Netflix got into the sports documentary game back in 2021 with its Untold series. Everything from the Malice at the Palace to the BALCO scandal have been put under the spotlight as part of the series, and on Monday, Netflix announced that three new docs are coming out later this year.
Topics from the NFL, college football, and soccer will be covered, and three individuals — former Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair, former Michigan football analyst and the centerpiece of their 2023 sign-stealing scandal Connor Stalions, and ex-USWNT goalkeeper Hope Solo — are the focal points of each of the three documentaries. Each of them will be released on a Tuesday, with the first one, The Murder of Air McNair, hitting the platform on Aug. 20. Sign Stealer will be released a week later, while Hope Solo vs. U.S. Soccer comes out on Sept. 3. There is no word on whether there will be any more Untold episodes this year.
UNTOLD is back with three new sports stories that go well beyond the headlines.
The Murder of Air McNair (Aug 20): Capturing the Titans’ 2000 Super Bowl run and unanswered questions surrounding McNair’s 2009 murder.
The Untold series dates back to 2021, when Netflix released Untold: Malice at the Palace. Five documentaries were released in the series’ first year, with four more coming out in both 2022 and 2023. The last one to hit the streaming platform came in 2023, when Untold: Swamp Kings told the story of the Florida Gators from 2005-09 under Urban Meyer.
Glen Powell is everywhere these days, and yet he somehow didn’t know about Brat Summer, so he’s clearly got a lot on his mind. The actor/Brisket’s dad has been tornadoing around the globe to promote Twisters, but that doesn’t stop him from working on other things simultaneously, including the potential Top Gun installment alongside his good buddy Tom Cruise. These two never stop working!
Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones appeared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast when they were asked which will come sooner: a Normal People follow-up or another Top Gun sequel. Powell seemed locked in. “I mean I have a date.” Edgar-Jones then confirmed that there has been no news regarding another Normal People season. Sorry, Paul Mescal hive, but he’s busy, too.
The interviewer pressed further about Top Gun 3, but Powell didn’t reveal any more secrets. “Absolutely not. We should go to the next question,” he joked before Tom Cruise could even have a chance to helicopter in and steal Powell away from the audience.
Top Gun: Maverick hit theaters in 2022 and became the first significant post-pandemic blockbuster. The success only increased Tom Cruise’s love of movies even more.
Earlier this year, producer Jerry Bruckheimer confirmed that another Top Gun is in the works with Cruise, but it might take some time until it lands in theaters. “You never know when it’s going to get made because Tom is so busy. He’s doing Mission: Impossible right now, he’s got a picture after it. Hopefully, we’ll get a screenplay that he loves, and we’ll be back in the air again.,” the producer explained. The next M:I film is slated for a May 23, 2025 release.
Meanwhile, Powell will be working on the film Huntington from John Patton Ford and then shooting The Running Man with Edgar Wright this fall, so he has a solid work queue for the next few years. But his most important job? Being a father to Brisket. That comes first.
The 2024 Olympics kick off this Friday in Paris, and one Olympian was given the well-wishes of a luminary supporter, Cardi B. The Bronx rapper gave Sha’Carri Richardson a heartfelt sendoff, writing a touching message calling Richardson a “superhero” alongside a video clip of the two superstars meeting up to get their nails done together.
“Wishing @itsshacarri sooooo much luck!!” Cardi wrote. “You bought so much emotion out of me because your words and your spirit is so powerful. Seeing your growth after people tried to turn their back on you is so inspirational to me.. You are more than just a athlete, you are a SUPERHERO and I can’t wait to see where the next 10 years take you because you already a legend.”
In the clip, part of NBC’s Olympic coverage rollout, Cardi tells Richardson to her face why she appreciates her so much. “You stand out, because the fastest woman in the world, she’s a real lit girl… I’m really, really proud of you. Because you came back stronger than ever with your talent. You have evolved.” Richardson reciprocated the positivity, praising Cardi for her own resilience and encouraging her to finish that next album. You can watch the cilp below.
