‘Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber’ tour — How to get tickets, presale times, concert dates and more

Wu-Tang Clan is returning to North America this summer for encore dates of "Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber" tour. The 26-city tour begins August 27 in Darien Center, N.Y., with stops across the U.S. and Canada, including Atlantic City, Toronto, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Phoenix and more. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony will open on most dates. Tickets for the iconic hip-hop group go on general sale on Friday, March 27, at 10 a.m. local venue time. Here's everything you need to know to grab tickets to the Wu-Tang Clan tour.

When do Wu-Tang Clan tickets go on sale?

Presales for theWu-Tang Clan's upcoming tourran all this week and conclude today. General sale begins March 27 at 10 a.m. local venue time.

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Wu-Tang Clan ticket prices

While official general sale tickets aren't available yet, third-party resellers like StubHub have Wu-Tang Clan tour ticketsstarting around $100(varying by date and venue).

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'Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber' tour openers

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony will support Wu-Tang Clan on its upcoming North American tour.

'Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber' tourdates

• Thursday, Aug. 27 – Darien Center, N.Y., Darien Lake Amphitheater

• Friday, Aug. 28 – Atlantic City, N.J., Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena ^

• Saturday, Aug. 29 – Hartford, Conn., The Meadows Music Theatre

• Tuesday, Sep. 1 – Shakopee, Minn., Mystic Lake Amphitheater ^

• Wednesday, Sep. 2 – Kansas City, Mo., Morton Amphitheater

• Friday, Sep. 4 – Tinley Park, Ill., Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre

• Saturday, Sep. 5 – Cincinnati, Riverbend Music Center

• Sunday, Sep. 6 – Clarkston, Mich., Pine Knob Music Theatre

• Tuesday, Sep. 8 – Toronto, Ontario, RBC Amphitheatre

• Wednesday, Sep. 9 – Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Blossom Music Center

• Friday, Sep. 11 – Holmdel, N.J., PNC Bank Arts Center

• Saturday, Sep. 12 – Mansfield, Mass., Xfinity Center

• Sunday, Sep. 13 – Wantagh, N.Y., Northwell at Jones Beach Theater

• Tuesday, Sep. 15 – Bristow, Va., Jiffy Lube Live

• Wednesday, Sep. 16 – Virginia Beach, Va., Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach

• Friday, Sep. 18 – Charlotte, N.C., Truliant Amphitheater

• Saturday, Sep. 19 – Birmingham, Ala., Coca-Cola Amphitheater

• Sunday, Sep. 20 – Atlanta, Shaky Knees Festival – Piedmont Park *^

• Tuesday, Sep. 22 – Orlando, Kia Center

• Wednesday, Sep. 23 – West Palm Beach, Fla., iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre

• Thursday, Sep. 24 – Tampa, MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre

• Saturday, Sep. 26 – Thackerville, Okla., Winstar Casino ^

• Monday, Sep. 28 – Albuquerque, First Financial Credit Union Amphitheater

• Tuesday, Sep. 29 – Salt Lake City, Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre

• Thursday, Oct. 1 – Highland, Calif., Yaamava' Theater

• Friday, Oct. 2 – Sacramento, Calif., Aftershock Festival–Discovery Park *^

• Saturday, Oct. 3 – Las Vegas, T-Mobile Arena ^

• Sunday, Oct. 4 – Phoenix, Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre

* Festival appearance

^ Without Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

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'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' trailer is raising eyebrows among Potterheads: 'Where's the whimsical color?'

When thefirst official trailerfor HBO's new seriesHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,dropped on Wednesday, it wasn't long before fans chimed in with their commentary online.

Among the biggest conversations on social media regarding the newly unveiled trailer has been about the color grading. Whereas the original film, released in 2001, looked warmer and more inviting, fans are wondering why this show, as seen in the trailer, looks much darker and gloomier by comparison.

"Why is the new Harry Potter so dark? Where's the whimsical color?"an X user asked.Another added: "The Harry Potter show looks exactly like the movie if it were drained of all color and magic and whimsy. Fun!"

"I think part of the disconnect with the new Harry Potter series is that it doesn't look very warm & inviting," aHarry Potterfan posited on X. "Look at the way it's shot compared to the original film. Where's the sense of wonder & awe to this world of magic? Why does the new series look so gloomy?"

On X, aHarry Potterfandelved deeper into their disappointmentwith the color grading in the trailer: "The biggest problem with the color grading in this abomination of a reboot is that the Harry Potter films very famously became progressively darker and less colorful from 1>8 to match the tone of the story and signal the rise of totalitarian evil. Starting out dark leaves little room to adjust the color grading as the story progresses," the X user wrote.

