Entertainers

Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny made serious bank last year. The Grammy-winning artists were among Forbes’ top 10 highest paid entertainers of 2022—a somewhat surprising list that included directors, showrunners, actors, and pioneering rock stars. Swift and Bad Bunny came in at the No. 9 and No. 10 spots, respectively. The former reportedly earned $92 million last year, thanks in large part to record sales. Her 2022 album, Midnights, topped the Billboard 200 for five weeks, and went on to break a series of streaming records on…

Screenshot: Apple TV+Climate change looms like a final boss that gets stronger by the day in Extrapolations, a new sci-fi limited series on Apple TV+. Written, directed, and produced by Scott Z. Burns (Contagion), Extrapolations follows a series of interconnected stories where humanity grapples with the consequences of inaction on a global scale when the sea begins to riseand the planet becomes a flaming hell-scape. And he’s brought the big acting guns including Meryl Streep, Yara Shahidi, Kit Harington, Daveed Diggs,…

Stephen Colbert tape an episode of the “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend” podcast at Beacon Theatre on November 10, 2022 in New York City.Photo: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for SiriusXM (Getty Images)Here’s an example of using your clout and popularity for the benefit of everyone: Stephen Colbert has joined the long-in-the-works campaign to make Roger Zelazny’s best-selling fantasy classic The Chronicles of Amber into a series. Already aboard: The Walking Dead’s Robert Kirkman, whose Skybound Entertainment has been working…

Natasha Lyonne stars in Poker Face.Image: Peacock“If you could have one superpower, what would it be?” It’s a question we ask and have been asked a billion times. And while the most common answers are things like “super strength” or “flight” or “invisibility,” the upcoming show Poker Face throws a new one into the mix: what if you could tell, without a doubt,if a person is lying?Created by Rian Johnson (Knives Out, The Last Jedi) and Natasha Lyonne (Russian Doll, American Pie), Poker Face is a new show coming to Peacock…

Screenshot: GizmodoThe film that kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe and subsequently launched a million takes about comic book movies destroying cinema is getting a little respect. On Wednesday, the Library of Congress announced the 25 movies that will be added to National Film Registry and Iron Man has been chosen as ahistorically significant work of American filmmaking. This year’s entries to the prestigious list of films join old-school classics like The Great Train Robbery and Citizen Kane as well as more…

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Image: Gideon Kendall/Z2 ComicsWeird Al’s up to a lot lately, especially with the arrival of the Daniel Radcliffe-starring biographical sendup Weird: The Al Yankovic Story on Roku today. But the musician is also dipping into the world of comics with a superstar team up trawling through the lyrics of his musical history, and we’ve got a sneak peek.Z2 Comics’ The Illustrated Al, penned by Yankovic, takes a visual trip through over 20 of Yankovic’s classic songs in an audacious anthology that takes Weird Al’s most weird…

Image: Sony PicturesIn a reveal so bonkers that it could only come from Jennifer Lawrence, the Oscar winner revealed to the New York Times that mega-superstar Adele (one of her good friends, actually) advised her not to sign on to2016's Passengers. “Adele told me not to do it!” Lawrence said to the Times. “She was like, ‘I feel like space movies are the new vampire movies.’ I should have listened to her.”Personally, I agree. That movie was bad news from the moment it started getting shopped around. A sci-fi…

Last week, BTS fans in Argentina got an unexpected but joyous piece of news. Kim Seok-jin, more commonly known as Jin, the oldest member of the South Korean K-Pop group, would be performing his new single “The Astronaut” for the first time as a special guest at a Coldplay concert in Buenos Aires. As excited as fans were, they also faced a challenge: How would they welcome Jin and show their support for him at the concert when many of them didn’t have the expensive and hard-to-get ARMY bombs?For the uninitiated, a BTS ARMY…

Daniel Radcliffe said he spent many hours practicing accordion so he could portray Weird Al with some accuracy in a purposefully inaccurate movie.Screenshot: Roku ChannelThe upcoming film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is parody squared. It supposedly tells the true story of the parody songwriter “Weird Al” Yankovic, but pretty much all of it is complete bullpucky. It’s a farce of music biopics that stretch the truth in order to tell a more engaging story. From what filmmakers have shown so far, it seems to be This Is…