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The Criterion Collection announced a diverse November lineup on 4K Uhd and Blu-ray, including restorations of John Hughes’ teen drama “The Breakfast Club,” Reginald Hudlin’s hip-hop comedy “House Party” and Stanley Kubrick’s final film “Eyes Wide Shut.” The slate also features Werner Herzog’s making-of documentary “Burden of Dreams,” Luis Buñuel’s Mexican melodrama “Él,” Howard Hughes’ aviation epic “Hell’s Angels” and a major Eclipse box set dedicated to Abbas Kiarostami’s early work.

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Hughes’ “The Breakfast Club” (1985) defined a generation of high school films with its mix of angst, comedy and unlikely camaraderie among five students in Saturday detention. The new edition features a 4K restoration, cast interviews with Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy, commentary from Anthony Michael Hall and Judd Nelson, and nearly an hour of deleted and extended scenes.

Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut,” starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, receives...

This week’s episode of Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney featured a star-studded line-up of guests, including David Letterman, Hannibal Buress, Nikki Glaser and the interdimensional dumpster creature from David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive.

And since the theme of the episode was “height,” musical guest Randy Newman wrapped up the show by playing “Short People” two songs that were in no way “Short People.”

But before all of that, Mulaney’s opening monologue found him telling a lengthy story about his family, specifically, his son Malcolm’s debut stage performance at a school concert. While that premise may have been cause for concern in other hands, Mulaney proved that he can actually tell a “here’s a funny story about my kid” material that’s still in line with his comedic voice. Case in point: He compared his parenting style to Dennis Hopper’s Speed villain, and likened raising...

Tonight, we’ve got the latest on everything – the bonus puzzle, all answers and contestants – that you need to know about tonight’s episode of Wheel of Fortune!

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Wheel of Fortune Contestants & Winner – Friday, 14 February 2025 WinnerOther Contestants Conner KemmsiesNoor Ramay, Shameca Freeman Wheel of Fortune Prize Puzzle & All Solutions – Friday, 14 February 2025 $1,000 Toss Up: Making A Hole In One (Fun & Games)

$2,000 Toss Up: Forgetting My Password (What Are You Doing?)

Round 1: Gently Falling Snowflakes (Things)

Round 2: The Big Bad Wolf Blitzer (Before & After)

Round 3 (Prize): Spotting A Gray Whale (Event)

Triple Toss Up 1: Watch Out Below (Phrase)

Triple Toss Up 2: Watch Your Step (Phrase)

Triple Toss Up 3: Watch Your Language (Phrase)

Round 4: Chief...

It’s a sight familiar to anyone who’s been nurtured on a steady diet of international films: Children are sitting in a classroom, getting lectured by an irate teacher. The conversations are in Farsi, which suggests we’re somewhere on the outskirts of Tehran. The fact that one of the students is dressed as Groucho Marx signals we’re not in Kansas anymore. Eventually, the camera leaves the school grounds and begins to follow two sisters; they’re played by nonprofessional actors Rojina Esmaeili and Saba Vahedyousefi, and exhibit...

For the last 55 years or so, you’ve had a friend in Randy Newman, if you have a thing for songs that offer eviscerating, uncompromising, even devastating dissections of the human condition and the American experiment. Or, sure, kids’ tunes, or laugh-out-loud funny ones, or memorable film-score cues — yes, all of those things, too. But the case for Newman as popular music’s greatest social commentators is the one being pressed most of all by critic-turned-biographer Robert Hilburn in his new book, “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman.”

Since leaving his post as one of the nation’s most well-known rock critics, a job he held down at the Los Angeles Times from the late ’60s through 2005, Hilburn has written four books, including the ultimate biographies of Paul Simon and, before that, Johnny Cash. He sat down with Variety to discuss why he...

Litmus Music has acquired Randy Newman’s music publishing and his stake in his recorded music catalog, the company announced Thursday. The deal includes both songs and film scores from throughout his entire career, which dates back to the 1960s.

