Yesterday it was announced that Ariana Grande would be headlining at Manchester Pride this year. Not everybody was thrilled about this, with some suggesting that prices were raised to book her, claiming this was 'exploitation' of the LGBTQ+ community, and that it was inappropriate to have a straight person headline.
i saw many people discussing this so i wanted to chime in.... hope that’s okay 🖤🌫 pic.twitter.com/7joiZwI1QS
Baitista wants to be treated like a serious actor as opposed to an entertainer.
In a new interview with Tampa Bay Times, Dave explains:
"Do not compare me to The Rock or John Cena. Everyone does it. Those guys are wrestlers who became movie stars. I'm... something else. I was a wrestler. Now, I'm an actor."
"Rock was, in a way, a movie star before he was even a movie star. There is something about him that's really special. I'd never take that away from him. Would I consider him a great actor? F*ck no."
"I want good roles. I don't care about Fast and Furious or Bumblebee... That's not the kind of stardom I want... I want to be in Dune. I want to work with Denis Villeneuve. I want to work with Sam Mendes and Jodie Foster. I want to work with Academy Award winners. I'm proud to be a character actor. I want that respect and credibility and education."
Marina Diamandis took to Twitter earlier to call out a designer who allegedly photoshopped her legs to look much thinner, calling it "internalised misogyny in full action." She did not name the designer and has refused to post the photo in question.
I wore a designer’s clothes to an award show recently to support her. The next day she posted a photo of me on Instagram + had photoshopped my legs and thighs to look like literal sticks.
The Jonas Brothers are back and kicking off their return with a week of episodes on The Late Late Show with James Corden and their own Carpool Karaoke.
Their new song "Sucker" will be available tomorrow, March 1.
Dilili is an indigenous Kanak girl from New Caledonia, who’s arrived in Paris during the Belle Époque era, and gets caught up in the disappearances of women around the city. Directed by Michel Ocelot ("Kirikou and the Sorceress").
Samuel Goldwyn Films bought US distribution, and it should be released in the states later this year.
In DARK PHOENIX, the X-MEN face their most formidable and powerful foe: one of their own, Jean Grey. During a rescue mission in space, Jean is nearly killed when she is hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. Wrestling with this entity inside her, Jean unleashes her powers in ways she can neither comprehend nor contain. With Jean spiraling out of control, and hurting the ones she loves most, she begins to unravel the very fabric that holds the X-Men together. Now, with this family falling apart, they must find a way to unite -- not only to save Jean's soul, but to save our very planet from aliens who wish to weaponize this force and rule the galaxy.
Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Evan Peters, and Jessica Chastain
Lady Gaga clarifies all those rumors about being in love with Bradley Cooper. She said social media is the toilet of the Internet. She said they wanted people to see love, since it's a love song. Bradley directed the whole performance. She said she also had her arms wrapped around Tony Bennett for 3 years, because that's what she wants people to feel when they hear the songs, to which Jimmy joked "Are you having an affair with Tony Bennett?". Lady Gaga says that she was so proud of Bradley for singing live and so happy everyone loved it. Jimmy then sings Shallow with Gaga.
Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters: united with her, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of their marvels.
‘Impossible Monsters’ follows Dr. Rich Freeman (Tony nominee Santino Fontana), an ambitious and well-liked psychology professor, as he pursues a sleep study with a focus on nightmares, dreams and sleep paralysis – the success of which would result in a lucrative grant. As the line between dreams and reality blur, a member of the study is murdered, and everything begins to unravel, leaving Dr. Freeman fighting to make things right.
The film premiers at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California on Saturday, March 9.
Our government is broken, and we have to fix it. RepresentUs board member Jennifer Lawrence and Director of RepresentUs Josh Silver, walks through three lines that show what's wrong with legal corruption in our government, how we fix it and what you can do about it.
There are zero major studio releases this week... I guess no one wants to get stomped by Captain Marvel next weekend? But there are a ton of indie releases this week, so read on for more info about those!
Feel free to share your Letterboxd info in your comments - many of the regulars for this post are avid Letterboxd users.
The films listed are from studios other than the “Big Six” - Paramount, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Universal, Columbia and Disney. Note that some of the movies listed are in their first week or two of limited release in the USA, so it may take them a few more weeks (or months) to show up in your local arthouse theater or on VOD. Check out the posts from the past few weeks for more movies that may have just opened near you: February 22nd, February 15th, and February 8th.
