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Late Night with the Devil, one of the most critically-admired horror movies of 2024 so far, is being criticized for its use of AI-generated images. “for anyone doubting late night with the devil uses AI,” one user wrote on X, along with visual proof. “very disappointing to hear about this. don’t support it. don’t pay to watch it.”

In response to the backlash, Late Night with the Devil directors Cameron and Colin Cairnes released a statement to Variety defending the film’s use of AI. “In conjunction with our amazing graphics and production design team, all of whom worked tirelessly to give this film the ’70s aesthetic we had always imagined, we experimented with AI for three still images which we edited further and ultimately appear as very brief interstitials in the film,” it reads. “We feel incredibly fortunate to have had such a talented and passionate cast, crew and producing team go above and beyond to help bring this film to life. We can’t wait for everyone to see it for themselves this weekend.”

Why do you need AI when you already have the artistic masterpiece that is star David Dastmalchian’s face?

Here is the plot synopsis:

October 31, 1977. Johnny Carson rival Jack Delroy hosts a syndicated late night talk show ‘Night Owls’ that has long been a trusted companion to insomniacs around the country. A year after the tragic death of Jack’s wife, ratings have plummeted. Desperate to turn his fortunes around, Jack plans a Halloween special like no other, unaware that he is about to unleash evil into the living rooms of America.

Late Night with the Devil comes to theaters on March 22 and begins streaming on Shudder on April 19.

Future and Metro Boomin are releasing the first of their two collaboration albums in just a few hours. We Don’t Trust You was first teased back in January 2023 on social media, so the anticipation for it has been building for quite a while.

Although the album’s tracklist has yet to be released, there have been a couple of teasers, including Metro Boomin saying that Playboi Carti would appear on “Type Sh*t.” The duo also performed unreleased songs during their set at Rolling Loud California, with Travis Scott appearing on two of them. It’s unclear if these will make the record, but fans will have to wait and see when it drops tonight.

Here’s when to expect to hear it on Apple Music.

When Will Future & Metro Boomin’s We Don’t Trust You Album Be On Apple Music?

Fans will be able to listen to Future and Metro Boomin’s We Don’t Trust You album on Apple Music starting at 12 a.m. ET or 9 p.m. for those on PT. Those in other time zones should follow the conversion to know when to hear it.

Their second album’s title is still unknown, but it will drop just a few weeks later in mid-April.

We Don’t Trust You is out 3/22 via Boominati/Freebandz/Republic. Find more information here.

A few years ago, some Canadian professors created a hitchhiking robot and sent it abroad to study “how people interact with technology.” The ‘bot managed to make 10 days in Germany and three weeks in the Netherlands, but met its gruesome end in Philadelphia.

I don’t know if Tierra Whack had that story in mind when she conceived her oddly bittersweet “Two Night” video with Alex Da Corte, but the comparisons are there if you want to make them. In the CGI-animated video, Whack appears as a massive parade balloon floating over her hometown. However, her presence REALLY seems to irk the City of Brotherly Love, whose citizens go to extreme lengths to bring the balloon down, even going as far as injuring themselves with increasingly dangerous stunts.

The balloon is brought down in flames, and only then do the people seem to realize what they’ve lost, leaving flowers in memoriam at the site of its destruction. The video is unexpectedly moving, and its message is blaringly clear and multilayered without being completely morbid; there are bright spots of hope near the end, suggesting that Whack isn’t quite ready to give up yet, despite the song’s haunting hook.

“Two Night” appears on Tierra Whack’s new album, World Wide Whack, her first ever full-length project and first project overall since 2018’s Whack World. It’s out now via Interscope Records. Get it here.

On January 26, Cole Bennett shepherded All Is Yellow, his first-ever Lyrical Lemonade compilation album, into the world. Bennett promised a video would accompany each of the album’s 14 tracks, and the prolific director is keeping his word by slowly releasing them from the vault, including “Fly Away” in February and “Doomsday 2” earlier this month. On Wednesday, March 20, the Bennett-directed video for “First Night” with Teezo Touchdown, Juicy J, Cochise, Denzel Curry, and Lil B arrived.

As has become customary with Lyrical Lemonade videos, the “First Night” video begins with an all-yellow curtain as the backdrop. A stretched-out Teezo sits in front of it — with six legs sprawled in front of him — as he sings, “Come and let me teach you how to sing / Oh, you didn’t know that I could sing? Oh, girl, you know that I can sing The whole world know that I can sing.” Teezo ends the first verse with a request: “Somebody help me sing about me.”

