- The Wu-Tang Clan plans to release only one copy of their secretly-recorded new double album The Wu – Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. The album is priced in the millions and will be presented in a handcrafted silver box designed by British Moroccan artist Yahya. “By taking this step, we hope to re-enforce the weight that music once carried alongside a painting or a sculpture,” the rappers wrote on their website. To read more on the album, click here.
- Though news of Sofia Coppola’s upcoming live-action version The Little Mermaid has been accompanied by rumors that Emma Watson will be starring in the lead role, the actress stated that she has not yet been offered the role. “I mean I’d have to read it first,” Watson told Variety, adding, “I love Sofia so much.” For more on Watson’s current and upcoming projects, click here.
- George R.R. Martin has published an unseen chapter of The Winds of Winter, the sixth installment of the author’s Game of Thrones series. The chapter is entitled “Mercy.” “The new chapter is actually an old chapter,” Martin wrote. “But no, it’s not one I’ve published or posted before, and I don’t even think I’ve read it at a con.” To read the chapter, click here.
- The government of Turkey has blocked access to YouTube after a two-part video was uploaded to the site purportedly disclosing secret military talks about Turkey taking action against Jihadist militants in Syria. The Turkish Telecommunications Authority called the block an “administrative measure.” “The leak shows the scope of the cyber and electronic attack against our country,” Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “Those who did this are the enemies of our state and our nation.” For more information, click here.
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