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Lily-Rose Depp and Sam Levinson defended The Idol at a Cannes press conference following its premiere, pushing back against a recent Rolling Stone report that contained numerous troubling claims about the show’s content and production environment. Back in March, Rolling Stone published an extensive report about the HBO limited series, …

Memo to showrunners: When in doubt about your lead character, just cut to her masturbating while choking herself. It’s a little past the halfway mark of the first episode of The Idol — the HBO series about the pressure chamber of pop stardom from the minds of Abel “The Weeknd” …

Back in March, Rolling Stone published an extensive report on the direction and production of The Idol — HBO’s upcoming troubled pop star saga starring Lily-Rose Depp and the Weeknd, helmed by Euphoria creator Sam Levinson. Interviews with 13 members of the show’s cast and crew revealed troubling claims that …

In what’s becoming a battle as spirited as any fisticuffs you’d see on the ice, the Weeknd, Snoop Dogg and Ryan Reynolds are all competing to purchase the same hockey team, the Ottawa Senators. Reynolds — already the proud owner of soccer club Wrexham A.F.C. — was the first to …

When the anonymous songwriter/producer Ghostwriter recently dropped “Heart on My Sleeve,” a song built around the AI-cloned voices of Drake and The Weeknd, Universal Music Group moved instantly to remove it from streaming services. But one artist has reacted very differently to the emerging technology. Grimes, whose last album was …

Metro Boomin‘s producer tag puts his signature stamp on “Heart on My Sleeve,” the viral song featuring what sounds like vocals from Drake and The Weeknd. But he didn’t have anything to do with creating it — and neither did they. The record, which features line after line of lyrics …

The controversial pop star drama series The Idol has an official release date. On Monday, HBO dropped a new trailer for the series and confirmed a June 4 premiere date. The series will first debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May. The show, co-created by San Levinson and the …

Nearly two years after the Weeknd was sued for copyright infringement over his 2018 track “Call Out My Name,” the singer has reached a settlement before the lawsuit could go to trial. Suniel Fox and Henry Strange, members of the electro duo Epikker, filed their lawsuit in Sept. 2021, allegedly …

Lily-Rose Depp as a glamorous, troubled pop star. The Weeknd as a slimy, modern cult leader. Supporting roles for Blackpink’s Jennie, Troye Sivan, and a handful of other buzzy stars. And in-demand director Sam Levinson at the helm. For months, the hype machine has been at full tilt for HBO’s …

The Weeknd‘s IMDB credits are stacking up. While he was on the road performing his latest albums Dawn FM and After Hours in stadiums last year — and quietly teasing his upcoming HBO series The Idol — the musician born Abel Tesfaye was also sitting on details about his next …