Florida Georgia Line pay tribute to the fairer sex on their latest release, “Women,” a collaboration with Jason Derulo. The new black and white music video takes you behind the scenes at NightBird recording studio in West Hollywood, where the FGL guys — Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard — chill out with Derulo and get to […]
January 31, 2019 3:16AM PT The fading Nineties rave scene provides a luminous backdrop to Brian Welsh’s bittersweet, black-and-white coming-of-age tale. A snappy, scrappy, straining-at-the-leash coming-of-ager from bleakest Scotland, Brian Welsh’s “Beats” takes place in 1994 — two years before the release of “Trainspotting,” though 23 years on, it feels like something of an heir […]
Bavaria Studios — often described as the heart of the Bavaria Film group — may be one of Europe’s largest and most state-ofthe-art film and television production facilities, but it also boasts an illustrious past that long ago cemented its place in cinematic history. Film pioneer Peter Ostermayr founded the studios, originally known as Münchener […]
January 31, 2019 3:28AM PT A new Norwegian drama will tell the story of the people who responded to the horrific 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway that left 77 dead, most of them teenagers. “22 July” is being produced by Norwegian pubcaster NRK’s drama arm and will be distributed by DRG, which landed the international […]
Andrew Bird has announced a new album. It’s humbly titled My Finest Work Yet, and it’s due out March 22 via Loma Vista. The record features his previously released single “Bloodless,” as well as his new song “Sisyphus.” Below, check out the video by Matthew Daniel Siskin, which features a host of praise about the […]
Craig Finn, frontman of the Hold Steady, has announced a new solo album. It’s called I Need a New War and it’s due out April 26 via Partisan. Hear the album’s opening track “Blankets” below, and scroll down to see the cover art and tracklist. In a statement, Finn says the LP completes a trilogy […]
Fred Armisen has announced a forthcoming music and comedy tour across North America. The “It’s Comedy for Musicians but Everyone Is Welcome” tour will find Armisen revisiting the music of satirical bands such as the Blue Jean Committee (from Armisen and Bill Hader’s “Documentary Now” series), the Fingerlings, Crisis of Conformity, and more. The tour […]
Country music singer Jake Owen will perform a pre-race concert at the Daytona 500. Owen will take the stage ahead of the 61st running of the “Great American Race” at Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 17. A native Floridian, Owen featured Daytona Beach in his 2013 hit “Beachin.’” Owen follows a long list of famed […]
Italian pop singer Andrea Di Giovanni is not one to take stories of persecution lightly. Identifying as genderqueer himself, the star has made a music career around singing about tackling issues that are important to him, be it through his lyrics or his aesthetics. But one recent event shook the singer to his core — […]
Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood might have a shot at winning the world’s most grueling steeplechase for the first time with a not so wild horse. British Grand National organizers say Wood’s horse, Sandymount Duke, is among 112 entries that will be whittled down to 40 runners for the race on April 6. Sandymount Duke […]
Storm clouds might be hovering on the Hollywood-China entertainment horizon, with Washington and Beijing stuck in their trade war and bilateral industry talks stalled. But there are strong reasons to believe that Hollywood is poised for a sunnier year at the Chinese box office in 2019 than it had in 2018. January has already brought the […]
James Honeyborne, the creator of “Blue Planet II,” has inked an overall deal with Netflix. Honeyborne is an internationally acclaimed producer of blue-chip natural history programming. He recently left U.K. pubcaster the BBC’s Natural History Unit to set up his own banner, Freeborne Media, with director Renee Godfrey. They have inked a multiyear deal to […]
Sir Peter, meet Sir Paul, and Mother Mary. “Lord of the Rings” filmmaker Peter Jackson has come aboard a project that Paul McCartney had previously hinted was in the works: a new Beatles documentary using the 55 hours of in-studio footage that were shot in early 1969 for the 1970 feature film “Let It Be.” […]
Throughout 2018, Tim Heidecker (of Tim & Eric) continued his trend of sharing political and anti-Trump songs. Now, he’s collected six of them for a new EP called Another Year in Hell, which is out now via Jagjaguwar. The EP includes “Q” (about QAnon), two versions of “Ballad of the Incel Man,” and more. Below, […]
These New Puritans have announced the follow-up to 2013’s Field of Reeds. Their new album, out March 22, is called Inside the Rose. Check out the title track below, along with a video directed by the artist and photographer Harley Weir. The video, which is not safe for work, features extensive nudity, with various “goddesses […]
