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After what feels like eons of retooling and money-pit construction, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are finally on the cusp of their Casa Bonita grand reopening near Denver, Colorado. Let the sopapillas begin, not to mention the “eatertainment” that was always the biggest draw, back in the day. However, Stone and Parker (operating under their “The Beautiful Opco, LLC” umbrella) did recruit renowned chef Dana “Loco” Rodriguez in a quest to bring actual “good food” to the table, and May 2023 has been set as target opening month.

Before that happens — and before people can relive Cartman acting like an ass amid the spectacle, as he did in South Park Season 7 — the dynamic duo needs to fully staff up. Granted, the pair maintained existing payroll in the meantime while providing bilingual classes to front-and-back end workers, who also volunteered at organizations like Habitat for Humanity. So what positions, exactly, do Parker and Stone need to fill?

Well, only about 550 spots, including servers, bartenders, and overall entertainers, along with the nostalgia-driving, all-important cliff divers. Those volcanos can’t stand alone, man. As local news station KDVR reports, not everyone can fit this bill. The physical and mental qualifications are substantial. Here’s a sampling of cliff-diver duties:

Creating a magical experience through interactions with roughly 1,500 guests, aged 2-100 a day, with an upbeat and pleasant attitude
Diving from platform heights of 16-25 feet
Consistently perform the following dives from 16 feet: Front (half, twist, pike, flip); back (half, twist, flip,); inward dive (tuck/pike/straight) – include them in your video clips for audition
Being in character for 3-6 consecutive hours at a time (with appropriate breaks).
Performing shows on time and being in place for all cues.
Meeting and interacting with guests at the guest meet and greet locations.
Speaking loudly, articulately and clearly to roughly 1,500 guests.
Meeting guests from ages 2-100 and conversing age-appropriately in character
Wearing company-approved costuming created for performer
Memorizing scripts, learning cues, and associated activities
Staged stunts, staged romance, or choreographed combat
Light improv and approved character interactions

That’s only the beginning (you can read more here). Rest assured that Casa Bonita’s new owners do mention that cliff divers will be provided with health insurance along with up to $25 per hour, which isn’t too shabby for a going rate in the Denver area. All candidates must provide five-minute clips of their various diving stunts to date, and auditions will be in order. You know, May isn’t too far away.

(Via KDVR)

Even though Ted Lasso has had a bumpy road since its acclaimed first season, the crew will be heading back to the field for a third season this spring, although some of them have turned over to the dark side. March will be a huge month for fans of tension-filled television!

Ted Lasso follows the titular coach, played by Jason Sudeikis, as he attempts to wrangle his eclectic football team. The series has won a series of awards and will return for a third, and possibly final, season this spring on AppleTV+. Despite the wave of “you either hate it or you love it” conversations the show seems to have inspired, the series will hopefully make a swing in the right direction for its third season. Here’s what we know.

Plot

Since we last saw AFC Richmond, formerly good guy Nate left to work for Rebecca’s ex Rupert, abandoning Lasso and the gang. Season three will deal with the aftermath of the tumultuous season. Here is the official synopsis:

[T]he newly-promoted AFC Richmond faces ridicule as media predictions widely peg them as last in the Premier League and Nate, now hailed as the “wonder kid,” has gone to work for Rupert (Anthony Head) at West Ham United. In the wake of Nate’s contentious departure from Richmond, Roy Kent steps up as assistant coach, alongside Beard. Meanwhile, while Ted deals with pressures at work, he continues to wrestle with his own personal issues back home, Rebecca is focused on defeating Rupert and Keeley navigates being the boss of her own PR agency. Things seem to be falling apart both on and off the pitch, but Team Lasso is set to give it their best shot anyway.

Release Date

The 12-episode season will premiere on March 15th on AppleTV+.

Cast

The whole gang is back for the third round, including Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, Anthony Head, Juno Temple, Hanna Waddingham, and Nick Mohammed, in addition to Sudeikis.

Trailer

You can check out the teaser below, featuring all of your favorite players crafting.

