Brace yourselves, Noah Baumbach fans: “White Noise” has its world premiere in just five days at the Venice Film Festival. Baumbach’s latest also opens up the New York Film Festival this year, too, before it hits Netflix later this year.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs instantly justfied their comeback in June with the single "Spitting Off The Edge of the World," a firework medley of a song with a Perfume Genius feature as well as the bone-deep feeling of catharsis that the New York art-punk group does so well. With the September 16 release of their upcoming album Cool It Down fast approaching, Yeah Yeah Yeahs have shared another new track called "Burning." Never a band to avoid the dancefloor genres, Yeah Yeah Yeahs bring a thunderstorm into the disco for "Burning." Speaking with Apple Music, Karen O discussed the influences: "It just reminded me of kind of a sixties or seventies jam.
There's a nod to Frankie Valli, 'Beggin’'. I think I was also channeling some Gloria Gaynor, 'I Will Survive.'” Read Next: The 20 best rock songs right now Later in the interview, Karen O discussed how the entire planet going to shit inspired Cool It Down.
"The Yeah Yeahs were born in trouble times, like literally just right after 9/11 happened and changed the world. And so, it's kind of our comfort zone to a certain degree, to be like, you know, that stakes are high.
What do we have to give? What do we have to offer? You know, does the world need us? And we certainly need the audience right now, and just have that sort of rapport. Because I think one of the things about Yeah Yeah Yeahs is we just don't shy away from the big emotions and the big feelings and tackling them.
Brace yourselves, Noah Baumbach fans: “White Noise” has its world premiere in just five days at the Venice Film Festival. Baumbach’s latest also opens up the New York Film Festival this year, too, before it hits Netflix later this year.
From costars to lovers! Chad Michael Murray met his wife, Sarah Roemer, in 2014 while filming the Crackle TV series Chosen together.
Sarah Jessica Paker delighted the staff in SOUP 2 restaurant in Dublin when she dropped in for dinner with family - and even offered to join the staff in the kitchen as they were clearly so busy!MORE: And Just Like That... you can book Sarah Jessica Parker's Hamptons holiday home for less than $20Of course, owner Conor Hughes didn't take her up on the fun offer, but was thrilled to have the Sex and the City star in for a delicious meal and even sent her some extra sashimi as they were so keen on the dish.WATCH: Sarah Jessica Parker gives rare glimpse inside mind-blowing family home"Sarah was one of the nicest customers I've had in a while," Conor exclusively told HELLO!: "She noticed we were super busy, asked if I was short-staffed, and jokingly offered to help in the kitchen, as I was cooking and running food! She seemed to know a lot about our business, and clearly had done her due diligence."READ: Sarah Jessica Parker's $15m New York townhouse is better than Carrie Bradshaw'sSEE: Sarah Jessica Parker offers rare tour inside family homeSarah visted with her husband Matthew Broderick and their children, James,19 and 12-year-old twin daughters, Marion and Tabitha.
Cynthia Littleton Business Editor“Caroline’s Comedy Hour” is set to return to TV with fresh episodes under a licensing deal that comedy maven Caroline Hirsch has set with Scott Koondel’s Sox Entertainment.Sox has licensed 100 episodes of the standup comedy showcase series that ran on A&E Network in the early 1990s. Those will be collected with new installments that Hirsch and Sox Entertainment will produce.
K.J. Yossman Baby Cow are the production company behind some of the U.K.’s best-loved comedy shows, including “Gavin and Stacey” with James Corden and Ruth Jones, Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding’s “The Mighty Boosh” and “This Time With Alan Partridge” starring Steve Coogan as the cringe-worthy fictional television host. It was a prescient Coogan who founded Baby Cow alongside producer Henry Normal in 1998, long before talent-led production companies were a thing.
