Jane Fonda attends the 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar party hosted by Mark Guiducci at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on March 15, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Jamie McCarthy/WireImage)
Jane Fonda is set to star in a film adaptation of the bestselling book The Correspondent.
Lionsgate made the announcement to its social media on Wednesday. The studio shared a screenshot of Deadline‘s article on the subject.
“#TheCorrespondent – based on the best-selling novel by @virginia.l.evans. Coming soon,” Lionsgate’s caption reads.
In addition to starring, Fonda will produce the film alongside Todd Lieberman for his company Hidden Pictures. Cat Vasko will write the film’s script and executive produce the movie.
The Correspondent is the debut novel by Virginia Evans. It was published in April 2025 and has since sold over 1 million copies. Evans will also executive produce the film.
The novel’s plot follows an opinionated, retired lawyer named Sybil Van Antwerp who writes letters every single day to a litany of different people in her life. When she one day receives letters from someone in her past, she’s forced to examine one of the most difficult times in her life.
Lorde performs during day three of Glastonbury festival 2025 at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 27, 2025 in Glastonbury, England. (Joseph Okpako/WireImage)
Lorde may never be royal, but she is now an official member of YouTube’s billion views club thanks to “Royals.”
The U.S. video for the New Zealand artist’s breakout hit has officially reached the 1 billion views milestone, marking a career-first for Lorde.
The video premiered on YouTube in June 2013, when Lorde was 16 years old. It hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 months later in October 2013.
“Royals” appears on Lorde’s debut album, 2013’s Pure Heroine. She’s since put out three more albums, 2017’s Melodrama, 2021’s Solar Power and 2025’s Virgin.
Lorde is headlining a number of upcoming U.S. festivals, including Lollapalooza, New Orleans Jazz Fest and Governors Ball.
Taylor Momsen of The Pretty Reckless at 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. (Disney/Frank Micelotta)
The Pretty Reckless has premiered the video for “When I Wake Up,” which features frontwoman Taylor Momsen reuniting with her former Gossip Girl co-stars Jessica Szohr and Connor Paolo.
The NSFW clip follows Momsen over a night of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, and also features cameos from Pat Smear and Ilan Rubin of Foo Fighters.
“l wanted the video to reflect where the song came from – a time in my life when I was out of control, not caring whether I lived or died,” Momsen says in a press release. “We shot it raw, with no grade, no filter. Reality doesn’t come color-corrected, and I didn’t want to change what we captured. The imperfection is the grade.”
“This is where life can take you when you play too close to the edge, chasing substances, sex, and dopamine highs to escape depression,” she continues. “It led me down a rabbit hole of self-destruction that leaves you emptier than where you began.”
Momsen concludes, “With all that being said…enjoy.”
The “When I Wake Up” video is now streaming on YouTube.
“When I Wake Up” appears on The Pretty Reckless’ upcoming album, Dear God, due out June 26. The record also includes the single “For I Am Death.”
The Pretty Reckless will launch a U.S. headlining tour in July. They’re also playing shows opening for AC/DC.
Bailey Zimmerman’s collab with Brandon Lake was just released on Friday, but the response has been so great that they’ve already released a new live version.
“SPEECHLESS… thank you from the bottom of my heart for listening to ‘Just Believe’ over and over,” Bailey wrote on his socials. “I did not expect y’all to blow this song up like you have” is written over a video in which he sings along to the track.
The live take was captured at Brandon’s King of Hearts Tour stop at Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena on March 8.
Bailey resumes his Different Night Same Rodeo Tour March 27 at The Wharf Amphitheater in Orange Beach, Alabama.
Cover art for Nas and DJ Premier’s ‘Light-Years’ album (Mass Appeal)
Nas and DJ Premier came together in New York to shoot the newly released visual for their “GiT Ready” collaboration.
The music video, directed by Jean-Charles “JC” Charavin, “draws inspiration from contemporary architecture and the worlds of finance and technology,” according to a press release. It captures the two doing what they do best, with Premier flexing his skills on the 1s and 2s and Nas rapping, as subtle details of their success are shown throughout.
“GiT Ready” is one of the songs on Nas and Premier’s album Light-Years, which was released a little more than 30 years after they first collaborated on Illmatic hits “N.Y. State of Mind,” “Memory Lane” and “Represent.”
It was the last album released from Mass Appeal’s Legend Has It…, a seven-album series honoring him and six other hip-hop legends via the release of their new albums. Nas’ features on the other projects were compiled into the Legend Has It… Nas Feature Presentation project, complete with his commentary offering insight into those collaborations.
