Emily Whitesell To Adapt Lindy Ryan’s Horror-Mystery Novel ‘Bless Your Heart’ For Television

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Director Greg Berlanti didn’t intend for his new romantic comedy “Fly Me to the Moon” to have a theatrical release. “It was originally direct to streaming,” Berlanti says, speaking Thursday at a friends and family screening of the Columbia Pictures and Apple Original Films movie at San Vicente Bungalows in West Hollywood. “But then we handed in the cut and we started testing it.

Angelique Jackson SPOILER WARNING: This interview discusses plot points from “America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders,” now streaming on Netflix. Last Thanksgiving, Greg Whiteley was on the sidelines at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas as the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders put on an electrifying halftime show with special guest, country music icon Dolly Parton.

Carlos Aguilar Lucy Kerr’s unnerving debut, “Family Portrait,” opens with a sequence where a character is intent on materializing the title in literal fashion. Katy (Deragh Campbell), a 20-something, tries to wrangle adults and children to take a group photo together on a calid afternoon among the greenery in the family’s vast estate. As her relatives walk towards the chosen spot, the camera moves horizontally while bodies come in and out of the frame.

pic.twitter.com/sIXnoglSby— Kinky Friedman (@FriedmanKinky) June 27, 2024Born Richard Samet Friedman, he was raised by Jewish parents in Chicago before the family moved to Texas when he was young. Friedman formed his first group while majoring in psychology at the University of Texas. The band, named King Arthur & The Carrots, were a surf-rock parody group that earned him the nickname Kinky.In 1973, he formed the satirical country rock band Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys.

Kinky Friedman — the Texas-raised musician, writer, satirist, dog lover, gubernatorial candidate and overall provocateur — died after a battle with Parkinson’s on Thursday at his Echo Hill Ranch in TX, according to a post on his X account. He was 79.

Girls’ Generation member Hyoyeon has announced her upcoming 2024 Summer USA tour, featuring concerts in Boston, Houston and more.Girls’ Generation’s Hyoyeon will be going on tour of the US later this year, releasing a poster of her upcoming tour through the girl group’s official X (formerly Twitter) account.The tour begins this weekend in Milwaukee and Boston, and will resume on August 23 at the ORA Nightclub in Seattle.

SXSW have announced that they have dropped the US Army and defense contractor RTX Corporation as sponsors for the 2025 edition of the festival.This year’s SXSW was overshadowed by decisions related to the festival’s sponsorship. Many artists refused to play at the Festival in Austin, Texas in March because of the event’s connections to the US Army and weapons companies amid the Israel-Gaza conflict. These included Gruff Rhys, Kneecap, Sprints, Lambrini Girls, Gel, Rachel Chinouriri, Cardinals and NewDad.SXSW responded to the cancellations in a statement: “We are an organisation that welcomes diverse viewpoints.

Ti West’s decades-spanning horror trilogy, which began in the late ’70s with X (2022) and then jumped back over half a century for the same year’s WW1 prequel Pearl, now fast-forwards to the mid-’80s with a capper that requires a little more thought than its gory, crowd-pleasing predecessors. You’d be forgiven for thinking that the Reagan years would be West’s safe space, given 2009’s pitch-perfect period piece The House of The Devil (which covers similar ground, thematically), but MaXXXine pulls back on that kind of detail in a way that’s surprising. Despite the obvious genre set-up, which promises way more violence than you’d expect, but is pretty gory when you do get it — West’s film is actually an abstract think-piece about women in cinema, predicated on Bette Davis’s quote: “In this business, until you’re known as a monster, you’re not a star.”

Cowboy Carter‘, a number of country musicians have teamed up to reinvent some of Beyoncé’s older classics.In a series of covers for Apple Music Nashville Sessions, six Black country artists have taken on Beyoncé songs and made them their own. Tiera Kennedy, who appeared on ‘Cowboy Carter’s ‘BLACKBIIRD’ and has covered ‘1+1’ for Apple Music, said of the covers: “Beyonce has opened a door that’s going to be really hard to close.”Meanwhile, Brittney Spencer and Tanner Adell (who also appeared with Kennedy on ‘BLACKBIIRD’ will also score covers of their own, with the two singing ‘Irreplaceable’ and ‘Drunk In Love’ respectively.

