Month: January 2024

Jennifer Lopez has shared the video for “Can’t Get Enough”, the first single from her upcoming album, This Is Me…Now. “Can’t Get Enough” is a collaboration between Lopez and Rogét Chahayed, HitBoy, and Jeff “Gitty” Gitelman.

The video, directed by Lopez with Dave Meyers, is part of Lopez’s upcoming Amazon Original film ‘This Is Me… Now: A Love Story’ coming to Prime Video on February 16. JLO just released a trailer for the film, sharing it on social media with the caption: ‘I have not been this nervous, excited, scared and thrilled to share something with you in years!! The story of the journey from This Is Me…Then to This Is Me…Now is the most personal thing I’ve ever done. The musical experience continues February 16 when This Is Me…Now the album drops and This Is Me…Now: A Love Story, my new Amazon Original, is streaming on Prime Video. Watch the trailer…NOW.’

Lopez stars alongside Fat Joe, Trevor Noah, Kim Petras, Post Malone, Keke Palmer, Sofia Vergara, Jenifer Lewis, Jay Shetty, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Sadhguru, Derek Hough and her husband, actor Ben Affleck in This is Me Now: A Love Story. The film is described as “a narrative-driven cinematic odyssey, steeped in mythological storytelling and personal healing”. The “genre-bending Amazon original” showcases Lopez’s “journey to love through her own eyes” and gives “an introspective retrospective of Jennifer’s resilient heart.”

Lopez’s new album, ‘This Is Me…Now’ is the sequel to her 2002 album, ‘This Is Me… Then’, and includes a new song called “Dear Ben, Pt. II” (a follow-up to the 2002 song “Dear Ben”, written for her now-husband, Ben Affleck). The album will also drop on Feb. 16.

Take a look at the video for ‘Can’t Get Enough’ – here.
Check out the trailer for the Amazon Original film ‘This Is Me… Now: A Love Story’ – here.

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Riley Keough has announced she will release the memoir of her mother, the late Lisa Marie Presley. Keough, 34, captioned a throwback photo of herself and Presley in an Instagram post: “I’m honored to help put my mother’s book out for her. Her autobiography will be out in October with @randomhouse and you can pre order it now.” Lisa Marie started writing the memoir ahead of her passing, and it’s currently scheduled to be released on Tuesday, October 15; you can pre-order it: here.

Keough’s announcement comes nearly one year after the sudden death of Lisa Marie, the daughter of the late Elvis Presley and his ex-wife, Priscilla Presley. Lisa Marie died on January 12, 2023 at the age of 54, and according to an autopsy report, her death was caused by a small bowel obstruction.

Keough said in a statement per The Associated Press that she decided to release the memoir because “few people had the opportunity to know who my mom really was. I was lucky to have had that opportunity and working on preparing her autobiography for publication has been a privilege, albeit a bittersweet one. I’m so excited to share my mom now, at her most vulnerable and most honest, and in doing so, I do hope that readers come to love my mom as much as I did.”

The book’s official synopsis reads: “Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley was never truly understood … until now. Before her death in 2023, she’d been working on a raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir for years, recording countless hours of breathtakingly vulnerable tape, which has finally been put on the page by her daughter Riley Keough.”  

Lisa Marie is survived by daughter Riley, mom Priscilla, 78, and twin daughters Finley and Harper, 15. Lisa Marie shared Riley and her late son Benjamin Keough (who died by suicide at age 27 in 2020) with ex-husband Danny Keough. She shared Finley and Harper with ex-husband Michael Lockwood. Riley was named the sole trustee of Lisa Marie’s estate in May 2023.

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Variety has confirmed that Selena Gomez will play Linda Ronstadt in an upcoming biopic. Gomez teased the role by posting a picture of Ronstadt’s 2013 memoir “Simple Dreams” on her Instagram story. No other casting has been announced.

Ronstadt and Gomez are both of Mexican descent. The biopic, currently in pre-production, will be produced by Ronstadt’s manager, John Boylan, and James Keach (who produced the 2019 documentary “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice.”) Ronstadt is known across many musical genres, and a legend of country, rock ‘n’ roll and Latin music. Her 1970s albums “Heart Like a Wheel” and “Simple Dreams” achieved critical and commercial success, and she won 11 Grammys throughout her career. Ronstadt was honored by both the Recording Academy and the Latin Recording Academy with Lifetime Achievement Awards.

Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, Ronstadt’s 2019 documentary Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice chronicled the artist’s nearly five-decade career. In 2011, Ronstadt announced her retirement, revealing she was no longer able to sing due to her progressive supranuclear palsy, which was originally mistaken for Parkinson’s.

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Kensington Palace announced that Kate, Princess of Wales, has been hospitalized after undergoingnplanned abdominal surgery. The Palace said in a statement Wednesday that Princess Kate was expected to remain in the hospital for ten to 14 days. While the statement did not specify what the surgery was for, it said that Kate, “hopes the public will understand her desire to maintain as much normality for her children as possible; and her wish that her personal medical information remains private.” The Kensington Palace statement included an apology from Kate for having to postpone her own upcoming engagements.

Shortly after the news of Kate’s hospitalization was revealed by Kate and her husband William, the Prince of Wales, Buckingham Palace released a statement saying that King Charles III (William’s father) would be admitted to a hospital next week for a procedure to treat enlarged prostate. The statement read in part: “In common with thousands of men each year, The King has sought treatment for an enlarged prostate. His Majesty’s condition is benign and he will attend hospital next week for a corrective procedure,” adding that the monarch would postpone his public engagements “for a short period of recuperation.”

Kensington Palace confirmed to multiple news outlets that Kate was not dealing with cancer, and that Prince William would miss some future engagements to be with his wife. They added that the “surgery was successful,” but “based on the current medical advice,” the Princess of Wales is “unlikely to return to public duties until after Easter” but that Kate “looks forward to reinstating as many (engagements) as possible, as soon as possible.”

Princess Kate’s husband, Prince William, is the eldest son of King Charles and next in line to inherit the British throne. The couple share three children, Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, 8, and Prince Louis, 5.

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AMC has shared a first-look trailer for the post-apocalyptic drama The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, a new spinoff of The Walking Dead that takes place after the events of the original show. Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira reprise their roles of Rick Grimes and Michonne, with the show executive produced by Scott M. Gimple (who also serves as showrunner) along with Lincoln, Gurira, Denise Huth and Brian Bockrath.

‘The Ones Who Live’ presents “an epic love story of two characters changed by a changed world. Kept apart by distance. By an unstoppable power. By the ghosts of who they were. Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead… And ultimately, a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they’ve ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive — or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?”

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live premieres Feb. 25 on AMC and AMC+; take a look at the trailer – here.

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