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Zac Efron and Russell Crowe to Star in Peter Farrelly’s The Greatest Beer Run Ever
Peter Farrelly is following his Oscar-winning film, Green Book, with The Greatest Beer Run Ever. According to Deadline, Apple Studios is in negotiations to finance the movie, with Zac Efron and Russell Crowe in talks to star. Bill Murray is reportedly being tapped for a supporting role. Farrelly co-wrote the script with Brian Currie and Pete Jones, based on Chick Donohue and J.T. Malloy’s bestselling book, The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty and War. Beer Run tells Donohue’s story of leaving New York in 1967 to bring beer to his childhood buddies in the Army while they were fighting in Vietnam. Donohue went through tremendous lengths to accomplish his goal, as he hitched a ride on a Merchant Marine ship and then carried the beer through the jungle while trying ...
Marvel’s Black Widow Getting Same Day Release on Disney+ and in Theaters
After more than a year’s delay due to the pandemic, Marvel has finally decided to release Black Widow day-and-date on Disney+ and in theaters on July 9th. The movie will be available as a Premier Access stream, which means Disney+ users will have to pay an additional fee to watch. What’s more, Emma Stone’s live-action 101 Dalmatians prequel Cruella will follow the same distribution plan, coming to Premier Access Disney+ and cinemas on May 28th. Meanwhile, Pixar’s Luca will take the release path laid out by the Oscar-nominated Soul, going directly to streaming at no extra cost to subscribers on June 19th. Disney’s decision to make Black Widow and Cruella available as Premier Access movies comes after what a press statement calls “the successful release” of Raya and The Last Dragon...
Demi Lovato’s Story ‘Weighs On You,’ Docuseries Director Michael D. Ratner Reveals
By Rob LeDonne Trigger warning: This interview discusses sexual assault and drug addiction. When Demi Lovato approached director Michael D. Ratner about a docuseries on her life, the singer was clear: The goal was to be as honest as possible. The result is Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil, a warts-and-all four-part look at the tumultuous, complicated personal life of the actress and pop superstar. Going beyond the clickbait headlines and preconceived notions about Lovato’s troubles, Dancing with the Devil paints an honest, human portrait of the heart-wrenching reality of addiction and covers in excruciating detail the death of her father, her near-fatal 2018 overdose, and instances of sexual assault and rape. It’s an unflinching look at family and friendship, love and heartbreak, setbac...
EVANESCENCE’s AMY LEE: How BILLIE EILISH Inspired ‘The Bitter Truth’ Album
EVANESCENCE‘s Amy Lee told Consequence Of Sound that teenage superstar Billie Eilish inspired her during the writing process for the band’s upcoming album, “The Bitter Truth”. She said: “I listen to all kinds of music. If I’m being completely honest, I don’t listen to rock, mostly. It’s not that I don’t like it. Of course I do. I really love the new BRING ME THE HORIZON album a lot. That’s my favorite new rock album in a good while. But my tastes are all over the place. I really do love good pop — like good, dark pop. So, with Billie Eilish, even more than her style, which is very dark, what I really love about her is just her authenticity. She’s just being completely herself. I see a lot of things in her that remind me of m...
BODY COUNT Releases Fan-Created Music Video For ‘The Hate Is Real’
BODY COUNT has never shied away from keeping it raw and real. In that spirit, Ice-T and crew launched a contest for fans to illuminate the musical and lyrical ballistics to their song “The Hate Is Real”, taken from the band’s latest album, “Carnivore”. Fans were asked to create and submit their own videos so the band could pick the best as the visual accompaniment to BODY COUNT‘s bloody, multi-tiered take on personal and systemic hate. Now the choice has been made and you can watch the winning video for “The Hate Is Real”, created by 25-year-old Brooklyn, New York-based filmmaker Seby Martinez below. Ice-T told Metal Hammer about “The Hate Is Real”: “One day, I heard Jim Jones from [American hip-hop group] DIPSET say, ‘...
HATEBREED’s JAMEY JASTA Will Have To ‘Mentally Prepare’ For Going Back On Tour
In a new interview with Full Metal Jackie‘s nationally syndicated radio show, HATEBREED frontman Jamey Jasta was asked how he plans to incorporate various aspects of his coronavirus pandemic routine once it’s safe to go back on the road. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I’m not sure just yet, because I really feel like my life had to change so drastically to acclimate to not being in a different city every day and not waking up on a tour bus that just the thought of getting on a tour bus sort of fills me with all this doubt and all this uncertainty, which is very bizarre. It’s like I’m almost gonna have to restart my life in a fresh new way and retrain my brain, because now I’m so ingrained in this — I don’t wanna call it a...
