Month: March 2023

Hey you, yes you. Do you like movies with a good cast made by a good director? Boy do I have a film for you. Asteroid City is directed by Wes Anderson (it’s his 11th film overall, and first since 2021’s fantastic The French Dispatch) and stars Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Stephen Park, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon, Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie, Tony Revolori, Jake Ryan, and Jeff Goldblum. You know you’ve put together a stacked cast when Margot Robbie is listed 18th on the poster.

You can watch the Asteroid City trailer above.

Set in a fictional American desert town in 1955, Asteroid City is about “the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention, organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition, [being] spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.” That world-changing event appears to involve aliens, and everyone who was in Asteroid City at the time of first contact being held in quarantine.

To pass time, Anderson regular Schwartzman has an awkward interaction with his dead wife’s father, played by Hanks, and poorly flirts with an actress played by Johansson. “I do a nude scene, you wanna see it?” she asks, while he fails to react. “Huh? Did I say yes?” Schwartzman replies. He didn’t say anything. “I meant yes, my mouth, my mouth didn’t speak.”

Asteroid City will get a limited release in theaters on June 16th before expanding on June 23rd.

The final Succession season will soon be upon us. How many episodes remain until the Roy family’s story ends?

Sadly, not enough episodes shall happen, but there’s something to be said for the show coming to an end while it’s on top. However, HBO has dropped the final trailer, which of course points towards more turmoil after Tom’s betrayal of Shiv in the third season finale. The group dynamic completely flipped with Logan circling wagons to stay in power, but maintaining that power won’t be easy. And as the trailer suggests, he may be attempting to divide the Roy siblings by wooing Roman to the dark side.

Heck, all sides are dark when it comes to Waystar Royco, which has kind-of been in the can for awhile, and maybe Alexander Skarsgard’s character will rule the world in the series finale. But again, how many more episodes will this take?

Ten. That means we have about two-and-a-half months of weekly event TV when the tinkling opening notes of the theme song might cause chills to run down your spine in the best way. Event TV has been back for awhile (starting with House of the Dragon), but it’s staying strong this month with the returns of not only Succession but also Yellowjackets and Ted Lasso. We live in highly entertaining times.

Succession returns for its fourth and final season on March 26.

In The Lord of the Rings, Frodo is tasked with bringing the One Ring to Mordor and destroying it. Along the way, he fights orcs, spiders, and a fish-loving lil freak. Ari Aster sees a lot of similarities between the fantasy trilogy and his new movie, Beau Is Afraid, which he called “a Jewish Lord of the Rings, but he’s just going to his mom’s house.” No word on the orcs and spiders, but if it’s anything like every Jewish gathering my family has hosted, there will be fish.

A24‘s Beau Is Afraid stars Joaquin Phoenix in a “decades-spanning surrealist horror film set in an alternate present” about an “extremely anxious but pleasant-looking man who has a fraught relationship with his overbearing mother and never knew his father. When his mother dies, he makes a journey home that involves some wild supernatural threats.” In the behind-the-scenes video above, Aster, who also directed Hereditary and Midsommar, said he’s been thinking about this film for 10 years. “If you pumped a 10-year-old full of Zoloft and had him get your groceries, that’s like this movie,” he added.

Beau Is Afraid, which also stars Nathan Lane, Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan, Kylie Rogers, Parker Posey, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hayley Squires, Michael Gandolfini, Zoe Lister-Jones, and Richard Kind, comes out on April 21.

The campaign for a local TV anchor and meteorologist just grew by two. After news of Mississippi on-air talent Barbie Bassett might have been fired for using rapper Snoop Dogg’s lyric and signature catchphrase, “For sizzle, my nizzle,” social media was filled with debates. Following a segment discussing the mogul’s new wine venture, Bassett used the slang to close out the segment.

After hearing about the supposed firing through social media, Charlamagne Tha God and Whoopi Goldberg took to their respective platforms to vocalize their support for the fellow TV professional.

During Monday’s The Breakfast Club broadcast, the shock jock posed the question, “She can’t say ‘Fo shizzle, my nizzle?’” After thinking about the line further, he added, “Oh, I guess because it’s a derivative of n****,” before exclaiming, “She might not even know what nizzle means.”

The mogul said, “That’s the thing with hip-hop; hip-hop is so big and mainstream. Who can consume it, and who can’t? Who can repeat slang, and who can’t?”

