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The new Netflix series 3 Body Problem centers around a terrifying alien invasion of Earth that’s been hundreds of years in the making. However, behind the scenes, a terrifying real-life story unfolded and ended with one man dead and several poisoned in a revenge plot over the high-stakes dealings of the burgeoning sci-fi franchise.

In 2014, China’s “millennial billionaire” and Yoozoo Games founder Lin Qi snatched up the rights to Liu Cixin’s Remembrance of Earth’s Past book trilogy that kicks off with 3 Body Problem. After negotiating a multi-million dollar deal with Netflix to adapt the best-selling series, Lin would die in a hospital on Christmas 2020. The cause of death: poisoning.

Why Was A ‘3 Body Problem’ Producer Poisoned And Killed?

According to Business Insider, the situation started going south at Yoozoo Games in 2017 when Lin hired former lawyer Xu Yao to head up a new division called “The Three-Body Universe.” Turns out, Xu wasn’t the best employee and was demoted three years later for “poor performance.” He also had his pay slashed and retaliated by poisoning his colleagues.

Three months after Lin negotiated the Netflix deal for 3 Body Problem, Xu started poisoning his co-workers’ beverages. While Lin was the only one who died, four others were hospitalized with symptoms of poisoning. Xu was arrested three days after Lin’s death and is set to be executed for his crimes.

With 3 Body Problem now streaming on Netflix, Lin has been posthumously credited as an executive producer on the series.

(Via Business Insider)

It seems Billie Eilish just might be gearing up to start the cycle for her next album. Fans online have spotted billboards in major cities around the globe that seem to tease lyrics for a new song — as they also have her logo. So far, they can be spotted in New York, Los Angeles, and Sydney, according to NME.

“She’s the headlights / I’m the deer,” one reads. Others have “Did I cross the line?,” “I try to live in black and white,” “But I’m so blue,” and “Man I’m the greatest” on them, which are likely lyrics to a new song or songs of Eilish’s.

It’s also worth noting that over the past few months, Eilish has suggested that whatever she has in store is practically finished. “At some point, you will know more, but I’m not going to say anything else,” she shared during a December appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

In February, she then made an Instagram post confirming that the new album was “mastered,” meaning it very well could drop at any point this year. Given Eilish’s last release was back in 2021, it has also been a few years and fans have been waiting to hear more.

Check out some pictures of what are apparently Billie Eilish’s new music teaser billboards below.

How long has Curb Your Enthusiasm been on HBO? It premiered nearly a year before 9/11. Even weirder: the first episode came only two years after the series finale of Seinfeld, which everyone famously loved. Is Muppet attacker Larry David setting up the Curb finale (which airs this Sunday) to essentially re-do the last episode of Seinfeld?

Our own Jason Tabrys made the case for why that could happen in February, but since then, there’s been even more evidence suggesting that Curb could end in a similar fashion as Seinfeld, with the main character(s) in jail.

Curb viewers sure seem to think it will:

Speaking about the reaction to the Seinfeld finale to The B.S. Report in 2014, David said, “I got so much grief from the Seinfeld finale, which a lot of people intensely disliked, that I no longer feel a need to wrap things up… I wouldn’t say I’m mad about it, but it taught me a lesson that if I ever did another show, I wasn’t going to wrap it up.” David doesn’t think people hated the episode; instead, “They were disappointed. A lot of people were disappointed… I think people just didn’t like the fact that they wound up in jail, you know?”

It would be a Larry David move to do it all over again.

The Curb Your Enthusiasm series finale airs this Sunday, April 7, on HBO and Max at 10 p.m. EST.

Glass Animals is back. Today (April 3), the band has announced their new album, I Love You So F*cking Much, which is set to arrive this summer. Ahead of the album, Glass Animals has shared their new single, “Creatures In Heaven.”

On the spacey “Creatures In Heaven,” lead vocalist Dave Bayley looks back on a past relationship — but with fondness, not regret or bitterness.

