EXCLUSIVE: In a lucrative pact, Amazon MGM Studios has landed U.S. theatrical rights to Levon’s Trade, with Prime Video taking streaming rights in a slew of major international territories, we can reveal.
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David Bowie album is set to be released on Record Store Day this year.‘Waiting In The Sky (Before The Starman Came To Earth)’ is a collection of recordings from Trident Studios in 1971, and features the majority of songs that would go on to form the legendary ‘The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars’ album.Included in the new album but not on ‘Ziggy Stardust’ are four songs including a cover of Chuck Berry‘s ‘Round And Round’.The album will be released on April 20, 2024 as part of this year’s Record Store Day, and you can see the artwork and tracklist below.Find more details on the release here.A post shared by David Bowie (@davidbowie)Side 1
‘Five Years’
‘Soul Love’
‘Moonage Daydream’
‘Round And Round’
‘Amsterdam’Side 2
‘Hang On To Yourself’
‘Ziggy Stardust’
‘Velvet Goldmine’
‘Holy Holy’
‘Star’
‘Lady Stardust’A host of Bowie rarities have been released for Record Store Day in recent years.
2020 saw the release of the ‘ChangesNowBowie’ record, while last year’s slate included the ‘Laughing With Liza’ set (featuring his early Deram singles collected in a 7″ box for the first time with a never-before-released version of ‘Space Oddity’).Elsewhere in Bowie world, a street in Paris was named after the singer, and one of his handwritten lyric sheets was estimated to fetch up to £100,000 at auction.The documents contain the late singer’s corrections, drafts and notes to his tracks ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide’ and ‘Suffragette City’, both of which appeared on the seminal ‘Ziggy Stardust‘ LP.
.EXCLUSIVE: In a lucrative pact, Amazon MGM Studios has landed U.S. theatrical rights to Levon’s Trade, with Prime Video taking streaming rights in a slew of major international territories, we can reveal.
Coronation Street star Matt Milburn, who plays the role of Tommy Orpington, will be caught up in an affair storyline with Tracy Barlow (played by Kate Ford), just a month after his return to the cobbles. The news of his upcoming storyline was confirmed by the actor himself who returned to the hit ITV soap on Christmas Day, reports Birmingham Live. Speaking of the storyline, Matt told Digital Spy: "I was made-up.
Six more celebrities will be skating onto the ice rink this Sunday as they start their Dancing on Ice journey on ITV.
David Bowie once played his album ‘Outside’ for him and Gary Oldman before it had been released.Wright and Oldman co-starred in the 1996 film Basquiat alongside Bowie, a biopic focusing on the life of the American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. In the film, Wright played the titular artist, while Bowie portrayed Basquiat’s mentor, Andy Warhol. Oldman, meanwhile, played another artist, a character loosely based on the film’s director, Julian Schnabel.In a new interview on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Wright revealed that in a spare moment during the shooting of the film, Bowie decided to test out his new material on his fellow cast members.“I remember one day we were in the hair and makeup trailer — Gary Oldman was in the film as well — we’re sitting there and David walks in,” Wright said.
Dana Carvey returned to his Fly on the Wall podcast with David Spade yesterday, his first time back since the death of his 32-year-old son Dex last November.
A Bed Every Night.The event will take place at Liverpool venue Camp And Furnace, where the mayors will be joined by a host of famous faces including singer Rebecca Ferguson and Coronation Street star Sally Lindsay.Their first clash on the decks took place online during the pandemic in 2020, following by a second face-off in December 2022 which raised over £25,000.“We’re coming back but this time we’re heading over to Liverpool,” Burnham said in a press statement. “I was so proud of what we achieved with our DJ Battle last year, using the power of music and friendly rivalry to unite behind one powerful message, that homelessness has no place in Greater Manchester.
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.
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Matthew Libatique, the Academy Award-nominated cinematographer most recently lending his talents to Bradley Cooper’s Netflix pic Maestro, has been set to receive the American Film Institute‘s Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal at the AFI Life Achievement Award Gala Tribute to Nicole Kidman, taking place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on April 27th.
