Billie Eilish shared some big news today (July 6): She made a new song for the Barbie movie soundtrack, dubbed “What Was I Made For.” (Eilish actually teased her soundtrack appearance on July 3: A photo gallery on Instagram ended with a photo of benches with Barbie movie advertisements on them.) After that news had time to breathe, Eilish took to her Instagram Stories to show off her long history with the world of Barbie.
She started with a couple photos, perhaps from Christmas years ago, of her getting a big Barbie play set as a present (Finneas, meanwhile, was gifted a copy of Guitar Hero: World Tour). Some of the other photos show off a Barbie birthday cake she had one year, a clever design that basically just stuck a Barbie doll into a cake shaped like the bottom of a dress. One photo shows her fast asleep in a pink dress and another is of her awake in what appears to be the same dress, holding a bunch of dolls.
— Billie Eilish Tours (@billieeilishtrs) July 6, 2023
Eilish wrote in her Instagram announcement of the song, “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! [teddy bear, pink bow, ballet slipper, pink heart emojis] ‘What Was I Made For?’ COMING OUT JULY 13TH AT 7AM PT. !!!!!!!! [see-no-evil monkey, smiling with hearts emojis]. WE MADE THIS SONG FOR BARBIE AND IT MEANS THE ABSOLUTE WORRRRLLLD TO ME. THIS MOVIE IS GONNA CHANGE UR LIVES AND HOPEFULLY THE SONG WILL TOO. GET READY TO SOB @FINNEAS.”
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.
From the outside, you may think that you know where this series is going, but the show promises to be even more chaotic than you expect. Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen play old friends who reunite after people grow apart (as they do), and it soon grows apparent that he shakes up her little world. Fortunately, she does appear to be happily married, and her husband approves of (and, in fact, encourages) this rekindled friendship — at least, until the horse tranquilizers come into play. It happens.
Succession’s Sarah Snook is back on our screens in what looks like an ultra-tense psychological thriller/horror film complete with a creepy kid, creepier paper masks, and even creepier crayon drawings. Also, there’s a rabbit. Which is VERY CREEPY. We don’t know if this is going to be the rare scarer that hits with audiences, but we know Snook always delivers a powerhouse performance that’s worth the price of admission… and this is Netflix, so there is not really a price of admission. So… win-win?
Hijack asks a question that has been on all of our minds for over a decade now: What if we took 24, with its real-time running clock playing out over the course of a full season, but instead it was seven hours and with Idris Elba and on an airplane? Okay, maybe you weren’t asking that exact question for the last 10 years. But you probably are now. Which is okay, seeing as that’s basically what Hijack is. Look at us, solving little problems we didn’t even know existed. It’s not as dramatic as, say, thwarting terrorists in the skies, to choose an example at random, but still. Not too shabby.
The last time we checked in with Boots Riley, he was taking us on a deeply wild ride with Sorry to Bother You. Well, he’s back, and deeply wild again, this time with a new series about a 13-foot-tall man named Cootie who has a bunch of interesting experiences out in the world, delving into everything from love to friendship to… actually, you should just watch this one to find out. Our words can’t do it justice. Especially not for the thing where Walton Goggins shows up as a character named The Hero. This is a weird one, to be sure but it’s a weird one in the best way possible.
All hail the never-ending franchise’s new spinoffs, which begin with Manhattan-bound misadventure to reinforce what a bad idea it is to head into cities with zombies afoot. Fortunately, this is a thrilling throwback, in which Maggie pretty much forces Negan to help her rescue Hershel Rhees, son of Glenn and Maggie, obviously. Hey, Negan owes her one, so let the walker variants roll
Nick Fury is having a not-so-great time with the “one last job” trope as he heads back into MCU hijinks for what might be his “one last fight.” We do live in unusual Hollywood times, and with Captain Marvel, the Skrulls somehow became the good guys, so we’ll see how Talos fares in this standalone series. Not only are Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn onboard, but Emilia Clarke and Olivia Colman also formally enter the MCU with this show, and we will apparently see some Rhodey on this “crossover event series,” too. Only enough, there’s some eye-patch-less Fury in the mix, so I hope we get some more Goose to add even more context.
