HBO has set a Saturday, May 29, 2021 premiere date for Oslo, based on true events and adapted from the award-winning play. The just-released teaser trailer sets up the story of the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords and the behind the scenes maneuverings undertaken by a group dedicated to obtaining peace.
The cast of the dramatic film includes Ruth Wilson (His Dark Materials) as Mona Juul, a Norwegian foreign minister; Emmy nominee Andrew Scott (Fleabag) as Terje Rød-Larsen, a Norwegian sociologist and Mona’s husband; Salim Daw (Fauda) as Ahmed Qurie, Finance Minister of the PLO; Waleed Zuaiter (The Spy) as Hassan Asfour, Qurie’s associate & PLO liaison; Jeff Wilbusch (Unorthodox) as Uri Savir, Director General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry; and Igal Naor (Fauda) as Joel Singer, legal adviser to the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
Dov Glickman (Stockholm) plays Yair Hirschfield, Israeli professor of economics; Rotem Keinan (Fauda) is Ron Pundak, Hirschfield’s associate and fellow Israeli professor; Itzik Cohen (Fauda) is Yossi Beilin, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister; Tobias Zilliacus (Thicker Than Water) plays Jan Egeland, Norwegian State Secretary; and Sasson Gabay (Sirens) is Shimon Peres, Foreign Minister of the State of Israel.
Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher (South Pacific) directed from a screenplay by Tony Award winner J.T. Rogers, writer of the original play. Sher, Rogers, Cambra Overend, and Marc Platt Productions’ Jared LeBoff, Adam Siegel, and Marc Platt executive produce. DreamWorks Pictures’ Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger also executive produce along with Bold Films’ David Litvak.
Holly Bario, Michel Litvak, Gary Michael Walters, Svetlana Metkina, and Mark Taylor served as producers.
Ruth Wilson in HBO Max’s ‘Oslo’
The Plot, Courtesy of HBO:
The film is based on a true story of negotiations between implacable enemies — the secret back-channel talks, unlikely friendships and quiet heroics of a small but committed group of Israelis, Palestinians and one Norwegian couple that led to the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords.
Season three of Netflix’s Master of None will shift the focus to the relationship between Denise and Alicia, played by Emmy Award winner Lena Waithe and BAFTA winner Naomi Ackie, respectively. The streaming service just released the first trailer and announced the new season will premiere on Sunday, May 23, 2021.
Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang created the critically acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning series. Ansari directed season three and co-wrote the new season with Lena Waithe. Ansari, Yang, Waithe, Naomi Ackie, Michael Schur, Dave Becky, David Miner, Igor Srubshchik, and Aniz Ansari serve as executive producers.
The series’ third season, shot in London and Upstate NY, will consist of five episodes.
Poster for season 3 of ‘Master of None’ (Photo Courtesy of Netflix)
Master of None Season 3 Plot, Courtesy of Netflix:
Master of None returns with a new season that chronicles the relationship of Denise (Waithe) and her partner Alicia (Ackie). This new season is a modern love story that intimately illustrates the ups and downs of marriage, struggles with fertility, and personal growth both together and apart. Fleeting romantic highs meet crushing personal losses while existential questions of love and living are raised.
Co-created by Ansari and Emmy Award winner Alan Yang, season three delivers an evolution of the series that remains tethered to previous seasons while breaking new storytelling ground of its own.
A&E just released the first trailer for their new courtroom series, Court Cam Presents Under Oath. Hosted by Chief Legal Analyst for ABC News Dan Abrams, the upcoming series will join A&E’s primetime lineup on Wednesday, June 2, 2021.
Two episodes will air back-to-back each Wednesday at 10pm ET/PT.
Abrams serves as an executive producer along with Rachel Stockman, Karla Hidalgo, Shelley Schulze, and A&E Network’s Shelly Tatro and Sean Gottlieb. The Court Cam spinoff is produced by Law & Crime Productions.
