Category: 5. Entertainment

  • Drake Tells Adin Ross He Stays Up All Night Recording ‘Iceman’

    Drake Tells Adin Ross He Stays Up All Night Recording ‘Iceman’

    Drake is hard at work finishing his ninth solo album Iceman — even if everyone around him isn’t working at all.

    During a Kick stream with Adin Ross, the Toronto rapper said he planned to burn the midnight oil to work on his upcoming project while there was some sort of party outside of where he was recording.

    “I’ll stay up all night f—ing recording for Iceman,” he told Ross. “They’re having a full-blown party outside. I can hear a thousand people, them having a street festival all day. I’ll f—ing run out there. I’ll turn up with them, do shots, come back — like, I just want a little, you know, I wanna feel it.”

    Elsewhere on the stream, Adin revealed he’s had the privilege of already listening to the highly anticipated project, but Drake wasn’t exactly enamored with the way he delivered the news.

    “I’ve already listened to the whole Iceman album. I already listened to everything, he sent me the whole album early… Great album,” the popular streamer told the chat before Drake responded with, “Now people are gonna say that you’re underwhelmed by it when you f—ing talking about it like that.”

    “It was f—ing amazing,” Adin then answered.

    This wasn’t the first time Drake worked on new music while a party was happening near where he was recording. A few months back, OVO signee Smiley said he noticed his label boss working on new music during parties and while filming the “Nokia” music video.

    “We’re at a party and he was in the other room by himself eating pasta with wired headphones writing music while we have a whole f—ing party going on,” Smiley said in a clip shared on social media. “He’s on a different mode right now. Even at the ‘Nokia’ video shoot…in the breaks, he had a bunch of producers and was just recording. So, he’s in that crazy mode right now. You see his captions…the man’s talkin’ his sh– because he’s in that mode right now.”

    Iceman does not have an official release date yet.

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  • Kylie Kelce reveals surprising stance on daughters’ two-piece swimwear

    Kylie Kelce reveals surprising stance on daughters’ two-piece swimwear

    Kylie Kelce shares unexpected reason her daughters don’t wear two-piece

    Kylie Kelce revealed some relatable reasons why she is not a fan of letting her daughter wear two-piece swimsuits.

    In a recent chat with Today, the mom of four shared that she never dresses her daughters in two-piece swimwear when they go to the beach.

    Sharing the reason, which moms around the world can relate to, Kylie admitted, “I have to be honest, I’m against the bikinis because I don’t want to have to sunscreen that many spots.”

    The former Hockey player went on to say, “I’m a big proponent of the long-sleeve swimsuits, specifically on the beach because even when we have a two-piece with the long-sleeve sun shirt, I still have to like re-sunscreen their belly and back.”

    Another reason Kylie noted was that when kids move around and play in sand, this can make their swimsuit move, so it becomes a “hassle” to reapply sunscreen all over again.

    “You know how much their swimsuits move while they’re digging in the sand and playing in the waves,” Kylie said, noting, “It is a hassle and a half.”

    “I mean, modesty is great for kids, but ultimately I don’t want to have to screen you any more than I already do,” Kylie remarked.

    “It’s torture,” she added jokingly.

    It is pertinent to mention that Kylie shares daughters Finnley, 4 months, Bennett, 2, Wyatt, 5, and Elliotte, 4, with her husband, Jason Kelce.


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  • Alan Tudyk Says He Was Removed From ‘I, Robot’s Press Materials After Testing Higher Than Will Smith In Early Screenings: “I Was Very Upset”

    Alan Tudyk Says He Was Removed From ‘I, Robot’s Press Materials After Testing Higher Than Will Smith In Early Screenings: “I Was Very Upset”

    Alan Tudyk reflected on his career and revealed that there’s a reason why not many people know he played Sonny in the 2004 sci-fi action film I, Robot.

    During an appearance on Toon’d In with Jimmy Cummings, Tudyk said that with test screening audiences, he tested higher than the film’s star Will Smith.

    “They were doing test audiences with the movie and they score the characters and I got word back, ‘Alan, you’re testing higher than Will Smith,’” Tudyk recalled on the podcast from June 15. “And then I was gone. I was gone. There was no publicity and my name was not mentioned.”

    He continued, “I was so shocked, I was like, ‘But wait, nobody’s going to know that I [play the robot].’”

    Tudyk voiced Sonny the robot and was motion-captured for the CGI character, saying that he “put a lot into” his performance, adding, “At the time, I was very upset.”

