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“Everybody dies. And that’s f*cked up.”

That’s the tagline for the Osgood Perkins movie. Following the viral-marketing success of Longlegs, Neon and Perkins will bring the Stephen King story (from the Skeleton Crew collection) to horrific, cymbal-clanging life soon. The good news is that this movie will definitely happen sooner than Mike Flanagan’s The Dark Tower (which, let’s be honest, might not happen for a decade). The Monkey will also surface before Flanagan’s Carrie series for Amazon and Andy and Barbara Muschetti’s Welcome To Derry on Max.

When Does The Monkey Come Out In Theaters?

February 21, 2025. Beyond that in King adaptation news, Neon will release Flanagan’s Life Of Chuck on May 30, and MGM’s The Institute series will arrive sometime this year. In other words, King’s Constant Readers are feasting.

You might not have much of an appetite after watching The Monkey, however. Clearly, executive producer James Wan can’t quit making demonic doll movies, and Perkins has likened the movie’s vibe to Creepshow in that it feels “late ’80s – ’90s,” and “People blow up, people explode; it’s very extreme but it’s very funny.” From the synopsis:

When twin brothers Hal and Bill discover their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths starts occurring all around them. The brothers decide to throw the monkey away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years. But when the mysterious deaths begin again, the brothers must reunite to find a way to destroy the monkey for good before it takes the lives of everyone close to them.

The Monkey stars Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery, Elijah Wood, and Sarah Levy. You can watch the red-band trailer below.

After turning down the volume on their dreamy last album, Deafheaven are back with a punishingly (and gorgeously) loud new song. “Magnolia” is the first single from the group’s just-announced album, Lonely People With Power, which comes out on March 28.

Described as Deafheaven’s “most ambitious release yet,” Lonely People With Power was produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen, who has worked with St. Vincent and M83, and mixed by GodCity Studio’s Zach Weeks of GodCity Studio. The album also features vocals from Boy Harsher’s Jae Matthews and Interpol’s Paul Banks.

Deafheaven’s tour in support of Lonely People With Power will be announced “in the coming days,” but you can see their U.S. and international festival dates slated for 2025 below, as well as the album’s tracklist and cover.

Deafheaven’s Lonely People With Power Tracklist

1. “Incidental I”
2. “Doberman”
3. “Magnolia”
4. “The Garden Route”
5. “Heathen”
6. “Amethyst”
7. “Incidental II” (feat. Jae Matthews)
8. “Revelator”
9. “Body Behavior”
10. “Incidental III” (feat. Paul Banks)
11. “Winona”
12. “The Marvelous Orange Tree”

Deafheaven’s Lonely People With Power Artwork

Deafheaven’s 2025 Festival Tour Dates

05/09 — Columbus, OH @ Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival 2025
05/15 — Daytona Beach, FL @ Welcome to Rockville 2025
06/08 — Nürburg, Germany @ Rock am Ring 2025
06/12 — Nickelsdorf, Austria @ Nova Rock 2025
06/14-15 — Manchester, United Kingdom @ Outbreak Fest 2025
06/19-22 — Dessel, Belgium @ Graspop Metal Meeting 2025
06/21 — Clisson, France @ Hellfest 2025
06/25 — Oslo, Norway @ Tons of Rock 2025
06/28 — Ysselsteyn, Netherlands @ Jera On Air 2025

Lonely People With Power is out 3/28 via Roadrunner Records. You can find more information here.

Last week, Lady Gaga launched a mysterious countdown on her website. Initially, it looked like it may have had something to do with her debut album given the site’s aesthetics, but as the countdown ticked down, the site changed to reference all of her albums.

So, it seemed the countdown would end with the announcement of a new album, Gaga‘s long-awaited seventh LP. That seemed even more likely to be the case after billboards were spotted in New York City and Las Vegas, teasing something from Gaga called Mayhem coming on March 7.

