L.A. Proved Too Much For The Man

Gladys Knight is backed on “Midnight Train to Georgia” by Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr., through the magic of CGI, to promote Tropic Thunder back in 2008.

Friko plays a mini-concert for World Cafe.

50/50, a wildly obscure 80s band, is returning but here is one of their two singles: “Memories Linger.”

Iggy Pop joins Mogwai for “Underground.”

Fontaines D.C. shares “Tongue.”

Chastity Belt shares “To Decide” and “Designs.”

Sia sells half her catalog for 180MM.

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The Paramount-WB merger has cleared judicial review. The deal is likely to close by October 7th.

Digger is now tracking to potentially be the biggest Hollywood box office bomb of 2026 with a 12MM opening weekend.

M. Night Shyamalan‘s highly anticipated next feature Remain, a collab with Nicolas Sparks, had an impromptu premiere and the early reaction seems hot.

The Man With The Bag, starring Schwarzenegger as Santa, has a trailer online.

Pete Davidson, on leaving SNL, famous exes, and more.

28 Years Later: Danny Boyle says Part 3 will happen, with a lot of Cillian Murphy.

John Grover, the British film editor who helped assemble a half-dozen James Bond movies and spent six long months breathing heavily at the behest of Stanley Kubrick for 2001: A Space Odyssey, has died. He was 87.

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A Baby Elephant bathes in a tub.

A Doggo attends class.

Rare Pygmy Raccoons Turn Mexican Island into a Toy Factory.