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Kesha is taking her foot off the brakes and going full-speed ahead on her new video for “Joyride.”

Directed by Dimitri Basil, Cooper Roussel, and Laura Gorun, the video sees Kesha racing through the desert in a hot red convertible while being chased by a helicopter, gun-toting assassins, and a shirtless dude hell-bent on catching up to the pop diva.

The video ends on an inconclusive note, while a press release teases that the action-packed video sets the stage for Kesha’s next track, “Delusional,” out Nov. 29, and “an even...

Despite acting since she was a child, leading one of Disney Channel’s top sitcoms, Wizards of Waverly Place, starring in A24 cult classic Spring Breakers, and landing Golden Globe and Emmy nods for her lead role in smash hit series Only Murders in the Buildings, Selena Gomez still has trouble convincing casting directors to give her a shot.

When speaking to The Hollywood Reporter about her most recent feature in Netflix musical Emilia Pérez, which released earlier this month, Gomez shared that people often tell her that she’s...

Selena Gomez knows she isn’t the acting powerhouse that she once was. A star who was once at the pinnacle in the industry knows that her stocks have dwindled. But none of that can change the fact that she still is Selena Gomez.

Her name is still enough to turn heads in Hollywood. After all, everything that she has done for more than a decade can’t go away in a flash. But much to everyone’s surprise, her reputation has potentially cost her a few roles. Until she found the most ingenious technique to combat the situation.

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Life has not been easy for Selena Gomez. Though the 32-year-old has quite the filmography to her name, that doesn’t do justice to the reputation she once enjoyed.

Ask Selena Gomez what she gets out of acting that music has not historically afforded her, and she replies in no uncertain terms: “Sanity.”

It’s an exceedingly honest answer, which is what you come to expect after spending any amount of time in Gomez’s company. The Only Murders in the Building producer and star has no patience for anything less than the unvarnished truth, messy as it often is. “She’s herself, always, and I think that’s part of why her fans love her so much,” says her Wizards of Waverly Place co-star David Henrie, who has routinely watched her open up on personal subjects, including her battle with lupus, struggles with depression and diagnosis of bipolar disorder. “They go, ‘Oh, I see myself in that.’ “

But for the foreseeable future, Gomez would rather get lost in someone else’s story, something that music has never allowed her to do.

Selena Gomez is reflecting on her career.

The 32-year-old Emilia Perez actress spoke out in Elle‘s 2024 Women in Hollywood issue, out now.

During the conversation, Selena spoke about what she wishes she knew before she got into the business, how Meryl Streep supported her, and her most challenging role to date.

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On what she wishes she knew before getting into show business:

“I have no regrets and I have a fantastic family and there were rules laid down by my parents and I’m appreciative of that. However, I don’t think I would’ve done it very young if I was thinking of myself now. There were a lot of things that I felt stunted by. Then adding a lot of pressure from a lot of people didn’t help me develop a sense of self in my twenties. It was a very difficult time.

At 32 years old, she’s an award-winning musician, a critically acclaimed actress, a successful businesswoman, and the epitome of a social media influencer. Selena Gomez has accomplished more in her three decades of living than most do a lifetime, and it doesn’t seem as though she’s going to fade into the shadows of time as many child performers do. Scroll through our gallery above (or click here for direct access) to see our listing of the best Selena Gomez movies and TV shows, ranked.

Gomez was born on July 22, 1992, in Grand Prairie, Texas, to a young mother who struggled after her divorce from Gomez’s father. After watching her mother, an amateur actress, Gomez became interested in the entertainment industry, and received her first role in 2002, on a few episodes of “Barney & Friends.” After a few more bit parts, she received a recurring role on “Hannah Montana...

At 32 years old, she’s an award-winning musician, a critically acclaimed actress, a successful businesswoman, and the epitome of a social media influencer. Selena Gomez has accomplished more in her three decades of living than most do a lifetime, and it doesn’t seem as though she’s going to fade into the shadows of time as many child performers do. Scroll through our gallery below to see our listing of the best Selena Gomez movies and TV shows, ranked.

Gomez was born on July 22, 1992, in Grand Prairie, Texas, to a young mother who struggled after her divorce from Gomez’s father. After watching her mother, an amateur actress, Gomez became interested in the entertainment industry, and received her first role in 2002, on a few episodes of “Barney & Friends.” After a few more bit parts, she received a recurring role on “Hannah Montana” in 2007, beginning her journey as a Disney star.

