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Ahead of the five-year anniversary of Glee cast member Naya Rivera’s death, her ex-husband Ryan Dorsey recounted her final days and raising their nine year old, in an interview with People.

“I’m here in L.A. working at Warner Bros., and Forest Lawn Cemetery [where she’s buried] is on the other side,” Dorsey, 41, told People. “So many songs make me think about her, like Amy Winehouse’s ‘Valerie,’ which she sang on Glee, and ‘Sunflower’ by [Post Malone and Swae Lee] because I always used to get her sunflowers on Sundays.”

Dorsey first learned...

Clive Davis’s famed Pre-Grammy Gala hit a major milestone Saturday night, as the event originally created to celebrate Barry Manilow’s first Grammy nomination has now gone on for 50 years as one of the award season’s most iconic fixtures.

Like the rest of the Grammy programming this year, with Los Angeles reeling after suffering multiple devastating wildfires, the Gala took on a renewed purpose this year, reshaping its purpose into a high-profile fundraiser for MusiCares. Along with the MusiCares Person of the Year event honoring the Grateful Dead Friday,...

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, The Weeknd returns with an epic sixth LP, Blackpink’s Jennie enlists Dominic Fike to play her toxic counterpart, and Jessie Reyez croons about her dedicated love in a dazzling ballad. Plus, new music from Julian Baker and Torres, Sasami, Clairo, and Zach Bryan.

The Weeknd, “Cry For Me” (YouTube)

Jennie, Dominic Fike, “Love Hangover” (YouTube)

Jessie Reyez, “Goliath” (YouTube)

Sasami feat. Clairo, “In Love with a Memory” (YouTube)

Julien Baker,...

Post Malone is driving into the comics world behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler.

The singer and songwriter behind hits “Sunflower” and “Circles” has teamed up with Vault Comics for Big Rig, a graphic novel described as Evil Dead meets Mad Max: Fury Road.

Platinum Dunes, the production banner run by Michael Bay and Brad Fuller, is also involved with the comic, and is working with Malone and Vault on developing a feature adaptation.

Based on an idea by Malone, Big Rig is written by the singer and Adrian Wassel, and is being drawn by Nathan Gooden, who previously illustrated Vault’s hit comic Barbaric. The comic will be published later this year, but in order to rev up interest, Vault will release the first chapter exclusively at local comic shops on Free Comic Book Day 2025.

“This is going to kick ass,” said Malone in a statement. “It’s amazing...

The Golden Bachelorette's Chock Chapple recently revealed a bizarre habit that could drive Joan Vassos crazy. It wasn't long ago that Chock, a 60-year-old insurance executive and business owner from Kansas, traveled to Los Angeles, California, to date 61-year-old Joan. Chock already knew who Joan was as she made her television debut during the inaugural season of The Golden Bachelor. Though things didn't work out for her and 72-year-old Gerry Turner, she was soon announced as the spin-off's first female lead.

Joan met Chock on the opening night of The Golden Bachelorette season 1. He was one of 24 single Golden men who had come to Los Angeles to meet Joan. There were plenty of impressive widowers and divorcees among the bunch, but Chock stuck out to Joan right away. He got her first solo date and her last solo date. Since getting engaged, Joan and Chock appear to be happy together,...

Bound In Heaven, the feature debut of director Huo Xin, won the top prize at the 2024 Rome Film Festival, with the awards unveiled at the Auditorium Parco della Musica on October 26.

The domestic abuse drama won best film in the Progressive Cinema Competition, the festival’s competitive strand, and also shared the best first feature award ex aequo with Edgardo Pistone’s Ciao Bambino.

Bound In Heaven premiered at Toronto, and features a starry cast including Ni Ni, Zhou You and Liao Fan. Director Huo is a veteran scriptwriter whose credits include Shower, Kung Fu Hustle, Sunflower and The Monkey King.

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Ice Spice drops her hugely anticipated debut album and joins forces with Travis Scott, Halsey taps into the melancholy side of Britney Spears, and Post Malone teams up with Luke Combs for some feel-good country. Plus, new music from Kacey Musgraves, Calvin Harris, and Ellie Goulding.

Ice Spice feat. Travis Scott, “Oh Shhh…” (YouTube)

Halsey, “Lucky” (YouTube)

Post Malone feat. Luke Combs, “Guy for That” (YouTube)

Kacey Musgraves,...

Beetlejuice 2, Juror No. 2, Good Fortune expected to be in front of cameras soon.

Hours after SAG-AFTRA and the Hollywood companies reached a tentative deal on Wednesday Sony Pictures announced it was pushing Venom 3 from next summer to November 8 2024.

Studio executives have moved the tentpole from July 12 2024, yet they do so with renewed confidence that they will be able to complete production on the Tom Hardy starrer as the 118-day strike is suspended at just past midnight on Thursday.

Venom 3 is directed by Kelly Marcel and is expected to get back into production before the end of the year,...

Exclusive: With the end of 118-day actors strike at 12:01 a.m. Thursday morning, as well as a 148-day WGA strike back in September, global Hollywood feature productions can now resume.

And while studios warned the guild that movies wouldn’t be able to start until January due to the holidays, they’ve been in pre-production on re-starts for pics that had to pause back in July.

Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine

Deadline hears that those movies set to go back this week or in very near future are Marvel Studios/Disney’s Deadpool 3 starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman and directed by Shawn Levy (50% complete); Paramount’s Gladiator 2 over in Europe, Warner Bros’ Tim Burton directed Beetlejuice 2 (which only has two days left), Clint Eastwood’s Juror No. 2 (which has around a dozen days left) and Sony’s Venom 3.

