New Music, Trailers & Announcements!
Vol. 2 Issue 11 – 15th March 2025
The new new
Some notable musical releases this week:
Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco have dropped another song, Sunset Blvd from their upcoming album, I Said I Love You First, alongside its music video!
Chappell Roan’s sophomore era begins with the drop of her much-anticipated new country single, The Giver.
The sister-trio Haim’s new song, Relationships is out, the music video features actor Drew Starkey.
The trailer for Disney’s Lilo & Stitch live-action movie releasing on 23rd May is out now, while it checks the boxes on nostalgia, fans have pointed out that the design choices for Stitch have been stripped back and he doesn’t look like the same chaotic alien as the 2D animation.
Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis return in the Freakier Friday trailer, and also recreate the poster of their 2003 hit, Freaky Friday. Freakier Friday comes out on 8th August.
Brad Pitt and Damson Idris play Formula 1 drivers in F1, and the trailer just dropped for the late June release. Deemed to be THE most realistic depiction of racing in a movie, it was shot on real-life race weekends. It’s been co-produced by 7-time champion Lewis Hamilton.
Multiple Emmy-award winning Jean Smart-starrer comedy series Hacks, returns to our screens on 10th April for its 4th season, here’s what to expect:
The trailer for the final season of You is here, starts streaming on 24th April!
Season 2 of the video game adaptation The Last of Us, starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey as Joel and Ellie, returns on 13th April, here’s the trailer
Seth Rogen’s AppleTV+ comedy series, The Studio, is receiving rave reviews, debuting with a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Poking fun at the realities of a studio exec running a Hollywood studio, the show starts streaming on 26th March!
Another AppleTV+ original, Ted Lasso is officially confirmed to be back for season 4, revealing new details to keep us going until the premiere; the lead cast is returning save for Phil Dunster, who may come back only in a limited capacity due to scheduling conflicts. The season will start off in Kansas and return to the UK where Jason Sudeikis’s Ted Lasso coaches a women’s football team. The first three seasons of the show has won 13 Emmy Awards.
Oscar-winning director Bong Joon Ho’s Robert Pattinson starrer, Mickey 17 may not be a big box-office hit, but the cinephiles of the internet say the sci-fic black comedy is worth a watch. Now playing in theatres.
In other news
Stranger Things star, Sadie Sink has reportedly joined the cast of Spider-Man 4 alongside Tom Holland and Zendaya. It’s not clear if she will play Gwen Stacy, an alternate Mary Jane or the other rumoured Marvel character she has been in talks for, the X-Men’s Jean Grey.
Marvel has apparently given MCU actor baseball cards to the Russo brothers, to keep track of all the stars’ contracts, costs, and films remaining to plan the upcoming behemoth Avengers Doomsday and Secret Wars movies.
Timothee Chalamet and Kylie Jenner PDA at a tennis match went viral, fans analysing that he may not be that into her, *checks notes* ignoring her as she rubs his belly?
Robert Pattinson revealed that for his new movie with Zendaya, The Drama, he went crazy analysing a scene for 3 days, only to talk to Zendaya for 2 hours, who told him that “the line just said what it meant to say, there was no hidden meaning”. Actors.
King Charles hosted a radio special with Apple Music and called Beyonce ‘exceptional’ as he revealed his personal playlist.
Formula 1 is back, kick-starting the new season in Australia this weekend! To commemorate his new beginnings at Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton posted a video on his socials, editing himself into his favourite movie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, obviously driving a Ferrari.
Donatella Versace has stepped down as creative director of Versace, Dario Vitale steps in, the former head of design and image at Miu Miu.
Leaked set photos from Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey show Tom Holland and Jon Berthal dressed in costume, additionally local Greek media has revealed the character list.
Matt Damon as Odysseus • Tom Holland as Telemachus • Zendaya as Athena • Charlize Theron as Circe • Anne Hathaway as Penelope • Benny Safdie as Agamemnon • Lupita Nyong'o as Clytemnestra
Ariana Grande has announced the deluxe version of her album, Eternal Sunshine, along with her directorial debut, a short film, ‘Brighter Days Ahead’, accompanying the album, out on 28th March.
Saudi Arabia based company, Scopely, has acquired the gaming app, Pokemon Go for 3.5 billion dollars.
For its 20th anniversary, the 2005 adaptation of Pride & Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen and the iconic hand-flex scene, is re-releasing in theatres across the US.
After Donald Trump said he’d buy a Tesla Cybertruck in support of Elon Musk last week, now at a private Tesla car show at the White House for the President, a clip is being endlessly memed where Trump steps into one of the cars and exclaims, “wow…everything’s computer”.
New set photos from the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s Verity sees a bloody Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett.
Lady Gaga has confirmed that Telephone Part 2, sequel to her hit with Beyonce is happening. Also, her song How Bad Do U Want Me is trending for sounding like it could be a track on a Taylor Swift album. But no bad blood between the fandoms, both sides are loving it.
Paapa Essiedu has been cast as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series at HBO Max however, the fans fear this may not be the best decision as in some scenes the character is bullied by James Potter, which does not reflect well if done by a white actor to a black actor. Questions are being raised about forced diversity and if its truly necessary in some contexts.
A new Disney ride inspired by the door hangar scene in Monsters Inc. has been revealed.
The White Lotus and Severance enjoyers: Michelle Monaghan and Adam Scott join Robert De Niro in crime thriller The Whisper Man for Netflix.
The Indian cricket team won the ICC Champions Trophy against New Zealand!
Thanks for introducing me to Sunset Blvd today, I'm obsessed already. Feels like Ms.Gomez is back and ready to have a 'Sabrina Carpenter Summer'