Month: July 2023

The Recording Academy and CBS Network revealed that the 66th Annual Grammy Awards will air live beginning at 5 p.m. PT on Feb. 4, 2024, airing live on CBS and streaming on Paramount+ from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.

Additionally, nominees will be revealed on Nov. 10. Songs and albums released between Oct. 1, 2022 – Sept. 15, 2023, will be eligible for nominations at the 2024 show. The first round of voting will take place Oct. 11-20, while the final round of voting is Dec. 14-Jan. 4, 2024.

The announcement follows recent rule changes and clarifications from the Recording Academy beginning at the 2024 ceremony, including reducing the number of nominees in the four top categories (album, song and record of the year, and best new artist) from 10 to eight. Other recent changes include the addition of three new categories for the 66th Annual Grammy Awards including Best African Music Performance, Best Alternative Jazz Album and Best Pop Dance Recording.

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Apple TV+ shared first-look photos and the premiere date, Sept. 13, for Season 3 of The Morning Show. 

Based on the Brian Stelter book ‘Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV’, The Morning Show follows the cast and crew of the fictional ‘The Morning Show’, a morning news program at UBA network. The new first-look photos feature series stars Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston as their characters, Bradley Jackson and Alex Levy. Karen Pittman and Greta Lee also return as Mia Jordan and Stella Bak. Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Néstor Carbonell, Nicole Beharie and Julianna Margulies also star; and Jon Hamm will be joining the cast this season as Paul Marks, a corporate titan who sets his sights on UBA network.

In April, Apple TV+ already renewed The Morning Show for Season 4.

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The Hollywood Walk of Fame announced that Chadwick Boseman (posthumous), Gal Gadot, Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Chris Pine are among the multi-genre artists among the Hollywood Walk of Fame Class of 2024.

Other celebs receiving the honor include Christina Ricci, Ken Jeong, Eugene Levy, Mario Lopez, Kerry Washington, Jane Krakowski, Angie Martinez, Billie Jean King and Carl Weathers, Jim Nantz, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Michael Schur, and El Gordo y La Flaca co-hosts Raúl De Molina and Lili Estefan.

Inductees in the Recording category include Def Leppard, Sammy Hagar, Gwen Stefani, Toni Braxton, Darius Rucker, Dr. Dre, Glen Ballard, Charles Fox, and Brandy Norwood. Otis Redding will receive a posthumous star in the Live Theatre/Live Performance category.

Hollywood Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Steve Nissen and Chair Select Panel and radio personality Ellen K shared the news online: “The Selection Committee which is made up of fellow Walk of Famers, carefully hand-picks a group of honorees each year that represent various genres of the entertainment world. The Committee did an amazing job choosing these very talented people. We can’t wait to see each honoree’s reaction as they realize that they are becoming a part of Hollywood’s history with the unveiling of their star on the world’s most famous walkway!”

Selected by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce’s Walk of Fame Selection Panel, the upcoming honorees were chosen from hundreds of nominees. The star ceremonies will be announced at a later date; recipients have two years to schedule star ceremonies from the date of selection before they expire.

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Ricky Martin and his husband, Jwan Yosef, are divorcing after six years of marriage. The couple shared the news in a joint Instagram post on July 6: “For some time, we have considered transforming our relationship, and it is after careful consideration that we have decided to end our marriage with love, respect, and dignity for our children preserving and honoring what we have experienced as a couple all of these wonderful years. Our greatest desire now is to continue having a healthy family dynamic and a relationship centered on our genuine friendship as we continue the joint upbringing of our children. As always, we thank you for all the love and support we received throughout our marriage. We are united in nurturing this new chapter of our lives.” Martin also posted the statement in Spanish on his social media platforms.

Martin, 51, and Yosef, 38, first shared the news with People in a joint statement. Martin and Yosef share two kids: daughter Lucia, 5, and son Renn, 4. Martin also has 15-year-old twins Matteo and Valentino, and People noted he’ll “continue to raise [them] as a single parent.” The couple first met via Instagram in 2015 before making their relationship official at a 2016 gala for amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. They connected IRL for the first time six months later in London, and were engaged in 2016. Marti and Yosef were married in 2018, and welcomed their children together soon after.

Born in Syria and raised in Sweden, Yosef is an accomplished painter and artist who just opened a new studio in Los Angeles. Martin was recently cast in the upcoming Apple TV+ series “Palm Royale”, featuring Kristen Wiig, Laura Dern, Carol Burnett and Allison Janney. In October, the singer is set to kick off The Trilogy Tour across North America with co-headliners Pitbull and Enrique Iglesias.

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In the Five Nights at Freddy’s film trailer, fans will take a look into Freddy Fazbear and friends’ world — and can expect all the fright and fears they’ve come to expect from the video game. Starring Josh Hutcherson (Hunger Games), Matthew Lillard (Scream), Mary Stuart Masterson (Some Kind of Wonderful), and Elizabeth Lail (You), the Emma Tammi-directed film is based on 2014’s multi-platform video game of the same name.

The trailer sees Hutcherson as Mike Schmidt, and Piper Rubio as his little sister, Abby Schmidt. In order to support them, Mike calls a man named William Afton (Lillard), to inquire about a security job at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. After arriving, Mike quickly learns that the job entails more than just guarding over the formerly non-working animatronics — the characters begin to come alive, murdering anyone in the building after midnight.

Five Nights at Freddy’s is set for release on October 27; take a look at the trailer – here.

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Lionsgate Studio is sharing the trailer for the new action thriller Retribution, starring Liam Neeson. The film, written by Christopher Salmanpour and directed by Nimród Antal, is a remake of the 2015 Spanish film El Desconocido, and also stars Noma Dumezweni, Matthew Modine, Lilly Aspell, Jack Champion, and Embeth Davidtz.

The film follows Matt Turner (Neeson), a father of two who receives instructions from a mysterious caller who has rigged his car with bombs. The trailer shows Matt attempt to track down the caller – after he himself is accused of being the bomber. According to an official film synopsis, “When a mysterious caller puts a bomb under his car seat, Matt Turner begins a high-speed chase across the city to complete a specific series of tasks. With his kids trapped in the back seat and a bomb that will explode if they get out of the car, a normal commute becomes a twisted game of life or death as Matt follows the stranger’s increasingly dangerous instructions in a race against time to save his family.”

Retribution opens in theaters August 25; take a look at the trailer – here.

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