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Chloë Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe, Jane Perry Writer: Ray Wright, Neil Jordan Director: Neil Jordan Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery Plot: A young woman befriends a lonely widow who's harboring a dark and deadly agenda towards her. What you should know: The film premiered at TIFF last year. Opens in: Wide release
In the ongoing Khloe/Tristan/Jordyn affair saga, Jordyn will appear on Jada Pinkett-Smith's Facebook Talk Show Red Table Talk tomorrow.
In the interview, Jordyn admits she was sober during her hookup with Tristan Thompson, previously alleging she was drunk and didn't know what happened.
Admits she felt she had to lie because the Kardashians have been out for blood ever since the story broke.
Woods lays it all out in the interview, apologizes to Khloe and makes no excuses for her behavior.
Even though she has an NDA with the Kardashians, she felt she had to speak her truth to stop the walls from caving in.
She chose Jada because she and Will consider Jordyn like a niece and Jordyn feels Jada is non-judgmental.
Netflix has ordered ten episodes based on the books by Ann M. Martin, who will serve as a producer. Rachel Skukert will serve as showrunner. It'll tackle themes based on divorce, racism, and more. A contemporary take on the series, it'll focus on Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, Dawn, and Stacey.
Lindsay Lohan got into it with an employee on her MTV series 'Lohan Beach Club'.
The actress did a surprise walkthrough of her staff's housing, and was so alarmed by the mess she found that she threatened to fire them all. Her staff member, Kailah, wasn't having it, and the two get into an argument which results in Lohan firing her on the spot.
As Kailah leaves, she throws one final dig at Lindsay, telling her to go "do all the drugs you do".
Demi Lovato's friends are reportedly worried after the troubled singer has began isolating everyone in her life and firing her team members.
A source close to Demi says she "fired everyone around her" and "got rid of friends" in a drastic measure to save herself and maintain sobriety.
But her relationship with designer Henri Levy is giving them more cause for concern, "It just has shown everyone that she simply can’t be alone. It’s like she doesn’t know how.”
The rehabbed star is now living in an apartment in the San Fernando Valley after putting the home she overdosed in up for sale.
Because they like to keep me waiting, here's another (and probably final) batch of Vanity Fair Oscar Portraits - check out Part One and Part Two if you missed them. Above, we have Sophie Turner and her Jonas - click the cut for more.
While promoting the upcoming second season of HBO’s Big Little Lies, Reese Witherspoon called out her co-stars for always leaving her to pick up the tab at restaurants when eating out.
“Who pays? I pay,” joked Witherspoon. “None of these girls ever pull out their credit card!” Nicole Kidman then interjects and says that it is not true. Reese then admits, “Okay, Meryl paid once.”
The conversation then continues when the rest of the cast chime in: Nicole Kidman: I pay! I pay! Zoë Kravitz: They won’t let us pay! I’ve tried! We’ve tried, Shailene! Nicole Kidman: You try, and we always pay. And, we’re producers, we should be. Reese Witherspoon: The Amex bills really tells the truth. Shailene Woodley: Don’t even get me started on this. This is very upsetting to me.
Season 2 of Big Little Lies begins in June on HBO.
ONTD, how do you settle the restaurant bill when eating out with your friends?
It appears now that she fired her manager Mike Nazzaro as well, as he and Tinashe don't follow each other anymore and he doesn't follow her family anymore either.
Jack Black posted a snippet from his latest YouTube video comparing his workout to Chris Hemsworth's. Posting from Asgard, he asks in the caption, "Who did it better?"
Chastain hit Jimmy Fallon last night to talk about IT: Chapter 2Clussy's Revenge and said one scene might have the most blood in horror movie history.
“I’m going say something and I think I’m gonna be in trouble but I’m gonna do it. It might be a spoiler, but in the movie there’s a scene…someone said on set that it’s the most blood that’s ever been in a horror film…in a scene. The next day I was pulling blood out of my eyeballs.”
Earlier last year, director Andy Muschietti posted on Insta a picture with Chastain covered in blood, so that might be it.
IT: Chapter 2's first trailer is rumored to be coming out early April, the test screening was 3 hours long, and the movie's slated to be released Sept. 6!
Franci Neely is a Houston socialite and the ex-wife of Houston Astros owner Jim Crane; she won $30 million in their divorce settlement. She was caught on camera going berserk on a family taking pictures of their 1-year-old baby for her birthday in an area that is popular for wedding and other picture moments. Neely can be seen hitting the husband, who was holding the phone camera, and tearing up props for the photoshoot. A police report was filed but no charges were pressed.
