Jack Black revealed as Steve in upcoming Minecraft Movie!

In an Instagram post, actor Jack Black slyly, and comically, revealed that he’ll be playing the protagonist Steve for the Minecraft movie.

The film is based on the sandbox game of the same name, which was released in 2011 and amassed millions of active players monthly. The game allows its players to create worlds and societies and invite other players to explore and battle in them.

Directed by Jared Hess, the movie has reportedly wrapped filming, and has April 4, 2025, as the release date.

Paris Hilton & Sia on their new song

Co-written and co-sung by Hilton and Sia, “Fame Won’t Love You” is a treatise on celebrity that comes from Hilton’s forthcoming second album. Both are longtime fixtures of global public consciousness: Sia for her music, songwriting and singular voice, Hilton for her party girl public persona, reality series The Simple Life, her sprawling business, her 2020 documentary and 2023 memoir and her 2006 classic pop banger, “Stars Are Blind.”

Sia said that some of the music has a “cool early 2000s Britney” vibe. Talking to Billboard over Zoom, Hilton and Sia discussed fame, the song they wrote about it, the “Stars Are Blind” renaissance and more.

Pirates of the Caribbean reboot

Pirates of the Caribbean producer Jerry Bruckheimer said in a recent interview with that the current plan is to “reboot” the beloved Disney adventure franchise, which has grossed $4.5 billion across five movies.

“…But we’re gonna reboot Pirates, so that is easier to put together because you don’t have to wait for certain actors.”

Will Johnny Depp be back? “Not at this point,” he said then. “The future is yet to be decided.”

Bruckheimer says it will be a reboot that sails into theatres first. Each of the five Pirates films grossed more than $650 million worldwide, with 2006’s Dead Man’s Chest and 2011’s On Stranger Tides both topping the $1bn mark.

Published in Dawn, Young World, May 11th, 2024