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Drummer Zak Starkey, son of Ringo Starr and formerly with The Who, has announced a new single.
Under the name Masters of the Cosmos, he’s posted a clip from “Rip Off,” featuring vocals by Sean Ono Lennon and James McCartney.
Zak says it sounds nothing like the Beatles, but it does because who else was it going to sound like? It’s the Beatles 2.0 and Zak, we’ll take it.
Says the proficient drummer: “It’s like Mantra of the Cosmos with them in it. It’s Sean of the Cosmos and James of the Cosmos, it’s still my band.”
This may be a one off thing. Sean and James have collaborated on a couple of songs earlier. All they need now is Dhani Harrison and Julian Lennon, and we’re all set.
“Don’t Make Me Over: Dionne Warwick in Her Own Words” is a surprise booking at the Apollo set for June 27th.
Tickets just went on sale at the Apollo website.
How lucky are we? Dionne, a very youthful, 84, is a Living Legend, and we haven’t seen her in New York a long time. I’ve had the chance to hear her at private events, and she is better than ever. Amazing! Her voice has actually gotten less husky and more silky in her later years. When she sings “Heartbreaker” it’s pure gold! And let’s not forget her parade of hits like “Walk on By,” “Always Something There to Remind Me,” and “I Say a Little Prayer.”
The show is said to be a combination of live performance of songs, and talking about her life and career.
The 19 year old was missing from a picture posted by evil daughter in law Lara Trump from a birthday photo taken yesterday of Donald and his brood. It’s also Father’s Day, Barron.
In the picture: the Brothers Karamazov Don Jr and Eric, Lara, Don’s girlfriend Bettina Anderson (she’s the one with the teeth sharper than Mack the Knife), and even Tiffany and husband. No Ivanka and Jared, because they stay as far away as possible to avoid becoming Super Pariahs. They are already Regular Pariahs.
Barron was also missing from viewing the ‘perade’ yesterday even though his mother, Melania, or her double, was forced to sit through the spectacle in rain and high humidity. Eric was also there, although his eyes were abnormally vacant.
If Barron isn’t with Melania, where is he? Alone in Trump Tower? Locked up in Bedminster? With his fictitious girlfriend?
Now that Barron has finished the school year it’s worth asking why he was almost never seen on campus or in class. There wasn’t a peep about him on social media. It’s not possible. Did he even attend class in person?
Maybe Barron was home, turning his computer on and off.
Just ask HBO. They’ve been dragon the line for years with “Game of Thrones” and “House of the Dragon” (the latter is not a Chinese restaurant).
So Universal’s live action reboot of “How to Train Your Dragon” went through the roof this weekend. Total $83 million. Should hit $100 million by mid week. Sequels being written now.
“Dragon” doesn’t have any stars except Gerard Butler. Everyone else, no one’s heard of. Mason Thames? Hello?
But it’s those titled creatures. Played right, they bring in the eyes. And cash. God bless. You’d think there would be a union for them by now. (Why am I sounding like Cindy Adams right now?)
Not dancing is the John Wick movie “Ballerina.” The poor thing attempted a jeté and fell flat. Ouch! No more twirls despite Ana de Armas being pawned off as Tom Cruise’s girlfriend in tabloids. Totals fell 63% from last week. Maybe modern dance was the way to go.
Elsewhere, “The Materialists” made $12 million, third highest opening for A24. But now what? Audience score fell to 69% on Rotten Tomatoes. People are liking it less once they see it. Doesn’t bode well. This is one we’ll be keeping an eye on.
This coming week: “28 Years Later,” from Danny Boyle and Alex Garland. Big cast including the probable next James Bond, Aaron Taylor Johnson. This should be a big opening weekend if Sony Pictures plays it right. And for Sony, no Spider Man involved is a big deal!
UPDATED MONDAY 6/16: “Type Dangerous” sold 5,000 downloads and around 20,000 streaming equivalent copies.
The danger was not apparent.
Mariah Carey’s new single, “Type Dangerous,” won’t be making enough money to buy songstress a New York cab ride.
After one week, “Type Dangerous” has sold the equivalent of 16,000 copies via streaming. That’s just 2.4 million streams.
After a few hours at number 1 on iTunes thanks to fan manipulation, “Dangerous” has dropped to number 77. By morning it should be gone from the top 100.
“Type Dangerous” has never appeared on the Apple Streaming top 100 songs either.
Right now, Luminate says she only sold 26 copies total. I think that’s 2,600 which would include downloads. Anyway, it’s nothing.
It just came and went.
