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Shakira has canceled tonight’s show in Lima, Peru after being hospitalized due to an abdominal condition.

“I regret to inform you all that last night I had to go to the ER due to an abdominal issue and am currently hospitalized,” Shakira wrote on her Instagram Story in Spanish alongside an English translation. “The doctors whose care I am currently under have communicated that I am not in the condition to put on a concert tonight.”

She continued, “I am very sad to not be able to take the stage today. I’ve been looking forward to reuniting with my beloved Peruvian fans. I hope to be better tomorrow, and that I’ll be discharged as soon as possible to be able to give the performance that I have prepared for all of you.”

The tour date is part of the “Chantaje” singer’s Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour,...

Shakira is kicking off her highly anticipated tour!

The 48-year-old “She Wolf” legend performed the first night of her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour on Tuesday (February 11) with a stadium show at Estadio Nilton Santos in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

She will next be performing in São Paulo at Estadio MorumBIS on Thursday (February 13).

Shakira opened the show with the Bizarrap-produced “La Fuerte,” wearing a custom Versace ensemble. Her costume looks throughout the night were designed by Zuhair Murad, Guarav Gupta and Jawara Alleyne, plus one-of-a-kind Tiffany & Co. Elsa Peretti Bone cuffs crafted for the first time in platinum with pavé diamonds and hand engraved with the tour’s name.

The night included tons of hits, from “Hips Don’t Lie” to “Chantaje” to “Estoy Aqui,” as well as songs like “Session 53,” “Tqg,” “Monotonia” and “Te Felicito” from her latest album, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran.

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It's part of the mythos of Hollywood action stars that they're not afraid to do their own stunts, risk their necks, and just generally court danger in order to maintain their larger-than life mystique. Even on that scale, though, the stories Gerard Butler told during a recent conversation with his...

Gerard Butler has revealed actors were getting injured "every day" on the set of '300'.The 55-year-old actor led Zack Snyder's 2006 historical action epic playing the part of Leonidas, King of Sparta, and has revealed several cast members were rushed to hospital, with one guy terrifyingly being hit in the eye with a spear.Speaking to his 'Den of Thieves 2: Pantera' co-star O'Shea Jackson Jr. for an instalment of People's 'Comparing Notes' series, he recalled: "I remember every day somebody was getting taken to the hospital."You'd be doing a fight, you turn around, there's a guy down there, a spear went in his eye. Another time, you turn around, there's a guy over there who just fell, broke his ankle. I mean, it was insane."Elsewhere, the 'P.S. I Love You' star claimed he "almost drowned" filming 2012's 'Chasing Mavericks' after "getting...

Singer-songwriter Shakira is busy in the studio, as she has been “rebuilding herself” with her brand new album.

The 47-year-old Latin singer, who split from footballer Gerard Pique in 2022 after more than a decade together, has so far released 11 studio albums since she was a teenager, reports Female First UK.

She announced that her ‘Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran’ will be out on March 22. She said: “Making this body of work has been an alchemical process. While writing each song I was rebuilding myself. While singing them, my tears transformed into diamonds, and my vulnerability into strength.”

As per Female First UK, the ‘Whenever, Wherever’ hitmaker recently gave fans a glimpse of what is to come during her Super Bowl commercial teaser and the new record will feature eight new tracks along with the previously released hit singles, including ‘Music Sessions Vol. 53’ with Bizarrap, ‘Tqg’ with Karol G, ‘Te Felicito’ with Rauw Alejandro,...

Shakira is back with a new album!

The 47-year-old “Chantaje” superstar will release her 12th studio album, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran (Women No Longer Cry), on March 22, she confirmed on Thursday (February 15).

It’s her first album in seven years!

“Making this body of work has been an alchemical process. While writing each song I was rebuilding myself. While singing them, my tears transformed into diamonds, and my vulnerability into strength,” she said.

The new album includes 16 tracks, 8 new songs plus a remix, and 7 previously released smash hit singles: “Music Sessions Vol. 53” with Bizarrap, “Tqg” with Karol G, “Te Felicito” with Rauw Alejandro, “Copa Vacía” with Manuel Turizo, and more.

The 7 previously released tracks already have a combined total of 3.7 billion plays on Spotify!

Shakira‘s new album also marks her debut release on vinyl, featuring four distinct artwork editions, each paired with an exclusive colored vinyl variant.

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Colombian singer Shakira is often referred to as the Queen of Latin Music. She's credited as the pioneer who extended the global reach of Latin music singers. Since her breakup with ex Gerald Piqué in June 2022, Shakira has become an ever-stronger artist, releasing several hits, including "Monotonía" and her history-making diss track "Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53." Shakira has also received a number of accolades and is nominated for several Latin Grammy Awards this year.