David Bowie has officially opened on what would have been the late icon’s 77th birthday.News that the French capital would be naming a street after him was first shared back in 2020, when Mayor Jérôme Coumet – a professed fan of Bowie – revealed that he was planning the move.Last week it was confirmed that it would officially open on his birthday (January 8) and yesterday Paris honoured Bowie by unveiling the new street – The Rue David Bowie – which also featured his year of birth and death. You can view the unveiling below.It is situated between two modern office buildings, including the headquarters of news publications Le Monde and L’Obs and opens onto Avenue Pierre-Mendes-France and will connect to the future bridge linking the avenue to Boulevard de l’Hopital, near Austerlitz train station and Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital.Rue David Bowie unveiled in the 13th in Paris.
A photo posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday shows the cast posing together under the caption, “Stranger Things 5 production has officially begun!”A script is visible on the lap of Finn Wolfhard, who plays Mike Wheeler in the Netflix megahit.It’s a welcome sight for fans of the series, which hasn’t released new episodes since the second half of Season 4 in July 2022.“Excited to watch!” exclaimed a fan on X underneath the photo of the cast and crew.“Yess! Let’s go team Stranger Things! Let’s gooo!” another fan tweeted.Fans are expecting big things from Season 5, which was close to starting production last May but was delayed due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.The show’s writers, Matt and Ross Duffer, had already completed scripts for Season 5, but, at that point, there was no sense in trying to film anything without actors, so production was put off until now.Even then, though, fans likely won’t see the new episodes until 2025, according to reports.“Terminator” co-star Linda Hamilton has joined the cast and can be seen in the photo posted on X.“I don’t know how to be a fangirl and an actress at the same time,” Hamilton said during her video announcement on Tudum, the Netflix online newsletter.
Wilco have shared a cover of David Bowie‘s ‘Space Oddity’ to celebrate what would have been the late star’s 77th birthday.The live recording of the cover is the first taster of a new compilation album from live performance radio station Mountain Stage.The album, ‘Live On Mountain Stage: Outlaws and Outliers’, will be released in full on April 19 via Oh Boy Records, and also feature Margo Price, John Prine, Jason Isbell and more.“As a gratefully, if not begrudgingly, Earth-bound band, it’s always an honour and a challenge to tackle any of David Bowie’s space-soaring arrangements,” Wilco said of their ‘Space Oddity’ cover.“Striving to reach the heights of his freedom and talent is a wise goal for any band. We thank Mountain Stage for letting us give this song another home on Earth.”Mountain Stage founder Larry Groce added: “Mountain Stage has always been about our guests.“Our only purpose has been to showcase their incredible talent.
Succession is the big winner of the night!
The Golden Globes kicked off the 2024 awards season with a bang, honoring the best in film and television. One of the most anticipated categories was Best Actress in a Motion Picture-Drama, which featured several powerhouse performances over the past year. In the end, the Golden Globes awarded the honor to Lily Gladstone makes history as the first Indigenous woman to receive the award in the show’s 81 year history for her transformative portrayal in Martin Scorsese drama Killers of the Flower Moon.
David Bowie is set to be opened next week – meaning France will have a street to honour the musician, while his home country of the UK does not.News that the French capital would be naming a street after the iconic singer was first shared back in 2020, when Mayor Jérôme Coumet – a professed fan of Bowie – revealed that he was planning the move.Now, the street is set to open next Monday (January 8), and will be a new road near Austerlitz train station, rather than a pre-existing one that has been renamed.According to Coumet, the idea for the “rue David Bowie” emerged as the “Space Oddity” singer had “a strong link with the city of lights” (via The Connexion).An inauguration party is also set to be held at Salle des Fetes that same day to celebrate the launch, and a variety of photographs and paintings related to the singer will be showcased at the Galerie Athéna until January 14.As highlighted by The Connexion, Bowie’s ties to France not only include his countless shows across the country, but also his time recording music at the legendary Miraval studio – which is now owned by Brad Pitt.While his home country of the UK does not yet have a street named after the late music legend, his birthplace of Brixton does have a famous mural of the singer, painted by Australian artist James Cochran.Bowie died in 2016, following a cancer diagnosis.In other news about David Bowie, back in November it was reported that the artist’s handwritten lyric sheet has been estimated to fetch up to £100,000 at auction.The documents contained the late singer’s corrections, drafts and notes to his tracks ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide’ and ‘Suffragette City’.