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If you’re thinking about diving into The Scholars, the new album from Car Seat Headrest, don’t mess around. Go past the three-minute songs, and the four-minute one and the eight-minute one, and the 10- and 11-minute ones, too. Go straight to the main event, the 18-minute “Planet Desperation.” Will Toledo goes on an epic search for his “gnostic soul,” seeking his way through Bowie-esque music-hall wallow, New Wave kicks, Queen-ly chorale, arena-rock ecstasy, flower-headed folk, heart-spilling piano beauty, Dead-ish space-drum vertigo, and much more, taking so...

Car Seat Headrest’s The Scholars isn’t the band’s first dalliance with a narrative format. Their 2011 album Twin Fantasy, which was re-recorded and re-released in 2018, is a concept album about adolescent self-discovery and sexual awakening. The Scholars similarly centers on young adults, but these characters are less concerned with sex and drugs than the esoteric traditions and mysterious happenings at the fictional Parnassus University. The story is vague as best, introducing enigmatic figures like a med student with supernatural healing powers and an aspiring furry with an overbearing mom, before climaxing with a destructive raid by students from Parnassus’s neighboring rival Clown College.

It’s an especially fraught time for academia, what with centuries of tradition seemingly in peril of being trashed by clowns, and this 70-minute rock opera touches on those institutional anxieties. The track “Equals” alludes to an oft-publicized culture of mob justice wherein one...

Ed Sheeran staged another surprise performance at a Nashville institution on Tuesday, this time bringing along Noah Kahan.

A month after Sheeran serenaded bachelorette parties at Tootsie’s, the singer performed “dueling songs” with Kahan at Nashville’s Santa’s Pub, which was reportedly one of Sheeran’s go-to haunts during his time living in the city over a decade ago.

Sheeran shared a brief clip of the Santa’s Pub performance on social media, with Kahan leading Sheeran and the crowd on a sing-along of his hit “Stick Season...

Ed Sheeran is delving deeper into Persian culture with the video for his new track “Azizam.” Directed by Iranian-American filmmaker Saman Kesh, the video follows Sheeran as he struggles to write a new song in the studio, only to be thrust into the vivacious happenings of a Persian wedding.

The singer-songwriter is bombarded with several kisses on the cheek as he helps prepare food for the ceremony, gets decked out with a killer turquoise bomber jacket, and dances with a throng of Persian wedding guests. Finally, Sheeran crowd surfs right...

Ed Sheeran has shared a new single, “Azizam.” The song is a collaboration with producer Ilya Salmanzadeh, who encouraged Sheeran to make music inspired by his Persian heritage and culture.

“I love learning about music and different cultures the more I travel and connect with people,” Sheeran shared on Instagram. “It was like opening a door to a completely new and exciting world. I loved how a lot of rhythms, scales, melodies and instruments were different but similar to the Irish trad music I had grown up with. It was...

Ed Sheeran has finished working his way though mathematics symbols with his albums Plus, Multiply, Divide, Subtract, and Equals. Now, he’s moving on to the buttons on a walkman. During a recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the musician revealed the title of his forthcoming album, Play, the first in a new string of symbols.

“When I was like 18, I had an idea for like 10 albums,” Sheeran explained. With the first five done, he’s chipping away at Play, followed by Rewind, Fast-Forward, and Stop. “I...

Car Seat Headrest is back. The Will Toledo-led indie rock outfit has officially announced a new album called The Scholars, which is set for release on May 2nd via Matador records. Additionally, the band unveiled a string of new 2025 United States tour dates and a music video for the lead single “Gethsemane.”

The Scholars is the first full-length effort from Car Seat Headrest since 2020’s Making a Door Less Open. A concept record set at the fictional college campus of Parnassus University, the new album follows the protagonist Rosa as she navigates the surreal happenings of Pu. Pre-orders for the album are ongoing.

“After an experience bringing a medically deceased patient back to life, she begins to regain powers suppressed since childhood of healing others by absorbing their pain,” the band explained in a statement. “Each night, instead of dreams, she encounters the raw pain and stories of the...

Exclusive: Aurora Perrineau (Prodigal Son) has been tapped for an undisclosed role in Angels in the Asylum, an upcoming indie drama marking the feature debut of writer-director Rob Sorrenti.

