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Since Cardi B recently pulled out as the star of the used-to-be-upcoming film Assisted Living, production company Paramount Players pulled the plug on the project until further notice.
According to Deadline, the $30 million film was just a week away from starting production, and the reason for Cardi’s pullout is that the Grammy-winning artist is overextended.
In Assisted Living, Cardi B was to play Amber, a small-time crook on the run after she’s wrongly accused of a crime. After struggling to find someone to take her in, Amber disguises herself as an elderly woman and hides out in the one place no one will look — her estranged grandmother’s nursing home.
Though legal action is often the follow-up in a situation like this, sources tell Deadline the hope is to put the pieces back together to begin production later this year.
The Batman has a whole lot of people listening to Nirvana‘s “Something in the Way.”
According to Billboard, streams for the Nevermind closer — if you don’t count the hidden track “Endless, Nameless” — have increased about 734% in the first four days since the Robert Pattinson and Zoë Kravitz-starring film premiered last Friday.
“Something in the Way” is used multiple times in The Batman, and was also heard in the movie’s trailer. In fact, the song heavily influenced writer-director Matt Reeves‘ interpretation of the comic book icon.
“Early on, when I was writing, I started listening to Nirvana, and there was something about ‘Something in the Way’…which is part of the voice of that character,” Reeves toldEsquire magazine.
“When I considered, ‘How do you do Bruce Wayne in a way that hasn’t been seen before?’ I started thinking, ‘What if some tragedy happened and this guy becomes so reclusive, we don’t know what he’s doing? Is this guy some kind of wayward, reckless, drug addict?'” the filmmaker explained. “And the truth is that he is a kind of drug addict. His drug is his addiction to this drive for revenge. He’s like a Batman Kurt Cobain.”
Cole Swindell and Josh Turner are two of the latest country acts to join the 2022 Amp at Dant Crossing concert series lineup.
The multi-month event, spanning from May through October, is a series of shows that take place at a 2,000-seat amphitheater in the hills of Kentucky’s bourbon country. Cole will kick off the event with a performance on May 6, while Josh is its final scheduled artist, with a show on October 7.
A host of other country stars will also appear on the stage in the dates in between. Tracy Lawrence, Lee Brice, Justin Moore and Sara Evans are all also slated to appear, along with rock, Americana and blues acts including Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, the Marshall Tucker Band and Mary Chapin Carpenter.
The album is a 25-track collection featuring new, unplugged versions of songs spanning Joan Jett‘s entire career, from her work with the trailblazing 1970s all-female group The Runaways through to some of her most recent songs with The Blackhearts.
In advance of Changeup, Jett and the Blackhearts have released the lead track, a rendition of “(I’m Gonna) Run Away,” a song from Jett’s third album, 1981’s I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll, the first featuring The Blackhearts. It’s available now via streaming services, and you also can check out a lyric video on YouTube.
Among the other tracks are acoustic versions of Jett’s early hit “Bad Reputation” and “Androgynous,” her cover of Tommy James and the Shondells‘ “Crimson and Clover,” the Runaways classic “Cherry Bomb,” the Bruce Springsteen-penned “Light of Day,” and a wide variety of deeper cuts.
Fans got their first taste of Changeup last year, when the unplugged rendition of “Bad Reputation” was released via digital outlets.
Changeup initially will be avaiable as a digital download, at streaming services and in the immersive audio formats Sony 360 RA and Dolby Atmos. A vinyl version will be released at a later date.
Meanwhile, Jett and the Blackhearts have a series of spring U.S. headlining dates scheduled lading up to the group’s stint on the major summer trek dubbed The Stadium Tour, which also features Def Leppard, Motley Crue and Poison. That outing kicks off June 16 in Atlanta. Visit JoanJett.com for her full itinerary.
Here’s the complete track list of Changeup:
“(I’m Gonna) Run Away”
“You’re Too Possessive”
“Long Time”
“Victim of Circumstance”
“Coney Island Whitefish”
“Love Is Pain”
“Oh Woe Is Me”
“You Drive Me Wild”
“Frustrated “
“Bad Reputation”
“Fake Friends”
“Fresh Start”
“Soulmates to Strangers”
“Make It Back”
“Fragile”
“I Love Playin’ with Fire”
“Cherry Bomb “
“I Want You”
“Crimson and Clover”
“A 100 Feet Away”
“Androgynous”
“You Don’t Know What You’ve Got”
“School Days”
“Good Music”
“Light of Day”
Season four of the hit Freeform show Good Trouble is here! The first episode is streaming now, and it’s already spicing things up with some big changes.
One of those changes will include seeing a lot more of Priscilla Quintana, who was promoted to a series regular this season. She plays a pregnant Isabella in the series, and for those wondering if she’ll finally give birth, she tells ABC Audio, “we will just have to wait and see.”
“Fingers crossed, but you never know,” she teases.
What Quintana will dish, though, is that viewers will get to see Isabella find her own voice and learn to love herself.
“This season, she’s exploring more of who she is. She’s finding her own voice,” she explains. “And one of the most important things that she does is she’s growing a life inside of her and realizing that,” the actress adds. “If you if you want to be able to fully love this human, you’re growing inside of you, you have to love yourself first, and she has never truly done that before.”
