Rita Ora’s new EP ‘BANG” is set to drop this Friday, February 12th. The four-song collaboration with Ima is led by the single ‘Big’ featuring David Guetta and Gunna.
“BANG” is described as a “mix of modern Pop, 80s, and 90s club culture and floor-filling house,” and will be accompanied with mini-movie. Ora revealed the trailer, describing it as her “own mini-film.” You can see RIta’s Twitter post with the movie trailer here.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are Super Bowl LV champions, defeating the Kansas City Chiefs 31-9 on Sunday night at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. The Bucs became the first team to win a Super Bowl in their home stadium, and quarterback Tom Brady earned his seventh Lombardi Trophy, the most of any player in NFL history.
Brady’s performance At age 43, Brady gave a stellar performance, completing 21 of 29 passes for 201 yards and three touchdowns, including a pair to tight end Rob Gronkowski. Chiefs quarterbackPatrick Mahomes was 26 of 49 passing for 270 yards and two interceptions. He added five carries for a team-high 33 yards.
The NY Knicks will acquire point guard Derrick Rose in a trade with the Detroit Pistons. New York will send point guard Dennis Smith Jr. and Charlotte’s 2021 second-round pick to Detroit. Rose is a three-time All-Star. He won Rookie of the Year in 2008–09, earning an All-NBA selection in 2010–11.
Rose, 32, is in his 12th NBA season. The 2010–11 MVP is averaging 14.2 points and 4.2 assists per game this year, though he has been inactive in five of Detroit’s last eight contests. Rose will return to New York for a second time after he played 64 games with the Knicks in 2016–17.
The Knicks are back in the Eastern Conference playoff race, currently at No. 7 in the Eastern Conference at 11–13. They have not reached the playoffs since 2013.
Filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan debuted the first trailer for his upcoming film Old during Super Bowl LV on Sunday.
The synopsis of the film reads: “Old centers on a group of people who find a dead body on a beach and slowly realize there is something unnatural happening.” Old stars Gael Garcia Bernal, Eliza Scanlen, Thomasin McKenzie, Aaron Pierre, Alex Wolff, Vicky Krieps, Abbey Lee, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ken Leung, Rufus Sewell, Embeth Davidtz and Emun Elliott.
50-year-old Shyamalan is best known for his films Split, Glass, and The Sixth Sense. He also serves as executive producer on the Apple TV+ series Servant.
Check out the new trailer for Old – here. The movie is set to hit theaters on July 23.
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers announced he is engaged over the weekend, but the question being asked on social media is – to who?
Rodgers revealed the engagement news as he accepted the NFL’s Most Valuable Player Award for the third time in his career. “2020 was definitely a crazy year filled with lots of change, growth, some amazing and memorable moments,” Rodgers said. “I got engaged and I played some of the best football of my career.” Reports recently surfaced just this week that Rodgers had been dating ‘Big Little Lies’ actress Shailene Woodley, but the QB didn’t confirm the news when he made his announcement Saturday. Rodgers never mentioned the name of the mystery woman during his MVP acceptance speech, just referred to her as “my fiancé.”
Rodgers has previously been in long-term relationships with former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick and actress Olivia Munn.
Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album remains at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for a fourth consecutive week. The album’s continued success comes during the same week in which a video showing Wallen using a racial slur caused immediate and swift backlash.
As previously reported, TMZ posted a video on Feb. 2 of Wallen yelling racially-charged expletives. Though Wallen subsequently issued an apology, his record label, Big Loud Records, suspended his recording contract indefinitely, and multiple radio groups dropped his music. Additionally his songs were removed from over 30 influential playlists across Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Pandora, however, his music was not removed from any digital retailers (like iTunes.)
Lil Durk’s The Voice jumps up to the No 2 spot, while Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon dropped down to No. 3, The Weeknd’s After Hours remained at No. 4 and Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die rose to No. 5. Luke Combs’ What You See Is What You Get, Taylor Swift’s Evermore, Lil Baby’s My Turn, Ariana Grande’s Positions, and Megan Thee Stallion’s Good News rounded out the Top 10.
Philadelphia 76ers PG Ben Simmons was ruled out for Thursday’s game vs. the Portland Trail Blazers due to a calf tightness.
Simmons played in Wednesday’s game vs. the Charlotte Hornets and was being listed as probable all day long. However he calf injury hadn’t improved enough for Simmons to play two nights back-to-back. He played just 35 minutes in the 76ers over the Hornets on Wednesday.
Nets forward Kevin Durant and Lakers forward LeBron James lead their respective conferences in the first All-Star game fan voting. Durant is the overall top vote-getter with 2,302,705 votes. He is averaging 30.8 points, 7.5 rebounds and 5.2 assists in 36.9 minutes per game. James is averaging 25 points, 7.7 rebounds and 7.5 assists in 33.5 minutes per contest.
Warriors guard Stephen Curry has received the most votes of any Western Conference guard (2,113,178) and Wizards guard Bradley Beal has received the most votes of any guard in the Eastern Conference with 1,273,817 votes.
The top-10 results from the first returns can be viewed at the link below.
The CW teased Riverdale Season 5 with a poster revealing a 7-year time jump. The network posted on social media Thursday, featuring older versions of the show’s characters.
The poster, along with the caption “7 years later,” shows Archie Andrews (KJ Apa), Betty Cooper (Lili Reinhart), Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes), Jughead Jones (Cole Sprouse), Cheryl Blossom (Madelaine Petsch) and other characters, along with Pop’s Diner. Riverdale will make a 7-year time jump in next week’s episode, taking the characters from high school graduation into adulthood. A promo for the episode shows Archie as a soldier, Jughead as a published writer, Veronica as a new wife and Betty as an FBI agent.
The CW renewed Riverdale for a sixth season this week. You can stream new episodes of Riverdale every Thursday free only on The CW here: http://go.cwtv.com/genRVRyt
TV comedy Schitt’s Creek and Netflix drama The Crown led the field as the 2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced on Thursday. Schitt’s Creek and The Crown each earned five nominations, while Ozark earned four and Dead to Me picked up three. Streaming service Netflix scored the most nominations in both the film category (with 13 nominations) and TV category (with 17 nominations.)
The late actor Chadwick Boseman, who died of cancer in August, was recognized for Best Actor in a Film and Best Supporting Actor in a Film for his performances in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Da 5 Bloods. He was also nominated as part of the casts of those two movies for Best Ensemble in a Film, bringing his total of nominations to four. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Minari were the most nominated films with three nods apiece.
The SAG Awards honor excellence in film and television acting, and winners will be announced on April 4 in a TNT and TBS simulcast. See the full list of nominees for the 2021 SAG Awards below.
