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Sabrina Carpenter showed her support for the LGBTQ+ community in her performance of the Man’s Best Friend song “Tears” at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night. The song began with Carpenter emerging from a literal manhole to sing alongside dancers that included RuPaul’s Drag Race stars Symone, Willam, Denali, Laganja Estranja, and Lexi Love, as well as ballroom star Honey Balenciaga.

As Carpenter repeated the line, “I get wet at the thought of you …” during the performance, tears literally dripped from the ceiling, completely soaking her (in...

Sabrina Carpenter is looking so sexy in her red hot dress at the VMAs!

The 26-year-old singer is ready to have a big night at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday (September 7) at Ubs Arena in Elmont, New York.

Sabrina will be performing during the show and she’s also nominated for nine awards tonight!

She is up for Video of the Year for “Manchild,” Best Pop Artist, Best Pop for “Manchild,” Best Album for Short n’ Sweet, Song of the Summer for “Manchild,” and a bunch of technical awards for the “Manchild” video.

Sabrina just dropped her new album Man’s Best Friend last week and the “Tears” video...

The red carpet preshow for MTV‘s 2025 Video Music Awards has officially kicked off.

Ahead of the one-hour preshow special, hosted by Nessa and Kevan Kenney, on Sunday, Sept. 7, at 7 p.m. Et/4 p.m. Pt, stars have already started walking the red carpet. The preshow is airing live on MTV and BET, BET Her, Comedy Central, CMT, Logo, MTV2, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, Pop, TV Land and VH1. There will also be a special performance by girl group and first-time nominees Katseye, who will be performing “Gnarly” and “Gabriela” from their Beautiful Chaos EP.

Watch a livestream of the preshow below, and continue to follow The Hollywood Reporter throughout the night to see which artists are taking home an MTV “Moon Person” trophy.

As for this year’s nominees, Lady Gaga leads the pack with 12 nominations, including for video of the year (for “Die With a Smile”), artist of the...

Sabrina Carpenter‘s new album Man’s Best Friend is out now and fans are calling it a “no skips” album, though certain songs are definitely getting more attention than others.

“Nobody’s Son” is definitely one of those tracks!

The sixth track on the album is all about heartbreak and feeling like there’s nobody out there in the world for you while you’re going through a breakup.

Sabrina sings on the chorus, “Here we go again, crying in bed, what a familiar feeling / All my friends in love and I’m the one they call for a third wheeling / Probably should have guessed he’s like the rest,...

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Sabrina Carpenter dropped her last album Short n’ Sweet around a year ago, but the pop superstar isn’t wasting any time with its follow-up, Man’s Best Friend. Out now, the singer-songwriter’s latest studio album is now available to order online in a variety of exclusive editions, including on Amazon, Target, and Walmart.

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In the wake of the release of Man’s Best Friend, Sabrina Carpenter is still defending the album’s controversial cover art.

After Carpenter debuted the cover for her seventh studio album in June, some critiqued the image, which depicts the singer on her knees in a black dress as a man stands out-of-shot, clutching onto her hair. It sparked a conversation about sex-positive feminism, though Carpenter admitted in a profile with Interview Magazine on Tuesday that “the reaction [to the album cover] is fascinating to me.”

“If I’m being completely transparent, I don’t do anything anticipating what the reaction will be,” she said. “When I came up with the imaging for [Man’s Best Friend], it was so clear to me what it meant. So the reaction is fascinating to me. You just watch it unravel and go, ‘wow.’”

Interview editor-in-chief Mel Ottenberg further questioned Carpenter’s reaction to the negative reception of the album art,...

The Billboard Hot 100 singles chart measures the top songs every week during the tracking week of Friday through Thursday based on their combination of sales, online streams (audio and video), and radio airplay. Scroll down for the list of every song that came out on top in 2024, updated weekly.

The Beatles have had the most No. 1 hits ever with 20 different chart-toppers. They're followed closely by Mariah Carey, who has led the tally with 19 songs; she also holds the record for the most cumulative weeks spent at the top spot. Carey's 1995 duet with Boyz II Men, "One Sweet Day," once held the record for the longest run on top with 16 weeks at No.

