Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The 2024 TikTok Award Winners Since the biggest TikTok books sell hundreds of thousands of copies, one could argue that the cash is the prize of being a BookTok favorite. But apparently you can get
FROM-ily. Are you there? We have some MAJOR news to share with you: news of a good variety. Not only do we now know when the popular science fiction horror series will return, but we also have the full FROM Season 3 trailer for your viewing pleasure. Is that enough excitement for you? (Chris Reardon/MGM+)
In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on July 26, 2024: Porter Robinson, SMILE! 😀 Porter Robinson is back with his third album, SMILE! 😀, out now via Mom+Pop. The follow-up to 2021’s Nurture was previewed by the singles ‘Cheerleader’, ‘Knock Yourself Out XD’, ‘Russian Roulette’, and ‘Kitsune
We give you the full trailer for The Critic, the upcoming period drama starring Ian McKellen as a theater critic who’s on the verge of losing his position due to his sexuality. It’s scheduled to arrive in theaters on September 13, 2024. “London, 1934. Jimmy Erskine (McKellen) is the most feared theatre critic of the age,” reads
Peacock has released the first trailer for Teacup, its newest horror-thriller series, based on Robert McCammon’s New York Times bestselling novel. The project hails James Wan, who will serve as an executive producer. “The story follows a disparate group of people in rural Georgia who must come together in the face of a mysterious threat in order
Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding have reunited for a new collaborative single called Free. It’s the duo’s 4th collaboration together. Much like the duo’s prior work, Free is a dopamine-fueled track, with anthemic production and head-over-heels songwriting. EDM is definitely a genre I feel Ellie Goulding shines in, and this is another perfect example. [embedded content] Email:neill@outloudculture.comSocials: @neillfrazer
Drake promised to keep summer playlists popping after backing off from his Kendrick Lamar beef — and that moment appears to be here courtesy of his longtime homie Gordo‘s “Diamante” album!!! The new project was released on Friday and boasts not 1 but 2 new Drake records … beginning on the album’s second track “Sideways”
A Jason Aldean fan in Georgia crossed the line, literally. The man tried to jump on stage but only got to the edge before security and police swarmed and tackled him. Video shows three men responding to the stage-crasher, and they weren’t politely escorting him away. He’s whisked away like a dead deer as Aldean finishes
Illumination and Universal’s Despicable Me 4 handily crossed the six-century mark at the global box office this week, now with $632M through Thursday. The latest in the series has pushed the worldwide running total for the Despicable Me/Minions franchise to $5.3B, overtaking Transformers ($5.295B) and the Avatar movies ($5.268B). This puts the franchise at No. 12
Go behind the scenes of George A. Romero‘s final film with Walking After Midnight: The Making of Survival of the Dead, streaming now exclusively on SCREAMBOX! In Survival of the Dead, zombies have taken over the world, and a ragtag band of soldiers led by Sarge Crockett (Alan Van Sprang) roams the countryside trying to scavenge
The Gates of Hell and The Demons That Protect It. The 2003 Incident Based on A True Story. Jason Walker is a veteran paranormal investigator. With many investigations and years in the paranormal under his belt he put into writing a scary, emotion depiction of his real thoughts in his new book. This is a
Sheesh, you could have at least waved. On the vaguely Celtic-sounding folk song “Irish Goodbye,” Kacey Musgraves explains that she’s mostly a pretty forgiving person and pretty much liked you right up until you had the presumptuous audacity to ghost her. “I want to respect you and you know I tried,” she sings, her words
Neutrals are great. They really are. Black will always be the new black, there’s no skin tone that doesn’t look good in grey, and it’s impossible to look under- (or, in fact, over-) dressed in a navy suit. However, when you consider that dog tags and square-toe shoes were once considered the height of cool,
Winston Nguyen, a NYC math teacher-turned-“Jeopardy!” champ, has surrendered himself to authorities over child porn charges … according to multiple reports. The educator — who worked at the swanky Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights — turned himself over to Brooklyn prosecutors on Thursday … a month after he was accused of catfishing minors and
