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Amazon Prime Video revealed plans to release a sequel to its biggest movie ever. Over the years, the Amazon-owned streaming service has had some hits, including titles like The Idea of You, The Tomorrow War, and Camila Cabello's Cinderella, but there is one name that stands atop the list for the streamer. 

From a viewership perspective, Road House continues to be the biggest Amazon Prime Video original movie ever, even a year after its release.

The only thing that has come close to its lofty mark was Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's Red One, which technically eclipsed Road House. However, that film was not exclusively released on the streaming platform, having played in theaters first (read more about Red One's rollercoaster 2024 release here).

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Camila Cabello on her time in Fifty Harmony ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

When the news of Camila Cabello leaving the girl band Fifth Harmony first came out, fans were shocked and heartbroken. The situation was similar but ten times more amplified when Zayn Malik announced he was leaving the massively popular boy band One Direction. Even though it was a setback for the audience, their exits were essential for their mental peace.

Regarding Cabello, the 27-year-old quit Fifth Harmony in December 2016. The basis behind the decision wasn’t unclear then, and she and the band stated different reasons. Years later, the singer is a popular solo artist and has shed light on her decision to leave. Here’s what she said.

Camila Cabello About Feeling ‘Left Out’ In Fifth Harmony

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As the life story of Pharrell Williams is told in Piece by Piece, it's worth looking at Williams' discography to remember, or learn, what the biggest songs of his career have been. Williams always strives to think outside the box when it comes to his career, and Piece by Piece is no exception. The animated movie explores Williams' life through Lego storytelling, amassing an impressive number of cameos from other musicians in Piece by Piece as it does so - including the likes of Gwen Stefani, Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z, and Kendrick Lamar.

Of course, the reason why these musicians are included in the story is because of the many impressive collaborations Williams has been a part of over the course of his life. Williams has created many songs, both under his own name and on behalf of others, that have topped the charts time and time again, becoming the soundtrack to many people's lives.

Few records in the last 10 years have been as critically acclaimed as Kacey Musgraves’s fourth studio album, “Golden Hour.” The 2018 release reached new heights for the singer-songwriter, earning an impressive 89 score on Metacritic and being labeled one of the greatest albums of all time by Rolling Stone. Acclaim wasn’t particularly new for Musgraves, who had received raves for her debut, “Same Trailer Different Park.” However, “Golden Hour” made an even greater impact in the popular consciousness, especially with its more pop-oriented sound. It culminated in one of the biggest honors in music: the Grammy for Album of the Year. In honor of the album’s fifth anniversary, let’s take a look back at how the win reflected some important trends that we can still see today in Grammy voting, and just how strong a contender “Golden Hour” had to be to achieve it.

“Golden Hour” was not...

Winning the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album is a huge deal. The category has been consistent in rewarding the biggest pop star of the year in most years, from two-time winners Adele and Kelly Clarkson to Harry Styles, Bruno Mars, and Taylor Swift. So it’s no surprise that one of this generation’s leading vocalists has also claimed the award: Ariana Grande, who won for her 2018 effort, “Sweetener.” Grande is a consistent nominee in the category, with all her albums except her debut receiving at least two nominations in the pop field. But what made her 2018 record the one to finally get her a long-awaited Grammy win, especially with heavy competition from previous winners like the aforementioned Swift and Clarkson?

Grande had a massive comeback in 2018. She was coming off one of the most traumatic experiences an artist could ever experience: the 2017 bombing at one of her concerts in Manchester,...

Exclusive: Camila Cabello has found her next major acting gig on the heels of Prime Video’s Cinderella. The Cuban-born pop star has closed a deal to join Jay Will, Mary J. Blige and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Rob Peace — the drama Ejiofor is directing from his own script, as his sophomore feature effort.

The film, currently in production, is based on Jeff Hobbs’ bestselling biography The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League. It follows Robert Peace (Will), a young man who grew up in a crime-ridden section of Newark, NJ and later graduated from Yale with degrees in molecular biophysics and biochemistry earned on scholarship. Peace led a dual life living in the insular world of academia and as a lab researcher of cancer and infectious diseases, while at the same time making six figures from the sale of marijuana.

The saga continues, featuring Adam Rifkin, Robert D. Krzykowski, John Sayles, Maggie Renzi, Mick Garris and Larry Wilmore with special guest star Blaire Bercy from the Hollywood Food Coalition.

