The Hope Six Demolition Project by PJ Harvey: Ninth album by the English singer, the follow-up to Let England Shake (2011); includes the singles ‘The Wheel’, ‘The Community of Hope’, and ‘The Orange Monkey’.
Santana IV by Santana: Twenty third studio album by the Latin rock band; reunites the early 1970s line-up of the group, recording together for the first time in 45 years since 1971’s Santana III; led by the single ‘Anywhere You Want to Go’.
Movies
The Jungle Book (starring Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Giancarlo Esposito) – fantasy, based on Rudyard Kipling’s work, reimagining of the 1967 Walt Disney film; a boy (Sethi) is raised in the jungle with the help of wolves (Nyong’o and Esposito), a bear (Murray), and a black panther (Kingsley).
Barbershop: The Next Cut (starring Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Regina Hall, Nicki Minaj) – comedy, fourth film in the Barbershop series, sequel to Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004); the crew at Calvin’s (Cube) Barbershop must work together to change and save their neighbourhood.
Criminal (starring Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds) – action; an ex-convict (Costner) is implanted with a deceased CIA agent’s (Reynolds) memories to finish an incomplete mission.
Star
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson
Born on 15 April 1990. in Paris, France.
Parents, who are English lawyers, divorced when she was young, moving back to England.
Has a younger brother, Alex, as well as three half-siblings and two step-brothers.
Wanted to be an actress as a child, and took singing, dancing, and acting lessons.
Graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in English Literature in 2014.
Made her debut as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001) and continued to portray the character in the rest of the Harry Potter series (2001 – 2011) which brought her global fame. Has appeared in a few films since then, including My Week with Marilyn (2011), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), The Bling Ring (2013), Noah (2014), Regression (2015), and Colonia (2015).
Upcoming projects include the films The Circle (2016) and Beauty and the Beast (2017).
Is a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, supporting the gender equality campaign HeForShe.
Also born today: Maisie Williams, Eliza Doolittle, Luke Evans, Ed O’Brien
Celeb Tweets
Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn): Terrified that the #PanamaPapers will reveal I never beat Dragon Age: Inquisition.
Noah Kinsey (@thenoahkinsey): If others can find true love, then for sure I too can someday find my car keys.
Spotlight
The Divergent Series: Allegiant
Cast: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jeff Daniels, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Zoë Kravitz, Maggie Q, Ray Stevenson, Daniel Dae Kim, Bill Skarsgård, Octavia Spencer, Naomi Watts
Director: Robert Schwentke
Tagline: Break the boundaries of your world.
Action; Tris (Woodley) must escape with Four (James) and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago to discover the truth.
Third film in the Divergent series; first of two parts based on the novel Allegiant, the final book in Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy.
Had a budget of $110 million; has made around $137 million in its first month, underperforming at the box office.
Has received very negative reviews, with critics finding the film formulaic, boring, and overlong.
Score composed by Joseph Trapanese. Soundtrack includes Tove Lo’s ‘Scars’.
Will be followed by the final film in the series, The Divergent Series: Ascendant, in June 2017.
