An uptown lady was seen in her uptown world.

Effectively, technically it was midtown.

Billy Joel’s ex-wife Christie Brinkley was noticed at Madison Sq. Backyard throughout the Piano Man’s live performance on Friday, dancing to the music that was based mostly on her.

The 70-year-old mannequin was proven on the video board throughout the music as she danced and smiled whereas within the crowd. A fan captured the second on video and posted it to TikTok with the caption, “40 years later and your ex man continues to be grinning at you want that whereas he sings the music he wrote about how wealthy and sizzling you’re?”

Brinkley posted a montage of movies from the live performance, together with a clip of her and her daughter Sailor Brinkley Cook dinner singing “Uptown Woman.”

The hit music was launched in 1983, with the unique supply of inspiration of the music being debated at occasions. When Joel first wrote the music, he was courting mannequin Elle MacPherson and titled the music “Uptown Ladies” in spite of everything fashions in Manhattan. Joel stated on “The Howard Stern Present” in 2010 that when he started courting Brinkley, he made the music singular.

“I contacted Christie in a while down the highway after Elle and I had stopped courting,” Joel instructed Stern. “Then I began courting Christie, and moderately than it being about all these completely different women, she grew to become the uptown lady. I began writing it about one particular person.”

Brinkley starred within the “Uptown Woman” music video alongside Joel. The 2 married in 1985 and divorced in 1994.

Their daughter, 38-year-old Alexa Ray Joel, was additionally in attendance on the live performance. She appeared on stage together with her father for a duet, singing “Say Goodbye to Hollywood” and “To Sir With Love.”

Joel, 74, was performing the one hundred and first present of his month-to-month residency at Madison Sq. Backyard, the place he has carried out sold-out live shows as soon as a month since 2014. The ultimate present of his enviornment run is ready for July 26.

Many stars have made cameo appearances throughout the residency, with Jerry Seinfeld and Sting showing on stage on the one centesimal present in March.

This time, an uptown lady got here to see a downtown man.

Brinkley mentioned being referred to as the music’s title character with Yahoo in 2019.

“Being the ‘Uptown Woman’ was actually enjoyable and it stays actually enjoyable to have a theme music,” Brinkley instructed Yahoo. “You understand, you go into tennis and so they play it. You go right here or on a chat present and so they play it as you stroll out. It is actually enjoyable to have a theme music, you recognize? What number of (individuals) get to have that?”

Billy Joel is “Movin’ Out” of MSG! The legendary musician introduced the tip of his 10-year residency in Manhattan — here is when he’ll play his remaining present. NBC New York’s Andrew Siff reviews.

The beloved sitcom Seinfeld was famously by no means canceled, as a result of co-creator Jerry Seinfeld and his fellow forged members determined they need to stroll away after 9 seasons, leaving viewers wanting extra. However for a few decade, Seinfeld has repeatedly complained that “political correctness” is stifling comedy of the type that made him a family identify and fabulously rich.

As way back as 2015 — proper round when our up to date concepts of “cancel tradition” have been starting to take form on social media — Seinfeld was speaking about not taking part in faculty campuses for worry of scholars labeling his materials racist or sexist. In 2024, he’s sounding the identical tune, showing on a current episode of the New Yorker Radio Hour to inform David Remnick that iconic sitcoms aren’t any extra due to political correctness.

“It was once you’d go dwelling on the finish of the day, most individuals would go, ‘Oh, Cheers is on,” he stated within the interview. “‘Oh, M.A.S.H. is on, oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on. All within the Household is on.’ You simply anticipated, there’ll be some humorous stuff we are able to watch on TV tonight. Effectively, guess what? The place is it? That is the results of the acute left and PC crap and other people worrying a lot about offending different individuals. Whenever you write a script and it goes into 4 or 5 totally different fingers, committees, teams — ‘Right here’s our thought of this joke’ — effectively, that’s the tip of your comedy.”

