Photo: Kenny Laubbacher/HBO HBO saw Rachel Sennott say, “C’mon, it’s L.A.” in 2019 and said, “Give me six seasons and a movie.” Like Sex and the City and Girls before it, Sennott’s upcoming series will be about a young woman finding herself in a big city. Unlike those comparison points, the big city in …
Photo: Stacy Revere/Getty Images The first games of football season loom, and with them, the high-profile contract renegotiations for the stations and streamers that air them. Last night, Fox and YouTube TV fired off dueling statements indicating they were at loggerheads on their latest deal renewal. The way Fox tells it on an attack-ad-style …
Photo: Jamie Squire/Getty Images There are plenty of reasonable questions to ask in the nuclear aftermath of Taylor Swift announcing her engagement to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. Is the ring supposed to be shaped like a football, or is it just ludicrously huge? What’s with all the foliage? How will this …
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Photo: XNY/Star Max/GC Images English teacher Ms. Swift in room 13 and PE teacher Mr. Kelce in room 87 are engaged, and everybody in the whole school is thrilled for them. Which is, of course, to say that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce revealed their engagement via Instagram on August 26 and their closest …
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Photo: @taylorswift via Instagram That Taylor Swift likes to dominate a media cycle is no great surprise. She spent last summer releasing new versions of The Tortured Poets Department in order to stay ahead on sales, and she once campaigned for an Oscar for a music video. She likes attention — that’s fine and …
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Photo: Netflix/YouTube KPop Demon Hunters has officially slain Red Notice. The animated film dominated the box office this weekend and officially became Netflix’s most popular movie ever. The streamer reports that the film has 236 million total views. And with a new sing-along version, the view count can only go up, up, up. That …
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Across its two-season run, Severance has routinely confounded its audience — questions such as “What’s up with the goat guy?” and “Why does Irving B. see the black gooey substance so frequently?” fill up the show’s sub-Reddits. That aspect of the fandom initially took Ben Stiller, Severance’s executive producer and primary director, by surprise. …
Photo: @taylorswift via Instagram We had warning for the New Heights appearance. We had countdowns for the vinyl variants. Taylor Swift loves to tease major announcements with clues and numbers and colors, but it’s safe to say that we had no such warning for her August 26 post announcing that she and football player-slash-podcaster …
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Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images This is the opposite of synchronicity. Sting is being sued by his former Police bandmates, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers, over what they allege are lost royalties for the song “Every Breath You Take.” People reports the duo issued Sting, real name Gordon Sumner, a High Court writ that purports …
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Amazon MGM Studios, Cheryl Dunn/A24, Atsushi Nishijima/Focus Features, Peter Mountain/Netflix The Venice Film Festival wasn’t always the unofficial start of awards season. For many years, the festival was regarded as a high-minded and only moderately star-studded showcase for the latest and greatest in art cinema. But a little over a decade …
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