Ariana Grande is back with the second performance of her exclusive live series with Vevo, a new video for “Safety Net,” her collaboration with Ty Dolla $ign. The video released for Safety Net is a live performance, in which Ariana performs on a grass-covered stage under a futuristic-looking lighting fixture.
Safety Net is off Ariana’s hugely successful album Positions. You can watch the video – here.
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Dua Lipa is set to make her acting debut in “Argylle,” a thriller about the “world’s greatest spy,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. “Kingsmen” director Matthew Vaughn and an all-star cast are signed on for the project, which will be filmed in Europe in August. Dua Lipa will also provide the original music for the title track and the soundtrack.
Argyll will also star Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, John Cena and Samuel L. Jackson, and is based on the soon to be released spy novel Argyll from author Ellie Conway The film follows Argylle, who is embroiled in a world-wide adventure. “Argylle” will be the first of at least three films in the franchise and is set in America, London and several locations around the world.
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Emergency workers shifted efforts at the site of the Surfside condominium tower collapse in Florida from rescue to recovery, following an increase in the death toll on Wednesday with 18 more victims discovered. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said at a news conference Wednesday evening that it was an “extremely difficult decision” to halt the rescue efforts after two weeks of searching as the death toll rose to 54, adding, “at this point, we have truly exhausted every option available to us in the search and rescue mission.”
Officials announced Wednesday morning that 10 additional bodies had been discovered with eight more found by the evening and as many as 94 people unaccounted for and believed to be lost in the debris of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Fla. Miami-Dade Assistant Fire Chief Ray Jadallah held a private briefing with families Wednesday afternoon where he informed them rescue dogs and sound devices would be removed but emergency crews would continue to search the rubble for the remains of their relatives. A group of more than 200 rescuers has been working almost continuously to find victims and survivors since the building partially collapsed on June 24, but crews said they were seeing no signs of survivors.
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Three undercover law enforcement officers were shot and wounded Wednesday morning while driving onto an expressway on Chicago’s South Side. Police said the shooting occurred at 5:50 a.m. near the 22nd District police station in the city’s Morgan Park neighborhood. The three were in an unmarked undercover vehicle on their way to an assignment when they were shot.
Chicago police Superintendent David Brown told reporters two of the officers are agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and one is a Chicago officer. Their injuries were not considered life-threatening. No arrests have been reported. Including Wednesday’s shooting, 36 Chicago officers have been shot or shot at this year, Brown said.
The shooting comes the same day as a scheduled visit to suburban Crystal Lake, Illinois, by President Joe Biden, and a day after police reported that 100 people were shot in Chicago — including two police officers who were wounded while trying to break up a crowd — over the long Fourth of July weekend. The holiday weekend shootings included 18 homicides.
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The Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Montreal Canadiens 1-0 in Game 5 to win their second consecutive Stanley Cup. Rookie forward Ross Colton scored the only goal of the contest in the second period, which was enough to earn the Lightning the championship. Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped all 22 shots that he faced in Game 5, and was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy, which is given to the MVP of the playoffs. Vasilevskiy is the first goalie to win the Conn Smythe Trophy since Los Angeles Kings netminder Jonathan Quick won it back in 2012.
Tampa Bay’s victory marks the third time in franchise history that the Lightning have won the Stanley Cup, having also won the championship in 2004 and 2020. In addition, the Lightning became the ninth franchise in NHL history to win back-to-back Stanley Cups.
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World No. 1 Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, easily defeated Hungarian Marton Fucsovics to advance to the semifinals of Wimbledon 2021 on Wednesday in London. Serbia’s Djokovic won the quarterfinal match 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in 2 hours, 17 minutes to advance to his 41st Grand Slam semifinal. two wins shy of tying the men’s singles title record. Djokovic will face Canadian Denis Shapovalov in the semifinals Friday at the All England Club.
Switzerland’s Roger Federer exited the tournament after a straight-sets upset by Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz. Hurkacz defeated Federer 6-3, 7-6, 6-0 Wednesday to advance to the semifinals, where he will face Berrettini or Auger Aliassime on Friday in London.
