AMERICAN IDOL XIII: TOP 13: Clockwise From Top Left: Caleb Johnson, Emily Piriz, Sam Woolf, Kristen O'Connor, Ben Briley, Jessica Meuse, Majesty Rose, Dexter Roberts, Jena Irene, C.J. Harris, MK Nobilette, Malaya Watson and Alex Preston. (Photo Credit: Michael Becker / FOX Broadcasting. Copyright 2014)
Season 13 of American Idol has revealed the top 13 finalists. Fox’s hit singing competition changed things up this year, with America voting in 10 of the finalists and judges Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Lopez, and Keith Urban selecting the three additional contestants who made the top 13.
AI is also offering five ways to vote this year and they’re opening up voting at the beginning of the shows (doesn’t that mean whoever goes first has a longer voting period?). Fans can vote for their favs as soon as the performance is over via AmericanIdol.com, the AI App, text messaging, the toll-free number, and Google Search.
The 13 finalists will take to the stage on Wednesday, February 26th for the live performance show, singing songs that convey the “This is Me” message. The contestant with the lowest number of votes will leave the show on February 27th. The results show will also feature performances from season 12 winner Candice Glover and artist Jake Bugg.
Athelstan (George Blagden), once a devout monk living a peaceful and humble life, Athelstan is spared by Ragnar after his monastery is pillaged by the Vikings. (Photo by Jonathan Hession/HISTORY/Copyright 2014)
History’s Vikings returns for a second much-anticipated season two on Thursday, February 27, 2014 at 10pm ET/PT. The series features a clan of Norse warriors led by Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel), a fierce warrior eager to go West and seek out new lands. Among the show’s many colorful characters is a monk named Athelstan (George Blagden) who was captured by Ragnar at the beginning of season one and who, by the time season two rolls around, has gone from captive enemy to trusted friend.
Athelstan’s journey is one of the more complex of the Vikings characters, and during a conference call in support of the season two premiere, Blagden said, “I’ve gone on record before as saying that Athelstan goes through more change in the course of one and half seasons than Walter White [Breaking Bad] does in five. I will probably be chastised for ever having said that, but there is some sort of belief in me that there is that much change that he has to go through.”
Added Bladgen, “From episode five in season two onward, you see how this journey that Athelstan has gone on, how it really starts to affect him mentally and it’s not anymore about survival. It’s not about, ‘How do I make sure I’m not cut to pieces by some Viking in the town square?’ It’s not about, ‘How do I withstand this bizarre festival, Uppsala?’ It’s about, ‘How do I keep my mind sane after all this?’ and coming back full circle where he started season one, but very changed.”
George Bladgen Vikings Season Two Interview
Your character’s had some big changes and shifts in his arc since he was first introduced. How do you feel you have changed as an actor along with your character?
“Great question because I find that on Vikings, what we’ve been able to do is actually mirror character changes and actor changes, fascinatingly. When we are on set, we get scripts maybe two or three weeks in advance of shooting them, so as an actor you are unaware of what will be happening to your character in more than a month’s time, in terms of the shooting schedule.
So, had I known what you’ve seen up to the end of episode four, had I known that that was going to happen to Athelstan when we started shooting the start of season one, I really doubt I would have been able to portray the character as well or as accurately as I have done. It’s a real bonus working in that way, and it’s what’s great about episodic television. So we’re very lucky that we sort of work in that way with Michael [Hirst] and his writing.”
Why do you think it is that we still find this era and Vikings so fascinating?
“I think the Viking age is one of those periods of history that a lot of us think we know a bit about, and the reality is that really we don’t. It’s kind of a household name; you say ‘Vikings’ and everyone goes, ‘Oh yeah, those barbaric men that lived 1,200 years ago, raiding and pillaging and being very, very naughty.’ And what Michael’s brilliantly done with the show is that he’s showed you the real human side to them and the family drama that we’ve created now over the course of two seasons.
I think being able to show that to the public has kind of brought about an amazing response in people, going, ‘Oh my god, I never knew that sunstones existed. I never knew that that’s how they sailed west. I didn’t know that women were regarded so highly in that culture.’ All of these things, I think, that Michael has been able to introduce is what keeps people coming back week after week. And of course the complex relationships he’s developed throughout all of the characters, really. It’s really exciting to be a part of it as an actor. It’s a real gift.”