* Rami Malek is in "final negotiations" to play the next Bond villain * Various reports suggest it will be a North African character who may be blind * Malek recently won the Best Actor award for playing Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody at the Academy Awards
Just 17 years ago, artists like Las Ketchup, DJ Sammy and Tweet were topping the charts. Many of the artists who created their major 2002 hits were never able to replicate the international success. However, their songs remain playable and always take us back in time. Let's take a look at some of the best one hit wonders of 2002!
TRUTH HURTS - ADDICTIVE
R&B singer Truth Hurts shook the radio with her single, "Truth Hurts." The song was her only one to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at no. 9, and selling over 600,000 copies in the US. It was also a top five hit in UK, France and Switzerland, and went gold in several countries. The song samples a Hindi song, which eventually brought on a $500 million lawsuit.
-Prior to the 91st Academy Awards, Close was suspected to take home the Oscar for Best Actress -This is her 7th nomination: The World According To Garp (1983), The Big Chill (1984), The Natural (1985), Fatal Attraction (1988), Dangerous Liaisons (1989) and Albert Nobbs (2012). -Olivia Colman shocked and took home the win instead for The Favorite. -After her loss, Entertainment Tonight at the afterparty she said "I’m feeling really, really good, I was upset about all the people who bet that I was going to win! All the people in Jersey, sorry!" -When she was asked about her overall awards show experience for The Wife: "All the love that I have felt… it has moved me, It has overwhelmed me. And to me, that’s it." -Olivia Colman in her speech said: "To be in this category, with these extraordinary women, and Glenn Close - you are my idol and this is not how I wanted it to be,” she said. “I love you all."
Yesterday, Gaga's bf during the ARTPOP era liked a comment on IG saying how he was able to get away from Gaga, and witnessed the flood of monsters to the point where he apologized accordingly saying it was an 'accident', and that he is "only proud and happy for Stef." He's actually been consistent with his support for the Oscar winner - when last year he also said he was proud and wanted A Star is Born to do well.
Maybe we should invent a browsing-only mode to avoid accidentally liking shady things while scrolling Instagram?
Do you ever feel some type of way when your exes move on and accomplish great things?
On the 26th and 27th of this week, Solange dropped two posts which include snippets of new music.
A post this morning included a phone number referenced in "fellow Houston native Mike Jones’ 2005 song “Back Then,” with the promise of a “special announcement” on the hotline."
A short while ago, she dropped what appears to be an album tracklist:
In a New York Times profile last fall, it was said that Solange’s new album, the follow-up to 2016’s “A Seat at the Table,” would “likely arrive into the world fully formed at some mysterious and unexpected moment, like a meteor cratering into the culture.”
Just to cap off a wild and somewhat disappointing Black History Month, at least one of us gets some good news. Tyrese ("The Fast and Furious" Movies, The "Telephone" music video, ongoing Instagram drama with his F&F costars) has been cast as Teddy Pendergrass in an yet-untitled, undated, un-director'd movive for Warner Brothers.
Pendergrass died in 2010, and his widow Joan is a producer on the project, along with Donald DeLine and Lee Daniels, so uh, strap in.
-Over the weekend, majority of the Buffyverse cast got together for Wizard World Con Portland.
-Main cast members in attendance were Alyson Hannigan/Willow Rosenberg, Amber Benson/Tara McClay, James Marsters/Spike, Charisma Carpenter/Cordelia Chase, Nicholas Brendon/Xander Harris, Amy Acker/Fred Burke, and Alexis Denisof/Wesley Wyndam-Pryce were in attendance . Also in attendance were actors Julie Benz/Darl, Iyari Limon/Potential Slayer, James Leary/Clem, Clare Kramer/Glory.
The short involves Chan's character dating this man, not knowing about his list of demands for a wife. No word in how much the story will change for the full-length feature.
The period-drama-romantic-comedy will be directed by Emma Holly Jones and will cast color conciously (AKA: less whites), and that starts with having Gemma and Freida reprise their roles in the full-length film.
PARADISE HOTEL follows a group of singles who are given the opportunity of a lifetime – to check in to an exclusive tropical resort – and check out with big money. Immersed in a gorgeous setting, these strangers will be surrounded by sun, fun and romance – all cloaked in a wild competition. This paradise won’t last forever...it will take strategy to remain there. Each week, these singles will vote off one of their fellow residents to make room for a new guest. In a new twist, viewers can play along at home, using social media to try and influence what happens on screen, including helping to decide who stays and who goes. Catch the series premiere of PARADISE HOTEL this MAY only on FOX!
