If you thought competing in the Winter Games was a lot of pressure, imagine if you had rogue dinosaurs on your tail.
That’s the gist of a new spot for Jurassic Word: Dominion, which just debuted.
In the two-minute ad, snowboarder Shaun White, downhill skier Mikaela Shiffrin and figure-skater Nathan Chen are getting in some practice, only to encounter a massive brachiosaurus and other dinos.
Thankfully, White and Chen encounter herbivores — but Shriffrin finds herself face to face with a velociraptor, which she tries to keep at bay like Chris Pratt‘s character did in Jurassic World.
However, when a T-Rex breaks through the wintry woods, both the raptor and the skier wisely flee.
Jurassic World: Dominion, which again stars Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, also features original Jurassic series stars Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill, Laura Dern and BD Wong.
Recently, Demi Lovato posted a photo that showed them surrounded by their team all dressed in black, with the caption, “a funeral for my pop music.” Then a week ago, they posted a photo of themselves as a young teenager, rocking out onstage in a Motley Crue t-shirt, and captioned it, “15 & it wasn’t a phase.” Now, Demi’s explaining what it all means in regards to their future music.
“I would say it’s a new era. I’m ever-evolving, ever-changing. I’d like to put the rest of my music behind me and start fresh in this new era for this next album — but I do that every album cycle,” Demi tells Rolling Stone. “It honestly wasn’t a funeral. It was a label meeting and we just all happened to be in black and I was like, ‘Wow, this is like a funeral for my pop music.’ There wasn’t an actual funeral.”
When asked if they’re returning to what Rolling Stone calls their “rocky, emo early days,” Demi says, “That, but better. And also, there’s a bit of… and when I say heaviness, I don’t mean lyrically, but heaviness as in some of the sound that I haven’t done before, which is exciting. It’s a new era reminiscent of my first era.”
In other words, the singer notes, “I’m not changing with the new music. I’m just going back to my roots!” They add that they’re “excited to be working on new music.”
While we wait for that, you can hear Demi singing with Winnetka Bowling League on their new collab, “fiimy (f**k it, i miss you),” which is out now.
Netflix dropped the trailer for the jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy documentary Friday, and in the clip, Kanye West predicted his rise to superstardom.
In video shot at the beginning of his career over 20 years ago, Ye said, “i just think it was in God’s plan. I just think He has me here for a reason and I have have something to say. There might be people who are better programmers, better rappers. I think I won because I had the heart.” Kanye added, “Hopefully with God’s blessings, there’s should not be no way for me to lose.”
jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy held its world premiere virtually last week at the Sundance Film Festival.
Clarence “Coodie” Simmons, who produced and directed the film with Chike Ozah, says in the trailer, “When I first put the camera on him when I became a producer in ’98, knew he was destined for greatness.”
Two weeks ago, West demanded final approval of the project, writing on Instagram, “I’m going to say this kindly for the last time. I must get final edit and approval on this doc before it releases on Netflix. Open the edit room immediately so I can be in charge of my own image,” he continued. “Thank you in advance.”
His demand was rejected.
On February 10, Act 1 of the three-part documentary, which also features Pharrell Williams, Jay-Z and many more, will debut in theaters nationwide for a one-day engagement. The film premieres in a three-week event on Netflix beginning February 16.
Not a month after its second season began, HBO has renewed Euphoria for a third.
The drama debuted in 2019, and in 2020, Zendaya earned the Best Actress Emmy for her performance as Rue Bennett, becoming the youngest actress to win that honor.
The second-season premiere was the most-viewed episode of an HBO series on HBO Max, attracting some 14 million viewers — more than double than the debut of its first season.
In a statement, Francesca Orsi, executive vice president of HBO Programming, said of the lead and show creator Sam Levinson:,”Sam, Zendaya, and the entire cast and crew of Euphoria have taken Season 2 to extraordinary heights, challenging narrative convention and form, while maintaining its heart.”
She added, “We couldn’t be more honored to work with this gifted, wildly talented team or more excited to continue our journey with them into Season 3.”
