Monday, 8 October 2018
Sunday, 7 October 2018
John Legend announces first Christmas album, upcoming tour
This year, he’s even celebrating Christmas in October.
A Legendary Christmas will also feature eight classic Christmas songs, including “Silver Bells,” “Christmas Time Is Here,” and “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire).” The album is executive-produced by Raphael Saadiq, with additional vocals from jazz bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding on “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” and harmonica from Stevie Wonder on “What Christmas Means to Me,” the first track on the LP.
Columbia Records will release A Legendary Christmas on Oct. 26, giving fans ample time to get into the holiday spirit. However, it seems that the 39-year-old musician has been celebrating the season for months: Teigen mentioned the project back in July, when she posted a Boomerang of her husband dancing to his new tunes on Twitter.
In a tropical paradise. August. John excitedly listening to his Christmas album every day all day. He’s very excited for you guys to hear! pic.twitter.com/8pLfZkXN6L
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) July 31, 2018
To accompany the album, the “All of Me” singer will embark on a 25-date national tour, beginning Nov. 15 in Clearwater, Florida, and wrapping up on Dec. 30 in San Diego.
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Marvel's Runaways train to face their parents in action-packed season 2 teaser
The Runaways are preparing for the fight of their lives in season 2 of Marvel’s Runaways.
On Monday, Hulu released the first action-packed teaser for the superhero drama’s second season, which finds the titular teens on the run (finally!) and training to take on PRIDE, a.k.a. their evil parents. While they have almost no idea what they’re doing and are still trying to wrap their heads around the fact that their parents are basically supervillains, they are confident that they right all of their parents’ wrongs.
“They’re our parents. How can they be such monsters?” says Nico (Lyrica Okano)
“We’re not them. We can fix the world that they broke,” replies Karolina (Virginia Gardner).
In addition to previewing this season’s explosive superheroics, the promo also reveals their new comic book-mandated hideout, an underground mansion in the Hollywood, and shows Karolina and Nico kissing, which probably means we can expect the two of them to grow closer this season, too.
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Emma Watson joining Meryl Streep, Timothée Chalamet in Greta Gerwig's Little Women
It’s unclear what role Watson will be playing, but EW confirmed it is the same role that Emma Stone was previously circling.
Watson will be joining Meryl Streep, Timothee Chalamet, Saoirse Ronan, and Laura Dern in the Sony Pictures adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott classic, produced by Amy Pascal. Greta Gerwig, whose Lady Bird was nominated for five Oscars earlier this year, including Best Director, is set to write and direct the film.
Watson is coming off of the huge success of last year’s live-action Beauty and the Beast, which grossed over a billion dollars worldwide.
Variety first reported the news.
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Black Mirror season 5 gets premiere date, will have interactive episode: Report
According to a new report in Bloomberg, there are some intriguing details about one of the new episodes, plus a premiere date.
Season 5 will be released in December, the report says. That makes sense as the Emmy winner’s previous season was released Dec. 29 last year, so perhaps a holiday rollout is again in the works. The show went into production earlier this year and is still currently shooting.
Moreover, the new season will feature a “Choose Your Own Adventure” style episode where fans will get to interact with the story, making key decisions for a protagonist that determines their dystopian fate.
The thrust of the Bloomberg story, citing sources close to the company, is about how Netflix is actually developing a slate of interactive projects where viewers get to choose the narrative in story. The streaming service has tried basic interactivity with a handful of children’s shows, and HBO had Steven Soderbergh’s interactive series Mosaic. But the Black Mirror episode is expected to take such interactivity to another level.
Netflix had no immediate comment.
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Chris Rock reflects on his SNL firing, public clash with Martin Lawrence in A&E’s Cultureshock
certainly more than pain. When the iconic comedian’s stand-up special “Bring the Pain” aired on HBO in 1996, it also transformed the conversation about race in popular culture.
Rock reflects on his seminal “Bring the Pain” performance, as well as the personal and professional tumult that inspired its no-holds-barred spirit, in the newest episode of Cultureshock, a limited original series from A&E. The film is the fifth installment of the docuseries and will be directed by Emmy-winning United Shades of America host and fellow comedian W. Kamau Bell.
