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Dan Snyder’s time as the owner of the Washington Commanders may be coming to an end. According to a report in Forbes that was eventually confirmed by the team, Snyder and his wife, Tanya, have hired BofA Securities to potentially shepard a sale of the franchise that he has owned for two decades.

In the statement, the franchise noted that this does not mean a sale is imminent, but rather, that the team will “consider potential transactions.”

This came shortly after Mike Ozanian of Forbes reported that Snyder tabbed BofA to help with potentially selling some (or his full) stake in the team, and that there is already interest from groups in buying the squad based out of the nation’s capital.

According to a person familiar with the process, Snyder already has at least four calls from groups interested in buying the team. Snyder and his bankers are exploring all options and a transaction could be for the entire NFL team or a minority stake.

A Commanders rep told Ian Rapoport of NFL Network that the team is “exploring all options.” The news comes as Snyder has come under scrutiny for a number of reasons, including fostering a work environment where numerous women have claimed they were sexually harassed and hiding revenues from both fans and the NFL. Despite this, Snyder has allegedly claimed that the NFL won’t do anything to him due to the amount of dirt he has on owner owners and Roger Goodell.

The Beyhive is buzzing with hope for new visuals. Despite having released her seventh studio album, Renaissance more than three months ago, Beyoncé has not released any music videos for the album. Although she has released a teaser clip for the video for Renaissance cut, “I’m That Girl,” she has not shared much else in regard to videos. However, a gift she sent to R&B singer/songwriter Syd now has fans theorizing about upcoming videos. But this gift also has fans asking how Syd contributed to the Renaissance era.

What Beyoncé Song Did Syd Help Write?

The album’s eighth track, “Plastic Off The Sofa” features writing credits by Beyoncé herself, along with Sydney Bennett, better known as Syd, as well as Sabrina Claudio, Nick Green, and Patrick Paige II. The song was also produced by Beyoncé, Syd, and Leven Kali.

Yesterday (November 1), Beyoncé sent Syd a thank-you gift for her contributions and seemingly hinted that visuals were on the way.

“Thank you for contributing so much to the film,” said Bey. “I’m looking at the footage and you’re incredible. I’m forever grateful. B.”

Neither Syd nor Beyoncé have commented any further regarding the aforementioned film, however, others have hinted that the videos are on their way.

In a now-deleted tweet, drag performer Shea Couleé implied that she knew that Beyoncé is putting the final touches on the visuals.

I’m not gonna say how I know this, but the visuals are coming,” Couleé said. “So stop asking that lady for them. She’s working overtime, and she’s about to deliver.”

Dreamville Festival has quietly become one of the better artist-founded music festivals around after being rescheduled and postponed by both inclement weather and a pandemic. However, when it returned with an expanded lineup earlier this year — and secured a streaming partnership with Amazon, no less — it turned out that its organizers displayed a unique aesthetic sense and a gift for curation that led to one of the more interesting lineups of the year. While it naturally showcased the talent assembled by J. Cole onto his label, it also turned out to be pretty diverse, with cool legacy acts and top contemporary ones.

Fans of Dreamville Fest will likely be delighted by the news that Cole and co. are already plotting its return to North Carolina. Today, the Dreamville Fest social accounts announced the upcoming 2023 dates, April 1 and 2, and shared a highlight reel of this year’s festival, which featured a Gangsta Grillz presentation from DJ Drama (along with mixtape mainstays Jeezy, Lil Wayne, and T.I.), Ja Rule and Ashanti, the beginning of Larry June’s 2022 breakout, and Lil Baby. Likewise, the Dreamville roster, including Ari Lennox, Earthgang, JID, Lute, and J. Cole himself, all put on a show, as well.

While this year’s lineup and ticket info hasn’t been released yet, you can sign up for the mailing list at DreamvilleFest.com. Let’s all hope for blue skies and no more viruses.

Dan Snyder’s time as the owner of the Washington Commanders may be coming to an end. According to a report in Forbes that was eventually confirmed by the team, Snyder and his wife, Tanya, have hired BofA Securities to potentially shepard a sale of the franchise that he has owned for two decades.