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If you thought Brat Summer would be confined by something as fickle as the tilting of the Earth’s axis away from the Sun, you’d be mistaken — Brat Summer defies seasons, and it’s not slowing down even though we’re deep into fall. Charli Xcx’s world-conquering Brat kept people dancing with each new, cheekily self-aware release, including Brat And It’s The Same But There...

Harmony Korine met photographer Larry Clark while he was still a teenage skater bumming about Greenwich Village in New York. Clark and Korine began talking, and Clark revealed that he wanted a screenplay, written with an authentic point of view, all about modern, largely unsupervised teens and the way they wrestle with the AIDS crisis. Korine was happy to participate, and wrote the screenplay for the highly controversial "Kids," released in 1995. "Kids" was dark and edgy at the time, as it was incredibly frank about the sex lives of high school students. Even today, opinions on the film are mixed. 

Korine, however, instantly became a new Enfant Terrible in the indie cinema world, and made his directorial debut in 1997 with "Gummo," a stylized poverty drama about a random assortment of oversexed and undereducated Ohioans recovering from a recent tornado. He followed that film with "julien donkey-boy" in 1999, which he made...

Myriad Pictures will launch sales at AFM on the psychological thriller McVeigh from Symbolic Exchange and CinemaWerks starring Alfie Allen as Timothy McVeigh, the deadliest domestic terrorist in United States history.

The film premiered at Tribeca Festival this year and is directed by Mike Ott. It tells of the titular military veteran, who masterminded the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building inOklahoma City that resulted in the death of 168 people and injured many hundreds more.

Allen, whose credits include Jojo Rabbit and Game Of Thrones, stars alongside Ashley Benson, Brett Gelman (Stranger Things), Anthony Carrigan (Barry), and Tracy Letts...

James Franco is tucked away in the corner of a five-star hotel lobby on Rome’s Via Veneto, sipping an Americano coffee. Wearing a chocolate brown hoodie he proudly says he co-designed, the actor and filmmaker looks relaxed and flashes his signature smile.

He’s in the Eternal City for the Rome Film Festival launch of Italian director Claudio Giovannesi’s “Hey Joe.” In the gritty drama, Franco plays Dean, an alcoholic American WWII vet who winds up back in Naples in the early ’70s in search of a son he fathered there before absconding to New Jersey.

The film is his first to surface on the fest circuit since his career went on hiatus following a now-settled 2019 lawsuit alleging that he sexually exploited young women who took his acting class. As he sips his coffee, Franco and I agree that his character is looking for redemption. Could the same be said of Franco?...

Charli xcx and Troye Sivan lined up not one but two surprise guests for night one of their Sweat Tour in Los Angeles.

On October 15, the tourmates and “Talk Talk” collaborators took the stage at Kia Forum in Los Angeles for the first of two back-to-back shows in the venue.

For the occasion, they shared the stage with Kesha and Tate McRae!

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Fresh off the release of their remix of “Spring Breakers,” Kesha and Charli delivered the song’s first live performance on the stage. You can see a video over on X (formerly Twitter).

Meanwhile, Troye and Tate belted out their song “You,” which they dueted on with Regard. A clip is also on X.

The Sweat Tour kicked off in September with a set in Detroit, Michigan. We’ve got the complete setlist from opening night.

Speaking of Charli find out which...

Gummo, spine #1238, will release in the Criterion Collection on October 22, 2024.

Outside of Gummo and Spring Breakers I’ve not seen any of Harmony Korine’s filmography. Based on those two films I’d come to the conclusion that his vision and style of filmmaking didn’t align with the types of films I enjoy. Despite my negative first reaction to Gummo, which I watched in 2004 at the age of seventeen, I’ve never forgotten the movie and what a strange viewing experience it was. Now that I’m in my thirties and with the Criterion Collection releasing a brand new 4K transfer, it seemed like the perfect time to revisit it and see if my feelings had changed.

Gummo Plot Harmony Korine’s Gummo Related Criterion Collection Release: Teen Apocalypse Trilogy

A mix of children and adults exist in poverty and isolation in a rural town destroyed by nature. They...

