If there’s one thing that can make most of the music world stand still, it’s a surprise Taylor Swift album. And that’s exactly what happened Thursday night for “Folklore,” an album that virtually no one who hadn’t signed a non-disclosure agreement knew was coming until Swift revealed on Thursday morning that it was coming in
Month: July 2020
Some people retire with a solid IRA. Some with detailed pension plans. Occasionally those who retire go into small side jobs, or find relaxing hobbies. Robert Bryson Hall II, better known as Logic — rapper, songwriter and author who made his open-hearted brand of hip-hop into socially relevant hit fare with the suicide-prevention paean, “1-800-273-8255”
Mel Gibson battled coronavirus in April, coming down with a case severe enough to require the 64-year old actor and director to be hospitalized. The “Braveheart” star is the latest celebrity to go public with a positive COVID-19 diagnosis, joining a list that includes Idris Elba, Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, Pink, and Daniel Dae Kim.
No shocker here: In the premiere episode of Michelle Obama’s Spotify podcast, she sits down for a one-on-one conversation with her husband, former President Barack Obama. The first episode of “The Michelle Obama Podcast” with the former First Couple launches July 29 exclusively on Spotify worldwide. Barack and Michelle Obama talk about their life together
ESPN is moving deeper into the increasingly popular game of talking about big topics in smaller chunks of content. The Walt Disney-owned sports-media giant will today start rolling out “ESPN Stories,” a new series of quick-hit content compilations that its executives believe represent a new way of talking about sports to a generation of fans
The Venice Film Festival is set to open with “La Nostra Vita” director Daniele Luchetti’s latest film, “Lacci” (The Ties). The Naples-set feature, which will play out of competition, stars Alba Rohrwacher, Luigi Lo Cascio, Laura Morante, Silvio Orlando, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Adriano Giannini and Linda Caridi. Set in the early 1980s, the film is based
Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival is now under way on its 2020 edition, as the city remains in lockdown due to the spread of coronavirus. Now in its 11th year, Kashish is South Asia’s biggest LGBTQIA+ themed film festival. The newly christened Kashish 2020 Virtual will screen 157 films from 42 countries, of which
From its auspicious beginning as a novel written by then-15-year-old author Beth Reekles on the self-publish site Wattpad, to its wildly popular film debut on Netflix, “The Kissing Booth” has proven itself a hit. It spoke to its target audience without speaking down to them, telling the story of a young woman confronted with the
What if you were an international star who’d had a supporting role in two of the biggest franchises of all time, then you went on to deliver the best performance of your career in a tough, tiny British drama, and hardly anybody noticed? Chances are, Orlando Bloom has been asking himself some version of that
The Hong Kong International Film Festival, set to have taken place in the second half of August, has been canceled. The festival had previously rescheduled its 44th edition from its usual slot in March, due to the first wave of the coronavirus outbreak. It had set Aug 18-31 Aug. instead. But, with the city now
While most of us spent the last four months putting on some variation of “the quarantine 15,” Taylor Swift has been secretly working on the “Folklore” 16. Sprung Thursday night with less than a day’s notice, her eighth album is a fully rounded collection of songs that sounds like it was years in the interactive
It has been a long six years since Scott Sava persuaded some Chinese investors to give him $13.5 million to make an animated film. An illustrator from Franklin, Tenn., Sava had written a graphic novel for his twin boys about a magic box of animal crackers, and he wanted to adapt it to the screen.
“Top Gun: Maverick,” a sequel to Tom Cruise’s 1986 classic, will have to wait until next summer to take flight. The action adventure, from Paramount and Skydance, has pushed its Dec. 23 release date and will now open July 2, 2021. A few months earlier, “A Quiet Place Part II” will hit the big screen.