The remarks weren’t considerably totally different from these Seinfeld has supplied on the state of comedy in years previous. However, and although he was on the podcast to advertise nothing extra transgressive than a Netflix film in regards to the invention of Pop-Tarts, far-right grievance peddlers this time seized on Seinfeld’s argument as an epic takedown of their “woke” enemies.

Amongst these influencers to share and have fun the clip have been serial plagiarist and misinformation spreader Benny Johnson of Turning Level USA, who tweeted that Seinfeld had “lastly” gone “FULL BLAST on Left’s destruction of comedy.” Conspiracy theorist and election denier Dinesh D’Souza used the soundbite to assault pro-Palestine protesters on faculty campuses, writing, “One drawback with the humorless activists within the camps, and within the media, is that they’ll’t stand to listen to anybody else snort, least of all at them!” The nameless X/Twitter account @EndWokeness promoted the Seinfeld section to 2.5 million followers, and website proprietor Elon Musk, a profoundly unfunny man who dabbles within the sort of racist ideology that evokes mass shootings, amplified their publish with the caption “Make comedy authorized once more!” In the meantime, conservative media shops and organizations together with The Blaze picked and Youth America’s Basis picked up the video.

Whereas a consultant for Seinfeld didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon extremists embracing his newest criticism of unspecified leftists, it’s price noting that the comic makes an odd ally for as we speak’s rabid reactionaries. Seinfeld is thought for working clear and eschewing curse phrases. Seinfeld the sequence stays fashionable and, with a couple of obvious exceptions, has not are available for reevaluation as a problematic comedy. (The showrunners even scrapped a 1991 episode that made mild of gun violence, with Seinfeld and collaborators deciding it was tasteless.) Seinfeld was additionally the one one, throughout a infamous 2011 roundtable on HBO with Louis C.Ok., Chris Rock, and Ricky Gervais, to protest that white individuals ought to by no means use the N-word (C.Ok. and Gervais each did so within the dialog). And, when instantly requested outdoors a resort final 12 months whether or not cancel tradition is hurting comedy, he replied, with some exasperation, “No, I don’t. I don’t.”

What’s extra, proper after giving the viral interview reply, Seinfeld admitted to Remnick that he has by no means had his jokes killed in committee as he’s describing, and that Seinfeld co-creator Larry David, who simply concluded the 24-year run of the customarily provocative Curb Your Enthusiasm, was by no means artistically constrained in that method, both. Critically acclaimed and extensively watched community comedies like Abbott Elementary definitely exist as we speak, and loads of individuals get their fill of racier fare with long-running cable favorites like It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia. It’s potential that the perceived lack of a mega-hit like Cheers in 2024 has extra to do with the rise of streaming platforms, that are brimming over with comedies that compete for consideration from audiences besieged with algorithmically focused leisure.

Seinfeld’s directorial debut, Unfrosted, enters that very same area on Friday, for right-wingers and leftists alike to guage on its deserves — together with, apparently, whether or not it’s someway edgy or “triggering.” With a PG-13 ranking, nevertheless, it appears unlikely to offend. Tradition warriors can flow into Seinfeld’s criticisms all they like, but when they’re hoping he’ll begin to court docket controversy in his act, the joke is at their expense.

As titles go, this may sound like one among my extra hubristic — not fairly “Francis Crick was fallacious about molecular biology” however not 1,000,000 miles away.

Seinfeld, created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, is sort of merely the very best sitcom of all time — incisively written and superbly carried out. It’s so rattling memorable that even being overwhelmed across the head with a two-by-four couldn’t shift moments like “was that fallacious” and “my title is George, I’m unemployed and I dwell with my mother and father” from my consciousness. (That doesn’t sound humorous out of context? Then watch the present, you lazy sods.)

Jerry Seinfeld is unimpressed with trendy tv comedy. He informed the New Yorker:

Nothing actually impacts comedy. Folks at all times want it. They want it so badly and so they don’t get it. It was that you simply’d go house on the finish of the day, most individuals would go “Oh, Cheers is on. Oh, M*A*S*H is on. Oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on. All within the Household is on.” You simply anticipated [there will] be some humorous stuff we will watch on TV tonight. Effectively guess what? The place is it? The place is it?