Wishing @itsshacarri sooooo much luck!! You bought so much emotion out of me because your words and your spirit is so powerful. Seeing your growth after people tried to turn their back on you is so inspirational to me.. You are more than just a athlete, you are a SUPERHERO and I… pic.twitter.com/twacJPd8eU
For the past few months, the NBA’s impending new national TV rights deal has lingered as a secondary storyline underneath the Playoffs, Draft, and beginning of the offseason. Late last week, the league’s Board of Governors approved a new 11-year, $76 billion rights deal that would keep ESPN as their lead partner but add NBC and Amazon as new partners, bringing NBA games to national TV every night of the week.
The odd network out was TNT, which initially balked at the NBA’s asking price during the exclusive negotiating window and was not willing to meet the league’s asking price after. However, they have a matching rights clause in their current deal, which meant after the NBA approved the deal, it got sent back to TNT Sports and Warner Bros. Discovery to give them a chance to match. On Monday, TNT Sports released a statement confirming they were matching one of the deals, with The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand bringing word it will indeed be the Amazon package.
“We’re proud of how we have delivered for basketball fans by providing best-in-class coverage throughout our four-decade partnership with the NBA. In an effort to continue our long-standing partnership, during both exclusive and non-exclusive negotiation periods, we acted in good faith to present strong bids that were fair to both parties.
Regrettably, the league notified us of its intention to accept other offers for the games in our current rights package, leaving us to proceed under the matching rights provision, which is an integral part of our current agreement and the rights we have paid for under it.
We have reviewed the offers and matched one of them. This will allow fans to keep enjoying our unparalleled coverage, including the best live game productions in the industry and our iconic studio shows and talent, while building on our proven 40-year commitment for many more years.
Our matching paperwork was submitted to the league today. We look forward to the NBA executing our new contract.”
Now it’s up to the NBA whether they accept TNT’s match or if they try to reject it and battle it out in the courts. The league has made it clear they want to get in with a streamer in this new rights package, and now it could come down to what is legally defined as a matching offer. Financially, TNT can match, but the NBA could posit that they cannot match what Amazon can provide the league. According to Marchand, the league plans to decline the package to keep Amazon around and could try to work out a different deal with TNT or a settlement.
While TNT has the contractual right to match an offer, per its current contract, the NBA is expected to decline the network’s right to take the agreed-upon Amazon package, sources briefed on the NBA’s plans said. The league’s preference is to honor the $1.8 billion per year contract it agreed to with Amazon.
There are certain horror movie scenes that stick with audiences forever. The chestburster in Alien. The exorcism in The Exorcist. The ending of The Blair Witch Project. I was too young (and/or not alive) to see any of those films in the theater, but a scene that stays with me is the alien in M. Night Shyamalan‘s Signs. Stripped of context, it’s not even that scary! But I’ll never forget the screams I heard in the theater during my opening weekend screening when that dang alien walked across the screen (“vamanos!”) at a birthday party.
And Shyamalan is laughing at our terror. Over the weekend, the director tweeted, “This Brazilian fan really made me laugh,” along with a photo where he’s standing next to a fan holding a sign showing the alien from Signs. It reads, “Thanks For The Childhood Trauma.”
— M. Night Shyamalan (@MNightShyamalan) July 21, 2024
Shyamalan is currently on the road promoting his upcoming movie, Trap. The filmmaker described it as “What if The Silence of the Lambs happened at a Taylor Swift concert?” which is the best movie pitch since James Cameron changed “Aliens” to “Alien$.”
Trap, which stars Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills, and Alison Pill, opens in theaters on August 2. Watch the trailer below.
Warning: spoilers for the Love Island USA season finale below…you’ve been warned.
All good things must come to an end. Just like Barbie Summer and Brat Summer (and, eventually, Glen Powell Summer), Love Island Summer is officially over. But it’s not about the show, about the friendships we’ve made and ruined along the way.
Love Island USA became a massive hit for Peacock this summer, so the streamer is looking to bring all those viewers back for a follow-up reunion, Bravo-style. But Ariana Madix will probably be dressed better than Andy Cohen.