In the episode, Rock recounts how being fired from Saturday Night Live and his public clash with Martin Lawrence led him to rethink his approach to comedy and create the more thoughtful and provocative style he debuted in “Bring the Pain.” Bell also brings Lawrence himself to the screen, as well as interviews with Oprah Winfrey, Conan O’Brien, Trevor Noah, Hannibal Buress, Wanda Sykes, and more, allowing a complete picture of Rock’s impact on entertainment to unfold during the hour-long documentary.
Produced by Meredith Corporation’s Four M Studios in association with Entertainment Weekly, Cultureshock’s Chris Rock’s “Bring the Pain” will air on Oct. 15 at 10 p.m. ET on A&E.
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Bob's Burgers: A smorgasbord of adventures await the Belchers
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A musical spectacular centered around boy-crazy teen Tina Belcher kicks off a new season of Fox’s animated comedy Bob’s Burgers on Sunday, with a smorgasbord of adventures lying in wait for the misfit family.
The Belchers — comprising of long-suffering patriarch Bob, vivacious wife Linda, awkward Tina, eccentric Gene, and precocious, bunny-ears-clad Louise — rarely leave their sleepy hometown and burger bubble, but that doesn’t stop them from getting entangled in an array of colorful situations.
Halloween will mine the tropes of a slasher movie as the Belcher kids try to save their candy from being stolen during a trick-or-treat extravaganza. Thanksgiving will see the Belchers try to save a turkey, and Christmas will find Louise at war once again with Logan and the older kids over sledding turf.
Nestled amongst The Simpsons and Family Guy on Fox’s Sunday night line-up, Bob’s Burgers’ Belcher clan have emerged as a model working-class American family.
“At its core, the show is about a family who accepts each other for who they are despite their differences,” H. Jon Benjamin, who voices Bob, told EW.
Benjamin, who also voices other supporting characters such as Jimmy Jr., said that sometimes he’s been “directed to be less cynical” towards his kids and wife Linda (voiced by John Roberts), but that as Bob, he appreciates being the “rudder of the show.”
“The Belchers move through struggles and interpersonal conflicts very well together … at the end of every show is a positive resolution,” he said.
Unlike other animated shows that often thrust characters into wildly extreme situations such as The Simpsons’ patriarch Homer going into space or Family Guy’s Stewie Griffin time-travelling, Bob’s Burgers keeps its residents grounded and its scope local — “like one year over and over again, like Groundhog Day,” creator Loren Bouchard explained.
“All the yearning and wanting and pain our characters are feeling, we need to leave them right there, and we can’t really advance them,” Bouchard said. “To the extent that some of the other shows can go big, it leaves smaller story-telling for us to fool around with so we can keep exploring the smallest of events.”
Each of the Belcher kids will get their standout episodes this season. The 13-year-old Tina (voiced by Dan Mintz) lives out her fantasies in Sunday’s musical premiere, and later in the season, her permanent (and mostly unrequited) crush Jimmy Jr. will have a chance to redeem himself after breaking her heart in last season’s Valentine’s Day episode.
“Jimmy Jr. was too much of a jerk,” Bouchard said. “What we need from him is to have him occasionally maybe not paying attention and occasionally distracted. He wants to spend time with Zeke, but he can’t be so irredeemably obnoxious as he was in that episode and still be worthy of Tina’s attention.”
Middle child Gene (voiced by Eugene Mirman), often happy to be the quirkily confident pawn in his family’s affairs, will have a mushroom-hunting adventure in the woods with Bob. And in an upcoming November episode, the 11-year-old’s friendship with classmates Alex and Courtney will be examined.
“He doesn’t necessarily get as many stories centered on him as his sisters but that’s ok, I don’t think the audience minds as long as we do take care of Gene and give him those episodes that do celebrate him,” Bouchard said.
Kristen Schaal, who voices everyone’s favorite sassy 9-year-old trickster Louise, says she “continues to find vulnerabilities in Louise that are always really touching because she is so tough.” In the Christmas episode, Schaal says Louise “genuinely gets scared, and we see her get terrified.”
