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Bob Dylan will contribute a cover of Cole Porter’s “Don’t Fence Me In” for the upcoming biopic about Ronald Reagan.
The forthcoming film, which stars Dennis Quaid as the 40th President of the United States, will also feature music by Gene Simmons, Clint Black and Tanya Tucker, according to Spin.
Dylan’s rendition of the Porter-written classic, which was popularized by Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters, Gene Autry, Kate Smith and more performers in the 1940s, will reportedly play during the end credits of Reagan.
“I was honored to have Bob join our film,” Quaid said in a statement to Spin. “We gave him the freedom to do any song he wanted to do, whether an original or a cover, and he chose ‘Don’t Fence Me In.’ That was extra special since it was a song that Gene made famous. Bob is a great lover of the American Songbook and we were delighted with the way he delivered the song. He’s a national treasure and was the perfect addition to the film.”
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The Sean McNamara-directed film, which hits theaters on Aug. 30, will also include Simmons’ version of the 1930s standard “Stormy Weather” and Black’s take on John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” according to Spin.
Reagan will include major events throughout the former president’s lifetime, including difficulties with childhood bullies, his time in the Screen Actors Guild, and his rise in U.S. politics. Watch a trailer for the film here.
The biopic has an all-star cast that includes Jon Voight (playing Viktor Petrovich), Mena Suvari (Reagan’s first wife Jane Wyman), Lesley-Anne Down (Margaret Thatcher), David Henrie (teenage Reagan), Kevin Dillon (Jack Warner), Amanda Righetti and Justin Chatwin (Reagan’s parents, Nelle and Jack), and Creed’s Scott Stapp (Frank Sinatra).
Taylor Swift is supporting Travis Kelce as he launches a new entertainment gig!
The pop superstar visited her Kansas City Chiefs tight end boyfriend on the set of Prime Video’s new game show, Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?, which Kelce is hosting.
“She did come on set,” Garcelle Beauvais, one of the celebrity panel guests of the show, told Entertainment Tonight of Swift. “Not the day that I was there, but she came. I think it’s really sweet.”
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The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star added, “He was fantastic. Like, game show host? I wasn’t sure, but he didn’t overdo it, he didn’t under-sell it, he was himself, he had fun and it was great.”
She noted that the on-set crew was smitten by the NFL champion. “My glam team was like, ‘Oh my God, he’s fine.’ Everyone on set was like, ‘He’s so fine,’” Beauvais recalled. “I don’t want the Swifties coming for me, though!”
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Other star panelists include Nikki Glaser, Lala Kent, Chad Ochocinco and Sophia Stallone.
Prime Video confirmed earlier this year that Kelce is slated to host its upcoming game show Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?, a spin-off of Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? The series will feature contestants using celebrities to help with 11 elementary-school-level questions as they compete to win $100,000.
“I grew up loving game shows, and I’m excited to be following in the footsteps of so many TV icons by hosting my very first one with Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?” Kelce said in a press statement at the time. “The original show is a great success, so to be bringing a new format with everyone’s favorite celebrities to the screen will definitely be entertaining. I’m just happy to be on the hosting side of the equation here and excited to see how these famous faces keep up.”
Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? premieres with three episodes on Prime Video on Oct. 16, followed by weekly episode releases.
Following a synch in the latest season of Netflix’s Cobra Kai, Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” claims the top spot of Billboard’s Top TV Songs chart, powered by Tunefind, for July 2024.
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Rankings for the Top TV Songs chart are based on song and show 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 July 2024.
“Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” Lauper’s breakthrough hit (it peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1984), was heard in the third episode of the Netflix series’ sixth season, which aired its first five episodes all together on July 18, with the next five to come in November.
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“Girls Just Want to Have Fun” racked up 13.7 million official on-demand U.S. streams and 2,000 downloads in July 2024, according to Luminate.
The song is the sole entry from Cobra Kai on the July 2024 tally; it’s followed by a slew of titles from Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys and Peacock’s U.S. version of Love Island, which take up the remainder of the 10-position list.
Music from the fourth season of The Boys — particularly episodes six, seven and eight, which aired between July 4 and 18 — take up Nos. 2-7 and 10, paced by Christopher Cross‘ “Sailing” at No. 2.