Perrineau joins an ensemble which also includes Katherine Waterston, Simon Pegg, Minnie Driver, Cush Jumbo, Rose Williams and Miriam Margolyes, as previously announced.

Inspired by a BBC Newsnight exposé, the film tells the untold story of 50 women who were forcibly confined in isolation at Surrey’s Long Grove Asylum. Beginning in 1907, these women — deemed typhoid carriers — were imprisoned in the former psychiatric hospital, their lives shaped by fear, stigma, and medical injustice. Pic explores their struggle for freedom and dignity in the face of a system that saw them as threats rather than individuals, shedding light on a dark chapter in medical history.

Heather Greenwood, Marie-Elena Dyche and Charlotte Carey are producing the pic, currently shooting in the UK, with Parkland Pictures handling sales.

One of the best performances of Kristen Stewart's career is coming to Netflix next month. Though her breakout roles came in David Fincher's Panic Room, Zathura: A Space Adventure, and Into the Wild, Stewart has been synonymous with Bella Swan and The Twilight Saga for much of her career, starring in the five franchise films from 2008 to 2012. In those five films, Stewart's performance as Bella was widely panned, which led to her being unfairly labeled as an emotionless actress.

After starring in another big-budget production, 2012's Snow White and the Huntsman, Stewart shifted her focus to indie projects and, just like her Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson, reinvented herself as an actor. During the remainder of the 2010s, Stewart starred in the dramas Camp X-Ray, Still Alice, and Equals, but began garnering critical acclaim for her collaborations with director Olivier Assayas in Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper.

"Are you content?" Well, are you? Vertical has released another new official US trailer for an indie sci-fi romantic thriller called Turn Me On set in an emotionless dystopian future. It premiered at the 2024 San Sebastian Film Festival and already opened in the UK last fall (view that one here). In a lifeless world, one couple will find their spark again in this dystopian romcom. In a world where the inconvenience of human emotion has been eradicated by a government-imposed daily vitamin, one young couple skips their dose and discovers love, joy, sex and all the baggage that comes with it. A young couple (named Joy and William) discover many new feelings, but realize they come with more challenges as well. Starring Bel Powley, Nick Robinson, Justin H. Min, Griffin Newman, Nesta Cooper, Patti Harrison, and D'Arcy Carden. This is the same concept as the sci-fi romance film Equals (2015) with...

"Love is not to be blamed, people are. That's the miracle of life." Ain't that the truth!

Emilia Clarke (“Game of Thrones”), Edgar Ramirez (“Emilia Perez”) and Jack Farthing (“Spencer”) will star in “Next Life” from writer-director Drake Doremus (“Like Crazy”), L.A. and London-based production and management company 42, Mutressa and Fetisoff Illusion have announced.

“Next Life” tells the love story of Ivy (Emilia Clarke), who finds herself confronted with parallel universes in which her life unspools in very different ways set against the modern London jazz scene.

Mutressa’s Elika Portnoy, Gleb Fetisov of Fetisoff Illusion and 42’s Ben Pugh and Kate Buckley are producing alongside Doremus. John Palfery Smith will also produce. Production is currently underway in London and set to wrap in late December. CAA Media Finance is representing worldwide rights.

Clarke is best known for her role as Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO award winning series “Game of Thrones,” for which she received four Emmy nominations and three Critics Choice Award nominations.

“Love Actually” director Richard Curtis and songwriter and musician Ed Sheeran go way back: Sheeran’s first girlfriend even babysat Curtis’ children.

Since then, they’ve collaborated on several projects, including Comic Relief and the Danny Boyle-helmed 2017 film “Yesterday,” in which Sheeran stars and Curtis co-wrote. So when Curtis was conceiving his first animated project “That Christmas,” he showed Sheeran some early storyboards, and the original conversation was that it would be a musical.

“He asked if I wanted to write the music for it, and I said, ‘Cool,’” Sheeran says from his home in London. “There was one scene, and I wrote a chorus for it, but didn’t hear anything back.’”

Two years later, Curtis asked Sheeran to finish the song “Under the Tree” and updated him on the story. “That Christmas” which is now streaming on Netflix, would no longer be an animated musical, but rather...