After the finale aired on Sunday, it was revealed that Serena and Kordell won the season by winning the hearts of American voters and Odell Beckham Jr fans. The other finalists were Leah and Miguel, JaNa and Kenny, and Nicole and Kendall.
The season six reunion will bring some of the islanders back together to hash out some of the unresolved drama that went on during and after filming. Love Island UK used to do similar specials, though this is the first time USA has been given a follow-up. The Love Island USA season 6 reunion will be available on Peacock on August 19 at 9 p.m. ET, though it hasn’t been confirmed who exactly will be returning. So what will they talk about?!
Since leaving the Villa this weekend, each islander has finally returned to social media to express their shock at gaining hundreds of thousands of social media followers while they were deserted on that island for the last month. We’ll get a chance to see if the islanders are all still best friends after the dust finally settles a bit and they get to rewatch.
Most recently, Pluma brought Exodo to Moody Center in Austin, Texas on Friday, July 19. The below setlist comes via setlist.fm. Study it ahead of his remaining dates, beginning with Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on Tuesday, July 23.
The Boys recently wrapped up its fourth season with a devastating finale, in which two Gen V characters, Cate (Maddie Phillips) and Sam (Asa Germann), helped round up the vigilante group as part of Homelander’s deputized Supes. This led to Sam easily holding back Kimiko (arguably prompting her first uttered words of the series) and might have paved the way for both Sam and Cate to join The Seven. Or not?
Thus far, The Boys showrunner and Gen V executive producer Eric Kripke hasn’t detailed whether Sam and Cate might still attend Godolkin University and remain on the spin off. The pair is, after all, known as the Guardians of Godolkin, so their return to “studies” might be obligatory for another year at minimum. Still, the more pressing question at the moment is this:
When Will Gen V Return With Season 2?
At present, Prime Video/Amazon has not publicized a release date. Kripke did recently speak with The Wrap and explained why that date is nebulous: “We are in production now. We’ve been in production for several weeks now, probably a month or two and I’m hoping that will be out next year.”
So, hopefully it will be 2025, which would fit in nicely with Karl Urban’s recent Instagram revelation that it would be “2 years” before The Boys returned with a fifth and final season:
Kripke further revealed ofGen V, “They’ve had their hardships obviously with the loss of Chance [Perdomo] but ultimately I think all fans of ‘The Boys’ are really going to love that second season and stay tuned on whether there’s more.” As previously detailed, the college-aged spin off underwent script rewrites following the accidental death of Chance Perdomo, and the show will handle the tragedy by having Perdomo’s character, Andre Anderson, die as well. We will find out more by 2025 for sure, and fingers crossed that a precise date surfaces soon.
The Los Angeles Lakers came into this summer with a clear need to upgrade their roster after another year in the Play-In and another playoff exit at the hands of the Denver Nuggets.
However, the decisions of a summer ago have come back to haunt them, and through three weeks of the NBA offseason, with the free agent pool dried up and the trade market at a standstill, this Lakers roster is worse than they were at this point a year ago. The optimistic viewpoint is that they will get better health than they did last season, as Gabe Vincent and Jarred Vanderbilt, two of their bigger signings, played a combined total of 40 games. The flip side of that coin, of course, is they got the healthiest combined season from their top stars since they’ve been together in L.A., as LeBron James and Anthony Davis appeared in 147 of a possible 164 games.
As of now, the Lakers have not made a single move of substance that will upgrade their regular rotation since Draft night when they selected Dalton Knecht in the first round (which, to be clear, was a terrific value selection at 17). Their lone signing was bringing back Max Christie on a 4-year, $32 million deal after he appeared in 67 games last year and averaged 4.2 points. In the meantime, they’ve seen Taurean Prince and Spencer Dinwiddie, who were their sixth and seventh leading scorers on a per game basis last year, leave to sign minimum deals with other contenders. It’s one thing to watch contributors leave for long-term deals or more money, but Lakers fans have grown extremely frustrated (and understandably so) watching the Lakers get worse while players leave for minimum money elsewhere — without any replacements they can even pretend are upgrades.
