Month: October 2024

Back in the day, Netflix was a reliable source for picking up currently running shows (for new seasons) that were recently cancelled by networks, but over the past few years, the streaming service’s power to resurrect “concluded” series has gone unrivaled. As a result, Showtime will soon bring us two new Dexter spin offs and NBCUniversal is preparing to debut an official Suits offshoot, so there’s a valid question to ask: will White Collar be next?

The slick, stylish, Matt Bomer-led series ran on USA Network for six seasons and landed on Netflix for streaming back in April, and it was off to the irresistible races for those who hadn’t yet watched Bomer’s angelic face doing the con man thing, and people who simply wanted a second trip into his newly FBI-informing world. That’s even more the case with the show’s cast also excited about what co-creator Jeff Eastin has been working up, so let’s gather up the smoke signals on what to expect.

Plot

As viewers will recall, White Collar followed Bomer as charmingly handsome thief Neal Caffrey, who made a deal to become an FBI criminal informant for Tim DeKay’s Special Agent Peter Burke. The late Willie Garson portrayed Neal’s shady friend, Mozzie, also an informer, and the series co-starred Tiffani Thiessen as Peter’s wife, Elizabeth Burke, and Hilarie Burton as Neal’s love interest and an insurance agent. Additionally, the show introduced Sharif Atkins as Clinton Jones and Natalie Morales as Agent Lauren Cruz, among others. And back in June 2024, Variety reported that Jeff Eastin declared that “we’re gonna reboot” with Bomer exclaiming, “I’m in!”

Soon enough, multiple cast members (including Thiessen) began to rave about Eastin’s return-pilot script honoring Willie and Bomer adding that the new story feels “organic.” Eastin also recently revealed that he had been revising, and as he posted on X/Twitter, “[T]he studio is very happy with the new White Collar script.” A photograph of that script revealed that the title of the reboot would be White Collar Renaissance with the first episode titled, “Masquerade.”

What could come next? NBCUniversal giving this an official reboot proclamation. [Taps both feet and checks watch.]

If anybody up there on the studio level needs more persuading, Sharif Atkins noted that Eastin told him (via TVLine) that “Jones is still in the world.” He added, “I’ve heard that the script is top-notch. It pays homage, beautifully, to the late Willie Garson, and it just really picks back up where it left off in terms of the wit and the excitement and the relationships. I’m looking forward to it myself.”

How long would it take Bomer to slip back into those suits? Not long, although he previously did admit that this part of the job didn’t always come easy:

Cast

Matt Bomer, Tim DeKay, Tiffani Theissen, Sharif Atkins have declared themselves onboard for this effort that will honor Willie Garson in spirit. More announcements to come, no doubt.

Release Date

Suits: LA‘s impressive turnaround proves that once NBCUniversal gives the go-ahead to relaunching a USA Network series, it’s full steam ahead. If they could hurry up and announce that this reboot is official, we can expect the reboot to arrive within a year, especially since multiple script drafts have already landed with executives.

Trailer

Since there’s no earthly way that a reboot trailer exists yet, here’s a blast from the past with the first pilot trailer:

Kanye West’s Malibu “Bat Cave” continues to deliver headaches for the controversial rapper, even after he sold it this summer (at a massive loss). He was previously sued by the property manager, who alleged unsafe working conditions after Kanye demanded some unusual renovations. Now, he’s also being sued by the former security guard, who claims West never paid him, then fired him after he complained.

According to TMZ, Kanye hired Jonathan Monroe when he first purchased the property back in 2021 for a little over $57 million. Monroe says West offered him $30 an hour, at which he worked for between 36 and 50 hours a week, but that he never received payment and was fired just a month later, in October 2021. He also believes his firing was prompted when he brought up the unpaid wages. Monroe is suing for the unpaid wages, plus interest, as well as punitive damages.

Among the changes West had requested were disconnecting the home from city power and water, removing the windows, prompting the old manager to call it a “bat cave” and accuse Kanye of wanting an art project more than a home. He sold the boxy beachfront mansion, which was made mostly of concrete, in August for around $21 million — a $36 million loss — due to the damage done to the architecture. Its new owner is, Belwood Investments, whose CEO, Bo Belmont, complained about the renovations to the Los Angeles Times, calling them “dumb” and promising to restore the building to its former glory.

There is a world in which Art Of The Unseen Infinity Machine doesn’t exist. Near the end of writing material for her fifth record, indie-folk songwriter Allegra Krieger barely survived a fire in her NYC fifth-floor apartment caused by a lithium battery explosion on the first floor’s e-bike shop. The remaining sessions for Infinity Machine sped by, not hurried so much as completed with a recognition of life’s exigencies.