“Sailing,” a No. 1 hit for Cross on the Hot 100 in August 1980, scored a synch in the sixth episode of the series, as did the No. 3 song, Gerry Rafferty’s “Baker Street” (No. 2 on the Hot 100 in June 1978).
“Sailing” earned 6.5 million streams and 2,000 downloads in July 2024, while “Baker Street” contributed 3.1 million streams and 1,000 downloads.
As for Love Island, whose sixth season premiered in June and ran through July, the top-performing track was Chance Pena’s “The Mountain Is You” at No. 8 following its appearance in episode 22 (July 5) via 1.4 million streams.
See the full top 10 below.
Rank, Song, Artist, Show (Network)1. “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” Cyndi Lauper, Cobra Kai (Netflix)2. “Sailing,” Christopher Cross, The Boys (Amazon Prime Video)3. “Baker Street,” Gerry Rafferty, The Boys (Amazon Prime Video)4. “Heart-Shaped Box,” Nirvana, The Boys (Amazon Prime Video)5. “Rosanna,” Toto, The Boys (Amazon Prime Video)6. “Steal My Sunshine,” Len, The Boys (Amazon Prime Video)7. “Butterfly,” Crazy Town, The Boys (Amazon Prime Video)8. “The Mountain Is You,” Chance Pena, Love Island (Peacock)9. “Sex and Candy,” Unions, Love Island (Peacock)10. “You Can Do Magic,” America, The Boys (Amazon Prime Video)
Four of the world’s most experienced boy band and girl group alumni are coming together to help foster the next big pop unit, with Netflix tapping Nicole Scherzinger, Liam Payne, Kelly Rowland and AJ McLean for its new music competition series, Building the Band, which begins filming this summer.
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As shared exclusively with Billboard Friday (Aug. 16), the streaming service has recruited Scherzinger to be a mentor and judge alongside judges Payne and Rowland. McLean is set to host the series. Scherzinger previously served on judging panels for The X Factor, Masked Singer and The Sing-Off.
With its team of experienced boy/girl band experts on lock (which encompasses members of the Pussycat Dolls, One Direction, Destiny’s Child and Backstreet Boys), Building the Band will bring together a number of talented singers and task them with forming their own bands without ever seeing each other. Isolated in individual booths, all they’ll have to go on when selecting their bandmates is musical compatibility, connection, chemistry and merit, according to a release.
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“What will happen when the bands finally meet, and looks, choreography, and style come into play?” a description reads. “With incredible performances, compelling drama, and one big goal — to find the next great music band — the stage is set for an unforgettable experience.”
Additional announcements regarding guest judges and the show’s various challenges are yet to come. Production companies Remarkable Entertainment and Banijay UK are behind the project, with Cat Lawson, Alison Holloway, Katrina Morrison, Clara Elliot and Simon Crossley on board as executive producers.
“Building the Band is a brave and bold undertaking for all involved as we hand over power to the singers themselves to form their own band based on chemistry first,” Lawson said in a statement. “With looks out of the equation, can they create a deeper connection with their bandmates? With limited bands, there are difficult decisions and heart stopping moments along the way, but ultimately the outcome is truly amazing, with bands forming who in my opinion are worthy of the very biggest stage.”
The Masked Singer has unmasked its next batch of theme nights for season 12, with plans to treat audiences to episodes dedicated to Miley Cyrus, Barbie and more. As announced Thursday (Aug. 15), the competition series’ upcoming installment — which premieres Sept. 25 on Fox — will feature nights celebrating the Hannah Montana alum’s music […]
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John Cena is tasked with protecting Awkwafina in the new Prime Video original movie Jackpot. The comedy premiered on Thursday (Aug. 15), which means you can finally watch Jackpot online.
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Set in a not so distant future, the movie follows Katie Kim (Awkwafina) who wins the lottery shortly after moving to Los Angeles. The catch? The Grand Lottery comes with a price for the winner: they have until sundown to stay alive or anyone who kills them has a chance to legally claim the multi-billion dollar jackpot. Out of desperation, Katie teams up with an amateur lottery protection agent (Cena) who promises to protect her until sundown in exchange for part of the prize.
