Amber Heard has sacked her long-time attorney and hired a new legal team as she prepares to appeal the verdict in her defamation trial with Johnny Depp. Elaine Bredehoft, who represented Ms Heard in the six-week long trial, will step down.
02.08.2022 - 00:09 / variety.com
Alex Gonzalez On his second album, “Wasteland” — which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, on the strength of 107 million on-demand streams, or 81,000 units in stream equivalent albums — Brent Faiyaz leans into his own dichotomy. He plays the charming romantic, as well as the toxic villain, embracing two of the labels that have been attributed to him over the years.
It’s all part of a larger, nuanced story that envelops one of the buzziest albums of the year.And it’s no wonder people are talking about “Wasteland.” The album’s theme of darkness takes the listener through tumultuous relationships, the grind of life on the road and implied death by suicide. Many hail its cinematic cohesion; some have criticized its length and the inclusion of skits, but people are listening — and talking about it. Variety spoke with Faiyaz after the numbers came in.How would you describe your creative process for this album?For me, it was a lot of traveling and moving from place to place, and collaborating with different people who really inspired me.
Every artist that worked on “Wasteland” was somebody that was part of the overall story. Alicia Keys made the first CD I ever bought. Drake’s “Take Care” was a classic that inspired me when I first started making music.
I got in with the album’s executive producer [Jonathan “Freeze” Wells], and I started realizing that all the songs told a story. It had a narrative from beginning to end, so I didn’t want to leave any songs out. Whether the single dropped a year ago or two years ago, it don’t matter because I felt like I wanted to give that record a specific home, because it was a part of a story.This album is a bit darker in tone than your previous works. Do you find your own music
.Amber Heard has sacked her long-time attorney and hired a new legal team as she prepares to appeal the verdict in her defamation trial with Johnny Depp. Elaine Bredehoft, who represented Ms Heard in the six-week long trial, will step down.
Bryce Dallas Howard has revealed that Chris Pratt fought to get her equal pay on the Jurassic World trilogy.In 2018, it was reported that Howard was paid $2million (£1.6million) less than Pratt for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, earning $8million while her co-star received $10million.However, in a recent interview with Insider, the actress said claimed the pay gap between the two of them was, in fact, much bigger.“The reports were so interesting because I was paid so much less than the reports even said. So much less,” she said.“When I started negotiating for Jurassic, it was 2014, and it was a different world, and I was at a great disadvantage.
Amber Heard has now hired David L. Axelrod and Jay Ward Brown of Ballard Spahr to represent her in her appeal of the Johnny Depp defamation trial verdict.
Amber Heard has hired new legal counsel amid her ongoing litigious battle with ex-husband Johnny Depp. Last month, Heard took the necessary step toofficially appeal the verdict in Depp's defamation case against her. According to the legal documents, obtained by ET, the actress' lawyers at the time filed the paperwork on July 21 in Fairfax County, Virginia, alerting the court they would be filing an appeal in the case where jurors awarded the star $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.
Amber Heard has hired new lawyers amid the ongoing legal battle between her and ex-husband Johnny Depp.
Zack Sharf Reports surfaced in 2018 that Bryce Dallas Howard was making $8 million to Chris Pratt’s $10 million for their work on “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” but Howard revealed in a new interview with Insider that she was actually being paid “so much less” on the “Jurassic World” sequels compared to her male co-star. Howard did not reveal a dollar amount, but she did stress that Pratt worked to correct the situation by ensuring she had pay parity on other “Jurassic World” properties such as video games and theme park rides.“The reports were so interesting because I was paid so much less than the reports even said, so much less,” Howard said.
At the end of 2021, Alicia Keys shared her project KEYS, an ambitious double album-length exploration of the R&B songwriter's inspiration and compositional spectrum. She even spoke to us about it for a two-part podcast.
Amber Heard is replacing most of her legal team and leaning into the Constitution as she prepares to appeal a multi-million defamation verdict awarded to Johnny Depp.
winning five gramophones for her instant-classic debut, 2001’s “Songs in A Minor,” when she was just 21.The Recording Academy kept on falling for Keys, who went on to earn 10 more of its prestigious prizes. But the now-41-year-old star — who will headline two hometown shows at Radio City Music Hall on Thursday and Friday — has one very special Grammy that she didn’t technically win: She picked it up when John Mayer shared his Song of the Year trophy with her after his “Daughters” beat out her “If I Ain’t Got You” in 2005.“When he was onstage, [he said that] he just felt like I deserved that for ‘If I Ain’t Got You,’ ” Keys — who has also hosted the Grammys twice in her career — told The Post.
With “Thirteen Lives,” Ron Howard delivers his cinematic interpretation of the story of the stranded Thai soccer team that commanded the world’s attention in the early summer of 2018. Howard’s film joins other projects — including the 2021 National Geographic documentary “The Rescue” and Netflix’s upcoming limited series “Thai Cave Rescue” — that covered the incredible true story of the skilled divers that rescued the team. The screenplay comes from “Unbroken” and “Everest” screenwriter William Nicholson. Producers include P.J.
Angelica Ross is set to become the first transgender actress to play Roxie Hart in 'Chicago'. The 41-year-old 'Pose' star will make her Broadway debut in the long-running musical later this year, playing murderous vixen Roxie for eight weeks from September 12. Actresses who have previously played Roxie include Pamela Anderson, Melanie Griffith, Christie Brinkley, Marilu Henner, Brooke Shields and Lisa Rinna.
Johnny Depp’s assistant said the actor allegedly kicked Amber Heard in the head, according to unsealed court papers. Text messages sent in 2014 from the actor’s then-employee Stephen Deuters are said to have detailed how the actor apparently attacked the ‘Aquaman’ actress, 36, onboard a private jet. Mention of them was barred from the former couple’s defamation trial but have been made public in a tranche of 6,000-plus pages of unsealed documents from the case, which released over the weekend.
Alicia Keys has kicked off her 2022 The Alicia + Keys World Tour and you can check out the set list right here!
Alicia Keys declared her love for husband Swizz Beatz in a series of heartfelt posts on Instagram to mark the couple's 12th wedding anniversary. The pair tied the knot in a lavish ceremony on 31 July 2010 and they went on to become parents to two sons, Egypt, 11, and seven-year-old Genesis and Alicia marked their relationship milestone by sharing pictures of their wedding day on her Instagram page and opening up about how the couple have kept their relationship strong over the years. Alongside one of the wedding snaps, Alicia wrote: "This is the day we got married! Look at these cutie pies!! Those same stars are still in our eyes.