The world isn’t lacking for Supermen. Some people still can’t let go of Henry Cavil, we just saw his replacement get cast (David Corenswet), saw tributes to past Supers galore in The Flash (in addition to Sasha Calle co-starring as Supergirl) and there’s Superman And Lois on the CW with Tyler Hoechlin donning the red cape. Despite the familiarity, though, we’re pumped for a new animated adventure that promises to stand apart from the field by leaning into an anime style and focusing on the awkward phase of Superman’s (and Clark Kent’s) life when he was still finding himself as a hero and intern at the Daily Planet.
Here’s what we know about Extraction 2: It sees Chris Hemsworth returning to action as the left-for-dead mercenary-turned-hero Tyler Rake (still a terrific name) who’s tasked with saving more people in peril. Here’s what we don’t know about Extraction 2: How the hell this movie got made. The stunt list alone should’ve had insurance companies running for the hills. There’s talk that Hemsworth is lit on fire at one point. There are dizzying car chases filmed on a continuous loop. Just 20-minute-long car chases, people! Helicopters are out here landing on moving trains. Who let these men do this?
What we have here is a spinoff of one show (Star Trek: Discovery) that was itself a prequel to another show (the original Star Trek), now in its second season. We are deep into the lore here. But that’s okay. It’s a fun little ride, good for both diehard fans of the franchise and newbies trying to dip their toes in a little. You could use a little galactic escape sometimes. We all can.
Warrior is back for a third season, still starring Andrew Koji as Ah Sahm and still set in 19th century San Francisco and still based on the writings of Bruce Lee, but now it’s on Max, which was previously known as HBO Max, after originally debuting on Cinemax back in 2019. There’s a lot going on here, most of it involving some usage of the letters m-a-x, but the bottom line remains the same: it’s a good show that’s full of action and cool fights scenes and sometimes that’s exactly what you need when it starts getting hot outside.
Much like The Beastie Boys (only not like them at all), this duo began their journey as high school pals who decided, what the hell, let’s form a pop band. Soon enough, they became a global sensation, and this documentary promises to pluck a few heartstrings while looking back at George Michael (RIP) and Andrew Ridgeley’s personal trove of footage along with previously unrevealed discussions from both pop stars.
John Krasinski is back for another run as Jack Ryan, the Tom Clancy character who has been saving the world for the last 30 or 40 years, played by everyone from Harrison Ford to Chris Pine. Wendell Pierce is in there, too. It’s kind of wild to think about, really, this thing where Jim from The Office and Bunk from The Wire have been running around for a few seasons now saving the world on a show made by the same company that ships vitamins and kitchen utensils to your house in 48 hours. But it’s happening. The future is pretty weird!
It’s the 16th season of It’s Always Sunny and if you’re not already endlessly in love with this gang of moronic miscreants and their low-rent misadventures I don’t know that you can be saved. For those who have fallen off a little over the years, though, please allow us to reassure you that the show is as good, chaotic, vile, silly, and subtly smart as ever, trading international hijinks in Ireland during part of last season for a back to basics approach. In just the first two episodes we’ve seen Mac, Charlie, Dee, Dennis, and Frank giving us a cliffs notes understanding of inflation and crypto (as only Always Sunny can), revelations about Charlie and Frank’s cramped apartment, a crazy family road trip, and a whole lot of casual gunplay. And that’s just the first two episodes. We can’t wait to see the rest.
Hey, do you wanna spend like 90 minutes this weekend watching a movie that stars Adam Devine and Nina Dobrev as a young married couple and Pierce Brosnan and Ellen Barkin as her parents who might also secretly be bank robbers? Before you answer, please remember that it is 8000 degrees outside and you probably have air conditioning in your room. And that any movie where Pierce Brosnan plays a maybe secret thief is a solid summer watch. Okay, now you can answer.
Can the bleak freaky award-winning anthology series and buzz machine from a few years ago still scare the piss out of audiences now that the world has been brought closer to some of its popular themes about metaverses, AI everywhere, neural implants, evaporating privacy protections, and the malignancy of loneliness and hollowness of digital interactions? We’re about to find out with five new star-studded episodes that beg for our attention while it’s still ours to control.
