The Devil Wears Prada Two Opens on Met Gala Week
Disney engineered the year's tightest fashion-calendar collision — a sequel twenty years late lands four days before Met Gala Monday, and the marketing math is the story.
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Lionsgate's Michael Sequel Comes With the Jackson Estate as an Equity Shareholder
The estate paid fifteen million in reshoots to keep Chandler out of the cut and got equity in the sequel — May 13 is when Lionsgate has to put that line on the balance sheet.
The Met Gala Returns Monday With Beyoncé, Kidman, Williams and a Costume-Art Theme
Co-chairs Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour open the Costume Institute's Costume Art exhibition Monday at 6 p.m.; the dress code is Fashion Is Art.
Eurovision Vienna Loses Five Countries and Prints the Smallest Field Since 2003
Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Spain have walked out over Israel's inclusion; the 70th Eurovision arrives in Vienna with 35 countries on the call sheet.
David Allan Coe Dies at 86 on the Day His Quitting Anthem Circulates as Labor Music
The outlaw who wrote 'Take This Job and Shove It' died Wednesday in ICU; his most-covered song lands on a May Day rally tape the day after.
Harry Styles Live Trust Distribution Arrives in Week One
Five hundred thousand pounds reached twenty-six mid-tier acts in the Live Trust's first distribution; the same Friday Foo Fighters added a thirty-dollar pop-up in lower Manhattan.
Foo Fighters Irving Plaza and Starland Bookend a Week of Thirty Dollar Pop-Ups
Two thirty-dollar door-only club shows around a Bridgeport opener turn the Take Cover tour into a same-week test of face-value pricing in the New York metro.
Cannes Opens May Twelfth With a Pierre Salvadori Comedy
The 79th festival opens with Salvadori's 1920s-Paris period comedy The Electric Kiss — a Marmaï-Demoustier vehicle, not an English-language tentpole.