Kelly Clarkson surprised a street performer on her way to soundcheck for her performance at the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Festival on Saturday night (September 23).
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The Chemical Brothers have shared their concerns about the rising costs of touring, revealing that they aren’t planning any US shows in support of their new album because it’s “not really viable at the moment”.Speaking to Billboard, the electronic duo’s Ed Simons said: “The costs have gone up so much.
It’s just not really viable at the moment…“I’m apologetic to the people who do want to see us that it is increasingly difficult for us to get to America because we have had the times of our lives playing there.”The pair also commented on the state of touring post-pandemic and how they attempted to lower costs of their live touring production to make touring the US more affordable.“[The production] originally came from the fact that we didn’t want to inflict [audiences with] just the two of us awkwardly standing with the synthesisers,” Simons said.““So we wanted a big back job, but it’s just grown and grown, and now we’ve got these 40-foot clowns voicing the words.”Earlier this year, it was revealed that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was planning to raise touring visa fees for foreign acts by more than 250 per cent – laying out that the cost of acts arriving in the US to perform temporarily, would increase from the current rate of $460 (£375.23) to $1,615 (£1,317), with a longer term work visa jumping from $460 (£375.23) to $1,655 (£1,349).The news was met with widespread uproar from the international music scene – with the new measures proving preventative for both new and established artists.However, the plans were delayed in July for fears over the negative impact it could have on artists coming over to the States to tour.Despite this change in plan, the costs of touring have still prevented several big
.Kelly Clarkson surprised a street performer on her way to soundcheck for her performance at the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Festival on Saturday night (September 23).
This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the first Northern Soul all-nighter, an event that defined a generation in the UK and beyond.
Guy Lodge Film Critic As directorial head-to-heads go, Jack Huston versus Stanley Kubrick isn’t anyone’s idea of a fair fight. But that’s exactly the clash the actor and Hollywood scion sets up for himself in his directorial debut “Day of the Fight” — named for Kubrick’s famous 1951 documentary short of the same title, and likewise following an Irish-American boxer through his daily New York routine, in the hours leading up to a climactic evening match.
Grand Funk Railroad‘s drummer and singer Don Brewer’s head.“The band was going through a pretty rough time period,” Brewer told the New York Post. “We had left our former manager, Terry Knight, and he was suing us over rights to the band name.
Rotten Tomatoes for its 25th anniversary, asked users to submit their top TV shows. Some of the usual suspects landed high including The Sopranos and Stranger Things, with more surprising entries such as Dark.But the top spot went to drug crime drama Breaking Bad. Game Of Thrones followed in second place, The Sopranos in third, while The Office (US) and Stranger Things landed fourth and fifth.Top 10 – greatest TV shows of the last 25 years:01. Breaking Bad02. Game Of Thrones03. The Sopranos 04. The Office (US)05. Stranger Things06. Better Call Saul07. The Wire08. Succession09. Lost10. DarkFurther down the Top 25 list is Chernobyl, The Bear, Parks And Recreation, The Mandalorian and more.
The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute has brought in veteran TV casting executive as Head of Talent, a newly created position focused on transitioning the Institute’s students to becoming professional actors in film and TV.
Leonardo DiCaprio almost starred as an entirely different character in his upcoming movie, Flowers of the Killer Moon.
Apple TV+’s early originals, The Morning Show, debuted its third season in September.Created by Jay Carson, the drama examines the characters and culture behind a popular morning news programme, between sexual misconduct allegations and the COVID-19 pandemic.Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon lead the series as show hosts Alex Levy and Bradley Jackson respectively, with a supporting cast that includes Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Karen Pittman and Steve Carell.In the show’s third season, which premiered on September 13, Jon Hamm, Nicole Beharie and Tig Notaro make up the new additions.After the first two episodes premiered on September 13 on Apple TV+, the remaining eight episodes will be released weekly on Wednesdays. New episodes usually arrive on the streaming service around 12am ET in the US, which translates to 5am BST in the UK.You can check out a release schedule of each episode below.Apple renewed the series for a fourth season in May this year, ahead of the premiere of season three.A synopsis for the third season reads: “In The Morning Show season three, the future of the network is thrown into question and loyalties are pushed to the brink when a tech titan takes an interest in UBA.
Rep. Lauren Boebert is speaking out following her Beetlejuice date night, which ended in her being kicked out of a Colorado theater for vaping and inappropriate behavior.
EXCLUSIVE: “The UK’s role in the media multiverse” will take up plenty of airtime at the RTS Cambridge Convention, according to Theresa Wise, as the great-and-the-good of the TV industry prepare to gather for the biannual get-together.
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There are an estimated 13m pet dogs in Britain, but only a few thousand American bully XLs. But since 2022 the giant breed has been involved in almost three quarters of the fatal dog attacks in this country, it's been claimed.
Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. There’s an often-stated, invented fact that men think about sex every seven seconds. While psychologists have mostly disproven the fun factoid, TikTok may have helped prove that it’s not sex that men are thinking about at all times but…the Roman Empire.
Niall Matter dips Heather Hemmens back during a sweet dance moment in their brand new Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie, Come Fly With Me.
For most Americans, the name Nasubi doesn’t mean anything. However, his impact on the world of television is immeasurable.
Omar And Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird, an upcoming documentary chronicling the relationship between The Mars Volta and At The Drive-In bandmates Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López, has been announced.Yesterday (September 13), Cloud Hill Films released a trailer for the upcoming film, which also tells the story of both bands, explored here through footage captured by Omar Rodríguez-López over the last couple of decades.The official description for the film reads: “A film that charts the artistic and personal relationship between two era-defining artists, Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala (At the Drive-In/The Mars Volta), told almost entirely through hundreds of hours of self-shot footage filmed by Omar over the last 40 years.”Watch the trailer for Omar And Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird below.Omar And Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird will premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in the UK on October 28. Further information surrounding the film’s release elsewhere has yet to be announced.The trailer and news of the documentary came ahead of The Mars Volta’s US tour kick-off in Minneapolis on Wednesday, September 13.
EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Cord Jefferson has, in recent years, made two life-changing decisions.
Coco Gauff is soaking it all in. The 19 year old tennis player has just won her first Grand Slam. It’s a meaningful win, one that was achieved in her home turf of the US and that came after many years of hard work.
Billy Idol moved to New York in 1981 and began dancing with himself in pursuit of solo stardom.And it was his first summer of baking in the Big Apple that would inspire his breakout solo hit, 1982’s “Hot in the City.”“New York just had this great energy because anything went, you know?” Idol, 67, told The Post. “And it fired me up … just living through this kind of really humid, hot summer.
Growing up as the only son of Ed Pressman, the prolific Hollywood independent producer behind more than 90 major productions including Wall Street, American Psycho and The Crow, it’s fair to say that the film business has always been in Sam Pressman’s blood.