For Lego fans, this might be a childhood dream come true.
 
An official Lego movie that brings the bricks to life is due out next year and the first trailer hit the web on Tuesday.

The 3D-animated film tells a story of Emmet, an ordinary Lego mini-figure who is mistakenly identified as the most powerful person and the key to saving the world. Emmet is then sent on an involuntary mission to defeat an evil ruler, a journey for which he is "hopelessly and hilariously underprepared," according to The International Business Times.

“Parks and Recreation’s” Chris Pratt lends his voice to Emmet. The rest of the voice cast includes Morgan Freeman, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, and Alison Brie.
 
“The Lego Movie” is directed by duo Chris Miller and Phil Lord, who also produced “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” and “21 Jump Street.”
 
The film is set to hit theaters in both the U.S. and U.K. in early February, 2014. Check out the trailer below: 

A hard day at work can make anyone want to scream.

As Jimmy Fallon proved, a good midday rooftop "yodel" can be the perfect way to de-stress. Brad Pitt got in on the unconventional singing technique for a bit that aired on Tuesday's "Late Night."

The video shows Fallon, exasperated from his mounting workload, escaping to the rooftop of his office building for some fresh air. As he takes in the views of Manhattan, Fallon lets out a yodel and receives an unexpected yodel reply from Brad Pitt on a nearby roof.

Fallon: "Brad?"

Pitt: "Jimmy? What are you doing up there?"

Fallon: "Yodeling…you?"

Pitt: "Same."

Fallon next compliments Pitt for his work in "World War Z," in yodel-speak of course, and Pitt then makes an unprecedented request: attempt the never before accomplished "double yodel."

With intense focus and concentration, the pair belt out an elegantly harmonized yodel duet. Check out the clip below.

"World War Z" premieres in theaters on June 21 and "Late Night" airs on NBC at 12:35 a.m. on weeknights.

Cancer survivor Melissa Etheridge is not backing away from comments that Angelina Jolie’s choice to have a preventive double mastectomy was “fearful” and not “brave.”

In a statement to NBC’s “Today” show Wednesday, Etheridge said, “I don’t have any opinion on what she ‘should have’ done- all are free to choose. I only objected to the term 'brave' describing it.”

The singer sparked the controversy when she told Washington Blade, that like Jolie she has BRCA-1, the faulty gene that carries a very high risk of developing cancer. But she wouldn’t recommend undergoing a preventive double mastectomy, she said.

"I have to say I feel a little differently. I have that gene mutation too and it's not something I would believe in for myself," the 52-year-old told the paper. "I wouldn't call it the brave choice. I actually think it's the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer."

Jolie has said that she wants genetics testing accessible to all women.

Asked about Etheridge’s comments, Jolie’s partner Brad Pitt said the singer is “an old friend.” He reiterated support for Jolie’s surgery, calling her decision “bold,” according to “Today.”
 

Rihanna has nabbed Justin Bieber’s claim as YouTube’s most-viewed artist.

At some time on Tuesday morning, Rihanna’s 77 music videos on her VEVO channel garnered a combined view of 3.784 billion views, surpassing Bieber’s channel by about two million views.

Rihanna has 8.7 million subscribers on her channel, which is almost twice as much as Biber's 4.9 million.

The other musicians that round out the top most-viewed list are PSY at 3.1 billion views, Eminem at 2.4 billion views, Lady Gaga at 2.25 billion views and Shakira with 2 billion views, according to Billboard.

Country-crooning prodigy Danielle Bradbery was crowned the winner of season four of "The Voice" Tuesday night, beating out a crowded field of competitors decades her senior to clinch the title.

The 16-year-old from Team Blake — the youngest contestant this season, and one who had never performed on a stage before hitting "The Voice's" — eked out her victory over Team Usher's indie-pop dark horse Michelle Chamuel, who took second place, and Team Blake's country duo the Swon Brothers.

She was crowned at the end of a two-hour finale Tuesday night that saw pop stars rubbing elbows with the show's aspiring pop stars — not just the top three, but also a slew of the singers who had headed home earlier in the season.

