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The OnlyFans craze among hip-hop artists may have died down a bit since the pandemic caused a boom in stars joining the popular content platform, but there’s apparently one star looking to mine the opportunities it offers. Iggy Azalea, who promised some “scandalous sh*t” earlier this month, is not only planning to start an account now, she says she’s also offering content that will be “hotter than hell” — as in the name of her new “mixed media project” consisting of photos, videos, artist collabs, and merch. She shared a steamy teaser on social media:

This move certainly constitutes an unexpected about-face for the Australian star, who once tweeted, “I think onlyfans can be really empowering for people, But I WILL NEVER, EVVVER join. I don’t want to make that type of content & it only f*cks up the bag for ppl on there who really bout that life. Shoutout to the baddies tho!!!!” She was likely referring to the backlash against Bella Thorne, who received criticism for joining OnlyFans to “research a role,” taking away possible subscribers for existing creators. That tweet has since been deleted, but that doesn’t mean Azalea has to completely go back on her word.

At the height of the OnlyFans craze, plenty of hip-hop stars like Bhad Bhabie, Cardi B, Rubi Rose, and Tyga joined. And although the platform’s established user base had a reputation for using it to post X-rated content, there aren’t any rules that say creators must produce this kind of content, and indeed, many don’t (this annoyed some subscribers to rappers’ content as they believed they’d be getting, shall we say, more than what they paid for).

Meanwhile, Variety reports that OnlyFans is not offering any funding — this is Iggy’s project and she said in a statement she joined because she felt like other platforms had “creatively limiting censorship,” a valid concern after Elon’s disastrous Twitter takeover and the mess that is Meta’s Instagram Reels rollout.

Don’t get it twisted, though, Iggy isn’t doing this because rap didn’t work out. In 2022, she opened for Pitbull for 85 sold-out shows while selling a portion of her publishing for a reported eight figures. She certainly isn’t hurting for money; whatever “Hotter Than Hell” entails, she’s doing it because she wants to, not because she needs to.

Paul Ryan delivered a scathing rebuke of Donald Trump this week as the former House speaker gave the Republican Party a bit too much credit for its current relationship with the one-term president. During an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Ryan offered his blunt assessment of Trump’s political future following his recent string of failures.

“He’s fading fast,” Ryan said. “He’s a proven loser who cost us the House in ’18, he cost us the White House in ’20, he cost us the Senate again and again, and I think we all know that.”

However, Ryan painted a more rosy picture of the GOP who he claims is “moving past” Trump. “I can’t imagine him getting the nomination, frankly.”

While Ryan is correct about Trump being an albatross around the Republican Party’s neck, he offered an unusual take on last week’s chaotic House speaker vote that stretched on for days. Ultimately, Kevin McCarthy won after 15 rounds of voting, but he had to make a lengthy number of concessions and Trump reportedly made several calls behind the scenes on his behalf.

“Most of that wasn’t personal,” Ryan told Tapper. “Most of that was about fiscal responsibility. Most of that was about spending, inflation, and debt. That’s great.”

Did Ryan not see an entire four day circus where Matt Gaetz and a handful of fringe members held Congress hostage for days as fights broke about who or who wasn’t still loyal to Trump? Because that doesn’t look like a party who’s “moving past” the former president.

(Via Aaron Rupar on Twitter)

The White Lotus was one of the best TV shows of 2022. It was also one of the horniest. Nearly every character had sex over the course of seven episodes, even if it made them miserable, but who had the “hottest” sex scene? That important question was posted to season two MVP Meghann Fahy (Daphne) and “ginormous” prosthetic dong-haver Theo James (Cameron) during Thursday’s episode of Watch What Happens Live.

James immediately replied “Jennifer Coolidge” (presumably during the cocaine party, although I also answer most questions with “Jennifer Coolidge”), but when Fahy blurted out “Leo and Tom Hollander,” he changed his answer. “So hot, so glistening,” she said. It’s a weird choice considering… you know… but it makes sense for Fahy: she’s been romantically linked to Leo Woodall, who played trashy-but-charming Essex boy Jack.

Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen asked the actress about the dating rumors. Fahy laughed, sighed, then teased, “I don’t kiss and tell.” Spoken like a true Swiftie.

“The environment was really safe,” actress Beatrice Grannò (Mia) said about filming one of the show’s sex scenes. “Having an intimacy coordinator there was very helpful because it’s a difficult thing to do. We rehearsed it before, and I talked with Sabrina [Impacciatore, who plays Valentina] and we found a way to do it and feel comfortable.”

You can watch more of Fahy and James on Watch What Happens Live below.

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, but instead of leaning into the trappings of the romantic Hallmark holiday, Rihanna circumvents convention with her latest themed Savage X Fenty lingerie collection. Sharing a steamy preview video with a flippant “ph*ck yo flowers” caption, the future Super Bowl Halftime Show performer looks ready to break some hearts.

The Breakin’ Hearts collection does make some concessions to the conventions of the V-Day theme. The included pieces are mostly in red, featuring heart-shaped cutouts and red lip prints. There are even on-theme jockstraps for the guys. You can check out the collection here.

Meanwhile, excitement is building for Rihanna’s return to performing at the upcoming Super Bowl, helped along by a new trailer acknowledging her multi-year absence from the spotlight. She unofficially kicked off her return in 2022 with the release of her song “Lift Me Up” from the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack.

Rihanna even shared a Game Day collection of Savage X Fenty to celebrate her upcoming performance, which has many of her fans thinking she’s also planning to drop an album and announce an accompanying tour. She’s brushed off those rumors though and received support from Golden Globes host Jerrod Carmichael, who told her to take as much time as she needs.

The holidays are officially in the rearview mirror and 2023 is in full swing, which means it’s time for a new year of fresh music. It’s rare for musicians to drop projects so early in January, but Indiecast is looking forward to the year ahead with hosts Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen naming their most anticipated indie albums of 2023.

To kick off this week’s episode, Indiecast discusses the biggest music news of the week. The Coachella lineup dropped, confirming that Frank Ocean will finally take the festival stage (unless he drops out last minute, which isn’t totally off the table). M83 gave us some major 2010’s nostalgia by announcing their return. Plus, and Big Thief announced they’re inviting teachers and students to attend sound checks on their upcoming tour, which is both earnest and probably pretty boring for middle schoolers.

New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 121 here or below and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at [email protected], and make sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.

Following the untimely passing of Lisa Marie Presley, who died Thursday evening of cardiac arrest at the age of 54, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have joined the chorus of celebrity tributes to the late daughter and only child of Elvis Presley. Hanks and Wilson got to know Lisa Marie while doing the promotional tour for Elvis. They describe her as a delightful presence and resource for the biopic on her father’s life. She also championed Austin Butler’s performance as the legendary singer “unprecedented” and “finally done accurately and respectfully” before boldly announcing that she’ll eat her own foot if the actor isn’t nominated for an Oscar.

Hanks, via E! Online, feels “heartbroken” over this loss to the world. Wilson took to Instagram, where she wrote, “Lisa Marie was so honest and direct, vulnerable, in a state of anticipation about the movie.” She added, “She spoke so eloquently about her father, what the movie meant to her, that it was a celebration of her dad.”

Wilson also spoke fondly about meeting Presley’s daughters, her music, and her gracious hospitality:

She had her gorgeous daughters Finley and Harper with her who made us all laugh. She privately showed us her home, Graceland, and she made it feel like home to us. She was so gracious to us, Austin, Baz, and guests. If you haven’t heard her music please go listen. She had a sultry voice, a power and tenderness, that I have always loved.

