COMING SOON
Out this week
Albums
* The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) by Eminem: Twelfth album by the American rapper; follows Music to Be Murdered By (2020); includes the singles ‘Houdini’ and ‘Tobey’.
Movies
* Fly Me to the Moon (starring Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Nick Dillenburg, Anna Garcia) – romantic comedy drama; during the 1960s Space Race, a marketing specialist (Johansson) is tasked with staging a fake moon landing as back-up and develops a relationship with the launch director (Tatum).
* Longlegs (starring Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Alicia Witt, Blair Underwood) – horror thriller; an FBI agent (Monroe) must solve a case involving a Satanic serial killer (Cage) before he murders more people.
* My Spy: The Eternal City (starring Dave Bautista, Chloe Coleman, Kristen Schaal, Anna Faris, Ken Jeong) – spy comedy; a teenage Sophie (Coleman) convinces CIA agent JJ (Bautista) to chaperone her school trip to Italy where they become embroiled in a terrorist plot.
TRIVIA
Most streamed music of all time on Spotify
Most streamed artists
1. Drake – 101.6 billion streams
2. Taylor Swift – 84.3 billion
3. Bad Bunny – 81.9 billion
4. The Weeknd – 67.0 billion
5. Justin Bieber – 55.9 billion
Most streamed albums
1. Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny (2022) – 16.876 billion steams
2. ÷ by Ed Sheeran (2017) – 14.959 billion
3. Starboy by The Weeknd (2016) – 14.442 billion
4. Hollywood’s Bleeding by Post Malone (2019) – 12.868 billion
5. Sour by Olivia Rodrigo (2021) – 12.650 billion
Most streamed songs
1. ‘Blinding Lights’ by The Weeknd (2019) – 4.316 billion streams
2. ‘Shape Of You’ by Ed Sheeran (2017) – 3.930 billion
3. ‘Someone You Loved’ by Lewis Capaldi (2018) – 3.458 billion
4. ‘Sunflower’ by Post Malone featuring Swae Lee (2018) – 3.390 billion
5. ‘As It Was’ by Harry Styles (2022) – 3.364 billion
SPOTLIGHT
A Quiet Place: Day One
Cast: Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, and Djimon Hounsou
Director: Michael Sarnoski
Tagline: Stay quiet, stay alive.
* Apocalyptic horror; a terminally ill woman (Nyong’o) tries to survive the early stages of an invasion by extraterrestrial creatures that have super-hearing.
* Is the third instalment in the A Quiet Place film series, serving as a spin-off and prequel.
* Has grossed around US$110 million on a $67 million budget.
* Has received mixed to positive reviews, with critics praising the performances and finding elements of the story touching.
* Score composed by Alexis Grapsas.