Throughout the album’s 13 tracks, Krieger wrestles with themes of life and death; fate and absolution; infinity and transience. It’s headier than it lets on, as breezy acoustic guitars and Krieger’s buoyant timbre carry the music forward and impart a levity to otherwise heavy subject matter. This balance underlines the artistic strengths of Krieger, someone who is able to convey difficult truths through her own lived experiences.

Following the record’s release last month, Krieger sat down with Uproxx to talk about Elliott Smith, The Chicks, the lameness of AI, and more in our latest Q&A.

What are four words you would use to describe your music?

Angular, bittersweet, lyrical, cyclical.

It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?

I’d just be happy to know people were still listening.

Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?

Elliott Smith, he kept it very real and has a pretty singular voice.

Where did you eat the best meal of your life and what was it?

Grandma’s spaghetti & meatballs in her house. Love that

Tell us about the best concert you’ve ever attended.

Charmaine Lee playing on Oliver Street. Short and sweet, outside on a beautiful day – experimental, weird, intense and FUN! She’s pretty legendary.

What song never fails to make you emotional?

“Top Of The World” by The Chicks – so many connections there, truly heart-wrenching.

What’s the last thing you Googled?

“Is it ok to put a pole in a hotel room?”

Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?

Above a miso factory!

What’s your favorite city in the world to perform and what’s the city you hope to perform in for the first time?

NYC or Chicago; I would love to play in Tokyo!

What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?

Cool it you freak!

What’s one of your hidden talents?

I’m pretty good a doing a pistol squat.

If you had a million dollars to donate to charity, what cause would you support and why?

I would probably give it directly to individuals or families in need. Or community mutual aid.

What are your thoughts about AI and the future of music?

Lame!

You are throwing a music festival. Give us the dream lineup of 5 artists that will perform with you and the location it would be held.

Lucinda Williams, SZA, Björk, Laurie Anderson on large a rooftop in NYC

Who’s your favorite person to follow on social media?

veronika_iscool makes me laugh out loud — love her stuff.

What’s the story behind your first or favorite tattoo?

I don’t have any tattoos actually.

What is your pre-show ritual?

Water, stretch and a little bit of wine.

Who was your first celebrity crush?

Christian Bale in Newsies.

You have a month off and the resources to take a dream vacation. Where are you going and who is coming with you?

My boyfriend, and we are going to some quiet island in Greece to swim and lie in the sun. eat feta and olives, and drink wine and stuff.

What is your biggest fear?

I’m afraid of how randomly violent life can be. People, disasters, explosions, accidents.

Art Of The Unseen Infinity Machine is available now via Double Double Whammy. Find more information here.

For Juice Robinson, right now is all about building momentum. It’s been nearly a year since his last singles match before a back injury forced him out of the ring for six months. While the recovery was rough, he’s hopeful that’s all in the past.

“Everything’s right in the world because I’m a pro wrestler and if I’m not doing pro wrestling, it’s like I’m missing part of myself,” Robinson tells Uproxx Sports. “The six, seven months, that was pretty hard mentally. But the light at the end of the tunnel was to get back with my buddies, the Bang Bang Gang, Jay (White), Colten (Gunn), Austin (Gunn) and get back to doing wrestling.”

Robinson returned to the ring in June and has mainly featured in trios matches alongside Colten and Austin. Wednesday night, as part of AEW Dynamite’s 5th anniversary show, he’ll have his first real breakout opportunity since his return in a singles match against “Hangman” Adam Page.

“I’ve had quite a few big matches on quite a few big shows and I always get excited and it’s always a good opportunity. The fact that I’m going to get in there with Page, I feel like Adam the Arsonist is arguably one of the faces of AEW,” Robinson continues. “For me to get in there with him, it’s going to open a lot of eyes to me and what I’m about. I am the underdog, make no mistake, but it’s a familiar place to be fighting from for me, so I’m nothing but excited.”

Before joining AEW, Robinson carved out his own unique spot in New Japan Pro Wrestling against some of the best in the world. He points to the loaded roster in NJPW and opportunities to wrestle the likes of Cody Rhodes, Jon Moxley, and Kenny Omega that were instrumental in his development.

“I’m so thankful that I got to get all that experience under my belt because it’s invaluable, and I will continue to use all the things that I’ve learned as well as like FCW. But especially New Japan, gonna use those tools that I learned for the rest of my career,” Robinson says.

With a combination of his in-ring tools and the creative freedom provided by AEW, Robinson is thankful to be where he’s at at this stage in his career.

“I think with AEW there’s a lot of freedom and a lot of opportunity and I like both of those things. It’s a very healthy place to be creative and try things. It’s much easier than the WWE, at least when I was there,” Robinson continues. “It’s much easier to be free and not have the feeling that, ‘Oh, if I do this, will I get in trouble with the bosses and stuff like that.’ That’s no way to be creative in my opinion. And I don’t think it’s like that for everybody, but when I was like 22, 23 years old, it was definitely like that for me. Yeah, AEW as a 35-year-old adult is a great time.”