And when she was, she grinned, wept and covered her mouth in disbelief of a sort that would make fellow country prodigy Taylor Swift proud. Somehow, she managed to sing a few bars of a song through that disbelief, though not without embraces from her rivals and from Shakira.

Danielle's win meant not only that she's the youngest winner of "The Voice" yet in its four seasons but also that Team Blake has now won his third season in a row on the show. (It also meant that Papa Shelton got quite a birthday present; Tuesday was his 37th.)

Leading up to her crowning moment, of course, were plenty of performances from "Voice" family members and high-wattage guests alike.

Erstwhile "Voice" coach Christina Aguilera, who returns in September to the red chair Shakira occupied this season, opened the show with a frenetic performance alongside Pitbull of their single "Feel This Moment." Descending from a giant pedestal, Aguilera looked glad to be back on "The Voice," even if she were on the stage instead of in a chair.

And in case Xtina and a room full of "Voice" hopefuls weren't divas enough, there was also Cher — a decade after her last live TV performance. The pop legend performed her upcoming relentless, club-ready single "Woman's World," clad in black leather and a headpiece that looked like a bird had flown into her coiffure.

Bruno Mars took the stage to perform "Treasure," and country band Florida Georgia Line paired with rapper Nelly performed "Cruise," to. But some of the most memorable performances by established stars came with their duets with the top three "Voice" contestants.

Michelle Chamuel joined one of her favorite bands, OneRepublic, onstage to exchange rapid-fire lyrics with lead singer Ryan Tedder on their electro-tinted folk-pop anthem "Counting Stars."

Later, Danielle Bradbery joined young country singer-songwriter Hunter Hayes for a duet on his song "I Want Crazy." And and most memorably, the Swon Brothers, both rabid Bob Seger fans, joined with the rocker himself to croon his signature song "Night Moves," the trio seated in a row strumming acoustic guitars.

The top three also brought back some of their former teammates, and some rival team members, to join them on-stage and give viewers a glimpse of what "Voice" supergroups might look like.

The Swon boys reunited with former team members Justin Rivers and Holly Tucker, as well as with former Team Adam member Amber Carrington for a take on Lady Antebellum's "Stars Tonight."

Danielle brought back Amber to sing with her, too, as well as her former teammate Caroline Glaser (who wound up on Team Adam before she was eliminated) and Team Adam's Sarah Simmons, on a cover of Carrie Underwood's "All-American Girl."

And finally, Michelle invited back three of her former Team Usher teammates — R&B singer Vedo, Latin powerhouse Cathia and pop-rock crooner Josiah Hawley — for a joyful, funk-inflected take on Stevie Wonder's "We Can Work It Out" that had both Adam and Usher singing along.

Those former teammates got another chance to perform Tuesday night, too. Vedo and Josiah joined with Team Shakira's Garrett Gardner and Kris Thomas — as well as with Holly Tucker, wielding a saxophone — for a "Jersey Boys"-inspired take on the Temptations' "Ain't Too Proud to Beg."

And four former and undoubtedly funky divas of season four — Cathia, Team Shakira's Sasha Allen and Karina Iglesias and Team Adam's Judith Hill — joined for En Vogue's "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)."

She didn't get the crown but got a second chance at redemption for her reputation.

Miss Utah Marissa Powell, 21, took to the "Today" show on Tuesday after video of the answer she blundered during the interview portion of the Miss USA pageant went viral.

Powell explained that the question posed by panelist NeNe Leakes was "a little bit confusing." Leakes had asked, “A recent report shows that in 40 percent of American families with children women are the primary earners, yet they continue to earn less than men. What does it say about society?”

Matt Lauer gave Powell a second shot at answering the question and this time she came prepared.

"So this is not okay," Powell said with confidence. "It needs to be equal pay for equal work and it's hard enough already to earn a living and it shouldn't be harder just because you're a woman."

Her new response was met with applause from Lauer and the new Miss USA, Erin Brady, who was also in the "Today" studio.

