Marilyn Manson Uncanceled

When Warner Bros. announced on June 11, 2024, that Practical Magic 2 was officially in development, the news was received as the return of a film that had acquired an extraordinary second life. The original Practical Magic , released in 1998, had not initially been the major success that its later reputation might suggest. Over the following decades, however, it developed a devoted audience, and the relationship between Sally and Gillian Owens became one of the film's defining attractions. The announcement of a sequel therefore carried a particular kind of nostalgia. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman were expected to return as Sally and Gillian, while producer Denise Di Novi and writer Akiva Goldsman were also involved. At that point, however, there was no public controversy concerning Evan Rachel Wood. The question of what would happen to Sally's daughters had simply not yet been answered. The project became more concrete during 2025. On May 6, 2025, Warner Bros. announced a S...

Claim: In High School, Evan Rachel Wood and Her Friends Formed a Group Called "The Berets,"  out of boredom. Fact: False, Evan Rachel Wood never attended High School, therefore it is not possible for this to have taken place. Evan Rachel Wood is known at this point for rewriting aspects of her personal history, to the point where it has become almost impossible to trust any story she has to say unless it can be verified with certainty. One of many such made up stories can be heard from an interview she did for the Comedy Central show Stir Crazy with Josh Horowitz, which was posted online on September 22, 2020. During this time, she was promoting her film Kajillionaire , while behind the scenes she was filming her documentary Phoenix Rising, which documents her plotting with other women, including her then girlfriend Illma Gore, to expose Marilyn Manson as her abuser. During the interview, Josh Horowitz asks a series of lighthearted questions to Evan, among them being (at t...

   Since Marilyn Manson returned to the stage in the summer of 2024 with the One Assassination Under God tour, pulsating illuminated upside-down double crosses have been a consistent part of the stage design. The double cross itself is nothing new in Manson's work. It has been part of his imagery for many years and became particularly prominent again after the Heaven Upside Down era. What is new since 2024 is the way the symbol has been incorporated into the lighting of the performance. Rather than functioning simply as a static emblem, the crosses now pulsate and change as part of the stage itself, becoming one of the most noticeable elements of every concert. Manson's return to the stage has also involved bringing back many features and images from earlier periods of his career, which has naturally given the performances a nostalgic quality for longtime fans. What interests me for this analysis, however, is what has actually been added during this new period that has not be...

  When One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2 was released on August 14, 2026, it contained nine songs. “You Can't Die Young” was not one of them, though it was teased on August 14th in Manson's Virtual Art Exhibit. Two weeks later, at midnight on August 28, Marilyn Manson unexpectedly released an expanded edition of the album with this previously unreleased song added to the tracklist. Manson described it simply as “a special gift,” but its placement is more interesting than that description might suggest. On the expanded edition, “You Can't Die Young” appears as the sixth track, directly after “None of the Suns” and immediately before “Lucifer's Teardrop.” The song was therefore recorded last, yet it now occupies a position in the sequence between a song consumed by darkness and an encounter with a fallen angel trying to find his way home. Manson himself points out that although it is not chronologically the last song on the album, it was the last one he recorded. T...