Suited up! This year’s Met Gala guest lists included some of the hottest hunks in Hollywood, so it’s no major surprise that they brought the heat on the red carpet.
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Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Almost all of the box office hits over the past year boast Dolby Atmos capabilities, meaning that sound designers have placed environmental sounds at different speaker locations that allow for an unprecedented immersive experience.
“The Batman,” “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “West Side Story” are just a few of the most recent blockbusters to take advantage of this surround sound technology.And thanks to today’s high-tech soundbars, which only seem to get better every year, you can bring this same cinematic experience to your home. From premium soundbars like Sennheiser and Sonos to budget soundbars like those from TCL, here are the best Dolby Atmos soundbars on the market right now.
For a standalone bar, the Sennheiser offers immaculate immersive sound for movies — without the need for a wireless subwoofer or satellite speakers. Reviewers have noted that it basically functions as a surround-sound system, thanks to a virtual 5.1.4 system consisting of two left channels, two right channels, a center channel, four channels behind the viewer and one subwoofer.
The feature that really makes the Sennheiser stand out from competitors like the Sony HT0-ST5000 or Bose Soundbar 700, is its incorporation of MPEG-H, which in its simplest terms, is 3D Audio.What MPEG-H does is add each track to individual objects, instead of meshing them together into two channels like traditional stereos, allowing listeners to alter each element of a recording to fit their specific preferences. Filter active audio objects while watching a soccer game to make it seem like you’re right in the stands,
.Suited up! This year’s Met Gala guest lists included some of the hottest hunks in Hollywood, so it’s no major surprise that they brought the heat on the red carpet.
Over 200 celebs walked the red carpet at the 2022 Met Gala this year and we narrowed down the field to our 25 favorite looks of the night.
Everything Everywhere All At Once—stunned in a voluminous green gown and cape. Presley—who was promoting the upcoming Elvis movie starring Austin Butler—looked wholly herself and eternally cool. The Euphoria actor worked a sheer black gown and Gilded Age-y beauty and accessories. The Pose star nailed it in this gold encrusted Moschino by Jeremy Scott look. Another Moschino win, MTS looked predictably fierce in gold. NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 02: Megan Thee Stallion attends The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 02, 2022 in New York City.
That’s a wrap! The 2022 Met Gala has already come to a close — but that’s not to say we’ll stop talking about the epic fashion and glam anytime soon.
and that you can easily replicate yourself. From Kaia Gerber's shimmering shadow to Maude Apatow's vampy lips, these are the best makeup looks from the Met Gala 2022. The secret to Blake Lively's red carpet glow? A brand-new Charlotte Tilbury bronzer, which launches May 19.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticThe announcement of winners for the ASCAP Screen Music Awards, being held virtually again for 2022 and announced Monday morning, included revealing the top vote-getters for several Composers’ Choice Awards, including the scores for “Encanto” and “The White Lotus.”Germaine Franco prevailed for film score of the year for “Encanto.” Cristobal Tapia de Veer won two of these peer-voted awards, for television score of the year and television theme as well, for “The White Lotus.
Mike Fazioli If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. If you took the evolution drawing showing the progress from ape to man and replaced it with televisions, it would be a long line of large, heavy monkeys for about 60 years, and then a very rapid transformation to the slim, upright human that is today’s Smart TV.Even that plasma TV you owned a mere dozen years ago would be a hairy knuckledragger. Why? Chances are it didn’t have internet connectivity or apps, and it most definitely did not stream.
Babylon.The actor, who was previously attached to the film in an unknown role and as an executive producer, was revealed to be playing the silent film icon during a presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday (April 28).Early footage from Babylon was also shown during the event, described by Variety as a mix between Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood with “loud music, dazzling costumes and next-level makeup”.Babylon is a period drama set in the late 1920s during the film’s industry transition from silent films to talkies. Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie lead the cast as silent film stars John Gilbert and Clara Bow respectively, with Maguire as Chaplin in a supporting role.Other confirmed cast members include Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice), Samara Weaving (Ready Or Not), Jean Smart (Hacks), Li Jun Li (Wu Assassins) and Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers.Babylon marks Chazelle’s fifth feature film, following Guy And Madeline On A Park Bench, Whiplash, La La Land and 2018’s First Man starring Ryan Gosling.Maguire recently reprised his role of Spider-Man in last year’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, alongside Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland.
Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalogue titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This twice-monthly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.
Mike Fazioli If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Hey, you finally managed to score a PlayStation 5! Congratulations! That’s the good news. The bad news? You’re only halfway to your destination of an ultimate home gaming setup.
Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterGLAAD and The Black List have released their third-ever specialty report celebrating LGBTQ+ inclusive stories.Exclusive to Variety, the list includes work from 12 notable out creators in film, along with eight television pilots. The Black List is an annual ranking of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood.
Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ new album ‘Unlimited Love’ is the best-selling rock album of 2022 so far.The band’s 12th album topped the Billboard 200 chart and the UK albums chart and it has gone to Number One in several other countries since its release last month.So far it has racked up more than 145million streams and 97,500 album sales, according to data shared in a press release.It’s the Californian band’s best-selling album since their 2006 double LP ‘Stadium Arcadium’ and their first since guitarist John Frusciante returned to the band after leaving following that particular record.In a four-star review of the record, NME’s Ali Shutler wrote: “There’s a lot to ‘Unlimited Love’, both in scale and ambition. It’s at once familiar – without being boring – and fresh (but never at the expense of the band’s identity).”Meanwhile, the band were among a host of artists including U2‘s Bono and Edge, Bruce Springsteen and Elton John who recently joined Global Citizen’s new ‘Stand Up For Ukraine’ campaign.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterMichael Bay, the filmmaker behind “Armageddon,” “Pearl Harbor” and the “Transformers” franchise, was once the premier architect of big-budget explosive blockbusters. “Ambulance,” the director’s latest detonating action-thriller, proves times and tastes have changed in the days since mayhem and Autobots ruled the box office.Over the weekend, Universal’s “Ambulance,” a heist thriller that largely unfolds on an EMS vehicle, stalled out with $8.7 million from 3,412 North American theaters.
Tickets went on sale yesterday for Disney/Marvel’s highly anticipated Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Fandango reports it’s their best so far this year for a pic’s initial 24-hour period of sales, beating Warner Bros.’ The Batman. The movie which takes place following the events of Disney+/Marvel’s WandaVision, and Spider-Man: No Way Home, fires up summer on May 6.
Tyler, The Creator's Call Me If You Get Lost won the Best Rap Album award at the 64th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The album was triumphant over projects from Kanye West (Donda), Nas (King's Disease II), and J.
Kanye West has won his first two trophies of the night at the 64th Grammy Awards. The rapper and artist won Best Melodic Rap Performance for "Hurricane" featuring The Weeknd and Lil Baby and Best Rap Song for "Jail" featuring JAY-Z.
Louis C.K. has been rewarded.
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