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A preliminary investigation clears Justin Bieber of any wrongdoing after a paparazzo was side-swiped by the pop star's white Ferrari Monday night outside a Hollywood comedy club, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Bieber was in his white Ferrari 458 Italia when he was pulling away from the Laugh Factory surrounded by a crowd of photographers in the 8000 block of Sunset Boulevard. Video shows Bieber leaving the scene after side-swiping the photographer in the street, but a preliminary investigation indicates the entertainer did not do anything wrong, according to police.

After the wail of the Ferrari's 550-plus horsepower V8 trails off into the distance, the video posted by PopCandies TV shows other paparazzi carrying the photographer to the sidewalk before an ambulance arrives. Details regarding the photographer's injuries were not immediately available.

A police spokesperson told E! News the case was being investigated as a traffic collision, not a hit and run.

"LAPD can confirm we are investigating a traffic collision that occurred around 11:45 p.m.," the spokesperson told E! News. "Officers did interview all parties involved and determined there was no hit-and-run. It appears the pedestrian in the roadway was a major factor in the collision."

Bieber, 19, and the Ferrari have been the subjects of previous complaints. He is under investigation for reckless driving after neighbors complained last month he was driving at high speeds through a Calabasas residential area.

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A strong drink might be the perfect antidote for those who are still reeling from the Red Wedding on HBO's “Game of Thrones.”

The premium cable channnel has once again partnered with Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, N.Y. for the launch of a second “Game of Thrones” beer due to arrive in the fall.

Like the Lanninster-inspired Iron Throne blonde ale released in March at the beginning of Season 3, the Take the Black Stout is a shout out to another cast of characters on the show -- the Night’s Watch guards tasked with defending the northern border of the Seven Kingdoms.

Take the Black Stout is brewed with star anise and licorice root and is 7 percent alcohol by volume, whereas the inaugural Iron Throne blonde ale is 6.5 percent, according to the blog zap2it.com which first reported on the new beer.

The label art on the bottle features the sacred Weirwood tree and was designed by the people who created the opening credits for the show, which ended its third season on June 9.

"Game of Thrones" is scheduled to return in the spring of 2014.

For "The Voice's" top three, there was nothing to be done Tuesday but wait.

One of the trio of contestants left standing for this week's finale — country balladeer Danielle Bradbery, indie-pop belter Michelle Chamuel and down-home duo the Swon Brothers — is set to be crowned "The Voice" on Tuesday night.

But in true "Voice" fashion, that won't come without plenty of fanfare first, courtesy not just of their ballooning fanbases but also of some pop starpower. The likes of Bob Seger and erstwhile "Voice" coach Christina Aguilera, among others, will perform on Tuesday's show.

On Monday, the three finalists got three chances apiece to make their closing arguments for why they should win the whole shebang, hoping they'd yield a charm come Tuesday.

Team Usher's indie-pop sensation Michelle was up against two Team Blake country acts, Danielle and the Swons. But if there were any rivalries heading into the show's finale, they weren't evident Monday night.

The coaches themselves struck the collaborative tone at the show's opening, kicking off the two hours of performances with a take on the Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends," a nod to their cover of "Come Together" at the start of the season.

And indeed, with a little help from their coaches-turned-friends — at least in the case of newfound BFFs Usher and Michelle — the final three contestants showed in their performances that they were more than getting by.

Each one performed a duet with their coach, another version of the song their coach deemed their breakout song on the show this season and finally one last new song.

The Swon Brothers, who have earned the distinction of being the first duo to make it to "The Voice" finals, were up first with a cover of the Eagles' "I Can't Tell You Why" — debuting a new soft-rock falsetto and breaking with their country roots for the occasion.

"All that I think was missing was, like, the third Bee Gee," Usher remarked, adding that he enjoyed seeing the pair's sound evolve. And Adam praised the performance, despite his criticism of the last Eagles song the duo performed. "It's a really tall order to do one of their songs, and you guys did a great job."