    Directed by Alex Proyas, I, Robot is set in Chicago 2035 as robots fill public service positions around the world. Will Smith plays Detective Del Spooner as he investigates the death of the U.S. Robotics founder, who believes that Sonny the robot murdered him.

    The film also stars Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood, James Cromwell, Chi McBride, Shia LaBeouf, Fiona Hogan, Terry Chen, Adrian L. Ricard, Jerry Wasserman, Peter Shinkoda, Emily Tennant, and David Haysom.

    I, Robot was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Visual Effects, which it ultimately lost to the Sam Raimi-directed superhero action film, Spider-Man 2.

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  • Ozzy Osbourne leaves lasting impression on longtime pal after death

    Ozzy Osbourne leaves lasting impression on longtime pal after death



    zzy Osbourne’s longtime pal pays tribute to late singer with ‘heartfelt’ gesture

    Ozzy Osbourne’s longtime friend Andrew Watt recently reacted to the rock icon’s tragic death.

    Watt, 34, who collaborated with the Paranoid singer in 2019 on the album Ordinary Man, paid tribute to the departed legend.

    Taking to Instagram, the Grammy-winning American record producer shared a past video of the Prince of Darkness alongside a heartfelt caption.

    He wrote, “Still processing saying goodbye to @ozzyosbourne. …. Someone said “Grief is the price of Love”. I say that to myself everyday but at the end of the day I just miss my friend so much. There is a new hole in my heart, something I will learn to live with…The music is obvious…how lucky I was to share in a little of Ozzy’s magic, but the friendship was the greatest gift of all…I will miss laughing with you forever Boss… Do you want a kick in the balls?”

    This comes after the Crazy Train hitmaker passed away on Tuesday, July 22, at the age of 76.

    Earlier in June, Watt reflected on his connection with Osbourne.

    Speaking to Guitar World, he said, “Ozzy and I have a connection that’s unlike anything else I’ve never experienced. We made some music together that we really love, and we’ll continue making music together forever. More importantly than that, we talk every day and we’re really close friends.”

    For the unversed, the Burning Man singer helped Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne produce a rock album. 

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  • Lily James As Bumble Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd

    Lily James As Bumble Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd

    Deadline was the first to tell you that Lily James would be playing Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, the first to bring you a production photo and now we finally get the trailer.

    The Hulu film Swiped also stars Myha’la, Jackson White, Dan Stevens and Pierson Fode, as Deadline previously announced. It begins streaming September 19.

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    Plot details for the film remain vague, as it’s said to be somewhat loosely inspired by Herd’s life and career journey, rather than a beat-for-beat recounting. Famously launching the online dating platform Bumble after co-founding and departing Tinder, Herd became one of the youngest self-made billionaires at age 31 when Bumble went public in 2021. While she stepped down as CEO last year, the app continues to be popular amongst the single crowd.

    The trailer follows Herd’s rise among the Twitter boys club, her disillusionment and departure, and her effort to “change the rules of online dating” by empowering women to choose on Bumble.

    Watch the trailer above.

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  • Rap Mixtapes Are Showing up on Streaming Platforms Without Permission

    Rap Mixtapes Are Showing up on Streaming Platforms Without Permission

    In the past few weeks, rap fans have celebrated legendary mixtapes from Lil Wayne and Rick Ross being uploaded to streaming platforms, but their time on these services may be cut short. A source close to Wayne told Rolling Stone that his Dedication and Da Drought mixtapes, recently removed from Tidal and Apple Music, were “not legal [or] legitimate uploads,” even though they were on his official artist pages. (Reps for Tidal and Apple Music did not respond to requests for comment.) 

    These uploads reflect potential flaws in the process of adding music to Digital Service Providers (DSPs). Streaming services like Apple Music, Tidal, and Spotify require artists to utilize third-party music distributors such as Distrokid, TuneCore, and RouteNote to upload music to their platforms. However, the scale of music regularly uploaded to self-service distributors means anyone can upload a song or album without official rights, attribute it to any artist they choose, and sometimes have these uploads slip through regulation onto artists’ official pages. 

    Coach Bombay 3000, a Brooklyn music manager for rapper Rome Streetz and several other acts, believes that it’s “pretty easy” for anyone to upload music to digital music distributors and have it appear on an artist’s official page. “There’s been times where there’s so much shit that says Rome Streetz [and] we never uploaded [it],” he says. “We’re like, ‘Who the fuck is this?’ We got to issue strikes to get it taken down.” Bombay says he’s dealt with people trying to upload music to Rome’s streaming pages “three times” in the last month. 

