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Silence of the Lambs TV Series Clarice Is Not Allowed to Mention Hannibal
CBS is getting ready to premiere Clarice, the upcoming sequel TV series to The Silence of the Lambs. But in a bizarre legal twist, the show’s script will be forced to omit any mention of Hannibal Lecter or past plot lines involving the character. As Entertainment Weekly reports, the rights to author Thomas Harris’ characters are divided between MGM and the Dino De Laurentiis Company. MGM holds the rights to all the characters from the 1991 film, including Clarice Starling, Ardelia Mapp, Paul Krendler, Buffalo Bill, and more. Meanwhile, Dino De Laurentiis Company owns the rights to all other Hannibal characters, including NBC’s cannibal doctor himself. So Clarice can’t mention Lecter the same way that Bryan Fuller’s show Hannibal couldn’t acknowledge Starling. All of thi...
R.I.P. David Giler, Writer-Producer of Alien Franchise Dead at 77
David Giler, a writer and producer best known for his work on the Alien film franchise, has died at the age of 77. He passed away in his Bangkok home on December 19th. A cause of death hasn’t been revealed at this time. His longtime friend and fellow Alien producer Walter Hill announced the news in a statement. “If you knew David, you knew he was special,” he said. “The magic of his personality is hard to describe: funny, angry, extremely knowledgeable, extremely well read; it was my privilege to write and produce with him, and more importantly, to have his close and deep friendship for nearly 50 years.” Giler’s first breakout moment in Hollywood arrived in 1962 when he wrote the teleplay for an episode of ABC’s The Gallant Men. Throughout that decade, he spent his time penning scripts for...
Steel Panther Just Performed Three Concerts at Packed Venues in Florida: Watch
Steel Panther in St. Petersburg, Florida, via YouTube Despite a nationwide surge in COVID-19 cases over the past several weeks, Steel Panther performed three headlining concerts to packed crowds in Florida over the past few days. According to video footage and photographs, most of the audience members were not wearing masks or practicing social distancing. The hair-metal parody act was joined on the bill by Southern rockers Black Stone Cherry in Orlando on Thursday (December 17th); St. Petersburg on Friday (December 18th); and Fort Myers on Saturday (December 19th). As MetalSucks reports, the shows were packed with maskless people, and looked very much like pre-pandemic concerts. While the venues posted messages stating that they would require temperature checks, masks (when people were no...
Serial Swindler Sean Kingston Charged With Grand Theft, Flaunts Expensive Jewelry On Instagram In Response
Source: Judy Eddy/WENN.com / WENN Sean Kingston is in deep trouble, once again, for not paying his jewelry tab. Now the songwriter is in legal trouble that could potentially land him in jail. Bossip reports an arrest warrant was issued after he was officially charged with grand theft on Friday (Dec. 18). Court documents reveal that jewelry was delivered to Kingston’s home, but he never bothered to pay the goods when the bill arrived. Cops aren’t actively looking for the “Suicidal” singer, but if he gets pulled over he could end up in behind a cop car. Bail has been set at $45,000 and, if convicted, he could face three years behind bars. In response to the charges, Kingston posted videos on his Instagram Stories showing off an iced-out watch, ...
E-40 & Too $hort Put The World On Town Bidness In Their Verzuz Battle
Source: Verzuz / Getty Saturday was all about Town Bidness on Saturday night as Verzuz took its breakout streaming platform west to showcase two of the Bay Area’s legendary titans for the final battle of 2020. Too $hort and E-40 took to the Verzuz Ciroc-branded virtual stage that showcased low riders, liquor bottles, and Oakland and Vallejo street signs to big up their oft-times overlooked soil and respective legacies in front of the millions tuned in. Billed as Legends of the Bay, Uncle Earl & $hort Dogg spent more than three hours going back and forth going way past the customary 20 rounds to run through their litany of Bay Area classics. Too Short laced us with old school staples such as ‘Freaky Tales’, Gangsters & Strippers and ‘I’m A Player’ and more contemporary hits like “Sh...
Wack 100 Gets Into Bloody Fight With Two White Men After They Allegedly Call Him A Racial Slur
Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty A burger run quickly turned into a volatile situation for Wack 100. The music executive came to blows with a pair of guys who were supposedly talking spicy to him. racially. As seen on TMZ Blueface’s manager got into a show down during a recent visit to Primo Burgers in Lancaster, California. According to the celebrity gossip site two unidentified men were burning rubber behind him in the drive through. Naturally that caused Wack to address them for the fear that their vehicle would spin out of control and crash into his. Allegedly they responded by saying “Mind your f***ing business n***er.” This quickly turned into a tense back and forth that led to a fist fight. In a video captured from the scene the very vocal online personality is seen squaring up wit...
