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The Kingsman prequel — known as simply The King’s Man — isn’t simply one of the many Hollywood blockbusters that have been affected by pandemic. It was actually originally supposed to come out over a year ago. The film — which stars Ralph Fiennes and Gemma Arterton as just some of the original members of the super secret English secret service — has been bouncing around the release calendar for a while now, and though it’s now slated for a late February 2021 release, who knows what will happen? But there’s one person confident that the franchise will live a long happy and productive life: director and co-writer Matthew Vaughn.

As per Deadline, the filmmaker — who’s also helmed Layer Cake, the first Kick-Ass, and X-Men: First Class, on top of the first two Kingsman movies — is allegedly getting super ambitious with his series. According to the CEO of Marv Group, one of its production companies, Vaughn has his sights set on “something like seven more Kingsman films.” Presumably that’s on top of the one that still hasn’t been released.

But there’s more, some of which we already knew. “We want to grow the business and the output,” said Marv Group CEO Zygi Kamasa. “We have a Kingsman TV series in the works and there are two-three other franchises that are being developed alongside the Kingsman world.”

That’s a lot of Kingsman! And mind you the first film came out six years ago, and in that time only one sequel has come out, three years back. But maybe that’s only made viewers more hungry to see more of Taron Egerton’s Eggsy.

(Via Deadline)

Before she became a household name, Lizzo got her start in the Minneapolis music scene, recording her first album in the bedroom of a nondescript home. And now that house is now on the market for a lot of money.

Per a report by Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, the house is now listed for $375,000. It was a staple in the Minneapolis music scene. Along with providing a home for Lizzo’s 2014 debut Lizzobangers, groups like Allan Kingdom, The Committee, and Poliça recorded there as well.

Aaron Mader, who worked with Lizzo in the house’s third-story bedroom studio, remembered the recording process fondly. “I remember tracking vocals with Lizzo on a stool, me on the couch, and Ryan [Olsen of Poliça] hovered over his folding table desk working Pro Tools,” he said.

Mader added, “That time period and that album specifically capture such a crazy and beautiful time in my life. We had zero expectations, zero money. Just making music with friends and so excited to be creating awesome art together. The older I get the more I realize how special those moments and pockets in time are. Such a joy.”

Lizzo recently opened up about how her success has impacted her mental health. “Fame only puts a magnifying glass on the sh*t that you already have,” she said in a recent TikTok. “So, I’m just telling everyone now, anyone who has internal issues or has like any type of self problems that they need to work out, work out now … Because money, fame, or success or even getting older doesn’t really fix that sh*t. Do the inner work, because if you don’t, it’s going to haunt you like a f*cking ghost.”

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

Bill Nye has always been great at explaining science to children. But since the pandemic started he’s faced his greatest challenge: explaining science to people who refuse to wear masks. Over the summer, he unloaded on “skeptics” who throw a hissy fit over having to put a piece of cloth over the mouth so they don’t transmit a highly contagious disease. He even recorded a very popular TikTok video, explaining why masks work. Now he’s at it again — because a large chunk of America still, almost a year in, refuses to listen.

Right now, new cases and deaths are soaring across the country — and we haven’t even felt the post-Thanksgiving travel bump yet. So Nye, a scholar and one of the great bow-tie enthusiasts, went back to the drawing board, recording another TikTok video in which he, again, patiently explains why masks really do slow the spread.

After a little introductory joke about how difficult it is to speak clearly when wearing a mask, he gets to the business at hand: debunking the skeptics. He begins by whipping out a map of the United States, festooned with red marks over the parts of the nation that do generally wear masks — the two coasts, bits of the south, cities and their surrounding areas. He then places a translucent sheet over top of it, this one with black marks designating places where cases are spiking. The areas do not have much overlap. Ergo, where people are wearing masks, there’s less COVID-19. Where they aren’t, there’s more.

That’s simple enough to understand, but Nye tackled one other issue: the belief that the virus can travel through the fibers of a mask. But, he explains, that’s not how viruses travel. They travel, he says, “in driplets of spit and snot,” so they get tangled in the dense fibers of a mask. Nye even takes out a tablet peppered with pegs, then places a ball, representing a smidgeon of the virus, getting trapped. Think of it like the Price is Right game Plinko, only an understanding of this could save lives.

On TikTok, Nye’s latest anti-anti-masker video has been a sensation, amassing millions of likes and hundreds of thousands of shares. Can the youth save our nation by telling their elders to stop being a baby and put a piece of cloth over their mouth like a grown-up? We’ll have plenty of time to find out now that we’ve learned our outgoing president screwed up a deal with Pfizer that will slow down vaccine distribution in America. But at least there’s a good chunk of the nation that’s been listening to Bill Nye the Science Guy from the start.

