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Riley Keough shared some news about her late mother Lisa Marie Presley‘s memoir.

Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir, written together with her daughter Riley Keough, will be released later this year.The singer-songwriter and daughter of Elvis Presley will posthumously release the book via Pan Macmillan on October 15. The memoir’s title has yet to be announced.

Angelique Jackson Michael Jackson will be back on the big screen on April 18, 2025 with “Michael,” a biopic directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring the late King of Pop’s nephew Jaafar Jackson in his first major role. Lionsgate is releasing the movie domestically, while Universal is handling overseas distribution. The film will begin production on Jan.

Ethan Shanfeld David Gordon Green has exited “The Exorcist: Deceiver,” the 2025 sequel to last year’s poorly received sequel in the horror franchise. Universal and Blumhouse are searching for a new director.

You may not remember, but Ethiopia’s 1983–1985 famine prompted many musical artists to take humanitarian action. First, there was Band-Aid, formed by Bob Geldolf and all the U.K.

Taylor Swift‘s concert film The Eras Tour has officially become the highest grossing concert movie of all time.As of yesterday (January 7), the film overtook Michael Jackson‘s This Is It with an overall global taking of $261.6million (£206m), as reported by Variety.After its release in October, the film scored the biggest opening weekend for a concert film in history, while the tour itself was the first ever to gross $1billion.The film documents the six performances completed by Swift at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium earlier this year. The shows encompassed a career-spanning setlist that lifted songs from all ten of her albums from ‘Fearless’ to ‘Midnights’.“The Eras Tour is a concert movie in the true sense,” NME wrote in a four-star review.

Audiences didn’t have a lot of new choices, nor a mega late-December blockbuster to ring in the first weekend of the new year at the movies, but the studio titles on offer are still drawing crowds and seeing strong holds, particularly with ongoing holidays in many international box office markets. Milestones are also being set as Warner Bros/Village Roadshow/Heyday Films’ Wonka topped $300M overseas while Disney’s Wish crossed $200M worldwide and AMC touted a new benchmark for Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour. 

It looks like we have the next musical prodigy on our hands! And he’s just 2 years old!!

The makers of an access-all-areas documentary about Andrew Tate have revealed that the controversial influencer imposed only one condition on their filming.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has set a January 29 streaming premiere date for The Greatest Night in Pop, a feature doc just announced as world premiering at the Sundance Film Festival on the 19th of this month.

You have likely seen a multitude of celebrities being discussed with the release of hundreds of pages of documents related to crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein and his associates. However, there’s something very important to keep in mind about that.

OK, we’re going to preface this by once again reminding everyone: the Jeffrey Epstein document release is NOT a list of co-conspirators! Unfortunately we may never get that.

Michael Jackson, Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton.The documents were previously contained in the private court documents, created after Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre filed a lawsuit against British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, accusing her of being involved in the alleged sex trafficking activities.Prior to the names coming to light, those included in the papers were previously referred to as variants of J Doe.Epstein was arrested in July 2019 for sex trafficking. He was found dead in his jail cell in August of that year, with authorities later determining that he hanged himself.Maxwell, Epstein’s partner, was convicted of sex trafficking in December 2021, as well as other similar charges for procuring teenage girls for Epstein.

Sarah Ferguson has "remained fiercely loyal" to her ex-husband Prince Andrew, a royal expert said.The Duke of York hit headlines today (Thursday, 4 December) after court documents, relating to convicted paedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, were released which named Prince Andrew. Last month, US Judge Loretta Preska ruled that documents naming more than 170 people who were either associates, friends or victims of Epstein should be made public.The recently released court documents named Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton and Michael Jackson.

Many high profile figures have been named as associates of Jeffrey Epstein after sealed court documents were made public.

Elvis Presley is set to join ABBA in the strange new world of immersive concerts more than 45 years after he passed away.

A number of documents relating to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein have been published, with a number of his associates and friends being named, including the Duke Of York, former US President Bill Clinton, and singer Michael Jackson. US Judge Loretta Preska ruled last month that documents naming more than 170 people who were either associates, friends or victims of Epstein should be made public.

There are few producers in live television with the kind of career Don Mischer has had in television, a career spanning six decades and just about every major event from the Oscars to the Olympics to Obama and all in between. Just a sampling of his credits include the Opening Ceremonies of both the 1996 Summer Olympics and 2002 Winter Olympics; the Super Bowl Halftime Shows with Michael Jackson, Prince, Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen; the Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial; Motown 25; the Democratic National Convention; the 100th anniversary of Carnegie Hall; the Academy Awards and Emmy Awards; and so many many other events in our lives.