Among the more famous songs in Newman’s catalog that are part of the acquisition are “I Love L.A.,” “Short People,” “You Can Leave Your Hat On,” “Feels Like Home,” “Mama Told Me Not to Come” and “You’ve Got a Friend in Me.” His film scores include the four “Toy Story” films, “The Natural,” “Awakenings,” “Monsters Inc.,” “Cars,” “Ragtime,” “A Bug’s Life” and “Marriage Story.”

The company said it was entering a “creative partnership” with the musician. No price tag was publicly set on the deal.

Litmus launched in the summer of 2022 and made its first major acquisition the following December, buying Keith Urban’s rights to his master recordings.

Litmus Music said Thursday that it has acquired Randy Newman’s share of his recorded music and publishing catalog.

The deal includes rights to the scores of the composer-singer-songwriter’s Oscar-winning Toy Story and Monsters, Inc. movies and his decades of hits including “I Love L.A.,” which is still heard after every Los Angeles Dodgers home win.

No deal terms were provided by Litmus, which was co-founded by former Capitol Records and Warner Bros Records president Dan McCarroll and Hank Forsythe and is backed by Carlyle Group. The company has done similar transactions with Katy Perry, Benny Blanco and Keith Urban.

“Randy Newman is a unique and brilliant songwriter, composer, and performer whose body of work has proven him to be an artist for the ages,” said McCarroll. “There is absolutely no one like him, and his influence on the music world cannot be overstated. We couldn’t be more...

The father-son duo behind a Lego recreation of Daft Punk’s “Alive 2007” tour could soon have their project made into an official set.

Last week, Daft Punk and Lego fan Patrick Harboun (aka RobotRock) posted the painstaking recreation of the “Alive 2007” pyramid made with his 8-year-old son at the Lego Ideas community site. Totaling 2,000 pieces, the project began in 2020 as “a creative escape” during lockdown. After his son made a prototype with their bricks at home, Harboun expanded upon the design digitally.

A motor-powered box of transparent bricks inside the pyramid and sets of dangling lights are among the set’s highlights, with the helmets modeled after those worn by the group in Piece by Piece, a Lego-based film about Pharrell Williams’ life.

“Both huge Daft Punk fans, this build is a fusion of 2 passions,” Harboun wrote in the description. “I spent my teenage years listening to Homework on my Walkman,...

The 77th Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) has launched its entire program for the Aug. 15-21 event, where it will screen 37 new feature films and 18 world premieres.

Ten world premieres will compete for the new Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence as the fest showcases talent from filmmakers in the U.K., U.S., Canada, Mexico, Norway, China, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Iran and beyond. Screenings will take place in the heart of Scotland’s picturesque capital at some of the city’s most iconic venues including Cameo Cinema, Summerhall, and 50 George Square.

Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun, starring Saoirse Ronan, was previously confirmed as the Fest’s opening night film, with the world premiere of Carla J. Easton and Blair Young’s documentary Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands set to close. Its Midnight Madness strand will close with the body horror The Substance, starring Demi Moore.

Daft Punk is a duo that hardly needs an introduction. From Grammy-winning hit songs like "Get Lucky" to their work on soundtracks to blockbuster movies like "Tron: Legacy," the electronic musicians have conquered the world. But long before Hollywood came calling, the French beat-makers got a boost from the folks at Cartoon Network. Specifically, when the band's anime-inspired music videos aired on Toonami.

Complex did a deep-dive into the history of the anime-focused gamble that was Toonami back in 2017. While the programming block certainly helped give anime a profile boost in the U.S., it also helped out several popular musical acts, Daft Punk among them. As Toonami co-creator Jason DeMarco explained at the time, the duo reached out to them when they were in the midst of premiering an ambitious music video project titled "Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem" tied to their second studio album,...

Chip and Joanna Gaines' show, Fixer Upper, is incredibly successful and has earned them a $10 million net worth. Andy and Candis Meredith, hosts of Home Work on the Magnolia Network, faced career-ending scandals that led to their show being pulled. Multiple families accused the Merediths of incomplete and shoddy renovations, resulting in financial losses.

Chip and Joanna Gaines' Fixer Upper is easily one of the most successful home renovation franchises of all time. Not to mention a ratings hit for HGTV. Therefore, it's by no means surprising that the couple amassed a $10 million net worth. But for all of the couple's successes, they've certainly been rocked by scandal.