(Via NowThisNews & BuzzFeed)

The 2020 presidential election, it simply cannot be stated enough, is over. The lawyer in charge of fighting to undo the election Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden is hospitalized with coronavirus, the Trump campaign has lost dozens upon dozens of legal battles, and states are certifying their votes ahead of the official vote of the Electoral College in mid-December.

Despite all that reality happening as time inexorably moves forward, the Republican fantasy that Trump somehow won the election (and a second term) has continued unabated on conservative social media and television and in the mind of Trump himself. And some Republicans are extremely willing to keep that fantasy going, including Texas senator Ted Cruz.

Cruz — who once stood by and said nothing when Trump suggested his father, Rafael, was somehow involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy — proudly volunteered to embarrass himself in front of the Supreme Court with the help of Fox News.

Cruz said he would represent Trump in a potential hearing in front of the Supreme Court over a Pennsylvania court case about mail-in voting. The case was brought by two Republican politicians in Pennsylvania, and Cruz has publicly pushed for the Supreme Court to take the case. Now he says he will present oral arguments if it makes it before the high court.

The Supreme Court was largely framed by Republicans as important to Trump’s attempts to win the 2020 election. He stated multiple times at rallies before and since the November election that he needed courts to come through for him in order to prevail. And it’s entirely uncertain if the case will make it to the highest court in the land: the case is arguing that something that’s been done for years and is extremely safe and legal — voting by mail — should be ruled unconstitutional and therefore millions of legally-cast ballots should be thrown out. So far ,zero of the many similarly-frivolous lawsuits have been given merit, let alone gone to higher courts with a prayer of victory.

But it’s a nice gesture from Cruz, whose entire intent seems to be not to legislate for the benefit of his constitutes but to rile up the libs online. I’m sure this thing, which is very unlikely to happen anyway, will please Trump for at least a fleeting moment before he pulls down on his Twitter timeline to find something else to get mad at.

(Via Ted Cruz on Twitter & Fox News)

In a report full of several “whoa if true” moments, a former Israeli general not only claims that aliens have been in contact with government officials for years, but that Donald Trump knows all about it. The general in question is noted Israeli professor Haim Eshed, who served as the head of the Israel space security program for almost 30 years and is the three-time recipient of the Israel Security Award, so his credentials check out. As for his recent claims about the existence of a “Galactic Federation” that has been working the United States and Israeli government for years, well, that’s open to debate. Via The Jerusalem Post:

The 87-year-old former space security chief gave further descriptions about exactly what sort of agreements have been made between the aliens and the US, which ostensibly have been made because they wish to research and understand “the fabric of the universe.” This cooperation includes a secret underground base on Mars, where there are American and alien representatives.

While the existence of a secret alliance between humans and aliens might sound far-fetched, it’s nothing compared to Eshed’s claim that Trump has knowledge of government officials working with extraterrestrials and was “on the verge” of blurting it out to the world before the Galactic Federation stopped him. Just think about that for a second. Donald Trump is in possession of earth-shattering information, and we’re supposed to believe he didn’t tweet it out and/or use it to overturn the 2020 election? Seems a little out there.

As for why the aliens don’t want to reveal their existence yet, humanity needs to work some things out first. Namely we need to “evolve and reach a stage where we will… understand what space and spaceships are,” Eshed says.

(Via The Jerusalem Post)

There are two games happening in the NFL on Monday, but only one of them will be able to be watched by the entire country. Monday night’s 49ers-Bills game (which is a San Francisco home game being played in Glendale, Arizona) is your standard ESPN Monday Night Football broadcast.

However, Fox has the Washington Football Team against the Pittsburgh Steelers, a game happening right now, but much of the country is not able to watch because it was originally a regional 1 p.m. ET kickoff and, because of the NFL’s deal with DirecTV for NFL Sunday Ticket, it remained a regional telecast even as it moved to a standalone Monday afternoon kickoff.

DirecTV customers can watch the game on channel 712, per CBS, regardless of whether they have Sunday Ticket or not, but for anyone without DirecTV, you best be living in one of those red areas on the above map. If you don’t, well, you’re likely reading this post in frustration because your current option on Fox is the evening news or, as is the case here on the west coast, Judge Judy.

The good news is for anyone that wanted to watch tomorrow’s rescheduled Cowboys-Ravens game, since that was already slated to be a national window broadcast on Thursday night, that will be available to all. Until then, we return to the dark ages of yesteryear in which an NFL game is happening and there is no way for you to watch it (legally) or even have check-ins on RedZone.

The iconic studio where West Coast gangsta rap classics like All Eyez On Me and Dogg Food were recorded now belongs to another Los Angeles hip-hop institution. When Death Row Records more or less folded after the death of Tupac Shakur, Top Dawg Entertainment arguably picked up the torch to become the standard-bearer for LA’s rap scene thanks to the efforts of Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith, Terrence “Punch” Henderson, Kendrick Lamar, and the rest of their merry band — including engineer Derek “MixedByAli” Ali.

