Rush Announces Five-Show Residency at Sphere in Las Vegas

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Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson are bringing Rush to Sphere in Las Vegas for five shows in May 2027.

The band will perform on May 21, 23, 26, 28, and 30. Each night will feature fan favorites and greatest hits from across Rush’s catalog, honoring the band’s legacy and the late drummer and lyricist Neil Peart.

“When I first heard of Sphere, I thought to myself, ‘wow, what a shame that Rush is no longer touring, because this venue sounds tailor made for the kind of visual attitude with which we have always designed our shows,'” Lee says. “But life is nothing if not surprising and now, here we are, living and touring in the present tense and we are able to make that particular dream come true.”

Lee says the band is working to expand their touring concepts for the venue and plans to perform all of 2112 and all of Moving Pictures, along with other songs.

Lee and Lifeson will be joined by drummer Anika Nilles and keyboardist Loren Gold, the same lineup performing on Rush’s current Fifty Something tour. That tour has sold over 1 million tickets across Canada, the United States, Mexico, South America, Europe, and the UK.

Tickets go on sale November 13 at 10 AM PT at rush.com/sphere.

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The Darkness Turns 30 With Anniversary One-Shots and Collectible Blind Bag

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The Darkness, the series co-created by Marc Silvestri, Garth Ennis, and David Wohl, hits its 30th anniversary this year. Image Comics and Top Cow Productions are marking the milestone with two anniversary one-shots, plus a collectible blind bag releasing alongside The Darkness #10 in December.

“It’s hard to believe it’s been 30 years since we first introduced Jackie Estacado and The Darkness to the world,” Silvestri said. “What started as an idea for a character who could be both a monster and a hero has grown into something far bigger than any of us imagined.”

The Darkness 30th Anniversary Art Gallery #1 collects covers, sketches, process pieces, and promotional art from across the series’ three decades. The one-shot includes commentary from Silvestri and Joe Benitez on selected works.

The Darkness vs. The Magdalena #1 brings back the Magdalena for three stories set in different eras, from 0 AD Istanbul to the 1990s, showing how the Darkness has tangled with the Order of the Magdalena over the centuries. The oversized special features a chapter by Top Cow’s 2026 Talent Hunt winner Zul Kamarrudin.

In The Darkness #10, only the Angelus stands between Sonatine and ultimate power. If there’s any hope for humanity, it lies with Jackie Estacado, but even if he could be resurrected, would he choose to return?

Top Cow is also releasing 1,996 copies of The Darkness 30th Anniversary Blind Bag, priced at $15 each. The number nods to the year the series launched. Each bag contains one rare collectible comic: either an exclusive variant cover, a foil variant, or a signed ratio variant from the archives with a certificate of authenticity.

The Darkness 30th Anniversary Art Gallery #1 arrives December 2. The Darkness vs. The Magdalena #1 releases December 16, and The Darkness #10 and the blind bag both drop December 23.

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Animated Series Monkey King Adventures Hits 1 Million Views on GJW+

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Monkey King Adventures, the first original animated series from streaming service GJW+, has surpassed 1 million combined views across its first six episodes, theme song, teasers, and trailers since its October 2 premiere.

The series adapts Journey to the West, the 16th century Chinese classic considered one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. Season 1 follows Sun Wukong, a monkey born from a magical stone, on his rise to become the Monkey King. New episodes arrive weekly, with Episode 7 dropping November 6.

The milestone comes as Gan Jing Kids launched Kids Mode, a simplified viewing space where children can watch shows including Monkey King Adventures on their own. Kids Mode removes extra menus, notifications, and comment sections, using large picture-based icons to help young viewers navigate.

“With Monkey King Adventures on GJW+, we are going to great lengths to preserve the novel’s spiritual core and strive to give audiences a true version of this beloved classic finally restored to its rightful glory for new generations,” said Terry Wu, producer of the series.

Early viewer reactions have been positive. One viewer who watched the first two episodes with children from an after-school program wrote, “They were completely captivated, and so was I. The animation is stunning and beautiful, the story is gripping, and it carries positive messages.”

The 12-episode first season streams on GJW+ and Gan Jing Kids. The first two episodes are free to watch.

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Larry Fessenden Brings Three Classic Monsters Together in “Trauma Or, Monsters All”

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Larry Fessenden is merging his takes on the vampire, Frankenstein’s monster, and the werewolf into one film. “Trauma Or, Monsters All” opens at IFC Center in New York November 4, followed by a Los Angeles screening at Lumiere Music Hall November 11 and a nationwide VOD release November 24.

