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The Weeknd is paying tribute to late actor Tony Todd.
On Friday (Nov. 8), the superstar singer honored the iconic actor, known for his roles in horror franchises Candyman and Final Destination, with a heartfelt post on his Instagram Story.
“A trailblazer,” the Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, wrote alongside a photo of Todd as Daniel Robitaille/the Candyman. “Rest well Tony Todd.”
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Todd passed away on Wednesday (Nov. 6) following a long illness at his home in Marina del Rey, a neighborhood of Los Angeles. He was 69. The actor is best known for his portrayal of the sinister figure in Candyman (1992) and for his role in Final Destination (2000). He also appeared in the sequels of each movie.
Todd’s extensive filmography includes roles in Night of the Living Dead (1990), The Rock (1996), The Crow (1994), Hatchet (2006), The Man from Earth (2007), Frankenstein (2015), Hell Fest (2018), Requiem (2018), Hellblazers (2022), and The Bunker (2024), among others.
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He also appeared in multiple Star Trek series, portraying Kurn in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as well as Alpha Hirogen in Star Trek: Voyager.
“The industry has lost a legend. We have lost a cherished friend. Rest in peace, Tony—Your Final Destination Family,” wrote New Line Cinema, the studio behind the Final Destination films, in a tribute shared on Instagram.
The Weeknd is no stranger to the horror genre himself. As previously reported, the singer’s upcoming psychological thriller Hurry Up Tomorrow will be distributed worldwide by Lionsgate. The film, directed by Trey Edward Shults, marks the Weeknd’s feature film debut and will also serve as an extension of his upcoming sixth studio album of the same name. Jenny Ortega and Barry Keoghan will also star in the movie.
Hurry Up Tomorrow is produced by The Weeknd’s production company, Manic Phase, along with his producing partner Reza Fahim (co-creator of The Idol) and the late Kevin Turen. Executive producers on the film include Ortega, Shults, Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino, Ryan Kroft, The Weeknd’s manager Wassim “Sal” Slaiby, and Harrison Huffman.
See The Weeknd’s tribute to Tony Todd here.
Not for nothing, but singer/producer Mk.gee literally taught us how to say his name on his 2018 EP, Pronounced McGee. But, here we are with this week’s Saturday Night Live promo featuring host comedian Bill Burr, in which cast member Sarah Sherman just can’t do the math on how to sound out the Two Star & Dream Police performer’s stage moniker.
“Hi, I’m Bill Burr and I’m hosting SNL this week with Mk.gee,” says Burr, who will anchor the first show following this week’s historic election in which former President Donald Trump beat out Vice President Kamala Harris. “Mk.gee, how do you spell your name?” a confused Sherman asks.
“M, as in Mk.gee,” responds the enigmatic indie singer-songwriter, who recently revealed that he’s working in the studio on Justin Bieber’s next album. “Yeah, ‘K’ as ‘Kiss From a Rose,’ by Seal,” adds Burr. “Dot as in ‘dot com,’ the host continues as the musical guest concludes, “G as in ‘gee.’”
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“Okay, never mind, forget I asked,” an exasperated Sherman tells the men.
In the second bit, Sherman is very impressed with herself, rolling her eyes and saying, “Thank you, I do look ravishing today!,” to which Burr says, “I didn’t say you looked ravishing” as Mk.gee stands silent in a giant brown coat and matching hued shirt and black baseball hat. “I’m talkin’ about Mk.gee,” Burr assures her.
“Your hotel room tonight?,” Sherman goes on, as she pretends to be having a private conversation with a suitor via a non-existent earpiece. “What?” a confused Burr wonders. “Sorry, I’m on a call. Let me know when the promo starts,” Sherman tells him. “Sorry about that… where were we, Mickey Rourke?” Sherman coos while holding a finger to her ear to continue the phantom chat. The latter finally gets the attention of Rourke superfan Burr, though it’s too late at that point.
This weekend’s gig will mark 27-year-old New Jersey native Mk.gee’s SNL debut. Mk.gee is currently on a world tour that take him to Australia in December.
Watch this week’s SNL promo below.
Wedding planning is hard for everyone, even Snoop Dogg‘s daughter, Cori Broadus — especially considering the health challenges she’s faced this year. In a new trailer posted Thursday (Nov. 7) for the family’s upcoming three-part E! docuseries Snoop Dogg’s Fatherhood: Cori and Wayne’s Story, the 25-year-old bride-to-be details the difficulties of putting together her nuptials […]
Travis Kelce might be a three-time Super Bowl champion, but to many parts of the world, he’ll always be Taylor Swift‘s boyfriend first and foremost.
And on a recent episode, Jeopardy! poked fun at the 35-year-old Kansas City Chiefs tight end’s celebrity status with a cheeky clue: “Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? is hosted by this man who’s maybe more famous as a bf than as a 3-time Super Bowl champ.”
