Month: July 2023

It’s been 10 years since Futurama went off the air a second time. The third iteration of Matt Groening’s beloved sci-fi cartoon — fourth if you count those movie specials released before the Comedy Central revival — kicks off on July 24, with new episodes hitting Hulu every week. But how long will this run go for? It’s semi-complicated.

What’s either the eighth or the eleventh season of the show, depending on how you count them, will make like the final seasons of The Sopranos and Breaking Bad: They’ll be divided into two. The first batch runs 10 episodes, all the way into September 25. Don’t worry, there’s 10 more en route, though it’s not yet known when they’ll begin dropping.

This latest resurrection didn’t happen too easily. Disney was able to get almost the original cast to return, save one major exception (though they’re all major, to be honest). John DiMaggio, who voices alcoholic robot Bender — as well as sadistic Robot Santa and other characters — held out because the super-corporation didn’t want to pay him what he wanted. DiMaggio didn’t get that pay raise, but he did get something else: “respect,” he boasted last year shortly after he signed on again.

Futurama was famously axed on Fox, its original network, back in 2003. After fans turned it into a bona fide cult item, a quartet of movies, alter divided into episodes, followed in 2008. In 2010, Comedy Central brought it back again, in a run that lasted till 2013. And now look at them.

Nobody is doing pink like Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie, but Ryan Gosling has unfortunately been exposed as an outfit repeater and offered his sincerest apologies to BTS’ Jimin. At one point in Barbie, Gosling’s Ken is seen wearing a black jacket accentuated by white flowery stitching and tassels. ARMY will immediately recognize it as Jimin’s chosen look for BTS’ July 2021 “Permission To Dance” video, and Gosling recognized Ken’s fashion faux pas.

“Hi, Jimin. It’s Ryan Gosling here. I noticed that your ‘Permission To Dance’ outfit was the same as my Ken outfit in the upcoming movie Barbie. I have to give it to you: You wore it first. You definitely wore it best,” Gosling says in a video posted by the official Barbie movie Instagram and Twitter accounts.

He continues, “And there’s an unspoken Ken code that if you bite another Ken’s style, you have to give them your most prized possession. I hope you’ll accept Ken’s guitar as my humble offering. And besides, Ken doesn’t really play anyway, so, it’ll be much better in your hands.”

To Gosling’s point, he didn’t need a guitar to deliver his “I’m Just Ken” power ballad for the star-studded, Mark Ronson-produced Barbie soundtrack.

Barbie will finally enjoy its long-awaited theatrical release on Friday, July 21, coinciding with the arrival of Barbie: The Album.

Uproxx’s Mike Ryan reviewed the film-turned-phenomena.

“I saw this movie somewhat early in the morning after a night of little sleep and I legitimately laughed out loud at least ten times,” Gosling said. “I truly don’t know what audiences expecting a straightforward Barbie movie will make of all this. But I, for one, hope Warner Bros. and Mattel let Gerwig and Baumbach make five more of these.”

The Golden Elite (Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks, Hangman Page, and Kota Ibushi) defeated the Blackpool Combat Club (Wheeler Yuta, Jon Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli), Takeshita, and Pac to win the 2023 Blood and Guts match from Boston.

Castagnoli kicked things off with Omega before Pac made his way to the AEW ring for the first time in seven months. Page evened things up before Moxley brought chaos to the cage with a fork, broken glass, and eventually a bed of nails.

Nick Jackson hit the ring, followed by Yuta, and eventually Matt Jackson. Moxley slammed Omega into the bed of nails before Ibushi made his way to the ring.

While Mox pressed Omega’s hand into the nails, Ibushi gave the former heavyweight champion a taste of his own medicine.

Yuta escaped to the top of the cage, but Matt Jackson joined him and hit a series of Northern Lights Suplexes across the top of the cage.

