Behind the ‘Demented’ but Straight-Faced Songs and Score of ‘Dicks: The Musical’ With Marius de Vries and Karl Saint Lucy

Game of Thrones” spinoff, which will begin airing in the summer of 2024, and fans are stoked.“House of The Dragon” Season 2 has been highly anticipated. This week, HBO confirmed that the “Game of Thrones” prequel would begin airing again in early summer 2024 (via Variety). They also shared the first trailer with the press.Season 2 of the hit series is said to focus on the civil war between the Targaryen family.

“Yellowstone” news has been scarce as of late. However, fans finally know when the second half of Season 5 will return. The show is set for a huge comeback to air the final episodes, including the series finale, in November 2024.

Kourtney Kardashian and Tristan Thompson aren’t exactly close. Although other members of the Kardashian family, such as Kim, have become close to Khloe Kardashian’s baby daddy, Kourt isn’t sold.During a recent episode of “The Kardashians” on Hulu, Kourtney Kardashian opened up about her feelings on Tristan Thompson. Kourt admitted that she gets triggered by Tristan’s presence after everything he’s put Khloe through over the years.

Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes – check it out above.Directed by Wes Ball (Maze Runner), the film serves as the sequel to 2017’s War For The Planet Of The Apes and is the fourth instalment in the reboot franchise overall.In Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes, set several generations after Caesar’s reign where apes are now the dominant species on Earth, his son Cornelius (Owen Teague) is forced to contend with a new tyrannical ape leader who threatens to seize control.A synopsis reads: “As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.”Alongside Owen Teague, other cast members include Freya Allan (The Witcher), Kevin Durand (Locke & Key), Peter Macon (Shameless) and William H. Macy (Fargo).The film’s screenplay is written by Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver and Patrick Aison, with Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping serving as executive producers.Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes is released in cinemas on May 24, 2024.As reported by Deadline’s Justin Kroll in June last year, Disney is apparently planning a “new trilogy of films” after being “very high” on the first film’s script.Based on the novel by Pierre Boulle, Planet Of The Apes was first adapted for the screen in 1968.

Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has been accused of sexual assault by a second woman.Rolling Stone reported that in a lawsuit filed in New York today (November 2), Jeanne Bellino claims that Tyler violently assaulted her twice in one day in the summer of 1975, when she was 17.Bellino, who is a former child model, says it was the only day she ever encountered Tyler, and the lawsuit lists the allegations as gender-motivated violence. She is seeking unspecified damages.The suit claims that Bellino and Tyler were walking to the Warwick Hotel in New York after a fashion show, when Bellino questioned Tyler about a song lyric, which frustrated him, and he forced her into a phone booth.“While holding her captive, Tyler stuck his tongue down her throat, and put his hands upon her body, her breasts, her buttocks, and her genitals, moving and removing clothing and pinning her against the wall of the phone booth,” the suit alleges.“As Tyler was mauling and groping Plaintiff, he was humping her pretending to have sex with Plaintiff.

wore her fuzzy layers in Los Angeles, the same city in which I currently reside.On November 1, published photos of Bullock stepping out in LA wearing a casual athleisure ‘fit, complete with leggings, running sneakers, and a black ALO Yoga shearling jacket with an oversized collar. Mind you, the weather in LA reached a low of just 60 degrees and a high of 84. Suddenly, I’m feeling a lot more empowered to invest in some winter outerwear.

Madison Beer is embarking on her third (!) world tour.The popular 24-year-old singer will play venues all over North America from April through June 2024 as part of her upcoming ‘Spinnin Tour’ with special guests Jann, Charlotte Lawrence and UPSAHL in support of her latest studio album “The Silence Between Songs.”“Pinch me,” she shared on Instagram.Along the way, she’ll make a stop in her native New York.On Saturday, May 18, Beer will headline at Radio City Music Hall.And if you want to see the rapidly rising superstar live next spring, you can grab tickets for all 33 concerts as soon as today.Some are quite cheap, too.At the time of publication, our team found tickets going for as low as $24 before fees on Vivid Seats.Other shows have tickets starting anywhere from $25 to $80 before fees.Curious how much Beer tickets cost for the show closest to you?You’re in the right place.Our team has all the information you’re looking for and more about Madison Beer’s ‘Spinnin Tour’ below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues and links to the cheapest tickets available can be found here:(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and include additional fees at checkout.)Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour dominated the U.S. in the spring and summer, and the movie version became the highest-grossing concert film of all time this fall with over $200 million at the worldwide box office. Now the tour is getting ready to kick back off in real life as Swift performs three concerts in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Nov.

The Libertines have shared the video for their new single ‘Run, Run, Run’.The clip, which you can view below, features “a life in a day of a seedy Flash Harry cab driver (played by His Dark Materials actor Geoff Bell), who drives his various customers round the fleshpots and watering holes of Margate in his retro Bentley Turbo motor, stopping off to pay off his gambling debts and neck a pigs ear or ten, before getting back on the job,” according to a press release.It was directed by Alex Brown who has previously worked with La Roux and James Blake and shot in Cliftonville, Margate and at the band’s nearby hotel The Albion Rooms.The clip is the first in a series of videos in the seaside town which will feature the characters from the songs (and the album cover artwork) from their new LP ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’, which is out on March 8, 2024. Fans can pre-order the album here.The single was first shared by the band last month.

Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign‘s “multi stadium listening event” for their joint album has reportedly been cancelled.Last week, Ty – real name is Tyrone William Griffin Jr. – announced that the event was happening tomorrow (November 3) on his Instagram but sources have now told Billboard that it will not be held nor will they release the album on the night.This is the second time that a release date for the record has been pushed back.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large As the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences continues to figure out how and when to finally hold this year’s Daytime Emmys — delayed in June due to the WGA strike — it has gone ahead and announced the nominations for this year’s 2nd Annual Children’s & Family Emmys. There’s no date yet for this year’s Chidren’s & Family Emmys — NATAS is likely waiting for a hopeful soon resolution to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike before firming up dates. But last year, winners were announced during two ceremonies—one focused on creative and technical arts, and the other to performances and programming—at Wilshire Ebell Theatre on December 10 and 11.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic For anyone in southern California who had experienced FOMJ (fear of missing Joni) when Brandi Carlile led “Joni jams” with Joni Mitchell last year at the Newport Folk Festival or earlier this year at the Gorge, there was finally an antidote for that. Mitchell was — as hoped — one of the guests at the “Brandi Carlile and Friends” show Saturday night at the Hollywood Bowl, singing her classics “Circle Game, “Ladies of the Canyon” and “Shine” along with the full cast of participants gathered around her.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Darren Aronofsky‘s Sphere film, “Postcard From Earth,” is responsible for establishing all kinds of historic cinematic firsts — like the fact that it is the only movie ever to be released in 18K resolution on a screen that spans 160,000 square feet. But movie buffs will particularly enjoy one first that doesn’t fully reveal itself until the very last 90 seconds or so of the 50-minute running time, in the massive Las Vegas dome where the film just premiered.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic “Song of the Summer” is not an official Grammy category, of course, but the soundtrack to America’s collective life during those halcyon warm-weather months is definitely a harbinger. And although that distinction has never previously gone to a country song, most independent observers agreed that 2023’s title belonged to Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night.” After becoming the first country song by a solo male to top the Hot 100 in 42 years, it became the second longest-running single of any genre to top that Billboard chart, with an astonishing 16 non-consecutive weeks at No.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Any fan seeing “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” won’t be in for a huge number of surprises when it comes to the movie setlist, which largely follows the template that was locked into place — with a few exceptions or switch-outs — through the entire five-month 2023 U.S. tour. But there are a few choices that couldn’t exactly have been predicted.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Who will be the anti-hero of the 2024 Grammys? Well, if that question sounds a little bit rigged, it’s not far from the truth: Taylor Swift enjoys a level of cultural dominance that few other performers have approached (including monopolizing National Football League coverage in recent weeks). Her fall 2022 album “Midnights” isn’t full of obvious swing-for-the-fences smashes like “1989” or seen as more of an art project like “Folklore” (her last two album of the year winners), but it’s got huge hits and a unique, late-night, bringing-the-club-home feel that will appeal to voters who like artists who don’t make the same album twice.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic “When will Taylor Swift’s film career take off?” has been a question lurking in the back of a lot of people’s minds ever since she started getting her feet wet with bit parts in “The Giver” and “Valentine’s Day”… and then further limited herself to keeping her toes damp with “Cats” and “Amsterdam” cameos. But do we finally have an answer to that question now, or what? Nobody should suppose that “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” doesn’t count as establishing her as a movie star, just because it’s a straightforward rendering of an ongoing concert tour that’s soon to become the most successful in history.

Dicks: The Musical. With a name like that, how could a film not deliver a ridiculous viewing experience? This new movie, which just arrived in theaters, is a wild and wacky take on the classic story of family reconciliation.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic For the millions who loved him, John Prine was an angel from Illinois. The singer-songwriter had a 50-year career trajectory that went the full distance from being part of the “next Dylan” brigade in the early ’70s to inspiring Next-John-Prines by the thousands before his death in April 2020.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic In an intimate performance and conversation in Los Angeles Monday night, Olivia Rodrigo admitted that there were tears shed during the making of her new album, “Guts.” But she and producer/co-writer Dan Nigro clarified that it wasn’t just about the emotion in the lyrics. Some of those were tears of frustration as they obsessed over songs and struggled to get her all-important sophomore release just right over its 10-month creation. “We cried just because we were frustrated.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic U2 struck a topical, tragic note in the band’s show Sunday at Sphere in Las Vegas, adding “Pride (In the Name of Love)” to the set and dedicating it to the hundreds of music fans killed at a music festival in Israel, referring to them as “stars of David” in rewritten lyrics. “Sing for our brothers and sisters — who they themselves were singing at the Supernova Sukkot festival in Israel,” Bono said. “We sing for those.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Halsey has joined the production of “The Nightmare Before Christmas” coming to the Hollywood Bowl for a three-night stand just prior to Halloween, singing the role of Sally on the first two nights of the engagement, before the movie’s original voice actor, Catherine O’Hara takes it over on the third. The dates Halsey will appear are Oct. 27-28.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The most appreciative audience for “Dicks: The Musical” may be the Venn-diagram overlap between viewers who think the envelope for raunchy language in R-rated comedies doesn’t get pushed nearly hard enough and people who saw “Les Miserables” on Broadway three times. In other words, the warning not for every taste has never applied more.

