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Marvel Has Confirmed ‘Shang-Chi 2’ Is in the Works
Marvel Studios is continuing to show no signs of stopping having just announced that it is currently working on a sequel to Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. After much commercial and critical success, it comes as no surprise that Shang-Chi 2 will be coming to theaters soon. Filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton is set to return as the writer and director of the sequel. Cretton has recently entered into an exclusive multi-year overall deal with Disney‘s companies Marvel Studios and Hulu‘s Onyx Collective. Deadline has also reported that the director is currently developing another MCU series for Disney+. President of the Onyx Collective Tara Duncan praised Cretton, calling him a “powerhouse storyteller with impeccable taste in material. As we continue to expand our roster, Destin’s uniq...
Dave Chappelle Confirmed to Work With Netflix for Another Comedy Special
Following his controversial Netflix comedy special, Dave Chappelle appears to be back in business with the streaming giant for their Netflix Is A Joke festival next year. Netflix Is A Joke was initially supposed to occur in 2020 but due to COVID-19, the comedy festival has been postponed to April 29 to May 8, 2022. The festival is set to take over 25 of Los Angeles’ largest venues and will bring together some of the biggest names in the comedy sector. Along with Chappelle, the festival will feature Jerry Seinfeld, David Letterman, Tina Fey, Amy Schumer, Chris Rock, Ali Wong, Hasan Minhaj and Ronnie Chieng taking the stage from the Dodger Stadium to the Hollywood Bowl. Others taking the stage at the festival include Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlinson, Pete Davidson, Seth Rogen, Tig Notaro, Kevin Ha...
Jada Pinkett-Smith Returns as Niobe In ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Trailer: Watch
Get ready to step into the Matrix one last time — on Monday (Dec. 7), HBO Max released the second official trailer for The Matrix Resurrections, the fourth and final chapter of the wildly popular science-fiction movie series, which sees Neo (Keanu Reeves) coming to terms with choices he made in The Matrix Reloaded. “We can’t see it, but we’re all tapped inside these strange repeating loops. Billions of people just living out their lives, oblivious. But this is the moment for you to show us what is real,” characters can be heard saying as current memories and flashbacks of his love interest, Trinity, from the past three Matrix movies play. As Neo grows increasingly doubtful of his surroundings, Morpheus — now played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II instead of Laurence Fishburne — says, “They taught...
Tenacious D Announce 2022 Summer Tour
Tenacious D is set to hit the road for a North American summer stint in celebration of the 20th anniversary of their self-titled debut. The comedy rock duo—comprised of Jack Black and Kyle Gass—will embark on a short, seven-date tour that kicks off on June 16 at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Colorado. Their following stop is in Sandy, Utah and the duo will perform in cities in Oregon, Washington, and California for two shows in Palo Alto and San Diego. Tickets for the Telluride performance go on sale at 10 am MT on Thursday, December 9, and tickets for the other shows go on sale at 10 am local on Friday, December 10. All tickets can be purchased on Tenacious D’s website. Their platinum-certified, 21-track debut, Tenacious D, was released in September 2001. This October, the duo ...
Billie Eilish’s Name Is Among the Year’s Most Mispronounced Words
“Cheugy” is apparently a lot to chew on. Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Billie Eilish and Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce have something in common — broadcasters butcher their names. And virtually everyone is having trouble with “omicron.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news All four made it onto this year’s list of most mispronounced words as compiled by the U.S. Captioning Company, which captions and subtitles real-time events on TV and in courtrooms. The list released Tuesday identifies the words that proved most challenging for newsreaders and people on television to pronounce this year. The caption company said it surveyed its members to generate the list, which is now in its sixth year and was commissioned by Babbel, a language-learning platform with headquarter...
Chartbreaker: Mae Muller’s Best ‘Days’ Are Ahead Of Her
North London native Mae Muller started writing songs five years ago, when she was a 19-year-old working in retail and at a pub while also trying to figure out what to do with her life. She set her sights on pop stardom, co-writing the entirety of her 2019 debut album, Chapter 1, but was always reluctant to record a song written by someone else. In November 2020, however, Muller traveled to Sweden — the country had remained open to travelers from the UK during this phase of the pandemic — for a session with writer/producer Neiked, who played Muller a track he’d written called “Better Days.” Muller eventually decided to take on the buoyant, celebratory track, and the single subsequently became Muller’s first Hot 100 hit, climbing to No. 29 since its September release. “I feel like I’m a...