From the top of the cage, Matt Jackson rained tacks down into the cage in perfect timing for a reversal onto the tacks for Castagnoli and Pac. Eventually, all 10 competitors lined up across the rings together and went to battle.

Every member of the Golden Elite got locked into submission attempts as Castagnoli locked in the big swing on Matt Jackson and a sharpshooter. With Omega facing a 5-on-1 attack, Castagnoli accidentally hit Pac with an upper cut, leading to Pac giving the finger to his team and leaving the cage.

Page and Omega hit a stereo Buckshot Lariat and V-Trigger before handcuffing Moxley to the middle rope. Don Callis called Takeshita out the ring before the Golden Elite wrapped a chain around Yuta’s neck and pulled until Moxley surrendered for the ref to call for the bell.

Ice Spice’s 2023 year has been a big one for her. She’s worked with big names like Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift for remixes of “Princess Diana” and “Karma,” respectively. She’s also managed to have multiple records in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 while also signing on for performances at the BET Awards, Rolling Loud, Hot 97’s Summer Jam, Wireless Festival, and more. With all that she’s accomplished, Ice Spice is taking a moment to give back to her fans with new music.

The Bronx rapper announced her Like..? (Deluxe) project on July 19, and hours later, she unveiled its tracklist. In total, the project will hold 11 songs including favorites like the “Princess Diana” remix with Nicki Minaj, “In Ha Mood,” and “Bikini Bottom.” The deluxe reissue also features four new songs: “Butterfly Ku,” “Deli,” “On The Radar (Bonus),” and “How High?”

The Like..? (Deluxe) will also arrive together with Barbie The Album, the soundtrack for the upcoming Barbie movie. It’s there that Ice Spice connected with Nicki Minaj for their “Barbie World” record Aqua.

You can view the tracklist for Like..? (Deluxe) below.

1. “How High?”
2. “Butterfly Ku”
3. “Deli”
4. “In Ha Mood”
5. “Princess Diana” Feat. Nicki Minaj
6. “Princess Diana”
7. “Gangsta Boo” Feat. Lil Tjay
8. “Actin A Smoochie”
9. “Bikini Bottom”
10. “Munch”
11. “On The Radar (Bonus)”

Like..? (Deluxe) is out 7/21 via 10K Projects & Capitol Records. Find out more information here.

Before its official release on Wednesday, July 19, Michaël Brun’s single “Jessica” amassed 30 million collective previews across all platforms. The pre-release hype was underscored by the Haiti-born artist recruiting Saint Jhn, Charly Black, and J Perry for the song. Then it was multiplied by the J Balvin bump.

Hours before dropping “Jessica,” Brun revealed on Instagram that Balvin contributed “a surprise verse.” He also called it “the biggest song of my career.” On July 11, Brun laid an Easter egg by posting a screenshot of his text exchange with Balvin during which Balvin wrote, “Send Jessica the song.”

Meanwhile, Balvin promoted the infectious single in his Instagram Stories, writing, “Wowwwwwwwwwwww” and re-sharing Brun’s post with 10 flame emojis.

Brun will carry this momentum into the release of his three-track FAMI Summer EP on Friday, July 21.

“FAMI Summer is my love letter to my upbringing in the Caribbean,” Brun said in a statement. “I wanted the listener to travel across languages, genres and countries to discover the sounds that made me who I am today.”

Listen to “Jessica” above, and check out Brun’s upcoming tour dates below.

07/22 – New York, NY @ SUMMERSTAGE
10/19 — Atlanta, GA @ The Loft
10/20 — Washington, DC @ Howard Theatre
10/21 – Boston, MA @ Big Night Live
10/28 — Miami, FL @ Little Haiti Cultural Center
11/04 — Paris, FRA @ La Boule Noire
11/07 — Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Bitterzoet
11/09 — London, UK @ Corsica Studios

FAMI Summer is out 7/21 via Astralwerks. Find more information here.