Party girls unite! Charli Xcx enlisted Kesha to perform their pair’s recent remix of “Spring Breakers” during the Sweat tour stop at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles last night. Kesha also performed her own hit, “Tik Tok,” during he show with Charli and Troye Sivan.

Charli first hit the stage to perform her verse from the original version of “Spring Breakers,” before surprising the L.A crowd with Kesha, who was draped in a pink fur coat.

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Kesha is getting us into the holiday spirit!

The”Joyride” superstar just released a new Spotify exclusive single on Tuesday (October 15), a cover of Lindsey Buckingham‘s “Holiday Road.”

This single is part of this year’s annual singles collection from Spotify, which will feature four other artists and their covers of holiday tunes, including “Driving Home for Christmas” by Dasha, “River” by Max Richter, “Run Rudolph Run” by Mark Ambor and “Emmanuel” by Miel San Marcos.

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“With ‘Holiday Road,’ Kesha has taken this really fun ’80s song – which wasn’t originally a holiday song – and brought it to the modern day. We just knew she would sound amazing singing it, and she does. Her vocals make me think of The Go-Gos or The Bangles here. It feels like a monumental year for Kesha, and we’re thrilled to be a part of it...

Charli Xcx and Kesha have dropped a surprise new remix of the Brat bonus track “Spring Breakers.” Stream the new version of the song below.

Even before the release of Brat in June, a truck displaying “Kesha” on top of a very specific green background seemed to tease that the pop star would feature on the new Charli release. Despite the hint, Kesha was nowhere to be found on the Brat tracklist, nor was she on the deluxe version of the album, Brat and it’s the same but there’s three more songs so it’s not, or the recently released remix project Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat.

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Today, however, Charli and Kesha finally make good on their Brat promise. Unlike many of the cuts on Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat, which were often markedly different than the original,...

Months before Charli Xcx even released Brat, a video of a truck displaying the name “Kesha” on a chartreuse background went viral online. At the time, fans speculated that a collaboration with the “Tik Tok” pop star would come on the album. Brat arrived, and it wasn’t there. Brat and It’s the Same But There’s Three More Songs So It’s Not came out, and still nothing. And then came Brat and It’s Completely Different but Also Still Brat on Friday, and no Kesha song was on the track list.

Charli xcx and Kesha are jumping on a remix together!

The Brat superstar revealed a brand new remix of her track “Spring Breakers” featuring the “Joyride” pop superstar on Monday (October 14).

“These bitches rip off, wish they could be Og, but they not / We going psycho, we going off / Yeah, me and Charli, we the party girl gods,” Kesha declares on the catchy banger.

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“Singin’ my song, singin’ along / TiK Tok bitch ’til the kingdom come,” she goes on, referring to her smash hit.

The remix is the latest from Charli‘s ongoing Brat remix project, enlisting various stars to create new versions of songs off her critically acclaimed 2024 album, including Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish and Troye Sivan.

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Read “Spring breakers featuring kesha” by Charli xcx & Kesha on Genius...

Charli xcx‘s Brat era really is the gift that just keeps giving!

Just last week, the “Apple” hitmaker unleashed her star-studded remix album Brat and It’s Completely Different but Also Still Brat. It featured collaborations with the likes of Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish and Troye Sivan. But there’s still more to come.

Over the weekend, fans learned that Charli had lined up a new remix of her popular track “Spring Breakers.” This one features another big star – Kesha.

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On Sunday (October 13), a Charli fan account on X (formerly Twitter) shared a video of a truck that was parked in a city. It had a flashing sign on the side that announced the remix. It’s seemingly dropping on Monday.

The move draws parallels to how Charli announced her other collaborators on the remix album. For the big reveal, she commissioned billboards...

“The Masked Singer” is reaching new heights in Season 12. Panelists Ken Jeong, Rita Ora, Robin Thicke and Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg return as the series commemorates acclaimed franchises “Barbie” and “Footloose,” along with the iconic artist Miley Cyrus in a pop culture-piercing night that salutes her music catalog. Nick Cannon returns as host.

Tonight’s episode will feature showstopping performances from five all-new masked celebrities and a jaw-dropping reveal no one saw coming! Get ready to singalong in the all-new “Season 12 Premiere: Who Can it Be Now?” episode of “The Masked Singer” airing Wednesday, September 25 (8:00-9:02 Pm Et/Pt) on Fox. Read our live blog below.

