00:00Two soccer legends go Hollywood. Music fans get ready to head to the desert and THR reveals the
00:05rising stars that directors are fighting to cast. Here are the stories you need to know.
00:09Cristiano Ronaldo and Thierry Henry are lending their legendary footballer status to Hollywood.
00:13The pair are among the executive producers of the new comedy Day Ones. The Paramount Plus series
00:18will be set in the world of the English Premier League and star Damian Lewis of Billions and
00:22Homeland. And there's another big name attached. Matthew Vaughn of the Kingsman franchise directed
00:26the pilot episode. Start planning your festival outfits now. 2027 Coachella tickets go on sale at
00:3112 p.m. Pacific today after the lineup dropped earlier this week. Dua Lipa, Tame Impala, and SZA will
00:37headline the two weekend festival in the desert where the lineup also includes Daddy Yankee,
00:41Madonna, Phoebe Bridgers, Zara Larson, Weezer, and many more. Speaking of major music stars,
00:47Taylor Swift will receive the Hollywood Reporter's Sherry Lansing Leadership Award at our annual
00:51Women in Entertainment Gala. We announced the news earlier this week and revealed that
00:56Greta Gerwig will present the award to Swift at the event. Looking ahead, the massively anticipated
01:00video game Grand Theft Auto 6 drops next week amid a slew of high-profile movies like The Hunger
01:06Game, Sunrise on the Reaping, and returning TV shows like The Lord of the Rings, The Rings of Power,
01:11Yellow Jackets, and Percy Jackson and the Olympians. But gaming experts predict GTA 6 will be, quote,
01:16the biggest entertainment launch in history and say Hollywood should expect it to impact movie
01:20going and streaming for the rest of the year. And THR revealed its next gen list this week,
01:25featuring the nine fast-rising stars that everyone in Hollywood is fighting to cast right now.
01:29My first audition was for a musical theater show called Rent.
01:33It got me an agent. I don't know how, though.
01:35I think they asked what my name was, and I went like this.
01:39This year's list includes Stephen Kalin, Lola Tung, Owen Beal, Whitney Peek, Sophie Nellis,
01:45Charlie Hall, Kayla Monterosso-Mejia, Esme Creed Miles, and Tom Francis.
01:49For a breakdown of why these nine stars were chosen, you can listen to this week's episode
01:53of the THR News Podcast on Spotify and YouTube. And for much more on all these stories,
01:58you can go to THR.com. For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.
