The Weeknd is looking back on his controversial MAX show The Idol.
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After hearing early demos from Kid Cudi, director Fletcher Moules knew he could connect with the vision of bringing a visual album to life through animation. Serving as an animated companion piece to Kid Cudi’s album of the same name, Entergalactic follows street artist Jabari (Cudi) as he is on the cusp of bringing his art to life in comics. His life changes when he falls for his neighbor Meadow (Jessica Williams), a photographer about to stage an exhibition. It was important for Moules that this special be a character-driven concept album, rather than one long music video, so the story and animation style were essential to get right.
DEADLINE: Where did the concept for Entergalactic come from?
FLETCHER MOULES: [Kid] Cudi had the idea. “Entergalactic” was the name of one of his songs from many years ago on an early album, and he wanted to visualize his music. We sat around and he talked to Kenya [Barris] about the idea that you could release music in a different way. Purple Rain was a really good example of Prince releasing an album that was also a narrative. These sort of concept albums have been around for a long time, but there hadn’t been one that had really leaned into the story and led with the characters. That was something that Cudi and Kenya Barris really wanted to do, so the concept there really became leading the release of new music with a narrative story to go with it.
DEADLINE: Were the songs completed before the script or were they written in tandem?
MOULES: Kind of both. When the writing process began, Cudi had probably six of the songs that were demoed and those were the earmarked narrative songs. “New Mode” really kicks off the story. “Willing to Trust” and “Can’t Shake Her” are both huge moments in
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Extraction 2” (now streaming on Netflix), you know that it’s stuffed with even more edge-of-your-seat, bone-crunching, glass-breaking action. (It really is.) Chris Hemsworth returns as Tyler Rake, recovering from his seemingly mortal wounds in the first movie and taking on an even more death-defying mission. The stunts are bigger, the camerawork more dazzling (there a truly unbelievable prison break sequence captured as one unbroken take) and the choreography even more impressive.In fact, we were so impressed with “Extraction 2” that we had director Sam Hargrave (returning from the first film) walk us through one of the most impressive bits of action – a fight sequence that takes place in and on top of a glass-enclosed gym in an European high-rise.
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Everyone has their special fuzzy memories of their favorite smashes over the years – but now and then, the artists themselves don’t exactly feel the same way about their own music.