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From underdog triumphs to bitter rivalries and multi-million dollar deals, some sports movies ring too good to be true. But the ones listed here are all based on real-life events, proving that fact can be more enthralling than fiction. Sports biopics often juggle the need to balance the biopic with the sport, but when a film strikes the perfect balance, audiences are left with a feel-good, rejuvenated outlook on life beyond the field, court, ring. On the other hand, some of these films dig into the darker side that the glitz and glam of fame can draw out of athletes,…

Roberto Cingolani, chief executive officer of Leonardo SpA, during an interview in London, UK, on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe chief executive of Italian defense group Leonardo said Friday that he’s more concerned about the “stupidity” of users of artificial intelligence rather than the threats posed by the technology itself.His comments come amid repeated warnings about the dangers of AI, with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres recently calling on international political and business leaders to prioritize a global strategy to deal with the technology.Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 17, Guterres said that the rapid…

Christie’s auction house in New York.CNBCA version of this first article appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.Auction house Christie’s just sold a painting for more than $100 million, although the artwork, the buyer and the seller were officially kept a secret.In an interview with CNBC, CEO Guillaume Cerutti said Christie’s sold a painting in January in a private sale with a price “in excess of $100 million,” though the auction house declined to provide details.Art dealers familiar with the transaction…

Cardi B has shared her first new song of the year: “Like What (Freestyle)” features a prominent sample of Missy Elliott’s 1999 Da Real World single “She’s a Bitch,” and it comes with a music video directed by Offset. Watch it below.Cardi B shared a handful of songs last year, most notably the Megan Thee Stallion team-up “Bongos.” She also did remixes with FendiDaRappa (“Point Me 2”) and Latto (“Put It on da Floor Again”), and appeared on two songs with Offset, “Jealousy” and “Freaky.”Read about Cardi B’s studio debut, 2018’s Invasion of Privacy, in “The 200 Best Albums of…

Guy Fieri’s first-ever Flavortown Music Festival has been cancelled – find out more below. The inaugural edition of Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Music Festival was first announced in November last year. The festival was billed as a two-day event shaped around music and food. It was scheduled to run on June 1 and June in Columbus, Ohio. In January, Fieri announced the festival’s first collection of performers, with Greta Van Fleet and Kane Brown set to headline. They would be joined by a mix of rock and country acts such as Poison, Bret Michaels, country-music duo LOCASH and country artist Niko…

Saber Interactive has reportedly found an exit strategy from the death grip of its parent company, Embracer Group AB. Bloomberg reported Thursday that “a group of private investors” will buy the studio in a deal worth roughly $500 million. Saber would then become a private company with about 3,500 employees.Engadget emailed a spokesperson from Saber for confirmation about the alleged buyout. The studio declined to comment.The alleged agreement would be one of Embracer’s most significant cost-cutting moves since the collapse of a reported $2 billion deal with a group backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. Some criticized the imperiled…

The newly launched OnePlus Buds 3 appears as a brand-new product line since OnePlus never launched a Buds 2 truly wireless earphones. Technically, these are closer to the Nord Buds Z2 both in terms of features and in terms of price, so you can say that these buds are the spiritual successors to the Buds Z2. However, their pricing places them just below the premium OnePlus Buds Pro 2 in the OnePlus audio range. OnePlus, with its new Buds 3 truly wireless earphones, claims to deliver premium features at a lower price point. I’ve been using them for a couple…

Was this Law & Order: Organized Crime or a Stephen King miniseries? Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 4 Episode 6 featured the second part of a multi-episode story about a serial killer based in a small town where everyone knows each other. It had all the ingredients for a horrific tale… and then Keith Carridine drove it home with his performance. I’m a sucker for stories set in seemingly perfect small towns where horrific secrets are kept carefully under wraps, and doubly so when the people in power are desperate to keep their secrets buried.…

Donald Trump, right, and producer Andy Litinsky, left, attend the Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on March 9, 2011.Michael Kovac | Wireimage | Getty ImagesFormer President Donald Trump was accused in a lawsuit on Wednesday of trying to “drastically dilute” the value of stock shares in his social media company held by the firm’s co-founders, potentially depriving them of hundreds of millions of dollars in profits.The partnership, United Atlantic Ventures, alleges that Trump Media & Technology Group engaged in “wrongful 11th hour … maneuvering” to dilute UAV’s minority stake in the…

