Photo: Universal Pictures/Everett Collection I’m 33 years old and I’m afraid of texting M3gan, the menacing robot child who stole our hearts and the box office in January 2023. M3gan can dance, play, and kill, and she’ll return in M3gan 2.0 in June. But before all that, Blumhouse hopes to rekindle interest in the …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images (Michael Buckner/Billboard, Paul Archuleta) JoJo Siwa can handle herself — she once Army-carried Tom Sandoval up a hill — so she can definitely handle Mickey Rourke. The odd pair are both currently on Celebrity Big Brother in the U.K., and by day two, it’s not going well. Rourke, it …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images (Jesse Grant, Kevin Dietsch) Can Donald Trump institute a policy so controversial that even the Zynternet turns against him? Well, he’s gonna try! Trump’s plans for tariffs are proving unpopular on the internet, and not only with the “woke left.” Both apolitical figures and former Trump supporters are speaking …
Photo: Moll Kinnunen Jael Holzman writes and speaks with locomotive urgency, as a political and climate reporter as well as a co-founder of the Washington, D.C., punk trio Ekko Astral. You sense the directness is an after-effect of time spent spelling out terrifying implications of processes people hadn’t deeply considered. Holzman, who left Axios in …
Photo: Warner Bros./Everett Collection Blame Chicken Jockey. About two-thirds of the way through A Minecraft Movie, the $150 million live-action adaptation of Mojang Studios’ epochal video game, Jack Black and Jason Momoa’s gamers-in-a-strange-land characters find themselves in a boxing ring in a purported fight to the death. At first, they’re facing down a chicken …
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Photo: Bruce Glikas/WireImage Snap out of it! In the green room of the New York “Legends of Broadway” shoot, Idina Menzel revealed that she’d been in a workshop of a musical adaptation of the 1987 movie Moonstruck with an “Italian, operatic score.” She’d tried to keep the show going but ultimately aged out of …
Photo: John Shearer/Getty Images Every four years: a presidential election, a leap year, a Lorde album. Though Lorde hasn’t exactly been off the grid since her 2021 release, Solar Power — her cameo on Brat catapulted Charli XCX’s album into instant-classic territory — she’s definitely kept quiet, as she often does between touring and …
Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images Trying to piece together an extensive summer-music itinerary? Or simply looking for an exciting option for one free weekend? Let us help. We’ve assembled a guide that includes more than 60 festivals and music events with details on who’s playing, when, where, and how to get tickets. We limited the list …
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Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Amy Sussman/Getty Images, Taylor Hill/FilmMagic Keke Palmer is no longer airing an interview with convicted abuser Jonathan Majors on her podcast. Since last week, Baby, This Is Keke Palmer had been teasing an episode titled “No Easy Answers: Accountability and Moving Forward With Jonathan Majors,” set for April 8. The episode …
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Photo: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images (Dia Dipasupil, Presley Ann) Season three of The White Lotus has come and gone, and while Mike White continues arguing with his ex-composer instead of celebrating the success of his show, the rest of us have work to do. Namely, predicting the cast and location for the next season. …
