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NEED TO KNOW Sly Stone died on Monday, June 9. He was 82The rocker was known for Sly and the Family Stone hits like “Dance to the Music” and “Everyday People””While we mourn his absence, we take solace in knowing that his extraordinary musical legacy will continue to resonate and inspire for generations to come,” his family said in a statement Sly Stone, the leader of the band Sly and the Family Stone, one of the most influential bands in the development of funk, soul, R&B, rock and psychedelic music, has died. He was 82. “It is with profound sadness…

NEED TO KNOW Tom Felton was asked about Jason Isaacs on the Tony Awards red carpet and praised his Harry Potter co-starIsaacs responded on X, commending Felton for presenting that evening and sharing his excitement for the actor’s next gigFelton will reprise his role as Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway, beginning this fall Jason Isaacs is excited to see Tom Felton return to his roots as Draco Malfoy. The White Lotus star tweeted his thoughts on the matter after seeing Felton appear at the  2025 Tony Awards. While speaking with E! News on the red carpet,…

NEED TO KNOW Jodie Comer told British GQ that she realized she felt like she was not exercising “the emotional part” of herself while acting in 2021’s Free Guy with Ryan Reynolds“I realized that’s actually where I get my fulfillment — trying to find those places,” she said of taking on more serious partsComer and Reynolds costarred in Free Guy as a video game player and non-playable character (NPC) in the game who combine forces to prove that a gaming company stole Comer’s character’s source code for a massively popular game Jodie Comer is reflecting on the movie that made…

NEED TO KNOW Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon spoke about their new film The Best You Can as it premiered Saturday, June 7, at the Tribeca Festival in New York CitySedgwick admitted that she “was very emotional” filming a breakup scene between their characters, as she “had a little crossover” mentally regarding her husbandSedgwick and Bacon have been married for 36 years Kyra Sedgwick is not keen for life to imitate art when it comes to her new movie with husband Kevin Bacon. The couple, who have been married for 36 years, star in The Best You Can, marking the first…

NEED TO KNOW Billy Bob Thornton does not consider himself “much of a part of Hollywood” despite his decades-long successful career as an actorThe Landman star told PEOPLE at a for your consideration event for the Paramount+ series that he prefers to “stay home” rather than engage in politics or the inner workings of the film and television industry”I’m at home with the family, or I’m in a recording studio or on the road or making this,” he said Billy Bob Thornton’s work is prolific, but the Academy Award-winning actor does not necessarily consider himself a Hollywood celebrity. When Thornton,…

NEED TO KNOW Wyclef Jean recalled giving Whitney Houston feedback during a recording session as part of the Storytellers event at Tribeca FestivalHe said he could “hear a needle drop” after telling the late legend that she was “flat”Jean and Houston collaborated on the 1998 song “My Love Is Your Love” Can you imagine giving Whitney Houston feedback? Wyclef Jean can. During the Storytellers event with Mark Ronson at Tribeca Festival on Saturday, June 7, both musicians recalled anecdotes from their experiences in the music industry, which included Jean, 55, critiquing the “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” singer during a…

Coraline had a lot of talent behind it when it came out in 2009. The movie was a stop-motion animated release based on the beloved dark fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman, directed by Henry Selick, who was best known for directing The Nightmare Before Christmas. It was also a beautiful film, one of the highlights of 3D animated releases when that format returned to popularity in the 2000s. What resulted was a brilliantly dark movie that received high critical praise and has become a successful box office hit thanks to its recent re-release. Coraline tells the story of the titular…

“Weird Al” Yankovic has amassed countless fans over the decades, including some of the artists he’s spoofed. And in the musical parody pioneer’s new Billboard cover story published Monday (June 9), Don McLean shared that he thinks Yankovic’s take on one of his classic hits is even better than his. Speaking to executive editor Rebecca Milzoff, the folk-rock legend praised “The Saga Begins,” Yankovic’s iconic take on “American Pie,” in which he hilariously describes the plot of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. “When I heard his version, I thought it was better than the original,” McLean said.…

Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal’s action movie, which made over $101 million at the box office, becomes a streaming hit shortly after its debut. After his Oscar win for Good Will Hunting in 1997, Affleck established himself as an action star during the late 1990s and early 2000s with roles in Armageddon, Reindeer Games, Pearl Harbor, and The Sum of All Fears. Affleck further established his action persona with his role as Batman in the DCEU movies Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League. Bernthal, on the other hand, also has an equally established action persona due to…

Chappell Roan gets the job done — and in this case, that job is publicly shaming her fans’ terrible exes, including one who was apparently a little too fond of their family. At her headlining Primavera Sound set Saturday (June 7), the pop star took a break during a performance of her Billboard Hot 100 top 5 single “The Giver” to draw slips of paper submitted by audience members out of a hat. “Now, I asked some of you to give me the names of your exes, and why they didn’t get the job done,” she explained into the microphone,…