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It was her call. J.K. Rowling said she was not intentionally excluded from HBO Max’s Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts special earlier this year.

British actress Jodie Comer (“The Last Duel“) is set to lead a new London-set apocalypse thriller from director Mahalia Belo (“The Long Song“) and Benedict Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch that is based on the Megan Hunter novel “The End We Start From.” The pic’s script is also being adapted by “Succession” writer Alice Birch and sees characters navigating a mysterious environmental crisis in London as the city becomes submerged by flood waters.

Joe Leydon Film Critic Despite some ambitious efforts by director Jessica M. Thompson and screenwriter Blair Butler to revitalize hoary horror movie tropes with allegorical commentary on race, class and male privilege, “The Invitation” is too wearyingly hackneyed for too much of its running time, and too often laugh-out-loud funny as its plot relies on the age-old convention of a smart yet naive heroine who makes one bad decision after another. It would not be at all surprising if, at some screenings, exasperated members of the audience shout rude things at the screen each time the endangered protagonist fails to act in her own self-interest. Evelyn (Nathalie Emmanuel of “Game of Thrones”) is a free-spirited twentysomething New Yorker who insists that everyone, even total strangers, call her Evie — and she insists quite frequently, just so we don’t miss the fact that she is indeed a free spirit — and scrapes by as wait staff at catered affairs while trying to fulfill her artistic ambitions creating ceramics. When she helps herself to a swag bag at a swanky affair for Find Yourself (evidently an upscale version of Ancestry.com), she finds a DNA test among the goodies and opts to investigate her family tree. This, of course, is the first of many mistakes.

Battle-worn fighters, angry seas, stranded ships and dazzling waterfalls. Oh, and an imprisoned man who says “I am not the hero you seek.”

BLACKPINK have returned with ‘Pink Venom’, the lead single from their imminent ‘Born Pink’ album.The song was first teased at the very start of the month (on August 1), when BLACKPINK confirmed their return in a video outlining the ‘Born Pink’ timeline – they’d release a single this month and the album itself in September, before kicking off “the largest world tour in the history of a K-pop girl group” in October.Listen to ‘Pink Venom’, which features the use of the traditional Korean string instrument called the gayageum, and watch the music video below:‘Born Pink’ will be released on September 16 via YG Entertainment. According to the label, the title for the album “implies the identity” of the group, “which is never ordinary and will exude a fatal aura”.

BLACKPINK have shared a striking new teaser for the music video for their new single ‘Pink Venom’, ahead of its release later this week.The track will serve as the lead single for the K-pop girl group’s second album, ‘BORN PINK’, which is due out in September.The short teaser opens with dust blowing towards the camera, a sharp blade striking a swinging pendulum and a close-up of someone playing the traditional Korean instrument called a gayageum. The scenes then change to show rows of figures dressed in black satin hooded cloaks kneeling on the floor, pink glowing from beneath their hoods.As the clip ends, the four members of BLACKPINK – Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé and Lisa – are seen in various shots, as the line “I bring the pain like” rings out.

Rage Against The Machine performed their 1992 track ‘Fistful Of Steel’ live for the first time since 1997 in New York City over the weekend – you can watch fan-shot footage of the performance below.The four-piece played the final show of their five-night residency at New York’s Madison Square Garden last night (August 14), bringing a premature end to their 2022 tour plans after they cancelled their UK and European tour last week due to frontman Zack de la Rocha’s foot injury.During Friday’s MSG show (August 12), RATM added ‘Fistful Of Steel’, which featured on the band’s 1992 self-titled debut album, to their setlist. The performance marked the first time since 1997 that the band had performed the track live (via Setlist.fm).You can watch fan-shot footage of RATM playing ‘Fistful Of Steel’ in New York below.Earlier on in their North American tour, RATM performed ‘Born Of A Broken Man’ live for the first time in 14 years and ‘No Shelter’ for the first time in 15 years.The band also invited their support act Run The Jewels to join them on stage a number of times during the tour to perform ‘Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)’.Announcing the cancellation of their forthcoming UK and European tour dates last week, RATM said in a statement: “It is with great disappointment that we announce this cancellation.

