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Last night, the second of two Taylor Hawkins Tribute concerts took place in Los Angeles. It was full of special moments. There were wonderful performances from Miley Cyrus, Alanis Morisette, and more great artists, as well as a hawk flying over the Kia Forum that some fans believed to be the drummer himself.

Another artist on the lengthy roster of performers was Josh Homme. The Queens Of The Stone Age frontman took the stage with the frontman of The Cars, Elliot Easton, as well as the Foo Fighters to cover some songs by The Cars, including “Just What I Needed” and “Shake It Up.” The renditions were vibrant and pleased fans in the audience who were excited to witness the hits live.

The show was nothing short of amazing. It had a 53-song setlist and a wholesome anecdote from Jack Black about Hawkins at Dave Grohl’s 45th birthday show: “I snuck backstage before the show started. I poked my head into Taylor’s dressing room and he was just f*cking practicing as hard as hell. It was a beautiful thing to see, ’cause he was serious, no f*cking around. He really meant it and it was important to him. He didn’t want to do a good show. He wanted to f*cking blow people’s minds. And he did it.”

Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro. Martin Scorsese and Leonardo Di Caprio. Quentin Tarantino and Samuel L. Jackson. Sofia Coppola and Kirsten Dunst. Cinema history is rife with director-actor teams — pairs that inspire the best in each other, who can’t stop teaming up. After over two decades in the industry, Ryan Reynolds seems to have found his director: Shawn Levy, who directed him in two of his most recent movies, namely Free Guy and The Adam Project. But what is Levy’s role in one of Reynolds’ next big films, Deadpool 3?

As per Collider, Levy is taking the reins of the threequel, which has changed directors with each entry. The first was helmed by Tim Miller; the second by John Wick 1’s David Leitch. How will Levy — who started off with family comedies like Big Fat Liar, Cheaper by the Dozen, and the Night at the Museum trilogy, as well as Stranger Things — handle a renegade superhero movie that gleefully leans into the R rating? It will remain to be seen.

Technically, Ryan Reynolds as playing Deadpool well before he made 2016’s Deadpool. The actor’s comic book movie debut came in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, in which he played Wade Wilson, aka Weapon XI, better known to Marvel readers as — that’s right — Deadpool. With Deadpool 3, Reynolds comes full circle, in a way: It reunites him with Wolverine star — and his own fellow fake feudee — Hugh Jackman.

Deadpool 3 is due to his theaters on September 6, 2024.

Aaron Judge hit his 61st home run on Wednesday night in Toronto, tying Roger Maris’ American League record and reaching seventh on the Major League Baseball single season list.

It was a huge moment that came a week after he hit his 60th, as the sports world watched as Judge went 33 plate appearances between home runs as he crept up on the AL record. As has been part of the conversation for major baseball records for years, there was a lot of discussion in recent weeks about what the value of Judge’s 61st home run ball would be and what a fan might be able to get for it if they caught it. There would’ve been plenty of money out there for the ball if they put it up for auction, or a lot of compensation from Judge and the Yankees if the fan were to be willing to negotiate to give the ball to him.

However, that won’t be an issue this time around as three fans reached out for the ball with a glove but missed, as the ball ended up in the bullpen in Toronto.

At first, it looked like it might’ve just missed all of them, but other angles showed that the one fan in the Bo Bichette jersey actually got a glove on it, only for the ball to bounce out and, well, let’s just say the man was absolutely sick afterwards.

That man is absolutely going through it, as he just threw his glove away and spent the next few minutes melting down and getting consoled by fans around him to no avail. He is going to run that moment through his head for…ever? Just waking up in a cold sweat months from now after yet another dream of the ball bouncing off his glove.

After three years of development at Apple+, Taika Waititi‘s Time Bandits series has got a cast and a greenlight. According to Deadline, Lisa Kudrow will lead the cast, playing a character called Penelope. She’ll be joined by Kal-El Tuck (Unseeing Evil) the precocious young history buff pulled into the wild world of time looting.

The cast also includes Charlyne Yi (Knocked Up), Tadhg Murphy (Conversations With Friends), Roger Jean Nsengiyumva (You Don’t Know Me), Rune Temte (Eddie the Eagle), Kiera Thompson (Martyrs Lane) and Rachel House (Hunt For The Wilderpeople). Presumably, these are the bandits, but it’s unclear if they’re being led by Kudro’s Penelope, or if she factors into the story in some totally different way. They’ve altered all the names from the original Terry Gilliam film, so it’s difficult to tell who’s who in the temporal scofflaw clan. Also, none of the cast are listed as “Supreme Being” yet, so they might be saving that little tidbit for later.

