Kodak Black has reportedly been arrested for possession of cocaine in his home state, Florida. XXL has posted records from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office showing the controversial rapper’s arrest status and charges. As yet, no bond has been set and the charges against him are pending trial.
JUST IN: Kodak Black has been arrested for cocaine possession.
Kodak, whose real name is Bill Kapri, has an extensive history of run-ins with law enforcement going back to his first brushes with fame in 2015. In 2016, he was charged with felony criminal sexual conduct stemming from an incident follow a concert in Florence, South Carolina. He pled guilty in 2021, receiving a sentence of probation.
In 2018, he was charged with child neglect, grand theft of a firearm, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and marijuana possession after an Instagram Live feed showed him passing weed and a gun around a small child. While three of the charges were dropped, he was convicted of both possession charges and sentenced to a year in prison. He was released in August that year thanks to credit for time served.
In 2019, he was arrested at the US-Canada border by United States Customs and Border Protection for criminal possession of a weapon, released, then re-arrested in Miami ahead of his Rolling Loud performance on additional charges stemming from that arrest, including making a false statement on a governmental form for lying on his purchase documents for the guns confiscated at the border. He was sentenced to nearly four years in prison after pleading guilty; for the original charges, he also pled guilty, receiving a concurrent sentence between two and seven years.
However, in January 2021, as he was leaving office, Donald Trump communted Kodak’s sentence in a bid to curry favor with Black voters for his eventual 2024 election run. That seemingly hasn’t stopped Kodak from continuing to flout authority; in July 2022, he was arrested again for oxycodone trafficking, although his lawyer argued that the pills were prescribed to him.
A BBC anchor has apologized after she was caught on camera giving the middle finger before starting a report on Boris Johnson. In the now viral clip, Maryam Moshiri can be seen clearly and undeniably flipping the bird on screen. There’s nothing subtle about it as you can see below:
Not knowing that the silly joke was broadcasted to viewers on Wednesday evening, Moshiri apologized the next morning and explained how the whole thing happened.
“Hey, I’m so sorry about this,” Moshiri wrote on Twitter. “I was having a private joke with the team in the gallery and pretending to count down as the director was counting me down from 10-0… including the fingers to show the number. When we got to 1 I turned finger around as a joke and did not realise that this would be caught on camera.”
Moshiri is clearly mortified by the private gag being seen by viewers, and now, the entire internet. In her defense, the moment does seem like an innocent bit of co-worker mischief that, unfortunately, was the victim of bad timing.
“It was a private joke with the team and I’m so sorry it went out on air!” she wrote. “It was not my intention for this to happen and I’m sorry if I offended or upset anyone. I wasn’t ‘flipping the bird’ at viewers or even a person really. It was a silly joke that was meant for a small number of my mates.”
Jonathan Majors‘ assault trial began this week after months of lead-up, including some questionably released text messages, which didn’t present the best look from whomever decided to release them. Actually, that would reportedly be Majors’ lawyer, Priya Chaudhry, who does not appear to be otherwise impressing the judge on Major’s case.
To briefly recap, this case surrounds allegations made by ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari, following a March dispute that turned violent. Cops who attended to Jabbari the next day arrested Majors after observing injuries to her hand and a laceration near her ear, and Jabbari’s court testimony so far has included claims that she hoped police would help her, but she was also afraid of how Majors would be treated if she had initially reported the incident to law enforcement. Jabbari also related how she had taken sleeping pills after being too uncomfortable to sleep due to her injuries, and Majors’ team has insisted that she was the violent participant in the altercation.
Court proceedings have been predictably adversarial, but part of that has to do with the information presumably released by Majors’ team to the press so far. That has included not only those text messages but also a tip-off about police arresting Jabbari on allegations of criminal mischief/assault with the DA declining to prosecute charges. As well, Jabbari made reference during Wednesday testimony to how Chaudhry apparently released photos to the press in an attempt to prove that she was partying (Jabbari insisted that she was seeking comfort from friends) and therefore not injured.
Things got even messier in court on Wednesday when Chaudhry — for reasons unknown — decided to bring up Jabbari’s ex-boyfriend who reportedly committed suicide many years ago. This led Jabbari to leave the courtroom in tears, after which the judge seemed to be completely over Chaudhry’s questioning about the alleged “partying” photos:
Following the question about the high school boyfriend who Chaudhry claimed had died by suicide — the relevance of which was never made clear because the judge ensured the subject was subsequently dropped — Jabbari, who had cried often throughout her two days of testimony, returned to the courtroom, and didn’t exhibit emotion for the rest of the day.
