Stay out of Nicki’s DMs. Will Nicki Minaj ever make good on her promise to drop another mixtape? Who cares when she continues to jump on buzzing rap tracks at random and body her verses — the latest honor going to Yo Gotti’s shameless thirst anthem “Down in the DM.” The original might’ve finally won Yo Gotti the attention of his longtime crush Angela Simmons, but don’t expect sliding into Nicki’s DMs to have such a happy ending.

As an actor, what do you do when your star persona has begun to overshadow your onscreen work? Monetize it, of course! Nicolas Cage will soon star in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, a film about how weird it is to be Nicolas Cage. Remember those photos of Cage in the hot-pink leather jacket? This is what that fit was for! The Hollywood Reporter says the film will debut April 22, 2022.

Just because Nicolas Cage’s face appears on the packaging for a tasty puffed corn stick does not mean that Cage endorses that Japanese snack. Reports about the snack started circulating earlier in October, with pictures of the special-edition Deluxe Umaibou Nicolastick leading some to believe the actor was in business with Riska, the Japanese food brand behind the product. While it’d be fun to imagine Cage sitting in a meeting, approving of the kick-ass name and packaging, it did seem like an unlikely career move, even if he is a guy who once bought a stolen Tyrannosaurus skull from Mongolia.

Nicole Byer. It’s normal for a comedian to come out and address their appearance. It has been proven to be the quickest way to get the audience on the same page as you. But for Nicole Byer, host of Nailed It! and Why Won’t You Date Me? podcast, as well as co-host of Vulture’s What the Tuck? podcast, she found it wasn’t so easy. She wanted to talk about being fat, but she found audiences would get sad for her.

Nicole Kidman has been acting for nearly four decades, and with that impressive resume comes an equally extensive and glorious, albeit highly questionable, history of wearing wigs. The Academy Award winner has not only solidified herself as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood, but also as an actress who is committed to wearing every manner of wigs at any chance she gets. With over 40 entries so far, including her latest in Roar and The Northman, the Nicole Kidman Wig Cinematic Universe (NKWCU) is stronger than ever.

Nimesh Patel. Hailed as “Saturday Night Live’s most-intriguing new hire” by Vanity Fair in 2017, Nimesh Patel, the show’s first Indian-American writer, had written for Chris Rock’s Oscars hosting gig, Hasan Minhaj’s gig hosting both the Congressional and White House Correspondents’ Dinners, a talk show hosted by Awkwafina, and created a pilot for MTV2. Since 2012, he had co-hosted Broken Comedy, a weekly Monday night show at Matchless, a since-shuttered bar in Greenpoint, with SNL’s Michael Che and Mike Denny.

It’s difficult to recall a time when Ryan Murphy didn’t have a year-round presence on television, but that was the case in the early aughts when Nip/Tuck debuted on FX in July of 2003. When it ended 100 episodes later in March of 2010, Murphy’s Glee was already well into its initial season. That overlap was a first for Murphy, but also a sign of what was to come for the now-prolific showrunner, christened by The New Yorker in 2018 as “the most powerful man in TV” and “king of the streaming boom” by Time in 2019.

Martin Luther King Jr. The Age of Spin, the first of Dave Chappelle’s two at-times brilliant new Netflix specials, builds to a closer about Bill Cosby and how he has a “valuable legacy” along with his history of alleged sexual abuses. Chappelle lists many things Cosby did for black Americans, all leading to the “kicker”: “Here’s the fact that I heard, but haven’t confirmed: I heard when Martin Luther King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and said he had a dream, he was speaking into a PA system that Bill Cosby paid for.

Bad Ape in War for the Planet of the Apes. No matter which side War for the Planet of the Apes convinces you to root for (the apes — what are you, heartless?), the movie arrived in theaters Friday beset by a bizarre micro-controversy. It’s nothing to do with the plot, which is about what you could expect from the trailers: An army guy played by Woody Harrelson kills the family of OG ape Caesar, so Caesar sets off on an Ape-pocalypse Now–style journey to exact revenge.

Every year, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) foreshadows many of the big awards-season contenders. This year looks to be no exception, just looking at the first 59 films announced this morning. The lineup includes buzzed-about films such as Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, the Reese Witherspoon–starring Wild, and the Benedict Cumberbatch–starring The Imitation Game. Films making their world premieres include: Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young; the Jason Bateman–, Tina Fey–, and Adam Driver–starring This Is Where I Leave You; the Denzel Washington–starring The Equalizer; the Chris Rock–directed Top Five; the Alan Rickman–directed A Little Chaos; Chris Evans’s directorial debut Before We Go; the Tom Hardy–starring The Drop, which was James Gandolfini’s last movie; and Jason Reitman’s Men, Women and Children.