On Stranger Things, today, November 6, is the day that Will Byers was abducted into the Upside Down. Forty-one years after that event, Netflix has announced some exciting news about the fifth and final season of the show.
Stranger Things season 5 is confirmed to premiere in 2025, as expected. The streaming service also released the titles of the final eight episodes, which will take place in 1987:
The full title of the episode “The Vanishing of…” wasn’t fully revealed in the announcement video, which you can watch here, but it’s a reference to the series premiere, “The Vanishing of Will Byers.” Who will vanish this time? The series finale is also a callback to the season 1 finale, “The Upside Down.”
“The end of this episode when we were reading it — just us reading it — about halfway through, people started crying,” star David Harbour recently shared about the final episode of Stranger Things. “Then about the last 20 minutes, it was just uncontrollably crying, waves of different people.” He added that it’s “the best episode they’ve ever done.”
It’s still unknown if every episode of Stranger Things season 5 will be released at once, or if the season will be split into two “volumes,” like in season 4.
Pharrell Williams wasn’t “happy” working at McDonald’s. McDonald’s wasn’t particularly pleased with him, either. The super-producer and subject of the Piece By Piece biopic recently recalled being fired by the fast food king.
“McDonald’s was my first and only job,” Williams told BBC Radio 2, according to Billboard. “I got fired three times. I was eating the chicken nuggets. The first two times it was just because I was lazy. The third was like, ‘What are you doing? You’re just sitting there eating nuggets?’”
Pharrell (who, in a full-circle twist, is a credited producer on a song based on McDonald’s iconic “I’m Lovin’ It” jingle) is in good company: Rachel McAdams was also canned by McDonald’s, although not for eating McNuggets.
“[I worked at McDonald’s] for a good three years. My sister and brother worked there. My sister was my manager,” the Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret actress told Glamour. “It was a great place to work, but I had a little bit of an OCD thing with hand washing and just didn’t have time. They were like, ‘Hey, the drive-through’s backing up. Stop washing your hands!’ I was not a great employee; I broke the orange juice machine one day.”
50 Cent is perhaps the biggest troll in hip-hop today, especially when it comes to Instagram. He frequently uses the platform to send jabs, but he insists that even though it may ruffle some feathers, it’s primarily all in good fun.
During a recent appearance on Hot 97, Ebro asked, “How much of what we see when you trolling people on Instagram is real dislike, and how much of it is just having fun because you like trolling?” 50 responded, “I’m preconditioned from behaviors that you guys have exercised in front of me. I’ve watched you. I’m doing by version of Ebro on my Instagram. That’s it, it just not politics, it’s a little more cultural. But look, none of that is really personal. It’s me just having fun.”
Meanwhile, 50 recently revealed he turned down a $3 million offer to perform at a rally for now-president-elect Donald Trump, saying, “I’m afraid about politics. You understand? I do not like no part about them… It’s because when you do get involved in it, no matter how you feel, some one passionately disagrees with you. That’s the formula for the confusion that sent Kanye to Japan. He said something about both of those things — and now he can only go to Japan.”
The official Glastonbury 2025 lineup hasn’t been revealed. But to ensure things run smoothly once it is, organizers have announced a few logistical changes to the beloved multiple day event. Coldplay, Dua Lipa, and SZA served as headliners for Glastonbury 2024, which made securing tickets next to impossible. But an update to Glastonbury’s ticket sale system could even out the odds for next year’s festivities.
As pointed out by NME, on Glastonbury’s official website, organizers announced the introduction of an inaugural queuing system courtesy of See Tickets. Instead of fighting with thousands of others to refresh the ticket sale webpage, viewer’s slot will be tallied upon visit then ushered along until check out.
While this is standard practice with other ticketing platforms such as Ticketmaster, Glastonbury has been slow to adapt it. Read Glastonbury’s full description of the process below.
The booking process itself for 2025 will be the same as in previous years, however, the way in which you join the booking process is changing. Rather than refreshing the holding page to attempt to access the booking page, this year, when the ticket sale begins (at 6pm or 9am respectively) everyone who is already on the glastonbury.seetickets.com page will randomly be assigned a place in a queue to access the booking process. Anyone who logs on once the sale has started will automatically be added to the back of the queue, so it’s important to make sure you are online ready at least a few minutes before the sale opens. Once you are in the queue, a progress bar will indicate how close you are to reaching the booking page.