The very first thing to say about this — which I’m not the primary to level out — is that just a little present referred to as Curb Your Enthusiasm simply completed, created by, of all individuals, Seinfeld’s longtime collaborator Larry David. However usually he has a degree. 

So, what’s fallacious? Seinfeld continued: 

That is the results of the acute left, and P.C. crap, and other people worrying a lot about offending different individuals…

Without any consideration-winger, I ought to most likely agree. However I’m simply unsure it’s true. Definitely, political correctness hurts comedy. You get individuals kidding themselves into believing that Hannah Gadsby is humorous — a perception so delusional that it makes Heaven’s Gate seem like the FloWave Ocean Vitality Analysis Facility. You get individuals campaigning to have Dave Chappelle faraway from Netflix, which is way extra hubristic than writing “Francis Crick was fallacious about molecular biology”.

However the fact is that even when “woke” was generally understood to be the previous tense type of “wake” we nonetheless wouldn’t have Cheers, or All within the Household, or their twenty first Century equivalents, as a result of our tradition has moved on. It’s much more fragmented, socially and culturally, and it’s far, far extra on-line. Anticipating that type of comedy to persist into the 2020s is extra delusional than anticipating Romantic poems to reign and rule within the Nineteen Twenties. Far fewer individuals watch tv in any respect.

Seinfeld, initially a slapstick comedian, thinks stand-up comedy has earned the audiences that TV comedy has misplaced. “Now they’re going to see stand-up comics,” he mentioned, “As a result of they don’t seem to be policed by anybody. The viewers polices us. We all know after we’re off monitor. We all know immediately. And we regulate to it immediately.” 

I don’t suppose that’s true. I feel stand-up comedy underwent a cultural renaissance as a result of all of the higher-ups at streaming providers realised that it was low-cost as chips. If you wish to make a sitcom or a sketch present it’s a must to rent writers, actors, set designers, digital camera operators, wardrobe individuals et cetera advert nauseum. If you wish to stream somebody’s stand-up particular you simply want a man on a stage making jokes about his penis. It’s an enormous monetary win.

I’m biased right here as a result of I feel that “anti-woke” comedians are usually as humorous as Lyme illness. There are nonetheless nice comedians, like Dave Attell or Simon Evans, but when I see yet another greasy Joe Rogan sycophant claiming to be some form of harmful firebrand as a result of they use the phrase “retarded” I’m going to turn out to be a dictator and mandate sitting down.

Stand-up is as doomed as sitcoms in the long term

The very fact is that some artwork kinds weren’t meant to final perpetually. Stand-up is as doomed as sitcoms in the long term, as a result of the inventive potentialities are too restricted. Don’t misunderstand me: it’s an insanely tough factor to do — or, at the very least, to do nicely. However the curler derby additionally took a hell of quite a lot of expertise and dedication and it’s nonetheless by no means going to achieve the cultural heights of the Nineteen Forties once more. Stand-up simply doesn’t have the endurance of a movie or the spontaneity of podcasts and social media. (To show my level about cultural fragmentation by dropping a reference that can baffle 95 per cent Critic readers, I loved Nick Mullen’s The Yr of the Dragon however it was no Cum City.)

Comedians of the 2020s needs to be daring in terms of their material, sure. However they need to even be stylistically daring. We dwell in a really totally different world to that of Elaine Benes, Cosmo Kramer and the opposite Seinfeld characters and we’d like other ways to snicker at ourselves.

It might be a mistake to look backwards. Million Greenback Excessive, the comedy trio behind the short-lived Grownup Swim present World Peace, have been successfully Alt-Proper, by no means thoughts un-PC, however nonetheless earned grudging respect in comedic circles as a result of their work was so progressive, up to date and downright peculiar. I’m not placing them ahead as cultural exemplars, however it’s nonetheless unhappy, years on, to see right-leaning individuals frantically signal-boost a nostalgic ode to the times of Cheers. Why don’t we strive one thing new?

