The Miami Heat acquired some backcourt reinforcements two and a half weeks ahead of the NBA’s trade deadline. According to multiple reports, Miami and the Charlotte Hornets agreed to a trade that will result in Terry Rozier joining the reigning Eastern Conference Champions. In exchange, the Heat will send Kyle Lowry and a 2027 NBA Draft pick to Charlotte.
JUST JN: Miami is nearing a trade to acquire Charlotte’s Terry Rozier for a package sending Kyle Lowry and draft compensation that includes a first-round pick, league sources tell @TheAthletic@Stadium. pic.twitter.com/FGFkpDifYe
Miami was a popular landing spot for Damian Lillard over the summer, as the team wanted to add some scoring punch in the backcourt alongside Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo. While Lowry has been a dependable option and Tyler Herro has played more point guard than ever before, Rozier should be able to step in and provide a boost to a team that ranks 20th in offensive rating and has failed to score 100 points in four of its last six games. Rozier is currently having the most productive season of his career, as he’s averaging 23.2 points and 6.6 assists per game.
As for Lowry, while he makes a ton of sense as someone who could hit the buyout market, Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN reports that Charlotte wants to try and find a trade for him first.
The Hornets have no immediate plans to work on a buyout with Lowry and are expected to see if they can work another trade for him before the February 8 deadline, sources tell ESPN.
After rumors circulated that Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign were having difficulty securing a distributor for their joint album, fans became nervous. The duo postposing their previously announced multi-stadium listening parties certainly didn’t help. However, on December 11, all faith was restored when clips from the musicians’ rave in Miami began to circulate across social media.
When does Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign’s album Vultures come out?
(Update: On January 23, 2024, West shared a new trailer for the album, which revealed that Vultures is now a three-part project. The first volume is set for release on February 9, the second on March 8, and the third on April 5.)
According to the Independent, the work is slated to be released this Friday, December 15. The outlet reports that the date was announced by West yesterday onstage at the Vultures rave preview session. Neither West nor Ty Dolla Sign has echoed this on their personal social media pages. But they have shared teasers of songs from the album as well as the full tracklist.
The list of featured appearances on the album remains a mystery as well. Based on the listening party, fans believe Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown, Kodak Black, and Lil Durk are on the project.
Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign’s Vultures album cover art
The nominations for the 96th Academy Awards were announced this morning (find the full list here), but there’s one category in particular that music fans are probably curious about at the moment.
Who’s Nominated For Best Original Song At The 2024 Oscars?
A pair of Barbie songs earned Original Song nominations: Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” and Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken.” Also nominated are Dianne Warren’s “The Fire Inside” from Flamin’ Hot, Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson’s “It Never Went Away” from American Symphony, and Scott George’s “Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)” from Killers Of The Flower Moon.
Check out the music-related Oscar nominees below and find our full list of all nominations here.
Best Original Song
Dianne Warren — “The Fire Inside” from Flamin’ Hot
Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt — “I’m Just Ken” from Barbie
Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson — “It Never Went Away” from American Symphony
Scott George — “Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)” from Killers Of The Flower Moon
Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell — “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie
Best Original Score
American Fiction — Laura Karpman Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny — John Williams Killers Of The Flower Moon — Robbie Robertson Oppenheimer — Ludwig Göransson Poor Things — Jerskin Fendrix
The list of must-attend tours has grown once again. If you’re a fan of Avril Lavigne, this summer, you will have the opportunity to catch her in a city near you. On January 22, the “Sk8er Boi” singer announced her Greatest Hits Tour with special guests Simple Plan, All Time Low, and more.
In May, Lavigne will travel across North America to celebrate the good old days of emo-punk’s peak and her earlier breakout records. During an interview with Uproxx, Lavigne reflected on the impact of her standout single “Sk8er Boi,” which is sure to be a crowd favorite. “I love how warmly everybody still feels toward it,” she said. “It’s a really special thing, and unique, to have a song that really stands out. I have a lot of big songs, but that one, everyone seems to resonate with. It’s taken on… it’s insane to see a whole new generation discovering music of mine twenty years later. It’s pretty unbelievable.”