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Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Key Largo (1948)

I Don’t Want to Talk About It (1993)

Camila (1984)

I, the Worst of All (1990)

The Wages of Fear (1953)

Le Corbeau (1943)

Diabolique (1955)

Red Beard (1965)

Seven Samurai (1954)

Ikiru (1952)

General Della Rovere (1959)

The Gold of Naples (1959)

Bitter Rice (1949)

Pickup On South Street (1953)

My Darling Clementine (1946)

Viva Zapata! (1952)

Panic In The Streets (1950)

Yellow Sky (1948)

Ace In The Hole (1951)

Wall Street (1987)

Women’s Prison (1955)

True Love (1989)

Mean Streets (1973)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

The Abyss (1989)

The China Syndrome (1979)

Big (1988)

Splash (1984)

The ’Burbs (1989)

Long Strange Trip (2017)

Little Women (2019)

Learning To Skateboard In A War Zone (If You’re A Girl) (2019)

The Guns of Navarone...

We already knew Camila Cabello was performing at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night, February 10, but now we know she’ll take the stage in what CBS and the recording academy say will be an “explosive show opener.” She’ll be joined by J Balvin, Young Thug, Ricky Martin and Arturo Sandoval.

Cuban-American singer Cabello got her start with the girl group Fifth Harmony before striking out on her own. She received her first pair of Grammy nominations this year: Best Pop Solo Performance for “Havana” and Best Pop Album for her solo debut “Camila.” Rapper Young Thug was featured on the chart-topping recorded version of “Havana” with Cabello, but Cabello is nominated by herself for a live version of the song.

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Puerto Rican star Ricky Martin had a huge career breakthrough at the Grammys when he performed “La Copa de Vida” during the 1999 telecast.

The recording academy has announced the first round of presenters who will take the stage at the 2019 Grammy Awards on Sunday night, February 10: Camila Cabello, Cardi B, Dan and Shay, Post Malone, Shawn Mendes, Janelle Monae and Kacey Musgraves. All of them are contenders to take home prizes this year, and most of them would be first-time winners.

Four of them are nominees for Album of the Year including Cardi B, who is up for her debut album “Invasion of Privacy.” That’s one of five nominations for the Bronx rapper, who could also be the first solo female artist to win Best Rap Album.

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Post Malone competes for his sophomore release “Beerbongs and Bentleys,” and he’s also up for Record of the Year for the chart-topping “Rockstar.” He has a total of four nominations going into this event,...

With the American Music Awards coming up soon on October 9, the telecast has added a few more big names to the list of performers: Camila Cabello, as well as Shawn Mendes featuring Zedd. All three are also nominated for multiple prizes at the AMAs, so will they get a chance to return to the stage as winners too?

Cabello will perform a song from her debut solo album “Camila,” which was released this past January. She was previously a member of the girl group Fifth Harmony, with whom she won an Ama in 2016: Collaboration of the Year for “Work from Home” (featuring Ty Dolla $ign). This year she could add five more trophies to her mantel. She’s up for Collaboration of the Year again, this time for “Havana” featuring Young Thug. And she additionally contends for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist, Favorite Pop/Rock Song (“Havana”), Video of...

Sony Music’s Q1 earnings point to a performance in line with industry trends when it comes to streaming (revenues up 30%) and physical product sales (down 30%). Overall, Sony’s music division enjoyed an 8% or JPY12.9 billion improvement in revenue in the quarter ending June 30, reflecting stronger visual media and platform sales, including the successful mobile game app “Fate/Grand Order”.

Operating income for the Music division was up JPY32.1 billion from JPY25 billion in Q1 of 2017. The biggest decline came from physical sales, which dropped from JPY33 million to JPY22 million year-on-year. Download sales saw a slight dip, too, from JPY12.9 million to JPY10.6 million, but digital’s performance overall was offset by a rise in streaming, from JPY38.4 million to JPY51.6 million.

Also detailed in the earnings report is Sony Corp.’s completed acquisition of Emi Music Publishing from a consortium led by private equity firm Mubadala. Sony’s...

Rapper Cardi B and pop singer Camila Cabello have had chart-topping breakthroughs in the past year, so it’s fitting that they’re now they’re the favorites to win Top New Artist at the upcoming Billboard Music Awards being held on Sunday, May 20. But it looks like a close contest judging by our racetrack odds, which have been calculated by combining the predictions of hundreds of Gold Derby users. Who do you think has the advantage?

