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Need a Horror Movie to Stream? Here’s How You Can Watch ‘Monster’ for Free
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. Regina Hall’s horror film Monster debuted Friday (March 18) on Prime Video. The Mariamo Diallo-directed flick centers around racism in academia, with Hall starring as the first Black woman to lead a residence hall at Northwestern University. “In its entirety, it was a little more haunting than I had assumed it would feel,” Hall told Newsweek of the film. “It felt different to experience how uncomfortable the movie is.” Monster, which stars Hall, Zoe Renee and Talia Ryder, has already cracked the top five on Prime Video’s U.S. streaming charts and is No. 10 w...
Britney Spears ‘Circus’ Funko Pop! & More Vinyl Figurines to Collect for Women’s History Month
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. Looking to expand your Funko Pop! collection? These charming little Pop! vinyls have become one of the hottest items for collectors, and Women’s History Month is a great time to purchase figurines of some of your favorite female music artists. Britney Spears has a few different Funko Pops! made in her honor, the latest of which won’t be out until July, but you can pre-order it now to ensure that it arrives by the release date. Explore See latest videos, charts and news Funko Pop! Rocks: Britney Spears Circus with Chase The Britney Spears Circus Funko P...
The Ledger: Should Music Streamers Follow Netflix’s Lead on Account Sharing?
The Ledger is a weekly newsletter about the economics of the music business sent to Billboard Pro subscribers. An abbreviated version of the newsletter is published online. The music business should watch what Netflix is doing in select Latin American countries to bring in more revenue as painlessly as possible. In the next few weeks, Netflix will begin testing new two features in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru: “Add an extra member,” which allows subscribers to standard and premium plans to add up to two people they don’t live with for a few dollars a month; And “transfer profile to a new account” for people to take their profile information — namely their viewing history and recommendations — to a new account rather than create a new account from scratch. “We recognize that people have many ...
Britney Spears’ Instagram Is Back
Two days after Britney Spears‘ Instagram account mysteriously disappeared, the pop star returned to the photo-sharing app with three new posts. Spears’ account was disabled without warning on Wednesday, and Billboard confirmed at the time that Instagram was not behind the account’s deactivation. The trio of posts on Friday (March 18) include peeks at Spears’ Clueless look, with the “…Baby One More Time” singer wearing a velour miniskirt paired with a white crop top with puffy sheer sleeves, clearly inspired by the preppy style of Alicia Silverstone’s Cher Horowitz. A third video is a repost from TikTok user lirios9595 of a baby moving around its mom’s pregnant belly, with the caption “Mommy … get me out of here.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news Spears’ Instagram account has been...
‘The Batman’ Star Paul Dano Is Writing a Comic Book About The Riddler
DC Comics announced on Friday that The Batman star Paul Dano is writing a comic book based on his infamous villain character’s origins, titled Riddler: Year One. The comic label took to social media to announce the forthcoming book, revealing that it will hit stores in October. “Unmask your first look here,” the official DC Comics account wrote, with a teaser image featuring a pair of glasses resting on top of miscellaneous files reading the title of the book. A new Riddler comic book hits stores this October with RIDDLER: YEAR ONE. Written by Paul Dano, unmask your first look here and see #TheBatman only in theaters now. pic.twitter.com/OVuIw7QEO0 — DC (@DCComics) March 18, 2022 DC Comics has not revealed an exact release date or plot details for the book, nor has the company sh...
‘Squid Game’ Star Jung Ho-yeon Joins Alfonso Cuarón’s Apple TV+ Thriller Series ‘Disclaimer’
Squid Game‘s Jung Ho-yeon is officially joining the cast of Alfonso Cuarón’s upcoming Apple TV+ thriller series, Disclaimer. According to reports, the South Korean actress and model will portray the role of Kim, who is described as an “ambitious, hardworking, and eager-to-please” character who knows that she will get her “big break” working for Catherine Ravenscroft, the “successful and respected television documentary journalist whose work has been built on revealing the concealed transgressions of long-respected institutions” and is played by Cate Blanchett. Jung joins the previously-announced cast of Blanchett, Kevin Kline, Sacha Baron Cohen and Kodi Smit-McPhee. The series is based on Renee Knight’s novel of the same name; Disclaimer follows Catherine Ravenscroft as she finds a bo...