Billie Eilish is on a sizzling streak after her latest Oscar win for the whisper-sung ballad from Barbie, “What Was I Made For?” And at this time, the singer introduced a world tour to assist her upcoming album Hit Me Exhausting and Tender, which drops Could 17.

Eilish stops within the Bay Space on Dec. 10 and 11 at San Jose’s SAP Heart. The Stay Nation-produced tour kicks off in Quebec in September and ends in Dublin, Eire in July 2025.

At Coachella and in an Apple Music interview with Zane Lowe, Eilish teased new music from Hit Me Exhausting and Tender. Going by the snippets she’s shared, the album seems to usher in a assured, sensual period of proudly owning her queerness, which she lately spoke about in-depth in a Rolling Stone cowl story.

Tickets for the tour go on sale for American Specific cardholders on Tuesday, April 30 (at midday for Dec 10, and 1 p.m. for Dec 11). An artist presale additionally begins at the moment; a promo code can be despatched out by way of Eilish’s mailing record, the sign-up for which is on the backside of her web site. Remaining tickets for the 2 San Jose dates go on sale to most people on Friday, Could 3, at midday and 1 p.m. respectively.

To discourage scalping, tickets to Eilish’s tour could be resold at their unique value, not for a revenue, via Ticketmaster’s Face Worth Alternate. Eilish can also be making an effort to make the tour extra environmentally sustainable by lowering single-use plastics and inspiring followers to make use of public transit. A portion of North American ticket gross sales will go to environmental nonprofit REVERB.

Apr 29, 2024

Following the information of her extremely anticipated third studio album HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, set for launch on Could 17 [pre-order/add/save HERE], Billie Eilish has introduced area dates, produced by Stay Nation, for her HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR. Beginning in September 2024, Eilish will embark on her North American leg of the tour which runs by way of to the top of December 2024. The tour will proceed in Australia beginning February 2025 forward of her European, U.Okay., and Eire area dates beginning in April till late July. For a full record of tour dates, see beneath or go to billieeilish.com

Tickets for BILLIE EILISH: HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR shall be out there beginning with the American Specific® Presale starting Tuesday, April 30, with further presales operating all through the week. Any remaining tickets shall be out there through the normal on-sale beginning Friday, Could 3 on billieeilish.com. On-sale begin instances range by market, test native listings for extra data.

American Specific® Card Members should buy tickets earlier than most people starting Tuesday, April 30 (whereas provides final) – this is among the many leisure advantages American Specific Card Members can entry. Presale begin + finish instances will range by market, test your native listings at billieeilish.com for extra data.

SUSTAINABILITY EFFORTS

Billie Eilish will proceed her long-standing partnership with environmental nonprofit REVERB on this tour, constructing on the success of earlier efforts, which resulted in over $1 million donated to environmental, greenhouse gasoline discount, and local weather justice initiatives, greater than 150,000 fan actions, and rather more. Sustainability efforts on this tour will embrace lowering greenhouse gasoline air pollution, reducing single-use plastic waste, supporting local weather motion, and updating concession choices to advertise and encourage plant-based meals choices with Help+Feed.

TICKETS

Consistent with her dedication to creating a distinction within the environmental impacts of her music and touring, a portion of the proceeds from ticket gross sales in North America will go to REVERB and its ongoing effort to assist assist organizations throughout the nation addressing the impacts of meals insecurity and the local weather disaster.

ECO-VILLAGE

The Billie Eilish REVERB Eco-Villages shall be arrange at 2 places in the primary concourse of each present the place followers can participate within the tour’s sustainability efforts, join with nonprofits, and take significant motion for folks and the planet.

SUPPORT+FEED

For collective motion on the intersection of local weather and meals, Help+Feed shall be launching a 360 marketing campaign all through the tour. Following the success in 2022, Help+Feed will provide an expanded model of the Help+Feed Pledge inspiring followers to eat one plant-based meal a day for 30 days with digital components and neighborhood activations. Followers can even have the chance to take part in Plant-based Meals Drives in a number of cities alongside the tour to boost consciousness and collect meals to distribute to native communities.