Celine Dion is one of the greatest vocalists ever, no matter what Rolling Stone thinks. Now, with all due respect to Muppets Most Wanted, she’ll try her hand at acting.

In Love Again, Priyanka Chopra Jonas plays Mira Ray, who copes with the loss of her fiancé by texting his old number — a number that, in romance movie fashion, now belongs to a stranger, Rob (Sam Heughan). He’s a journalist assigned to write a profile of Dion, although based on the trailer, the “My Heart Will Go On” singer takes on the role of the supportive best friend that these kind of movies are required to have.

Love Again has a wild plot (will he tell her about the dead fiancé’s number???). But it also features Chopra Jonas walking down the stairs in a lovely yellow dress in slow motion while “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” plays, so I’ll be seeing it opening night.

Here’s the official plot synopsis:

What if a random text message led to the love of your life? In this romantic comedy, dealing with the loss of her fiancé, Mira Ray sends a series of romantic texts to his old cell phone number… not realizing the number was reassigned to Rob Burns’ new work phone. A journalist, Rob is captivated by the honesty in the beautifully confessional texts. When he’s assigned to write a profile of megastar Celine Dion, he enlists her help in figuring out how to meet Mira in person… and win her heart.

Love Again, which also features new songs from Dion, opens in theaters on May 12.

(SPOILERS for BMF will be found below.)

At the top of the year, the second season of BMF made its return to screens worldwide for its second season. The show, created by Randy Huggins and 50 Cent and led by actors Demetrius “Lil Meech” Flenory Jr. and Da’Vinchi, is based on the infamous story of Detroit’s Black Mafia Family. The group, more commonly known as BMF, was founded in 1985, and by the 2000s, it was a nationwide operation with bases in Los Angeles and Atlanta. STARZ’s BMF recounts the story of BMF’s rise and fall, and in its second season, we watch Meech and Terry, the character played by Da’Vinchi, build the foundation that we now know as BMF.

When Is The Next Episode Of ‘BMF?’

Episode six of BMF, titled “Homecoming,” will be available this Friday, February 17. The episode will be available on the STARZ app at 12:00 am EST and it will air on the STARZ TV channel at 8:00 pm EST. Here is the official synopsis of the episode according to STARZ:

Meech and Terry return to Detroit from Atlanta with a product and a new technique to flood the streets with BMF product. Meech links up with Sterling and the PA Boys to continue his quest to kill Lamar.

“Homecoming” airs after a one-week break that followed the fifth episode of the current BMF season, which was titled “Moment Of Truth.” In that episode, Meech and Terry escape to Atlanta in search of new product to bring back to Detroit. During their trip, Terry accepts his true calling in life, Charles makes a life-changing decision, and Meech and Terry’s relentless enemy takes things to a new level in order to torment their lives.

You can read our recap of episode five here.

New episodes of ‘BMF’ are available on the STARZ app on Fridays at 12:00 am EST and on the STARZ TV channel at 8:00 pm EST.

Rihanna’s halftime show at Super Bowl LVII between the Philadelphia Eagles and the victorious Kansas City Chiefs was already a massive draw, even with the two teams having incredibly eager fan bases. As she took the suspended stage over Arizona’s State Farm Arena, Rihanna used just minutes to announce her second pregnancy and perform her biggest hits, including “Umbrella,” “Diamonds,” and the powerful opener, “B*tch Better Have My Money.”

According to Fox Sports (via Bleacher Report), Rihanna’s halftime show drew in 118.7 million viewers, while the Super Bowl game itself only got 113 million. And, as someone who switched the channel after her performance ended, it seems I wasn’t alone.

She also reportedly had the second most-watched halftime show in the Super Bowl’s history, trailing right behind Katy Perry (remember left shark?) at 121 million in viewership numbers.

Before her performance, Rihanna sat down for a press conference and noted that she had changed her setlist over 30 times. “You’re trying to cram seventeen years of work into thirteen minutes so it’s difficult,” she said.

“Some songs we have to lose because of that, and that’s going to be okay,” Rihanna added. “We did a pretty good job at narrowing it down. There’s probably been about 39 versions of the setlist right now. We’re on our 39th. Every little change counts.”

