The credits behind our 2026 Hollywood Issue.
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Hollywood 2026 U.S. Credits
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Bring Back Credits on Songs and Albums
For those who grew up buying records, part of the fascination was not just listening, but reading. The inner sleeve of records often had extensive notes, lyrics and credits for everything from the songwriter to the cover art designer. Before the days of streaming and the internet, this was often how music information was discovered. If you liked a producer or a guitar player on a record, you would find out who it was from the liner notes and look for that person’s work elsewhere.
This was particularly important for musicians. Credits on albums and songs are like credits for actors, except musicians don’t have an IMDB.
In fact, since streaming essentially swallowed whole the music world, liner notes have all but disappeared. Spotfiy, Apple Music, Tidal and others will display limited credits (if you dig for them), but only what the record label provides. Unlike the film industry where strong unions protect the rights of actors, screenwriters and the like, musicians don’t have anyone speaking for them and, as a result, their names often remain unheard.
For older music where credits were more common, you can often find that information on Wikipedia or AllMusic.com, but not for everything and certainly not organized and categorized in the way IMDB and other film credit databases are. And yet, the contributions made by musicians every day, even now in the age of AI and digital music, are critically important to every new song that drops.
And before you ask why anyone should care about the drummer playing with Taylor Swift (it’s Matt Billingslea, by the way), it’s because musicians are an essential part of forming the sound that made her famous. And knowing the specific people helps not only provide them with the accolades they deserve, but it furthers our knowledge of music.
For years, musicians would listen to records, see who played their instrument on the album by looking at the liner notes, and go find other artists using the same musician. You might be able to follow a bass player from Miles Davis to Sting to the Rolling Stones (Darryl Jones) or find out that before Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page was a sought after guitarist playing with Donovan, Joe Cocker, the Who and numerous others.
And those are just the credits we can glean from recordings. Never mind the hundreds of busy touring musicians who no one really even thinks about. Ask Eric Hernandez. He’s Bruno Mars’ brother…and also his drummer.
Much of what you hear on a daily basis was created by people who spent their lives hunting for their instrumental predecessors. It doesn’t seem like that much effort to give them the credit they so richly deserve.
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If you liked Hazbin Hotel, here’s what you should watch next
Hazbin Hotel’s frenetic first season finished up on Friday, with a dozen reveals and dangling plot threads, all primed for a second season. The devilish comedy comes from creator Vivienne Medrano, who first posted the pilot episode on her YouTube channel, and follows Charlie, the princess of Hell, who opens a hotel in hopes that demons will rehabilitate and get to heaven. Oh, and it’s also a musical!
The first season finished with a bang, but it might be some time before we see the second season of Hazbin Hotel. So if you need something to sate your devilish desires for now, Medrano handpicked some of the show’s biggest influences.
Invader Zim
Image: Netflix
Where to watch: Paramount Plus
Merdano calls this one a “huge one” and it’s not hard to see why: Both shows share a similar kind of feverish sensibility, along with a strong, vibrant color palette. The spindly style of Invader Zim feels clearly at play in Hazbin, with characters like Alastor and Angel Dust feeling like they could fairly comfortably roll between shows.
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
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Image: Cartoon Network Studios
Where to watch: Max
The other childhood show Merdano cites is about two kids (one a clueless happy-go-lucky oaf, the other a cynical and smart-ass tomboy) who summon the Grim Reaper and beat him at a game of limbo, thus making him their eternal
servantbest friend. They get wrapped up in the paranormal world of demons, gods, and other supernatural creatures, but it’s all done with a goofy spin. The infernal through-line from Grim Adventures to Hazbin Hotel is pretty obvious.BoJack Horseman
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Image: Netflix
Where to watch: Netflix
While there were other shows she watched when she was younger, Medrano says Netflix’s BoJack Horseman — about an anthropomorphic, depressed washed-up sitcom actor (who is also a horse) — is the one that came at the “perfect time” to show her that she could tell a complicated emotional story in adult animation.
“[It’s] actually one of my favorites of all time; phenomenal show,” Medrano says. “It kind of showed me that adult animation can not only just be raunchy comedy, but it can be a story that has intense development of its characters. It can have incredibly flawed characters. It can make you cry. It can really get deep and dark.
