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If you spent too much time watching Toonami in the early 2000s, you are already familiar with Interstella 5555: The 5tory Of The 5ecret 5tar 5ystem. For everyone else, it’s the anime companion film for Daft Punk‘s 2001 album Discovery about the abduction of an alien music band by an evil human character who has dark plans, as told through songs like “One More Time,” “Digital Love,” and “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.”

Interstella 5555: The 5tory Of The 5ecret 5tar 5ystem is a lot of fun. The animation from Toei Animation (and overseen by the legendary Leiji Matsumoto) looks great, and it’ll look even better when a 4K remastered version of the film is released in theaters for one night only on December 17.

“We’re excited to bring Daft Punk’s iconic Interstella 5555, now fully remastered in stunning 4K, to cinemas for this one-night-only global event,” Trafalgar Releasing CEO Marc Allenby said in a statement. “This is a rare opportunity to experience the film on the big screen, along with accompanying Daft Punk music videos, and we can’t wait to share it with audiences everywhere.”

To find out more information on Interstella 5555: The 5tory Of The 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, including how to buy tickets beginning November 13, click here.

Every WWE star is looking for their breakout moment. Occasionally that happens when momentum builds with the support of fan involvement, a spoken line in a segment catches fire, or the visual of an instance transcends the moment to become an iconic image. But sometimes, it’s simply serendipity, where suddenly everything connects in ways that even the superstars don’t anticipate.

For Bronson Reed, attacking Seth Rollins wasn’t enough of a statement just two months ago. The 300-pound Aussie dropped Tsunami after Tsunami on The Visionary as the audience roared and social media was set ablaze. Eventually, Reed left Rollins laid out in the middle of the ring after landing six Tsunamis. That moment was a turning point for Reed as he transcends to the main event of Monday Night Raw with hopes of claiming an elusive world title.

“The Austin 3:16 promo is one of those pivotal moments that, unfortunately, not everyone has that one moment in their career where things sort of change,” Reed tells Uproxx Sports. “I feel like the six Tsunamis is that for me. Since then it has been different, and I’m going in the right direction that I want to be. Hopefully I can keep that momentum up and we will look back at the six Tsunamis as that turning point. But now it’s making sure that I deliver in the match (at Crown Jewel). We’ve had all the attacks and everything with Seth and now it’s about actually delivering an in-ring match that’s worthy of a (PLE).”

As Becky Lynch once told me, these moments are when preparation meets opportunity. The pressure has built for Reed over the last two months after his crushing beatdown of Rollins. He’s continued to be a highlight of weekly episodic television with viral moments, whether he’s smashing Braun Strowman on a car or forcing a table to explode five feet into the air.

As Reed prepares for arguably the biggest match of his career on Saturday against Rollins at Crown Jewel, he isn’t getting caught up in the pressure that comes with rising up the card though. He understands the path to the top, and he’s built confidence in his in-ring abilities over the span of about half of his life at this point.

“I think a lot of people, when they have these moments, they want the trajectory just to go straight up,” Reed says. “But in our business, it’s definitely more of a roller coaster. You’re always going to have those highs and lows, but it’s just trying to make sure whenever you have those highs that you deliver. Those things start adding up and it’s not just this one pivotal moment. It’s all these things building up together. So that’s what I’m trying to do is have a body of work where you can go, ‘Oh, look at everything that he did in the year.’”

The journey to Saturday’s showdown has been one with plenty of bumps along the way. After being released from WWE in 2021, Reed spent just a year away before his return. During his time away, Reed says it was one of those moments that reaffirmed his love of wrestling.

“I think it’s a good thing to learn that you still have passion for the business that you love. I’ve always been a huge wrestling fan and I’ve loved it since I was a kid. And I feel like something like this could crush certain people and they might not ever wrestle again or they might do something else,” Reed says. “But it was one of those moments where I’m like, ‘I love this. I’m not going to change what I do.’ But it was reassuring to me that I can do this elsewhere, that I can be a commodity elsewhere. So in the hands of WWE, I should be an even bigger commodity. And I kept that in my mind coming back.”

