Month: June 2021

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Kate Beckinsale’s ‘Jolt’ to premiere on Amazon Prime Video on June 23rd

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The action-comedy film Jolt starring Kate Beckinsale is coming to Amazon Prime Video, and will begin streaming on June 23rd.  Jolt is written by Scott Wascha and directed by Tanya Wexler, and along with Beckinsale the film co-stars Bobby Cannavale, Laverne Cox, Stanley Tucci and Jai Courtney.

The new movie follows Lindy (Beckinsale), a woman who experiences sporadic murderous impulses that can only be stopped when she shocks herself with a special device. The character seeks revenge after her first love is murdered. Beckinsale told Entertainment Weekly:  “My character, Lindy, is someone who since childhood has had an impulse control problem whereby she has a very difficult time not acting out and behaving badly when under pressure. As part of her therapy, she goes on a date and really gets on with the guy, and then he’s murdered. She’s understandably upset and pissed off and tries to figure out what’s happened and gets into a lot of scraps!”

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‘The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’ tops North American box office with $11.7M

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The action-comedy ‘The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard,’ starring Salma Hayek, Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson, was the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $11.7 million receipts this weekend. The film is a sequel to 2017’s “The Hitman’s Bodyguard,” and is one of the few movies released exclusively in theaters since the beginning of the pandemic.

Coming in at No. 2 is A Quiet Place Part II with $9.4 million, followed by Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway at No. 3 with $6.1 million, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It at No. 4 with $5.2 million and Cruella at No. 5 with $5.1 million.

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Rock Daypop

Pearl Jam to release vinyl reissue of ‘No Code’ for 25th anniversary

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Pearl Jam will release a 25th anniversary 150-gram vinyl edition of their 1996 album, “No Code”, on August 13. This is the first time the album has been available on the format since its original release and the first time the album is being mastered specifically for vinyl.  The reissue will feature recreations of their original packaging, including the set of nine random replica Polaroids/lyric cards

No Code, the band’s fourth studio record, debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and went on to platinum status. The project marked the first full album appearance of drummer Jack Irons in the lineup after he joined the lineup at the end of the “Vitalogy” sessions.

A limited edition clear vinyl version is available exclusively in the Pearl Jam shop which can be found on the  group’s website: https://pearljam.com.

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Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx to release new memoir about life before starting the band

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Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx will release a new memoir titled The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx, chronicling his early years before life with the band.  The memoir will be released on October 19th.

Said Sixx in a press release: “You’ve heard the tales of excess and debauchery. All the peaks and the valleys that came with rock and roll stardom and my life in one of the world’s biggest bands. This is the story that you haven’t heard. The one that led up to those stories. It’s the intimate, personal story of how an innocent Idaho farm boy with a burning dream and desire — for music, for love, and for fame — became the notorious Nikki Sixx. I believe our first 21 years have a lot to do with shaping who we become. These are my first 21, and it’s my hope that they thrill and inspire you to invest in your own, biggest dreams.”

Nikki Sixx previously documented his battle with drug addiction in his book The Heroin Diaries, and Mötley Crüe’s life of debauchery was chronicled the book The Dirt, which was turned into a Netflix movie in 2019. The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx will be available in hardcover, eBook, and audio editions, and can be pre-ordered on Amazon.

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Polo G earns his 1st No. 1 album on Billboard 200 chart with ‘Hall of Fame’

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Polo G has earned his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with Hall of Fame in the U.S. for the week ending June 17. The 20-track Hall of Fame was released on June 11, and features the artist’s first No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, “Rapstar,” which spent two weeks at No. 1.  The album features collaborations with The Kid LAROI, Lil Durk, Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Roddy Ricch, Pop Smoke, Rod Wave and Young Thug.

Migos’ Culture III took the No. 2 spot, with Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour falling from 2-3; Lil Durk and Lil Baby’s The Voice of the Heroes drops to No. 4, and Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album rounding out the Top 5.

K-pop girl group TWICE’s Taste of Love debuted at No. 6, with Bo Burnham’s Inside (The Songs) jumping up to No. 7, and Maroon 5’s Jordi coming in at No. 8. Rounding out the Top 10 are Moneybagg Yo’s A Gangsta’s Pain, and J. Cole’s The Off-Season.

