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Hindustan Times
3 hours ago
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- Hindustan Times
Rapper Raja Kumari becomes first Indian origin musician to win American Music Award
Indian origin singer-songwriter and rapper Raja Kumari wins an American Music Award (AMA) on Tuesday. She was nominated for Arcane League of Legends: Season 2 at the 51st AMA held in Los Angeles on Monday night. (Also read: Angry Raja Kumari slams decision denying Patiala necklace to Diljit Dosanjh for Met Gala: 'It's performative inclusion') In an interview to PTI earlier, Raja had said she was the first Indian origin musician to be nominated for an AMA. Renegade (We Never Run) from Arcane League of Legends, a collaboration between Kumari, UK hip-hop artist Stefflon Don and Dominican-Brazilian artist Jarina de Marco, was nominated under the Favourite Soundtrack category. Raja told PTI that the song was really special for her. 'Stefflon (Don) and I kind of share the Sidhu (Moose Wala) connection. She has a song with Sidhu, too. And when I was meeting Sidhu during the time that we were collaborating, he had played me the song. So, I've always had this soft spot in my heart for her because we both kind of share this gentle giant,' Raja told PTI. She said she was approached for the song because the character in the film is Indian. 'They (Arcane team) had heard about me as being representative of our culture and being able to make aggressive music as a woman,' added Raja. She said she never really expected the song to become such a big hit. 'The song actually went top 10 in the world on the 'Viral 50' charts on Spotify. It was something that kind of came out of nowhere. I just did a song for a film. I didn't have many expectations for it. It ended up really impacting people,' said Raja. The AMA nomination, added the rapper, came at a time when she was beginning to believe that perhaps one has to focus on one genre to make it big. 'And I've always been a global artist, so an AMA award is a great reminder that there's still much more work for me to do, and still much more for me to impact and grow,' she added.
Business Upturn
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Upturn
Is ‘Arcane' returning for season 3? Everything we know so far
By Aman Shukla Published on May 19, 2025, 18:00 IST Last updated May 19, 2025, 11:40 IST Fans of Arcane , the critically acclaimed animated series set in the League of Legends universe, are eagerly awaiting news about a potential third season. With its stunning visuals, gripping storyline, and beloved characters like Vi, Jinx, and Caitlyn, Arcane has captured hearts worldwide. But is Arcane returning for Season 3? Here's everything we know so far. Will There Be an Arcane Season 3? As of May 2025, there is no official confirmation from Netflix or Riot Games regarding Arcane Season 3. A report from stated that the animated series was set to conclude after its second season, which wrapped up in late 2024. However, fan speculation and social media buzz suggest that the Arcane universe may continue in some form, whether through a third season or spin-offs. Arcane Season 3 Release Date Rumors Without official confirmation, no release date for Arcane Season 3 has been set. Some reports have speculated a potential release on November 22, 2025, but this remains unverified. Given the production timeline for Arcane 's previous seasons, which took several years due to the high-quality animation, a third season—if greenlit—might not arrive before 2026 or later. Aman Shukla is a post-graduate in mass communication . A media enthusiast who has a strong hold on communication ,content writing and copy writing. Aman is currently working as journalist at
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Arcane' writer Amanda Overton describes reworking the end of season one so that a second season could be allowed to develop
When Arcane was first being mapped out as a series, the initial plan was to only do one season in the Piltover-Zaun region. When the decision was made to do a second season, Amanda Overton and the show's writing team had to do a major rewrite of the last two episodes of that first season. 'The idea was we're gonna get to really dig into what leads up to the war and the build up to the war in Season 2. That decision was made after the writer's room of Season 1 ended and then we came back and we're like, OK, let's write a season two that builds up to the war,' she tells Gold Derby during our recent Meet the Experts: TV Animation panel. Arcane, which can be streamed on Netflix, takes place in the universe of the online multiplayer battle video game League of Legends. The show centers around two cities: the prosperous and ideal city of Piltover and the dilapidated and sleazy undercity of Zaun. As the disturbance between the two places gets more heated, sisters Vi (Hailee Steinfeld) and Jinx (Ella Purnell) begin becoming aligned on opposing sides of a looming war over differing beliefs and mysterious occurrences. The series picked up the Emmy for Best Animated Program for its first season back in 2022. More from GoldDerby As Joel returns to 'The Last of Us,' cinematographer Catherine Goldschmidt explains what went into killing him off TV Animation roundtable panel: '#1 Happy Family USA,' 'Secret Level,' and 'Arcane' 'Secret Level' creator Tim Miller explains how he gets writers to create short stories based on video and role-playing games The writer's room always knew from the beginning that they wanted the relationship between Vi and Caitlyn to be their OTP (one true pair) couple for the series. But Overton wanted to draw out the establishment of their romantic attraction to make their romance epic. 'You really have to earn that relationship getting together. I think we did things in season one to make that attraction they had to each other explicit. We made that conscious choice to take the entire series as we knew it to get them together so we could feel like they had the same sort of treatment that most couples like that would get.' One of the more difficult things in developing the show was keeping track of all the world-building that a series like this requires. 'It's a huge scope game and it's a game that changes all the time. It's kind of like they're always iterating on the game. It's not just one set story. It's something you always have to keep your pulse on in order to make sure that what they're doing in the game would reflect properly in the show.' This article and video are presented by Netflix. Best of GoldDerby Making of 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' panel: Bringing the Balrog to life was 'like doing a slight of hand card trick' TV Animation roundtable panel: '#1 Happy Family USA,' 'Secret Level,' and 'Arcane' 'Secret Level' creator Tim Miller explains how he gets writers to create short stories based on video and role-playing games Click here to read the full article.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