Series Description, Courtesy of A&E:
Court Cam Presents Under Oath tells the story of a crime from the unique lens of the accused as they take the witness stand. Hosted by Dan Abrams, each episode will cover everything from first-hand defendant testimony, juxtaposed with the contentious cross examination to the final verdict. There is a reason that taking the witness stand in your own defense is a gamble that very few criminal defendants ever take.
In addition to interviews with key members of the investigation, the series features original video from law enforcement, surveillance camera footage, 911 audio recordings, digital forensic evidence and some exclusive interviews and responses from the defendants themselves, to provide an in-depth look at dozens of raw and real cases.
In August 1969, Woodstock drew 400,00+ to Max Yasgur’s dairy farm for a trippy weekend of listening to 32 musical acts. Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, Santana, Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix were among those who took the stage during what’s since been deemed to be a pivotal moment in music history.
During the same period, a festival featuring Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, and The 5th Dimension was held in Mount Morris Park. That festival – the Harlem Cultural Festival – is the subject of Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s feature film directorial debut, Summer of Soul.
Questlove’s Summer of Love had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, earning the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award. Searchlight Pictures will launch the documentary in theaters on July 2, 2021, with a simultaneous release planned on Hulu.
The Plot, Courtesy of Hulu and Searchlight Pictures:
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary—part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was never seen and largely forgotten–until now.
Summer of Soul shines a light on the importance of history to our spiritual well-being and stands as a testament to the healing power of music during times of unrest, both past and present.
The teaser for NBC’s The Blacklist season eight episode 15 suggests we’re going to find out Red’s true identity. Episode 15, “The Russian Knot,” will air on Friday, April 30, 2021.
The cast of The Blacklist is led by James Spader as Raymond “Red” Reddington and Megan Boone as Elizabeth Keen. Diego Klattenhoff plays Donald Ressler, Amir Arison is Aram Mojtabai, Hisham Tawfiq is Dembe Zuma, and Harry Lennix stars as Harold Cooper.
“The Russian Knot” Plot: The Task Force hatches a plan to steal a Soviet-era cipher machine needed to decrypt coded messages. Townsend puts Liz’s loyalty to the test. Red and Dembe are called to an unexpected meeting.
Season 8 Description, Courtesy of NBC:
With his back against the wall, Raymond Reddington (Spader) faces his most formidable enemy yet: Elizabeth Keen (Boone). Aligned with her mother, infamous Russian spy Katarina Rostova, Liz must decide how far she is willing to go to find out why Reddington has entered her life and what his endgame really is. The fallout between Reddington and Keen will have devastating consequences for all that lie in their wake, including the Task Force they helped to create.
James Spader as Raymond “Red” Reddington and Harry Lennix as Harold Cooper in ‘The Blacklist’ season 8 episode 15 (Photo by: Will Hart/NBC)James Spader as Raymond “Red” Reddington in season 8 episode 15 (Photo by: Will Hart/NBC)Marylouise Burke as Paula Carter in season 8 episode 15 (Photo by: Will Hart/NBC)Harry Lennix as Harold Cooper in season 8 episode 15 (Photo by: Will Hart/NBC)Megan Boone as Liz Keen in season 8 episode 15 (Photo by: Will Hart/NBC)Megan Boone as Liz Keen in season 8 episode 15 (Photo by: Will Hart/NBC)
Walt Disney Company dropped the first West Side Story teaser trailer during the 2021 Oscars. The trailer for director Steven Spielberg’s much-anticipated new take on the iconic musical is one and a half minutes long and features dance numbers, Tony and Maria, and the rival gangs – all backed by a beautiful version of “Somewhere.”
The first trailer was accompanied by new photos and the film’s teaser poster.
Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler lead the cast as star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria. The cast also includes Ariana DeBose (Anita), David Alvarez (Bernardo), Mike Faist (Riff), Josh Andrés Rivera (Chino), Ana Isabelle (Rosalía), Corey Stoll (Lieutenant Schrank), and Brian d’Arcy James (Officer Krupke).
Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, Tony, and Peabody Award winner Rita Moreno, who played Anita in the 1961 feature film, plays Valentina, the owner of the store where Tony works. Moreno also serves as an executive producer.
Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tony Kushner adapted the 1957 Broadway show for the screen and executive produces. Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, and Kevin McCollum produce. Spielberg’s behind the scenes team includes choreographer Justin Peck and executive music producer Matt Sullivan. Jeanine Tesori supervised the cast on vocals.
Walt Disney Company will release the 20th Century Studios production on December 10, 2021.
The Plot:
“An adaptation of the original Broadway musical, West Side Story explores young love and tensions between rival gangs the Jets and the Sharks on the streets of 1957 New York.”
Hulu just debuted a short 30 second teaser video for the limited series Nine Perfect Strangers. The promo premiered during the 2021 Oscars and introduces Nicole Kidman as a resort director who promises her clients she’ll restore their bodies, both mentally and physically, while keeping her real agenda hidden.
In addition to Nicole Kidman, the cast includes Melissa McCarthy, Michael Shannon, Luke Evans, Bobby Cannavale, Regina Hall, and Samara Weaving. Melvin Gregg, Asher Keddie, Grace Van Patten, Tiffany Boone, and Manny Jacinto also star in the Hulu series.
The eight-episode limited series is based on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling book and was adapted by David E. Kelley, John Henry Butterworth, and Samantha Strauss. Jonathan Levine directed the limited series and executive produces with Made Up Stories’ Bruna Papandrea, Steve Hutensky, and Jodi Matterson. Blossom Films’ Nicole Kidman and Per Saari also executive produce along with author Moriarty, Kelley, John Henry Butterworth, Molly Allen, Samantha Strauss, and Melissa McCarthy. David E. Kelley and John Henry Butterworth are the showrunners.
Nine Perfect Strangers is a David E. Kelley, Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories, Nicole Kidman’s Blossom Films, and Endeavor Content production. Kelley and Kidman previously collaborated on Big Little Lies and The Undoing.
The Plot, Courtesy of Hulu:
Nine Perfect Strangers takes place at a boutique health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation as nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living. Watching over them during this ten-day retreat is the resort’s director Masha (Kidman), a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. However, these nine “perfect” strangers have no idea what is about to hit them.
Chloe Zhoa and the ‘Nomadland’ produces accept the Best Picture Oscar at the 2021 Academy Awards (ABC/AMPAS)
The unconventional 2021 Oscars were weird, wonderful, moving, and often inspirational. There were commentaries rather than film clips, the speeches weren’t cut off, the Academy changed up the order in which winners were announced (never do that again!), and, most noticeably, there was zero snark. There were still plenty of acceptance speeches that spoke to pressing social issues but those speeches also included moments of pure joy over the celebration of films.
Best Supporting Actor winner Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah) referenced his mom and dad having sex during his otherwise inspirational speech, and the reaction shot of his shocked mother became an instant meme. Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) made history as the first woman of color and only the second female to win a Best Director Oscar. Yuh-Jung Youn (Minari) gave one of the most entertaining speeches of the Academy Awards while becoming the first Korean to win a Best Supporting Actress award. And Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom‘s Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson also entered the history books as the first Black women to earn Academy Awards in the Hair & Makeup category.
There were snubs (Chadwick Boseman), surprises (Anthony Hopkins), and Glenn Close showing off her Spike Lee knowledge and doing Da Butt. When all the winners had finally been revealed, Nomadland emerged with three wins including Best Picture while Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Judas and the Black Messiah, Sound of Metal, Mank, The Father, and Soul each earned two Oscars.
The 93rd Academy Awards were held on Sunday, April 25, 2021 and broadcast live on ABC from Union Station and the Dolby Theatre.
