We're living in the age of intellectual property. It's nigh impossible to get anything made these days if it isn't, in some way, beholden to a money maker of yore. That's resulted in plenty of unnecessary remakes, but also several striking, creative visions, ones like FX's Fargo and Hulu's new Castle Rock that have found ways to honor the source material without rehashing it. Fox's newly announced project, Stoned Alone, is also putting a unique spin on its source material, though this one sounds like a real hit or miss scenario. Ryan Reynolds will produce the film, which essentially recycles the plot of 1990's Home Alone-robbers break into a house thought to be empty, forcing the ill-prepared victim left behind to fight back-with a 20-something weed enthusiast. Is it a copyright violation to reprise the Sticky Bandits moniker? One can assume that the eye-rollingly profane, meta humor Reynolds has brought to Deadpool will manifest here. Augustine Frizzell, who directed Sundance hit Never Goin' Back, is attached to direct, while the script comes from relative newbies Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider. The idea was, in a sigh-worthy twist, cooked up by an executive at Fox. Reynolds, meanwhile, is also developing a Clue update with Deadpool writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, so stay tuned for what iconic property he's rarin' to scoop up next.
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Drake and Migos were set to kick off their “Aubrey and the Three Amigos Tour” this Thursday, July 26th, with a show in Salt Lake City, Utah. Now, though, the start of the tour has been delayed several weeks. “In order to deliver the high standard tour experience our fans expect and deserve, we have made the necessary decision to slightly adjust the beginning of 'The Aubrey and the Three Migos Tour' schedule,” said a representative for Drake in a statement. The tour will now launch on August 10th in Kansas City, Missouri. A majority of the shows originally scheduled through August 20th have been given new dates - save for the two Denver dates originally set for July 28th and 29th and a third Chicago gig that was meant for August 20th. None of the dates after August 23rd have been affected. All tickets for the originally scheduled concerts will be honored at the new dates, though refunds are also being offered. Find the updated docket below. Drake and Migos 2018 Tour Dates: Revisit Drake and Migos' “Walk It Talk It” collaboration below. It will allow users to try on Bowie's costumes, among other unique interactions
Spoken word poet Saul Williams has released a new song called "The Flaw You Worship." The track was released in connection with a Kickstarter campaign Williams is currently running to raise money for a new film adaptation of Neptune Frost, an afrofuturist musical and graphic novel he wrote. Lin-Manuel Miranda is already on-board as an…
Tame romanticism and lukewarm pop have replaced the bombastic songs of the early 00s – but are they also reinforcing stereotypes? In the early 2010s, pop culture was at the peak of a maximalist high. People wore T-shirts and baseball hats emblazoned with neon “YOLO”s (You Only Live Once) and listened to hyper-climactic pop bangers and rap odes to “molly” (the millennial term for MDMA). There was Ludacris ft Usher and David Guetta's Rest of My Life with its soaring notes and Nietzsche-via-Kanye lines about cheating death and getting stronger, LMFAO's apocalyptic Party Rock Anthem and Miley Cyrus's nihilistic We Can't Stop, which doubled as celebration and cry for help. But by 2016, YOLO was out and chill was in: “Chill pop is the new music trend that isn't going anywhere,” read one headline in August 2016. That year's most successful EDM act were the Chainsmokers, a duo commonly described as “chilled-out” and “lukewarm”. As Slate music critic Chris Molanphy explained, the fact that their mega-hit Closer turns its first “drop” – the thunderous climax of club-rattling electronic dance music – into a “downshift” signalled a comedown from all that YOLO maximalism. It was, as he put it: “The end of an era.” Continue reading... |
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