There's no denying that 2023 became the year of Shakira. Through this collection of stories, we are honoring Shakira's current success, where she started, and the impact she continues to have on the Latine community.

Shakira has become unshakable. More than 30 years into her music career, the Colombian pop icon remains on top of the world. Though she has gone through some challenging moments in her life, including a very public breakup with ex Gerard Piqué, Shakira...

Tidal tapped Bad Bunny to share his top musical picks for a playlist to celebrate Latinx Heritage Month — and Bad Bunny chose 15 songs, all led by women artists.

Trans rapper Villano Antillano’s “Pájaro” makes an appearance, and Young Miko is seen twice with “Riri” and her song with Catalyna and Cory, “Castigada.” Two songs from Paopao’s Diamantes y Espinas join the fun, while Tokischa’s “Estilazo” with Marshmello and “La Combi Versace” with Rosalía are featured.

The playlist also included “Limbo” by RaiNao, with whom Bad Bunny told...

Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczynska makes her English-language debut with The Silent Twins, the strange and remarkable story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, twin sisters who only communicated with each other from 8 to later-teen years when drugs and drinking led to petty theft and an arson charge that landed them in the tightly secured medical ward of Broadmoor for 11 years before being released in the 1980s. Creating their own puppetry and dolls, poems and music, which they only broadcast for each other on a fake radio program, the “twinnies” as they were called by family fell into an odd void that became more pronounced, even when they were forced to go to separate schools at one point. And they carried on this way until becoming young women landing and in legal trouble until incredibly being incarcerated for over a decade, five or six times as long as the...

This article contains Star Trek: Strange New Worlds spoilers.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 3

Like the classic episodes “The Naked Time” or “The Deadly Years,” Strange New Worlds has entered into Star Trek-storytelling mode all about a weird alien virus sweeping the ship. From The Next Generation to Deep Space 9 and beyond, every Trek show needs an episode like this, and in “Ghosts of Illyria,” we get a great one. When a virus that’s transmitted by light starts to make everyone lose it, it’s up to Number One to sort everything out.

“Ghosts of Illyria,” is, arguably, the first big episode to feature Rebecca Romijn’s Una Chin-Riley as the focus of the story. And as such, we get a lot of references to previous moments in Trek canon, many of which directly connect to her backstory, and La’an’s backstory, too. Here’s every...

The phrase "the butterfly effect" stems from the tenets of Chaos Theory, which we all think we know about because we saw "Jurassic Park." It is, as with all things pertaining to mathematical theory, far more complex than a charming grin from Jeff Goldblum. Actual chaos theory states that seemingly complex and chaotic arrangements of numbers will eventually reveal themselves to be discreetly patterned, and how small, seemingly random changes early in a mathematical structure can lead to larger, more dramatic changes much further along in the same structure. The butterfly effect — and this is taken from rudimentary internet research and not years studying mathematics — describes...

The post The Butterfly Effect's Original Ending Was Ridiculously Grim appeared first on /Film.

Exclusive: Producer and award-winning actress Veronica Ferres has signed with CAA and Fourward. Both entities will also represent Ferres’ film and TV production company, Construction Film, which she founded in 2013 as a female led label, and is dually based in Munich and Los Angeles.

The German-born Ferres can currently be seen opposite Anthony Hopkins in Zero Contact, the first feature film Nft, and has completed filming Paradise Highway opposite Morgan Freeman and Juliette Binoche for Lionsgate. Through her Construction Film banner, Ferres produced, alongside Sandra Bullock and Graham King, The Unforgivable, which stars Bullock and Viola Davis and premieres with a theatrical release in the US on November 24 and internationally on Netflix December 10.

She also recently produced Shattered for Lionsgate with John Malkovich, Lilly Krug and Frank Grillo, which will be released January 14, 2022.

Ferres began her career in the Academy Award and Golden-Globe nominated film Schtonk!, and went on to...

The Rolling Stones will mark the 40th anniversary of their 1981 album, Tattoo You, with a reissue featuring a bonus disc filled with previously unreleased material. The set will arrive on October 22nd via Polydor/Interscope/UMe.

To accompany the announcement, the Stones released “Living in the Heart of Love,” one of the nine previously unreleased songs that will appear on the bonus disc, Lost & Found. The nine songs were all originally recorded while the Stones were making Tattoo You, but were recently completed and enhanced with additional vocals and guitar by the Stones.

Gerard Butler’s The Plane has added actors Remi Adeleke, Haleigh Hekking, Lilly Krug, Joey Slotnick, and Oliver Trevena to its cast which already includes Mike Colter, Daniella Pineda, Kelly Gale, and Yoson An.