Prime Video’s November programming will dip its toe into Christmas and other holiday offerings such as The Holiday (2006) starring Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz and Jack Black. The streamer will also add some films with sequels arriving in theaters this month, like Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) and Ridley Scott’s 1992 film Gladiator.

For the full list of Prime Video programming in November 2024, see below.

Related: New On Netflix For November 2024: Movies, TV Shows and More

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Movies:

12 Days of Christmas Eve (2004) 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up (1995) 50 To 1 (2014) A Knight’s Tale (2001) Absolute Deception (2013) Across The Universe (2007) Agent Cody Banks (2003) Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) Airplane! (1980) All Saints (2017) Almost Christmas (2016) Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid (2004) Anger Management (2003) Apache (1954) Bad Company (2002) Battlefield Earth (2000) Battleship (2012) Big Night (1996) Blizzard (2003) Blown Away (1993) Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004) Boomerang (1992) Bucky Larson Born To Be A Star (2011) Carrie...

"We have to tell the others..." Signature Entertainment in the UK has unveiled an official trailer for an indie sci-fi romantic thriller called Turn Me On, set in an emotionless dystopian future. This just premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival and is already set for a UK debut next week on VOD, while still playing at film festivals without any US release date set yet. In a lifeless world, one couple will find their spark again in this dystopian romcom. In a world where the inconvenience of human emotion has been eradicated by a government-imposed daily vitamin, one young couple skips their dose and discovers love, joy, sex and all the baggage that comes with it. A young couple (named Joy and William) discover many new feelings, but realize they come with more challenges as well. Starring Bel Powley, Nick Robinson, Justin H. Min, Griffin Newman, Nesta Cooper, Patti Harrison,...

Actress Kristen Stewart poses for “Who What Wear” magazine, wearing Chanel, Piaget, Saint Laurent and a whole lot more, photographed by Matt Jones:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012)…

…collectively grossing over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed…

…by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020). Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

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The series drops on Netflix on Thursday

Charlie Covell’s comedic drama “Kaos” hits Netflix screens on Thursday, Aug. 29, and it’s giving Greek mythology buffs a new adventure to binge, reimagining the Greek gods in a contemporary setting.

The eight-episode series, directed by Georgi Banks-Davies and Runyararo Mapfumo, will all drop at the same time on the streamer.

Here’s Netflix’s official synopsis: “Zeus has long enjoyed his status as King of The Gods. That is until he wakes up one morning and discovers a wrinkle on his forehead. Neurosis sets in, setting him off on a dangerous, paranoid path. Zeus becomes convinced his fall is coming – and starts to see signs of it everywhere.”

Check out the full cast of the series below.

Jeff Goldblum as Zeus Jeff Goldblum as Zeus in “Kaos” (Netflix)

Jeff Goldblum comes in as the king of gods, Zeus. In the Netflix drama,...

Bleecker Street’s psychological thriller Slingshot has debuted its official trailer this afternoon, giving us a peek at psychological terror and even a nasty bit of body horror in outer space.

Slingshot will release in theaters nationwide August 30, 2024.

Watch the official trailer below.

Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburne star alongside Emily Beecham, Tomer Capone, and David Morrissey (“The Walking Dead”).

The film is directed by Mikael Håfström and written by R. Scott Adams (Donner Pass) and Nathan Parker.

“Slingshot follows an elite trio of astronauts aboard a years-long, possibly compromised mission to Saturn’s moon Titan. As the team gears up for a highly dangerous slingshot maneuver that will either catapult them to Titan or into deep space, it becomes increasingly difficult for one astronaut to maintain his grip on reality.”

The post ‘Slingshot’ – The Director of ‘1408’ Finds Terror in Outer Space This August [Trailer] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!

Fillipino filmmaker Pedring Lopez is set to direct Ji, an action feature set in Korea and parts of Southeast Asia, with a cast that includes Yayan Ruhian of The Raid and Boy Kills World.

The film will be produced by the Philippines’ Black Ops Studios Asia and Singapore’s Very Tay Media, co-produced by Asia Media Alliance. It marks the second collaboration between Black Ops and Very Tay after upcoming martial arts vampire horror Blood Passage, also directed by Lopez.

Ji will centre on the head of a Korean crime syndicate who travels to the Philippines to rescue her kidnapped...

