Dear BBC: With Two Huge Global Broadcasts on the Horizon, Make a Fuss About What You Do!

Smashing Pumpkins enlisted the help of Peter Hook for a cover of the latter’s former band Joy Division‘s ‘No Love Lost’ to close out their headlining set at their The World Is A Vampire festival in Mexico this past weekend.Hook – who was also on the line-up with his band Peter Hook and The Lights – had been a member of Joy Division from 1976 till 1978. Hook started off the performance by thanking Billy Corgan and the rest of the band for taking care of his son and Smashing Pumpkins bassist Jeff Bates.Watch the performance below.Hook last teamed up with his son and other members of Smashing Pumpkins in March 2021 when he unveiled a new version of Joy Division’s classic track ‘Ceremony’, featuring Bates on bass duty and Pumpkins’ Jeff Schroeder on guitar.Smashing Pumpkins most recently released ‘Act II’ of their new rock opera ‘ATUM’ in February.

Refresh for latest…: MGM’s Creed III is enjoying a knockout opening weekend, punching up $100.4M globally. Of that, $41.8M is from 75 international box office markets. Domestically, the Michael B Jordan-directed movie opened to a franchise record and the best debut ever for a sports title.

There is WAY more to the Drew Sidora and Ralph Pittman divorce. As we reported Wednesday, the Real Hou

MultiChoice, NBCUniversal and Sky have set a new partnership to bring content and technology to streaming customers across MultiChoice’s 50-market footprint in sub-Saharan Africa. MultiChoice launched Showmax as the first African streaming service in 2015 and via the deal announced today, the new Showmax group, which will be 70% owned by MultiChoice and 30% by NBCU, will build on Showmax’s success to date and aim to create the leading streaming service in Africa. It will be powered by Peacock’s technology and combine MultiChoice’s accelerating investment in local productions with international content licensed from NBCU and Sky, as well as third party content from HBO, Warner Bros International, Sony and others, and include live English Premier League football. Launch details about the new Showmax service will be announced at a later date.

Drew Barrymore took to Instagram on Tuesday to show off a before and after of her bedroom while cleaning. In the quick clip, Barrymore takes fans on a walkthrough her bedroom inside her New York City home, showing off an office filled with boxes and papers littered on her desk, to an unmade bed, shoes on the floor, items taken out of her drawers, what looks like an  script near her bed and a bathroom filled with beauty products.«Show me your room before and after you clean it...,» the video prompts. «I'll go first,» the text reads beforethe visibly stressed host shows off the cluttered space.

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Elon Musk continues to be the richest person in the world, despite briefly losing the No. 1 spot for over two months.

EXCLUSIVE: A24’s The Whale, whose Oscar-nominated star Brendan Fraser scooped the prize for Male Actor in a Leading Role at the SAG Awards on Sunday night, is enjoying a strong run globally, having crossed $30M worldwide in the latest frame. Now at $32.3M global and with more overseas markets to release, the drama counts $15.5M so far from the international box office; that’s a nearly 50/50 split with domestic — a terrific result for a low-budget indie. Its global box office is close to that of The Fabelmans.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Martial arts veteran Sammo Hung is to be presented with a lifetime achievement honor at the upcoming Asian Film Awards. The ceremony is back as an in-person event after a two-year absence and shifts back to Hong Kong after previously being held in Hong Kong, Macau and Busan. Hung is expected to accept the award on Sunday March 12 at the Hong Kong Palace Museum. “I’m so happy and surprised that I can still win awards these days, especially an award that affirms my entire performing career,” said Hung in a forwarded statement. He has a career as actor, action choreographer, director and producer that stretches some 60 years.

A post shared by Salma Hayek Pinault (@salmahayek)Salma is always taking care of her skin, and she previously revealed her beauty secret during an interview with Elle.

Poker Face has proven to be a major hit for NBC’s Peacock, with the murder mystery series already renewed for a second season on the streaming service.Created by Rian Johnson, the series stars Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cale, a casino worker on the run who entangles herself into the mysterious deaths of strangers along the way.A synopsis reads: “Charlie has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but investigate and solve.”Alongside Lyonne, the cast of the first season also includes Benjamin Bratt, Ron Perlman, and Adrian Brody, along with a host of guest stars.While the series sees its protagonist travel to a different location in each episode, filming was primarily based Newburgh, New York, running from April through October, 2022, in locations throughout the mid-Hudson Valley.At least one episode of the series was filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The plot thickens. If you’ve been following their divorce, you may have heard of the rumors that Kelsea Ballerini cheated on Morgan Evans with The Chainsmokers’ member Drew Taggart.

