Today’s PeoPle
WrestleMania is best at over-the-topness
PHILADELPHIA— From the start, WrestleMania was born to be different. Mr. T and Muhammad Ali helped pack Madison Square Garden in 1985, and “The Showcase of the Immortals” quickly turned a night of wrestling usually reserved for smoky arenas into the Super Bowl of entertainment.
As WrestleMania approaches 40, it’s never been bigger.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is back to perform in one of the main events this weekend’s WrestleMania in Philadelphia, where more than 70,000 fans each night are expected to pack the NFL stadium that is home to the Eagles.
Kiss sells catalog, brand name and IP
It’s never really the end of the road for Kiss.
The hard rock quartet have sold their catalog, brand name and IP to Swedish company Pophouse Entertainment Group in a deal estimated to be over $300 million, it was announced Thursday.
Kiss previously teamed up with Pophouse to create digital avatars of themselves, first revealed at New York City’s Madison Square Garden last year.
The ways in which Kiss’ avatars will be utilized has yet to be announced, but Pophouse CEO Per Sundin says fans can expect a biopic, documentary and a Kiss experience in the future.
An avatar show is scheduled to launch in 2027.
Bill Clinton’s ‘Citizen’: life after the presidency
NEW YORK—Former President Bill Clinton has a memoir coming out this fall about his years since leaving public office in 2001.
“Citizen: My Life After the White House” will cover everything from the presidential campaigns of his wife, Hillary Clinton, to his views on events ranging from the Jan. 6 insurrection to the Iraq War.
Alfred A. Knopf published Clinton’s million-selling presidential memoir “My Life” and will release the new book Nov. 19.
Knopf on Thursday called the book “remarkably candid, and richly detailed,” offering “fascinating insight into Clinton’s life—both personal and political.”
Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ is a political allegory
Like “Slumdog Millionaire,” Dev Patel’s “Monkey Man” is set in Mumbai and has a touch of fable to it. But in tone and texture, it could hardly be more different.
Bathed in blood and fury, “Monkey Man” is one gory coming out party for Patel, who also directed and cowrote the film, writes AP Film Writer Jake Coyle in his review.
He kicks so much butt in this movie—at one point he punches a punch—that it’s enough to make you wonder if the search for the new James Bond ought to be redirected.