“She’s so smart, and I get to be at the top of my game intelligence-wise, but also get to be child-like at the same time,” Schaal says. “She’s quick to her emotions, and that’s fun for me, to act out a whole well of anger.”
Sunday’s big musical premiere is a stepping-stone to the Bob’s Burgers movie in June 2020, which will be a big screen musical extravaganza that may answer some long-standing questions about the show’s lead characters.
“We need to tell a big story, and we’re very interested in getting to some emotional places,” Bouchard said. “We do want to get to some real feels and some backstory and especially look a little bit at why Louise wears the hat and using that as a way to look at a bunch of things.”
Louise will be reunited with her beloved nightlight toy Kuchi Kopi in another dream sequence, and Bouchard said music will play a big part in the story.
“We want it to be a gorgeous experience for your ears as well as your eyes,” he said.
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Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish's Night School tops box office with $28 million
The duo’s adult-education comedy Night School is on track to earn an estimated $28 million in ticket sales at 3,010 theaters in the U.S. and Canada from Friday to Sunday, outpacing fellow new release Smallfoot to become the No. 1 film at the box office.
Heading into the weekend, Night School was projected to gross about $25 million to $30 million. Made for about $29 million and released by Universal Pictures, the film reunites Haddish with her Girls Trip director, Malcolm D. Lee, and producer Will Packer. For comparison, Girls Trip debuted with $31.2 million back in July 2017. As for Hart, Night School’s debut is coming in lower than 2016’s Central Intelligence ($35.5 million) and Ride Along 2 ($35.2 million), as well as 2015’s Get Hard ($33.8 million), but higher than 2015’s The Wedding Ringer ($20.6 million).
Night School centers on a high school dropout (Hart) who starts taking evening classes to get his GED and make himself a better man, with the help of an unconventional teacher (Haddish) and some fellow misfits (Rob Riggle, Romany Malco, Keith David). Critics’ reviews have been tepid, but moviegoers gave it an A-minus CinemaScore.
Taking second place this weekend is Warner Bros’. animated movie Smallfoot, which will earn about $23 million at 4,131 theaters. That figure is slightly below industry projections, which were also in the $25 million to $30 million range.
Directed by Karey Kirkpatrick and made for about $80 million, Smallfoot tells the story of a Yeti who forms an unlikely friendship with a human. The voice cast includes Channing Tatum, James Corden, Zendaya (as Meechee), Common, LeBron James, and Gina Rodriguez. Reviews were generally positive, and audiences gave it an A-minus CinemaScore.
Rounding out the top five this weekend are last week’s winner, The House With a Clock in Its Walls ($12.5 million), followed by A Simple Favor ($6.6 million) and The Nun ($5.4 million). Lionsgate’s slasher movie Hell Fest arrives with an estimated $5.1 million at 2,297 theaters, good for sixth place.
In limited release, National Geographic’s critically acclaimed climbing documentary Free Solo will earn an estimated $$300,804 in four theaters, notching the best per-screen average of the year ($75,201).
According to ComScore, overall box office is up 8.4 percent year-to-date. Check out the Sept. 28-30 figures below.
1. Night School — $28 million
2. Smallfoot — $23 million
3. The House With a Clock in Its Walls — $12.5 million
4. A Simple Favor — $6.6 million
5. The Nun — $5.4 million
6. Hell Fest — $5.1 million
7. Crazy Rich Asians — $4.2 million
8. The Predator — $3.7 million
9. White Boy Rick — $2.4 million
10. Peppermint — $1.8 million
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Tuesday, 25 September 2018
The fight for Earth is on in new Bumblebee trailer
on the brink of some kind of annihilation at the hands of giant shapeshifting robots, and the upcoming prequel is no exception. The new Bumblebee trailer shows that young Charlie Watson (Hailee Steinfeld) gets more than she bargained for when she buys an old yellow Volkswagen Beetle for her 18th birthday and finds the Beetle transforming into Bumblebee, the little Autobot that could.
