Loki season two is set to be screened at the BFI London Film Festival next month. Ahead of its release on Disney+ on October 5, the Marvel show’s first two episodes will be screened on Wednesday October 4 at the festival with an introduction from director Dan DeLeeuw and executive producer Kevin R Wright. Tickets for the event, which are free, will be available from 10am BST on Monday September 25 here. The BFI London Film Festival runs from October 4-15. Advertisement As part of the LFF For Free programme, there are other free events planned for the festival...
Deftones have teased an upcoming album potentially slated for a 2024 release. READ MORE: Deftones: “Even in our worst moments, we persevere” Appearing as a guest on the Gnostic Academy podcast, the band’s guitarist Stephen Carpenter confirmed that Deftones are working on a new album with producer Nick Raskulinecz (Rush, Mastodon, Alice In Chains.) The new album will mark Raskulinecz’s third collaboration with the band. He produced 2010’s ‘Diamond Eyes’ and 2012’s ‘Koi No Yokan‘. It would be the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Ohms‘. Advertisement “Just in the last couple of months, really — two or three months; well, maybe a...
NewJeans’ Hyein has unveiled a cover of BTS member V’s recent solo single ‘Slow Dancing’. Hyein has become the third member of NewJeans contribute to the girl group’s recently launched ‘By Jeans’ series of covers on YouTube. For her turn, the K-pop idol decided to share her rendition of ‘Slow Dancing’ by BTS’ V. “Today, I have the honour of covering V’s song ‘Slow Dancing’. It has a unique, dreamy and very pleasant feeling. So, I think I was very happy while practicing and listening to the song,” Hyein said in an introduction of the track. Advertisement The idol...
Director Guillermo del Toro has confirmed that he was once set to helm a Star Wars film that never came to fruition. While little is known of the axed film, del Toro’s Star Wars movie would have featured a script by David S. Goyer, who famously wrote on films such as Man Of Steel, Batman Begins, last year’s The Sandman series on Netflix and more. Goyer revealed the news in a new episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I wrote an un-produced Star Wars movie that Guillermo del Toro was going to direct. That was about four years...
This week’s star of The Cover on NME, hemlocke springs, has shared a playlist exclusively to accompany the story’s launch – listen to it below. The North Carolina artist is on this week’s (September 18) edition of The Cover, a renewal of NME’s commitment to supporting emerging talent across the globe on a weekly basis. Every week, a rising artist will feature on The Cover – you can read hemlocke springs’ profile here, written by Rishi Shah and featuring photography by Sam Keeler. Next Friday (September 29), hemlocke springs will unveil her debut EP ‘going…going…GONE!’, a record full of...
South Korean musician Suga, a member of K-pop boyband BTS, has enlisted in the military today (September 22). Ahead of his enlistment today, Suga took to fan community platform Weverse to share a message to his fans. “I was able to come this far thanks to you. And the time has come. I will faithfully complete my duty and come back,” he wrote, per Yonhap News Agency. “Be careful of the chilly autumn weather. Stay healthy and see you all in 2025.” Suga is the third member of BTS to enlist in the military, following Jin in December of 2022 and J-hope...
Angus Cloud, who played Fez in Euphoria, died aged 25 on July 31 from an accidental drug overdose. The actor’s cause of death was confirmed on Thursday (September 21) by the Alameda County Coroner’s Office (via Variety). According to the coroner, his cause of death was “acute intoxication due to combined effects of methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl and benzodiazepines”. Advertisement Cloud’s death was confirmed in a statement from his family, who said he “intensely struggled” with the death of his father just weeks prior. “Angus was special to all of us in so many ways,” the statement read. “Last week...
Duran Duran have shared their latest single, ‘Black Moonlight’ which features Nile Rodgers and former bandmate Andy Taylor. READ MORE: Duran Duran: “We’d love to do Glastonbury – we just need the right slot” ‘Black Moonlight’ is the second of three original tracks the band have created for their upcoming Halloween-inspired, mostly covers album ‘Danse Macabre‘. The track sees them reunite with Rodgers, who is their longtime friend and frequent collaborator. The Chic co-founder previously produced Duran Duran’s 1986 LP ‘Notorious’. The track follows the album’s lead single of the same name. Speaking about ‘Black Moonlight’ in a press release,...
A Motionless In White gig at the weekend was attended by a fan and his dog, much to the anger of the rock band’s drummer. The band were playing a gig in Scranton, Pennsylvania on Sunday (September 16) when a fan was spotted in the crowd holding a golden retriever on his shoulders next to the mosh pit. After the incident, the band’s drummer Vinny Mauro said on X/Twitter: “Seeing the dog in the pit at our Scranton show really bummed me out and I wanna go on record to say unless your dog is literally deaf and blind...
Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin is one of a group of writers suing the makers of ChatGPT for “systematic theft on a mass scale”. The writers are concerned that the OpenAI artificial intelligence program is using their copyrighted work without legal permission. As Associated Press reports, other writers involved in the suit include the American novelists John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and Jonathan Franzen. Advertisement In the papers filed Tuesday in federal court in New York, the collective alleged that there have been “flagrant and harmful infringements” of their registered copyrights and that ChatGPT relies upon “systematic theft...