Maroon 5 Set Will Headline 2019 Super Bowl Halftime Show

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It appears that the list has gotten shorter. Variety and Billboard are both reporting that Maroon 5 is set to perform at 2019 Super Bowl halftime, which is set to take place during the NFL championship game on Feb. 3, 2019 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.

Given the band’s current hit “Girls Like You”, it is entirely possible that Cardi B will also make an appearance. Also potential guests are their recent collaborators SZA (“What Loves Do”) and Kendrick Lamar (“Don’t Wanna Know”)

In recent years, the band has expressed interest in playing at the halftime show. “I like the fact that we can talk about it, because I think the band would be like thrilled to do it,” Levine said in a 2015 interview with Howard Stern.

The pop rock band from Los Angeles, California consists of seven members (not five as their name suggest) which includes Adam Levine, Jesse Carmichael, Mickey Madden, James Valentine, Matt Flynn, PJ Morton and Sam Farrar. They have enjoyed longevity few pop rock bands have achieved during the past few decades. Since their 2002 debut album “Songs About Jane”, they have become one of the world’s best-selling acts, have won a grammy (for best new artist in 2005), and topped the Billboard singles chart three times.

The band’s frontman Levine is set to return as one of the coaches on NBC’s singing competition, The Voice which premieres next week Sept 24.

Maroon 5 is currently on tour, in support of their latest album “Red Pill Blues” which was released on November 3, 2017 by 222 and Interscope Records.

With the fact the Super Bowl itself is usually the most-watched television event every year in the United States, the halftime show have seen major pop acts take the stage including Lady Gaga, Coldplay, and Katy Perry. Last year, Justin Timberlake performed during the Super Bowl LII game’s halftime at the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Post Malone, Carrie Underwood, Imagine Dragons To Perform At American Music Awards

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Carrie Underwood, Imagine Dragons and Post Malone featuring Ty Dolla $ign are set to perform at the 2018 American Music Awards, Dick Clark Productions and ABC announced today.

Carrie Underwood’s performance will make her return at the AMA stage since 2015. She is also a nominee in the Favorite Female Artist – Country category. Underwood recently released her sixth studio album “Cry Pretty.”

Post Malone is set to make his American Music Awards debut performance. He will be performing his Billboard Hot 100 number one hit “Psycho” with previous AMA nominee Ty Dolla $ign.

The fan-voted awards show will broadcast Tuesday, Oct. 9, 8 p.m. ET on ABC, live from Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater. The event will be hosted for the second year in a row by actress Tracee Ellis Ross.

Rappers Drake and Cardi B leading the list of nominees. Drake is up for top trophies including “Artist of the Year” along with Imagine Dragons, Post Malone, Ed Sheeran, and Taylor Swift, while Cardi B is up for “Favorite New Artist of the Year.”

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Emmy Awards 2018: “Game Of Thrones” Win Big

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Marvelous Mrs. Maisel was one of the big winners on Monday’s 70th Primetime Emmy Awards. The Amazon show won in five categories including best Comedy Series, Supporting Actress (Comedy) for Alex Borstein and Supporting Actor (Comedy) for Tony Shalhoub.

Game of Thrones, also had a great showing, winning Best Drama Series, and Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Peter Dinklage.

The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards aired on Monday at NBC and was hosted by Michael Che and Colin Jost.

Here’s the list of winners at the 2018 Emmys below:

Outstanding drama series: “Game of Thrones”
Outstanding comedy series: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”
Outstanding limited series: “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: An American Crime Story”
Outstanding variety talk series: “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”
Outstanding variety sketch series: “Saturday Night Live”
Outstanding reality competition series: “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
Outstanding lead actress in a drama season: Claire Foy, “The Crown”
Outstanding lead actor in a drama series: Matthew Rhys, “The Americans”
Outstanding directing for a drama series: Stephen Daldry, “The Crown”
Outstanding writing for a drama series: Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, “The Americans”
Supporting actress in a drama series: Thandie Newton, “Westworld”
Supporting actor in a drama series: Peter Dinklage, “Game of Thrones”
Outstanding director for a variety special: Glenn Weiss, The Oscars

To see the full list, go to www.emmys.com

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John Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice Joins Elite “EGOT” Club

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John Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice won Outstanding Variety Special on Sunday’s Creative Arts Emmys evening for their work on Jesus Christ Superstar – Live in Concert, joining the elite EGOT club in the process.

Legend served as the producer while Lloyd Webber and Rice were the composer and lyricist of the original 1970 musical.

EGOT is the grand slam in entertainment, referring to artists who have won all four major entertainment awards: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards. This would be the first time that three artists have earned an EGOT in a single year.

