Travis Scott officially made his return to an awards show stage on Sunday.
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Announced today (April 26), Prom 21 is titled ‘Gaming Prom – From 8-Bit To Infinity’ and will feature music from the ‘80s all the way up to last year’s Battlefield 2042. According to the BBC the event will take place on August 1 this year, at London’s Royal Albert Hall.On the night, music from Shadow Of The Colossus, Kingdom Hearts, Dear Esther and Battlefield 2042 will be played, with the full programme yet to be announced.“Fantastic worlds, epic adventures, complex characters and huge moral choices,” reads the event’s description.
“The universe of computer gaming is a natural match for orchestral music, and in the 21st century games have created a huge and passionate global audience for some of the most vivid, ambitious and inventive music currently being written for symphony orchestra.”The performance will be presented by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Robert Ames, and on August 5 will be broadcast via BBC Four. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will also be doing another video game-related performance this year, as on June 2 ‘Video Games In Concert‘ will feature music from Final Fantasy, Halo and The Legend Of Zelda.This year the BBC Proms start on July 15 and runs all the way up to September 10.
Live music and broadcasted performances will run across the eight-week classical music festival.Earlier this month The 8-Bit Big Band snagged a Grammy for their orchestral rendition of ‘Meta Knight’s Revenge’ from Kirby Super Star, marking the second piece of gaming music to win the award. In other news, Dying Light 2 is finally getting the long-requested New Game Plus mode this week, and Techland has outlined all the details.
.Travis Scott officially made his return to an awards show stage on Sunday.
John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentMiguel Bernardeau, Guzmán in Netflix smash hit “Elite,” and Mexico’s Renata Notni will head the cast of “Zorro,” a reboot series from Los Angeles-based Secuoya Studios and John Gertz that will stream in exclusivity on Amazon’s Prime Video in the U.S., Latin America and Spain. The flagship series at Secuoya Studios, “Zorro,” a modern take on the hero, is directed by Javier Quintas, whose credits include episodes of “Money Heist” and “Sky Rojo,” and Miguel Angel Vivas, a director on “Locked Up” and “Unauthorized Living.” Written by Carlos Portela (“Hierro,” “Velvet Collection”), the 10 episode series is executive produced for Secuoya Studios by David Martínez, David Cotarelo and Angela Agudo. John Gertz, founder of Zorro Productions and a producer on “The Mask of Zorro” and “The Legend of Zorro” movies titles, also executive produces along with former Sony exec Andy Kaplan at KC Global Media, Sergio Pizzolante for C&T Mobs, and Jesús Torres and Glenda Pacanins at NoStatusQuo Studios.Bernardeau will play a new version of Diego de la Vega, a landowner and, in disguise, masked hero of the people.
Reactions are coming in to this morning’s Tony Award nominations, an event that feels like a reassuringly familiar sign of springtime after two-plus years of Covid upheaval on Broadway.
Actor Mike Hagerty, who had roles in "Friends" and "Somebody Somewhere" has died. He was 67. Hagerty's co-star, Bridget Everett, shared the news on social media Friday.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeSPOILER ALERT: Do not read ahead if you have not watched Season 7, Episode 9, of “The Masked Singer,” “One Mask Hurrah – Round 3 Finals,” which aired May 4 on Fox.Alas, En Vogue couldn’t hold on, and it wasn’t Shaggy. Both 1990s artists were eliminated on Wednesday night during the Round 3 finales of this season’s “The Masked Singer.”The En Vogue trio of Terry Ellis, Cindy Herron and Rhona Bennett were unmasked as the Queen Cobra, while Shaggy was revealed to be the Space Bunny.For Queen Cobra, Nicole Scherzinger figured out it was En Vogue, and Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg agreed. Robin Thicke thought it was another 90s R&B group, SWV; and Ken Jeong went big with the more contemporary combo of Ariana Grande/Jessie J/Nicki Minaj.
As Elon Musk makes headlines with his machinations to purchase Twitter, venerable British broadcaster BBC has announced plans to produce a docuseries about the controversial tech billionaire.
The Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival announced its 2022 lineup including Disney’s documentary Mija and the Warner Bros. Pictures/HBO Max film Father of the Bride bookending the celebration. LALIFF will run from June 1 to 5 at the TCL Chinese Theater and TCL Chinese 6 in Hollywood.
EXCLUSIVE: Roswell, New Mexico star Michael Vlamis is preparing to make his feature directorial debut with Crossword, a psychological thriller in which he’ll star alongside Aurora Perrineau (When They See Us), Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows), Nick Thune (Love Life), Sarah Ramos (Winning Time), Karan Oberoi (Counterpart), Andoni Gracia (Warner. Bros’ upcoming The Flash) and Spencer Waldner (5 Years Apart).
Fox News. “Let’s just say a piece of material were to come across my desk, which has happened plenty of times over the last 22 years, that I don’t necessarily feel is what I believe or what I’m selling — then that’s not for me.”The “Cinderella Story” actor went on, “I don’t want to step in something that I don’t believe in any way because it’s going to destroy it for everybody else involved.”“If you don’t fully love and embrace the character that you are inhabiting, it will show on screen. I always want to give the people that I’m working with and the people who are going to watch the movie, the most of me,” he said.Murray added that he likes to keep his Christian faith close to him by putting on his “spiritual armor” every morning.
Bill Murray had a lot to say about those “inappropriate behavior” allegations on the set of Being Mortal.
Elon Musk has an agreement to buy Twitter. But no one can agree on what that means, and Bill Maher’s HBO show Real Time spent a good portion of Friday’s run trying to make sense of it.
While most couples look forward to tucking into dinners together, Mike Tindall has revealed that he and wife Zara no longer eat meals together. Former rugby ace Mike, 43, opened up about how he and Zara, 40, opt to have separate meals, after she gave up red meat following the births of their three children - Mia, eight, Lena, three, and one year old Lucas. Now Zara, who is the Queen's granddaughter, eats her meals without her husband, who simply orders a food delivery each day in order to avoid cooking.
The BBC has announced plans to showcase its first ever Gaming Prom, titled “From 8 Bit to Infinity”, which will take place live at Royal Albert Hall on August 1st.
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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticCountry music fans have come to accept that the Stagecoach Festival in the California desert each late April will not be livestreamed in the same way that Coachella is from the same location in the preceding weeks. But that changes with the 2022 edition.
APPOINTMENTSWarner Music has hired Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda as Community Innovation Advisor. More for his work in music tech than as a member of Linkin Park.
Someone on Film Twitter was recently asking, what’s all the fuss about the upcoming Criterion Collection July announcement, and why are they building it up to be such a thing? Well, it’s because we’re all going broke in July and the Criterion Collection is going to make it rain with cinephile classics this summer, both modern masterpieces, and good ol’ legendary goats. The Collection is really going for it in July.