Brian Cox has joined the cast of Dexter: Resurrection. The Emmy winner and Succession star will be a series regular in season 2 of the show. Cox will play The New York Ripper, who is a serial killer who terrorized the city. He’s no longer active as a killer, however, and has found a new way of continuing his infamy by taunting the survivors of his long-ago murder spree …
John Travolta’s directorial debut is set to make its premiere at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. The Apple Original Film, called Propeller One-Way Night Coach, was also written by Travolta. The film is set in the golden age of aviation, and follows a young airplane enthusiast and his mother as they take a one-way cross-country trip to Hollywood …
HBO is giving fans a first look at the upcoming series Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. The behind-the-scenes special, called Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic, offers an in-depth look at the making of the first season of the show. The special debuts to HBO Max on April 5 …
Easter coming up on Sunday brings back a flood of memories for Jordan Davis — though he admits he doesn’t treasure every single one.
“We would always have the Easter egg hunt before church,” he recalls. “My mom, she would dress us in these ridiculous, pastel-colored — good Lord, I’m sorry for saying this, but the worst part about Easter for me is some of the photos that I have of what my mom dressed us in. It was hideous.”
Hideous outfits aside, Jordan remembers childhood Easters in Louisiana fondly.
“For me early on, and probably like with a lot of kids, Easter was just another Sunday where it was just a very mini, mini Christmas,” he says. “You know, we would get some candy. Every once in a while, we’d get a present, something we wanted.”
“You know, we’d go to church, and everybody looked great, [they’d] wear the new dress or the guys had these crazy ties on or something like that. And it really wasn’t until my high school years I realized how special that holiday was,” he adds.
With four kids of his own now, ranging in age from 10 months to 6 years, it’s likely to be an eventful Easter at the Davis household.
Jordan does seem to have a bit of time off, since his next show isn’t until April 11 at Boots in the Park in San Diego.
If you have a hot take on Olivia Dean, she doesn’t want to hear it — even if it’s positive.
Speaking to ELLE, the singer says after she won the Grammy for best new artist, she deleted all the social media apps from her phone. “I’ve been thinking about doing it for a while,” she says. “Even though the love has been overwhelming, even that is not healthy sometimes.”
“I don’t think you’re supposed to know everyone’s opinion about you,” she notes. “And I’ve decided I want to live in sweet ignorance.”
But one app she won’t delete is The New York Times’ Games: Wordle & Crossword. Olivia loves the mini crossword puzzle on the app, and tells ELLE she was thrilled when she was a clue: a word that describes the music both she and Daniel Caesar make. Unfortunately, she got the answer wrong. She laughs, “I bet it was ‘R&B.’ I wouldn’t really say that, guys, but okay, sure.”
Olivia will bring her sold-out tour to the U.S. in July and August, and hints to ELLE that she’ll have a custom look for every city. She took a stand against ticket resellers who were overcharging fans on the secondary market, and forced Ticketmaster to refund fans who overpaid on the platform.
“There is no way that I’m going to get up on that stage and sing my heart out while somebody sits at home and makes $500 or $600 off of me and you,” she tells ELLE. “I want people to be able to afford to come to the show. I don’t think you need to be someone who’s got loads of money to enjoy your favorite album. Full stop.”
Positiva Presents: Elton John – The Remixes (Positiva/UMe)
Dance remixes of Elton John songs make up the upcoming Record Store Day release Positiva Presents: Elton John – The Remixes, and now fans who don’t snag a copy will still have a chance to enjoy the music.
While glow-in-the-dark vinyl pressings will be released for Record Store Day on April 18, Positiva Presents just announced that the album is also getting a digital release on April 19.
The album, curated by Elton, features remixes of “Cold Heart,” his hit with Dua Lipa, and “Hold Me Closer,” his collaboration with Britney Spears.
There are also remixes of “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart,” “Rocket Man,” “Philadelphia Freedom” and “I Don’t Wanna Go On With You Like That.” Some of the remixes on the album have previously been unavailable on streaming platforms.
“Record Store Day is incredibly important to me, and with this package I really think we’ve made something special for dance music fans,” Elton says.
The digital release is available for preorder now. Vinyl copies will be available at participating independent record stores.
Poster for ‘Breaking Glass: The Pat Summitt Story’ (ABC News Studios)
Robin Roberts executive produced the film Breaking Glass: The Pat Summitt Story, which premieres on ESPN Sunday. The documentary explores the life and career of Pat Summitt, the legendary former Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball coach who helped pave the way in women’s college basketball. While many people are interviewed specifically for the doc about Pat’s impact on women’s sports, Robin only appears through past interview clips and photos. Despite their close friendship, she explains why she chose not to have a leading voice in the documentary.
“It’s not about me,” Robin says, joking “you already see the different hairstyles” over the years in photos. “This is what I love about this documentary and working with [director] Dawn Porter, because this is what she does,” she explains. “It’s the people that she impacted and, more importantly, hearing Pat’s voice. You don’t wanna hear my voice, you wanna hear Pat’s voice.”
That, she adds, is the heart of the documentary.