Including Legend, Webber and Rice, there are only a total of fifteen people who have achieved such feat, joining Robert Lopez, Mel Brooks, Audrey Hepburn, Rita Moreno, Mike Nichols and Whoopi Goldberg among others.

The Emmy win is a first for John Legend, who has already won 10 Grammys, a Tony for the 2017 Broadway revival Jitney, and an Oscar for “Glory”, his song from the 2014 movie Selma. Webb and Rice won Tonys for “Evita” and “Sunset Boulevard,” Grammys for “Cats” and “Evita” and an Oscar for the song “You Must Love Me” from the movie “Evita.”

Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert received a total of 13 Emmy nominations. More winners from the 70th Annual Emmy Awards is set to be announced on Monday, September 17.

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New Trailer: Wyeth

WYETH tells the story of one of America’s most popular, but least understood, artists – Andrew Wyeth. Son of the famous illustrator N.C. Wyeth, Andrew had his first exhibition at age 20, and his painting “Christina’s World” was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in 1948. While Wyeth’s exhibitions routinely broke attendance records, art world critics continually assaulted his work.

Detailing the stunning drawings and powerful portraits he created in Chadds Ford, Pa. and on the coast of Cushing, Maine, WYETH explores his inspirations, including neighbor Christina Olsen and his hidden muse, the German model Helga Testorf, who he painted secretly for 15 years.

Through unprecedented access to Wyeth’s family members, including sons Jamie and Nicholas Wyeth, and never-before-seen archival materials from the family’s personal collection and hundreds of Wyeth’s studies, drawings and paintings, American Masters presents the most complete portrait of the artist yet — bearing witness to a legacy just at the moment it is evolving.

Directed by Glenn Holsten, the film will be available on Digital HD on September 8 and on DVD September 11 via PBS Distribution.

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Eerie First Trailer For Netflix’s “Maniac” Released

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Emma Stone and Jonah Hill has come a long way since they last starred together in the raunchy coming-of-age teen comedy hit film “Superbad.” The two are reuniting in an upcoming dark comedy series from Netflix “Maniac,” and now we finally have its first full trailer.

The trailer shows Stone and Hill’s characters Annie Landsberg and Owen Milgrim, being interrogated by
Justin Theroux’s Dr. James Mantleray. “Do you know where you are, right now? What do you think is wrong with you” Mantleray says.

“Is this therapy now?” Annie asks back during the interrogation which quickly turned bizarre. “It’s not therapy, it’s science,” Mantleray responds. “Once you begin to appreciate the structure of the mind, there’s no reason to believe anything about us can’t be changed. Pain can be destroyed. The mind can be solved.”

The series is based on the Norwegian television series of the same name by Hakon Bast Mossige and Espen PA Lervaag which aired in 2014. Written by Patrick Somerville and directed by Cary Fukunaga, “Maniac” is set to premiere on Netflix on Sep. 15.

Here’s the series logline:

“Annie’s disaffected and aimless, fixated on broken relationships with her mother and her sister; Owen, the fifth son of wealthy New York industrialists, has struggled his whole life with a disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia. Neither of their lives have turned out quite right, and the promise of a new, radical kind of pharmaceutical treatment—a sequence of pills its inventor, Dr. James K. Mantleray (Justin Theroux), claims can repair anything about the mind, be it mental illness or heartbreak—draws them and ten other strangers to the facilities of Neberdine Pharmaceutical and Biotech for a three-day drug trial that will, they’re assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently. Things do not go as planned.”

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WYETH To Premiere As Part Of America Masters “Artists Flight” On September 7 On PBS

WYETH tells the story of one of America’s most popular, but least understood, artists – Andrew Wyeth. Son of the famous illustrator N.C. Wyeth, Andrew had his first exhibition at age 20, and his painting “Christina’s World” was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in 1948. While Wyeth’s exhibitions routinely broke attendance records, art world critics continually assaulted his work.

Detailing the stunning drawings and powerful portraits he created in Chadds Ford, Pa. and on the coast of Cushing, Maine, WYETH explores his inspirations, including neighbor Christina Olsen and his hidden muse, the German model Helga Testorf, who he painted secretly for 15 years. Through unprecedented access to Wyeth’s family members, including sons Jamie and Nicholas Wyeth, and never-before-seen archival materials from the family’s personal collection and hundreds of Wyeth’s studies, drawings and paintings, American Masters presents the most complete portrait of the artist yet — bearing witness to a legacy just at the moment it is evolving.

Directed by Glenn Holsten, the film will be available on Digital HD on September 8 and on DVD September 11 via PBS Distribution.