Wilson concluded her tribute with prayers for Lisa Marie’s family, including her mother Priscilla Presley. You can see the tribute in its entirety below:

(Via Rita Wilson on Instagram)

Last year, a series of accusations began to unfold against Bill Murray. An Aziz Ansari-directed film went on pause due to allegations (as detailed in the Puck newsletter) from a production staffer, which Murray addressed as saying that he meant to do something “funny and it wasn’t taken that way” while the staffer called the actions “entirely sexual.” This followed Lucy Liu’s 2021 accusations against Murray, who she claimed made “inexcusable” remarks during Charlie’s Angels, and in October 2022, Geena Davis came forward with her own accusations against Murray, who she accused (while speaking with UK’s The Times) of on-set temper tantrums and inappropriate actions during a hotel room meeting, including his insistence upon using “the thumper” on her.

Geena has now elaborated further while speaking with Kara Swisher for New York magazine about her 1989 experience on the set of Quick Change. There’s much more detail on that “thumper”/”massage device,” which Geena says that Bill used in a hotel room full of men who didn’t step in to stop him. She “realized it was just to see if he could force me to do something inappropriate.” In addition, Davis describes how she was “literally shaking” when Bill allegedly burst into a trailer to berate her after the costume department caused a slight delay, which enraged him:

Bill Murray — in a full clown costume, by the way — slams into the trailer with with, you know, rage coming out of his eyeballs and starts screaming at me and swearing at me: “Get the f*ck out there! What the f*ck are you doing? Move! Move!” And he got behind me and screamed in my ear, “Move! Move faster! Move it!” And we’re getting to this intersection where there’s hundreds of people watching this, and he keeps it up and keeps it up until he says, “Stand there” and points to a mark on the pavement and starts shooting.

And I was literally shaking, and he elbowed me after a few takes. He said, “What’s up with you? Come on, come on. It’s all good.”

Davis looks back on the matter, reflecting on how she had just won an Oscar (for The Accidental Tourist), and “he got the opportunity to really put me in my place and really shamed me.” Swisher reacted with a “he got you in line,” and Davis admitted that she didn’t come forward with her allegations for decades because “I felt so ashamed,” and she suggested that she feared not being able to “do things” in Hollywood. She didn’t publicly discuss the subject until penning her 2022 memoir, Dying of Politeness.

(Via New York)

The world has been shaken by the tragic death of Lisa Marie Presley who passed away yesterday at 54. The Hollywood Reporter has published a series of statements from friends of the star, including one from Nicolas Cage.

“This is devastating news,” the actor, who was married to Presley from 2002 to 2004, told the publication. “Lisa had the greatest laugh of anyone I ever met. She lit up every room, and I am heartbroken. I find some solace believing she is reunited with her son Benjamin.”

Presley’s son Benjamin Keough died at 27 years old in 2020.

The news of Presley’s death came from a statement from her mother Priscilla: “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us.”

Presley was supportive of the recent film about her father, Elvis. On social media, she championed the movie, “In my humble opinion, his performance is unprecedented and FINALLY done accurately and respectfully. (If he doesn’t get an Oscar for this, I will eat my own foot, haha.)” She added that “you can feel and witness Baz’s pure love, care, and respect for my father throughout this beautiful film, and it is finally something that myself and my children and their children can be proud of forever.”

When I got an email publicizing the release of a new 15th anniversary 4K disc of Cloverfield, my first reaction was, well, this can’t be right. Fifteen years? After doing the math I have some news: the good folks at Paramount did not miscount. It has, somehow, been 15 years.

If you were on the internet at all in 2007 and 2008, Cloverfield was an online sensation. What even was it supposed to be? The trailer premiered before the first Transformers and it didn’t even have a title. Even more strange, as Matt Reeves reflects ahead, there wasn’t even a movie. Reeves and his team just went out and shot a trailer, as opposed to putting together footage from a movie being filmed. After they shot that trailer, then they had to figure out what the movie even was going to be. This all led to wild speculation as to the plot of this still unnamed movie, going as far for there to be speculation that it was a Voltron movie because someone mistook the word “alive” for “lion.”