“Type Dangerous” (I don’t know why it’s just not called “Dangerous”) is based almost entirely on rap song from eons ago by Eric B. & Rakim called “Eric B is President.” I hope Eric B and Rakim made some money. But there are 8 credited songwriters on the Mariah version.
If “Dangerous” is indicative of what Mariah’s planning for an album, she should stop now. It’s a waste of time and money. Mariah, call a decent producer and make an album of classics that show off your voice. Who does she think these records are for? Not teenagers. Her crowd is 50 plus. Do a Natalie Cole “Unforgettable.” That’s what the audience wants. Stop sampling!
It’s the Final Reckoning for “Mission Impossible.”
Despite a $400 mil budget — at least — and a dizzying amount of promotion, the last “MI” movie will not wind up the biggest hit.
“Final Reckoning” looks like it will come in at number 5 of the 8 movies.
Right now, box office is at $158 million and in decline. “FR” would have to make another $20 million to move up on the list to number 4.
The lowest box office for “MI” was the third installment, back in 2006. That one earned just $133 million.
Only three of the films broke the $200 million mark, with a fourth — “Rogue Nation” — coming close at $195 million. The big ones are “Fallout,” “Ghost Protocol,” and the 2nd chapter which had no subtitle.
So, a another “MI” under the present regime? Unlikely. I’ll be there will be five years before a reboot.
Meantime, there’s a cool documentary on Vimeo about “Mission Impossible” composer Lalo Schifrin. He’s still very much alive. Schifrin wrote the famous “MI” theme, a lot of others including the classic theme for “Mannix.” (We never did figure out how the “MI” theme got licensed to Etsy last year!)
A24 is one of the best branded film companies ever.
Indeed, their branding has been so effective that they managed to get an Oscar for Best Picture for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” a movie no one in the Academy liked.
But can their unique marketing overcome audience apathy?
Their new release, “The Materialists,” has debuted with a $5.1 million opening including previews. Critics love it. But there’s a hitch.
Despite a strong cast — Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, Chris Evans — “The Materialists” has earned a B minus Cinemascore. On Rotten Tomatoes, the audience rating is just 71%. Clearly, people who saw it didn’t like it when asked upon exit.
Going, audiences were probably coming based on director Celine Song. Her “Past Lives” was wonderful, a true indie hit, charming as ever. “Past Lives” got an Oscar nomination and many others, as well. It was one of those left field hits no one could predict.
But “The Materialists” may be immaterial. Box office experts will be watching receipts tonight and tomorrow to see if A24 can overcome poor word of mouth from regular people.
Donald Trump appeals to his base because he’s illiterate.
Proof: he can’t spell the word ‘parade.’ See below. This morning he posted to Truth Social and made it ‘perade’ with an e.
It’s not the first time Trump has misspelled words in his posts. It’s not like spell correct did it, either.
Trump may think a rainy parade is fun, but it won’t be for all the soldiers marching for his birthday — many against their wishes. Not only is rain expected but the humidity is 75%. Imagine marching in those conditions for no reason. This is Trump not caring about the military at all. They’ll be soaked inside and out. Trump, however, will be in AC. Otherwise, his makeup will run!
UPDATED It’s not clear who showed up last night for the one night only screening of Miley Cyrus’s “Something Beautiful.”
Trafalgar Releasing has not reported box office numbers.
It couldn’t heve been good. The album, “Something Beautiful” has turned into something awful for Miley.
In its second week, “Something Beautiful” has sunk to number 25 on iTunes and 21 on amazon. Total sales are only 77,000 according to Luminate.
All the singles from the album have disappeared, too. That includes songs that should have been hits like “More to Love,” and “Easy Lover.”
But things are even worse. The album does not appear at all on the HitsDailyDouble.com Top 50. The magazine had a projection of 12k with 4k of those CDs and downloads, down 85% from the first week. Projected streams were 9.7 million, down from 21 million last week. But it wasn’t published because Columbia didn’t confirm.
Columbia did confirm 44,274 for Addison Rae, so we know they’re at leave alive.
It’s not like “Something Beautiful” is a bad album. There’s just been a total miscommunication in the marketing.
What happened? Miley squandered her incredible success from the song, “Flowers.” Like Katy Perry, she either insulated herself from reality or just has poor management. Her mother is her manager, which may explain a lot.
What a shame. She coulda been a contendah. Her YouTube release of singing “More to Lost” just with a piano is pure gold.
Miley has also said she doesn’t want to big tours anymore. I guess she’s made good investments from past work. Because without hit records, her income would be touring. She and Dolly Parton should do a limited tour — “sit downs” in four or five cities. They’d sell out like crazy!