The first reviews for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania are in, and well, Marvel Phase 5 looks to be off to a wobbly start. While there’s plenty of praise for Jonathan Major as Kang the Conqueror, the third film in the Ant-Man series has seemingly lost the franchise’s lighter “palate cleansing” charm by making Paul Rudd go up against the MCU’s newest big bad instead of his fun, breezy, lower stake antics.

Quantumania is also considerably more FX-laden thanks to the film taking place almost entirely inside the sci-fi world of the Quantum Realm. Given Marvel’s recent track record with questionable CGI, that creative decision may affect the film’s reception. The critics are certainly divided on how well the spectacle lands with some comparing Quantumania favorably to Star Wars while others miss the low-key charm of the first two films.

You can see what the reviews are saying below:

Mike Ryan, Uproxx:

I feel like I’m reading a comic I like, but a run I’m not totally into. At least not yet. And with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, like I said, I think Peyton Reed has given us an installment that, with the material that has to be introduced, is about the best version this could be. But I found myself missing the more grounded and funny world of Scott Lang that the prior movies had set up.

Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge:

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, from director Peyton Reed, wants to make you laugh. But it also wants you to think it’s cool — kind of like a dad who doesn’t know how to relate to you now that you’re both adults who can recognize that he’s always sorta only had maybe one or two good bits. Quantumania knows those bits have worked in the past, and it gamely whips them out as part of the Ant-Man series’ most visually imaginative stories yet. But rather than coasting on its sense of dad-focused humor, Quantumania tries to switch things up a bit by mainlining a few doses of whatever psychedelics Doctor Strange has been brewing and inviting you to partake in a little madness that doesn’t always make sense.

Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly:

Thirty films in, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has become not unlike a box of chocolates; the high-fructose casing is guaranteed, but the flavors and the mouthfeel change. The original Ant-Man, whose cowriters included Adam McKay (Anchorman, The Big Short) and Edgar Wright (Baby Driver) had the rat-a-tat snap of a story rooted more in high multiplex comedy than mythology. This one is penned alone by Jeff Loveness, an alum of Jimmy Kimmel and Rick and Morty, and his take is both noisier and more patently absurd: a spinning Gravitron that shoots off wry one-liners, clangorous CG fight scenes, and shameless sentiment in equal, if hectic, measure.

Nick Schager, The Daily Beast:

A chore of diminishing returns, it’s an adventure that plays out almost wholly on green screens, here used by desktop artists to realize the Quantum Realm, a subatomic world that resembles a cross between Star Wars and Avatar, except with far more garish and muddy blues, oranges, and yellows. It’s a murky mess of an artificial setting that no doubt made filming during COVID easier, not that the pandemic is any excuse for the chintzy aesthetics and leaden writing of this forgettable franchise entry.

Joshua Yehl, IGN:

To Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’s credit, it manages to supersize this adventure while still maintaining the awkward, deadpan humor that makes Paul Rudd’s portrayal of Scott Lang so endearing. Yet in its haste to do so much, some of Quantumania’s characters, ideas, and plotlines feel underdeveloped – and that’s not the first time that’s been said about a recent MCU movie. The saving grace is Jonathan Majors’ show-stopping performance as the chilling new villain Kang, but not even he can conquer the MCU’s tendency to get in its own way.

Brian Truitt, USA Today:

These days, nothing is safe from becoming an all-out Marvel epic, and so goes “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.” Gone are the usual quirky personalities and breezy shenanigans (we miss you, ginormous Hello Kitty Pez dispenser!), though returning director Peyton Reed pumps in enough family bonding and signature whimsy to complement the massive world building and a new time-traveling big bad played by a terrific Jonathan Majors. Laying important groundwork for Marvel’s film future unfortunately means losing some of the franchise’s essential scrappy charm.

Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter:

Although this film features some laughs … humor is generally in shorter supply. Which is probably appropriate for a film featuring one of Marvel’s scariest-ever villains in the form of Kang the Conqueror (a truly fearsome Jonathan Majors, instantly establishing a career annuity) and a potential cataclysm involving … actually, I don’t know what, to be honest. I just know that it’s really, really, bad, and that between the Multiverse and the Quantum Realm, you practically need an advanced physics degree to figure out what the hell is going on in Marvel films these days.

