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Andra Day has officially added herself to a historic line of annual pre-Super Bowl performances by singing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at the 2024 Super Bowl, this year held at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Taking to the field just minutes ahead of this year’s kickoff between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco […]
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Riverdale’s Camila Mendes is returning to our screens, but instead of investigating supernatural happenings with her gang of friends, she takes on the role of an intern who experiences a heartwarming meet-cute. The new movie titled Upgraded premieres on Prime Video on Friday (Feb. 9) and will make a swoon-worthy film to watch for Valentine’s Day.
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Before you start scouring your streaming options, here’s what you can expect from the movie: the film follows Ana (Mendes), an ambitious intern trying to impress her demanding boss Claire (Marisa Tomei) and get her foot in the door to the art world. During a business trip, Ana is upgraded to first class where she meets Will (Archie Renaux) who mistakes her for her boss. Her white lie sets off a chain of events resulting in romance, but eventually the truth threatens to surface.
Other cast members include Gregory Montel, Aimee Carrero, Andrew Schulz, Rachel Matthews, Lena Olin, Fola Evans-Akingbola, Anthony Head and Saoirse-Monica Jackson.
Keep reading to learn how to watch the movie online.
How to Watch Upgraded
Upgraded is an Amazon MGM movie, which means it’s exclusively available to watch on Prime Video. If you’re a Prime member, you can stream the movie for free when you sign into your account.
Not a Prime member? Amazon offers a 30-day free trial for new users who sign up, which means you can stream the movie for no extra cost and more. Once the free trial is done, you’ll be charged the regular membership price of $14.99/month or $139/year.
Looking to save on a Prime membership? Students can take advantage of a student membership that comes with a six month free trial and 50% off subscription price. If you’re a part of an eligible government program, you can sign up for the EBT/Medicaid membership, which has a 30-day free trial and half-off subscription fee.
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Upgraded isn’t the only thing you’ll be able to watch with a Prime membership, you’ll have access to the entire Prime Video library including exclusive and original content such as Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Underdoggs, Saltburn, Invincible, Red, White & Royal Blue, The Summer I Turned Pretty, I’m a Virgo, Daisy Jones & The Six, The Boys, Gen V, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Fleabag, The Wheel of Time and Expats.
You can expand your content options by adding premium channels like Paramount+, Starz and Max to your subscription through the Prime Channel storefront.
A membership will also open up exclusive benefits such as access to Prime Day, member-only discounts, grocery deliveries, free one-day shipping, Prime Try Before You Buy, Prime Reading, Prime Gaming and more.
Check out the trailer for Upgraded below.
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There will be plenty of jokes, stunts and look-at-me celeb cameos in the commercials that air during Sunday’s (Feb. 11) Super Bowl LVIII. But one star-studded ad will also serve up a spoonful of hard-facts sugar with its A-list medicine courtesy of Grammy nominees Jelly Roll and Valerie June and this year’s best country album […]
Saddle up, BeyHive. Those rumors about a Beyoncé cameo in Verizon’s 2024 Super Bowl commercial just got a lot more serious. Two days after first sending fans into a frenzy with a teaser seemingly hinting at the superstar’s involvement, the company has now dropped a second clip ahead of its highly anticipated Super Bowl ad […]
André 3000 is an enigma. The reclusive former OutKast MC has kept a low profile for much of the past 20 years, popping up for an occasional guest verse or movie role when he’s not wandering the Earth playing one of his arsenal of flutes.
But on The Late Show on Thursday night (Feb. 8), the rapper-turned-jazzer hung around to take the “Colbert Questionert,” the random series of queries from host Stephen Colbert meant to delve into the unexplored recesses of the enigmatic flautist’s soul.
As always, Colbert opened with the easiest question: what is the best sandwich? In the perfect response, 3000 offered up “a friend bologna sandwich,” adding some crucial cooking tips, including cutting slits into the lunch meat so it doesn’t bubble up in the pan.
As for his first concert, of course André — currently on tour promoting his first new solo album in more than two decades, the rap-less, all-instrumental flute jazz collection New Blue Sun — had the coolest answer: a Fresh Fest hip-hip jam in his hometown of Atlanta featuring Public Enemy, LL Cool J and Whodini. “My mama took me,” Dre bragged, as Colbert tried to earn cool points by revealing that his mother had also taken him to his first show, the slightly less hip Captain & Tennille.