4. Muscles & Mayhem: An Unauthorized Story of American Gladiators (Netflix)
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American Gladiators exists at the intersection of cheesy ’80s and early ’90s WWF/WWE wrestling, pro football, and action films like Running Man, a former weekend TV staple and likely forgotten piece of pop culture ephemera trapped in a time capsule that just got busted open for a new Netflix docuseries. What’s inside? A whole lotta spandex and tales of pumping up, sex, drugs, and mayhem, feeding Where Are They Now fascinations around larger-than-life one-named stars like Gemini, Ice, and Blaze. Oh, and there’s a behind-the-scenes power player who dressed up like Elvis.
Henry Cavill has one foot out the door of this franchise, which is unfortunate, but we’ll see what Liam Hemsworth brings to the table in the future. Further, this season will apparently bring us (from the looks of the above teaser) plenty of banger-filled Jaskier with newfound eyeliner. Ideally, this means that the show will go ahead and declare Jaskier canonically bisexual because they’ve been dancing around the issue long enough. And god only knows that the Netflix franchise has tweaked Andrzej Sapkowski books and the video games enough over the years already, so what’s one more time?
The first season of The Bear was often chaotic and intense in the very best of ways. But while season two doesn’t move fully away from that formula, it all feels a little more slow-burn and structured as it seeks to tell a story about what happens when you dare to take a chance and change things up. How discombobulating it is and how the universe reacts. We thought last season was a main course, but it was apparently just an appetizer.
The super-rich mega-church proprietors are back and they’re ready to step into a new chapter that sees patriarch Eli Gemstone ceding control to his kids. Shades of Succession? In some surface ways, sure, but Gemstones is its own swirl of chaos and genius, and this new season goes all in on family feuds while adding monster trucks, romantic entanglements, backwoods survivalists doing that thing they do, and an all-new Baby Billy scheme.
Following Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s most recent showdown with Lauren Boebert on the House floor, reports started coming in that the House Freedom Caucus was looking to expel Greene for calling Boebert a “little b*tch.” Both congresswomen are part of the caucus, which frowns upon disparaging members, so Greene didn’t help the situation by doubling down on her remarks and referring to Boebert as a “nasty little b*tch.”
However, Greene’s status in the Freedom Caucus has been elusive. The conservative body had refused to release the results of a vote against Greene, but a member has now confirmed to The Daily Beast that Greene was removed. Although, in an interesting wrinkle, Boebert reportedly argued against expelling her former BFF:
During internal deliberations almost two weeks ago—which occurred after Greene confirmed to multiple publications she indeed did call Boebert “a little bitch”—Boebert agreed with another member who argued against removing Greene, out of respect for her right to “freedom of speech.”
“She was against having her removed,” a GOP lawmaker familiar with the HFC meeting told The Daily Beast. “She was actually against it.”
While Boebert reportedly defended Greene during arguments, the Colorado congresswoman refused to confirm which way she ultimately voted. Boebert gave a carefully worded statement to The Daily Beast when asked about Greene’s ejection.
“The comments that Marjorie and I shared with one another had absolutely no influence on my vote,” Boebert said.
Last week, creators Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi announced that the third season of Reservation Dogs would, sadly, be its last. Harjo noted that it was the best time for the ending he had in mind, and the trailer for this final season promises an epic emotional conclusion to one of the funniest shows on TV.
Most of the gang is returning by bus to the rez while Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai) continues on to parts unknown with his spirit guide (Dallas Goldtooth) who is always so, so, so helpful. As much as the show has been about “being stuck,” the trailer hints at a season that will see the characters leaving home or finding purpose by staying.
It’s sad to see the show end, but in the search for a silver lining, it’ll be interesting to see what these creators and actors do next. Woon-A-Tai is in Finn Wolfhard’s (yes, from Stranger Things) horror comedy Hell of a Summer; Devery Jacobs is co-starring in the upcoming Marvel show Echo; Lane Factor was in The Fabelmans; Paulina Alexis was in Ghostbusters: Afterlife; and Harjo just wrote and executive produced Rez Ball, a sports drama about a team that loses its star player.
