Month: September 2024

The White Stripes are suing former President Donald J. Trump over the unauthorized use of their 2003 Elephant song “Seven Nation Army” in a campaign video posted last month by Margo Martin, Trump’s deputy director of communications. Both Meg and Jack White are listed as co-plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which lists six counts of copyright
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Columbia Pictures’ Venom: The Last Dance is essentially going day-and-date in China on October 23. The pic hits domestic theaters on Oct. 25. The first Venom in 2018 received a China grossing close to $270M unadjusted for inflation; the first Tom Hardy movie repping just over a third of the Marvel movie’s $856M global gross. The post-Covid
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Kendrick Lamar will perform the halftime show at Super Bowl LIX, in New Orleans, on Sunday, February 9, 2025. Watch him make the announcement in the promotional video below. Super Bowl LIX takes place at New Orleans’ Caesars Superdome. Apple Music is the halftime show’s presenting sponsor, so the 2025 event is formally known as
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Sergio Mendes, the Brazilian singer, composer, bandleader, and keyboardist who became an international sensation after moving to the United States in the 1960s, died, in Los Angeles, on September 5. According to a statement from the Mendes family, the musician’s “health had been challenged by the effects of long term COVID.” Mendes was 83 years
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As audiences prepare to watch Monica Bellucci’s dazzling villainy in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, her spot on the 2024 movie schedule has also been an opportunity to look back. So of course, someone asked Ms. Bellucci about her role in the history of James Bond movies, via her appearance in Spectre. Strangely enough, it’s this line of
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