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).
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.