In a move that could outlaw millions of TikTok users and YouTubers, the Malaysian government says filmmaking of any scale or purpose requires a license. The ruling was announced in parliament on Thursday by Malaysia’s Minister for Communications and Multimedia Saifuddin Abdullah. He was responding to a question from another legislator, who had spotted political
Chinese cinephiles are getting an early taste of what life may look under the continued reign of coronavirus: a series of sudden shutdowns with no clear end date in hotspots to contain the disease’s spread. China’s cinemas began to slowly reopen on Monday after nearly six months of coronavirus-imposed closures. But on Thursday, local authorities
The sequel to “Spider-Man: Far From Home” has been delayed one month, pushing it to Dec. 17, 2021. The Spidey film was originally scheduled for Nov. 5, 2021, but Sony announced the move on Thursday night after a shakeup of Disney’s film slate was unveiled earlier in the day. The “Far From Home” sequel will
The Boys are back — well, almost, anyway. “The Boys” showrunner Eric Kripke and stars Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Karen Fukuhara, Tomer Capon and Aya Cash got together for a virtual panel as part of San Diego Comic-Con@Home on Thursday, during which they revealed
In “Archenemy,” Joe Manganiello plays Max Fist, who claims he’s a hero from another dimension who has somehow landed on Earth and been stripped of his powers. In other superhero movies, that might be the start of a rousing and upbeat redemption arc. In the hands of the producers of the gonzo art horror film
Amazon Studios is in final negotiations to buy worldwide rights to “Without Remorse” from Paramount Pictures, Variety has learned. The Tom Clancy thriller stars Michael B. Jordan as U.S. Navy SEAL John Clark. If it closes, the pact makes sense for Amazon, which backs “Jack Ryan,” the espionage series starring John Krasinski as the titular
At 12:30 p.m. Wednesday (July 22), some 50 Britney Spears fans gathered at the entrance to the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. Card-carrying members of the #FreeBritney movement, they came out during a pandemic to protest the conservatorship that Spears, one of the century’s biggest pop stars, has been under since 2008. It
Just days after lead singer Dan Reynolds shelled out $11.3 million for an oceanfront Malibu getaway, public records reveal another Imagine Dragons band member — guitarist Wayne Sermon — has also decided “It’s Time” to purchase an L.A.-area home, this one down in the South Bay area of town. The Grammy-winning rocker (“Thunder,” “Believer,” “Radioactive,”
“The Boys” will be back once again — Amazon Prime Video has renewed the superhero and vigilante drama for a third season, the streamer announced Thursday. Additionally, the second season will deliver an after-show entitled “Prime Rewind: Inside The Boys,” hosted and executive produced by Aisha Tyler. While the second season of “The Boys” premieres
In a sign that international TV drama is slowly starting to return to production, cameras have started rolling this week on BBC drama “Death in Paradise” on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. The Red Planet Pictures produced detective drama, which is shooting its 10th anniversary series, is one of the first British single camera
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Exclusive Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are pissed about a paparazzi shot of their son, Archie, which they say was snapped in their own backyard, so now they’re suing … TMZ has learned. Harry and Meghan say they took extensive measures to ensure their privacy at their new home in the L.A. area — including
While it’s still unclear when “The New Mutants” may finally — finally! — open in theaters, fans who have waited over two years for the movie’s release at least got an extended first look at the film during its Thursday panel at the virtual fan convention Comic-Con@Home. The 30-minute panel — featuring stars Maisie Williams,
It’s become commonly recognized as critical hackwork to observe that a city acts as a character in a film, for the good reason that it’s almost never true. When sensuously and specifically captured on screen, however, a city can shape and alter the characters it contains. The ragged modernist maze of São Paulo serves exactly
Mark-Paul Gosselaar is dipping into the nostalgia well with a new “Saved by the Bell” retrospective podcast. Gosselaar claims he hasn’t watched a single episode of “Saved by the Bell,” the cult-favorite teen sitcom on which he played Zack Morris, since he finished shooting his final scene for the NBC show more than two decades
About five years ago, in 2015, when just 22, Miley Cyrus ponied up a very adult $5 million for a relaxed country spread in in L.A.’s guard-gated, equestrian-oriented and celeb-favored Hidden Hills enclave. So the celebrity real estate scuttlebutt goes, the country music scion turned international pop cynosure kept horses on the pastoral five-acre farm.
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