Is Cardi B Preparing for Her Next Era? Plus, Fifth Harmony Supports Normani & More | Billboard News

Fans speculate that Cardi B is making her musical comeback after the rapper noticeably wiped her social media pages. Dinah Jane, Camila Cabello, Lauren Jauregui and Ally Brooke of Fifth Harmony showed their former groupmate Normani some love after announcing her debut album, ‘Dopamine.’ Rihanna let some fans hop into her car in Milan. Reese Witherspoon praised Selena Gomez after the release of her new song “Love On.” Billboard explains the success of Billboard’s Women In Music Global Force recipient Luísa Sonza. We break down the Billboard Hot 100 top 10, reveal a new track at No. 1 and more!

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Cardi B is making a comeback. There’s a brand-new No. 1 song in the country, updates on Rihanna, Selena Gomez and Fifth Harmony and giving you the rundown on a Women in Music honoree. I am so excited for this Monday, welcome to Billboard News, I’m Tetris and it’s February 26th. I got a lot of new faces to discuss, including the reason I’m wearing cowboy boots, which you can’t see. But let’s just kick things off with the goodies. Here’s three things you should know today. What would you give to get inside a car with Rihanna? Well, that was the experience for some lucky fans in Milan in a viral video. Rihanna let some fans in her ride for some selfies. I mean, NAVY may not be getting any new music, but that’s arguably much better. Speaking of fans, we love the famous friends fangirling over each other, and that’s just what Reese Witherspoon did to Selena Gomez at the SAG Awards. Hyping her girl up right after she released her new song “Love On.” Loving on “Love On,” I can’t even imagine having an Academy Award winner tell you they like your music. Selena, you really struck friendship gold. Also excelling in the friend department is Normani, after sharing the album artwork and a snippet from her new album ‘Dopamine,’ her Fifth Harmony sisters all jumped in the comments to show her love and this is why I’ll always be a Harmonizer. That kind of sisterhood will stand the test of time and I’ll be ready when the reunion comes.

Watch the full video above!

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Billboard Explains: Luísa Sonza’s Global Force On The Charts

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Brazilian artists Luísa Sonza knows a thing or two about getting on the Billboard charts. And that’s why she’s this year as Women In Music Global Force honoree. Luísa first got her start in 2014, singing covers on YouTube and first entered the charts in 2020. This is Billboard Explains Luísa Sonza’s global force on the charts. Luísa has seven songs on the global excluding US chart including “Cachorrinhas” which peaked at No. 69 in 2022. “Modo Turbo” with Pablo Vittar, featuring Anitta, that one hit No. 71 in 2021, and Chico, which peaked at No. 78 in 2023. Those three songs also charted on the Billboard Global 200. Outside of the US, Luísa has charted 12 songs on the Billboard Brazil Hot 100 including three top 10s. “Chico” which hit No. 1,”Penhasco2″ with Demi Lovato which hit No. 4 and “Sou Musa do Verão” with Marshmello which hit No. 9. She’s released three studio albums, two EPs and two compilations, has collaborated with Katy Perry on the song “Cry About It Later.” The Brazilian artist is already making an impact around the world and we can’t wait to see what’s coming next.

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Selena Gomez Says She Was a Kurt Cobain Superfan: ‘I Know a Little Too Much’

After Selena Gomez played a trivia game about herself against a fan (and lost) in a segment on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the “Love On” singer revealed that she’s got a history of being a superfan as well.

A fan named Ashley appeared on the show, and she appeared to know Gomez better than the star knew herself. For her “Who Knows Selena Gomez?” win, Ashley got to take home the grand prize of Gomez’s actual junk drawer — autographed, of course.

When Kimmel later asked Gomez if there was any celebrity she was “obsessed with,” the answer was yes.

“Who was your Selena Gomez?” Kimmel inquired during the Feb. 23 episode of his show.

“Kurt Cobain,” answered Gomez, which seemed to surprise the host. Gomez, born in 1992, was just a few months shy of two years old when the Nirvana frontman passed; Cobain died by suicide on April 5, 1994, in his Seattle, Washington, home.

