J. Cole has joined the likes of Timbaland, Mike Will Made It, Mike Dean, Scott Storch, Rance Dopson and many other A-list creators at Beatclub, an online marketplace for beats and sounds launching later this year. In addition to deals with “elite” producers and beatmakers, the platform allows creators to keep 100% of their music
Check out an official Cruella Featurette starring Emma Stone! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Buy Tickets to Cruella: https://www.fandango.com/cruella-2021-224240/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Want to be notified of all the latest movie trailers? Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to stay up to date. US Release Date: May 28, 2021
A judge on Friday ordered “That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson to stand trial on charges that he raped three women nearly 20 years ago. Masterson faces up to 45 years to life in prison if convicted on all three charges. Each of the three women testified at a preliminary hearing in Los Angeles Superior
The sentencing for “Smallville” actor Allison Mack, who was indicted in 2018 on sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit forced labor charges for her involvement in Keith Raniere’s NXIVM cult, has been scheduled for late June. The hearing will take place on Wednesday, June 30, at 11 a.m., ordered by New York judge Nicholas G.
HBO has offered a first look at the Watergate drama series “White House Plumbers” starring Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux. The five-part series tells the story of how President Richard Nixon’s own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds, E. Howard Hunt (Harrelson) and G. Gordon Liddy (Theroux), accidentally toppled the presidency they were zealously trying to
Padma Lakshmi is teaming up with Stella Artois to celebrate the reopening of restaurants. The host of “Top Chef” and “Taste the Nation” stars in the new campaign, “Your Table Is Ready,” which offers diners their first Stella Chalice drink for free when dining out at participating venues. The campaign also includes the sale of
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There can only be one Highlander, but apparently, Henry Cavill can be many superheroes. Adding to his growing list of marquee franchises, the star of “Man of Steel” and Netflix’s “The Witcher” is in negotiations to star in Lionsgate’s reboot of “Highlander,” the 1986 fantasy adventure film that spawned an entire pop-culture ecosystem, including sequels, TV
“A Quiet Place Part II” is drumming up solid pre-sales, according to online ticketing service Fandango. If momentum sustains, that could bode well for the film’s box office debut over Memorial Day weekend. The follow-up to Paramount’s 2018 sleeper hit “A Quiet Place” is currently selling twice as many advance tickets on Fandango compared to
“Luther” star Idris Elba will host the Africa Day Concert, an event which is a partnership between him, MTV Base and YouTube. The virtual concert, which will be held on Africa Day (May 25), is set to be a pan-African event, with artists performing on multiple stages from Lagos to Johannesburg in an event that
Colleen Ballinger, the YouTube star who rose to fame through her ultra-awkward alter-ego Miranda Sings, announced in a video that she is pregnant with twins. Ballinger, in a video she uploaded Thursday, revealed that she is expecting twins. She and her husband, Erik Stocklin, have a 3-year-old son, Flynn. Ballinger previously had shared that she
“Pink: All I Know So Far,” streaming on Amazon Prime Video starting May 21, is not a concert documentary, says the film’s co-editor Cindy Mollo. Rather, it’s the story of a mother on tour with her family whose career goal is to play the world-famous Wembley Stadium. The doc, directed by Michael Gracey, follows the
California officials have announced the full details of the state’s reopening plan, set to take effect on June 15. The Friday news conference laid out plans for removing social distancing and capacity requirements throughout the state. Dr. Mark Ghaly, secretary of health and human services, said capacity limitations are no longer part of the guidelines.