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Andy Serkis’ Jungle Book Movie “Mowgli” Coming To Netflix

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Initially slated for a October 19 theatrical release, Warner Bros film “Mowgli” is now coming to Netflix in 2019, Variety is reporting.

Netflix has done similar acquisitions of high profile films in the past, including “Mudbound, which premiered on the streaming service as well as in New York City and Los Angeles last November, and Paramount Pictures films “The Cloverfield Paradox” which was release immediately after the Super Bowl LII and “Annihilation,” which was released both on Netflix and theatrically earlier this year.

The film is directed by Andy Serkis, who is best known for his performance capture roles in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

The story is based on The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, thought the film’s trailers seem to show a more grittier take on the classic story. “Witness the darkest retelling of the beloved masterpiece,” the tagline appears on the trailer.

Rohan Chand is the titular character while Serkis plays Baloo. They are joined by Cate Blanchett as Kaa, Christian Bale as Bagheera, Matthew Rhys as John Lockwood, and Benedict Cumberbatch who plays fearsome tiger Shere Khan, the main antagonist in the book.

Here is the synopsis for the film:

“The story follows the upbringing of the human child Mowgli, raised by a wolf pack in the jungles of India. As he learns the often harsh rules of the jungle, under the tutelage of a bear named Baloo and a panther named Bagheera, Mowgli becomes accepted by the animals of the jungle as one of their own. All but one: the fearsome tiger Shere Khan. But there may be greater dangers lurking in the jungle, as Mowgli comes face to face with his human origins.”

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Comic-Con 2018: Star Trek Discovery Panel

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The cast and crew of Star Trek: Discovery were at Comic-Con on Friday where fans were shown with the first trailer for Season 2.

The panel included Executive Producers Alex Kurtzman and Heather Kadin, stars Sonequa Martin-Green (“Michael Burnham”), Shazad Latif (“Ash Tyler”), Doug Jones (“Saru”), Mary Wiseman (“Sylvia Tilly”), Wilson Cruz (“Dr. Hugh Culber”), Anthony Rapp (“Paul Stamets”) and Mary Chieffo (“L’Rell”). It was Moderated by Season 2 newcomer Tig Notaro, who plays Chief Engineer Reno.

Starting it all off was a big reveal from Executive Producer Alex Kurtzman: “I can tell you that, yes, you will be seeing Spock this season.”

To what extent Spock will make an appearance remains unknown. The trailer, set to Lenny Kravitz’s Fly Away, did show a brief glimpse of Michael Burnham in Spock’s quarters observing the area.

“Spock is linked to these signals, and he needs help,” Michael says in the trailer.

Joining this time is Anson Mount, also in the panel, as Captain Christopher Pike who is taking command of the ship. “This is awkward, but the best way to get into a cold stream is to jump right in,” he says.

In September, “Short Treks” is expected to be released, which are four short films focusing on some of the characters such as Saru, Tilly and Mudd.

Season 2 will start airing in January next year with the premiere episode directed by Alex Kurtzman.

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“Breaking Bad” Cast Reunite At SDCC 2018

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“I love Jesse, I love that guy so much, I miss him!” Paul said of his Jesse Pinkman, cooking partner and former student to Bryan Cranston’s Walter White during a 10th anniversary panel for “Breaking Bad” at Thursday’s Comic-con.

It was ten years ago that audiences were introduced to the two characters which went on to become one of the biggest pop culture icons in TV history.

And on Thursday, that chemistry between the two and the whole cast is as fresh and palpable as if time has not passed since. And there’s added bonus of course of Aaron Paul bringing his adorable baby to the panel.

Cast and creators of Breaking Bad at SDCC – AI Photo Imaging

Fans were understandably ecstatic to see the cast in panel to mark the neo-western crime television series’ 10th anniversay, which included Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Dean Norris, Giancarlo Esposito, Bob Odenkirk, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte and show creator Vince Gilligan.

Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico andran from January 20, 2008 through September 29, 2013 on AMC, the series was a huge hit and widely regarded as one of the bet ever.

And even after the show has ended, the show’s spirit is kept alive by “Better Call Saul”, a prequel which explodes that same world. In fact, just before this panel was the cast and creators of ‘Saul’ which discussed Season 4 and answer fan questions, and which also received a very warm reception.

“You will not see Walt or Jesse in Season 4,” Gilligan said, referring to fan speculation about the characters appearing in Better Call Saul, which is set to premiere August 6 on AMC. “I would suspect we would be sorely remiss if these characters didn’t appear on this show before it ended.”

“There’s definitely a chance Bob Odenkirk is going to be on ‘Better Call Saul,’” Cranston joked.

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