TRANSPORT

Followers are inspired to hitch the trouble to make the HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR extra sustainable. The place attainable, take public transportation and carpool to and from the exhibits to assist cut back greenhouse gasoline air pollution and encourage extra public transportation choices. Followers will obtain data by way of electronic mail about public transportation choices earlier than the present.

VENUES

Venue companions are additionally serving to to minimize the environmental footprint of the tour. Along with efforts to lower waste by way of lowering or eliminating single-use plastics and diverting landfill waste with compost and recycling, venues shall be providing plant-based meals choices in any respect exhibits.

FAN PARTICIPATION

Deliver an empty reusable water bottle or donate for a customized RockNRefill Nalgene bottle to replenish on the free water refill stations situated at every venue. The RockNRefill bottles and refill stations are situated on the Eco-Villages in the primary concourse in any respect exhibits. Struggle quick style by choosing thrifted, upcycled, or borrowed garments as an alternative of shopping for new clothes to put on to exhibits.

HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR – NORTH AMERICA*

Solar Sep 29 – Québec, QC – Centre Videotron

Tue Oct 01 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Area

Wed Oct 02 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Area

Fri Oct 04 – Baltimore, MD – CFG Financial institution Area

Sat Oct 05 – Philadelphia, PA – Wells Fargo Middle

Mon Oct 07 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Area

Wed Oct 09 – Newark, NJ – Prudential Middle

Fri Oct 11 – Boston, MA – TD Backyard

Solar Oct 13 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Area

Wed Oct 16 – New York, NY – Madison Sq. Backyard

Thu Oct 17 – New York, NY – Madison Sq. Backyard

Fri Oct 18 – New York, NY – Madison Sq. Backyard

Sat Nov 02 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Area

Solar Nov 03 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Area

Wed Nov 06 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Area

Fri Nov 08 – Cincinnati, OH – Heritage Financial institution Middle

Solar Nov 10 – Saint Paul, MN – Xcel Vitality Middle

Mon Nov 11 – Saint Paul, MN – Xcel Vitality Middle

Wed Nov 13 – Chicago, IL – United Middle

Thu Nov 14 – Chicago, IL – United Middle

Sat Nov 16 – Kansas Metropolis, MO – T-Cell Middle

Solar Nov 17 – Omaha, NE – CHI Well being Middle Omaha

Tue Nov 19 – Denver, CO – Ball Area

Wed Nov 20 – Denver, CO – Ball Area

Tue Dec 03 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Area

Thu Dec 05 – Seattle, WA – Local weather Pledge Area

Fri Dec 06 – Seattle, WA – Local weather Pledge Area

Solar Dec 08 – Portland, OR – Moda Middle

Tue Dec 10 – San Jose, CA – SAP Middle at San Jose

Wed Dec 11 – San Jose, CA – SAP Middle at San Jose

Fri Dec 13 – Glendale, AZ – Desert Diamond Area

Solar Dec 15 – Inglewood, CA – Kia Discussion board

Mon Dec 16 – Inglewood, CA – Kia Discussion board

Tue Dec 17 – Inglewood, CA – Kia Discussion board

Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski scored a hat-trick within the second half to assist his facet battle again to say a hard-fought 4-2 win on Monday over guests Valencia, who have been main 2-1 once they have been diminished to 10 males simply earlier than the break.

With 5 video games remaining, Barca moved again to second in LaLiga on 73 factors as they leapfrogged shock package deal Girona, who’re third with 71.

– Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, extra (U.S.)

These two groups will meet in a Catalonia derby on Saturday which may resolve a top-two LaLiga end and a spot within the Spanish Tremendous Cup.

Barcelona’s win postponed for a few weeks Actual Madrid’s nearly inevitable LaLiga title celebrations as Carlo Ancelotti’s facet sit atop the standings on 84 factors.

Valencia keep eighth on 47 factors, two factors behind Actual Betis and 4 off Actual Sociedad within the battle for a European qualifying spot.

In Barca’s first sport since boss Xavi Hernandez stated he was reversing his determination to step down on the finish of the season, they struggled on a moist floor after heavy rain turned the match right into a frantic tussle marked by goalkeeping errors.

