Post Malone Pulls the Plug on His Stadium Tour to Finish a New Album — Leaving Fans With $500 Tickets and No Show

Post Malone Pushes Back His Stadium Tour With Jelly Roll — Three Weeks to Finish the Album

Post Malone posted a message to fans Friday and didn't bury the lead: the opening stretch of his Big Ass Stadium Tour with Jelly Roll is postponed. "I came to the realization that what we're trying to do, and what's possible, isn't really lining up," he wrote. The culprit is an unfinished double album. "I promised y'all beautiful people new music, and I don't have the time to finish it before tour starts," he said, adding: "We ain't ready for tour just yet, so I'm making the decision to push the tour back about 3 weeks."

The postponement wipes out the first six dates of the Live Nation-produced tour. The run had been set to open May 13 in El Paso, Texas, with stops in Waco, Baton Rouge, Birmingham, Tampa, and Oxford, Mississippi. It now launches June 9 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The album, which Malone has hinted may be titled The Eternal Buzz, has no confirmed release date. He described the project as a double album and said the sessions have been productive — "we been making some badass s— for this double album" — but it isn't finished.

The tour pairs Malone with Jelly Roll, a collaboration rooted in both artists' country crossover moves. Malone's last album, F-1 Trillion, scored a Hot 100 No. 1 with "I Had Some Help" and a Country Airplay No. 1 with "Pour Me a Drink."

Gobble's Take: Three weeks is a small delay — but a double album better be worth rescheduling six cities.

Source: Billboard

Shannon Elizabeth Crossed Seven Figures on OnlyFans in Her First Week at 52

Shannon Elizabeth — the actress who played Nadia in American Pie back in 1999 — launched an OnlyFans account at 52 and crossed a million dollars before the week was out. Creators Inc. CEO Andy Bachman confirmed to Variety that she "grossed seven figures in her first week on the platform." That's a concrete number from a named source. Not a rumor.

Elizabeth was direct about her reasoning. "I've spent my entire career working in Hollywood, where other people controlled the narrative and the outcome of my career," she told People. OnlyFans, she said, lets her "connect directly with my audience, create on my own terms, and just be free." She remains CEO of the Shannon Elizabeth Foundation and a South Africa-based conservationist — this is a side hustle, not a career collapse.

What she's selling isn't just skin. She told Variety her content offers subscribers "a behind the scenes, unfiltered look at my life and a genuine connection that no other platform allows." Whether that's what subscribers showed up for is a different question. The seven figures suggest they showed up regardless.

Gobble's Take: When a named CEO is confirming seven-figure weeks to Variety, the celebrity OnlyFans pivot has officially become a legitimate business story.

Source: E! News

Barry Manilow, 82 and Recovering from Lung Cancer Surgery, Postpones May Las Vegas Residency

Barry Manilow has sold more than 85 million albums worldwide. He has scored 13 No. 1 singles on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart across a career spanning more than five decades. And right now, at 82, he is recovering from surgery to remove a cancerous spot from his left lung — performed in late December 2025 — and has not performed since. This week, he confirmed his May residency dates at Westgate Las Vegas are postponed.

It's not the first delay. His February Las Vegas dates were the first pushed back, followed by his late February through March arena tour launch dates, then his April arena shows — each time on doctor's orders. But Manilow's own words this time are notably different. In an Instagram Story posted May 1, he said his doctor told him he's "making great progress" and looks great, crediting his training and exercising. He's not ready for Vegas in May, but he expects to return to Westgate in July. He also confirmed he will be ready for his June U.K. arena shows.

The broader picture isn't one of a man fading. His new single "Once Before I Go" recently hit the top 10 on the Adult Contemporary chart — making him the only artist ever to score an Adult Contemporary hit in six consecutive decades. His first album of new material in nearly 15 years drops June 5.

Gobble's Take: A man charting new hits while recovering from lung cancer surgery is not someone you count out.

Source: Billboard

The $200M Harry Potter Spinoff That Nobody Defends Is Leaving Max in June

Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander has a few weeks left on Max before Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore disappears from streaming entirely. The third film in the Fantastic Beasts series cost Warner Bros. an estimated $200 million to make and earned $407 million at the global box office — which sounds profitable until you factor in marketing and the studio's sky-high expectations for a franchise that was supposed to rival the original Potter run. It didn't. Critics called it bloated, audiences increasingly tuned out, and the promised five-film arc quietly died.

The film attempted to give Dumbledore's relationship with dark wizard Grindelwald the screen weight it deserved, but the execution landed flat — Redmayne himself reportedly described the franchise experience as "complicated," which is celebrity-speak for something considerably worse. Now, as Max retools its library, this one is heading for the vault. Fans who want to watch it after June will need a physical copy or a creative internet strategy.

The wizarding world isn't dead — HBO's reboot series is in development — but this particular chapter is closing in the most unceremonious way possible: a quiet streaming expiration with no farewell.

Gobble's Take: Watch it or skip it, but make peace with the fact that $200 million bought us the least quotable movie in the entire Potter universe.

Source: Collider

Quick Hits

• The 1998 cult horror you forgot about is back free: Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, and Salma Hayek's alien body-snatcher high school thriller The Faculty is streaming free on Pluto TV all May — 28 years later and still deeply weird in the best way. Collider
• Devil Wears Prada 2 says no to AI art: Director David Frankel commissioned painter Alexis Franklin to create a custom portrait of Meryl Streep for the sequel, a small detail that somehow feels like the most refreshing thing a Hollywood production has done all year. r/Fauxmoi

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