Chaudhry later asked Jabbari if she had seen photos of herself at the nightclub the night after the alleged attack.
“Just the ones you posted,” Jabbari said quietly, to which Chaudhry objected. The judge smiled and shrugged at the defense lawyer: “That answer stands,” he said.
Majors has yet to take the stand, although he has pleaded not guilty to all accusations surrounding the alleged assault and has been carrying a bible into the courtroom. In the meantime, Loki Season 2 went awkwardly due to this elephant in the room, and Disney pulledMagazine Dreams, in which Majors portrays a troubled body builder, from its release schedule.
You read that date correctly. Nostalgia is already marking its territory in 2024. On Thursday morning, December 7, Def Leppard announced they are teaming up with Journey “to rock 2024” with a c0-headlining tour that will also bring Cheap Trick, Heart, and Steve Miller Band to stadiums across North America on select dates.
“Rock Brigade Concert Club members get exclusive first access to pre-sale tickets and VIP Packages on Tuesday, December 12 (10 a.m.),” Def Leppard wrote in the caption of their Instagram announcement. The iconic UK rock band also confirmed that “a special fan pre-sale” is set for Tuesday, December 12, at 11 a.m., followed by a general sale scheduled for Friday, December 15.
“Def Leppard and Journey will be reuniting and hitting the road together for the Summer Stadium Tour with Steve Miller, Cheap Trick & Heart on select shows, which makes for an amazing night of music!” Def Leppard said in a statement, per Consequence. “Having just completed a sensational 18-month run promoting our Diamond Star Halos album, we shall hit the boards running with a brand-new stage show and set of songs that will celebrate specific parts of our history. We may even have a surprise or two up our sleeves … so, wanna join us!??! … See you in the summer!”
See all the dates below, and find more ticketing information here.
07/06/2024 — St Louis, MO @ Busch Stadium *
07/10/2024 — Orlando, FL @ Camping World Stadium *
07/13/2024 — Atlanta, GA @ Truist Park ^
07/15/2024 — Chicago, IL @ Wrigley Field ^
07/18/2024 — Detroit, MI @ Comerica Park ^
07/20/2024 — Nashville, TN @ Nissan Stadium ^
07/23/2024 — Philadelphia, PA @ Citizens Bank Park ^
07/25/2024 — Hershey, PA @ Hersheypark Stadium ^
07/27/2024 — Pittsburgh, PA @ PNC Park ^
07/30/2024 — Cleveland, OH @ Progressive Field #
08/02/2024 — Toronto, ON @ Rogers Centre #
08/05/2024 — Boston, MA @ Fenway Park #
08/07/2024 — Flushing, NY @ Citi Field ^
08/12/2024 — Arlington, TX @ Globe Life Field ^
08/14/2024 — Houston, TX @ Minute Maid Park ^
08/16/2024 — San Antonio, TX @ Alamodome ^
08/19/2024 — Minneapolis, MN @ Target Field ^
08/23/2024 — Phoenix, AZ @ Chase Field ^
08/25/2024 — Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium ^
08/28/2024 — San Francisco, CA @ Oracle Park ^
08/30/2024 — San Diego, CA @ Petco Park ^
09/04/2024 — Seattle, WA @ T-Mobile Park *
09/08/2024 — Denver, CO @ Coors Field *
* with Cheap Trick
^ with Steve Miller Band
# with Heart
Uproxx cover star Tate McRae is treating fans to her new album, Think Later, tomorrow. As the release is just a few hours away, there still might be some questions about when it will be available to stream on Apple Music. Thankfully, you don’t need to think about it later — we have you covered now.
When Will Tate McRae’s Think Later Be On Apple Music?
McRae’s Think Later album will be available on Apple Music starting at midnight ET or 9 p.m. on the West Coast. For those listening internationally, you would convert to the time zone from there.
“My last album wasn’t like that at all,” McRae told Billboard about Think Later, as she compared it to her 2022 album, I Used To Think I Could Fly. “I was getting songs from 10 different people and being like, ‘OK, here’s an album.’ And this time it was written by the same core group of people,” she says. “That’s what made the process so fun for me because it actually felt like a project that I was working on.”
Ahead of the new record, McRae has found success with her singles, “Greedy” and “Exes.”
Think Later is out 12/8 via RCA Records. Find more information here.
