A shooting at Yo Gotti‘s Memphis restaurant, Prive, left two people dead and five injured, according to TMZ. Memphis police told TMZ that around 11:30 pm Wednesday night (March 29), a confrontation at the restaurant escalated into gunfire in the parking lot.
When police arrived, one man was found dead in the parking lot, while another died at a local hospital. Four other men and one woman suffered injuries but were driven to hospitals for treatment. Police did not give any updates on their conditions.
Memphis police confirm a shooting tonight @YoGotti ‘s restaurant Prive in Hickory Hill. It appears at least one person is dead. Stay with #wreg for the latest #privepic.twitter.com/NRrZ5TD6Pf
Yo Gotti, who owns the restaurant, was not in Memphis at the time of the shooting. TMZ noted that the restaurant was temporarily closed in 2021 after the death of rival Memphis rapper Young Dolph over concerns that someone assuming Gotti’s involvement in Dolph’s death might retaliate. Fortunately, nothing came of those concerns.
The assailants fled the scene of the shooting and are still at large. Police have not shared any theories about the cause of the shooting.
Last year, a Yo Gotti show was targeted for a mass shooting, but police were alerted to the plan and took the suspect into custody for medical evaluation. Gotti thanked the Memphis Police Department for apprehending the would-be shooter on Twitter, writing, “I would also like to thank the Memphis Police Department for their swift and proactive action in ensuring that all attendees returned home safely.”
Each week our staff of film and TV experts surveys the entertainment landscape to select the ten best new/newish movies available for you to stream at home. We put a lot of thought into our selections, and our debates on what to include and what not to include can sometimes get a little heated and feelings may get hurt, but so be it, this is an important service for you, our readers. With that said, here are our selections for this week.
Tár is a performance piece for Cate Blanchett, which is great because Cate Blanchett always deserves a place to do stuff like that. Here, she plays composer Lydia Tár, a kind of mad genius who is a few days away from a huge symphony performance and dealing with everything around her falling apart. It’s a psychological roller coaster and can be a heavy lift but if you want to see Cate Blanchett give it the full Cate Blanchett, buddy, Tár is the movie for you.
Lots going on here, all of it intriguing. We’ve got Julianne Moore and Sebastian Stan and John Lithgow all starring in what Apple describes as a twisty neo-noir thriller where a con artist takes on a slew of Manhattan billionaires. That’s probably enough to get you excited, at least a little. You could do a lot worse, that’s for sure. The world needs more Julianne Moore.
Idris Elba is back once again as John Luther, the now-disgraced London cop who finds himself in prison for reasons that tie directly into the thing where he is now disgraced. This time… ahh, screw it. Let’s go ahead and quote the official blurb on this one, if only because it’s a lot of fun to read: “Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther decides to break out of prison to finish the job by any means necessary.” Don’t you guys just hate it when that happens to you. Ugh, the worst.
Babylon bombed at the box office, but someday, it will find the audience it deserves. That day could be today if you watch it on Paramount Plus. Which you should. Damien Chazelle’s debauched chronicle of Hollywood’s transition from silent films to talkies is the rare three-hour movie that’s never boring. Babylon is full of glitz, glamor, cocaine, an S&M dungeon, and a pooping elephant. It’s also got Margot Robbie fighting a snake — what more could you want?
“It’s not cocky, it’s real,” says baseball legend Reggie Jackson in an archival clip during the trailer for his eponymous Amazon Prime documentary. The film promises to let Jackson tell his story, all the way from his youth in the segregated south to his time as a back page and on-field legend for the Yankees (where everyone quarreled with him even as he was establishing himself as the biggest star in sports and a pop culture juggernaut) onto his post-playing career and his role as an ambassador for the game. A lot of these authorized sports docs can feel one-sided or self-serving, but regardless of if Reggie follows that same path, we know one thing: at least it’ll be interesting.
Boston Strangler tells the true story of the, uh, Boston Strangler, which you probably guessed from the title. It’s all right there. Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon play a pair of journalists and amateur sleuths who put the pieces together and uncover one of the country’s most notorious cases of serial killing. Looking for a period piece about a couple people hunting a murder in 1960s Massachusetts? Well, here you go. That was easy.
Director Suzanne Hillinger talks with Adult entertainers and anti-porn crusaders in this documentary about the rise and near fall of PornHub. From a near economic apocalypse for those performers to questions about who is to blame for the rise of illegal and horrific content on the site, Hillinger works to lay out the details of this story with great care.