Those interested in attending Glastonbury are still required to register ahead of each year’s official ticket sale. Glastonbury 2025’s ticket plus coach travel is scheduled for Thursday, November. The general admission sale will follow on Sunday, November 17. Glastonbury 2025 itself is scheduled to take place between June 25, 2025, and June 29, 2025. Find more information here.
In hindsight, Dr. Dre’s divorce from Nicole Young might have been walk in the park. Well, compared to his now rocky legal matter with former marriage counselor Dr. Charles Sophy.
Last month, Sophy was granted a temporary restraining order against the mogul after accusing Dr. Dre of sending threatening text messages. According to TMZ, Dr. Dre (real name Andre Young) through his legal counsel’s response slammed the Sophy’s $10 million civil harassment and intentional infliction of emotional distress lawsuit (viewable here) and restraining order as a “racist caricature that depicts Black men, like Young as inherently violent.”
Now, Rolling Stone reports that half of Dr. Dre’s courtroom battle has ended in the mogul’s favor. Today (November 5), the outlet claimed that a presiding judge dropped Sophy protection over due to it not meeting the “burden of proof.”
In a court documents obtained by RS, Los Angeles County Judge Melanie Ochoa, declared: “The court finds the party requesting the order of protection did not sustain the applicable burden of proof and accordingly the request is denied. Any temporary restraining order earlier issued is hereby dissolved.”
Although Dr. Dre openly admitted to sending strongly worded messages, he vehemently denies threatening to harm his ex-mediator.
A decision has not been made in Sophy’s civil harassment and intentional infliction of emotional distress lawsuit.
Back in 2023, Holder was sentenced to 60 years to life in prison. Since then, Holder has fought to appeal the court’s decision filing arguments against closing trial arguments. However, according to AllHipHop, Holder’s efforts case has been rejected.
Based on documents obtained by the outlet, a three judge panel in California’s Second District Court of Appeal have ruled to uphold Holder’s conviction, which includes first-degree murder, two counts of attempted voluntary manslaughter and two counts of assault with a firearm for shooting two separate men (both survived).
Read the court’s decision below.
Nothing in the trial court’s rulings prevented appellant from arguing objective and subjective provocation to the jury or from clearly articulating the defense theory that ‘appellant acted in the heat of passion as a result of being publicly called a snitch’ by ‘the famous, the great Nipsey Hussle. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in prohibiting defense counsel from telling the jury what appellant was thinking and feeling at the time of the shooting to explain appellant’s conduct.
Contrary to appellant’s claim, the record here affirmatively shows the trial court fully understood and properly exercised its discretion when it declined to dismiss the firearm enhancement,” the three-judge panel ruled. “Highlighting the evidence that appellant used not one, but two guns in his violent attack which killed [Nipsey] and wounded [Kerry] Lathan and [Shermi] Villanueva, the court declared its finding ‘by clear and convincing evidence’ that dismissal of any enhancements in this case ‘would endanger public safety’ … The court emphasized its responsibility to consider and evaluate the mitigation evidence presented by the defense, particularly the evidence of appellant’s history of mental illness, and it indicated that the sentence it was about to pronounce balanced appellant’s mitigating evidence with the devastation appellant had caused to the victims and their families.
Michael Jackson died 15 years ago. Yet still, the crowned King of Pop’s music continues to dominate streaming platforms. That is sure to spike after the late singer’s biopic hits theaters. However, according to reports, Michael has been delayed.
According to Deadline, the highly anticipated pictured directed by Antoine Fuqua has officially been pushed back to 2025.
Originally Michael was slated to be released around Easter 2025 (estimated around April 18-20). Now, based on the outlet’s exclusive report Michael has been locked in for October 3, 2025. Deadline speculates that the delay was a strategy call to get Michael “positioned in the awards corridor next year.” Given that producer Graham King (the Oscar award-winning Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody) is continued to the project, the adjustment makes sense to both die-hard fans of Jackson and film critics alike.
The release dates seems to be the only change to the movie thus far. Universal Pictures remains at the helm of the film’s international production duties. The title role is still held by Michael’s nephew Jaafar Jackson (Jermaine Jackson’s son). Nia Long, Laura Harrier, Miles Teller, and Colman Domingo will also star in the movie as John Branca and John McClain serve in the producers seat with John Logan responsible for the script.
An early synopsis described the project as a “look at the complicated legendary recording artist from his human side to the his public and private struggles.”
A first look at forthcoming film (viewable here) has set supporters’ expectations high.