The Plane follows commercial pilot Brodie Torrance (Butler) who, after a heroic job of successfully landing his storm-damaged aircraft in hostile territory, finds himself threatened by militant pirates who are planning to take the plane and its passengers hostage. As the world’s authorities and media search for the disappeared aircraft, Brodie must rise to the occasion and keep his passengers safe long enough for help to arrive.

Hekking will play Daniela, Butler’s character’s daughter, who is always looking out for her father. Adeleke will play Shellback, a seasoned mercenary who is tapped to lead a rescue team. Slotnick will play Sinclair, a short-tempered businessman. Krug is Brie, a passenger with a huge social...

Chicago – One of the more high profile local film productions this summer was “The Class.” The film essentially reunites Anthony Michael Hall of “The Breakfast Club” with John Hughes-land, and brings him back to high school … this time as the assistant principal. “The Class” was written and directed by Nick Celozzi.

The film wraps production on Sunday, August 8th, and the young cast portraying the high schoolers – Charlie Gillespie (Netflix’s “Julie and the Phantoms”), Juliette Celozzi, Lyric Ross, Hannah Kepple, Colin McCalla and Michael Sebastian – will also wrap their roles in this Breakfast-Club like homage. While in town the cast also participated in “”A Night with Anthony Michael Hall” at the Tivoli Theatre in Downers Grove (Il), which included his co-star Debbie Gibson, the 1980s/90s teen idol singer-turned-actress.

Writer/Director Nick Celozzi of ‘The Class’

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

Nick Celozzi is a veteran actor,...

A mother suddenly finds herself far, far away from her husband and children in Hold Me Tight (Serre moi fort), a gorgeously shot memory piece from French actor-director Mathieu Amalric. Though probably most famous for his acting turns as the Bond baddie in Quantum of Solace, a man with locked-in syndrome in Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and a host of wild-haired French intellectuals in other art house hits, Amalric has an esteemed second career as a director in his own right. He even scored a coveted Cannes competition spot with his swirling 2010 feature, On Tour, set in the ...

A mother suddenly finds herself far, far away from her husband and children in Hold Me Tight (Serre moi fort), a gorgeously shot memory piece from French actor-director Mathieu Amalric. Though probably most famous for his acting turns as the Bond baddie in Quantum of Solace, a man with locked-in syndrome in Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and a host of wild-haired French intellectuals in other arthouse hits, Amalric has an esteemed second career as a director in his own right. He even scored a coveted Cannes competition spot with his swirling 2010 feature, On Tour, set in the American ...

Screenwriter Ed Solomon joins hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante to discuss a few of his favorite movies.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) – Alex Kirschenbaum’s Bill & Ted character power rankings

Bill And Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)

Bill And Ted Face The Music (2020)

Men In Black (1997)

The French Connection (1971) – Dennis Lehane’s trailer commentary, Mark Pellington’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings

No Sudden Move (2021)

A Night At The Opera (1935) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

Mosaic (2018)

Take The Money And Run (1969)

Bananas (1971) – Robert Weide’s trailer commentary

Sleeper (1973)

Love And Death (1975)

Annie Hall (1977) – Robert Weide’s trailer commentary

Manhattan (1979)

And Now For Something Completely Different… (1971) – Brian Trenchard-Smith’s trailer commentary

Blazing Saddles (1974) – John Landis’s trailer commentary, Dennis Cozzalio’s Blazing Saddles Thanksgiving

Klute (1971) – Katt Shea’s trailer commentary, Charlie Largent’s Criterion Blu-ray review

The Parallax View (1974) – Karyn Kusama’s trailer commentary,...

Actor David Morse joins Josh and Joe to talk about his favorite movies.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Slaughter Rule (2002)

Dancer In The Dark (2000)

A History Of Violence (2005)

The Indian Runner (1991)

Inside Moves (1980) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Death Wish (1974) – Darren Bousman’s trailer commentary

The Virtuoso (2021)

The Crossing Guard (1995)

Prototype (1983)

Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann (1991)

Seven Beauties (1975)

Swept Away (1974)

Mimic (1997)

Hannibal (2001)

Mean Streets (1973)

Taxi Driver (1976) – Rod Lurie’s trailer commentary

The Godfather Part II (1974) – Katt Shea’s trailer commentary

Being There (1979) – Alan Spencer’s trailer commentary

The Ghost of Peter Sellers (2018)

A Shot In The Dark (1964) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary

Midnight Cowboy (1969) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Papillon (1973)

Straight Time (1978) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary

Straw Dogs (1971) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary

Wait Until Dark (1967) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Catch 22 (1970) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary

Desperate Hours (1990)

The Bounty...

