Jamie Foxx and his Day Shift co-star Dave Franco have come together for some music. Their song “Bud” — which pays homage to Foxx’s character, Bud Jablonski — dropped on Thursday in celebration of their Netflix film’s success. A video supporting the single has also been released.
“It’s here!!! Thanks to the fans,” Jamie wrote on Twitter. “#dayshift is so big we made a video for the theme song.” The visual captures the two as they vampire hunt, enjoy wild Jeep rides and flaunt their moves to the EDM-inspired beat. Foxx — who has had success as a singer — is seen displaying his rap skills this time around.
Day Shift premiered on August 12 and follows Foxx’s Bud, a vampire hunter who takes on a job as a pool cleaner to cover up his real gig and provide for his daughter. The film debuted at #1 and as of Foxx’s post was “still #1 on @netflix.”
Jamie’s last album, Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses, came out in May 2015.
(NOTE LANGUAGE) Styles P is a former Verzuz contender, but he’s willing to boycott the competition platform to support peers Timbaland and Swizz Beatz. The producers filed a $28 million lawsuit against Triller over alleged missing payments after the company’s Verzuz acquisition in 2021. But, Triller insists the two were paid $50 million, noting they’ll receive more when they fulfill their contractual obligations.
“It would be good if they – Triller, Swizz and Tim — could rock out and figure a way to fix this,” Styles told TMZ of the current litigation. “Hip-hop is always funny sh** in it. I think people should just stick to what they said they were going to from the beginning.”
In the event that all parties are unable to resolve the issue, Styles made it clear he would no longer support the Verzuz platform while urging hip-hop lovers to do the same.
“Hip-hop people shouldn’t f*** with it if Swizz and Tim ain’t involved. I sure wouldn’t,” he said. “I wouldn’t watch it at all.”
Styles appeared on the Verzuz platform alongside members of The LOX last year. His group competed against Dipset and was deemed the winner of the battle.
I Prevail is offering one final preview of the band’s upcoming True Power album before it arrives this Friday.
The latest track is called “Self-Destruction,” which a press release proclaims to be a “straight-up banger.” You can listen to “Self-Destruction” and watch its accompanying video streaming now on YouTube.
True Power is the follow-up to 2019’s Grammy-nominated Trauma. It also includes the previously released songs “Body Bag” and “Bad things.”
I Prevail will launch a U.S. tour in support of True Power September 9 in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Pierce the Veil will also be on the bill.
Founding INXS multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Andrew Farriss has just released a music video for the latest single from his 2021 self-titled debut solo album, the uplifting “You Are My Rock,” which premiered Thursday exclusively on the CMT Music channel and at CMT.com.
The video features Farriss and his backing musicians performing the tune in the outback of his native Australia. The tune combines the country influences showcased throughout most of the album with some rock and gospel flavors.
As Farriss explains in a YouTube video clip, “‘You Are My Rock’ is the last track, and I wanted to deliberately leave it ’til the end because I wanted to, basically, kick a** at the end of the record. The song is about thanking people in your life for opportunities that are given to you, for people that support you.”
He adds, “I’m simply saying thank you to everybody [for] listening to my album to get to the end of the song.”
Farriss has a few upcoming U.S. performances lined up to promote his album, including on August 22 in Lexington, Kentucky, and on September 15 at the AmericanaFest event in Nashville.
Farriss co-wrote most of INXS’ songs with the group’s late original frontman, Michael Hutchence, including such big hits as “What You Need,” “Need You Tonight,” “Devil Inside,” “New Sensation,” “Never Tear Us Apart” and “Suicide Blonde.”
The fallout from Will Smith‘s Oscars slap continues.
On Thursday, Varietyreports that the actor’s Q Scores, the industry standard for measuring celebrities’ mass appeal, have dropped significantly since he slapped host Chris Rock onstage at the Academy Awards in March.
Conducted twice a year in January and July, nearly 2,000 consumers starting from age 6 are surveyed about their opinion on famous figures.
Prior to the incident on live TV, Smith had a positive Q score of 39, meaning that 39% of the respondents cited TheFresh Prince of Bel-Air star as one of their favorite celebrities. But based on the July report, his score has dropped to 24, which Henry Schafer, executive VP of Q Scores, says is a “very significant and precipitous decline.”
His negative Q score has leapt from 10 to 26, meaning that 26% of those surveyed have a “fair” or “poor” opinion of the actor.
As for Rock, both his positive and negative Q scores remain unchanged in the aftermath of the incident, ranking at 20 and 14, respectively.
Smith received his first Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Richard Williams in King Richard during the 2022 ceremony.
(WASHINGTON) — A magistrate judge in Florida heard in-person arguments Thursday on a request from a coalition of media outlets to make public the affidavit supporting the search warrant executed at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last week.
After hearing the Justice Department’s case, the judge appeared inclined toward deciding that at least a portion of could be unsealed with government redactions.
The Justice Department had urged the judge, Bruce Reinhart, to keep the affidavit fully under seal, arguing that if it were to be made public it could “cause significant and irreparable damage” to an ongoing criminal investigation involving highly classified materials related to national security.
Arguing on behalf of the Justice Department Thursday, Jay Bratt, the head of the agency’s counterintelligence and export control section, acknowledged the heightened public interest in this case, but argued there is another public interest which is the government’s position to keep the underlying affidavit sealed as it would provide a roadmap and “suggest next investigative steps that we would be about to take.”
Bratt said the investigation is in its “early stages” and feared for the safety of witnesses and potential witnesses and the threat of “possible obstruction and interference.”