Rap Song of the Week: Fivio Foreign Takes Brooklyn Drill to “Magic City”
Every Friday, our new music column Rap Song of the Week breaks down the hip-hop tracks you need to hear. Check out the full playlist here. This week, Fivio Foreign teams up with Quavo for his new single “Magic City.” Based on association alone, Fivio Foreign was tapped to be the next big star to emerge from the Brooklyn drill scene after Pop Smoke’s murder in February 2020. Those expectations were raised when Drake recruited Fivio for “Demons,” the Toronto rapper’s nod to the hip-hop subgenre, but it’s taken Fivio a few years to increase his profile further and ready his debut album. Along the way, the East Flatbush native found a new mentor in Kanye West, impressing a whole new fanbase with a show-stopping appearance on the Donda cut “Off the Grid.” Last month, Fivio reunited with Ka...
Bladee and Ecco2k Release Surprise Album Crest: Stream
Bladee and Ecco2K dropped a surprise on their fans today in the form of their brand new album Crest via YEAR0001. Stream the full project below. Produced by the pair’s longtime collaborator Whitearmor entirely in a tiny red cabin located in the south of their native Sweden, the nine-track album contains tracks like “The Flag Is Raised,” “5 Star Crest (4 Vattenrum),” “Desire Is a Trap,” and “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.” The Stockholm-based hyperpop duo’s collaborative studio set serves as a follow-up to their latest single “Amygdala” as well as Bladee’s 2021 album The Fool. Ecco2K’s most recent albums, E and Trash Island, were both released back in 2019. Advertisement Related Video Stream Crest and check out the album’s artwork and full tracklist below. This week, the duo will also join Wh...
Fiona Apple Shows You How to Call Maryland Lawmakers in Support of Virtual Court Access: Watch
Fiona Apple is no stranger to political activism. In the past couple of years, the musical powerhouse has protested and donated her royalties to charitable causes. This time around, she’s urging fans to call Maryland lawmakers in an effort to keep allowing virtual access in courts. To make it a bit easier, she’s even shared a step-by-step video guide on how to do so. For obvious reasons, remote court hearings and proceedings have spiked in frequency over the past two years. If Maryland’s House Bill 657 and Senate Bill 469 are passed, Apple explains, courts would continue to be more just. Apple added, “We actually have legislation written but we need to have it brought to the floor for a vote… So here’s what we would do. Just make two phone calls. I made two phone calls already, and I have ...
Pixar’s Lightyear Restores Same-Sex Kiss After Staff Revolt over Support of ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill
Disney continues to do damage control following reports that the company donated to every sponsor of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. After Pixar staff publicly accused the House of Mouse of censoring gay affection in their films last week, Variety has learned that a previously-cut same-sex kiss has been restored to Lightyear. Lightyear is a Pixar origin tale starring Chris Evans as the astronaut upon which the Buzz Lightyear action figure in Toy Story is based. Uzo Aduba co-stars as the character Hawthorne, an astronaut in a relationship with another woman. While the movie reportedly always treated her romantic partnership as serious, a kiss between the characters had been cut. Now, it’s back in the film. It’s the latest attempt by Disney to win back LGBT...
BRUCE DICKINSON Was ‘Done’ With The Lockdown After The First Year
In a new interview with Las Vegas Weekly, IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson was asked how he handled lockdown. He responded: “I had just done two spoken-word show in St. Petersburg and Moscow, and that was the weirdest experience, because they were doing simultaneous translation of a semi-comedic show. You’d say what approximates to a punchline and get no response. Then you go, ‘Anyway, on Tuesday,’ and they’d bust out laughing. There was a 30-second lag on the laughter. “I went from there back to Paris where I was staying with my partner, Leana,” he continued. “I got back on Saturday, and then the president of France comes on the TV and says, ‘Tonight, midnight, all bars are shut.’ I went, holy cow, let’s go out and get a ...
MÖTLEY CRÜE’s NIKKI SIXX To Guest On This Sunday’s Episode Of ‘American Idol’
MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx will make a guest appearance on this Sunday’s (March 20) episode of “American Idol”. The episode will feature auditions on Los Angeles’s iconic Sunset Strip where CRÜE got its start during the 1980s. In a statement to Billboard, Sixx said: “It was a lot of fun to team up with ‘American Idol’ upon the show’s return to L.A. After all, MÖTLEY CRÜE are also from L.A., and so many amazing songwriters call Los Angeles their ‘Home Sweet Home’. “Because of ‘American Idol’, a lot of great, timeless, classic songs have not only been re-interpreted by the next generation of talented singers but have also been re-introduced to mainstream audiences and younger generations of music fans for the l...
