Millwall 1-0 Leicester City: Ryan Longman winner lifts Lions & dents Foxes’ title bid

Ryan Longman’s positive strike was his second aim in three video games

Ryan Longman’s sensible winner for Millwall consigned stuttering promotion challengers Leicester to a fifth defeat in 9 Championship matches.

Longman collected Billy Mitchell’s cross, minimize in from the left previous Harry Winks and despatched an unstoppable strike from close to the sting of the penalty space past keeper Mads Hermansen and into the far nook of the web.

The victory took Millwall to 47 factors, 4 away from the relegation zone, and so they have now taken 10 factors from their 4 dwelling matches since Neil Harris’ current return for a second spell as boss.

Leaders Leicester, in the meantime, clung onto prime spot by advantage of Leeds solely managing a goalless draw at dwelling to Sunderland.

That time noticed Leeds transfer as much as second and Ipswich drop to 3rd, however the Suffolk aspect will go prime in the event that they win at dwelling to Watford on Wednesday.

Leicester dominated possession at The Den for giant intervals, particularly within the first half, however struggled to create clear-cut possibilities.

Nevertheless, substitute Patson Daka ought to have equalised deep into stoppage time however made a multitude of an tried header from Dennis Praet’s cross. The ball bounced off his shoulder and huge of the goal.

Millwall struggled badly below ex-boss Joe Edwards, who tried to introduce an expansive fashion of play however was sacked in February after a collection of poor outcomes and performances.

Former Lions striker Harris, however, has gone again to fundamentals, deploying a 4-4-2 formation and counting on exhausting work and good organisation. His staff managed to frustrate the guests.

Millwall defended effectively earlier than and after Longman’s aim, and a win at dwelling to Cardiff Metropolis on Saturday would take them to the 50-point mark, which is often sufficient to remain up.

Leicester will go to one other relegation-threatened aspect, Plymouth, on Friday. The Foxes are actually with out a win in 5 away matches.

Leicester Metropolis supervisor Enzo Maresca instructed BBC Radio Leicester:

“A troublesome night time. However we knew it could be a tough recreation – each recreation till the top of the season will likely be tough as a result of each membership is enjoying for some goal.

“We struggled somewhat bit within the first half to seek out area and to create possibilities. The second half was significantly better, however they scored a implausible aim.

“At this stage of the season, to be trustworthy, I anticipated some video games like this as a result of now it is nearly 50 video games that we have performed and it is the final three or 4 weeks, so everyone seems to be somewhat bit drained.

“Now it is a matter of recovering power and making an attempt to win the sport on Friday. Each recreation now’s a giant second.

“The sport we have performed is gone. Now we have to be targeted on the subsequent video games – they’re crucial of the season.”

Millwall supervisor Neil Harris:

“Firstly, it is so Millwall-like to lose to Rotherham and Huddersfield, each within the final minute, after which beat the league leaders.

“That is what this membership does. Not simply this group. The final 30 years of Millwall Soccer Membership.

“We scored a aim that might win any recreation at this degree. I believed it was a superb Millwall efficiency. To play in opposition to arguably the most effective staff within the league and restrict them to little or no was so spectacular.

“We’re shifting in the correct path. What I am seeing within the group is a variety of positives.”

Line-ups

Millwall

Formation 4-4-2

  • 20SarkicBooked at 90mins
  • 18Leonard
  • 6Tanganga
  • 5Cooper
  • 2McNamara
  • 11LongmanSubstituted forNorton-Cuffyat 89′minutes
  • 8Mitchell
  • 23SavilleBooked at 83mins
  • 39HoneymanBooked at 11minsSubstituted forEsseat 51′minutes
  • 10FlemmingSubstituted forDe Norreat 90′minutes
  • 21ObafemiSubstituted forBradshawat 76′minutes

Substitutes

  • 4Hutchinson
  • 9Bradshaw
  • 12Mayor
  • 17Norton-Cuffy
  • 22Emakhu
  • 24De Norre
  • 25Esse
  • 33Bialkowski
  • 45Harding

Leicester

Formation 4-2-3-1

  • 30Hermansen
  • 21Ricardo Pereira
  • 3Faes
  • 23Vestergaard
  • 5DoyleSubstituted forJustinat 73′minutes
  • 8WinksBooked at 21minsSubstituted forDakaat 88′minutes
  • 25NdidiSubstituted forPraetat 73′minutes
  • 29AkgünSubstituted forFatawuat 62′minutes
  • 22Dewsbury-Corridor
  • 10Mavididi
  • 9VardySubstituted forIheanachoat 73′minutes

Substitutes

  • 2Justin
  • 4Coady
  • 11Albrighton
  • 14Iheanacho
  • 17Choudhury
  • 18Fatawu
  • 20Daka
  • 26Praet
  • 41Stolarczyk

Referee:
Sunny Sukhvir Gill

Attendance:
14,889

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  1. Match ends, Millwall 1, Leicester Metropolis 0.