Charlamagne has been in the hot seat several times for his remarks on-air and online. Pulling from his experience surrounded by controversy, he was sure to close the discussion with, “That’s not a fireable offense.”

Moved by the story, Goldberg, who was recently suspended for making “insensitive remarks” on air, also came to the anchor’s defense. As the headline was discussed amongst The View’s panelists, Goldberg passionately declared, “There has to be a book of stuff that nobody could ever say, ever, ever, ever. Include everything,” she said. “The things that change, ‘You can say this, but you can’t say that, but next week you might not be able to say this,’ it’s hard to keep up. It’s hard to keep up. And if you’re a person of a certain age, there’s stuff we do, and we say.”

Goldberg took it even further, adding, “Just because we’re on television doesn’t mean we know everything. We don’t know everything you’re not supposed to do. And if there is something someone says if you’re not going to give them the opportunity to explain why they said it, at least give them the grace of saying, ‘You know what? I’ve just been informed that I should not of done that,’ as opposed to, ‘You’re out.’”

Although the network has not released a formal statement, Bassett is no longer listed under the news team on its website. In addition, Bassett’s professional biography has also been scrubbed from the website.

A couple days ago, Saturday Night Live announced the hosts and musical guests for their upcoming April episodes. It appears Britney Spears may have seen that, because that same day, she took to Instagram to reflect on one of her own times hosting SNL by sharing a funny clip from her opening monologue.

Posting the 50-second clip, Spears wrote, “Funny SNL skit [rose emojis] !!!”

The video comes from the May 13, 2000 episode, on which Spears was both host and musical guest, her first time in either role. In the clip, Spears starts, “Now that I’m here, I think this is a perfect place to clear up some crazy, crazy rumors I keep hearing about myself, like that I can’t perform without lip-syncing, OK, which is not true.” From there, she goes on to discuss a Grammy Awards performance, but as she speaks, her voice is muted and comically replaced with an obvious voiceover recording.

She then added, “Oh yeah, there’s one more, oh yeah, the one about my boobs being fake. That is just ridiculous! I mean, come on! I’m 18 and I’m still growing, you know?” As she speaks, though, her “breasts” move around in an unnatural way, due to some sort of device hidden under her shirt.

Spears more seriously addressed lip syncing allegations in a 2017 interview, saying, “A lot of people think that I don’t sing live. Because I’m dancing so much I do have a little bit of playback, but there’s a mixture of my voice and the playback. It really pisses me off because I am busting my ass out there and singing at the same time and nobody ever really gives me credit for it.”

You can’t open up any of your preferred social media apps without seeing another posting of an upcoming festival. With music events dedicated to reggaeton, jazz, hip-hop, and more, it’s only right that alternative pop music lovers have an outdoor spectacle to call home. Tight Knit and Fngrs Crssd are looking to provide that safe space with the announcement of their debut festival Bleached.

Set to take place across two days, on August 5 and 6, at the Waterfront Park in San Diego, California, the festival will feature as their first headliners recording artists Joji, and Leon Bridges. Omar Apollo, PinkPantheress, and The Jungle Giants are also billed as featured acts.

Other notable names slated to perform include Aluna, Channel Tres, Blondshell, Surf Curse, and Stephen Sanchez. It’s unclear if the recording artists released in this initial announcement will perform on both days, but the organizers ensure that more information, including additional performances, will be shared soon, so stay tuned for more.

Tickets for Bleached Festival go on sale on Tuesday, April 4, beginning at 11 am pacific. For more information, click here.

View the currently released lineup below.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Draymond Green is a pretty passionate basketball player. While he insists that he only gets technical fouls when he wants them, the second quarter of Tuesday night’s game between the Golden State Warriors and the New Orleans Pelicans really put that theory to the test.

With just under four minutes left in the half, Brandon Ingram got the ball in transition and Green decided to stop him from getting the easy bucket by shoulder checking him for a foul. Ingram wasn’t happy about this, so he confronted Green and the two were immediately broken up. But still, it was determined that both Ingram and Green got a technical foul, which … did not sit especially well with Golden State’s veteran forward.