The Lakers find themselves in this position for a few reasons, one of which being their continued refusal to get truly involved on the trade market with their future draft picks. Rob Pelinka has not been willing to mortgage the Lakers long-term future for one more run, which is certainly understandable, but isn’t exactly inspiring for fans or the likes of LeBron James and Anthony Davis. Beyond that, they are dealing with the consequences of three failed bets they placed last year, which has clogged up their roster and kept them from getting into the top-end of the vet minimum market.
After signing Vincent and Vanderbilt a year ago, the Lakers chose to fill out their roster by offering two-year vet min deals with player options to Cam Reddish, Jaxson Hayes, and Christian Wood. The idea was that a couple of them would be solid contributors, providing more value than their minimum deals, which would mean they’d either return to L.A. on a value contract or decline their option and free up a roster spot. Instead, the Lakers rolled snake eyes on all three. Hayes played in 70 games, a byproduct of the Lakers extremely thin center rotation, but averaged just 4.3 points and 3.0 rebounds per game. Reddish played in 48 games, starting 26, but averaged just 5.4 points per game and shot 33.8 percent from three, ultimately falling out of Darvin Ham’s rotation. Wood averaged 6.9 points and 5.1 rebounds per game, but had his worst shooting season of his career (30.7 percent from three) and had his season end in late February with a knee injury that required surgery.
As a result, all three players picked up their player options to secure guaranteed money for this season, clogging up the Lakers roster and further choking out any avenues for minor upgrades to the rotation. Wood and Hayes will, once again, be the Lakers center depth behind Davis, and with Bronny James signing a full-time deal as a second round exception, the Lakers roster is full at 15 players. With there not being any apparent activity on the trade market, it certainly looks like this is the group JJ Redick will start his coaching career with.
It’s not the worst team in the league by any stretch, but in a loaded Western Conference, it’s hard to see how they make the necessary leap to get in the conversation at the top. A healthy Vanderbilt would certainly help their defense and provide some versatility in the frontcourt. The same can be said for Vincent in filling Dinwiddie’s spot in the backcourt rotation after he just never looked right after returning from injury late in the season. However, depth will be a concern again, as the center rotation behind Davis is suboptimal and it gets a bit dicey beyond their top three guards.
On top of all that, Redick has stated he wants the Lakers to up their three-point volume, but he just saw two of their five best shooters from a year ago leave in Prince and Russell. Knecht can potentially fill some of that void, but they now have just three players that were above league average (35.3 percent) from deep a year ago — James (41.0), Russell (41.5), and Reaves (36.7). That doesn’t bode particularly well for their new coach to be able to install the kind of offense he’s hoping to run, and how they navigate a dearth of shooting will once again be a theme for this Lakers team — a fairly consistent issue since their title run in 2020.
All of those factors point to another year of the Lakers battling it out in Play-In territory in the West. It’s not the worst fate a team can have, but it’s certainly not where a squad built around LeBron James and Anthony Davis wants to be. For anyone wondering how that can happen, you can simply look to a few failed rolls of the dice last year that now haunt their cap sheet, and a refusal to take another big swing.
On Monday, July 22, Gambino’s official video for the Bando track “Lithonia” arrived.
The Jack Begert-directed video captures Gambino singing in a dark room about how “nobody gives a f*ck.” It seems like a relatively tame, grungy rock video for about 80 seconds. Then, it becomes obvious that everyone is teetering toward something drastic — tensions heightened so much sweat drips off their faces.
The truly shocking climax comes when Gambino gutturally screams and his eyes explode from his face. An onlooker’s face is covered in his blood, causing her to also scream wildly before he chases her through the woods.
“I always knew, like, Childish Gambino was like a character, on some level I wanted it to end,” he said. “I feel like the Childish Gambino character is almost like the boss from The Office. It’s like, yeah, that worked 10 years ago. It’s like, oh, it’s a little sad, but it’s also like, wow, the cycle kind of continues, which is great I think.”
Watch the “Lithonia” video above.
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