When Amazon Prime Video won the bidding for Thursday Night Football in the NFL’s latest TV broadcast package, the streaming giant suddenly had to craft a vision for how it would build a football broadcast.
For the game itself, Amazon wanted to bring in familiar faces to grant some immediate legitimacy to the broadcast. That meant hiring the legendary Al Michaels away from NBC, pairing him with longtime ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit, and bringing Kaylee Hartung back into the sports space to handle sideline reporting duties. However, when it came to the on-site studio show, it wanted to cast a much wider net and bring in fresh faces for pregame, halftime, and postgame.
The postgame portion of that equation was particularly important, because Amazon didn’t want to just do a 10-minute recap of the game and go off of the air like most networks do. It explored, alongside the league, what its version of late-night television would be with a football focus, and the result was TNF Nightcap.
“The notion of doing a longer postgame show just in general really was borne out of a functional aspect,” explains Mike Muriano, Prime Video’s Executive Producer of Live Sports over breakfast prior to their Bengals-Ravens broadcast in Baltimore. “‘Hey, we’re here. We’ve got all of our bells and whistles and stage, everything’s here.’ To do an abbreviated 10-minute postgame show just didn’t feel right — we can do more than that. So now we have a blank canvas to do more NFL stuff, but also really lean into, okay, what would we want to see? We know that we’re different. We’re getting a different audience than most postgame shows. We’re up late. It’s late. People are fighting sleep and coming off a game, so we started with what would we want to see. Like, what’s been entertaining for us. Obviously stay based and rooted in football, but what are some other opportunities that present themselves and what we can do?”
From there, Amazon set out on building its team and needing to strike the right balance between having a group that can break down a game and analyze what’s happening on the field from a variety of perspectives for pregame, halftime, and postgame. All of this would need to happen while being engaging, entertaining, and willing to color outside the lines of a traditional football show once they hit Nightcap. The goal was to bring together a diverse group with different perspectives, not just in the positions they played on the football field, but in life experiences as well.
Amazon ended up going with two TV veterans in Charissa Thompson and Tony Gonzalez, and put them alongside three freshly retired players who had never done television: Ryan Fitzpatrick, Richard Sherman, and Andrew Whitworth. There were various iterations of what the group would look like, but through various meetings, interviews, dinners, and some luck with when that trio all hung up their cleats, they ended up with the perfect balance of football knowledge and personality.
“It’s just been fascinating from day one, just the ultimate collaboration between all of us, all the stakeholders that had a say-so in the talent. And then it’s a little bit of luck too,” recalls Amina Hussein, Head of On-Air Talent and Development. “But I remember our first dinner and Fitz and Sherm reminded me of like a buddy cop movie. It’s the first time they’d ever met [off the field], and they instantly clicked. And then Tony got in there, and Charissa obviously just is the queen of the show. And then with Whit, it’s not about position. Who puts offensive linemen on a pregame show? You just don’t see that very often. But after one meeting with Andrew, I think we all kind of knew immediately, okay, this guy has it. But they just immediately clicked, and I remember thinking, ‘I think we have something.’ It was just that immediate feeling of, okay, these guys really enjoy each other’s company. They’re ridiculously intelligent and humorous at the same time.”
For the production crew, what they were most focused on was ensuring that the personalities they coveted after those conversations and dinners shined through once the group was behind the desk and the red light came on. It can be easy to try and make sure everyone looks the part and comes off polished and professional on air, but in doing so, you risk dimming the personalities you hired them to bring to the show.
“They’d never been on television, but we knew, and we stress this from the beginning, we’ll help you with the television. Be yourself. Be your authentic self. Be genuine. That’s why we’re here,” says Jared Stacy, Director of Global Live Sports Production. “The worst thing we could do is try to mold you into something that you are not. We really believed, we’ll go through the early problems of what do you do with your hands when you’re on set. What do you do when you’re not talking? Where am I looking? How do I hold a mic? Like, you are here to be yourself. We put a lot of effort into having deeper conversations, like about where they wanted to go in life? What’s important to them? Again, trying to figure out curiosity, authenticity, those types of things. If they had those things, we knew we could help get them where they needed to be from a TV perspective.”
Gonzalez knows firsthand what that’s like. After starting at CBS and then moving on to FOX, Gonzalez has found himself reenergized on the Thursday Night Football set, saying he’s having the best time he’s ever had doing television. Part of that is getting out on the road with the crew and feeling a bit more connection compared to when everyone flies in for a Sunday studio show and then goes their separate ways.