Method Man Talks Wu-Tang, ‘Power’ & The MCU With Jemele Hill
Source: Getty Images / Getty Aside from spawning countless classic albums, creating music icons, and making the culture a multi-billion dollar business, Hip-Hop’s golden era of the 90’s also produced a gang of rappers turned entrepreneurs who to this day continue to make bank. One of those Hip-Hop knuckleheads turned professional entertainer is Wu-Tang’s own Method Man who went from ripping mics to, well, everything else. From becoming a respectable actor to having his own podcast on comic books, Johnny Blaze has branched out to other fields of entertainment outside of rap music over the years and has made quite a career for himself outside of the booth. In the latest podcast episode of Spotify’s Jemele Hill Is Unbothered, the Ticalian Stallion opens up about his life’s work from the 90’s ...
Shambhala Music Festival Announces 2021 Dates
A glimpse of hope for music festival fans surfaced over the weekend when the famed Canadian dance music fest, Shambhala Music Festival, announced plans to return to the Salmo River Ranch in 2021. Originally, the festival was set to run in late July 2020, but to err on the side of caution, Shambhala will now take place from August 20th to 23rd, 2021. Although it is a ways away, the new announcement gives festival-goers something to look forward to. In the meantime, it is important to remain positive and stay informed about the country’s health and safety protocols. Tickets purchased for the 2020 iteration of Shambhala are redeemable for the next three years. In order to confirm redemption, ticket-holders have been asked to determine their desired year of attendance and the ...
Destructo Announces Special New Year’s Day Sunrise Sermon DJ Set
Let’s be honest—there’s a chance that 2020’s hideousness will spill over into 2021. It’s a thought that we’re all trying to avoid in the name of optimism, but it very well may happen thanks to nationwide lockdowns that become more stringent by the hour. Before 2021 goes off the rails, though, Destructo is kicking off the year on a rosy note. The FriendShip founder, who has emerged as one of the most prolific streaming DJs in the COVID-19 age, has announced a special Sunrise Sermon set on New Year’s Day. 2020 saw Destructo take his patented performances to the virtual concert space, where he livestreamed marathon sets for fans who had nowhere to dance but their kitchens and bedrooms. As digital concerts continue to boom in the absence of ph...
The Complete Edition of Daft Punk’s “TRON: Legacy” Soundtrack is Now on Apple Music and Spotify
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of TRON: Legacy, nine elusive tracks from Daft Punk‘s Grammy-nominated score have been added to a number of streaming services, including Apple Music and Spotify. The new releases add on to the original and make up “The Complete Edition” of the soundtrack. It’s worth noting that the newly added songs are not new in the sense that they were unreleased, but rather they weren’t widely available without some searching. Back in September, a special edition of the soundtrack was released on vinyl, which included some of the complied songs, while it’s been reported that the others were previously exclusive to Apple platforms. Unsurprising to those familiar with the legendary duo, they has not commented on the re...
Vote for Your Favorite Essential Dance Music Video at the Clubbing TV Awards, Presented by EDM.com
In early 2021, Clubbing TV will be broadcasting their third annual awards ceremony celebrating the best videos in dance music. For those unfamiliar with the channel, Clubbing TV is an international television station focused on the electronic music world. With live performances, music videos, industry discussions, and more, they now reach over 100,000,000 viewers across 50+ countries. At the awards ceremony, 57 nominees both big and small are up for a total of 11 awards covering categories like Best Documentary, Best New Talent Video, Best Complextro Video, the newly-added hardcore/hardstyle award dubbed CORE, and more. The team here at EDM.com is excited to announce that we will be presenting the Clubbing TV award for Best Essentials Video at the ceremony. This category serves t...
MARK ZONDER Praises BOBBY JARZOMBEK, Says MIKE PORTNOY ‘Butchered’ FATES WARNING Songs
**UPDATE** A couple of hours after this article was published, Mike Portnoy took to his Twitter to address Mark Zonder‘s comments. He wrote: “Well I had a busy week: Started that week recording BIGELF‘s album, then flew to TX for a gig w [ADRENALINE MOB], back to LA for Metal Masters 3 and then flew down to Brazil to end the week w @fateswarning Sorry Mark Zonder if I didn’t have time to learn all of your drum parts perfectly”. The original article follows below. Former FATES WARNING drummer Mark Zonder has praised Bobby Jarzombek, saying Bobby is “the only drummer that FATES WARNING ever had that really paid attention” to how the band’s classic songs were originally played. Zonder played drums with FATES WARNING for eight albums starting in ...