Now, the countdown has reached its end and we know for certain what’s going on: Gaga’s new album is called Mayhem and it’ll be out March 7, as she announced in a teaser video.

The tracklist hasn’t been revealed yet, but per pre-order pages, the project will have 14 tracks, opening with “Disease” and ending with “Die With A Smile.”

Mayhem is out 3/7 via Streamline/Interscope. Find more information here.

Over the past month or so — possibly even the last 20 years — Will Smith has been dwelling on “the biggest mistake” of his career: passing on starring in The Matrix, the 1999 sci-fi action movie that launched a billion-dollar franchise and introduced the term “red pill” to the pop culture lexicon. In early January, a social post from the star suggested that he might revisit this decision, while a report from the trades suggested it might actually be rollout for his new album.

In the teaser for his next song “Beautiful Scars,” it turns out the latter is true, as Will and Big Sean recreate the classic scene from the film in which Laurence Fishburne’s Morpheus offers Keanu Reeves‘ Neo a choice in the form of a pair of pills. Spoiler alert for a 26-year-old film: Neo accepts the red pill, thus beginning his awakening from the film’s titular Matrix simulation and his journey to becoming “the One” — the only human who can stand up to the tyrannical machines that have dominated their creators for the past 200 years.

In the teaser, Will finally takes on the now-pivotal role he once passed on, while Sean plays Morpheus. Sean tells Will that the blue pill will keep everything the same, while the red pill will give him a chance to relive his life starting from his acceptance of the Neo role. Will waffles a bit, because as he points out, his life still turned out pretty well — all slaps aside — but he really wants to see how things would have been different. And, as the latest Matrix revival revealed, the choice is a bit of a false binary, which Will takes advantage of to get the best of both worlds.

The video for “Beautiful Scars” is out on 1/30.

For the fifth time in six seasons, the Kansas City Chiefs are going to the Super Bowl. They will face the Philadelphia Eagles at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, on February 9.

Kendrick Lamar and SZA will be there, too, as they’re performing together during the halftime show, while another K-Dot collaborator will be rooting for the Chiefs in the stands. That would, of course, be Taylor Swift, who joined her boyfriend, tight end Travis Kelce, on the field after his Chiefs broke the hearts of Bills fans like so many tables.

During the post-game festivities, Kelce was asked by announcer Jim Nantz how it feels being one game away from becoming the first team in NFL history to win three Super Bowls in a row. “Never satisfied, baby,” he said while Swift and his mom, Donna, watched and clapped along. “When you play in front of Arrowhead Stadium like this every single AFC Championship, you kidding me. Kansas City!” Kelce then started singing “Get Down Tonight” by KC & The Sunshine Band: “Do a little dance, make a little love…” He let the Chiefs fans shout the next line: “Get down tonight.”

You can watch that moment, including Swift’s reaction, here.

Ahead of the rapidly approaching Super Bowl on February 9, some ads, or teasers of ads, for the big game are starting to make their way online. Doja Cat appeared in a new Taco Bell spot a few days ago, and now Charli XCX is also promoting the food space with a new ad for Uber Eats, alongside Martha Stewart. The actual ad isn’t out yet, but a new teaser for it just dropped today (January 27).

The video sees Charli and Stewart, presumably on the set of their ad, addressing the camera as they take part in the “We Listen And We Don’t Judge” trend. They start by swapping lighthearted jabs at each other, with Stewart saying, “Honestly, Charli, when my agent first sent me your name, I thought it was the Wi-Fi password.” Charli then said, “Well, when my agent told me you were, doing this, I thought you’d be doing the catering.”

Charli then worked the name of the brand in, saying, “I thought a Super Bowl was something I could order on Uber Eats.” Stewart responded, “I thought it was something else.” As the video ends with an on-screen graphic teasing the full release of the ad, Stewart says, “Seriously, who are you again?”

Check out the video above.