    He explains that when people use one of the digital music distributors, they can type Rome Streetz or Lil Wayne in the “primary artist” category of the upload form, add a link to the URL of the official artist page on the streaming service, and have a chance of the music bypassing quality control functions. He says that once the music is uploaded to streaming providers, his team has to ask the official distributor (an independent distributor or record label) to issue a takedown notice, which can take days. In the case of Wayne, it took almost a week for his mixtapes to be removed from Apple Music and Tidal. 

    Another anonymous source, who works in the streaming world, confirmed the ease of illegitimate uploads, adding “it happens that way all the time,” and they’ve seen a “crazy influx of fraud” in recent months. Sometimes users upload unlicensed music onto artists’ official pages, while other times they use accounts featuring the artist’s misspelled name or a nickname as the “primary artist.” The source also notes that artists sometimes take it upon themselves to add their legitimate collaborators as a “primary artist” without permission. “Some artists don’t like being added as a primary artist without their permission because whatever they’re tagged on as a primary artist shows up as their latest release.” 

    The source says that they’ll occasionally see these pending uploads fast enough to contact the music distributor or streaming platform, but sometimes they’re “not quick enough,” resulting in them going live on the platform. “It would likely come down to a shitty distributor or one with too much volume,” they said, likening the process to whack-a-mole. Bombay bemoans the “free-for-all” atmosphere on streaming platforms. “There’s no filter system,” he says. “There’s no process to make sure that everything that’s being uploaded is quality.”

    While the mixtape scene allowed artists and DJs to release songs to blogs and sites like Datpiff and LiveMixtapes without regulation, streaming services are more stringent with unlicensed music, especially from popular acts. Wayne’s Dedication and Da Drought mixtapes feature him freestyling over beats from other artists who would have to clear them being used — ditto for his collaborators, who would have to approve their appearances for the projects to avoid copyright strikes. 

    In recent years, artists have re-released their early career mixtapes on streaming services. In 2020, Lil Wayne dropped a truncated version of 2011’s No Ceilings, Drake celebrated the 10th anniversary of So Far Gone with a 2019 release on streaming platforms. Nicki Minaj reissued her seminal 2009 mixtape Beam Me Up Scotty in 2021, and Travis Scott commemorated the 10th anniversary of Days Before Rodeo with an official release on streaming last year, while J. Cole went on to re-release a trio of his early mixtapes two months later. In each case, the artists announced the impending releases; the mysterious recent appearance of Wayne’s mixtapes, as well as Rick Ross’ 2011 Rich Forever project, made some fans skeptical. 

    When Ross was asked in May about clearing Rich Forever for streaming services, he said, “I really don’t wanna do it. That was at a certain point, I just wanted to do that for the streets.” There’s an entire wing of canonical mixtape music that’s available on YouTube, as well as platforms like LiveMixtapes and Datpiff, but isn’t officially on streaming platforms. 

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    In 2021, the late Prodigy’s friend and engineer Joe “The Engine Ear” told Complex about the tedious process of getting the rap legend’s music cleared for DSPs. Joe noted that after Prodigy’s 2017 death, his estate removed his music from streaming to ensure that samples were cleared, publishing splits were correct, and all credits were properly attributed. “It’s hard to explain the amount of work that it took to get The Book of Heroine near the finish line,” he said.   

    While fans may sometimes circumvent overloaded or shoddy digital distributors to release unlicensed music, they usually won’t last long before being flagged. Still, Bombay notes, “the digital streaming platforms have no control over what goes out and what comes up.” The anonymous source expressed a slightly different sentiment, saying, “I think folks are trying to eliminate this issue. The problem is with rapid fans and hypebeasts, I feel they’ll always find a way.” 


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  • Brooklyn Beckham, Nicola Peltz reveal vow renewal after 2022 wedding

    Brooklyn Beckham, Nicola Peltz reveal vow renewal after 2022 wedding

    Nicola and Brooklyn Peltz Beckham had a wedding so nice they decided to do it twice.

    The couple, who married in Palm, Beach, Florida, in April 2022, on Aug. 11 shared photos from a vow renewal ceremony. They gushed about the event in their Instagram captions, with Brooklyn, 26, writing, “Forever my girl.”

    Nicola, 30, wrote, “this day meant so much to us” and “in every lifetime.” On her Instagram story, “The Last Airbender” actress also shared a fan account’s side-by-side photos comparing her vow renewal look to model mom Claudia Heffner Peltz wearing the same dress in her own wedding pictures.