“My mom obviously would play all kinds of music for me growing up,” the 31-year-old singer explained. “I kind of got obsessed and dyed my hair and cut my hair like him.”

Gomez added, “I know a little too much,” revealing that she had posters of Cobain and that she “would rewatch his interviews, I would watch his performances, I had seen his documentary like 12 times.”

Watch the interview clip and the Selena Gomez trivia segment below. Gomez also talked about her new song “Love On,” how boyfriend Benny Blanco embarrassed her in front of Jason Segel at the Emmys and more.

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Drama and Music at Viña del Mar 2024: The Hosts of Latin Music’s Biggest Festival Are Ready for Everything

Tonight (Sunday, Feb. 25) is the kick-off of Latin music’s longest-running and most-watched music festival. More than 200 million people are expected to watch the television broadcast of the Viña del Mar Song Festival, which celebrates its 63rd year (uninterrupted, save for two years of Covid-19 shutdown) with performances by global music stars.

Alejandro Sanz and Manuel Turizo will open the festival at the Quinta Vergara Amphitheater tonight. Then, the week continues with Andrea Bocelli and his son Matteo Bocelli on Monday, Feb. 26 (with Miranda! as the second act); Maná and Men at Work on Feb. 27; Mora and Anitta on Feb. 29; a night devoted to Chilean artists with Los Bunkers and Young Cister on March 1; and for the finale on Feb. 2, Maria Becerra, who took the place of Peso Pluma after the Mexican artist canceled his Latin American tour last week. Trueno will be the second artist of the night.

Although the artists, international and folk competitions, and comedy sets are the main attraction of the festival, the backbone is its hosts. Chileans María Luisa Godoy — who returns for the fourth consecutive year — and Francisco Saavedra, have the titanic task of literally “conducting” the festival six nights in a row, in marathon six-hour plus evenings. Saavedra and Godoy, both veteran journalists, presenters and commentators, not only host and introduce throughout the evening, but they must navigate the subtleties of many artists (and new artists who come to compete), comedians and the live audience at Quinta Vergara, known as “the monster” for their active involvement in what happens on the stage.

This year, Godoy and Saavedra also have an additional challenge, as the city of Viña del Mar was severely affected at the beginning of the month by fires that left more than 120 people dead and more than 15,000 homes destroyed.

Just hours before they go on stage, we spoke with Godoy and Saavedra about what it takes to prepare to host the largest festival in the world.

The Viña del Mar Song Festival has been celebrated for almost 70 years. What is different this year?

Francisco Saavedra: It’s different because a tragedy occurred in Viña del Mar, more than 100 people died and there are many places that are badly damaged. Therefore, the festival took on a supportive tone. Throughout our broadcast, a QR code will be displayed from where everyone can donate for the reconstruction of Viña del Mar.

María Luisa Godoy: It’s a wounded city, and we want all of Latin America to help us in this reconstruction. Therefore, the more than 200 million people who watch the Viña Festival hope that you will collaborate with us. At the amphitheater we have a booth for donations, and also, we aim to heal with music, with entertainment.

How do these facts change your work as hosts?

Saavedra: We’d been rehearsing for eight months, and we had to change the tone of what we were going to say. The artist introductions remain the same, but empathy is what changes the tone of the scripts. We had to re-study.

Godoy: The first night is the big challenge, because it sets the tone. So much so, that we even changed the outside [Godoy will wear a white pantsuit, Saavedra will wear all black]. The festival has always started with a party, and the outfits were flashier, but we’re striking a more sober note out of respect.

This is not a normal hosting job. Literally everyone in Chile — nearly 90% of the population –watches this show at some point. How do you prepare?

Saavedra: There is purely editorial work. We had 18 rehearsals inisde a television studio where the producers gave us all sorts of prompts of what could happen: applause, booing, the teleprompter cutting out, delays. They wanted to see our ability to improvise. You know that the audience in Viña del Mar is very different from other countries. They like to participate, and they’re very radical. If they don’t like something, they’re ruthless. So one has to be prepared for that.

