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Michael B. Jordan is taking over Saturday Night Live for his hosting debut this weekend (Jan. 28), with Lil Baby taking the stage as musical guest.
However, in a new promo for the episode, SNL favorite Heidi Gardner was a bit confused when the Black Panther actor introduced the rapper. “What? No way! Where? I love little babies,” Gardner shouted, before Lil Baby cleared up the misinterpretation.
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“You see how that could be confusing?” the comedian asks the rapper in response.
In another cut, Gardner asks Jordan to be her Valentine, as the holiday of love is coming up in a few weeks. When the SAG Award winner took too long to make his decision, Lil Baby quickly offered to be the SNL cast member’s valentine. “You snooze, you lose,” Gardner tells Jordan.
Saturday Night Live airs every Saturday live on NBC at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT. For those without cable, the broadcast will also stream on NBC’s streaming service, Peacock, which you can sign up for at the link here. Having a Peacock account also gives fans on demand access to previous SNL episodes as well.
Watch the new series of promos below.
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Jennifer Lopez, Josh Duhamel, Jennifer Coolidge, Cheech Marin and Lenny Kravitz are inviting you to attend the ultimate destination wedding in Shotgun Wedding. The romantic comedy will premiere on Prime Video on Friday (Jan. 27).
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In the film, Darcy (Lopez) and Tom (Duhamel) gather their loved ones for an unforgettable destination wedding — just as the couple start to get cold feet.
Apprehension isn’t the only thing threatening their happy celebration. The entire wedding party is taken hostage tasking Darcy and Tom with saving their loved ones.
The cast of Shotgun Wedding includes: Sonia Braga, Selena Tan, D’Arcy Carden, Callie Hernandez, Desmin Borges and Steve Coulter are included in the cast.
Todd Lieberman, David Hoberman, Alexander Young, Lopez, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas and Benny Medina are executive producers.
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Watch the trailer for Shotgun Wedding below.
Ever watched an animated movie and heard a voice that you couldn’t quite place? That could have been because a character — be it a blue-haired troll or a singing crocodile — was actually played by someone whose tone you’re much more used to hearing in song.
Over the years, dozens of celebrity musicians have added a whimsical film project or two to their resumés by lending their certified platinum voices to colorful 2D characters. There was Taylor Swift in The Lorax, Rihanna in Home, Beyoncé in Epic, Katy Perry in Smurfs, Selena Gomez in the Hotel Transylvania franchise, and Nicki Minaj and Jennifer Lopez in Ice Age. At this point, it’s practically a trend. No family-feature film made by the folks at DreamWorks, Illumination or Disney Animation Studios feels complete these days without at least one cameo from a star singer-songwriter, whether it’s queen of pop Madonna or a hip-hop icon such Snoop Dogg. (They were actually both in the same movie, but more on that later.)
In some cases, these guest musicians become part of a voice cast simply to try out something new. In others, they contribute their own expertise to the project by working on an animated film’s soundtrack — oftentimes to great success. One of Justin Timberlake‘s best-charting songs, “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” was written for Trolls 2, in which he also starred, and took home the Oscar for best original song in 2017.
Keep reading to see which of your favorite musicians have starred in an animated film below:
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Suspect someone’s lying? Natasha Lyonne is sniffing out the truth in Poker Face, a 10-episode series premiering on Peacock on Thursday (Jan. 26).
Lyonne plays Charlie Cale, a casino worker who can tell if a person is lying by looking at their face. After discovering her new talent for spotting lies, Charlie takes her crime-solving skills on the road.
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Lyonne, who previously starred in Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black and Russian Doll, revealed that Charlie is inspired by Jeff Bridges’ character, The Dude, from The Big Lebowski. Speaking to the Associated Press, Lyonne described the character as “a person a little bit set back who’s kind of got sun on their face.”
“I’m usually more of a city slicker and someone who avoids getting hit by taxis and runs down in a subway,” she said.
Lyonne serves as executive producer on the mystery-of-the-week series created and executive produced by Rian Jonhson, the man behind Knives Out. The native New Yorker reunites with her OITNB co-star Dascha Polanco, who plays Charlie’s friend Natalie in Poker Face (Polanco also appeared in Russian Doll).
Adrien Brody, Benjamin Bratt, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Stephanie Hsu, David Castañeda, Lil Rel Howery, Jameela Jamil, Ellen Barkin and Chloë Sevigny are some of the series’ guest stars.
Maya Rudolph, Ram Bergman, Nena Rodrigue, Nora Zuckerman, Lilla Zuckerman and Iain B. MacDonald are co-executive producers. Keep reading for details on how to stream Poker Face from anywhere.
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Watch the trailer for Poker Face below.
The Last of Us star Pedro Pascal will make his Saturday Night Live hosting debut on the Feb. 4 episode of the show, which will feature musical guest Coldplay. While the actor who stars in the new HBO drama based on the wildly popular action-adventure video game as well as Disney+’s The Mandalorian will be taking the stage at 8H for the first time, next month’s performance will mark Coldplay’s seventh go-round on SNL.
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The pair join a 2023 run that has already included White Lotus star Aubrey Plaza and Sam Smith last weekend and Creed‘s Michael Jordan and Lil Baby preparing to rock SNL this weekend.
Coldplay recently announced a new run of West Coast shows in September on their massive “Music of the Spheres” world tour while the first two episodes of HBO’s apocalyptic pandemic drama has been a ratings juggernaut, with Sunday’s second chapter up 22% (5.7 million viewers) over the 4 million fans who tuned in for the debut.
Smith turned heads last weekend with a dramatic pair of performances of songs from their upcoming album. For their third appearance as an SNL musical guest, the singer unleashed unforgettable live performances of chart-topper “Unholy” and the title track from their soon-to-be-released fourth album, Gloria, due out Friday (Jan. 27).
Smith opened with their smash hit “Unholy,” which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 2022. Donning an extravagant fluffy pink dress, Smith belted out the opening lines of the song before sneaking in Kim Petras, who is featured on the track, to assist with her verse. For their second performance, the singer surprised with a guest appearance from Oscar-nominated actress Sharon Stone, who lounged on a gold-covered couch while Smith delivered their recently dropped single “Gloria.”
Paw-some news! Kim Kardashian is joining the cast of Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie along with her two eldest children, North and Saint West.
Paramount Pictures unveiled the cast of the animated sequel to 2021’s Paw Patrol: The Movie — which also includes Kristen Bell, Christian Convery, McKenna Grace, Lil Rel Howery, James Marsden, Serena Williams, Taraji P. Henson, Marsai Martin and Ron Pardo — in an Instagram post on Wednesday (Jan. 25). “Who’s ready for another PAWsome adventure on the big screen?” the studio captioned the post before revealing the film’s Oct. 13 theatrical release date.
North and Saint weren’t included in the big announcement, but the two elementary schoolers are listed among the cast on the movie’s official IMDb page. While the reality star will reprise her role as Delores the poodle, E! News reports that North will voice a character and Saint’s role will be a “cameo” of some sort.
Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie will serve as the first major movie roles for both North and Saint, though the siblings are, of course, more than used to be in front of the cameras on their famous family’s two reality shows, Hulu’s The Kardashians and its E! ancestor Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
Just after the Thanksgiving holiday, Kardashian finally settled her divorce from the kids’ father, Kanye West, nearly two years after she first filed to dissolve the marriage in early 2021. And earlier this month, she hopped on TikTok with North to dance it out to Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” — a rather surprising song choice given the Skims co-founder and Kanye’s rather rocky history with the pop superstar.
Check out the announcement of Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie below.
The NFL announced today the musical lineup for its inaugural Pro Bowl Games, the multi-day programming slate that is replacing the traditional Pro Bowl exhibition game for the first time this year. Rae Sremmurd will headline the halftime show of the main event on Sunday, Feb. 5, which will be a flag football game between representatives of the AFC and NFC this year instead of a contact event.
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The main event will take place at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, home of the Las Vegas Raiders, from 3pm-6pm EST on that Sunday on ABC and ESPN. In addition to Rae Sremmurd, performers include country singer Jessie James Decker singing the national anthem, the Las Vegas Academy Choir performing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” and additional appearances by DJ Esther Anaya and the Blue Man Group.
In addition to the flagship flag football game that Sunday, the Pro Bowl Games will include a skills competition on Thursday, Feb. 2 from 7pm-8:30 EST on ESPN, which will then continue on Sunday. That competition will include multiple rounds of dodgeball; a three-part “lightning round” event that will involve a water balloon toss and a water bucket challenge; a golf event; a quarterback accuracy competition; a “best catch” contest; a kicking tic-tac-toe challenge; and more. The winner of each challenge will earn points for their conference, which will be added to points earned from each of two initial flag football games on the Sunday; the points accumulated by all those events will then determine the opening score of the final flag football game. Hard to explain but sounds like fun.
The Pro Bowl Games are taking place the week between the NFL’s conference championship games and the Super Bowl, which will be held Sunday, Feb. 12 in Glendale, Arizona. Rihanna is headlining the Super Bowl Halftime Show, the first year it will be presented by Apple Music.
Sam Smith stunned onstage for a moving performance of “Gloria” during Saturday Night Live, and the four-time Grammy winner surprised fans when Sharon Stone joined them for a cameo.
During the song, the Oscar-nominated actress lounged on a gold-covered couch. Surrounded by a group of darkly robed singers, Smith — who was draped in a gold sequin blazer — beautifully crooned the track while Stone slowly rose from her reclined position and gazed off into the distance.
Smith opened up about the decision to have Stone join them for the performance in a new interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, airing on Thursday (Jan. 26).
“I wanted to do the hymn ‘Gloria’ that I wrote for the record, which is a wild one because I’m not even … I’m hardly singing on it,” they shared. “I sing at the end of it, but it’s a whole choir. On my tour, the stage is shaped like Aphrodite, so, like, the golden Aphrodite body. And that’s the shape of the stage. I was like, ‘How can we bring that vibe to SNL?’”