“This investigation is open. It is in its early stages,” Bratt said.
Bratt argued that redactions to the affidavit would not be sufficient, as information in it could identify witnesses based on the descriptions of events that only certain people would have knowledge about.
But after hearing the government’s arguments, Judge Reinhart said, “I am not prepared to find that the affidavit should be fully sealed.”
The judge said he believes there are portions of it that presumptively could be unsealed — whether they would be meaningful is for someone else to decide, he said. The government may disagree with him on some points, he said, giving DOJ until next Thursday to file its proposed redactions.
ABC News and a number of other media organizations have called for the release of the affidavit, noting the historical significance of the unprecedented law enforcement search of a former president’s residence and the “immediate and intense public interest as well as a vociferous reaction from Mr. Trump and his allies.”
Officials said in their Monday filing, however, that they believed the redactions that would be necessary to protect the investigation “would be so extensive as to render the remaining unsealed text devoid of meaningful content.”
DOJ would likely seek an immediate appeal on any ruling by Judge Reinhart that would reveal further substantive details underlying their investigation.
The government said, though, it would not object to the unsealing of other materials filed in connection with the warrant, such as cover sheets for the application, the government’s motion to keep the warrant under seal and Judge Reinhart’s original sealing order — none of which will likely reveal much beyond the materials already disclosed.
Thursday afternoon, the court posted the other redacted materials that the Justice Department did not object to being unsealed.
The redacted copy of the search warrant released last Friday sent shockwaves through Washington, as it revealed the Justice Department was investigating the potential violation of at least three separate criminal statutes in its search of Mar a Lago, including obstruction of justice and one crime under the Espionage Act.
A property receipt accompanying the warrant shows agents seized 11 boxes of documents of various classifications, including one set referring to “classified/TS/SCI documents” (the acronym stands for top secret/sensitive compartmentalized information that not everyone with even top-secret clearance can view) and four other sets of top-secret documents.
The documents were discovered by authorities after a lawyer for Trump signed a statement in June to the FBI affirming that all classified documents on the premises had been handed over to investigators, sources confirmed to ABC News.
Trump’s team has yet to take court action despite publicly trying to pressure the Justice Department to release the full affidavit.
Christina Bobb, who is on Trump’s legal team, said they had no plans to file anything or speak publicly, but told reporters she came to watch the hearing.
Trump in recent days has called for the “immediate release” of the affidavit while leveling various attacks at the FBI and Justice Department, while also demanding over his social media website that the documents be returned to him. But Trump’s legal team has yet to take any sort of legal action on either front in response to the search.
Former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone and former deputy White House counsel Pat Philbin are among multiple other witnesses interviewed by the FBI as part of its investigation, ABC News confirmed Tuesday, with sources saying both sat with investigators sometime in the spring. But there’s no indication that the Justice Department’s filing referencing officials’ hopes of protecting witnesses who testified in the investigation was a direct reference to Cipollone or Philbin.
ABC News’ John Santucci contributed to this report.
Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley has sold his publishing catalog.
According to Billboard, the sale was made to the company HarbourView Equity Partners, which has recently acquired the catalogs of Hollywood Undead, and country artists Lady A and Brad Paisley.
As for how much Whibley took home from the transaction, Billboard reports that the “terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.”
Sum 41 is currently touring the U.S. with fellow Canadians Simple Plan. The “Fat Lip” outfit has also been working on a new record, a double album called Heaven and Hell.
It looks like Dolly Parton may have a little Christmas present for us.
The legendary philanthropist and musician has been spotted shooting something at her East Tennessee theme park. Alternately, she’s been seen being escorted around in a golf cart alongside Willie Nelson, while photos emerged of Jimmy Fallon in the ’50s section of the park, sporting a leather jacket and a hairstyle inspired by either Elvis Presley or the Fonz.
The Red-Headed Stranger and the Tonight Show host are reportedly working on a holiday movie with Dolly. In 2020, Jimmy duetted with Dolly on Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” for her A Holly Dolly Christmas album, while Dolly and Willie go back even further than their 1982 top-10 duet, “Everything’s Beautiful (In Its Own Way).”
Titled Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas and set to air on NBC, according to Knox News, it’ll also feature Jimmie Allen, as well as Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus.
Of course, Dolly already has quite a stable of yuletide films, ranging from 1986’s A Smoky Mountain Christmas to 2020’s Christmas on the Square.
Selena Gomez has the best of both worlds — her newest season of Selena + Chef is here, and she filmed it at a location near and dear to her heart: the Hannah Montana house.
For those out of the loop, while Selena landed her breakout role on Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place, she starred in Hannah Montana as the diva Mikayla in 2007.
As for the home itself, which boasts eight bathrooms and seven bedrooms, it was also the face of another series, Big Little Lies. But, right now, it’s where the new season of Selena + Chef takes place, and the Grammy winner took fans on a room-by-room tour of the famous Malibu home.
She also revealed she wanted to film the new season in Malibu because it’s one of her “favorite spots,” despite rarely being able to spend time there. “It’s been pretty much a dream being here,” the singer said of her temporary abode.
The notoriously poor cook showed off the gigantic kitchen, which has floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook the beach, noting that while it’s not her kitchen, “We haven’t burned anything down. So, that’s good.” Selena also says the home is her “comfort zone.”
Aside from that, Selena showed off the beachfront views the home has to offer and revealed she has gone surfing on the Pacific’s blue waters.
Sadly, that’s where the tour ended — depriving fans of seeing all the amenities the luxury home has to offer.