So, how can fans get their hands on a ticket to join in on the nostalgia?
How To Buy Tickets For Avril Lavigne’s ‘Greatest Hits Tour’ In 2024
Beginning on Wednesday, January 24, at 10 a.m. local time, the artist presale will start. On Friday, January 26, at 10 a.m. local time, the general on-sale launch. To buy tickets, visit Lavigne’s official website. Once there, visitors can access the official Ticketmaster link for each tour stop. Find more information here.
Avril Lavigne’s 2024 The Greatest Hits Tour dates
05/22 — Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena ^
05/25 — Auburn, WA @ White River Amphitheatre ^
05/26 — Ridgefield, WA @ RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater ^
05/28 — Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre ^
05/30 — Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum ^
06/01 — Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden Arena ^
06/02 — Phoenix, AZ @ Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre ^
08/14 — Ottawa, ON @ Canadian Tire Centre +
08/16 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage +
08/17 — Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC @ Festival International de Montgolfières ~
08/20 — Buffalo, NY @ Darien Lake Amphitheater +
08/21 — Hartford, CT @ The XFINITY Theatre +
08/23 — Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center +
08/24 — Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center +
08/27 — Wantagh, NY @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater +
08/29 — Camden, NJ @ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion +
08/31 — Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live +
09/01 — Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion +
09/03 — Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre +
09/04 — Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater +
09/06 — Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center +
09/07 — Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre +
09/09 — Milwaukee, WI @ American Family Insurance Amphitheater +
09/10 — Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island +
09/12 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory +
09/14 — Winnipeg, MB @ Canada Life Centre +
09/16 — Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place
^ with All Time Low and Royal & The Serpent
+ with Simple Plan and Girlfriends
~ festival date
Despite Barbie landing a Best Picture nomination for this year’s Oscars, the Academy made the wild decision to snub both the film’s star, Margot Robbie, and its director Greta Gerwig. You better believe people have thoughts.
Barbie instantly became a pop culture juggernaut after premiering over the summer to record-breaking box office numbers. As the titular character, Robbie anchored the entire film. As not just the director, but also the writer, Gerwig infused Barbie with all of the heart and soul that made an instant classic, and again, a contender for Best Picture. No recognition for either woman, and people immediately took to social media to voice their thoughts.
You can see the reactions to Margot Robbie’s snub below:
So Ryan Gosling’s nominated for playing ken but Margot Robbie isn’t nominated for playing barbie… in barbie #Oscars
Greta Gerwig made a film that was critically acclaimed, culturally impactful, hilarious, unique, visually exceptional, perfectly cast and acted, left people laughing, crying and thinking AND made a billion dollars at the box office. But no Best Director nom?! #Barbie#Oscars2024pic.twitter.com/ePfuiDbEfm
not nominating greta gerwig for best director literally indicates that the academy has turned their back on what audiences want to see. such a lovingly and brilliantly-directed film. shame on you for real.
Greta Gerwig is now 2/2 with films with 6+ nominations each, including best screenplay & best picture but no directing nom. This a is really disappointing trend to see continue for female directors
In an interesting (and infuriating) wrinkle, Ryan Gosling was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Ken. People couldn’t help but notice the irony of the male performance being recognized while Robbie and Gerwig were snubbed. The whole situation is literally the theme of Barbie, and the furious reactions only got more heated as reality set in:
No nomination for Margot Robbie or Greta Gerwig for the #Oscars but Ryan Gosling gets one. Literally the whole point of the Barbie film pic.twitter.com/SVpX6diGJb
While Robbie and Gerwig’s snubs quickly became trending topics, Twitter users also made sure to call out performances from Greta Lee, Andrew Scott, and Charles Melton, which also went unrecognized by the Academy. It was a contentious set of nominations this year, to say the least.