Taylor Swift has tied level with Elvis Presley for the solo artist record of most weeks at Number One on the Billboard 200 chart.Swift’s latest re-recording, ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ has taken over the top spot on the Billboard 200, as Nicki Minaj‘s ‘Pink Friday 2’ lands the Number 2 spot on its second week out.This week marked the 67th week that Swift has had an album at the top of the charts, tying her with the “King Of Rock And Roll”, who had previously held the record. Swift’s re-emergence at the top spot on the charts is due to an influx of vinyl sales for Christmas.

Taylor Swift has tied level with Elvis Presley for the solo artist record of most weeks at Number One on the Billboard 200 chart.Swift’s latest re-recording, ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ has taken over the top spot on the Billboard 200, as Nicki Minaj‘s ‘Pink Friday 2’ lands the Number 2 spot on its second week out.This week marked the 67th week that Swift has had an album at the top of the charts, tying her with the “King Of Rock And Roll”, who had previously held the record. Swift’s re-emergence at the top spot on the charts is due to an influx of vinyl sales for Christmas.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Taylor Swift‘s “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” has returned to the top spot on the Billboard 200, as Nicki Minaj‘s “Pink Friday 2” drops to No. 2 in its second week out. The Swift release is spending its fourth non-consecutive week at No.

Norby Walters, the onetime music agent who ran the annual “Night of 100 Stars” Oscar party for years and hosted an iconic low-stakes poker party for actors, died December 12. He was 91. His son, Walters Media Group founder and former Bold Films CEO Gary Michael Walters, confirmed the news but did not provide details.

Juice WRLD has been released, along with a haunting verse from Eminem – listen to the track below.Produced by Benny Blanco, the song features Juice WRLD (real name Jarad Anthony Higgins), who passed away in 2019 due to an accidental overdose of oxycodone and codeine. ‘Lace It’ sees the rapper repeatedly request to “lace it”: “Roll it up, lace it, pop a few to chase it/I’m in my own Matrix, none of this shit makes sense.”The song also sees the legendary Eminem deliver a touching verse about his own struggles with addiction.

Colin Jost had to put his wife Scarlett Johansson on blast during a skit on the December 16 episode of Saturday Night Live, and it was all because of Michael Che.

Madonna played the final show of the UK and European leg of her ‘Celebration’ greatest hits tour with a mammoth set at London’s The O2 last night, where she invited Stella McCartney out on stage. See footage from the show below.A spokesperson revealed that the icon travelled by London Underground to the show at the North Greenwich venue, where she was feeling in a particularly reflective mood.“London: oh my god, it’s our last show,” Madonna told the crowd, sipping on a Budweiser while introducing the song ‘Burning Up’.

Michael Jackson’s first ever studio session is set to be released as a limited-edition package.The recording was made 56 years ago, when Michael Jackson was aged just nine and entered the One-derful studios in Chicago for the very first time with his brothers.In the session – which took place on July 13, 1967 – The Jackson Five produced a song titled ‘Big Boy’, and it has been confirmed that this was the first time that the iconic singer’s voice was put on tape.Now, the song is getting shared in a digital format for the first time, and will be available as part of a limited-edition release. Available tomorrow (December 7), the packages are shared in collaboration with the song’s owner, Recordpool, and Swedish blockchain-based music and royalty marketplace anotherblock.It comes in two formats – the “open edition” and the more expensive “limited edition”.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Every fan of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (1971) loves the scene where Gene Wilder, as the mystical candy maker, takes his guests on a psychedelic tunnel ride, zooming through the bowels of the Chocolate Factory as he chants a little verse (“There’s no earthly way of knowing, which direction we are going…”), getting angrier and more hysterical by the second. Wilder’s Wonka was a sweetheart, but he had a hidden maniacal side. And in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” Tim Burton’s majestically wacked 2005 remake, Johnny Depp, then at the apex of his movie stardom, went full Depp, playing Wonka like some louche vampiristic cross between Anna Wintour and Michael Jackson.

Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé is a hit!

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Queen Bey is the new box office queen. “Renaissance,” a concert film written, directed and produced by Beyoncé, topped the domestic box office with $21 million in its opening weekend, slightly ahead of expectations. These ticket sales rank as one of the best debuts for a concert film, joining the company of Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” (far and away the biggest with $92.9 million), 2008’s “Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert” ($31.1 million), 2011’s “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” and 2009’s “Michael Jackson: This Is It” ($23.2 million).

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Queen Bey is about to take on the box office. “Renaissance,” a concert film written, directed and produced by Beyoncé, is expected to bring in $17 million to $20 million in its opening weekend. The film will play in approximately 2,539 domestic locations, as well as 94 international territories, including Mexico, the U.K., South Africa, Kenya, Australia and Germany.