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Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk is taking “write what you know” quite literally.

Remember when you could not go one day, hour, or minute without hearing about Squid Game on Netflix? Feels like a decade ago, but it was only eight months ago. Anyways, Hwang Dong-hyuk has a new project in the works, and it is not season two of Squid Game. It’s better, actually. Although there will be a second season of Squid Game, because shows are not allowed to end these days.

The South Korean filmmaker is developing a series based on the success of Squid Game, which was very successful. It not only permeated the culture for a few weeks in an inescapable way, but it won some awards including SAG Awards (where it made SAG history) and a Golden Globe. The show is estimated to be worth $1 billion.

Deadline reports that the developing series, titled The Best Show on the Planet, is a satirical take on Hwang’s own experience when Squid Game became a worldwide phenomenon. Hwang told Deadline that the project is still in its early stages, so he could not share much about it.

“There are untapped parts of the world that don’t speak English and you only have to think of their market size,” Hwang told Deadline. “These are huge, growing populations. Non-English titles can’t reach the level of English titles yet due to a lack of investment, but if the trend continues then I personally think there will come a point when non-English language content goes beyond English language content.”

After almost five years after being accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old (and harassing over a dozen others), Kevin Spacey has been quietly re-entering Hollywood with new projects, though the ones he has been picking are…bad.

The first trailer for his latest film Peter Five Eight is here, and it’s from a bunch of studios you’ve never heard of, probably because nobody established wants to work with Spacey anymore. We are happy to report that the movie looks like it would be a parody trailer made as a part of a 30 Rock bit, and not a real, actual movie that people paid money to make. But they did.

In Spacey’s first role since being dropped from House Of Cards, the actor plays a “charismatic” serial killer. (Maybe the word charismatic isn’t the best adjective.) To take a step further, the tagline for the movie is: The Guilty Always Pay The Price, and we can probably assume Spacey was unaware of that. Here is the plot:

Sam, (Jet Jandreau) A seemingly poised and glamorous real estate agent in a small mountain community is revealed to be an unhinged and troubled alcoholic with a dark secret, when a charismatic man named Peter (Kevin Spacey) shows up in town one day. As she tries to keep her life from unravelling, an older co-worker named Brenda (Rebecca De Mornay) is targeted by Peter for information at the behest of his powerful and shadowy boss, Mr. Lock. Nothing will ever be the same again in this little town

Check out the trailer above if you need a laugh.

There’s something really scary about turning 30. Society places so much emphasis on reaching your fourth decade of life, giving it more importance than it actually needs. At 30, apparently, you’re supposed to have figured out all the big things, including your career and your love life. It reminds me of the movie “13 Going on 30” when teenage Jenna is sitting in the closet repeating “30 and flirty and thriving” over to herself as some sort of mantra. I don’t know about your experience, but the concept of “30 and flirty and thriving” for me ended up being a total myth. That’s what people are trying to tell a Twitter user who needed reassurance that life “gets better” after 30.

Katherine Morgan, known as blktinabelcher on Twitter, is a writer and bookseller who asked a question of the Twitter hive mind to set her mind at ease.

“I’m 28, so I’m almost there, but can people in their 30s and older please (gently) tell me that it’s going to get better and I don’t need to have figured out my entire life in two years?” she wrote. The tweet took off, with more than 100,000 likes and thousands of replies. While everyone phrased their responses differently, the general consensus was you don’t have to have anything figured out before you turn 30.

Here are some of the best replies:

“I feel like I ain’t even start living until I was 30. You good,” prolific author Jason Reynolds said.

“I’m more than twice your age, and it’s getting better and I’m just now starting to figure it out. You are way ahead of schedule,” said user Dean Gloster.

“The good news is you don’t need to figure your life out in 2 years. The semi-bad news is never fully gets figured out. That’s a myth. You’ll be growing and changing your whole life, and there will be periods of confusion in there. There will also be periods of stability.” — sosomanysarahs

“I’m seventy in less than a month. Every decade was better than the one before. I’m so looking forward to this next one.” — sandralambert

“I’m 34. You definitely do NOT need to have it all figured out. I don’t. And I’m okay with that. And things definitely do get better, there’s no doubt about that. You’ve got this. Your 30s come with a hell of a lot more clarity.” — _gregorryyy

“I turned my corner at 46. It got better not because I was older, but because I finally cut loose/healed all that was holding me back. 30 is arbitrary. You’ll get there.” — author Deesha Philyaw

What is it about turning 30 that scares people so much? Research on the topic turns up millions of articles about the fear and anxiety attached to the 30th birthday. I remember the way my stomach would churn as the calendar got closer to my 30th birthday. I experienced an overwhelming sense of dread because I didn’t feel I had accomplished all the things that TV, films and magazines told me I should have by then.