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Post Malone posted up at NPR’s office recently to play a delightful Tiny Desk Concert, just a couple of weeks after releasing his latest album Austin.

Posty began the set not with a new track, but with his smash hit “Sunflower.” Outfitted with a band comprising some lush background vocals, strings, piano, and more, the pop-rap crossover got a bit of a saccharine, bluegrass-inspired facelift. After the song wrapped, Post shared his gratitude to NPR for the invitation: “I’m super excited to come on this show, and super nervous — I’m not, actually, never mind,” he said with a heavy dose of sarcasm. “I’m not nervous at all.”

Despite admittedly struggling to give his best vocal performance — “I’m on tour, so my voice is balls right now,” he warned — the proud Dallas Cowboys fan next gave an impassioned rendition of his 2017 ballad “I Fall Apart.” He...

For his NPR Tiny Desk concert debut, Post Malone traced through the journey that led him to his recently released fifth studio album, Austin. Backed by a full band, an orchestra, and four backing vocalists, the musician strummed his guitar through a four-song set list that included “Sunflower,” “I Fall Apart,” “Circles,” and “Enough Is Enough.”

Posty has at least a handful of other songs that have also passed the one billion mark on streaming services — like the 21 Savage-assisted “Rockstar,” or “White Iverson” from his 2016 debut, Stoney. Then there’s also “Psycho,...

Actress Ria Nalavade, who played the role of Antari in hit series ‘UP65’, says it was empowering to create her own character.

Ria interacted with the media recently to celebrate the success of ‘UP65’, a buddy comedy based on the engineering campus life in Varanasi.

Apart from being an established actor, Ria is a director and screenwriter, and these talents which came handy creating her empowering role in the series.

Talking about creating her character in the series, she said: “I am very grateful to my producer and directors because they knew, apart from being an actor, I am also a director and screenwriter, they empowered me to explore new dimensions of the role. And this is the time I have seen that an actress is being empowered to take control of her character, not just on-screen but creating it with writing and reimagining her with new quirks and nuances.

Post Malone surprised New Yorkers Tuesday afternoon as he made an unannounced visit to Times Square.

Standing in front of an 18,000-square-foot billboard, Malone belted out some of his most popular songs like “Sunflower” and “Circles” and even sang unreleased music as another surprise for his fans, becoming the very first performer on the newly built Tsx stage.

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After the large crowd counted down to the rapper’s pop-up concert, he thanked them all for being there and asked them how they felt before introducing himself by his birth name.

“My name is Austin Richard Post and I hope everybody is having a beautiful day,” he said. “I’m so happy the rain cleared up so we could hang out, ladies and gentlemen, and I wanted...

The Melbourne International Film Festival has unveiled the full lineup for its 2023 edition, with “Shayda,” by Iranian-Australian director Noora Niasari, set as the opening title.

The festival will run as a live event August 3-20, at venues around the city and its suburbs, and online Aug 18 – 27. The hybrid format was developed during the Covid pandemic and Miff found it useful as a tool to reach further away audiences and wider demographics than a strictly in-theater edition.

The ‘Bright Horizons’ competition section open to films by first- or second-time feature directors contains an 11-title mix of new and recently-debuted works.

As well as opening the festival, “Shayda” will play in competition. The competition’s other Australian-made title was announced as “The Rooster,” from actor turned writer-director Mark Leonard Winter.

International titles in competition include “Banel & Adama,” by Franco-Senegalese director Ramata-Toulaye Sy, which played in competition in Cannes; “How to Have Sex,...

Lil Nas X has become one of the leading pop stars of his generation, especially for his contributions to LGBTQ+ and Black music in the 21st century. His rise to fame started with “Old Town Road,” which quickly became a massive hit and set the record for the most weeks at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100. Such success often comes with awards recognition, so it’s not a surprise that the song was nominated for three Grammys, taking home two of those. Let’s take a look back at Nas’s journey to the Grammy stage.

While “Old Town Road” was a hit pretty much from the get-go — particularly its remix featuring Billy Ray Cyrus — a lot of hits get snubbed by the Grammys, so awards weren’t guaranteed. It also probably didn’t help that he was likely expected to be a one-hit wonder. Perceptions started to change when...

“In all my career, I’ve never felt a room like you,” said Warwick Thornton, the First Nations Australian director, after the screening of his film “The New Boy,” a story of spirituality and survival set in 1940s, that was the opening night title of the Sydney Film Festival. “The energy you give back to these children…,” he said before tailing off.

It was a churning, heartfelt moment that contrasted with Thornton’s bouncy earlier appearance on stage, when he joshed about having told the eight untrained school-age kids in his cast never to look directly at the camera while on set. And how he had to reverse that advice for when they, along with producer Kath Shelper, dominated the red carpet at Sydney’s grand State Theatre. Smile and wave for the paparazzi.

The film had premiered last month in competition at Cannes and was overlooked for major awards.

Vampire Weekend have released a vinyl-only live album called Frog on the Bass Drum Vol. 01, which pulls audio from a June 2019 show in Indianapolis where there was, in fact, a frog pictured on their bass drum.

The setlist from the show featured songs from all four albums of their discography — 2008’s self-titled debut, Contra, Modern Vampires of the City, and Father of the Bride — plus the official release of a 10-minute long cover of Bob Dylan’s Infidels track “Jokerman.” To boot, vocalist Ezra Koenig dropped a quick flow from “Pizza Party,” the debut track from L’Homme Run, the college rap group he formed with Vampire Weekend drummer Chris Tomson.

Frog on the Bass Drum Vol. 01 also comes with the band’s Quarterly Report newsletter. See the artwork and tracklist below.

2,500 copies of the LP were pressed by the vinyl’s manufacturer, Jack White’s Third Man Pressing in Detroit,...