Make it the love child of Chucky and the Terminator, drop it on audiences inundated by stories of automation and AI, and then make it fabulous. M3GAN lived up to the hype, dancing into the hearts of horror fans as the emotional support doll from hell. Now, as she sets her sights on streaming, we’ve been given a new promise: more carnage with an unrated version that’s set to pull off more ears and carve up more yuppy scum. It’s all we could have ever wanted short of a sequel that once again pits M3GAN against avenging aunt (and reigning Queen of elevated horror) Allison Williams.
Cocaine Bear isn’t quite as non-stop as you might think from all the hype. It also occasionally feels the strain of trying to carry the story of a few too many characters, but there’s no denying that when it hits full speed, it’s unstoppable. The spectacle of some of the most intense, action-packed scenes and the outrageousness of the idea: “Hey, what happens when a bear becomes instantly addicted to and powered by cocaine?” are sure to win you over and paper over any possible flaws. You’ll laugh (at some really inappropriate and gruesome moments), you’ll cry (baby bear cubs!), you’ll be so glad you weren’t in the woods standing between the bear and her supply.
The trailer will give you international intrigue vibes, which might seem strange, considering the bare-bones concept of the video game, but as it turns out, this movie might not be serious enough for the dark themes that inhabit its walls. Taron Egerton plays the man who wishes to bring this game to living rooms everywhere, and weirdly enough, double-crossing begins to happen. The description promises “a Cold War–era thriller on steroids,” which is at least something that you don’t hear every day in 2023.
We’re never going back to the valley of existence between the fall of twisty mystery shows and movies (like Clue and Columbo) and the rise of a new class that’s inspired by those that came before (Knives Out, etc). We refuse. LFG Monk Movie! Keep pumping out Psychs and Poker Face seasons, Peacock! Let’s get Benoit Blanc and some muppets on a train, dammit! And yes, by all means, keep it going with these Murder Mystery romps that put Adam Sandler, Jennifer Anniston, and a fun supporting cast in breathtaking locales while navigating danger and trying to get to the bottom of a murder or, in this case, a kidnapping.
Each week our staff of film and TV experts surveys the entertainment landscape to select the ten best new/newish shows available for you to stream at home. We put a lot of thought into our selections, and our debates on what to include and what not to include can sometimes get a little heated and feelings may get hurt, but so be it, this is an important service for you, our readers. With that said, here are our selections for this week.
Reboots and long-delayed restarts scratch a nostalgia itch while usually falling short of equalling their past greatness, but somehow Party Down returns with its bite largely intact. The cast (anchored by Adam Scott) still plays well together, but it’s the story that sets this one apart with all the subtle ways these characters have and have not changed, marking the passage of time but not necessarily the rise of maturity.
The first season of Abbott Elementary was a feel-good network sitcom that caught a massive wave of popularity and won a bunch of Emmys in a time when feel-good network sitcoms are kind of not supposed to do that. Credit for this goes to creator and star Quinta Brunson, who realized that an underfunded inner-city public school was exactly the right place to show us people with good hearts working inside a system that can be cold. Kind of like Parks and Recreation but in Philadelphia. The second season is underway and does not appear to be missing a beat. This is basically a miracle, all around.
An impressively bearded Bob Odenkirk is back with Lucky Hank, his follow-up to Better Call Saul.
An English professor at a middling university, Hank is sleepwalking through life, trying to dodge the consequences of being uncareful with his words with a student and aspiring writer. He’s also mildly participating in an outwardly happy marriage that needs to revolve around his career and nursing a 15-years-long estrangement with a father whose career achievements loom large.
Hank’s redeeming qualities are, at this point, well hidden as he frustrates, causing you to want to stab him, but it’s Bob Odenkirk, so you know at some point we’re going to see why people put up with a character that’s like a canker sore in loafers. That or he’s just going to be so good at being a prick that we can’t turn away, enshrining Hank beside such other beloved assholes as Greg House. Either way, this slow burn is well worth the watch.
To this show’s credit, they’re trying to switch up their formula by transforming Stalker Joe into Stalkee Joe. Sadly, that’s caused the series to lose a lot of bite because part of the fun was roasting Penn Badgley’s horrific character as he fumbled his way through violent crimes, often barely escaping by the seat of his pants. This season wraps up with his new persona, Professor Jonathan Moore, headed towards a possible reckoning, so will Joe truly get what he deserves? Viewers will know soon enough.
