As per tradition, Michael Che and Colin Jost marked Saturday Night Live’s final episode of 2024 with their signature “joke swap.” This year’s installment was particularly epic, as not only did Che have Jost read jokes in “Black voice,” but Jost’s wife, Scarlett Johansson, was also in attendance. As Jost was made to tell jokes
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Alfa Anderson, the singer of some of disco group Chic’s biggest songs, including “Le Freak,” “Good Times,” “My Forbidden Lover,” “At Last I Am Free,” “I Want Your Love,” has died. The band’s Nile Rodgers shared the news on social media, but he did not disclose a cause of death. Anderson was 78 year old.
Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King is not as regal as hoped in its global debut. The cume through three days of international box office play is $33M, which, with the domestic outlook, portends a $125M worldwide start through Sunday. That’s far off pre-weekend projections of a $180M worldwide debut. Domestically, as Anthony has detailed, is
Across the nearly two decades The Holiday has warmed rom-com lovers’ hearts, it has become one of the best Christmas movies to watch around this time of year. In recent years, there have been whispers of a sequel being in the works along. With that, fans of the film have been calling for a reunion
SZA has dropped the deluxe version of her Grammy-winning album SOS, titled LANA. Stream it below. LANA boasts 15 new tracks, including a collaboration with Kendrick Lamar titled “30 for 30.” Listeners will also find the 2024 release “Saturn” included on the album; the song was recently named one of the 200 best of the year
Boldy James links up with King of the Hill–referencing producer WhoTheHellIsCarlo for their first collaborative project. The record swiftly follows Boldy James’ latest stellar full-length, The Bricktionary, the rapper inviting Conway the Machine, Styles P, King Hendricks, and Zelooperz to join him across seven tracks. Listen on Apple MusicListen on SpotifyListen on TidalListen on Amazon
Paramount is moving up The Running Man out of the Nov. 21, 2025 corridor which is where it was up against Wicked: For Good, to Nov. 7, 2025. Paramount will also have access to Imax screens which is a big plus. This leaves a spot open for a male-skewing film. They also set a release
With Christmas around the corner, it’s time to turn on the best Christmas movies you can find on TV and the best streaming services. However, are you one of those people who believe one of the greatest action movies Die Hard should be on this list? As someone who personally doesn’t find the Bruce Willis-led
Coheed and Cambria’s Claudio Sanchez has surprise released a new covers album featuring renditions of songs by Taylor Swift and The Smiths. Six of the eight songs were previously released as part of the “Claudio Covers” YouTube series — also the title of the new album, which is technically being released under the Coheed and
Questlove is set to direct a new documentary about the history of Saturday Night Live’s musical guests, Deadline and Variety report. To coincide with SNL’s five decades on the air, Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music will “feature untold stories behind the culture-defining, groundbreaking, and newsmaking musical performances, sketches, and cameos of the past
UPDATE: Sony Pictures Classics has set a release date of Feb. 14 for Becoming Led Zeppelin on 1000 screens. This is after the exclusive Feb. 7, 2025 Imax one night only early screenings in 18 markets. Watch new trailer above. PREVIOUS: Sony Pictures Classics will open the docu-concert movie Becoming Led Zeppelin exclusively in Imax on February
You cannot make this stuff up, folks. Just a handful of years after we all mocked that first Sonic the Hedgehog trailer, the 2024 movie schedule has delivered a sterling threequel into our laps in time for the holidays. But it appears that we’ve got another present under the tree from Paramount and Sega. We
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s the first trailer for James Gunn’s Superman movie! Starring David Corenswet as the Man of Steel himself, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor, and just so many more — plus featuring a reverberating version of John William’s iconic score — the film’s first-look can be
Yesterday (December 17), Megan Thee Stallion filed a petition in Los Angeles Superior Court for a restraining order against Tory Lanez, reports The Associated Press. She claims that Lanez—who shot her multiple times in 2020 and is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence after being found guilty of felony charges of assault with a semiautomatic
If 2024 will be remembered for anything, it will be the absolute return of Disney at the box office. After a string of events films that weren’t events in 2023, i.e. Pixar’s Elemental, The Marvels, The Haunted Mansion and Wish, the Mouse House came raging back this year, becoming the only motion picture studio to
If you’re old enough to remember when the original Lilo & Stitch came out in theaters, then you’ll remember the fantastic movie trailers that came along with it. They saw Stitch showing up in other Disney animated movies and wreaking havoc on the characters. Now the new live-action adaptation of Lilo & Stitch is on