The “GiT Ready” music video is now available to watch on YouTube.
‘Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition’ film poster. (Trafalgar Releasing; Art by Albert “Akirant” Quirantes)
Iron Maiden has premiered the trailer for their upcoming documentary, Burning Ambition.
The career-spanning film follows the band’s five-decade journey, and all the ups and downs that led to them becoming metal icons.
Along with interviews with Maiden members, the trailer teases appearances by Metallica’s Lars Ulrich, Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, Anthrax’s Scott Ian, rapper Chuck D and actor Javier Bardem.
You can watch the Burning Ambition trailer on YouTube.
Burning Ambition will premiere in theaters on May 7. Tickets are on sale now.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured this image of an X5.8 solar flare peaking at 9:23 p.m. EDT, May 10, 2024. (NASA)
(NEW YORK) — A moderate geomagnetic storm could bring northern lights displays to U.S. states further south than usual, forecasts show.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a storm watch for a G2 geomagnetic storm due to a coronal mass ejection expected to begin Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET and continue until Thursday at 8 p.m. ET.
A coronal mass ejection is a massive eruption of solar material and magnetic field from the sun’s outer atmosphere.
Auroras can occur when the charged particles from the sun clash with the atoms and molecules in Earth’s upper atmosphere — causing those atoms and molecules to emit a glow that appears as a spectrum of light in the night sky.
In the U.S., northern lights could be visible in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire or Maine, according to the NOAA aurora viewline map.
A G2 storm can also impact high-latitude power systems, spacecraft operation and high frequency radio propagation, according to NOAA. Fluctuations to weak power grids and minor impacts on satellite operations can occur as well.
Migratory animals could possibly be affected by geomagnetic storms, according to NOAA. A 2023 study found that inclement space weather may cause fewer birds to migrate during the disturbances — likely due to more difficulty in navigating — and NASA has researched whether solar storms cause an increase in marine mammal strandings, possibly due to similar navigation issues.
The month of March is often an active month for northern lights displays.
The weeks before and after the spring equinox on March 20 are considered “aurora season,” as geomagnetic storms are more likely due to the way solar wind interacts with the Earth’s magnetosphere, according to EarthSky.org.
The spring equinox comes as the solar maximum comes to a close. The sun’s 11-year cycle peaked around late 2024 and has continued to emit strong solar activity and geomagnetic storms, leading to an increase in aurora displays.
The best time to see the northern lights in the U.S. is generally between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. local time, and traveling to the darkest location possible is recommended for the best viewing, according to NOAA.
A view of the structural damage following air strikes carried out by the Israeli military in the Balata Street and El Basta areas of central Beirut, Lebanon on March 18, 2026. (Houssam Shbaro/Anadolu via Getty Images)
(LONDON) — Around 4 a.m. Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces posted an image of several blocks in Beirut’s Bashoura neighborhood, saying in an accompanying “urgent warning” that people inside a building outlined in red should leave immediately.
“To everyone present in the building marked in red on the attached map and the adjacent buildings: You are located near a facility affiliated with the terrorist Hezbollah organization, which the Israel Defense Forces will act against,” Avichay Adraee, an IDF spokesperson, said in the Arabic-language post on social media.
About an hour later an Israeli airstrike targeted the building, reducing it to rubble.
It was not immediately clear whether anyone was inside the building at the time of its destruction. The Lebanese Ministry of Health on Wednesday said at least 10 people had been killed in overnight Israeli strikes on the capital, but did not detail where those killings had taken place. Another 27 people were injured, the ministry said.
The Israeli strikes came amid an escalation of Israel’s efforts to stamp out Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy based in Lebanon and designated by Israel and the United States as a terrorist organization.
Hezbollah on March 2 began firing missiles south into Israel, an act that it said was in support of Iran. Those launches, which effectively marked the end of a fragile ceasefire that began in November 2024, came two days after the United States and Israel launched joint airstrikes on Tehran.
The Israeli Air Force has since retaliated by carrying out strikes on the Lebanese capital and elsewhere in Lebanon, striking targets that Israel describes as Hezbollah-related.
Health officials in Lebanon said at least 912 people have been killed in strikes, along with more than 2,000 people who have been injured. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the conflict, officials said.
Among the Israeli targets have been buildings and sites throughout Lebanon associated with the Al-Qard al-Hasan Association, an organisation said to finance Hezbollah’s operations. Israel, as it posted a grainy video showing an eagle-eyed view the Bashoura-building strike, said it had overnight targeted that group. It did not explicitly link the al-Hasan group to the destroyed building.