As of this writing Cardi B gets leading odds of 9/10 with support from a whopping 20 of our Top 24 Users who got the highest scores predicting last year’s Billboard Music Awards, as well as 20 of our All-Star Top 24 who got the highest scores when you combine the last two years’ predictions.

The Billboard Awards celebrate commercial success rather than artistic success, deciding winners based on a combination of album and song sales, radio airplay,...

As part of a strong Sony earnings report for its 2017-18 fiscal year (which ended on March 31) the company’s music division’s revenue rose more than 12% to around $4.03 billion in Rob Stringer’s first year at the helm as CEO. Streaming revenues soared more than 37% to $1.8 billion, comprising more than 44% of the music division’s total.

Physical sales were also up, rising nearly $10 million to $1.20 billion. While the company did not break down those numbers, a source said they were driven by a strong showing in Japan, where physical sales remain strong, as well as a continued uptick in vinyl sales; physical sales overall are expected to continue their gradual downward trajectory. Download revenues continued to fall, dropping 18% to just under $450 million.

The company singled out Pink’s “Beautiful Trauma,” DJ Khaled’s “Grateful” and Camila Cabello’s “Camila” as its top-selling albums.

The announcement came just three months...

Camila Cabello still doesn’t know what to think about the memorable moment when Blue Ivy Carter told her parents to simmer down during Cabello’s speech at the Grammy Awards this year.

“I had a moment of insecurity,” the 20-year-old “Havana” singer revealed during a recent interview with BBC Radio 1. “I surprised myself. I was like, ‘What does that mean?’ ” she continued, adding, “Do you think she didn’t like my speech?”

The former Fifth Harmony member went on to say she actually had to stop herself from over-analyzing the moment. “I literally stopped. I was like, ‘I...

Camila Cabello has been rocking the small screen to promote her solo album Camila, which currently sits atop Billboard‘s 200 chart. Here is a roundup of the 20-year-old singer’s most memorable TV moments so far:

1. Her jam session on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The singer did a quirky fun acoustic rendition of megabit “Havana” with hip hop band The Roots and Jimmy Fallon himself, who grooved and sang to the beat.

2. Her high-glam, über-sexy performance on The Ellen Degeneres Show. Cabello sang her addictive tune “Havana” cabaret style, transforming DeGeneres’s studio into a 1950’s Cuban night club.

Camila Cabello is right where she wants to be, but the story of all the moments and events that brought her to this point is one worth knowing.  The 20-year-old star just released her debut solo album Camila, and although we remember the "Havana" singer from her very beginning in The X Factor, Camila's journey truly began many years before that.  The former Fifth Harmony member was born in Cojímar, Cuba to a Cuban mother and Mexican Father. Cabello and her family would divide their time between Havana and Mexico City. When she was almost seven years old, her mother told her that they were going to Disney World.  "With a couple of hundred dollars, the...

This was a busy year at Tiff, where I was a juror for Fipresci, helping to award a prize for best premiere in the Discovery section. Not only did this mean that some other films had to take a back burner—sadly, I did not see Eduardo Williams’ The Human Surge—but my writing time was a bit compromised as well. Better late than never? That is for you, Gentle Reader, to decide.Austerlitz (Sergei Loznitsa, Germany)So basic in the telling—a record of several days’ worth of visitors mostly to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienberg, Germany—Austerlitz is a film that in many ways exemplifies the critical theory of Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin. What is the net effect for humanity when, faced with the drive to remember the unfathomable, we employ the grossly inadequate tools at our disposal?Austerlitz takes its name from W. G. Sebald’s final novel.

Nadine Labaki, Where Do We Go Now? Today it was announced that Patty Jenkins, whose Monster earned Charlize Theron a Best Actress Oscar in early 2004, will be directing Thor 2. Officially, Perkins is the first woman director at the helm of a big-budget, Hollywood superhero movie. Below you'll find ten movies directed by female filmmakers that are among the 63 contenders for nominations for the 2012 Academy Awards' Best Foreign Language Film category. Seven of those hail from Europe; one is from the Americas, one from East Asia, and one from West Asia (or the Middle East). They are: the Dominican Republic's Leticia Tonos for Love Child, France's Valérie Donzelli for the semi-autobiographical Declaration of War, Greece's Athina Rachel Tsangari for Attenberg, Hong Kong's Ann Hui for A Simple Life, and Ireland's Juanita Wilson for As If I Am Not There. Also: Lebanon's Nadine Labaki for Toronto Film Festival Audience Award winner Where Do We Go Now?...