The 48th Annie Awards are going to be held in a little over a month on April 16th, virtually, of course. However, today we have their nominations, which were led by the duo of Soul and Wolfwalkers. The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature has long seemed to be a battle between those two films, so that makes sense. Will one get a boost here next month and have an Oscar advantage? Stay tuned to find out… Here are the Annie Award nominees: Best Feature Onward, Pixar Animation Studios Soul, Pixar Animation Studios The Croods: A New Age, DreamWorks Animation The Willoughbys, Netflix Presents A Bron Animation Production in association with Creative Wealth Media Trolls World Tour, DreamWorks Animation Best Indie Feature A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon, Studiocanal and Aardman present in association with Anton Capital Entertainment, an Aardman Production for Netflix Calamity Jane, Maybe Movies On-Gaku: Our Sound,...

“Soul” and “Wolfwalkers” led all films in nominations for the 48th annual Annie Awards, the most comprehensive awards show devoted solely to animation. The two films each received 10 nominations, with “Onward” receiving seven and “The Croods: A New Age,” “The Willoughbys” and “Over the Moon” receiving six.

“Soul,” “Onward,” “The Croods: A New Age,” “The Willoughbys” and “Trolls World Tour” were nominated in the Best Feature category. In the Best Indie Feature category, which was created in 2015, the nominees were “Wolfwalkers,” “A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon,” “Calamity Jane,” “On-Gaku: Our Sound” and “Ride Your Wave.”

Netflix led all companies with 40 nominations, with Disney/Pixar receiving 29 and DreamWorks Animation receiving 20. In the film categories, the two Pixar movies, “Soul” and “Onward,” received 17 nominations to 15 for the Netflix-distributed “The Willoughbys,” “Shaun the Sheep” and “Over the Moon,” and 10 for Dwa’s “The Croods” and “Trolls.”

Since the Annies split the two categories,...

Two very different animated features lead the way as the 48th annual Annie Awards nominations were announced today. Disney/Pixar’s Soul and Cartoon Saloon’s Wolfwalkers scored 10 noms apiece ahead of the virtual trophy show on April 16. Read the full list of nominees in 31 categories below.

Wolfwalkers, a “relatively small European movie,” as the filmmakers described it — is rooted in the history of 1650s Ireland, while Soul follows a middle school music teacher’s journey to “the Great Beyond” via “the Great Before.”

Soul will vie for the marquee Best Feature prize at the Annies, going up against another Pixar pic — Onward, which scooped seven noms — along with Netflix’s The Willoughbys and a pair of DreamWorks Animation sequels: The Croods: A New Age and Trolls World Tour. Willoughbys and Croods picked up six noms each today, and Trolls rocked away with four.

Wolfwalkers is up for the Best...

After a night of trolling by actors Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Jacob Batalon, Sony and Marvel Studios finally revealed the title of their third Spidey movie: Spider-Man: No Way Home. It’s an apt title for a film that will reportedly see heroes and villains from across the Spider-Verse collide once again, but this time, it’ll happen in live-action, which likely means the return of a few big-screen favorites.

It’s been reported that the movie will not only include Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange, taking over from the late Tony Stark as Peter’s mentor, but also Jamie Foxx and Alfred Molina, reprising their roles as Electro from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Dr. Octopus from the original Spider-Man 2 respectively. It’s also long been rumored that these villains will be bringing along their own Spider-Men, played once again by Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire. That last bit...

Imagine there’s no VHS tapes. I wonder if you can. For the earliest Trekkies, the ability to own your favorite episode of Star Trek wasn’t difficult, it was impossible. This meant that some other media was required to record the true logs of the USS Enterprise. Enter books. The most reliable data storage device in history, and the first and possibly best destiny for Star Trek merch.

Since 1967, there have literally been thousands of officially licensed Star Trek books published. The question is, if fans only care about “real” canon do any of the Star Trek books actually qualify as part of the “real” story of the Final Frontier. The answer doesn’t fall into a simple binary. Star Trek books have been an integral part of the growth of the franchise since the very beginning. Here’s a quick and dirty guide to the mixed canonicity of the various Star Trek books.

As with all award shows, the Latin Grammys have had a couple of controversies over the years. Perhaps one of the most prevalent is how urban/reggaeton artists are typically ignored in favor of genres like pop, tropical and alternative. This was particularly noticeable last year, when a slew of urban artists complained about the lack of representation, especially given how massive this genre is in popular culture. With most if not all Latin crossover hits of the past few years being reggaeton or reggaeton-inspired, including but not limited to “Chantaje” by Shakira and Maluma, “Mi Gente” by J Balvin, and most recently “Hawái” by Maluma, is it really fair to shut the genre out of major recognition in terms of nominations and wins?

