Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino discusses ways to restart concerts during the coronavirus pandemic. Live Nation will begin testing a variety of new concert experiences in the coming months. Christopher Furlong / Getty Images CEO Michael Rapino explained that they will be experimenting with drive-in concerts, fan-less virtual concerts and more during the company’s first-quarter earnings call on Thursday. “So over the next six months, we’ll be starting slow and small, focusing on the basics and testing regionally,” he said. “But whether it’s in Arkansas or state that is safe, secure, and politically fine to proceed in, we’re going...
Cyberpunk 2077 takes player customization to the next level. Highly anticipated game Cyberpunk 2077 will feature customizable breasts, buttocks, and genitalia, as noted by the game’s newly revealed ESRB rating. Christian Petersen / Getty Images “Players can select a gender and customize their character; customization can include depictions of breasts, buttocks, and genitalia, as well as various sizes and combinations of genitals,” the rating page reads. “Players can encounter events where they have the option to engage in sexual activities with other main characters or prostitutes—these brief sex scenes (from a first-person perspective) depict partially nude characters moaning suggestively while moving...
Carnival Cruises see a 600% increase in sales after the company announces a goal to reopen operations. Carnival Cruises are scheduled to resume on August 1, and customers seem to have no fears about returning to the ships. Ticket sales have shot up 600 percent in three days since going on-sale. Joe Raedle / Getty Images Representative from Cruise Planners told TMZ the cruise line is “not a bit concerned about traveling at this time.” “We are taking a measured approach, focusing on the potential for sailing from a select number of homeports where we have more significant operations that are...
Barack Obama criticized Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic while speaking with former members of his administration. Former President Barack Obama called President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic a “chaotic disaster” in leaked audio from a discussion with the Obama Alumni Association. Win McNamee / Getty Images “What we’re fighting against is these long-term trends in which being selfish, being tribal, being divided, and seeing others as an enemy–that. has become a stronger impulse in American life. It would’ve been bad even with the best of governments, it has been an absolute chaotic disaster when that mindset — of...
Disney has lost over $1 billion due to the coronavirus pandemic. Disney’s losses from the coronavirus pandemic have now exceeded $1 billion, company executives confirmed, Tuesday. David McNew / Getty Images The majority of losses come from the closure of the company’s parks, but also their retail stores and TV operations. Disney CEO Bob Chapek and Executive Chairman Bob Iger released a statement explaining the situation: “While the COVID-19 pandemic has had an appreciable financial impact on a number of our businesses, we are confident in our ability to withstand this disruption and emerge from it in a strong position,”...
David Harbour discusses expectations for season 4 of “Stranger Things.” David Harbour, who plays Hopper on Netflix’s Stranger Things, discussed what to expect from Season 4 and his character, during Liverpool Comic-Con as reported by IndieWire. Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images The actor says to look for more backstory for Hopper, referencing a scene from Season 2 in which Eleven discovers boxes labelled “Dad,” “Vietnam,” and “New York” “So there are these three things that we’ve established in the season that if we don’t pay off, it means that they’re bad writers, and the Duffer brothers are very good writers. So...
Young Thug posted a wild Instagram story, this week, explaining the difficulty he has maintaining a clean penis. Young Thug has a dirty penis. That’s at least what he told fans on Instagram this week. The rapper went on a lengthy rant regarding the difficultly he has maintaining a clean penis. He explains that no matter how frequently he baths, his penis comes out dirty every time. Check out the full transcript of his absurd Instagram story below: I don’t even have sex every day. So, like OK, yesterday, I woke up at like 5:00 in the evening. I...
The Cavs’ practice facility reopened this week. Kevin Love spoke with reporters afterward about his experience returning to the court. The Cleveland Cavaliers opened their practice facility this week, becoming one of the first teams to do so. Thearon W. Henderson / Getty Images “It was the longest I’ve ever gone without shooting a basketball,” Cavs Forward Kevin Love told ESPN, Friday. “So I didn’t care. I just wanted to get some shots up.” He says the players were all screened before being allowed on the courts: “Asked us a few questions. How we’re feeling, if anybody has been...
Adam Silver discussed the logistics of an NBA return with the league’s players, this week. NBA commissioner Adam Silver spoke with player representatives from the National Basketball Players Association, which included executive director Michele Roberts, NBPA president Chris Paul and a number of other players, regarding the logistics of the league’s return. Takashi Aoyama / Getty Images “This could turn out to be the single greatest challenge of all our lives,” Silver warned, noting that 40% of the league’s revenue comes from game night earnings. Silver pointed that that “The CBA was not built for extended pandemics,” explaining that future salary caps...
During their conversation on “Young Money Radio,” Eminem told Lil Wayne that he had some of the “top five verses of all time” on “Mona Lisa.” The third episode of Lil Wayne‘s Young Money Radio show aired on Beats 1 Apple Music on Friday, and one of his guests was none other than his friend and past collaborator, Eminem. During their virtual chat, the two rappers caught up with each other and discussed their music in detail, even both admitting that they sometimes google their lyrics so that they don’t risk the crime of repeating the same bars in a new song....