A24’s Dicks: The Musical had one of the best limited openings of the year, grossing $220,867 on seven screens in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. It expands in NY/LA/SF next weekend ahead of a national rollout starting 10/20 for the R-rated romp directed by Larry Charles (Borat, Seinfeld).

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Olivia Rodrigo may spill just a little more of her guts at a one-off performance in downtown Los Angeles this week, as American Express announced Sunday morning that the singer-songwriter is set to do an intimate show for its cardholders at the Theatre at Ace Hotel on Monday night. Said cardholders will have to be quick on the draw. Following the 9 a.m.

In a podcast interview on WTF With Marc Maron that aired Thursday, Larry Charles talked about his creative thought process and how that approach works within the Hollywood system.

A wacky film based on a stage show by comedians Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp, Dicks: The Musical – a riff on The Parent Trap with two adult men as the starring twins — opens in seven theaters in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco on a crowded specialty weekend as theatrical releases of fall film festival titles accelerates.    

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be back on the street soon enough. After recently pushing back all of his remaining concerts for 2023 due to a health issue, Springsteen’s camp has announced the makeup dates for the rescheduled shows set to take place in 2024. The new dates come in two clumps — a month-long swing taking place in mid-March through mid-April, followed by a second month’s worth of shows in mid-August through mid-September.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The Los Angeles music scene has long had “folk music,” in its many permutations and offshoots, as a key part of the famous sounds the city has been most often associated with. But a festival with that as part of the moniker and definition? Not so often, though some locals with long memories will remember a Troubadours of Folk Festival at UCLA in 1993 that included everyone from Joni Mitchell to the Folksmen.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The process of guts-spilling was the focus of a conversation between Olivia Rodrigo and veteran songwriter-producer Linda Perry at the Grammy Museum Wednesday night, before the young pop champion took to piano and acoustic guitar to sing solo versions of three hits and/or fan favorites from her new album, “Vampire,” “Making the Bed” and “Lacy.” Although the conversation inevitably skewed more toward the mechanics and philosophy of writing than personal details, Rodrigo kept the fan base on hand in the intimate auditorium rapt with mentions of how she came to write several of the new songs. There were passing revelations, too, like the fact that she took a poetry class at USC last year, which helped generate one of the most talked-about songs on the new “Guts” release, or that St. Vincent is a previously unmentioned collaborator on the bonus track “Obsessed.” “In this time of music where we’re getting fed a lot of different styles, I’m not buying a lot of it,” said Perry — famous as part of 4 Non Blondes and for her work with Pink, Christina Aguilera and Dolly Parton — in kicking off her questioning of Rodrigo.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Country star Hardy announced on social media Tuesday that he is canceling or postponing his next three concerts, due to what he described as “serious anxiety” and panic attacks that have “landed me in the hospital.” He indicated that these conditions have “taken over my life” over the last two weeks, and represent delayed trauma from a bus accident a year ago. The singer noted that he expects to be in better shape in nine days, when he will resume his fall headlining tour on Oct. 12 in Jonesboro, AR.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Record Store Day has announced a lineup of more than 170 exclusive titles for its annual Black Friday event this fall, with the “black” almost being a misnomer for this particular Nov. 24, 2023 rollout — given the amount of purple, gold, red, blue, green, marble, clear and splatter-colored vinyl variants on the list.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Stories about nonverbal autistic teens rarely galvanize the public imagination. But when one such youth has made the transition in a few short years from having a limited ability to communicate to having co-written a symphony, people are going to take notice, and be touched.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Spectacle is underrated. This is pretty much the antithesis of any accepted, traditional rock ‘n’ roll orthodoxy. It is also the natural human reaction to just about any or all of “U2:UV Live at Sphere Las Vegas,” the greatest-show-on-earth that opened Friday night in an enormous dome just off the Strip.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The first date of U2‘s 25-night run at Las Vegas’ Sphere is on the books, and for anyone who doesn’t mind spoilers, the makeup of the setlist can be revealed — although there is a mid-section that, judging from what Bono said, may be different each night during the run. The setlist for “U2: UV Live at Sphere Las Vegas” includes all of the classic 1991 “Achtung Baby,” as promised, but split into two sections.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony will be streamed live for the first time in November, as Disney+ has picked up rights to let viewers see the event as it happens, a marked change from the years in which music fans had to wait weeks to see an edited broadcast. The Disney+ livestream will go out coast-to-coast from Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Nov. 3 at 8 p.m..