Every Tuesday, a wave of new books is published, fresh off the printing press onto the shelves of bookstores around the world. Even for a book editor like me, it gets overwhelming to keep track of all the forthcoming titles. So we’ve turned to our most trusted source for recommendations: indie booksellers. From a star-crossed saga set in a small Icelandic town to a retelling of Huckleberry Finn, here are the newly released or forthcoming winter books that you should be reading: You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue, translated by Natasha Wimmer (Jan. 9) “Initially I thought You Dreamed…

If you’re trying to find the best soaps for a new tattoo, you’re either imminently getting inked or are thinking about going under the gun in the not-too-distant future. It also tells me that you’re taking your new tattoo seriously. In which case, you’ve come to the right place. Aftercare of your artwork is as important as choosing its design, position, and even the artist creating your living canvas. It doesn’t matter what size your tattoo is, either. Whether it’s a minuscule message on your manhood or it takes up your entire torso, keeping it clean is the key to…

There’s an inherent joy in purchasing a new pair of leather shoes. You open up the box, peel back the tissue paper and unsheathe your new lace-ups from their fuzzy shoebags. You hold them in the light, and notice the fine craftsmanship—the intricate stitching, the smoothness of the leather and the unblemished footbed inside. You can smell the leather, can’t you? It’s all good until you try to wear them for the first time. That gleaming leather you were just admiring suddenly feels a lot less forgiving. Your toes are pinched a bit and your heel is being rubbed raw.…

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Elsbeth series premiere.] The newest series from Robert and Michelle King puts a character we’ve gotten just a taste of (or, as they put it, has been the “spice” versus the main course) on The Good Wife and The Good Fight front and center, and at least with the first episode, it does so successfully. Carrie Preston‘s Elsbeth Tascioni is in New York ostensibly to observe the police, but as the ending reveals, she has a much different mission: figure out if Captain Wagner (Wendell Pierce) is corrupt. Since Wagner’s obviously being kept in the…

Snowflake Chairman Frank Slootman attends the Snowflake Summit 2022 in Las Vegas on June 14, 2022.Snowflake | Via ReutersNews of Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman’s retirement sparked an 18% plunge in the company’s stock price on Thursday, its steepest selloff since the data analytics software vendor debuted on the New York Stock Exchange in 2020.Slootman’s departure was announced late Wednesday as part of Snowflake’s quarterly earnings report, which included disappointing guidance. Analysts at Mizuho Securities wrote in a note that the stock is getting hammered “as investors digest the resignation” of Slootman, who joined in 2019 and led the company through…

A New York Community Bank stands in Brooklyn, New York City, on Feb. 8, 2024.Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesShares of New York Community Bancorp fell more than 20% in extended trading Thursday after the regional lender announced a leadership change and disclosed issues with its internal controls.The regional bank announced that Alessandro DiNello, its executive chairman, is taking on the roles of president and CEO, effective immediately. NYCB has been under pressure in recent months due in part to concerns about its exposure to commercial real estate.Stock Chart IconStock chart iconShares of NYCB dropped sharply in after hours trading.The bank…

Despite a growing need, fewer students are applying for college financial aid.Problems with the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid have discouraged many students and their families from completing an application. As of the last tally, less than five million students have submitted the 2024-25 FAFSA form so far.  That’s a fraction of the 17 million students who use the FAFSA form in ordinary years, according to the U.S. Department of Education.”We are putting all hands on deck and using every lever we have to make sure we can achieve the transformational potential of the Better FAFSA to make higher education possible for many more…

Timothee Chalamet stars as Paul Atreides in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two.”Warner Bros. | Legendary EntertainmentLOS ANGELES — Movie theater operators are hoping that Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment’s “Dune: Part Two,” due out in theaters Friday, will be the much-needed oasis amid a drought of blockbuster content.Since the start of the year, the domestic box office has tallied just $866.4 million in ticket sales through Sunday, a nearly 18% drop from the same period in 2023, according to data from Comscore. A boost at the beginning of the year could prove critical to a box office that’s still struggling…

After weeks of teasing, Charli XCX has released her new song “Von Dutch.” The Easyfun-produced track arrives with a music video that was filmed at France’s Charles de Gaulle Airport. Watch the clip, directed by Torso, below.Easyfun has produced tracks for Charli XCX’s Number 1 Angel, Pop 2, and Charli. He also worked with her on “Speed Drive” and made a remix of “1999.” In return, Charli XCX contributed to Easyfun and A. G. Cook’s debut Thy Slaughter album.Yesterday, Charli XCX announced the title of her new album: Brat. The pop musician’s follow-up to Crash will arrive in the summer.…