Owen Gleiberman, Variety:

The script, by former “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and “Rick and Morty” writer Jeff Loveness, is making up the rules as it goes along, which is why “Quantumania” whisks you through its visually zapping action without generating any real investment in it. In a way, the ultimate investment is offscreen: Will the film successfully launch Phase 5? To even wonder about the answer is to miss that the only real conqueror in “Quantumania” is the MCU.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania shrinks into theaters on February 17.

Happy Valentine’s Day! Pop music consistently provides the perfect balance between sad and slay, and most, if not all, of this week’s songs are fitting for those of any relationship status. From some killer new remixes of fan-favorite tracks to a few collaborations sprinkled in, this was truly a stacked time for releases.

Continue scrolling for Uproxx’s Best New Pop roundup from this week.

Lizzo, SZA – “Special”

Lizzo enlisted SZA to open the first verse of the new remix of “Special,” where both women put aside any external judgment from people who don’t know them and aim for uplifting each other instead. They had been teasing it since last year after Lizzo brought SZA out during her concert to perform the version together.

Dove Cameron, Khalid – “We Go Down Together”

Another solid collab out this week, Dove Cameron and Khalid perfectly complement each other’s vocal strengths on their new ballad, “We Go Down Together.” Cameron described their uplifting duet as “very personal and special,” given that the song is about sticking by someone’s side no matter what.

Beyoncé – “Cuff It (Wetter Remix)”

While it might not be the Renaissance visuals just yet, Beyoncé’s “Cuff It” remix still gave fans a treat. Sampling the instrumental of Twista’s 2009 song, “Wetter,” Bey also adds a new opening verse. Initially, it was only available for purchase through her website, but it didn’t take long for the song to finally hit streaming.

Taylor Swift – “Lavender Haze (Felix Jaehn Remix)”

Swift dropped a new remix of her recent Midnights single, “Lavender Haze,” with DJ Felix Jaehn giving the previously-dreamy song a whole new energy. Jaehn, whose previous remix credits include Omi’s 2014 song “Cheerleader,” speeds up the pacing of Swift’s song to create an EDM-influenced intensity. Still, the autotune and instrumental never feel overwhelming as some remixes can.

The Kid Laroi – “Kids Are Growing Up (Part 1)”

The latest track from his upcoming debut album, The Kid Laroi reflects on getting older on “Kids Are Growing Up (Part 1).”

“Growing up, I watched my favorite rappers’ interviews / I ain’t believe ’em when they said, ‘It ain’t all what it seems’ / But now I’m here, realized they were tellin’ truth,” Laroi sings, noting that his rise to fame isn’t all he thought it would be.

Gracie Abrams – “Amelie”

Gracie Abrams details a fleeting connection from the past on “Amelie,” as she struggles to make sense of it all. “It allowed me to walk away from versions of myself that I no longer recognized. It allowed me to let go,” she said of the song. Abrams is set to drop her album, Good Riddance, later this month.

Tove Lo – “Borderline”

“’Borderline’ is a song about being on the edge of love,” Tove Lo shared about her new song, which was co-written with Dua Lipa. “The drama you cause inside yourself and with another person if you feel insecure. You test them. This song has existed for a long time and I’ve always felt it was incredibly special so getting to release it now has sort of a full circle feeling.”

The music video is fun but also has some… chaotic crash test dummies. However, as someone who already finds mannequins, dolls, and anything in that wheelhouse incredibly creepy, this definitely didn’t help that fear.

Jessie Ware – “Pearls”

“Pearls” builds upon Jessie Ware’s shimmery disco influence that she presented in 2020’s What’s Your Pleasure, proving that this sound is where she is at her strongest. She even notes on the song that she’s purely here just to dance — and what a perfect party track to create to do so.

Mau y Ricky – “Miami”

The duo, Mau y Ricky’s “Miami” is a personal reflection from Ricky about meeting his wife. Meanwhile, the band flips the tone for the music video, leaning into what people perceive to be the Floridian city’s culture in a funny way.