To celebrate Cloverfield at 15 (seriously, really?) we spoke to Matt Reeves. Reeves, as we know, is knee-deep in the Batman universe right now. The Batman keeps picking up a slew of awards nominations for technical and cinematic achievements, then there’s the series featuring Colin Farrell as Penguin, then of course the next installment of his movie. All while the DC films are going through massive restructuring with, now, James Gunn calling the shots. So there did seem to be an air of whimsy in Reeves’s voice as he talked about Cloverfield, which in retrospect kind of seems like a miracle. And will we see the Cloverfield monster again?

And speaking of James Gunn, I, jokingly, had some advice for Reeves for his next meeting with Gunn, which, apparently, is coming up soon. (Obviously, Reeves doesn’t need any advice.)

I just realized I have interviewed you for every movie you’ve directed since Let Me In.

Is that right?

So now we’re going back to pick up the two I missed. We have to do The Pallbearer next.

Okay! We can do that. [Laughs] When we do the re-release of that, we’ll do the 4K of that one. No.

I actually like The Pallbearer.

I did too. It was a very personal film for me. There’s a crazy story. There are fun stories to be had about that movie one day for people who don’t care about it. Okay, we’ll talk about that down the line.

You’re in the midst of The Batman getting all these award nominations, does it feel like whiplash to all of a sudden talk about Cloverfield?

Well, first of all, it’s head spinning in this sense: It’s been 15 years.

I can’t believe that either. I’m with you on that. I had to double-check that. There’s no way.

Look, making that movie was terrifying, but also really, really fun. And it was one of these things where it felt like, oh my God, this could be an utter disaster. We really didn’t know what we were doing. I entered, there was no script yet. Drew [Goddard] and I met and he had an outline, but then he and I started working on the outline and then we met every day. But I was preparing the movie from our outline, from his outline, that we didn’t have a script for.

So my production designer, I’d have to tell him each day, “Okay, so this is what we’re doing now.” He was like, “Wait, wait, I need to build sets though. We’re shooting in 12 weeks!” It was crazy. And so the experience of doing that … and then the trailer comes out and people are going like, “Wow, what is this?” And I’m thinking, as we’re doing it – because we’re very short into shooting at that point – I’m going, “I don’t know what this movie is yet.” And the whole world was going, “Hey, what’s this movie?” Which was thrilling and terrifying. So it was a very special experience. I look back at it… it’s a weird thing to think that it’s 15 years ago, but also I can feel that it’s 15 years ago that at that time it just felt like this crazy experiment.

Speaking of sets, I just thought of this… I hadn’t lived in New York very long when you were filming this and I couldn’t walk down the street without running into your production. Something called Slusho was everywhere. “Oh, I need to go to this bar.” “No, you cant walk this way, Slusho is filming.”

Is that right? We kept changing the name of our production! There was literally a time I was like, “Well, why don’t we just call it Cheese?” And then literally online, there were all these people going like, “Oh, production’s now moved to this street and it’s called Cheese.” And I was like, “How are they doing this!?” It was crazy! Yeah, again, another part of the crazy thing, that’s what happens when you put out a trailer before Transformers with no title for a movie that you haven’t made yet.

And that’s how people think it’s Voltron. That still is crazy to me.

[Laughs] Well, that, I think, is because I’m actually in the trailer, one of the voices saying, “Oh my God, I saw it. It’s alive. It’s huge.” It sounds like, “a lion.”

See, that’s what you should do next. You should make a Voltron movie and really bring this full circle.

Maybe that’s the next Batman movie.

Yes, Batman versus Voltron. You’ll get two fan bases with that.

There you go.

Was the marketing for this movie fun? Because I could see it being fun, but also I could see you being like, “Can I just tell people what this movie is?”

