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Afroman is facing a lawsuit from seven law enforcement officers over him using footage from a police raid of his home in one of his music videos.The officers have alleged that the rapper – whose real name is Joseph Foreman – took recordings of their faces that were obtained from a raid which took place in Ohio in August 2022 and used them in music videos and social media posts without their consent.Four deputies, two sergeants and a detective have claimed that this has caused them ‘emotional distress, embarrassment, ridicule, loss of reputation and humiliation.’ All seven of them are seeking all of Foreman’s profits from his use of their images, including revenue from songs, music videos and concert tickets, on top of the promotion of his Afroman brand and merch proceeds. They are also demanding a court injunction to take down all videos and posts using their faces.The lawsuit names Foreman directly, as well as his recording brand and a Texas-based media distribution company as defendants.However, Foreman revealed in an Instagram post on Wednesday (March 22) that he intends to countersue for ‘the unlawful raid’ and ‘money being stolen’, as well as the damage caused to his family, career, and property.He also explained why he publicised the camera recording in the first place, writing: “My video footage is my property.

"Rumour has it" … that Adele is extending her Las Vegas residency!  The singer revealed to her fans on Saturday that her "Weekends with Adele" show had been extended for 34 new weeks at The Colosseum at Caesar's Palace. Saturday was previously Adele's final scheduled performance before announcing the added shows.

Carole Horst The new head of the AFCI has big goals for the organization, and looks to promote stability within the leadership, which has seen a few presidents come and go in the past handful of years. “I really want to reassure people that I’m in this for the long haul and I feel like I have the right skill set to take the organization through and develop a really good strategy for it for the next 10 years,” says Jaclyn Philpott, the recently installed AFCI exec director. “I’ll be ready and willing to answer any questions that they may have. You know, I’ve had a very good look under the hood at the organization, from the financials through the previous strategies to what’s happening in the market right now, and I feel like I have a good idea of what they want based on what they’ve told me and in my own research.”

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter “John Wick: Chapter 4” knocked down the box office competition, collecting a remarkable $73.5 million in its opening weekend. Boosted by positive reviews and enthusiastic word-of-mouth, the fourth installment in Lionsgate’s action series, led by Keanu Reeves as a legendary assassin, landed the best start of the franchise. It’s one of the rare original properties to keep growing and improving upon the last, in terms of box office ticket sales. The original “John Wick” opened to a modest $14 million in 2014, its sequel “John Wick: Chapter 2” took in $30.4 million to start in 2017, and the third film “John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum” previously held the opening weekend record with $56.8 million in 2019. 

Rotten Tomatoes scores of 95% critics and 96% audience, and a 93% overall positive rating on PostTrak. That should give “Wick 4” plenty of legs over the weeks to come, even with Paramount releasing “Dungeons & Dragons” to appeal to general audiences next weekend and Universal finding its own lane with “The Super Mario Bros.

Drake has bailed on a festival performance in Brazil, leaving fans disappointed and organizers scrambling.

After beating Manchester United 6-0 last week, Manchester City under-21 coach Brian Barry-Murphy pointed to the number of international call-ups for the club's academy players as an indicator of their progress this season.

Adele will add 34 dates to her Las Vegas residency, starting June 16-17 and completed by Nov. 4. Additionally, a live concert film of the residency is planned.

Emily Ratajkowski‘s personal life is making headlines!

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Love Is Blind season 4.

Carol Vorderman delighted fans on Saturday with a very special career announcement.Taking to Instagram, the former Countdown presenter shared a photo of herself looking worlds apart from her usual glamorous self.WATCH: Carol Vorderman shimmies in red leather leggingsDitching her figure-hugging wardrobe staples, the mother-of-two could be seen wearing a pair of navy cargo trousers, a bright red T-shirt and a taupe-hued overshirt.Shedding a light on her latest venture, Carol penned in her caption: "If you saw @itvtakeaway then you'll know I'm on @imacelebrity South Africa... OMG I hope you like the series."A post shared by Carol Vorderman (@carolvorders)Carol shared a new updateShe went on to say: "I'm A Celebrity… South Africa will start at the end of April on ITV1 and ITVX.

Gemma Atkinson and Gorka Marquez are so loved-up as they await the arrival of their second baby later this year, with Gemma recently delighting fans as she showcased her bare baby bump in a new photo.The star revealed at the weekend, though, that she'd sadly had to remove her stunning £11.9k engagement ring, although not due to any relationship issue!Sharing a photo of her left hand to Instagram, she wrote: "Had to take my ring off as it's got too tight. Even my fingers are pregnant with this little fella [head in hands emoji, crying-laughing emoji]".WATCH: Gemma Atkinson shows off bare baby bump during pregnancy workoutThe busy star, who is already a doting mum to daughter Mia, three, has been keeping her social media followers informed throughout her second pregnancy journey.Gemma and Gorka announced in January that they are expecting a baby boy, and their fans and Strictly family were all delighted for the couple.DON'T MISS: Why Gemma Atkinson and Strictly's Gorka Marquez won't marry until 2024Sharing the news on Instagram alongside a sweet shot of her bump, the actress and presenter penned: "Impossible to hide my belly any longer.

