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Eminem and Post Malone have appeared in cameos in the full trailer for Happy Gilmore 2, which dropped over the weekend ahead of the film’s July 25 release on Netflix.
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The sequel follows Adam Sandler’s iconic character returning to the green nearly 30 years after the original to raise $300,000 for his daughter’s ballet tuition.
Sandler previously announced the Detroit rapper’s inclusion in the highly anticipated sequel during a recent appearance on The Dan Patrick Show.
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“Eminem was cool, he came by, he was great,” Sandler raved of Em, adding, “I’ve known Eminem for a long time, he’s a great guy and he came in and was funny as hell,” he said. “I think we just hung out a day with Eminem and he just shot and shot and he was insane. [He] said a million things we can use and a million that we’re glad we have him on tape.”
The cameo-filled trailer features a slew of other big names, including Bad Bunny, Travis Kelce, Eric André, Margaret Qualley, and Martin Herlihy.
Bad Bunny plays Gilmore’s chaotic new caddie, while Ben Stiller, Julie Bowen, and Christopher McDonald reprise their roles from the 1996 classic. The movie also stars Sandler’s real-life daughter, Sunny Sandler, who plays Gilmore’s daughter.
Back in August, Sandler also discussed Travis Kelce’s cameo in the comedy flick. During a Tonight Show appearance, the comedian shared of the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, “He’s a very nice guy. You guys would love him in real life. What a big, handsome guy. Funny and cool as hell. He’s a stud and he’s so funny.”
Directed by Kyle Newacheck and co-written by Sandler and longtime collaborator Tim Herlihy, the film blends nostalgia with a new twist, bringing back fan-favorite characters while introducing fresh faces. Of course, Gilmore’s fiery temper and unconventional golf skills are on full display once again.
Eminem’s appearance comes during a prolific era for the rapper. His 2024 album The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, moving 281,000 equivalent album units in its first week and marking his 11th No. 1 album.
The album’s lead single, “Houdini,” debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, earning Eminem his 23rd career top 10 single and his highest chart debut since “The Monster,” featuring Rihanna, which logged four weeks at No. 1 in December 2013-January 2014.
Menawhile, Post Malone is co-headlining the Big Ass Stadium Tour with Jelly Roll, which kicked off in April 2025 and runs through July in North America, before heading to Europe in August and September. The tour supports Post Malone’s country-inspired album F-1 Trillion, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Happy Gilmore 2 swings onto Netflix July 25. Watch the film’s latest trailer below.
Netflix has confirmed Lady Gaga will appear in season two of Wednesday, the hit series starring Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams. Gaga will be “playing the mysterious and enigmatic Rosaline Rotwood, a legendary Nevermore teacher who crosses paths with Wednesday,” according to a company release on Netflix.com. The streaming service first announced the news of […]
Alf Clausen, the Emmy-winning composer whose music provided essential accompaniment for the animated antics of The Simpsons for 27 years, has died.
His daughter Kaarin Clausen told The Associated Press that Alf Clausen died Thursday (May 29) at his home in Los Angeles after struggling with Parkinson’s disease for about a decade. He was 84.
Clausen, who also scored TV series including Moonlighting and Alf (“no relation,” he used to joke) was nominated for 30 Emmy Awards, 21 of them for The Simpsons, winning twice.
Al Jean, an early Simpsons writer who was one of the key creative figures on the show in the 1990s, said in a post on X Friday that “Clausen was an incredibly talented man who did so much for The Simpsons.”
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While Danny Elfman wrote the show’s theme song, Clausen joined the Fox animated series created by Matt Groening in 1990 and provided essentially all of its music until 2017, composing nearly 600 scores and conducting the 35-piece orchestra that played it in the studio.
His colleagues said his music was a key component of the show’s comedy, but Clausen believed the best way to back up the gags of Homer, Marge Bart and Lisa was by making the music as straight as possible.
“This is a dream job for a composer,” Clausen told Variety, which first reported his death, in 1998. “Matt Groening said to me very early on, ‘We’re not a cartoon. We’re a drama where the characters are drawn. I want you to score it like a drama.’ I score the emotions of the characters as opposed to specific action hits on the screen.”Groening, in a 1996 interview, called him “one of the unacknowledged treasures of the show.”Clausen was born in Minneapolis and raised in Jamestown, North Dakota. He graduated from the Berklee College of Music in 1966, and moved to Los Angeles seeking a career in music.In the 1970s he was a musical director on several TV variety shows including Donny & Marie.