“It had just started around the time that I was like, really making the pilot and they kind of made me go, Oh, wow, adult animation is starting to change. And it’s starting to evolve.”
South Park
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Where to watch: Paramount Plus
Medrano calls South Park a “huge turning point” for her with adult animation — an experience a lot of people had around Comedy Central’s classic. The show tackled topical ideas and events, all with a gleeful, jaded humor that has kept it running since 1997. “From that point on,” Medrano says, “I kind of just kept watching [adult animation].”
Rick and Morty
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Image: Adult Swim
Where to watch: Max
Similar to BoJack, Medrano cites this ever-popular Adult Swim comedy as a proponent of the depth and humor she tries to balance with her work. As anyone who has watched Rick and Morty can attest, there’s more to the show and more to Pickle Rick than the reputation it gives. “Something like Rick and Morty that is still very raunchy, and vulgar, and shocking in a lot of ways — it went this direction of like, Yeah, but let’s go a little deeper, let’s get a little darker. I think that also helped shift the space kind of more towards Oh, that works! That has an audience that did really well.”
Zosha Millman
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Yes, there is a post-credits scene for Percy Jackson
The finale episode of the first season of Disney Plus’ Percy Jackson series finishes up the adaptation of The Lightning Thief with a fight on the beach, a traitor revealed, and a teary reunion.
Previous episodes ended with a post-credits tease of what comes next, but is there a preview for season 2? No, but there is a little post-credits scene that shows the fate of one important character.
[Ed. note: This post contains major spoilers for Percy Jackson and the Olympians (as well as the book and first movie).]
Photo: David Bukach/Disney
In the post-credits scene, Sally Jackson’s scumbag ex-husband Gabe (Timm Sharp) tries to get inside her apartment while on the phone with his lawyer. She wisely changed the locks, though, so he can’t get in. But he spots a package on the Jacksons’ doorstep and decides to open it. This happens to be a return-to-sender package, addressed to Percy — aka the one containing Medusa’s severed head.
He opens it, looks directly inside, and immediately gets turned to stone. Get wrecked, Gabe.
Gabe doesn’t appear in any of the books after the first one, and considering the only reason Sally married him is because his gross mortal-stink masked Percy’s scent from monsters, it’s no one’s loss. In fact, we’re all pretty glad to see him out of the way.
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Image: Disney
This is actually similar to the infamous movie’s post-credits scene, where Gabe returns to the apartment to pack up his stuff. He goes to the kitchen to get a beer, only to find the fridge locked and a note from Percy saying that no one should open the fridge. Unperturbed, Gabe smashes open the lock — and then is frozen by Medusa’s head.
Yet, somehow, neither of these versions is anywhere near as deliciously brutal as his fate in the book series. In the books, it’s actually Sally who uses the head to freeze Gabe and then sells his petrified corpse as a sculpture. It’s a big hit in the art world, and she uses the proceeds to put down a deposit for a new apartment and fund a semester of tuition at NYU, where she goes on to study writing. She reports Gabe as missing, but he never turns up! (“Goodbye Earl” by The Chicks plays in the background.)
Word’s out on if Sally will find the frozen Gabe and profit off him in the show, but she definitely deserves to make a splash in the art world and finance her passion for writing.
All episodes of Percy Jackson and the Olympians are available on Disney Plus now. Here’s everything we know about season 2.
Petrana Radulovic
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The final scene in the DCEU dares you to think of it as a metaphor for the whole franchise
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom flows into theaters this weekend with the dubious honor of being the final film in the DC Extended Universe. And that means its final scene — its credits scene — is the final shot of Warner Bros. great attempt to equal the Marvel Cinematic Universe with its own pet superhero setting.
But it also means that the typical use of a superhero movie credits scene doesn’t apply here. There aren’t any future franchise events for Lost Kingdom to point to. What’s a blockbuster to do?
If you’ve seen Lost Kingdom, you know, and if you haven’t, maybe you’re just here to rubberneck. But here’s what it did.
[Ed. Note: This piece contains spoilers for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.]
Image: Warner Bros. Pictures/DC Comics
Lost Kingdom’s credits scene isn’t about anything weighty, it’s just a call back to a gross-out gag from earlier in the film. Orm (Patrick Wilson), the redeemed bad guy from the first Aquaman, is enjoying his first surface-world hamburger when he spies a cockroach scurrying across the dock-side picnic table.