    Nicola’s father, businessman and investor Nelson Peltz, officiated the ceremony, with brother Brad − who was the “man of honor” at the Peltz Beckhams’ 2022 wedding − also in attendance.

    Brooklyn told People magazine on Aug. 6 that “it was beautiful.” She added: “To be honest, I could renew my vows every single day with her.” Per the magazine, the ceremony took place on Aug. 2.

    The photographer and hot sauce brand founder, who has a tattoo with his original vows, said, “These ones were actually longer than my original ones.”

    He called three years of marriage with Nicola “a never-ending play date” and opened up about their low-key dynamic. “We don’t like to go out for dinner, really. We don’t like to party or anything like that. When we are together, which is a lot of the time, we just hang out with our four dogs, and drink wine at home,” he said.

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    Though Brooklyn’s parents, David and Victoria Beckham, attended his 2022 wedding, they didn’t appear in the photos shared by the couple. USA TODAY has reached out to the Beckhams for comment.

    Previously, in February 2024, Victoria Beckham showed her support alongside sons Cruz and Brooklyn at the premiere of Nicola’s directorial debut, “Lola,” in Los Angeles. Following the 2022 ceremony, both Victoria and David Beckham shared posts welcoming Nicola to the family.

    In the days before the vow renewal ceremony, the Beckhams shared European vacation photos showing the family – including David, Victoria, Cruz, Harper and Romeo – enjoying time together on a yacht and at a French truffle restaurant.

    How did Nicola and Brooklyn Peltz Beckham meet?

    Speaking for Glamour’s June cover story, the couple opened up about their memorable first impressions when they met while dating other people.

    “The first time I saw Nicola at Coachella [in 2017], I was instantly drawn to her. She was gorgeous, obviously, but it was her warmth and energy that stuck with me. Even though it was a blink-and-you-miss-it moment, I never forgot it,” Brooklyn said.

    Nicola told the magazine: “It was brief, but I felt something. I had a boyfriend, he had a girlfriend – but there was this instant charm. He took a few photos of me, and somehow that moment stayed with me for years.”

    The two revealed their engagement in 2020.

    They also explained the decision to change both of their names, with Nicola saying, “For me, it really mattered. Especially as a woman. If you don’t want to give up your name, combining them is a good solution.”

    As for public scrutiny, which both had experienced growing up in notable families, Brooklyn said, “Ignore the noise. Keep your head down, work hard, be kind. People are always going to talk. What matters is that we’re happy together.”


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  • A24 acquires Ian Tuason horror film The Undertone after Fantasia Fest premiere

    A24 acquires Ian Tuason horror film The Undertone after Fantasia Fest premiere

    A24 has secured worldwide rights to The Undertone, the debut horror feature from genre writer-director Ian Tuason, following its July 27, 2025, world premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival.

    The acquisition came after a competitive bidding war involving six potential buyers, with the deal reportedly closing in the mid-seven-figure range — a remarkable achievement for Tuason’s first feature film.

    The Undertone stars Nina Kiri (The Handmaid’s Tale) as Evy, a paranormal podcast host who returns to her hometown to care for her terminally ill mother. Soon after, she begins receiving disturbing audio recordings from a married couple experiencing mysterious noises in their home. The unsettling events pull her into a chilling spiral of paranoia and dread.

    Fantasia Fest programming director Carolyn Mauricette described the film as “a slow-burn nightmare” reminiscent of SKINAMARINK and I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House.

    Produced by Dan Slater of Slaterverse Pictures and Cody Calahan of Black Fawn Films, the film’s executive producers include Steven Schneider and Roy Lee of Spooky Pictures, Chad Archibald of Black Fawn Films, and Brit MacRae and Daril Fannin of Kino Studios.

    Toronto-based Tuason is known for his award-winning work in the genre space, including live-action virtual reality horror shorts that have amassed over 14 million views online and screened at SXSW, Fantasia, and Cannes.

    The distribution deal was negotiated by Stuart Manashil of Novo, Black Fawn Distro, and 3 Arts Entertainment.

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  • Fan Army Face-Off History Will Be Made in 2025 No Matter Who Wins

    Fan Army Face-Off History Will Be Made in 2025 No Matter Who Wins

    No matter whose fan army is victorious in the 2025 Billboard Fan Army Face-Off, history will be made. If SB19’s fan army, A’TIN, wins, it will be their third victory, tying T-ara’s Queens for the most wins since the nearly annual competition originated in 2014. (The competition wasn’t held in 2019 or 2021).