Continuing to build his confidence in and outside of WWE has helped Reed reach the next level. In his return, he needed to be patient before his time to step into the spotlight would come. He says it was good that he wasn’t propelled right away into a prominent position, rather it was a slow burn where he was able find his feet, understand who he is, and turn the volume on his character all the way up.

He’s not overthinking things. He’s simply creating chaos.

“I’ve realized that in the moment, just to go with what I think will work and generally that’s been working for me,” Reed says. “But also I feel like the Bronson Reed character, you can have more fun with it because I’m a big, indestructible sort of guy that just goes out there and destroys things, almost a Godzilla-like figure. And I remember seeing a quote from an artist, I don’t remember who, and they said ‘I don’t create art, I create chaos.’ And that’s what I think of every time when I step through the curtain is Bronson Reed isn’t here to create five-star wrestling matches, he is here to create chaos.”

Following in the footsteps of pro wrestling’s great big men, Reed is moved by comparisons to the likes of Bam Bam Bigelow and Big Van Vader, who he says he’s drawn inspiration from. While WWE has historically been the land of giants, the amount of monster big men who move the way Reed does reaching the top of the mountain are few and far between. For Reed, that’s the long-term goal, breaking the mold and claiming WWE’s top crown.

“These guys were never the champion. You look back at history, Vader never became WWE champion, Bam Bigelow never reached those heights. Those people in the same sort of body type that I am, even a Dusty Rhodes was not a WWF champion at the time,” Reed says.

“So I want to break that mold and eventually, I’ve told people, I want to be world heavyweight champion. I want to be WWE champion. I remember speaking to Mark Henry and he was telling me obviously he had a great career, he became champion and he said, ‘This doesn’t happen for guys like us all the time, so make sure you keep doing what you’re doing, give it a hundred percent and you’ll be that next big man.’”

Over the past few years, December has been Roddy Ricch season. He released his chart-topping debut album Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial on December 6, 2019, then followed it with Live Life Fast on December 17, 2021. Now, he’s getting ready to keep the streak alive.

Last night (October 29), Ricch gave Tyler The Creator a shout-out over his new album, Chromakopia, tweeting, “CHROMAKOPIA [fire emoji] ! @tylerthecreator WEST UP , MY TURN !” A few hours later, he followed that up with, “THE NAVY ALBUM THE 6TH OF DECEMBER.”

Ricch might be looking for The Navy Album to be a bounce-back project. Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial was No. 1 and so was the hit single “The Box,” but he didn’t manage to replicate that success with Live Life Fast. The album only managed a No. 4 peak on the Billboard 200 chart, and the closest thing to a hit single it produced was 2021’s “Late At Night,” which peaked at No. 20 on the Hot 100, and is actually his most recent single to even appear on that chart.

In his 2022 Uproxx cover story, Ricch discussed his biggest takeaway from the first part of his career, saying, “A lot of times, you may get distracted by trying to rekindle relationships with different things. I feel like just what I learned is just sometimes, even if it’s broke, sometimes it’s just better not to deal with certain things or don’t let certain things bother you — everything’s not going to be perfect. Sometimes when you sit down and think about a lot of sh*t, you try to make everything perfect, and I feel like the thing I learned is it’s okay to not be perfect. There’s perfect in imperfection.”

Based on Google searches, one of the most popular Halloween costumes this year is Sabrina Carpenter. In particular, the “Please Please Please” singer’s heart corset, likely with a cup of espresso. As for Carpenter herself, she hasn’t revealed what she’s dressing up as (she was previously “the love of ur life”), but maybe she got inspired during a trip to Universal Studios.

Carpenter recently attended Halloween Horror Nights at the Universal Orlando resort, where she and Short N’ Sweet Tour opener Griff took a photo outside of the Major Sweets Candy Factory haunted house. So much spooky sweetness.

You can see the photo below.

Uproxx recently spoke to the creative team behind Halloween Horror Nights. When asked how the music gets picked for the haunted houses, assistant director Lora Sauls replied, “The show direction team does a beautiful job of telling the story through sound effects, the audioscape, the score that they play in the haunted houses… When we’re working with the franchises, we lean into the score that accompanies those films and franchises to make sure that we’re telling their stories. When it comes to original content, our show direction team thinks outside the box on how to tell that story with the score.”

