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“His Fans Are Unlike Any Other Fans”: 5 Harry Styles Openers on What It’s Like to Open for Harry Styles
There’s nothing else quite like a Harry Styles concert. As anyone who has found themself in Harry’s House over the years can attest, these events have their own distinct color. There’s rituals and inside jokes, like the conga line during “Treat People With Kindness.” There are consistent accessories, no matter what city Styles has set up in — boas, sparkles, glitter, and phenomenal suits tend to abound — and the sense of community from arena to arena is tangible. Before the moment Harry Styles steps (or is rolled) onstage, another act has a critical role to play. A support act for Styles has the responsibility of setting the tone and kicking things off for the enormous, eager crowds, often filled with people who have been waiting in their claimed spots in the pit for hours already. As Styl...
Morbid Angel Announce 2023 US Tour with Revocation and More
Morbid Angel have announced a 2023 US tour featuring support from Revocation, Crypta, Skeletal Remains, and Vitriol. The “United States Tour of Terror” will launch on March 15th in Pensacola, Florida, and run through an April 22nd date in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Morbid Angel are billing the outing as a 40th anniversary tour, with the legendary death metal band having formed in 1983. Revocation will provide direct support, with Crypta also on board throughout the run. Skeletal Remains will appear from March 15th through April 4th, while Vitriol will be on the bill from April 6th through April 22nd. Tickets go on sale this Friday (November 4th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster, with pre-sales for select cities beginning on Thursday (November 3rd) using the code HEADLINE. Advertisemen...
Avatar: The Way of Water Gets First Official Trailer: Watch
Over a decade after its release, Avatar will return this December with Avatar: The Way of Water, and the trailer for the long-awaited sequel is finally out. Check out the clip below. Avatar: The Way of Water follows the Sully family, whose patriarch Jake (Sam Worthington) ended the first movie by leaving his human body to live as a Na’vi with his partner, Neytiri (Zoe Saldana). As star Sigourney Weaver put it earlier this year, “The story is about family, about our families trying to stay together [and] the lengths to which we all go to protect each other and protect the place where we live.” Worthington, Saldana, Stephen Lang, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Giovanni Ribisi, Dileep Rao, and Matt Gerald all reprise their roles from the original Avatar, while Weaver ...
Lamb of God Announce 2023 “Headbangers Boat” Cruise with Mastodon, GWAR, and More
Lamb of God have teamed up with Sixthman for the inaugural Headbangers Boat cruise festival. The cruise is set to leave port aboard the Norwegian Pearl on October 31st of next year from Miami and heads to the Bahamas prior to its return on November 4th. In addition to Lamb of God (who are performing two sets), the heavy metal cruise will feature a stacked lineup including Mastodon, GWAR, Hatebreed, Shadows Fall, God Forbid, Fit for an Autopsy, and a performance from the solo project of Lamb of God’s Mark Morton, with more acts to be announced. The festivities will be hosted by Jose Mangin and Riki Rachtman, while Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta will conduct live tapings of his Jasta Show podcast. Other activities include a Q&A conversation and photography show with Lamb of God frontman Randy B...
Henry Selick Still Chafes at “Unfair” Title Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
Henry Selick would like to remove two words from the title of his directorial debut, 1993’s Tim Burton‘s The Nightmare Before Christmas. In a lively new interview with AV Club, he chafed at the “unfair” process that left someone else’s name all over his first movie. “It wasn’t called Tim Burton’s Nightmare until three weeks before the film came out,” Selick said. “And I would have been fine with that, if that’s what I signed up for.” Selick directed The Nightmare Before Christmas from a script by Caroline Thomson that was based on Burton’s characters and story. But Walt Disney Studios, through their label Touchstone Pictures, wanted to take advantage of Burton’s star-power. He was just coming off two wildly-successful Batman movies as well as Ed...
Billy Strings Announces 2023 US Tour Dates
Billy Strings has expanded his 2022 tour through next spring with new dates in North America. Strings now has 40 dates coming up on his schedule, including newly-announced appearances at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena (two nights), Atlantic City’s Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena (three nights), Charlottesville’s John Paul Jones Arena (two nights), and Atlanta’s State Farm Arena and Charleston’s North Charleston Coliseum (two nights). He also has a leg of tour dates in the EU and UK this December. Tickets for Strings’ new tour dates will be available for pre-sale starting November 2nd at 10:00 a.m. local time with general on-sale following this Friday, November 4th at 10:00 a.m. local time. Head over to Ticketmaster and use our pre-sale code HEADLINE. See Billy Strings’ full itinerary of 2022-...
