Check out these 25 instances of smash songs originally intended for other artists. 1. “The Long and Winding Road” Recorded By: The Beatles | Turned Down By: Tom Jones Paul McCartney wanted Tom Jones to record “The Long and Winding Road” as a single in 1968, but that didn’t work out, and he recorded it with The Beatles instead. 2. "Dim All The Lights" Recorded By: Donna Summer | Written for: […]
Search-engine architects must decide when their creations should act as a kind of expert and when they should neutrally direct people to what they are seeking. What is Google’s responsibility to its searchers? In a Thursday panel at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Ashkan Soltani, the Federal Trade Commission’s chief technologist, offered a hypothetical that captured why that question is so difficult to answer. Before getting to that hypothetical, let’s assume […]
The actor criticized the pressure on directors to have shorter film shoots, saying that "right now, television is the best that’s it ever been." Two-time Oscar winner Dustin Hoffman criticized the current state of cinema, saying it’s at the lowest point it has been in the half a century that he has been working. “I think right now, television is the best that it's ever been, and I think it’s […]
Batman and Superman square off for the first time If you’re going toe-to-toe with the son of Jor-El, you better come correct. For his climactic rooftop brawl with Superman, Batman outfits himself with a reinforced mech-suit equipped with strength-augmenting armor and, yes, kryptonite. The design resembles the one used for the confrontation between these two in Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns. Image Credit: Warner Bros. Mr. Wayne, […]
The next Star Trek movie will be called Star Trek Beyond. This from director Justin Lin, the longtime Fast & Furious steersman, who will be taking over the Trek franchise in its first post-Abrams installment. Lintweeted out the name as a hashtag—#StarTrekBeyond—so we don’t actually know yet if the title of the movie is Star Trek Beyond or Star Trek: Beyond, or perhaps Star: Trek Beyond, which would still sound less odd than Star Trek Into Darkness. The Beyond name had been rumored for […]
Add Mel Gibson to the list of Hollywood stars hopping on the China film bandwagon. The actor and Oscar-winning director of “Braveheart” has signed on as a consultant on “The Bombing,” a World War II epic currently filming in eastern China. Bruce Willis has a role in the movie, which is slated for a spring 2016 release, and producers say they are on the verge of casting another prominent Hollywood […]
Apple Music, the company's competitor to Spotify, has gone live in an update that can be downloaded now. The new version of iOS, 8.4, can be downloaded from the Settings app. That will automatically install a new version of the Music app, where Apple's new streaming service will live. To download the service, users head to the Settings app. Clicking on "General" and then "Software update" brings up the screen, […]
Tom Holland will be the next actor to play Peter Parker/Spider-Man in his own big-screen adventure, Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios announced Tuesday. Best known for his work in the film The Impossible and the TV miniseries Wolf Hall, the 19-year-old actor will play the comic-book icon in a movie scheduled to open in theaters July 28, 2017. ADVERTISING The film will be helmed by Cop Car director Jon Watts. […]
After seven years away from the music industry, Janet Jackson officially returned with her first new song since 2008's Discipline, which reunites her with her longtime producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. The song is titled "No Sleep".