“I don’t think I realize / Just how much I miss you sometimes / We were young and so in love / We were just creatures in heaven,” sings Bayley on the chorus.

The band’s upcoming album was born by way of an existential crisis Bayley was experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the world was locked down, the band’s 2020 song “Heat Waves” had propelled the band into newfound stardom. I Love You So F*cking Much centers around a space odyssey theme, as Bayley and the boys navigate the chaos.

“I love you so f*cking much, I LOVE YOU SO F*CKING MUCH, I love you SO f*cking MUCH, I love you so F*CKING much, I LOVE you so f*cking MUCH. These words take on a different meaning every time you say them,” said Bayley in a statement. “The universe may make us feel overwhelmingly small, but we have this human connection that is far vaster and more mysterious. Love comes in an infinite number of forms and shapes and sizes. It is so complex, and so powerful that even witnessing the tiniest instance of it can change your life forever.”

You can listen to “Creatures In Heaven” above and see the I Love You So F*cking Much artwork and tracklist below.

1. “Show Pony”
2. “whatthehellishappening”
3. “Creatures in Heaven”
4. “Wonderful Nothing”
5. “A Tear in Space (Airlock)”
6. “ICMYFILA”
7. “How I Learned To Love Bomb”
8. “White Roses”
9. “On the Run”
10. “Lost in the Ocean”

I Love You So F***ing Much is out 7/19 via Republic Records. Find more information here.

The fine folks of Ireland are having a moment these days, as every Irish actor out there is taking on critically acclaimed blockbuster roles, and now it’s time for Fleabag‘s Hot Priest to have his time in the spotlight.

Andrew Scott stars as Tom Ripley in Netflix’s upcoming series, Ripley. The show is the latest adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s popular crime novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley. The novel was previously adapted into the 1999 film of the same name starring Ben Affleck, Jude Law, and Gwyneth Paltrow. Originally, the TV adaptation was set to premiere on Showtime before Netflix snatched it up, and now it’s heading to screens this week. Here’s everything we know about the black-and-white thriller.

Plot

The series was written and directed by Steven Zaillian, known for penning The Irishman and Schindler’s List. Ripley will follow the elusive Mr. Ripley, who is charming yet untrustworthy, as he accepts a job looking for a man named Dickie.

Here is the official description:

Scott’s Tom Ripley is a grifter scraping by in early ’60s New York. He’s hired by a wealthy industrialist to travel to Italy to try to convince the man’s dilettante son, Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn), to return home. Accepting the job is Tom’s first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud, and murder.

Dakota Fanning, who plays the suspicious Marge Sherwood, recently told The LA Times what makes Mr. Ripley so appealing to viewers. “I think Tom Ripley is the original catfish,” she began. “What kind of separates it from other interpretations of con men, or whatever you want to call it, is you kind of get to see how he does it all, in pretty gripping detail. Sometimes some of those details are glossed over; in this, you’re on that ride of how it’s all done and I think that makes the particular character of Tom Ripley even scarier. Also, you start sympathizing with him,” she concluded.

Despite his complex background, Scott says Ripley never intended to be all that bad. “He’s not a natural-born killer,” Scott explained. “He’s not going over there with any of this in mind. He’s trying to survive.”

Cast

Scott stars as the titular Mr. Ripley, while Johnny Flynn portrays Dickie Greenleaf, the wealthy heir who Ripley becomes obsessed with. Meanwhile, Dakota Fanning portrays Marge Sherwood, Dickie’s girlfriend who becomes wary of Ripley. Eliot Sumner, Margherita Buy, Ann Cusack, and John Malkovich also star.

Release Date

All eight episodes will be released on Netflix on April 4th.

Trailer

Here is the official trailer:

The Charlotte Hornets have had a dreadful season, currently sitting at 18-57 with a merciful end to the year just two weeks away. One would expect some significant changes this offseason, as they already moved off of two veterans in Terry Rozier and Gordon Hayward at the trade deadline and seem to fully realize the need for a rebuild.