TV Animation roundtable panel: ‘#1 Happy Family USA,' ‘Secret Level,' and ‘Arcane'
The films of Disney, Pixar, and a cult-classic anthology film were brought up as defining pieces of animation when Gold Derby assembled artists behind three animated programs that are eyeing to score Emmy nominations next month. The types of stories they want to see told through animation and what episodes they might want to submit for Emmy consideration were also topics of discussion for our Meet the Experts: TV Animation panel. The panelists were #1 Happy Family USA cocreator and star Ramy Youssef, Secret Level creator Tim Miller, and Arcane writer Amanda Overton. Watch the full roundtable panel above. Click each person's name to watch an individual interview. More from GoldDerby As Joel returns to 'The Last of Us,' cinematographer Catherine Goldschmidt explains what went into killing him off 'Secret Level' creator Tim Miller explains how he gets writers to create short stories based on video and role-playing games '#1 Happy Family USA' co-creator Ramy Youssef reveals how animation was the perfect way to capture the middle school experience Overton remembers loving The Little Mermaid when that came out but had a huge revelation when she saw Beauty and the Beast and how the film added 3D elements to its 2D animation style. 'When they started doing those, they just felt so immersive to me and I felt like I was being sucked into the world. And then when I saw Toy Story for the first time, I was like, oh my God, this is gonna change everything.' Miller remembers watching Speed Racer and Ultraman as a kid but it was an infamous sci-fi/fantasy cult classic that made him see a path for himself in the medium. 'I guess Heavy Metal really made probably the biggest single effect because I would go with my friends at midnight movies and for the first time I wanted to be an animator and I realized I didn't have to do things that were for kids. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just that I felt like maybe that wasn't my specialty.' He adds that he feels like he's seeing game-changing animation all the time now and specifically cited Arcane and joked that he was 'so sick of hearing people in pitches go, 'So, can you do something like Arcane?'' For Youssef, Disney and Pixar were highlights for him but the thing that really wowed him with animation was watching South Park (which he had to secretly watch since it was forbidden in his house) and being absolutely floored at what the show's characters would say. 'I can't believe they just said that! I mean, this is like the stuff that my uncle says at dinner and everyone tells him to be quiet and now you're watching these characters on Comedy Central saying it … and they're saying these things that are so loaded and I love the power of that and the subversiveness of that and just how insane it was.' This caused Miller to remember when someone first showed him a VHS tape of Trey Parker's short film The Spirit of Christmas. This article and video are presented by Prime Video and Netflix. Best of GoldDerby Making of 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' panel: Bringing the Balrog to life was 'like doing a slight of hand card trick' 'Secret Level' creator Tim Miller explains how he gets writers to create short stories based on video and role-playing games '#1 Happy Family USA' cocreator Ramy Youssef reveals how animation was the perfect way to capture the middle school experience Click here to read the full article.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘#1 Happy Family USA' cocreator Ramy Youssef reveals how animation was the perfect way to capture the middle school experience
When the idea of #1 Happy Family USA was becoming a reality, part of what drew cocreator Ramy Youssef to do it as an animated show was the age of the show's protagonist. 'Middle school in general feels dramatic. [It] feels like the surveillance state. You go, who's looking at me? Is Courtney talking about me? What did she say? All of that stuff feels like a level of national security for a kid. There's no real wall of understanding that a kid's personal drama is not the biggest thing going on in the world,' he tells Gold Derby during our recent Meet the Experts: TV Animation panel. Doing this as an animated show has also given the show the perfect tone. 'There are things that we can animate here that would be just too dramatic, but in this format feel really alive and really fun.' The series, which can currently be streamed on Prime Video, follows the Husseins, an Egyptian-American Muslim family living in New Jersey as they navigate trying to be seen as a quintessential American family in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Youssef created the show alongside Pam Brady and stars Salma Hindy, Randa Jarrar, Alia Shawkat, Mandy Moore, Chris Redd, Kieran Culkin, and Timothy Olyphant. More from GoldDerby As Joel returns to 'The Last of Us,' cinematographer Catherine Goldschmidt explains what went into killing him off TV Animation roundtable panel: '#1 Happy Family USA,' 'Secret Level,' and 'Arcane' 'Secret Level' creator Tim Miller explains how he gets writers to create short stories based on video and role-playing games Youssef had a very specific idea of what he wanted the show to look like. 'I think part of what we were trying to nail is this feeling of could this show almost feel like a found VHS tape of something that came out in that time? So, we didn't want a modern computer animation look.' They ended up using an all-Muslim animation studio in Malaysia, which presented some additional unexpected challenges. 'We actually had to downgrade the computers that we were using in L.A. to fit what they were using in Malaysia. It's this really trippy process and they had not done something at this scale of a series.' He adds that his family has seen the show and that they have really seemed to enjoy it, especially since it's not directly based on specific instances in their life from that time period. His family particularly liked getting to see him do so many different things in the series. 'I got to do so much voice work on this, which Pam Brady honestly really encouraged me to wasn't exactly my goal but I got to play with that and play with creating. I wrote a bunch of songs for it as well.' This article and video are presented by Prime Video. Best of GoldDerby Making of 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' panel: Bringing the Balrog to life was 'like doing a slight of hand card trick' TV Animation roundtable panel: '#1 Happy Family USA,' 'Secret Level,' and 'Arcane' 'Secret Level' creator Tim Miller explains how he gets writers to create short stories based on video and role-playing games Click here to read the full article.
