misplaced Metropolis, starring Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, and Brad Pitt. And that’s to not point out the slew of celebrities slated to look in massive advert campaigns.
Spots that includes Lindsay Lohan, Scarlett Johansson, Megan Thee Stallion, Pete Davidson, and Ewan McGregor have already been previewed.
Whereas Berry’s industrial opened the official NBC telecast, it’s Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson who bought the sport began.
Together with his arched eyebrow and flared nostrils, he was in basic “do you scent what the Rock is cooking?” mode as he bellowed from the sphere: “Lastly, the Tremendous Bowl has come again to Los Angeles!”
And with that the day’s massive film, I imply sport, started.