The winner of the Djokovic/Shapovalov match will face Hurkacz, Italy’s Matteo Berrettini or Canada’s Felix Auger Aliassime in the Wimbledon 2021 men’s singles final.
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Chris Young and Kane Brown are celebrating their popular song “Famous Friends” reaching No. 1 at country radio, marking Young’s 12th No. 1 overall, and the 6th No. 1 hit for Brown.
Taking to social media, Young noted that each #1 song comes with a feeling hard to describe, sharing: “Finding out you have the number one song in Country Music is such a crazy feeling. My career started with a #37 #52 #37 in that order. If you had asked me if I ever thought I’d be celebrating my 12th number one… just wow… no words. @kanebrown_music so proud to share this one with you brother! Thank you to anyone reading this, @coreycrowder @carybarlowe (my co-writers and CC is my coproducer) , and all of Country Radio for sending this one to the top!!! #FamousFriends #numberone.”
“Famous Friends” is the title track from Young’s upcoming Famous Friends album, which is set for release on August 6. Next up, Young and Mitchell Tenpenny will release a live-audience music video for “At the End of the Bar,” shot in downtown Nashville, and Young revealed that his next single will be “One of Them Nights,” scheduled to drop this Friday, July 9th.
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ATLive, a weekend concert series in Atlanta, is planned for November 5-6 with an all-star lineup. The festival has one night dedicated to country music and one for rock ‘n’ roll, with country performers George Strait, Eric Church and Caitlyn Smith on November 5 and rockers Metallica, Greta Van Fleet and Cage the Elephant on November 6.
Performers will take the stage in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in the center of the city. In this year’s promotional video, George Strait says, “Hello Atlanta, it’s been a while.” Lars Ulrich of Metallica continues, “You better open the roof! We’re gonna blast it open! Come see us play live.”
The concert weekend serves to give back to the community through donating a portion of its proceeds. Metallica’s charity All Within My Hands, which supports workforce education and fights hunger, and Military Warriors Support Foundation, which works to provide housing for U.S. veterans, will receive a portion of the proceeds.
Tickets for ATLive will go on sale July 16 via Ticketmaster here for 11/5 and here for 11/6.
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Producers announced Wednesday that the Sara Bareilles musical Waitress will return to Broadway in the fall, for a limited engagement opening in September. Waitress first debuted on Broadway in 2016
Waitress will open Sept. 2 at Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York running through Jan. 9. Bareilles will reprise the role of Jenna Hunterson from Sept. 2 through Oct. 17.
Waitress features music and lyrics by Bareilles, taken from a book by Jessie Nelson. The musical is based on the 2007 film of the same name starring Keri Russell as Jenna, a waitress and baker in a loveless marriage who enters a baking contest. Bareilles said in a statement: “I couldn’t miss the opportunity to be there when Broadway welcomes audiences back into theaters that have been sitting dark for over a yeaIt ir. s a gift to get to revisit the beautiful story of Waitress, centered around hope, resilience and the support of our chosen family. Broadway is grit and grace, magic and mayhem, and I can’t wait to feel the electricity that pulses through all of us as the curtains rise once again.”
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Amazon Prime Video shared a trailer for the new documentary ‘Val,” featuring actor Val Kilmer. You can take a look at the trailer – here.
In the preview, Kilmer, 61, reflect on his “magical life” and career. The documentary features Kilmer’s home movies from throughout the decades, including footage from the sets of Top Gun and Batman Forever. In addition, Val features narration from Kilmer’s son, Jack Kilmer, and new interviews with Kilmer himself, who confirmed in 2017 that he was “healing” from a battle with throat cancer.
Directed and produced by Ting Poo and Leo Scott, the filmmakers said in a statement: “Val is a very complex and brilliant man with so many layers. And we wanted to try to get that feeling of him into the film, from his spirituality to a great sense of humor.”
Val will open in select theaters July 23 before it starts streaming Aug. 6 on Amazon Prime Video.
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