It’s a bittersweet time for Metallica fans as frontman James Hetfield has broken his unexpected silence, which began in September, with some bad news. On Feb. 24, the 56-year-old announced that he will be unable to make it to two of Metallica’s scheduled festival performances later this year: Sonic Temple in Columbus, Ohio, and Louder Than
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(Lionsgate) I should preface this by saying that I, Rachel Leishman, am not casting the remake of Little Shop of Horrors—but if I were, it’d pretty much be this cast. Let me explain. Right now, the Greg Berlanti remake of Little Shop of Horrors is rumored to star the following people: Taron Egerton, Chris Evans, Scarlett
Various Jewish groups have been critical of Hunters, Amazon Prime’s new show, for its portrayal of the Holocaust. The drama series, starring Al Pacino and Logan Lerman of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, follows a group of vigilante Nazi hunters in the 1970s. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and State Museum took to Twitter to share
With just over a week left before Super Tuesday, Michael Bloomberg’s past is still coming back to haunt him. The billionaire’s entrance into the Democratic presidential primary has been met with a slew of criticism over his past comments and actions, from his controversial “stop and frisk” policy as New York City mayor and defense
The Los Angeles Clippers, bolstered by the additions of Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, might have thought they could lay claim to the title of hottest ticket in town. Eddie Murphy, seen here with fiancé Paige Butcher last night, is the strongest possible evidence against that idea. Because Eddie Murphy was courtside at the Laker
Less than a month after concluding the southern leg of their 2020 U.S. tour, Tool has announced a brand new stretch of North American shows. Twenty-eight, to be exact. The news of the spring trek was reported on Monday by Pitchfork, who revealed that the Schism rockers will play five Canadian shows across five different cities:
In the Amazon series Hunters—a 1970s-set drama that revolves around a group of vigilantes finding and killing Nazis hiding in the U.S.—there’s a particularly brutal flashback scene that takes place at a concentration camp. In the scene, captive Jews are forced to play a violent game of human chess, charged to kill each other as
Two days after Joaquin Phoenix won the first Oscar of his career for the Joker, the actor rescued a newborn calf and her mother from a slaughterhouse in Los Angeles. In a video released by Farm Sanctuary, an American animal protection organization, Phoenix visits a Pico Rivera slaughterhouse with his fiancée Rooney Mara and a delegation
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have been going through a major transition period since they announced in January that they will be stepping back from their roles as senior members of the royal family and becoming financially independent. The couple has been living a low-key life in Canada, where they have been enjoying hiking, hanging
When dancer Camila Prins entered Sao Paulo’s Carnival parade grounds, a costume of feathers clinging to her sinuous body, she fulfilled a dream of feminine beauty nearly three decades old. Prins says she first realized she wanted to be a woman at a Carnival party at age 11, when, like the other boys, she was
As the major Hollywood studios, entrenched perhaps too much in the old ways, look to combat disruption caused by streaming services in the entertainment marketplace, there proves to be one thing that’s reliable: computer-generated animals. As The Lion King proved last summer, creatures doing exactly what filmmakers want without needing to be fed are a
Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM While we’re still so sad that Schitt’s Creek is coming to an end soon, we can’t wait for whatever brilliant things the cast takes on next. And for our favorite influencer turned PR maven (or would that be raven, given how the Crows Have Eyes 3 premiere went?) Alexis Rose
We’ve all been flummoxed by why certain artists, songs and albums aren’t as popular as we think they should be. “This song is GREAT! Why isn’t it a hit? What’s stopping this band from becoming huge? There’s gotta be some kind of conspiracy keeping them from being stars.” Well, no. The history of music is
Raf Simons is taking his talents to Milan. The Belgian designer will join Prada as co-creative director in April, the brand announced Sunday, with a press release describing an arrangement in which Simons will share “equal responsibilities for creative input and decision-making” with Miuccia Prada. This is as big as news gets in the fashion
Lucasfilm’s precise Star Wars plans now that the Skywalker Saga is over remain unclear. But that doesn’t mean Kathleen Kennedy and company are sitting around twiddling their laser swords. Their deal memo department remains as busy as a droid factory on Geonosis. Truly, we will never know star peace. The latest news to leak is