Next, Michelle was up, not with a new song, but with the song her coach Usher thought had been her breakout performance on the show. That had come, he said, when she performed Taylor Swift's hit "Trouble" fresh off a surprise visit to rehearsals from Swift herself.

Again, Michelle gave an electric, and electrifying, take on the song, and again, her coach rivaled the audience for sheer enthusiasm, rocking out as he grinned.

Afterward, as the cheers from the audience refused to die down, the coaches marveled at her energy on-stage — Shakira called it "extraordinary" — and the excitement she inspired in her fans. "What cannot be reproduced is that when you're up there, people are screaming so loud that our ears hurt," Adam said of the screaming fans — as Usher added, "You can't have that many relatives."

Next Danielle and her coach Blake delivered a sweet but powerful take on the Patty Loveless song "Timber, I'm Falling in Love," though there was the inevitable slight creepiness of a grown man singing a love song to a 16-year-old.

Team Blake's other finalists the Swon Brothers were back up next, this time delivering their breakout performance from the season: Kenny Loggins' "Danny's Song," a tune that in their hands had won over even the country nonbelievers among the coaches the first time around.

"It's almost like I disappeared for a moment," Usher told them Monday of how their performance affected him. "Wow, what an incredible rendition, man. It's amazing."

Michelle returned next to tackle "Why" by Annie Lennox — a song she hadn't performed before, and one she knew would be a tall task. "This song is pure emotion. It's a big challenge that Usher thinks I can live up to, and I do not want to let him down," she said.

Michelle began performing a stripped-down, fragile take on the emotionally heady song — singing into what appeared a mirror, a la her take on "True Colors" earlier in the season, but turned out to be a computer image of herself.

The coaches thanked Michelle for giving them a rare chance to see her trade her high-energy rock-outs for vulnerable crooning, and they said her knack for both was testament to her talent. "Likeability and capability," Usher told her. "To me, that is what represents a true artist, and that is what you possess."

Next, the Swon Brothers took the stage with their coach to perform alongside him in a sort-of duet, if the duo counts as a single singer. They delivered a rollicking take on Brad Paisley's tongue-in-cheek homage to fame "Celebrity," in just the sort of good-humored performance the Swon Brothers have patented.

Team Blake's other finalist Danielle's turn came next to remind her audiences of her breakout performance on the show. And although Blake said it had been hard to pick one such performance for the teen since she'd had so many, he opted to have her sing the Pam Tillis hit "Maybe It Was Memphis" again.

Danielle turned in just the sort of plaintive, pure belt that has earned her such a loyal following, her clear voice the perfect match for the song's litany of Southern Americana tropes.

"You've grabbed the bull by the horns — no pun intended," said Shakira, donning a leather cowboy hat by way of support for the singer. (Never a partisan, she had also waved a "Go Okies" flag for the Swon Brothers and donned thick-rimmed glasses for Michelle.) That praise was nothing next to Adam's; he flat-out predicted Danielle would win the thing, to Usher's chagrin.

And just a night before two of the show's remaining acts were bound to head home empty-handed, that was just what Danielle and her competitors needed.

Not that home didn't have its own charms — a point made by the finalists' performance just then of the jangly indie-pop anthem "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. Joining in for the choruses were all the rest of the top 16 from this season on "The Voice" — from the singers sent packing during live shows to recent runners-up like Sasha Allen and Amber Carrington.

After the crowds had left the stage, just two took to it: Michelle and her coach Usher, whose bond over the course of the season had strengthened into a meaningful friendship. With Usher predicting more duets in the future, the pair gave a soulful, ferocious take on U2's "One."

Closing out the night was Danielle, the show's youngest finalist and likely frontrunner — at least if you asked Adam and whoever decided to give the teen the plum final spot of the night. As she performed the closest thing she has performed yet this season to an uptempo song, Danielle's nerves over the pacing of Sara Evans' "Born to Fly" gave way to her trademark breezy confidence as she lived up to the song's name.

"Your perfection is almost boring me at this point," Adam told her. Her own coach was more strictly positive in his praise. "I'm one of the millions of people out there that you've got wrapped around your finger," Blake said. "Thank God you came to 'The Voice' to debut yourself."