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In comes Bad Bunny, who is arguably the biggest Latin artist of the past few years,...

This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 3. Read our review of the episode here.

As the USS Discovery starts to explore the galaxy in Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, the first stop is, understandably, to check-in on how the Planet Earth is doing. Unlike Battlestar Galactica searching for Earth forever, Discovery decided to get the whole Earth thing out of the way right away. In Episode 3, “People of Earth,” the crew returns to the home planet of the Federation and learns things are not remotely similar to how they left it.

Along the way, “People of Earth” references a long-running Tng-Douglas Adams joke, a quip from Kirk in The Wrath of Khan, a famous DS9-era alien species, and more!

700 years after we left…

Burnham’s opening narration fills in new details we previously didn’t get about the Burn, including the idea that prior to the Burn,...

Sir Ronald Harwood, the Oscar-winning British screenwriter of The Pianist and films such as The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Dresser and Quartet, has died. He was 85.

His agent, Judy Daish, told the BBC that Harwood died of natural causes on Tuesday.

Harwood wrote the script for Roman Polanski’s World War II drama The Pianist, which won him the 2003 Academy Award for best-adapted screenplay. He was nominated for a best-adapted screenplay Oscar on two other occasions for 1983’s The Dresser and 2007’s The Diving Bell and The Butterfly.

Highly regarded in Hollywood for his film work, in his native Britain, Harwood ...

Sir Ronald Harwood, the Oscar-winning British screenwriter of The Pianist and films such as The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Dresser and Quartet, has died. He was 85.

His agent, Judy Daish, told the BBC that Harwood died of natural causes on Tuesday.

Harwood wrote the script for Roman Polanski’s World War II drama The Pianist, which won him the 2003 Academy Award for best-adapted screenplay. He was nominated for a best-adapted screenplay Oscar on two other occasions for 1983’s The Dresser and 2007’s The Diving Bell and The Butterfly.

Highly regarded in Hollywood for his film work, in his native Britain, Harwood ...

Hulu is out with its list of everything new coming to the streaming service in the month of September — and everything that’s leaving.

Highlights in the new category include Season 2 of “Pen15,” which stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle as their middle school selves, out Sept. 18. Another highlight is the series premiere of “Woke,” inspired by the life and work of American cartoonist Keith Knight. That’s out Sept. 9.

Leaving at the end of the month are movies like “50 First Dates,” “A Mighty Wind,” and “Best in Show.”

See the full list below.

Sept. 1

Mike Tyson Mysteries: Complete Season 4 (Adult Swim)

Jeopardy!: Episode Refresh (ABC)

50 First Dates (2004)

Absolute Power (1997)

Aeon Flux (2005)

American Dragons (1998)

An American Haunting (2006)

Any Given Sunday (1999)

Anywhere but Here (1999)

Back to School (1986)

Bad Girls from Mars (1991)

The Bank Job (2008)

Because I Said So (2007)

The Birdcage (1997)

Broken Lizard’s Club Dread (2004)

Call Me (1988)

Carrington (1995)

The Cold Light Of Day...

Exclusive: Tony McGee, celebrity photographer best known for his work with David Bowie, is prepping the release of a film shot during the pandemic after launching a film production company with his son Max McGee.

Tony McGee, who also took the first professional photographs of Kate Moss when she became a model, and Max McGee recently launched McGee Films.

They are preparing the launch of Auto, which was filmed in London during Covid-19. It stars Max McGee, Andy Constanti and Sherise Blackman with Tony McGee directing.

The story follows a veteran Special Forces member Gun who recently spent three years in Iraq. Now home from war Gun makes his living as a henchman for hire to local organized crime groups in London. The film follows Gun as he is sent on a mission to transport a vehicle in the middle of the night through London on behalf of one of...

This Star Trek: Lower Decks article contains spoilers.

With most new Star Trek shows, locating the Easter eggs and references takes probably at least two viewings. But, with Lower Decks, you can watch an episode four times and still be missing references and Easter eggs. This is saying something when you also consider that these episodes are half as long as episodes of Discovery or Picard. So, with that in mind, like in the previous episodes, there is almost certainly something we missed in trying to gather all the Easter eggs and references from Lower Decks episode 4, “Moist Vessel.”

From a surprise guest star (Haley Joel Osment) to a heartwarming story about Mariner and Captain Freeman (briefly) becoming allies, this episode was about a lot more than just Easter eggs. But that’s not why you’re here. You came for the Trekkie eggs and you shall have them!