The 2024 CMA Fest is airing tonight (Tuesday, June 25) on ABC!

Ty Myers has signed with Records Nashville/ Columbia Records and will release his new song “Let ‘Em Talk” via the label “very soon,” according to the announcement. Myers is managed by Blake Shelton manager Narvel Blackstock of Starstruck Entertainment. He has enjoyed hits with his songs “Tie That Binds” and “Drinkin’ Alone” (which may be written from experience as he is not yet of drinking age).

The Sage Steele Show,” Carolla was asked how he could still live in Los Angeles, a question he responded to with a loud groan and exclaimed, “It’s horrible.” After telling host Sage Steele how he grew up in L.A. and that his comedy roots were made in the city, Carolla insisted it’s “time to move.”“I have twins, and they’re in their senior year of high school and I couldn’t- I didn’t want to pick up and, you know, tear up their roots, you know? So people always go, ‘When are you leaving?’ And I go, I will be attending their high school graduation in a U-Haul,” Carolla quipped. “That’s a sad testimonial about California and sort of recent downturn in L.A.

EXCLUSIVE: Jordana Brewster and Devon Sawa are boarding Spyglass‘ original horror rom-com, Heart Eyes, which is currently in production in New Zealand.

William Earl administrator Six Flags is bracing for the scariest time of the year. The amusement park has unveiled its cinematic partners for Fright Fest, the annual weeks-long celebration of Halloween.

EVERGLOW have announced their upcoming 2024 ‘Pulse & Heart’ tour in the US, featuring concerts in Los Angeles, Dallas and more.EVERGLOW and tour organiser MyMusicTaste revealed the dates and venues for the girl group’s upcoming 2024 ‘Pulse & Heart’ tour in the US, featuring nine concerts over eight states from September and October.The K-pop act will kick off their US trek on September 18 at the The Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. In the same month, the six-member group will also play shows in Tacoma, Denver, Chicago and two other cities.In October, EVERGLOW will head to St.

. The latest , which premiered on June 20, follows the Cowboys' cheer squad—known colloquially as “the DCC”—from tryouts to training camp, all the way through to the end of the football season.The seven-episode series comes on the heels of CMT's Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team, a reality show starring many of the same characters, including DCC director Kelli Finglass, which ended in 2021 after 16 seasons.

Netflix documentary charts the physical and emotional strength required to become a member of the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.Directed and produced by Greg Whiteley (Last Chance U), America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders follows the class of 2023 from the auditions to the end of the NFL season, with insight from the auditionees, coaches and executives behind the process.A synopsis reads: “With unfiltered access to the auditions, training camp and full NFL season, this is the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders like you’ve never seen them before.”All seven episodes of the series debuted June 20 on Netflix.The series features a wide range of licensed music, from AC/DC, Lizzo to Aerosmith.

Chuu, formerly of the girl group LOONA, has announced her upcoming 2024 ‘Strawberry Rush’ fan-con tour in the Americas, featuring concerts in the US, Mexico and more.Today (June 20), Chuu revealed the dates and details for her 2024 ‘Strawberry Rush’ fan-con tour, a 12-date tour of the Americas that will feature concerts in the US, Mexico, Brazil and Chile from July to August this year.The K-pop star will kick off the tour on July 17 with a show at the The Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Thereafter, the singer will performance shows in the cities of San Francisco, Phoenix, Dallas, New Orleans and more in the same month.The following month, the singer will wrap up the US leg of her tour with two final shows in Indianapolis and New York on August 3 and 5, respectively.

Tomorrow X Together (TXT) have announced their first-ever virtual reality concert, dubbed ‘Hyperfocus’, which will be screened from next month onwards.The band’s forthcoming VR concert is set to take place across five different cities in the US over the following months. The ‘Hyperfocus’ concert promises to “deliver an unforgettable performance that allows fans to get up close and personal” with the boyband, per Billboard.“We have been thinking about how to get closer to our fans, and this VR concert is an opportunity for us to do so,” TXT said of the forthcoming VR concert in a press statement.

Blake Lively and Brandon Sklenar have kicked off the press tour for their upcoming movie It Ends with Us!