The other part of it is getting a chance to feel like he’s truly able to let his personality shine on TV, and making sure the three TV rookies feel the same way.
“Go out there and be your authentic self. Don’t try to be sports broadcaster this or that, and don’t be afraid to make mistakes,” Gonzalez says of his advice to the TV rookies. “You know this game, you know it so well, but I think that was probably something that that I wish was told to me. Like I was trying to be this broadcaster. I was trying to present, and trying to go high and go low instead of just being yourself. And the environment I was in, I don’t think they kind of fostered that. And that’s why I’m no longer there — we’re not talking about Fox. And I loved my time at CBS, but it just was a little bit more uptight where this was just like, just come in and relax. And let’s just be yourselves and hang out and have a good time.”
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The centerpiece of Nightcap is the interview with the star (or stars) of the game, where they bring them out to the set for an extended conversation, which we rarely get to see on sports television. We typically get a walkoff interview on the field, with two or three questions as a guy is looking to get into the locker room and celebrate with their team.
TNF, meanwhile, brings them on after they’ve gotten that time in the locker room to celebrate and decompress a bit. Once they arrive on set, they’re a bit looser. Being surrounded by four former players — some of whom may have been teammates or opponents — leads to a tendency to open up a bit more than we typically see, and they aren’t afraid to go back-and-forth about some previous commentary.
“When these guys come on there before they even come on, it’s hugs, ‘What’s up, what’s going on?’ And those guys can just relax,” Gonzalez says. “And I think they really enjoy it. I mean, look at George Kittle, he’s just out there just talking, and Jason [Kelce] and everybody that we’ve had on just coming out. I mean, Jared Goff, he was way more relaxed than he is in those interviews normally. And that’s what it does. I think that’s the best part, and that’s why I think people like watching the Nightcap because they get to see the realness and that’s what it is.
“I love that you brought up Jared Goff because I also think that that’s a different Jared Goff than you would have seen years ago,” Thompson adds. “He would have never called out Fitz the way that he did, and I loved it, because it got to it showed me like, okay, Jared got a little bit of his swagger back. And you know, Fitz can take that. It was a good it was a reminder, too, in that moment of the mutual respect that they have for one another that you can kind of flip shit and it’s not personal.”
Thompson has been in the position of doing walk-off interviews (and, recently, got herself in hot water for saying she made up some reports while doing sideline reporting). Now in the host chair on TNF, she’s able to truly appreciate seeing players open up at the desk. The interviews feel less like a press conference and more like a late night show, which is the overall feeling everyone wants to create with Nightcap.
“I think that there is that back end of the show looseness that that I really enjoy because it reminds me of the time I was on a show called The Best Damn Sports Show on Fox,” Thompson says. “And I’ve always wanted to recreate that and be back on something like that where it feels like that late night talk show kind of vibe. It’s loose and fun. So, I really enjoyed that. We have that opportunity because we don’t have the time constraints on the back end.”
For all of the stress caused by trying to create a show from scratch on a network that’s never done an NFL broadcast, there’s a freedom that creates as well. The gold standard of sports studio shows is Inside the NBA, which is able to stretch out and have fun in part because they face fewer restrictions given their place on TNT. If the conversations is really good, Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal are going at it, or whatever else it may be, the time constraints placed on the show are less rigid. If need be, TNT can bump a movie or rerun back a bit (or move it up if they wrap a touch early).
TNF Nightcap enjoys a similar freedom, and that’s been particularly beneficial to a group that’s learning how to do TV for the first time. Getting your point across in a clear, concise manner is a skill that takes time to master, and the hardest part of doing sports television is figuring out how to fit what you want (or need) to say into a 30 or 60 second window. Being able to open those windows up alleviates some of that pressure, and it’s a luxury few networks are afforded. That’s not something the TNF crew takes for granted, and it allows them to foster conversation more naturally, because the guys on the desk aren’t as worried about fitting in the point they want to make. And if someone else makes a point they like, they’re given the space to react and build the conversation off of that.
“The amazing thing, too, with that whole group, which has been so rewarding, is — and one of our hallmarks is curiosity — this group listens to each other. Not just in the meeting room, but on the set,” Muriano says. “One of the most amazing things to me, and probably all of us for being around TV for the collective years we have, is I was shocked from show one through last week, seldom is this group ever yelling over each other or talking over each other. And as we can all attest, we did not have weeks of rehearsal going into our first week. It was preseason and go. And that group naturally just listens to each other and reacts, they’re not so conditioned just to go off and run and say, ‘Okay, my 30 seconds is here. I’m gonna say this. I’m not even listening to what they’re saying.’ They’re scrapping their comments if they hear something. Them listening to each other has been such a rewarding thing so far.”