"The Voice" will crown one of its three finalists the winner at its finale on Tuesday at 8/7c.

Monday, June 17 at Webster Hall, Tuesday, June 18 at Music Hall of Williamsburg, CHVRCHES, Still Corners, $18

CHVRCHES have made a reputation for themselves with a ridiculous name, a rad Game Of Thrones cover and a sound somewhere between Depeche Mode and Robyn, which is certainly a nice sweet spot as far as spritely dance-pop goes. Make sure to arrive early for Still Corners, whose name is fairly accurate and who do a solid job of making hazy music you can sit around and zone out to, while managing to be distinct enough to not completely fade into the background, which is a tough trick to pull off.  

Wednesday, June 19 at Saint Vitus, Cold Cave, Boyd Rice, $15

Cold Cave is the one-man-and-occasionally-some-other-dudes project of Wes Eisold, a hardcore punk lifer and published poet who in recent years has taken to making music that sounds like keyboards getting pushed past any reasonable limits, dying and then being forcefully resuscitation against said keyboard's will. Eisold is determined to scrape away any sense of lush beautify off of synth pop in an effort to make it as visceral as possible. That he only partially succeeds in this goal is the key to why his music his music hits so hard. 

Thursday, June 20 at Roseland Ballroom, LL Cool J, Ice Cube, Public Enemy, $59.50

Reader, we will attempt to not be a cranky old man here. We just would like to point out that we know many young people who believe that rap basically started with Snoop Dogg, if not Eminem. This is an incorrect belief, and it needs to be remedied. The artists on this bill haven't released a solid album in, uh, a minute or so (though we can argue about Public Enemy if so inclined), but all three have a back catalog that helped what hip-hop is capable of, and LL, Ice Cube and PE's Chuck D are all battle-hardened showmen who will make you feel, for about an hour or so, that there's no place in the world they would rather be than onstage spitting on the mic, even if that's clearly not true anymore. Class is in session. 

Talk about short notice. Jay-Z has a new album coming out in just three weeks, and it's called "Magna Carta Holy Grail."

Hov announced the new album, set for a July 7 release, Sunday night in a three-minute Samsung ad that aired during the NBA finals game between the Miami Heat and the San Antonio Spurs.

That was because a deal Jay struck with Samsung means one million Galaxy users who download a customized app will get to download the new record for free July 4, a full three days before it's released.

"The album is about this duality," Jay-Z said in the ad, "of how do you navigate your way through this whole thing, through success and through failures, and remain yourself?"

See the ad, in which Jay talks about the album, on the album's website here.

"Magna Carta" will be his first new solo studio album in four years — the long-awaited follow-up to 2009's "The Blueprint 3."

During those four years in between albums, Hov collaborated with Kanye West on "Watch the Throne," and he and wife Beyonce daughter had their daughter Blue Ivy.

This isn't the first time Jay has teamed with a cell phone company to prerelease his music. In 2003, he teamed with Nokia to release "The Black Album" on special edition phones, The New York Times noted.

The Kardashian clan has finally weighed in with well wishes after keeping mum on the day Kim Kardashian and Kanye West welcomed their baby girl into the world.

With one day of parenthood under his belt, West received a tweet from Grandma Kris Jenner Sunday that read, "HAPPY FATHERS DAY @kanyewest !!!!!!"

Kim's sister Khloe also took to Twitter on Sunday, writing, "I can not even begin 2describe the miracle that is now apart of our family. Mommy/baby are healthy &resting. We appreciate all of the love."

Her half-sister Kendall Jenner retweeted the grateful sentiment on her account as well.

No name has been announced yet for baby KimYe and details are scant. According to E!'s Jason Kennedy, the baby girl arrived a few weeks early. Father Kanye West was at Kim's side for the birth, E! News also reported.

Khloe sent a follow-up tweet acknowledging the lack of public information over her family's big day.

"More info will come when the time is right! Thank you all for understanding! We love you all dearly! Overwhelmed with love right now ♥," she wrote.

