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During her Friday show in Nashville, Taylor Swift announced that “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version”) will arrive on July 7. ‘Sparks Fly’, from the 2010 original “Speak Now” album, was her first song during the “Surprise Songs” segment of her show.
Audiences were definitely eager to see Mark Consuelos in the hosts’ seat. He joined wife Kelly Ripa as co-host of “Live with Kelly and Mark” on April 17, taking over for Ryan Seacrest. And the debut week for Live with Kelly and Mark managed the talk show’s strongest ratings and largest audience in 3 months.
Michael Douglas, the star “Fatal Attraction,” “Wall Street,” “Basic Instinct” and more recently, “Ant-Man”, will be recognized with the Cannes Film Festival’s honorary Palme d’Or for lifetime achievement. The festival has announced that the 78-year-old will be subject of an opening ceremony tribute on May 16.
SZA is celebrating her first-ever Billboard Hot 100 #1. Even though ‘Kill Bill’ has since been overtaken by Morgan Wallen’s ‘Last Night’ at the top, she wrote on Twitter: “took me a over week to process cause I dreamt of this my entire career. didn’t feel real lol, still doesn’t…THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS.”
Miranda Lambert revealed that Morgan Wallen’s latest album is her favorite album of 2023 so far while on “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen”. “I think Morgan Wallen. I mean, he’s out there kicking ass.”
“Stranger Things” will not return with its final season until the writers’ strike ends, even though the script is done. The Duffer Brothers have shut down production in solidarity with the writers and tweeted a message to show their support.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is alive and well. “Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3” took the top spot at the weekend office, bringing in $114 million in North America during the film’s opening weekend. “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” fell to second place this weekend after being the box office king for nearly a month.
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has revealed he had to pay a hacker’s ransom to prevent them leaking songs from the band’s new 3-part rock opera “Atum”, the third part of which dropped on Friday. He says that after someone got their hands on some of the album’s most commercial material, he was forced to give in and pay up.
Prince will have a highway named after him. Minnesota’s Senate has voted to rename State Highway 5 in the Minneapolis suburbs of Chanhassen and Eden Prairie “Prince Rogers Nelson Memorial Highway”. The road runs past Prince’s Paisley Park museum and studios.
Thanks to the Writers Guild strike, the “MTV Movie and TV Awards” felt like a COVID-era award show. They just announced the winners, and some gave acceptance speeches by video. There were also clips from past shows, and a few pre-taped skits featuring Drew Barrymore.
CBS has canceled “SWAT”, and Shemar Moore isn’t happy. He wants fans to, quote, “Make some [effing] noise. And let them know that canceling SWAT is [an effing] mistake.”
Dierks Bentley and Miranda Lambert recorded three duets for the CBS drama “Fire Country”. Their new songs “Saved” and “Still Burning” will be on Friday’s episode and another called “Something in the Water” will be on the season finale on the 19th.
Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” has become the fastest song to ever reach a billion streams on Spotify. Spotify announced that the single, which was released January 12th, had already reached the impressive milestone. Miley thanked fans, writing on Instagram, “Thanks a billion. I love you.”
Meg Ryan stepped out in public last week to support her friend, Michael J. Fox. The actress was photographed sitting on a couch alongside Mike and his wife, Tracy Pollan, at a screening for “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie” at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York City.
“Yellowstone” will be ending with its fifth season. This comes after rumored scheduling conflicts between the show’s creator, Taylor Sheridan, and the show’s star, Kevin Costner. The second half of season five is set to premiere in November. The “Yellowstone” sequel starring Matthew McConaughey is expected to premiere in December.
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