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Aubrey Plaza has shared that she stole something from Joe Biden’s office during a tour of the White House.READ MORE: ‘The White Lotus’ season two review: the guests are still awful, the show still utterly addictiveThe actor, who starred in the second season of HBO series, The White Lotus, spoke recently on the multiple connections to the President throughout her life. She told The New Yorker that she has met him several times, including at a “Joe Biden youth-leadership conference” at the age of 16.She shared about the experience: “I had a stare-down with Joe Biden from the audience, because he asked how it went, and I raised my hand immediately.”“I was, like, ‘It’s bulls—. This conference sucks.

Emma Stone and Kieran Culkin dated many, many years ago and now they’re both being celebrated during the same awards season!

Beef and The Bear, the shows that joined Succession in a three-way domination of Monday night’s Emmy Awards, have a surprising amount of shared DNA.

EXCLUSIVE: Dan Cutforth & Jane Lipsitz, the Emmy and IDA Award-winning filmmakers from Alfred Street Industries, have been tapped to direct and produce a limited docuseries on the iconic consumer brand and interactive entertainment producer, Atari.

Fool Me Once collected another week atop Netflix‘s TV charts.

EXCLUSIVE: Manager Zac Frognowski, who spent the last 10 years at Grandview, most recently as partner, has joined Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

Turnout for the Iowa caucuses was down, and so was viewership. Early numbers show that interest was down considerably from 2020 and, before that, from 2016, with about 4.67 million watching primetime coverage across Fox News, CNN and MSNBC.

FilmLA said Tuesday that on-location production in the city and county of Los Angeles and other local jurisdictions was down more than 32% in 2023, and Q4 even more, as the Hollywood industry continues to recover from two industry labor strikes and a persistent post-Covid production decline in the region.

Anne Globe is Imax‘s new Chief Marketing Officer.

EXCLUSIVE: Ned Benson, the filmmaker behind Searchlight Pictures’ forthcoming romance The Greatest Hits, has signed with CAA.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscilloscope Laboratories has taken North America on Flipside, a new documentary from filmmaker Chris Wilcha, which world premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival. Exec produced by Judd Apatow, the film is slated for release in theaters this year.

Star Wars fans have taken to social media to share their shock and disappointment that actor Ray Stevenson was not included in the 2024 In Memoriam tribute at the 75th Emmy Awards.The awards, which took place last night (January 15) featured its well-known segment where a tribute is paid to those in the industry who died in the last year. The video montage was accompanied by singer Charlie Puth and duo, The War And Treaty, performing a combination of 2015 hit, ‘See You Again’ and the Friends theme song, ‘I’ll Be There For You’ by The Rembrandts, paying homage to Matthew Perry, who died last October.The list of names included Euphoria actor, Angus Cloud, screenwriter and producer, Norman Lear, and musical theatre star, Angela Lansbury, among many others.

Ice Spice has been seen shooting a new music video for a song she previewed last week.Earlier this month, the Bronx rapper shared a funny snippet of an unreleased song produced by her friend and longtime producer RiotUSA. In it, she rapped the viral line: “Think you the shit, bitch / You not even the fart / I be going hard / I’m breaking they hearts, like.”Now, behind-the-scenes photos and videos have surfaced showing Spice shooting the music video for the unnamed song in Miami’s South Beach.