In an article for Forbes, writer Frances Bridges points out that “thirty may not be ‘that young,’ but it is definitely young enough that if you do not like your job, your partner, the city you live in, etc., you can change your life and still be the success you envisioned.”

That’s the thing! We treat turning 30 like an ending, when should be a beginning. Now that I’m in my mid-30s, I feel like the most settled, current version of myself to date. Are there still major life changes happening? Of course, that’s called being alive. There is something to be said about the emotional shifts of growing older. The more life you live, the more your perspective changes and you become more settled in who you are.

The Boston Celtics had one day off in the lead-up to the 2022 Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat on the heels of their Game 7 win over the Milwaukee Bucks. That, mixed with both Al Horford and Marcus Smart getting ruled out of the game before tip, led to the Celtics running out of gas in the second half against a Heat team firing on all cylinders. As a result, Miami took Game 1, 118-107.

While winning in Miami is always difficult, he good news for Boston is that reinforcements are on their way for Game 2. The team announced on Thursday afternoon that Al Horford, who was out due to the league’s health and safety protocols, got the all clear and will play.

This comes on the heels of the team announcing that Smart’s foot sprain has led to him being upgraded to probable, with head coach Ime Udoka telling the press, “He’s better but still has to test it out pregame. But he’s probable for tonight. When he goes before the game, we’ll know from there, but he looked better in shootaround today and overall we expect him to play.”

While these two players returning is a huge boost for Boston’s chances of evening up the series before the series shifts to Massachusetts, it’s not all good news for the Celtics. Derrick White, who has provided a steady hand off the bench since coming over at the trade deadline, will miss Game 2 for personal reasons.

The soundtrack to Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace was released on May 4, 1999. The movie itself didn’t come out until May 19. Why is this important? Because track 15 on the soundtrack is “Qui-Gon’s Noble End.” It doesn’t take a droid who’s fluent in over six million forms of communication to translate what “noble end” means.

This isn’t the only time that a movie has been spoiled through merchandising, but it’s the most notorious example — although Stranger Things might be a close second.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, “Images have leaked online from an official Monopoly game tie-in pegged to the long-awaited new season of the retro sci-fi hit. The images from the game’s cards — which first started circling last month — spoil major plot points in the new episodes.” THR doesn’t reveal the spoilers, and neither will we, so you’ll have to look elsewhere to see if Pacific Avenue is “Will’s Haircut’s Noble End.”

Co-creators Matt and Ross Duffer reportedly had a “total meltdown” about the blunder. They weren’t consulted about the game, as the Stranger Things brand has gotten so large that even a three-year break isn’t enough time to keep on top of everything.

One source close to the streamer’s tentpole series said that while its producers have a lot of involvement in, and approvals over, the vast majority of the show’s promotions and consumer products, the sheer scale and breadth of the Stranger Things franchising world is so incomparable to any other show at Netflix that the Monopoly game must have accidentally passed go.

Luckily, those who don’t want to be spoiled don’t have to wait much longer: the extra-long Stranger Things season four premieres on May 27.

(Via the Hollywood Reporter)

Milwaukee rapper DC The Don looks more like a basketball player than a rising music star. That’s due to his height — he’s 6’7″ — as well as the fact that he actually did play AAU hoops alongside a few future NBA stars in Lonzo, LiAngelo, and LaMelo Ball. However, he chose rap over ball, combining punk and pop sensibilities to create a unique, chaotic style that has been garnering attention since 2017. His career’s truly taken off in the past few years thanks to a recording contract with Rostrum Records and viral hits like 2020’s “Worst Day.”

Performing his new song “Enemies” from his February album My Own Worst Enemy, DC brings all that chaotic energy to the UPROXX Sessions stage. Don’t let his laconic demeanor fool you; this song is designed to make crowds go crazy at a festival near you.

Watch DC The Don perform “Enemies” for UPROXX Sessions above.

UPROXX Sessions is Uproxx’s performance show featuring the hottest up-and-coming acts you should keep an eye on. Featuring creative direction from LA promotion collective, Ham On Everything, and taking place on our “bathroom” set designed and painted by Julian Gross, UPROXX Sessions is a showcase of some of our favorite performers, who just might soon be yours, too.

