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The second season of "Our Flag Means Death" is about to set sail on Max, and fans of the show are more than ready to see the estranged pirate couple Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) and Blackbeard (Taika Waititi) deal with their breakup at the end of season 1.

"Something got set into motion there that I think has to impact the entire world of the show in a big way," series creator David Jenkins told me in an interview. "It's hard to walk back from that, and there'd be no reason to. It's a joy to write to it."

Without getting into spoilers, "Our Flag Means Death" season 2 hones in on that romance as well as other relationships among the pirate crew of the Revenge. I talked with Jenkins about how guest stars like Minnie Driver and Rachel House came to be part of the second season, as well as who...

While modern character complexities found within the Western genre have surely widened since the days of Gene Autry and Roy Rogers with movies like 2007’s No Country for Old Men and 2015’s The Hateful Eight that show the psychological side of the cowboy, these films both came out over ten years ago. With such a wide gap between the two groups, there is no greater time for this category of film to be having a true revival on the big screen. With the help of a director that specializes in action thrillers, Lionsgate Films is hoping to aim for the high mark with a soon-to-be released movie that puts a modern spin on an old character.

Releasing on May 5th into select movie theaters, on demand, and digital media, One Ranger drops Texas ranger Alex Tyree (Thomas Jane) into London with a fiery new partner (Dominique Tipper) to stop a...

When Mariah Carey joined our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast for an epic interview, she went deep on the making of her 1997 classic Butterfly — but the conversation also went in many other directions.

Here are more highlights; to hear the entire episode, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or press play above.

Carey explains why she made a secret alt-rock album under the name Chick in the Nineties. The version that was released mostly had her friend Clarissa Dane on lead vocals, but Carey reveals that she’s found another version with her vocals,...

In the new book This Thing Called Life, journalist Neal Karlen tells the story not just of Prince’s life, but of a rare, decades-long friendship between a writer and an iconic artist. Karlen knew Prince growing up in Minneapolis and was his only confidant in the press for more than a decade at the height of his fame, a partnership that yielded three Rolling Stone cover stories. In this chapter from the book, entitled “Last Call,” Karlen looks back on the last time he ever talked to Prince. This...

As the first major pandemic awards show, the 2020 Emmys were fascinating and numbing, joyous and sad, unprecedented in most ways and, to our lockdown-dulled senses, all too familiar in others.

While Jimmy Kimmel made many jokes about the situation in his audience-less (and thankless) role as host, if there was one person who made the viewing audience feel like she was performing in an arena filled with people, it was Grammy-winning R&b singer H.E.R., who delivered a powerful version of Prince’s classic “Nothing Compares 2 U” during the show’s “In Memoriam” segment. Images of the many personalities from the television world who have died in the past 12 months were showed while she sang.

H.E.R. sang a rousing version of the song about love and loss, standing up from her piano to deliver the final verse.

It wasn’t the first time this year that H.E.

Exclusive: We hear that Amazon Studios and Hillman Grad are developing a series based on Neil Paik’s Six by Eight Press short story Reawakening, following a competitive situation for the property. Paik is adapting his story for the screen and will serve as co-executive producer, with executive producers Lena Waithe and Rishi Rajani for Hillman Grad. The project falls under Waithe’s overall deal with Amazon Studios.

Reawakening follows a brother and sister who are torn apart by violence. They find themselves on opposite sides of a large-scale conflict between refugees from Earth and the native inhabitants of an utopian planet.

This Paik’s second Six by Eight short story to go into development in recent weeks, his Rainbowfish in the works at Warner Bros. and Macro, which he is also adapting and executive producing for film. Deadline first told you about that project. Paik is set to make...

The Prince estate will stream Prince and the Revolution: Live across three days on YouTube, starting Thursday, May 14th, at 8 p.m. Et.

The concert took place on March 30th, 1985, at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, New York. It marks the first concert footage Prince released, on home video that same year. It will stream digitally for the first time May 15th.

The performance features members of the Revolution, including drummer Bobby Z, guitarist Wendy Melvoin, keyboardists Lisa Coleman and Matt Fink, and others. Bobby Z will partake in...

