Review: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - Marvel's new signing impresses

Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale's oldest son Kingston is growing up fast, and is being likened more and more to his famous father.MORE: Gwen Stefani wows in sheer dress for long-awaited announcementThe teenager paid a sweet tribute to his dad over the weekend after sharing a fan's side-by-side image featuring pictures of Kingston and Gavin – showing just how much they look alike.The Bush frontman was the first to re-post the image on Instagram Stories, and his son followed suit. Kingston and his brothers Zuma and Apollo are mainly kept out of the spotlight, but being the oldest and with a public Instagram profile, the teen occasionally shares photos of his famous parents online.VIDEO: Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton give rare insight into family lifeKingston is also showing signs that he will be following in his parents' footsteps with his passion for music and performing.MORE: Gwen Stefani fans can't believe their eyes with stunning childhood photosMORE: Gwen Stefani shares glimpse of incredible party celebrating latest family milestoneKingston, Zuma and Apollo split their time between their mom and dad's homes, and during the beginning of the pandemic at the beginning of 2020, they spent a lot of time in Oklahoma with their mom and stepdad Blake Shelton.Gavin missed his children a lot while they were away, and even took part in some Instagram Lives with Kingston during their time apart – much to the delight of fans.

Kanye West’s new album, ‘DONDA 2’ has been ruled ineligible for inclusion in the Billboard charts.As West, who is now officially known as ‘ye’, decided to sell his album exclusively via his Stem Player device, it violates Billboard’s merchandise bundle policy. As per an article in Billboard, albums sold with merchandise are ineligible for inclusion.The album – West’s 11th, and a direct follow-up to last year’s ‘Donda’ – is only available exclusively via the platform and unique to the $200 (£150) device made by the rapper’s Yeezy Tech enterprise.Four songs from the record – ‘Security’, ‘Pablo’, ‘Broken Road’ and ‘We Did It Kid’ – were made available to Stem Player owners on Wednesday (February 23), following a listening party and live performance in Miami the night prior.

Volcano director Roman Bondarchuk, Valentyn Vasyanovych (Atlantis) and Nariman Aliev (Homeward) explaining their reasoning.“Ukrainians are defending their freedom and right to exist,” Bondarchuk recently said in a statement obtained by The Guardian, while also criticising opera singer Anna Netrebko who cancelled performances at the Met in New York.“We need help. It is necessary to limit the influence of Russian culture in the world.

BBC Music Introducing Uploader. Submissions are open until 11.59pm on Saturday 12 March, after which the tracks will be reviewed by a panel of industry experts.The panel will include Introducing alumni artists as well as Radio 1 and Introducing DJs and producers, who together will select the top five best tracks and the eventual winner.It will mark the second year the competition has been held.

Shania Twain surprised fans with a rare sight on her social media when she shared pictures from a fun night out she had recently.MORE: Shania Twain highlights incredible figure in daring bodysuitJoining her was her husband Frédéric Thiébaud, who rarely makes appearances on her social media, last appearing months ago in 2021.WATCH: Shania Twain films inside beautiful bedroomThe two looked engrossed in a match they were watching, with the songstress revealing that they were at a UFC match for the night. Shania wore a pink plaid button down with a white jacket, a pair of jeans, and an ICON baseball cap.She even added pictures of more of her friends, including fellow country star Zac Brown, who were also at the event, with her captioning the shots: "Night out with my best boys."MORE: Shania Twain displays endless legs in tiny feathered dress – fans go wild!Fans inundated the comments section with heart and flame emojis, with many even deeming her an "icon" and one writing: "I'm here for a Zac Brown Band/Shania Twain collab," a sentiment many others shared as well."Yes my queen you are an icon," another said, with a third similarly adding: "Icon wearing an icon hat we love it." The couple spent the night ringsideWhile Shania and Swiss Nestlé executive Frédéric rarely appear on social media together, they do share a loving relationship, often splitting their time between her homes in Canada and Switzerland, also owning properties in The Bahamas and Las Vegas.She and Frédéric got together in 2010 after her divorce from first husband Robert "Mutt" Lange amid an affair with Frédéric's ex-wife.

Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan have clearly been having fun since jetting off to Los Angeles in the US recently. The pair, who recently became an aunt and uncle, were pictured on a boozy night out with friends. Mark, 35, had previously shared photos of himself and Michelle, 34, travelling on a British Airways flight to the US, tucking into a Sunday dinner and glass of scotch.

Scarlett Moffatt and her boyfriend Scott Dobinson have been busy building their incredible new home for the past year. And the 31 year old reality TV star even created an Instagram page called Our Bonnie Barn so her 120,000 followers could follow all the impressive updates as she renovated the new property. The brunette beauty moved into the four bed property in June last year, and she enlisted the help of uber chic interior designer Rebecca Taylor to help her achieve her dream home.

