Alec Baldwin could face prison time in fatal 'Rust' shooting, but experts say evidence may be 'problematic'

Ariana Grande has revealed the reason why she switched the cover art for her debut album ‘Yours Truly’ was because of fans bullying her.Last month, the child actor turned pop star celebrated the 10th anniversary of her debut album ‘Yours Truly’. To commemorate the milestone, she dropped ‘Yours Truly (Tenth Anniversary Edition)’ last week, which featured seven additional tracks; a Spanglish version of ‘The Way’ featuring Mac Miller and six new Live from London recordings of ‘Honeymoon Avenue’, ‘Daydreamin’’, ‘Baby I’, ‘Tattooed Heart’, ‘Right There’ and ‘The Way’.She also did two TikTok Q&A sessions, during which she answered a fan’s question where they asked why she changed the cover art for ‘Yours Truly’, to which Grande said, “Well, [the original cover]’s horrible. It’s not horrible, it is – you were right.“You guys got very angry when you saw it, I was very sad about that and I changed it.

Royal Blood have kicked off the first of their intimate live shows in Camden and played the live debut of ‘Waves’ and ‘There Goes My Cool’. Check out footage and the full setlist below.The concert took place at the Electric Ballroom in Camden, London last night (August 31) and was the first of a handful of intimate shows that the duo are playing to celebrate the release of their new album ‘Back To The Water Below’.Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher began the set with a rendition of ‘Out Of The Black’, the first track off their self-titled 2014 album, with the latter opening the show by standing in the crowd and then making his way onto the stage.From there, the Brighton duo brought out various fan favourites ‘Figure It Out’, ‘Little Monster’ and ‘Trouble’s Coming’, as well as a variety of newer tracks taken from their new album.The tracks from the new LP, which was released today (September 1), included ‘Shiner In The Dark’ and ‘Mountains At Midnight’, although the highlight of the night came in the latter half of their set when they performed the back-to-back live debuts of two new songs.A post shared by NME (@nmemagazine)After wrapping up another one of their 2014 tracks, ‘Loose Change’, the duo then treated the London audience to the first-ever performance of the mellow song ‘There Goes My Cool’, with stripped-back orange lighting and Kerr performing the first half of the song sat behind a keyboard.From there they immediately launched into another live debut from their new album, performing the more intense closing track ‘Waves’ for the first time, a day ahead of the album’s release.

YouTube’s Director of Black Music & Culture and the founder of Spotify’s Rap Caviar playlist, has spoken to NME about hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, YouTube’s new FIFTY DEEP programme and why Soulja Boy deserves his props as an innovator of “youth culture.”The Congolese-American’s career has been heavily intertwined with the genre. Earlier in his life, he helped programme hip-hop music on BET – where shows like Rap City earned the network huge ratings, VJed on MTV in the early ‘00s, and even worked with rap mogul Diddy for three years at Bad Boy Records.One of his biggest feats, however, is creating the popular Rap Caviar playlist for Spotify: now the most-followed rap playlist on the streaming platform and meant to represent the creme de la creme of all things hip-hop.“I didn’t pitch it necessarily,” Basa said, explaining how Rap Caviar came about.

Blink-182 have announced that they are cancelling a number of their upcoming shows in the UK and Ireland due to “an urgent family matter”.The run of UK tour dates was due to kick off today (September 1) with a show in Glasgow’s OVO Hydro, and see them later play in Belfast and Dublin next week (September 4 -5). However, according to a new update on the band’s X/Twitter page, all upcoming September tour dates will now be rescheduled as drummer Travis Barker has been forced to return home.“Due to an urgent family matter, Travis has had to return home to the States,” the post read.

Adam Driver hit out at streaming services like Amazon and Netflix as he promoted his film “Ferrari” at Venice Film Festival on Thursday.

Justin Timberlake and Timbaland have been announced as the new music curators for ESPN’s Monday Night Football.Earlier this week, ESPN unveiled their partnership with Timberland and Timberlake to curate music for select Monday Night Football games throughout the 2023-24 NFL season. The music selected will be played during promotional spots, live telecasts and pregame shows over a seven-week period.Timbaland, Timberlake and fellow ’00s pop star Nelly Furtado‘s new collaboration ‘Keep Going Up‘ will be used in a week one promotional spot.

Barbie and Oppenheimer don’t live up to Russia’s values and shouldn’t be screened in the country, its Deputy Culture Minister has said.Andrei Malyshev rejected a request by vice-speaker of Russia’s parliament, Vladislav Davankov, who’d written to officials asking them to launch a pilot scheme where cinemas could show popular new releases.The TASS news agency [via Politico] reported yesterday (August 31) that Malyshev rejected the appeal based on his preferences for movies and which content he believes the Russian people value. The West has boycotted Russia since it launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, meaning that new Western films are not currently shown in the country.Davankov had lobbied the Russian government to allow bootleg screenings despite the Hollywood embargo.Malyshev wrote: “We believe that the films you have proposed for viewing by the citizens of our country – Barbie and Oppenheimer – do not meet the aims and objectives set out by the head of state, to preserve and strengthen traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.”Instead, Malyshev believes that Russians get suitable entertainment and information from domestic productions including animated children’s film Cheburashka and The Challenge, a Russian state-backed film shot on the International Space Station.According to the minister, making up for the lack of foreign content in the wake of Western firms’ exit from the country has stimulated the country’s own industry.