Earlier in the movie, his brother Aquaman (Jason Momoa) tricked him into thinking that live cockroaches are an every day surface-world snack. So Orm grabs the roach, slaps it between the layers of his sandwich, and takes a big, happy bite. Good night, sweet DCEU, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
But here I must implore my fellow human beings: We absolutely musn’t make this a metaphor. No matter how resonant, absurd, or funny the credits scene on Lost Kingdom, we must resist.
Orm’s burger is, inevitably, a roachy Rorschach test. The insect can be whatever you didn’t like about the DCEU, and Orm happily eating it is the fans you don’t like lapping it up. Or, Orm is the executives whose meddling ruined the franchise happily choosing their comeuppance (the roach), which is the collapse of the whole thing (an honestly very appetizing burger). Or maybe, the burger is the Snyder Cut, somehow, and Orm is Joss Whedon? I’m sure somebody could flesh out that video essay.
But we have to draw a line in the sand, like Topo the octopus scurrying away from the blood-drinking Deserters and back to the safety of deep water. We have to restrain ourselves, like Orm touching the Black Trident. We have to escape, like the fish in the sea, able to say that in the end, at the end of an era, we didn’t take the bait.
Susana Polo
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December 2023/January 2024 U.S. Credits
Vanity Fair’s December 2023/January 2024 issue, featuring Greta Gerwig
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THE J.M. BURGUIERES CO., LIMITED (JMB) Has Announced the Promotions of RUSSELL WALTERS to PRESIDENT & CEO and BRAD SEGURA to VICE PRESIDENT of LAND & OPERATIONS
Press Release
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Oct 5, 2022
NEW ORLEANS, October 5, 2022 (Newswire.com)
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It is with great confidence and excitement that the Board of Directors has unanimously chosen Russell Walters as JMB’s next Chief Executive Officer. Russell has played a vital role in expanding JMB’s investment in the environmental and conservation arena. His leadership skills have developed an exemplary team that has built a foundation for JMB to flourish. While Russell has been instrumental in working with retiring CEO Glenn Vice to transform and expand the business of JMB, he retains the integrity and ethos that has sustained our 145-year-old JMB family company.In this new capacity as CEO, Walters will be responsible for leading the family-owned land holding company to continued growth and financial success in ecological offsets, agriculture, and minerals. With the support of the shareholders, board of directors, and a world-class team, Walters will build on a solid business foundation created by his predecessors.
Since first joining JMB in 2011, Walters served as the Vice President and Director of Environmental Services, and in 2021 was named President of Southern States Land & Timber, LLC, a JMB subsidiary. Specifically, he worked on land acquisitions and oversight of all regulatory and environmental issues related to 300,000 plus acres of land holdings in Louisiana, Texas, and Florida. During that time, Walters was credited with a variety of important accomplishments, including launching JMB into the conservation and mitigation banking industry through his background and expertise in wetland ecology.
In addition to Walters, another long-term company leader, Brad Segura, has been elevated to Vice President of Land and Operations. In his new role, Segura will be responsible for executive leadership for all environmental operations managed by JMB, as well as management and oversight of all land holdings owned by JMB and its subsidiaries.
Segura came to JMB shortly after Walters in 2012 as a Natural Resource Project Manager and later became the Environmental Operations Manager. The reunion allowed them to build on a nearly two-decade-old working relationship to successfully manage due diligence and acquisition of new land holdings as well as the engineering, design, permitting, and construction of over 20 wetland mitigation and conservation banking projects in Louisiana, Texas, and Florida.
Prior to coming to JMB, Walters and Segura both served in other roles of increasing responsibility and authority at Fugro-John Chance Land Surveys, Inc., C.H. Fenstermaker & Associates, and the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, Louisiana for Johnson Controls World Services, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Biological Service, and U.S. Geological Service.
Walters and Segura can be contacted at Russell@jmbcompanies.com and Brad@jmbcompanines.com.
Originally established in 1877, JMB specializes in building value in lands through conscious dealings of mitigation and conservation banking credit creation and sales, natural resources consulting, leasing of agricultural, mineral, and hunting lands, and granting surface rights waivers to clients located in Louisiana, Texas, and Florida. Visit our website for more information www.jmbcompanies.com.
Source: J.M. Burguieres Co., Limited
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