To be honest with you, it was really fun because you don’t usually have a situation where you go out and you shoot the trailer. That’s what we did. Like I said, that was an experiment to see whether or not we could even make a HandyCam VFX movie because they didn’t know if they could track the handheld camera. And so the whole thing was scripted and we went out and shot it. And a lot of that was, literally, I watched all these YouTube videos and my storyboard artists who I have used on every movie since Josh Shepherd, he found this going away party with these guys who were filming each other. And I was like, “Oh my gosh, there’s some cool stuff.” We literally ripped off some of that in a way, going like, oh, this is the vibe. And so, to be able to go out and make a non-titled movie trailer where the head of the Statue of Liberty comes down, crashes the street and people go, “What just happened?” That was really fun. That was really fun.

Oh, I bet.

And then when they brought in the poster, half the Statue of Liberty without its head off, we were like, this is amazing. Because it was like, oh, these are perfect, they are in dialogue to each other. We’re making a trailer where the head of the Statue of Liberty has been ripped off and pitched down the street and here’s this poster without the head. So the marketing was amazing on that movie. And it was fun to be able to be so much a part of it.

It is surprising we haven’t seen the Cloverfield monster again. We keep hearing about direct sequels. Even as recently as 2021. Is this a possibility that it’s still going to happen because we’ve been hearing about it since this one came out, and would you be involved?

It’s Cloverfield, so I’m not allowed to talk about anything ever.

I see.

That’s the whole point of Cloverfield. But I’ll just say this, anything is always possible and I’m certainly excited about the idea of doing more. We’ve done a bunch now and I love it. It’s really cool. But I can’t really comment on actually what might happen in the future.

So with all the DC stuff going on, and James Gunn taking over, he’s a St. Louis guy…

Yeah.

Here’s my advice. As someone from there myself, anytime you want to get something done, St. Louis people love it when you drop St. Louis references.

Is that right? I’m going to be meeting with James I think later this month just to talk and so give me some…

Alright, so maybe if there’s something you like, but it could be better, say something along the lines of like, “Yeah, that’s pretty good, but it’s no Ted Drewes frozen custard.” There you go.

Okay. Ted Drewes frozen custard. Ted Drewes frozen custard is amazing? Is that what that is?

It is the most famous thing in St. Louis, other than the Cardinals.

Is that like Carvel ice cream in New York?

Oh, it’s better.

[Laughs] Sorry, I probably just offended you. But anyway, yeah, I hear you. I’m sure it’s better.

Anyway, if you want something done, there’s your line.

All right, cool.

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Back in 2013, a Spooge wannabe broke into Bryan Cranston‘s car and stole a briefcase that contained his iPad and scripts from the final season of Breaking Bad. The doofus didn’t get very far (he was overheard bragging about the theft at a “local bar” and was quickly arrested, according to reports at the time), but the worst part for Cranston wasn’t the scripts themselves being stolen — it was the “blowback” he received online.

“I was driving around. I went to the top of the Sandia Mountains in Albuquerque and I was looking around, going for a walk, and I come back and someone broke into my car. And in it was my briefcase with the last two scripts of Breaking Bad,” Cranston said on Thursday’s episode of The Late Late Show. Cranston drove to the police station, which was closed (???) at the time. A sign on the door said, “If it’s an emergency, call 911. If it’s not an emergency, call this number.” He called the second number, and left his name.

The story about the stolen scripts leaked, however, and it was all over the news. “The next day on Good Morning America, ‘Bryan Cranston had his scripts stolen and called 911. We have the tape!’ And then as the social media will have it, I got a lot of blowback. ‘Why would he busy up the 911 signal? Someone may really need that!’” Cranston said.

The scripts never leaked, but just in case, Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan “changed a lot” of the final season. If that’s how we ended up with a pile of dead neo-Nazis, I say the person who stole the scripts is a hero. Where’s his statue?

You can watch The Late Late Show clip above.