Waititi, who is directing the first 2 of 10 episodes, is co-writing the series with Jemaine Clement. This is one of those nostalgia-smothered properties that may be impossible to reboot without grumblings, but it’s difficult to think of better personnel for giving it the best possible shot. At the very least, Waititi should bring a singular comedic (and heartfelt!) vision to the project, which is reassuring in an era where any and all IP is stripped down for parts. It might not end up being the original fans’ cup of tea, but at least it will have flavor.

(via Deadline)

The world learned today that Hugh Jackman was definitively reprising his role as Wolverine for Deadpool 3, but director Shawn Levy has had to keep his mouth sewn shut about it for weeks now. Fortunately, his experience working on a highly spoilable show taught him the zen-ish patience needed for such silence. He tweeted “I want to take minute to thank #StrangerThings for training me to keep my big mouth shut. This news has been burning a hole in my lips for weeks now.”

To be fair, Stranger Things is a fantastic training ground for keeping your mouth shut. It’s a global phenomenon with tons of fun/horrifying reveals that millions of internet sleuths are salivating over. That’s the kind of pressure that can turn a motor mouth filmmaker into a patient secret keeper.

Even cooler, a fan unearthed Levy talking about the potential for Deadpool and Wolverine to get together earlier this year when he was doing press for The Adam Project. He raved about wanting to be the one to get Reynolds and Jackman on screen together (again), and it looks like the mystical fairies beyond The Secret heard and answered him. Sometimes you put something out into the universe, and it comes back to you with a foul-mouthed pansexual playing buddy copy with The Wolverine. It also helps that Levy directed Reynolds in Free Guy and directed Jackman in Real Steel, so he probably already had their phone numbers.

(via MovieWeb)

Eight days ago, Aaron Judge blasted his 60th home run of the season, becoming the first Major League Baseball player to reach that number since 2001 and moving one home run away from tying Roger Maris’ mark for the American League record (which is seventh overall on the MLB single season record book).

Since then, every at-bat from Judge has been a big deal, with networks like ESPN cutting in to other coverage to show his at-bats live waiting for his 61st home run. A week of waiting amid one of Judge’s longest home run droughts of the season finally provided that moment on Wednesday night when Judge broke a 3-3 tie in Toronto with a two-run blast to left center off of Tim Mayza in the seventh inning.

It was a no-doubter off the bat from Judge, who now can avoid the questions of when he’ll hit another home run — while also coming with the benefit of being a very important home run for the Yankees in a tie game late. He now moves into a tie with Maris, 61 years after the Yankee great hit his 61st home run in 1961 — for those who like numerology. Judge has a chance to climb a bit further up the list as well, with Sammy Sosa’s 63 and 64 home run seasons from 1999 and 2001 being in play as he could very realistically move into the top-5 all-time, although Barry Bonds’ 73 figure will almost assuredly remain untouched.

As for the ball itself, those hoping to catch their lottery ticket fell short when three grown men with gloves in the front row all missed the ball as it caromed just below the railing in front of them.

Coolio is dead at 59, according to TMZ. The outlet has reported that manager Jarez said that the rapper, whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey Jr., was found on the bathroom floor of a friend’s house on Wednesday, September 21, after excusing himself. His friend called for him and then eventually checked and called EMTs. Coolio was pronounced dead on the scene with EMTs suspecting that he suffered cardiac arrest.

There’s no further information at this time, but fans are mourning on Twitter and sharing their favorite Coolio songs, including the Kenan & Kel theme song. He was most known for being a rapper, especially for his ’90s albums It Takes a Thief, Gangsta’s Paradise, and My Soul. He was also a record producer and actor.

In our 2016 interview with him, we asked what he wanted to be remembered for when he was gone. He answered, “Hey, the only thing I truly wanna be remembered for: I want people to say that he was a real motherf*cker that was hella cool. I wanna be remembered for just being a cool ass person. And being intelligent. If people don’t remember my music, my cooking, or my film work, it doesn’t matter. I just want people to say, ‘That was a cool motherf*cker and he always tried to educate me. He was always talking about something that was gonna make me a better person.’ I said it once and I will say it again: Don’t do as I do, do as I say. I’ve made hella mistakes in my life, and I’ll probably make some more. Those that I try to teach, they’re not allowed to make the same mistakes that I’ve made — that’s why I’ve made them so you don’t have to.”

