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The Gilded Hall's Locked Room Gets No Guests

via The label's announcement: Billboard · The "we listened" statement: Billboard Pro · Rival coverage: BBC · The first boycott, BTS: Billboard

On Friday, JYP Entertainment told Billboard that Stray Kids had submitted nothing to the 2027 Grammy Awards, joining the boycott BTS announced in July over the Recording Academy's new Best Asian Pop Music Performance category. The mechanism is the locked room.…

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The Jump Scare Was On The Schedule

via The recap and the quotes: Variety · Rival coverage: Page Six · Rival coverage: Hollywood Reporter · Rival coverage: The Independent

During the opening monologue of her "Saturday Night Live" hosting debut Sunday night, Dakota Johnson cut to a studio monitor and welcomed Taylor Swift in as her "literal therapist." According to Variety, the cameo had been treated as a lock all week after Swif…

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Eminem's Video Game Is A Merch Drop

via The exclusive and the booth number: Variety · Rival coverage: Complex · Rival coverage: AllHipHop · The brand page: Marshall's Massacre

Eminem is debuting a streetwear collab with NERDS Clothing at New York Comic Con next week, complete with a limited skate deck, long-sleeve tee, bomber jacket, hand-embellished arcade cabinets, and an "original video game" called "Marshall's Massacre." Per Var…

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The Focus Group Ate The Ending

via The focus group story: Variety · The No. 1 weekend: Variety box office · Rival coverage: ScreenRant · Rival coverage: ThoughtCatalog

Colleen Hoover's "Verity," the erotic thriller starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson, opened at No. 1 this weekend, and Variety reports the film's original "dark phoenix" ending was scrapped after focus group screenings rejected it. The ending they cut was…

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The Thirst Trap Turns 51

Ryan Seacrest, 51, posted a thirst trap to Instagram Saturday: a shirtless torso shot gazing up at the sun during a break from a trail workout on his Elliptigo stand-up bike, plus a clip from behind gazing at the moon while the camera zooms in on a flexing mus…

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