The film brings together creatures from Fessenden’s previous work, Habit, Depraved, and Blackout, into a single story set in the upstate town of Talbot Falls. Visiting writer Cassandra (Laëtitia Hollard, who plays Nurse Emma Nolan on NBC’s The Pitt) arrives to research a book on George Washington Carver. After she publishes an article about the town’s past, buried secrets surface and the three monsters emerge, forcing the town to confront generations of fear and guilt.

Dark Sky Films is releasing the film, continuing a partnership with Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix that stretches back nearly two decades and includes Ti West’s The House of the Devil and The Innkeepers, along with Stake Land, Hypothermia, Late Phases, and Blackout.

The cast includes Aitana Doyle, Addison Timlin, Alex Hurt, Alex Breaux, John Speredakos, Marc Senter, Micheál Neeson, Joshua Leonard, Barbara Crampton, and James Le Gros.

“I’ve spent my career reimagining classic monsters because they reveal something deeply human about us,” Fessenden said. “TRAUMA OR, MONSTERS ALL brings those stories together into one film about memory, identity, and the wounds we carry.”

The New York opening coincides with IFC Center’s ongoing OPTIC NERVE: A Tribute to Glass Eye Pix, marking the 40th anniversary of Fessenden’s production company.

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Ellie Gravitte Directs Her Real-Life Family in Musical Feature “Get Happy” at Connecticut Home

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A Connecticut family is shooting a musical feature film in their own house. Production is underway on “Get Happy”, the debut feature from writer/director Ellie Gravitte. The film stars her mother, Tony Award-winning actress Debbie Gravitte, her father Beau Gravitte, and other family members. Filming runs through November 9 in Redding, CT.

“I’d been waiting a long time for a ‘yes’ from big-name talent and financiers who were hesitant to take a chance on a first-time filmmaker,” Gravitte says. “This summer, I decided to stop waiting. So I wrote a film for my entire family to star in, and we’re shooting it in our house.”

The film follows the Williams family over a single day. When three adult children bring their significant others home for an annual gathering, musical performances, botched meals, and interpersonal dramas pile up.

The film features eight songs captured live on camera, including standards like “Get Happy” and “Fascinating Rhythm”, plus an original song, “No One Has It Worse”, written by Gravitte and Carlo Ladd.

The cast has more than a dozen Broadway credits between them. Debbie Gravitte won the Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and a Grammy for “Jerome Robbins’ Broadway”. She’s currently on Broadway in “Just in Time”. Beau Gravitte spent a year in the national tour of “The Notebook” and has Broadway credits including “The Light in the Piazza”. Sam Gravitte made his Broadway debut in “Wicked” and later starred as Fiyero.

The production is raising funds through a Kickstarter campaign that ends November 20. Producers are Lavinia Jones Wright and Lindsey Formes of I Play Different Productions.

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“General Hospital” Alumni Lead Film Noir “Love Loaded,” Arriving on Digital November 13

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A crime shatters the smoky world of Club Figaro in “Love Loaded,” a new film noir whodunnit set in 1958 Los Angeles. Buffalo 8 releases the film on TVOD and digital platforms November 13.

Director Jan Miller Corran (“Snapshots,” “Along Came Wanda”) centers the story on torch singer Didi Scanlon, whose voice and presence draw a crowd of admirers and enemies to the late-night club. When violence breaks the club’s illusion of elegance, lovers, rivals, detectives, and desperate souls all become suspects.

“LOVE LOADED is a mystery where every character has something to hide,” Corran said. “It’s a story about longing, ambition, betrayal, and the dangerous choices people make when love and power collide.”

The cast includes several “General Hospital” alumni: Adam Huss (“Power,” “The Bay”), Erin Chambers (“Scandal,” “Shameless”), and Monica Young (“Days of Our Lives,” “Criminal Minds”). Max Adler (“Glee,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7”), Rich Ceraulo Ko (“The Walking Dead,” “Tenet”), Emily Goss (“The House on Pine Street”), and Adam Bucci (“Eastsiders,” “Halt and Catch Fire”) round out the ensemble.

The film uses period sets and cinematography to recreate the neon lights, shadowy bars, and smoke-filled stages of late-1950s Los Angeles. Corran put complex female characters at the center of the mystery rather than in supporting roles.

“Love Loaded” won awards for best feature film, best film noir, best actor/actress, best original song, and best ensemble cast. It premiered at Cinema Diverse Palm Springs and screens November 14 at the St. Louis International Film Festival.

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Documentary Follows Paramedics Through a Year of Emergency Calls

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into-the-unknownA new documentary puts a camera inside ambulances and emergency rooms across the country, following paramedics as they respond to calls that could be anything from a heart attack to a car crash.

