Pop Smoke set to make posthumous acting debut in upcoming film ‘Boogie’

Just in case you didn’t read the story of the mother who tracked down the cartel kidnappers who murdered her daughter when the New York Times published it earlier this month, you’re in luck, because Variety reports that Blumhouse just won a heated bidding war for the rights to the story.

In a very competitive situation. Blumhouse has won the screen rights to a Dec. 13 New York Times story which chronicled one desperate mother’s revenge spree in Mexico, when she avenged her daughter’s murder by taking on the drug cartels and tracking down the perpetrators by herself. She saw ten of them apprehended by police before she was shot and killed in front of her home on Mother’s Day, 2017.

David Byrne has shared his hopes for a post-Donald Trump America, though admits it is “too early to celebrate”.Byrne was speaking as part of last week’s Big Read cover feature, around the release of his new Spike Lee-directed concert film American Utopia.“For me Trump was not so much a shock; we knew who he is,” Byrne told NME.

PUP have shared a new Christmas song – listen to ‘It’s Christmas and I Fucking Miss You’ below.The two bands, from New York and Toronto respectively, toured extensively last year, and the video for the new track sees them celebrating the festive period remotely.“With you it was festive/ Now I’m alone, it’s manic depressive/ Crying on the couch to ‘Elf’ alone,” Charly Bliss singer Eva Hendricks laments on the song, which tracks a Christmas spent alone.Speaking of the new collaborative track,

Chadwick Boseman has been posthumously honoured with the Best Supporting Actor accolade at the 2020 New York Film Critics Circle awards. The 43-year-old actor tragically passed away in August following a secret four-year battle with colon cancer, and Friday night's (18.

The New York Film Critics Circle has unveiled its annual awards, honouring the late Chadwick Boseman with the Best Supporting Actor award for his performance in the Spike Lee-directed “Da 5 Bloods”.

Veteran agent Jay Schachter has been promoted to the Head of the Film & Television Departments at Stewart Talent New York.

Pop Smoke has been named as SoundCloud’s most-streamed artist of 2020.The late New York rapper, who was killed back in February aged 20, was named as the streaming platform’s most popular artist this year during their annual PlayBack summary.SoundCloud say that Smoke was “beloved by the SoundCloud community and they continue to show it”, revealing that his music was streamed over 191,500,188 times in 2020.65 Pop Smoke tracks are currently available to listen to on SoundCloud, with the late

Dave Grohl and producer Greg Kurstin have teamed up to cover The Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’ – the first in a new series of covers to celebrate Hanukkah.In a video posted to Twitter, Grohl is seen delivering vocals and drums on the furious rendition of the 1994 track, while Kurstin plays the song’s distinctive keys.Sharing the track to Twitter, they wrote: “As the only Rock and Roll Hall Of Famers with a lyric about kugel, we thought it would be a shanda to not kick off this party with New York’s

Mike «The Situation» Sorrentino is in some hot water. The alum has been given a written warning over falling behind on his court-mandated community service.After Sorrentino was released from the Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville, New York, on Sept.

Julius Dubose, the 25-year-old New York City-born rapper known as A Boogie wit da Hoodie, has been arrested in New Jersey on drug and weapons charges, NBC New York 4 reports.

NEW YORK -- The top 10 songs of the year by Associated Press Music Editor Mesfin Fekadu (a playlist of the songs can be found here ):1. Keedron Bryant, “I Just Wanna Live": During times of turmoil and unrest, people respond differently.

Trey Songz came under fire after holding a 500-person indoor “Champagne Saturdays” event at the Aftermath night club in Columbus, Ohio, per the New York Post. During the Dec.

NEW YORK -- Roddy Ricch is the king of Apple Music: The rapper has the music platform’s most-streamed song and album of the year.Apple announced Thursday that Ricch achieved the feat with his hit “The Box” and his debut album, “Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial.”Rappers dominated the Top 5 most-streamed albums on Apple Music, with Lil Baby’s “My Turn,” Pop Smoke’s “Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon” and Lil Uzi Vert’s “Eternal Atake — LUV vs.

reports. ET has reached out to Lander's rep for comment.Lander battled MS for 37 years.