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John Wick has been absent the big screen for four long years. A lot has happened since then. But the forthcoming fourquel will be making up for lost time, in part by being super, super long. (Though at one point it was even longer.) Will audiences also be able to make up for lost time by seeing it on the biggest screens around, namely IMAX?

The answer, as per Collider, is yes. Though unlike movies like Top Gun, Dune, and Tenet, which were all shot partially with IMAX cameras, John Wick: Chapter 4 is one of those movies that wasn’t but will be exhibited that way anyway. Viewers only have one week to enjoy it on gigantic, square-shaped screens, so hop to it if that’s the option you want.

John Wick 4 will be released one week after the passing of one of its actors, Lance Reddick, who played Charon, the concierge of the hitman-friendly Concierge Hotel across all four films.

“Lance was a beautiful person, [a] special artist, a man of grace and dignity, and such a passion for his craft,” Reeves told Deadline during a red carpet chat. “And to have the chance to work with him over 10 years and four films is something that is very special to me and it f***ing sucks he’s not here.”

John Wick: Chapter 4 will open theatrically the night of Thursday, March 23..

The other week, Hit-Boy shared the artwork for his first-ever rap album Surf Or Drown, arriving in just a couple of days. It’s packed with exciting collaborations with artists like Dom Kennedy, The Alchemist, Curren$y, and more. Today (March 22), he shared a track with a particularly prestigious guest: Nas.

“The Tide” comes with a video directed by ThirdEyeRaz that watches the rapper pondering at paintings in an art gallery and playing a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden. It reckons with the all-too-common ill fate of rappers: “‘Cause when you make it from the bottom, they gon’ come for your top / Yeah, when you doin’ you, they don’t like that sh*t,” Hit-Boy raps, name-dropping the late PnB Rock and Takeoff.

The pair’s chemistry isn’t surprising; last year, they unleashed their fourth collaboration in three years, King’s Disease III.

About Surf Or Drown, Hit-Boy recently revealed that he did the production for the songs himself.

“I’m literally dropping a whole album next week with me rapping,” he said in an interview with Home Grown Media Group. “I got features on it. It’s produced by me, and a couple of the homies did some little pieces, but it’s a real good body of just what I’m on right now. … It’s gonna be like 11 joints.”

Listen to “The Tide” above.

Surf Or Drown is out 03/24 via Surf Club.

Taylor Swift sold 1.695 million total vinyl records last year, as reported by Billboard in January. The week ending in December 25, 2022 was the third-largest vinyl sales weeks since 1991, per Luminate, with the likes of Swift, Billie Eilish, Harry Styles, Olivia Rodrigo, Kendrick Lamar, Adele, and more leading the way in 2022 as a whole.

In February, it was announced that Swift will release her Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions in vinyl form on 2023 Record Store Day, which is exactly one month away. Swift was the first global Record Store Day ambassador in 2022.

This year, Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires Amanda Shires are serving as Record Store Day ambassadors — the first couple to do so.

“We’re happy to be your Record Store Day Ambassadors for 2023,” Isbell said in a video shared to his Twitter on January 30. “We think record stores are so important, not only to the musicians who play in them — like Amanda did so many times this year and I’ve done in the past — but also to the communities and to people who love music and people who love art.”

The Vinyl Factory shared all the titles that will be available on Saturday, April 22, and Record Store Day’s official website provides a list of participating record stores.

The Warriors and Mavs met in Dallas on Wednesday night in a pivotal game in the crowded Western Conference playoff race, as the winner would exit the game with a tenuous hold on the 6-seed, which is the final guaranteed playoff position.

As such, every basket was important in a back-and-forth game where neither team was able to take more than a 9-point advantage. So, coming out of a Mavs timeout in a one-point game late in the third quarter, there was mass confusion when the Warriors just got a free dunk for Kevon Looney after Dallas failed to have anyone on the defensive end of the floor because they thought it was their ball, being advanced into the frontcourt.

