EXCLUSIVE: Jaime King (Black Summer) has signed on to star alongside Frank Grillo in the thriller Man’s Son, which his son Remy Grillo is directing for XYZ Films.
16.02.2022 - 04:55 / variety.com
Chris Willman Music WriterGirl in Red, aka Marie Ulven, the Norwegian singer/songwriter who has achieved considerable acclaim and racked up solid streaming results in the indie realm, has signed with Columbia Records.The label confirmed the signing to Variety. The news was first reported by Hits.After a series of digital songs and EPs, Girl in Red released her first full-length album, “If I Could Make It Go Quiet,” last spring.
Variety named it one of the top 10 albums of 2021.Two of the 22-year-old performer’s earlier singles, 2017’s “I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend” and 2018’s “We Fell in Love With October,” both recorded when she was a teenager, have been certified gold in the U.S. The latter song has racked up about 370 million streams on Spotify.
Coming into 2022, she’s just been nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for outstanding breakthrough media artist.A U.S. tour that’s been long in the works begins March 7 in Atlanta and includes appearances at the Coachella festival in California April 16 and 23.Ulven was featured in Variety‘s Young Hollywood issue last year, where she said, “I never say I’m a queer icon, but now that I’m aware of that role, I’m embracing it,” Ulven says.
The Finneas-co-produced leadoff single from her 2021 album , “Seratonin,” was notably candid about mental health issues, but she said at the time that she expected her first U.S. tour in 2022 to be a jubilant affair.
“If people relate to a song like ‘Summer Depression,’ I want to tell them you’ll be OK, because the same person who felt those things is now happy.”“If I Could Make It Go Red” got a considerable boost among a different demographic when Taylor Swift gave it an unsolicited plug. Ulven was happy for the plug: “That was insane when that
.EXCLUSIVE: Jaime King (Black Summer) has signed on to star alongside Frank Grillo in the thriller Man’s Son, which his son Remy Grillo is directing for XYZ Films.
A supposedly-vanished California mom who was at the center of a frantic, national three-week-long search back in 2016 has allegedly been lying about the ENTIRE kidnapping!
EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films has acquired North American rights to the upcoming horror-thriller Man’s Son, starring Frank Grillo and to be directed by his son, Remy Grillo, with plans for a domestic release either later this year or early next year.
Ralph Ahn was an actor best known for playing the mostly silent grandfather figure Tran on “New Girl.”Born to a family of Korean independence activists who were some of the first Korean immigrants to the U.S., Ahn grew up in California and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
Cavetown and Beabadoobee have shared a new collaborative single – listen to ‘Fall In Love With A Girl’ below.The pair’s first collaboration comes complete with its own official video. Speaking of the track in a statement, Cavetown said: “‘Fall in Love With a Girl’ is about someone who’s struggling with their sexuality and how that affects their happiness.“This person is scared to take the leap to make themselves happy and tries to make things work in a hetero relationship.
Screen Actors Guild Awards are here, and with them come a whole load of red carpet looks. Don’t worry if you’re only here for those dresses, rather than the actual awards bit – we won’t judge.
SAG Awards took over Santa Monica, California to honour the best in film and television over the last year. And Canada was well represented, with The Handmaid's Tale star Amanda Brugel looking absolutely breathtaking in a flowing white gown.
Laverne Cox had a bit of a verbal faux pas while hosting the red carpet for the 2022 SAG Awards. Thankfully, she didn’t talk about Bruno but she did slip up when trying to pronounce the hit Disney film Encanto. Instead, she called it “Enchanto” when talking to the film’s composer and Tony Award-winning artist Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Awards season is starting off strong — and stylish! Stars put on quite the fashion-forward display for the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, February 27.
Model mom! Molly Sims jumpstarted her modeling career in the 1990s before posing for the covers of Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issues and shooting print campaigns for major fashion brands, including Jimmy Choo and Chanel, through the years. The Las Vegas alum, 48, went on to star in a series of successful TV shows and movies and penned a pair of books. Sims took a break from her busy schedule to exclusively share 25 fun facts with Us Weekly.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor“Barbie Girl,” the ridiculously catchy dance hit by ’90s one-hit-wonders Aqua, has joined the rarified ranks of YouTube’s billion-views club.The official video for the 1997 hit single has now surpassed 1 billion views on YouTube since it was uploaded to the video platform by the Danish-Norwegian pop group in 2010. According to YouTube, “Barbie Girl” has averaged more than 400,000 daily views over the past 12 months.The calculatedly kitschy “Barbie Girl” video features the group’s four members — Søren Rasted, Claus Norreen, René Dif and Lene Nystrøm — on garishly colored sets.
Dave Grohl failed to name Foo Fighters songs during a game on The Late Late Show With James Corden this week.The musician, who was joined on the talk show sofa by actress Hilary Duff, was tasked with guessing which songs the show’s host Corden was attempting to play on keyboard – despite him not knowing how to play the piano.A visibly frustrated Grohl failed to to guess a single song, shouting at one point: “Just play the fucking song, man!” You can watch his attempt at ‘James That Tune’ in the clip below.The first song ended up being Foo Fighters’ ‘Learn to Fly’, while the second tune was ‘My Hero’ – both of which were unrecognisable from their original compositions.Grohl was on the programme to discuss Foo Fighters’ new horror-comedy film Studio 666, which is released in cinemas tomorrow (February 25).The movie follows the bandmembers as they move into a mansion in Encino, California that is “steeped in grisly rock and roll history” to record a new album. Once they’ve arrived, though, Grohl “finds himself grappling with supernatural forces that threaten both the completion of the album and the lives of the band”.
EXCLUSIVE: Frank Grillo will star in Man’s Son, a modern horror thriller from director Remy Grillo.