 

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Taylor Swift to release re-recorded version of ‘Red’ in November

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Taylor Swift announced on Twitter she will be releasing a re-recorded version of her 2012 album Red on Nov. 19. alongside a note about the album and a photo of herself wearing a red hat, Swift said:  “This will be the first time you hear all 30 songs that were meant to go on Red.”  The original Red contained the singles “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” and “I Knew You Were Trouble.”

Swift said about the album, “Musically and lyrically, ‘Red’ resembled a heartbroken person. It was all over the place, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together in the end. Happy, free, confused, lonely, devasted, euphoric, wild and tortured by memories past. Like trying on pieces of a new life, I went into the studio and experimented with different sounds and collaborators. And I’m not sure if it was pouring my thoughts into this album, hearing thousands of your voices sing the lyrics back to me in passionate solidarity, or if it was simply time, but something healed along the way.”

Red (Taylor’s Version) comes after Swift released a re-recorded version of her 2008 album, Fearless, back in April. Swift announced in November 2020 that she will be re-recording all her old music after Scooter Braun sold her master recordings to equity company Shamrock Holdings.

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President Biden signs bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday

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On Thursday, President Biden signed a bill establishing Juneteenth — the day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States — as a federal holiday, establishing June 19 officially as Juneteenth National Independence Day.  The US Office of Personnel Management announced that many federal workers will observe the holiday today, June 18th, since this year June 19 falls on a Saturday. The holiday is the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.

The legislation was passed by Congress on Wednesday, having gained momentum following Black Lives Matter protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd.

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union Major General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in Galveston, Texas, in accordance with President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.

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House votes to repeal the 2002 Iraq war authorization

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On Thursday, the House voted to repeal the 2002 war authorization of military force against Iraq. The vote passed by 268-161 in the House, with 49 Republicans and 219 Democrats voting in favor. The repeal was endorsed by the White House and Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory Meeks argued that the legislation was “vulnerable to being abused” given Iraq’s proximity to other global hotspots, saying during the vote: “Repeal is crucial because the executive branch has a history of stretching the 2002 AUMF’s legal authority. It has already been used as justification for military actions against entities that had nothing to do with Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist’s dictatorship.”

The bill must now be considered by the Senate, which is already considering a similar measure, though theirs includes a repeal of the Iraq-focused 1991 authorization. If both bills pass, the two chambers will have to consolidate the bills before laying a final product on the president’s desk.

 

 

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Oscar De La Hoya to face Vitor Belfort on Sept. 18 in exhibition match

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Oscar De La Hoya will be coming out of retirement to face ex-UFC champion Vitor Belfort in a boxing match on Sept. 18, and likely to occur in Las Vegas. The fight will be billed as an exhibition match with both fighters wearing 12-ounce gloves. The 48-year-old De La Hoya has not fought since losing to Manny Pacquaio in December 2008.

In March, De La Hoya announced plans to return to the boxing ring on July 3. However, he will fight in September, which would mark more than a year from when De La Hoya first planned to come out of his retirement from boxing. De La Hoya won gold at the 1992 Olympics before winning the WBO junior lightweight title in 1994. He would win his first 32 professional bouts before finally being defeated by Felix Trinidad by majority decision.

Belfort, 44, is tied for the third-most finishes in UFC; his last fight was the UFC 224 in May 2018 when he lost to Lyoto Machida. Belfort’s only win of his boxing career came in April 2006 against Josemario Neves.

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Tennis champ Rafael Nadal to skip Wimbledon, Tokyo Olympics to ‘listen to his body’ and recover

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World No. 3 Rafael Nadal announced Thursday that he will not play at Wimbledon this month or the Summer Olympics in Tokyo next month. Nadal said in a series of tweets that he’s “listening to his body” in order to “continue my career and continue to do what makes me happy.” Nadal, 35, advanced last week to the semifinals of the French Open, but was defeated in four sets by champion Novak Djokovic.The 20-time Grand Slam champion said his body needs more time to recover. “Prevention of any kind of excess in my body is a very important factor at this stage of my career in order to try to keep fighting for the highest level of competition and titles,” he wrote in a tweet. “The fact that there has only been 2 weeks between [the French Open] and Wimbledon didn’t make it easier on my body to recuperate.”

Nadal has missed the Wimbledon Championships only three times before, in 2005, 2009 and 2016. He won the tournament in 2010 and 2008. As part of the Spanish Olympic team, Nadal won gold in men’s singles at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and gold in men’s doubles at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.

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