Jason Kidd was very mad on the sidelines, running out to midcourt to try and get an explanation from the officials, but despite his protest, the bucket counted. The official play-by-play lists the play prior to the Mavs timeout as a missed three from Anthony Lamb rebounded by Looney. How the Mavs called a timeout on defense without the ball, I’m not sure, but in a game of this magnitude it is rather wild to see this kind of lapse and no one to recognize what happened until the Warriors were given the ball and allowed to inbound it.

The dunk made it a three-point game and we’ll see if this play is just a weird moment or a pivotal one in a game that could very well be decided by one possession.

Legendary film/TV/theater scribe Aaron Sorkin‘s reimagined Camelot Broadway musical is only a few weeks away from its debut, but just a few months before it was supposed to begin rehearsals, Sorkin suffered a severe stroke. As Sorkin told The New York Times, his blood pressure was so high that “you’re supposed to be dead.”

“There was a minute when I was concerned that I was never going to be able to write again, and I was concerned in the short-term that I wasn’t going to be able to continue writing Camelot,” Sorkin said, adding that he’s now completely fine and perfectly capable of getting new writing work done.

Following the November stroke, Sorkin reported that he was slurring his words for about a month afterward, and still cannot taste food, but can now sign his own name and can type.

Plus, the show goes on. Sorkin fans will know that he has a deep and abiding love for musical theater, so Camelot — which stars Phillipa Soo as Guenevere, Andrew Burnap as Arthur, and Jordan Donica as Lancelot — is a culmination of talent and enthusiasm. The only question left is whether it will include as much slow motion fighting as Guy Ritchie’s version. The answer is probably no, but how else is it going to best To Kill A Mockingbird‘s nine Tony nominations?

(via The New York Times)

UK experimenters Rudimental will make themselves at home on the 2023 Glastonbury Festival and Parklife Festival stages this June, but not before celebrating the Home that started it all next month.

On Wednesday, March 22, Rudimental announced it will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their 2013 debut album Home, which was nominated for the Mercury Prize, by “releasing a limited-edition gold vinyl including 4 new remixes” on April 28.

The first of the four new offerings was also released Wednesday, a Clipz remix of “More Than Anything” featuring Emeli Sandé. The track shimmers in soaring synths and Sandé’s ethereal vocals. “If I could trust / Don’t you think that I’d let you touch me?” she sings. “Teach me to love / I hope there’s still hope for me / ‘Cause I wanna love / I wanna love / More than anything.”

Home‘s original tracklist additionally featured Angel Haze, Alex Clare, Becky Hill, Ella Eyre, Foxes, John Newman, Mark Crown, and MNEK.

Rudimental’s Instagram post also urged UK fans to pre-order through their official store to be entered into a contest to win “golden tickets” and VIP passes to their Crystal Palace Bowl show properly celebrating the Home 10-year anniversary on August 5.

Listen to “More Than Anything (Clipz Remix)” above.

Home (Limited Edition Gold Vinyl) is out 04/28 via Warner Music UK Limited. Find more information here.

Rudimental is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

On Tuesday, Donald Trump suffered a great indignity. No, he wasn’t indicted. (Though that seems to be what he wants now.) It was that his attempt at Jan. 6 redux was a big old flop. The former president on Saturday beckoned his supporters to “PROTEST” over Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against him. Almost no one did. And Jordan Klepper was there to witness his latest flop.

In a quickly-turned-around segment, the Daily Show correspondent hops on the subway to Lower Manhattan, where throngs were expected to be protesting outside the Manhattan Criminal Court building. Instead he discovered somewhere between three and six showed up. (Those brave few that did were outnumbered by counter protesters by about three.)

That left Klepper with few MAGA heads to engage with, but he found at least three. He chatted with one gentleman who refused to acknowledge that Joe Biden is literally the president, even claiming there were no pictures or videos of him entering or leaving the White House. (That is untrue.) Another referred to Michelle Obama as “Michael.”

