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Paulo Londra is dropping highly-anticipated album Back To The Game tonight (November 23). Before then, the Argentine star released the high-octane music video for “Nublado” featuring Blink-182’s Travis Barker.

After a few years being caught up in a contractual dispute, Londra signed a new partnership with Warner Music Latina in March. Since then, he has re-established himself as one of Argentina’s top artists. This past year, Londra dropped multiple stellar collaborations. Ed Sheeran featured in his love song “Noche De Novela” and hit-maker Bizarrap enlisted him for “BZRP Music Sessions #23.”

Londra is keeping the star power coming with his new version of “Nublado.” He re-recorded the song with Barker playing on the drums. Barker packs the Latin pop-punk anthem with the punch behind Blink-182’s classics. Londra sounds like he’s having a blast with the electrifying edge that Barker brings to their collaboration. In the video, Londra rocks out with Barker in a LA recording studio.

Londra’s songs with Sheeran and Barker will be included on Back To The Game, his first studio album in three years. His collaboration with Feid, “A Veces,” is also on the tracklist that he revealed earlier this week. Londra’s song with Timbaland, “Toc Toc,” will appear on the LP as well. Back To The Game will be released tonight at 7 p.m. ET.

Find the Back To The Game tracklist below.

1. “Chango”
2. “Plan A”
3. “Party En El Barrio” Feat. Duki
4. “Luces”
5. “Por Deporte”
6. “Noche De Novela” Feat. Ed Sheeran
7. “Nublado” Feat. Travis Barker
8. “A Veces” Feat. Feid
9. “Cansado” Feat. Joaqo
10. “Tenso”
11. “Ella”
12. “Julieta”
13. “Ojalá”
14. “Necio” Feat. Lit Killah
15. “Chance”
16. “Toc Toc” Feat. Timbaland

Back To The Game is out 11/23 via Warner Music Latina. Pre-order it here.

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During a recent episode of Sportsnet’s 32 Thoughts: The Podcast, a rumor about The Weeknd joining Ryan Reynolds in buying the Ottawa Senators hockey team was mentioned — and seems to lend some possible credibility to the news. After Canadian sports commentator Ron MacLean made a joke about the deal, hosts Elliotte Friedman and Jeff Marek discussed the possibility.

“I don’t think we’ve heard the end of this when it comes to star power,” Friedman said. “I don’t think Reynolds is the only one.”

“But, you know, the one thing about him, he’s from Scarborough,” he added. “He has some representation that has tie-ins to Ottawa. At least two of his representatives — well, they were born overseas and moved to Canada and have connections to Ottawa. So, you know, we’ll see, Jeff. I don’t know that it’s true, I don’t know that it isn’t. But that rumor is out there. I’ve heard there’s the potential to be more. And Ron [MacLean] made the joke and a couple people started texting me — like, are you hinting that The Weeknd could buy into the Ottawa Senators? I don’t know that that’s going to happen.”

At least for now, Reynolds is the only person who has thrown a name in the hat to buy the team. It’s not his first foray into sports deals either, as he owns Wrexham Football Club. The actor opened up about his hopes for the Ottawa Senators during an appearance on The Tonight Show.

“I am trying to do it. It’s very expensive,” Reynolds revealed earlier this month. “I need a partner with very deep pockets.”

While it seems unlikely that The Weeknd will get involved with the deal, he is Canadian and certainly has money… so, you never know.

One of the latest Rock And Rock Hall Of Fame inductees, Annie Lennox, continues to use her platform to raise awareness for the end of violence against women and girls. The former Eurythmics singer’s latest philanthropic efforts include acquiring rare musical items for The Music Icons auction.

The auction will feature signed memorabilia from musicians Billie Eilish, Brandi Carlile, Alicia Keys, Angelique Kidjo, as well as Lennox herself. Supporters can bid on handwritten lyrics from each of the artists’ breakout song including Eilish’s “Your Power,” Carlile’s “Right On Time,’ Keys’ “Fallin’,” Kidjo’s “Agolo,” and Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This).”