The Season 12 contestants boast a combined 21 Grammy nominations, 14 Emmy nominations, and 202 film appearances. Five of them even know Taylor Swift!

New this season, clues are everywhere and hidden in all-new places: strategically embedded in costumes, in song choices and on-stage moments. And for...

Once upon a time, Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber were Hollywood royalty as a dynamic power couple. They were constantly making headlines and their young fans were obsessed. However, all of that changed when they officially called it quits in 2018. Now that one of Justin‘s former mentors, Diddy, has been arrested for a slew of inappropriate charges, folks are doing deep dives into Justin‘s mentorship relationship with Diddy back in the day. Here’s what’s been discovered about Selena‘s perception of it all.

Selena Gomez Had A Bizarre Experience With Diddy

In an old Interview with GQ from 2016, Selena revealed a super strange interaction she had with Diddy. As a reminder, the interaction went down while Selena was still in a serious relationship with Justin. Apparently, Diddy mistook Selena for the hired help. She explained, “P Diddy gave me his valet ticket once, do you know what I mean?...

Across the U.S., teens are preparing for high school homecoming football games and dances. Last night at Madison Square Garden saw a homecoming of a different sort: New York teenagers (a.k.a. 27-31-year-olds) donned wraparound sunglasses and baby tees to dance out the final gasps of Brat Summer — Brautumn, if you will — at Charli Xcx and Troye Sivan’s Sweat Tour.

Brat Summer originally took root right here in New York. The months-long, frenzied phenomenon was foreshadowed in February with Charli’s elusive Boiler Room set at a warehouse in Bushwick,...

Charli Xcx’s Brat Summer will continue into the fall when she releases Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat on Oct. 11. It’s a re-imagined version of her hit LP Brat featuring new songs, and remixes of album cuts with guests like Billie Eilish, Lorde, Robyn, Troye Sivan, and Addison Rae. Check out a remix of “Talk talk” with Sivan.

Brat is the most acclaimed album of Charli Xcx’s 13-year recording career, and singles like “360,” “Guess,” and “Apple” have been inescapable throughout the summer.

Selena Gomez looked back on her cult classic movie Spring Breakers and revealed that she recently got in touch with her castmates.

The 32-year-old actress starred in the 2013 movie alongside the likes of Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson.

While on the red carpet promoting her new movie Emilia Perez, Selena reflected on filming Spring Breakers and revealed something meaningful that she learned from it.

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“I miss Harmony,” she told IndieWire, referring to writer and director Harmony Korine.

She continued, saying, “It was so long ago now, but I think that was one of the moments in my life that I felt like, ‘Oh, this is what art can feel like.’ Not just the typical way I had been doing it my whole career. That’s when I got the bug. So to be honest, I’m just happy to be a part of such an audacious,...

Jacques Audiard’s Cannes drug-cartel musical “Emilia Pérez” celebrated its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, September 9. The film won the Cannes Jury Prize and the Cannes Best Actress Prize for the four lead stars of Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz. The feature also was awarded the Cannes Soundtrack Award, with music by Clément Ducol and Camille.

At the TIFF red carpet, Gascón spoke to IndieWire about how the Cannes Best Actress Prize was affirming to her as an actress. “This prize in Cannes is one of the most important in our industry,” she shared.

“I love this prize,” she continued. “I have this in the most beautiful place in my house and I’m not like other actresses that put it [by the] door [laughs]. I think that this recognition is the best and is one of the prizes that will be...

Los Angeles-based Great Escape has kicked off sales talks in Toronto on heist thriller Stranglehold starring Ashley Benson from Spring Breakers and Jake Lacy from The White Lotus alongside Justin Long, and Ron Perlman.

Clark Duke directs the feature, which shot this summer and is in the vein of Dog Day Afternoon, Die Hard and the Coen Brothers oeuvre.

Benson stars as a stripper with aspirations of becoming a professional dancer who ekes out a living with her husband (Lacy). They decide to pull off a Christmas party heist at the strip club where she works, unaware that a group...

Not every child actor story turns out to be a tragedy. The Disney Channel child star to super rich adult pipeline is real, and Selena Gomez is the latest star to take it to new heights, according to a fresh report from Bloomberg. The "Only Murders in the Building" star is officially a billionaire, with a net worth of $1.3 billion dollars, but most of that money didn't come from her acting and musical career.

