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Louder Than Life festival has revealed its 2025 lineup in full. The four-day Louisville fest features headliners Slayer, Deftones, Avenged Sevenfold, and Bring Me the Horizon among more than 160 acts.

The festival takes place September 18th-21st at the Highland Festival Grounds at Kentucky Exposition Center, with tickets now available via the Louder Than Life website. Secondary headliners include Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Sleep Token, Breaking Benjamin, Bad Omens, A Perfect Circle, $uicideboy$, and Evanescence.

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The Thursday (September 18th) bill will feature Slayer, Rob Zombie (performing White Zombie’s Astro-Creep: 2000 in honor of its 30th anniversary), and Marilyn Manson joined by Lamb of God, Down, Cavalera (performing Sepultura’s Chaos A.D.), Cannibal Corpse, Exodus, Lorna Shore, Carcass, Municipal Waste, and more.

On Friday (September 19th), Avenged Sevenfold (only US headlining show of 2025), Sleep Token, and Breaking Benjamin top a bill that includes Mudvayne, Spiritbox,...

Poison the Well are celebrating 25 years of their debut album with a Spring 2025 North American tour — their first full outing in 15 years. The tour features a stacked support package including Glassjaw, Better Lovers, and Teenage Wrist.

Dates kick off April 4th at The Palladium in Los Angeles and run through April 29th in Toronto. The route hits venues in Seattle, Dallas, and Chicago along the way.

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A Live Nation ticket pre-sale for select dates begins Wednesday (December 4th) at 10 a.m. local time using the code Joy. General ticket sales start Friday (December 6th) at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.

Poison the Well will be performing their vaunted 1999 debut, The Opposite of December… A Season of Separation, in full every night of the tour. The LP is considered a landmark of late 1990s / early 2000s metalcore and emo.

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Rickey Hill's true story inspired the hit Netflix movie The Hill, focusing on his journey to a baseball career despite some inaccuracies. The film portrays a strained relationship between Rickey and his father, Pastor Hill, which was exaggerated for dramatic effect. The Hollywood ending of The Hill differs from reality, with Rickey's father never actually seeing him play baseball in his minor league career.

While The Hill is based on the incredibly true story of Rickey Hill's path to a professional baseball career, there are a few parts of the film that aren't entirely accurate. Directed by Jeff Celentano and based on a screenplay by Scott Marshall Smith (Men of Honor) and Agelo Pizzo, The Hill is as much about baseball as it is about faith. Hollywood's interest in Rickey Hill's true story had been circulating for decades before Hill was finally able to link with Celentano in what...

The Hill, a hit Netflix movie, tells the inspiring true story of Rickey Hill, a professional baseball player with a degenerative spine disease who defies all odds to pursue his passion. Dennis Quaid stars in The Hill as Rickey's concerned but involved father who believes his dream of becoming a baseball player is too difficult to achieve. Quaid had a busy year in 2023 with other notable acting roles. The Hill shares a connection with two other classic sports movies, Hoosiers and Rudy, as all three were based on screenplays written by Angelo Pizzo. The director of The Hill aimed to recreate the success of Pizzo's previous hit sports movies.

The Netflix hit movie The Hill has a lesser-known connection to two of the best sports movies ever made. The Hill tells the miraculous true underdog story about real-life professional baseball player Rickey Hill, who defied all odds and expectations...

Based on a true story, The Hill comes from director Jeff Celentano (Breaking Point), who attempts to strike a home run with this baseball tale. Creatively, the bases never feel fully loaded here and there’s never a sense that things won’t get resolved. That the film goes into overtime — literally — is another story. Despite all that, if you can have a little patience, when all is said and done, Celentano does justice to the real-life story of a celebrated baseball player, beginning with his childhood in the 1970s and moving through young adulthood where he was further confronted with his physical injuries and filial strife.

The film, which arrives from Briarcliff Entertainment, stars Dennis Quaid, Joelle Carter, country music singer and songwriter Randy Houser, Bonnie Bedelia, Scott Glen, and Jesse Berry and Colin Ford as Rickey Hill at various ages. It's your typical inspirational fare.

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Exclusive: Wyatt McClure, who recurred on CBS’ Young Sheldon since Season 1, has been promoted to series regular for the show’s upcoming fifth season.

Young Sheldon stars Iain Armitage as the title character, a younger version of the character played by Jim Parsons on The Big Bang Theory. In the fourth season of the show, which debuted in November, Armitage’s Sheldon is 11 years old, graduating from Medford High School before going to college, with a summer job at the local train museum, and attempting to ride his bike without training wheels.

McClure plays Billy Sparks, the neighbor and friend of Sheldon and Missy Cooper (Reagan Revord).

The series, which first made its debut on CBS in September 2017, also features Zoe Perry, Lance Barber, Montana Jordan and Annie Potts. Young Sheldon will return to CBS for Season 5 on Thursday, October 7 at 8 p.m.

Chuck Lorre Productions, Inc. produces the series,...

Exclusive: Jaime Camil (Jane The Virgin) and Reynaldo Gallegos (Logan) have joined the cast of the indie boxing film Glass Jaw, directed by Jeff Celentano (Breaking Point). Shooting is underway in Los Angeles. Glass Jaw, is the redemption story of Travis Austin (Lee Kholafai), a one-time boxing champion, who goes to prison and loses everything. After his release, he experiences the trials and tribulations of redeeming his reputation, his belt and Dana Sasso (Korrina…...