There’s a good chance that the ongoing drama between Akbar V and Cardi B will never end. The beef intensified on Wednesday when Akbar V teased a snippet of what sounds like a diss track on Twitter. It’s a new account — as her last one was suspended — and was verified through her Instagram account.

The replies are, of course, mixed and aggressive, whether at Akbar herself or with each other. Some are calling it a flop; others are excited for the tea to get even hotter. You know how it is.

If you’re new here, here’s a recap of how it started: Akbar V is, like Cardi B, a rapper with an origin rooted in the Love & Hip-Hop universe. Hailing from Atlanta, this 33-year-old rapper has had a rough childhood but has been using the exposure from the show to slowly build an audience for her music, partly in order to turn her life around. Over the weekend, Cardi received a ton of attention for featuring on buzzing Memphis rapper GloRilla’s new song “Tomorrow 2.” Akbar V tweeted, “If @chartdata ain’t say it we ain’t believing the CAP,” referring to the song’s hype and the popular account that aggregates album song performance listings from DSPs and Billboard‘s charts.

It only got worse from there: “Count all the times chart data posted u,” Cardi wrote. “I don’t really like the internet games… My dms is open and also the streets!” After lots of Twitter fights, it reached a new level when Cardi shared a video from Akbar’s leaked sex tape. And now here we are.

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Brett Favre is currently embroiled in a massive scandal involving the misallocation of welfare funds by the state of Mississippi, in which Favre received $1.1 million in welfare money for speaking engagements he never went to, and took years to pay that money back — with the state still alleging he owes more than $200,000 in interest.

However, recently it has been discovered in an federal investigation into the matter that Favre’s involvement in the scandal runs deeper than the money he received for speaking engagements, as he played a major role in funneling $5 million in welfare funds in the poorest state in the country to Southern Miss athletics to build a new volleyball facility at the time his daughter was getting set to go to USM to play volleyball. Text messages from Favre indicate that he was well aware of where the funds were coming from — despite his public insistence he didn’t — and every new finding paints the ex-NFL legend in an even worse light.

The latest twist in the story shows that Favre’s insistence on funneling money into USM athletics wasn’t just in pushing welfare money to the school’s athletic department, but also taking money from his own charity, Favre 4 Hope, gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to USM athletics while doling out much smaller amounts to organizations that actually work in the areas the charity claims to provide aid — which is organizations that help disadvantaged children, as well as nonprofits that offer assistance to breast cancer patients — per The Athletic.

In the same years Favre was soliciting money to build the volleyball facility, his charitable foundation, which received public donations, significantly increased its contributions to USM’s athletic fundraising arm. Tax records show that Favre 4 Hope gave the USM Athletic Foundation $60,000 in 2018, when no other charity received more than $10,000. The next year, it gave $46,817; the next highest gift, to the Special Olympics of Mississippi, was $11,000. In 2020, Favre 4 Hope sent USM’s Athletic Foundation $26,175; no other organization received more than $10,000.

For those keeping track at home, that is now state-allocated money for poor Mississippians as well as money raised for disadvantaged children and breast cancer patients that Favre has worked diligently to put into Southern Miss’ athletic program instead.

Disney’s next big live-action (plus CGI) remake of one of their animated classics is The Little Mermaid, and it’s making one big change: Ariel, its aquatic hero, is played by a Black performer. That’s good news for Black kids, who will see themselves represented onscreen in a beloved story. It’s bad news for another group, though: racists. Just as bigots have gotten in a big stink over the diverse cast of The Rings of Power and a single Black performer in Obi-Wan Kenobi, they’re up in arms over a story about a fictional character who’s half-human, half-fish. And one of its producer is joining in the pushback to this particular pushback.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, no stranger to revolutionary diverse casting, spoke to Variety about the latest racist hoopla, and he wasn’t having it. He talked up how great Halle Bailey, who was cast as Ariel all the way back in 2019, was going to be as the creature in love with a human.

“She is going to blow them away,” Miranda promised. “If that’s the thing that makes you mad, then stay mad. But examine your choices.”

After years of non-white actors having to absorb abuse from racist trolls, there’s been a marked shift in how studios and fellow performers react. In the past, the plan was to say nothing except some quiet words of support. Now the likes of Disney and Amazon have returned fire. But not all the to-dos concerning The Little Mermaid have been bleak-o-rama: People are still making jokes about how Halle Bailey’s name sounds an awful lot like that of a certain Oscar-winning actress.

The Little Mermaid hits theaters on May 26, 2023.

(Via Variety)