Learning through experience. Chris Kirkpatrick candidly discussed how his journey as a father has been shaped by his own childhood.

Martha Stewart has no shame in her game.During an interview with E! News published this week, the lifestyle mogul revealed some insight into her current dating life — and it doesn’t include taking care of any men.“I know a lot of eligible men,” Stewart, 81, admitted to the outlet.“I think they really want a woman who will take care of them, so I’m still not quite in the position where I can take care of a man full-time because I work too much.”She also divulged that sometimes, dating takes a backseat because she is so focused on her work life. The entrepreneur said she had a “hard time” clearing time for both.

Bindi Irwin and Chandler Powell marked a special occasion! On Saturday, the couple celebrated their daughter, Grace Warrior's, 2nd birthday.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has issued fresh guidance to stop influencers from using their platform to sell products without making it clear that they are doing so.

Manchester City defender John Stones has spoken about the impact the war in Ukraine had on Oleksandr Zinchenko while the pair were teammates at the Etihad.

Danny Miller has revealed that his wife Steph is pregnant with their second child. The former Emmerdale actor took to social media on Sunday (March 26) to reveal the news in an adorable video.

Michelle Yeoh made history when she became the first Asian woman to win the Best Actress Oscar at the Academy Awards earlier this month. The Malaysian film star told millions of watchers as she held the award for her stunning performance in the highly acclaimed film Everything Everywhere All At Once: "This is a beacon of hope and possibilities."

Former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand said that he and Quinton Fortune used to 'borderline bully' Cristiano Ronaldo during games of table tennis to build his resilience.

Manchester City Phil Foden has withdrawn from the England squad and will miss the Premier League fixture against Liverpool next weekend after undergoing surgery for acute appendicitis.

Vanessa Feltz’s ex-fiancé Ben Ofoedu said he wanted the agony aunt back while denying he had multiple affairs in a recent interview. Earlier this year, This Morning staple Vanessa shocked the nation when she revealed that she was ending her 17-year relationship with musician Ben.The 61 year old reality TV star revealed that Ben had cheated, and she later kicked him out of their £3.5m gothic home. Ben, who is most well-known for his time in the group Phats & Small, has since tried to win his former flame back and even shared a tribute to celebrate her birthday.

Ian 'H' Watkins is perhaps best-known as H from the 90s pop band, Steps, but he has one other very successful passion - painting.The 46 year old has been selling his impressive artwork for thousands of pounds, in what is proving to be a very valuable side hustle. Ian, who is father to seven year old twins, Macsen and Cybi Ryder-Watkins, has a special Instagram account and website that is dedicated to his artwork, which uses acrylic paints to create a number of stunning landscape pieces.

Fans can expect to spend a few more “Weekends with Adele”.

Dianne Buswell and Joe Sugg are still so loved-up – and recently shared an adorable milestone after five years of dating.But the professional dancer also admits that she isn't afraid to put herself first at times.In a candid new interview with Heat magazine, Dianne opened up about "selfishness".WATCH: Strictly's Dianne Buswell and Joe Sugg blown away by cutest gift in must-see video Asked about how to be happy, the glamorous redhead said: "You have to be OK with putting yourself first. Even now, I'm still learning to say no".She went on: "There's nothing wrong with being a bit selfish sometimes.

Kendall Jenner and Bad Bunny are continuing to fuel the romance rumors!

Jonathan Majors was arrested on Saturday, March 25, following an alleged domestic violence dispute.

"The Young and the Restless" is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Throughout the many decades it's been on air, several celebrities have either gotten their start, or made appearances on the show.

Carlos Alcaraz volunteers during the Miami Open Unites campaign on Monday (March 20) in Miami, Fla.

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck may not be together anymore, but they have remained the best of friends.The former couple are doting co-parents to their three children, Violet, 17, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 11, but things are about to change for them in the very near future.That's because Violet is getting ready to apply for colleges, as she turns 18 at the end of the year.VIDEO: Jennifer Garner opens up about raising teenage daughters The couple will no doubt find the experience emotional with Violet being the first of their children to fly the nest, but also incredibly exciting for the teenager.Violet has kept out of the spotlight during her childhood but in December made a rare appearance with her mom at the state dinner for French President Emmanuel Macron, which happened to be on her birthday.MORE: Jennifer Garner shares crypic post during time apart from her childrenMORE: Jennifer Lopez looks fantastic in head-turning Grammys outfit you need to seeViolet looked identical to her famous mom as she stepped out to the glamorous event, dressed in a Carolina Herrera dress with heart prints, which she teamed with a pair of red heels and a black clutch bag.

