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It’s a rare treat when two genre filmmaking giants like Steven Spielberg and Denis Villeneuve come together to share their insights. In a recent episode of The Director’s Cut—A DGA Podcast, these visionary filmmakers sat down for a conversation that was both entertaining and enlightening.

Sir Tom Jones has addressed fans in a new update on social media after worried viewers of The Voice urged him to 'get checked out'.

Vampire Weekend have teased a new offshoot project with an “imaginary backstory”.In a New York Times profile, the band revealed they had created an offshoot project with the remaining founding members Ezra Koenig, Chris Baio, and Chris Tomson. The project began during the summer of 2020, where the band would do weekly jams and recorded “hundreds of hours of music”.“The world had stopped working and a lot of what we normally do was just not being done,” Tomson said.

Primark has added a new security measure when shoppers check their items out at tills - and it has left some people angry. The budget retailer is cracking down on theft in some of their stores by sealing up its paper carrier bags with blue ‘sold’ stickers.

Khruangbin have shared the latest single from their upcoming album in the form of ‘Pon Pón’ – listen to it below.The groove-heavy, blissed-out track is the third preview of the album released so far, following on from ‘A Love International’ and ‘May Ninth’.The band first announced details of their new album ‘A La Sala’ in January. The album is their first full studio album since 2020’s ‘Mordechai’, and comes out on April 5 via Dead Oceans, in partnership with Night Time Stories Ltd.

Coldplay, Vampire Weekend and Beabadoobee are among the names that have been added to the huge line-up for BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2024.This year’s edition of the festival is set to run between Friday, May 24 and Sunday, May 26, and will be held at Stockwood Park in Luton.The names for the first two nights had already been announced, and now the line-up for Sunday has been confirmed, with Coldplay topping the bill on the Main Stage.We'll be closing out #BigWeekend Luton with a headline performance from @coldplay on Sunday 26th May! ✨For more details and info on tickets, visit https://t.co/4t4HBZtjzI pic.twitter.com/9gvRfS50OO— BBC Radio 1 (@BBCR1) March 20, 2024“We wouldn’t be anywhere without Radio 1 and we’re super excited to come to Luton this year and play Big Weekend,” the band said about their inclusion on the line-up.Rounding out the Main Stage bill on Sunday will be Declan McKenna, Olly Alexander, Sabrina Carpenter and Vampire Weekend.Tickets for the weekend go on sale at 5pm tomorrow (March 21), and will cost £29.50, plus a £4.50 booking fee. Full information on how to get yours can be found here.The festival has also confirmed the line-up for the New Music Stage on Sunday, May 26, with Beabadoobee taking top billing.

Vampire Weekend will livestream a concert in Austin, Texas next month that is set to take place during a total solar eclipse.The band will play the Moody Amphitheater in the city on Monday, April 8, with the show expected to start at 12pm local time (5pm UK time), and run for approximately two and a half hours.At 1:36pm, there will be around two minutes of complete darkness as the moon passes directly between the Earth and the sun, with parts of North America projected to experience the rare event.A post shared by Vampire Weekend (@vampireweekend)The band will livestream the show via the streaming platform Veeps. Tickets are free and can be claimed here.The show will take place just three days after the release of the band’s fifth album ‘Only God Was Above Us‘, and last week, they released the latest single ‘Classical’.That followed up the two previously released singles ‘Capricorn’ and ‘Gen-X Cops’.

Timothée Chalamet is taking on one of the most exciting and challenging roles of his career. He’ll be playing Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown,” a biopic that follows Dylan in the ‘60s, as his career rose to prominence and he changed the landscape of music and songwriting. Did Timothée Chalamet attend the Kardashian-Jenner Christmas Eve party with Kylie?How Zendaya helped Timothée Chalamet with his first apartment in New York CityThe film recently entered production, with Chalamet spotted hanging around New York in costume.