Today, Ali — who has mixed major projects for each of TDE’s flagship artists and been Grammy-nominated as a result — announced the acquisition of the original Death Row Records studio, which he’s redubbed NoName Studios. In a new post to his Instagram, he revealed his plans to begin renovations next week, with the goal of reopening the studio for business in the second quarter of 2021 as the headquarters of his online mixing service, EngineEars.

“In the coming months, I will be transforming this iconic hip-hop monument into two of the best sounding mixing rooms in Los Angeles,” Ali wrote. “We’re looking forward to harnessing the energy and history from this studio and continue pumping out nothing but timeless hit records just as they did in the 90s.” In addition to mixing for Top Dawg artists like Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, and SZA, he also mixed Uproxx’s No. 1 Hip-Hop Album Of The Year, Spillage Village’s Spilligion. Check out his post with a video tour of the facilities below.

Jeopardy! fans are sadly counting down the last days of Alex Trebek’s run as the long-running game show’s host after he died of pancreatic cancer in November at age 80. The show’s taping has resumed without Trebek, as Jeopardy! GOAT Ken Jennings is taking the duties for now.

But some eagle-eyed Internet users, or perhaps someone searching for more information about the late Trebek, noticed a nice tribute to the late Jeopardy! answer-keeper. If you search “Alex Trebek” via Google, you get search results for the now-former Jeopardy! host. But the top of the results page suggests you do something that Trebek himself would require if you were on the soundstage.

“Did you mean: who is Alex Trebek” the search engine asks, a nod to the fact that Jeopardy! contestants have to answer in the form of a question. The results quirk was noticed on Monday and shared on social media. And, indeed, a try at searching for Trebek did come up like this on Monday evening in a Chrome browser tab.

It’s a very simple way to pay tribute to Trebek, and it’s oddly touching that some folks working behind a billion-dollar monolith of a mega corporation would take the time to make some trivia nerds very happy.

The music world has been buzzing about Clubhouse lately, a budding invite-only audio chatroom app. So far, the app has been used to converse with celebrities and get exclusive details from industry insiders. Over the weekend, Bow Wow became the latest musician to join the platform. Fans listened closely as he chatted about his music but they were shocked when he accidentally spilled the tea about a surprising celebrity couple.

Bow Wow was detailing his entire career, including highs and lows, with fans in a Clubhouse chatroom Sunday. During his conversation, the rapper let slip that Lil Wayne and Solange briefly dated, a fact that he apparently thought was common knowledge.

Of course, fans knew that Solange and Wayne had collaborated together on their 2016 track “Mad,” but many were shocked to hear about their possible relationship.

Claims about Wayne’s dating history aren’t the only news about his love life lately. In fact, the rapper was rumored to be having some relationship troubles last month. After Wayne went public with his support of Donald Trump ahead of the election, his girlfriend Denise Bidot shared a cryptic message about love “not being enough” before deactivating her Instagram page. This led fans to believe that the two had split because of Wayne’s politics, but Bidot quickly dispelled rumors about the breakup.

Check out fans reacting to the news above.

Cecily Strong wasn’t the only one busting an impression of Rudy Giuliani’s “star witness,” Melissa Carone, on Saturday. Amy Schumer dropped three videos on Instagram parodying the possibly wine-drunk, definitely hilarious Carone who became an instant viral hit following her strange testimony during an election hearing in Michigan. Just like Carone, each of Schumer’s performance gets crazier than the last before she’s straight up knocking back a martini while accusing Republican politicians of changing the “poll book” to help Biden win. (Actual claim made by Carone.)

You can watch Schumer’s impressions below:

Thanks to her collaboration with Giuliani, Carone has been a fixture in headlines, which isn’t exactly going great for her. According to a new report, Carone was apparently charged with “first degree obscenity” after repeatedly sending sex tapes of herself and her husband to his ex-wife back in 2018. For the record, that’s less than two years before Giuliani called her to the big leagues to solve the presidential election. Via HuffPost:

Police records obtained by HuffPost, which were first reported by Deadline Detroit, say that Carone lied to police about sending explicit videos of herself to her fiancé’s ex-wife, but then confessed that she had done so after being confronted with information obtained from search warrants. Carone even confessed that she had told her fiancé “to get a new router and get a new wifi company” to cover her tracks, police said.

Carone’s viral fame is also about to take on a whole new meaning. On Sunday, President Trump announced that Giuliani has tested positive for COVID-19, which means he could’ve been contagious during the Michigan hearing that Carone attended. The same hearing where neither one of them wore masks. That’s not good.

(Via Amy Schumer on Instagram)