Jackpot also starts Simu Liu (who also starred in Barbie) as one of the main antagonists vying for Katie’s cash prize. Keep reading to learn the streaming options available.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis have chosen their fighters for the cast of their WARRIORS musical album, tapping Marc Anthony, Luis Figueroa, Flaco Navaja and Chris Rivers to lend their voices to the project.
As revealed Thursday (Aug. 15), Anthony will star as Tato on the LP, while Figueroa is locked in to play Miguel. Navaja will portray Jesús and Rivers receives billing as “The Bronx.” Additional voices will be announced “very soon,” according to a release.
WARRIORS will feature 26 tracks following the members of a fictitious New York City gang who are framed for the murder of a respected gang leader named Cyrus. The album was inspired by the cult-classic 1979 film The Warriors — which stars Michael Beck, James Remar, Deborah Van Valkenburgh and Marcelino Sánchez — as well as the movie’s source novel by Sol Yurick.
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“We’ve spent the past three years musicalizing the Warriors’ journey home, from the South Bronx to Coney Island,” said Miranda and Davis, who co-wrote the album, in a joint statement. “Along the way, we’ve gotten to work with a lot of our favorite artists, and we’ll be announcing their roles on the album in the weeks ahead. We can’t wait to share these songs with you on Oct. 18.”
As previously announced, Grammy Award winner Nas is on board as executive producer, bringing his New York City roots to the table. Plus, Grammy winner Mike Elizondo takes the helm as producer.
WARRIORS marks just the latest high-profile musical project created by Miranda, who found global fame in 2015 for writing and starring in the Broadway musical Hamilton. The following year, its cast recording won a Grammy for best musical theater album and became the first-ever Broadway cast recording to be certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America, while its follow-up project, The Hamilton Mixtape, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2016.
Later, the Tony winner wrote and produced the soundtracks for the Disney films Moana and Encanto. The former made history for weeks spent at No. 1 on Billboard’s soundtracks chart, while the latter topped the Billboard 200 for several weeks.
Davis is also a prolific actor, writer and singer-songwriter known for her work on stage and screen, as well as a former finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her play Bulrusher. In addition to writing and starring in Angela’s Mixtape, she’s lent her pen to television series such as Netflix’s She’s Gotta Have It and FX’s Justified: City Primeval, and she has appeared in numerous theater productions and films.
Demi Lovato has a complicated relationship with her adolescent years, which the former Disney Channel idol explores in the upcoming documentary Child Star. And in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, they went even more in-depth about feelings of sadness and regret that have lingered from that time, especially concerning people who may have been hurt in stride.
“I didn’t realize that child stardom could be traumatic — and it isn’t traumatic for everyone, but for me, it was,” Lovato told the publication in a profile published Wednesday (Aug. 14), expressing regret for treating some of the people in her orbit poorly while working on past Disney projects.
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“I think about people in the wardrobe department on [Sonny With a Chance] because I’d go in there in bad moods all the time, and I worry about guest stars that came on or the other actors or the people during Camp Rock 2,” they continued. “And it’s easy to excuse that behavior because I was so young and in so much pain, but I’m really remorseful, and that’s a guilt that stays with you forever.”
Lovato also recalled the tensions that arose from being the primary money-maker in her family as a teenager. “Having the child be the breadwinner almost inherently changes the dynamic of a family, and then it becomes, like, how do you discipline that breadwinner?” the singer said of their mom and stepdad. “I mean, they’d try to ground me, but I was an egotistical child star, and I thought I was on top of the world. I’d be like, ‘But I pay the bills,’ and what do you say to that?”
Also featuring interviews with Drew Barrymore, Kenan Thompson, Raven-Symoné, Alyson Stoner and JoJo Siwa, Child Star arrives Sept. 17 on Hulu and marks Lovato’s directorial debut. In the THR interview, she describes wanting the project to serve as a cautionary tale for parents of other kids gunning for a career in the “pressure cooker” of Hollywood.
Now 32, the “Cool for the Summer” artist is happily in love with fiancé Jutes and is considering having children, possibly soon. As for whether those kids will be allowed to pursue careers like she did, Lovato says there’s a hard bottom line.
“I’d say, ‘Let’s study music theory and prepare you for the day you turn 18, because it’s not happening before that,’” they told the publication. “Not because I don’t believe in you or love you or want you to be happy, but because I want you to have a childhood, the childhood that I didn’t have.’”