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| MTV to honor Nirvana with Video Vanguard Award at VMAs | Nirvana will be honored at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards. The rock band will receive the Video Vanguard Award at the VMAs later this month, MTV announced in a press release Wednesday. Nirvana, a group fronted by late singer and musician Kurt Cobain, first performed at the VMAs 34 years ago, on Sept. 9, 1992. This year's ceremony will take place Sept. 27 and air at 7:30 p.m. ET on CBS and MTV. The show will also stream on Paramount+. Nirvana, consisting of Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, found mainstream success with its 1991 album, Nevermind, and its 1993 follow-up, In Utero. The band famously recorded a live album for MTV Unplugged that was released in late 1994 following Cobain's suicide. |
| Reports: Martin Herlihy to exit 'SNL' after five seasons | Martin Herlihy is reportedly leaving Saturday Night Live. Deadline said Wednesday that Herlihy, 27, will exit the NBC late-night sketch comedy series after five seasons as a writer and performer. The Hollywood Reporter and Variety confirmed the news. Herlihy, the son of SNL icon Tim Herlihy, joined the show in 2021 alongside John Higgins and Ben Marshall, his fellow members of the comedy group Please Don't Destroy. Higgins left SNL in 2025, while Marshall was promoted to the main cast. News of Herlihy's exit follows main cast member Chloe Fineman's departure from SNL in July. Season 52 will premiere Sept. 26 on NBC. |
| Steven Spielberg's 'Disclosure Day' to stream Oct. 9 on Peacock | Disclosure Day is coming to Peacock in October. The sci-fi thriller from famed director Steven Spielberg will start streaming on the service Oct. 9. Disclosure Day stars Emily Blunt and Josh O'Connor as Margaret and Daniel, two people swept up in a massive government conspiracy about alien life. "If you found out we weren't alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? Now the truth belongs to seven billion people," an official description reads. Other cast members include Colin Firth, Eve Hewson and Colman Domingo. Spielberg, who previously featured aliens in his films Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and E.T. |
| Nintendo announces 'Metroid: Ravenous,' 'Kirby and the World Beyond' | Nintendo announced on Wednesday that new entries for Metroid and Kirby are coming to the Switch 2 in 2027. Nintendo made the announcements alongside gameplay trailers during its livestreamed Direct presentation. The next entry in the classic Metroid series titled Metroid Ravenous, will be released on Jan. 28, 2027. Metroid Ravenous features series lead Samus Aran taking on a new group of enemies that wield swords as she continues her bounty hunting adventures through space. The game is the latest entry in the 2D Metroid series, following 2021's Metroid Dread. Kirby makes his return in Kirby and the World Beyond, which will be released sometime in 2027. |
| 'Always Lalisa' trailer: Blackpink's Lisa stars in documentary film | Lloud Official is gearing up for the release of the new documentary Always Lalisa. The company shared a trailer for the film Wednesday featuring Thai singer and rapper Lalisa Manobal, aka Lisa. Always Lalisa is a feature documentary following the 29-year-old actress, K-pop star and Blackpink member as she pursues her solo career. During Blackpink's year-long hiatus in 2025, Lisa wrote, recorded and released her debut solo album, Alter Ego, made her acting debut in The White Lotus Season 2, and prepped for her performance at Coachella Music Festival. |