Coming Soon
Out this week:
- Albums
- 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.