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Whoopi Fed Up With ‘The View’
Raven Symone and Whoopi Goldberg
Drake And The
'Captain America: Civil War'
Whoopi Goldberg's eye may have wandered past “The View.”
The “Sister Act 2” is report- edly “fed up” with the daytime talk show, and has told her confidants she won’t be get- ting back in the habit after her contract expires this season, according to a report from The
Wrap.
Show insiders believe the 60-year-old comedian, who joined the show in 2007, is grumbling amid ongoing con- tract talks to keep her on the struggling show. ABC brass “want her back,” according to the report.
DRAKE
THE WEEKND Drake had a huge 2015. Bill-
board now reports Drake was the top music act as far as earn- ings from streaming as well.
Drake led the list with a total of $2.3 million from streaming revenue. This is sig- nificant news for Drizzy and his record label Young Money/Cash Money, because streaming has become the pri- mary money maker of the record business (34.3% of 2015’s $7 billion retail rev- enue).
Fellow Canadian performer The Weeknd came in second place on Billboard‘s tally. The “Earned It” singer made $1.5 million in revenue from streaming. Fetty Wap (#6 – $860,000), Nicki Minaj (#7 – $826,500), J. Cole (#9 – $788,000), and Wiz Khalifa (#10 – $722,600) also made the top 10.
While streaming has become valuable for the music compa- nies, the profits trickling down to the artists is still small in comparison to other music- centered revenue opportuni- ties. Drake reportedly totaled $4.4 million and The Weeknd brought in $3.6 mil- lion from music sales. While Nicki Minaj made $3.5 mil- lion and J. Cole acquired $5.5 million from touring.
'Captain America: Civil War' worth your box office dollars!
plauded for having Black ac- tors as superheroes, present- ing Don Cheadle as (War Machine), Anthony Mackie (Falcon), and new- comer, Chad Boseman (Black Panther).
Weeknd
Nabs Fifth Best-Opening Ever
Top Streaming
LOS ANGELES – What su- perhero fatigue? Disney and Marvel's "Captain America: Civil War," the 13th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has strong-armed its way to becoming the fifth-highest do- mestic opening ever according to comScore estimates Sun- day.
The film grossed a massive $181.8 million this weekend, bumping "Iron Man 3" out of the top five all time debuts. "Civil War" now ranks right below "Marvel's The Avengers" and "Avengers: Age of Ultron," which hold the third and fourth place spots. Captain America made $675M globally.
Directed by Joe and An- thony Russo, "Civil War" sees an ideological showdown between Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.) and Captain America (Chris Evans) and is packed to the brim with Avengers old and new.
The directors must be ap-
Earnings
50 Cent Donates $100,000 To Autism Speaks After Mocking Teen
50 Cent dug deep into his pockets and made a donation to Autism Speaks since coming under fire after he posted a video mocking a teenager.
In the infamous video, as the rapper walked through the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, he mocked an airport employee and said he looked like he was on drugs. But in reality, An- drew Farrell, the teenager he mocked, has autism.
The teenager's family threat- ened 50 Cent with a lawsuit if he didn't apologize or make a donation to the teen's Go- FundMe. The rapper did even- tually apologize, but also made a donation to Autism Speaks.
Blac Chyna And Rob Kardashian Expecting A Baby
Serena Williams Recounts Taking Part In Beyoncé Video
A scene from the video “Sorry”.
Blac Chyna and Rob Kar- dashian.
tions" under Chyna's an- nouncement ... Kylie "liked" the post too.
50 Cent
The donation came after many bars in the Cincinnati area boy- cotted the rapper's vodka. In a statement, a spokesperson for Effen Vodka said that it did not condone 50 Cent's behavior.
Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna are about to expand ... she's pregnant!
Sources close to both Chyna and Rob say Chyna's several months along -- and it's not one of those, "Oh crap, you're pregnant" situations. We're told they're both super excited.
The baby will be Rob's first and BC's second ... she's got 3- year-old King, whose dad, of course, is Tyga.
Rob and Chyna just con- firmed the baby news on Insta- gram with a pregnant Chyna emoji. Tyga also sent his well wishes, writing "Congratula-
“Just dance” is what Bey- once told Serena Williams, and the tennis champion let loose.
Williams recounted Sunday how she came to have a part in the singer’s video, “Lemon- ade.”
Williams says, “I have known the director since I was like 9 years old. I know Bey- once pretty well, so they were like, ‘We would love for you to be in this particular song. It’s about strength and it’s about courage and that’s what we see you as.’”
Williams’ appearance came on the song “Sorry,” which features Beyonce showing her man the stupidity of his cheating ways.
Williams says, “She told me that she just wants me to dance, like just be really free and just dance like nobody’s looking and go all out. So that wasn’t easy in the beginning, but then it got easier. ... I thought that particular song on the visual album was really a strong song, and it was also really fun at the same time.”
A source told the Minneapo- lis StarTribune that the au- topsy would confirm that Prince had the painkiller Per- cocet in his system, although the local medical examiner's office that conducted the ex- amination of the singer has de- clined to confirm the reports.
Sources close to the investi- gation told the StarTribune that the famed singer also had a low red blood cell count, which is usually associated with illness.
The 57-year-old singer was found dead in an elevator at his Paisley Park home-studio April 21. Days after Prince's body was found, a law-en- forcement source told Reuters that prescription opioid med- ication was found at his home.
Prince
Since Prince's death, rumors have emerged claiming that the singer suffered from an ad- diction to painkillers.
Source: Painkiller Found In Prince’s System
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