Yahoo reached out to HBO for comment but has not yet received a response.

Thoughnot everyonein theHarry Potterfandom is upset with the color-grading liberties the new series is taking.

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A Potterhead on X arguedthat the darker look of the HBO series is indicative of the fact that "TV and movies don't work the same way" anymore. "TV needs to be much more cohesive in its visuals. It's a completely legitimate choice, and it gives the series a more intimate feeling," they wrote. "There's no hard rule saying that grading has to match the tone of the story. Thinking this way just puts you into a boxed-in line of thinking," anX user added.

Another X user asked, simply, "Why do all of you want it to look identical to the movies??"

One X userbrought up a similar point, questioning the legitimacy of this complaint within theHarry Potterfandom: "Not really sure how this is a complaint. It's not by the same director as before, why would this director be locked in to having to follow the same creative choices the last ones did? This is a new team, their show is going to have its own visual identity as would be expected?"

Some social media usersargue that the darker color grading in the newHarryPotterseries alsoreflects the shifttowarddesaturated colors across modern television. While there's no hard-and-fast rule for why filmmakers may be gravitating toward darker aesthetics in their television shows, one reason, perhaps, is the use of dark coloring and low lighting as a narrative device to convey a grittier, more realistic perspective.

It's also worth noting that Mark Mylod and Adriano Goldman are the director and cinematographer of the forthcoming HBO series. They were not part of the original 2001 film.Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first film of the blockbuster franchise, was directed by Chris Columbus and shot by John Seale. Columbus also directed the second film,Chamber of Secrets.

As theHarry Potterfilm franchise progressed,different directors and cinematographerswere brought on board. Alfonso Cuarón directed the third film,Prisoner of Azkaban,while Mike Newell directed the fourth,Goblet of Fire,and David Yates helmed the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth films,Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood PrinceandDeathly Hallows Part 1 and Part 2.

As for cinematographers, Roger Pratt shot the second and fourth films, Michael Seresin shot the third, Slawomir Idziak shot the fifth, Bruncho Delbonnel shot the sixth, and Eduardo Serra shot the seventh and eighth installments.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stonepremieres on HBO on Christmas Day.

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Netflix hikes prices on all plans for the second time in a year

Netflix has raised prices across all of its subscription tiers.

Key Points

• Standard with Ads is going up $1 to $8.99 per month; Standard, which doesn't have ads, is going up $2 to $19.99 per month; while ad-free Premium is also rising $2 to $26.99 per month.

• This price hike comes just a year after the last raises, which impacted the Standard without ads plan for the first time in three years.

When it comes toNetflixraising subscription prices, stranger things have happened.

Long gone are the days of sub-$10 subscription fees granting you access to the streaming giant's voluminous library. For the second time in just over a year, Netflix is raising prices across all subscription tiers.

According to thePlans and Pricingpage on the Netflix Help Center, the Standard With Ads plan, which allows for two supported devices, has gone up $1 from $7.99 to $8.99 per month. The Standard plan, which doesn't include ads and also allows for two supported devices, is rising $2 from $17.99 to $19.99 per month. Finally, the coveted Premium tier, which allows users to download the app on six supported devices and watch simultaneously and without ads on four, is also going up $2 from $24.99 to $26.99.

Netflix shared the following statement withEntertainment Weeklywhen reached for comment regarding Thursday's price hikes: "Our approach remains the same: We continue offering a range of prices and plans to meet a variety of needs, and as we deliver more value to our members we are updating our prices to enable us to reinvest in quality entertainment and improve their experience by updating our prices."

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Originally a subscription-based DVD rental service, Netflix launched a parallel streaming service in 2007. At the time, pricing was computed according to the type of rental plan subscribers opted for. If you subscribed to the $18 per month plan, for example, you were accorded 18 hours of streaming time.

The following year, Netflix implemented the flat monthly subscription fee for streaming that it still employs. Unlimited streams without ads cost $9 per month back then — a service that now starts at $19.99 per month.

Netflix raised its prices last January. Though price hikes have never been uncommon at the streamer, last year's stood out, as they impacted the popular Standard without ads plan, which at the time hadn't seen a hike in three years.

The price point of Netflix's Premium subscription tier, its most expensive, is a far cry from where it started. But it's equally far from the streaming industry's most expensive monthly plan. Viewers interested in the Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN unlimited, ad-free bundle are looking at a monthly cost of $44.99.