  2. Second Half ends, Millwall 1, Leicester Metropolis 0.

  3. Try missed. Patson Daka (Leicester Metropolis) header from the correct aspect of the six yard field misses to the correct. Assisted by Dennis Praet with a cross.

  4. Matija Sarkic (Millwall) is proven the yellow card.

  5. Try missed. Stephy Mavididi (Leicester Metropolis) proper footed shot from the left aspect of the field is simply too excessive. Assisted by Kiernan Dewsbury-Corridor.

  6. Try blocked. Abdul Fatawu (Leicester Metropolis) left footed shot from outdoors the field is blocked. Assisted by Stephy Mavididi.

  7. Nook, Leicester Metropolis. Conceded by Billy Mitchell.

  8. Try blocked. Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester Metropolis) header from very shut vary is blocked. Assisted by Abdul Fatawu.

  9. Foul by Stephy Mavididi (Leicester Metropolis).

  10. Ryan Leonard (Millwall) wins a free kick within the defensive half.

  11. Substitution, Millwall. Casper De Norre replaces Zian Flemming.

  12. Substitution, Millwall. Brooke Norton-Cuffy replaces Ryan Longman.

  13. Substitution, Leicester Metropolis. Patson Daka replaces Harry Winks.

  14. Delay over. They’re able to proceed.

  15. Delay in match due to an damage Zian Flemming (Millwall).

  16. Jannik Vestergaard (Leicester Metropolis) wins a free kick within the defensive half.

  17. Foul by Jake Cooper (Millwall).

  18. George Saville (Millwall) is proven the yellow card for a foul foul.

  19. Ricardo Pereira (Leicester Metropolis) wins a free kick within the attacking half.

  20. Foul by George Saville (Millwall).

Leeds United fans team up to help farmer’s charity appeal

LUFC supporters Paul and Jack Riley had the concept of organising a signed soccer shirt to boost cash for household pal and Cedarbarn proprietor Karl Avison’s Journey of Their Lives enchantment. Fellow LUFC supporter Bob Batty then supplied two company hospitality tickets to the Bremner suite within the West Stand for any fixture within the 2024/25 season that would see Leeds return to the Premier League.

Bob stated: “All it’s a must to do is e-mail KarlAvison@icloud.com with a dedication to bid as a lot as potential -minimum £500 – earlier than the top of the Leeds v Blackburn match on Saturday, April 13.

“The profitable bid would be the highest timed provide, and Karl will make the ultimate resolution. The funds will probably be transferred to Karl’s Simply Giving account, and the fortunate winners will have the ability to choose a recreation of their alternative immediately from me and my son Sam, who’re long-standing Bremner suite season ticket holders.”

The beneficiant provide from each households is the newest in a sequence of gestures from the local people, which is behind Mr Avison’s second try on the difficult Journey of Their Lives. Native companies have sponsored occasions, Norton racehorse coach Brian Ellison is loaning him a horse, and the Douglas household has opened up their AD plant to boost funds for his or her farming neighbour.

Karl stated: “We’re humbled and grateful for all of the assist we now have obtained. From neighbours, native companies, individuals attending occasions and donating to our e book trade, we now have been blown away by the degrees of generosity.”

The Journey of Their Lives takes place at York Races on the June 15 and Karl will make historical past as the one jockey within the 52 12 months outdated race to compete for a second time.

Karl is considered one of 12 newbie riders who will compete within the nine-furlong race across the iconic Knavesmire course, the primary race of the Macmillan Charity Raceday, which has raised over £10 million since its begin in 1971.

FY 2025 merit increases for PNW faculty and staff

April 8, 2024



Pricey Colleagues:

I’m happy to announce that the Senior Management Staff has advisable a wage benefit pool, pending Purdue Board of Trustees approval, for advantages eligible school and workers for the upcoming 12 months. Our dedication to reward PNW workers for regularly pursuing excellence displays PNW’s monetary and operational power.

Profit eligible workers employed previous to March 31 could also be included within the pool, which is:

  • 3.0% for recurring benefit will increase (added to base pay) efficient July 1, 2024.

Managers will decide the allocation of the benefit pool amongst eligible workers in every division and enterprise unit. Supervisors will obtain info from the Workplace of Finance and Enterprise Companies to speak to particular person school and workers members by mid-June.

The recurring benefit will increase can be mirrored on the July 24 pay assertion for biweekly workers and July 31 pay assertion for month-to-month workers.

I’m extraordinarily proud to work with the devoted school and workers of PNW. Thanks for all you do to make sure the college and our college students are powering onward to new heights.

Kenneth C. Holford

Chancellor, Purdue College Northwest

Sunderland: Activities for junior supporters

Leeds United have plenty of actions for junior supporters attending our night match towards Sunderland on Tuesday ninth April.

Our resident Face Painters shall be available within the Residence Fan Zone from 6pm, when the Fan Zone opens, and they’ll transfer onto the Household Space within the East Stand Concourse from roughly 6.20pm.

Lucas the Kop Cat will even be in attendance and can make his manner over to the Household Space for six.20pm, earlier than heading pithside to do a lap of the stadium bowl forward of kick-off.

Junior supporters can go alongside to satisfy Kop Cat and have photographs taken by our branded photograph space, while there are many different photograph alternatives now put in across the Residence Fan Zone and within the East Stand Concourse for followers.

Please observe the Face Painters shall be available from roughly 6pm up till kick-off at 8pm.

Be sure to add any of your pre-match photographs with Kop Cat or at our new branded Leeds United areas with the #LUFC to social media.

ISIS stadium threat puts UEFA Champions League soccer teams on alert for quarterfinals

London — Nameless on-line supporters of the Islamic terror group ISIS have issued a risk to soccer stadiums throughout Europe forward of main video games within the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League — European soccer’s greatest membership competitors.

A put up disseminated this week by the pro-ISIS on-line media outlet Al Azaim Basis confirmed graphic imagery of a gunman in a balaclava, with the message, “Kill all of them,” in massive textual content. The put up lists London’s Emirates Stadium, Paris’s Parc de Prince (sic), and Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu as targets.

All three stadiums are set to host main Champions League video games, with tens of hundreds of followers in attendance.

There have been no associated threats conveyed through any of the official social media accounts run by or recognized to be linked to ISIS.

Police patrol outdoors Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium forward of the Champions League quarterfinal soccer match between Arsenal and Bayern Munich in London, April 9, 2024.

Frank Augstein/AP


UEFA, the physique that runs the Champions League competitors, stated in an announcement despatched to CBS Information on Tuesday that it was “conscious of alleged terrorist threats made in the direction of this week’s UEFA Champions League matches and is carefully liaising with the authorities on the respective venues.”

“All matches are deliberate to go forward as scheduled with applicable safety preparations in place,” the assertion stated.

Richard Barnes, a counterterrorism adviser who leads stadium safety for London’s Metropolitan Police, confirmed that the drive was wanting into the net threats forward of the Champions League sport between Arsenal and Bayern Munich at Emirates Stadium on Tuesday night.

He informed CBS Information, nonetheless, that the net threats had been “not a brand new tactic utilized by varied terrorist teams to trigger or increase alarm.”

Barnes stated the London police counterterrorism unit was “investigating this and they’ll even be participating with inside and exterior companions and stakeholders to make sure this night’s fixture at Emirates Stadium just isn’t affected.”

French Inside Minister Gerald Darmanin stated safety can be “significantly strengthened” round Wednesday’s Champions League sport between Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona, within the French capital, in response to the risk, in keeping with the AFP information company.


ISIS claims accountability for Moscow assault, suspects seem in courtroom

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The threats and heightened safety measures come simply weeks after the bloody assault on the Russian capital’s Crocus Metropolis Corridor, which noticed gunmen storm the live performance venue earlier than setting it on fireplace.

A beforehand unheard-of ISIS Russia department claimed accountability for the assault, which left virtually 200 folks useless.

It additionally comes simply days after an 18-year-old man from Idaho was arrested and accused of plotting to kill churchgoers in his city within the title of ISIS, in keeping with courtroom paperwork unsealed earlier this week.

ISIS has a historical past of bloody assaults on European soil, together with the devastating, well-orchestrated assault on a number of places round Paris in 2015. France’s nationwide soccer stadium, simply north of Paris, was the one location outdoors the capital metropolis that was attacked by the ISIS militants throughout that siege. It’s not the identical venue that was talked about within the put up on the pro-ISIS web site this week.

CBS Information’ Khaled Wassef contributed to this report.

PNW students celebrate International Math Day

April 8, 2024



The Purdue College Northwest (PNW) Arithmetic and Statistics Membership scholar group just lately helped share the enjoyment of math with the campus group by internet hosting an Worldwide Math Day celebration.

Worldwide Arithmetic Day helps have fun mathematicians’ achievements all through historical past and encourage new generations of problem-solvers. The scholar group facilitated hands-on and interesting actions meant to share a ardour for arithmetic and its significance in folks’s day by day lives. Actions included math puzzles, trivia, calculus with Kahoot, card video games, chance bingo and extra. Over 100 college students, college and employees attended.

“We had been thrilled to have fun Worldwide Math Day and showcase the wonder and relevance of arithmetic and statistics to our group,” stated Gowrisree Juttiga, PNW Arithmetic and Statistics Membership president.

“The PNW Arithmetic & Statistics Membership orchestrated an distinctive celebration of Worldwide Arithmetic Day,” stated Nicoleta Tarfulea, chair for the division of Arithmetic and Statistics and interim chair for the division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering. “In recognition of the worldwide significance of arithmetic and its pivotal function in shaping our world, the membership crafted an occasion with charming actions geared toward instilling a profound appreciation for the aesthetic and sensible functions of arithmetic and statistics. We prolong heartfelt gratitude to all individuals for his or her enthusiasm and dedication to celebrating the wonder and significance of arithmetic.

PNW’s Arithmetic and Statistics Membership was established in 2022 and actively organizes varied actions, together with visitor discuss sequence by alumni and college students and film nights. Membership members purpose to encourage a ardour for arithmetic and statistics.

Real Madrid 3-3 Man City: Champions League quarter-final evenly poised after first leg

Actual Madrid 3-3 Manchester Metropolis: ‘Right here it’s by no means over’ – Guardiola

Supervisor Pep Guardiola praised Manchester Metropolis’s potential to “adapt rapidly to chaos” of their 3-3 first-leg draw in opposition to Actual Madrid within the Champions League quarter-finals.

Holders Metropolis took took the lead within the second minute when Bernardo Silva cleverly snuck a 25-yard free-kick around the wall and previous goalkeeper Andriy Lunin.

However deflected strikes from Eduardo Camavinga and Rodrygo helped 14-time European champions Actual overturn the deficit on the Bernabeu.

“We had been 2-1 down, taking part in right here with out a lot composure,” Guardiola mentioned.

“This recreation, within the first three seasons collectively, we might have misplaced 4-1 or 5-1 as we weren’t secure emotionally.”

Metropolis, who received this competitors for the primary time final season as a part of a historic Treble, got here into this recreation with Kevin de Bruyne on the bench after the Belgium midfielder fell ailing earlier than kick-off.

Guardiola mentioned: “One of many secrets and techniques on the excessive ranges is to adapt rapidly to chaos. There is no such thing as a time to complain.

“You want time to study and now we’re extra secure and hopefully sooner or later we will do higher and higher.”

Metropolis had lacked high quality within the closing third till Phil Foden, who had been on the periphery of the sport, discovered area simply outdoors the realm to show and hearth into the highest nook to drag Metropolis stage.

Moments later left-back Josko Gvardiol minimize in and located the far nook with an outstanding right-foot shot to attain his first purpose since becoming a member of Metropolis from RB Leipzig in the summertime.

Nevertheless, Madrid equalised with a surprising volley from Federico Valverde to arrange an intriguing second leg on Wednesday, 17 April at Etihad Stadium, the place Metropolis beat Madrid 4-0 in final season’s semi-finals.

“We take the outcome and in a single week in Manchester, with our individuals, it is going to be offered out and they’re going to assist us,” Guardiola added.

Metropolis present resolve

Metropolis received the right begin when Silva cleverly curled within the opener after Aurelien Tchouameni, who will now miss the second leg, fouled Jack Grealish.

Guardiola’s group had been rocked by Madrid’s quickfire response, however confirmed endurance of their build-up with Madrid completely happy to sit down off the Premier League champions, solely urgent when Metropolis received close to the penalty space.

It labored for big elements of the sport and opened up counter-attacking alternatives for Carlo Ancelotti’s facet, however Metropolis’s high quality finally advised.

Foden had been quiet, drifting between extensive proper and attacking midfield, however his excellent season continued when he neatly turned and fired an unstoppable drive into the top-right nook of the purpose.

When Gvardiol put the guests forward, only a second win on the Bernabeu regarded on for Metropolis, earlier than they had been pegged again by Valverde’s great low drive.

Nevertheless, Metropolis now have the possibility at residence to progress to the semi-finals for the fourth consecutive season, the place in recent times they’ve blown sides away within the Champions League.

Madrid exploit Metropolis’s lack of tempo

It is a very totally different Actual Madrid group to the all-conquering sides which dominated the event this century.

Their common form, usually with 11 males behind the ball, confirmed Metropolis a variety of respect, and maybe vulnerability on the again of final season’s chastening defeat in Manchester.

Nevertheless, their strong defensive form allowed them to take advantage of one of many few weaknesses Metropolis have.

On the again Guardiola’s facet lack tempo, particularly with the continued absence of Kyle Walker, and that allowed Rodrygo to get in down the Metropolis proper for the second Madrid purpose.

It was a weak spot that Madrid, who’re high of La Liga and had 9 days off coming into the sport, continued to focus on however Vinicius Junior, Jude Bellingham and Rodrygo all noticed efforts saved or go extensive.

It’s a tactic they’re probably to make use of on the Etihad in eight days’ time, however final season Ancelotti’s facet struggled to realize possession within the second leg in opposition to a fired-up Metropolis, so alternatives could also be few and much between.

It will likely be fascinating to see if Guardiola’s group, who’re one level off high spot within the Premier League and into the FA Cup semi-finals, can do it once more and proceed their march in the direction of one other Treble.

Participant of the match

FodenPhil Foden

Actual Madrid

  1. Squad quantity10Participant identifyModric

  2. Squad quantity7Participant identifyVinícius Júnior

  3. Squad quantity11Participant identifyRodrygo

  4. Squad quantity15Participant identifyValverde

  5. Squad quantity5Participant identifyBellingham

  6. Squad quantity12Participant identifyCamavinga

  7. Squad quantity22Participant identifyRüdiger

  8. Squad quantity8Participant identifyKroos

  9. Squad quantity2Participant identifyCarvajal

  10. Squad quantity23Participant identifyMendy

  11. Squad quantity21Participant identifyDíaz

  12. Squad quantity18Participant identifyTchouaméni

  13. Squad quantity14Participant identifyJoselu

  14. Squad quantity13Participant identifyLunin

Line-ups

Actual Madrid

Formation 4-2-3-1

  • 13Lunin
  • 2CarvajalBooked at 81mins
  • 18TchouaméniBooked at 1mins
  • 22Rüdiger
  • 23Mendy
  • 12Camavinga
  • 8KroosSubstituted forModricat 72′minutes
  • 15Valverde
  • 5Bellingham
  • 11RodrygoSubstituted forDíazat 72′minutes
  • 7Vinícius JúniorSubstituted forJoseluat 86′minutes

Substitutes

  • 3Militão
  • 6Nacho
  • 10Modric
  • 14Joselu
  • 17Vázquez
  • 19Ceballos
  • 20García
  • 21Díaz
  • 24Güler
  • 25Arrizabalaga Revuelta
  • 30González Pérez

Man Metropolis

Formation 4-2-3-1

  • 18Ortega
  • 25AkanjiBooked at 37mins
  • 5Stones
  • 3Rúben Dias
  • 24Gvardiol
  • 16Rodri
  • 8Kovacic
  • 20Bernardo SilvaBooked at 88mins
  • 47FodenSubstituted forÁlvarezat 87′minutes
  • 10Grealish
  • 9Haaland

Substitutes

  • 11Doku
  • 17De Bruyne
  • 19Álvarez
  • 21Gómez
  • 27Nunes
  • 31Ederson
  • 33Carson
  • 52Bobb
  • 76Susoho
  • 82Lewis

Referee:
François Letexier

Attendance:
76,680

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  1. Match ends, Actual Madrid 3, Manchester Metropolis 3.

  2. Second Half ends, Actual Madrid 3, Manchester Metropolis 3.

  3. Jack Grealish (Manchester Metropolis) wins a free kick within the defensive half.

  4. Foul by Dani Carvajal (Actual Madrid).

  5. Mateo Kovacic (Manchester Metropolis) wins a free kick on the left wing.

  6. Foul by Federico Valverde (Actual Madrid).

  7. Try missed. Dani Carvajal (Actual Madrid) left footed shot from outdoors the field is shut, however misses to the left. Assisted by Aurélien Tchouaméni following a nook.

  8. Try blocked. Brahim Díaz (Actual Madrid) proper footed shot from the left facet of the field is blocked. Assisted by Luka Modric.

  9. Nook, Actual Madrid. Conceded by John Stones.

  10. Bernardo Silva (Manchester Metropolis) is proven the yellow card for a foul foul.

  11. Foul by Bernardo Silva (Manchester Metropolis).

  12. Brahim Díaz (Actual Madrid) wins a free kick within the defensive half.

  13. Delay over. They’re able to proceed.

  14. Substitution, Manchester Metropolis. Julián Álvarez replaces Phil Foden due to an damage.

  15. Substitution, Actual Madrid. Joselu replaces Vinícius Júnior.

  16. Delay in match due to an damage Phil Foden (Manchester Metropolis).

  17. Foul by Phil Foden (Manchester Metropolis).

  18. Eduardo Camavinga (Actual Madrid) wins a free kick within the defensive half.

  19. Dani Carvajal (Actual Madrid) is proven the yellow card.

  20. Jack Grealish (Manchester Metropolis) wins a free kick within the attacking half.

Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga Fall in Twisted Love

The Clown Prince of Crime and Harley Quinn need you to know that what the world wants now could be… love.

That’s the message of the primary trailer for “Joker: Folie à Deux,” which sees Joaquin Phoenix reprise his Oscar-winning position as Arthur Fleck (who later turns into Batman’s infamous foe) and conspire with Woman Gaga because the equally twisted Harley Quinn.

The darkish and gritty footage begins at Arkham Asylum — the place Joker is locked up on the finish of the primary movie — as Arthur Fleck has a deranged “meet cute” with one other affected person (you guessed it, Gaga’s Harley Quinn). After the possibility encounter within the halls of jail, they fall madly, deeply in love and plan to interrupt out of their straight jackets to tackle the world past their padded cells. It brings them to the streets of Gotham, the place they manically dance and twirl across the metropolis.

“I’m no person. I haven’t completed something with my life like you’ve,” Harley Quinn tells Joker as she mimes capturing herself within the head.

The primary movie served as a moody origin story for the Joker, a reclusive, struggling humorist and part-time clown. Within the sequel, he takes his act on the street and performs on every kind of levels with Harley Quinn as his demented muse — and she or he’s sporting his signature make-up. On this cinematic journey, although, he doesn’t appear so lonely.

“I’ll inform you what’s modified,” Joker says within the trailer. “I’m not alone anymore — that’s what we ought to be speaking about!”

The trailer ends with Harley at Arkham Asylum as she attracts a cheerful face with crimson lipstick on the glass partition between her and Joker. “I wish to see the actual you,” she tells him.

Director Todd Phillips debuted the footage at CinemaCon, the annual conference for movie show homeowners. Though the unique 2019 “Joker” was billed as a “one-off,” Phillips mentioned he and Phoenix all the time talked about making a sequel.

“We beloved the character of Arthur an excessive amount of, however we didn’t wish to jinx the [original] film,” Phillips mentioned. “We solid Gaga as a result of she’s magic.”

Little is thought in regards to the precise plot of the sequel, which is reportedly a jukebox musical. Phillips mentioned that categorization isn’t totally correct, although it would function loads of tune and dance numbers.

“I wish to say it’s a film the place music is a vital ingredient,” says Phillips. “It doesn’t veer too removed from the primary movie. Arthur has music in him. He has a grace to him.”

Earlier than introducing the trailer, Phillips thanked the room of theater homeowners for taking part in “Joker” on the massive display regardless of experiences that the grotesque, blood-soaked movie would encourage violence.

“A few month earlier than the primary ‘Joker’ got here out, the narrative on the movie actually turned and there [were] these weird warnings in regards to the film,” he mentioned. “It was wonderful that exhibitors didn’t budge an inch, and when the film got here out, it did big enterprise. That perspective was an enormous purpose for our success.”

As Phillips alluded, “Joker” grew to become a large blockbuster with $1 billion on the world field workplace. It grew to become the primary R-rated movie to move the billion-dollar mark and earned 11 Oscar nominations, together with greatest image.

“Joker 2” will debut on the massive display on Oct. 4, 2024 — precisely 5 years after the primary movie. The unique price $62.5 million to provide, an unusually conservative finances for a comic book ebook adaptation. Given its runaway monetary success, the follow-up was granted a a lot extra substantial $200 million price ticket.

Footage of “Joker” debuted as a part of Warner Bros.’ presentation to exhibitors. The studio additionally has “Beetlejuice 2,” “Horizon: An American Saga” and “Mad Max” prequel “Furiosa” on its 2024 slate.

J. Cole Apologizes for Kendrick Diss But Not for Transphobic Bars

As J. Cole put a bow on this 12 months’s Dreamville Competition, he labored an apology  heard-’round-hip-hop into the introduction to one in every of his greatest and most sentimental songs, “Love Yourz.” “The previous two days have felt horrible,” he mentioned, earnestly admitting he’s misplaced sleep over “7 Minute Drill,” his nuanced however ill-received jab again at Kendrick Lamar for dissing him and Drake (principally Drake) on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That.” 

On stage, Cole defined that “Love Yourz” signified a turning level a decade in the past, one the place a religious enlightenment — “I acquired extra in tune with God,” he says — helped him launch the general public strain and concern that clouded his climb to the highest. “I rattling close to was fascinated by and listening to folks’s expectations of me after which responding off of that,” he mentioned of that point.

He doesn’t specify what, however condemns the “goofy sort shit” he was doing forward of “Love Yourz.” Well-known in Cole’s lore is a first-rate instance of his battle with expectations: the story of his 2013 observe “Let Nas Down,” the place he bemoaned the strain to make a pop-rap hit that formed his debut single, 2011’s “Work Out” — which Cole later discovered that his idol Nas discovered beneath him (to Cole’s credit score, it did its job as a catchy introduction to the as soon as underground MC and he shined because the music’s producer, too). He explains that in making “7 Minute Drill,” he deviated from the previous decade of working his personal race to satiate a bloodthirsty crowd of rap followers — together with folks near him — and ended up with “the lamest shit I ever did in my fuckin’ life.” 

As a Cole fan, I didn’t want “7 Minute Drill,” however I loved it — his willingness to maintain a rap beef about rap, his invocation of a deeply apt meme, his fixed need to each flex and provides flowers. He’s gotten sharper, smoother, and extra relaxed over the course of his discography. I used to be most excited that “Drill” dropped as part of a complete physique of labor — May Delete Later, a shock album and his first since 2022’s D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape along with his label. After an uncomfortable celebration of Dave Chappelle thriving at Netflix on the again of transphobic specials on the May Delete Later intro “Expensive,” he utterly misplaced me at “Pi,” a observe some see as additionally conniving in the direction of Lamar by that includes a standout (and unrelated) verse from his longtime collaborator and former labelmate Ab-Soul (in addition to one from precise battle rapper Daylyt). 

On it, Cole raps: “His album dropped, it was trash/I litter it like I can’t spell it/Is you the demon or is that demeanor for ‘Gram? Inform us/They plead the fifth, I’m seeing hints of a trans fella/In cancel tradition’s neighborhood, he’s no killer, belief me/Beneath his chosen id/There’s nonetheless a pussy, interval.”

I want I might say that utilizing trans id to insult somebody, diminishing it as alternative, after which dismissively lowering it to intercourse organs was beneath Cole — nevertheless it’s additionally indicative of who he’s been all through his profession. On 2013’s Born Sinner, the identical album the place he pined for Nas’ approval, he repeatedly hurled a homophobic slur on “Villuminati” in a convoluted rap urging of us to not be delicate about him utilizing the time period. On the identical album, he slipped transphobic taunts evoking the sexuality of former Sizzling 97 persona Mister Cee in “Forbidden Fruit.” Quick ahead to 2021, and he opens his final album, The Off-Season, with the dig, “Examine your genitalia, pussy-niggas bleedin’ on your self.” Cole doesn’t appear overtly motivated by concern or hatred, however time and again, he makes use of transness, gayness, and concepts of womanhood as websites of disgrace. “Pi” is simply the wackest factor he’s accomplished of late. Why hasn’t Cole’s path of enlightenment additionally led him to raised gender politics?

That’s to not say he has not tried — however it’s to say his efforts are sometimes sullied. Born Sinner boasts “Crooked Smile,” a touching ode to self-acceptance the place he empathizes with girls underneath strain to covet their look and discover love in an excruciating panorama. However then, his arguably-biggest hit, 2014’s “No Function Modelz” (the music he closed Dreamville Competition out with for no less than the final two years), is a reductive lambasting of “hoes” versus “sisters” navigating that very same terrain. In 2020, he acknowledged Noname as a “chief in these instances” for her social justice efforts, however solely after the 2 exchanged focused tracks following her coded critique of “top-selling” rappers sitting out of the motion and discourse round police brutality that spring. Cole responded with “Snow on Tha Bluff,” which criticized her tone and strategy. That they had spoken privately in between her tweet and his music — he didn’t point out the observe. Noname then clapped again along with her personal, however later apologized for it. He didn’t. (They’re cool, although.)

In his “Center Baby” period, he importantly acknowledged that traumatized males have been “hurting our sisters,” however he did in order he divisively took up for Tekashi 69, Kodak Black, and the late XXXTentacion — rappers with disturbing allegations (and within the case of the previous two, responsible verdicts) of gender-based violence, together with sexual assault. In his personal work, he’s constructed a small library of bars pointing to his romantic faithfulness and obligation, however his perspective in the direction of girls and themes of sexual conquest on May Delete Later are ill-fitting and regressive. They arrive as he makes his most fervent alignment with Drake at a time that additionally finds the Toronto rapper at his most gender–antagonistic. 

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As Cole described his regrets round “7 Minute Drill,” he additionally detailed a local weather that fanned the flames. “I don’t know if y’all can really feel that, however the world desires to see blood,” he mentioned, chatting with our notably conflict-driven, controversy-powered environments, each on-line and off. Queerphobia, transphobia, and misogyny are nonetheless highly effective norms, too, regardless of the strides visibility actions towards them have made. It’s commendable that as Cole apologized to Lamar, he framed himself as a work-in-progress and product of intense and intentional progress. It’s unlucky that the methods he’s caught folks in contrast to him in his rap crossfire hasn’t additionally warranted an apology. 

Joaquin Phoenix And Lady Gaga Cause Mass Mayhem

Joker: Folie à Deux’s teaser trailer options Joaquin Phoenix and Girl Gaga at their chaotic greatest.

Followers lastly received their first prolonged take a look at what to anticipate from the sequel to 2019’s Joker when the movie’s first trailer was launched Tuesday night time. Warner Bros. and DC Studios tipped off followers of the pending launch of the primary full trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux Tuesday morning by posting 27 seconds of footage.

Within the temporary first clip, Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck — aka Joker — is proven standing stationary in what seems to be a jail yard and laughing maniacally as he’s drenched in a rainstorm. Joker: Folie à Deux is without doubt one of the movies the studio is highlighting from its 2024 film roster at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. The movie might be launched in theaters on October 4.

The teaser trailer, naturally, options each Arthur/Joker and Harley Quinn (Girl Gaga) and the way they met whereas they had been each institutionalized. As soon as their bond is fashioned, they determine to interrupt out of the power and all hell breaks unfastened.

Girl Gaga Brings Music To Joker’s Demented World

Whereas the villainous Joker has been lengthy part of DC’s Batman lore because the Caped Crusader’s arch-enemy, Margot Robbie’s model of Harley Quinn has carved out an antihero standing as part of DC Studios’ two Suicide Squad films and Birds of Prey.

Joker: Folie à Deux appears intent on separating itself from Robbie’s model of the character by bringing film musical sensibilities to the Joker’s demented world. As such, the strategic casting of pop star Girl Gaga within the function guarantees followers a really totally different model of Harley Quinn.

Within the trailer, Arthur Fleck/Joker explains of why music is pivotal to his and Harley’s story — and composer Burt Bacharach’s and lyricist Hal David’s traditional tune What the World Wants Now performs over the motion.

“We use music to make us complete … To stability the fractures inside ourselves,” Fleck says originally of the trailer.

Simply how grandiose a film musical Joker: Folie à Deux will find yourself being is but to be seen. In the interim, music seems to play a major half within the Joker sequel. Selection reported that 15 cowl tunes might be featured in Joker: Folie à Deux and extra authentic songs could also be added.

Don’t be shocked if Warner Bros., DC Studios and director Todd Phillips determine to implement at the least one authentic tune in Joker: Folie à Deux. In any case, Girl Gaga received a Finest Unique Music Oscar for co-writing the ballad Shallow for A Star Is Born — a tune little doubt aided by the pop star’s highly effective efficiency of the tune with Bradley Cooper within the movie.

After all, Girl Gaga isn’t the one Oscar winner featured in Joker: Folie à Deux. Joaquin Phoenix received his Finest Actor Oscar for his portrayal within the first Joker film.