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As August winds down, it’s time to look ahead to everything that’s hitting the major streaming services in September. As always, there’s an enormous haul of originals and newly licensed titles going up across Netflix, Disney Plus, HBO Max, Hulu and Prime Video over the month, including content from every genre out there.

The first day of September brings the usual lengthy list of movies arriving on most of the sites. Just a few of the highlights include all three Back to the Future films returning to Netflix, every entry in the Twilight saga arriving on Hulu and countless iconic movies going up on HBO Max, including Grease, Miss Congeniality and V for Vendetta. Also, Doctor Who fans will want to take note, as the most recent season of the show lands on HBO Max the same day.

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As one of the weirder “back to school” seasons in living memory rolls out, Hulu is heading back to school in its own way for September 2020.

The biggest Hulu original arriving to the streaming services stream this month is season 2 of coming-of-age comedy Pen15…which of course stars two adults who have already come of age playing their middle school selves.

Speaking of middle school, perhaps the biggest non-original addition to the Hulu library this month is the arrival of all The Twilight Saga movies on September 1. That should prove to be a real nostalgia trip for interested parties. Other library titles of note include Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, The Terminator, and 2019’s Judy on September 25.

Bookending Hulu’s originals this month is another intriguing comedy, Woke. This series will star Lamorne Morris as a Black cartoonist who gets an unexpected wakeup call.

Here is everything else...

With the streaming wars really starting to heat up now thanks to all the new services that have sprung up over the past few months, it’s more important than ever for the major players to continue delivering truckloads of new content to keep subscribers happy. And thankfully, Hulu intends on doing just that.

Earlier today, the platform announced their September line-up and it’s an exciting mix of films and TV shows covering iconic classics, underrated gems, overlooked projects and true fan favorites. In fact, it’s looking like a particularly strong month compared to what we’ve seen from the streaming site over the summer so far and below, you can check out the entire list of what’s headed to Hulu in the coming weeks.

Released September 1

Mike Tyson Mysteries: Complete Season 4 (Adult Swim)

Jeopardy!: Episode Refresh (ABC)

50 First Dates (2004)

Absolute Power (1997)

Aeon Flux (2005)

American Dragons...

Fred Willard, best known for his roles in Best in Show, This Is Spinal Tap, Everybody Loves Raymond, and Modern Family, died of natural causes at the age of 86, according to Variety.

“It is with a heavy heart that I share the news my father passed away very peacefully last night at the fantastic age of 86 years old,” his daughter Hope Willard tweeted on Saturday. “He kept moving, working and making us happy until the very end. We loved him so very much! We will miss him forever.”

Willard first came into national consciousness as the sidekick to Martin Mull’s host on the nightly Fernwood 2 Night. He is well known as part of the revolving troupe of actors – including Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy – assembled by director Christopher Guest.

“How lucky that we all got to enjoy Fred Willard’s gifts,” Guest’s wife,...

Fred Willard, comedic actor best known for “This Is Spinal Tap,” “Best in Show” and “Waiting for Guffman,” and, most recently as Phil Dunphy’s father on “Modern Family,” died Friday night of natural causes. He was 86.

“My father passed away very peacefully last night at the fantastic age of 86 years old. He kept moving, working and making us happy until the very end,” his daughter Hope Mulbarger said in a statement. “We loved him so very much!”

Willard was a master at playing characters who weren’t the brightest of bulbs, a feat he perfected in Rob Reiner’s “This Is Spinal Tap,” along with a number of Christopher Guest’s mockumentaries, including “Waiting for Guffman,” “Best in Show,” “A Mighty Wind” and “For Your Consideration.”

Also Read: Lynn Shelton, Director of 'Mad Men' and 'Glow' Episodes, Dies at 54

Guest’s wife, Jamie Lee Curtis,...

This Star Wars: The Clone Wars article contains spoilers.

Now that The Clone Wars is over, there are a lot of questions fans probably still have about the end of the show. What happened to all the clones who were still loyal to Sidious? What did Vader do with Ahsoka’s lightsaber? Where did Maul go? And as fun as those questions are, on some level, we know the answers will be tame when compared to The Clone Wars‘ much cooler question: What if Ahsoka and Maul had teamed-up against Anakin after the Siege of Mandalore?

It’s a question that suggests an alternate version of Revenge of the Sith, and in turn, an entire bizarro dimension of Star Wars canon. Obviously, throughout the four-part finale, we know Ahsoka won’t team-up with Maul to betray Anakin, but both episodes 10 and 11, “The Phantom Apprentice” and “Shattered,” we’re shown moments...

