Following the shocking death of Prince, both AMC Theatres and Carmike Cinemas have announced that they have worked together with the Warner Bros. Pictures distribution team to bring Purple Rain back to theaters. The movie theater chains will begin limited screenings of Purple Rain on Saturday, April 23 and they will continue through Thursday, April 29. We […]
Prince Rogers Nelson, the artist known as Prince, who pioneered “the Minneapolis sound” and took on the music industry in his fight for creative freedom, has died, according to a family member reached by CNN. Police are investigating a death at the estate of superstar Prince in Carver County, Minnesota known as Paisley Park studios, […]
Country legend Merle Haggard has died, the Associated Press reports, according to confirmation from the singer-songwriter’s manager, Frank Mull. Today is Haggard’s 79 birthday. Mull said Haggard died in Palo Cedro, Calif., of pneumonia. He had kept up an ambitious touring schedule, but the pneumonia in both lungs had forced him to cancel several shows […]
On this fine first day of April, Disney•Pixar has released a new Finding Dory video that makes a startling revelation about their “newest” octopus character Hank. Apparently, Hank has been Pixar’s most recurring Easter Egg in all their movies since the first Toy Story! Don’t believe us? Check out the video below featuring Ed O’Neill […]
After its first year of service, streaming music site Tidal has announced that it has reached three million paid subscribers — a figure far below the last known numbers from rivals Apple Music and Spotify. Apple’s streaming service, which kicked off nine months ago but only began charging users a $10 per month fee for […]
After his extensive work in the DC Universe, including the recent Zack Snyder-directed Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, composer Hans Zimmer has announced to the BBC that he is retiring from doing music for superhero movies. “I did ‘Batman Begins’ with Chris [Nolan] 12 years ago, so ‘The Dark Knight Trilogy’ might be three movies […]
SoundCloud has launched its long-rumored subscription music service in the United States. Called SoundCloud Go, it will provide streaming music to its users from major established artists as well as those hosted on the service, after making licensing deals with major distributors including UMG, Sony, Merlin, and Warner, with streams offered without any advertising, and […]
Apple has updated the Apple Music app for Android, with the principle feature of offering a home-screen widget to allow for playback control without opening the full app. Similar in nature to the lock-screen controls when iTunes is playing, the Android widget allows users to pause, skip back a track, skip forward a track, mark […]
Paul McCartney is taking part in additional shooting on the fifth film in Walt Disney Pictures‘ lucrative series, with an all-new set piece added specifically to showcase his character, per Deadline. While there’s no official indication of who McCartney is playing, it is no doubt a play on Jack Sparrow’s poppa having been played […]
Music streaming service Spotify has struck “landmark industry agreement” with the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) for royalty payments. The deal establishes a large bonus compensation fund that is a substantial percentage of what is currently being held by Spotify for unmatched royalties, and creates a better path forward for finding the owners of publishing […]
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