They continued, “Sharon Stone is going to be in the middle of the stage at SNL in gold as like a piece of life art. The whole performance is just the choir around her singing ‘Gloria’ to her in this golden light. Isn’t it so sick? … I was like, ‘It has to be Sharon Stone,’ and I messaged Sharon. She’s just such a powerful woman. But she’s a powerful woman, and she exudes vulnerability and beauty in a way that to me is real and authentic.”
Gloria, the follow-up to 2020’s Love Goes, features the previously released singles “Love Me More,” “Gimme” and the Kim Petras-assisted hit “Unholy,” which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 2022 and is nominated for best pop duo/group performance at the 2023 Grammy Awards.
Watch the full interview here at 10 a.m. PT on Thursday.
Get ready for dreams to come true next month when American Idol returns for its 21st season. In a Las Vegas-themed teaser tweet on Wednesday (Jan. 25), judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan were joined by host Ryan Seacrest as the quartet posed next to a giant slot machine to announce that the prime time singing competition will be back on your screens starting Feb. 19.
The ABC series promo promises “the best is yet to come” and in her twist on the announcement, Perry — who, of course, is in the midst of her Vegas “Play” residency — wrote, “American Idol has been making dreams come true for 21 years, you think we’re not gonna go BIG?!” alongside slot machine, music note and dice emoji.
The 2022 season was won by Kentucky country singer Noah Thompson, who beat out runner-up HunterGirl. Thompson, who said he ended up on the show because a friend signed him up, posted a tribute to the viewers who supported him following his win, writing, “Had a hard time making this post because I truly couldn’t find the words to say.. I was In complete shock in this moment and I still am and I probably always will be! Thank you all for giving me this opportunity, thank you for everyone who voted, thank you guys so much for everything!! I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you all so thank you guys so so much. I’m looking forward to continuing this journey and seeing where this thing goes. Love all of you all.”
Thompson’s just dropped the video for his new single, “Make You Rich,” this week.
Check out the Idol teasers below.
American Idol has been making dreams come true for 21 years, you think we’re not gonna go BIG?! 🎰🎶 Roll the 🎲 with us, the season premiere is Feb. 19 on ABC! ✨ pic.twitter.com/3lQlGWKjcJ— KATY PERRY (@katyperry) January 25, 2023
As the granddaughter of Elvis Presley, Riley Keough has rock in her DNA. The Terminal List star proves it in the first trailer for the upcoming Amazon Prime Video show Daisy Jones & The Six, a limited series in which Keough plays Jones alongside the rest of the Six — Sam Claflin, Suki Waterhouse, Will Harrison, Josh Whitehouse and Sebastian Chacon — in a story about a fictional 1970s band whose meteoric rise to fame crashed and burned after a sold-out show at Chicago’s Soldier Field.
The show catches up with the group decades later as they finally agree to sit for interviews to tell the real story of what caused their blow-up. The trailer opens with Keough’s Jones slowly walking to the stage as an unseen crowd shouts her name, intercut with images of hordes of fans mobbing the group at the airport and Jones doing a dramatic spin on stage in a gauzy, butterfly-like top that will give viewers some serious Stevie Nicks vibes.
“Look, I know that I said I would tell you everything, but how much of everything do you really wanna know,” Jones says to an interviewer years later. With the urgent first single, “Regret Me,” swelling up, the trailer then cuts to a montage of the group on their way to the top, touring in an old 1970s microbus, playing a gig in the desert, laying down tracks in the recording studio and then falling apart in slow motion.
The limited series from Amazon Studios and Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine is based on the 2019 New York Times bestselling novel that was optioned by the actresses’ media company a year before it even hit shelves. According to a description, “the group became a band both on-screen and off – with some of the multi-hyphenates learning their character’s instrument for the very first time during production, and Keough and Claflin lending their vocals to each track.”
The series was directed by Grammy-winning songwriter/producer Blake Mills (Bob Dylan, Fiona Apple) and it features songs co-written by Marcus Mumford, Phoebe Bridgers and Jackson Browne, with additional production from producer Tony Berg and instrumental help from performers in Rilo Kiley, The Who, Nine Inch Nails, Pearl Jam, David Bowie, Elton John, Jeff Beck, The Wallflowers, and others.
“Creating the library of music for Daisy Jones and The Six was an experience I’ll never forget,” said Mills in a statement. “I am grateful that, among other things, it afforded me an opportunity to collaborate with so many of my peers, and also some of my heroes.”
Atlantic Records will release the 11-track debut album from the group, Aurora, on March 3 (the same day the show premieres), including the roaring country rock lead single, “Regret Me.” The song sung by Keough’s Jones and her bandmate Billy Dunne (Claflin) was “written” by the star-crossed pair in the 1970s for Aurora and released on their fictional record label, Ellemar Records.
Watch the trailer and listen to “Regret Me” below.