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Immersive Squid Game Experience Launching in the US and UK
In case Netflix’s upcoming Squid Game reality series wasn’t enough for you, an immersive experience approved by the streamer will be launching in the US and UK in September. Brought to you by interactive gaming and technology company Immersive Gamebox, the multiplayer experience will feature all six challenges from the show, including Red Light, Green Light; Dalgona, and of course, Squid Game itself. Each lost challenge results in the loss of a virtual life, while a win earns virtual money in the piggy bank. Two to six people will be able to play at a time. The experience will take place in the company’s “Gameboxes,” using touch screens and motion sensing technology. Advertisement Related Video Immersive Gamebox’s Squid Game experience launches on September 21st in nine US locati...
Comedy Pilot from Everything Everywhere All at Once Directors Greenlit at Showtime
The directing duo behind Everything Everywhere All at Once is coming to SHOWTIME. The network has greenlit a new half-hour comedy pilot from Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan — aka Daniels — called MASON, produced by A24. The series stars and is executive produced by Nathan Min, who’s guest starred on HBO’s Joe Pera Talks With You. MASON draws on some of Min’s real-life experiences. Per a press release: “MASON is a surrealist comedy about a quiet man named Nathan, often misheard as ‘Mason,’ seeking connection in a loud world.” The Daniels will also executive produce, as will Minari and Nope star Steven Yeun. “Nathan has brought SHOWTIME a disarmingly funny and emotional project that feels like a punch to the gut in how astutely it conveys the trials and tribulations...
Lollapalooza 2022: What You Missed on the Livestream
A little less than a mile separates Lollapalooza’s main headlining stage at the south end of Grant Park from the secondary headlining stage on the far north end. It’s a 15-minute walk on day one and a 20-minute waddle on day four — but a majestic waddle nonetheless, taking place as it does with a lake breeze on your face, in the shadow of the world’s prettiest skyline. Along the way you pass a corporate carnival ground of branded games, selfie stations, and quarter-mile-long booths where you can pay $7 for a single piece of chicken and buy an alcoholic beverage with a down payment of one kidney. The livestream captured the biggest names to play Lollapalooza 2022 but left out all the little things that make festivals great: The wild fashions; the travelers hoisting flags; the hustlers in no...
Eminem Taps Into Vault for 2009 “Crack A Bottle” Music Video
Over a decade after releasing the song “Crack A Bottle” featuring Dr. Dre and 50 Cent, Eminem has dropped a music video for the track. The single was originally released on the rapper’s 2009 album, Relapse, as its lead single. “Unlocked from the Shady vault – unreleased #CrackaBottle music video!” Eminem wrote in the caption of the teaser on Twitter. A snippet of the video shows one man in a suit tied up with his mouth gagged while another writes on a cement wall. As the man struggles to escape, the other is encouraged by a duplicate version of himself. Unlocked from the Shady vault ??- unreleased #CrackaBottle music video! #CC2 OUT FRIDAY https://t.co/3Bc2mRAWrk pic.twitter.com/e8JPfFACMs — Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) August 1, 2022 The rapper didn’t share the specific reason as to why he’...
Mo Ostin, Legendary Warner Bros. Records Chief, Dies at 95
Mo Ostin, the legendary label executive who led Warner Brothers Records through a storied time of both artistic and commercial success for more than 30 years, died in his sleep July 31, at the age of 95. Ostin, who signed and/or worked with such acts at The Kinks, Fleetwood Mac, Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, R.E.M., Randy Newman and many more, was “one of the greatest record men of all time, and a prime architect of the modern music business,” said Tom Corson, co-chairman and COO, Warner Records, and Aaron Bay-Schuck, co-chairman and CEO, Warner Records, in a joint statement. “For Mo, it was always first and foremost about helping artists realize their vision,” their statement continues. “One of the pivotal figures in the evolution of Warner Music Group, in the 1960s Mo ushered Warner/Repri...
Hot 100 First-Timers: Bizarrap & Quevedo Debut With Global Smash ‘Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52’
Bizarrap and Quevedo make their first visits to the Billboard Hot 100, as their collaboration “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52” debuts at No. 98 on the chart dated Aug. 6. The club-friendly anthem, released via Dale Play Records, opens with 5.3 million official U.S. streams, a 45% gain, in the July 22-28 tracking week, according to Luminate. It crowns the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts for a second week each, after becoming just the second all-Spanish-language song to top the tallies, and ranks at No. 5 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs and jumps 20-13 on Hot Latin Songs. [embedded content] Bizarrap and Quevedo are both newcomers to Billboard‘s charts. Bizarrap (real name: Gonzalo Conde), from Bueno Aires, Argentina, first appeared on a U.S. chart in 2020, with “Mamic...