Actress Kristen Stewart, poses for the latest issue of “Porter” magazine, wearing Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Tom Ford and a whole lot more, photographed by Zoey Grossman:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012)…

…that collectively grossed over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020). Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

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Go! Go! Loser Ranger! episode #7 premieres on May 26 at 1:00 Am Pst on Hulu. Go! Go! Loser Ranger! episode 6 finally began the Bailong Exams. The anime avoids the clich of characters risking death to join an organization.

Go! Go! Loser Ranger! is officially at the beginning of its entrance exam arc, and with such a strong beginning, episode #7 is bound to be a great follow-up. As always, theres a lot to be excited about with Go! Go! Loser Ranger!, and that makes the anticipation for episode #7 incredibly high.

What Time Go! Go! Loser Ranger! Episode 7 Releases Based on the manga by Neji Haruba, produced by Yostar Pictures

Go! Go! Loser Ranger! streams exclusively on Hulu, accessed through their website, app, or Disney+. Assuming there are no delays, Go! Go! Loser Ranger! episode #7 should premiere on Sunday, May 26 at 1:00 Am Pacific Standard Time (Pst), 4:00 Am Eastern Standard Time (Est...

Actress Kristen Stewart, poses for the May 2024 issue of “Porter” magazine, photographed by Zoey Grossman:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012)…

…that collectively grossed over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed…

…by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020). Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

Click the images to enlarge...

Actress Kristen Stewart, poses for the March 2024 issue of “Who What Wear” magazine, wearing Chanel, Piaget, Saint Laurent and a whole lot more, photographed by Matt Jones:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012)…

…collectively grossing over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed…

…by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020). Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

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Actress Kristen Stewart, poses for a January 2024 edition of "Variety" magazine, photographed by Emily Soto:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012)…

…collectively grossing over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed…

…by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020)…

… "Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

Click the images to enlarge...

Actress Kristen Stewart, poses for the Chanel 2023 'Ready-to-Wear' collection, photographed by Inez & Vinoodh:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012), collectively grossing over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016)...

..."Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020), "Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

Click the images to enlarge...

Music sensation Ed Sheeran is all set to return to Mumbai, six years after his successful outing with the ‘Divide Tour’ in 2017, and will now bring his record breaking ‘+ – = ÷ x’ tour to the country, on March 16, 2024. The tour will be a part of his Asia and Europe Tour in 2024.

The India leg of this much-awaited sensational and best-selling tour will be the final stop in the Asia Tour and will be held in Mumbai.

The 2024 Asia tour will begin in January from Osaka in Japan, followed by countries like Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and then India.

The special guest for the show will be singer-songwriter Calum Scott.

The upcoming Asia dates of the ‘+ – = ÷ x Tour’ will be Ed Sheeran’s first since 2019, and the European shows follow on from his stint on the continent last year.

Sheeran had announced a 27-date European tour on September 17, 2021. Then on March 15, 2022 he...

Music sensation Ed Sheeran is all set to return to Mumbai, six years after his successful outing with the ‘Divide Tour’ in 2017, and will now bring his record breaking ‘+ – = ÷ x’ tour to the country, on March 16, 2024. The tour will be a part of his Asia and Europe Tour in 2024.

The India leg of this much-awaited sensational and best-selling tour will be the final stop in the Asia Tour and will be held in Mumbai.

The 2024 Asia tour will begin in January from Osaka in Japan, followed by countries like Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and then India.

The special guest for the show will be singer-songwriter Calum Scott.

The upcoming Asia dates of the ‘+ – = ÷ x Tour’ will be Ed Sheeran’s first since 2019, and the European shows follow on from his stint on the continent last year.

Sheeran had announced a 27-date European tour on September 17, 2021. Then on March 15, 2022 he...

Actress Kristen Stewart ("The Twilight Saga") poses for "Chanel" wearing jackets, pleated skirts and tweed designs, photographed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012), which collectively grossed over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012), "Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014), "Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015), "Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019) and "Underwater" (2020).

Upcoming features include “Sacramento”, “Love Lies Bleeding” and “Love Me”.

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Actress Kristen Stewart is 'the face' of the Chanel 2023 Fall/Winter Makeup collection campaign:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012), that has collectively grossed over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012), "Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

..."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015), "Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020), "Spencer (2021) and "Crimes of the Future" (2022).