While he was able to avoid getting a second tech, Green was also hit with a flagrant foul. Ok, fine, let’s get back to the game, where things almost boiled over just seconds later, as Green went up for a layup, Herb Jones drew a charge, both guys hit the deck, and there were a lot of feet flying all over the place while the two got up. Once again, the two were separated, while Green was awfully fired up over the whole thing.

Perhaps Green wanted to get T’d up here because things were going poorly for the Warriors. But that did not happen, so he was able to remain in the game — and, perhaps more importantly, avoid getting suspended for his 18th tech on the season.

Donald Trump may have launched his 2024 campaign over four months ago, but he hasn’t done one of his rambly, whiny weekday interviews on Fox News since well before that. That’s because the news network, with whom he’s been feuding, treated the former president to a “soft ban,” which only got more pronounced after his disastrous end-of-year antics, such as dining with anti-Semites. That soft ban ended starting Monday night, when Trump made his triumphant return to chat with his good pal, alleged journalist Sean Hannity. But while the interview drew plenty of viewers, he was still out-watched by two other Fox News shows that day.

As per Mediaite, Trump’s return — which featured the usual moaning, as well as some happy thoughts, like him crowing about how his new, weird J6 Choir single technically did well, sort of — drew 3.04 million viewers. Sounds like a lot, doesn’t it? He and Hannity did handily beat The Rachel Maddow Show over at MSNBC, which wrangled in “only” 2.39 million.

However, you know who did even better? The show that airs right before Hannity: Tucker Carlson Tonight, hosted by the guy who definitely doesn’t still secretly hate Trump and definitely doesn’t only say things that will rile up his base. Tucker got 3.34 million — which is still nothing on the network’s most popular program, the late afternoon/early evening group chat-a-thon The Five. That one got 3.78 million, or a little over 700,000 more viewers than the show with the presumptive GOP nominee for president in 2024. Who, again, was returning to Fox News for the first time in about six months.

Trump is still crushing it in the polls, gaining more supporters while his once-hoped-for successor, Ron DeSantis, keeps losing them. But what if neither of them is really all that popular? In the meantime, part two of Trump’s sit-down with Hannity aired Tuesday night, so maybe he’ll get a Mulligan.

(Via Mediaite)

Baja Beach Fest is back. Last year’s event was headlined by Daddy Yankee, Farruko, and Anuel AA. This year, for its fifth anniversary, the organizers are holding nothing back, securing Ozuna, Feid, Wisin Y Yandel, and more as headliners for the multi-day event. Set to take place between August 11 and 13, Rosarito Beach in Rosarito, Mexico will become a melting box for the top acts across dembow doña, reggaeton and Latin music.

Opening night, on Friday, August 11, will be headlined by Nicky Jam and Wisin Y Yandel, who will come together for their final live performance. The following day, on Saturday, August 12, will be carried by Ozuna and Feid. Don Omar and reggaetonero legend Tego Calderón will close out the festival on Sunday, August 13. Tego, using the appearance to kick off his La Última Receta Tour. Also taking place on August 11, Grupo Firme will be a special set.

Other notable performers include Becky G, El Alfa, Eladio Carrión, Ivy Queen, and Tokischa.

Both general admission and VIP ticket packages for Baja Beach Fest 2023 are on sale now. For more information, click here.

View the full lineup below.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Since strict lockdown policies have been lifted, concert culture has evolved. Sabrina Carpenter learned this during one of her latest tour stops. The “Nonsense” singer is currently on the road promoting her latest album, Emails I Can’t Send, and fans are pouring out their emotions in more ways than one.

While transitioning between tracks, a concertgoer in the front row held up her phone with a note on the screen, attempting to catch Carpenter’s eye. Her plan worked and as the musician walked over, she asked the fan, “What is this? Is this your phone number.” The concergoer then clarified that the number actually belongs to a guy she’s dating, to which the singer urged, “Don’t text his ass!”

But Carpenter’s advice is a little too late. The fan then went into great detail about their relationship in what felt like a live therapy session to which the sold out crowd had to bear witness. The concertgoer chronicled how the gentleman has been stringing her along despite her wanting to dial things up a notch. She said he was “trying to find himself” before confessing that this happened months ago and she’s still been in contact with him. Carpenter seemed to offer good support.

After the clip was shared to social media, people were equally entertained by the hilarious yet heartbreaking story.

Sabrina Carpenter’s Emails I Can’t Send Tour is still underway. For more information click here.