The 100 Best Songs of 2021: Staff List
The past and the future had something of a tug of war over pop music in 2021. In many ways, top 40 was pushed forward this year by artists who blended sounds and styles, expanding its center to include voices from areas of the globe (or corners of society) too rarely represented in the stateside mainstream. But pop history exerted a huge gravitational force as well, whether with retro sounds from the ’70s to the ’00s coming back in vogue, or with new hits being formed from older songs getting covered, sampled, mashed up and/or entirely re-recorded. It certainly made for a robust pop present: a year in which the best songs and biggest hits could come from seemingly anywhere, in space or in time. Whether they were reinventing what had been or reimagining what could be, here were our staff’s ...
War Is Coming In New Trailer For ‘The Matrix: Resurrections’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Warner Bros. / Warner Bros. We’re just a few weeks away from returning to The Matrix and learning exactly what Neo’s been up to since he sacrificed himself for the greater good in The Matrix: Revolutions and though the buzz for The Matrix: Resurrections isn’t exactly on Spider-Man: No Way Home levels, we’re still pretty hype about this. Today we got our latest trailer to the upcoming installment in The Matrix franchise and in it we get some more tidbits about what’s going on and how it’s going down. Naturally things revolve around a Neo (Keanu Reeves) who’s seemingly suffering from amnesia as he’s been living a new life without a clue as to who he is or at one point was. As his new friends begin to jog his memory by taking him to familiar places from his ...
Stacey Abrams Announces 2022 Run for Governor of Georgia
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: ERIC BARADAT / Getty Stacey Abrams is officially back in the political race. According to her announcement last week, Abrams formally announced her second candidacy for governor of Georgia after previously being cheated out of the position by current Governor, Brian Kemp, in 2018. Although she wasn’t on the ballot for 2020, it’s no secret that her efforts through her voter’s rights organization, Fair Fight, Abrams not only helped build the Democratic party presence in the state, leading to victories for Joe Biden and Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock— resulting in united and uncontested support from her party. While many are anticipating a historic victory for Abrams, it’s the possibility of the state making history with all four major part...
Slow News Week: Vice President Kamala Harris Trending For Not Using Bluetooth Headphones
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: JIM WATSON / Getty Maybe because the news week was slow or someone needed to get some traffic going on their site, Vice President Kamala Harris made the trending rounds for reasons not exactly tied to her political duties. The former senator was the talk of social media after a news piece came out noting that Harris uses wired headphones instead of Bluetooth wireless headphones for reasons that should make sense yet piqued the interests of grizzled journalists all the same. POLITICO released a newsletter on Monday (Dec. 6) with a portion of the release titled “Kamala Harris is Bluetooth-phobic,” which was seemingly framed to elicit the kind of chatter that followed. The tone of the story almost came from a snarky place but that’s hard to prove. Take...
Look Inside ILLENIUM’s Ember Shores Music Festival On the Cancún Beachfront
In its first year of action, ILLENIUM‘s Ember Shores destination music festival had everything to prove. Could it stand alongside the likes of the highly regarded Lost Lands by Excision, ODESZA’s Sundara, and other artist-curated music festivals? Early reviews out of Cancún seem to indicate that answer is a resounding “yes.” The Grammy-nominated dance music producer worked overtime for the thousands who made the trip down to the Paradisus Resort in Cancun, playing four sets in three days. From noon to 3AM daily, ILLENIUM and friends took over the beachfront, the resort’s pool, and the atrium with three unique stages. Featuring Blanke, Said The Sky, Elohim, Big Gigantic, HALIENE, and many more, the festival offered fans a jam-packed schedule from...
Dillon Francis to Write, Star In Adult Animated Comedy Series On FailArmy
Dillon Francis is taking his channel-surfing sensibilities to the big screen as the star of a new social media-based streaming series. The show, titled Couch Kings, will see the hit-making DJ working alongside his childhood best friend, Eric Hamilton. The series, consisting of four initial episodes, goes live on FailArmy’s social media channels this week. Each animated episodes represents a day in the life of Francis and Hamilton as they navigate a series of wacky, absurd, and sometimes gut-busting scenarios all originating from the comfort of their home sofa. Fittingly, FailArmy’s vast library of bloopers, missteps, and pranks will serve as the through-line for the entire series. The genesis of Couch Kings actually arrived a couple years ago with the test-run of a s...