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Earlier this year, Max announced it would be housing over 200 episodes of AMC Networks’ television at no additional cost to subscribers beginning in September.

That two-month window is coming to an end, so you’ll want to catch up on “Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire” Season 1; “Dark Winds” Season 1; “Gangs of London” Seasons 1 and 2; “Fear the Walking Dead” Seasons 1-7; “Killing Eve” Seasons 1-4; “A Discovery of Witches” Seasons 1-3; and “Ride with Norman Reedus” Seasons 1-5 while you still can.

A number of great horror titles are leaving at the end of October as well, including: “A Cabin in the Woods,” “Beetlejuice,” “Eight Legged Freaks,” “From Hell,” “It” and “It: Chapter 2,” and several more. They’ll be great to put on while you host your Halloween bash.

Here’s everything leaving Max in October 2023.

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Actress Kristen Stewart, is 'the face' of theChanel2023 Fall/Winter Makeup collection campaign:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012), that has collectively grossed over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012), "Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

..."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015), "Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020), "Spencer (2021) and "Crimes of the Future" (2022).

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Actress Kristen Stewart, poses for the Chanel Summer 2023 'Ready-to-Wear' collection, photographed by Inez & Vinoodh:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012), collectively grossing over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016)...

..."Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020), "Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

Click the images to enlarge...

Actress Kristen Stewart, poses for the July 2023 issue of “Elle” (Japan) magazine:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012)…

…collectively grossing over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed…

…by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020)…

… "Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

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Actress Kristen Stewart, poses for the July 2023 issue of “Elle” (Japan) magazine:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012)…

…collectively grossing over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed…

…by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020)…

… "Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

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Ed Sheeran is back this year with “Subtract,” which is said to be the last album from his mathematical album series. It debuted in the top two of the Billboard 200, and features a softer, more acoustic sound from Sheeran, similar to his first album, “Plus.” With “Subtract,” Sheeran will compete in the current Grammy cycle, after a couple of rocky years with the recording academy. However, “Subtract” could be Sheeran’s way back to the Grammy stage.

SEEEd Sheeran ‘Subtract’ reviews: Is new album a return to form for British singer-songwriter?

It seems like the Grammys have been moving away from Sheeran. In 2017 many expected him to clean up in the nominations for his highly successful album “Divide,” featuring the blockbuster hit “Shape of You.” Instead, Sheeran was snubbed in the general field and relegated to pop, where he won his only two nominations: Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Solo Performance for “Shape.

Country singer Morgan Wallen remains an unmovable object on the Billboard 200, holding the number-one spot for the 10th week in a row with his latest album “One Thing at a Time.” The 36-track collection achieved 141,000 equivalent album units based on its combined album sales, individual track sales, and online streams — that’s actually up two-percent from last week. Read all about this week’s chart here at Billboard.com.

Hitting double digits is historic for Wallen, who becomes the first solo male artist to achieve 10 weeks at number-one with back-to-back albums. His previous album, “Dangerous” — which is still at number-five this week, mind you — also spent its first 10 weeks in the top spot. Only four other acts in general have achieve 10 or more weeks with consecutive releases: The Kingston Trio, The Monkees, Whitney Houston, and Adele.

SEEBillboard Hot 100: Every #1 song of 2023

Alas, that means Ed Sheeran‘s new album...

It’s been a tumultuous week for Ed Sheeran, but undoubtedly a good one. He won a copyright lawsuit that alleged he copied his Grammy-winning “Thinking Out Loud” from Marvin Gaye‘s classic “Let’s Get It On”; a loss there would have been ironic since “Thinking Out Loud” is the composition he won the top songwriting Grammy for. Shortly after the trial ended he dropped his coincidentally scheduled new album “Subtract.” What do critics think of his latest collection?

Well, the early assessments are somewhat mixed, but they average out to a strong MetaCritic score of 74 based on seven reviews counted as of this writing. That’s much better than his last album “Equals,” which scored 59 based on 13 reviews, and his album before that “No. 6 Collaborations Project,” which scored 57 off of 14 reviews. By the time you read this that number may have changed for better or worse; he’d...

Toho Tombo Pictures will be led by Georgina Pope.

Toho, Japan’s leading film studio, has launched a subsidiary to provide production services for the growing number of international productions filming in the country.