One protester, his face mostly concealed, argued that it was all “political,” and that no one else has been charged for the Stormy Daniels hush money. Klepper pointed out that they did by imprisoning Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen. The person argued that that should mean no one else should be charged with the same crime. As for Trump allegedly cheating on his current wife with a porn star a decade and a half ago, the man said, “Listen…we men!”

You can watch Klepper’s latest segment in the video above.

(Via The Daily Beast)

We’ve come to expect life-altering drama from Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu, but it turns out that even the trailers for his films are miniature powerhouses on their own. At least that’s the case for the RMN trailer, which shows the increasing complexity and expanding plot of small town tensions. At a crossroads of economic scarcity and xenophobia, it’s a good bet that this Romanian project’s themes should feel familiar.

Here’s the official synopsis:

“A few days before Christmas, having quit his job in Germany, Matthias returns to his multi-ethnic Transylvanian village. He wishes to involve himself more in the education of his son, Rudi, left for too long in the care of his mother, Ana, and to rid the boy of the unresolved fears that have taken hold of him. He’s preoccupied with his old father, Otto, and also eager to see his ex-lover, Csilla. When a few new workers are hired at the small factory that Csilla manages, the peace of the community is disturbed, underlying fears grip the adults, and frustrations, conflicts and passions erupt through the thin veneer of apparent understanding and calm.”

RMN was hailed at Cannes, which is par for the course for Mungiu. The film, which stars Marin Grigore, Judith State, Macrina Bârlădeanu, hits theaters on April 28th.

Somehow, Rita Repulsa has climbed out of the space dumpster to threaten the entire world yet again. That’s the bad news. The worse news is that she’s going to go back in time to before the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers were made mighty, morphin, and powerful.

The trailer for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always is a nostalgic affair that recognizes that not all memories are good ones. Yes, Billy (David Yost) and Zack (Walter Emanuel Jones) are teaming with the second generation crew, Rocky (Steve Cardenas), Kat (Catherine Sutherland), and Adam (Johnny Yong Bosch), but the original Yellow Ranger, Thuy Trang, died in 2001 in a car accident, and Green Ranger Jason David Frank died last year. Without both, there are two massive holes in the lineup. As a result, the trailer is appropriately down tempo, even with its exciting fan service.

Karan Ashley also appears as Aisha Campbell/the second Yellow Ranger, but new character Minh Kwan (Charlie Kersh) is introduced as Trini Kwan’s daughter, meaning she’s destined to become the next Yellow Ranger. In fact, it looks like that’s the main thrust of the plot — stopping Rita from destroying the world, and getting Minh Kwan up to speed on how to join the team.

Of course, the most fascinating thing about the trailer is that the Netflix show looks nothing like a Netflix show. The production has smartly avoided the Netflix house style in favor of making something that looks like it might have sprung straight out of 1994.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always lands April 19th. Get ready to pump your fist in the air while sobbing.

For years, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has been considered one of the peaks of competitive gaming. CS:GO has long been adored by players thanks to its emphasis on quick reaction time, aim, and gameplay, with all competitive shooters released after it being held to its standard. Even as other games rose and fell in popularity, a dedicated group of fans has continued playing CS:GO and kept it as one of the most played first-person shooters on Steam at any given point.

So of course there had to be a follow up! On Wednesday, Valve released three videos to their YouTube channel and a website all dedicated to the next game in the franchise, Counter-Strike 2. While CS:GO receiving a sequel wasn’t a huge shock, the announcement itself was pretty much out of nowhere and a welcome surprise. Even better? The game is expected to have a Summer 2023 release so we don’t have to wait too much longer to get our hands on the finished product.

How long will the Counter-Strike 2 Limited Test last?
Counter-Strike 2 is expected to ship Summer 2023.

Please visit the Counter-Strike blog for up-to-date information on the limited test and future announcements.

For those who won’t be able to wait for the game, it looks like there will be a limited test that players can sign up for and play in until the game releases. Also, when it does release it will be available as a free upgrade for CS:GO. It sounds like more information is on the way so we can expect future updates with more info about Valve’s latest game in the coming months.