But at $26.99, Netflix's Premium plan stands head and sometimes shoulders over the rest, from HBO Max's $22.99 per month, to the newly unveiled Prime Video Ultra (a standard Prime Video plan without ads, and without a general Prime subscription) cost of $13.98 per month, to Paramount+'s $13.99, which includes Showtime and CBS programming.

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Iran's 'Tehran toll' booth forces some tankers to pay millions to leave Strait of Hormuz

DOHA, Qatar — Call it the world's most dangerous toll booth.

Iranis forcing oil tankers to take a new route inthe Strait of Hormuzthrough a narrow passage controlled by itsRevolutionary Guard, with some ships charged millions of dollars to transit, according to maritime data shared with NBC News.

The new system — dubbed "the Tehran toll booth" by shipping industry experts — indicates Iran remains firmly in control of the critical waterway despite intense strikes on the country, and may be looking to cement that control over the longer term.

Before the U.S. and Israel launched their bombing campaign on Feb. 28, around 110 ships were passing through the Strait of Hormuz every day, data from Lloyd's List Intelligence shows. Since then, that number has plummeted to fewer than 10 a day, according to the London-based maritime intelligence service.

Instead of sailing down the middle of the strait, those ships are now taking a new route into Iran's territorial waters and through a tight passage between the islands of Qeshm and Larak, Tomer Raanan, a maritime risk analyst with the Lloyds List shipping journal, told NBC News on Wednesday.

"Whatever we can detect going out of the strait right now is going through this narrow channel in Iranian territorial waters, where the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps essentially verifies the ship's information and acts almost like a toll booth," Raanan said.

At least 25 vessels have taken the new route — which is less than 20 miles from Iran's main naval base at the port of Bandar Abbas — since March 13, according to Lloyd's List tracking. Among them was a Chinese tanker called Bright Gold, which made the voyage on March 23.

Video footage posted that day to Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, by one of the Bright Gold's crew and verified by NBC News, shows the ship passing between the two islands.

"In a few days, American soldiers might come here. This might be the main fighting spot," the crew member says in the video, pointing to high-rise Iranian buildings in the distance.

The video ends with the unidentified sailor saying it was too dangerous to continue filming.

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Raanan said Lloyd's List was aware of at least two ships that had made payment in Chinese yuan to cross the strait. It does not appear that Iran has yet established a consistent policy, he added.

But Jasem Mohamed al-Budaiwi, of the Gulf Cooperation Council, a bloc of six Gulf Arab nations, said Thursday that Iran was officially charging for safe passage through the shipping channel, which is crucial to the world's energy supply.

Iranian state media also reported that the country's parliament was preparing legislation to formalize the toll.

"We provide its security, and it is natural that ships and oil tankers should pay such fees," lawmaker Mohammadreza Rezaei Kouchi was quoted as saying by the state-aligned Fars and Tasnim news agencies, both of which are close to the Revolutionary Guard.

His comments came days after Alaeddin Boroujerdi, a member of Iran's national security committee, suggested on state television that a $2 million fee would demonstrate Iran's authority over the waterway.

Israel said on Thursday that it had killedAlireza Tangsiri, the head of the Revolutionary Guard's naval forcesand the commander responsible for mining and blockading the strait.

Before his death, Iran was believed to be responsible for attacking at least 18 ships in and around the Persian Gulf since the outbreak of war,according to data compiled by the International Maritime Organization. In the deadliest incident, four sailors were killed on a tug boat as it sailed near the Strait of Hormuz on March 6.

In aletterto the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres this week, Iran's foreign ministry said the waterway remained open to "non-hostile vessels" on the condition they act "in coordination with the competent Iranian authorities".

Statements from the Iranian regime suggest that it now aims to turn its ad-hoc wartime control of the strait into a longer-term reality. On Thursday it issued five conditions it said would need to be met before it would agree to an end to the war.

Among them, "recognition of Iran's sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz."

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American Airlines flight attendant reported missing in Colombia: Officials

An American Airlines flight attendant has been reported missing in Colombia, according to officials.

Eric Fernando Gutiérrez Molina landed on March 21 on a flight from Miami to Medellin, Colombia, according to the Medellin security secretary.

Authorities believe he may have been drugged and are investigating that claim.

He was last seen early Sunday morning after a party at a club in the Medellín neighborhood of El Poblado, with a man and a woman, according to the security secretary.

