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Bella Thorne Recalls “Hashing It Out” With Zendaya After Being Pitted Against Each Other In Disney Years: “It Got Pretty Bad”
Bella Thorne has opened up about tensions with former Disney Channel co-star Zendaya during their time filming Shake It Up between 2010 and 2013, revealing the pair were pitted against one another behind the scenes. Speaking on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Thorne said the rivalry “got pretty bad” at times, but the two actors…
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HBO’s Ambitious 3-Season Fantasy Series Deserves a Revival
HBO’s His Dark Materials, an adaptation of Philip Pullman’s fantasy trilogy produced with the BBC, deserves to be revived, an article from Collider argues, despite ending after three seasons without becoming a major mainstream hit. The show, which follows Lyra Belacqua and her daemon Pantalaimon as they battle the authoritarian Magisterium alongside fellow traveller Will…
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BMG Buys Andrew Stockdale’s Wolfmother Rights
BMG has acquired a set of rights from Wolfmother frontman Andrew Stockdale relating to his interests in the Grammy-winning Australian rock band, deepening a relationship that began when BMG became his global publisher in 2016. The deal sees BMG take control of Stockdale’s publishing, recorded music royalties and neighbouring rights for the Wolfmother catalogue, underlining…
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The Best Sci-Fi Book of the Last 50 Years Is Also Unadaptable, and That’s Good
The article argues that Dan Simmons’s 1989 novel *Hyperion* is the best science fiction book of the last 50 years precisely because it resists being turned into a film or television series. The writer contends that while some novels lend themselves naturally to adaptation, *Hyperion*’s literary structure and thematic ambition make it something that could…
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‘The Shards’ Star Igby Rigney on Wooing Ryan Murphy, Never Meeting Bret Easton Ellis and Not Worrying About Sex Scenes: ‘It’s Like Doing a Dance Under a Microscope’
Igby Rigney, the 26-year-old star of Ryan Murphy’s new FX drama “The Shards,” has spoken about landing the lead role, his approach to the show’s explicit content, and why he never met the author of the book it’s based on, Bret Easton Ellis. The series adapts Ellis’s 2023 autofiction novel, following the writer through his…
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The guitarist David Byrne knew he could never be: “We had a few rules”
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Members of Butthole Surfers, Melvins and more form wacky supergroup, Gatta Morta
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Guitar virtuoso Eric Johnson picks the songs that soundtrack his life: “That record was over my head. I wasn’t even sure if I liked it. But the more I listened, the more I realised how great it was”
Texas guitarist Eric Johnson, best known for his 1990 Grammy-winning instrumental “Cliffs Of Dover” and his role in the original G3 tour alongside Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, has shared the songs and records that have shaped his life and music in an interview feature. The piece highlights the breadth of his musical influences beyond…
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‘Wonder Man’ Co-Creator Destin Daniel Cretton Doesn’t “Fully Understand” Why Show Was Canceled: “I’m Heartbroken”
Destin Daniel Cretton, co-creator of Marvel’s “Wonder Man” series, says he does not “fully understand” why Disney and Marvel cancelled the Disney+ show, just months after it had been renewed for a second season. The cancellation is notable because it came only a day before the release of Cretton’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day and follows…
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The 2011 role James Marsden hated playing: “I can’t stand these kind of movies”
James Marsden, who is returning as Cyclops in Avengers: Doomsday, has spoken about a role he found particularly uncomfortable: Fred O’Hare in the 2011 family comedy Hop. This matters as a rare candid admission from an actor whose career has otherwise ranged from the X-Men franchise to Sonic the Hedgehog and an Emmy-nominated turn in…