2021 Oscar Nominees and Winners:
Performance by an actor in a leading role
• Riz Ahmed in “Sound of Metal”
• Chadwick Boseman in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
• WINNER: Anthony Hopkins in “The Father”
• Gary Oldman in “Mank”
• Steven Yeun in “Minari”
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
• Sacha Baron Cohen in “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
• WINNER: Daniel Kaluuya in “Judas and the Black Messiah”
• Leslie Odom, Jr. in “One Night in Miami…”
• Paul Raci in “Sound of Metal”
• Lakeith Stanfield in “Judas and the Black Messiah”
Performance by an actress in a leading role
• Viola Davis in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
• Andra Day in “The United States vs. Billie Holiday”
• Vanessa Kirby in “Pieces of a Woman”
• WINNER: Frances McDormand in “Nomadland”
• Carey Mulligan in “Promising Young Woman”
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
• Maria Bakalova in “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”
• Glenn Close in “Hillbilly Elegy”
• Olivia Colman in “The Father”
• Amanda Seyfried in “Mank”
• WINNER: Yuh-Jung Youn in “Minari”
Best animated feature film of the year
• “Onward” Dan Scanlon and Kori Rae
• “Over the Moon” Glen Keane, Gennie Rim and Peilin Chou
• “A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon” Richard Phelan, Will Becher and Paul Kewley
• WINNER: “Soul” Pete Docter and Dana Murray
• “Wolfwalkers” Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart, Paul Young and Stéphan Roelants
Achievement in cinematography
• “Judas and the Black Messiah” Sean Bobbitt
• WINNER: “Mank” Erik Messerschmidt
• “News of the World” Dariusz Wolski
• “Nomadland” Joshua James Richards
• “The Trial of the Chicago 7” Phedon Papamichael
Achievement in costume design
• “Emma” Alexandra Byrne
• WINNER: “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Ann Roth
• “Mank” Trish Summerville
• “Mulan” Bina Daigeler
• “Pinocchio” Massimo Cantini Parrini
Achievement in directing
• “Another Round” Thomas Vinterberg
• “Mank” David Fincher
• “Minari” Lee Isaac Chung
• WINNER: “Nomadland” Chloé Zhao
• “Promising Young Woman” Emerald Fennell
Best documentary feature
• “Collective” Alexander Nanau and Bianca Oana
• “Crip Camp” Nicole Newnham, Jim LeBrecht and Sara Bolder
• “The Mole Agent” Maite Alberdi and Marcela Santibáñez
• WINNER: “My Octopus Teacher” Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed and Craig Foster
• “Time” Garrett Bradley, Lauren Domino and Kellen Quinn
Best documentary short subject
• WINNER: “Colette” Anthony Giacchino and Alice Doyard
• “A Concerto Is a Conversation” Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers
• “Do Not Split” Anders Hammer and Charlotte Cook
• “Hunger Ward” Skye Fitzgerald and Michael Scheuerman
• “A Love Song for Latasha” Sophia Nahli Allison and Janice Duncan
Achievement in film editing
• “The Father” Yorgos Lamprinos
• “Nomadland” Chloé Zhao
• “Promising Young Woman” Frédéric Thoraval
• WINNER: “Sound of Metal” Mikkel E. G. Nielsen
• “The Trial of the Chicago 7” Alan Baumgarten
Best international feature film of the year
• WINNER: “Another Round” Denmark
• “Better Days” Hong Kong
• “Collective” Romania
• “The Man Who Sold His Skin” Tunisia
• “Quo Vadis, Aida?” Bosnia and Herzegovina
Achievement in makeup and hairstyling
• “Emma” Marese Langan, Laura Allen and Claudia Stolze
• “Hillbilly Elegy” Eryn Krueger Mekash, Matthew Mungle and Patricia Dehaney
• WINNER: “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson
• “Mank” Gigi Williams, Kimberley Spiteri and Colleen LaBaff
• “Pinocchio” Mark Coulier, Dalia Colli and Francesco Pegoretti
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
• “Da 5 Bloods” Terence Blanchard
• “Mank” Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
• “Minari” Emile Mosseri
• “News of the World” James Newton Howard
• WINNER: “Soul” Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
• WINNER: “Fight For You” from “Judas and the Black Messiah”
Music by H.E.R. and Dernst Emile II; Lyric by H.E.R. and Tiara Thomas
• “Hear My Voice” from “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Music by Daniel Pemberton; Lyric by Daniel Pemberton and Celeste Waite