The prompt was certainly enough for a contestant named Derek to correctly lock in his answer — “Who is Travis Kelce?” — adding $200 to his tally. Jeopardy! later posted a photo of the clue and wrote, “Sorry to this man 😆”
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Kelce hasn’t said anything about the clue, but based on his past comments about his superstar girlfriend, he’d probably find the game show’s classification funny. In September, he laughed off a question about being Swift’s “arm candy” while speaking to CBS Mornings, saying, “It’s the life I chose, I guess. I have fun with it. It comes with the territory of wanting to do fun activities like this.”
In the same interview, the New Heights host also raved that “literally, every single one” of the 14-time Grammy winner’s songs is his favorite. “If you see me at a concert, you’ll see me singing them all,” he added.
Indeed, Kelce has been to quite a few Eras Tour concerts since he started dating Swift last summer. He most recently attended her second night in Indianapolis Nov. 2, after which he said on his podcast, “I wanted to see Tay one more time before this thing got closed up.”
“I’ll tell you what, man,” he added of her show — one of Swift’s last before Eras wraps up in December — on the Nov. 6 New Heights episode. “The American crowds, they did not disappoint. I heard that it was a lot more rowdy this time around, knowing she was coming back to stop through America one last time before the tour was over with, and I’ll tell you what, man, that thing was rocking. Absolutely rocking.”
See Jeopardy‘s clue about Kelce below.
When Sting was first approached about being a mega mentor on this season of The Voice, he had his doubts.
“I was reticent, to be honest,” he says on the Universal Studios set of the NBC series. “The premise of the show is frightening to me, this sort of competition. I think art and music aren’t really competitions. If you win the U.S. Open, you are the best player at that particular time. But singing is different. Everybody’s voice is unique.”
It turns out he was very glad he said yes. Sting, who serves as a mega mentor for Gwen Stefani and Snoop Dogg’s teams during the Knockout rounds airing Monday (Nov. 11), found the experience to be a wonderful one.
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The former schoolteacher found the contestants needed very little instruction. “I’m still a student of music, but I’ve been doing it for a long time, so I can give them a tiny hint,” he says, “but the standard of singing is so high, there’s nothing you can say. They know how to sing. There’s little bits of presentation or posture or the way that you present yourself I can probably help, but technically, they’re great singers.”
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Still, the experience was rewarding. “It was very nourishing to see a small piece advice that you’re given and then their next run through, they put that into action and the whole thing is raised,” he says.
As far as the best advice he ever got from a mentor came from his dad and he clearly took it to heart. “He said go to sea. See the world. Make something of yourself,” he says. “Basically, take a risk.”
Sting was already friends with Stefani and Snoop Dogg before the taping. He and Stefani first met when she was 13 and she approached him as a fan. They then met again when her group No Doubt and Sting (both as a solo act and as a member of The Police) were on A&M Records, including playing the Super Bowl halftime together in 2003.
“I’ve been so impressed by how succinct she is in her comments about the artists, how compassionate she is and her wisdom,” he says of Stefani’s coaching technique. “She’s very clever lady, and, also, she’s not hard to look at!”
As far as his other coaching partner, Sting appears on Missionary, Snoop Dogg’s first new solo album since 2022 out in December. Snoop and Dr. Dre, who produced the set, asked Sting to play on a song from his past.
“Dre and Snoop sent me a version of [the Police’s 1979 hit] ‘Message in a Bottle,’ and I was very impressed by it. Frankly, it was great,” he says. “It’s a rebirth of the song, if you like. I played the guitar on it. I sang a verse, but in order to sing a verse that would match what they’d done, I had to raise my game, sing in a way that I don’t normally sing in a rhythmic way. It was challenging, but very, very satisfying. It’s a great version of the song.”
Reba McEntire, who is in her second year as a coach, started as a mentor, but Sting quickly denies advancing to that status is his endgame. (Jennifer Hudson serves as McEntire and fourth coach Michael Bublé’s mega mentor.) “I’m not a judge, I’m still a student,” he says. Plus, as he notes, “I have another job and that other job seems to be going very, very well.” Indeed, the day after Sting appears on The Voice, his stripped-down Sting 3.0 tour will start a five-date run in Los Angeles. The outing wraps in Sweden in July.
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At some point, you may have been asked what you would say to your younger self if you could. Well, Amazon MGM Studios has explored that exact scenario in My Old Ass. Starring Agatha All Along‘s Aubrey Plaza and the drama series Nashville‘s Maisy Stella, the coming-of-age comedy sees what happens when an 18-year-old comes face-to-face with her older self.
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My Old Ass had a limited theater release on Sept. 13, but for those who couldn’t get tickets to see the movie on the big screen (or who just want to rewatch every nostalgia-inducing scene), you can now watch My Old Ass online on Prime Video.
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The movie officially dropped onto streaming on Thursday (Nov. 7). Keep reading to learn about all of the streaming options available.
How to Watch My Old Ass Online for Free
You can watch My Old Ass online for free exclusively through Prime Video. Since the film is a part of Amazon MGM Studios, that means you can only stream it through Amazon’s streaming platform. Prime members can watch My Old Ass for no additional cost when you sign into your account.