In this moment, Robinson isn’t about setting any extreme goals. He’s living in the moment and says he’s needed a match of this caliber, a “big-time match against a big-time opponent in a big-time spot,” and he’s ready to knock it out of the park.

“I just want to keep on keeping on, getting out there in front of people,” Robinson says. “Keep having fun and keep pushing it. Keep going. This is what I want to do with my life. It always has been and I’m doing it. So I just hope my body holds up, which it should now.”

Sabrina Carpenter launched the Short N’ Sweet Tour recently, and an immediate takeaway is that it appears she’s done doing her famous “Nonsense” outros, which saw her creating new lyrics for the song to suit the current situation.

At the opening show of the tour, right before the “Nonsense” outro was supposed to begin, the video screen behind Carpenter intentionally glitched out, and behind her, an on-screen message read, “We apologize for the interruption of our program due to technical difficulties.” Check out a video of that here.

Some saw that as Carpenter retiring the outros, and now she has confirmed it herself. This doesn’t mean she’ll never do a “Nonsense” outro again, though.

In a new interview with Time, Carpenter said, “The extreme ‘it’s over forever’ is just not in my repertoire. Maybe I’ll feel random one day and bring it back. [But] that was for that album, for that era. You’ve got to keep a thing good.”

The interview is attached to Carpenter being named to the “Time100 Next” list, which recognizes a hundred “emerging leaders from across the world who are shaping the future.” Not only did Carpenter make the list, but she’s actually on one of the versions of the magazine cover.

Sydney Sweeney has numerous projects on the horizon, including the next season of Euphoria and a Barbarella revamp, but she made a rare move by taking the summer off after holding a busy schedule for years. What did she do? Well, she made sure to visit theme parks for recreation, but she was also no doubt working out like a mofo.

Pumping some iron and hitting boxing drills are key to Sweeney’s “jacked” preparation to return to the true crime realm with a biopic that chronicles the rise and turmoil experienced by prizefighter Christy Martin, the boxer who was dubbed “Female Rocky” boxer and ruled the 1990s welterweight circuit. Let’s also get in fighting shape by punching in on what we can expect.

Cast

Sweeney has been confirmed for the leading role since May, and this week, a Black Bear Pictures press release added several names to the roster, including Ben Foster, Ethan Embry, Merritt Wever, Jess Gabor, and Chad L. Coleman. The studio hasn’t clarified who will portray Christy’s abusive (and attempted murderer) husband, Jim Martin, though that role will likely go to Foster or Emery. Coleman could be onboard to portray Don King, who counted Christy as his first female signee, but that hasn’t been confirmed yet.

A particular name of interest, however: Katy O’Brian, who recently told UPROXX that nobody kicks her ass and who hulked out (if you know, you know) in A24’s queer thriller Love Lies Bleeding. Will Katy and Sydney face off in the ring? It’s hard to imagine Katy being cast within or signing up for a boxing biopic in which she doesn’t don the gloves, but stay tuned there.

Plot

Christy Martin’s life story is a harrowing one, and the film’s working title, Apopka, refers to the Florida city where she endured a toxic marriage with her also-manager, Jim Martin, who shot her in 2010 when she tried to leave their marriage. This came after years of escalating emotional and physical abuse, and Jim is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence. ESPN previously published an incredibly graphic account of Christy’s injuries and recovery from her injuries, along with her foresight to leave a few drops of blood on “an obscured section of the wall” as proof that the abuse had been ongoing if she ever needed that documentation (and she did).

The film is currently filming with helmer David Michôd (War Machine, Hesher) having decided that Sweeney was the woman for the gig after watching her as a defendant in HBO’s Reality. He also co-wrote the script (with Mirrah Foulkes) and told Deadline about the framing of this biopic:

“The film is about Christy as a young gay woman in small-town West Virginia in the 1990s. She came from a relatively conservative family and wasn’t allowed to be who she was so she used boxing as a vehicle to express herself and her rage. She had to make some dangerous and fundamental compromises in her life, the most important of which was marrying an incredibly dangerous man.”

As for Sweeney’s approach, she told Deadline that this is right up her alley: “I grappled and did kickboxing from 12-19 years old. I’ve been itching to get back into the ring, train, and transform my body.” She did add, however, that this will be both a “physically and emotionally demanding” job because “Christy’s story isn’t a light one.”

Release Date

Filming began in late September and will be finished by the end of the year, so A24 will likely debut this on the festival circuit in 2025.