Brandon Miller and LaMelo Ball figure to be the centerpieces of that build, and going into the 2024-25 season, they’ll be getting a coach with some new ideas about how to utilize the two dynamic offensive talents. On Wednesday, Adrian Wojnarowski reported Steve Clifford will not return as head coach next year, deciding instead to move into a front office role going forward.

Woj also offered up a handful of potential candidates for the Hornets job, as they figure to mine the assistant coaching ranks for a younger coach.

Clifford’s second stint in Charlotte did not go as well as his first, as the Hornets have gone just 45-112 in his two seasons back with the team. That hasn’t been helped by Ball’s consistent absences with ankle issues and a shaky roster, but it stands to reason that a change is best for all parties involved. Clifford can remain around the team as a well-respected voice in whatever his front office position will be (I’d assume some advisor type role) while also no longer having to grind through the season on the bench.

The Houston Texans made an incredible turnaround in 2023, as new head coach DeMeco Ryans and rookie quarterback C.J. Stroud turned one of the worst teams in the league into a playoff team. After dominating the Browns in the Wild Card, the Texans lost on the road in Baltimore, providing them with a glimpse at what the next step has to look like for them to push their way into the upper echelon of the AFC.

While they’ll get rookie receiver Tank Dell back from injury and Nico Collins was a breakout star late in the year, the receiver position figured to be one of the areas Houston wanted to address this offseason. Many felt they might use their draft pick in a deep receiver class, but they flipped the No. 23 pick to Minnesota earlier this offseason for the No. 42 pick in the second round and the Vikings 2025 second.

On Wednesday, they turned that second round pick they received from the Vikings into an All-Pro receiver, as they agreed to a blockbuster deal with the Bills to acquire Stefon Diggs.

Diggs’ frustration in Buffalo had been reported fairly often over the past year-plus, even if he shrugged it off publicly when asked about it. Now, he goes from Josh Allen to Stroud and will give Houston a dynamic receiving corps, with a bonafide No. 1 in Diggs, a big play threat in Dell, and a very strong third option in Collins. This continues an active and, on paper, terrific offseason for Houston, who also signed Danielle Hunter to form one of the best pass rush tandems in the league with Will Anderson.

For the Bills, they now need to completely rework their wide receiver room, as they saw Gabe Davis walk in free agency and have now sent Allen’s top target out to Houston in a trade. One would think they’ll be in the market for a receiver (or two) in this month’s Draft, and with the No. 28 pick and another second next year, could be a candidate to move up for their preferred pass catcher.

When the first Joker film hit theaters, it blew the doors off the box office despite being a Rated-R movie about Batman’s greatest foe that didn’t actually have Batman in it. Naturally, its sequel Joker: Folie à Deux is going to stick to that winning formula as it adds Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn into the mix.

The film has officially locked down an R-rating as it continues the original’s trend of being a dark, twisted exploration of the Clown Prince of Crime that very liberally apes Martin Scorsese.

Via Variety:

The musical sequel to 2019’s “Joker,” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, has been rated R for “some strong violence, language throughout, some sexuality and brief full nudity,” according to the MPA’s daily ratings bulletin. This is in line with the original “Joker,” which was rated R for “strong bloody violence, disturbing behavior, language and brief sexual images.”

However, amidst all the violence and depravity, the Joker sequel is taking an unexpected swerve by being a full-on “jukebox musical.” Online Joker fans freaked out after learning that the Gaga-starring sequel will include a total of 15 “very well-known songs” including classic show tunes like “That’s Entertainment.”

While director Todd Phillips had teased that the sequel will be a musical, no one fully believed it would go this hard into the genre. It will be interesting to see whether Joker fans will stir up another billion dollar box office now that they know there’s going to be a whole lot of singing and dancing.