What will we see in season two as far as Athelstan’s Christian attitude and beliefs?
“Brilliant question. When we set off shooting season two, we leave Athelstan at the end of season one in a very, very conflicted place. We’ve just had the festival at Uppsala in episode eight so when we hit season two, speaking to Michael when we started shooting, the most interesting characters to play as an actor and to watch as an audience are the ones that have deep conflicts running throughout them. It would have been far too easy for us to have made Athelstan just completely converted pagan and sort of gung-ho into Viking life.
What you see throughout the first three episodes of season two is maybe this attempt, and potentially a bit of a bluff on Athelstan’s part, but what I think hopefully we’ve really been able to capture throughout season two is this ongoing conflict that Athelstan has. I wish [you journalists] had seen past episode four because you’d really see that enter into a completely different paradigm and a big shift up another gear for him. To answer your question, it’s absolutely ongoing for Athelstan, this very deep internal religious conflict.”
How has Athelstan and Ragnar’s relationship changed since season one?
“It’s changed quite a lot, I would say, as we’ve moved throughout season one into season two. Ragnar captures Athelstan at the start of season one and we have this very complex master/slave relationship that develops into sort of friendship and companionship by the end of season one. What we have at the start of season two is a four-year jump at the end of episode one. After this four-year jump, we really see Athelstan integrate into the society.
Potentially, the way Travis and I decided to play it was Athelstan was the one figure in his life that he really could trust. With all of the marital issues that [Ragnar] has to deal with in episode one and moving into episode two after the four year jump, he really is his only sort of strong point to anchor on to. I think where you find their relationship at the start of season two is somewhere that’s very, very a deep friendship for each other.
I think as we move through season two to get to the end of season two, you really do understand how much these two men are connected and how important they are for each other, and what choices they make to try and make sure they are always a constant in each other’s lives.”
Athelstan (played by George Blagden) has undergone a physical transformation since Season 1- where do his loyalties lie? Is he a Christian or is he a Viking? (Photo by Jonathan Hession/HISTORY/Copyright 2014)
Physically, how did you prepare for Athelstan’s greater involvement in the action?
“It’s a very good question. There’s a sort of a panic, maybe, at the start of shooting season two – or there was for me – of sort of getting Viking ready. It’s quite easy to have this six-month hiatus between season one and season two where you may do odd jobs here and there, but you come back and suddenly Michael gives you the script for episode one and goes, ‘Right, here we go. You’re going off raiding to England with the rest of the Vikings and you need to be battle-ready. So there’s lots of fight training. There’s trying to get into shape, desperately. It’s great. It’s very real and there’s no sort of pretending about it.
The fight sequences that you see in the first four episodes…I remember the fight sequence in episode two at the end where there’s an ambush in England just after we’ve landed in Essex. It’s Athelstan’s first experience of being in a shield war. I remember the first take we went for it and everything you see is real.
There’s a 100 Anglo-Saxon warriors running at you and they charge toward our shield wall and we had this big battle with steady cameras in amongst the shield wall. The director shouted, ‘Cut!,’ and there was just silence. You could hear this giddy laughter, like soaring over the forest. Everyone is like, ‘Who on earth is that?’ And it’s me standing amongst the shield wall, just off my face on some adrenaline high because there’s no pretending. When they smash into the shield wall, they really smash into the shield wall. It was adrenaline-filled preparing for Athelstan’s journey for season two.”
What sticks out most about shooting the season two opener and getting back into Athelstan for this second season?
“I think the big thing for me was trying to pick up the character of Athelstan when he was in a way, halfway over the hill on an arc that Michael had written for him. We leave Athelstan at the end of season one obviously very conflicted, but it’s not final in any way how we leave the end of season one for any of the characters, but particularly Athelstan.
So to have six and a half, seven months off and then come back and hit the ground running again, I think as an actor – I’m just talking about the challenges for me as an actor – that was quite hard for me to kind of re-plot in my mind the arc that the character had been on and think, ‘Okay, here we are now. After this first episode we’re jumping ahead four years and what does that change about him?’ I think that was really the most challenging thing.