Clausen worked as an orchestrator for composer Lee Holdridge in his scores for 1980s films including Splash and The Beastmaster.
It was Holdridge who first got the composing job on Moonlighting, the late-’80s ABC rom-com detective series starring Bruce Willis and Cybil Shepherd, but he handed the gig off to Clausen, who would get six Emmy nominations for his music on it.
Clausen won his Emmys for The Simpsons in 1997 and 1998 and also won five Annie Awards, which honor work in animation in film and television.
He was fired from The Simpsons in a cost-cutting move in 2017, to the outrage of his collaborators and fans. He sued over his dismissal.
Clausen is survived by his wife, Sally; children Kaarin, Scott and Kyle; stepchildren Josh and Emily, and 11 grandchildren.
Watch out, Fockers! Ariana Grande is adding another role to her big-screen resumé by joining the cast of Meet the Parents 4. According The Hollywood Reporter and Variety, the superstar will show off her comedy chops opposite Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro, both of whom have starred in the hit franchise since Meet the […]
Charli xcx says she’s been re-watching all the Final Destination movies lately in preparation to see the just-released recent installment, Final Destination Bloodlines, and the budding film mogul was so inspired she pitched her own bratty next chapter to the horror franchise.
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“The reason I love these movies is that they really just are about hot people getting killed,” she said in a poolside bikini TikTok video from a Sicily vacation. “You know, there’s no moral backbone to the story, it really is just, ‘they’re hot, they’re cursed and they deserve to die.’”
And here’s the thing: with so many irons currently in the fire in Hollywood, Charli has crunched the numbers on the six-film franchise that has grossed more than $350 million to date and she’s shooting her shot for an all “It Girl” version.
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“Basically, it doesn’t matter who’s in these films, they do, like, super-super well,” said Charli. “And so I was thinking, well, shouldn’t there be a sort of ‘it girl’ version of this franchise? You know like, a Final Destination with It Girls. Kind of like, Rachel Sennott, Alex Consani, Gabbriette, Romy Mars, Me, Quenlin Blackwell, Devon Lee Carlson… maybe there’s like a scream queen in there like Jenna (Ortega). Maybe there’s an OG scream queen like Sissy Spacek. And then it’s also directed by like a horror auteur, like Ty West (MaXXXine)?”
The most recent edition in the series in which the cast defy death only to have Death find the most baroque ways to kill them had a franchise-best opening earlier this month when it raked in nearly $52 million in its opening weekend.
Charli also pitched Robert Rodriguez as a possible director, suggesting that the Machete auteur could lean into the “b-movie-ness of it all” and do a version where “everyone is just getting completely massacred. It’s like bloody.” Or, she suggested, she could take a really “big swing” and see if Oscar-nominee David Fincher (Fight Club) would be interested.
“I just think that it would be a good idea and I don’t think… the films wouldn’t have to change their formula. I think the whole point is that they play into the lore. They kind of make fun of their own lore, and I don’t think this one would have to be any different, like I think that’s the point,” Charli said. “It’s really not trying to do anything other than have hot people die in the most brutal ways and play with some unbelievable dialogue.”
To be clear, there doesn’t appear to be any official pitch so far, but in the comments Sennott gave it a thumbs up. “Ok I’m in….” she wrote.
After winning the season with brat summer last year, Charli is doing a hard pivot to movies, with the singer recently lining up a gig to star in and produce the next movie from Japanese horror director Takashi Mike (Yakuza Apocalypse). No additional information was available on that film at press time, but it is slated to be the second project Charli will produce through her Studio365 banner, joining the upcoming A24 drama The Moment, based on her original idea.
In addition, she is slated to appear in Julia Jackman’s period drama 100 Nights of Hero, as well as Pete Ohs and Jeremy O. Harris’ Erupcja and director Daniel Goldhaber’s horror remake of the legendary shock cult film Faces of Death. Other movies on her list include director Greg Araki’s I Want Your Sex and Romain Garvas’ adventure comedy Sacrifice, as well as The Gallerist, in which she’ll appear with Natalie Portman, Ortega and Da’Vine Joy Randolph. Charli also makes a cameo and produced the music for Benito Skinner’s new Prime Video comedy, Overcompensating.
