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In 2019, Tinashe left RCA Records after years of frustration over the direction of her career. She had spent seven years with the label, released three studio albums and watched Joyride arrive later...
Doechii raps in a swamp. Then the breastplate on her metallic outfit turns into a turret and fires sparklers. The strange, comic moment comes from “BOMBS,” a self-directed video released on October...
Target currently lists a Penny Proud fashion doll from The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder. That proves the character has reached the retail shelf. It does not tell us how many dolls sold, whether...
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Michael finished fifth on the summer box-office chart. Scary Movie came in 12th. The other three films in this sample earned $23.9 million combined—less than either hit earned alone. From May 1 to...
When X-Men ’97 arrived on Disney+ in 2024, most of the conversation was about what the show was doing: picking up the 1990s cartoon mid-stride, killing off characters people had loved since...
Herman Boone is speaking to a group of Black players in the T.C. Williams gym when Bill Yoast arrives with the white players and several members of his former coaching staff. Their entrance changes...
Apple TV+’s Widow’s Bay comes from creator Katie Dippold and director Hiro Murai, and it drops viewers into a strange New England island town with a tourism problem, a mayor looking for a...
For most of Hollywood’s history, the deal worked like this: a Black actor got cast as the action lead, somebody else got strapped into the costume to do the actual fighting, and an editor...
She put out “Witch Doctor” in July and honestly, it felt like a rumor. That’s just how Erykah Badu moves. No press releases, no rollout plans. She teases, disappears, pops back up...