As everyone I spoke with noted, they’ve gotten incredibly lucky that the group they put together has come together so quickly and all genuinely enjoy being on the road and on the desk together. As Muriano explained, you can make a good television show with people who don’t actually like one another, but it’s much harder and takes a lot more time than if there’s a natural chemistry that flows on and off camera. For Thompson and Gonzalez, it’s been energizing after many years in the TV industry, while Sherman, Fitzpatrick, and Whitworth are getting the chance to learn how to make good TV together, rather than trying to fit into an established group.
While the Prime Video team thought they had put the right group together, they admit you can never tell until the light goes on. With just one preseason game acting as a live test run, it wasn’t until the day of their first game in 2022 that they were able to fully realize they had the right group.
“The morning of our first regular season game, Chiefs-Chargers last September, I’m nervous, ten trillion butterflies in every possible way,” Stacy recalls. “I’m getting coffee downstairs, and Andrew Whitworth was doing a hit for Good Morning Football in the lobby. You kind of were like this. And Richard and Ryan are down there, and they’re having coffee, and they realize that Whit was live on television. So they start climbing up on the bar to figure out if they can photobomb Whit as he’s doing his live shot. And it put me such at ease. I’m like, we’re gonna be fine. We’re gonna be fine.”
The results speak for themselves for TNF Nightcap, which has averaged 1.94 million viewers through 11 weeks of the 2023 season (up from 1.63 million a year ago). That’s a robust figure for a show that typically takes place in the 11 p.m. hour on a streaming service that would be just as easy to cut off right as the game ends. But this group has managed to find the balance between football conversation and entertainment, with a unique approach to what a football show can be and how it can bring out something different from the players that come by the set.
As Sherman says to Gonzalez every night on the desk just before they go live for pregame, “We got something here, right?”
Each week our staff of film and TV experts surveys the entertainment landscape to select the ten best new/newish shows available for you to stream at home. We put a lot of thought into our selections, and our debates on what to include and what not to include can sometimes get a little heated and feelings may get hurt, but so be it, this is an important service for you, our readers. With that said, here are our selections for this week.
Kristen Stewart’s gay ghost-hunting show has everything: slayances, spook-kikis, haunted strip clubs, and comedian Roz Hernandez snacking on donuts while she yells at homophobic poltergeists. The group – a hodgepodge of paranormal experts that includes a psychic, a witch, and a tarot card reader – road trips across the country in this docuseries produced by the Queer Eye creators, chatting it up with demonic entities and benevolent spooks to get to the root of some very real, very human problems. If there’s a better way to spend your weekend than watching a group of well-dressed Queer spiritualists commune with the dead while cracking jokes and busting stereotypes, we don’t want to know about it.
— This movie stars Sandra Oh and Awkwafina and Will Ferrell, which is a good start
— This is the official summary: “Anne and her estranged train-wreck of a sister, Jenny, must work together to help cover their mother’s gambling debts. When Anne’s beloved dog is kidnapped, they set out on a wild cross-country trek to get the cash.”
Rap Sh!t has returned for a second season which means there is a new batch of episodes that follow the consistently entertaining lives of Shawna and Mia as they rise up the ranks in Miami’s rap scene. Season one of the Issa Rae-led series was all about establishing their rap careers, and now in season two, the duo looks to take things beyond South Beach. With new heights come new struggles as Shawna and Mia will have their integrity tested over and over again in exchange for quick success. Through it all, you can expect to laugh and cheer on the duo all while enjoying the show’s stellar soundtrack which features appearances from real-life hip-hop stars and up-and-coming acts who fit the show’s aesthetic.
— A biopic of Civil Rights leader Bayard Rustin, who helped MLK organize the 1963 March on Washington but whose efforts were minimized at the time and therefore largely forgotten since because he was openly gay at a time when that was not convenient for public figures
— From Higher Ground, the production company helmed by Barack and Michelle Obama
— Loaded with talent like Colman Domingo and Chris Rock and Jeffrey Wright and Audra McDonald
Despite Squid Game being a smash, global, runaway hit, something about a reality show did not sound so wise. Still, Netflix decided that they were up to The Challenge, and sure enough, some unfortunate allegations have surfaced. Still, it will be worth checking in to see how this show moves from dystopian-tale-that-portrays-a-horrific-reality-show to an actual reality show. People won’t be able to resist.