Godoy: It is the largest festival in the world. There are six nights, where there are two artists who sing, plus the competition, plus the comedian. So it forces us to learn the biography of each person in order to present them in the best possible way. And part of the identity of this festival is that it has the “monster.” And the monster is very unique. It’s an audience that can literally eat the artist who is on stage.

In your three years at the Festival, María Luisa, what moment stands out?

Godoy: There was a particularly difficult festival in 2020, during the country’s period of social unrest. They even put up barricades around the venue, and it was difficult for artists to get there. The opening artists couldn’t come because crowds were setting cars on fire outside the hotel and wouldn’t let them pass. And I want to tell you about Ricky Martin who saved the festival in 2020. Every night, we weren’t sure if we would have a show or not. When Ricky came to the venue, he had to lie down inside his SUV because protesters were throwing stones at the cars, not even knowing who was inside. Every international artist started calling Ricky to ask what the situation was. And Ricky, such a good and generous person, completely calmed everyone down, put them at ease, and helped the festival take place.

Saavedra: A similar thing that happened with Alejandro Sanz this year. He went to see some of the people who lost their homes in the fires. It was very emotional.

Francisco, it’s your first year. Did you long to do this?

Saavedra: I think it is the most important festival in Latin America, and for any Chilean television host being in Viña is a very important step in your career. You are seen by audiences from all over the world. You cross borders. To live up to this we’ve been studying and working. It’s a dream for me since I was little. Now being able to fulfill it excites me deeply.

María Luisa, and you? How did the opportunity come to you?

Godoy: It was a surprise because my career was in political journalism, so it was never something I thought I could do. It’s not the kind of thing you can say no to because it is like wearing the Chilean T-shirt for the world. It has simply been the most important thing that has happened in my professional career.

You are a mother of five children. How do you balance such a complex job with motherhood?

Godoy: As a mother, I can’t move without my puppies. I have from 1-year-old to a 10-year-old and they are all here with me. What makes me most happy is being with them and fighting for women. Ever since i hosted Viña while I was pregnant — there had never been a pregnant woman [as a host] — I always said, my dream is to ensure that having children is not an impediment to working, and that working is not an impediment to having children for a woman who wants a child. You have to break down barriers. Motherhood can be made compatible with work.

Pancho, you are also breaking parameters as a gay man with two children. Your little one is just months old…

Saavedra: Absolutely. My daughter Laura and my son Emilio and my husband are here. It is the first time, I believe, in these 63 years that Viña del Mar has been, [that it] has had [an openly gay host] and it has to do with the evolution of the world and how minds are opening. There is a lot of homophobia in the world. This is a great step forward. And the only thing I have received on the street is affection, love and empathy. Being able to do an interview and talk about my husband and my children, and not raise an eyebrow, is a huge step in the right direction.

The Viña del Mar Song Festival can be seen outside Chile on streaming platform Star+.


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Fans Choose TWICE’s ‘With YOU-th’ as This Week’s Favorite New Music

TWICE‘s With YOU-th tops this week’s new music poll.

Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (Feb. 23) on Billboard, choosing the K-pop group’s latest mini-album as their favorite new music release of the past week.

Fans showed their support for the girl group in a big way: With YOU-th won this poll by a landslide, bringing in more than 94% of the vote. It beat out new music by Selena Gomez, Justin Timberlake and more.

TWICE’s With YOU-th delivers a total of six tracks, rolling through energetic, synth-pop productions like “One Spark” and “You Get Me.” The new release follows the single “I Got You,” which was released earlier in February. The track list also includes the songs “Rush,” “New New” and “Bloom.”

“I think this album is a collection of things that represent our youth, the friendship and special bond that glues together nine of us and that only TWICE can show,” TWICE’s Chaeyoung said in a recent interview with Reuters.