The singer spoke with Billboard about why she got involved with the cause, stating, “I have long believed that music can build bridges and bring people together, and it is wonderful to see these phenomenal female artists stand side by side with women and girls around the world facing and fighting gender-based violence.”

Raakhi Shah — CEO of The Circle, the organization behind the auction — released a statement thanking them for their support. Shah said, “We are so grateful to Alicia, Angelique, Annie, Billie, and Brandi for their outstanding generosity and for supporting women facing violence and abuse around the world.”

Fans will have until December 5 to enter a bid for The Music Icons auction. To learn more about the auction and to enter a bid, click here.

Most of 2022’s biggest movies have already been released — Top Gun: Maverick, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Jackass Forever (hey, it was big for some of us) — with one exception. Avatar: The Way of Water comes out on December 15, and it’s expected to do big business. The sequel to the highest-grossing movie of all-time “should open to at least $150 million-$170 million when sailing into North American theaters,” according to the Hollywood Reporter, “and those are conservative estimates.”

More bullish observers believe the Christmas corridor tentpole has a shot at becoming only the fourth December tentpole to cross $200 million in its opening weekend behind last year’s Spider-Man: No Way Home ($260.1 million), 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($248 million) and 2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi ($220 million). One difference: those films were all fanboy events, whereas the first Avatar was more of a slow burn.

Let’s say that Avatar: The Way of Water makes $200 million during opening weekend. That would put it only $1.8 billion away from being profitable! “You have to be the third or fourth highest-grossing film in history [to break even],” director James Cameron told GQ about his “very fucking [expensive]” movie. Hollywood accounting, don’tcha love it?

But if anyone can do it, it’s Mr. Alien$.

(Via the Hollywood Reporter)

The Walking Dead is over, and so is Rosita’s story. AMC’s zombie drama ended its 11-season run on Sunday, November 20. Some people lived, and some people died, as per usual on this show. If you watched the series finale of The Walking Dead and already forgot what happened, that’s understandable: the holidays wreck our brains and there’s a lot of information to take in. Or maybe you used to watch The Walking Dead and are desperate to know what happened in the series finale without watching it. In that case, this post is also for you.

Rosita, played by Christian Serratos, spent the last several episodes of the series trying to save her daughter, Coco. In The Walking Dead series finale, Rosita saves her baby daughter but doesn’t survive the episode. She ends up falling into a pack of walkers and gets bitten. But she ultimately gets a peaceful, heroic death.

On most television shows, the fate of characters is up to the writers and producers. But in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Serratos said that killing off Rosita in the series finale was her idea. “It tugging at your heartstrings was something that I really fell in love with about the show,” Serratos told EW. “And I just really wanted people to have that emotional experience in our finale, especially. I think a show that was about possibly losing your loved ones, you want to lose somebody at the end. I know it sounds so dark, but I feel like the show, we owed it to the fans to break their hearts one last time, if that makes sense,” she said.

“There’s so much talk about spin-offs and stuff, and I couldn’t live in limbo,” she continued. “I couldn’t not know if she was going to ever come back or not. It was going to drive me insane. So it really helped me, Christian, have closure. And I really think it made sense for Rosita. I mean, she was so willing to die for her loved ones and die for her child, and I just thought it really made sense for her.”

So Rosita from The Walking Dead died because… emotions or because Serratos wanted to ensure she wouldn’t be available for any The Walking Dead spin-offs. Or maybe both things are true?

Nearly 30 years after the release of James Cameron‘s epic disaster movie Titanic, Cameron still loves to bring it up in order to talk about how much money it made and also to justify taking over a decade to put out Avatar 2: The Way Of The Water. You can’t be mad once you remember that this man created one of the most iconic movies of all time, right? Well, you could. But still, he is going to remind you of it all the time.

