Quick Hits

• The tearjerker of the day: Catherine O'Hara's onscreen children gathered to honor her at the Emmys, and the mega-viral clip has, per BuzzFeed, everyone crying — including Martin Short, who was caught wiping away tears on camera.
• Drake's "not so short film" FOMO finally arrived Tuesday night, stuffed with new music including collaborations with Ella Langley and Don Toliver — plus a scene-stealing moment from Drake's mom.
• Bill Skarsgård will lead Hideo Kojima's next game for Xbox, because of course Kojima's casting director said "the scary clown guy, but interactive."
• Noisia announced today they're reuniting after seven years, with an Amsterdam show set for December. The drum & bass heads are FEEDING.
• Céline Dion's Paris residency comeback hit night two, roughly two years after she vowed, "If I can't run, I'll walk. If I can't walk, I'll crawl. But I won't stop." She did not stop.

What's Trending

Let's just sit with the Emmys for a second, because the O'Hara tribute is the moment: her onscreen kids — yes, including Macaulay Culkin, a.k.a. the boy she left Home Alone — came together to honor her, and BuzzFeed's recap admits the writer "completely lost it" the second the camera cut to Martin Short wiping away tears. Same, honestly.

Billboard also ran a "pass the mic" on the Emmys red carpet with Chris Perfetti, Richard Gadd, Brooks Nader, Haley Kalil, Gerran Howell and more — where Shabana Azeez hit someone with "First of all you are a snack." Awards season chaos, but make it flirty.

Meanwhile, the internet is having a very necessary conversation about public proposals, because women are sharing what it's actually like — and BuzzFeed's verdict is that it "sounds like a nightmare in most cases." Highlight (lowlight?): one ex proposed in front of the entire extended family, who were in town for a cousin's funeral, and sang a song. Poorly. Pass.

In genuinely sad news: TMZ reports car influencer James Wehr died in a crash early Sunday morning, and his wife Emma has retained attorney Corey Higgins, who said in an Instagram video that his firm is examining the crash. Heavy day. Hug your people.

Music

Drake's FOMO dominated the conversation all week — Billboard notes rap fans floated theories the moment he announced it, and the "sprawling" film (Rolling Stone's word) delivered new Ella Langley and Don Toliver collabs. But the moment everyone's actually talking about? An intimate scene between Drake's mom and her best friends. He really said "let me get out of the way of the real star."

Tour corner is stacked: Calvin Harris announced his first-ever headline tour of Australia — four cities, February 2027 — which is genuinely shocking for someone that famous (he's played there before, just never as the headliner). Empire of the Sun are also going huge, announcing their biggest Australasia run yet: six dates across Australia and New Zealand in 2027.

Chart history alert: Colombian artist ARIA VEGA made her Billboard debut and went straight to No. 1 with one song — "Chévere" with Ryan Castro rockets 6–1 on Latin Airplay, and she says she "couldn't be happier." First try, top of the chart. Insane behavior.

Quick hits: Jean-Michel Jarre expanded his BMG deal to cover his recorded catalog and future works; Yes Boone, fresh off signing with Warner, is grinding away on his debut album between being shortlisted for breakthrough artist of the year; and the nearly 100-year-old Loew's Jersey Theatre reopens November 13 with the Trey Anastasio Band after a $130M restoration. A building older than your grandparents, reborn.

Movies & TV

The Skarsgård–Kojima news has more detail: the game is Physint, an action-espionage project for Xbox, with Bill in the lead. Kojima getting prestige actors and presumably making them deliver 40-minute monologues about rope.

Film festival roundup: The Dubai International Film Festival is being revived a full decade after it was abruptly shuttered, with a new edition kicking off December 8, 2027. Pingyao unveiled its 10th-anniversary lineup, opening with a 4K restoration of Fei Mu's 1948 classic Spring in a Small Town, plus new films from Cristian Mungiu and James Gray. And the Freyas (the Nordic Film and TV Awards) announced first honorees including Lasse Hallström, Lena Olin, Trine Dyrholm, Fares Fares and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson — an intimidating amount of Scandinavian talent in one room.

Finland's Oscar submission is The Squirrel, Markus Lehmusruusu's futuristic drama, and it comes pre-blessed: Aki Kaurismäki called it a masterpiece — "like 2001: A Space Odyssey, but better because it's full of humanism." Aki does not give that quote out lightly.

Also on the docket: John Abraham has started shooting Guru, a Bollywood psychological thriller from director Ribhu Dasgupta; Peter Chan's Toronto Alzheimer's drama The Road Not Taken draws its directing motto from a dementia care home in Chengdu he calls one of the finest; and the animated Belzebubs — The Addams Family meets Modern Family, with Satanism, based on JP Ahonen's webcomic — premieres at the Helsinki film festival. Satanist family sitcom. Yes, really.

TikTok & Internet

Shopping-internet corner: BuzzFeed has 34 viral products "way too good to scroll past, even if you're a TikTok hater," plus 27 TikTok finds reviewers swear are actually worth the hype ("This is a product I will not go without now that I know it exists" is a strong endorsement!). There's also early fall Prime Day deals, Walmart seating for your winter "rot spot," and a Shark Tank beanie with a built-in headlight, because apparently we're mining now.

And the community storytelling side of the internet is thriving: women are sharing the bizarre things men have done for their attention — personal favorite: the guy who stood behind her loudly fake-phone-calling about "all the autographs" he had to sign and how he'd "rather be on his yacht" — while another thread collects 17 moments people realized they married the dumbest person alive, including the man who, asked his denomination at the door, yelled "I'm white, can't you tell!" and slammed it. The internet remains undefeated, unhinged, and unfortunately very relatable.