Khruangbin have today (January 16) shared their blissful new single, ‘A Love International’ and have announced details of their first album in four years, ‘A La Sala’. Check out the new single below.The album, which translates from Spanish as ‘To The Room’, will arrive on April 5 on Dead Oceans in partnership with Night Time and you can pre-order the album, which has seven varied album covers available to purchase, here.A statement about the album explains that “the building blocks…for ‘A La Sala’s’ 12 songs were jigsaw pieces found in Khruangbin’s creative past” that were made up of “parts of the band not lost, but not yet tapped into.”It continued: “Having stockpiled ideas originally set down as off-the-cuff recordings (voice-memos made at sound-checks, on long voyages, as absentminded epiphanies), they began fitting those pieces together in the studio for ‘A La Sala’.”Check out the new song here and the album track list below:‘A La Sala’ Tracklist1. ‘Fifteen Fifty-Three’2. ‘May Ninth’3. ‘Ada Jean’4. ‘Farolim de Felgueiras’5. ‘Pon Pón’6. ‘Todavía Viva’7. ‘Juegos y Nubes’8. ‘Hold Me Up (Thank You)’9. ‘Caja de la Sala’10. ‘Three From Two’11. ‘A Love International’The American trio worked with singer-songwriter Leon Bridges on a second collaborative EP, entitled ‘Texas Moon’, back in 2022 and the new album marks their first original music as a band since 2020, aside from various remixes.Reviewing their last album ‘Mordechai’, NME awarded it a full five stars and wrote: “No wonder Khruangbin, who make psychedelic music that travels between eras and continents, have become low-key stars in the past decade.

Ava DuVernay is frustrated, and perhaps the odd way her acclaimed drama, “Origin” has largely been ignored by the awards circuit hasn’t helped (“I wish she was at the Globes or SAG Awards or Critics Choice or the other nominations that didn’t come,” the filmmaker recently lamented about her “Origin” star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor). It’s no secret that the ideas of diversity, equity, and inclusion are under attack in the United States at the moment (just look at what happened to former Harvard President Claudine Gay and the coordinated attack on her from the far right that led her to step down from her post).

Argylle, has denied the theory that Taylor Swift is responsible for the book on which the movie is based.On January 9, a novel titled Argylle was released, written by a pseudonymous author going by the name Elly Conway. The book involves a spy novelist who gets roped into the world of espionage, assassins and feuds, all accompanied by her cat, Alfie.The book has been adapted into a movie with an ensemble cast, featuring Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L.

Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong has said the moral panic over trans issues is “fucking close-minded” in a new interview.Speaking to the LA Times, Armstrong recalled playing new song ‘Bobby Sox’ to a friend, who is a similar age to him. “And it brought a tear to his eye when he heard the second verse,” Armstrong said of the song’s lyrics, which explore gender fluidity.The verse in question sees Armstrong sing: “Do you want to be my best friend? / You can drive me crazy all over again / And I’ll bore you to death / Doesn’t matter when we are in love / You’re not just any type of girl / My one true love and you’re my world / Do you wanna be my girlfriend? / Do you wanna be my boyfriend?”He added: “Nowadays it’s more common for kids to be LGBTQ, and there’s more support.

75th Primetime Emmy Awards, where she presented an award.Applegate, who was nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Jen Harding in Netflix series, Dead To Me, presented the award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy series, which was awarded to Ayo Edebiri for The Bear.Her public appearance was rare and she was supported onstage by a cane. Applegate announced in August 2021 that she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and later in 2023 said that she would likely never act again on camera, with the third season of Dead To Me having premiered in November 2022.Applegate took to the stage, accompanied by Frank Sinatra’s ‘Love And Marriage’, the theme song to the US sitcom in which she starred, Married… With Children.

The Dandy Warhols have today (January 16) shared a new single ‘Dancing With Myself’ that they’ve worked on with Pixies‘ Frank Black – check it out below.Speaking abut the song, which is taken from their new album, ‘Rockmaker’, the band’s Courtney Taylor-Taylor said “it started with a riff that either sounded like Misfits or Danzig and then got slowed down.”Over time, Taylor-Taylor added, the play on words “became the [song’s] working title, and then we couldn’t change it. I mean, come on… ‘Danzig with Myself’?!”The new album – the band’s twelfth – will be released via Sunset Blvd. Records on March 15 and you can pre-order it here.The new single also features Pixies’ Frank Black.