I think the season opener as well is very much about the plot, resolving this very, very intense conflict between brothers Ragnar and Rollo. I watched it literally a couple of days ago, I don’t know what you think, but that whole opening 20 minutes just… I obviously didn’t see any of it, I didn’t see any of it shot. I wasn’t there, it was words on a page to me in a script. I watched it a couple of days ago, mouth open, it was just so sort of epic and amazing.
I think the season opener for the show really is about resolving that and finding out where all the characters are once that’s been resolved, and how it affects all of them. Athelstan is very much sort of that man at home who has to deal with all the repercussions that that big battle brings home with Ragnar. But yeah, it’s very challenging as an actor. It’s very challenging to come back to shooting a second season if you’re on a big journey like Athelstan’s.”
What’s it like on the set among the cast? Do you get to have fun on your downtime?
“Yeah, absolutely. [Laughing] It’s probably the prank-heaviest set known in the television world, probably. It’s so much fun. We’re such a family, especially coming back for season two it really did feel like coming back to work with your family in a way. I’ve only just recently seen some footage from season two, but the footage I have seen, I can just see how hard everyone has worked to create something that has just gone up a level this year.
Whilst we work very hard to make sure season two is something more for everyone to watch, we also had a load of fun doing it. And this year we got a bit better at getting back at Travis and his pranks. It wasn’t as much one-way abuse towards the dweeby little monk that Athelstan was in season one, tying him to things. We managed to pull a few pranks on him.
I remember Katheryn [Winnick] tried to get a goat into his dressing room at one point, which he didn’t find very funny. Yeah, it’s good fun. Really, really good fun, a good set to be on.”
The five women who make up the R&B/hip-hop group Blush are busy working on their debut album while launching their first national tour. They’ve opened for acts including Justin Bieber, Black Eyed Peas, and The Wanted…not bad for a group formed via an international talent search that took part in China, India, Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines. The competition to earn a spot in Blush was fierce, with Victoria Chan from China, Natsuko Danjo from Japan, Angeli Flores from the Philippines, Ji Hae Lee from South Korea, and Alisha Budhrani from India ultimately chosen as members of the group.
In support of their national tour, I had the opportunity to speak with Victoria Chan about being a part of Blush, the tour, and her musical influences:
I think it is so fascinating the way the band came together. With most bands, the members are lifelong friends or they knew each other in school and had mutual interests. You didn’t even know you were going to like these other women.
“I know. You’re just kind of put into a group, and luckily through the process we actually lived together for almost six weeks, six to seven weeks. You kind of got to know each other before you even knew you were part of the band. The struggles that you went through, just the experiences bring you closer. And it’s still constantly a learning process. You’re still learning things about each other that you didn’t know.
We’ve been together for three years and you’re always learning things about each other, what makes someone tick or what they really like and little things about them, about their past that you might not have known about. We’re always learning about each other’s cultures as well. We love food, and we share a lot of what we love through our food. We’re always constantly learning, but there’s never a dull moment.
We can be sitting in an airport and airports are really boring, and you’re waiting for agents to board, and we’re always talking about things that happened before. Then there’ll be something that comes up, and we’ll learn something about one of the girls. Yeah, it’s been a fun process.”
Was it nerve-wracking during that initial selection process because you did not know what you were getting yourself into? Even if you think you did, you couldn’t have been completely prepared.
“It was definitely nerve-wracking, but I think for us, we all just wanted to try for our dream. This is what we wanted to do for a long time. In life, there are always things that make you nervous or scare you, but you’ve got to do stuff that scares you. Do one thing a day that scares you.
Things are not clear for us all the time, but we just go ahead and work for it and believe in your dream and believe in the people that are surrounding you and believe in your fans that are supporting you. They love what you do and we want to give them great music, and make them ‘Blush’.”
Blush has toured before, but this is your first official national tour. What’s coming up on the schedule?
“This one is going to take us to California. We’re in Arizona. We’re going to go to California, up to the Bay area. Then we’re going to head out to Texas and cover Florida, and we’re ending in Louisiana in New Orleans. This will be really like going from East to West Coast. Last time we did a section of the midwest, and then we did the East Coast. We’ve done the West Coast before so it’s all been kind of cut up. This one’s kind of spanning across the country.”