In a recent interview with GQ, Cameron detailed the casting process for Titanic, which resulted in him actively disliking Leonardo Dicaprio, and almost casting Gwyneth Paltrow as Rose.

“I didn’t see Kate [Winslet] at first [as Rose],” Cameron confirmed. “But I was thinking maybe Gwyneth Paltrow.” Paltrow has addressed the rumor that she had turned down the role in the past. “I know that the story is that I turned it down. I think I was really in contention for it — I was one of the last two,” the Goop founder told Howard Stern in 2015 that Winslet beat her out for the role.

After asking DiCaprio to come in for a screen test with Winslet, he was surprised to learn that the young actor hadn’t even read the script. Cameron was not pleased.

[DiCaprio] said, ‘You mean, I’m reading?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ He said, ‘Oh, I don’t read.’ I shook his hand and said, ‘Thanks for coming by.’ And he said, ‘Wait, wait, wait. If I don’t read, I don’t get the part? Just like that?’ And I said, ‘Oh, yeah. Come on. This is a giant movie that is going to take two years of my life, and you’ll be gone doing five other things while I’m doing post-production. So, I’m not going to f*** it up by making the wrong decision in casting. So, you’re going to read, or you’re not going to get the part.’”

DiCaprio decided to take his chances and audition alongside Winslet, who was already cast. The director continued, “So he comes in, and he’s like every ounce of his entire being is just so negative — right up until I said, ‘Action.’” That’s when DiCaprio and his ’90s heartthrob hair stole the screen and America’s hearts. Sometimes being negative works! He added, “Kate just lit up, and they played the scene. Dark clouds had opened up, and a ray of sun came down and lit up Jack. I’m like, ‘All right. He’s the guy.’”

Eventually, DiCaprio became one of the world’s most iconic actors, Winslet was nominated for an Academy Award for her role, and Paltrow began a vagina candle empire. That’s all one could ever hope for.

(Via People)

Nearly four years after his chart-topping debut with 2018’s Not All Heroes Wear Capes, Metro Boomin returns to music with his highly anticipated sophomore effort, Heroes Vs. Villains.

Despite rumors that the prolific producer pushed the album back because of Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss, which was released earlier this month, he revealed that the album would be delayed because he couldn’t get the samples cleared in time. The album was initially set to release on November 4, but it has been pushed back to December.

“I couldn’t get all the samples on my album cleared in time for next week, so I’m dropping on December 2 now, so I have enough time to make sure you all get this masterpiece as intended,” he tweeted. “I promise it’s worth the wait!! P.S. I would NEVER move my album date because of anyone else [laughing emoji].”

This past September, the “Runnin” producer announced that he would drop his forthcoming project and shared a trailer about the upcoming project on YouTube.

Yesterday (November 22), Metro shared the cover for his forthcoming project on Twitter. To date, no tracklist or features have been released for the long-awaited project, but it’s fair to assume they will be coming quickly.

Heroes & Villains is out 12/2 via Boominati Worldwide/Republic. Pre-order it here.

Nicki Nicole is returning with her new single “Frío” that’s dropping tonight (November 23). The rising Argentine star talked with Uproxx about her upcoming synth-pop track, being in a relationship with Argentine rapper Trueno, and what to expect on her next album.

Nicole emerged from Argentina’s Latin trap wave that has gone global. Since then, she has proven herself to be an all-around pop star, experimenting with genres like reggaeton, R&B, and electronica music. With her single “Frío” that will be released tonight at 7 p.m. ET, Nicole is taking her music career to the next level. In the frosty kiss-off track, she seamlessly blends reggaeton beats with a synth-pop twist.

“The inspiration was born out of a nostalgic feeling,” Nicole told Uproxx. “That heartbreak you can feel from losing someone and it leaves you feeling cold that you don’t want to be with anyone else. You’re cold with everyone from the fear of being betrayed again. It’s inspired by everything that gives us a bit of heartbreak.”

