Jalen Brunson's resume at age 30 is just astounding 🤯
10. "This building is shaking right now!"
9. "The gift that keeps on giving!"
8. "It's good! The Knicks take the lead!"
7. "Perhaps the greatest signing in NYK history."
6. "Brunson with a spectacular two!"
5. "A homecoming for Brunson!"
4. "Beautiful fake and pull-up!"
3. "That's as crafty as you get right there."
2. "Stops on a dime, launches... Oh yeah!"
1. "Jalen Brunson does it again!"
Tom Hardy, under the alias Frankie Pulitzer, just dropped a collaborative album called “Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer,” which features him rapping about all things pop culture.
In the song “Raw Forever,” Hardy loads his verse with references to Martin Scorsese’s 1999 film “Bringing Out the Dead,” Willem Dafoe’s portrayal of the Green Goblin, Doctor Doom, the DC Comics hero Sergeant Rock and Sidney Lumet’s classic 1975 film “Dog Day Afternoon”:
I’m Bringing Out the Dead like a paramedic out the Cage, directed by Marty
Frank Pierce the gang’s here welcome to the party
I be somewhat of a scientist like Willem Dafoe
If you know then you know
Goblin up crumbs
Hit ’em with the fly kill ’em with the low
Profile, no smile, exile the old style
So vile, exhale the smoke cloud, blow trial
Dog Day Afternoon
When I talk Sgt. Rock on the block with the Glock aftershock from the boom
Rip you out your costume
Stuff you in the smallest locker, lock you in the locker room
Doctor Doom how I’m the Victor the Scripture
In the song “Mad Technology,” Hardy namechecks two Stephen King books-turned-movies (“Cujo” and “Misery”), and says something wild about the star of the latter, Kathy Bates:
You shit-for-brain no-name lame, that bites like Cujo
I’d rather masturbate to Kathy Bates than hear you flow
And you know that Misery, it loves company
Read more about Hardy’s latest album: https://t.co/5ERYqcv99h
Stove God Cooks says he sent Jay-Z a hook for his potential new album🚨
"and I sent Hov a hook... I'm not confirming that big homie got an album coming out... use that hook I sent you... and keep everything just send a Roc chain..."
- via The Joe Budden Podcast: https://t.co/G2qEGwc6xu
Nacho spent years being trapped between Gus, the Salamancas, and the cartel. In his final moments, he finally took control of the one thing they couldn’t take from him.
The cartel wants answers before killing him, but Nacho refuses to give them the confession they came for. Instead, he uses his final moments to tell Hector exactly what he did and makes Gus watch.
“I put you in that chair.”
Nacho knew he wasn’t walking away from that desert. But he made sure his enemies would remember that his death was on his terms, not theirs.
After everything Nacho was forced to do, do you think he chose the best way out?
Quentin Tarantino just got paid over $20 million for a $200 million movie he refuses to direct. And he still owns the script.
He's spent 20 years telling everyone he retires after his 10th film. Cliff Booth was on track to be number 10. He decided a sequel wasn't how he wanted to go out, so instead of selling the screenplay, he sold Netflix a one-picture license. Netflix gets to make the movie once. Tarantino keeps the underlying work forever.
Then one decision moved the whole $200 million. Tarantino was originally going to direct this at Sony, the studio that turned the first film's $90 million budget into $377 million and 10 Oscar nominations. When he stepped back, Brad Pitt called David Fincher, his director on Se7en, Fight Club, and Benjamin Button. Fincher only makes movies for Netflix. So the project followed him there, and Sony watched the sequel to its biggest original hit of the era walk out the door.
The above-the-line math is wild. Pitt is making $40 million to star and produce. Fincher gets $20 million. Tarantino's license came in over $20 million. That's $80 million to three names before a single frame was shot, 40% of the entire budget.
The first movie cost $90 million total.
So the director who spent his whole career preaching 35mm and packed theaters just wrote the most expensive streaming film of the year. It gets an IMAX window, then lives on Netflix forever.
Tarantino found the loophole in his own retirement. He collects the biggest script payday of his career, and the movie doesn't even count.
“I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message to any surviving Autobots taking refuge among the stars. We are here. We are waiting.”
- Peter Cullen (1941 - 2026)
Nine years ago, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson were sitting on a porch while vacationing together in Greece with their families. Their kids were sharing pictures of their fathers from when they were younger, amazed at how similar the two actors looked. “Everyone’s going, ‘Man, you two: Those mannerisms are the same, you look alike. It’s like you're brothers!’” remembers McConaughey. Everyone laughed, and then McConaughey’s mother, in a perfectly timed comedic bit, turns to Harrelson and says, “Oh, I knew your father.”
But it wasn’t a joke. McConaughey’s mother revealed for the first time that she had known (yes, in the Biblical sense) Harrelson’s father before McConaughey was born. They did the math, and realized there was a possibility that the actors were not only best buddies, but half brothers. “Woody believed it from the get-go, and I don’t believe it from the get-go,” McConaughey tells Vanity Fair.
The possibility has become one of Hollywood’s most fascinating rumors—and now it’s the inspiration for Apple TV’s new comedy series, ‘Brothers.’ McConaughey and Harrelson play fictionalized versions of themselves, as they grapple with a decades-old secret that’s been unearthed.
McConaughey and Harrelson are quick to emphasize that while the characters have their names, the series is very much a fictionalized version of their story. But still, the friendship captured onscreen is true to life, and an interesting peek into one of Hollywood’s most enduring bromances. “They just love each other,” says ‘Brothers’ showrunner Lee Eisenberg. “They just really enjoy one another like brothers.”
See the exclusive First Look from Vanity Fair’s @Beccamford: https://t.co/vTshwVkGlD
First trailer for ‘BROTHERS’, starring Woody Harrelson & Matthew McConaughey.
The series follows Woody & Matthew as their friendship goes into chaos when they discover they might actually be brothers.
Releasing September 23 on Apple TV.