Daisy Jones & The Six band were set to perform live shows before the writer’s strike.Keough took to her official Instagram account to share a clip of her and her fellow castmate Sam Claflin – who portrayed the role of Billy Dune in the series – at band practice singing a live version of ‘Look At Us Now (Honeycomb)’ from the show.“In honor of the Emmys, here’s a video of the last time Sammy, the band and I rehearsed together. We were rehearsing to perform live for our lovely Daisy fans and it sadly never happened because of the strike,” began the caption on the post.A post shared by Riley Keough (@rileykeough)She continued: “I have so much love for everyone in this band and on this show.

from.To understand why this is significant—and why comments are flooded with the phrase “King Kylie”—you have to go back to 2015, when she was dating rapper Tyga. At the time, he went by “King Gold Chains” on social media, and as an act of solidarity, Jenner to say “King Kylie.” This was one year into the existence of Kylie Cosmetics, when the Avengers were still exciting and Coachella was still kind of cool. And was dyeing her hair a lot.

The debut trailer for Adam Sandler‘s Spaceman is finally here!

Eoin Macken is putting his fit physique on display!

Succession star Nicholas Braun arrives at HBO & Max Post Emmys party alongside Hyunji Ward on Monday (January 15) in West Hollywood, Calif.

Paramount+ is quickly becoming a huge fan favorite streaming service with lots of options for fans of comedies, dramas, thrillers, and more.

Saturday Night Live is returning this week with a new episode on Saturday (January 20), hosted by Jacob Elordi!

Ali Wong and Bill Hader‘s love was on display at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards and they kept the night going with a cute moment at the end of the evening.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Imax has appointed Anne Globe as chief marketing officer. Globe, who previously served as CMO of Skydance Media and DreamWorks Animation, will be responsible for overseeing all brand, film marketing, creative and social media for the global entertainment technology platform.

Grant Rindner Rap music has always had a complicated relationship with the American dream. Through rose-colored glasses, the artists, producers and executives who find success in hip-hop often embody a by-the-bootstraps ethos, but it tends to be the result of lifelong efforts to grapple with and overcome a darker subtext of systemic oppression and cultural adversity. For Atlanta rap superstar 21 Savage, the phrase “American Dream”–the title of his long-awaited third solo album–has an additional undercurrent.

Jaden Thompson The complete program for the 39th Santa Barbara International Film Festival has been announced. Taking place from Feb. 7-17, the festival will open with the world premiere of the documentary “Madu,” directed by Matt Ogens and Joel ‘Kachi Benson.

Whiplash” has topped the Sundance Film Festival‘s list of top 10 feature films from the past four decades. In honor of the 40th edition of the festival that starts Thursday, the Sundance Institute surveyed over 500 filmmakers, critics and industry members who selected from nearly 4,000 features that have played the festival.

Valerie Wu Intern Chad Verdi’s VMI Releasing has acquired the opioid crisis drama “Junction,” which is the directorial debut of “How to Make It in America” actor Bryan Greenberg. Greenberg stars in the film along with Josh Peck, Sophia Bush and his wife Jamie Chung. Under VMI releasing, “Junction” is slated for a theatrical and VOD release on Jan.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor TelevisaUnivision plans to launch an ad-supported version of its Spanish-language streamer, ViX, later in 2024, following a general trend by entertainment conglomerates hoping to capture new subscribers to broadband entertainment hubs across the industry. The company, which also operates the Univision TV network said a new “ViX Premium with Ads” tier will provide U.S.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer TV and film production in Los Angeles was slow to recover from the industry-wide strikes last fall, according to new data released by FilmLA. Scripted TV production ticked up slightly in the fourth quarter compared with the prior three-month period, but still remained far below historic levels. And feature film production continued to decline even after the strikes ended.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent After dropping on Netflix on Jan. 4 to the U.S. streaming giant’s second-biggest bow ever for a non-English language movie in hours watched, Spaniard J.A.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor After more than seven years at the helm of Barstool Sports — and in the wake of the company’s ill-fated sale in 2023 — Erika Ayers Badan announced Tuesday that she is stepping down as CEO. Last summer, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy bought the site back from casino and online gambling operator Penn Entertainment for $1. That came after Penn Entertainment paid a total of about $550 million to acquire 100% control of Barstool, a few months before deciding to part ways with Barstool.