The guests wasted a sitter from close-range by Peter Federico early after which allowed Fermín López to go residence from a Raphinha cross to place Barca in entrance after 22 minutes.

However Valencia’s Hugo Duro struck within the twenty seventh, making the most of an error by keeper Marc-André ter Stegen who tried to chip a clearance from the sting of the field however as an alternative gifted the ball for the striker to equalise into the empty internet.

One other mistake by Barca’s defence 11 minutes later noticed Ronald Araújo bundle over Federico and Pepelu transformed the penalty to present the guests the lead.

Nevertheless, Valencia have been quickly right down to 10 males when keeper Giorgi Mamardashvili dealt with as he raced exterior his space simply earlier than the break and was proven a crimson card because the final man.

He failed to regulate a again move and stopped the ball together with his arm to cease Lamine Yamal operating by on the empty objective.

Barca piled on the stress after halftime and Valencia crumbled, with Lewandowski scoring with two headers from corners within the forty ninth and 82nd earlier than netting a free-kick in added time.

“It wasn’t straightforward… Within the first half we did not have a lot area,” Poland striker Lewandowski advised DAZN. “However the necessary factor is that we’re Barca and we all know that, though we conceded two targets, we will rating three and 4 targets.

“We knew we needed to play with endurance within the second half. We’re good now and we’ve got to consider Girona.”

Lewandowski is now fourth-top scorer in LaLiga on 16 targets, one behind Actual Madrid’s Jude Bellingham and Villarreal’s Alexander Sorloth and three off Girona’s Artem Dovbyk.

“I’m actually blissful for Robert [Lewandowski] as a result of he’s a spectacular participant who works terribly exhausting,” Xavi stated.

“He’s the staff’s objective scorer. He’s an instance within the dressing room, a frontrunner by way of how he works. He exhibits need, character, braveness…That is why he has scored a hat-trick right this moment. I’m very blissful for him.”

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona survived a tough first half to beat Valencia 4-2 with the assistance of a second half hat trick from Robert Lewandowski and a purple card to Valencia goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili on Monday.

On a wet night time in Catalonia, the house aspect dominated possession however was behind on the break resulting from two defensive errors.

Fermín López put Barcelona forward with a stunning glancing header halfway by means of the primary half.

Valencia levelled simply 5 minutes later because of a woeful intervention from keeper Marc Ter Stegen. He intercepted an extended ball 25 yards from his aim however he tried to be too fancy and Hugo Duro simply dispossessed him and ran the ball into the empty web.

Earlier than halftime, Valencia took the lead thanks to a different elementary mistake. Ronald Araújo’s mistimed sort out felled Peter Federico within the field and Pepelu coolly transformed the spot kick.

The steadiness of the match modified moments earlier than the break when Mamardashvili used a hand exterior the field to thwart a scoring likelihood by Lamine Yamal and was red-carded.

Lewandoski headed an equalizer from a nook kick after 50 minutes. Nevertheless, it took Barcelona till the 82nd to regain the lead from one other Lewandowski header after Valencia did not clear one other nook.

The hat trick got here within the third minute of stoppage time from a 25-yard free kick.

“It wasn’t simple,” Lewandowski mentioned. “Within the first half we didn’t discover any area in assault.”

Barcelona changed Girona in second place and was 11 factors behind Actual Madrid. Madrid wants 5 from its final 5 matches to ensure a thirty sixth Spanish league title.

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Disney unveiled a primary have a look at Mufasa: The Lion King, the brand new movie coming to theaters December 20 that explores the unlikely rise of the beloved king of the Pleasure Lands.

Introduced this morning is an all-star roster of expertise bringing new and fan-favorite characters to life — plus, celebrated award-winning songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda is writing the movie’s songs produced by Mark Mancina and Miranda, with further music and performances by Lebo M.