In the shortest month of the year, OP has decided to ended this Poolitzuh winning series about Black History Month by highlighting the singers and rappers who turned a profit with their other love cooking! I’ll highlight those who have made cookbooks or videos that demonstrated their cooking skills. Besides, OP doesn't care about Chrissy Teigen or her cookbooks.
Patti Labelle (sorry Questlove). Her skill with soul food has been noted as much as her vocal talent. Her sweet potato pie made its way into Wal-Mart stores and into our stomachs.
Can't get enough of your boy Colin Farrell? After teaming up again with director Yorgos Lanthimos for an Amazon show about Oliver North and singing up for Andrew Haigh’s thriller series ‘The North Water’ for BBC, Colin is set to star in Korean-born filmmaker Kogonada's robot drama ‘After Yang’. The movie centers on a father and daughter as they try to save the life of their robotic family member Yang in a world where robotic children are purchased as live-in-babysitters. In the story, Yang has been programmed to help his little sister learn about her cultural heritage. And if you're not familiar with Kogonada's work, I'd suggest seeing his stunning 2017 debut ‘Columbus’ starring John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson and Parker Posey.
It turns out Schitt's Creek's former billionaire socialite Alexis Rose (Annie Murphy) was a part of the mid-2000s' wave of reality star/"recording artists" (think Paris Hilton). After she used it as an audition song in this week's episode, the creators have BLESSED US with her titular single "A Little Bit Alexis" which is a BOP that will transport you right back to 2006.
The song was actually written by Annie Murphy and her husband and hit #7 on Canadian and #13 on US iTunes charts.
Flynn (Gabriel) says about the finale: “The end of the finale is going to really shake stuff up. You never know what to expect.”
Since it hasn't been renewed for a 6th season yet, Flynn admits things won't be wrapped up in the finale: “It won’t be tied up at all, I don’t think so at all if it ended with this last episode. You’d be left with more questions, I feel like. I’m hopeful that we come back for season 6. I think they’ve done well with the writing and going back to the roots of How to Get Away with Murder before I was there. As a fan of the show myself, when I watched I really liked the courtroom scenes and the classroom scenes. They kind of went back to that sort of formula, and I think that it resulted in people just being crazy about it again.”
Discussion/Episode post for S05E15 - Please Say No One Else Is Dead source
On the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver slammed celebrity mediums and specifically called out Hollywood Medium star Tyler Henry. The host talked about methods psychics often used to convince others they’re communicating with the afterlife such as a “hot reading” or a “cold reading,” which basically means prior knowledge of somebody versus generalized guessing. Oliver also argued that popular shows like this contribute to an industry that exploits the vulnerable for profit.
When asked about those comments during an interview with Giuliana Rancic and Jason Kennedy on E! News, Tyler Henry responded saying, “It’s actually really why I never want to know where I’m going or who I’m reading and why I put such an emphasis on information that can’t be Googled. In reading celebrities, public figures, there lives are on Google! So, obviously, there’s information about them.”
The Hollywood Medium star also adds that clients “aren’t tearing up” about “generic information.” They’re “tearing up and crying because they’re hearing information that’s emotional, that’s validating something to them, that they’ve not heard elsewhere.” So what do you think? Do you believe in communication with the afterlife through a medium? Or is it all just a scam?
The Jonas Brothers are back. After breaking up 5 years ago: Nick, Joe, and Kevin Jonas reunite for their new single, “Sucker.” Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Sophie Turner, and Danielle Jonas are all featured in the video.
According to Ellie, she wrote the song "entirely from the heart that seemed to capture how I felt about not ever being able to let go of a past love, even though it was over for a reason."
Not what I expected, but it's a really pretty song. <3
The album features some contributions from other artists such as The Dream, Gucci Mane, Cassie, Tyler The Creator, Playboi Carti, Standing on the Corner among others!
Y’all! I’m filled w so much joy right now!!! Wow! I can’t thank y’all enough for this moment and for all the feelings i feel in my body! I’m bringing home w me everywhere I go yalll and I ain’t running from shit no more. Your love lifts me up so high. Thank you!
Glenn Close will be reprising her Tony-winning role in an upcoming film adaptation of the 'Sunset Boulevard' musical, and now it's been confirmed that it'll be directed by Tony-winning choreographer Rob Ashford.
Andrew Lloyd Webber scored the stage musical, and will be one of the producers of the film. No start of production date yet, but it will be the same as the classic 1950 movie starring Gloria Swanson (but, you know, with music and dancing).
A quick summary: Norma Desmond, a faded and deluded silent-screen star ensnares a down-on-his-luck screenwriter into her fantasy of making a comeback. A byzantine love story ensues that ends, ultimately, in tragedy.