of Succession kicking off tonight. are superb, and it's all anyone's going to want to talk about every Sunday night and Monday morning for the next 10 weeks.Speaking of finales, Riverdale also starts its long road to goodbye, with the start of its seventh and final season on Wednesday night. I stopped watching the series after season two, but it's getting a bit of a reset for its final run by going back to the '50s, harkening back to the original comic book.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In “John Wick: Chapter 4,” the epic culmination of the flamboyantly brutal death-wish-meets-video-game-meets-the-zen-of-Keanu-Reeves action series, our hero finds himself in a Berlin nightclub that resembles a pulsating Bauhaus Eurodisco by way of “Fellini Satyricon.” The place is like a concrete cathedral, with giant mosh pits of dancers throwing their arms up to the heavens as waterfalls cascade down the side walls (it almost looks like it’s raining). But Reeves’ John Wick, as he makes his way through the neon wetness, isn’t dancing. He’s getting ready to start shooting — which, for him, is more or less the same thing. As he skulks forward, oily hair hanging down the sides of his face, the camera glides just ahead of him, framing him like the renegade action demigod he is. We might be in the middle of the world’s most cutting-edge cologne commercial.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Just as the Coca-Cola company, after smudging a perfect product in 1985 with the New Coke, brought that product back and called it Coca-Cola Classic, the 95th Academy Awards telecast made a game attempt to rectify the mishaps of the past few years — the ratings slippage, the pared-down-like-a-skeleton-in-a-train-station 2021 edition, the debacle of The Slap — by bringing back something that we might call Oscar Classic. It was safe, it was familiar, it was tasteful, it was reassuring. It didn’t rock the boat, it didn’t overstay its welcome (actually, that marks sort of a break from Oscar Classic), and it left you feeling that the world’s preeminent awards show, all doom-saying punditry to the contrary, is still, on balance, a very good thing.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic In “Bottoms,” a high-school comedy that is brazenly gonzo, scaldingly and at times even dementedly over-the-top, and actually about something, PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) have been best friends since the first grade, but in their senior year at Rock Ridge High they’re at the end of their tether. They’re losers, they’re lonely, they’re lesbians — and in their eyes, that puts them beneath the bottom of the food chain. So they do what anyone in their position might do. They decide to start a fight club! It’s modeled (sort of) on the one in “Fight Club,” though the movie isn’t particularly interested in that film, where the characters staged bare-knuckle brawls out of a kind of self-serious macho romantic doomsday nihilism. In “Bottoms,” PJ and Josie, in the time-honored tradition of teen-movie protagonists out to lose their virginity, are just looking for a way to sleep with the cheerleaders they have crushes on. They build the club around a scurrilous and rather ridiculous lie: that they’ve both spent time in “juvie.” Sitting around in the gym, with a handful of the “normal” girls they’ve roped into joining the club, all of them share stories about the men they’ve had to fend off (stalkers, pervy stepfathers, you name it). And when they get to the fight-club part, letting out their aggression, the jabs are shockingly violent. We laugh, but we also think: What’s going on here?

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Introducing “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” the lavish hyperkinetic popcorn fairy tale that kicked off SXSW this evening, the film’s co-directors, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, told the audience that they had designed the movie to appeal to hardcore D&D players — and also to those who know absolutely nothing about the game. This came as a relief to me, since what I know about Dungeons & Dragons you could put on the head of a…well, I know so little that I can’t even come up with a proper D&D reference with which to spin that cliché. The filmmakers were being honest. “Honor Among Thieves” is built on the edifice of D&D lore, packed with totems and characters and Easter eggs that fans of the legendary role-playing game will drink in with a connoisseur’s delight. But for those, like me, who have spent their lives avoiding anything to do with Dungeons & Dragons, the film is eminently comprehensible and, in its you’ve-seen-it-before-but-not-quite-this-way fashion, a lot of fun.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic For 25 years, I have never been much of a Guy Ritchie fan. I found the in-your-face-and-over-the-top crime dramas that made his reputation — “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” “Snatch,” “Revolver,” and “RocknRolla” — to be empty-flashy exercises in the too-muchness of genre kinetics, overly infatuated with their post-Tarantino cutthroat cool. It was clear that Ritchie had talent, but the way just about every shot in his movies was designed to remind you of that turned the films into layer cakes that were more frosting than cake. After a while, he dropped the badass glitz and settled into a more conventional career, and some of those movies were okay. I confess that I enjoyed his remake of “Swept Away” (yes, the one with Madonna), and he had fun applying what was left of his high-froth ADD style to the Robert Downey Jr. “Sherlock Holmes” franchise. Yet I could never escape the feeling that Guy Ritchie had trapped himself on a hamster wheel of trying too hard. I’ve liked a few of his films. But I’ve never loved one.