Earlier this month, Nicole received a co-sign from Latin trap pioneer Arcángel. When asked about the new artists that he’s listening to, he listed all the female artists from Argentina like Nicole, María Becerra, Cazzu, and Emilia. Arcángel added that it’s the women who are the top artists in Argentina today.

“First of all, thanks so much [to Arcángel] and I hope a lot of women keep tearing it up in Argentina and around the world,” she said. “The women today are on another level. Women have always been there, but I feel like before they didn’t have that much visibility. I feel like the talent has always been there, but it wasn’t valued as it is today. I’m happy to see that’s changed.”

Nicole is in a relationship with rapper Trueno. The Argentine power couple have released a few duets together like “Mamichula” and “Dangerous.” She is happy that she can relate to her partner as both artists in the music industry.

“There’s something very positive about having the same job,” Nicole says. “We’re doing the same things and we understand each other 100 percent. I believe that I couldn’t have any better partner than I do now. We flow very well with each other in the studio and the songs we made carry that love that we share. Hopefully we can make 1,000 more songs.”

As for what’s next, Nicole is hard at work on her third album that’s due out next year. She added that she’s exploring “futuristic themes” on the LP like in the upcoming “Frío” music video.

“Beyond the message [of ‘Frío’] that’s a bit sad, I want people to dance with the song and enjoy it, and leave behind the heartbreak,” she said.

After waiting 15 years for a sequel, Enchanted fans finally got their wish in the form of Disenchanted, which recently arrived on Disney+ with original stars Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, and James Marsden reprising their roles. However, the sequel has been met with tepid reviews as it failed to capture the magic of the original film where Adams delivered a knockout performance as Gisele, a cartoon Disney princess who’s banished to the live-action real world of New York City by an evil queen.

As for what went wrong? Well, for starters, original Enchanted director Kevin Lima wasn’t brought back for the sequel. The director, who cut his teeth as a Disney animator, had been a fierce champion for the first film that almost died several times in pre-production over concerns from Disney marketing.

“They didn’t think boys would go to see this movie,” Lima told The Hollywood Reporter. However, Enchanted went on to a solid box office performance and three original song Oscar nominations. But despite that success, Lima was never even asked to return for the sequel:

“A perfect storm of a change of executives and Hollywood politics made it so that I was uninvited to the party, unfortunately,” he says of Disenchanted. “It was a very, very sad turn. I haven’t seen the movie; I haven’t read the script. So I’m going to experience the characters that I helped create, grow and live on as the audience does.”

Disney might come to regret that move. While the original Enchanted has a 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes (it really is a delightful movie), Disenchanted is sitting at 40 percent as of this writing. That’s a pretty far drop.

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

For just $45,000 a month, a Taylor Swift fan can live in one of the pop star’s most notable residences — a townhome in New York City on Cornelia Street.

Swift first mentioned the residence in her 2019 song “Cornelia Street,” which was featured on her 2019 album Lover. The track chronicles her time renting the home in 2016 while her Tribeca property was undergoing renovations. On the way, Swift sings, “I rent a place on Cornelia Street, I say casually in the car.”

The Grammy-winning singer has listed the townhouse for rent to the tune of $45k a month. People reports that when Swift rented the luxury property back in 2016, it was for $38k a month — almost $7k less than the new listing price.

The townhome was listed for rent by the Corcoran Group under agents Laurence Carty, Irene Lo, and Jennifer Rahilly. The 1870s-themed carriage house is nearly four stories, spanning almost 5,400 square feet, according to a recent press release. The rental is 21 feet wide, with four bedrooms, five full baths, and two half baths with “dramatic double-height ceilings.”

Additionally, the home features three gas fireplaces and hardwood floors and even boasts an elevator. But it doesn’t stop there: the luxury residence also has an indoor pool, outdoor patio, and a rooftop terrace, the release said.