Ryan Gosling to Host Season Premiere of SNL on Oct. 6

Ryan Gosling will join Jay-Z in the season premiere of SNL on Oct. 6 (File Photo).

NEW YORK — “Saturday Night Live” will kick off its upcoming 43rd season on Sept. 30 with host Ryan Gosling and musical guest Jay-Z. Returning for the second time as host, the twice Oscar-nominated Gosling is set to star in the sci-fi drama “Blade Runner 2049,” which opens Oct. 6.

Accompanying Gosling on the season premiere will be Grammy Award-winning icon Jay-Z, who will be making his fourth appearance as musical guest. Jay-Z’s album “4:44” was released in June, and he will embark on a world tour beginning Oct. 27.

Gadot, who will be making her first “SNL” appearance, starred in summer’s #1 film, “Wonder Woman,” which earned more than $400 million at the domestic box office. Gadot will next co-star in the highly anticipated “Justice League,” arriving in theaters Nov. 17.

Joining Gadot will be Grammy-, Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning artist Sam Smith, marking his second visit to “SNL” as musical guest. Smith dropped a new single, “Too Good at Goodbyes,” on Sept. 8 in preparation for his upcoming second studio album release.

Kumail Nanjiani will host the season’s third show on Oct. 14, marking his debut. Nanjiani stars as Dinesh Chugtai in HBO’s “Silicon Valley” and most recently wrote and starred in the critically-acclaimed film “The Big Sick.”

Grammy Award-winning artist P!nk will join Nanjiani for the season’s third episode as musical guest. Her seventh studio album, “Beautiful Trauma,” is due out Oct. 13. P!nk was recently honored at the MTV VMAs with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award in August.

This season “Saturday Night Live” will air live simultaneously coast to coast.

Saturday Night Live” is produced in association with Broadway Video. The creator and executive producer is Lorne Michaels.

‘The Big Short’ Comes to Blu-Ray and DVD on March 15

Ryan Gosling in a still from the Paramount Pictures release "The Big Short" (Photo by Paramount Pictures).

LOS ANGELES – "One of the most absorbing and entertaining films of the year" (Mara Reinstein, Us Weekly), director Adam McKay's "witty, smart, sharp and funny" (Scott Mantz, "Access Hollywood") masterpiece “The Big Short” arrives on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and On Demand March 15 from Paramount Home Media Distribution.

Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Christian Bale), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing, “The Big Short” also was named one of the top 10 films of the year by The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, Us Weekly, the American Film Institute and many more.

Based on the best-selling book by Michael Lewis, “The Big Short” details the true story of four outsiders who risked everything to take on the big banks during the greatest financial fraud in U.S. history. Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt deliver career-best performances in "the most wildly entertaining must-see movie of the year" (Toni Gonzales, Fox-TV).

“The Big Short” Blu-ray Combo Pack with Digital HD is packed with over an hour of bonus content. Go behind the scenes with Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell and Christian Bale as they talk about their characters and the real people in this unbelievable true story, then discover the facts behind the gripping events as author Michael Lewis and the filmmakers discuss how the most incredible heist of the century was pulled off. Plus, catch five deleted scenes that were not shown in theaters and hear director Adam McKay reveal the challenges he faced in bringing the book to the screen.