“Elton John. Tim Rice. Hans Zimmer. Lebo M. Mark Mancina. Beyoncé, Labrinth, Ilya Salmanzadeh. Beau Black, Ford Riley, the unbelievable music crew on ‘The Lion Guard,’ and so many musical contributors over time. The Lion King has an unbelievable musical legacy with music from a number of the best songwriters round, and I’m humbled and proud to be part of it. It’s been a pleasure working alongside Barry Jenkins to convey Mufasa’s story to life, and we are able to’t await audiences to expertise this movie in theaters,” Miranda stated.

Mufasa: The Lion King enlists Rafiki to relay the legend of Mufasa to younger lion cub Kiara, daughter of Simba and Nala, with Timon and Pumbaa lending their signature schtick. Informed in flashbacks, the story introduces Mufasa as an orphaned cub, misplaced and alone till he meets a sympathetic lion named Taka — the inheritor to a royal bloodline. The possibility assembly units in movement an expansive journey of a unprecedented group of misfits looking for their future — their bonds might be examined as they work collectively to evade a threatening and lethal foe.

New and returning solid members have been referred to as on to lend their voices to the movie:

• Aaron Pierre as Mufasa
• Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Taka, a lion prince with a shiny future who accepts Mufasa into his household as a brother
• Tiffany Boone as Sarabi
• Kagiso Lediga as Younger Rafiki
• Preston Nyman as Zazu
• Mads Mikkelsen as Kiros, a formidable lion with massive plans for his delight
• Thandiwe Newton as Taka’s mom, Eshe
• Lennie James as Taka’s father, Obasi
• Anika Noni Rose as Mufasa’s mom, Afia
• Keith David as Mufasa’s father, Masego
• John Kani as Rafiki
• Seth Rogen as Pumbaa
• Billy Eichner as Timon
• Donald Glover as Simba
• Introducing Blue Ivy Carter as Kiara, daughter of King Simba and Queen Nala
• And Beyoncé Knowles-Carter as Nala

Further casting consists of Braelyn Rankins, Theo Somolu, Folake Olowofoyeku, Joanna Jones, Thuso Mbedu, Sheila Atim, Abdul Salis and Dominique Jennings.

Mixing live-action filmmaking strategies with photoreal computer-generated imagery, Mufasa: The Lion King is directed by Barry Jenkins, produced by Adele Romanski & Mark Ceryak, and govt produced by Peter Tobyansen.

‘Too quickly to go away however but he’s gone,’ Ngannou wrote in a social media submit annoucing his son’s demise.

Former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou’s 15-month-old son Kobe has died, the boxer stated in a social media submit.

Ngannou, 37, posted a black and white photograph along with his son late on Monday and wrote, “Too quickly to go away however but he’s gone. My little boy, my mate, my accomplice Kobe was energetic and pleasure.”

“Now, he’s laying with out life. I shouted his identify time and again however he’s not responding.

“I used to be my greatest self subsequent to him and now I’ve no clue of who I’m. Life is so unfair to hit us the place it hurts probably the most,” Ngannou added.

After leaving the UFC, the French Cameroonian fighter switched to skilled boxing.

Ngannou was knocked out by Anthony Joshua in Saudi Arabia final month, his second heavyweight defeat since switching from MMA.

Ngannou had pushed world champion Tyson Fury throughout a controversial factors defeat in his first skilled boxing match in Saudi Arabia final October.

A couple of hours earlier than revealing Kobe’s demise, Ngannou had posted on X, regardless of his son: “What’s the aim of life if what we’re preventing tooth and nail to get away from is what lastly hit us the toughest?

“Why is life so unfair and cruel?”

The combat world reacted with messages of condolence.

“I’m so sorry to listen to of your loss Francis, my prayers are with you and your loved ones presently,” wrote fellow UFC fighter Conor McGregor on X.

The fighter’s supervisor, Marquel Martin, posted: “Please respect @francis_ngannou and his household throughout this traumatic time. I together with thousands and thousands (of) others will probably be praying for his or her power.”

Veteran ring announcer Michael Buffer stated on social media: “All the world of sports activities and past stand crushed and painfully supportive with Francis presently.

“Please know that thousands and thousands of us embrace little Kobe with our prayers.”