Hollywood doesn’t really do sex anymore and they haven’t for ages, at least not on a regular basis. Every time some big movie has nooky, people freak the hell out. So when it turned out Christopher Nolan — a decidedly un-saucy filmmaker who’s barely shown bare flesh let alone characters enjoying the pleasures of the flesh — had slipped some hard-R sauciness into Oppenheimer, his movie about the inventor of the atom bomb, alarm bells went off. But Nolan says they’re necessary.

In a new interview with Insider, Nolan talks about another side of J. Robert Oppenheimer, played by Cillian Murphy. “When you look at Oppenheimer’s life and you look at his story, that aspect of his life, the aspect of his sexuality, his way with women, the charm that he exuded, it’s an essential part of his story,” Nolan said.

Oppenheimer had a long, rocky marriage to his scientist wife Kitty, played in the film by Emily Blunt. While they were married, he also hooked back up with his old fiancée, Jean Tatlock, played by Florence Pugh. The film apparently features some naughty business with both, as well as what’s been described as “prolonged full nudity.”

Tatlock was a card-carrying communist, which later got Oppenheimer in trouble with some petty Republicans led by the hissable Lewis Strauss (Robert Downey Jr.). Nolan wanted to make sure his semi-hero’s bedside manner received attention.

“It felt very important to understand their relationship and to really see inside it and understand what made it tick without being coy or allusive about it, but to try to be intimate, to try and be in there with him and fully understand the relationship that was so important to him,” Nolan explained.

Nolan also vaguely discussed doing something he’d never shown onscreen before: graphic nudity and sex. Yes, he was anxious.

“Any time you’re challenging yourself to work in areas you haven’t worked in before, you should be appropriately nervous and appropriately careful and planned and prepared,” he confessed.

Now a ton of people are going to see the fruits of Nolan’s labor, many on the same day they see a movie about a sentient doll who suffers an existential crisis that keeps enraging conservatives. And they say bland franchises have taken over the multiplex.

(Via Insider)

Creed is back. No, this has nothing to do with the fourth film in the series of boxing movies: Creed, the rock band from the 1990s and 2000s that released several well-documented “I’m four drinks in let’s see what I can find on TouchTunes” bangers, is reuniting for the first time since going on hiatus in 2013. As of now, the only thing on the docket for Creed is an appearance on the Summer of ’99 cruise next April, which includes a bunch of bands from that era.

Now, we here at Uproxx have verticals that touch on a little bit of everything, but this is Sports, and we’re here talking about Creed. This can mean one thing and one thing only: It’s high time we look back on the greatest non-Super Bowl halftime performance that we have ever seen in an NFL game.

If you have never seen it before, back in 2001, Creed made their way down to Texas Stadium to go through some songs — “Higher,” “My Sacrifice,” “Don’t Stop Dancing” — during halftime of the game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Denver Broncos. It was, truly, one of the most incredible spectacles these eyes have ever seen. Scott Stapp is wearing a customized Cowboys jersey, the Cowboys cheerleaders are joined by other folks dancing on the field. I have spent years trying to describe what happens at 1:26 and just can’t. A cheerleader and a girl throw a dove into the air. A lot more happens over the course of this.

The whole thing is great. Anyway, the Broncos beat the Cowboys, 26-24, behind Mike Anderson’s 33 carries for 118 yards and a touchdown.

Illuminati Hotties has been red-hot behind the scenes, lending production to Boygenius’ The Record and opening for a portion of Boygenius’ current North American tour. But Sarah Tuzdin’s brainchild is about to reclaim the spotlight. A press release promises that their follow-up to their 2021 album Let Me Do One More “is due imminently.” The forthcoming LP has been preceded by a newly released single, “Truck.”

The acoustic-based, dreamy track exemplifies an uninhibited feeling otherwise known as summer vibes. Tuzdin tugs at nostalgia, singing, “You grew up way too fast / Took your corncob act to the city / Thought there could be something more / Turns out Hollywood’s just as boring / Sticking to the first game plan.”