However, none of Chip and Joanna Gaines' controversies compare to that of Andy and Candis Meredith, who briefly hosted Home Work on Discovery+'s Magnolia Network. The network was overseen by the Gaines but has since been sold to HBO. But during their reign,...

If we’d have to guess which two questions Daft Punk have probably been asked the most, we’d go with: “Why did you break up?” followed by “Why the robot helmets?” The French house duo, who called it called it quits in February 2021, are famously rarely interviewed, but Thomas Bangalter offered a little insight to the inner workings of Daft Punk — and being “relieved” that the era is over — on a recent episode of BBC’s The First Time with Matt Everett podcast.

Bangalter previously gave a kind of vague explanation for why Daft Punk broke up, saying that “the last thing I would want to be, in the world we live in, in 2023, is a robot.” Speaking with host Everett, he dug deeper into his and bandmate Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo’s relationship with their art.

“There’s a connection between fiction and reality, and everything we did was...

Filmmaker is pleased to premiere the trailer for Film at Lincoln Center’s “The World of Apichatpong Weerasethakul” series, a complete retrospective of the Thai filmmaker’s career so far. The series will run from May 4-14 in New York City and feature seven feature films, four short film programs and Weerasethakul in attendance for select screenings. The filmmaker also programmed several films to screen alongside his own, including Chantal Ackerman’s La Captive, Russ Meyer’s Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Puppetmaster, Guy Maddin’s Careful, Abbas Kiarostami’s Homework and Frederick Wiseman’s Primate (presented in 16mm), among others. Several of the filmmaker’s […]

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Filmmaker is pleased to premiere the trailer for Film at Lincoln Center’s “The World of Apichatpong Weerasethakul” series, a complete retrospective of the Thai filmmaker’s career so far. The series will run from May 4-14 in New York City and feature seven feature films, four short film programs and Weerasethakul in attendance for select screenings. The filmmaker also programmed several films to screen alongside his own, including Chantal Ackerman’s La Captive, Russ Meyer’s Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Puppetmaster, Guy Maddin’s Careful, Abbas Kiarostami’s Homework and Frederick Wiseman’s Primate (presented in 16mm), among others. Several of the filmmaker’s […]

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The score in any Scream film is just as important for setting the tone as a character’s desire for survival, and Jenna Ortega — who plays Tara Carpenter in the latest two films — thinks the harsher and heavier the better when it comes to a good scare. When recently asked which songs would fit her Scream character best, the Wednesday star named tracks by Deftones and Nine Inch Nails.

“It’s kind of a basic one,” she said in a recent MTV interview (via Louder) about which song perfectly fits the vibe of frantically getting chased by Scream fiend Ghostface. “But it also goes along with this movie: ‘Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away),’ the Deftones song. I feel like, they’re just trying to get away, that could be an interesting one, too.”

Speaking further about which other songs she thinks her Scream character would be sonically defined, Ortega...

The score in any Scream film is just as important for setting the tone as a character’s desire for survival, and Jenna Ortega — who plays Tara Carpenter in the latest two films — thinks the harsher and heavier the better when it comes to a good scare. When recently asked which songs would fit her Scream character best, the Wednesday star named tracks by Deftones and Nine Inch Nails.

“It’s kind of a basic one,” she said in a recent MTV interview (via Louder) about which song perfectly fits the vibe of frantically getting chased by Scream fiend Ghostface. “But it also goes along with this movie: ‘Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away),’ the Deftones song. I feel like, they’re just trying to get away, that could be an interesting one, too.”

Speaking further about which other songs she thinks her Scream character would be sonically defined, Ortega...

People often talk about second album syndrome, and the pressures that follow a great first record. Often it can overshadow conversation around the debut itself: “Brilliant album… shame about the second one.”

But while it’s true that many an artist has struggled to meet expectations after a triumphant beginning, it shouldn’t take away from the achievements made on those first records. They serve as statements of intent and have the power to change or reshape the industry, inspire fellow musicians, and drive essential conversation about our understanding of music.