My Brightest Diamond, the project of New York singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shara Nova, has announced a new album. Fight the Real Terror, the follow-up to 2018’s A Million and One, is out September 13 via Western Vinyl. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘Have You Ever Seen an Angel’, which you
Alice Nuttall (she/her) is a writer, pet-wrangler and D&D nerd. Her reading has got so out of control that she had to take a job at her local library to avoid bankrupting herself on books — unfortunately, this has just resulted in her TBR pile growing until it resembles Everest. Alice’s webcomic, writing and everything
Harvey Weinstein is battling a slew of health issues from a prison hospital … including the coronavirus and pneumonia. Weinstein has been transferred to Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward in Manhattan, where he’s being treated for diabetes, high blood pressure, spinal stenosis and other conditions … his rep, Juda Engelmayer, confirmed to TMZ. Weinstein’s camp says
Putting aside the raging debate about whether it is, in fact, the “scariest film of the decade,” one thing we can all agree upon is that Longlegs is, at the very least, off putting. There’s something about Osgood “Oz” Perkins’ latest that gets under your skin, even if it doesn’t necessarily reduce you to a
Play video content Melinda French Gates presents Moments That Make Us Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King say they’re a couple of straight shooters who’d admit if they were a gay couple — a rare denial of a longtime rumor that’s swirled around them. The talk show hosts sat down for an interview with Melinda Gates
It looks like Netflix is cooking up something sexy for audiences with an all-star cast led by the iconic Julianne Moore in Sirens. From the creative mind that brought viewers the series Maid comes the first of a multiyear deal with the streamer. Molly Smith Metzler has possibly penned another hit with a series
“Hawk Tuah” girl Haliey Welch is swinging back at Nick Kyrgios … she says she doesn’t wake up in the morning and hate on other people, unlike the tennis star!!! We got the viral sensation at Beverly Hot Springs in L.A. and our photog asked her about Nick saying there’s no longer a correlation between
When we look ahead to upcoming horror movies we’re most hyped about, the return of M3GAN is certainly up there! After the artificially intelligent doll wreaked havoc on her roboticist and her niece’s life (along with showing off her viral dancing skills and an unforgettable rendition of Sia’s “Titanium” under her collar bow), she’ll be
EXCLUSIVE: Moments before Deadpool & Wolverine stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, filmmaker Shawn Levy and Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige take stage at Comic-Con‘s Hall H, we can tell you first per myriad box office sources that the movie is headed to a record preview night for an R-rated pic. It is eyeing $35M
The latest edition of San Diego Comic-Con is underway, bringing exciting news this week. That includes a first look at upcoming Peacock horror series “Teacup,” executive produced by James Wan and inspired by Robert McCammon‘s Stinger. The first two episodes of “Teacup” premiere on Peacock on Thursday, October 10, followed by two episodes weekly through Halloween. Watch the brand new
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Sony is adapting Liz Moore’s novels The Unseen World and The God of the Woods, which we just wrote about as being Thee Book of the Summer. The plan is for both adaptations to be developed as series, with the same executive producers as Sony’s adaptation of Liz Moore’s Long Bright River: Neal H. Moritz
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Apple TV+ has dropped the first trailer for Bad Monkey, its forthcoming crime comedy starring Vince Vaughn. “It tells the story of Andrew Yancy (Vaughn), who has been bounced from the Miami Police Department and is now a health inspector in the Keys,” reads the official logline. “But after stumbling upon a case that begins with a
Peacock has released the first trailer for the scripted comedy series Mr. Throwback starring Stephen Curry. It will premiere on Peacock on August 8, 2024. The mockumentary comedy series follows a down-on-his-luck memorabilia dealer (Adam Pally) who looks for redemption by reuniting with his sixth-grade teammate, NBA legend Stephen Curry. ”I was excited to step into the world