Colbert quickly corrected himself, though, a remembered that it was actually 1970s/1980s fluglehorn/trumpet giant Chuck Mangione. That selection that clearly appealed to the host’s woodwind-loving guest, who then scatted along with Colbert on a duet of Mangione’s signature 1978 jazz-pop classic “Feels So Good.”
3000 ran through a series of other provocative answers to questions such as “What is the scariest animal?”(humans), the requisite “Apples or Oranges?” (oranges) and “What do you think happens when we die,” which was more complicated. “We just kind of transfer to another body… the energy doesn’t go anywhere,” André said. “These are just kind of space suits, or Earth suits we walk around in… I think that energy goes into something else or to another we can’t even imagine.”
As for why he has never appeared in any of the Fast & Furious movies, veteran actor 3000 joked he would have “but I think Ludacris took the role!” Turns out he wasn’t joking. He said he did audition for a spot in the long-running, rubber-burning franchise, but was aced out by his fellow A-town MC Luda. He’d still come back for a later chapter, perhaps for the as-yet-unwritten one Colbert suggested: Too Fast, Too Flute.
The sire of Stankonia then proclaimed that his favorite smell is a baby’s breath, “when they’re new and it don’t stink yet,” while dubbing cigarette smoke his least favorite odor. Also, for the record, André is not a cat or dog person, but that’s just because he’s hardly ever home. Plus, if you heard how badly he screwed up the ant farm he got when he was a kid you’d understand why that is.
And finally, asked to name the one song he’d want to listen to on an endless loop, Three Stacks thought long and hard and said “something by [John] Coltrane.” He kind of punted on summing up the rest of his life in five words, though, grinning as he rambled, “somewhere doing something with my hands, building something, drawing something, sculpting something, chiseling something… in a workshop somewhere… making physical things that will last 1,000 years.”
Watch André answer the Questionert below.
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It’s no surprise that superstar Post Malone loves Bud Light: “I’m the tip of the spear when it comes to consumption,” he says of the brand through an audible smirk.
Which is why it’s also no surprise that Posty will star in Bud Light’s Super Bowl commercial for his third year in a row. “Maybe it will become a tradition and we just do one every year until everyone is sick of seeing me,” he questions aloud.
“I feel very handsome in this one,” he adds, noting how this commercial feels different from his previous two. “I’m going for a Clooney vibe. You know, Clooney is a little older, but he’s still a total stud. And I think, hopefully God willing, that’s what happens to me. Because I’ve been such an awkward looking dude forever, so maybe I’ll get the Clooney effect. Maybe it’ll be me and Clooney for the next Bud Light ad.”
And yet, he jokes that the team behind the commercial wouldn’t let him in their creative meetings. “They said my ideas were too epic,” he recalls.
He’s not wrong. When speaking of his long-standing fandom of the brand, another idea rolls right out: the beer blankie.
“I remember at the legal age of 21 I enjoyed [my first Bud Light] and I was like, ‘You know what? This is my deal. It makes me feel comfortable.’ And ever since then, it’s been kinda like my beer blankie. I still have my blankie, too. So it’s kinda like that … Me and Clooney with a beer blankie – that’s the next commercial.”
Despite being a Bud Light commercial veteran at this point, Post will also experience a major first during Super Bowl weekend: attending the big game. Post is one of three pregame performers, along with Reba McEntire and Andra Day, who will be singing the national anthem and “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” respectively.
As for Posty, he’ll be tackling “America the Beautiful.” And while he’s never performed the song publicly before, he reveals, “I sing it all the time, like, randomly in my most patriotic moments. It’s a song that’s always in the back of my head, and if I’m playing games or just walking around, I’ll sing it at the top of my lungs. So I’m very excited – and I’m definitely 100 percent not nervous at all to sing it in front of millions of people at the Super Bowl.”
He says he and longtime collaborator Louis Bell, along with others, have been making tweaks to how he will perform the classic, saying fans can expect a bit of country twang. “I’m just gonna sing my heart out the best I can and give America – no matter how s—-y it is – the love [this song] deserves.”