No tribute to an artist of Prince’s majesty can be perfect, but at first glance the lineup for “Let’s Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince” — which taped Tuesday night and will air on CBS on April 21 — did not make one’s heart skip a beat. While the show’s musical foundation could not have been stronger — Prince’s longtime collaborators Sheila E., Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis were musical directors of an ace house band, and the Revolution and The Time performed as well — some of the featured singers seemed like less inspired choices. Chris Martin instead of Maxwell, whose live sets include killer versions of “Nothing Compares 2U” and “Beautiful Ones”? Foo Fighters for their rawk cover of “Darling Nikki” instead of, say, Janelle Monae?

But as Tuesday night’s triumphant show proved, appearances can be deceiving. While not everyone nailed their performances and a couple fell flat,...

Beck spoke to Apple Music’s Matt Wilkinson this week and shared his 5 Best Songs — a.k.a. five favorites of his that are available on the platform. Beck chose Velvet Underground’s “Sunday Morning,” Prince’s “The Beautiful Ones,” Aphex Twin’s “Window Licker,” The Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows” and Tame Impala’s “Solitude Is Bliss.”

Between songs, Beck shared stories about each artist, including the time he listened to Tame Impala with Radiohead’s Thom Yorke.

“I remember I was playing [Tame Impala] at my house one afternoon and...

Prince announced that he was working on a memoir just weeks before his death on April 21, 2016. To fill out the unfinished manuscript that he left behind — more than 50 handwritten pages — The Beautiful Ones features behind-the-scenes photos, scrapbooks, and handwritten lyric sheets provided by Prince’s estate, including the original treatment for his iconic song “Purple Rain.”

It’s a coming-of-age story of a kid absorbing the world around him and then creating an artistic vision — before the hits and fame that would come to define him New Yorker writer Dan Piepenbring,...

Prince may have passed away in 2016, but this isn’t the last we’ve heard of the iconic musician. Prince left a lot of things behind when he passed away, including a vault of unreleased music and an unfinished draft of his memoir, The Beautiful Ones, which is expected to be publish this fall. Random House […]

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Random House will release the Prince memoir The Beautiful Ones on Oct. 29, the publishing house announced today. The 288-page book will feature an introduction by Dan Piepenbring, a contributor to The New Yorker.

The pub date announcement comes just a day after the three-year anniversary of the Purple Rain singer’s death at 57 from an overdose of fentanyl.

The publisher describes the memoir: “From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time – featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death.”

According to Random House, The Beautiful Ones is Prince’s first-person account of “a kid absorbing the world around him and then creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and fame that would come to define him.” The book will be broken into four parts: The...

Tony Sokol Apr 22, 2019

Random House will release Prince's unfinished memoir The Beautiful Ones in October.

"Remember the time we swam naked in your father's pool," Prince asked on the song "Another Lonely Christmas" off his Purple Rain album. Shortly before his death, the artist whose full name was Prince Rogers Nelson was writing his memories down for a book to share with a new power generation. Publisher Random House confirmed it will publish Prince's memoir, The Beautiful Ones, on October 29, according to AP. The book will combine Prince’s unfinished manuscript with rare photos, scrapbooks and lyrics.

Prince signed a book deal for his autobiography weeks before he died in April 2016, but only submitted 50 handwritten pages before his death. The artist was working on the book with New Yorker writer Dan Piepenbring, according to publishing agent Esther Newberg. Reproductions of the handwritten pages may be featured in the book. The...

The Beautiful Ones, an unfinished Prince memoir, will come out on October 29th, the Associated Press reported.

“The Beautiful Ones is the deeply personal account of how Prince Rogers Nelson became the Prince we know: the real-time story of a kid absorbing the world around him and creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and the fame that would come to define him,” Random House announced in a statement to AP.

Prince announced that he was working on the memoir just weeks before his death...

