Vanderbilt, a series based on Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe’s book, has landed at Amazon.
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U2 performed orchestral renditions of ‘Vertigo’ and ABBA‘s ‘S.O.S’ for BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room – check out the videos below.The Irish rock band are gearing up for the release of new album ‘Songs Of Surrender’, out tomorrow (March 17), which will feature 40 of their past songs “reimagined and re-recorded”.So far, they have shared new versions of ‘Beautiful Day‘, ‘One’, ‘With Or Without You‘ and ‘Pride (In The Name Of Love)‘.For a special Radio 2 Piano Room performance, which aired today (March 16), frontman Bono and guitarist The Edge also performed ‘One’.Listen to the full episode here and watch the performances below.“There is something about ABBA. I can remember ABBA as like the national anthem for young mothers,” Bono told Radio 2’s Gary Davies.
“Certainly at closing time at our local pub, often young women would sing ‘Thank You For The Music’, and I would sing it and I was very thankful for the music!“But I was like, what is this phenomenon? This is before their musicals and all that. What is going on with ABBA? And then Benny [Andersson] came to one of our shows, when we murdered ‘Dancing Queen’.
And [they] played with us on stage. But this is not ‘Dancing Queen’.“This is the great ABBA,” Bono added when asked which song they would be playing.
“And this is a marketing gimmick from U2 called ‘SOS’.”“We’re big fans of this Scandinavian band, appreciators of their work in a way that grew over years. We are fans of the Bee Gees which people wouldn’t have imagined,” The Edge added.
Vanderbilt, a series based on Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe’s book, has landed at Amazon.
South Park takes aim at Andrew Tate in the show’s season 26 finale.Tate, a former professional kickboxer who amassed millions of followers on social media through misogynistic content, is under arrest in Romania over allegations of human trafficking and forming an organised crime group. He has denied the allegations.In South Park episode Spring Break, Tate is depicted as “toxic masculinity coach” character Alonzo Fineski who is revealed to be a wanted sex trafficker.Tate responded to the depiction on Twitter, writing: “When I will be proven innocent, I look forward to help create the greatest South Park episode of all time.”All episodes in season 26 are available in the UK on Paramount+, which can be streamed through Amazon Prime Video.
The FBI franchise’s big crossover event for CBS is airing TONIGHT!
Joshua Jackson and Lizzy Caplan get hot and heavy in the brand new trailer for Paramount+’s Fatal Attraction.
DC superhero film Blue Beetle – check it out above.Directed by Angel Manuel Soto, the film follows teenager Jaime Reyes (Xolo Maridueña) who gains superpowers when an alien blue beetle scarab grafts onto his face and forms a powerful exoskeleton around his body.To reflect the character’s DC comic origins, the film boasts a predominantly Latino cast, including Cobra Kai star Maridueña in the lead role, alongside George Lopez, Adriana Barraza, Elpidia Carrillo, Damián Alcázar and Belissa Escobedo as Jaime’s family.Susan Sarandon will play villain Victoria Kord, alongside Raoul Trujillo as Blue Beetle’s nemesis Carapax the Indestructible Man. Harvey Guillén, best known for playing Guillermo in TV series What We Do In The Shadows, will also star in an unknown role.A synopsis reads: “Recent college grad Jaime Reyes returns home full of aspirations for his future, only to find that home is not quite as he left it.
Sun Valley Film Festival runs from March 29th to April 2nd and will feature 18 narrative and documentary titles, including opening night selection, “Fancy Dance,” which is the directorial debut of co-writer Erica Tremblay, and the world premiere of Anthony Mandler’s “Surrounded,” which will close the festival. Award honorees include Josh Brolin (“No Country for Old Men,” “Outer Range”), who will receive the Vision Award, and Sophie Thatcher (“Yellowjackets,” “The Book of Boba Fett”), who will be given the Rising Star Award. “Last year, people were dying to get out, and this year our ticket sales are outpacing 2022. Once again, there’s a strong appetite for live events,” says festival founder and executive director Teddy Grennan.
Summer House: Martha’s Vineyard is coming!
Eurythmics‘ Dave Stewart has joined his daughter Kaya Stewart for her American Idol audition, where he backed her up on guitar.The pair – who were greeted with astonishment from judges Lionel Richie and Katy Perry – performed an original song, ‘This Tattoo’. Prior to the performance, Richie pointed out that he had been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last year with Dave Stewart and Eurythmics, while Perry called Dave Stewart’s presence a “blast from the past”.Perry then went on to ask Kaya why she had chosen to audition for American Idol “with all the different opportunities and connections and stuff” that she has through her father, while Richie said he thought it was a great feeling to know that “[American Idol] is now a creative destination for artists”.Watch Kaya and Dave Stewart perform ‘This Tattoo’ on American Idol below.Kaya Stewart went on to pass her audition and will compete on the ongoing 21st season of American Idol.In January this year, the Eurythmics – the duo of singer-songwriter Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart – celebrated the 40th anniversary of their hit song ‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)’.Lennox said of the track’s milestone anniversary on Instagram: “It’s almost impossible to believe that ‘Sweet Dreams are Made of This’ was released forty years ago! It has continued to travel the world and the seven seas ever since, which is a wonderful and miraculous story all to itself!”Eurthymics also reunited for a rare live performance at last year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, coinciding with the duo’s induction.
