LionsgateOn Wednesday, Lionsgate dropped the snarky, shoot- em-up trailer to Borderlands, the action-comedy movie based on the bestselling video game franchise.For the big-screen bow, Kevin Hart and Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis team up, respectively, as the franchise s mercenary Roland, Lilith the Siren and archeologist Dr. Patricia Tannis.Joining their party are Ariana Greenblatt a veteran of Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, Barbie and Ahsoka as demolitions expert Tiny Tina. Creed II heavy Florian Munteanu plays her mysterious masked protector, Kreig, and Jack Black voices the game s wise-cracking robot companion Claptrap.Set to Electric Light Orchestra s "Do Ya," the trailer shows the hunt for a mysterious vault located on the wasteland Pandora.Blanchett s character calls it "the weirdest, most dangerous dumpster fire of a world in the universe." But for all of its monsters, ravaging bands of marauders and gulleys apparently filled with
AMCAMC has dropped a sneak peek of Parish, its forthcoming six-part crime series starring Emmy-nominated Breaking Bad and Mandalorian star Giancarlo Esposito.The new thriller features Esposito as Gracian "Gray" Parish, the proud owner of a luxury car service in the Big Easy whose son is brutally murdered.His business soon collapses, and Gray returns to his life as a wheelman for crime jobs that set him "on a high-stakes collision course with a violent criminal syndicate," according to the network.The clip offers a glimpse of one of Gray s early meetings with a group of criminals led by Zackary Momoh as a New Orleans-based gangster known as The Horse.Apparently in the crook s eyes, a job has gone wrong. But Gray assures The Horse, as well as his overprotective older sister Shamiso (Bonnie Mbuli) and brother Zenzo (Ivan Mbakop), that he s adequately covered his tracks."Nobody saw me. This won t come back to you," Parish says confidently.And as for the myster
Dana Edelson/NBCU Photo BankIn October 2004, Ashlee Simpson s music career was derailed after she was caught lip-syncing on an episode of Saturday Night Live. Looking back on the incident during a podcast interview, she says she should have stuck to her guns and refused to perform that night.While appearing on Broad Ideas with Rachel Bilson and Olivia Allen, Ashlee reveals that the day of the performance, she woke up unable to speak because of nodules on her vocal cords. She wrote a note to the SNL folks because she couldn t talk explaining the situation and insisting, "I will not go on. I don t care."But, she claims, she was told to perform to prerecorded vocals. She warned SNL, "My band has never practiced this, this is not going to go well. I can’t do this.” But she did it anyway. Sure enough, when she started her second song, the vocal track from "Pieces of Me" started playing by accident, exposing her lip-syncing. Ashlee di
Atlantic RecordsNu King, Jason Derulo s first album since 2015, is out now. The album s 27 tracks include many of the singles Jason s released since 2015, as well as new material. Jason explains why he wanted to put both older and new songs on the record."It was important for me to have all these songs because there s songs like Swalla, Acapulco, Take You Dancing, that don t have a home, and I wanted them to have a home. But also, I have a lot of new material that I wanted people to hear.," Jason tells ABC Audio.He says the new songs are "even more grown-up," adding, "I always try to reinvent myself." The album s title, he says, is inspired by his personal journey."With all the things that I ve done in my life . I never became close to the person that I wanted to become," he explains. "And I feel like in 2023, I went into this cocoon phase . and I worked my a to become the person that I ve always wanted to become. So . 2024 is
Paramount PicturesBob Marley: One Love topped the domestic box office, grabbing $28.6 million between Friday and Sunday, and an estimated $34.1 million through Monday. The biopic, starring Kingsley Ben-Adir as the legendary reggae artist, which opened on Wednesday, Valentine s Day, is expected to bring in $52 million in its first six days of release.One Love pulled in an estimated $29 million internationally, bringing its global tally to over $80 million so far.Sony/Marvel s Madame Web took second place, delivering $15.3 million over the traditional three-day weekend, and an estimated $18 million through Presidents Day. The Dakota Johnson-led film, which also opened on Wednesday, has earned an estimated $26 million in North America over its first six days of release.Overseas, the film took in an estimated $25.7 million, bringing its worldwide total to $52 million.Pulling up in third place was Argylle, snatching up $4.7 million at the domestic box office between Friday and Sunday and a