Director Who Turned Down ‘Black Widow’ Drags Marvel Movies for ‘Very Ugly’ Sound: ‘The Way Music Is Used Is Actually Horrible’

5 Seconds of Summer guitarist announced that his 33-year-old wife, Crystal Leigh, is pregnant with their first child. On Thursday, the couple shared their explosive gender reveal photos, with the couple celebrating under a cloud of pink smoke and confetti — signaling they are expecting a daughter. «I'm gonna be a girl dad,» Clifford captioned the post. A post shared by michael clifford (@michaelclifford)«I'm filled with excitement and also with nerves,» the 27-year-old musician told  last month.

Drake has announced that he and Nicki Minaj have collaborated on a song that will be on his upcoming album, ‘For All The Dogs’.The Toronto 6God is currently on his ‘It’s All A Blur’ tour with 21 Savage, which sees the two rappers performing across North America. It kicked off this month in Chicago and is set to conclude in Columbus, Ohio in October.During the stop in Detroit last weekend (July 8), Drake told the crowd that he and his longtime friend Nicki Minaj would be releasing a song together on his eighth studio album ver soon.“I’m gonna give away one thing for you tonight because I got a lot of love for Detroit,” he said.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Not a joke: Comedian and author Sarah Silverman is one of the lead plaintiffs in a pair of lawsuits against Meta and OpenAI accusing the tech companies of illegally using copyrighted works to train their artificial-intelligence systems. The books cited in the lawsuits include Silverman’s 2010 best­selling memoir “The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee.” The federal lawsuits, filed Friday, July 7, allege that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s LLaMA both ingested text from “The Bedwetter” and other works to train their large language models (LLMs) — without the consent of (or compensation to) authors such as Silverman.

Naman Ramachandran Kevin Bakhurst took charge as the new director general of Ireland’s national broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTE) on Monday and his first act was to stand down the executive board and replace it with a temporary interim leadership team. RTE has been rocked with scandal in recent weeks for overpaying presenter Ryan Tubridy. The matter led to the suspension and subsequent resignation of RTE director general Dee Forbes, a former high-level Discovery executive and the Irish government ordering two separate reviews into the scandal. In an email to staff on Monday morning, Bakhurst, who had a previous stint as managing director of news and current affairs and deputy director general at RTE from 2012-2016 and was with U.K. media regulator Ofcom and the BBC earlier, laid out a no-nonsense approach.

Movie stars no longer “own” Hollywood, we are told, but two hallowed brand names owned much of the media space this week.

Tatiana Siegel On July 3, GQ.com rolled out a hot-take story titled “How Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Became Public Enemy Number One in Hollywood.” The piece, which was written by freelance film critic Jason Bailey and slammed Zaslav as a Logan Roy-esque mogul, quickly disappeared from GQ’s website, while a new, more friendly version popped up with a separate URL. That version, too, vanished not long after, leaving readers puzzled. But did a GQ editor’s relationship with Warner Bros. play a role in the softening and ultimate removal of the story?  GQ editor-in-chief Will Welch is producing a movie at Warner Bros. titled “The Great Chinese Art Heist,” which is based on a 2018 GQ article by Alex W. Palmer. Jon M. Chu (“Crazy Rich Asians”) is attached to direct and produce the film, which chronicles an audacious European museum crime wave that targeted Chinese antiquities. The project already has a script in place by Ken Cheng, Jessica Gao and Jimmy O. Yang. Sources say Welch was involved in the discussions surrounding the removal of Bailey’s initial story and made the call to pull the revamped story, which ran some 500 words shorter than the published version. Those same sources say Warner Bros. Discovery complained about the initial story to two GQ editors, one of whom was Welch. 

recent interview. “And Mattel was incredibly open to it.

Building a successful business out of a hobby has been transformative for profoundly deaf Thomas Wooding. The 26-year-old and his partner Josh Moss started T&J Scents five years ago after his homemade candles were a hit with friends and family.

A trio of docs and a wider-than-usual run for a Vertical Entertainment thriller populate a specialty weekend with fewer new openings as theaters stick with Asteroid City and devote screens to Indiana Jones and Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken. Call it jittery Friday as the indie community like the rest of Hollywood awaits news from SAG-AFTRA as the guild’s contract is set to expire tonight.

There’s nothing like friendship.

“More Than I Want to Remember” was selected as a finalist in this year’s ShortList Film Festival, presented by TheWrap. You can watch the films and vote for your favorite here.Where did you first hear Mugeni’s story? And when did you know it would become a short film?I first heard Mugeni’s story in 2019, via Nate Bult, who worked for an organization that paired unaccompanied refugee minor children with foster families. I had reached out to him as I was researching for my next film, an animated short based on the journey of a young immigrant woman.

Once upon a time, after “Zama” wowed audiences at the Venice Film Festival, Marvel Studios had its eye on Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel to direct “Black Widow.” The short version: Marvel wanted a woman to helm the Scarlett Johansson vehicle, and they met with several female filmmakers about the movie in 2018. Martel wasn’t interested, and directing duties eventually landed with Cate Shortland.

Roseanne Barr is once again in the news for vile remarks that she’s made.

Harrison Ford is glad he was the second choice for “Indiana Jones”.

Naman Ramachandran UPDATED: Suspended RTE director general Dee Forbes has resigned. Forbes said in a statement on Monday: “I regret very much the upset and adverse publicity suffered by RTE, its staff and the unease created among the public in recent days. As director general, I am the person ultimately accountable for what happens within the organisation and I take that responsibility seriously. I am tendering my resignation to RTE with immediate effect.” PREVIOUSLY: Irish public service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTE) has suspended its director general Dee Forbes, a former high-level Discovery executive, over an ongoing scandal around an overpaid TV host.

For every beloved movie starring an actor in an iconic, career-defining role, there's almost always a story about how it could have gone very differently. For instance, "Titanic," one of the most successful movies of all time, nearly starred Matthew McConaughey and Gwyneth Paltrow instead of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Actors constantly turn down roles for one reason or another, and while sometimes that's just business as usual, there are other times when the stars experience major regret.

A bombshell report about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry is shedding light on the couple’s plans in Hollywood, which have seemingly hit a roadblock.

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The story of the missing submersible in the North Atlantic Ocean continues to capture the hearts and minds of the American public.

Joy-Anna Duggar and husband Austin Forsyth recently welcomed their third child — and baby fever might be kicking in again soon.