Jussie Smollett Set for Directorial Debut With ‘B-Boy Blues’ Adaptation

BandLab NME Awards 2022 award winners Bring Me The Horizon are due to stage their own festival in Malta in May – an event they’ve said will be “like Fyre Festival but with better sandwiches”.The Sheffield band were speaking to NME from the winner’s room after picking up the trophy for Best Band From The UK Supported By Pizza Express.Bring Me’s Malta festival, announced last November, will take place from May 26-30 and feature a full live show and an exclusive retrospective set from the band.Discussing what to expect from the event, drummer Mat Nicholls promised “bingo with Jordan Fish [BMTH keys player]. It’s called ‘Bringo’.”“It’s like Fyre Festival but with better sandwiches,” frontman Oli Sykes added.The festival’s line-up, handpicked by the band, includes Bullet For My Valentine, Beartooth, PVRIS, Motionless In White, Spiritbox, Nova Twins and Wargasm.There will also be a host of club nights, pool party takeovers and boat parties.

Robert Pattinson is getting candid about going shirtless.

Life Is Beautiful returned last year with headliners Tame Impala, Green Day and Billie Eilish.During the festival, Eilish used her time on stage to debut three tracks from her album ‘Happier Than Ever’ for the first time, and told the crowd it felt like “a dream I’ve had many, many times in the last year… I can’t tell you how excited I am to be with you guys and to see all of your beautiful faces.”You can see NME’s photos from the 2021 festival here.

Bring Me The Horizon closed the BandLab NME Awards 2022 tonight (March 2) with a storming six-song set which the band dedicated to the people of Ukraine.Taking to the O2 Academy Brixton stage for their ceremony-ending set, BMTH, who were proudly displaying the Ukrainian flag on their bass drum skin, launched into ‘Can You Feel My Heart’.They then played ‘Parasite Eve’ (where they were joined by two dancers in yellow hazmat suits), ‘Die4U’, ‘Mantra’ and ‘1×1’, which they performed with help from Nova Twins.Prior to their set-closing track ‘Throne’, BMTH frontman Oli Sykes paid tribute to the Ukrainian people following last week’s Russian invasion.“I guess it’s better being here in a room full of influential people: they need to use their voice every single day until this crisis is over,” he told the room.“If Kyiv does not survive, international peace will not survive,” he added, before the band tore into ‘Throne’.Earlier in the night, the Sheffield five-piece collected the award for Best Band From The UK Supported By Pizza Express. Elsewhere, the likes of Sam Fender, Lorde, Fontaines D.C.

Bobby Gillespie has won Best Music Book at the BandLab NME Awards 2022 this evening (March 2) for Tenement Kid.The Primal Scream frontman’s memoir beat music books by Dave Grohl (The Storyteller: Tales Of Life And Music), Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast (Crying In H Mart), Questlove (Music Is History) and Paul McCartney (The Lyrics) for the win.“I’m very pleased and honoured to receive the Best Music Book award,” said Bobby. “Thank you NME!”Published October 21, Tenement Kid tells Gillespie’s story up until the creation of Primal Scream’s classic album ‘Screamadelica’.In 2007, Primal Scream were crowned Godlike Genius at the NME Awards.

Bob Odenkirk revealed he was in a "financial hole" and bankrupt before he was offered a role on "Breaking Bad." Odenkirk opened up about his financial issues during a recent interview on Howard Stern's SiriusXM show. "Yes, I was. Which was crazy," Odenkirk responded when Stern brought up his bankruptcy.

Ryan Reynolds has Ukraine in his thoughts.

Marvel universe on Disney's streaming service. (It appears that Disney+ is collecting Marvel titles like infinity stones — just for a more benevolent purpose than Thanos.)Sign Up for Disney+Slowly integrating Marvel shows and movies to Disney+ makes it easier for fans to catch up with their favorite characters on one streaming service.

The Songwriters Hall of Fame will celebrate this year’s Oscar-nominated songwriters with an all-star virtual event, A Conversation with 2022 Oscar-Nominated Songwriters for Best Original Song, to be presented on March 3, 2022 at 5 pm Pacific time.

The original Viper Room is fading to black.

Tiffany Haddish-fronted murder mystery comedy The Afterparty will be back for a second case.

Pamela Anderson, 54, is getting ready to speak her truth in a new Netlix documentary about her life. The streaming network announced the news in a tweet on March 2, just one month after Hulu’s premiere of Pam & Tommy, the series centered on her and her ex-husband Tommy Lee‘s sex tape scandal, which erupted in 1995.

It could happen to anyone? Pat Sajak spoke out after Wheel of Fortune viewers criticized contestants who repeatedly failed to solve a recent puzzle.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was heard chastising students at the University of South Florida, before giving a speech on Wednesday March 2. The 43-year-old Republican made his aversion to face masks, used to protect against the COVID-19 virus, known as he approached the podium. He reprimanded the students who were standing behind him for wearing face masks, and asked them to take them off.

Kim Kardashian, 41, gave an update on how her four kids are doing as she and their father Kanye West settle their divorce in court. During her hearing, the judge asked the SKIMS founder how North, 8, Saint, 6, and Chicago, 4, and Psalm, 2 were doing, to which she responded, “Everyone is doing OK.”  She shared that she “absolutely” has been “showering them with affection and that life with her little ones is “so much fun.” While she noted that raising four children can be “a lot,” she declared that it’s “the best.”

Britney Spears, 40, and fiancé Sam Asghari continue to enjoy their island getaway vacation for Sam’s 28th birthday, and this time, Brit is sharing a creatively edited, fun, and sexy video documenting their time together. In the video, shared with her over 39 million Instagram fans, the “Toxic” singer showed gorgeous views of the undisclosed tropical locale, plus clips of herself lying in a cute dress by a water fountain, rolling around on the beach topless, going horseback riding, and playing with their new adorable white Australian shepherd puppy, Sawyer!

Katie Meyer, 22, the goaltender for the Stanford women’s soccer team, has tragically passed away in a campus residence, reported the New York Post. “Katie was extraordinarily committed to everything and everyone in her world,” Stanford vice provost for student affairs Susie Brubaker-Cole and athletic director Bernard Muir said in a message on the university’s communications site, not revealing the cause of death.

Selome Hailu The mystery continues.Apple TV Plus announced that “The Afterparty” has been renewed for a second season. Tiffany Haddish is confirmed to return in the role of Detective Danner.The series, which hails from Chris Miller and Phil Lord, is a comedic murder mystery where each episode is told in a different genre and from a different character’s perspective. For example, Episode 1 is styled like a romantic comedy, as it follows the narrative of escape room designer Aniq (Sam Richardson), whose primary goal is to reconnect to his high school crush Zoë (Zoë Chao).

Jussie Smollett is preparing his feature directorial debut with B-Boy Blues, an adaptation of James Earl Hardy's classic 1994 novel. The film will go into production on Oct.

Controversial actor Jussie Smollett is making the leap to behind the camera, making his directorial debut on a film that starts shooting this weekend.Smollett, 38, is attached to direct an adaptation of James Earl Hardy's 1994 novel B-Boy Blues, according to The Hollywood Reporter.While there is no word if Smollett is planning on starring in the film himself, production is slated to begin October 17 in New York City.

Anthony D'Alessandro, Amanda N'Duka EXCLUSIVE: The former Empire star is directing B-Boy Blues, an adaptation of James Earl Hardy’s best-selling 1994 book and will produce through his newly launched SuperMassive Movies.B-Boy Blues follows the tumultuous relationship between Mitchell Crawford, a 27-year old journalist, and Raheim Rivers, a 21-year old bicycle messenger and B-boy (banjee boy). They meet in a gay bar in Greenwich Village in the summer of 1993.