Chaeyoung added to Reuters that she hopes to see chart success with the group’s new project: “I have a dream,” she said in the interview. “I’ll be really happy if we score high on Billboard, even if not No. 1.”

Trailing behind With YOU-th on this week’s poll is Gomez’s new single “Love On,” with 2% of the vote, and Timblerlake’s “Drown,” with just 1%.

See the final results of this week’s new music poll below.

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‘Bob Marley: One Love’ Is Already One of the Top 10 Highest-Grossing Music Biopics: Here’s the Top 25

After less than two weeks in release, Bob Marley: One Love is already one of the top 10 highest-grossing biopics of a musician in domestic box-office history. The film, which stars Kingsley Ben-Adir as reggae legend Bob Marley, has grossed $71.2 million in the U.S. and Canada through Sunday (Feb. 25), according to boxofficemojo.com.

Here are the 25 highest-grossing biopics of musicians in terms of domestic box office. These films cover a remarkably wide range of genres. Pop/rock artists are the focus of seven of the 25 films, followed by R&B (five); rap and traditional pop (three each); country and classical (two each); and Latin, contemporary Christian and reggae (one each).

Methodology: Boxofficemojo.com maintains lists of top-grossing films searchable by dozens of “genre keywords.” Under “music,” we extracted biopics, which we define as films in which actors portray the musicians. Five of the biopics listed here aren’t listed under music on the boxofficemojo.com site, so we manually inserted them, using box-office figures found elsewhere on the site.

We didn’t include some high-grossing films about real-life music personalities because they’re not biopics in the traditional sense. These include The Sound of Music (which tells the story of Maria von Trapp and the Trapp Family Singers); Green Book (which deals with a road trip taken by pianist and composer Don Shirley); Florence Foster Jenkins (about an heiress and hopelessly untalented soprano by that name); and Music of the Heart (about violinist and music educator Roberta Guaspari). Meryl Streep starred in the latter two films.

Here are the 25 biopics of music stars with the highest domestic (defined as U.S. and Canada) grosses:

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Billie Eilish Autographs Melissa McCarthy’s Face at 2024 SAG Awards: Watch

Melissa McCarthy was fangirling over Billie Eilish at the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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While presenting the award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a comedy series to Ayo Edebiri (The Bear), the Little Mermaid actress, 53, hilariously asked the pop star, 22, to sign her face with a permanent marker.

Prior to the autographing, McCarthy reminded Eilish that the pair had already met several times prior to the SAG Awards, which streamed live on Netflix from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Saturday (Feb. 24).

“I actually met you in utero because your mom was my first improv teacher,” McCarthy said excitedly, referring to Maggie Baird. “Guess who she was pregnant with? It was you!”

“Wow, OK,” Eilish responded. “That’s a lot.”

McCarthy then asked the “Bad Guy” singer if she would sign her shiny colored gown. “I’m just trying to be more present in making memories and I’m trying for more YOLO-ing and less FOMO-ing,” McCarthy said.

When Eilish politely declined, the actress made an even more bizarre request: to sign her face instead. The singer agreed and proceeded to scribble her signature on McCarthy’s forehead with a black Sharpie.

As the actress attempted to ask more questions about her brother Finneas’ songwriting process, Eilish covered her mouth and attempted to contain her laughter.

“So, when you and Finneas are putting down sick tracks or hot, hot beats…,” McCarthy’s began to ask. “I think that’s better,” the singer replied while holding her hand over McCarthy’s mouth.

The big winners at the SAG Awards included Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) and Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon), who took home outstanding performance by a male and female actor in a leading role, respectively. Both won in what were seen as close races with Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) and Emma Stone (Poor Things), respectively.

Watch Eilish and McCarthy at the 2024 SAG Awards below.

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‘Oppenheimer’ Is Top Film Winner at 2024 SAG Awards Winners: Full Winners List

Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) and Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) won outstanding performance by a male and female actor in a leading role, respectively, at the 2024 SAG Awards. Both won in what were seen as close races with Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) and Emma Stone (Poor Things), respectively.

Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer) and Da’vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers) won the equivalent awards in supporting categories, as they have at the vast majority of award shows in recent months.

All four of these actors must now be considered the front-runners to win the Oscars in those categories on March 10. Last year, all four SAG Awards winners in film acting categories went on to win Oscars.

The 30th annual SAG Awards streamed live on Netflix on Saturday (Feb. 24) at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT from the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles.

Oppenheimer was the top winner on the film side, with three awards. Barbie experienced the night’s biggest shut out on the film side, going 0-4 on the night.

Oppenheimer won outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture, which is a positive, but far from conclusive, indicator that it may win the Oscar for best picture on March 10. The SAG winner for ensemble cast has gone on to win best picture in five of the last 10 years.

The Bear was the top winner on the TV side, with three awards. Ted Lasso was the biggest shut out on the TV side, going 0-4 on the night.

Succession won outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series for the second time in three years. The Bear won the equivalent award in comedy for the first time.

Jennifer Aniston and Bradley Cooper presented the Life Achievement Award to Barbra Streisand.

The awards were voted on by SAG-AFTRA’s membership of 119,515 eligible voters, the largest voting body on the awards circuit. Final voting opened on Wednesday, Jan. 17, and closed at noon PT on Friday, Feb. 23. So, votes were still coming in less than 30 hours before the first awards were presented. There is a much longer lag time between the close of voting and the announcement of the winners at other award shows.

The 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards was executive produced by Jon Brockett and Silent House Productions. This marked the show’s live debut on Netflix. Last year’s ceremony was broadcast on Netflix’s YouTube page.

Here’s the complete list of nominees for the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards, with winners marked.

Motion Pictures

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role

Bradley Cooper – Maestro

Colman Domingo – Rustin

Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers

WINNER: Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer

Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role

Annette Bening – Nyad

WINNER: Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon

Carey Mulligan – Maestro

Margot Robbie – Barbie

Emma Stone – Poor Things

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a supporting role

Sterling K. Brown – American Fiction

Willem Dafoe – Poor Things

Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon

WINNER: Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer

Ryan Gosling – Barbie

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role

Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer

Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple

Penélope Cruz – Ferrari

Jodie Foster – Nyad

WINNER: Da’vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers

Outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture

American Fiction — Erika Alexander, Adam Brody, Sterling K. Brown, Keith David, John Ortiz, Issa Rae, Tracee Ellis Ross, Leslie Uggams, Jeffrey Wright

Barbie — Michael Cera, Will Ferrell, America Ferrera, Ryan Gosling, Ariana Greenblatt, Kate Mckinnon, Helen Mirren, Rhea Perlman, Issa Rae, Margot Robbie

The Color Purple — Halle Bailey, Fantasia Barrino, Jon Batiste, Danielle Brooks, Ciara, Colman Domingo, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Louis Gossett, Jr., Corey Hawkins, Taraji P. Henson, Phylicia Pearl Mpasi, H.E.R.

Killers of the Flower Moon — Tantoo Cardinal, Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brendan Fraser, Lily Gladstone, John Lithgow, Jesse Plemons

WINNER: Oppenheimer — Casey Affleck, Emily Blunt, Kenneth Branagh, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Josh Hartnett, Rami Malek, Cillian Murphy, Florence Pugh

Television

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a television movie or limited series

Matt Bomer – Fellow Travelers

Jon Hamm – Fargo

David Oyelowo – Lawmen: Bass Reeves

Tony Shalhoub – Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie

WINNER: Steven Yeun – Beef

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a television movie or limited series

