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Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly have starred in some iconic movies together: Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby, Step Brothers, and most recently, Holmes & Watson. Step Brothers in particular was a pop culture phenomenon, and one of the film’s most memorable moments remains the song “Boats ‘N Hoes.” All these years later, Ferrell and Reilly haven’t forgotten about the tune: This past weekend, the pair reunited to perform the song with Snoop Dogg.

This went down at the Best Night of Your Life 2 benefit show at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. The trio performed a verse of the song before transitioning into Snoop’s “Gin And Juice.” Ferrell and Reilly then surprised Snoop, whose 52nd birthday was on October 20, with a cake and a singing of “Happy Birthday.”

Snoop, meanwhile, recently spoke about how the last thing he wants to be is the smartest person on his team, saying, “What do I always say, y’all? I want to be the dumbest one on my team. I’ve always said that, I just said that the other night. Because if I’m the dumbest one on the team, I got some bad muthaf*ckas around me!”

Check out Ferrell, Reilly, and Snoop’s performance above.

“NFL” rapper Lil Uzi Vert’s long-awaited album, Pink Tape, quickly shot to the top of the music charts following its release. The 26-track album features appearances by Travis Scott, Nicki Minaj, Snow Strippers, Bring Me The Horizon, Don Toliver, and Babymetal. Breakout single “Just Wanna Rock” is amongst the records on the project.

Fans were ecstatic to learn that Uzi would perform the body of work around the country as part of their Pink Tape Tour. Yesterday (October 21), they kicked off the national run at The Armory in Minneapolis, Minnesota. When the tour was first announced, Uzi did not confirm any opening act, which remains the case today. With no official supporting act, ticketholders wonder when Lil Uzi Vert will go on stage for their performance.

According to Setlist.fm, the doors for the Pink Tape Tour stops are scheduled to open around 7 p.m. local time. Uzi’s reported start time for each performance is 8 p.m. local, with the concert’s official run time being between 2 and 3 hours. Once Uzi begins their show, “Suicide Doors” is the opening track. View the full Pink Tape Tour setlist so far here.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Ahead of the release of his chart-topping album, Utopia, Travis Scott popped out for several live shows, including a show in Rome, Italy, and a surprise performance during Drake’s It’s All A Blur Tour Vancouver, Canada stop. But in July, an Easter egg deep in Scott’s “KPop” video revealed that he would embark on an arena tour before year’s end.

On October 11, Scott kicked off his Utopia: Circus Maximus Tour at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. So, what time does Scott go on stage? According to Setlist.fm, on average, the doors for each tour stop open at 7 p.m. local time. But the live festivities don’t begin until approximately 8:30 p.m. local time when guest opener Teezo gets the crowd hype for Scott. Teezo’s set reportedly runs for anywhere between twenty to thirty minutes.

After Teezo leaves the stage, there is a brief intermission as the set is swamped out. So far, on tour, Scott has started his set at 9:30 p.m. with the opening track, “Hyaena” (view the full setlist here). However, if you plan on shopping at the tour’s merch shop, you should plan to arrive much earlier.

Utopia is out now via Epic Records and Cactus Jack. Find out more information here. Limited tickets are available for the remaining Utopia: Circus Maximus Tour. Find more information here.

In an era when Hollywood has gone almost all-in on comic book movies and franchises, it was a big deal this summer when two of the biggest hits were neither. One was Barbie, which, to be fair, is based on a popular toy line (and which kicked off its own Mattel cinematic universe). The other was Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s supersized look at the father of the atomic bomb. Just don’t call it a biopic, at least not around Nolan.

Per Variety, the filmmaker spoke at an event at the City University of New York, where he unloaded on the idea of getting too into Psych 101 analyses when depicting real-life figures.

“There is a tendency in biography post-Freud to attribute characteristics of the person you’re dealing with to their genetics from their parents. It’s a very reductive view of a human being,” Nolan explain. “If you’re writing a book that’s 500 pages or 1,000 pages, there’s a way to balance that with their individuality and experiences. When you compress and strip down to the necessary simplicity of a screenplay, it’s incredibly reductive.”

He continued:

“This is where the concept of a biopic fails you completely as a genre … It’s not a useful genre. I love working in useful genres. In this film…it’s the heist film as it applies to the Manhattan Project and the courtroom drama as it applies to the security hearings. It’s very useful to look at the conventions of those genres and how they can pull the audience and how they can give me communication with the audience.”