• “Husavik” from “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga”
Music and Lyric by Savan Kotecha, Fat Max Gsus and Rickard Göransson
• “Io Sì (Seen)” from “The Life Ahead (La Vita Davanti a Se)”
Music by Diane Warren; Lyric by Diane Warren and Laura Pausini
• “Speak Now” from “One Night in Miami…”
Music and Lyric by Leslie Odom, Jr. and Sam Ashworth
Best motion picture of the year
• “The Father” David Parfitt, Jean-Louis Livi and Philippe Carcassonne, Producers
• “Judas and the Black Messiah” Shaka King, Charles D. King and Ryan Coogler, Producers
• “Mank” Ceán Chaffin, Eric Roth and Douglas Urbanski, Producers
• “Minari” Christina Oh, Producer
• WINNER: “Nomadland” Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey and Chloé Zhao, Producers
• “Promising Young Woman” Ben Browning, Ashley Fox, Emerald Fennell and Josey McNamara, Producers
• “Sound of Metal” Bert Hamelinck and Sacha Ben Harroche, Producers
• “The Trial of the Chicago 7” Marc Platt and Stuart Besser, Producers
Achievement in production design
• “The Father” Production Design: Peter Francis; Set Decoration: Cathy Featherstone
• “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Production Design: Mark Ricker; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara and Diana Stoughton
• WINNER: “Mank” Production Design: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Jan Pascale
• “News of the World” Production Design: David Crank; Set Decoration: Elizabeth Keenan
• “Tenet” Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas
Best animated short film
• “Burrow” Madeline Sharafian and Michael Capbarat
• “Genius Loci” Adrien Mérigeau and Amaury Ovise
• WINNER: “If Anything Happens I Love You” Will McCormack and Michael Govier
• “Opera” Erick Oh
• “Yes-People” Gísli Darri Halldórsson and Arnar Gunnarsson
Best live-action short film
• “Feeling Through” Doug Roland and Susan Ruzenski
• “The Letter Room” Elvira Lind and Sofia Sondervan
• “The Present” Farah Nabulsi
• WINNER: “Two Distant Strangers” Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe
• “White Eye” Tomer Shushan and Shira Hochman
Achievement in sound
• “Greyhound” Warren Shaw, Michael Minkler, Beau Borders and David Wyman
• “Mank” Ren Klyce, Jeremy Molod, David Parker, Nathan Nance and Drew Kunin
• “News of the World” Oliver Tarney, Mike Prestwood Smith, William Miller and John Pritchett
• “Soul” Ren Klyce, Coya Elliott and David Parker
• WINNER: “Sound of Metal” Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés and Phillip Bladh
Achievement in visual effects
• “Love and Monsters” Matt Sloan, Genevieve Camilleri, Matt Everitt and Brian Cox
• “The Midnight Sky” Matthew Kasmir, Christopher Lawrence, Max Solomon and David Watkins
• “Mulan” Sean Faden, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury and Steve Ingram
• “The One and Only Ivan” Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Jones and Santiago Colomo Martinez
• WINNER: “Tenet” Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher
Adapted screenplay
• “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Peter Baynham & Erica Rivinoja & Dan Mazer & Jena Friedman & Lee Kern; Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Nina Pedrad
• WINNER: “The Father” Screenplay by Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller
• “Nomadland” Written for the screen by Chloé Zhao
• “One Night in Miami…” Screenplay by Kemp Powers
• “The White Tigers” Written for the screen by Ramin Bahrani
Original screenplay
• “Judas and the Black Messiah” Screenplay by Will Berson & Shaka King; Story by Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas
• “Minari” Written by Lee Isaac Chung
• WINNER: “Promising Young Woman” Written by Emerald Fennell
• “Sound of Metal” Screenplay by Darius Marder & Abraham Marder; Story by Darius Marder & Derek Cianfrance
• “The Trial of the Chicago 7” Written by Aaron Sorkin
Emmy Award winner Joe Morton (Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, Scandal) directs the 100th episode of CBS’s Bull airing on Monday, April 26, 2021 at 10pm ET/PT. Season five episode 13, “The Law of the Jungle,” was written by Marissa Matteo and finds Bull attempting to defend a woman charged with the murder of someone who preyed on her as a teen.