While attending Paris Men’s Fashion Week, the always-stylish rapper Skepta posed for a photo with Rebel Ridge actor Aaron Pierre. The viral pic inspired headlines like “This Photo Of Skepta & Aaron Pierre? We Can’t Handle The Fineness!” and had people on social media comparing — and arguing about — the two men. “aaron still fine, but this is the SECOND time i’ve seen skepta stand next to an attractive celebrity and make them look crazy,” one post reads. Eventually, Skepta had to step in and quiet the commotion.

“Seeing big men are arguing with girls about me because I took a pic with a man 12 years younger than me lol,” he wrote on X. “I’m literally that man’s Uncle, you man need to chill and let the ladies tweet in peace jare.”

Pierre is a fan-favorite pick to be the next James Bond (maybe Skepta can provide the theme?) following his imposing performance in Jeremy Saulnier’s Netflix thriller Rebel Ridge. “I have not stopped pinching myself. It feels so surreal,” the actor, who also voiced Mufasa in Mufasa: The Lion King, told GQ UK about his breakout year. “I’m learning to prioritize rest in a new way. It’s not something that I’ve been very successful at in my adult life so far.”

The 2025 Super Bowl is set: the Kansas City Chiefs will defend their title against the Philadelphia Eagles. What’s yet to be determined, however, is Kendrick Lamar’s (and SZA’s) setlist for the halftime show. A new ad, though, has some thinking they’ve been given a hint.

During the Eagles’ and Washington Commanders’ NFC Championship game yesterday, a brief promo spot for Lamar’s performance played during the broadcast, and it was set to “Not Like Us.”

On one hand, it wouldn’t be surprising to see “Not Like Us” make the setlist, given it was a No. 1 hit for Lamar last year. On the other hand, the song is currently at the center of a defamation lawsuit Drake recently filed against Universal Music Group, Drake’s own label. The suit attests “Not Like Us” — a diss track aimed at Drake, of course — calls him a pedophile, and that by promoting the song, UMG hoped to devalue Drake’s music, so as to make future contract negotiations more advantageous for the label. The suit alleges the label boosted the song with tactics including hiring a bot farm to increase streaming numbers and payola with at least one radio station.

The game, and Lamar’s performance, is now just days away, on February 9, so we’ll soon know for sure whether “Not Like Us” makes the setlist.

The Kansas City Chiefs are now just one win away from becoming the first team to three-peat in the Super Bowl era, as Patrick Mahomes and company got the job done at home in an absolute thriller against Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills on Sunday night.

As has been the case whenever these teams have met in recent years, it came down to the closing minutes of the fourth quarter. After Mahomes led a Chiefs march for a touchdown and two-point conversion to open the fourth and put the Chiefs back in front, the Allen found Curtis Samuel for a game-tying touchdown on 4th-and-goal with six minutes to play. The Chiefs would quickly move it down into the red zone, but stalled out after a sack set them back on first-and-goal, and they had to settle for a go-ahead field goal to make it 32-29.

That sent Allen back on the field for the critical drive of the game, and rather fittingly, it came down to a fourth down after a few huge fourth down conversions and stops throughout the game with the Bills on offense. This time, facing 4th-and-5, the Chiefs dialed up an exotic pressure, showing pressure up the middle with their linebackers but having them drop out and bringing two DBs off the right side of the formation.

That blew up the play immediately, forcing Allen to retreat, but he somehow still got a throw downfield to an open man, but Dalton Kincaid could not reel it in despite getting hands on it as he came back to the ball.

The reverse angle shows how painfully close the Bills were to not just converting that fourth down, but moving into the edge of field goal range on that one play.

The Chiefs took over and picked up a pair of first downs, including the backbreaker on a third-and-10 pass from Mahomes to running back Samaje Perine, who ran for a first down to allow the Chiefs to put the game on ice with knees. For Kansas City, it’s their fifth Super Bowl trip in seven years, with a chance at an historic three-peat. For Buffalo, they, like the Ravens last week in Buffalo, will be going into the offseason replaying a few miscues and wondering what could have been.