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has taken down from its website a story about Will Ferrell after being fooled by a Twitter account that did not belong to the Anchorman actor.

Salma Hayek is known for having fun everywhere she goes! The actress has previously shared some of her most memorable moments on the set of ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance,’ and it seems her co-stars are there to prove she brought all the good vibes, behind the scenes of the last installment of the franchise.“Don’t mind me… Just dancing salsa with the Salma Hayek,” Sebastian Gonzalez, one of the dancers in the film, shared on social media. “Truly lucky to experience the energy that Salma brought to us during the filming of MMLD,” adding, “Gracias por todo!”The video posted by Sebastian shows the pair dancing to Marc Anthony’s popular song ‘Valio La Pena.’ The rest of the dancers can be heard cheering in the background, while the actress effortlessly spins around. “Let’s go!” one person says.“How cool! That must have been quite the experience!” one person wrote, while someone else commented, “Honestly so obsessed with the movie.

Refresh for latest…: Disney/Marvel’s Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania buzzed into 43 overseas markets across Wednesday and Thursday, grossing an estimated $23.8M through yesterday. With domestic’s strong $17.5M previews, that lifts the global cume to a running $41.3M.

Guy Lodge Film Critic “The Echo” — or rather, El Eco — is the name of a tiny rural village in Mexico’s Puebla state that sufficiently captivated Mexican-Salvadorean filmmaker Tatiana Huezo into filming it over the course of 18 months, observing its changes in weather, fortune and the temperament of its few, tightly bonded residents in fine, fraught degrees. But there’s more to the title of Huezo’s return to documentary filmmaking — following the major success of her 2021 fiction debut “Prayers for the Stolen” — than a mere marker of place: Examining the unique ties that bind farming families, where everyone’s welfare hangs on the same unkind elements, this exquisitely textured film observes how children’s lives echo those of their parents, repeating for generations on the same constantly inconstant land, until somebody breaks the pattern.

Epik High have given fans a glimpse into life on tour in the new music video for ‘Catch’ and ‘On My Way’.The music video features audio from the bridge from ‘Catch’ as well as Tablo and Mithra Jin’s verses from ‘On My Way’, accompanied by behind-the-scenes footage of Epik High travelling to different countries and rehearsing in concert venues for their ‘All Time High’ tour. Next up on Epik High’s tour is a slot at MIK Festival in Paris tomorrow (February 18), before they kick off the North American leg in California on February 26.‘Catch’ and ‘On My Way’ are B-sides from Epik High’s newest mini-album, ‘Strawberry’.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Daniel Sunjata has joined the cast of the drama pilot at ABC based on the French detective series “HPI,” Variety has learned. Sunjata will star in the pilot alongside previously announced lead Kaitlin Olson. The project was first ordered to pilot at ABC in September. Per the official logline, “Single mom Morgan (Olson) with three kids and an exceptional mind helps solve an unsolvable crime when she rearranges some evidence during her shift as a cleaner for the police department. When they discover she has a knack for putting things in order because of her high intellectual potential she is brought on as a consultant to work with a by-the-book seasoned detective, and together they form an unusual and unstoppable team.”

Anna Marie de la Fuente To return to documentary filmmaking after her lauded debut fiction feature “Prayers for the Stolen” (“Noche de Fuego”), Tatiana Huezo laid down a set of parameters to follow. “I didn’t want to include any interviews, any narration or any voice-over,” she told Variety. “The Echo” (“El Eco”), world premiering at Berlinale’s Encounters sidebar, sometimes feels like a fictional story as a result. “After ‘Prayers..,’ I felt like returning to the language of the documentary, but most importantly, to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, in the smallest details in everyday life,” she mused. Its trailer bows exclusively in Variety.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Shares of media giant Paramount Global tumbled in early trading Thursday after the company missed earnings targets and told investors profitability in its crucial streaming business would likely not take place until 2024. During a call with investors Thursday, executives from Paramount Global said they expected advertising, which has been crimped in recent months by recession fears and a roiled stock market, to improve in the second half of the year. They also suggested the merger of Showtime and Paramount+ would help cut expenses in content and on staffing. Class B shares of Paramount Global in recent trading were off 5.66%, or $1.39 a share, falling to $23.15 per share from Wednesday’s closing of $24.54.