“I get chills when I hear Pat’s voice. When I started hearing it again, when we were going through all the cuts and everything and I was like, wow,” Robin says. “So it was intentional because there’s nothing that we wanted to take, there was no way we could take away from someone as powerful. She is the story.”
The inclusion of Pat’s voice was made possible thanks to Sally Jenkins, who had previously interviewed her for the book Sum It Up: A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective.
The Pat Summitt Story is also streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.
Disney is the parent company of ABC News, Hulu and ESPN.
After releasing the surprise EP U2 – Days of Ash in February, the Irish rockers are back with another surprise EP, U2 – Easter Lily.
While Days of Ash was written as a response to the current chaotic state of the world, Easter Lily is described in a press release as more reflective “exploring themes of friendship, loss, hope, and ultimately, renewal.”
“With Easter Lily we ended up asking very personal questions like: Are our own relationships up to these challenging times? How hard do you fight for friendship? Can our faith survive the mangling of meaning that those algorithms love to reward? Is all religion rubbish and still ripping us apart?” Bono says in a note to fans. “Or are there answers to find in its crevices? Are there ceremonies, rituals, dances that we might be missing in our lives? From the rite of Spring to Easter and its promise of rebirth and renewal.”
He also says the EP’s title is a nod to Patti Smith and her album Easter, explaining it “gave me so much hope when it was released in 1978.”
Like they did with Days of Ash, U2 has also released a special digital edition of their magazine Propaganda, featuring contributions from the band, including in-studio photos shot by Larry Mullen Jr., song lyrics and more.
The EP comes as U2 is in the studio recording a new album, with Bono describing it as a “noisy, messy, ‘unreasonably colourful’ album to play LIVE,” adding, “We still look to vivid rock n roll as an act of resistance against all this awfulness on our small screens.”
Here is the track list for U2 – Easter Lily:
“Song for Hal,” ft. The Edge on lead vocals “In a Life” “Scars” “Resurrection Song” “Easter Parade” “COEXIST (I Will Bless the Lord at All Times?)” – ft. a new soundscape by Brian Eno
A federal judge in New York on Thursday gutted much of Blake Lively’s case against her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni, including her claims she was subjected to sexual harassment on set.
Lively is allowed to pursue certain claims of retaliation against Baldoni’s public relations team over alleged harm to her reputation, according to the ruling by Judge Lewis Liman.
The decision comes one month before the scheduled start of the trial while the two sides have been in settlement negotiations.
In his ruling, Liman said some of Baldoni’s conduct “was not so far beyond what might reasonably be expected to take place between two characters” in a sexually charged movie like It Ends With Us.
“That Baldoni suggested scenes involving sexual acts in the context of developing a motion picture involving such adult themes did not create a ‘sexually objectionable environment’ or an environment hostile to women (or to men) because of sex,” Liman added.
Liman is allowing Lively to pursue her claims of an orchestrated smear campaign by Baldoni’s PR team, which Liman said, “at least arguably crossed the line.”
“The reputational effects have been particularly severe given the nature of Lively’s profession, which places a heavy emphasis on personal and professional marketability,” Liman wrote.
Sigrid McCawley, a member of Lively’s legal team, told ABC News in a statement: “This case has always been and will remain focused on the devastating retaliation and the extraordinary steps the defendants took to destroy Blake Lively’s reputation because she stood up for safety on the set and that is the case that is going to trial.”
“For Blake Lively, the greatest measure of justice is that the people and the playbook behind these coordinated digital attacks have been exposed and are already being held accountable by other women they’ve targeted,” McCawley added. “She looks forward to testifying at trial and continuing to shine a light on this vicious form of online retaliation so that it becomes easier to detect and fight.”
McCawley ended the statement by saying, “Sexual harassment isn’t going forward not because the defendants did nothing wrong but because the court determined Blake Lively was an independent contractor, not an employee.”
Meanwhile, Alexandra Shapiro and Jonathan Bach of Baldoni’s legal team, said in a statement to ABC News: “We’re very pleased the Court dismissed all sexual harassment claims and every claim brought against the individual defendants: Justin Baldoni, Jamey Heath, Steve Sarowitz, Melissa Nathan, and Jennifer Abel.”
“These were very serious allegations, and we are grateful to the Court for its careful review of the facts, law and voluminous evidence that was provided,” Baldoni’s legal team added. “What’s left is a significantly narrowed case, and we look forward to presenting our defense to the remaining claims in court.”
In February, the two actors and their attorneys attended a court-ordered settlement conference at the United States District Court in New York, in an attempt to reach a settlement in Lively’s lawsuit against Baldoni but were unsuccessful.
The court-ordered settlement conference was a last-ditch attempt at resolving the legal battle that has now stretched on for more than a year.
Lively filed a complaint against Baldoni with the California Civil Rights Department in December 2024, accusing him of sexual harassment on the set of It Ends with Us and accusing both Baldoni and his production company Wayfarer Studios of engaging in a “social manipulation” campaign to “destroy” her reputation.
The two later filed lawsuits against each other in New York, with Lively reiterating the claims made in her earlier complaint and accusing Baldoni and Wayfarer of allegedly engaging in “unlawful, retaliatory astroturfing” to ruin her reputation in a lawsuit seeking $500 million in damages.