At once, it’s worth wondering if the world asked for another adaptation of this Charles Dickens classic, but it’s also quite true that it took too long for Olivia Colman to be cast as Miss Havisham. Writer Steven Knight (Spencer, Peaky Blinders) does does the literary honors here while bringing us an updated take on Pip and how he navigates his messed up new world. In the end, we’ll likely receive a class system critique like the original project but in an unconventional way, given that Ridley Freaking Scott and Jiu-Jitsu King Tom Hardy are in producing seats here, along with many other minds from FX’s A Christmas Carol.
What’s the best way to get you to watch Swarm, the unsettling, nightmarish new thriller from Donald Glover and Janine Nabers, premiering on Amazon Prime Video this week? Would teasing that it’s a dark, seriously disturbed portrait of pop culture obsession that features a Beyonce stand-in work? How about if we said Dominique Fishback is deliciously deranged as Dre, a young woman willing to kill to get closer to her celebrity crush? Maybe the eerie use of Twitter’s bird-chirping notification in the show’s trailer, which feels like a Safdie brothers Gen-Z fever dream, will do the trick? No, really. What’s it going to take to convince you to watch this thing? Because we’ll do it.
Okay, maybe this has happened to you. You’re sitting in a basement in the White House and the phone rings and BLAMMO you are suddenly sucked into a situation loaded with dead spies and international intrigue and a young girl whose life you are now sworn to protect. If that sounds familiar, maybe you will like The Night Agent! You might enjoy it anyway, even if none of that has ever happened to you, but it’s always nice to have a frame of reference when you’re starting a show.
Break out your biscuits and put on your custom-bedazzled Diamond Dogs silk bomber jackets because the best mustache on TV is back, baby. This might be the last season of Ted Lasso which is a bittersweet pill to swallow but it’s best not to dwell on all of the loose ends still in need of tying. Ted wouldn’t. Instead, let’s just enjoy these characters as long as we have them. And hope something awful (but not irreversible) and humiliating (but appropriately so) and devastating (but ultimately life-changing in a positive way) happens to Nate “not so great” Shelley.
The nice thing about The Mandalorian is that it delivers exactly what the people need and expect. Want to see — or at least, like, hear — Pedro Pascal do various space cowboy things with his lasers and ships? Done, no problem. Want to see little Baby Yoda — apologies, Grogu — make cute little faces and occasionally use the Force to defeat an enemy? Yup, that’s there, too. Want to see a slew of recognizable faces from season to season — Timothy Olyphant, Giancarlo Esposito, Carl Weathers, etc. — as well as a bunch of fun little callbacks to the Star Wars universe? Buddy, this show has you covered. There’s very little to complain about here on any major level. Sometimes that’s all you can ask for out of a big show like this. An adorable little green guy helps.
It’s time to go back to the wilderness, where this season doubles down on the darkness and refuses to apologize for it. The show still puts forth one of the most solid examples of dual timelines in TV history. Not only that, but all four sets of leads are firing on all cylinders this year. Sure, Juliette Lewis can pull off this type of role in her sleep, but we love to see her do it. Christina Ricci chews everything up, and Melanie Lynskey is finally getting her due. Oh, and don’t forget about those earworms. Get ready for the return of the Antler Queen, gang. Spooky.
Good news and bad news, ladies and gentlemen. The good: The cretins and weasels of Succession are back for a fourth season full of drama and dark comedy and more than a little delightful flailing by Cousin Greg. The bad: This is also the final season. So… you’re going to have to come to terms with that as things play out. It’s a lot to deal with, especially with the frenetic pace things have been and are shaking down. This is one of our best shows. It’s going to sting to say goodbye. But let’s all agree to enjoy the ride while we can.
Falling in love with a Netflix series is always risky business, but fans of The Night Agent just got some good news. Barely a week after it premiered, the streaming giant has already renewed the gripping spy thriller from The Shield creator Shawn Ryan.
“The last week has been a whirlwind as we’ve finally been able to share The Night Agent with the world,” Ryan wrote in a statement announcing Season 2. “To see the tremendous reaction to the show has been a great joy and is a credit to our cast, our writers, our directors, our crew and our partners at Sony Pictures Television and Netflix. We couldn’t be any prouder or more excited to get cracking on season two to share the further adventures of Night Action with our newfound fans.”
Netflix is clearly thrilled with the series that stars Gabriel Basso as an “idealistic young FBI agent who must stop a Russian mole in the White House.”
