Fans react to The Cure’s first new single in 16 years, ‘Alone’: “everything you could want in a The Cure song”

An MPAA rating almost deprived audiences of one of Samuel L. Jackson‘s most quoted lines.

Close to 40 AMC, Cinemark and Regal multiplexes are closed throughout Florida as the state braces for Hurricane Helene to hit landfall as a Category 4 with a force of 130 mph.

Miranda Lambert and her husband of five years, Brendan McLoughlin, walked the red carpet together at the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards!

Yellowstone‘s return is set to span across two networks!

Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes are proving that they’re one of our favorite couples!

Catherine Zeta-Jones is sharing the very racy birthday present that she gave to her birthday twin and husband Michael Douglas this year.

Selome Hailu The first episode of “Agatha All Along” hit 9.3 million views on Disney+ in its first seven days of streaming. A spinoff of the 2021 Marvel limited series “WandaVision,” the series premiered on Sept.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Ryan Murphy is pushing back against members of Erik and Lyle Menendez’s family who have slammed Netflix’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” as a “grotesque shockadrama.” “The family’s response is predictable at best,” Murphy tells me, just hours after the family’s statement was released on social media via Erik’s wife Tammi. “I find it interesting because I would like specifics about what they think is shocking or not shocking. It’s not like we’re making any of this stuff up.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic For alarmed Jane’s Addiction fans who’ve been wondering what was really going on before, during and after the fateful Boston concert that saw the veteran group effectively break up mid-song, more details are emerging. The latest revelations include the allegation that Perry Farrell took yet another swing at Dave Navarro after all the band members were backstage — and, unlike the near-miss seen by millions around the world on video, this time the singer’s fist connected with the guitarist’s face.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Blackpink member Rosé has announced that she’s signed a global solo deal with Atlantic Records, not long after fellow bandmates Jennie and Lisa announced their own solo contracts. In a post on Instagram, the 27-year-old broke the news that she’d joined the Atlantic roster.

Guy Lodge Film Critic True to its title, François Ozon’s new film “When Fall is Coming” is awash in the aesthetics of what people far younger than its octogenarian protagonist would call autumncore, with a bit of cottagecore for good measure. In the sleepy, picturesque Burgundy valley where it largely unfolds, the leaves are rusting and crisping, chunky knitwear is coming out of hibernation, and through the screen, you can just about feel the air turning cold enough to splinter.

Ethan Shanfeld Putting the “act” in Action Bronson, the Flushing-born rapper and host of “Fuck, That’s Delicious” has joined Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz in Darren Aronofsky‘s “Caught Stealing.” The film follows Hank Thompson, a burned-out former baseball player who is “unwittingly plunged into a wild fight for survival in the downtown criminal underworld” of New York City in the 1990s. Production is currently underway in the East Village of Manhattan. From Sony Pictures, “Caught Stealing” is based on the books by Charlie Huston.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Adam Aron, CEO of the nation’s largest movie theater chain AMC Theatres, refuses to hide his optimism. After a wild year of bankruptcy speculation, debt repayment extensions, revised credit ratings and a few billion dollars in box office earnings, the eternal theatrical optimist was ready to celebrate at Variety‘s annual Entertainment and Technology Summit in West Hollywood on Thursday.

William Earl Erin Foster’s new rom-com series “Nobody Wants This” — now streaming on Netflix — pairs Kristen Bell and Adam Brody as a meet-cute couple with one major hurdle: He’s a hip (yet devout) rabbi, and she’s a blonde-haired shiksa. This causes complications in their family and work lives, as the pair discuss love, sex, friends and faith with the easygoing charm that two beloved Millenial actors inevitably conjure. Plus, they’ve already shared the screen several times, including in the series “House of Lies” and the 2017 film “CHiPs.” Brody spoke with Variety about his relationship with religion, nurturing an onscreen spark with Bell and getting recognized as “The O.C.” favorite Seth Cohen.

Roy Trakin Security was tight as a crowd of 500 entertainment industry titans filed through metal detectors and multiple checkpoints into the Beverly Hills house owned by Warner Music Group A&R exec Aton Ben-Horin for the Creative Community for Peace’s sixth annual Ambassadors of Peace event (Variety is a media sponsor). The list of honorees included (pictured above, left to right): TV exec Ben Silverman, Amazon Music’s Phylicia Fant, actor-author-host Mayim Bialik, music business attorney Josh Binder and newly appointed Atlantic Music Group CEO Elliot Grainge. The organization, founded more than a decade ago by veteran publishing executive David Renzer, EA music chief Steve Schnur and MMG Music’s Ran Geffen-Lifshitz, mainly to convince acts to bypass boycott efforts to perform in Israel, has found new relevance since the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on an Israeli music festival.