Baldoni’s attorney denied the allegations.
Shortly after Lively filed her lawsuit, Baldoni filed a $400 million countersuit against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, and the couple’s publicist for extortion and defamation, claiming Lively had “robbed” him of control over the film and had destroyed his reputation.
Lively’s lawyers denied the allegations and called Baldoni’s suit “another chapter in the abuser playbook.”
A federal judge in New York dismissed Baldoni’s suit last June, formally ending the counterclaim in October after Baldoni did not refile an amended complaint.
Gavin Rossdale of Bush performs on stage at Palacio Vistalegre on October 31, 2025 in Madrid, Spain. (Mariano Regidor/Getty Images)
Bush is featured in the latest edition of NPR’s Tiny Desk performance series.
While seated behind the titular tiny desk, Gavin Rossdale led the band through performances of the Sixteen Stone hits “Machinehead” and “Glycerine,” the latter of which featured him singing a cappella.
They then played the deep cut “Out of This World” off 2001’s Golden State album before closing the set with the title track off the most recent Bush record, 2025’s I Beat Loneliness.
You can watch Bush’s Tiny Desk performance on YouTube.
Bush will launch a U.S. tour in support of I Beat Loneliness April 7 in Pittsburgh.
KATSEYE has shared the first teaser for the music video for “Pinky Up,” their new single. The song and the video drop April 9 at 9 p.m. PT. Meanwhile, some fans are upset that group member Manon Bannerman doesn’t appear to be in the video. The group’s record labels announced in February that she would be “taking a temporary hiatus from group activities to focus on her health and wellbeing.”
By his own admission, Charlie Puth isn’t much of an athlete, but he’s going to give a couple of the songs from his new album, Whatever’s Clever!, their live debuts on a sports-centric show. Charlie will perform Saturday on Amazon Music presents: In the Paint, which will stream during NBA Nightcap, Prime Video’s postgame show. It follows Prime Video’s presentation of the face-off between the San Antonio Spurs and the Denver Nuggets.
Zedd, Marshmello and Nelly are among the acts providing the entertainment for the Formula 1 @ Crypto.com Miami Grand Prix, set for May 1-3 in Miami Gardens. They, along with Loud Luxury and Kane Brown, will perform at the race’s Hard Rock Beach Club stage. Visit F1MiamiGP.com for tickets.
Illenium has released the official music video for “Don’t Want Your Love,” his collab with Ellie Goulding. The song, co-written by Charli XCX, is from Illenium’s album Odyssey. Ellie welcomed daughter Iris Edeline Minniear-Goulding on March 6 with her boyfriend, Beau Minniear. It’s not clear if she was pregnant when she filmed the video, but we either see her from the shoulders up, or with her middle obscured by special effects.
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, March 31, 2026 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
(NEW YORK) — Stocks closed mixed in volatile trading on Thursday after President Donald Trump delivered a televised address vowing to hit Iran “extremely hard” over the coming weeks.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 60 points, or 0.1%, after opening down by 600 points, while the S&P 500 ticked up 0.1. The tech-heavy Nasdaq increased 0.1%.
Each of the major indexes tumbled more than 1% in early trading, but they quickly recovered most or all of those losses.
The rollercoaster trading followed losses across Asian and European markets. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index slipped 2.3% and the pan-European STOXX 600 fell 0.6%.
Oil prices, meanwhile, surged as traders feared a persistent supply shortage amid the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. U.S. oil prices climbed more than 10% on Thursday, registering about $111 a barrel.
Gasoline prices in the U.S. ticked up to $4.08 on average per gallon, marking a leap of $1.09 over the past month, AAA data showed.
Speaking at the White House on Wednesday, Trump voiced mixed messages about his plans for the Middle East conflict. He said Iran is no longer a threat to the U.S. and the war in Iran is “nearing completion.” However, he added, the U.S. plans to continue striking Iran over the next two or three weeks.
“We’re going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong,” Trump said.
The trading volatility on Thursday interrupted an upswing for markets earlier in the week. On Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average soared more than 1,100 points, adding another 220 points on Wednesday as traders anticipated Trump may signal an off-ramp from the war in his evening remarks.
Since the war with Iran began on Feb. 28, Trump has issued conflicting signals about the expected duration of the war. On several occasions, stocks have climbed or fallen as markets weighed the implications of Trump’s comments.
The war prompted Iran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a maritime trading route that facilitates the transport of about one-fifth of the global oil supply.
The vast majority of fuel delivered through the strait is bound for Asia, placing the heaviest pressure on energy supply in that continent. Since oil and gas are sold on a global market, however, the shortage has sent prices rising for just about everyone.
On Wednesday night, Trump urged other countries to take responsibility for reopening the strait.
“The countries of the world that do receive oil through the Hormuz Straight must take care of that passage,” Trump said. “We will be helpful, but they should take the lead in protecting the oil that they so desperately depend on.”
A potential U.S. exit from the war without ensuring that the strait is open could cast uncertainty over the path to a resumption of normal tanker traffic and a remedy for the current global oil shortage.