And, presumably, Waititi is doing whatever he wants.
The final season of Reservation Dogs lands on FX and Hulu on August 2nd.
It has often been said that rap is wrestling — meaning that a lot of the supposed “beef” that goes on within the genre is just performers doing a job, rather than holding legit animosity toward each other. If that’s the case, then the only way to buy into the brewing feud between Childish Gambino and Drake is to go full-blown mark, because both are surely in on the joke.
A few months ago, Gambino — aka multitalented actor/director/producer/writer Donald Glover — admitted his 2018 megahit “This Is America” started out as a Drake diss, so at last night’s It’s All A Blur Tour opener, Drake himself chimed in to strike back, calling the song “overrated” with his stage design. A text scroll above and on the sides of the stage declared: “The overrated and over-awarded hit song ‘This Is America’ was originally a Drake diss record.” Considering that many of the other quotes scrolling during his performance of “Headlines” were culled from negative press coverage Drake’s received over the years, it seems likely this is also a blog headline, but Google hasn’t turned anything up as yet.
Drake called This Is America “overrated and over awarded” at the first show of his tour after Childish Gambino said it was originally a Drake diss pic.twitter.com/A6UPfLQkhW
Obviously, Drake and Donald have both had a lot of fun messing with media who run stories like this, so it seems fair to say all this is probably a bit of kayfabe to keep the fans entertained. However, depending on how sensitive Glover is to criticisms of “This Is America” — and there have been plenty since it dropped in May 2018 — Drake and ‘Bino could mess around and work themselves into a shoot, and I don’t know who actually wants to see that. You can find more about the Drake tour, including the setlist, here.
Aside from his accomplishments in music, Lewis Capaldi is also one of the most delightful personalities in the game. That made him a perfect Hot Ones guest on today’s (July 6) new episode, and it turns out he’s a genuine, major fan of the show. That came up several times in the video, including when he re-created the series’ most iconic moment: the Paul Rudd “look at us” meme.
After Capaldi did his plugs and the show was over (after struggling through some of the sauces), Capaldi and Sean Evans were still sitting at their tables as Capaldi downed a bunch of lemonade. After a giant gulp, Capaldi raised his bottle and threw out a, “Hey: look at us.” Evans laughed and played his role, coming back with, “Who would have thought?” Capaldi, his mouth full of drink, managed to murmur something in the cadence of Rudd’s classic, “Not me!”
During the plugs, after promoting his new album, he took a shot at DJ Khaled, who infamously tapped out after eating just two wings in his 2015 episode. Capaldi said, “DJ Khaled: if you’re out there…,” then he stuck two middle fingers in the air and continued, “…eat my sh*t.”
The social star-to-recording artist pipeline remains intact and any number of familiar faces from our favorite Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube accounts continue to make the leap — including today’s UPROXX Sessions performer, Flight. Known as FlightReacts on YouTube, he’s mainly known for reactions to basketball highlights, but he’s also got a growing catalog of self-produced albums and songs on streaming platforms, which includes his late-December offering “The Scale,” which features Detroit punchline merchant Babytron.
Sans his guest star, Flight dropped by UPROXX Studios to deliver a fluid performance of the new(ish) song. A boastful track that sees the Florida native Los Angeles transplant detailing his big plans for the future, “The Scale” is a straightforward introduction to the world of FlightReacts. Consistency is key; as long Flight keeps dropping new music, we’ll be well on his way to being where DDG is in no time.
Watch Flight’s UPROXX Sessions performance of “The Scale” above.
UPROXX Sessions is Uproxx’s performance show featuring the hottest up-and-coming acts you should keep an eye on. Featuring creative direction from LA promotion collective, Ham On Everything, and taking place on our “bathroom” set designed and painted by Julian Gross, UPROXX Sessions is a showcase of some of our favorite performers, who just might soon be yours, too.