Sabrina Carpenter is taking over SiriusXM Hits 1 (Ch. 2) all weekend to share songs and stories behind her new album, “Man’s Best Friend.”

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Tune in to hear the pop superstar’s exclusive commentary and tracks from her just-released seventh studio album. During the takeover, Sabrina describes making “Man’s Best Friend,” reveals she played the banjo on it, shares the song she’s most proud of, and more. Listen to the Hits 1 Female Artist of 2024’s album release takeover starting Friday, August 29, on Hits 1 during the times below or now on the SiriusXM app here.

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MTV has revealed the nominees for the 2025 edition of the Video Music Awards, and Lady Gaga leads the pack with 12 nods, coming in just ahead of her "Die with a Smile" collaborator, Bruno Mars, who netted 11. The pair divided and conquered, racking up the most nominations between two songs each. Both "Die with a Smile" and Mar's collab with Rosé, "Apt.," received noms for Video and Song of the Year, while Gaga's "Abracadabra" cleaned up in technical categories.

The other dominant single was Kendrick Lamar's unstoppable "Not Like Us." The rapper and beef winner snagged 10 nominations in total, including for Artist of the Year and Best Collaborator for "luther" with Sza.

Why Did Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan Struggle To Release In Some Countries? ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia; Prime Video )

Steven Spielberg’s purpose in making Saving Private Ryan was very simple: to depict the physical and psychological savagery of war as truthfully as possible. From the very first moment, the viewer is thrown into the melee of battle, with no comfort or slowness at all. The storming of Omaha Beach didn’t look like a cinematic action sequence. It looked more like a survival sequence, which is exactly what Spielberg intended.

Saving Private Ryan Faced Censorship Challenges In India

The film was not welcomed with open arms everywhere, although it earned praise worldwide and even went on to bag Oscars and smash box office records. Some countries weren’t ready for what they saw. India’s Censor Board looked at it and didn’t like what it saw. The film...

Sabrina Carpenter’s Manchild Music Video Sparks Debate Over Its Real Message ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Sabrina Carpenter’s latest song “Manchild” holistically challenges surface-level interpretations from the opening frame. The music video, conscious of the voluptuous body of its star, begins with a provocative shot of the singer’s curvy derrière in barely-there dolphin shorts, but what comes after that aesthetic has polarized audiences across ideological lines.

Some circles have denounced it as anti-male propaganda, while progressive voices critique its apparent objectification of women. Ultimately, interpretation rests on the viewer’s discretion, and here’s mine, which should appease both aisles.

Visual Deconstruction of ‘Manchild’: Sabrina Carpenter’s Aesthetic Language of Delusion

The “Manchild” music video’s palette evokes 70s zeitgeist through, be it the knotted blouses and sun-bleached desert landscapes or skimpy outfits constantly showing off women’s panties and legs. Such conventions ingeniously replicate the boy-and-girl-on-the-run romance...

In the world of pro-wrestling, looks play an instrumental role, as they are a crucial part of storytelling. Thereby, glimpses from pop culture are frequent as fans can relate to it all. In what was a crazy attempt by WWE, Seth Rollins tried to play Joker for a small point in time. However, somehow that gimmick was soon changed. According to modern pop culture trends, Sabrina Carpenter has been a significant influence.

Apart from her brilliant music, Carpenter has captured the essence of the world with the way she presents herself on the stage. With the meteoric popularity that she has garnered over the years, now fans want to emulate her appearance, which includes not just the run-of-the-mill audience but WWE stars as well. In one such post, a fan tried to draw similarities between Sabrina Carpenter and the fellow WWE wrestlers who can come close.

Four WWE wrestlers who...

Amid debates around the artwork for Sabrina Carpenter’s new album, Man’s Best Friend, Carly Simon — one of the few who’ve faced similar scrutiny — has come to the “Espresso” singer’s defense, even though she thinks the photo goes “over the line a little bit.”

Carpenter unveiled the controversy-sparking artwork — depicting her on her knees with a hand reaching for a man’s thigh as he grabs her hair — last week, and critics have since called it anti-feminist and over-sexualized. To Simon, though, it “seems tame.”