Soon there won’t be any Weekends With Adele left for fans to enjoy. The end of Adele’s highly demanded Las Vegas residency is beginning to hit her. Over the weekend, the “Easy On Me” singer reflected on her time in
The Colosseum Theater at Caesars Palace (which she dubbed Celine Dion’s palace) in a speech captured by The Sun.
Although Adele is “genuinely sad” added the show’s conclusion don’t expect her to call off her hiatus or as she put it an “incredibly long” break.
“This really is the beginning of the end,” she said. “There are no other f*cking shows. I’m not going to be like, ‘Surprise!’ This is the end. It’s [the 100th and final show] the weekend before Thanksgiving, isn’t it? And that’s the last one. I don’t have any plans to be on stage indefinitely, really.”
Adele continued her monologue to the sold-out crowd, saying: “They say that if you want things, and you are looking for things in life, you have to pay the universe, and then it pays you back tenfold. I feel like that’s what’s happened with this show for me. My life is a thousand times better. My life, not my career, not my music. I’m talking about my actual life. And I really, truly think that this show has been my best f*cking friend throughout all of that. And I’m so genuinely sad.”
As for what Adele plans to do during her time off from performing, the multiple Grammy Award winner has expressed her desire to expand her family with her fiancée Rich Paul.
Yesterday (November 4), Cardi B used her tense split and pending divorce from fellow musician Offset to joke about the state of today’s romantic field. According to Cardi B, there is a contamination warning in effect for all seeking love.
In a post shared on X (formerly Twitter), Cardi B backed one user’s disgust with the options in play, writing: “I’m telling you…the dating pool got piss in it .”
Based on Cardi’s declaration fans believe this could be a good sign of reconciliation between her and Offset, whom she shares three children (daughter Kulture, son Wave, and a recently born daughter). However, that seems unlikely.
Last month, in a series of now-deleted posts, Cardi B slammed her estranged husband. “Bro, I wish the worst on this man,” she wrote. “I never hated somebody so much and these b*tches be so thirsty to have him please take this man off my hands this garbage bag is too heavy!”
When a users chimed in to claim this passionate outburst indicated that she “still loved him,” Cardi B quickly dispelled that insinuation, writing: “No, I don’t I want him to get his by an f*cking truck. He really is just a dark cloud on anybody life he enters.”
Maybe in the future, the romantic waters will clear up creating a path for both to found a new love.
Out of the mountain of Neil Gaiman TV and film projects recently in process, Anansi Boys seemed like the most troubled earlier pick this year. Yet as many of the prolific comic book writer’s (former and ongoing) readers now know, Anansi Boys is almost the only project with a question mark beside it after several others have been postponed, cut short, or cancelled.
The in-process TV series, which has been in the works for several years and intended for Prime Video/Amazon, is connected to (but not officially a spin off of) Gaiman’s American Gods novel through African trickster god Anansi, whose son, Charlie Nancy, also has a pain-in-the-butt (and previously unknown) brother that suddenly surfaces to wreak havoc in the Anansi Boys novel.
To briefly recap the show’s history, the six-episode series began filming in late 2021 and was in post production two years ago (as reported by Deadline), at which point co-showrunner Douglas Mackinnon abruptly exited. At around the same time, Mackinnon also departed Good Omens, leaving Gaiman as that series’ sole showrunner, a position that he no longer occupies.
Where does that leave Anansi Boys, and is there hope for the series surfacing?
No clue. In other words, it’s complicated.
Prime Video/Amazon has remained quiet on Anansi Boys updates for several months, and although filming has been complete on the project, its troubled status was no secret prior to the allegations dropping against Neil Gaiman. And that requires another back-up to explain a frazzled situation.
The past few months, as well, saw Disney hit the breaks on developing a Graveyard Book movie, and although Netflix’s The Sandman will still release a second season in 2025, the streaming service notably never mentioned Gaiman throughout a customary featurette for which he figured prominently while promoting the first season.
Most recently, Prime Video/Amazon scaled back Good Omens‘ third and final season to a 90-minute episode to bring the Aziraphale and Crowley story story to an end. This followed Gaiman voluntary stepping away from the show.
As for who is now showrunning Anansi Boys — if anybody — nobody is talking. And we definitely do not know if the project will ever surface on TV screens or streaming devices. Earlier this year, however, Dark Horse Comics announced that the story would be tackled as an individual comic series, although there’s no word of how that’s going in light of recent developments.
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