It’s NYFF day. OK, yes, earlier today, we were honored to premiere the trailer for the 60th New York Film Festival.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“She Said,” a drama about the sexual harassment investigation that took down Harvey Weinstein and sparked the #MeToo movement, will have its world premiere at the New York Film Festival.The Universal Pictures movie is screening as part of the festival’s spotlight section. Other movies that will be highlighted include Chinonye Chukwu’s historical drama “Till,” Elvis Mitchell’s documentary “Is That Black Enough for You?!?,” James Ivory and Giles Gardner’s non-fiction film “A Cooler Climate,” and Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi’s New York Dolls documentary “Personality Crisis: One Night Only.”Additional spotlight entries include “Bones and All,” directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet; Marco Bellocchio’s “Exterior Night,” a six-part series about the kidnapping and eventual murder of the Italy’s influential statesman and former prime minister Aldo Moro; director Lars von Trier’s “The Kingdom Exodus,” a third season of his television series The Kingdom; Chris Smith’s “Sr.”, a look at the life and career of Robert Downey Jr.’s late father, Robert Downey, Sr.; “The Super 8 Years,” a story about writer-director Annie Ernaux’s family’s memory; and Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking,” a screen adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel about women from a remote religious community dealing with the aftermath of sexual assault.
A fresh pair of eyes. Amber Heard fired her lawyers after her trial with Johnny Depp. The Aquaman star’s reps confirmed that a key player in Heard’s legal case is leaving while a new team joins her.
Amber Heard has now hired David L. Axelrod and Jay Ward Brown of Ballard Spahr to represent her in her appeal of the Johnny Depp defamation trial verdict.
Amber Heard has hired new lawyers amid the ongoing legal battle between her and ex-husband Johnny Depp.
Amber Heard is replacing most of her legal team and leaning into the Constitution as she prepares to appeal a multi-million defamation verdict awarded to Johnny Depp.
Manifesting! Sarah Paulson dished on which Real Housewives star she would play in a heartbeat on the big screen.
Hilary Swank is looking for answers. The Oscar winner stars in ABC's upcoming fall drama, where she plays investigative journalist Eileen Fitzgerald, and only ET exclusively premieres the first official teaser and key art.From creator Tom McCarthy, follows Eileen, described as «a fiercely talented and award-winning investigative journalist who leaves her high-profile New York life behind after a fall from grace» to join a daily newspaper in Anchorage, Alaska, as she goes on a journey to find both personal and professional redemption.In ET's exclusive first look at the teaser, Eileen finds herself embroiled in a years-old cold case involving the death of a missing woman who was abducted when she was just a teenager.
Sheri Shepherd is looking to the legends of daytime TV for inspiration. Fresh off her move to New York City for the show's launch, Shepherd said she's hoping to incorporate Ellen Degeneres-style humor with Oprah-esque interviews when premiers on September 12 on Fox. «A little bit of Ellen,» Shepherd told ET's Rachel Smith. «A little bit of inspiration of Oprah, a lot of the laughter of Ellen and put that together, and then you got Sherri and I am like, let’s go!» In advance of her show's first season, Shepherd named Lizzo, Michelle Obama, and Michael B.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterNew movies from directors Claire Denis, Park Chan-wook, Ruben Östlund, Kelly Reichardt and Paul Schrader will play at the 60th New York Film Festival, which is running from Sept. 30 through Oct.
The 60th New York Film Festival unveiled its main slate from established and upcoming directors with Cannes’ Palme d’Or-winner Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund, Claire Denis’s Stars at Noon (tied for Cannes Grand Prize), Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave (Cannes Best Director), and Charlotte Wells’ debut feature Aftersun (Cannes’ French Touch Jury Prize).
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorVeteran Russian musical collective and activists Pussy Riot will be joined by some high-profile guests for their forthcoming concert at Los Angeles’ El Rey Theater on Wednesday: comic Sarah Silverman will be performing a full set, while Big Freedia — fresh from her prominent guest spot on Beyonce’s “Break My Soul” — Salem Ilese, Josiah, Boyfriend, Slayyyter and Eva Elfie will be making special guest appearances, along with previously announced artist Rei Ami.The appearance is a rare high-profile slot for Silverman, who has been keeping a relatively low profile in recent months. Big Freedia and Salem Ilese both appear on Pussy Riot’s “Matriarchy” mixtape, which dropped on Friday. Ilese also released the viral hit “Crypto Boy,” and for which the group’s Nadya Tolokonnikova created the single artwork.
Tiffany Cross and comedian Wanda Sykes — have already slammed the network for reportedly hiring Griffin.Who will be the next co-host of @TheView? The wait is finally over! Find out only on @TheView this THURSDAY at 11e|10c|p on ABC! pic.twitter.com/xvLHqgin2ZBorn in Los Angeles on June 15, 1989, Griffin is the daughter of two journalists. Her father, Joseph Farah, was the executive news editor at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, then an editor at Northern California’s the Sacramento Union.Her father is of Syrian and Lebanese descent.