A documentary about pop superstar LISA is currently in production.
The film was announced Thursday (May 29) during a Los Angeles event previewing forthcoming projects by Sony Music Vision.
Created in partnership with LLOUD CO./RCA Records and Tremolo Productions, the film will follow a year in the life of LISA, as she takes time away from BLACKPINK to pursue her own solo career.
The doc is being directed by Sue Kim, whose recent work includes A24’s award-winning documentary The Last of the Sea Women and the Netflix documentary short The Speed Cubers, which was nominated for Critics Choice and Peabody awards and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. Kim was also an executive producer on the docuseries K-Pop Idols.
“Following LISA on this transformative and thrilling year has been a true honor and a cinematic gift,” Kim says in a statement. “There have been so many moments on her journey that I think will surprise people and give a glimpse into her world that no one’s ever seen before. I’m excited for viewers to watch the film and witness this extraordinary moment in her life.”
“This has been such an incredible year, and I’m so lucky to have the opportunity to capture these special moments on film and share the experience with my fans,” LISA adds. “Working with Sue Kim has been such a joy. We’ve been all around the world together and I know this is just the beginning of many more exciting things to come.”
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Thursday’s event debuted clips of the LISA film, including her 2025 debut solo performance at Coachella and her at home in Thailand. During a conversation about the doc, Kim revealed that the film will focus on showing the superstar in her offstage moments.
The event also included previews of forthcoming documentaries on Barbra Streisand, Oasis and Elvis Presley, with director Baz Luhrman taking part in a conversation on the Elvis doc, the follow-up to his 2022 feature film ELVIS.
The new documentary is called EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert. Speaking on the film, Luhrmann said that “During the making of ELVIS, we went on a search for rumored unseen footage from the iconic 1970s concert films Elvis: That’s The Way It Is and Elvis on Tour. My initial thought was that we may be able to restore the unused footage (if we could find it) and use it in our Elvis feature, starring Austin Butler.
“I had researchers go into the Warners Bros. film vaults buried in underground salt mines and, to the astonishment of all, we uncovered 68 boxes of film negative, as well as unseen 8mm footage,” the acclaimed director continues. “It has taken two years to restore the footage to a quality that it has never been projected at previously, while the team had to meticulously claw back sound from the many, unconventional sources that were also unearthed. One of the great finds has been unheard recordings of Elvis talking about his life and his music. It was this that gave the inspiration for EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert.
Luhrman adds that the film is “not specifically a documentary, nor a concert film: Elvis takes the audience through the journey of his life, weaving never-before-seen footage with iconic performances that have never been presented in this way, from the 1970 Vegas show, on tour in 1972 and even precious moments of the 1957 ‘gold jacket; performance in Hawaii. Most importantly, Elvis will sing and tell you about his life in first person, through both classic and contemporary musical prisms.”
See a preview of this new footage below.
In her seventh season of The Kelly Clarkson Show, the pop-star host finally covered Bonnie Tyler‘s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” — a song that many consider to be the ultimate karaoke ballad — for her popular Kellyoke segment. Clarkson stayed true to the 1983 original for her two-minute cover on Thursday’s (May 29) episode, […]
Jack Black’s “Steve’s Lava Chicken” — the shortest song ever to make the Billboard Hot 100 — adds another chart feat as the A Minecraft Movie song debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Movie Songs chart, powered by Tunefind (a Songtradr company), for April.
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Rankings for the Top Movie Songs chart are based on song and film data provided by Tunefind and ranked using a formula blending that data with sales and streaming information tracked by Luminate during the corresponding period of April. The ranking includes newly released films from the preceding three months.
“Steve’s Lava Chicken” reaches No. 1 following its first month of tracking for Top Movie Songs; A Minecraft Movie debuted in theaters on April 4.