“We’re proud to see The Night Agent deliver a breakout performance and become instantly embraced around the world,” Netflix VP of Drama Jinny Howe told The Hollywood Reporter. “Shawn Ryan has created a spy thriller sensation that viewers cannot get enough of, with a stellar cast featuring Gabriel Basso, Luciane Buchanan and Hong Chau, and we’re here to bring them more of the action and suspense they love.”
The Night Agent Season 1 is available for streaming on Netflix.
Billie Eilish and Finneas had a great time appearing on the Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend podcast. The siblings discussed Eilish’s documentary, The World’s A Little Blurry: “16-year-old me is a scary thought,” the “Bad Guy” singer admitted. O’Brien also asked questions about how she feels about her extreme levels of fame.
“One of the things that I noticed was there’s this difference between your fans who you love, like when they’re telling you they love you,” O’Brien said. “Especially these young women who you mean so much to and they’re going crazy and they love it. Then at a certain point if it’s hundreds of thousands of people, I would think it starts to get overwhelming.”
“It’s weirdly in a way underwhelming when there’s more people,” Eilish answered. “I played my first stadiums over the summer,” she said, and then explained that doing stadiums was more viable than playing several arenas. “I was like, ‘I’m in a stadium, it’s so sick, it’s so big, you’re a f*cking star.’ And then you’re on the stage and you feel like you’re alone. It feels like there’s a printed out wallpaper of thousands of people. They’re so far away that there’s like no intimacy.”
She added, “I went to the Super Bowl the other day and I was sitting in a box with Adele. We were talking about it because she’s doing this Vegas residency and… not to out her, but she said she’s having the time of her life. She’s like, ‘I love that it’s a 4,000-cap room, it’s so nice, I feel like I can be there with them and I feel intimate.’”
Basically everyone in the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World cast was famous when the movie came out, but they’re even more famous now. We’re talking Brie Larson, Anna Kendrick, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Chris Evans, Mae Whitman, Kieran Culkin, Aubrey Plaza, Ellen Wong, and Michael Cera (I’m putting Scott Pilgrim behind Knives Chau for the way he treated her — not cool). The whole band (not Sex Bob-omb, although probably them, too) is getting back together for an anime show on Netflix based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel series.
Cera and Elizabeth Winstead will reprise their roles as Scott and Ramona, respectively. Everyone listed above will return, too, as will Alison Pill, Brandon Routh, Johnny Simmons, Mark Webber, and Satya Bhabha.
In a statement, Edgar Wright, who directed and co-wrote the 2010 film, said, “One of the proudest and most enjoyable achievements of my career was assembling and working with the dynamite cast of Scott Pilgrim. Since the film’s release in 2010 we’ve done Q&A’s, remembrances and charity read throughs, but there was never the occasion to reunite the whole gang on an actual project. Until now…” He continued:
“Original creator Bryan Lee O’Malley, along with writer BenDavid Grabinski have conjured up an anime series of Scott Pilgrim that doesn’t just expand the universe, but also… well, just watch it. I’m more than happy to announce that I have helped coax the entire original cast back to voice their characters on this epic new adventure. You are in for a treat.”
The animation will be provided by Science SARU, which also worked on Star Wars: Visions. The Scott Pilgrim anime does not have a premiere date.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL!
Announcing Scott Pilgrim, an anime series voiced by the cast of the 2010 film!
It comes from executive producers Edgar Wright, Bryan Lee O’Malley, and BenDavid Grabinski and is animated by Science Saru. pic.twitter.com/8iyZuaj6eL
Jeopardy! fans are crying foul after a beloved contestant lost a chance at Final Jeopardy over a pronunciation. It all went down when hunky contestant Kevin Manning had to give an answer to a Biblical clue.
“After the Last Supper, Jesus traveled to this garden to pray & was arrested there,” read the clue, which Manning immediately pounced on. He correctly said that the answer is “What is Garden of Gethsemane?” but apparently the judges didn’t like the way he said it.
However, he rattled off the name of the place in Jerusalem with a hard “g” sound — like “gate,” which is correct — in the beginning, and a “d” sound — rather than an “n” — on the last syllable.
Jennings, 48, said that was wrong and moved on to the returning champ, Tamara Ghattas, who used the “n” sound at the end but also said a soft “g” — like “gel,” which is incorrect — on the first syllable.
“Yeah, we just needed the ‘n’ in Gethsemane — that’s correct,” said Jennings, who also pronounced the name with a soft “g.”
That ruling cost Kevin a shot at Final Jeopardy and fans were not happy, especially after Jennings couldn’t even say the word right.
