Weezer by Weezer: Tenth album by the alt rock band, the follow-up to Everything Will Be Alright in the End (2014); includes the singles ‘Thank God for Girls’, ‘King of the World’, and ‘California Kids’.
Also out this week:Everything You’ve Come to Expect, the second record by The Last Shadow Puppets; and Pet Shop Boys’ thirteenth album, Super.
Star
Asa Maxwell Thornton Farr Butterfield
Born on the 1st of April 1997 in Islington, London.
Parents split when he was young.
Has an older brother, Morgan, who is a drummer.
Started acting as a child, making his screen debut with minor roles in the television drama After Thomas (2006) and film Son of Rambow (2007).
Started gaining recognition after playing the lead role in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008); has since starred in films including Hugo (2011), Ender’s Game (2013), and X+Y (2014).
Upcoming projects include the movies Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016) and The Space Between Us (2016).
Likes video games. Developed a game app, Racing Blind, with his father.
Enjoys music.
Also born today: Ella Eyre, Hillary Scott, Hannah Spearritt, Bijou Phillips, David Oyelowo, Rachel Maddow, Susan Boyle, Abdul Qadeer Khan
Movies
Kill Your Friends (starring Nicholas Hoult, James Corden, Ed Skrein) – comedy thriller, based on John Niven’s novel; with Britpop at its peak in the 1990s, an A&R man (Hoult) goes to extremes to find his next hit.
Everybody Wants Some!! (starring Blake Jenner, Zoey Deutch, Ryan Guzman) – comedy; follows the lives of a group of college baseball players in the 1980s.
Meet the Blacks (starring Mike Epps, Gary Owen, Zulay Henao) – comedy, a parody of The Purge (2013); a family moves to a new place, but arrives at the time of the annual purge when all crime is legal.
Celeb Tweets
Fakhr-e-Alam (@falamb3): We need dynamic young people not just in the playing eleven but also in PCB management and operations. Consider a foreign chief selector maybe.
Reham Khan (@RehamKhan1): Most Pakistani families choose to live in the West so that their children can get better schooling and become doctors and lawyers. #Fact
Spotlight
10 Cloverfield Lane
Cast: John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher, Jr.
Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Tagline: Monsters come in many forms.
Thriller; after a car accident, a woman (Winstead) wakes up in an underground bunker with two men (Goodman and Gallagher, Jr.) who claim the outside world has been affected by a chemical attack.
Was developed from a script titled The Cellar; eventually turned into a spiritual successor (but not a literal sequel) of Cloverfield (2008).
Marks Dan Trachtenberg’s feature film directorial debut.
Had a budget of $15 million; has made around $54 million in its first two weeks.
Has garnered positive reviews from critics, receiving praise for its cast and suspense.
Bradley Cooper provides the voice of Winstead’s character’s boyfriend on the phone.
Score composed by Bear McCreary.
Books
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss by Anderson Cooper & Gloria Vanderbilt: Non-fiction; a year of correspondence between the journalist and his socialite mother.
Celebrate by Lauren Conrad: Non-fiction; the reality television personality offers advice on how to throw a party.
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