The season five cast is led by Michael Weatherly as Dr. Jason Bull. Freddy Rodriguez plays Benny Colón, Yara Martinez stars as Isabella “Izzy” Colón, Geneva Carr is Marissa Morgan, Jamie Lee Kirchner is Danny James, Christopher Jackson plays Chunk Palmer, and MacKenzie Meehan stars as Taylor Rentzel.
Episode 13 guest stars include Alexa Mareka, Chelsea Debo, Talene Monahon, Veanne Cox, and Douglass Everett Davis.
“The Law of the Jungle” Plot: Bull is hired to help a woman determined to go against legal advice when she insists on pleading guilty to the murder of a wealthy philanthropist who preyed on her a teenager.
Bull stars Michael Weatherly as Dr. Jason Bull in a drama inspired by the early career of Dr. Phil McGraw, the founder of one of the most prolific trial-consulting firms of all time. Brilliant, brash and charming, Dr. Bull is the ultimate puppet master as he combines psychology, human intuition and high-tech data to learn what makes jurors, attorneys, witnesses and the accused tick. This season, Bull finds it harder than ever to navigate his personal life, as he balances fatherhood and his renewed relationship with Isabella “Izzy” Colón, his ex-wife. Izzy’s brother is Benny Colón, Bull’s trusted associate, a quick-witted lawyer who acts as defense attorney in the company’s mock trials.
Bull’s enviable group of experts at Trial Analysis Corporation shape successful narratives down to the last detail. In addition to Benny, his team includes Marissa Morgan, a neurolinguistics expert from the Department of Homeland Security who monitors shifting jury reactions in real-time for Bull; former NYPD detective Danny James, the firm’s tough but relatable investigator; Taylor Rentzel, a working mother and former colleague of Marissa’s who is an expert at coding and computer hacking; and Chunk Palmer, a former all-American lineman and stylist-turned-lawyer, who helps clients prepare their look and testimony for trial.
In high-stakes trials, Bull’s combination of remarkable insight into human nature, three Ph.D.’s and a top-notch staff creates winning strategies that tip the scales of justice in his clients’ favor.
Grammy Award-winning artists The Weeknd and Ariana Grande teased a remix of his hit single “Save Your Tears” on social media just a few short days ago. Today, the remix has arrived accompanied by an animated music video directed by Jack Brown and produced by Blinkink.
The two multi-platinum artists are no strangers to teaming up. They previously collaborated on “Love Me Harder” from her hit album Positions and “off the table” from Grande’s 2014 album, My Everything. While those songs were Grande’s, this time she joined The Weeknd on his song.
The Weeknd’s original “Save Your Tears” from his multi-platinum 2020 album After Hours continues to be popular. The single tops the Top 40 Radio chart and went double platinum, surpassing the one billion streams mark.
“Save Your Tears” isn’t the first collaboration to come from his smash-hit album After Hours. The Canadian singer and Rosalía collaborated on the “Blinding Lights” remix, and he teamed up with Doja Cat for an “In Your Eyes” remix.
The Weeknd has announced plans to appear on Doja Cat’s much-anticipated upcoming album Plant Her which hasn’t yet confirmed a release date.
The Weeknd has racked up a tremendous amount of achievements over the years including being recently named the Most Streamed R&B Artist of 2021. After Hours sits atop the Most Streamed R&B Album list, continuing its hold on the top spot this year even though the album dropped in early 2020. And “Blinding Lights” and “Save Your Tears” currently occupy two spots on the Top 5 Most Streamed Globally list.
Multi-award winner Ariana Grande has her fair share of remarkable achievements as well. Grande’s the first artist since The Beatles way back in 1964 to hold the top three Billboard Hot 100 spots with her “7 Rings,” “Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored,” and “Thank U, Next.” She also entered the record books in 2020 as the first artist to release five singles that each debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