How do you prepare for going out on the road for a lengthy tour?
“Actually we’ve been really lucky with this tour. First, we were told it’s five to six weeks, and we were like, ‘Oh my goodness.’ [Laughing] Could you imagine the packing the girls have to do? The number of shoes? Your on-stage shoes plus the shoes that you would want to wear during your off time, and then maybe you might want to go out one night so you’ve got to bring some heels. We were like freaking out and then we found out that actually we come back to LA quite often in between. For example, we started yesterday. We’re coming back on Friday, and we have the weekend in LA. Then we leave again on Sunday, and we start another week.
We’re actually pretty lucky. We come home quite a few times, so we get to do laundry a lot, so we don’t stink.[Laughing] We sweat a lot when we do our set. Like yesterday it was so hot out here in Arizona. The audience was amazing. They were really hot themselves. But I don’t think the crew would like us to stink on tour. We use a lot of Febreze!”
It’s a really high energy show that the group puts on. It’s physically demanding and also vocally pretty stressful, isn’t it?
“For sure. We sing and we dance at the same time. Most of our numbers are pretty upbeat, especially for the tour. We wouldn’t do any ballads and such because the kids would fall asleep. We try to stay away from that. We try to do our up-tempo songs. We’re doing our latest released song, ‘Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That.’ The kids love that! They might not even have heard the song, but they’ll be singing it by the first chorus. They’re singing along. They’re making up moves to ‘Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That.’ It’s great. We feed off the energy. That gives us even more energy, so we’re really busting out the moves.
We have another song called ‘Adrenaline’ which we kick off with. It’s all about adrenaline and trying to get them pumped up. It’s a love song. It’s unreleased yet, but they still love it. We have our older released song called ‘Miss Out’ that we’ve been performing. We have like a dance break, and we get some of the kids to come on stage with us, dance, and we show them the moves if they’re not too sure, and then they’re busting out their moves. It’s a great way for them to perform to their crowd, their homies, and everybody else in the audience. It’s just really fun for everybody.”
You talk about feeding off the energy of a live audience. Is it a lot different when you are just performing in front of a television audience or doing something in the studio than it is going out on the road and getting to interact with the fans? What’s the adrenaline buzz like for you?
“Oh my gosh. Mentally in our heads, we’re always like, no matter how big your audience is, even if it’s just one person, you give your 110%. You give your best energy, and you give your best performance. There’s just something different when you have that energy feedback to you and then you can play off that. There’s this rush that’s pretty unexplainable. It makes us really happy. It’s almost like an appreciation from the crowd that they love what you do and you just want to feedback and give back the love.
We meet the kids. We have a meet and greet after and then they come up, and they’re like, ‘Oh, can I give you a hug?’ They’ll actually ask you, ‘Can I?’ It’s like, ‘Just come here!’ We’re real big huggers, so we just love feeding off everybody’s love and energy and taking pictures with them and getting to know them. And keeping in touch with them on Twitter and social media – Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook – is a great way for us to keep in touch with everybody and get feedback from them. ‘I love this song,’ or ‘I love this. I love you guys.’ ‘You guys changed my life today,’ and things like that. Even offstage we can still feed off that energy and feel really encouraged and supported in that way from our fans. The tour’s been absolutely great for us to meet our fans and to get to know them, too.”
Social media’s a great way to interact with fans, but isn’t it also a little difficult to have any privacy because everybody knows what you’re doing?
“I think for us as artists, I think we just have to be quite picky and choosey with what we put on social media. Like you say, everything’s out there. But you can choose to put certain things out there and some things not.”
What were your musical influences?
“When I grew up I listened to Karen Carpenter and Celine Dion. I like ballad girls like Kelly Clarkson. Pink is amazing. She’s a mother, and she’s hanging off wires doing acrobatics. I used to be a gymnast so I look at her and I’m totally inspired by her. I’m like, ‘How do you do that and keep your family life and your working life and you’re hanging upside down, and you’re singing amazing songs?’ I’m inspired by all these amazing artists out there.”
Where do you see the group in 10 years?