Based on an Israeli series of the same name, the show’s cast also includes Nika King, Storm Reid, Eric Dane, Hunter Schafer, and Dominic Fike.
These days, Chris Lane is a doting dad to a seven-month-old baby boy, Dutton, but the singer admits that earlier in his life, he didn’t plan on ever becoming a husband and father.
“I never wanted kids. I honestly never wanted to get married. None of that,” Chris tells ET Online.
But meeting Lauren Bushnell — a former contestant on The Bachelor — changed all that, he goes on to say. After the couple got pregnant, as fatherhood became more of a reality for Chris, he became more and more grateful that he’d had a change of heart about family life.
“Actually, the day [Dutton] was born…I cried my eyes out, because I felt like I was praying, ‘Lord, thank you so much for not listening to me for all those years that I said I never wanted that,'” the singer continues. “I wouldn’t have known what I was missing out on and it’s truly the best thing in the world.”
Chris has drawn inspiration from his love for Lauren for several of his songs, including “Big, Big Plans,” which he wrote for his proposal. He’ll revisit their love story once again in a new single set to drop in a couple of weeks.
He tells ET Online that the song, called “Howdy,” is a wordplay-filled look back at Lauren’s previous relationships, including her high-profile engagement to Bachelor personality Ben Higgins, and how the couple’s failed relationships ultimately led them to each other.
Longtime Elton John guitarist Davey Johnstone‘s first new solo album in nearly 50 years, Deeper than My Roots, got its release today.
Coinciding with the album’s arrival, Johnstone has premiered a music video for the first track, “Go Easy on My Heart,” a melodic ballad that, like most of the songs on Deeper than My Roots, is sung by Davey’s youngest son, Elliot.
The clip features Davey, Elliot and former Paul McCartney & Wings drummer Denny Seiwell performing the tune in what appear to be a rehearsal room.
As previously reported, Davey recorded Deeper than My Roots while Elton’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour was forced off the road because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition to his son Elliot, a number of Davey’s other children contributed to the project. His son Charlie recorded many of the basic tracks at his home in California and contributed keyboard and backing vocals, and his son Jesse played drums on some of the songs. Also, Davey collaborated with his oldest son Tam and Jesse to write, record and produce the two instrumental tracks that are featured on the album, “Black Scotland” and “Walt Dizney,” while his daughter Juliet conceived and designed the cover art.
Meanwhile, Seiwell is featured on three tracks, while Davey’s longtime Elton John band mate Nigel Olsson plays drums on the Deeper than My Roots‘ lead single, the melancholy “Melting Snow.”
Deeper than My Roots also features a pair of bonus tracks, including a cover of The Beatles‘ “Here, There and Everywhere.”
Davey’s only other solo album, Smiling Face, was released in 1973. You can order Deeper than My Rootson CD now at CherryRed.co.uk and Amazon, while the record also is available via digital formats.
Here’s the Deeper than My Roots full track list:
“Go Easy on My Heart”
“One Look in Your Eyes”
“Meh Amour”
“Walt Dizney”
“Melting Snow”
“You Lied to Me”
“Deeper”
“Boxer in the Corner”
“Black Scotland”
“The Final Quarter”
Bonus Tracks
“Here, There and Everywhere”
“All the Time in the World”
Elton John‘s recently relaunched Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour has put him on top of a new weekly chart: Pollstar‘s Artist Power Index.
The ranking combines concert ticket sales data with streaming, radio airplay and social media of the top 1,000 artists to determine which ones are truly the most popular. The concert ticket sales data is more heavily weighted, since it usually generates the most revenue.
Elton tops the first chart, because not only is his tour doing well on the road, but he also is ranked fairly high when it comes to airplay and streaming. The rest of the top 10 includes Elton’s former tour mate Billy Joel, plus Bryan Adams, country stars Luke Bryan, Kane Brown and Blake Shelton, and rappers DaBaby and Jack Harlow.
