Sony Music launches Alexa pop quiz with Tom Walker

Rebecca Davis editorUniversal Music Group’s Vietnam division on Thursday launched Def Jam Vietnam, a new local label focused on Vietnamese hip-hop and rap to ride the genre’s growing footprint in the region. It is the sixth local Def Jam label set up under the umbrella of Def Jam Southeast Asia, itself established last September, following prior launches in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: We hear that The Wrestler Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke has boarded the independent feature The Commando which will shoot in New Mexico next month.The pic, directed by Asif Akbar, follows a DEA agent with PTSD who returns home after a botched mission and must now protect his family from a newly released prison criminal, played by Rourke, and his henchmen who’ve come after a stash of millions inside the agent’s house.Subscribe to

Russia's influence over American politics is the subject of a new podcast from Alex Gibney's Jigsaw Productions, Leon Neyfakh's Prologue Projects and Cadence13. Whirlwind, which will look at the 75-year tensions between the U.S.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: A podcast that documents the Hollywood con queen scam, which has seen hundreds of people in town taken in by a person impersonating the likes of Amy Pascal and Kathleen Kennedy, is leading a deal between producer Campside and Sony Music Entertainment.Campside, which struck an investment deal with Stacy Snider, Lis Murdoch and Jane Featherstone’s Chernobyl producer Sister earlier this year, has closed a slate deal with the record label for a number of

Dade Hayes Finance EditorSony Interactive Entertainment said the PlayStation 5 console will go on sale November 12 at $399 or $499 with an Ultra HD Blu-ray player.In a blog post, interactive division CEO Jim Ryan said the console will go on sale first in the U.S., Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea. A week later, it will arrive everywhere else in the world.

Microsoft announcing the news for its upcoming next-gen systems, Sony has finally revealed the PS5 release date and prices.Its new console will retail for £449.99 (US $499.99) and will be available from November 12 in the US, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea. The rest of the world is expected to receive the PS5 on November 19.The PS5 digital edition will also be available on the same dates and is retailed at £359.99 (US $399.99).

Supernaturalis about to share the screen again! Deadline reports that Jared Padalecki will star opposite his wife Genevieve Padalecki in his new CW series, Walker.Jared Padalecki will lead the CW's Walker, Texas Ranger reboot as Cordell Walker, a widower and father of two. His dearly departed wife, Emily, will be played by none other than Padalecki's real-life wife, Genevieve Padalecki.

Genevieve Padalecki has joined her real life husband Jared Padalecki in The CW’s upcoming Walker series.

Will Thorne Staff WriterThe CW’s upcoming “Walker, Texas Ranger” reboot is keeping things in the family.Genevieve Padalecki has been cast to star opposite her husband Jared Padalecki in a role which may not require much research: his wife.The series sees Jared Padalecki play Cordell Walker, a widower and father of two with his own moral code, who returns home to Austin after being undercover for two years, only to discover there’s harder work to be done at home.

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straight to your inboxMourinho aims jibe at CityWhen Lionel Messi announced he was leaving Barcelona, the rumour mill went into overdrive.With his exorbitant salary ruling him out of moving to all but a few clubs, and with his former manager Pep Guardiola at one of them, City were understood to be the favourites to sign him.In the end, Messi's contract at Barcelona put a stop to him leaving this summer, and Guardiola's old adversary Jose Mourinho has aimed a not-so-subtle jibe at City over their

The estate of 1950s pop star Ricky Nelson has reached a settlement deal with Sony Music in a class action lawsuit over deductions made on foreign royalties.

Sony Music has tapped director Adam McKay, actor David Tennant and several other personalities for podcasts as it looks to build out its audio offerings. The record label revealed Wednesday during the IAB Podcast Upfronts that it plans to release nearly 40 new shows this year.

straight to your inboxFormer Manchester City defender Micah Richards believes Pep Guardiola will be desperate to reclaim the Premier League title this season.City endured a rough season last year as they missed out on the Premier League title to Liverpool, who finished 18-points clear of them. But with the signings of Nathan Ake and Ferran Torres already this summer, it is clear the Etihad club mean business.

Chris Willman Music WriterSpirit Music Group has picked up the master recordings of three Tim McGraw albums, the publishing company announced Wednesday. The albums being acquired all date back to McGraw’s first stint on the Big Machine label in the mid-2010s, and include the No.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Rabb has urged Moscow to "tell the truth" about the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, saying it is "absolutely unacceptable" the Russian opposition leader was poisoned by the same nerve agent deployed in Salisbury.  Rabb said on Wednesday that Russia has "a clear case to answer" after the German government said the Kremlin critic was targeted with Novichok in an attempted murder. Britain has long accused Russian operatives of using the Soviet-era poison against Sergei