Kris Jenner spoke briefly about her granddaughter at the Daytime Emmys red carpet on Sunday night. "We're all good and extremely happy and thrilled for the new baby, and she's doing great and she's beautiful," she said.

The Kardashians have given audiences an all-access pass to their lives in the reality show "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" and the family also stars in a handful of spinoffs. West, by contrast, has kept much about of his personal life away from the cameras.

"I just don't want to talk to America about my family," West told The New York Times before his daughter's birth. "This isn't America's baby."

Miss Utah may not have taken home the Miss USA crown on Sunday, but she still managed to become the social media talk of the town after she bungled the interview portion of the competition.

Panelist NeNe Leakes asked 21-year-old Marissa Powell a question about gender and income inequality and the beauty queen’s answer set the Twitterverse on fire.

“A recent report shows that in 40 percent of American families with children, women are the primary earners, yet they continue to earn less than men. What does it say about society?” Leakes asked.

A visibly-nervous Powell stammered her way through the interview and provided an incoherent answer.

“I think we can relate this back to education, and how we are continuing to try to strive…to… figure out how to create jobs right now. That is the biggest problem right now,” Powell said.

She paused upon realizing her mistake and followed up with the suggestion that men need to “create education better.”

Miss Connecticut Erin Brady ended up with the crown after Sunday's glamour-filled pageant at the Planet Hollywood hotel-casino in Las Vegas.

Check out Miss Utah's full interview here:

The gaffe is reminiscent of the response that Miss South Carolina, Caitlin Upton, provided in the 2007 Miss Teen USA pageant. Her explanation that a fifth of Americans are unable to locate the U.S. on a map because "some people out there in our nation don't have maps" brought her international notoriety.

Madden 25, EA Sports' upcoming football game, is a two-headed monster.

On the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, it's a promise to gamers who stuck with the series and begged for more gameplay options and features. On the Xbox One and Playstation 4, it's a glimpse into the future. With a new gameplay and visual engines and a brand-new step-based locomotion system, Electronic Arts believes the pigskin action will never be the same.

"There's that wow factor when you pick up the controller," said Electronic Arts Football General Manager Cam Weber. "It feels amazing."

A celebration of 25 years of the franchise, EA Sports spent significant time developing a next generation football game they felt would change the genre. On the PS4 and Xbox One, the IGNITE gameplay engine will have approximately 300 "live" characters on both sidelines, reacting to the action, as well as a crowd that looks more "real" than the cardboard cut-outs and static virtual fans gamers of all ages have become accustomed to over the years.

The new True Step Locomotion system also promises a better rushing game. Madden 2013 focused heavily on passing and True Step, combined with the enhanced A.I., makes offensive linemen, as well as defensive players, more aware of the on-field developments. The end result, Weber says, is a more authentic and instinctual game of football, with authentic route running, more realistic downfield blocking and better moving player models.

"Every individual step in our game is calculated," Weber said. "In previous games, there were a lot of looping and repeating running animations, without a lot of fidelity in terms of what each individual step would do. Now, with the power of the new consoles, we can make a lot of calculations with every single frame. There will be a precision to every footstep."

But what about the current consoles? Regardless of the effort the company has put into the next generation version of Madden, EA Sports said all the work on the PS4/Xbox One edition actually helped refine what may be the last hurrah for the series on the PS3 and 360.

Weber said that the run-blocking and locomotion system on the PS3 and 360 will be markedly improved because EA was able to transfer over "tidbits" of the new technology to the current generation version. With those improvements and the new and developed gameplay modes such as the "Connected Franchise" and "Owner Mode," EA Sports is confident they haven't left PS3 and 360 owners out to pasture.

"We wanted to deliver on the promises," said Weber. "We wanted to add all the depth and polish. 25 years of innovation-make Madden 25 the most polished experience we could."

Check out this gameplay video of Madden 25 below:

Madden 25 is scheduled for an August 27 release on the PS3 and 360. No release date has been confirmed for the PS4 and Xbox One versions.