Charlie warns Bumblebee not to show his true form to anyone other than her, but that doesn’t last long, especially since Bumblebee isn’t the only Transformer on Earth. There are Decepticons as well (including Shatter, voiced by Angela Bassett), and they manage to convince military brass like Burns (John Cena) that Bumblebee is the real villain. As evil forces converge on Bumblebee and Charlie, the yellow robot gets an important message from Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen): “in order to end this war, you must protect Earth and its people.”
Since Bumblebee is set in the ’80s, years before Michael Bay’s original Transformers movies, viewers know that war isn’t going anywhere. But at least that spunky yellow robot can try.
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Sunday, 23 September 2018
Everything Everything: ‘The idea of masculinity is changing – we can share our emotions more freely now’
Watch our video interview with the band above.
The band were speaking to NME on the red carpet of this year’s Mercury Music Prize 2018, where they were nominated for their acclaimed album ‘A Fever Dream‘.
“I think it’s an album about feeling pulled apart and separate from everybody – being suspicious of your neighbours, tribalism, stuff like that,” frontman Jonathan Higgs told NME. “I think people have latched onto it because a lot of people are feeling like that. They don’t know where they stand any more or who anyone is. That happened overnight and it left a lot of people in the dark.”
The band followed up the album with the EP ‘A Deeper Sea‘ – where the track ‘Breadwinner’ questioned traditional attitudes towards masculinity and male mental health.
“A lot of people are talking about it now. I was watching a football match recently and the player was crying. I was thinking ‘That never would have happened in the ’90s. They would have got a lot of stick for that. Well, Gazza did – but now it’s like ‘Yes, we have emotions’ and we can share them a lot more freely now. It’s changed definitely for the better.”
The band also spoke of their final gigs of the year – including a yet-to-be-announced New Year’s Eve show in Manchester where they promise “17 songs, confetti cannons, T-shirt cannons, and climbing”.
Everything Everything tour dates and tickets
The band’s upcoming UK and Ireland tour dates are below and tickets are available here.
October 6 – Neighbourhood Festival, Manchester, United Kingdom
October 7 – Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
The post Everything Everything: ‘The idea of masculinity is changing – we can share our emotions more freely now’ appeared first on NME.
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Chris Evans to star in new Apple thriller series Defending Jacob
Chris Evans will star in and executive produce Defending Jacob, a limited drama series based on William Landay’s 2012 best-selling novel of the same name. The story is centered on a detective whose son is arrested for stabbing a classmate, leading the father to take drastic measures. The Imitation Game‘s Oscar-winning filmmaker Morten Tyldum will direct the series, but no further details were given on casting or airdate of the project.
This is Evans’ first major television role since 2000’s The Opposite of Sex miniseries. The actor will appear as Captain America in the fourth Avengers film next year and is then expected to hang up his shield. His other films in development include the post-World War II drama The Devil All the Time, in which he’ll reunite with his fellow Avenger Tom Holland (Spider-Man).
Evans is the latest high-profile name to come aborad Apple’s growing original series roster, joining the likes of Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, Octavia Spencer, Jason Momoa and Oprah.
It is still not known when these series will debut and how Apple will distribute them, but the emergence of the tech company in Hollywood has piqued the industry’s interest as it presents stiff competition to the likes of Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, HBO, and basic cable networks in the race to deliver prestige television.
—Additional reporting by David Canfield
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Supernatural season 14 trailer: Sam's dealing with the situation in Hell
Sam will find himself having to handle everything, mostly because Dean is busy being Michael’s (unhappy) vessel.
The CW has released the first trailer for the upcoming season, which gives fans a glimpse at Michael’s meeting with Jo, not to mention one of the archangel’s “methods” to getting answers. (Hint: Alastair would approve.) Meanwhile, Castiel, Sam, and Jack are trying to figure out how to defeat Michael and save Dean. Or maybe Jack isn’t so concerned with what happens to Dean?
On top of all that, the trailer shows Sam declaring that there will be “no new king of Hell.” It’s unclear what that could mean for the Winchesters — or anyone, for that matter — but it’s evident Sam is in no mood to mess around. One bit of good news? At least Sam has his mom back to help him handle everything.
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