Nearly every actor from the original, cult-favorite Scott Pilgrim film is back for this anime-inspired Netflix series that also functions as a clever remix. Is it as good as the actual run of sequels we should have been given over the last 15 years? Noting could be, but it comes close, leaning on its all-world voice cast and the very specific charm that drove the film and Bryan Lee O’Malley’s original graphic novels.
Taylor Sheridan currently has 6666 in the works on the Yellowstone side, but first, he’s taking viewers back to the real Old West. David Oyelowo portrays the legendary Black U.S. Deputy Marshal. This series will harken back to the Post-Reconstruction era, in which Bass Reeves became a notorious frontier hero by capturing thousands of the most frightening criminals in the land. Oyelowo will be accompanied by Dennis Quaid, Garrett Hedlund, and Donald Sutherland.
What if there was an animated movie for kids where Adam Sandler — now hear me out — voiced a talking lizard? And it was co-directed and co-written by Robert Smigel, the comedy genius behind many of the greatest SNL moments ever? And the rest of the voice cast included Jason Alexander, Cecily Strong, Bill Burr, Heidi Gardner, and Stephanie Hsu? Would you believe such a movie exists? Well, it does. It’s called Leo, and it’s on Netflix. Your kids need to be introduced to Adam Sandler eventually. Maybe start here and not, say, Uncut Gems. Save that until they’re older.
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters stars Kurt Russell and Godzilla and… are you already sold? You should be. The first live-action TV show in the MonsterVerse — which also includes Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla vs. Kong — makes you care as much about the humans, including Kurt and his son Wyatt, as Godzilla and his “Titan” friends. In an up-and-down year for genre shows, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is a highlight.
There are cringe comedies and then there’s Showtime’s The Curse, a limited series about a married pair of alt-HGTV home flippers gentrifying their New Mexico neighborhood via eco-friendly monstrosities and calling it philanthropy. Created by two masters of squirm – Benny Safdie and Nathan Fielder – the show is a voyeuristic exercise that tests fans’ capacity for second-hand embarrassment as its main characters, the affluent Asher (Fielder) and Whitney (a shockingly unlikable Emma Stone) bulldoze the soul of their small, impoverished community with just a few reality TV cameras and a staggering amount of white privilege. It’s the best, most uncomfortable TV show you’ll watch this year.
Mike Flanagan fans, get ready. The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass showrunner is back along with Carla Gugino, who will spook your soul right out of your bod and deliver a “consequential” evening to “a collection of stunted hearts” that is the Usher family. Yikes. Do not expect a literal adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe short story. The story focuses here on the hell created by ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher, who built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege, and power. Horrible secrets shall surface when the heirs to the Usher dynasty start dying at the hands of a mysterious woman, portrayed with glee by Gugino.
Somehow, Joel Kinnaman has now been physically transformed to barely look like Joel Kinnaman while still starring in this alternate-history space-race series, and in the year 2003, the Earth’s nations are competing like hell to capture and mine asteroids full of precious minerals. That doesn’t sound ominous at all, and of course, there’s still plenty of beefing between nations after Happy Valley has grown in size on Mars’ surface.
There’s some Glass Onion flavor to this mystery series that follows Darby (Emma Corrin) accepting an invitation to visit a reclusive billionaire with an assortment of other guests. One of the lucky participants will be not-so-lucky and end up dead, and at that point, Darby must use her amateur-sleuth abilities (including hacking and being a typically astute Gen Z-er) to solve the case before anyone else ends up dead. Along with Corrin (The Crown), this show also stars Harris Dickinson of the upcoming The Iron Claw and Clive Owen, who is already so many projects and yet who should be in more.
Selena Gomez is taking her already lovely cooking show and giving it a little festive update by inviting a handful of famous chefs to come over and make holiday recipes with her. It all seems very nice and sweet and might make you want to eat your entire screen, which is not recommended during the holiday season. Or at any other time. But still a good show to watch.
