Month: May 2019

The Beastie Boys are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their 1994 album Ill Communication with a new mini-documentary. 

Still Ill, a 14-minute doc released by Amazon Music, features interviews with surviving Beasties Michael Diamond (Mike D) and Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock), and archival footage from the making of 1989’s Paul’s Boutique, 1992’s Check Your Head, and, yes, Ill Communication, which famously spawned their monster hit “Sabotage” as well as “Sure Shot” and “Get it Together.”

Last year, Diamond and Horovitz published Beastie Boys Book, a 600-page tome featuring fascinating anecdotes of the genre-bending NYC supergroup that expertly served up hardcore punk, bratty hip-hop, spaced-out funk and more in their landmark musical career.

Still Ill also shines a spotlight on late Beastie Boy Adam “MCA” Yauch and his contributions to Ill Communication. Watch Still Ill above. 

It’s official: Warner Bros. has made Robert Pattinson the star of The Batman.  

The news comes after rumors circulated last week that both the former Twilight star and Tolkien actor Nicholas Hoult were being eyed to fill Ben Affleck’s Batsuit.  

Pattinson ultimately won the role. He will play the DC Comics superhero in a trilogy of movies– beginning with The Batman in 2021 — written and directed Matt Reeves and produced by Dylan Clark. The pair previously worked together on the 2014 and 2017 installments of Planet of the Apes.  

Deadline first broke the news and has further details on what makes Pattinson a strong choice: 

He certainly has been at the center of a zeitgest franchise before in Twilight Saga, and he has used the time after to show his chops as an actor in films like High Life, and is starring for Warner Bros in Christopher Nolan’s next film [Tenet], and just debuted in the Robert Eggers-directed The Lighthouse at Cannes.

Other details are scarce, but Complex mocked up an entertaining rendering of Pattinson as Batman to hold us over. 

Reeves’ The Batman is currently scheduled for a June 25, 2021 release.

No wonder Drake has been in such a good mood lately. Not only was the superstar rapper courtside to watch his beloved Toronto Rappers beat the Golden State Warriors in Game 1 of the NBA Finals Thursday night, but it turns out he got a free private plane for the low, low price of free. 

Fresh off talking “trash” with Draymond Green and picking lint out of Steph Curry’s hair after the game, it’s been reported that Drizzy got a free private plane from a Canadian airline eager to get Instagram exposure from the rap superstar. 

Uproxx breaks down this deal of a lifetime here:

TMZ reports that the plane was actually given to Drake by Canada-based airline Cargojet in a case of mutually beneficial, patriotic largesse. 

Cargojet’s deal with Drake was that he simply do what rappers do: Fly around the world flexing his latest ballerific pickup, taking pictures, and generally showing off the gift so that Cargojet would receive what basically amounts to free publicity. 

Drake, of course, seems to be holding up his end of the bargain, posting a video of the plane’s unveiling to his 57.5 million Instagram followers — a video which wound up all over the rest of the internet because people can’t seem to get enough of Drake.

The actual price tag for a 767 is somewhere around $200 million.

A free “PJ” in exchange for some ‘grams? Sounds like a good deal to us.