In a statement, Tuzdin said, “If mortality is a jolting, jagged highway exit, then heaven is a truck as it rumbles through the unknown. ‘Truck’ is a gentle affirmation that the dream can change at no deficit of dignity. For Tim.”

She also wrote on Instagram, “Take a long drive and stream the heck outta this lil cruiser!”

Listen to “Truck” above, and check out Illuminati Hotties’ upcoming tour dates below.

07/23 — Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival
07/29 — Quincy, WA @ Gorge Amphitheatre*
07/30 — Bend, OR @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater*
08/01 — Bonner, MT @ KettleHouse Amphitheater*
08/02 — Boise, ID @ Outlaw Field at the Idaho Botanical Garden*
08/03 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Library Square*
08/05 — Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre*
08/11 — Adelaide, AUS @ Lion Arts Factory Yeah #
08/12 — Perth, AUS @ Rosemount Hotel #
08/18 — Sydney, AUS @ Crow Bar #
08/19 — Melbourne, AUS @ Night Cat #
08/20 — Belgrave, AUS @ Sooki Lounge #
09/27 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether+

* w/ boygenius
# w/ Alex Lahey
+ w/ Silversun Pickups

We’re inching closer toward Utopia.

Travis Scott will actualize his forthcoming album at the Pyramids Of Giza in Egypt on July 28, despite reports that the event had been canceled. There have been other questions about whether The Weeknd will be featured on Utopia, and Scott has now answered that as well.

“Flame Abe Benito Out Tomorrow Night,” Scott joint-posted with The Weekend on Wednesday evening, July 19, confirming his single with Bad Bunny and The Weeknd. According to Scott’s official website, the track is titled “KPop” and is available in digital, CD, and vinyl form.

In late May, videos circulated online of an alleged Utopia showcase at Lilly’s Club in Monaco, where Scott is said to have teased an unreleased song featuring Bad Bunny. Benito addressed it as the cover star for Rolling Stone‘s July/August 2023 issue.

“We worked on that a while back — and I think Travis has been working on his project for a minute,” Bad Bunny told the publication.

While Utopia still doesn’t have an official release date — though it’s rumored to be arriving on July 28 — it’s worth noting that Scott will serve as a headliner at Rolling Loud Miami on Saturday, July 22. Nothing about this Utopia rollout has been predictable, but it’s probably safe to expect the “KPop” live debut at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium this weekend.

Various Utopia “Topia Pack” options are available for pre-order here.

A new era is dawning for NewJeans, and it feels like deja vu. Uproxx recently named the band’s self-titled EP wa among “The Best K-Pop Albums Of 2022.” NewJeans are after attention again. “Super Shy” arrived less than two weeks ago, debuting at No. 66 on the Billboard Hot 100 and catapulting them to No. 1 on the publication’s Emerging Artists chart dated July 22.

Now NewJeans have released two videos for “Cool With You.” The first, billed as “(side A)” netted over 2.2 million YouTube views within its first eight hours, and its corresponding “(side B)” logged around two million. Hoyeon Jung and Tony Leung guest star across both.

All of this will culminate in NewJeans’ Get Up EP, releasing on Friday, July 21.

“This album overall really contains a lot of different concepts. So each song will feel very different. And so you’re going to have a lot of fun just listening to the whole album,” NewJeans’ Hyein told Elle in an interview published on Tuesday, July 18.

“Personally, I think there’s a lot of songs that are going to feel a little bit different from what you have seen from our previous work that has come out so far. And personally, I think that is especially true with the fourth track, which is ‘Cool with You,’ it has a performance of NewJeans that you haven’t seen from us yet. So I hope you’ll look forward to it with a lot of anticipation.”

Watch the “Cool With You (side A)” video above, and watch the “‘Cool With You’ & ‘Get Up’ (side B)” video below.