According to the outlet, Gomez has made her millions via a combination of acting, singing, brand partnerships, a mental health startup, and -- most importantly -- a mega-successful makeup line called Rare Beauty Brands. So, what does reportedly being richer than Zendaya or Miley Cyrus mean for the actor who first got her start on Disney's fantasy family comedy show "Wizards of Waverly Place"? Well, she can basically do whatever she wants in Hollywood.

Unlike some...

A prominent director of indie movies sees streamers like Kai Cenat and iShowSpeed as the auteur filmmakers of their generation. In an interview with Indiewire, Harmony Korine dubbed Kai and Speed as a few of the “talented and creative minds” who are hosting innovative streams instead of taking traditional Hollywood career paths.

Korine, a director best known for edgy films like Kids and Spring Breakers, discussed the streaming landscape while promoting his new feature Baby Invasion. 30 years into his career, Korine believes Hollywood is at a crossroads, with many decision-makers ignoring the abundance of talent that’s bubbling up on the internet.

“What’s happening in Hollywood — and you’re starting to see Hollywood, I think, crumble creatively — is that they’re losing a lot of the most talented and creative minds to gaming and to streamers,” Korine told Indiewire. “Like IShowSpeed is a movie, Kai Cenat is a movie.

If one had to guess which filmmaker a film journalist could catch themselves conducting an interview with at two in the morning, at a table inside a hotel bar overlooking the Venice canal, Harmony Korine would probably be the most likely choice.

Coming off the world premiere of his new project “Baby Invasion” at the Venice Film Festival, the innovative, enfant terrible filmmaker is still struck by the heat inside the Sala Grande (“it was like a sauna”), but he’s also been processing the joy it felt to receive one of those signature applauses that lasts so long, security had to shut it down — especially for a film like this.

“I never seen anything like that in a place like that,” said Korine, back at the festival one year after premiering “Aggro Dr1ft” there, the first film produced under his new Edglrd banner. An 80-minute film inspired by first-person shooter games,...

On Sunday, for the first time since the Telluride Film Festival’s North American premiere of Jacques Audiard’s one-of-a-kind musical Emilia Pérez on Friday, the three principal stars of the top-tier Oscar contender — Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón and Selena Gomez — sat down for an extensive group interview about their lives, their careers and the film for which they and costar Adriana Paz were jointly awarded the Cannes Film Festival’s best actress prize in May.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, the ladies reflected on the special bond that they formed while co-creating Audiard’s film, which revolves around a frustrated lawyer and a cartel leader who recruits her to help carry out a covert operation without the cartel leader’s spouse finding out.

They also discussed — candidly and, at times, emotionally — the different hurdles they each faced en route to Emilia Pérez; the most daunting aspects of playing...

Technically, Day Four at the Venice Film Festival started at midnight for me, walking out of the after party for “Babygirl” still abuzz, trying and failing to slyly make it onto the water taxi headed to star Harris Dickinson’s after after party under the noses of A24 employees. The preceding event was one of the few gatherings happening during the festival to invite over some press to rub elbows with lead Nicole Kidman, director Halina Reijn, and company, as well as director Christos Nikou (“Fingernails”) and actress Taylor Russell (“Bones and All”) who are each serving on a different jury at La Biennale this year.

While that all made for an exciting start, the day’s offerings made for a more lowkey Saturday, with earlier screenings of films like “Battleground” and “And Their Children After Them,” both competition titles, only drawing moderate buzz. Even the premiere of Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai’s “Why War,...

Harmony Korine is going to do whatever the hell he wants, and in the case of his disturbing and anti-audience movie “Baby Invasion,” he turns the trigger-junkie protagonist at the top of a video game into the eyes and ears of a motion picture. If that’s what you call this disquieting and sickeningly compelling new project, framed from the perspective of an assassin pillaging shiny happy McMansions in Florida, Korine’s haunting grounds of late from “Spring Breakers” to his disastrously boring “film” “Aggro Dr1ft” last year. Where that infrared twisted techno dance pivoted on desperate dancers and sex workers twerking into the void as a hired killer fired shots all around them, “Baby Invasion” has a clearer focus this time: It’s to make you, the viewer, feel bad, and often wanting to beg to the screen, “Please god let this end,” or perhaps more aptly, “end me.