EastEnders star Max Bowden has left his Instagram followers in suspense after posting a speculative story following rumours with co-star Shona McGarty. The 27 year old actor, who plays Ben Mitchell in Britain's much loved soap, has released a statement on his social media, teasing a reveal all. Opening up on the situation for the first time, Max posted: "One day I will comment on all of the stuff that's been written over the last few months.

EastEnders stars Max Bowden and Shona McGarty appear to be an item after they went "Instagram official" just days before his pregnant ex is due to give birth.

Blood Orange covered a classic song by The Strokes at his recent underplay show at New York’s Baby’s All Right – scroll down the page to watch footage of the performance now.Dev Hynes’ project performed at the small Brooklyn venue on Friday (August 12), ahead of joining Harry Styles as support at Madison Square Garden later this month.During the gig, Hynes and his band played from the middle of the venue as opposed to the stage, with the crowd – which included Lorde and Tyler, The Creator – gathering around them. At some point in the setlist, Blood Orange launched into a cover of The Strokes’ ‘Under Control’, which originally appeared on the New York band’s 2003 album ‘Room On Fire’.The cover saw Hynes swap vocals with one of his band as the audience sang along with them.

JK Rowling has called in police after seemingly receiving a death threat on Twitter. The Harry Potter creator was targeted by a troll after sending well wishes to author Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed in New York.

Author Salman Rushdie has been attacked while on stage in New York, police have reported.The Booker Prize winner, whose books include Midnight’s Children, was attacked on the morning of Friday 12 August just before he was scheduled to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. According to New York State Police, a male suspect ran onto the stage where he attacked the 75 year old author and an interviewer at the event.

Louis Theroux, Amelia Dimoldenberg and Jason Derulo have teamed up for a new video for Theroux and Duke & Jones’ viral song ‘Jiggle Jiggle’ – you can watch the clip below.The novelty track, which features audio of Theroux rapping on Dimoldenberg’s YouTube series Chicken Shop Date (in a callback to a moment from Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends), was recorded following the huge popularity of Duke & Jones’ original auto-tuned TikTok video, which has been viewed nearly 80million times.Theroux has embraced the attention, telling The New York Times recently that “I sincerely hope we can all make some jiggle jiggle out of the phenomenon. Or maybe some fold.

Pennyworth wants to make sure everyone knows what it’s really about. In a not-so-subtle move, HBO Max announced the series will now be titled Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman’s Butler for its upcoming third season on the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming platform.

Beabadoobee has never hidden away from her influences and has regularly namechecked The Sundays, the jangly '90s indie band, as being an important part of her songwriting education. It makes sense, then, that the London-based artist would pay homage to her heroes with a cover.

Kendrick Lamar played a surprise intimate show in New York over the weekend – check out the videos below.The rapper is currently on the North American leg of his 2022 ‘Big Steppers’ world tour, which began last month. On Saturday (August 6), he took to the stage at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn for a second consecutive night.As Line Of Best Fit reports, Lamar then headed to the Dumbo House members’ club where he treated attendees to an impromptu show, performing alongside his touring bassist and keyboard player.The star was also spotted hanging out with the likes of Jay-Z, Beyoncé, his cousin Baby Keem and Dave Free at the venue.Footage has since emerged of Lamar playing ‘The Heart Part 5’.

Beyoncé’s seventh album, ‘Renaissance’, a news anchor in Philadelphia snuck 15 of the R&B titan’s song titles into a live-broadcast traffic report.“Traffic is getting ‘Heated’ and it’s starting to ‘Break My Soul’ just a little bit,” NBC 10’s Sheila Watko said in her presentation last Tuesday (August 2), referencing two songs from ‘Renaissance’. She noted later in the broadcast – which earned the approval of Bey’s own mother, Tina Knowles – that she’d planned to do to a reference-laden report on the album’s release date (July 29), but couldn’t do so since there was a crash that day and she “had to be serious”.To the groans – and one emphatic “ooh!” – of her co-hosts, Watko continued in her report: “We’ve had a ‘Formation’ of traffic cones all morning … that’s still blocking two right lanes, you might want to move over ‘to the left, to the left’.”Celebrating her effort, co-host Keith Jones declared: “Sheila Watko, you ‘Run The World’.”Take a look at the full report below:Yesterday (August 8) saw ‘Renaissance’ debut at Number One on the US’ Billboard 200 chart.