Holiday Weekend News Roundup! Tyler the Creator Says Fuck It
Happy Tuesday! Here’s our compendium of pop culture news you may have missed while you were doing more important things over the holiday weekend.
• Playboy is getting rid of nudity—or at least full-frontal nudity—starting from March 2016. [NYT]
• MGM is remaking the ’80s film Road House with Ronda Rousey in the Patrick Swayze role and Nick Cassavetes as the writer-director. [Variety]
• Furiosa may not appear in the Mad Max sequels. [Digital Spy]
• The Martian won the box office in terms of total gross, but Steve Jobs won if you look at profit per theater. [BOM]
• Tyler the Creator released a new track directed at all those who don’t like him (England, for example). Chance the Rapper also performed a new song. [Pitchfork, Pitchfork]
• John Le Carré is releasing a memoir next year about his career in M15 and M16. (Phil Collins is also releasing a memoir in 2016, but it isn’t about spying). [The Guardian, Rolling Stone]
• Obama doesn’t think his successor is going to be Donald Trump. [CBS]