Business Today have reported that the tour is likely to gross $1 billion soon. She’s reportedly bringing in $13 million with each night, and it’s accumulated $300 million thus far through 22 dates. She’s broken Elton John’s record, which surpassed the $800 million mark with his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour in January.
Even the pop star’s fans are making money off the shows as well. Many have taken to selling confetti from the concerts online. “Taylor Swift has created an insane business model,” a seller named Jen said. “People are getting mad that I’m selling confetti at like $30. But what’s crazy is that A) people are buying it, and B) you’re in denial thinking Taylor Swift is not a capitalist.”
“She makes everything special, and she’ll only put out a certain amount or only certain people can get it,” another seller name Shelley said. “Only floor seats and maybe some of the 100 sections can even get confetti.”
To say that Kevin Costner is entering a new era of life would be an understatement. He’s back in the director’s seat, currently, with Western Horizon in the works. He’s bidding goodbye to his run as John Dutton in Yellowstone, and if you thought his breakup with Taylor Sheridan was messy, then you haven’t paid attention to any of the divorce chatter. Earlier this year, Christine Baumgartner filed to end her 18-year marriage with Costner, and since then, negotiations appear not to be going well.
The two splits reportedly are not related, but both share a lot of awkward vibes. As in, Costner reportedly “hit the roof” over Christine’s friendship with their guest-house occupant. The pair had, notably, also signed a prenup that specified how Costner would retain the marital home in the event of divorce, and he’s enforcing that agreement. Christine apparently did not fight that provision, but she did ask a judge to allow her to stay until the end of August, whereas Costner wanted her out this week.
As PEOPLE reports, Costner is thrilled that a judge ruled for Christine to leave by July 31. A Costner-friendly source declared, “Kevin was happy yesterday with a prejudgment in his favor” regarding the $145 million compound. Additionally, the matter of child support is a divisive one. PEOPLE reported that Christine filed papers to request $248,000 per month. Costner’s team ripped that apart while accusing Christine of racking up “plastic surgery expenses of $188,500/month.” Yikes on several levels, and Costner insists that he should only have to pay about half of what she requested:
In a response to Christine’s declaration of order, filed Wednesday in the Superior Court of California, the Yellowstone actor called his ex’s request for $248,000 per month “highly inflated and unsubstantiated.”
“Guideline monthly child support based on Kevin’s gross cash flow available for support is $123,620,” the court document also stated.
Part of the issue, according to Insider, is that Costner expects to learn far less money than he did in 2022, mainly due to losing most of his Yellowstone earnings. “This is because I am no longer under contract for ‘Yellowstone,’” he further declared, which possibly means that he had has already been paid for the back end of Season 5. Those final episodes have yet to be filmed, and there’s no telling when Costner’s schedule will cool down enough to do so. The rest of the Yellowstone cast doesn’t seem to know, either, but at least viewers can catch up on 1883 and 1923 while they wait.
Despite continuing to advertise deep dive trips to the Titanic even after the imploded remains of its Titan submersible were found, confirming the death of its five passengers, OceanGate Expeditions has “suspended all exploration and commercial operations,” according to a statement on the company’s website.
The deep sea company has been under intense scrutiny since the Titan submersible first went missing. Over the years, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush flouted safety concerns as an impediment to “innovation,” and he even went so far as to call warnings that he’s going to kill someone a “serious personal insult.” Stockton died aboard the submersible when it imploded.
According to ABC News, the disaster has sparked a multi-agency investigation into the doomed OceanGate dive:
“There is still a substantial amount of work to be done to understand the factors that led to the catastrophic loss of the TITAN and help ensure a similar tragedy does not occur again,” Marine Board of Investigation Chair Capt. Jason Neubauer said in a statement on June 28.
The U.S. Coast Guard is leading an investigation into the deadly incident, according to the National Transportation Safety Board, which said it will “contribute to their efforts.”
According to a former NTSB investigator, the analysis of the Titan wreckage as well as OceanGate’s operations could take months due to the unprecedented nature of the disaster.
“This is the first fatality on a passenger carriage submarine I can think of and certainly the first one going into Titanic at this depth,” Tom Haueter told ABC News.
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