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This Morning favourites Alison Hammond, Josie Gibson and Dermot O'Leary appear to be rallying behind Phillip Schofield as he embarks on a career revival with a new Channel 5 series.The 62-year-old TV veteran stepped away from This Morning last year following revelations of an affair with a man 34 years his junior who had worked on the popular daytime programme. Despite many initially believing his television career was over following his departure from ITV, Phillip is now making a comeback with a three-part series titled Cast Away, where he'll spend 10 days on a remote, uninhabited island off the coast of Madagascar.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been together for almost a decade after they were introduced by a mutual friend in 2016. Love quickly blossomed between the royal and the actress, with the pair seemingly smitten from their first date, and the duke wasn't afraid to hide his feelings for Meghan in a telling statement.Their first date took place in July 2016 at a pub in London, but Harry was late! In their Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan, the duke reflected on the lead-up to their date and said: "I was panicking; I was freaking out; I was, like, sweating." Thankfully, the date went well as Meghan recalled: "He was just so fun", adding, "Just so refreshingly fun, and that was the thing, we were, like, childlike together." Around a year and a half later, Harry popped the question with a stunning engagement ring that touchingly featured diamonds from his late mother, Princess Diana's collection, and they announced the news in November 2017.

Noddy Holder has gained a "different perspective on life" after his battle with cancer.The rock icon, who soared to fame as the lead singer of Slade, was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer back in 2018. Now, having emerged cancer-free, Noddy has admitted life feels different post-recovery.

Fans of The Prince of Wales and his brother, The Duke of Sussex, have been questioning why William and Harry have not considered making an improvement to their hairstyles. A royal fan on Reddit posed the question: “Is there a reason why balding Prince William and Prince Harry didn’t get hair implants?” and numerous users have joined the discussion, commenting about how both men are visibly losing their hair.

A Bridgerton ball held in the US has been compared to Glasgow’s disastrous Willy Wonka Experience after the event failed to live up to expectations.

Testament on stage at their show in Las Vegas.On Friday (September 13), Neelakantan was invited by the heavy metal band to join them on stage to perform a rendition of ‘Curse of the Legions of Death (C.O.T.L.O.D.)’ from their seminal album ‘The Legacy’.“So, a lot of you guys are probably on Instagram and know this artist named Maya, she’s 11 years old from India. She been on the ancient tv, anyway, she’s a special guest tonight and we are going to have her come down to perform with us,” guitarist Eric Peterson told the crowd.“I just want to say, this is Maya’s very first time playing a metal concert,” guitarist Alex Skolnick said, with frontman Chuck Billy adding: “So let’s show her some love!”During the performance, Neelakantan took on the role of rhythm guitarist until Skolnick pointed toward her to signal that she could take the first solo in the track.

Kendall and Kylie Jenner are enjoying some quality sisterly bonding while attending Paris Fashion Week.

Cardi B is throwing serious shade at Offset as they continue to navigate their separation.

Shania Twain‘s look on the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards is going to impress you much!

Daniel Ricciardo‘s F1 career has just come to an end for a second time.

A man was subjected to a frightening acid attack after going to his local shop to buy sweets for his friend’s child.

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Taylor Swift wants Travis Kelce to follow his dreams!

The Cure has been found again. Robert Smith and his band of not-so-merry men are back in their inimitable mope mode with “Alone,” their first new song in 16 years, which was released on Thursday.And even after such a long wait, the single takes its sweet — or make that, sullen — time to unfold over nearly seven minutes.In fact, as the group’s absorbing atmospherics — shades of their 1989 classic LP “Disintegration” — set the melancholy mood, it takes three minutes and 22 seconds before Smith even sings a single word.But finally, he comes in with his tortured croon: “This is the end of every song that we sing/The fire burned out to ash and the stars grown dim with tears/Cold and afraid, the ghosts of all that we’ve been/We toast with bitter dregs, to our emptiness.”Inspired by Ernest Dowson’s poem “Dregs,” “Alone” is an ode “to all the love falling out of our lives,” tailor-made for your doldrums after your next breakup.I mean, did you think that Smith — even though he’s been married to the same woman, Mary Poole, since 1988 — would all of a sudden get happy at 65?It’s comforting to know that some things — and some alt-rock icons — don’t change.Accurately described in the song as a “broken-voiced lament,” “Alone” is the first single and opening track of “Songs of a Lost World” — the Cure’s first studio album since 2008’s “4:13 Dream” — which will be released on Nov.

Lyle and Erik Menéndez‘s family are questioning who’s the real “monster” following Ryan Murphy‘s recent Netflix portrayal.

Nobody ask John Carpenter to list his Letterboxd top four.

EXCLUSIVE: Nicholas Alexander Chavez has signed with CAA for representation. 

As a Nevada probate court deliberates the future of the Murdoch media empire, a new SEC filing shows that Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch took home about $2 million more in overall pay for his services in the most recent fiscal year.

EXCLUSIVE: Circle Management + Production (fka Circle of Confusion) has signed Daphne Ferraro, the Head Writer of one of the biggest streaming breakouts of the year, Prime Video’s German YA series Maxton Hall.