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The song earned 20.1 million official on-demand U.S. streams and sold 3,000 downloads in April, according to Luminate. That led “Steve’s Lava Chicken” to debut at No. 78 on the Hot 100 dated May 3, making it the ranking’s shortest song ever at 34 seconds (a longer, albeit less popular version is one minute and 15 seconds).
“Steve’s Lava Chicken” reigns over a trio of holdovers from the chart’s previous iteration, paced by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” from The Electric State (No. 2; 14.6 million streams, 1,000 downloads) and followed by Chappell Roan’s “Casual” from Novocaine (No. 3; 13.8 million streams) and Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Spitting Off the Edge of the World” from The Gorge (No. 4; 2.4 million streams, 1,000 downloads).
The next highest debut is courtesy of Rod Wave’s “Sinners,” from the movie of the same name, released April 18. Wave’s track bows at No. 5 via 14.3 million streams and 1,000 downloads.
More Sinners activity is possible upon the May chart, the movie’s first full month of tracking for the survey. The soundtrack debuted at No. 133 on the Billboard 200 dated May 10.
Eric Prydz‘s 2004 hit “Call On Me” also starts at No. 7 via a synch in Warfare, garnering 2.6 million streams and 1,000 downloads in April. Prydz’s track concurrently returned to Billboard charts via the Dance/Electronic Digital Song Sales list in late April, bowing at No. 5. It peaked at the same position on Dance/Mix Show Airplay in 2004.
See the full top 10, which also features music from Snow White and Holland, below.
Rank, Song, Artist, Movie
“Steve’s Lava Chicken,” Jack Black, A Minecraft Movie
“Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Electric State
“Casual,” Chappell Roan, Novocaine
“Spitting Off the Edge of the World,” Yeah Yeah Yeahs feat. Perfume Genius, The Gorge
“Sinners,” Rod Wave, Sinners
“Good Things Grow,” Snow White Cast, Snow White
“Call On Me,” Eric Prydz, Warfare
“Mother,” Danzig, The Electric State
“Party Up,” DMX, Holland
“(All Along the) Watchtower,” Devlin, The Gorge
Ludwig Göransson is still getting used to Donald Glover retiring his Childish Gambino moniker. The movie score composer and music producer stopped by Apple Music to have a chat with Zane Lowe recently and talked about his work with Childish Gambino. “It’s been a huge part of my life — Donald and Childish Gambino — […]
Dove Cameron is remembering Cameron Boyce on what would’ve been his 26th birthday, posting an emotional tribute to her late Descendants co-star Wednesday (May 28).
Six years since the Jessie actor died suddenly after suffering an epileptic seizure in his sleep, the “Boyfriend” singer shared a carousel of photos with her friend and wrote on Instagram, “i still feel you all the time.”
“catch you in the next life,” she continued. “happy birthday. i love you.”
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In one of the photos, a smiling Boyce wraps his arms around the Liv & Maddie alum while smiling wide; in another, they sit on the floor and pose with two other Descendants stars, Sofia Carson and Booboo Stewart. Cameron also shared a snap of the gun and rose tattoo on her wrist that she got in the late actor’s honor.
Carson also paid tribute to Boyce on Wednesday, sharing a black-and-white photo and writing on Instagram, “Keep dancing in heaven, my Cam. Earth could never be the same without you.”
Boyce was just 20 years old when he died in 2019, leaving the Disney community — and countless fans who watched him on projects such as Jessie and Bunk’d — in shock. At the time, a spokesperson confirmed that his seizure had been the “result of an ongoing medical condition for which he was being treated.”
Cameron and Boyce starred together in three Descendants movies between 2015 and 2019. The soundtrack for the first film debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
The Schmigadoon! actress has since pursued a solo music career, dropping her debut single “Bloodshot” in 2019. Her viral hit “Boyfriend” peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2023, and she is now fresh off the release of new singles “Too Much” and “French Girls,” the latter of which dropped earlier in May.
“There’s a huge intersection between pain, heartbreak, joy and camp and levity. And that’s where we found ourselves in ‘French Girls,’” Cameron recently told Billboard of the newer song. “The melodrama of being a muse for a sculptor or a painter. There’s something so painfully romantic and also constricting about that. In ‘French Girls,’ the thing that I was really obsessed with was this self-sacrificing mania about being a muse that is not healthy.”