You can see more Oscar snub reactions below:
The Greta Lee snub, the Margot Robbie snub, the Charles Melton snub, the Julianne Moore and NATALIE PORTMAN snub #Oscars2024pic.twitter.com/jtoyumjIWr
margot robbie robbed two years in a row, all of us strangers and andrew scott snubbed, no acting noms for may december, nothing for saltburn… pic.twitter.com/U5MmxKLgmK
The snubs for Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and Charles Melton really sting after a banner year for Asian actors at the Oscars just one year ago pic.twitter.com/xebQWtZLLD
I know the word “snub” is so overused when it comes to the Oscars, but…dang, Andrew Scott, Greta Lee, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, and Ben Whishaw deserved so much better, and it’s absolutely heartbreaking that we won’t see any of them on Oscars night pic.twitter.com/nWjJtwzFsj
margot robbie, natalie portman and greta lee would all have made better noms than annette bening no one even knows what a nyad is pic.twitter.com/sEBAjB0X6G
The 2024 Grammy Awards are right around the corner, as the event is set to take place at LA’s Crypto.com Arena on Sunday, February 4. The event will honor works that were released between October 1, 2022, and September 15, 2023, with artists like Jon Batiste, Boygenius, Miley Cyrus, Lana Del Rey, Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift, SZA, and more being among the contenders for the coveted categories.
Considering the Grammys’ exclusivity, some fans might wonder if it’s possible to attend if you aren’t a musician, or happen to know one. More importantly, if there’s tickets available for purchase.
Here’s what to know.
Can You Buy Tickets For The Grammys 2024?
Not usually, no. There are other options to potentially attend, like signing up to be a seat filler through sites like Seatfillers And More. Registration to be considered as one for this year’s Grammys has since closed, though.
The Recording Academy also hosts a ticket giveaway that ends on January 30 at 9 p.m. ET. The five lucky winners will be selected the following day and receive two tickets to attend. However, this does not include airfare or accommodation. For more information on this contest, visit here.
If you’re still catching up on last year’s Best Picture contenders, just face it, you’re never going to get around to watching All Quiet on the Western Front. And that’s fine. There’s a new batch of Best Picture nominees! The 96th Academy Awards nominations were announced this morning, and they include two of 2023’s highest-grossing films and a movie where Emma Stone plays a resurrected corpse with the mind of an unborn child. Here’s where you can watch them all. The 2024 Oscars air on March 10th.
American Fiction
Amazon MGM
Director: Cord Jefferson
Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Keith David
Plot: “American Fiction is Cord Jefferson’s hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from ‘Black’ entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish ‘Black’ book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.”
Cast: Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Antoine Reinartz, Samuel Theis, Jehnny Beth
Plot: “For the past year, Sandra, her husband Samuel, and their eleven-year-old son Daniel have lived a secluded life in a remote town in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead in the snow below their chalet, the police question whether he was murdered or committed suicide. Samuel’s suspicious death is presumed murder, and Sandra becomes the main suspect. What follows is not just an investigation into the circumstances of Samuel’s death but an unsettling psychological journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel’s conflicted relationship.”
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa
Plot: “From director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa) — and with the school’s head cook, who has lost a son in Vietnam (Da’Vine Joy Randolph).”
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow, Brendan Fraser
Plot: “Based on David Grann’s broadly lauded best-selling book, Killers of the Flower Moon is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror.”
Plot: “From Director Bradley Cooper, Maestro is the towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between cultural icon Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. A love letter to life and art, Maestro, at its core, is an emotionally epic portrayal of family and love.”
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, David Krumholtz, Alden Ehrenreich, Benny Safdie, Macon Blair
Plot: “Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an IMAX-shot epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.”
Plot: “Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance.”
Poor Things
Searchlight Pictures
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast: Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, Jerrod Carmichael
Plot: “From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.”
Plot: “The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.”
The 96th Academy Awards are coming soon. The Oscars, which will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel for the fourth time, are set to air on March 10 at 4 p.m. ET, on ABC. Ahead of that today (January 23), though, the nominees were announced.
Check out the music-related Oscar nominees below and find our full list of all nominations here.