As for why super-popular, chart-topping pop stars like Justin Bieber, The Weekend, Ed Sheeran, Adele, Dua Lipa and Taylor Swift aren’t in the top 10 — or even the top 20 — it’s because their tours either haven’t started yet or they don’t have any live shows scheduled. Pollstar takes into account headline performances over the last 30 days, and an average of ticket sales over the past 36 months.
Pollstar says the new ranking truly reflects “fan passion, audience consumption, and consumer engagement.”
On Sunday, Starz debuts Power Book IV: Force, the third spin-off from executive producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson‘s Power universe.
The new show tracks the series’ Tommy Egan, played by Joseph Sikora, who relocates from New York City to Chicago, only to grapple with a criminal kingpin.
50 tells ABC Audio that the franchise had humble beginnings. “When I first got to Starz, we pitched this show…and they passed on it.” He explained he got a second chance, and this time produced all new music for the show, which clinched the deal.
“I was comparing the music that you would hear to Super Fly, Curtis Mayfield, because to me, that’s the best soundtrack,” Fiddy says. “I’m like, I want to make those magical moments…where there’s a merger between the film, cinematography and the actual music.”
Even after they got the green light, the first Power season was rough, Jackson recalls. “I was getting paid $17,000 per episode to be a producer, act on the show, and to be the marketing… I would have got paid more to go to a nightclub and wave,” he laughed.
Instead, Fiddy saw the meager salary that first season “like it was like an investment…to build what I want to build.”
Sikora says of the franchise’s longevity, “I’m really grateful to the fans, I mean, this was a real grassroots success story. And you know who predicted it was 50 Cent…I mean, he just has his finger on the pulse…”
A proud native Chicagoan, Sikora adds, “I’ve lived in New York…longer than Chicago now at this point. So it was a wonderful rediscovery…just like I was rediscovering the city, Tommy’s discovering the city. So art really was able to imitate life in a lot of ways.”
Fans of Doja Cat have a new reason to flock to the Roku Channel — the service is now the only place you can watch her brand-new live performance series before anyone else.
According to a press release, Doja will perform several singles off her Planet Her soundtrack, which includes “Ain’t S**,” “Need to Know” and “Love to Dream.” Called Doja Cat’s Live Performance series, the longform videos will double as an exclusive sneak peek and will only be available on the Roku Channel starting Saturday, February 5, to Sunday, February 6.
The partnership comes from Vevo, who is the flagship operator of the “Official Live Performances” series. The network will then host Doja’s videos starting Monday, February 7.
Robbie Robertson, the founding lead guitarist and main songwriter of The Band, joins the list of rock greats who have recently sold the rights to their music catalogs for big bucks.
Music Business Worldwide reports that Robertson’s music publishing, the rights to his name, image and likeness, and his recorded music interests to date have been acquired by the Los Angeles-based Iconoclast, a company launched by Olivier Chastan. Chastan is the former CEO of Eagles manager Irving Azoff‘s Iconic Artists Group.
Sources tell Variety that the deal had a $25 million price tag. According to Music Business Worldwide, the agreement doesn’t include the underlying publishing rights to The Band’s 1968 debut album, Music from Big Pink, which were owned by Bob Dylan, and passed to Universal when that company bought out Dylan’s catalog in 2020.
Among the classic songs Robertson composed for The Band are “The Weight,” “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” and “Up on Cripple Creek.” Robbie also has had a significant career as a solo artist and as a film score composer.
Chastan tells Music Business Worldwide that as part of the agreement, Robertson has joined Iconoclast’s board and will serve as a creative adviser with the company.
Robbie says in a statement, “Olivier’s deep appreciation for art and creativity infused with his vision for the future of entertainment convinced me that Iconoclast was the right partner to entrust with the legacy of The Band and my catalog.”
Chastan, meanwhile, explains that he’s been a fan of Robertson since he first first heard Music from Big Pink when he was 13 years old, adding, “His sophisticated and cinematic songs changed my life and have never left my musical universe.”