Quavo & Takeoff Debut New Song ‘Us vs. Them’ Without Offset
Quavo and Takeoff are back… without Offset. Again. Last week (July 29), the uncle-nephew duo released “Us vs. Them,” a collaboration with fellow Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane. The new single, which features production credits from DJ Durel, Money Musick, Duce.6x and Eza, was accompanied by a Keemotion-helmed music video.”Gave my partner 50 Cent, he shot many men,” Takeoff raps on the song’s punchy hook. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “Us vs. Them” arrives in the midst of fervent speculation around the future of Migos. The Grammy-nominated rap trio is slated to perform at Pepsi’s National Battle of the Bands on August 27. Offset, the third member of Migos, was omitted from social media posts and press releases surrounding the Houston-based event. “...
Bad Bunny’s ‘Bullet Train’ Debut Is Almost Here: Get Advance Tickets for Cheap With This Special Promo
All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. Bad Bunny is set to make his feature film debut in the action-packed comedy, Bullet Train, starring Brad Pitt, Joey King, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Zazie Beetz, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Sandra Bullock. The David Leitch-directed film hits theaters on Friday (Aug. 5), but moviegoers can score advance tickets at a discount thanks to a promo deal courtesy of Fever and AMC Theaters. This summer movie deal gets you advance tickets to Bullet Train for $10.99 each. The passes will be redeemable at any participating AMC theater. Movie tickets purchased through ...
Statik Selektah’s “Yeezy Duz It: The Sole of Kanye West” Mix Features Unreleased Tracks and Classic Hits
Ye‘s annual YEEZY Day is going down tomorrow, and the creative genius has a bunch of restocks and sneaker debuts in the cannon. And in celebration of the adidas YEEZY 450 “Utility Black” launch specifically, DJ Statik Selektah linked up with atmos to cook up a new mix titled “Yeezy Duz It: The Sole of Kanye West” which features a compilation of classic hits and unreleased tunes. “I’m excited to mix some classics together with rare versions and unreleased joints to celebrate the new YEEZY drop”, says Selektah. “The genius of Ye will be put on full display here and it’s an honor, being a fan since the beginning, to working with him in Hawaii on My Beautify Dark Twisted Fantasy. There will be special moments on this tape. It also brings me back to my mixtape roots when I would do similar styl...
Nichelle Nichols, Groundbreaking “Star Trek” Actor, Dies At 89
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: CHRIS DELMAS / Getty Nichelle Nichols, whose role in the original Star Trek television series paved the way for Black women actors and sparked a movement of Black people who became involved in space and aeronautics, passed away at 89. According to an Instagram post on Sunday (Jul. 31) made by her son, Kyle Johnson, Nichols passed away the night before at her home in Silver City, New Mexico. “Her light, however, like the ancient galaxies now being seen for the first time, will remain for us and future generations to enjoy, learn from, and draw inspiration,” he wrote in the post’s caption, which displayed her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Born Grace Dell Nichols on Dec. 28, 1932, outside of Chicago, Illinois, the actress got her start young as an ente...
Crystal Renay, Ne-Yo’s Wife, Accuses Him of Cheating On Her For 8 Years, Twitter Clowns Him
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Rick Diamond / Getty Love is dead, again, for Crystal Renay and R&B superstar Ne-Yo. Renay put all of the singer’s business on blast accusing him of cheating on her for eight years. Crystal Renay is so sick of Ne-Yo’s philandering ways and decided to take her grievances to the pulpit of social media on Instagram. Renay claims she has been sharing her life and husband unknowingly for eight years, accusing the singer of having unprotected sex with all of them. “Eight years of lies and deception. Eight years of unknowingly sharing my life and husband with numerous of women who sell their bodies to him unprotected… every last one of them!” she starts off her statement. “To say I’m heartbroken and disgusted is a understatement. To ask me to stay and ...
Mystikal Arrested On Charges of Sexual Assault & Robbery, Allegedly
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Stephen J. Cohen / Getty The Grammy Award-nominated rapper Mystikal has run afoul of the law again and is now in police custody after being arrested on charges of alleged sexual assault over the weekend. According to reports, the New Orleans native was arrested on Sunday (July 31st) and booked into the Ascension Parish jail. The warrant detailed the charges, which include first-degree rape, simple robbery, domestic abuse battery, and false imprisonment, in addition to simple criminal damage to property. Mystikal, also known as Michael Tyler, was awaiting his arraignment. An arrest was made after deputies from the Sheriff’s office responded to a victim of sexual assault at a hospital in Baton Rouge. In documents filed in the case, the unidentified woman wa...