This Star Wars: The Clone Wars article contains spoilers.

Originally introduced as a supporting character in The Clone Wars movie that spawned the animated series, Ahsoka Tano is unquestionably the star of The Clone Wars season 7. In just eight episodes (she’s not in the first arc of the season), we follow Ahsoka from Coruscant’s seedy Level 1313 to the Siege of Mandalore to the chaos of Order 66. In essence, the final season maps out where Ahsoka was and what she was doing at the end of the Clone Wars and how the Jedi Purge completely changed the trajectory of her life.

The Clone Wars could only end in tragedy. That much we already knew from Revenge of the Sith, but Ahsoka’s journey is particularly heartbreaking, not least because of the stuff she still doesn’t know by the end of the series. In the “Siege of Mandalore” arc,...

The next episode of the CG-animated TV series "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" , is titled "Shattered", airing May 1, 2020 on Disney+:

"...after successfully capturing 'Maul' on 'Mandalore', 'Ahsoka' plans to deliver him to the 'Jedi Council' on 'Coruscant'. Bu when 'Order 66' is declared in the midst of her journey, Ahsoka's world is turned upside down. Friends become foes, while enemies become allies..."

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As hard as it is to believe, Star Wars: The Clone Wars finally concluded the story that Dave Filoni and George Lucas started more than 10 years ago with an episode that was as tragic as it was full of action and spectacle.

After the penultimate chapter, “Shattered,” culminated in Anakin turning to the dark side and Palpatine executing Order 66, Ahsoka went on the run from the 501st platoon that accompanied her through the Siege of Mandalore. On the bright side, though, the former Jedi Padawan managed to remove Commander Rex’s chip, not only saving her friend but also increasing her likelihood of surviving the clones. Of course, with Darth Maul set loose, the clones didn’t stand much of a chance and the dark-side warrior proceeded to blow up the Star Destroyer’s hyperdrive.

Meanwhile, Rex and Ahsoka continued to fight waves after waves of Clone Troopers, refusing to kill them,...

Today’s the day. As it’s Star Wars Day, Disney Plus dropped the much-anticipated series finale of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and we finally got to see the last chapter in a story that’s spanned – on and off – 12 years. Of course, we also got an answer to the big question of how Ahsoka Tano and Darth Maul survived Order 66.

Last Friday’s “Shattered” saw the execution of Order 66, with Commander Rex battling his clone programming and Ahsoka managing to discover that the inhibitor chips are causing the clones’ betrayal of the Jedi. When we left her, she’d been forced to release Maul to cause a distraction while she operated on Rex to remove his chip, but a clone troop had broken into the medbay.

“A Victory and Death” kicks off with Ahsoka and the freed Rex blasting their way through the turncoat clones, only using non-lethal force.

The series finale of Star Wars: The Clone Wars finally addresses a long-standing mystery by revealing the fate of Ahsoka Tano and Maul amid the rise of the Galactic Empire.

It’s true that we had our doubts about the final season of the hit animated series. After all, anything the Mouse House does in the world of that galaxy far, far away ends up getting picked apart by fans and ultimately proves to be divisive, and for good reasons, too. Yet, Dave Filoni and his team somehow managed to stick the landing and deliver a near-perfect ending to the story of the Prequel era.

In fact, the last four episodes absolutely knocked it out of the park in terms of action and building up to the tragic events of Order 66. From Anakin and Ahsoka’s reunion in “Old Friends Not Forgotten” to Maul and Ahsoka’s mo-capped lightsaber duel...

It’s difficult to pick out any one scene from the penultimate episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars as the best, but we’re sure that Maul’s hallway massacre would be a powerful contender.

While fans initially expected the Siege of Mandalore to last through all 4 episodes of the final arc, Dave Filoni and his team surprised us by bringing it to an abrupt end and instead interconnecting the series with Revenge of the Sith. In “Shattered,” Ahsoka and Commander Rex escort Maul to Coruscant with the rest of the 501st. Alas, when they’re in the middle of traversing the hyperspace, Anakin completes his turn to the dark side and Palpatine executes Order 66, prompting all clones in the Grand Army of the Republic to hunt down and kill their Jedi Generals.

Ahsoka barely makes it out alive and decides to free Maul. As you’d imagine, the...

This Star Wars: The Clone Wars article contains spoilers.

With Order 66 now in effect, Anakin’s betrayal and transformation into Darth Vader complete, and Ahsoka’s life irrevocably changed, the Clone Wars are at their end. After three years of battles that engulfed much of the Republic, only one major battle for the fate of the galaxy remains, as the Jedi make one last effort to defeat the Sith.