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Speaking to Rolling Stone, the “You’re So Vain” singer reflected on her own experiences getting flak for over-sexualization, specifically in regard to the artwork for her 1975 release Playing Possum, on which she’s getting up from the floor in a scantily-fitting negligee. At the time, music retailers and some of Simon’s fans — even her own mom...

Sabrina Carpenter fans might want to capture as many memories from her concerts while they still can.

Though the Grammy winner is used to looking out into a crowd of people and cellphones, she recently told Rolling Stone that she’s open to the idea of banning phones at her concerts in the future.

“This will honestly piss off my fans, but absolutely,” the “Please Please Please” artist said. “Because I went to see Silk Sonic in Vegas, and they locked my phone. I’ve never had a better experience at a concert. I genuinely felt like I was back in the Seventies — wasn’t alive. Genuinely felt like I was there. Everyone’s singing, dancing, looking at each other and laughing. It really, really just felt so beautiful.”

While the “Manchild” singer said she can’t “blame people for wanting to have memories” from her shows, she quipped that...

Sabrina Carpenter is open to the possibility of banning phones at her concerts, describing a phone-less night seeing Silk Sonic as the best concert experience she’s ever had.

In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the pop singer opened up about the possibility of implementing a phone-locking policy at her shows — a practice already embraced by Madonna, Adele, Paul McCartney, and others. While she’s warming up to the idea, she’s aware it could spark backlash. “This will honestly piss off my fans,” Carpenter admitted.

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She cited a positive experience seeing Silk Sonic as the basis of her argument. “I went to see Silk Sonic in Vegas, and they locked my phone. I’ve never had a better experience at a concert,” she noted. “I genuinely felt like I was back in the ’70s — wasn’t alive. Genuinely felt like I was there.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Sabrina Carpenter is a really good hang. “Most people who are friends with a pop star would be like, ‘People don’t know that she’s so funny,” says her best friend, Paloma Sandoval. “But actually, it’s this incredibly unique situation where everyone knows that. As far as things that people wouldn’t expect, I would say she’s the smartest person [I’ve] ever met. You’ll never have a conversation with her that’s dumb.”

Considering we spent several hours with...

There are love stories that bloom, burn, and vanish before they’re even labelled. And then there’s whatever happened between Sabrina Carpenter and Griffin Gluck: a quiet storm that spoke in silence, costumes, and cryptic captions.

If romantic ambiguity were a sport, this pair deserved a gold medal and a standing ovation. From matching denim ensembles to an apology that didn’t say names but said everything else, their connection was never textbook, yet impossible to overlook.

We’ve read between the lines, squinted at the dates, and traced the timelines like a detective who’s listened to Feather on repeat and it’s time we talk about the apology, the shade, and the sighs.

Sabrina Carpenter’s apology linked to Griffin Gluck controversy: Explained Sabrina Carpenter in a still from the music video of Espresso | Credits: Sabrina Carpenter/YouTube

Back in September 2019, after Sabrina Carpenter and Griffin...

Sabrina Carpenter‘s “Manchild” is officially her first song to debut at the top of the charts!

The 26-year-old singer’s latest song made its debut on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at the No. 1 spot on Monday (June 16). This is Sabrina‘s second No. 1 song.

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Along with debuting at the top spot on the Hot 100, “Manchild” is Sabrina‘s fourth single to reach the top 10 of the chart. From her Short n’ Sweet album, Sabrina had three top 10 hits with “Espresso,” “Please Please Please,” and “Taste.”

In response to “Manchild” reaching the No. 1 spot, Sabrina shared a quick quip on her X account, saying, “i had a funny response but I’m just gonna say thank you.”

If you missed it, Sabrina previously announced the release date for her upcoming album, Man’s Best Friend, and her 2025 tour dates. See how to pre-order her album...

Sabrina Carpenter has returned to the top of the charts with her latest single “Manchild” debuting at Number One on the Billboard Hot 100.

“Manchild” is Carpenter’s first song to debut atop the Hot 100, and her second Number One overall after “Please Please Please” spent a week there almost exactly one year ago (June 29, 2024 to be exact). It’s also Carpenter’s fourth song to crack the Top 10, along with “Taste” (which peaked at Number Two) and “Espresso” (which peaked at Number Three).