Little Nightmares 3 has responded to fan feedback and will include a co-op mode, however, it is only available through online play.Bandai Namco Europe producer Coralie Feniello and Supermassive Games director Wayne Garland explained the design decision in an interview with Games Radar. While the first two titles in the creepy series were developed by Tarsier Studios, the team behind Until Dawn and The Dark Pictures Anthology is taking the reins on this one.“Co-op was the most requested feature from our fans, so it was really important for us to give them that,” rationalised Feniello, explaining that the shared odyssey through Little Nightmares 3‘s Necropolis will “add a layer to the game” that is unlike the others.“But at the same time, we really want the player to experience it as they want.

Timbaland, Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado have teamed up again, 16 years after ‘Give It To Me’ with ‘Keep Going Up’.The new Timbaland single – which features Timberlake and Furtado as guest vocalists – marks the Grammy-winning producer’s first official solo single in more than eight years. It’s also his artist debut under the partnership between his own Mosley Music Group and Def Jam Recordings.‘Keep Going Up’ is a sprightly new single that’s typical of Timbaland’s signature rhythm-focused and rich R&B production.

Roxie Nafousi recalled a scary hospital dash with her fans in a recent Instagram post.The self development coach and speaker, 33, opened up on her health scare in a lengthy personal post on her public page. She revealed: "The night before I flew to Ibiza, I found myself in the back of an ambulance heading to A&E after suffering a Hempilegic Migraine which mimics the symptoms of a stroke.

Alec Baldwin is still facing an uphill battle over Rust.

Hilaria Baldwin took a trip down memory lane to honor her eldest daughter on her 10th birthday.The 39-year-old took to Instagram on Wednesday and posted a sweet video of Carmen over the years — from the moment after doctors brought Carmen into her arms to Carmen welcoming her siblings. One of the cutest videos included a snippet of Carmen getting a kick out of seeing her reflection in a mirror. A tiny Carmen could be seen striking various poses.Hilaria also posted a photo of her twinning with her little one in all-black attire, as well as a sweet family photo of them all sitting on the floor in front of the children's bunk beds.Happy 10th birthday to our Carmen," Hilaria captioned the post.

Facing a potential refiling of criminal charges in the fatal 2021 shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, Alec Baldwin on Wednesday failed in an attempt to have a civil case over the tragedy dismissed.

Special prosecutors have not decided whether criminal charges will be refiled against Alec Baldwin in the fatal 2021 shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, but the actor this week is trying to stop crew members from the indie Western from taking him to court.

Robert De Niro's 80th birthday party! The celebrated actor commemorated his milestone birthday with a celebration that brought together some of the biggest names in showbusiness.The man of the hour held his blow-out bash at Locanda Verde, a high-end Italian restaurant in the Tribeca neighborhood in New York City.De Niro was joined by his girlfriend, Tiffany Chen, and their 4-month-old daughter, Gia, as well as a slew of his famous friends and past and present co-stars.The pair dressed casual for the festivities, with De Niro rocking a charcoal blazer over a tan polo and black jeans, while Chen work a white v-neck top and a white sweater along with grey sweats and white sneakers.Although, after a Hollywood career that has spanned over 57 years and includes some of the most iconic roles of any living actor, De Niro has made life-long friendships with some of the most well-respected and influential figures in American pop culture.And, since you only turn 80 once, basically all of them came out to show the two-time Oscar winner some love.De Niro's longtime collaborator and close friend Martin Scorsese was among the slew of A-listers who turned up for the big night, as did a few of Hollywood's other iconic directors, including director Francis Ford Coppola and creator George Lucas — the latter of whom was mobbed by autograph-seeking fans.The guest list also included Uma Thurman and her father, Robert Thurman, as well as Leslie Bibb, Sam Rockwell, and Christopher Walken.

It turns out Alec Baldwin could be facing charges in the case of the Rust shooting after all.

The Los Angeles judge is the lawsuit filed by Rust gaffer Serge Svetnoy said today that he agrees with the lawyers for armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed that she should be dropped as a defendant on jurisdictional grounds.

Alec Baldwin could be facing charges once more in the fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

A new report overseeing the fatal shooting on the Rust movie set appears to cast doubt on Alec Baldwin’s accounts of the incident.

Alec Baldwin’s involvement in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his Western film, “Rust”, is once again being called into question.

Alec Baldwin's involvement in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his Western film,, is once again being called into question.In April, involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin were dropped by the New Mexico District Attorney. Baldwin pleaded not guilty to the charges and has repeatedly insisted he did not pull the trigger on the gun, which discharged a live round and fatally wounded Hutchins, and injured director Joel Souza.The film's armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, also was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter.