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TheJonas Brothers have had a few surprises up their sleeves recently. It all started with the announcement of two special shows at Madison Square Garden on August 20th and 21st, titled The Burning Up Tour All Over Again. Less than 24 hours after the news went public, a third show was added at MSG for August 22nd because of such high demand. The Jo Bros weren’t done yet — The Burning Up Tour All Over Again got even bigger. On August 17th, a full tour was announced, spanning over four months, finishing up in their home state of New Jersey on December 21st.
The most recent surprise came on Thursday night, the first show in New York. The Jonas Brothers debuted their new song "Listen When Sad," which will be released on August 28th. Luckily for fans who attended the second of three shows at the world’s most famous arena, the Jo Bros played it again! "Listen When Sad" is a reminder of where the band came from, the sound that started it all. It’s a blend of modern pop with “a sound of the early 2000s”, said Nick Jonas, in front of a sold-out crowd. He mentioned that Switchfoot, Taking Back Sunday and Dashboard Confessional were inspirations for the song. With the new single release approaching, I'm sure we can expect a new album announcement will shortly follow.
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Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture QuizWhich Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie?Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
QUESTION 1 / 10TONE
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What kind of film experience do you actually want?The best movies don't just entertain — they leave something behind.
QUESTION 2 / 10THEME
02
Which idea grabs you most in a film?Great films are driven by a central obsession. What's yours?
QUESTION 3 / 10STRUCTURE
03
How do you like your story told?Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
QUESTION 4 / 10VILLAIN
04
What makes a truly great antagonist?The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
QUESTION 5 / 10ENDING
05
What do you want from a film's ending?The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
QUESTION 6 / 10WORLD
06
Which setting pulls you in most?Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what's even possible.
QUESTION 7 / 10CRAFT
07
What cinematic craft impresses you most?Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
QUESTION 8 / 10PROTAGONIST
08
What kind of main character do you root for?The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
QUESTION 9 / 10PACE
09
How do you feel about a film that takes its time?Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
QUESTION 10 / 10AFTERMATH
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema?The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
The Academy Has DecidedYour Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
BEST PICTURE 2020
Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho's Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it's ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
BEST PICTURE 2023
Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels' Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn't want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it's about.
BEST PICTURE 2024
Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
BEST PICTURE 2015
Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it's about. Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor's ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn't be possible. Michael Keaton's performance and Emmanuel Lubezki's restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
BEST PICTURE 2008
No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
‘The Burning Up Tour All Over Again’ Setlist
The Jonas Brothers in New York at Madison Square GardenImage via Getty Images for Live Nation
The crowd at Madison Square Garden was on their feet for the entirety of the show. Fans were out in huge numbers, of all ages, spanning from 5 years old to 75. As was the case for Thursday’s show, Friday’s setlist was split into two acts, separated by a 20 minute intermission. The first act was a tribute to the original The Burning Up Tour, which started in 2008 and featured Demi Lovato as the opening act. It was almost identical to the 2008-2009 setlist, including hits like "Year 3000," "Burnin’ Up" and "S.O.S." The brothers' time on the Disney Channel was so important to so many people, and that was seen when Joe Jonas performed two songs from Camp Rock — "Gotta Find You" and "This Is Me," which was originally performed alongside Lovato. The loudest moment of the night may have come when 19,000+ fans shouted, "This is real, this is me, this is exactly where I'm supposed to be", to the tune of the Jonas/Lovato hit.
Act II was a collection of songs released after their 2019 reunion, plus from Nick, Joe and Kevin’s solo careers. There was a three-song run of "Cake by the Ocean" by DNCE, "Jealous" by Nick Jonas and "Changing" by Kevin Jonas that highlighted the brothers’ individual work. And what made this section great was that they were each singing each other’s songs. It felt like a wave of support. The show ended with four songs that total nearly 3 billion streams on Spotify — "What a Man Gotta Do," "Leave Before You Love Me" (a song with Marshmello), "Sucker," and "Rollercoaster."
The band of brothers will finish their three-night stand in New York on Saturday, August 22, before setting off next month on the North American leg of The Burning Up Tour All Over Again.
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