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LeBron James & Bugs Bunny Look Like They’re In Trouble In Small Glimpse of ‘Space of Jam: A New Legacy’
Source: Harry How / Getty We got our first good look at LeBron James and Bugs Bunny in action in the upcoming Space Jam reboot… well, sort of. After Netflix recently dropped a trailer flexing its muscle for the new year, HBO Max said hold its beer and decided to do the same. Coming into 2021, HBO’s streaming service got significantly stronger thanks to a deal with Warner Bros that secured HBO Max the streaming rights to blockbuster films like Godzilla vs. King Kong, the very mid Wonder Woman 84, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Mortal Kombat, and other titles. In the 30 second clip, we get glimpses of all of those titles, but Bron’s Space Jam movie had the internet talking. In the very tiny sneak peek of the film, we see King James donning the new Tune Squad uniform, and Bugs Bunny watching in ast...
An ‘NBA Jam’ Documentary Is In The Works
Source: EA Sports / EA Sports Before NBA 2K became the go-to video game for basketball fans, NBA Jam was thee arcade game basketball aficionados considered the greatest of all-time. Now more than 25 years after the cartoonish NBA video game made its debut in bodegas and arcades across the world, Variety is reporting that NBA Jam will be getting its own documentary detailing its creation and rise to popularity. Sean Menard (The Carter Effect) has been tapped to develop and direct the documentary about the two-on-two NBA game that racked up more than $1 billion in quarters upon its release. “When ‘NBA Jam’ hit the arcade, I was barely tall enough to reach the joystick and view the screen at the same time,” says Menard. “But while literally standing on my toes, I was completely immersed in a ...
‘MLK/FBI’ Documentary Zeroes In On FBI’s Plans To Destroy Martin Luther King Jr.
Source: Christian HIROU / Getty Martin Luther King Jr. attracted the attention of not only his loyal group of supporters during the height of the Civil Rights Movement but also that of detractors hoping to defame him. While it has become common knowledge that the FBI took aim at the leader in hopes of destroying him, a new documentary from IFC Films takes a deeper look inside that nefarious plot. MLK/FBI, now in theaters as well as at home on demand, highlights the FBI’s designed plan to tear down King by way of recently released documents, who was surging among not only Black Americans rallying behind his cause but also with liberal-minded whites as well. As viewers learn while watching MLK/FBI, William C. Sullivan, the FBI’s director of domestic intelligence, wrote in an internal memo wo...
Nigeria to conduct 450 coronavirus tests per local council
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 says the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) will carry out 450 COVID-19 tests in each local government area of the country. The PTF chairman, Mr Boss Mustapha, also Secretary to the Government of the Federation, made this known at the national briefing on COVID-19 on Monday in Abuja. Mustapha said the exercise would start with the states that were in the forefront of resourcing and infrastructure. According to him, the PTF has authorised the NCDC to immediately implement the 450 tests per local government plan nationwide. Mustapha said: “We are aware that states are not on the same pedestal in the area of testing, and we shall begin with the states that are in the forefront of resourcing and infrastructure.” On resumption of schools, Mus...
Flux Pavilion is Streaming His Full Upcoming Album on Twitch Today
As the hype for .wav—Flux Pavilion‘s sophomore album—creeps toward its boiling point, the bass music virtuoso has announced a special livestream. Flux Pavilion will be cycling through each cut of the album today via his Twitch channel. Taking to social media to announce the stream, he said he’ll be playing the record start to finish, offering commentary on each song, and answering questions from viewers. Considering the album comprises a whopping 16 tracks, longtime fans of the electronic music tastemaker will want to stop by. Fans can tune in at 11AM PT (7PM GMT, 2PM ET). The longtime dubstep tastemaker recently announced that he is moving on from the genre, citing a lack of interest after a decade of producing some of its most seminal tracks. In a response to a fan ...
Tritonal Announces New Album
It’s been almost two years since fans of Tritonal have heard a new album from the famed dance music duo, but that will soon change. Tritonal took to Twitter over the weekend to announce that they are finishing up a new album, their third studio effort since their 2011 debut. This time around, however, they went in a different direction with their creative process. They produced the entire album in one Logic project file, which comprises a staggering 417 tracks to generate “one big cohesive ethereal & meditative piece of music.” “We’re finishing a brand new Album Today, which is over an hour in length, and was ENTIRELY written front to back in one Logic Pro X File,” Tritonal tweeted. “Track count is 417 Tracks. Its one big ...