Joker: Folie à Deux opens in theaters on October 4.

(Via Variety)

Uproxx cover star Conan Gray has been getting fans excited to hear his new album Found Heaven. Now, they don’t have too much longer to wait. After he dropped the lead single “Never Ending Song” last May, he has slowly put out a few more songs — in order to build anticipation for the full project dropping nearly a year later.

Here’s everything to know about what to expect from Gray’s new album.

Release Date

Found Heaven is out 4/5 via Republic Records. Find more information here.

Tracklist

1. “Found Heaven”
2. “Never Ending Song”
3. “Fainted Love”
4. “Lonely Dancers”
5. “Alley Rose”
6. “The Final Fight”
7. “Miss You”
8. “Bourgeoisieses”
9. “Forever With Me”
10. “Eye Of The Night”
11. “Boys & Girls”
12. “Killing Me”
13. “Winner”

Features

As of right now, there are no features on Conan Gray’s new album.

Artwork

Check out the album artwork below.

Singles

So far, Conan Gray has released “Alley Rose,” “Lonely Dancers,” “Killing Me,” “Winner,” and “Never Ending Song” as singles.

Tour

07/11 — Melbourne, Australia @ John Cain Arena
07/13 — Brisbane, Australia @ Fortitude Music Hall
07/17 — Sydney, Australia @ ICC Sydney Theatre
07/19 — Adelaide, Australia @ Spin Off Festival
09/19 — Minneapolis, MN @ Armory
09/21 — Sterling Heights, MI @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill
09/23 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage
09/25 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway
09/30 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
10/01 — Philadelphia, PA @ Highmark Skyline Stage at the Mann
10/03 — Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater
10/04 — Atlanta, GA @ Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park
10/06 — Indianapolis, IN @ Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park
10/11 — Las Vegas, NV @ Chelsea Theater at Cosmopolitan
10/13 — Portland, OR @ Alaska Airlines’ Theater of the Clouds
10/15 — Seattle, WA @ WAMU Theater
10/17 — San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
10/18 — Inglewood, CA @ Kia Forum
10/20 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre
10/23 — Sugar Land, TX @ Smart Financial Centre
10/25 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center ATX
10/26 — Fort Worth, TX @ Dickies Arena
11/02 — Amsterdam, The Netherlands @ AFAS Live
11/04 — Brussels, Belgium @ Forest National
11/05 — Paris, France @ Zénith Paris la Villette
11/07 — Manchester, UK @ O2 Apollo
11/10 — London, UK @ OVO Arena Wembley

Charli XCX is about to have the clubs on lock this summer. At long last, we finally have more information about her upcoming sixth studio album, Brat. Today (April 3), Charli shared two new songs from Brat — “Club Classics” and “B2B”

On the punchy “Club Classics,” Charli has one simple wish — to dance to floor fillers all throughout the night. On the song’s bridge, she even shouts out some of the DJs and producers who have inspired her throughout her career.

“I wanna dance to A.G. / I wanna dance with George / I wanna dance to SOPHIE / I wanna dance to HudMo,” she says.

“B2B,” meanwhile, is a trippy track with a hypnotic beat switch, over which, Charli dreads the idea of returning to a past love.

In addition to these two new songs, Charli has revealed the album’s tracklist and release date. The album will arrive just in time for the summer, and will surely be a must for pride events and late-night excursions.

You can listen to “Club Classics” and “B2B” above and see the Brat tracklist below.

Charli XCX’s Brat Tracklist

1. “360”
2. “Club Classics”
3. “Sympathy Is A Knife”
4. “I Might Say Something Stupid”
5. “Talk Talk”
6. “Von Dutch”
7. “Everything Is Romantic”
8. “Rewind”
9. “So I”
10. “Girl, So Confusing”
11. “Apple”
12. “B2B”
13. “Mean Girls”
14. “I Think About It All The Time”
15. “365”

Brat is out 6/7 via Atlantic Records. Find more information here.

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