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Creed have announced details of their 2025 Summer of ’99 and Beyond Festival, which will see the band co-headlining with fellow post-grunge heavyweights Nickelback. This year’s fest takes place July 18th and 19th at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin.

The Friday (July 18th) lineup will see Nickelback joined by Live, Daughtry, Tonic, Our Lady Peace, and Lit, while Saturday (July 19th) will feature Creed closing out a bill that includes 3 Doors Down, Sevendust, Mammoth Wvh, Hinder, Vertical Horizon, and Fuel.

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An artist pre-sale begins Wednesday (February 19tth) at 10 a.m. Ct using the code SUMMEROF99, while a Live Nation pre-sale starts Thursday (February 20th) at 10 a.m. Ct using the code Duet. A general on-sale launches Friday (February 21st) at 10 a.m. Ct via Ticketmaster.

The two-day fest will fall right in the midst of the 2025 edition of Creed’s “Summer of ’99 Tour,” which...

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.”

For the first time in thirty texts, an Amityville film has adopted an anthology format. Amityville Vampire (2021), written by Carlos Perez and Tim Vigil (who also directs) divides its 90-minute narrative into three chunks to tell two stories, a wrap-around, and a few stingers. The film isn’t wholly successful due to a variety of issues, but the multiplicity of shorter narratives circumvents the typical “padded” feel of some of the “franchise”s Dtv entries.

Former DJ and (somewhat?) reformed ladies’ man Johnny The Gent (Anthony DeArce) plans to propose to his girlfriend Fran (Miranda Melhado). He takes her on what she anticipates will be a romantic camping trip and, on the car ride, tells her two separate stories about the area...

Faith Based actor Luke Barnett is set to star in Teacher’s Pet, the fourth feature from writer and director Noam Kroll.

Launch Releasing will finance, produce and distribute the indie set to start production in Los Angeles in early January 2024. The project signed a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement just before the Hollywood actors strike ended.

A Funny or Die regular, Barnett co-wrote, acted in and produced Faith Based, a satire on the Christian film industry, which was toplined by Jason Alexander, Lance Reddick and Margaret Cho. He also produced Your Lucky Day, which starred the late Angus Cloud.

Barnett will appear in the fourth season of AppleTV+’s sci-fi drama For All Mankind and the indies Tapawingo, opposite Jon Heder, and Tonic, with Lori Petty.

Teacher’s Pet is set to portray a malevolent new high school teacher with a sinister past who becomes disturbingly fixated on a brilliant female student.

It’s summertime, but don’t tell that to Mark Tremonti. The Alter Bridge and Creed guitarist has announced his first-ever holiday album, titled Christmas Classics New & Old.

The new release sees Tremonti singing and performing nine holiday classics and one original song. For the LP, Tremonti teamed up with the same orchestra that played on his recent Frank Sinatra covers album. Christmas Classics New & Old arrives October 27th, and is now available for pre-order here.

As for some of the holiday classics, Tremonti puts his own spin on traditional songs such as “Jingle Bells,” “The First Noel,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” “O Holy Night” and more. His original holiday song is called “Christmas Morning” and features piano and a marching band.

In other news, Creed recently announced a reunion for their first shows in more than a decade. The performances will take place on the Summer of ’99 Cruise,...

Get ready for a blast from the past as Creed announces a reunion, set for summer 2024.

In a video the band shared on Facebook, Creed frontman Scott Stapp and the rest of the band announced they’re coming back together for the nostalgia-heavy Summer of ’99 cruise next year.

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“We’re truly honoured by all your unwavering support throughout the years,” Stapp says in the video. “Creed is back — let’s do this!”

The Summer of ’99 Cruise departs from Miami and heads to the Bahamas, and takes place from April 18-22, 2024.

Creed are scheduled to perform two sets, and they’ll be joined by Buckcherry, Tonic, Vertical Horizon, Fuel, Verve Pipe, Tantric, Dishwalla, Veruca Salt’s Louise Post, Nine Days and 3 Doors Down.

In the run-up to Locarno, Paris-based MPM Premium has swooped on world sales rights to “On the Go,” a showcase of the acting talents of “Elite’s” Omar Ayuso, Omar in Netflix mega-hit “Elite,” playing in “On the Go” a Grindr addict with vengeance in his heart.

Set to world premiere in Locarno’s Cineasti del Presente, “On the Go” also has a first trailer, shared in exclusivity with Variety.

The trailer captures much of the spirit of the freewheeling road movie through an Andalusia of music, dance, sex and sensuality –though none of the film’s nudity – of a feature, written-directed by Maria Gisèle Royo and Julia de Castro, which revisits from a female perspective an extraordinary Andalusian feature, 1982’s “Corridas de Alegría.”

From the mid-70s, when Spain secured a democratic government after 40 years of rule by the arcane ultra-conservative Francisco Franco, Spain came out of the convent,...