Don’t have a Prime membership? Amazon offers a 30-day free trial to new users who sign up. You’ll be able to watch My Old Ass in addition to the entire Prime Video library for free. Once the free trial is over, you’ll be charged the regular subscription price of $14.99/month or $139/year.
Bonus savings: Adults ages 18-24 or students at an accredited university can get a six-month free trial and 50% off membership fee when you sign up for Prime Student. Qualifying government programs can also get you access to the EBT/Medicaid membership, which has a 30-day free trial and half-off subscription price.
In addition to being able to stream My Old Ass online for free, Prime members get access to everything within the Prime Video library, including original and exclusive content such as The Idea of You, Fallout, Citadel: Honey Bunny, From, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Boys, Gen V, Reacher, Them: The Scare and Infinite.
To expand you program offerings, the Prime Channel Storefront offers premium channels including streamers like Max, Apple TV+, Paramount+ and Starz to give you even more content to stream all in one spot.
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In a new trailer for Paramount+’s new film Dear Santa, Post Malone dances with the devil — literally.
The two-minute teaser released Thursday (Nov. 7) opens with a young boy named Liam (played by Robert Timothy Smith) addressing a letter to Santa. However, as the narrator explains, he’s a “crappy speller” and accidentally writes “To: Satan” instead. Once summoned, the devil — played by a bearded Jack Black with pointy horns — promises to grant Liam three wishes.
But there’s a catch. “By the way, after you make your wishes I’m taking your soul,” Black tells his new companion. “Let me show you a few of the things I can do for you.”
One of those things, apparently, is getting Liam into the backstage area of a Post Malone concert, where the “Psycho” musician — seemingly under Black’s spell — greets the young fan like an old friend before inviting both Liam and Satan to join him on stage during the show. In addition to shots of Posty hamming it up for the crowd with the two main characters showing off their lasso dance moves, Black also introduces the little boy to gambling at a casino, making “snow angels” in a pile of cash and playing beer pong.
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Dear Santa is set to premiere on Paramount+ Nov. 25. The cast also features Keegan-Michael Key, Brianne Howey, Hayes MacArthur, P.J. Byrne, Jaden Carson Baker and Kai Cech.
The movie isn’t the first onscreen project Posty has lent his star power to, with the 10-time Grammy nominee previously appearing in Road House, Wrath of Man and Spenser Confidential. Earlier this year, he also made a cameo in Jennifer Lopez’s This Is Me… Now: A Love Story.
The star’s latest film will arrive just a few months after his most recent album, F-1 Trillion, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. He’s also fresh off of a video of the year win at the 2024 VMAs thanks to his part in Taylor Swift’s visual for their “Fortnight” duet, which spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Watch the Dear Santa trailer featuring Post Malone below.
Cynthia Erivo has said that she was definitely changed for the better after working with Ariana Grande on Wicked, and in a new interview, the Tony winner hinted that she wouldn’t have necessarily felt the same if anyone else had gotten the pop star’s role in the films.
When the two costars — who play Elphaba and Glinda in Jon M. Chu’s upcoming film adaptations of the Broadway musical, which was based on Gregory Maguire’s novel of the same name — were asked by The New York Times to share their initial reactions to each other’s casting in the project, Erivo was frank.
“Absolutely no surprise whatsoever,” the Harriet star recalled of learning Grande had nabbed the part of Glinda in the joint interview published Wednesday (Nov. 6). “Thank goodness, because it was not the two ladies that I was auditioning with.”
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In reaction to Erivo’s subtle shade, the “We Can’t Be Friends” musician replied, “Oh my God!”
Grande also shared her reaction to the “I Might Be in Love With You” artist landing Elphaba in the films, the first of which arrives Nov. 22. “I said, ‘Thank God,’” she revealed.
News that Erivo and the two-time Grammy winner had been cast in Wicked arrived in November 2021. At the time, the duo sent each other congratulatory flowers, with the Pinocchio star writing in a note to Grande, “Congratulations Miss A, The Part Was Made For You, I Look Forward To Sharing This Musical Journey With You.”
The leading ladies went on to work on the duology for two years in London alongside cast members Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang and Marissa Bode. A year after Wicked part one arrives at the end of the month, the second installment will hit theaters in November 2025.
Grande has previously been open about the intensive audition process for Wicked, for which she recently said she had to “erase” her public persona in a recent interview on the Sentimental Men podcast. “People sometimes say to me, ‘You had to audition?’ Of course, are you out of your gourd?” she continued on the Nov. 1 episode. “It’s Wicked! And it requires a totally different skill set than people know me for and have ever seen me do anything like.”
While speaking to NYT, Grande echoed those remarks. “Some members of my team at the time were like, ‘You shouldn’t even have to audition,’ and I was like, ‘You don’t understand, of course I have to. This is something that has to be earned,’” she told the paper. “I have so much to prove, and I threw myself at it in every way that I could.”
When you’re just one member of a genre-defining pop band such as BTS, how do you make room for just yourself? That’s the question RM finds himself pondering in the newest trailer for his forthcoming documentary RM: Right People, Wrong Place released on Tuesday (Nov. 5). The new clip follows RM as he performs in […]