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THE GREEN ROOM

By Sameen Amer
12 July, 2024

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’....

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Albums

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* 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

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* 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

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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

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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 invasion 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.