Rachel Seo When the idea for her upcoming novel “Expiration Dates” began percolating in her head, author Rebecca Serle worried at first that the concept was “gimmicky.” “There was something missing,” she tells Variety over the phone, two weeks before the book’s March 19 launch. The premise — based on the question, “What if a woman got slips of paper that told her how long she’d spend in a relationship?” — felt like it verged on triteness.

Vampire Weekend have shared their latest single ‘Classical’, the third offering from their upcoming album ‘Only God Was Above Us‘.Written by frontman Ezra Koenig, produced by Ariel Rechtshaid (Haim, Sky Ferreira) and Koenig and featuring an orchestral arrangement by Will Canzoneri, Koenig and Rechtshaid, the track highlights a whimsical beat against lyrics such as: “I know that walls fall, shacks shake / Bridges burn and bodies break / It’s clear something’s gonna change,” asking the question “And when it does, which classical remains?”Directed by Vampire Weekend’s longtime creative director Nick Harwood, the track’s accompanying music video sees the band alongside Rechtshaid, Ray Suen and their drum tech Josh Goldsmith on the guitar playing the song against a green screen with fresco paintings, churches and clocks behind them.‘Classical’ follows the two previously released singles ‘Capricorn’ and ‘Gen-X Cops’. All three tracks will be featured on the band’s fifth LP ‘Only God Was Above Us‘, which is set for release on April 5 via Columbia.

Glastonbury has finally unveiled the line-up for the 2024 edition of the festival. Check out the poster and more information below.Ever since the dust settled on last year’s Worthy Farm event – which saw headliners Arctic Monkeys defeat illness to complete the UK leg of ‘The Car’ tour, Guns ‘N’ Roses deliver “a solid set to the wrong crowd“, and Elton John’s stellar and guest-packed final UK show – much speculation has surrounded who’d be topping the bill for Glasto 2024 this June.Now, it has been confirmed that Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA will headline the iconic Pyramid Stage this summer.

Chinese comedy drama YOLO from Sony Pictures International had a yodeling good domestic debut, grossing $840k on 200 screens, making no. 9 on the weekend top 10. Directed and produced by and starring China’s top grossing female helmer, Jia Ling, it’s earned close to $482 million in China since opening Feb. 10 — and was the highest-grossing film over the Lunar New Year holiday.

Miley Cyrus has covered Talking Heads’ classic single ‘Psycho Killer’ – check out the video below.The pop star put a country spin on David Byrne and co’s 1977 song during a stripped-down set at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles this Wednesday (March 6), per Consequence.A fan account on X/Twitter shared footage of Cyrus’ performance yesterday (March 7). In the caption, it was said that the ‘Flowers’ star was “singing a new song that samples ‘Psycho Killer'”.They added that this rendition would appear on A24’s forthcoming Talking Heads tribute album, ‘Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute To Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense’.

Donald Trump could earn him criminal charges — is back in the spotlight. Daniels (née Stephanie Gregory Clifford), who is also an adult film director and a former stripper, is the subject of a new documentary called “Stormy,” from director/producer Sarah Gibson and Erin Lee Carr (“Britney vs Spears”). “People think they know the facts of the case, but it’s really shocking,” Carr told the Hollywood Reporter.

Girl In Red has released a new track today (March 7) from her upcoming new album – check out ‘Doing It Again Baby’ below.The Norwegian singer-songwriter/producer – real name Marie Ulven Ringheim – will release her second album, ‘I’m Doing It Again Baby!’, via Columbia on April 12 (pre-order here). The latest single follows on from last release, ‘Too Much’.Speaking about the new song, Ringheim said: “This is the most fun track I’ve ever made.

After “Elemental” was the studio’s biggest hit since “Toy Story 4,” Pixar hopes to continue its commercial bounce-back with another sequel, “Inside Out 2.” Smart move on Pixar’s part: the 2015 original film was the animation studio’s last true critical darling, making several critical top 10 lists that year. To be fair, other recent Pixar films have scored well with critics too, but “Inside Out 2” still needs fresh take on its premise for everyone to take it seriously.