Toho Tombo Pictures has been established as a joint venture with Tokyo-based producer Georgina Pope, one of Japan’s most experienced and well-known bilingual production experts.

At launch, the company will primarily support global entertainment brands seeking to develop features and TV series throughout Japan, but will also offer services to companies producing commercials, documentaries and music videos. It will combine Toho’s production facilities, including Toho Studios,...

Toho, Japan’s most powerful movie studio, is launching a production services offshoot intended to assist and grow foreign film and TV shoots in the country.

Toho Tombo Pictures is a joint venture with Japan-based producer Georgina Pope, who has worked with the top entertainment companies around the globe for more than 30 years.

The new company will be headed by Shimada Mitsuru, who currently serves as president of Toho Studios, as representative director of Toho Tombo Pictures. Pope, Ueda Koji and Toho Studios executive Sudo Tetsushi will serve as directors. Ueda is Gm of international business of Toho and VP of U.S. subsidiary, Toho International, Inc.

Pope previously ran Twenty First City Inc. as head of production, establishing the company as Tokyo’s leading international production service company. She has supported production of Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult—starring “Equals,” the Japanese episodes of “Girls,” “Queer Eye We Are in Japan,...

Actress Kristen Stewart, poses for the Chanel Spring-Summer 2023 'Ready-to-Wear' collection, photographed by Inez & Vinoodh:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012), collectively grossing over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016), "Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020), "Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

Click the images to enlarge...

Ed Sheeran announced on March 1 that he’d be releasing a new album, “Subtract,” on May 5, and just three weeks after that announcement (and more than a month before its release), the album has already climbed into the top 10 in our Grammy odds for Album of the Year based on the combined predictions of Gold Derby users. Check out or latest odds here, and make or update your own predictions here in our predictions center as the season progresses.

Sheeran is already a four-time Grammy winner, including a Song of the Year victory for his love ballad “Thinking Out Loud.” He also has three past noms for Album of the Year. The first was in 2014 as a featured artist on Taylor Swift‘s “Red”; they lost to “Random Access Memories” by Daft Punk. The second time was in 2015 for an album of his own, “Multiply”; “Morning Phase” by Beck ended up taking the prize.

Actress Kristen Stewart, poses for the Chanel Spring-Summer 2023 'Ready-to-Wear' collection, photographed by Inez & Vinoodh:

Stewart is noted for playing 'Bella Swan' in "The Twilight Saga" film series (2008–2012), collectively grossing over $3.3 billion worldwide.

This was followed by the feature "Snow White and the Huntsman" (2012)...

..."Camp X-Ray" (2014), "Still Alice" (2014)...

...."Sils Maria" (2015) "Equals" (2015)...

...."Personal Shopper" (2016)...

..."Charlie's Angels" (2019), "Underwater" (2020), "Spencer (2021) and a whole lot more...

Click the images to enlarge...

We all love pop music, don’t we? The genre has been bursting with exciting new sounds lately, thanks to the success of established artists like Taylor Swift and The Weeknd, as well as the newer sounds brought to the mainstream by people like Bad Bunny and Doja Cat. Indeed, pop is alive and well in 2022, so let’s see which stars will have enough power to take home one, two, or maybe even three AMAs when the time comes this weekend on November 20 when awards are handed out.

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Favorite Male Pop Artist

Let’s go through the process of elimination. Drake is a perennial loser in this category, likely due to his lack of pop fans (his support tends to come in rap/hip-hop). Bad Bunny would be a very deserving winner, but one has...

Kristen Stewart just completed her 2022 goal: marking her feature directorial debut.

The long-gestating adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir “The Chronology of Water” is co-written by Stewart and Andy Mingo, who has been attached to direct the film since 2018. Imogen Poots will lead the film. Representatives for Poots confirmed the casting to IndieWire.

“Lidia’s memoir honors corporeal experience, radically,” Stewart said in a press statement, as first shared by Deadline. “To make that experience physical feels vital to me and what this impulse means…is that it absolutely must be a film.”

The “Spencer” Oscar nominee continued, “This project has been cooking for five years with the help of Scott Free, whom I could not be more privileged to have as partners and friends. Imogen Poots will carry this movie and the staggering weight of Lidia’s life. She can hold it. I am beyond lucky to have her.