The Weeknd has an HHN house. Sabrina Carpenter should be next. It could look like the bloody “Taste” video.

Halloween Horror Nights 2024 runs on select nights through November 3. You can find out more information here. In other exciting news, Epic Universe opens on May 22, 2025.

Olivia Rodrigo has a clean criminal record, but that’s not what a Border Patrol officer thought recently.

Rodrigo was a guest on The Tonight Show yesterday, and she told Jimmy Fallon the story of the time she was interrogated at the US-Canada border for a long while.

Here’s the tale in Rodrigo’s words:

“We were going from Canada to Portland or something. We were at Border [Patrol]. I give them my passport, and they’re like, ‘OK, whatever.’ And they knock on the door and they’re like, ‘We need Olivia.’ And I’m like, ‘I just played a few shows. Maybe their daughter wants an autograph.’

I come out, it’s 3 a.m., and I’m delirious, and they take me to a room, and it’s an interrogation room, and there’s a big cop with a gun. He’s like, ‘Have you ever been arrested?’ I’m like, ‘No, I haven’t been arrested.’ He’s like, ‘Are you sure?’ I’m, like, gaslighting myself. I’m like, ‘Oh, my God. Maybe I was arrested and I didn’t know it.’ […]

He’s like, ‘You know, you could go to jail for lying to a federal officer like this.’ Like, ‘This is really bad.’ I’m freaking out. I’m like, ‘I’m not gonna be let in to America!’ I’m so scared. I’m, like, having a panic attack.

After 30 minutes of interrogation, he looks at me. He goes, ‘What’s your name?’ And I go, ‘Olivia Rodrigo, R-O-D-R-I-G-O.’ And he’s like, ‘Oh, there’s a girl who looks just like you that’s your same age that’s been arrested multiple times, and her name is Olivia Rodriguez.’

Jimmy, I was pissed. I’m like, ‘You didn’t look at the name on the thing?’”

Watch the video above. Rodrigo also played a round of “What’s Behind Me?” with Fallon, so check that out below.

Megan The Stallion has a stronghold on two special times of the year. Thanks to her beloved catchphrase, “Hot Girl Summer,” the warm weeks belong to the “Bigger In Texas” rapper. But her passion for Halloween comes in a close second.

This Hottieween season is a rather special one for Meg for several reasons. Atop the list is a rather significant co-sign the Grammy Award winner just earned. Today (October 29), Megan Thee Stallion’s Starfire (of Teen Titans) Halloween costume received a thumbs up from thee James Gunn, which is an honor for any self-proclaimed nerd like Meg.

In a post on Thread, Gunn reshared Megan Thee Stallion’s costume reveal images. “Whoa,” he wrote. “Cool.”

Gunn’s followers joined in to praise Meg’s depiction. “Biblically accurate Starfire, as George intended,” wrote one user referring to the get-up being pulled directly from 1980s illustrations cooked up by Marv Wolfman and George Perez.

This is surely just the tipping point for Meg as last year she sported three major looks (a flower from Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland, Death The Kid from anime Soul Eater, and the lady gremlin from Gremlins 2: The New Batch). But on Halloween Day (October 31), Megan tends to dial things up a notch for her annual Hottieween party. Or she could go the flirty route having expressed interest seeing her “Spin” collaborator Victoria Monét dress up like her. Maybe Megan will return the honor.

Weeks apart, rap’s dynamic duo Megan Thee Stallion and GloRilla dropped new albums. For Megan Thee Stallion that body of work was Megan: Act II. While GloRilla released her long-awaited debut album, Glorious. Along the way the two emcees have racked up quite the busy with notable collaborations, from the tracks “How I Look,” “Wanna Be” and “Accent,” to a successful performance run on the Hot Girl Summer Tour.

Their musical chemistry (a far cry from their first impression of each other) has sparked demands for the rappers to drop more music together. Now, fans are demanding a full-out collaborative album. But will Megan Thee Stallion and GloRilla actually give into supporters’ request? Today (October 29), GloRilla sat down with Ebro Darden on Apple Music 1 and further fanned the flames of its possibility.