While Anakin and Obi-Wan duel on Mustafar and Yoda tries to dethrone Emperor Palpatine on Coruscant, Ahsoka and Rex must try to survive Order 66 in The Clone Wars series finale, “Victory and Death.” Season 7 episode 12 is set to air on May 4 — Star Wars Day — at 12:01 am Pt/3:01 am Et on Disney+.

Last week’s episode, “Shattered,” showed what happened to Ahsoka and Maul at the onset of Order 66. After feeling a huge disturbance in the Force as Anakin turned to the dark side,...

It’s been a long time since we witnessed the execution of Order 66 in Revenge of the Sith, but the penultimate episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars somehow managed to rekindle all those painful emotions from 15 years ago.

The eleventh episode is aptly titled “Shattered,” describing the state that Dave Filoni left us in when it came to a close. Fans already knew that this moment was coming, and even the producers teased us from time to time, but Anakin turning to the dark side still struck an agonizing chord. Although, the fact that Samuel L. Jackson and Hayden Christensen’s voices filled the background really got us, not to mention Rex’s heartbreaking reaction to Order 66 and Ahsoka trying to survive amidst the endless wave of blaster fire from her Clone Troopers.

Everything in this episode, from the early scenes building up to the defining moment and the...

If you got chills while watching “Shattered,” the third part of The Clone Wars finale, there’s a good chance that the episode’s music had something to do with that. Series composer Kevin Kiner’s bold score for this installment is unorthodox as hell but classic at the same time. But, beyond its dichotomy, it proves something about Star Wars in general. Subverting our expectations for what the music of Star Wars should be is, perhaps, the fastest way to make new Star Wars stories feel fresh. We all love John Williams’ scores, but at a certain point, it’s nice to hear something new.

Some might say Star Wars would be nothing without its famous music, but it’s worth thinking about which aspects of the saga would be more well-liked had the music been more memorable and daring. For my money, Solo isn’t half as bad...

This Star Wars article contains spoilers.

Soon, The Clone Wars will be over. The seven-season animated series is ending much in the same way as Revenge of the Sith, with the evil Emperor Palpatine rising to power and ordering the slaughter of all the Jedi. If you’ve watched the Prequel Trilogy, you know that his Jedi purge begins with Order 66.

In “Shattered,” the penultimate episode of The Clone Wars, Palpatine unleashes Order 66 on Ahsoka Tano and Maul. What was initially a major victory for Ahsoka on Mandalore has turned into a tragedy that will completely change her life.

So what is Order 66 and how is it connected to other parts of the Star Wars saga?

What is Order 66?

The order is a cue for the entire army of clone troopers to kill their Jedi commanders and any other Jedi they find. Order 66 effectively marks all Jedi as traitors...

For Lars Ulrich, quarantining during the pandemic has meant spending more time with his wife and kids. Just in the past few days, the drummer shared video of sons Myles and Layne, both home from NYU, playing their fuzzy, noisy instrumental take on the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby.” Metallica had intended on playing South America this spring and headlining several summer festivals this summer, but they’ve since put those plans on hold until it’s safe to play live again. Their next scheduled date is their own All Within My...

Death awaits the Jedi in “Shattered,” one of the darkest episodes of The Clone Wars to date. Covering the events of Order 66 from Ahsoka and Maul’s perspective, the two Force users must fight for their lives to escape the clone troopers who want to kill them.

Unsurprisingly, the central plot of this episode features many references to Revenge of the Sith as well as some of the other movies. You’ll also find nods to the Rebels animated series, earlier episodes of The Clone Wars, and ancient Star Wars history.

Here are the easter eggs and references we’ve in “Shattered” so far:

Revenge of the Sith

– There are several references to Revenge of the Sith in this episode, but the Jedi Council call at the beginning of the episode is perhaps the most direct, as it’s cut straight out of a scene from the movie in which Mace Windu,...

Star Wars: The Clone Wars reached its penultimate episode today, with the show finally coming to the fateful events of Order 66. Obviously, we’ve known for a long while that Ahsoka Tano survived the destruction of the Jedi, as she returned in sequel series Star Wars Rebels. Likewise, Captain Rex was confirmed to have overcome his clone programming on that same show. This depiction of their escape, however, conflicts with what we’d already been told, but it’s probably for the best.

In episode 7×11 “Shattered,” Ahsoka and Rex are heading back to Coruscant with a captured Maul when Palpatine issues Order 66. In the midst of their journey through hyperspace on a Republic cruiser, the troopers turn on Ahsoka – including Rex! Thankfully, he’s able to struggle with his programming enough to tell her to find Fives. The former Jedi manages to discover the truth about Fives’ death from a terminal,...