Best Original Song
Dianne Warren — “The Fire Inside” from Flamin’ Hot
Ryan Gosling, Mark Ronson, and Andrew Wyatt — “I’m Just Ken” from Barbie
Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson — “It Never Went Away” from American Symphony
Scott George — “Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)” from Killers Of The Flower Moon
Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell — “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie
Best Original Score
American Fiction — Laura Karpman Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny — John Williams Killers Of The Flower Moon — Robbie Robertson Oppenheimer — Ludwig Göransson Poor Things — Jerskin Fendrix
NBC News reported that Scott Wagner, the CEO of the pro-DeSantis Never Back Down (they backed down) super PAC, spent “a significant amount of time in the precious final few days [of the campaign] constructing a peaceful 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle of a landscape.”
Seth Meyers called it a “fittingly pathetic end for DeSantis” during Monday’s episode of Late Night. “[He] tried to overtake Donald Trump and failed in every respect except for one.” Being weird.
Meyers continued, “It didn’t seem possible for any human being to be any weirder than this flag-hugging, umbrella-ditching, dandruff-brushing, belt-unbuckling, eclipse-staring, VP-kissing weirdo. But then Ron DeSantis came along, America’s first extraterrestrial governor, who somehow managed to compete with Trump in the weirdness category.” He described the Florida governor as standing “like he’s wearing a backpack full of horseshoes and has the demeanor of a guy trying to hide a zombie bite.”
Meyers even agrees with Trump on one thing: Ron is “a meatball. He’s only a few years and a few stages on the evolutionary ladder away from Rudy Giuliani.” You can watch the Late Night clip above.
The 96th annual Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 10th, and Jimmy Kimmel is doing the hosting thing again. Good for him? We shall see, but he is well accustomed to the scrutiny, and he’s already an ABC guy, so all good. Notably, this network will host the ceremony in an earlier time slot (at 7:00pm EST/4:00pm PST) because they had to make it weird somehow. And speaking of weird, man, the Oscars have been in a strange place for the past several years. First, there was the pandemic, then there was Chris Rock being smacked onstage by Will Smith, and now, there’s Barbenheimer.
Yes, that’s the name of the game this year. Barbie and Oppenheimer deserve that credit, too, by becoming an unofficial (yet amazing) double feature that propped up the summer box office. Expect plenty of representation for Killers Of The Flower Moon, Poor Things, The Holdovers (maybe even a nom for burger lover Paul Giamatti?), and Zone Of Interest. Perhaps Saltburn could grab some of the wealth, too. Let’s get this party started.
Here are your 2024 Oscar nominations:
Best Supporting Actor
Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
Best Supporting Actress
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
America Ferrera, Barbie
Jodie Foster, Nyad
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Best Costume Design Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Makeup and Hairstyling Golda
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Society of the Snow
Best Animated Short Film Letter to a Pig
Ninety-Five Senses
Our Uniform
Pachyderme
War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
Best Live-Action Short Film The After
Invincible
Knight of Fortune
Red, White and Blue
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Best Adapted Screenplay American Fiction
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Best Original Screenplay Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Maestro
May December
Past Lives
Best Original Song
“The Fire Inside,” Flamin’ Hot
“I’m Just Ken,” Barbie
“It Never Went Away,” American Symphony
“Wahzhazhe, A Song For My People,” Killers of the Flower Moon
“What Was I Made For?” Barbie
Best Original Score American Fiction
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Documentary Bobi Wine: The People’s President
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
To Kill a Tiger
20 Days in Mariupol
Best Documentary Short Subject The ABCs of Book Banning
The Barber of Little Rock
Island in Between
The Last Repair Shop
Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó
Best International Film Io Capitano, Italy Perfect Days, Japan Society of the Snow, Spain The Teacher’s Lounge, Germany The Zone of Interest, United Kingdom
Best Animated Feature The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Nimona
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best Production Design Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Film Editing Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Production Design Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Sound The Creator
Maestro
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest
Best Picture
Best Actress
Best Actor
Best Director
Best Cinematography
Best Visual Effects
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