The bumbling spies are back, led by a frumpy and farting Gary Oldman. That sentence may not be the best way to sell the show (maybe it is???), but trust us: this show is good. Tense and fun and full of little twists and turns and all over and done with in six 45-minute episodes. Knock the whole season out in a weekend if you want. Once you get started, you might not be able to help yourself anyway
David Fincher — director of movies like Fight Club and The Social Network — is back with another uplifting tale about a well-adjusted dude. From the official description: “Solitary, cold, methodical and unencumbered by scruples or regrets, a killer waits in the shadows, watching for his next target. Yet, the longer he waits, the more he thinks he’s losing his mind, if not his cool.” Jokes aside, Fincher does these kinds of movies as well as anyone and usually makes them compelling, so give it a go if you want to spend a few hours with a murderous sociopath in the safest possible way.
The final season of this royal soap opera is upon us, and this half-season confronts the royal elephant in the room while finally giving Diana her due during an exploration of her final year of life. Sadly, the world already knows how a car chase between the paparazzi and Diana/Dodi Fayed ended, but the show pulls off these four episodes with stunning grace. So much could have gone wrong here with the recounting and dramatization of tragic events that shook the world, but Netflix does the thing here. Not an easy feat for sure.
GOOD: Fargo is back, finally, for a fifth installment that features Juno Temple in Home Alone mode and Jon Hamm in a cowboy hat and a murderous little secret that ties them together. Joe Keery from Stranger Things plays a failson named Gator. There’s a lawyer named Danish Graves who has an eyepatch. There are homemade blowtorches and nipple rings and it’s all just extremely Fargo in all the ways you’ve come to expect.
BAD: Hmm. There’s really not any bad news here. But we already committed to this format so… let’s go with “it shouldn’t have taken until season five for them to cast Jon Hamm in Fargo.”
You want a psychological thriller? Cool. Check out this premise: “A family’s getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices, and two strangers appear at their door.”
You want a solid creative pedigree? Cool. This movie comes from the brain of Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail (who knows a little something about psychological thrillers ), who writes and directs based on a book of the same name.
You want star power? Cool. This sucker stars Mahershala Ali and Ethan Hawke and Julia Freaking Roberts, and features rising star Myha’la Herrold in a major role and Kevin Bacon in a smaller one.
There’s been a debate online on whether May December qualifies as “camp.” We have no idea, but we do know it’s a very good movie, one of the year’s best. The Todd Haynes film stars Natalie Portman as an actress who shadows a one-time tabloid sensation played by Julianne Moore for a role. It’s best to go in without knowing more than that, although fair warning: while May December is very funny, it’s also quietly devastating.
It’s time to pour some champagne into your collectible Taco Bell cup and celebrate. Godzilla Minus One is now the highest grossing live-action Japanese film in North America ever following what Deadline called “the biggest Stateside debut of a foreign film this year.” The Toho film is up to $14.36 million at the domestic box office, and over $40 million worldwide.
“I am happy that Godzilla, of all characters, has eclipsed a record that had not been broken for a long time,” director Takashi Yamazaki said in a statement. “Looking back, I think that the cast and crew were all working on the film with the same goal in mind: to make something entertaining! That is what led to such a wonderful result. I will always remember this.”
Godzilla Minus One is the best Godzilla movie in years, maybe since the original (the 97 percent “Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes is honestly too low), and it should be seen on the biggest, loudest screen possible. Especially since there’s no streaming or video-on-demand premiere date yet.
But there is good news:
#GodzillaMinusOne isn’t going anywhere! In fact, the film will be playing on EVEN MORE North American screens this coming weekend—increasing to over 2,500 locations in the US & Canada starting December 8. As long as people are attending, showtimes will continue. So get your… pic.twitter.com/Ny0lFWw0O2
Nicki Minaj’s new album Pink Friday 2 is arriving on DSPs soon and she has promised that the album will take fans on a ride to “Gag City.” After teasing the allbum’s release — and its accompanying tour — for months, the album hits DSPs, including Apple Music and Spotify, on Friday, December 7.
The album will be Nicki Minaj’s fifth studio album, and it arrives five years after the release of her most recent album, Queen, in 2018. In the lead up to the album’s release, Nicki enjoyed a resurgence of popularity thanks to her placement on the Barbie soundtrack with the Aqua-sampling “Barbie World” alongside “Princess Diana” collaborator Ice Spice. Capitalizing on the attention from the new song from younger fans, she attempted to join TikTok’s “NPC” trend with hilariously disastrous results. Still, the move revealed an endearingly human side to the superstar, which she continued to cultivate with her first album single “Last Time I Saw You.”
After campaigning to appear on Drake’s new album For All The Dogs, Nicki teased the next single, “Bahm Bahm,” before revealing that Pink Friday 2 had been delayed. Just ahead of the album’s release, she dropped out of iHeartRadio’s Jingle Ball to ensure she had time to properly finish the album.