“We hope to be doing a world tour by then. Let’s hope that we’ll step up from national level to world tour. We just hope to bring our music everywhere, to everybody in the world. We opened up for Jessie J in Asia. We did three cities with her: Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur; Jakarta, Indonesia; and Singapore. We’ve done the Asian stretch and we’d love to do more of Europe. We hope we’re still singing and making the world Blush in 10 years’ time.”
You’ve opened up for a lot of big names in the music industry. Is there anyone in particular you really learned a life lesson from?
“Wow, there’s so many. Just watching everyone else do their thing. It’s been a great learning curve. Black Eyed Peas, watching them. They’re evolving from when they started to where they are now. Probably like really learning a lesson it would probably be from Diana Ross. She is the ultimate girl group girl. She looks like she’s only in her early 60s and she’s still doing this and going strong. She was on stage and she was doing a whole set with the full band. She was singing her behind off and she was doing so many costume changes. It was really inspiring just to see the tenacity. You just don’t give up. You keep on working. You can be singing until the day you die. You can still be performing no matter what your age. She’s still drawing in a crowd. Everyone was going crazy. It was a charity event, and everyone was up off their seats and enjoying the whole concert of hers. That, for me, is like people nowadays see artists that last maybe a few years, maybe 10 years, and she’s been here since the ’60s. That’s a long career and I think we have a lot to learn from that on how to keep a career that long.”
Everyone has those days when you get out of bed and you’re just feeling sluggish. How do you keep your energy level up on those sort of days when you have to take the stage?
“We play some Blush music in the morning. Sometimes you just have to play some music or think about the fans that are out there that are supporting us, and they want to hear music from us. That, a lot of the time, just gives us a big push of encouragement and push of support. Social media again, we’ll get notifications that somebody sent a tweet, and it’ll be like a really nice tweet like, ‘I love you guys. You guys really changed my life,’ or ‘You guys really inspired me,’ and just getting messages like that really gets you out of the bad mood.
We have to really thank our fans for really supporting us because there are days which you’re kind of like, ‘Ugh, I wish I could just stay in bed and just not have to do something today.’ They really give us a little kick and go, ‘Hey, we want your music. Get out of bed!'”
Godzilla towers over the city of San Francisco in this new poster from the Warner Bros Pictures and Legendary Entertainment release. And if the poster’s image of Godzilla in relation to the size of the buildings is correct, then the new Godzilla will make past incarnations look like midgets.
Directed by Gareth Edwards, Godzilla stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Ken Watanabe, Bryan Cranston, and Juliette Binoche. Expect to see Godzilla stomping around theaters on May 16, 2014.
The Plot: An epic rebirth to Toho’s iconic Godzilla, this spectacular adventure, from Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, pits the world’s most famous monster against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity’s scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.
US Olympic luger Kate Hansen tweeted a video showing a wolf in her Sochi dormitory hallway, causing a media stir and launching a debate over whether the animal was a wolf or a dog – or a mix of the two. Hansen’s tweet indicated the wolf was just wandering the hall while she filmed it from the safety of her room. In reality, the wolf video was put together by Jimmy Kimmel with Hansen’s help. Hansen forwarded Kimmel a photo of her hallway at the Sochi Olympics, and Kimmel’s staff recreated it and then hired a real wolf to walk through the fake hallway. The resulting video was featured on hundreds of media outlets before Kimmey and Hansen revealed the prank.
Jimmy Fallon, Will Ferrell, and Michelle Obama on 'The Tonight Show' (Photo by: Lloyd Bishop/NBC)First Lady Michelle Obama showed off her acting and “ew!” skills by joining Jimmy Fallon as Sara (no H) and Stacy (the very hairy-chested Will Ferrell) to talk about exercising and eating right. First Lady Obama was a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on February 20, 2014 where she chatted about her charitable interests and getting young people signed up for health care.
Hot on the heels of the release of the first official trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy comes a brand new poster featuring the main characters as well as five new short videos introducing Rocket Raccoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper), Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel), Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), and Drax (Dave Bautista). The Meet the Guardians videos provide a few details on each of the main characters, with short clips of the characters in action.
Directed by James Gunn, Guardians of the Galaxy will open in theaters on August 1, 2014.
