Weekend News Roundup! Three New Drake Tracks and a Win for Keanu
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Happy Monday! Here’s our compendium of pop culture news you may have missed while you were doing more important things over the weekend.
• Sanaa Seif, a 23-year-old Egyptian activist who worked on the documentary The Square, was sentenced to three years in prison in Egypt for protesting against the country’s laws limiting political gatherings. [THR]
• Drake released three news songs. [Pitchfork]
• Sofia Vergara posted a photo from the set of Magic Mike XXL. It involves some shirtless men doing some sort of dance routing. [Instagram]
• Horror film Ouija won the box office, with Keanu Reeve’s new film John Wick coming in second. [BOM]
• Cream bassist Jack Bruce passed away at the age of 71. [NYDN]
• Not sure why it took this long, but there is now a Hogwarts-themed hotel (or at least a hotel with Hogwarts-themed rooms). [The Mirror]
• Rumor has it that Queen Latifah will be Maleficent for Halloween. [The Wrap]