Hulu has ordered a third season of the comedy series ‘Only Murders in the Building’ starring Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez.

Hulu Originals and ABC Entertainment president Craig Erwich in a statement:  “Only Murders in the Building is the true crown jewel of our slate. Its appeal across generations, the intersection of humor and heart, and its truly original approach are a hallmark of and testament to Dan [Fogelman], John [Hoffman], Steve, Marty and Selena’s work. We are grateful to be able to continue telling the stories of Charles, Oliver and Mabel to viewers that have consistently shown us they crave more of this story.”

Only Murders in the Building follows the three leads as they try to solve a murder in their New York apartment building and record a true-crime podcast about it. Season two found Charles (Martin), Oliver (Short) and Mabel (Gomez) also implicated in the death of the building’s board president and the unwilling subjects of a competing podcast.

The show also recently received an impressive 17 Emmy Award nominations, including for Outstanding Comedy Series, as well as nominations for both Martin Short and Steve Martin in the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series category.

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Selling Sunset star Heather Rae El Moussa (née Young) is pregnant.  Heather and her husband, HGTV star Tarek El Moussa, are expecting their first baby together after attempting to conceive through IVF. The 35-year-old realtor announced the news via Instagram on Wednesday, July 13, posting a maternity photo shoot along with the caption: “Surprise!!! Baby El Moussa coming early 2023!! ”

The couple also confirmed the news to People, telling the magazine that the news was a huge shock because they were in the middle of IVF treatments. Heather said: “We just weren’t expecting this. We had just gone through IVF. We had embryos on ice. We had a plan. I think when you least expect it and there’s no stress in your life, the world just brought us what was meant to be.  I’m so excited that it happened like this.”

40-year-old Tarek also shares two children with his former “Flip or Flop” co-star and ex-wife, Christina Haack — daughter Taylor, 11, and son Brayden, 6.  Tarek said: “I’m just obsessed with my kids. They’re my everything, so having another one is just icing on the cake. I’m so excited.” 

Tarek and Heather first began dating in July 2019, and  were married in October 2021 at a hotel near Santa Barbara, Calif.

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Cardi B has dropped the music video for her new track “Hot Sh*t” featuring Kanye West and Lil Durk. The video, directed by Lado Kvataniya, arrives less than two weeks after Cardi dropped the collab with Ye and Durk for her first single since ‘Up.”

The new visual kicks-off with Cardi standing on a platform on top of a skyscraper, defying the laws of gravity. The video features shots of Lil Durk and Kanye West separately, with Ye’s part animated. In an interview earlier this month, Cardi explained that the music video for the song was delayed because of the CGI technology. “I couldn’t maneuver or move how I wanted to, because I was very confused. After I finished the video, I find out that this s**t takes so long. I did this video around March, and it’s still not even ready yet. And it’s just so frustrating that I’m like, ‘You know what? Just put the f***ing song out. I don’t even give a f**k anymore. I’m over it.’”

Take a look at the video for “Hot Sh*t” – here.

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After a two-year hiatus, Lil Wayne announced that his 6th annual Lil WeezyAna festival will return to his hometown of New Orleans. The one-day event will be held on Aug. 27 at Champions Square. In addition to a headline performance from Weezy himself, this year’s lineup includes Moneybagg Yo, Coi Leray, Babyface Ray, and Rob 49, as well as some surprise guests.

Young Money president Mack Maine said in a statement:  “We’re glad to be back home! New Orleans birthed us and we can travel and hit the stage anywhere in the world, but there’s no place like home!  As always, we will be honoring the many lives lost in Hurricane Katrina as this year marks the 17th year anniversary. Wayne is excited to get back home as this one will be one you won’t want to miss!”

Lil Wayne is also giving back, by donating $0.50 of every ticket sold to support youth educational initiatives in New Orleans. Tickets go on sale Friday, July 15 at 10 a.m. local time.

Lil Wayne Announces 2022 Lil WeezyAna Fest; Lineup Revealed

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The producers of the Broadway show “Funny Girl” announced that the former “Glee” star and Emmy nominee Lea Michele will be replacing Beanie Feldstein in the title role of Fanny Brice, beginning on Sept. 6.  Michele will be joined by four-time Tony Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh, who will replace Jane Lynch in the role of Fanny Brice’s mother.

Michele wrote on Instagram after the news was announced:  “A dream come true is an understatement  I’m so incredibly honored to join this amazing cast and production and return to the stage playing Fanny Brice on Broadway. See you September 6th.”

Feldstein and Lynch were expected to leave the show on Sept. 25, however Feldstein just announced on Instagram that she would be leaving the Broadway musical on July 31, two months earlier than expected.  The 29-year-old wrote: “Playing Fanny Brice on Broadway has been a lifelong dream of mine, and doing so for the last few months has been a great joy and true honor. Once the production decided to take the show in a different direction, I made the extremely difficult decision to step away sooner than anticipated.”  Feldstein concluded, “The people I have had the great joy of bringing ‘Funny Girl’ to life with every night, both on and off the stage, are all remarkably talented and exceptional humans and I hope you continue to join them on Henry Street after I depart on July 31st.”

