Kendrick Lamar received the Pulitzer Prize in music for his album “Damn.” on Wednesday. Lamar is the first rapper in history to be given the award. Previous recipients included Bob Dylan, Hank Williams and Duke Ellington. Twitter video shows Lamar, 30, receiving a standing ovation before walking up to the stage at Columbia University. Although he did not deliver a speech, he shared his feelings during the award’s Facebook Live video […]
Top Gun 2 filming begins with Cruise back in the flight suit Tom Cruise has swerved back onto that Highway to the Danger Zone as the star Tweeted a picture from the first day of Top Gun 2 filming. No other cast besides Cruise have been announced yet. See Cruise back in the flight suit after 32 years in the gallery below! Joseph Kosinski, who previously directed Cruise in Oblivion, will helm the […]
It’s been a long time coming, but Apple is finally launching its Messages in iCloud feature today with the release of iOS 11.4. Messages on iCloud was announced almost a year ago when Apple first showed off iOS 11 at WWDC 2017, and now — on the eve of the announcement of iOS 12 next week — it’s available to all users. Messages on iCloud is kind of complicated, but here’s what it […]
“Solo: A Star Wars Story” has earned the ignominious distinction of premiering to the lowest opening for a Disney “Star Wars” film yet — bowing with $103 million over the four-day holiday weekend. Normally a debut of over $100 million would rank as a roaring success, but there are reasons that folks on the Disney lot may be starting to sweat. After all, this is one of the most storied film franchises in movie history; a premium […]
Your regularly scheduled game of Release Date Shuffle continues, after WB moved some films around and Fox 2000 set a date for The Hate U Give, and now it’s Paramount’s turn. The studio has announced that they’ve set, shifted, and outright removed some films from their upcoming release schedule. Up first is their in-development biopic of Elton John. Titled Rocketman and set to star Taron Egerton, who co-starred with the musician in Kingsman: The Golden Circle, the film will […]
Yesterday, Twitter user @ReevzFX provided a much-needed break from the scuttlebutt regarding the DCEU, namely Justice League and the long-fabled presence of a Snyder cut. The DC fan shared a trio of behind the scenes snapshots featuring Ben Affleck’s frequent stunt double, Richard Cetrone, in full Knightmare attire. Although the images did their best to temporarily distract us from the latest Snyder revelation, which pertained to an actual screening of the Justice League director’s cut, the sun […]
The spinoff is the first of the new Star Wars movies to brave the summer box office, and opens only five months after 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' hit theaters. If all goes well, a young Han Solo and his band of outcasts will take out Captain Jack Sparrow and set a new Memorial Day weekend record at the box office. Disney's and Lucasfilm's spinoff Solo: A Star Wars Story is tracking […]
Now that we’re officially out of Hollywood awards season, did you forget about the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday night? Here’s everything you need to know: 1) The Sante Fe tributes. At the top of the show, BBMAs host Kelly Clarkson was in tears as she talked about the shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas on Friday, where eight students and two teachers were killed. Clarkson said the producers of the show wanted […]
The late singer will be honored with his own street in Detroit. The late King of Pop is set to be honored with a street in the city where it all began for him and his band of brothers. In a news conference on Thursday, it was announced that the city of Detroit, Michigan would be renaming a portion of Randolph Street in the downtown theater district to Michael Jackson […]