Hezbollah has also continued targeting Israel, firing between 50 and 60 rockets overnight into the country’s north, according to the IDF. Most were intercepted, but several made direct hits, damaging property and setting fires, Israel said. Emergency medical services reported no fatalities, but several light injuries.
Israel’s air force has also over the last two weeks targeted sites across Southern Lebanon.
Israel also said on Monday it had begun a “limited and targeted” ground operation across its northern border, where it says it’s seeking to destroy Hezbollah “strongholds.” The IDF added on Tuesday that it was seeking to create an “additional layer of security for residents of northern Israel.”
Telling Lebanese residents they will not be allowed to return to southern Lebanon, Defense Minister Israel Katz has signaled Israel may carve out a buffer zone inside Lebanese territory.
“In recent days, IDF troops from the 36th Division have begun limited and targeted ground operations aimed at enhancing the forward defense area,” the IDF said in a statement. “The troops are continuing efforts to establish the forward defensive posture in order to remove threats and create an additional layer of security for residents of northern Israel.”
Israel on Wednesday issued a broad warning for anyone in southern Lebanon, saying residents south of the Litani River — which is seen in part as a geographic boundary between northern and southern Lebanon — should move north as quickly as they could.
The IDF was expecting to target “crossings” on that river, meaning bridges, in the coming hours, Israel said, adding that it was being “compelled” to carry out those strikes because of Hezbollah’s activities “with the support of the civilian population.”
“For your safety and the safety of your families, immediately move to areas north of the Litani River,” the IDF said on social media on Wednesday. “Remaining south of the Litani River may endanger your lives and the lives of your families. Please note: any movement southward may endanger your lives.”
“Accordingly, and to prevent the transfer of reinforcements and combat means, the Defense Army intends to attack crossings on the Litani River starting from midday hours today,” Adraee, the IDF spokesperson, said on social media.
It was unclear how civilians remaining in the south would be able evacuate to the north if river crossings were destroyed.
Key art for the ‘Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special.’ (Disney+)
Now it can be told: Last year, when Miley Cyrus started teasing “something special” for the 20th anniversary celebration of Hannah Montana, nothing had actually been planned.
“I learned this terrible habit — but I actually think it was good advice — from Dolly [Parton],” she tells Variety. “She told me that if you want something to happen, promote it before it exists. Then no one can say no. So I just started promoting a Hannah Montana 20th-anniversary special that literally did not exist.”
After telling Disney that it “would be huge,” Disney exec Charlie Andrews tells Variety, Miley “willed [the upcoming special] into existence.” In fact, they only started planning it in December. Charlie says, “The thing she was adamant about is that this is for the fans. That has gone into literally every decision she has made.”
So much so that Miley tapped Hannah Montana superfan Alex Cooper, host of the Call Her Daddy podcast, to help her create the special. “She understands Hannah in a way that I couldn’t,” Miley says. “I never got to experience Hannah being crazy in the pit with other kids.” To that end, she even listened when Alex said no to some of her ideas.
“She would go, ‘As a Hannah fan, no one wants that,’” Miley explains.
Alex also booked a cameo from Selena Gomez, who surprised Miley on set, Variety reports. “I love Selena, but I didn’t know how much our friendship meant to the fans,” Miley says.
Miley says the special, which streams on Disney+ and Hulu on March 24, is her way of “merging Hannah and Miley together.” And, she says, making the fans “feel seen.”
As she notes, “My entire life is because of that loyalty.”
The Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson performs at the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction (Disney/Frank Micelotta)
The Black Crowes are nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for the second straight year, and while frontman Chris Robinson wrote on Instagram that he and brother Rich Robinson were “beyond excited and thrilled” with the nomination, he didn’t always feel that way.
During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!Tuesday, Chris addressed comments he made in 2017, in which he said he wouldn’t go to the Hall of Fame if inducted.
“I have a much more positive outlook these days,” Chris said. “Things definitely changed. I wasn’t in The Black Crowes at that time I made that salacious comment,” referring to the band’s breakup between 2015 and 2019.
Chris added, “But it is true, The Black Crowes, we were kind of more famous, my brother and I, for hating each other than the songs and the music. It worked for Oasis. I don’t know why it didn’t work for us.”
But Chris said that since their 2019 reunion “it’s not been that way,” adding, “It’s been fantastic.”
Chris also performed on the show without his brother, treating the audience to a cover of Otis Redding’s 1966 track “Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song).”
The Black Crowes’ new album, A Pound of Feathers, is out now.
