Coming Soon
Out this week
* Albums
- Fifth Harmony by Fifth Harmony: Third album by the girl group, their first since the departure of Camila Cabello; comes after last year’s 7/27 (2016); led by the single ‘Down’ (featuring Gucci Mane).
- Villains by Queens of the Stone Age: Seventh album by the rock band, the follow-up to ...Like Clockwork (2013); includes the singles ‘The Way You Used to Do’ and ‘The Evil Has Landed’.
* Movies
- Leap! (with the voices of Elle Fanning, Dane DeHaan, Maddie Ziegler, Carly Rae Jepsen) - animation, American version of last year’s Ballerina (2016); a poor orphan girl (Fanning) who dreams of becoming a ballerina gets a chance to audition for a celebrated ballet school in Paris.
- All Saints (starring John Corbett, Cara Buono) - drama, based on a true story; a salesman-turned-pastor (Corbett) works with refugees to save a small church that he was told to shut down.
Celeb Tweets
- Conan O’Brien (ConanOBrien): I heard the iPhone 15 won’t have any ports or jacks or a screen and it will just be a smooth steel ball and finally we’ll all be happy.
- Whitney Cummings (WhitneyCummings): The news is so hectic I’m going to start watching horror movies to calm myself down.
- Sarah Millican (SarahMillican75): If you don’t nap on a Sunday, you’re letting the rest of us down.
Star
Blake Ellender Brown
- Born on 25th August 1987 in California, U.S.
- Has an older brother, Eric, and three maternal half-siblings, all of whom have been in the entertainment industry.
- Watched her parents teach acting as a child.
- Was a cheerleader, championship choir member, and senior class president in high school.
- Appeared in a bit part in her father’s film Sandman (1998) at age 10.
- Got her first proper acting job in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) before being cast in the teen drama series Gossip Girl (2007 - 2012).
- Has since starred in films like Accepted (2006), The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008), The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009), The Town (2010), Green Lantern (2011), Savages (2012), The Age of Adaline (2015), The Shallows (2016), and Cafe Society (2016).
- Upcoming projects include the movies All I See Is You (2017), A Simple Favor (2018), and The Rhythm Section (2018).
- Has been married to actor Ryan Reynolds - whom she first met while filming Green Lantern in 2010 - since 2012; they have two daughters, James (born 2014) and Ines (born 2016).
Also born today: Amy Macdonald, Rachel Bilson, Alexander SkarsgŒrd, Rachael Ray, Blair Underwood, Billy Ray Cyrus, Tim Burton, Elvis Costello, Gene Simmons
Spotlight
The Dark Tower
Cast: Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor, Claudia Kim, Fran Kranz, Abbey Lee, Jackie Earle Haley
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Tagline: In a world of superheroes, there is only one gunslinger.
- Fantasy western; a gunslinger (Elba) battles a vicious sorcerer (McConaughey) to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower which holds the universe together.
- Is the continuation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower book series; combines elements from several novels in the eight-volume series.
- Is a part of the Connected KINGdom franchise.
- Went through three major phases of planning: with J. J. Abrams (2007 - 2009), Ron Howard (2010 - 2015), and the current iteration with Nikolaj Arcel (2015 - present).
- Had a budget of $60 million; has made around $70 million in two weeks.
- Has received very negative reviews from critics who found it dull, disjointed, and incoherent.
- Score composed by Tom Holkenborg.
- Intended to launch a franchise. Could potentially be followed by a sequel based on The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three as well as a television series that tells the backstory to the film.