Nell Mescal has dropped her melancholic new single ‘Warm Body’ – listen to it below.The Maynooth singer-songwriter and sister of Paul Mescal has released the second single from her upcoming EP ‘Can I Miss It For A Minute?‘, which is scheduled for May 3 via LAB Records. Pre-save/pre-order the EP here. So far, the singer has shared ‘Killing Time‘ from the EP, and separately released ‘Teeth‘ in September last year.‘Warm Body’ features Mescal’s gentle voice against an acoustic guitar, as she sings: “I’ll take a warm body / If I can’t have love / Or I’ll go out drinking / Till I find the one”.Mescal has said the song is “about struggling to move on from past situations and how that affects making new relationships.

The criminal case against three men accused of a scheme involving allegedly stolen lyrics to The Eagles’ iconic hit “Hotel California” imploded mid-trial Wednesday after the band’s frontman Don Henley disclosed new evidence that cast doubt on the prosecution.In a stunning turn of events, Justice Curtis Farber dropped the charges faced by rare-books dealer Glenn Horowitz, ex-Rock & Roll Hall of Fame curator Craig Inciardi and memorabilia seller Edward Kosinki — finding that Henley “manipulated” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office by failing to turn over 6,000 pages of key evidence until midway through the trial.Henley and his lawyers tried to weaponize their attorney-client privilege to “hide information that they believed would be damaging,” Farber said at a hearing Wednesday morning in Manhattan Supreme Court.The judge signed off on Manhattan prosecutors’ bid to toss the charges in light of the new evidence, which a courthouse source told The Post included emails from Henley that cast doubt on his claim that the handwritten lyrics to “Hotel California” and other valuable merchandise had been stolen.“We are checking out and leaving the courtroom,” said Stacey Richman, Craig Inciardi’s lawyer, on Wednesday — in a reference to the song’s famous line “you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.”The new evidence surfaced after Henley and Irving Azoff, the Eagles’ longtime manager, repeatedly cited — against prosecutors’ “express and repeated requests” — their “privilege” to keep communications with their lawyers secret while taking the stand as witnesses at the trial, the DA’s office said.But the pair “waived” that privilege in the last few days, leading to “the belated production of

Dark Souls books have been announced, with pre-orders available today by Irish publisher Tune & Fairweather.Abyssal Archive: The Mythology of Dark Souls explores the lore and mythos surrounding Dark Souls as a franchise and as a location, with fans working to put together the “most comprehensive fan analysis of the game’s mythos ever undertaken”. The premium softcover edition comes with a fold-out companion map of Lordran, the setting of the game, and retails for £25 ($33).You Died: The Dark Souls Companion, meanwhile, contains analysis of “what makes Dark Souls so riveting, enduring, and influential”, with interview with creator Hidetaka Miyazaki included throughout the game, taken over the years since the game was launched.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor‘s ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’ was almost New Radicals‘ debut single, the band’s frontman Gregg Alexander has revealed. Listen to a snippet of his original demo below.Alexander is credited as a co-writer and co-producer of Ellis-Bextor’s 2001 song, which has recently enjoyed a huge resurgence after soundtracking an already-infamous nude scene in Saltburn.Back in January, ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’ reached its original position of Number Two on the UK singles chart (it is currently at Number 20), and broke into the Billboard 100 in the US for the very first time.Ellis-Bextor has since made her US TV debut, announced a run of North American headline shows and performed live at the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards off the back of her surge in popularity.However, during a new interview with The Guardian, Alexander explained that the song was initially intended to be New Radicals’ debut single, instead of their 1998 anthem ‘You Get What You Give’.“I almost flipped a coin between the two songs,” the singer-songwriter told the publication.“The record company wanted something urgently and I didn’t have the time or the budget to finish both.