We are now just a day away from one of the defining moments of Harry Styles’ career, as his third solo album, Harry’s House, is set to drop in just a matter of hours now. Before that, though, Styles heralded the LP by dropping by Today for a performance this morning. Actually, it was a number of performances, as he took to the stage to deliver renditions of “As It Was,” “Boyfriends,” “Late Night Talking,” “Watermelon Sugar,” “Daylight,” and ”Golden” as rain fell around him.

He also chatted with the show’s hosts between songs, as well as a fan who got to ask a question. They wondered what Harry’s House song was the hardest for Styles to write and he responded, “I would say ‘Boyfriends,’ probably… actually, no… yeah, ‘Boyfriends’ was probably the most… there were a lot of different versions of it, we were trying to work out what the best version for the album was. It was like, different guitars, different vocals arrangements and stuff.”

At another part of the broadcast, some fans in the audience were given some free Styles concert tickets and naturally, they were thrilled and overcome with emotion.

Check out some clips from Styles’ Today appearance above and below.

As the messy defamation trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard continues, more of Depp’s former associates have been coming in to testify, including his ex-agent Tracey Jacobs.

According to Deadline, Jacobs, who had represented Depp from the 1990s to 2016, took the stand in a pre-recorded deposition and told the story of when the disgraced actor randomly demanded millions from his agency. In the recorded testimony, Heard’s attorney asked Jacobs, “So Mr. Depp came in and said, ‘I want you to get $20 million for me?’” Jacobs replied, “Actually it was, ‘I want you to give me 20 million,’ The question was not asked as a loan.”

UTA did not oblige. Jacobs said that UTA told Depp that “we are not in a position to give our clients that kind of money. We are not a bank.” Still, the actor believed he should have gotten the money because of the length of time that the agency had represented him, Jacobs later said. They were later able to get him a loan through a bank.

Depp’s money troubles didn’t stop there. His former business manager later described that the actor’s spending had “grown very large” and he was eventually unable to pay his taxes in 2015. After Depp was dropped by UTA in 2016, Jacobs said that the actor lost out on money and jobs. “His star had dimmed due to it having harder to get him jobs due to the reputation he had acquired due to his lateness and other things,” Jacobs added.

Jacobs then described Depp’s reputation of being ‘difficult’ on sets, which would get her in trouble with studios. “I would get yelled at” by the studio, Jacobs said. “I never said to him, ‘You are a difficult client.’ I never used those words, but was very honest with him. I said, ‘You have got to stop doing this. This is hurting you,’ and it did.”

This is just the latest in the explosive trial between the two celebs after Depp sued Heard for defamation after she published an op-ed in 2018 regarding her experience with abuse. Heard took the stand this week and described her life after the split when Depp’s ‘smear campaign’ caused her to lose out on work.

The college football world got some unexpected offseason drama on Wednesday evening when Nick Saban alleged, among a host of other NIL-related things, that Texas A+M bought every player in its 2022 recruiting class that ranked No. 1 in America. While it’s not hard to see why Saban would be this forthright about how NIL is impacting the sport while talking to a group of folks described by ESPN as “local business leaders,” it was still odd to see Saban call another program out this directly.

Aggies coach Jimbo Fisher called a press conference on Thursday morning to respond and took the gloves off, saying that he never bought anyone and hammering Saban by saying “you can find out anything you wanna find out, what he does and how he does it, and it’s despicable.” It led to a number of folks in the world of college football expressing their shock over things, with no better illustration of how wild this was than the always-chatty Lane Kiffin being rendered speechless.

Speaking and posting are two different things, and while he may not have had much to say, Kiffin did decide to take to Twitter to dish out some thoughts on the whole thing.

You can say many things about Lane Kiffin, one of which is that the man really does love the internet.

2022 has been good for the West Coast OG, Snoop Dogg. The legendary rapper performed alongside Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige, Eminem and Kendrick Lamar at Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California and purchased the Death Row imprint all in February. Now the 50-year-old is preparing for his 20th studio album A Death Row Summer.

The multi-hyphenate took to Instagram on Tuesday (May 17) to make the announcement. Snoop hasn’t shared a specific date, but he does say it is “coming soon.” For now, he left listeners with a new single “Touch Away” featuring October London.

A Death Row Summer will be the label’s second 2022 release. Snoop is excited about Death Row’s direction, stating in a press release, “I am thrilled and appreciative of the opportunity to acquire the iconic and culturally significant Death Row Records brand, which has immense untapped future value. It feels good to have ownership of the label I was part of at the beginning of my career and as one of the founding members.”

One can only imagine what Snoop has in store and whether he will call back to some of his previous collaborators or introduce newer acts.

Check out “Touch Away” featuring October London here.

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