Also this season, Good Trouble introduces a new mysterious character — an investigative journalist named Joaquin — played by Bryan Craig.
“[Joaquin] has come to L.A. and to the coterie on kind of like secret personal mission,” he shares. “Along the way he obviously creates relationships with these people and I’m hoping even after he gets what he wants and finds his answer that he sticks around.”
Unfortunately, whether or not Joaquin will stick around, is a question even Craig doesn’t know the answer to just yet.
“It’s funny because everyone thinks that we have answers and we really never have answers past the script that’s in front of us,” Craig says, before adding, “I think some interesting stuff is coming up.”
(WASHINGTON) — Stepping up the economic pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin as he continues to attack Ukraine, President Joe Biden announced Friday that in conjunction with other G-7 nations and the European Union, the U.S. will move to revoke “most favored nation” trade status for Russia.
“As Putin continues his merciless assault, the United States and allies and partners continue to work in lockstep to ramp up the economic pressures on Putin and to further isolate Russia in the global stage,” Biden said from the White House. “Revoking PNTR (permanent normal trade relations) for Russia is gonna make it harder for Russia to do business with the United States.”
The move to strip Russia of its favored nation status would allow the U.S. and others to impose tariffs on a wide range of Russian goods.
JUST IN: Pres. Biden says U.S. and allies are taking steps to deny most favored nation status to Russia, calling it “another crushing blow to the Russian economy that’s already suffering very badly from our sanctions.” https://t.co/EPUvsRMUrDpic.twitter.com/zJIM1AZEn3
Biden also announced the U.S. is banning the export of luxury goods to Russia as well as banning imports of certain goods from Russia, including seafood, vodka and diamonds. He also said the G-7 is adding new names to the list of targeted oligarchs it was sanctioning.
“Putin is an aggressor — is the aggressor, and Putin must pay the price. He cannot pursue a war that threatens the very foundation to which he’s doing — the very foundations of international peace and stability and then ask for financial help from the international community,” Biden said. He added that the U.S. will speak to the G-7 about Russia’s ability to borrow the interpreter national monetary fund and world bank.
Additionally, Biden said he spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Friday morning ahead of his remarks, and “told him — as I have each and every time I’ve spoken to him — that the United States stands with Ukraine as they bravely fight to defend their country.”
While each country will have to suspend normalized trade relations on their own, the announcement is another example of Western unity against Putin as nations tighten the squeeze on Russia. It follows the U.S. imposing an immediate ban on Russian oil and other energy imports earlier this week.
Over the past two weeks, Russia has widened its attacks on major cities across Ukraine. The United Nations said Thursday that at least 549 civilians, 41 of whom were children, have died since Russia’s invasion began. At least 2.5 million have already fled the country.
“Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multi-launch rocket systems, and missile and airstrikes,” the office said.
As the threat of Russia taking over Kyiv and overthrowing Zelenskyy looms, the 40-mile Russian military convoy that was last seen northwest of Kyiv has repositioned around the capital city, appearing to take attackable positions.
“We remind Russian authorities that directing attacks against civilians and civilian objects as well as so-called bombardment in towns and villages and other forms of indiscriminate attacks are prohibited under international law and may amount to war crimes,” said the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights spokesperson Elizabeth Throssell on Friday.
But Russia has doubled down, instead, on its false claims that the U.S. and Ukraine are developing chemical or biological weapons for use against invading Russian forces. Russia is expected to bring the false accusation to the United Nations Security Council on Friday — one day after a senior U.S. defense official warned that the U.S. has seen “indications” of Russia using a potential false flag operation biochemical weapons as a pretext for the potential use of “these kinds of agents in an attack.”
Asked about the accusation Friday, Biden said he wouldn’t comment on intelligence but warned Russia not to make such a move.
“Your White House has said that Russia may use chemical weapons, or create a false flag operation to use them,” a reporter said. “What evidence have you seen showing that, and would the U.S. have a military response if Putin would launch a chemical attack?”
“I’m not going to speak about intelligence but – but – but Russia would pay a severe price if they used chemical weapons,” he replied.
Moments earlier, Biden reiterated his position that “we will not fight a war against Russia in Ukraine.”
“We’ll defend every single inch of the NATO territory with the full might of the united and galvanized NATO,” Biden said, but adding, “Direct confrontation between NATO and Russia is World War III, something we must strive to prevent.”
Pres. Biden says G7 countries are stepping up economic pressure on Russian oligarchs: “They support Putin. They steal from the Russian people and they seek to hide their money in our countries… and they must share in the pain of these sanctions.” https://t.co/r4gCj2PZafpic.twitter.com/MSY790DRAo
As the situation on-the-ground escalates, Republican senators have urged the Biden administration to send Ukraine 29 MiG fighter jets Poland offered to provide to Ukraine — but only if the U.S. transports them, which the Pentagon has not agreed to.
“Enough talk. People are dying. Send them the planes that they need,” Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said at a press conference Thursday. Ukraine, meanwhile, has pleaded with NATO, unsuccessfully, to enforce a no-fly zone over the country.