Martin Luther King Jr. Was Assassinated 4 Days Before the 1968 Oscars: The Show Did Not Go On
The Oscars initially planned to go forward as scheduled, but it became increasingly apparent that the show simply couldn’t go on. The show was pushed back two days, to April 10, the day after the funeral. With that, these four stars agreed to appear on the show in these roles. The Oscar telecast opened, appropriately, on a serious note. Gregory Peck, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences at the time, offered some sober remarks. “This has been a fateful week in the history of our nation. We join with fellow members of our profession and men of goodwill everywhere in paying our profound respects to the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Society has always been reflected in its art and one measure of Dr. King’s influence on the society we live in is that of t...
From ‘Rompe’ To ‘Con Calma,’ Here Are Daddy Yankee’s Longest-Leading Latin Airplay Hits
Check them out below: “Rompe”On the chart: “Rompe” peaked at No. 1 on Dec. 10, 2005, where it reigned for 15 weeks. Before “Despacito,” Daddy Yankee crowned the chart for more than three months, holding steady at No. 1 with his 2005 hit “Rompe.” Along with “Gasolina,” the catchy reggaeton hit about being the best in his lane ultimately put Daddy Yankee, reggaeton and Latin hip-hop on the international map. “Nota de Amor”On the chart: “Nota de Amor” (Wisin & Carlos Vives feat. Daddy Yankee) peaked at No. 1 on April 25, 2015, where it reigned for two weeks. Teaming up with Wisin and Carlos Vives, Daddy Yankee flaunts his romantic side on “Nota de Amor.” The feel-good track is an urban-tropipop hit that perfectly fuses Vives’ vallenato sound with Yankee’s quick-paced rap verses. “Despacit...
Justin Timberlake Confirms Birth of Second Baby With Jessica Biel, Reveals New Son’s Name
Timberlake and Biel married in 2012 and welcomed their first child, son Silas, three years later. During their chat, JT revealed that Ellen was one of the few people “outside of the immediate family” to learn about Biel’s second pregnancy. “I think we were FaceTiming and you said, ‘Hey, you want to know a secret?’ and then Jessica walked in and you put your hand on her stomach. You were like, ‘I’m having another baby!'” the talk show host recalled. In September, Timberlake’s former *NSYNC bandmate Lance Bass revealed news about Phineas’ arrival while speaking with Entertainment Tonight. Reports swirled last summer that the couple had welcomed a second child, but neither had spoken publicly. Watch a snippet of Timberlake̵...
Phil Spector Built a Wall of Sound That Couldn’t Contain the Monster Within Him
But Spector was different. At the start, on the Teddy Bears’ “To Know Him is To Love Him” — a rephrasing of the epitaph from his father’s gravestone that Spector turned into a Hot 100 No. 1 in 1958 — his sound was not so very far removed from the other recordings of the day, many of which carried the spacious aura of the rooms in which they were cut, investing early rock and pop with the mystical sense that new frontiers were being explored. Eventually though, he recognized how to make that aura the centerpiece of his records. You can hear how he did just that in the very first hit on Philles, the Crystals’ “There’s No Other Like My Baby” from 1962. Built like a rocket with three stages, it begins simply, with bass, guitar and voice rippling outward in stark echo before a piano...
Early Radiohead Demo With Unheard Songs From Late ’80s Up for Auction
A cassette demo containing three previously unheard and undocumented songs by On A Friday, the band become Radiohead in 1991, is up for auction. The six-song tape is expected to bring about $2,700. The current bid at Omega Auctions is about $2,000. The unheard tunes are titled “Promise Me,” “Boy In A Box” and “These Chains.” The other three songs on the demo are “Happy Song,” “To Be A Brilliant Light” and “Sinking Ship.” The auction ends on Jan. 26. The Thom Yorke-designed inlay card features Yorke’s writing “Gripe + 3 trax at beginning.” On the cassette’s inlay, Yorke wrote “Before the ones overleaf are the following (most recent recordings 1989) Promise Me (Thom), Body(?) in a box (Colin/Thom), These are the Chains (Thom).” The band members — brothers Jonny and Colin ...
Remembering Dr. King The Alpha Man
Source: The Washington Post / Getty The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had two siblings but thousands of brothers. The preacher, scholar and civil rights leader became a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the first and oldest collegiate fraternity for African American men, on June 22nd 1952. King, who studied at Morehouse College in Atlanta as a teenager, was pursuing his Doctorate in Philosophy at Boston University when he was initiated at the Sigma Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha seated in Boston. He was 23 years old. In a BET documentary on Dr. King and his membership in Alpha, one of his fellow initiates, or line brothers, recalled King standing out amongst the pledges because he was older, almost as old as some of the big brothers. “The pledge group met at my grandfather’s h...
