For years, Michael Archer II kept his parents’ names out of conversations he didn’t have to have. Now, for his first feature film, he’ll be answering to a different name altogether — Biggie Smalls. Universal Pictures has cast Archer, who…
Alvin Kamara was heading into a rough patch when he decided to give something back to Tennessee. At 31, the New Orleans Saints running back was working his way back from a knee injury. His 2025 season had been his…
Zendaya’s films have taken more than $4.1 billion worldwide this year. The number is remarkable, but the choices behind it tell the more useful story. Zendaya reached the first weekend of August with two films in cinemas and a third…
By 2018, most artists in Jorja Smith’s position would have taken the label meeting. Drake had put her on two More Life tracks and brought her out on tour. She’d opened for Bruno Mars, worked with Stormzy, landed a song…
Maybe the smartest thing Doechii ever did was decide a project mattered less than everyone assumed it did. By 2022 she was past the independent-artist stage — Top Dawg Entertainment and Capitol Records had teamed up around her, which meant…