"This ends tonight." "Shock and awe, baby!" Well Go USA has released an intense official trailer for the "major martial arts action event" movie titled Triple Threat, the latest from stuntman director Jesse V. Johnson. The action ensemble is about a hit contract that's taken out on a billionaire's daughter intent on bringing down a major crime syndicate. So a down and out team of mercenaries must take on a group of professional assassins and stop them before they kill their target. The insanely awesome cast includes Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Tiger Chen, Celina Jade, Michael Bisping, Michael Jai White, and Scott Adkins, plus plenty of others. This trailer is really going all out hyping this up, claiming it's the "biggest action event" of the year. Let's see. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for Jesse V. Johnson's Triple Threat, direct from YouTube: A down-and-out team of mercenaries ...

This article marks Part 17 of the Gold Derby series analyzing 84 years of Best Original Song at the Oscars. Join us as we look back at the timeless tunes recognized in this category, the results of each race and the overall rankings of the winners.

The 1984 Oscar nominees in Best Original Song were:

“Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)” from “Against All Odds”

“Footloose” from “Footloose”

“Let’s Hear It for the Boy” from “Footloose”

“Ghostbusters” from “Ghostbusters”

“I Just Called to Say I Love You” from “The Woman in Red”

Won: “I Just Called to Say I Love You” from “The Woman in Red”

Should’ve won: “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)” from “Against All Odds”

Stevie Wonder‘s “I Just Called to Say I Love You” is a sweet, charmingly corny trifle, easily the most notable thing from Gene Wilder‘s midlife...

Updated: Producer/director Ava DuVernay is working with Netflix on a Prince documentary, two sources have confirmed to Variety. The project has the full cooperation of the late artist’s estate, which is providing with interviews, archival footage, photos and archive access. The multiple-part documentary will cover the artist’s entire life.

“Prince was a genius and a joy and a jolt to the senses,” she tweeted after the news had broken Monday night. “The only way I know how to make this film is with love. And with great care. I’m honored to do so and grateful for the opportunity entrusted to me by the estate.” The Oscar-nominated filmmaker has been at work on the project for several months.

While renowned for her work on “Selma,” “Queen Sugar” and others, DuVernay made her big-screen debut in 2008 with “This Is the Life,” which chronicled the alternative hip-hop scene in Los Angeles in the 1990s.

Film multi-hyphenate Jesse V. Johnson's (upcoming Accident Man and Triple Threat) long-awaited modern-day Romeo & Juliet gangster thriller, The Beautiful Ones, has seen a raft of accolades and wins in the last few years and one only wondered since what would become of its U.S. release. Gravitas Ventures answered that question with its acquisition back in Feburary and even moreso in the past few weeks with its own trailer...in color. Not black and white. Not the version upon which reporters like myself have been giving this movie glowing reviews over. Nope. This one, depressingly color corrected and its entire aesthetic and creative value nearly completely undone at best; if you saw the earlier black and white version of the film, you might understand as that particular color treatment...

[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...

Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.

– Neon, the recently launched distribution company founded by Tom Quinn and Tim League, will release Oscar winning director Errol Morris’ “The B-Side,” a heartfelt portrait of photographer, Elsa Dorfman. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in 2016 followed by a prestigious festival run, screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival and the International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (Idfa).

The film is slated to open theatrically on June 2.

– Gravitas Ventures has secured worldwide rights to “Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo,” the compelling untold story about an extraordinary team.

The story is told told “with unprecedented access to archival footage and stories from the men who lived it, including the creator of Mission Control,...

Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.

– Drafthouse Films has announced that they will release Stephen Kijak’s “We Are X” in New York and Los Angeles on October 21, followed by nationwide expansion. The film premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, where it was awarded the Special Jury Prize for editing, and follows the enigmatic Yoshiki, leader of the Japanese band X Japan.

“You will not believe the trials and tribulations that the arena-filling, mega-band X Japan have faced in their 30 year career,” said Drafthouse Films founder Tim League of the news. “This documentary will leave you equally breathless and uplifted. It is the best music doc of the year, and we are honored to bring it to American audiences.”

– Array has announced the acquisition of “Honeytrap,...