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Most people had simply tuned it out because it didn’t affect them, a formula that ran out of runway for Trump when his circuslike management of the COVID-19 pandemic finally cost him some support from people otherwise inclined to look the other way.

In an interview with French magazine Marie Claire for its November cover story, Longoria attributed the decision to the country's "changing vibe" after the Covid-19 pandemic, homelessness and high taxation in California, and the re-election of Donald Trump.

The Eddie Murphy-led “Coming 2 America” — which came in 2021, 33 years after the original — brought back many of its cast members but was limited to a streaming audience after its original theatrical distributor, Paramount Pictures, sold the film to Prime Video due to the pandemic.

And so far, these decades-later legacy sequels — or “lega-sequels” — have helped boost a box office still recovering from the pandemic and fewer big titles due to last year’s dual Hollywood strikes.

When the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered the nation in 2020, Yoakam and Steele continued their collaboration on Zoom and invited Steele’s friends DePiero and Minor to join them.