“Fanny Brice” standby Julie Benko is schedule to perform the play’s title role from August 2 to Sept. 4 and on Thursdays thereafter beginning Sept. 8. The show marks the first Broadway revival of “Funny Girl” since it premiered in 1964, with Barbra Streisand giving a now iconic performance as comedian Fanny Brice.

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The 2022 Emmy nominations were announced by J.B. Smoove and Melissa Fumero on Tuesday morning in Los Angeles, with the drama series ‘Succession’ leading the field with the most nominations overall at 25. The comedy series ‘Ted Lasso’ and the limited series ‘White Lotus’ earned 20 nods apiece.

Euphoria, Ozark and Only Murders in the Building were also among the shows with multiple Emmy nominations. Zendaya became the youngest two-time Emmy acting nominee at age 25, and the youngest producing nominee for Euphoria. Her co-star Sydney Sweeney was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in both the comedy and drama categories for Euphoria and White Lotus.

32-year-old Quinta Brunson is now the first Black artist to earn three Emmy nominations for Best Comedy, Best Lead Actress in a Comedy and Best Writing for a Comedy for Abbott Elementary, and is also the youngest actress to be nominated for Lead Actress in a Comedy.

This year’s winners will be announced during the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, Sept. 12, airing live at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT on NBC and Peacock.

For the full list of nominations, head here.

Lea Michele Is Broadway’s New ‘Funny Girl’ Replacing Beanie Feldstein, Says “A Dream Come True Is An Understatement” – Update

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Earlier this week, reports surfaced that Meek Mill was officially parting ways with JAY-Z‘s Roc Nation Management after a decade on their roster.  Meek and Roc Nation joined forces to create Meek’s Dremachasers label as well as teaming up to launch a non-profit organization, Reform Alliance.

Following the news that broke about him leaving Roc Nation, Meek took to Twitter to clarify, explaining that he is “personally handling” his own businesses and that he is still very much a part of the Roc Nation family. He followed-up with another tweet that the public should not be equate his relationship with Roc to his relationship with Atlantic.

In the past year, Meek had previously expressed his frustrations with the label for not promoting his latest album Expensive Pain, tweeting at the time: “They didn’t put nothing into expensive pain and then said I can’t drop another project for 9 months at the end of my contract after I made them 100’s of millions…how would can anybody survive that…most rappers can’t speak because they depend on these companies “I don’t.” 

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DaniLeigh has returned with her new single, “Dead To Me,” along with the official music video for the track.  The song alludes to her highly-publicized relationship troubles with rapper DaBaby, who she shares a daughter with.

Dead To Me is expected to appear on DaniLeigh’s forthcoming project, My Side, which she described in a new interview:  “I feel like the project is closure for me to just move on for my next chapter in life and just focus on having fun and being a mom and living life in a positive light.”

Check out the video for “Dead To Me” – here.

New Video: DaniLeigh – ‘Dead to Me’

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Amber Heard is seeking a mistrial after a jury in Fairfax County, Va., ruled largely in favor of her ex-husband Johnny Depp during their highly publicized defamation trial.  According to redacted court documents published by Deadline, Heard’s attorneys requested that Judge Penney Azcarate throw out the $10.35 million verdict awarded to Depp over allegations that one of the jurors had not actually been summoned to participate in the trial.

The court documents were filed to supplement an earlier filing from June in which Heard’s attorney Elaine Bredehoft first claimed that Juror 15 was not the same person listed on the jury panel. Bredehoft alleged that the intended juror and the actual juror have the same last name and address but that the person who had been summoned to participate was born in 1945 and that the person who participated was born in 1970.  Bredhoft wrote in the document that a “mistrial should be declared and a new trial ordered,” arguing that Heard’s legal right to due process was compromised.

The 58-year-old Depp filed the $50 million lawsuit against his ex-wife Heard, 35, after she published a 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post claiming that she was a victim of domestic violence, though didn’t name him. Heard countersued Depp for $100 million.

Depp was awarded $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. The court also awarded $2 million in compensatory damages to Heard for her counterclaim that she had been defamed by Depp’s attorney (who had referred to her allegations of domestic violence as a “hoax.”).

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Disney’s “Thor: Love and Thunder,” the fourth standalone Thor Marvel movie, won the weekend box office with $143 million in its opening weekend.  “Thor 4” had a bigger opening weekend than 2017’s “Thor: Ragnarok,” which opened to $123 million in North America. “Love and Thunder” also had the third-biggest opening weekend of the year behind “Jurassic World Dominion” ($145 million) and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” ($185 million). At the international box office, “Love and Thunder” opened ahead of expectations with $159 million from 47 markets, with $302 million in earnings globally.

“Thor: Ragnarok” filmmaker Taika Waititi returned to direct “Love and Thunder,” which follows Chris Hemsworth’s Thor as he teams up with his former beau Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), who now wields her own hammer as the Mighty Thor.

Universal and Illumination’s “Minions: The Rise of Gru” took 2nd place with $45.5 million in earnings, falling 57% from its opening weekend. At No. 3 was Paramount’s “Top Gun: Maverick”, brining in $15.5 million in its seventh weekend of release.  Director Baz Luhrmann’s musical biopic “Elvis” landed in fourth place with $11 million, and Universal’s “Jurassic World Dominion” took the fifth slot, earning $8.4 million in its fifth weekend on the big screen.

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