The Plot:
From Marvel, the studio that brought you the global blockbuster franchises of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, comes a new team—the Guardians of the Galaxy. An action-packed, epic space adventure, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the cosmos, where brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade the ever-persistent Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits—Rocket, a gun-toting raccoon, Groot, a tree-like humanoid, the deadly and enigmatic Gamora and the revenge-driven Drax the Destroyer. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand—with the galaxy’s fate in the balance.
Kit Harington stars in 'Pompeii' (Photo Courtesy of TriStar Pictures)
I love a good Roland Emmerich film. He knows how to pull off a memorable disaster movie. Sure, their scripts would hardly be confused with something Bill Shakespeare wrote, but hey, audiences flock to those films for the spectacle. Well, now comes another disaster film, only this time it’s based on a historical disaster, and with a flair for originality the movie’s titled Pompeii.
Wait … this isn’t a Roland Emmerich film? It’s made by Paul W.S.Resident.Evil. Anderson? Umm … okay. I guess I can give it a shot. I mean, what’s the worst that could happen?
He wouldn’t litter the first half of the movie with obviously foreboding but all too comical shots of the volcano, would he? He wouldn’t use the first signs of the volcano’s impending eruption like some cheap horror flick, complete with the first casualty being a man of African descent, would he? He wouldn’t build up a bromance between the two top gladiators that felt more genuine than the main romantic subplot, would he?
He would?
Huh.
Well.
Look, as much fun as I have being snarky and sarcastic (snarkastic?), the bottom line here is that the movie is … wait for it … Pompeiinful (+2 for the pun, -48 for seeing the movie). Whether it’s the abysmally terrible script, the uninspired direction, or the last-gen video game quality CGI, the movie fails in just about every way. And don’t worry, the 3D is basically useless as well. Although one of the easiest 3D tricks to pull off appears to be falling particles (like all the ash the volcano spits out), most everything else comes off as rather flat or gimmicky like a few thrown spears and whatnot.
Then there’s the acting. Most of them are walking through their paces, doing their best to say their lines with a straight face. Kit Harington (Jon Snow from Game of Thrones) is likable enough but his character development could be written on a 3 x 5 card. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje plays his gladiator rival turned bro. Their dynamic is so cheesy you’d think it comes between toast with a side of tomato soup, however, it’s the kind of cheesy that goes along with how bad most elements of the movie are and helps to at least let you laugh at the film rather than sit there entirely bored.
And while I don’t think the acting in the film should really deserve more attention, there are two actors that have to be discussed. First of all, what is Jared Harris doing in this movie? He’s better than this … though I admit that given a rather paltry sum of money, I’d agree to be in White Chicks 2: Shopping Spree. But then there’s Kiefer Sutherland. His inclusion in so many iconic movies of my childhood has created a special place in my nostalgic heart, but here he’s doing a very bad imitation of Nic Cage. Honestly, the most baffling thing about the film is that they didn’t just get Nic Cage. If you’re going to do something, do it big.
But alas, what audiences are left with is a paint-by-number execution; of the story, the people of Pompeii, and perhaps your patience. Of all the terrible movies I’ve seen this year … and as I have yet to see The LEGO Movie, everything I’ve seen has been terrible, this isn’t the worst. It’s also not any good. You’re far better off re-watching an Emmerich classic (i.e., not Godzilla). Hell, you’re better off re-watching 2012. Even if you had some weird hankering to see this, it won’t be long before it’s headed to the home market and with all that extra cash, you could buy a lot of tacos. And tacos are good. Pompeii, not so much.
GRADE: D+
Pompeii opens in theaters on February 21, 2014 and is rated PG-13 for intense battle sequences, disaster-related action and brief sexual content.
Katy Perry channels Cleopatra in the official music video for “Dark Horse,” her new single featuring Juicy J off of Prism. “Dark Horse” is currently sitting in first place on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart and the video’s already racked up over 2 million viewers since being released on February 20th.
Neon colors, an adorable dog, spicy food, and men who do Katy Perry’s bidding are all featured in the “Dark Horse” video directed by Mathew Cullen and produced by Dawn Rose, Danny Lockwood, Derek Johnson, and Motion Theory / Mirada.
Divergent is a thrilling action-adventure film set in a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues. Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley) is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy by a faction leader (Kate Winslet)to destroy all Divergents, Tris must learn to trust in the mysterious Four (Theo James) and together they must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it’s too late.
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