And while his beloved Dallas Cowboys will not be competing on Super Bowl Sunday, Post plans to represent them by wearing a “beautiful vintage bomber jacket signed by Tom Landry [the Cowboys’ first head coach]. I won’t be the only one there in a Cowboy’s jersey – because we know who’s supposed to be there. We got it next year.”
Until then, if he had to pick, he says he’ll be rooting for the Kansas City Chiefs – only because he has a KC tattoo – “not for any other reason … Pat [Mahomes] and Travis [Kelce], they’re great guys. A lot of great guys on both teams. But everyone in America knows who’s supposed to be there.”
Watch his Bud Light commercial below.
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Swifties, get ready to stream Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour wherever and whenever. The record-breaking concert film is heading to Disney+ on March 15, Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed on Wednesday (Feb. 7), according to The Hollywood Reporter. The movie, which is given the extended title Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version), will include the […]
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The bell’s about to ring, so find your seats! Season 3 of Abbott Elementary — starring Quinta Brunson, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Janelle James, Tyler James Williams, Lisa Ann Walter and Chris Perfetti — premieres on Wednesday (Feb. 7) at 9 p.m. on ABC.
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Created by Brunson, the mockumentary-style sitcom centers around teachers at Abbott Elementary, a fictional Philadelphia public school. The hit series won four Emmys over the last two seasons, including Brunson’s win for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series during the 75th annual Emmy Awards in January.
Read on for all the ways to watch or stream Abbott Elementary on TV and online.
How to Watch Abbott Elementary Without Cable
After being delayed due to simultaneous strikes in Hollywood last year, Abbott Elementary finally returns on Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
New episodes will air Wednesdays on ABC and stream on Hulu the next day.
If you already have cable or access to ABC and other local channels through a TV antenna, satellite or streaming, check your local listings for channel information to watch the premiere live, or stream on ABC.com (you’ll need a cable or streaming provider login).
And if you don’t have cable or access to local channels, keep reading for details on ways to stream Abbott Elementary for free on DirecTV and other platforms.
How to Watch Abbott Elementary on DirecTV
Say goodbye to cable. Streaming is an easier and more affordable way to catch must-watch shows such as Abbott Elementary from any compatible device — your TV, phone, laptop, etc.
Most streaming platforms offer discounts and free trials, including DirecTV Stream, which is free for the first five days.
The streaming plan includes 75+ channels such as ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox along with dozens of cable channels like Bravo, E!, ESPN, TLC, Food Network, A&E, AMC, BET, Cartoon Network, MTV, VH1, CMT, Paramount Network, HGTV, HLN and HSN.
You’ll also get access to Max, Paramount+ with Showtime, Starz and other premium channels for free for three months when you subscribe to certain DirecTV plans.
Fubo TV is similar to DirecTV in that it offers ABC and other local channels. The streamer includes a one-week free trial compared to five days with DirecTV and 175+ channels including ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, ESPN, BIG Network, Oxygen True Crime, Magnolia Network, HGTV, Nick Jr., OWN, FX, MSNB, FS1, MSNBC and much more.
Sling TV is another option for streaming live television. You can stream over 30 cable channels and local channels such as ABC in select areas. Plans starting at just $20/month (reg. $40/month).
Streaming internationally? You can access several platforms through ExpressVPN.
How to Watch Abbott Elementary on Hulu
You can stream new episodes of Abbott Elementary for free on Hulu starting on Thursday (Feb. 8). Hulu is free for the first week and $7.99/month for the basic plan (or $69.99 a year). The streamer offers a student discount plan for $1.99/month.
If you’d rather watch live television, subscribe to Hulu + Live TV and stream 90+ live channels for one low price. Hulu + Live TV includes access to Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN+.
Hulu’s list of original and exclusive programs includes Only Murders in the Building, The Bear, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Kardashians, Love & WWE, Death & Other Details and Self Reliance, along with most new episodes from network TV the day after they air.
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How to Binge Abbott Elementary Season 1 & 2 Online
Want to catch up on Abbott Elementary before the season premiere? Binge Abbott Elementary, and thousands of other TV episodes, plus movies and more on Hulu or Max. Single episodes and the first season are available for purchase through streaming platforms such as Prime Video, Vudu and Google Play, and iTunes.
