Maroon 5 is teaming up with Megan Thee Stallion on a new song, “Beautiful Mistakes,” which will drop Wednesday, March 3 at 9 a.m. PT.
The band released a colorful image for the single’s artwork on social media with the caption: “Excited to announce our new single “Beautiful Mistakes feat. Megan Thee Stallion”! Out on March 3rd • link in bio to pre-save!” The band also released a sneak peek of the music video for the track on TikTok.
Ellie Goulding is expecting her first child with her husband, Caspar Jopling. The 34-year-old Goulding shared the news in an interview with Vogue.
Goulding last made a major public appearance at the V&A Museum in August and said she found out about her pregnancy shortly after, saying, “It was crazy because it was our one-year anniversary. That was not the plan. The thought of getting pregnant didn’t seem like it could be a reality. Becoming pregnant kind of made me feel human. I want a better word than womanly, [but] — I have curves I’ve never had before. I’m enjoying it. My husband’s enjoying it.”
Goulding said she is “excited” to be a mother but remains focused on music. The singer released Brightest Blue, her first album in nearly five years, in July amid the pandemic. Brightest Blue features the singles “Worry About Me” featuring Blackbear, “Power” and “Slow Grenade” featuring Lauv.
Ellie Goulding is expecting her first child with husband Caspar Jopling. She talks with Vogue about how she’s adjusted to pregnancy during the pandemic
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Two women who accused James Franco of sexual misconduct at his defunct film school have dropped their charges in light of a new settlement agreement.
In 2019, Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal filed a class action lawsuit against the actor and his Studio 4 school. The acting and film school was open from 2014 to 2017, during which time the accusers said Franco and his fellow teachers “engaged in widespread inappropriate and sexually charged behavior towards female students by sexualizing their power as a teacher and an employer by dangling the opportunity for roles in their projects.”
Over a year later, the two sides have reached a settlement agreement. The financial terms of the agreement are not yet public, though they must be submitted for court approval by March 15th. The agreement finds Tither-Kaplan and Gaal agreeing to drop their suit against Franco; his partners, Vince Jolivette and Jay Davis; and his Rabbit Bandini production company.
Allegations of Franco’s misconduct began to surface at the height of the #MeToo movement in 2018 after he won the Golden Globe for his role as Tommy Wiseau in The Disaster Artist. Since then, Franco has kept a low profile, sticking to self-directed projects like Zeroville or minor voice roles in Arctic Dogs.
Starz has picked up Watergate anthology series Gaslit starring Julia Roberts and Sean Penn. Gaslit will follow the untold story of Martha Mitchell, a celebrity Arkansan socialite who was married to Attorney General John Mitchell.
Roberts will portray Martha Mitchell, the first person to publicly sound the alarm on President Richard Nixon’s involvement in Watergate. Penn will star as John Mitchell, who will be forced to choose between Martha and the president.
Gaslit is based on Slate podcast Slow Burn, and production will begin later this spring.
Billie Eilish will perform during a livestream event for her forthcoming documentary, Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry. The 19-year-old singer-songwriter confirmed she will take part in the event this Thursday 2/25 ahead of the premiere of her documentary on Apple TV+. The special will feature a stripped-down performance from Eilish, an interview with The World’s a Little Blurry director R.J. Cutler and video from the film.
The live event will stream Thursday at 9 p.m. EST on Eilish’s YouTube channel and the Apple TV and Apple Music apps. The World’s a Little Blurry will start streaming directly after the special.
Apple TV+ released a new trailer for The World’s a Little Blurry this month that shows Eilish recording at home. The documentary opens in theaters and premieres on Apple TV+ on Friday.
After nearly three decades, Daft Punk is calling it quits. French multi-instrumentalists Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo announced their retirement on Monday morning in an eight-minute video dubbed “Epilogue,” shared on their digital media platforms. The group’s longtime publicist Kathryn Frazier confirmed the split to Variety.
Daft Punk have collaborated with chart-topping artists such as Kanye West and Pharrell Williams. Their 2013 album “Random Access Memories” included the global hit “Get Lucky” featuring Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers, which clinched them the Grammy win for Best Album in 2014. Other high-profile collaborations include production on a number of tracks on Kanye West’s critically acclaimed 2013 record “Yeezus,” as well as The Weeknd’s 2016 album “Starboy,” particularly its title track “I Feel It Coming.” Their music has been sampled by a number of popular mainstream artists, including 50 Cent, Nicki Minaj, Will.i.am, Machine Gun Kelly and perhaps most notably in Kanye West’s “Stronger.”
Jim Henson’s classic series “The Muppet Show” began streaming on Disney+ on Friday, but now will come prefaced with an offensive content disclaimer, saying, “This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversations to create a more inclusive future together.”
The show, which ran for five seasons between 1976 and 1981, features the new content warning on 18 episodes, including those guest-hosted by Steve Martin, Peter Sellers, Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash, Debbie Harry and Marty Feldman, among others.
Each episode bears the 12-second disclaimer for a different reason; Cash’s appearance had him singing in front of a Confederate flag, and other episodes had negative depictions of Native Americans, Middle Easterners and people from other cultures. Two episodes from the final season, featuring guest stars Brooke Shields and staff writer Chris Langham, are left out entirely.
The Croods: A New Age is the No. 1 movie in North America this weekend, earning an additional $1.7 million in receipts.
Coming in at No. 2 is The Little Things with $1.2 million, followed by Judas and the Black Messiah at No. 3 with $905,000, Wonder Woman 1984 at No. 4 with $805,000 and The Marksman at No. 5 with $775,000.
Several of the films in the Top 10 are also available on streaming or pay-per-view, home-theater platforms as part of a strategy to appeal to wider audiences during the coronavirus pandemic.
Machine Gun Kelly revealed that he is officially acting alongside his daughter Casie Baker in an upcoming film One Way. MGK shared the news with his Twitter followers, “My daughter is in this movie with me and I just saw her name on the press release ima proud dad and Storm is so talented ” MGK also posted photos of him on set with Casie as filming for the movie continues.
One Way also stars Euphoria‘s Storm Reid, Kevin Bacon and Travis Fimmel. Machine Gun Kelly plays Freddy, a man who is on the run with a bag of cash after a robbery of his former crime boss goes wrong. According to a film synopsis, “With a potentially fatal wound, he slips onto a bus headed into the unrelenting California desert. After a call for help, Freddy’s estranged father (Bacon) betrays him, notifying the crime boss where he is. With his life slipping through his fingers, Freddy is left with very few choices to survive.”
MGK has previously acted in films such as Netflix‘s Bird Box, Project Power,Nerve with Emma Roberts and King Of Staten Island with Pete Davidson. Back in 2019, he portrayed Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee in Netflix’s The Dirt. Earlier this year, we saw Machine Gun Kelly direct longside MOD SUN the musical film Downfalls High, based on his latest album Tickets To My Downfall.
Morgan Wallen Dangerous: The Double Album is No. 1 for a sixth week on the Billboard 200 as of Sunday (February 21). The run marks the most weeks atop the list for a male artist since Drake’s Views spent 13 nonconsecutive weeks at the top in 2016. Only three albums have spent at least six weeks at No. 1 in the last five years: Dangerous, Taylor Swift’s Folklore (eight nonconsecutive weeks, 2020) and Drake’s Views (13).
Earlier in the month, video footage surfaced of the 27-year-old Wallen using a racial slur, which resulted in him being suspended from his record label and ineligible for some music awards.