Midnight screenings rarely come more fitting than “Baby Invasion,” Harmony Korine’s latest experimental, unconventional and video game-like assault on the senses, which had its world premiere on Saturday night in Venice to an 8.5-minute standing ovation.

The film served up a provocative array of unique visuals: We saw our heavily armed, baby-faced criminals torturing people, dancing to Burial’s thumping techno score, chopping up huge piles of coke and throwing up the middle finger while sitting on the toilet.

Whatever it is we witnessed, the crowd seemed to lap it up. Once the hour and 20 minute movie wrapped, cheers erupted from the audience as Korine danced to the beat that soundtracked the credits. And it didn’t stop there: fans erupted into a chant of “Harmony! Harmony! Harmony!” as the director waved his arms as if to say, “More! More! More!”

At one point in the film, one of...

Iconoclastic auteur Harmony Korine delivers another tripped-out feat of movie gamer madness with Baby Invasion, which follows last year’s Aggro DR1FT down a similar rabbit hole (one that includes lots of digital rabbits this time) in which violence, mayhem, masks and McMansions come clashing together in the Florida sun.

Whereas DR1FT was a freewheeling assassin flick whose images were processed and reprocessed until they looked like drug-addled nightmares, Invasion applies a different aesthetic but a comparable narrative approach, breaking the barriers between cinema and video games until we no longer know if we’re watching one or the other. And just in case you didn’t get that, onscreen titles come up at some point saying: “This is not a movie. This is a game. This is real life. There is no real life.” All clear now?

Anyone going into Korine’s latest expecting to sit through an...

Early on in “A Clockwork Orange,” Alex and his fellow droogs break into a rich writer’s home and rape his wife, which would be wrong enough if he weren’t crooning “Singin’ in the Rain” in the process. Half a century later, the scene seems no less appalling, given the way Stanley Kubrick made such ultraviolence look like fun for the demented kids who were doing it. Could there be anything more nihilistic than that?

Middle-aged bad boy Harmony Korine certainly thinks so. The latest stunt from his taboo-razing Edglrd studio, “Baby Invasion” blurs the lines between real life and a gnarly video game, so much so that it’s hard to tell what we’re watching for most of the trippy project’s 79-minute running time.

First-person footage of Florida McMansions ransacked by screen-addicted sociopaths? Creepy face-replacement technology that turns armed vandals into demon-horned Gerber babies? AI-generated cameos from an elusive CG rabbit?...

Director Harmony Korine took a moment at the Venice Film Festival press conference for his latest film “Baby Invasion” to encourage Hollywood to start embracing the forms of entertainment that have taken over youth culture, like gaming and streaming.

“What’s happening in Hollywood — and you’re starting to see Hollywood, I think, crumble creatively — is that they’re losing a lot of the most talented and creative minds to gaming and to streamers. Like IShowSpeed is a movie, Kai Cenat is a movie,” said the “Spring Breakers” and “Aggro Dr1ft” filmmaker, shouting out two of the most popular personalities on YouTube and Twitch.

In making a point about how Hollywood power players are locked into convention to the point of scaring off young creative minds from attempting traditional filmmaking, Korine went on to say, “They go other places because movies are no longer the dominant art form. Always, they were the dominant art form,...

Harmony Korine doubled down on his thoughts about the current state of the film industry at a Venice press conference on Saturday, saying that “we’re starting to see Hollywood crumble creatively” because it’s “so locked in on convention.”

As he puffed on a cigar, causing smoke to invade the conference room, Korine — seated next to his designer Joao Rosa and a neon green-masked Gaspar Noé — waxed lyrical about how the industry is misusing its youth.

“Hollywood needs to encourage — they don’t need to, but they would be smart to — encourage the youth, the kids. Why we’re starting to see Hollywood crumble creatively is because they’re losing a lot of the most creative minds to gaming and to streaming,” he said. “They’re so locked in on convention and then all those kids who are so creative are now just going to find other pathways and...

Charli Xcx’s hit new album, Brat was released on June 7 and fans are eager to witness a live performance of songs from the singer’s now-iconic summer album. The tour will start on September 14 in Detroit and conclude in Seattle on October 23.

The album’s distinctive cover art (“brat” written in Arial font on a lime green background) has inspired the “brat” aesthetic, which has spread from slime green merchandise to marketing campaigns, and inspired a lifestyle trend among Millenials and Gen Z.