It’s been half a decade since Grimes put out a full body of work, but after nearly a full year of teasing it, the mysterious and much-beloved electronic pop musician has released Miss Anthropocene: her fifth studio album overall. Miss Anthropocene is a play on words, combining both “misanthrope” and “Anthropocene.” In a statement posted on
Island of Bryan is back for Season 2 on the island of South Andros in the Bahamas. Season 2 picks up where Season 1 left off — a rollercoaster year of construction ahead of the resort’s grand opening date. Bryan and Sarah Baeumler have committed to six more months until the grand opening. With the budget
You remember how to get to Central Perk, right? The friends of Friends will be celebrating their friendship this May, and we are all invited. That is so long as we subscribe to the forthcoming streaming platform HBO Max. (HBO Max is different from HBO Go, so you are going to have to chase down
Kristy SparowGetty Images Sophie Turner turned 24 years old on Friday, and she and husband, Joe Jonas, went to Paris to celebrate. They celebrated Turner’s big day with a cake that appeared to be shaped like a heart. In a photo featured on her friend Ellie Johnson’s story, Turner can be seen taking a big
Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, have abandoned plans to use the “SussexRoyal” brand a month after the two announced they were stepping back from royal duties. The couple, who are known in Britain as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, will no longer seek to trademark the term SussexRoyal because of U.K. rules governing
(Mario Tama/Getty Images) Two days after Elizabeth Warren called him out during the Democratic debate in Nevada, Michael Bloomberg has announced that he will be releasing former employees from the nondisclosure agreements signed as part of harassment lawsuit settlements. Sort of. In a statement on the campaign’s website, Bloomberg writes that his company has looked
Harry and Meghan are officially no longer allowed to call themselves royal–a decision made by the Queen, and demonstrating the true price the Sussexes have paid for their newfound independence. Following reports this week that the couple would not be allowed to use the word “royal” in their new branding, Buckingham Palace confirmed Friday evening
On Friday, after keeping fans on their toes for weeks, world-renowned K-Pop group BTS kicked off “Phase 4” of its “comeback map” by releasing its newest studio album, Map of the Soul: 7. The record serves as the septet’s seventh overall studio album and a follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2019 EP, Map of the Soul: Persona. Not
When did you actually go to the studio? It was a while after Ross and I first talked about it. I had been sending Ross some sounds, which he’d send back with notes. We didn’t get into the booth until at least January 2019. It was after a game one night, and Ross was at
The jury deliberating in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial indicated Friday that it is deadlocked on the most serious charges. In a note sent to the judge during their lunch break, jurors posed a question asking if it were permissible for them to be hung on two counts of predatory sexual assault while reaching a unanimous
When Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced their plan to leave their roles as senior royals in January, it came at the end of months of speculation that the pair had different ideas about how they wanted to live than the example set by Queen Elizabeth. When their son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, was born, they shielded
With only two days of notice, Lana Del Rey has cancelled the entire U.K. and European leg of her Norman F***ing Rockwell! world tour. On Thursday morning, the Summertime Sadness singer released a statement claiming that she had fallen ill and that her doctor advised her to rest after being unable to sing, according to Variety. “Sorry to
Justin Bieber subjected himself to a unique form of torture last night when he played “Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts “on James Corden’s Late Late Show. The singer was given the choice between answering awkward, personal questions or eating gross food items. Most of the time, Bieber chose the food: He drank a
In the fall of 1931, F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, returned to the United States after spending much of the ’20s abroad. They found the country much changed. Having left the Champagne-soaked festivities early, by the time they returned, all that was left was an empty dance hall with glitter on the floor.
Deliberating for a third day, the jury at Harvey Weinstein’s trial continued Thursday to focus a lot of attention on actress Annabella Sciorra’s linchpin allegations that the once-heralded Hollywood mogul raped and sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990s. Jurors, before being dismissed for the day without a verdict, sent the judge a note asking to