Nolan continued to slag the biopic tag: “You don’t talk about Laurence of Arabia as a biopic. You don’t talk about Citizen Kane as a biopic. It’s an adventure film. It’s a film about somebody’s life. It’s not a useful genre the same way drama is not a useful genre. It doesn’t give you anything to hold onto.”

Oppenheimer is due on digital platforms on Nov. 21 — a rarity in this era when even big movies (like Barbie) are available for home viewing a couple months, if not a couple weeks, after hitting theaters. When it is, streamers better not place it in the biopic category.

You can watch Nolan’s full CUNY appearance in the video below.

(Via Variety)

With the contract extension deadline for the Class of 2020 arriving on Sunday evening, a handful of players who had not yet gotten long-term deals done yet reached new deals to avoid hitting restricted free agency next summer.

While the max level guys were already done, there were some role guys teams wanted to lock up for the future. In Denver, backup big man Zeke Nnaji got a 4-year, $32 million deal to remain with the Nuggets, as they are very dependent on drafting and retaining their homegrown talent given their cap sheet. The opposite situation is playing out in Washington, where the Wizards have tons of future cap space after trading Bradley Beal and Kristaps Porzingis, and can use that to seek out some long-term value on their young players. The first beneficiary of that approach is Deni Avdija, as the forward and Wizards agreed to a new 4-year, $55 million deal on Sunday afternoon to keep him in Washington for the foreseeable future.

Avdija averaged 9.2 points, 6.4 rebounds, and 2.7 assists per game a year ago with 43.7/29.7/73.9 shooting splits, and the Wizards are certainly hoping there’s a step forward coming in Year 4. Avdija benefits from the Wizards kickstarting their rebuild and hoping to lean more on player development, which could give him a bit more opportunity.

Lil Uzi Vert made good on their promise to drop their highly anticipated album, Pink Tape, in June. Shortly after, Uzi revealed they would hit the road on a North American tour. The tour finally kicked off Saturday, October 21 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The national run marks their first full-length time on the road since 2018’s Endless Summer Tour.

Given the lapse in Uzi’s tour runs, fans are curious about which tracks from Pink Tape, their forthcoming album Luv Is Rage 3, and their other mixtapes will be performed live. Here’s the full setlist according to Setlist.fm, and the remaining The Pink Tape Tour dates below.

1. “Suicide Doors”
2. “NFL”
3. “Of Course”
4. “x2”
5. “Amped”
6. “POP”
7. “444+222”
8. “Money Longer”
9. “Do What I Want”
10. “Aye”
11. “Fire Alarm”
12. “The Way Life Goes”
13. “Sanguine Paradise”
14. “Neon Guts”
15. “20 min”
16. “Wokeuplikethis*” (Playboi Carti cover)
17. “Spin Again”
18. “Crush Em”
19. “XO TOUR Llif3”
20. “Shoota” (Playboi Carti cover)
21. “Just Wanna Rock”

Encore:

22. “Sauce It Up”

10/23/2023 — Chicago, IL @ Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
10/24/2023 — Cincinnati, OH @ The Andrew J Brady Music Center
10/25/2023 — Detroit, MI @ Fox Theatre
10/31/2023 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway
11/02/2023 — Hampton, VA @ Hampton Coliseum
11/03/2023 — Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena
11/05/2023 — Birmingham, AL @ Avondale Brewing Company
11/06/2023 — Atlanta, GA @ Coca Cola Roxy
11/08/2023 — Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom
11/09/2023 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center
11/10/2023 — Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall
11/13/2023 — Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
11/16/2023 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Kia Forum
11/18/2023 — San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
11/20/2023 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
11/22/2023 — Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center

Lil Uzi Vert is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

One of the biggest differences between the NFL and college football revolves around what happens when a ball carrier hits the ground. In college ball, if a football player has possession of the ball and they are on the ground, they’re not able to get up and continue playing.

In the NFL, however, players are ruled down by contact, which means that a player has to be touched once they hit the deck. Apparently, the New England Patriots forgot about this while playing the Buffalo Bills on Sunday afternoon. Amid a bid to pull off an upset against one of the best teams in the AFC, the Patriots found themselves with a 12-point lead in the fourth quarter thanks to a touchdown pass by Mac Jones.