Pink Friday 2 is out 12/8 via Young Money Entertainment and Republic Records.
As Uproxx’s May 2022 cover star, Tate McRae said, “I knew that if I needed to hear these songs, as someone listening to my music, then I would want it to be as real as it gets.” In the year-plus that followed, McRae attracted more and more fans through her unflinching vulnerability, resonated far and wide with her “Greedy” single becoming her first top-10 entry on the Billboard Hot 100. It has all set the stage for Think Later, her sophomore studio album due out on Friday, December 8.
Below is what you need to know ahead of its arrival.
When Will Tate McRae’s Think Later Be On Spotify?
As is standard, Think Later is expected to hit Spotify and all DSPs tonight at 9 p.m. PT (December 7) and midnight ET (December 8).
What Is The Think Later Tracklist?
McRae’s album was executive produced by Ryan Tedder and doesn’t include any features. She confirmed all 14 tracks with an Instagram post last week, as seen below.
1. “Cut My Hair”
2. “Greedy”
3. “Run For The Hills”
4. “Hurt My Feelings”
5. “Stay Done”
6. “Grave”
7. “Exes”
8. “We’re Not Alike”
9. “Calgary”
10. “Messier”
11. “Think Later”
12. “Guilty Conscience”
13. “Want That Too”
14. “Plastic Palm Trees”
04/17/2024 — Dublin, IE @ Olympia Theatre
04/18/2024 — Dublin, IE @ Olympia Theatre
04/20/2024 — Glasgow, UK @ Glasgow Academy
04/22/2024 — London, UK @ Eventim Apollo
04/24/2024 — Manchester, UK @ O2 Apollo Manchester
04/26/2024 — Wolverhampton, UK @ The Civic At The Halls
04/28/2024 — Cologne, DE @ Palladium
04/29/2024 — Amsterdam, NL @ AFAS Live
04/30/2024 — Antwerp, BE @ Lotto Arena
05/02/2024 — Stockholm, SE @ Annexet
05/03/2024 — Oslo, NO @ Spektrum
05/04/2024 — Copenhagen, DK @ Falkonersalen
05/06/2024 — Hamburg, DE @ Sporthalle
05/07/2024 — Berlin, DE @ Verti Music Hall
05/08/2024 — Prague, CZ @ Forum Karlin
05/10/2024 — Warsaw, PL @ COS Torwar
05/12/2024 — Zurich, CH @ Halle 622
05/13/2024 — Vienna, AT @ Gasometer
05/14/2024 — Munich, DE @ Zenith
05/16/2024 — Milan, IT @ Fabrique
05/17/2024 — Paris, FR @ Zenith
05/20/2024 — Barcelona, ES @ Sant Jordi Club
05/21/2024 — Madrid, ES @ Palacio Vistalegre
05/22/2024 — Lisbon, PT @ Coliseu de Lisboa
07/05/2024 — Calgary, AB @ Hometown Show*
07/07/2024 — Woodinville, WA @ Chateau Ste Michelle
07/09/2024 — San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
07/11/2024 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre
07/14/2024 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre
07/17/2024 — Austin, TX @ Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park
07/19/2024 — Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall
07/20/2024 — Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
07/21/2024 — Rogers, AR @ Walmart AMP
07/24/2024 — Cincinnati, OH @ The Andrew J Brady Music Center
07/27/2024 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage
07/28/2024 — Sterling Heights, MI @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre
07/30/2024 — Saint Louis, MO @ Saint Louis Music Park
08/01/2024 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory
08/06/2024 — Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater
08/07/2024 — Indianapolis, IN @ Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park
08/09/2024 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway
08/13/2024 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem
08/14/2024 — Philadelphia, PA @ Skyline Stage at Mann
08/16/2024 — Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater
08/17/2024 — Atlanta, GA @ Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park
08/22/2024 — New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden**
11/08/2024 — Perth, AU @ Red Hill Auditorium
11/10/2024 — Brisbane, AU @ Riverstage
11/12/2024 — Sydney, AU @ Hordern Pavilion
11/15/2024 — Adelaide, AU @ AEC Theatre
11/17/2024 — Melbourne, AU @ Margaret Court Arena
11/19/2024 — Auckland, NZ @ Spark Arena
11/21/2024 — Wellington, NZ @ TSB Arena
* Venue TBA
** Additional support TBA
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