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“Break it Kind of Guy”: Eric Church previews another new song off his 'Soul' album

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ABCBefore he rolls out his triple album, Heart & Soul, in April, Eric Church has been gradually offering fans new songs off the project. This week, he returns with “Break it Kind of Guy,” one of the tracks on his Soul album.

That project also contains previously-released songs such as “Bad Mother Trucker” and Eric’s single, “Hell of a View.”

As always, Eric’s Church Choir fan club gets the first listen to the new track. The Church Choir can listen to “Break it Kind of Guy” and watch its lyric video now, while the general public will have to wait until Friday.

Meanwhile, Eric also recently sat down with Garden and Gun for an intimate interview that took place on his Nashville-area property. As part of the conversation, Eric recalled writing the 24 tracks that appear on his upcoming triple album, a process that he remembers as “manic.”

“Every little thing became a song,” he says. At the time, Eric and his crew were holed up in a makeshift recording studio in the North Carolina mountains, knees deep in a weeks-long intensive writing and recording retreat.

“I couldn’t turn it off. There were times when I didn’t sleep for days,” he adds of that time.

Since that month he spent in the mountains, Eric says, he hasn’t written any new music. That doesn’t worry him, though: He’s counting on eventually drawing inspiration from being in nature, away from the bustling crowds of Music City.

“The seclusion has been good for my career. I’m not a big people guy. You’re a mile from any road, and that works for my personality,” he adds.

By Carena Liptak
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Pierce Brosnan joins Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as Dr. Fate in the superhero flick 'Black Adam'

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Mike Marsland/WireImage(LOS ANGELES) — “Half of everything is luck,” Sean Bean’s 006 tells Pierce Brosnan in the opening of his first 007 film Goldeneye. “The other half?” Bond asks.

“Fate.” 

As fate would have it, Brosnan has just been cast as Fate — Dr. Fate — in the DC Comics universe’s next big project, Black Adam, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Variety reports.

With his golden cape and Spartan-like helmet, Kent Nelson/Dr. Fate is a super-strong sorcerer and psychic, and incidentally one of DC’s oldest comic characters, making his first appearance in 1940.

He’s also a member of the Justice Society, which predates the Justice League, and includes Adam, Atom Smasher, Hawkman, and Cyclone.

In addition to Johnson’s ancient, godlike anti-hero Black Adam, Aldis Hodge has already been cast as Hawkman, Noah Centineo will play Atom Smasher, and Quintessa Swindell will play Cyclone.

The Warner Bros. movie was set for a December, 2021 opening, but due to pandemic delays, it won’t start shooting until April, with a possible summer, 2022 release.

Black Adam will be directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, who directed Johnson opposite Emily Blunt in Disney’s Jungle Cruise, which was also delayed by the pandemic; its new release date is July 29.

By Stephen Iervolino
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Scarlett Johansson claims she "made a career" from her past controversies

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ABC/Kelsey McNeal(LOS ANGELES) — Scarlett Johansson will say goodbye to the Marvel Cinematic Universe when her final film, Black Widow, premieres in theaters and on Disney+ this summer.

While she will always appreciate her breakout role, playing super spy Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow, the 36-year-old actress believes her career was defined by something else — her past mistakes.

Speaking to U.K. magazine The Gentlewoman for its spring/summer issue, the two-time Oscar winner admits she’s “a person” and will sometimes make the wrong decision.

Despite that, when weighing her past controversies, Johansson admits, “I’ve out of it.”

Some past controversies include her support of embattled director Woody Allen or for starring in Ghost in the Shell, where she became a punchline for whitewashing characters.

Says Johansson, “I’m going to have opinions about things, because that’s just who I am.”

“I mean, everyone has a hard time admitting when they’re wrong about stuff, and for all of that to come out publicly, it can be embarrassing,” the actress furthered. “To have the experience of, ‘Wow, I was really off mark there, or I wasn’t looking at the big picture, or I was inconsiderate’… I’m also a person.”

Johansson also expressed that “actors have obligations to have a public role in society” because they are meant to entertain — not drive a political agenda.

“The idea that you’re obligated to because you’re in the public eye is unfair. You didn’t choose to be a politician, you’re an actor,” the Marriage Story star argued. “Of course, whatever you say, whether it’s politically correct or not, any statement you make, or how you live your life, people are obviously going to take issue with it.”

In the end, Johansson allowed, “We judge each other all the time” but maintained, “It’s not normal to be that exposed.”

By Megan Stone
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Justin Moore is 'Straight Outta the Country' with his just-announced new batch of tunes

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Cody VillalobosAfter spending much of the past year in his Arkansas home, Justin Moore is gearing up to release new music. The singer’s eight-song Straight Outta the Country project will arrive on April 23.

Justin announced the news on his The Justin Moore Podcast on Thursday morning, sharing that the new collection will speak to his rural upbringing and continuing devotion to small-town family life.

Straight Outta the Country features Justin’s current single, “We Didn’t Have Much,” which is currently rising at country radio. The new album is available for pre-order today. You’ll get access to an acoustic version of the single, plus another new track called “She Ain’t Mine No More,” at midnight on Friday when you pre-order the collection.

Justin also has several live appearances coming up: on Saturday, March 27, he’ll hit the stage for a sold-out show at Billy Bob’s Texas, the famed Fort Worth honky tonk. 

Here’s the full track list for Strait Outta the Country:

“Hearing Things”
“Consecutive Days Alive”
“We Didn’t Have Much”
“She Ain’t Mine No More”
“More Than Me”
“Straight Outta the Country”
“You Keep Getting Me Drunk”
“We Didn’t Have Much” (Acoustic)


By Carena Liptak
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Millie Bobby Brown explains her "love" of monster movies and how they've been cathartic in the pandemic

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Photo credit: Vince Valitutti(NEW YORK) — Millie Bobby Brown entered into extremely familiar territory with her latest sci-fi film, Godzilla vs Kong.

Brown tells ABC Audio that starring in Netflix’s Stranger Things and in 2019’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters has allowed her to become sort of a pro when it comes to the monster movie world.

“I’m kind of very used to it at this point,” she says. “I started off in this industry at eight. I was doing a few things here and there. But then I shaved my hair off and I was immediately looking at a tennis ball, pretending it was a monster in Stranger Things. So I’ve been very much exposed to that kind of CGI, special effects kind of thing, and love it.”

While Brown explains that she did step out of her sci-fi genre for her Netflix mystery film Enola Holmes, which she also produced, the actress says coming back to the Godzilla franchise was refreshing and even a bit cathartic. 

“What I like about sci-fi and specifically that CGI element of our tech, and our movies, and TV, is that it really takes you into a different world,” explains Brown, who returns as a teenage Madison Russell. “And especially during this time during the pandemic, it’s been so stressful and scary.”

“So watching something that can take you into a different world — there’s a calming effect to that,” Brown continues. “Things like animations… I love things like that. It helps me just kind of immerse into a different world and feel like I’m not kind of having to deal with my own problems for a second.”

Godzilla vs Kong, also starring Brian Tyree Henry, hits theaters and HBO Max on March 31.

By Candice Williams
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