That lead got cut into on the very next drive thanks to Stefon Diggs, who caught the ball while sliding at New England’s 8. But for some reason, Diggs was able to stand up from there, got out of a tackle by J.C. Jackson, and ran into the end zone.

It’s a tough one for the Patriots, which did a good job stymieing Buffalo’s offense for much of the day. Diggs is normally a pretty incredible playmaker under normal circumstances, and letting him get up when he’s on the ground gives him even more of a chance to do that.

Reese Witherspoon has done her share of darker fare. One of her Oscar nominations is for 2014’s Wild, in which she plays a damaged woman trying to overcome a grief-induced self-destructive patch. But at the movies, at least, she mostly does rom-coms and nice escapist fare, like Netflix’s Your Place or Mine from earlier this year. There’s a reason for that: She thinks that’s what her fans want.

“I’m not meant to be doing dark, heavy, intense, horror, gore, darkness movies,” the actress said at an event for her media company Hello Sunshine this weekend, as per The Hollywood Reporter. She elaborated:

“People like to see me do light movies, and I was like, OK. It doesn’t put you in the cool kids club a lot but I don’t care, I don’t want to be in the cool kids club. I want to make optimistic stuff that makes girls excited to be women in this world, because it is a wonderful thing to be a woman in this world.”

At the event, Witherspoon also talked about launching her company in 2016, which she did after noticing how few female-centric movies and shows were being made at the time.

“After I did a whole lot of soul searching and a lot of complaining to anyone who would listen, namely my mother, I realized what so many people in this room have realized, is that if you want to fix a problem, you have to be part of the solution. I would like to also point out women are always part of the solution,” Witherspoon said. “We’ve had enough of people telling our stories for us. One of the biggest rules in my family is you get to tell your own news, and a version of that in Hello Sunshine terms is women get to tell their own stories.”

Of course, Witherspoon is on a dark-ish TV series, namely The Morning Show, which can get pretty intense, with or without Jon Hamm.

(Via THR)

Neil Young has released nearly three dozen studio albums as a solo artist and with other artists throughout his career. Now the “Love Earth” singer’s discography is growing yet again. On Friday, October 20, he took to social media to announce that he would share tracks from his vault.

Young’s forthcoming album, Before & After, is slated to be dropped on December 8. In a statement he teased what fans can expect from IT. “The feeling is captured, not in pieces, but as a whole piece — designed to be listened to that way,” he wrote. “This music presentation defies shuffling, digital organization, and separation only for listening. That says it all.”

Although Before & After will feature several reworked versions of some of Young’s more obscure songs, he guarantees fans will enjoy it. “Sometimes buried by hits, these are songs from my life 1966-2022, newly recorded, in a music montage with no beginnings or endings,” he wrote on X.

View the official artwork and tracklist below.

1. “I’m The Ocean”
2. “Homefires”
3. “Burned”
4. “On The Way Home”
5. “If You Got Love” (Previously Unreleased)
6. “A Dream That Can Last”
7. “Birds”
8. “My Heart”
9. “When I Hold You In My Arms”
10. “Mother Earth”
11. “Mr. Soul”
12. “Comes A Time”
13. “Don’t Forget Love”

Before & After will be available for purchase in four formats: vinyl LP, clear vinyl LP, Blu-Ray disc, and CD. Before & After is out on 12/8 via Reprise Records. Find more information here.

Neil Young is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The list of NFL players who are more terrifying than Cleveland Browns edge rusher Myles Garrett is extremely short. Over the course of his career, Garrett has shown the incredible ability to impose his will on a game — whether he’s blowing up a run or sacking a quarterback who thought he had way more time to get the ball down the field on a crucial third down, Garrett has a knack for making a big play when the occasion calls for one.

During Sunday’s game between the Browns and the Indianapolis Colts, Garrett showed that he’s able to make game-changing plays on more than just the defensive side of the ball. Colts kicker Matt Gay lined up for a 60 yard field goal, which would normally be difficult enough even if Myles Garrett wasn’t out there trying to ruin your afternoon.

Unfortunately for Indianapolis’ special teams unit, Garrett was, indeed, out there trying to ruin their afternoon. Showing off the freakish athleticism that has turned him into an All-Pro, Garrett jumped over the line of scrimmage shockingly easily and swatted the kick away like he was Evan Mobley trying to send a layup into the third row.

Might be a bit of a hot take here but Myles Garrett is extremely good at football.