Whether you slap your famous name on the bottle or serve as a star spokesperson, scoring a fragrance deal is a great way for to make some extra cash… just ask Adam Levine. Or Brad Pitt. This week brings news of four new celebrity perfume tie-ins, ranging from Britain’s biggest boy band to two Hollywood A-listers and a reality TV star-turned-fashion-designer. Watch out, Justin Bieber! One Direction’s Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson have inked a deal with Olivann Beauty to launch a women’s fragrance and “ancillary products. Read More...
This ain't no lie: While Netflix's hit drama Elite and the new Peacock series One of Us Is Lying both come from the same showrunner and revolve around a murder mystery set in high school, they are not the same show. Darío Madrona went from creating the fan-favorite Spanish soap straight into adapting Karen M. McManus' best-selling novel about five teens who walk into detention, only to have four make it out alive, but he tells EW that One of Us Is Lying isn't just an American version of Elite. Read More...
At first blush, the premise isn’t one that inspires confidence: a Jim Jarmusch vampire movie. Has it come to this? Has the deadpan downtown auteur behind such films as Stranger Than Paradise, Down by Law, and Broken Flowers finally caved to the commercial imperatives of the Hollywood marketplace and entered the Twilight zone? You can relax. The undead couple in Only Lovers Left Alive are a decidedly Jarmuschian strain of bloodsucker. Read More...