In response to claims that Russia may view the transfer of MiGs as escalatory on behalf of the U.S., the GOP group scoffed, saying it was time for the U.S. to project strength in this conflict and have Putin fear the U.S. for a change.
Vice President Kamala Harris, making stops across Europe to address the crisis, said Thursday that the administration is inching closer to acknowledging war crimes by Russia, saying “Absolutely there should be an investigation and we should all be watching,” while White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the U.S. must go through “the legal assessment and review to make a formal conclusion.”
Biden also noted the $13.6 billion in assistance for Ukraine included in the government funding bill passed Thursday night, which he said he looked forward to signing “immediately.”
ABC News’ Luis Martinez, Conor Finnegan, Molly Nagle, Justin Gomez and Allison Pecorin contributed to this report.
Imagine Dragons has premiered a new song called “Bones.”
According to Rolling Stone, the track will appear on ID’s upcoming album Mercury — Act 2, the aptly titled follow-up to Dan Reynolds and company’s latest effort, 2021’s Mercury — Act 1. A release date for Act 2 has yet to be announced.
You can listen to “Bones” now via digital outlets.
Imagine Dragons’ ongoing Mercury U.S. tour continues Saturday in Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, ID’s current single, “Enemy,” a collaboration with JID for the Netflix animated series Arcane, is the number-one song Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay chat, and has been for the past five weeks.
Britney Spears previously told fans she’s “in the process of buying a new home.” Now it appears she may be settling on buying Drake‘s estate.
TMZ captured Britney checking out the “One Dance” rapper’s Hidden Hills property, dubbed the YOLO Estate, which hit the market on Monday. Interest in the sprawling estate has been hot, with TMZ reporting each showing has amassed somewhere between 20 to 30 guests.
Britney and fiancé Sam Asghari were among the many spectators, but not much else is known about their visit or what they think about Drake’s old stomping grounds.
The house is actually three houses combined into one package that’s selling for a cool $14.8 million. The estate has its own theater, swimming pool, waterfalls, tennis courts, bars and a recording studio.
Last month, Britney told fans via Instagram, “It’s time for change!!!!” She continued in the post about her current home, “I’ve lived in this house for 7 years…I’ve been pretty modest about the home I live in now !!!!”
Britney’s apparent house shopping comes in the wake of reports that she signed a tell-all book deal worth $15 million, which should help with a down payment on her future place.
Bryan Adams‘ new album So Happy It Hurts, released today, was created during the pandemic lockdown of 2020. But unlike some artists who made records during that time because they didn’t have anything else to do, Bryan says this particular album was always on his “to-do” list.
“I was going to make a record, but once the lockdown kicked in, I just completely immersed myself in it,” Bryan tells ABC Audio. “And it didn’t take very long ’cause I had a fair amount of ideas.”
“I finally got to clear all the pieces of paper out of my coat pockets that had all these things written on them, and put them all on a big board in the studio,” he adds. “And just one by one, [I] went through them to see which ones were working.”
But due to the pandemic, Bryan says he had to do all the recording himself.
“I decided to live my lifelong dream of being a drummer,” he explains. “Every day I would go in and mess around with the songs and put down rough drum tracks. And if in the next morning it didn’t sound great, I would just record it again.”
The album’s sole guest is Monty Python legend John Cleese, who delivers a dramatic yet comedic intro to the song “Kick A**.” Bryan first met Cleese when he photographed him for a charity project, and then unexpectedly ran into him again.
“We were [seated] together at a lunch and I had this song…,” Bryan recalls. “I’d put my voice at the beginning, and I didn’t really like it. So when I was talking to him, I was just noticing how well he spoke. And I said, ‘John, would you be interested in doing the narration for a song?’ And he went, ‘Well, of course!'”
After a week of teasing, Yungblud has premiered his new single, “The Funeral,” alongside a video starring Ozzy Osbourne.
The clip, which streaming now on YouTube, begins the Prince of Darkness peering over the “Fleabag” rocker lying down in a coffin in an otherwise empty room. “Hang on, is this a f***ing funeral?” Ozzy asks. “Where the f*** is everybody?”
Cut to Yungblud rocking out the Billy Idol-esque tune in front of a moshing audience. When he leaves the club at the end of the video, he’s immediately hit by a car driven by Sharon Osbourne.
“What the f*** was that?” Ozzy asks from the passenger seat, to which Sharon responds, “Just some f***ing poser.”
The metal legend then declares, “Ah, run him over again then.”
“The lyrics are literally me listing off everything I’m insecure about,” Yungblud says of “The Funeral,” which is available now via digital outlets. “If you identify with what you don’t like about yourself and own it, no one can say anything that you haven’t already said to yourself. You become bulletproof.”
“This song’s about owning those insecurities and just being f***ing fearless,” he adds. “It’s about ego, death, rebirth and f***ing dancing on your grave.”
“The Funeral” follows Yungblud’s 2021 single “Fleabag,” which currently sits in the top 10 on Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay chart. Yungblud’s latest album is his 2020 sophomore effort, Weird!