Whether it’s the rock on The Strokes’ much-hyped 2001 album Is This It or the rap prowess of Notorious Big on Ready to Die, introducing a genre to the rest of the world via Daft Punk’s Homework or creating a new one entirely with Black Sabbath – debut albums can take a previously unknown artist and lift them up to global adulation.

People often talk about second album syndrome, and the pressures that follow a great first record. Often it can overshadow conversation around the debut itself: “Brilliant album… shame about the second one.”

But while it’s true that many an artist has struggled to meet expectations after a triumphant beginning, it shouldn’t take away from the achievements made on those first records. They serve as statements of intent and have the power to change or reshape the industry, inspire fellow musicians, and drive essential conversation about our understanding of music.

Whether it’s the rock on The Strokes’ much-hyped 2001 album Is This It or the rap prowess of Notorious Big on Ready to Die, introducing a genre to the rest of the world via Daft Punk’s Homework or creating a new one entirely with Black Sabbath – debut albums can take a previously unknown artist and lift them up to global adulation.

Randy Newman, the prolific Oscar-winning songwriter, has postponed a European tour as he recovers from surgery to repair a broken neck.

Newman, who had a smash hit with the 1977 single “Short People,” shared news of his injury and surgery on his website today, maintaining the sense of humor that informs so much of his musical catalog.

“Recently, I noticed I was shrinking,” Newman writes. “People over whom I had towered now towered over me. Could this be payback for having written Short People? Turns out, my neck was broken.

“They operated on me successfully, I think,” he continues. “For even now, I look less like an anteater and more like a folk rock artist from the early sixties. But the doctor said I’m not quite ready to tour. I was really looking forward to coming to Europe to perform. I miss performing a great deal and I look forward...

When Oscar nominations are announced, it’s a good bet that Sam Mendes’s 1917 will be among the Best Picture finalists. In its limited run, the film has gotten great reviews, excellent word of mouth, and three Golden Globe nominations. Dean-Charles Chapman and George MacKay play the two soldiers tasked with delivering a vital message to [...]

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Hilary Duff is keeping it real.  The 32-year-old who began her acting career in 1998 after she landed her first major role in Casper Meets Wendy took to social media to open up about how leaving "real" school at a young age is now making it a little bit difficult for her to help her 7-year-old son with homework.    "This guy with his spirit and kindness. Homework is already no joke in 2nd grade," she wrote in her Instagram caption. "I stopped going to 'real' school in 3rd grade so I'm actually doomed... I am left scratching my head alll the time looking at his homework and I'm terrified for next year! Although Singapore math is the shit... I also learned a lot about...

Three years after Palme d’Or-winning Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami passed away at the age of 76, Janus Films is rolling out a wide-ranging and lovingly designed touring retrospective of some of his seminal works. The new retrospective includes restorations of The Koker Trilogy, plus features like “Close-Up,” “Taste of Cherry,” “Shirin,” “24 Frames,” “ABC Africa,” “The Wind Will Carry Us,” “Ten,” and “Five.”

The new restorations were undertaken by the Criterion Collection and mk2 with contributions by Kiarostami’s son, Ahmad Kiarostami.

Born in 1940 in Tehran, the filmmaker first studied painting at the University of Tehran; later, he worked as a graphic designer and commercial director. Kiarostami credited a job in the film department at Kanun (the Centre for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults) for shaping him into a filmmaker.

He made his first feature, “The Report,” in 1977, just two years before the 1979 revolution that saw so...

It may not be William McKinley High School, but two “Glee” alumni are reuniting on a much bigger stage.

Lea Michele and Darren Criss announced Monday that they are re-teaming for a co-headlining tour, performing songs from Broadway, their recent solo albums, and the hit Fox show. Dubbed the Lm/DC tour, the two will hit the road starting May 30 in Nashville, Tenn.

“We’ve always had so much fun performing together for one-off gigs, so it’s high time we took that show on the road,” Michele and Criss said in a joint statement. “We share so much musical history together between ‘Glee,’ Broadway, and our own solo projects, so it will be fun to put it all together for our fans in one big show.”

The limited tour dates will run through May and June in eight U.S. cities and in Toronto.

Since the end of “Glee,...