Lil Uzi Vert was the musical guest on The Tonight Show on Monday. They appeared on Jimmy Fallon's late night show to perform their 2022 single "Just Wanna Rock." Uzi, sporting a '70s punk-style mohawk, performed the TikTok-viral song backed by a crew of backing dancers and in front of an apocalyptic backdrop.
Chris Pine shows off his chest in a silk shirt while on his way to film an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday (March 27) in Los Angeles.
at last year’s upfront.Cooper, who joined CNN in 2001 as a morning host and launched “Anderson Cooper 360” in 2019, has had a side gig with “60 Minutes” since 2007.
Anderson Cooper will host a new Sunday primetime series for CNN, The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper, as the network works to revitalize its nighttime lineup.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Anderson Cooper, a regular contributor to “60 Minutes,” will now lead CNN’s attempt to put on something similar. Cooper will lead a new Sunday newsmagazine, “The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper,” that will present one-hour deep dives into specific topics, interviews, profiles and investigations The show will debut Sunday, April 16 at 8 p.m. “Powered by CNN’s unmatched global journalism operation, ‘The Whole Story’goes behind the headlines, touching every continent and corner of the planet, as we bring our viewers into the heart of the essential stories of our time,” said CNN Chairman and CEO Chris Licht, in a statement. The show has been on CNN’s drawing board for nearly a year. Licht first articulated a plan for a Sunday program — and a larger block of premium programming on Sunday nights — at last year’s upfront. “Whole Story” would appear to be paired with Chris Wallace’s interview program, which runs at 7 p.m. eastern.
Daisy May Cooper is said to be in talks to join the James Bond franchise, as spy chief ‘M’, a role previously portrayed by Dame Judi Dench and Ralph Fiennes. The This Country creator and star, 36, is thought to be top of the list of potential Ms, with producers looking to take the franchise, and its characters, in a different direction with the upcoming film.The casting would coincide with a new leading man as well, with Daniel Craig departing the franchise following the release of No Time To Die in 2021.
James Bond film.According to The Sun, the This Country star is being eyed to bring a “comedic and quirky” edge to the role, which was previously portrayed by Ralph Fiennes and Judi Dench.A source told the publication: “Daisy is a close pal of [writer] Phoebe [Waller-Bridge], whose involvement in Bond was such a success that it sparked an unlikely conversation.“Suddenly the production team were getting excited about the prospect of really taking M in a different direction.“With Daniel [Craig] leaving, it seemed the time to start looking at changes across the board and the dynamic between Bond and M is at the heart of the films.”The source added: “So this opens the door to it being a bit lighter and more comedic going forwards – and will of course impact the direction the new 007 goes in too.”Earlier this week, Taron Egerton dismissed rumours that he could succeed Daniel Craig as the next 007, saying that he doesn’t think he’s “the right choice for it”.“You have to be consistently statuesque to be that guy. And that’s something that I am still striving for.
the scene-stealer in from her last press tour: her grandmother. Sitting with Fallon for “The Tonight Show” Monday, Pugh shared that her family, including her so-called “Granzo Pat,” were in New York with her.
EXCLUSIVE: David Tennant, Danny Dyer and Aidan Turner are featuring in an ensemble cast for Disney+’s adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals.
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Roland Emmerich’s large-scale gladiator series “Those About to Die,” starring Anthony Hopkins as Emperor Vespasian, has started shooting at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios. Several new cast members have been announced, including “Game of Thrones” alumn Iwan Rheon. Rheon, who in “Thrones” played the villainous Ramsay Bolton – and can currently be seen in Emmerich-produced film “The Magic Flute” – will replace Lorenzo Richelmy who has exited the Peacock show due to scheduling conflicts. Also joining the “Those About to Die” cast are Liraz Charhi (“Tehran”) who will play Berenice, Queen of the conquered Judeans; and Rupert Penry-Jones (“The Batman”) as retired general Marsus who aspires to succeed Vespasian on the imperial throne (they are pictured above).
Game of Thrones star Iwan Rheon is one of nine joining the cast of Peacock’s epic gladiator drama Those About to Die, as principal photography on the Roland Emmerich show kicked off at Rome’s historic Cinecittà Studios.
Ed Meza @edmezavar Estíbaliz Urresola Solaguren’s celebrated Spanish feature “20,000 Species of Bees” and Kattia G. Zúñiga’s Panamanian drama “Sister & Sister” took the top prizes at the Malaga Film Festival, garnering the Golden Biznagas for Spanish and Latin American pictures respectively. “20,000 Species of Bees” also won best supporting actress for Patricia López Arnaiz and picked up theSpanish Cinematographic Informers Association’s Feroz Puerta Oscura award. The film’s success follows two awards in Berlin, including a Silver Bear for Sofía Otero for her portrayal of a young girl going through a gender crisis. For Zúñiga, the Golden Biznaga is sure to help further propel “Sister & Sister,” an autobiographical story about two teenage sisters who travel from Costa Rica to Panama in search of their absent father.