TWISTED SISTER Guitarist Delves Into Podcasting With ‘The Jay Jay French Connection: Beyond The Music’
In the nearly 50 years since founding heavy metal institution TWISTED SISTER, John “Jay Jay” French has sold over 20 million records, collected 37 gold and platinum albums, headlined many of the world’s largest music festivals in 38 countries, and now is now adding podcasting to his resume with “The Jay Jay French Connection: Beyond The Music”. “What makes my podcast stand out is the close personal relationships that I have with most of my guests,” French says. “This allows them a kind of safety zone where they will tell me stories and experiences that you just won’t hear anywhere else.” On “The Jay Jay French Connection”, French brings an enormous wealth of knowledge that stretches beyond music business. His natural c...
Joni Mitchell and Me
Last night, a friend alerted me to a filmed concert on the Isle of Wight in 1970 where Joni Mitchell performed. She said it was on YouTube. It was one of those post-Woodstock ridiculous assemblies of thousands of people who seem to be walking around, talking, getting high, eating, and every once in a while, listening to the music. Onto the stage walks Joni Mitchell and sadly tries to sing her quiet little song “A Song About the Midway” from her second album, Clouds, to this sea of people in an advanced state of distraction, and suddenly my weeks of working on this piece about her seems overblown and out of proportion. Maybe I am not, in all of this, writing about Joni Mitchell? Maybe I am writing about me and my reactions to things as I change and they change; the times, and me. I don’t th...
Lil BUB: The Earth Years Book and Music Project to Feature Jack Black, El-P, Thurston Moore
Forget Garfield or that YouTube “piano cat,” Lil Bub is “the world’s most cherished cat,” and the late and much-loved feline will be celebrated as such with Lil BUB: The Earth Years, a hand-numbered, limited-edition, 376-page coffee table book and exclusive seven-inch record, Transmissions From Space. Celeb fans including Jack Black, El-P (Run The Jewels), Andrew W.K., Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Kimya Dawson, David Yow (The Jesus Lizard), producer Steve Albini and more contribute exclusive quotes about their fave feline. <!– // Brid Player Singles. var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ “div”: “Brid_10143537”, “obj”: {“id”:”25115″,”width”:”480″,”height”:”270″,”play...
King Soopers Shooting: Domestic Terrorist Kills 10 In Boulder Grocery Store Shooting
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: JASON CONNOLLY / Getty Just 10 days after a law on assault weapons was blocked, a mass shooting took place at Boulder, Colo. supermarket that has left 10 people dead, including responding police officers. Very few details have gone wide to the public as investigators are still scrambling to make sense of this horrific incident. According to reports from The Denver Post and other local outlets, the shooting took place at the King Soopers market at 2:30 PM local time in Boulder’s downtown section. Eyewitness accounts say that the shooter came into the establishment alone began to open fire when Boulder police officer Eric Talley responded and was the first victim to be shot and killed. Eyewitnesses and survivors say that the gunman was largely silent and pa...
Benny The Butcher Talks Houston Shooting With ‘Big Facts Podcast’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Prince Williams / Getty Benny The Butcher made the news last November after an incident in Houston, Texas went completely left and resulted in him being shot in the leg. Although he’s long moved on, the shooting still gets mentioned in every interview and the Buffalo, N.Y. yet again had to explain his side of things in a recent appearance. The Black Soprano Family honcho was a guest of the Big Facts Podcast with DJ Scream, Baby Jade, and Big Bank, detailing some of his recent moves including the release of his joint album The Plugs I Met 2 with producer Harry Fraud. During the chat, the hosts took Benny back to the moment where he ran into some funk while trying to get a pack of t-shirts after doing some heavy shopping in a nearby mall. “I want people to ...
21 Savages Flexes Some New Veneers On His Haters
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Prince Williams / Getty Back in the day if a rapper would come into the game in desperate need of braces or extensive dental work, they would cover up their dental struggle with gold fronts or iced out grills depending on their financial success. But these days rappers like Plies, Lil Yachty and Rick Ross have decided that they’d instead of covering up their grinders they’d simply invest in brand new sets of pearly whites and the trend seems to be catching on. 21 Savage is the latest rapper to drop a grip on some new chompers and judging from his IG post, the man doesn’t seem like he’ll stop smiling anytime soon. Naturally haters gonna hate though. After debuting his spiffy new grill, trolls began to call him out for rocking fake teeth (what do y’all...