Exclusive: After making her short-film directorial debut with Scott Free, Kristen Stewart is set to reunite with the banner for her feature directorial debut as she is set to direct The Chronology of Water, with Imogen Poots set to star. Stewart also will co-adapt the script with Andy Mingo, which is based on the memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch.

A Reader’s Choice Award winner at the 2012 Oregon Book Awards and finalist for the Pen Center USA Creative Nonfiction Award, the memoir is a lyrical journey through a life saved by art. A young woman finds her voice through the written word and her salvation as a swimmer – ultimately becoming a triumphant teacher, mother and a singular modern writer. A survivor’s story and a sexually abrasive and honest coming of age, the film is a physical memory wash of Yuknavitch’s inner life.

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Often as interesting as who is nominated at the Grammys is who isn’t nominated at the Grammys. Sometimes those snubs are more than just surprising. In the case of The Weeknd, it led to a boycott of the awards. So these outcomes are not only consequential to the artists in question, but the entire awards process. Scroll down to see which high-profile artists, albums, and songs missed the cut in this year’s big four categories.

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For starters, the Recording Academy decided not to give Taylor Swift another round of nominations for “Red (Taylor’s Version).” The original version was nominated for Album of the Year about a decade ago, but her re-recorded and expanded “Taylor’s Version” collection was left out of the Album of the Year lineup. Her 10-minute-long “All Too Well” was also snubbed for Record of the Year, though it wasn...

The 2023 Grammy Award nominations are scheduled to be announced on Tuesday, November 15, at 9:00am Pacific/12:00pm Eastern Time. You can watch the Grammy nominations live on live.Grammy.com and the Recording Academy’s Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok channels. But who will be nominated? Scroll down for our complete predictions in the top four general field categories – Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist – with our projected winners highlighted in gold. These odds are based on the combined forecasts of thousands of music fans who have placed their bets here in our predictions center.

SEEHow to watch 2023 Grammy nominations announcement live

These are the highest-profile awards presented by recording industry peers, and they have undergone many changes in recent years. Last year, for instance, the academy did away with their secretive nomination review committees, which made the final calls in most categories.

These past 12 months have given us great pop albums. Massive comebacks have been at the forefront with new releases from artists like Adele and Harry Styles, and we’ve also seen more pop artists find success with critics as well as on the charts. As such, it’s time to dive into the most popular albums with chances at Grammy nominations (and a win) for Best Pop Vocal Album.

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Some albums are close to locks. Adele’s “30” is an obvious frontrunner due to how much voters love her (she hasn’t lost a Grammy race in years), and how big the album was in its first few months. Likewise, Styles will probably get his second nomination in this category for his record “Harry’s House,” which netted career-best numbers for him. Adele is the more traditional pick, whereas...

Exclusive: Aurora Perrineau (Prodigal Son) has been cast as a lead in Netflix’s upcoming series Kaos from creator-writer Charlie Covell (The End of the F***ing World).

The 10-episode drama is billed as a multi-layered, genre-bending, contemporary reimagining of Greek and Roman mythology, which takes us from Earth to The Underworld and Mount Olympus, exploring themes including gender politics and power. We hear that Perrineau will play Riddy, a character tied to the story of Orpheus. No other casting has been announced.

2022 Netflix Pilot & Series Orders

Kaos was ordered to series back in 2018. Georgi Banks Davies will direct the show from All3 Productions, Brightstar, All3Media and Sister Pictures. All3’s Nina Lederman will exec produce alongside Brightstar’s Tanya Seghatchian and John Woodward, and Sister Pictures’ Jane Featherstone.

Perrineau is best known for her turn as Detective Dani Powell on Fox’s Prodigal Son and also has appeared on series including When They See Us,...

Ed Sheeran is releasing a new “tour edition” of his latest album, =. Pronounced Equals, the Fall 2021 release gets a refresh with the addition of nine tracks. Two songs from the expanded edition — “I Will Remember You” and “Welcome to the World” — are brand new, while two tracks come from the 2019 film, Yesterday, in which the singer also starred. Those tracks, “One Life” and “Penguins,” have never been officially released.

The “tour edition” of the album also includes loosie “Afterglow,” and previously released collaborations, including “The Joker and the Queen” featuring...