Jon Burlingame editorMichael Giacchino’s dark symphony for “The Batman” — from his brooding theme for Bruce Wayne to children’s choir for the Riddler and noirish stylings for Catwoman — is the year’s most talked-about score and among his most ambitious yet.When Warner’s WaterTower label released a “Batman” track in late January, it racked up an astounding 2.3 million views on YouTube — the highest global streaming engagement the label had ever seen for pre-release from a score album. And interest has only grown in the weeks since the subsequent teasings of more Giacchino music and Friday’s release of the movie.“Michael brought soul, he brought dread, he brought all of the emotional and atmospheric undercurrents that a movie like this requires,” director Matt Reeves tells Variety.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterAmazon Prime Video is in talks to pickup a “God of War” live-action TV series adaptation from Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions, Variety has learned.No deal has closed yet for the project based on the popular Santa Monica Studio-produced PlayStation game. The potential series hails from “The Expanse” creators Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby and “The Wheel of Time” showrunner Rafe Judkins.Per PlayStation’s officially description for “God of War,” “Staring with the release of ‘God of War’ in 2005 on PlayStation 2, Santa Monica Studio has created seven games across multiple platforms.

crushed Labor Day weekend box office records by racking $140 million, brings MCU’s first Asian superhero. Despite his doubters, as well as those who decried Disney for weak promotion, the Canadian actor, stuntman and expert martial artist never stopped believing.

Simu Liu, starring in Marvel's latest blockbuster,, called for some unexpected training.In this sneak peek from the upcoming episode of E!'s, Liu reveals — as part of a trivia question — exactly what it took to prepare for the action epic.«As some of you may or may not know, I was recently in a little Marvel movie, no big deal,» begins Liu, who is joined by his friend, producer and entrepreneur Kelly Mi Li. «To prepare for that role, to be a Marvel super hero, I had to train in the fine art of Is it stunt driving, is it parkour, or is it stripping?»Hosts Kevin Hart and wife Eniko give the episode's contestants some time to mull it over.

Shang-Chi isn't just a part of Marvel's cinematic universe now. Following his superhero origin story — which saw him content mythical dragons and soul-sucking kaiju, underground fight clubs, assassins with knives for hands and his dad — Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) is told, in so many words, that's he's part of a bigger universe.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterMarvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” capped off Labor Day weekend at the box office with a bang. The superhero action adventure, starring Canadian actor Simu Liu, had an even bigger debut than expected, collecting $90 million in its first four days of release and setting a new high watermark for the holiday weekend.Since Labor Day is traditionally a slow weekend at the box office, the film’s three day total of $75.5 million from 4,300 theaters blew past previous the record set by 2007’s “Halloween” and its $30.6 million start.

Shang-Chi And The Legend Of Ten Rings and its unprecedented representation of Asian talent in a comic book blockbuster.The new Marvel movie opened in cinemas on Friday (September 3) and is the first from the studio to centre around an Asian lead.Posting on Instagram on Friday, Liu shared an illustrated image of a still from the film and two young Asian children looking up at it.

Director Destin Daniel Cretton isn’t necessarily the first name you’d think about when imagining filmmakers who would make the big leap from indies to superhero features. However, with “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” Cretton is the latest young filmmaker snatched up by Marvel Studios to helm a $200 million blockbuster.

After all the hype from the Marvel Studios marketing machine, it’s finally time for the world to be introduced to “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.” It’s been a little while since Marvel introduced a new character in a feature film (“Captain Marvel” back in 2019), and the studio is hoping people fall in love with Simu Liu and the Master of Kung-fu.

star Simu Liu, «and whether or not there's a post-credit sequence, that's up to fans to discover for themselves when they watch the movie in theaters on September 3.»What with this being a Marvel movie — and not just any MCU movie, but the first big indicator of Phase 4 on the big screen — there is, of course, a post-credits scene. Two, in fact.

, Marvel's new joint ushering the Master of Kung Fu from the comics into the MCU: Of the months of training star Simu Liu took on to master those martial arts and look the part of a Marvel superhero. Of the long weeks spent shooting even one of the set pieces, with much of the stunt work done by the cast themselves.

Much like Disney/Marvel’s 2018 mega blockbuster and Oscar-winning feature Black Panther was a breakthrough for diversity on the big screen, the studios continue to shine with that this coming weekend with Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings, in what is the first Hollywood Asian-American superhero movie.

Awkwafina in your project, you know you're going to come out on the other end with a happy bestie-ship between her character and someone else. In, that someone is Shang-Chi himself, with Awkwafina as his best friend, faithful fellow slacker and would-be hero, Katy.«Aww, man.

Simu Liu couldn't have a bigger entrée into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as the historic leading man of its latest globe-trotting, world-saving blockbuster, But his first time stepping foot onset of a major Hollywood franchise film actually came years prior, as an aspiring actor working as an extra on the superhero-adjacent .That, however, came after a short-lived stint as an accountant. Having graduated from college with a degree in business administration, Liu found himself working at Deloitte in his early 20s.