Uzo Aduba – Painkiller

Kathryn Hahn – Tiny Beautiful Things

Brie Larson – Lessons in Chemistry

Bel Powley – A Small Light

WINNER: Ali Wong – Beef

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a drama series

Brian Cox – Succession

Billy Crudup – The Morning Show

Kieran Culkin – Succession

Matthew Macfadyen – Succession

WINNER: Pedro Pascal – The Last of Us

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series

Jennifer Aniston – The Morning Show

WINNER: Elizabeth Debicki – The Crown

Bella Ramsey – The Last of Us

Keri Russell – The Diplomat

Sarah Snook – Succession

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a comedy series

Brett Goldstein – Ted Lasso

Bill Hader – Barry

Ebon Moss-Bachrach – The Bear

Jason Sudeikis – Ted Lasso

WINNER: Jeremy Allen White – The Bear

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a comedy series

Alex Borstein – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Rachel Brosnahan – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary

WINNER: Ayo Edebiri – The Bear

Hannah Waddingham – Ted Lasso

Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series

The Crown — Khalid Abdalla, Sebastian Blunt, Bertie Carvel, Salim Daw, Elizabeth Debicki, Luther Ford, Claudia Harrison, Lesley Manville, Ed McVey, James Murray, Jonathan Pryce, Imelda Staunton, Marcia Warren, Dominic West, Olivia Williams

The Gilded Age — Ben Ahlers, Ashlie Atkinson, Christine Baranski, Denée Benton, Nicole Brydon Bloom, Michael Cerveris, Carrie Coon, Kelley Curran, Taissa Farmiga, David Furr, Jack Gilpin, Ward Horton, Louisa Jacobson, Simon Jones, Sullivan Jones, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Nathan Lane, Matilda Lawler, Robert Sean Leonard, Audra McDonald, Debra Monk, Donna Murphy, Kristine Nielsen, Cynthia Nixon, Kelli O’Hara, Patrick Page, Harry Richardson, Taylor Richardson, Blake Ritson, Jeremy Shamos, Douglas Sills, Morgan Spector, John Douglas Thompson, Erin Wilhelmi

The Last of Us — Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey

The Morning Show — Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Beharie, Shari Belafonte, Nestor Carbonell, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Jon Hamm, Theo Iyer, Hannah Leder, Greta Lee, Julianna Margulies, Tig Notaro, Karen Pittman, Reese Witherspoon

WINNER: Succession — Nicholas Braun, Juliana Canfield, Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin, Dagmara Dominczyk, Peter Friedman, Justine Lupe, Matthew MacFadyen, Arian Moayed, Scott Nicholson, David Rasche, Alan Ruck, Alexander Skarsgård, J. Smith-Cameron, Sarah Snook, Fisher Stevens, Jeremy Strong, Zoë Winters

Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series

Abbott Elementary — Quinta Brunson, William Stanford Davis, Janelle James, Chris Perfetti, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Lisa Ann Walter, Tyler James Williams

Barry — Anthony Carrigan, Sarah Goldberg, Zachary Golinger, Bill Hader, Andre Hyland, Fred Melamed, Charles Parnell, Stephen Root, Tobie Windham, Henry Winkler, Robert Wisdom

WINNER: The Bear — Lionel Boyce, Jose Cervantes Jr., Liza Colón-Zayas, Ayo Edebiri , Abby Elliott, Richard Esteras, Edwin Lee Gibson, Molly Gordon, Corey Hendrix, Matty Matheson, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Oliver Platt, Jeremy Allen White

Only Murders in the Building — Gerald Caesar, Michael Cyril Creighton, Linda Emond, Selena Gomez, Allison Guinn, Steve Martin, Ashley Park, Don Darryl Rivera, Paul Rudd, Jeremy Shamos, Martin Short, Meryl Streep, Wesley Taylor, Jason Veasey, Jesse Williams

Ted Lasso — Annette Badland, Kola Bokinni, Edyta Budnik, Adam Colborne, Phil Dunster, Cristo Fernández, Kevin “Kg” Garry, Brett Goldstein, Billy Harris, Anthony Head, Brendan Hunt, Toheeb Jimoh, James Lance, Nick Mohammed, Jason Sudeikis, Jeremy Swift, Juno Temple, Hannah Waddingham, Bronson Webb, Katy Wix

Stunt Ensembles

Outstanding action performance by a stunt ensemble in a motion picture

Barbie

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

John Wick: Chapter 4

WINNER: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Outstanding action performance by a stunt ensemble in a television series

Ahsoka

Barry

Beef

WINNER: The Last of Us

The Mandalorian

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‘Bob Marley: One Love’ Is No. 1 for a Second Week at the Box Office

Bob Marley: One Love continues to dominate the box office.