Carpenter released “Manchild” earlier this month, with...

Sabrina Carpenter’s “Manchild” has debuted atop Billboard’s Hot 100, the publication confirmed Monday, marking Carpenter’s second chart-topping song in her career.

“Manchild,” the lead single off Carpenter’s upcoming seventh album Man’s Best Friend, debuted with 27.1 million streams, per Billboard, while it sold 20,000 units. It dethroned rising Atlantic act Alex Warren’s “Ordinary,” which had spent the past two weeks atop the Hot 100. The number one opening comes almost exactly a year after Carpenter landed her first number one last June with “Please Please Please.”

The hot start is a positive sign as Carpenter looks to lock in the song of the summer for another year, after her breakthrough hit “Espresso” became one of the biggest songs of 2024. Elsewhere on the songs chart, Morgan Wallen and Tate McRae’s “What I Want” fell to No. 3, and Wallen’s “Just in Case” came in fourth. Kendrick Lamar and Sza’s “Luther,...

Put your arms in and get your chest below the water … just breathe in and out, super slowly.… You’re doing great. Like, damn … we’ve got 20 seconds left. Want to keep going?

I’m in the private suite of a swanky spa in Central London one morning in early March, and one of the world’s biggest pop stars is guiding me through a cold plunge. Across from me, Sabrina Carpenter is shoulders-deep in a cylindrical wooden ice bath of her own, braving four degrees Celsius in a baby-blue lace bikini.

If you want a movie where Tracy Morgan plays Tracy Jordan, Bruce Willis plays a shelled version of John McClane, and, somewhere in there, there’s a Kevin Smith film that’s just screaming to be let out, then Cop Out is the flick for you. It’s the first of its kind, a film directed by Smith that wasn’t written by Smith, and it shows. Writers Rob and Mark Cullen also wrote the pilot episode of Manchild, the male bonding comedy that was never picked up for a full series and also starred Smith.

Having said that, the new trailer released today over on Apple doesn’t feel like the new film directed by one of the most fan-followed writer/directors of our time. It feels like precisely what it is, a director for hire working from a buddy cop screenplay that’s giving about as much effort...

Seann William Scott and Adam Brody have joined the cast of Warner Bros.’ A Couple of Dicks, the buddy action comedy starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan that Kevin Smith is directing. The script, by Robb and Mark Cullen, follows a maverick cop (Willis) and his partner (Morgan) who, while tracking a valuable stolen baseball card, tangle with a memorabilia-obsessed gangster and rescue a Mexican beauty who holds the key to millions in laundered drug money. Scott is slated to play a thief known as the “Shit Bandit” for the souvenirs he leaves at his robberies. Brody is playing an abrasive detective who is not happy to be working with Willis and Morgan. Robb and Mark Cullen come from the television world, with their previous writing credits including Lucky, Gary the Rat, Heist, Las Vegas and the unaired Showtime pilot Manchild, which starred Smith. Filming begins Monday in New York.

Kevin Smith has agreed to film a movie written by someone else. Since the start of his career in 1994, the cult filmmaker has only directed films that he thought of himself, controlling the entire process from word one to the editing phase. He has dabbled in TV pilots scripted by other talents, but this will be his first feature without a writing credit, and without the Weinstein Company.

WB has hired Smith for his first major studio movie directing A Couple of Cops about two veteran Lapd detectives attempt to track down a stolen, mint-condition, 1952 baseball card. The script was a part of 2008’s Black List, an industry compilation of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood and was originally called A Couple of Dicks. While the Weinsteins may have been patient with Smith’s latest title including the word “porno,” Warners doesn’t seem so eager to market a movie about that swinging plurality,...

John Corbett has been tapped to star opposite Toni Collette in Showtime's comedy pilot United States of Tara.

The project, from Oscar-winning writer Diablo Cody, centers on Tara (Collette), a woman with a multiple personality disorder.

Corbett will play her husband, Max Gregor, a ruggedly handsome contractor who lives a life of stress and tries to read as much as he can about his wife's condition.

The role is familiar territory for Corbett, who played hunky carpenter Aidan Shaw on HBO's Sex and the City.

