The 2016 American Music Awards brought out the biggest names in music Sunday night at Los Angeles' Microsoft Theater. The awards, which were co-hosted by Gigi Hadid and Jay Pharoah, were full of show stopping performances -- including John Legend's emotional performance of "Love Me Now," and Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj's racy "Side To Side" duet. But besides the performances, it was a competitive night. Drake led the way […]
OK, not exactly, but the popular film is getting Emilia Clarke. StarWars.com just announced that the 30-year-old actress is joining the upcoming untitled Han Solo standalone movie. She'll hit the big screen alongside Alden Ehrenreich, who is playing Han Solo, and Donald Glover, who is set to star as Lando Calrissian. Though the website hasn't announced exactly what character she'll play, Clarke—who's known for playing the Mother of Dragons Daenerys Targaryen on […]
The word is out — Johnny Depp is in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. And fans who caught the movie now that it’s out in theaters already know who the Oscar-nominated Animagus is actuallyplaying in the new franchise. Because the internet can’t have nice surprises, news broke earlier this month that Depp would appear Fantastic Beasts — which, if you hadn’t known this when you saw the movie, […]
Is anyone safe?” That troubling newspaper headline appears mere seconds into “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” a movie about a world being steadily torn apart by panic, violence, xenophobia and political revolt — you know, a fantasy. The setting of this rambunctious entertainment is New York City, 1926 — an ocean away from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and several decades before a boy named Harry Potter would […]
The Nobel Prize in Literature may be the world’s most important literary award, but not everyone who wins can make it to the ceremony. Among the reasons given by past laureates for failing to travel to Stockholm to accept the award: being gravely ill and in a wheelchair (Harold Pinter, 2005); being so anxious and agoraphobic that you are “not suited as a person to be dragged into public” (Elfriede […]
In light of its recent video fiasco and growing pressure from advertisers to open up its so-called walled garden for more third-party verification, Facebook today is announcing a ton of changes to its measurement system. Facebook has added a new metric called "video watches to 100 percent," which tracks both completed views and completed audio. "Video watches to 100 percent" replaces a previous stat that was called "video views to 100 percent." […]
Leon Russell, the musician and songwriter who worked with artists including Joe Cocker, George Harrison, the Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan, died Sunday in Nashville at 74. His website quoted his wife, Jan Bridges, as saying that he died in his sleep. He had suffered a heart attack in July. Raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Russell had a career of more than 50 years playing southern boogie-inflected piano, writing songs, and producing. […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvW_L8sTu5E Beauty and the Beast may be the most anticipated movie of 2017. When the first teaser trailer was released in the spring, it was viewed a record 91.8 million times in its first 24 hours—beating the likes of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (88 million views), Captain America: Civil War (61 million views) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (55 million views). The teaser trailer focused on Beast's castle and […]
The Oscar- and Golden Globe-nominated actor well known for roles in many films including The Magnificent Seven died after a short battle with cancer Actor Robert Vaughn, star of the 1960s US TV spy series The Man from UNCLE, died on Friday at the age of 83 after a short battle with cancer. He appeared in the silver screen classic The Magnificent Seven and on the long-running British television soap […]