In the statement, the franchise noted that this does not mean a sale is imminent, but rather, that the team will “consider potential transactions.”

This came shortly after Mike Ozanian of Forbes reported that Snyder tabbed BofA to help with potentially selling some (or his full) stake in the team, and that there is already interest from groups in buying the squad based out of the nation’s capital.

According to a person familiar with the process, Snyder already has at least four calls from groups interested in buying the team. Snyder and his bankers are exploring all options and a transaction could be for the entire NFL team or a minority stake.

A Commanders rep told Ian Rapoport of NFL Network that the team is “exploring all options.” The news comes as Snyder has come under scrutiny for a number of reasons, including fostering a work environment where numerous women have claimed they were sexually harassed and hiding revenues from both fans and the NFL. Despite this, Snyder has allegedly claimed that the NFL won’t do anything to him due to the amount of dirt he has on owner owners and Roger Goodell.

After years of hinting, scheming, and being vaguely threatening about it, Avatar: The Way Of Water is finally heading to theaters…for better or for worse!

The long-awaited second installment in the franchise brings the cast back to the lush blue planet of Pandora where the Na’vi are thriving and majestically riding aquatic animals, and those pesky humans are still trying to ruin everything and take their resources (sound familiar?).

The sequel stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, Jemaine Clement, and Kate Winslet. Here is the official description:

Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, Avatar: The Way of Water begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.

The Way Of Water is the first in a series of announced sequels that will hopefully come out within the next 50 years, but you can never be too sure with Cameron. While the hype might have died down a bit since the first movie soared into theaters in 2009, the director insists that the movie will reignite that, uh, passion for the franchise!

Just like its predecessor, Avatar: The Way Of Water will make its way into theaters just in time for the holiday season on December 16th. There have been no updates as to when (or if) the movie will make its way onto streaming, though don’t hold your breath just yet. Get it?! Ha!

Dreamville Festival has quietly become one of the better artist-founded music festivals around after being rescheduled and postponed by both inclement weather and a pandemic. However, when it returned with an expanded lineup earlier this year — and secured a streaming partnership with Amazon, no less — it turned out that its organizers displayed a unique aesthetic sense and a gift for curation that led to one of the more interesting lineups of the year. While it naturally showcased the talent assembled by J. Cole onto his label, it also turned out to be pretty diverse, with cool legacy acts and top contemporary ones.

Fans of Dreamville Fest will likely be delighted by the news that Cole and co. are already plotting its return to North Carolina. Today, the Dreamville Fest social accounts announced the upcoming 2023 dates, April 1 and 2, and shared a highlight reel of this year’s festival, which featured a Gangsta Grillz presentation from DJ Drama (along with mixtape mainstays Jeezy, Lil Wayne, and T.I.), Ja Rule and Ashanti, the beginning of Larry June’s 2022 breakout, and Lil Baby. Likewise, the Dreamville roster, including Ari Lennox, Earthgang, JID, Lute, and J. Cole himself, all put on a show, as well.

While this year’s lineup and ticket info hasn’t been released yet, you can sign up for the mailing list at DreamvilleFest.com. Let’s all hope for blue skies and no more viruses.

Jennifer Lawrence is one of the most celebrated performers of her generation, with four Oscar nominations and one win to her name. But she’s also starred in some stinkers: Dark Phoenix (the most contractually obligated movie of all-time), the mop biopic Joy, the House at the End of the Street remake, etc. They can’t all be winners like Winter’s Bone, and no movie in her filmography is less like than Winter’s Bone than Passengers.

The ill-fated science-fiction movie is about a horny, lonely dude on a spaceship, played by Chris Pratt, who wakes up a female passenger (Lawrence) from induced hibernation 30 years into a 120-year journey, effectively killing her. Passengers was called “creepy and misogynistic” by critics, and one of Lawrence’s famous friends wasn’t a fan, either.

The actress told the New York Times that after the Hunger Games franchise wrapped up, she could sense her fans weren’t enjoying her post-Katniss films. “I was like, oh no, you guys are here because I’m here, and I’m here because you’re here. Wait, who decided that this was a good movie?” Was there one movie, in particular, that made her feel this way? “Passengers, I guess,” she said. “Adele told me not to do it! She was like, ‘I feel like space movies are the new vampire movies.’ I should have listened to her.”