That cues a trap beat to drop and Juicy J to emerge from behind a yellow curtain. Similarly to Teezo, Juicy J has cartoonishly humongous hands. Eventually, Cochise and Curry join Juicy J in the empty movie theater — spitting shameless, whiplash-inducing bars about no-strings sex and money.

In the serene outro, Lil B plays devil’s advocate: You know, one-night stands are alright / But love is the greatest / Having sex on the first night is cool / But we could wait / It’s so much love in this world / Take your time, ask questions first, let’s talk / It’s so much respect in the air / Don’t worry about it / But you could f*ck, too, if you want / But don’t feel like you got to.”

Lil B disappears behind the yellow curtain as Teezo Touchdown restarts his intro.

Watch the “First Night” video above.

After making Barbie into a cinematic juggernaut, Margot Robbie has landed on her next big franchise: A movie adaptation of the wildly popular video game series The Sims.

Unlike with Barbie, Robbie will simply serve as a producer set to be written and directed by Kate Herron, who directed the critically acclaimed first season of Loki. That said, The Sims and Barbie do share an important similarity besides Robbie’s involvement. They both offer a blank canvas to craft a narrative.

Via The Hollywood Reporter:

Sims is a life simulation computer game where players play as an avatar that has changeable personality traits, skills and relationships, and goes through the mundane tasks of daily life like making dinner and decorating a home. The game is built on characters having goals and aspirations. They may also, depending on the game, build out one’s family.

Meanwhile, another video game adaptation is in the works at Paramount+. Although, this franchise isn’t as well known as The Sims. Michelle Yeoh and Vin Diesel have reportedly signed on to an animated series based on Ark: Survival Evolved. Their involvement rounds out a surprisingly stacked cast that also includes Russell Crowe, Gerard Butler, David Tennant, Jeffrey Wright and Elliot Page.

According to THR, the animated series is a “sweeping saga spanning eons of human history. When 21st century paleontologist Helena Walker (Madeleine Madden) finds herself resurrected on a mysterious primeval island populated by prehistoric beasts, she must learn to survive with new allies from throughout time, while trying to uncover the true nature of their strange new world.”

Both projects arrive as Amazon prepares to make a huge splash with its live-action Fallout adaptation starring Walton Goggins. That series starts streaming April 11.

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

There’s an argument to be had that the best part of a new album is the anticipation leading up to its release. Luckily, Future and Metro Boomin fans have two release dates to look forward to. The top-tier hip-hop duo debuted “Type Sh*t” during their Rolling Loud California 2024 headlining set, as circulated by fan accounts on X (formerly Twitter). Metro Boomin and Playboi Carti had previously teased the song, leaving people to wonder about the featured artists on Future and Metro Boomin’s forthcoming two joint albums, We Don’t Trust You.

The wait is almost over for the first one.

When Will Future & Metro Boomin’s We Don’t Trust You Album Be On Spotify?

The first We Don’t Trust You release date is Friday, March 22, which means the album should be available to stream on Spotify at 9 p.m. PST and midnight EST. The second release date is set for Friday, April 12.

Metro Boomin and Future announced We Don’t Trust You with a cinematic trailer on March 8. But Metro teased it several times last year. In September, Metro posted an Instagram carousel full of photos from the studio with Future with the caption, “AOTY loading… [three battery emojis].”

The following month, Metro Boomin told Complex‘s Jessica McKinney, “My blinders on tunnel vision. All I can see right now is me and Future’s album. Nothing else until that’s out.”

We Don’t Trust You is out 3/22 via Boominati/Freebandz/Republic. Find more information here.

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band kicked off their 2024 world tour earlier this week, with a show at Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona. As they continue across North America, fans heading to an upcoming show might be wondering exactly what songs they can expect to hear.

According to setlist.fm, Springsteen played several of his biggest hits like “Darkness On The Edge Of Town” and “Born To Run.” He also threw in some covers of songs by Ben E. King, Patti Smith, and more.

The next stop on their tour is tomorrow in Las Vegas. For more information and a complete list of dates, visit here.

Continue scrolling to view the full setlist.

Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band’s 2024 World Tour Setlist

1. “Lonesome Day”
2. “Night”
3. “No Surrender”
4. “Two Hearts”
5. “Darlington County”
6. “Ghosts”
7. “Prove It All Night”
8. “Darkness On The Edge Of Town”
9. “Letter To You”
10. “The Promised Land”
11. “Spirit In The Night”
12. “Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)” (Ben E. King cover)
13. “Nightshift” (Commodores cover)
14. “Mary’s Place”
15. “Last Man Standing” (acoustic, with Barry Danielian on trumpet)
16. “Backstreets”
17. “Because The Night” (Patti Smith Group cover)
18. “She’s The One”
19. “Wrecking Ball”
20. “The Rising”
21. “Badlands”
22. “Thunder Road”
23. “Born To Run”
24. “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)”
25. “Glory Days”
26. “Dancing In The Dark”
27. “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out”
28. “Twist And Shout” (The Top Notes cover) (sign request)
29. “I’ll See You In My Dreams” (solo, acoustic)

Showgirls was a much-mocked flop when it was released in 1995. But the Paul Verhoeven-directed erotic drama, which follows Nomi Malone (played by Elizabeth Berkley) as she moves to Las Vegas to make it as a stripper, has since become a cult classic. During a screening of the film at the Academy Museum’s David Geffen Theater on Wednesday, Berkley got emotional when discussing how Showgirls has been embraced by the LGBTQ community.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Berkley said that Showgirls “really pushed the boundaries at that time that now have been embraced — not misunderstood but truly embraced. And I’m so grateful that the film has found its way not only in your hearts but especially the LGBTQ community.” She added, “You stood by the film. You always believed as did I and for that I’m eternally grateful.”

She noted in her remarks that she once asked her agent after getting cast in Showgirls if there was a chance she might be nominated for an Oscar for the part. “Every girl in Hollywood had fought for this role,” she said. “So it was not a strange thing to ask.”

“So tonight I’d like to thank the Academy… Museum,” Berkley said, to cheers from the audience.

You can watch Berkley’s speech below (and check out Showgirls on Tubi).

(Via the Hollywood Reporter)

Suits took over streaming in the U.S. throughout 2023, including an unofficial Summer of Suits on Netflix. For some reason, seemingly everyone who missed the original USA Network run (and probably some of those viewers, too), decided to start busting out the Meghan Markle-starring series in binge format. This led to the nine-season series (that concluded in 2019) setting massive records and eventually even inspired NBC to greenlight a Suits LA spinoff.

Netflix, as well, has embraced the fever by casting Suits star Patrick J. Adams in his own series, and the fun isn’t over yet. Suits did air in the United Kingdom, once upon a time, but it’s going to be back on broadcast TV across the pond. The BBC actually snatched up the rights (from NBCUniversal) for the show’s entire run, via Hollywood Reporter:

Suits is continuing to cash in on its current popularity.

The BBC has acquired all nine seasons of the hit American legal drama, along with mockumentary St. Denis Medical and the series continuation of the hit Best Man films, The Best Man: The Final Chapters, for its TV channels and the BBC iPlayer streaming service.

Will the show still be present on Netflix in the U.K., too? No details there yet, but it’s almost certain that the Royal fam will not be too excited that Meghan Markle will soon pop up on even more TVs throughout England and Ireland. As if they aren’t already stressed out enough about a certain controversy this year, right? Kensington Palace is probably hoping for a break right about now.

(Via Hollywood Reporter)

Back in 2022, Megan Fox generated some attention when she said (and then said again) that she and Machine Gun Kelly sometimes drink each other’s blood. This apparently led to rumors that she’s Satanic and/or in the Illuminati, which she addressed on a recent episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast.

As HipHopDX notes, on the March 20 episode, Fox said:

“Everything is a matter of what you’re accustomed to or what is currently socially acceptable or normal. And back in like the ’50s even, how many times did you see like, little boys would go out with their little pop guns and they would cut their fingers and be blood brothers, right? And they’re like, ‘We’re best friends forever now.’ They would smush the blood together on their fingers. That’s not Satanic, right? That’s normal and that’s cute. It’s like that except instead of rubbing your fingers together, the drop of blood goes in your mouth. And I don’t know why that becomes Satanic.

I understand people think like, ‘Hey, that’s weird.’ But guess what I think is weird? I think it’s weird that girls are out here letting guys c*m in their mouth and they don’t know these guys. F*ck you. You’re so offended that I got a drop of Machine Gun Kelly’s blood in my mouth. What is so gross about what I did with my soulmate?”

Check out some clips below and find the full episode on Spotify.