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The Paramount biopic will remain No. 1 on this week’s domestic box office chart. The film, starring Kingsley Ben-Adir as the late reggae icon, will earn an estimated $13.4 million to $14 million from 3,597 locations, according to early weekend estimates provided to The Hollywood Reporter.

One Love has already crossed the $100 million mark ($61.4 million domestically and $39.7 million overseas) at the global box office after only 10 days in theaters.

The Marley movie, which opened on Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14), topped the box office chart last week with a six-day launch of $51.1 million, marking one of the best openings for a music biopic, according to THR. Straight Outta Compton remains at the top of the list with a $60.2 million opening in North America in 2015.

Sony’s Madame Web, starring Dakota Johnson, debuted with a gloomy $26 million opening, one of the lowest openings for a movie mentioning a Marvel character, according to THR. The film is not, however, considered part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

One Love covers the dynamic between Marley, his backing band The Wailers and the musician’s family in the year immediately following an assassination attempt on his life. Rounded out by a cast that includes Lashana Lynch as Rita Marley and James Norton as producer and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, the movie aims to humanize a man whose talent and message caused him to, in many ways, transcend mortality.

Marley’s songs have garnered a whopping seven billion official on-demand U.S. streams, per Luminate, while his Legend compilation is the second-longest charting album in Billboard 200 history (821 weeks). 

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Taylor Swift Performs More Surprise Songs Mashups at Second Eras Tour Concert in Sydney

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On Saturday (Feb. 23), the second night of her Eras Tour stint at Accor Stadium, the pop superstar — who at each tour date performs two tracks that are not often heard during the show — delivered another pair of mashups during the acoustic section of her set.

For her first surprise track of the evening, Swift performed a mashup of “Should’ve Said No,” from her 2006 self-titled debut, and “You’re Not Sorry,” from 2008’s Fearless. The second mashup featured the singer sitting down at the piano for a medley of Reputation‘s “New Year’s Day” and “Peace” off Folklore.

Friday’s show also found Swift announcing a third edition of her upcoming album, The Tortured Poets Department, titled “The Albatross,” which features a limited bonus song of the same name. She dropped the news during her nightly surprise song section before bringing out opener Sabrina Carpenter to assist in singing a mashup of “White Horse” and “Coney Island.”

These aren’t the first mashups Swift has performed during the surprise songs portion of her Eras Tour concerts. The first unexpected medley arrived during her Feb. 17 show at Australia’s Melbourne Cricket Ground, where she gave a three-song mashup of “Getaway Car,” “August” and “The Other Side of the Door.”

“I just really want you to be happy because you’re making me happy,” the pop star told Swifties before the medley. “So I figured you might want to hear this one, let me know though.”

The following evening, Swift combined “Come Back… Be Here” from her Red era with Lover closing track “Daylight” at Melbourne Cricket Ground.

During the Feb. 18 show, Swift also issued a PSA about getting “creative” with the surprise songs. The singer previously told fans she’s given herself permission to repeat songs she’s already played this tour for the trek’s international leg, which she’s currently on. But she’s still set on bringing some element of chaos to her nightly song choices.

“That was to challenge me to really get to all the ones that I just don’t naturally gravitate towards, and I feel really proud about having done that,” Swift said at the Melbourne show, referring to her original plan to avoid surprise song repeats throughout the tour.

“But this is sort of a public service announcement to everyone who might be anywhere else on the tour, or whatever, or watching this — we have a lot of people, we’re very lucky to have a lot of people watch this on the internet and care about these shows if they’re not here,” she continued. “I’ve just been kind of rethinking, and I’ve been thinking I want to be as creative as possible with the acoustic set moving forward.”

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