The high-energy dance-pop album touches on partying, Von Dutch and womanhood and has prompted TikTok dances, memes and fashion trends, and led to the new term “brat summer.”

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In an Instagram post on June 8, Charli Xcx described the “brat” album ethos as “me, my flaws, my f— ups, my ego all rolled into one.

On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.

First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.

Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.

The Pitch: Fall in Love with Love (and New York City)

You never forget your first crush. Life and love grow so complicated as we get older, but those early butterflies, stolen glances, and fleeting interactions are so easily romanticized in the rearview, relics of a bygone innocence and who we used to be. No matter what follows, the first stirrings of a crush are full of promise and excitement — even if you feel a bit like you’re going to explode.

I was on my second or third crush when I...

Selena Gomez is comparing her Cannes award-winning turn in “Emilia Pérez” to her subversive casting in Harmony Korine’s “Spring Breakers.”

The star, who recently shared the Best Actress award at Cannes 2024 as part of the ensemble cast of “Emilia Pérez,” told The Hollywood Reporter that both films “have a special place” in her heart.

Gomez had already been a hit teen star with Disney Channel series “Wizards of Waverly Place” and films such as “Monte Carlo” and “Ramona and Beezus” before Korine cast her as a college student who robs a drive-thru to fund a vacation to Florida. Rachel Korine, Vanessa Hudgens, and Ashley Benson co-starred as Gomez’s onscreen pals; Gucci Mane and James Franco rounded out the cast of the iconic 2013 film.

“Acting has, and will always be, my heart,” Gomez said. “There’s so much that I want to do and that I haven’t even scratched the surface of,...

The heat is on, but chilling with a great movie is the best way to cool down. July has a number of noteworthy new releases in the world of streaming, and we understand the sheer volume of content on the major streamers can be overwhelming. That’s why we’ve put together a curated list of the best new movies streaming this month that’s as robust as it is diverse. We’ve got picks from Netflix, Prime Video, Max, Peacock and even MGM+ which has a very buzzy movie this month. There’s a little something for everyone, from genuine new releases to recent hits that are making their streaming debut to library titles that are well worth checking out.

See our list of the best new movies streaming in July 2024 below.

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The Venice Film Festival is coming up in August, and this year is looking awesome! They just announced all the movies that will be shown, and it includes some huge directors and big name stars.

The festival runs from August 28th through September 7th. It will be the 81st year they’ve done it. They’ll be showing tons of movies from all over the world in different categories.

Some of the big movies competing for awards include Pedro Almodóvar’s new one called “The Room Next Door.” Luca Guadagnino, who did “Call Me By Your Name,” has a movie called “Queer” that sounds intriguing. Pablo Larraín, who directed “Spencer” about Princess Diana, has a film called “Maria.” Also, Todd Phillips, the guy who made “Joker,” is back with a new “Joker” movie called “Joker: Folie à Deux.”

Then there are some non-competition movies that have awesome directors and famous actors.

Justin Timberlake‘s new song “Selfish” seems like it might be about Britney Spears. That raises a lot of interesting questions about how Timberlake understands his relationship with the “…Baby One More Time” singer two decades later. Regardless of how you interpret the song, Timberlake said it comes from a very personal album.

Justin Timberlake might be calling Britney Spears his ‘angel’ in a new song

In “Selfish,” Timberlake says he doesn’t want other men taking his place in the life of a woman he finds attractive. It sounds like he’s asking for someone back. Since Timberlake had a famous relationship with Spears, it’s hard not to interpret the song as a barely coded message to her. The track feels possessive with all the emphasis on keeping the woman away from other men.

Timberlake also refers to the object of his affections as “an angel.” Spears has...

Britney Spears wanted to save one of her songs from obscurity, and Madonna helped her do it. In her memoir, Spears elaborated on her collaboration with the Material Girl. She revealed what she thought of the song in question years later.

Britney Spears used Madonna to get her label to like 1 of her songs

In Spears’ 2023 memoir The Woman in Me, Spears recalled the creation of her album In the Zone. The “… Baby One More Time” singer said her label wanted to release another song like the track “I’m a Slave 4 U” from her previous album as a single. They were uninterested in the track “Me Against the Music,” an R&b/hip-hop hybrid that was characteristic of much of her mid-2000s output. On the other hand, Spears loved it, and she came up with an idea to make it appealing to her label.