It also extends the actor's relationship with Showtime. He starred in the cable network's 2006 pilot Manchild.

Craig Gillespie is directing the pilot for Tara, which is slated to begin production in April in Los Angeles.

Corbett, who recently signed to co-star in the indie romantic comedy Baby on Board, is repped by CAA and Steve Lovett Management.

ABC reportedly is close to picking up a new sitcom from Sex and the City creator Darren Star that stars Jenna Elfman as a book publicist who works tirelessly for her authors.

The single-cam comedy, tentatively titled Literary Superstar, will be written by Australian novelist Matthew Reilly.

NBC also has been pursuing the project. Ultimately, whichever network lands the series, it will be produced by Sony Pictures TV, where Star has his deal.

Star also is producing the female-centric hour Cashmere Mafia for ABC, which centers on four high-powered New York execs. At pay cabler Showtime, he produced the male-centric pilot Manchild, and is still waiting a decision as to whether the project will move forward.

Director Kevin Smith has signed up to star in the US remake of hit British TV show Manchild, because he wants to become a better actor. Smith has written, directed and starred in Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma and Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back - and now wants to turn his attention solely to portraying a cynical divorcee in the Showtime comedy. He tells MTV, "It should be an interesting exercise that, if the show works as well as the script, will turn into a sweet side gig for me. At the very least, I'll learn a thing or two about acting; at the most, I'll have something to do four months out of every year."...

Kevin Smith and James Purefoy have been tapped to star in the Showtime comedy pilot Manchild, from Darren Star Prods. and Sony Pictures TV.

Manchild, based on the BBC series, revolves around a group of fortysomething male friends (Smith, Purefoy, John Corbett, Paul Hipp) who are knee-deep in midlife crises.

Smith will play Paul, the cynic of the group, an angry divorced guy who loathes himself, his ex and his ex's perfect new husband.

British actor Purefoy will play Joe, the ad hoc leader of his circle of pals. He is attractive, polished, virile and wealthy, goes to the hottest new clubs and doesn't date anyone over 25.

Robb and Mark Cullen, Darren Star and the original series' Nick Fisher are executive producing the pilot, which will be directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal.

Hot off directing and executive producing the pilot for the breakout new series Heroes, David Semel has been tapped to direct and executive produce another NBC drama pilot, Rand Ravich's Life.

Meanwhile, veteran director Stephen Gyllenhaal has come on board to helm the pilot for Showtime's single-camera comedy Manchild.

Life, from NBC Universal TV Studio, is a quirky drama about a former cop who rejoins the force after having spent years wrongly imprisoned.

Ravich penned the script and is executive producing with his producing partner, Far Shariat, and Semel.

Semel, who recently directed episodes of ABC's Six Degrees and NBC's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, helmed the pilots for NBC's Windfall, Revelations and American Dreams.

John Corbett has been tapped to star in Showtime's single-camera comedy pilot Manchild.

The project, based on the BBC series of the same name, reunites Corbett with Rob and Mark Cullen, who are executive producing the pilot with Darren Star and Nick Fisher.

The Cullen brothers created and executive produced FX's critically praised single-camera comedy Lucky, which starred Corbett.

Manchild, from Darren Star Prods. and Sony Pictures TV, centers on four male friends around 40 who are knee-deep in midlife crises.

Corbett will play one of them, a former Deadhead who still smokes pot and tends to sabotage himself where work and women are concerned.

Showtime has picked up three comedy projects to pilots, including an adaptation of BBC's Manchild, a raunchy comedy often referred to as "male 'Sex and the City.' " The Showtime version hails from "Sex" creator-executive producer Darren Star and Lucky creators/executive producers Robb and Mark Cullen. Also picked up to pilots are Californication, from writer-executive producer Tom Kapinos, and Insatiable, from writer/executive producers Linda Wallem and Liz Brixius. Manchild, from Sony Pictures TV and Darren Star Prods., revolves around four male friends who are rapidly approaching 50 and knee-deep in midlife crises. The Cullen brothers are executive producing with Star. Darren Star Prods.' Susie Fitzgerald will serve as co-executive producer. Nick Fisher, creator of the original series, is expected to consult.