“Is there truth to the rumor of you and Megan Thee Stallion having a joint project,” asked Ebro. “Y’all got some heat, y’all recorded some things.”

GloRilla followed up, saying: “Yep.”

But that wasn’t the confirmation Ebro needed so he followed up with: “But you can’t confirm nor deny.”

Evasively, GloRilla answered: “Right.”

Well, in a Stationhead broadcast (captured by Inside The Industry podcast) Megan Thee Stallion shed light on what’s holding the potential project up. “We’re both so busy,” she said. “We said we were going to sit down in December and start working on it. So, y’all really need to spam Glo for real because we’re both bullsh*ters.”

Watch GloRilla’s full appearance on Apple Music 1 hosted by Ebro Darden above.

Harlequin was not Lady Gaga’s only musical embodiment of her Joker: Folie À Deux character.

Lady Gaga’s latest song, “Disease,” carries forward that spooky pop sound. Today (October 29), she shared the official music video for the suspected LG7 album’s lead single. Just as expected from the teaser clip, the video Lady Gaga battle several fierce (and nearly lethal) battles for her own heart.

From a high speed car chase to multiple hand-to-hand combat scenes, nothing will hold Lady Gaga back from her pursuit of love. Every element of Lady Gaga’s pop star theatrics are on full display in the haunting visual, which makes passionate lyrics in the track that must more believable.

Quick camera pans, character shifts, full body acting and extravagant wardrobe changes make it nearly impossible for viewers to take their eyes off of the screen.

Ahead of the video’s release, Lady Gaga took to her Instagram Stories to share a statement (viewable here) about the song’s meaning.

“I think a lot out the relationship I have with my own inner demons,” she wrote. “‘Disease’ is about facing that fear, facing myself, my inner darkness, and realizing that sometimes I can’t win or escape the parts of myself that scare me.”

Watch Lady Gaga’s official video for “Disease” above.

Fan interference is nothing new at baseball games, as there is a rich history of fans and players battling for the same fly balls. However, usually any interference is done on the catch, whether that’s a fan reaching over the wall (like we saw earlier this World Series) or a fan getting in the way of a catch in the stands (hello, Steve Bartman).

On Tuesday night in the Bronx, a Yankees fan took it to a new level when he literally grabbed Mookie Betts’ glove after the Dodgers left fielder made a catch along the wall in foul territory and ripped the ball away.

As John Smoltz noted on the broadcast, that’s one of the fastest ways to get kicked out of a World Series game, and despite the effort, the Dodgers still got the out by virtue of the interference. At the same time, this fan has now impacted a 2024 World Series game about as much as Aaron Judge has, so I guess he has that going for him. When you’re down 3-0 in the series and 2-0 after the top of the first inning (because Freddie Freeman homered, again) desperation sets in, but this was not the best way to handle it.

The tumultuous two-year long battle between Kanye West (Ye) and Adidas has apparently come to an end.

Back in October 2022, the sporting company split business ties with Ye following antisemitic remarks made by the “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” rapper. Today (October 29), the two have wrapped up their legal fight. According to Bloomberg, Ye and Adidas reached an out-of-court settlement.

During a conference call, Adidas’ CEO Bjørn Gulden shared a statement regarding their mutual resolve. “There isn’t any more open issues,” he said. “No one owes anybody anything anymore. So whatever was is history.”

Gulden’s comments about financial payout raised questions among patrons. But Page Six claims Gulden clarified that by saying: “There isn’t any more open issues, and there is no money going [out] either way, and we both move on.”

This is shocking revelations considering the damning financial blowback from their split. At the height of their professional departure it was reported that Adidas was projected to lose over $1 billion in sales. The company also suppsoedly had to recall and store $1 billion worth of Yeezy items while they decided what to do moving forward. Eventually, Adidas came to an agreement to sell the remaining inventory, which quickly cleared half of the pieces off of shelves.

Gulden closed by saying: “There were tensions on many issues, and… when you put the claims on the right side, and you put the claims on the left side, both parties said we don’t need to fight anymore and withdrew all the claims.”