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Two New Films Will Join the Live-Action ‘Fullmetal Alchemist’ Franchise This Summer
A new trailer is out for the films Fullmetal Alchemist: Final Chapter – The Avenger Scar and Fullmetal Alchemist: Final Chapter – The Last Transmutation. The two sequel films will join the live-action Fullmetal Alchemist franchise, which debuted its first iteration in 2017. Spotlighting 15 main characters across the films, the trailer previewed the return of the cast from the first movie in the series. Among the main cast, Ryōsuke Yamada plays Edward Elric, alongside Atomu Mizuishi as Alphonse Elric and Tsubasa Honda as Winry Rockbell. Dean Fujioka portrays Roy Mustang. The new cast includes Mackenyu Arata as Scar, Yuina Kuroshima as Lan Fan, Keisuke Watanabe as Ling Yao, Yuki Yamada as Solf J. Kimblee, Hiroshi Tachi as King Bradley, Kōji Yamamoto as Alex Louis Armstrong, Chiaki Kuri...
Jennifer Lopez Netflix Documentary ‘Halftime’ To Open Tribeca Film Festival
The 2022 iteration of the Tribeca Film Festival will commence on Wednesday, June 8, with the world premiere of Netflix‘s Halftime, an upcoming documentary providing a behind-the-scenes look at Jennifer Lopez‘s Super Bowl LIV halftime show with Shakira. “In Halftime, Lopez is giving us a peek behind the curtain — unpacking everything from her iconic 2020 Super Bowl halftime performance with Shakira (get it?) to her journey as a mom, Latinx creative, and woman on the other side of 50,” Netflix said of the documentary. “This is the Lopez you don’t see in glossy interviews.” Under the NYC festival banner, the film will premiere at the United Palace in Washington Heights in upper Manhattan, which is notably located just a few blocks away from Lopez’s hometown borough, the Bronx. Halft...
Future Announces Release Date for Ninth Studio Album
Future will be releasing his new album at the end of this month. The Atlanta rapper teased the project with a smoky image of himself on Instagram. Arriving on April 29, the title of the LP has yet to be announced. The project will follow his 2020 solo endeavor High Off Life and his joint venture with Lil Uzi Vert the same year, Pluto x Baby Pluto. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Future PLUTO Hendrix (@future) Earlier in the year, Future shared a music video for his song “Worst Day.” He also clocked in two guest appearances on Gunna’s DS4Ever on the singles “Too Easy” and the social media hit “Pushin P.” Few details have been shared about the forthcoming project, though the rapper suggested that it may feature collaborations with Babyface Ray and FKA twigs. I...
Madonna & Sickick’s ‘Frozen’ Heats Up in Hot Dance/Electronic Songs Chart’s Top 10
Madonna and Sickick surge to the top 10 of Billboard‘s multimetric Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart (dated April 16) with “Frozen” (12-10). It’s Madonna’s third top 10, and first in nearly seven years, on the chart, which premiered in January 2013. It follows two 2015 Diplo co-productions: “Living for Love” (No. 9, that February) and “B**** I’m Madonna” (No. 5, July). It’s Sickick’s first top 10. “Frozen,” a 2021-remixed, Sickick-produced version of Madonna’s No. 2-peaking 1998 Billboard Hot 100 hit (which she wrote with Patrick Leonard and produced with Leonard and William Orbit) from her Ray of Light album, debuted at No. 20 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs in December after going viral. Since, Madonna and Sickick have released two additional remixes, complete with new vocals and offic...
Mon Laferte & More Moms in Latin Music Are Doing ‘The Impossible to Balance It All’
Chilean singer Mon Laferte made quite a stir at the Latin Grammys last year when she walked the red carpet and then performed in belly-baring outfits that proudly displayed her baby bump. At the time, Laferte was nearly seven months pregnant, in the middle of her U.S. tour and making it all look so easy. Except it wasn’t. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “I always saw pregnant women going to work and thought, ‘Oh how cute. It must be so easy.’ But now that I lived it, it’s exhausting,” says Laferte — who, unbeknownst to most people, was bedridden for a chunk of her tour, getting up only to perform. “Your back hurts, your feet get swollen – I went up a whole shoe size. It’s physically and emotionally complicated. All my concentration was placed o...
Trending Up: Willow Is Everywhere, With Hits Both New and Old — Plus SZA and Muni Long on R&B Radio, ‘Sun and Moon’ & More
Welcome to Billboard Pro’s Trending Up newsletter, where we take a closer look at the songs, artists, curiosities and trends that have caught the music industry’s attention. Some have come out of nowhere, others have taken months to catch on, and all of them could become ubiquitous in the blink of a TikTok clip. This week: A resurrected older hit of Willow’s bumps up against her newer singles (again), Muni Long and SZA help close the gap between streaming and radio in R&B, and yet another 2010s alt-rock song blows up on TikTok. Willow’s Slow-Release, Sped-Up New Hit Willow has quietly become a ubiquitous figure in pop over the past year — popping up on alternative radio with her great 2021 pop-punk album Lately I Feel Everything, in the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 w...