That’s good advice, generally: listen to Adele.

Lawrence’s movie with Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway, hits Apple TV+ on November 4.

(Via the New York Times)

After years of hinting, scheming, and being vaguely threatening about it, Avatar: The Way Of Water is finally heading to theaters…for better or for worse!

The long-awaited second installment in the franchise brings the cast back to the lush blue planet of Pandora where the Na’vi are thriving and majestically riding aquatic animals, and those pesky humans are still trying to ruin everything and take their resources (sound familiar?).

The sequel stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, Jemaine Clement, and Kate Winslet. Here is the official description:

Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, Avatar: The Way of Water begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.

The Way Of Water is the first in a series of announced sequels that will hopefully come out within the next 50 years, but you can never be too sure with Cameron. While the hype might have died down a bit since the first movie soared into theaters in 2009, the director insists that the movie will reignite that, uh, passion for the franchise!

Just like its predecessor, Avatar: The Way Of Water will make its way into theaters just in time for the holiday season on December 16th. There have been no updates as to when (or if) the movie will make its way onto streaming, though don’t hold your breath just yet. Get it?! Ha!

The British royal family is not pleased with Netflix’s The Crown for obvious reasons, even more so because the show turns up the heat on Prince Charles amid his disintegrating marriage to Princess Diana. After pushback, Netflix did add a disclaimer to note that this is a “fictionalized” take on the Windsors, which was likely due to a contested subject involving Charles reportedly growing salty about having to wait in line for the throne.

Also at issue? The next season includes plenty of canoodling between Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles after Season 4 heavily went there as well. And the show dives into the infamous “Tampongate” scandal, in which Charles was nonconsensually recorded telling Camilla that he envied her tampon. Gross? Yes. Josh O’Connor reportedly declined to film the scene in Season 4, but Dominic West is apparently doing the honors in Season 5. The actor discussed this wildness with The Guardian and emerged with some perspective. In short, he believes this was a “sweet” gesture:

“My memory of it is that it was sort of filthy and dirty and really embarrassing, but actually, in the playing of it, it was much more like two middle-aged lovers being sweet to each other,” he said.

“If any one of us had our intimate phone conversations reproduced verbatim in every newspaper in the world, imagine what that’s like. Imagine how awful that is. It just strikes you as being a horrible breach of privacy that no one should have to suffer.”

From there, yes, it’s entirely awful that these phone calls made public by newspapers in Britain. That goes right along with the season’s theme of the monarchy enduring not only a constitutional crisis but also one of public reception. Diana and Charles were also living separate lives, and the princess’ side of the under-siege coin led to tragic results. The show will not film the car crash in question for Season 6, but expect tensions to remain high regardless.

Netflix’s The Crown returns with Season 5 on November 9.

(Via The Guardian)

Spooky season is officially behind us! With our Halloween costumes neatly tucked back into their packaging, we can now swap out your pumpkin-spiced drinks for apple cider lattes instead. The holidays are quickly approaching, and no one is more excited about this transition than the ‘Queen Of Christmas’ herself, Mariah Carey.

In the songwriter’s annual “it’s time” video shared to social media, Carey sporting her signature red velour bodysuit with white fur trimmings gleefully laughs as her 1994 song “All I Want For Christmas Is You” plays in the background. While most musicians stir clear from works that they feel could pigeonhole how they’re viewed, Carey and her superfans (The Lambs) completely embrace her holiday association.

Within 24 hours of the Carey social media posting, “Christmas” racked up just over 1.2 million streams, shooting into the No. 96 slot on Spotify’s global daily music chart for November 1. Pulling these numbers on a song that just celebrated its 28th birthday, Carey retains her spot on the wreath decorated throne.

Throughout the years, singers have recorded holiday songs hoping to strike gold, most recently Dolly Parton and Jimmy Fallon, but none has quite had the impact Carey’s has. For the past four consecutive years, the track has earned the No. 1 spot on the Hot 100 chart, becoming the first song in history to do so (according to Billboard).

We will keep an eye on the charts to see if “Christmas” can secure the top spot for a fifth time.