“‘Then what if we do a feature on it?...

Harmony Korine is making his animated debut with his long-gestating “The Trap,” though without its original stars and in a whole new medium. The filmmaker was first set to reunite with “Spring Breakers” stars James Franco and Gucci Mane back in 2016 for the feature, which was then set up at Annapurna as a live-action film.

Back then, Benicio del Toro, Al Pacino, and Jamie Foxx were also attached to star in the film. The feature floundered for years, and Korine is now resurrecting the project at his multimedia design collective Edglrd. Variety first reported the news. Korine’s “The Trap” will now be an animated adventure and Edglrd is in discussions with production partners in Japan.

The film is described “as ‘Oldboy’ set through a hip-hop filter, ‘The Trap’ imagines another sun-kissed gangster saga, following an ex-con newly released from prison and deadset on revenge once he learns that his...

A24, the Oscar-winning indie studio that has become an edgy brand name unto itself, is getting a big vote of confidence — and an influx of cash.

The studio said Wednesday it has closed on an investment round led by Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Thrive invested $75 million into the indie studio based on a $3.25 billion pre-money valuation. A source close to A24 with knowledge of the investment notes that the company’s enterprise valuation now sits at $3.5 billion, suggesting this round of funding will net the company a roughly $250 million total investment.

As a part of the investment, Thrive founder Kushner will join the A24 board of directors.

The news of the A24’s new valuation and Thrive’s investment comes as the studio pushed into more commercial projects, with bigger budgets and A-list talent. There was a period, not too long ago, when...

Charli Xcx surprise-released a remix of Brat‘s “Girl, So Confusing,” her song dedicated to Lorde, alongside the “Supercut” singer herself.

Earlier on Thursday, Charli used the now-coined Brat wall to announce the collaboration, by having a pair of painters write Lorde’s name on a white wall. To say the least: the girls and gays were gagged. After the announcement, Charli posted a snippet from the song to her private 360_brat page, where Lorde can be heard singing, “Well honestly, I was speechless when I woke up to your...

Matt Dillon, Alice Diop and Karla Sofia Gascon will bring their springtime spirit to this month’s Nouvelles Vagues Film Festival, now running from June 18 – 23 in Biarritz. Launched last year with the support of Chanel, the nascent festival invites both established and emerging talents to share an expansive vision of youth, hosting a competition dedicated to young adult stories overseen by a jury all under the age of 35.

“Across all sections, this festival shines the spotlight on younger generations and celebrates young characters on screen,” says programing director Lili Hinstin. “We wanted to look to the future through the prism of the next generation, and to interrogate the questions and contemporary issues important to them.”

To that end, this sophomore edition kicked off with the world premiere of “Night Call,” a Brussels-set thriller, taking place over the course of one heated night, foisting an unsuspecting locksmith into a criminal underworld...

Julia Fox is standing up against what she sees as a smearing of her creative vision on her feature screenwriting debut “Lipstick Palm.”

Fox exclusively told IndieWire that she is “not pleased” with issues that have arisen amongst the film’s producers. Fox penned the script with Sara Apple, and told Page Six in May 2023 that she was in pre-production on the dark comedy crime feature that was “‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ meets ‘Spring Breakers.'” Fox will act in a supporting role in the film, while the lead stars have yet to be announced.

“Right now we have our cast, we have a director, but we are having some issues,” Fox told IndieWire more than one year later. “We just have some producers that can’t get on the same page, which really sucks and I would speak on it more, but if it does end up going to court,...

Good news for all of the brats out there: Charli Xcx has already dropped a deluxe version of her new album Brat. Dubbed Brat and it’s the same but there’s three more songs so it’s not, the new tracklist boasts (as you might have guessed) three new tunes from the pop star.

The three new songs of Brat and it’s the same but there’s three more songs so it’s not follow the 15 initial tracks of Brat and are titled “Hello goodbye,” “Guess,” and “Spring breakers.” Each picks right up where Brat left off, embodying Charli Xcx’s idiosyncratic approach to pop music. Notably, “Hello goodbye” sees the artist once again linking up with A. G. Cook, while “Guess” features writing credits from the likes of Dylan Brady (of 100 Gecs) and Harrison Patrick Smith (of The Dare). Stream them all below.

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