Eric André has a new movie coming later this year. Bad Trip, directed by “The Eric Andre Show” writer and director Kitao Sakurai, is a hidden-camera prank movie that will see André pairing up with comedian and actor Lil Rel Howery on a “cross-country road trip full of inventive pranks, pulling its real-life audience into […]
More than 250 acts on nearly two dozen stages scattered throughout New Orleans’ historic French Quarter and along the Mississippi River front are on tap for the 2019 French Quarter Festival. The lineup, announced Tuesday, includes contemporary funk band Galactic, which is making its festival debut on April 11, opening day. Other scheduled artists include […]
Pop legends Olivia Newton-John and Kylie Minogue, vocal group Human Nature and Universal Music Australia Classics and Jazz General Manager Cyrus Meher-Homji have been recognized in the Australia Day Honours. Newton-John, the Grease actor, Grammy winner and five-times Billboard 100 chart champion said she was “excited and delighted and honored” after she was made a Companion of the […]
K-pop nonet Stray Kids are set to bring their 2019 tour Stateside in May. The group’s UNVEIL Tour “I am…” in USA will bring the nine-member boy band to the East and West Coasts and Texas as they perform three concerts The Stray Kids will hit up Newark’s New Jersey Performing Arts Center on May 15, then […]
Actress-director Trudie Styler and Chilean helmer Sebastian Lelio are among those tapped for jury duty at the upcoming Berlin Film Festival. The Berlinale announced the full lineup of the main competition jury Tuesday for its 69th edition. U.S. film critic Justin Chang, German actress Sandra Hüller and American museum curator Rajendra Roy will join Lelio […]
John Malkovich will return to the London stage for the first time in more than 30 years in the starring role of a new play by David Mamet about a disgraced Hollywood producer reminiscent of Harvey Weinstein. In “Bitter Wheat,” Malkovich will play Barney Fein, the head of a Hollywood studio who falls from grace. The […]
Toni Morrison’s artistic, cultural and historical legacies are by now firmly established, which doesn’t prevent “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am” from revealing them anew and setting them out in an appreciative, and appropriate, package. An eloquent nonfiction biopic that travels creatively through the past, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ film is enlivened both by its own storytelling dexterity […]
Lizzo has announced CUZ I LOVE YOU, billed as her debut full-length. It’s out April 19, via Nice Life/Atlantic. She’ll embark on a North American tour later that month, following Coachella appearances either side of the album’s release. Find all the dates on her website. CUZ I LOVE YOU features the Minnesota rapper’s recent single […]
Late-night hosts on Monday tackled the news that Donald Trump associate Roger Stone was arrested early Friday morning and charged with lying about his association with Russian-hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election bid. Their bits followed Saturday Night Live’s treatment of Stone’s arrest the previous weekend, in a cold open that saw Steve […]
Ariana Grande rings up her third No. 1 on Australia’s singles chart with “7 Rings” (Universal). The U.S. pop star’s trans-Atlantic chart champion bows at the summit of the ARIA Singles Chart, nudging Post Malone & Swae Lee’s “Sunflower” (Universal) into second place. Grande completes a hattrick of Aussie crowns in less than a year, after “No Tears […]
Ocean Alley’s “Confidence” is sky high after the Sydney six-piece won Australia’s biggest fan-voted music poll. Ocean Alley on Sunday took out Triple J’s Hottest 100 countdown with their chilled tune, lifted from the J Award-nominated album Chiaroscuro. “Confidence” beat out Fisher’s “Losing It” and Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode” to become the 15th homegrown song to […]
“The Hobbit” actor Richard Armitage will star in “The Stranger,” Netflix’s latest series in collaboration with bestselling author Harlan Coben. The eight-part thriller, produced by the same team that did previous Netflix Coben series “Safe,” starring Michael C. Hall, and “The Five,” goes into production in March. Coben will executive produce the series along with […]
January 28, 2019 3:14AM PT ZDF Enterprises has bought into Nadcon, the German film and TV banner that coproduced Berlinale opener “The Kindness of Strangers” and was cofounded by Peter Nadermann, one of the pioneers of the Nordic Noir genre. Nadcon was created in 2012 by Nadermann and German film and TV giant Constantin. ZDFE […]
Sold by Studiocanal, produced and distributed by Mars Films, “Love at Second Sight,” Hugo Gélin’s follow-up to Omar Sy-starrer “Two is Family” – which scored a noteworthy €62 million ($67.9 million) outside France in 2017 – begins with a post-catastrophe Winter. Wasn’t this meant to be a romantic comedy? Images of Paris’ River Seine half-buried […]
Fiona Apple has shared a new joint single with pop artist King Princess. It’s a new version of “I Know,” a song from Apple’s 1999 album When the Pawn…; listen below. King Princess’ debut release Make My Bed EP came out last year. Fiona Apple’s most recent studio album The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than […]