Ministry Announce First-Ever Livestream Show as Last Concert of 2022
Industrial pioneers Ministry are offering fans worldwide a chance to see the band in concert with their first-ever livestream show set for November 20th. Frontman Al Jourgensen and company recently opened for Nine Inch Nails at a special one-off concert in Cleveland, and also performed at the Louder Than Life festival in Louisville. However, they were supposed to tour Europe this fall but had to cancel due to unforeseen circumstances. In order to reach fans around the globe, the band is staging a special livestream show to close out their 2022 performances. “We never intended for Cleveland with NIN to be our last show this year,” stated Jourgensen. “Due to circumstances beyond our control we had to cancel Europe but we didn’t want to end 2022 without one last show, and this will be one for...
Tilda Swinton Pulls Double Duty in The Eternal Daughter Trailer: Watch
Tilda Swinton pulls double duty in The Eternal Daughter, the mother-daughter horror film from Joanna Hogg that just got its first trailer today. Written and directed by Hogg for A24 and BBC Film, The Eternal Daughter follows Swinton as Julie and Rosalind Hart, an artist and her elderly mother who return to the house Rosalind lived in when she was young. The manor has since been converted into a hotel, but Julie and Rosalind appear to be the only guests in the place — a setup that always bodes well in horror. Over time, the mysterious history of the property haunts the women. “The longer we’re here, the more it comes back,” the elder Hart says in the trailer. “The dread.” Watch Swinton pull double-duty in the trailer for The Eternal Daughter below. Advertisement Related ...
Shanghai Officials Lock Disney Resort Guests Inside Park as Part of Zero-COVID Policy
Shanghai officials locked down the Shanghai Disney Resort on October 31st, refusing to allow theme park guests to leave until they had tested negative for COVID-19. As Reuters and Deadline report, the strict measures stemmed from China’s controversial zero-COVID policy. Officials said they were spurred to action after a 31-year-old woman who had visited the park in recent days tested positive for COVID-19. At 11:39 a.m. on Monday, they closed the gates to the main theme park and all surrounding grounds. According to unverified videos on social media, crowds of resort guests rushed towards the entrance to avoid the lockdown, only to find the gates already closed. Advertisement Related Video Those in the park were allowed to continue going on rides until testing concluded by 8:30 p.m. t...
Daniel Radcliffe: “Not Everybody in the Harry Potter Franchise” Is Transphobic Like J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling has long since put a dark cloud over her beloved Harry Potter franchise by consistently sharing unsolicited transphobic opinions, but Harry Potter himself Daniel Radcliffe wants fans to know that she doesn’t speak for everyone involved in the fantasy series. The actor once again spoke out against the author’s transphobia in a new interview with Indiewire, in hopes of supporting all Harry Potter fans who identify as LGTBQ+. Radcliffe first distanced himself from Rowling back in 2020, when he penned an open letter for LGBTQ+ nonprofit The Trevor Project where he stated in plain terms that “transgender women are women.” At the time, he offered the disclaimer that his statement was not meant to be seen as “in-fighting between J.K. Rowling and myself,” but a call to actio...
Huey Lewis and the News Sell Majority of Catalog for $20 Million
Huey Lewis and the News have sold the majority of their catalog to Primary Wave Music for around $20 million, Variety reports. The deal includes all of the band’s music from inception through 1994, which includes hit albums like Sports and Fore! Of the band’s 10-album discography, seven of them were released before 1994, which means Primary Wave now owns hits like “Heart of Rock & Roll,” “Hip to Be Square,” “Workin’ For a Livin’,” and the Back to the Future single “The Power of Love.” In addition to simply owning Huey Lewis and the News’ music, the deal gives the publishing company the right to use the group’s music in marketing, opening the door to synch opportunities in film and television (though let’s be honest, there’s no topping American Psycho‘s use of ...
Ralphie’s Back for the Holidays in First Trailer for A Christmas Story Christmas: Watch
A beloved holiday classic reckons with the passage of time in the new trailer for A Christmas Story Christmas. The sequel to 1983’s A Christmas Story begins streaming November 17th on HBO Max. Peter Billingsley returns as Ralphie Parker, still bespectacled but now closer to the end of his life than the beginning. After the death of his Old Man, he returns to his old Cleveland neighborhood to share Christmas with his kids and help his mother (Julie Hagerty, taking over the part from now-retired actress Melinda Dillon). “Ralphie,” she says in the trailer, “Promise me we’re gonna make this a wonderful Christmas. That would make your father so happy.” Ralphie of course promises, but Billingsley’s narration screams, “What had I done? And now it was all up to me?” A...