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"We are actively engaged with local law enforcement officials in their investigation and doing all we can to support our team member's family during this time," American Airlines said in a statement.

A State Department spokesperson said, "We are aware of these reports and are closely tracking the situation."

"The Trump Administration has no greater priority than the safety and security of Americans, and the State Department stands ready to provide all consular assistance to Americans in need abroad," the spokesperson said.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

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AP is calling Israel's attack on Lebanon an invasion. What does that mean and why does it matter?

The Associated Press is now calling Israel'smilitary actions in southern Lebanonan invasion.

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Israel has moved thousands of troops across the border into Lebanon, and Israeli forces and Iran-backed Hezbollah militants have been fighting on the ground for at least three weeks.

What changed?

Israeli officials, including the defense minister, said they want to take control of the entire area south of the Litani River -- some 20 miles (about 30 kilometers) north of the border – and that displaced Lebanese residents will not be allowed back until Israel decides that its northern border is safe.

Israel occupied much of that area from 1982 to 2000 after it invaded southern Lebanon during the country's civil war.

The army said Thursday it had deployed another division to Lebanon, adding to a force of thousands sent into the southern part of the country sincethe war eruptedmore than three weeks ago. The army won't say how many troops were sent in on Thursday, or in total.

What are the two sides saying?

Lebanese officials say Israel has violated Lebanon's sovereignty and is seeking to occupy Lebanese land.

Israel says its actions are defensive and meant to prevent Hezbollah from firing missiles into northern Israel. For the first time in a year, Hezbollah fired a barrage across the border a couple of days after the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran on Feb. 28. Israel also says it wants to remove the militant group from the area.

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What does the AP consider?

As in past conflicts, AP journalists examined several factors before making the decision. Among these: the broadening scope of an attack, including how many troops or divisions were involved and how long they have been fighting for; whether the action is meant to seize land or displace those who live there; whether it is an offensive or defensive move; and the extent of the casualties and damages.

Words like "incursion" or "attack" are also acceptable.

Israel has invaded Lebanon four times in the past 50 years: 1978, 1982, 2006 and 2024.

Why does it matter?

It's important to use the correct language to describe military action between sovereign nations.

Sometimes a one-sided attack occurs without further action, or a conflict starts but doesn't escalate. Using "war" to describe those situations could diminish the word's importance. Then, when actual war breaks out, people might not understand its significance. In the same way, saying a country has "invaded" another country means something different than simply attacked. If no troops have entered, it's not an invasion.

For more guidance on language about conflict in the Middle East, see AP's WarMiddle East Topical Guide, which is posted on theAP Stylebook websiteand updated regularly.

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Bill Belichick Breaks His Silence Two Months After His Shocking NFL Hall of Fame Snub

Bill Belichick is moving on, post-Hall of Fame snub

NEED TO KNOW

• On the first day of spring practice, the UNC head coach told reporters that he is gearing up for the coming season

• As the head coach of the New England Patriots, Belichick led the team to six Super Bowl wins

Bill Belichickis moving on after being snubbed.The UNC football coach, who did not become a first-ballot Hall of Famer earlier this year despite his storied success in the NFL, is choosing to look to the future, heading into his second season as the Tar Heels head coach — instead of dwelling on the past."No, I'm focused on coaching this team and focused on getting Carolina football to the highest level I can," Belichick, 73, said to reporters on the first day of spring football practice,according to theFayetteville Observer."That's what I've always ... I focus about what I can do. Things that are out of my control, I don't worry about."Coming off a 4-8 season, the former New England Patriots head coach is aiming to build upon the foundation he set last year, which wasmired by the team's poor play on the field,numerous distractions off of itand eventalk of the coach taking a buyoutdue to the team's disappointing play.

But when Belichick failed to make the Hall of Fame class this year, many former players, members of the media and fans were left perplexed, considering his storied NFL career.

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"I don't believe that any coach in the history of the game has done more to earn his place in the Hall of Fame than Bill Belichick,"Tom Bradysaid in part in his statement at the time. "To say that he was my greatest coaching influence would be an understatement. His tremendous leadership, vision, and daily discipline allowed our team to excel in nearly every area for almost two decades."Meanwhile,Rob Gronkowskitook to task voters who were responsible for the snub.

"The system needs to be checked up on,"he told PEOPLE while on Media Rowbefore Super Bowl LX in February. "This just shows that there's gonna be no other first-ballot Hall of Fame coach, you know, for the rest of history. There shouldn't be because Coach Belichick's the greatest coach of all time."

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