Here Are the Lyrics to Yahritza & Su Esencia’s Heartfelt Viral Hit ‘Soy El Unico’ Translated to English
Yahritza y Su Esencia released only their second single this week, dubbed “Esta Noche,” part of their upcoming EP Obsessed. Yet another heartfelt tune, where Yahritza’s powerful vocals shine, the track follows their record-breaking debut single “Soy El Unico.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “I know that the words are very strong but honestly, when it comes down to me writing my songs, it’s more like a research process,” Yahritza previously told Billboard. “I don’t write my songs specifically for anyone. I just observe what’s going on around me and I get ideas from it.” “Soy El Unico,” which is the first song Yahritza penned at the age of 13, debuted at No. 1 on Hot Latin Songs and hit No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, making the 15-year...
Debut Albums of Wu-Tang, Alicia Keys To Be Inducted Into the National Recording Registry
The highly-influential albums, Wu-Tang Clan’s Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) and Alicia Keys’ Songs In A Minor, will be inducted into the National Recording Registry later this year. The Library of Congress named the projects as among 25 recordings worthy of being preserved. The recordings — which also include a Ricky Martin’s Latin pop “Livin’ La Vida Loca,” Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” and even a podcast — were selected based on “cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage,” the Library of Congress said. Released in 1993, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) is the debut album of the Staten Island rap collective, bringing together the talents of RZA, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, GZA, Ghostface Killah and Method Man. Keys dropped her debut Songs In A Minor in 200...
Harlem Festival of Culture Inspired by Questlove’s Summer of Soul Documentary Announced
The first-ever Harlem Festival of Culture has been announced today. The event was inspired by the documentary “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson which debuted at the Sundance film festival last year. The documentary details the Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969, a moment that history has overwhelmingly forgotten. The new, reimagined festival is set for the summer of 2023 in Marcus Garvey Park, the site of the festival back in 1969. The festival will consist of live entertainment along with social and economic development programs. The outdoor music festival is set to be a multi-day event, specific dates are yet to be released. The festival is founded by Musa Jackson, Editor-in-Chief of Ambassador Digital Magazine who appeared in ...
A New Villain: Peep The New Trailer To ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Courtesy of Netflix / Netflix On Tuesday (April 12), Netflix finally dropped their first official trailer for the newest season of Stranger Things and judging from the look of things, this fourth installment is going to be one helluva ride. Source: Courtesy of Netflix / Netflix Taking place six months after the events of season 3, the trailer to Stranger Things season 4 seems to show life getting back to semi-normal in Hawkins, Indiana after that big Battle of Starcourt. Though the Bryers family have now relocated to California in hopes of a new start, their supernatural fighting crew remain in Indy where the threat of the monsters from the Upside Down is still very much alive. Unfortunately for everyone, Eleven doesn’t seem to have her powers anymore, po...
Wack 100 Said He’s Never Seen Ray J & Kim Kardashian Sex Tape Footage, Kim Is Not Having It
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Patrick McMullan / Getty Wack 100 is out here being messy again as the music executive is claiming to be in possession of never before seen footage of the infamous sex tape of his former managing client Ray J and Kim Kardashian. Only this time, Kardashian is not having it. According to Page Six, in the premiere episode of her family’s new Hulu series, The Kardashians, Kim catches wind of the salacious sex tape being resurrected back into trending celeb news and she immediately hops on the phone with attorney Marty Singer. Related Stories “Over my dead body is this happening again. I know the right attorneys this time and I’m not going to let this happen to me again,” she said to Singer. “I have all the time, all the money and all of the resources to burn ...
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Jay-Z’s Famous 2001 Summer Jam Performance With Michael Jackson Finally Unearthed [Video]
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ron Galella / Getty It’s been two decades since Jay-Z made Hip-Hop history by bringing out the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, out to that Summer Jam stage in 2001. Although it happened at a time when camera phones weren’t even a possibility, someone actually recorded Jay’s whole set that night and yesterday (April 12) HipHopVCR uploaded it to YouTube for the world to enjoy. Taking the stage in an oversized Knicks jersey and baggy jean shorts, Jigga had the concertgoers in the palm of his hands and after dropping some of his popular radio cuts, he debuted his classic “The Takeover” much to the shock of the crowd who knew exactly who he was talking about when he was dropping his bars. Then came the infamous moment when Jay put Prodigy (R.I.P) on blast and th...