    If Sabrina Carpenter’s Carpenters, Selena Gomez’s Selenators or Miley Cyrus’s Smilers prevail, it will be the first time that the fan army for an American artist – or for an artist from anywhere other than Southeast Asia – has won. (SB19 is a Filipino group. All the previous winners hailed from South Korea.) It would also be the first time that the fan army for a solo artist has won. All the previous winners were fan armies for groups.

    All four artists have had notable chart success. SB19’s “Dam” reached No. 4 on the Billboard Philippines Hot 100 in March. Carpenter, Gomez and Cyrus have each landed No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 during their careers.

    The number of fan armies in this competition (which was 64 at the outset on July 14) narrowed from eight to four on Monday Aug. 11 at noon ET. Semifinals voting is now live and wraps on Friday, Aug. 15, at noon ET – at which point the number of fan armies still standing will drop from four to two for the finals.

    Here’s a complete list of previous winners of the Billboard Fan Army Face-Off:

    2014: BIGBANG’s VIPs
    2015: T-ara’s Queens
    2016: T-ara’s Queens
    2017: T-ara’s Queens
    2018: Super Junior’s E.L.F
    2019: not held
    2020: Super Junior’s E.L.F
    2021: not held
    2022: Stray Kids’ STAY
    2023: SB19’s A’TIN
    2024: SB19’s A’TIN

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  • Boardroom Plans Print Magazine Launch

    Boardroom Plans Print Magazine Launch

    For decades, print media has been transitioning to digital, with physical magazines, newspapers and newsletters declining in numbers and delivery cadence. But there are exceptions, just witness the New York Post’s forthcoming California edition.

    On a smaller scale, Kevin Durant’s Boardroom plans to launch a new print magazine. Boardroom has only been a digital site, so it is moving in reverse order from the once-typical print to online migration. A trial issue is due out later in August with a cover feature on number one ranked female tennis star Aryna Sabalenka, and the plan is to print four times a year starting in 2026.

    Durant and his business manager, Rich Kleiman, started Boardroom in 2019, following its sister company 35 Ventures (named after the jersey number the NBA star has worn much of his career), which houses their investment and media production arms.

    The content is focused on athletes, musicians, film stars and other entertainers, so it’s not a pure sports site. A recent “cover” story is on R&B singer Giveon, with other links to stories including the FIFA World Cup, Nike FC Barcelona’s Kobe Bryant kits, and on the opening viewership for Happy Gilmore 2.

    Why publish a physical magazine? Expenses are far greater than digital only, the publication has to be printed and delivered, and is typically out of date before it comes off the presses.

    “There’s starting to be more and more of a value put on something in the physical because of how saturated the digital landscape is and just how much time we all spend on it,” said Kleiman, a music industry veteran before he partnered with Durant as his business manager and partner in 35 Ventures. “So it is not meant to become the main revenue generator of our business, that is built around subscription and brand integration … It’s not something that we’re seeing as a big driver in growth from a monetization standpoint, as much as a driver in marketing, and adds a level of kind of cachet and premium to our existing businesses.”

    The magazine, also monikered Boardroom, will first be available later this month at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, and also next month at the sports business conference in Los Angeles the media platform hosts annually with CNBC.

    “We’re calling it a mini mag, and we’re only making a few thousand of them, but starting next year, we’ll be putting out a quarterly, more traditional print magazine,” Kleiman said. The mini mag is set to run 50 pages, with 120 targeted for the quarterly next year.

    There has been a slow drip of new print publications in recent years, testing the conventional wisdom that print is dead. To name a few, trailblazing online magazine Tablet this year put out a print edition; cultural toy brand POPMART launched a youth culture magazine this year called play/Ground; and last year rock online magazine SPIN relaunched its print edition.

    Boardroom occupies a hard to define space. It’s not a sports publication, or a sports business outlet, because it also covers popular culture. It was ahead of the trend of sports sweeping into popular culture, whether it’s the explosion of women’s sports or the ubiquity of the NFL, and the cross over between sports and entertainment.

    In addition to a story on Sabalenka, which is a Q&A that Kleiman conducted himself, the pilot issue has other items, including a piece on Rolex’s sponsorship presence in tennis. Boardroom does not plan to hire a dedicated staff for the magazine, Kleiman said, but largely tap into its existing employees who put out the digital news, including on the main site and in newsletters.

    This back to the future moment of a new print publication Kleiman likens to the uptick in sales of vinyl records. It doesn’t harbor a return to the old way of doing things, he said, but is simply one more platform among many.

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