Trailer

No trailer, but here’s Sweeney talking about the importance of working out because it’s “really fun to be able to kick a guy’s ass.”

Arena rock star Olivia Rodrigo‘s Guts World Tour wraps up on October 22, but it’s not really the end of the tour. For one thing, the “Get Him Back!” singer is headlining a few Lollapalooza festival shows in 2025. Rodrigo has also announced that a Guts World Tour concert special is coming to Netflix on October 29.

“I am so excited to share the Guts World Tour with my fans,” she said. “For those of you who didn’t get a chance to rock out in-person, now you can have the best seats in the house! And to the fans who cheered, screamed, and danced with me, I am so glad we get to do it all over again!”

The concert was filmed at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles (here’s the setlist), and will feature songs from both Guts and her 2021 debut album Sour.

Previously, Rodrigo spoke to Complex about touring. “The vibes are great. It’s my first arena tour, so going into it, I was really excited and a little nervous, but it’s been so amazing,” she said. “It’s been so cool getting to go to all these places that I’ve never been before and play these songs that I’ve been living with for so long. It’s been a really great time.” Rodrigo added that her favorite song to perform live is “All-American B*tch.”

To find out more about Olivia Rodrigo: Guts World Tour, click here.

Lady Gaga is engaged, and given her theatrical flair, one can start to imagine the opulent sort of wedding she might have. That could be the case, but she also might just head to the courthouse and get it over with.

Gaga discussed this on Jimmy Kimmel Live! yesterday, saying, “We actually talk a lot about just going to a courthouse, just the two of us, and ordering Chinese food [laughs]. But knowing me, also, it could become like a circus with unicorns.”

She also spoke about Michael Polansky’s proposal, saying, “He proposed to me right after my birthday, so my birthday passed and I was like, ‘Oh, I thought he was going to propose.’ We went on a trip together, and we went rock climbing, and we’ve been rock climbing before, which was super fun.”

She continued, “We climbed to the top, we looked around, took some photos, and then went back down, and we were just walking back to the room, and he actually — it was very Michael — he asked me if he could ask me. He wanted to know if it was OK to propose before he proposed. And I was like, ‘Yes, it’s so okay.’”

Kimmel wondered why Polansky didn’t propose at the top of their climb and Gaga responded, “I think it was smart. It was safe. He had the ring in his backpack, so it was super cute.”

Check out the full interview above.

The guy who smashed a Taylor Swift-signed guitar (that wasn’t actually signed by her) with a hammer has explained his now-viral stunt.

Gary Estes, 67, who paid $4,000 for the instrument at the Ellis County Wild Game Dinner in Waxahachie, Texas (not Waxahatchee), told NBC News, “There was nothing malicious or anything about it. It was just a joke at an auction that we had to raise money for kids, right? And that’s all it was. There was nothing mean about it, nothing bad about it. It was just a joke that they were making up on the stage, and we just followed through with a joke.”

However, Estes also said that he’s a Donald Trump supporter and didn’t enjoy “childless cat lady” Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris. “Yes, you can connect the dots there,” he added.

Ellis County Wild Game Dinner spokesperson Craig Meier called the guitar smashing “a funny, light-hearted thing.” He continued, “I know maybe it seemed to be malicious, but everybody was laughing. There were people there, at the time, who joked around that he’s mad because he doesn’t know how to play the guitar. Taylor Swift, it became a political thing, and that was kind of the gist of it, just a light-hearted bit of a dig at Taylor for coming out politically and entertainers using their influence to influence politics.”

If you want to own a random, very dumb piece of history, the guitar is for sale on eBay.

In case you missed it: On The Tonight Show last week, Margaret Qualley shared a text exchange between husband Jack Antonoff and Adam Sandler. In the conversation, Sandler asked if Qualley plays golf, and Antonoff lied and said she does, in order to help her secure a role in the upcoming Happy Gilmore sequel.

Sandler wrote, “Jacko. It’s Sandler. Does your wife golf at all?” Antonoff replied, “yeah she’s actually good!”

Well, sure enough, Antonoff was one of Jimmy Fallon’s guests last night (October 1), and Fallon asked about the fib. Antonoff explained:

“I get the text, and he’s — obviously, as you know — the greatest. He taught an entire generation of people how to be funny in a very specific way. He really did.

I also think he’s a brilliant songwriter. “Grow Old With You” [from The Wedding Singer] is one of the most brilliant love songs. The song he wrote for Chris Farley is as good as a song can get. And then in his new special, there’s a song at the end where he writes about many comedians, and I think he writes so straight from the heart. I love his songwriting.

But I get that text, and immediately I’m like, ‘Oh my god, what’s happening here?’ So I’m just like, ‘Oh yeah, she golfs. She’s the best. You want her to be the best? She’s the best.’”

Check out the interview above.