Into the Unknown follows EMS crews in Santa Barbara, Sparks, Denver, Baton Rouge, and Crozet over the course of a year. Director Tom Putnam, who made the firefighter documentary Burn, captures the split-second decisions, physical danger, and emotional weight that come with the job.

The film features paramedics Dr. Richard Carmona, Pat Coyle, Heather Edwards, Nicole Jagers, Niki Johnson, Anthony Judkins, Anne Kellogg, Trevor Oakley, John Tinsley, and Jenn Vazquez.

Executive producers include Steve Buscemi and Randolph Mantooth and Kevin Tighe, who played paramedics on the 1970s show Emergency! Mantooth and Tighe say the documentary is a tribute to the real professionals whose work helped inspire that series.

“Behind every uniform is a human being navigating trauma, loss, exhaustion, and the immense responsibility of making split-second decisions under extraordinary pressure,” according to the filmmakers.

Into the Unknown opens on digital platforms December 4.

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Tahoe Live 2026 Splits Into Three Days With Chris Lake, GRiZ, and Knock2

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Tahoe Live is programming its 2026 edition around three separate musical identities, with each day built around a different headliner and sound. Single-day tickets go on sale November 5 at 10 AM PT.

Chris Lake headlines Friday, December 11, leading the festival’s biggest move into house music. He’s coming off two sold-out shows at Los Angeles State Historic Park that moved roughly 40,000 tickets combined. Walker & Royce, Noizu, Devault, NALA, Cole Knight, and Zaddy B round out the day.

GRiZ headlines Saturday, December 12, making his first Northern California headlining return since two sold-out Cow Palace shows in November 2025. He’s joined by TEDDY PAIN, T-Pain’s electronic music project, plus YDG, Mary Droppinz, HERSHE, KHØDA LEON, and DJ Unni.

Knock2 closes the weekend Sunday, December 13, bringing a lineup connected to the Niteharts universe. Madeon and Control Freak, both Niteharts 2026 performers, join him, along with Daniel Allan, WINK x nikko, Klo, and BUNS.

The festival runs December 11-13 at Palisades Tahoe in Olympic Valley, California, at 6,200 feet in the Sierra Nevada. It’s a single-stage setup with no set conflicts. Last year’s edition expanded to three days and sold out, with fans traveling from 48 states.

Tickets and details at tahoelive.net.

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Alexandre Aja’s Horror Thriller “Never Let Go” Arrives on 4K UHD and Blu-ray

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Halle Berry fights to protect her twin sons from an unseen evil in “Never Let Go,” a horror thriller hitting 4K UHD and Blu-ray on November 11.

Directed by Alexandre Aja (“Crawl”) and written by KC Coughlin and Ryan Grassby, the film follows a mother and her two boys as they shelter in their family home while an evil force overtakes the world outside. Their survival depends on staying physically connected, literally tethering themselves with ropes. When one son begins to doubt whether the threat is real, the family bond fractures and a fight for survival begins.

Berry, who won an Oscar for “Monster’s Ball,” stars alongside Percy Daggs IV (“The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey”), Anthony B. Jenkins (“The Deliverance”), William Catlett (“A Thousand and One”), Matthew Kevin Anderson (“The Flash”), and Christin Park (“The 100”).

The home release includes several special features: “Making Never Let Go,” “Creating Momma’s House,” “Tethered Together,” deleted scenes, and the theatrical trailer. The 4K edition offers Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos audio, with Spanish and French audio tracks and subtitles.

The film runs 101 minutes and carries an R rating for strong violent content and grisly images.

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Dennis Hopper’s ‘Tracks’ Gets 4K Restoration, Screens November 11 in New York

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A Vietnam vet escorts a fellow soldier’s body home by train, and the war won’t let him go.

Henry Jaglom’s 1976 film Tracks, starring Dennis Hopper, is getting a new 4K restoration. Hope Runs High is bringing the film back to theaters with a screening at Roxy Cinema in New York on November 11, 2026.

The film follows a sergeant, played by Hopper, who is traveling across the country by train with the remains of a fellow soldier. Haunted by what he saw in Vietnam, he encounters passengers both real and imagined. Dean Stockwell and Taryn Power, daughter of Tyrone Power, co-star.

Tracks was selected for Semaine de la Critique at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. Critics at the time called it visceral and discomforting. J. Hoberman described it as “both a terminal road film and the first post-Vietnam movie.” Variety called it “an incisive, revelatory film.”

Jaglom wrote and directed the film. Paul Glickman shot it, and Zack Norman produced. Jaglom started his career editing Easy Rider alongside Jack Nicholson, then went on to direct more than twenty films of his own.

The Roxy Cinema screening includes a post-screening Q&A with Sabrina Jaglom and Justin LaLiberty. The theater is located at 2 Avenue of the Americas in New York.

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