Uhhhh @Jeopardy —-Who decided on the correct pronunciation of ‘Gethsemane’?? I need to hear that again.
Unless I misunderstand #Jeopardy rules, the judges should not have accepted Tamara’s “Bible” answer of Jess-seh-muh-nee. That’s an entirely different word than Gethsemane, which is pronounced geth-seh-muh-nee. Of course, it didn’t matter in the end. @jeopardy
It also didn’t help that Kevin was extremely soft on the eyes. During his episode, viewers couldn’t get over how much he looked like WWE wrestlers Triple H and Chris Jericho, while others even went so far to compare him to Chris Hemsworth’s Thor. One lady even floated out Sean Bean, which we can kind of see.
Kevin Manning I love a lavender shirt, especially with the navy suit! And we’ve had some great hairstyles this season. I feel like Kevin looks like a famous actor but I can’t place him.#Jeopardypic.twitter.com/UwoTHnV1Rg
Come November, rapper NLE Choppa will celebrate his 21st birthday, but that isn’t stopping him from celebrating his “Jordan year” early. On his Tay Keith-produced single, “23,” from his upcoming project Cottonwood 2, due out April 14, he raps about how special this year will be for him.
A special moment that has happened thus far includes having his song, “Mo Up Front” featured in Powerade’s “What 50% More Means” campaign during the NCAA March Madness. As a former student-athlete himself, the moment meant a lot to him.
Diving into his past as a hooper, NLE stopped by the Uproxx studios to give us his dream NBA team foster but featuring musicians only. Following the rules of the game, NLE has to choose a total of five players to fill the position of point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward, and center.
Up for his imaginary draft include rappers Rico Nasty, Polo G, G Herbo, Roddy Ricch, Lil Baby, Young Thug, 2Rare, Chief Keef, Ice Spice, DDG, and himself. Also on the board is singer SZA.
Watch the full video below.
Outside of his NBA team roster with musicians, be sure to check out NLE Choppa’s UPROXX Sessions performance of his single, “23,” here. You can also watch his Behind The Video episode for the track here.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Charlie Puth transparently crafted his entire third LP, Charlie, in front of his TikTok followers. The platinum-certified “Light Switch” was born by accident when Puth flipped a light switch, and the sound caught his ear. A similar origin story applies to “No More Drama” and a creaking door. And he made a song in real time on Fallonusing only a coffee mug.
So, of course, Puth’s six-minute short film That’s Not How This Works begins with him walking around an empty house and picking up any little sound he can with his microphone.
Puth is particularly intrigued by the window coming through an open window and humming across an open water bottle, and then he sees Sabrina Carpenter outside of that window, leaving with a box of her things. He listens to all of the recordings he made throughout their relationship blossoming and eventually wilting in that house — his blissful birthday celebration, their first “I love you,” and endless arguments about Carpenter flirting with other people or ruining Puth’s artistic progress. (“You can’t have a serious conversation without using it as, like, inspiration for something,” she spits at him.)
“To date I’ve made 34 music videos, and they rarely feel like they say the whole truth about a song,” Puth wrote on TikTok. “There’s always more to say, and it’s usually just outside the music. It’s more in the moments, and that’s how my brain has always processed things — finally, I was able to make something to recreate truly what this song means to me.”
He continued, “I cannot wait for you to hear it. But first, you have to watch the movie — I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it. Thank you endlessly to Sabrina Carpenter, for your trust and immense talent.”
“That’s Not How This Works” will drop this Friday, March 31, featuring Dan And Shay. Carpenter’s remix is scheduled to release on April 14, Puth confirmed.
But first, do as the man said and watch the movie above.
“Oh, I totally get it, man. There’s a passionate fan base and I’m one of the fans. I get it. Mostly, people don’t want something like this to get screwed up. They’re precious about it. They’re careful. And I’m grateful for that,” Pratt replied.
Charlie Day, the Luigi to Mario’s Pratt, thinks the reaction to his co-star’s casting is because of how much people love the games. “I think Super Mario Bros., really, when you think about what a video game does for people, it is a place to escape to,” he said. “So people would go, after maybe having a tough day at school or in your work life, whatever it is, you put on Super Mario Bros., you play for an hour and you just disappear into that land and that world. So in many ways, the game had taken care of people, I think, in a way that they don’t want the franchise messed up at all. So I think they’ll be really happy when they see the movie two, three, maybe four times in the theater.”
Two, three, maybe four is also how many times I tried playing Hotel Mario before giving up. They can’t all be Mario Odyssey.
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