Rebecca Black – “Destroy Me”

“[The song] is about trying to find a way to let that go in a way where it feels like I have power over it, like, ‘Yes. Go ahead and destroy me. Everyone does it,’” she told Them about one of the standouts, “Destroy Me,” on her new album. “The reality is we’re all trying to find empowerment from really dark places in our lives.”

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Lana Del Rey is a die-hard hopeless romantic, so much so that social media users labeled her the ultimate ‘pick me’ after they found out who her boyfriend was at the time. Backlash ensued, and she eventually decided to deactivate her social media profiles. Although she ended up calling it quits with her then-partner, the public still hasn’t let it go off who they think she is based on what they read about her or saw online.

We’ve previously reported on the singer filing for and being awarded a temporary restraining order against an alleged stalker, but that was only the tip of the iceberg. During a conversation with Billie Eilish for Interview Magazine, the singer revealed that wasn’t the only startling thing that has happened to her in the public. As her major label debut album Born To Die began to take off, and on a number of occasions, the public would go to odd lengths to get her attention.

Lana told Eilish, “All of a sudden, I was walking down the street [in New York] as I always did, and people would throw elbows at me. I was like, ‘Oh my God, no way did that actually happen.’ Someone recognized me and gave me a shove.”

That was only the beginning, as Lana continued, “Or in San Francisco, I was eating at a bistro, and a woman threw a book about feminism at my face.”

Eilish was in complete disbelief, replying, “No way.” Lana had a quiet calm response to the scary interaction, “When things shift radically in your life, you have to almost want to have a radical perspective shift. You can’t force it, but if you stay calm, all of a sudden, it comes.”

Ireland’s Sweetheart Paul Mescal has a lot of things going for him right now. He scored an Academy Award nomination for his role of a young disillusioned father in Aftersun just two years after receiving an Emmy nomination for the miniseries Normal People. Next up, he is rumored to lead the Gladiator sequel by director Ridley Scott. So, this man is doing pretty well, on paper. Or at least maybe that’s what everyone thought until pretty recently when it was rumored that Mescal and his alleged fiance Phoebe Bridgers had broken up.

Though neither Mescal nor Bridgers has addressed the rumors directly, there have been many signs and hints, and today, on the holiest of days, Valentine’s Day, it seems like Mescal is making his feelings known by channeling the queen of heartbreak, Taylor Swift…who is about to head out on tour with Bridgers. Are you following along?

In a new video for W Magazine, the Oscar-nominated actor uses his dramatic acting chops for a powerful reading of Ms. Swift’s breakup anthem, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” with those piercing lyrics about dating someone who listens to indie music. The signs are all there! Love is dead. And to think we still have to go on and celebrate Wick Week with broken hearts.

Of course, Mescal is also buddies with Swift and Joe Alwyn (if you are more of a visual learner, here is a rundown of the multiverse), so maybe he just really wanted to pay tribute to his pals, and maybe this has nothing to do with him being brokenhearted. He’s such a good actor, we may never know!

Post Malone has been having a lot of fun lately. Earlier this month, he drank beer from a fan’s shoe in Australia; in November, he officiated a wedding between two fans on stage in Seattle. There was also the time last year he brought mayhem to Seth Meyers while they went day drinking together, and now the famous rapper is causing trouble with other celebrities.

Post Malone joined forces with the notorious Impractical Jokers crew, who are known for playing pranks on each other in New York and seeing how much they can get away with. In a new clip, the “Circles” singer gets out of a car in a parking garage and says, “Thanks for letting me smoke that up in there, man,” as a big cloud of smoke comes from the inside of the vehicle.

In an extended video on Billboard, Post Malone adds, “Give it about five to ten if you guys don’t want the contact high.” To make matters worse, the car belongs to a woman who claims she’s allergic to tobacco. “Oh, don’t worry about that, it’s not tobacco,” Q says, prompting laughs from the others.

The episode airs on truTV and TBS on Thursday, February 16 at 10 pm ET.