Watch the Season 3 trailer for Abbott Elementary below.
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Over the course of one weekend, the internet was set aflame with a fiery rap beef taking place in real time — and no, it wasn’t the one between Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion. Starting Saturday (Feb. 3), fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race were treated to a deeply entertaining, tongue-in-cheek “feud” between two former […]
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Get in, loser. Mean Girls is dropping a limited-edition collector’s DVD and it’s time to go preorder a copy. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the classic 2004 film is being released in 4K UHD, which means if you prefer not to watch the movie through its available streaming options, you’ll be able to grab a hardcopy of Mean Girls and relive every fetch moment in a high-definition picture.
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The 20th anniversary edition will be released on April 30 (sorry to those hoping it’d be Oct. 3), but Amazon has opened preorders so you can make sure you don’t miss out on snagging this limited-edition collector’s piece. Preordering it now will ensure you get a copy the moment it’s released, and you’ll only be charged the preorder price, which means if the price goes up on the release date, you won’t be charged extra.
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‘Mean Girls’ 20th Anniversary Edition
You can finally get a copy of your own Burn Book with the newest edition of Mean Girls. The limited-edition DVD is available in 4K UHD that will arrive encased in a special steelbook inspired by the famous Burn Book, and featuring a red lipstick pattern on the back. Each DVD will include the 4K disc as well as a digital code to stream it online and on the go.
The original Mean Girls is based on the book Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman, and has become a cult-classic movie that still dominates pop culture today.
Already, the collector’s edition has become the No. 1 bestseller on Amazon for movies and TV — and it hasn’t even been released yet. The film’s popularity even led to a Broadway musical adaptation that was recently turned into its own movie.
How to Watch Mean Girls (2024)
While the musical version of the film is still in theaters (which you can get tickets to here), you can preorder the new Mean Girls on DVD from Amazon — and for 22% off.
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Just like the 2004 version, Mean Girls the musical version follows Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) as she navigates public school after moving from Africa to a suburb in Illinois with her zoologist parents. Through song and dance, she discovers the harsh reality of high school and finds herself in a web of lies after being welcomed into the elite social group known as The Plastics.
Where to Watch Mean Girls
If you’d rather watch the movie online at home, the original Mean Girls is available to stream for free on Paramount+. If you have a Paramount+ subscription, you can stream the film for no additional cost — just log in to your account and you’ll be able to find it under the “movies” category.
Don’t have Paramount+? The streaming platform offers a weeklong free trial for new users who sign up, which means you can watch the movie for free. Once your free trial is over, you’ll be charged the normal subscription fee based on the plan you choose. Click here or below to start your free trial.
You’ll be able to choose between two membership plans: Paramount+ Essential or Paramount+ with Showtime. The Essential plan is the cheapest at $5.99/month and includes limited ads, thousands of episodes and movies as well as exclusive and original content, NFL on CBS, UEFA Champions League and 24/7 news on CBS live.
For an ad-free streaming experience, you can choose Paramount+ with Showtime for $11.99/month, which includes everything in the Essential plan as well as exclusive and original programming from Showtime, live TV on CBS, college football and the ability to download content to watch offline.
Prime members can also add Paramount+ to their Prime Video library through the premium channel storefront.
The musical version of Mean Girls has yet to receive a streaming date, but once it does, it will most likely drop on Paramount+ since that’s the official distributer of the film.
Besides Mean Girls on the streaming service, you’ll also be able to watch content such as Survivor, Big Brother, Jersey Shore Family Vacation, Frasier, Mixtape, Family Legacy, I Wanna Rock, Hip Hop My House, Behind The Music, Yellowstone, Fatal Attraction, Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, 1923, iCarly, The Good Fight, Mayor of Kingstown, Seal Team, Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, Why Women Kill and Before I Forget. With Showtime, you can stream original shows and movies such as Yellowjackets, The 12th Victim, Dexter, Dexter: New Blood, George & Tammy, Homeland, Ziwe, Penny Dreadful, Buried and more.
Watch the trailer for the original Mean Girls below.
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