The Country Music Association announced the ballot schedule and rules of eligibility for the CMA Awards in November — and has addressed the inevitable question of whether Morgan Wallen will be eligible, with the answer being an interesting split decision that leaves him in contention for some awards but knocked out in others. Essentially, any
New York’s The Stonewall Inn will kick off LGBTQ Pride Month with a star-studded streaming concert on June 1 to benefit The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Safe Spaces Initiatives. Presenters and performers for the event, produced by Tom D’Angora, Michael D’Angora and Victoria Varela, include Billy Eichner, Chelsea Clinton, Margaret Cho, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Julianne
Jeremy Allen White has been cast in the lead role of the FX comedy pilot “The Bear,” Variety has learned. In addition, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Lionel Boyce, Abby Elliott, and Matty Matheson have also been cast in the project, which was ordered to pilot at FX back in March. “The Bear” is about a young chef
“Derek DelGaudio’s ‘In & Of Itself’” is finally hitting the big screen. The Hulu special will run at the IFC Center in New York from May 28 to June 3, marking the first time audiences can see the film version of the stage show in an actual theater. “In & Of Itself” was originally slated
The L.A. Virtual Screenings ran May 11-20. U.K. broadcast network ITV held an ITV Festival on Wednesday. VIS Global Screenings take place on June 2. Following a brief take on what has become the May Screenings, once an on-site single event held in L.A. and what they and drama series deals this week say about
In an unprecedented move, Kate del Castillo’s Cholawood and Fabrica de Cine’s Gaston Pavlovich, producer of Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” and “Silence,” have teamed up with Endemol Shine Boomdog (ESB) to co-produce “El Agente Mexicano” (“The Mexican Agent”). The series is loosely based on the true story of Francisco García, a young photographer who is
Come June, Anthony Ramos will be singing and dancing his way through New York City’s Washington Heights neighborhood in the delayed bigscreen adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical “In the Heights,” but before then he co-stars as the more stationary Eladio in HBO’s continuation of “In Treatment.” Eladio is the lone patient of Dr.
Billie Eilish fans will get her “Happier Than Ever” album in July, but when it comes to really living happily ever after by attending her tour, that’ll have to wait till early next year. The singer announced Friday that her long-delayed arena tour will kick off Feb. 3. Her 32-date outing in the United States
Markiplier, one of YouTube’s most-followed creators, claims he doesn’t consider the business prospects of his new projects. “I let the lawyers think about that,” he says. “I feel like turning everything into a business venture poisons creativity.” That said, he’s pleased and surprised that his new podcast “Distractible” has taken the podcast world by storm.
This year’s eighth edition of the itinerant Ibero-American Platino Awards (Premios Platino) will return to Madrid on Oct. 3, as will its brand new Iberseries Platino Industria forum, which will run Sept. 27 – Oct 1 at the IFEMA Palacio Municipal de Madrid, a massive conference center complex in the north of the Spanish capital.
Jeremih has been cast in the upcoming Starz series “Power Book IV: Force.” As previously announced, the series centers on fan-favorite character Tommy Egan (Joseph Sikora) after he cuts ties and puts New York in his rearview mirror for good. Jeremih will play Elijah, a high-ranking member of CBI who knows how the drug game
Aimed at aspiring TV producers, European workshop ACE Series Special is gearing up for its third edition in December. The fledgling event targets experienced producers who are keen on adding a TV series division to their companies or grow their knowledge on the intricacies of developing and producing drama series for international audiences. It has
Lady Gaga opened up to Oprah Winfrey about the trauma of being raped as a teenager in the new Apple TV Plus series, “The Me You Can’t See.” In the debut of the five-part series — for which Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry serve as executive producers and share their own experiences — Gaga, now
MODOK is a D-list supervillain, but Jordan Blum and Patton Oswalt, co-creators of the upcoming Hulu adult animated comedy bearing the Marvel character’s namesake, are hoping you’ll root for their grotesque underdog because, somewhere along the line, you’ve also had your plans to take over the world thwarted. Blum, who is known for his work
Before “Hamilton,” there was “In the Heights,” the revolutionary Tony-winning hip-hop musical that put Lin-Manuel Miranda — and the northern tip of Manhattan — on Broadway’s map. Though just 20 minutes from the Great White Way by train, the predominantly Dominican neighborhood might as well have been the North Pole for most New Yorkers (“I’ve
The stunt work was sensationally spectacular, and Tom Cruise did much dauntless derring-do. But what I remember most vividly about my first exposure to “Mission: Impossible” at a 1996 L.A. press junket were the heated arguments among a group of my fellow critics. Some of them were positively incensed that the heroic lead character in
Eric Bana gets to do something he rarely has an opportunity to do on screen in his new thriller “The Dry:” Speak in his normal accent. Over the course of his career, the Australian actor has played angry green monsters (“The Incredible Hulk”), monarchs (“The Other Boleyn Girl”), aliens (“Star Trek”) and noble warriors (“Troy”),