As there’s positive vibes (knock on wood) coming out the AMPTP and WGA talks at the time of this post, there are interesting maneuvers happening on the theatrical release-date calendar. Specifically, more films keep getting added. After Paramount dated its next Mean Girls for MLK weekend 2024 today, a positive indication that the winter won’t be completely dry of movies due to the strikes: Lionsgate has plopped John Woo’s next action movie, Silent Night, on December 1. Silent Night is an acquisition by Lionsgate. That’s the post-Black Friday weekend frame, which typically sees genre pics pull in a young audience.…
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force for the second time has taken ownership of a retired National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather satellite to fill gaps in coverage for the U.S. military. NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite known as GOES-15, originally activated in 2011, was transferred to the Space Force to extend weather coverage of the Indian Ocean region for the next several years, the Space Force announced Sept. 22. Under a partnership between the Department of the Air Force and NOAA, the Space Force uses residual GOES satellites to collect cloud imagery and other weather data over the Indian…
iPhone 15 Pro and last year’s iPhone 14 Pro have been pitted against each other in a new drop test that measures how durable Apple’s premium devices are. The drop test video shared by YouTuber Sam Kohl shows that the iPhone 14 Pro was able to better withstand the drop test than the latest iPhone 15 Pro. The latest iPhone’s black glass shattered at the fifth drop whereas the iPhone 14 Pro stayed almost in perfect condition until the final drop. This year’s iPhone 15 Pro has rounded titanium edges replacing its predecessor’s stainless steel material. Read on to find…
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., walks through the Senate subway on his way to a vote in the Capitol, in Washington, D.C., May 4, 2023.Bill Clark | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — Sen. Robert Menendez on Friday vowed to remain in the Senate while he fights federal charges of bribery and extortion announced earlier in the day. The indictment was the second time the New Jersey Democrat had been prosecuted for alleged corruption as a sitting senator.As chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Menendez holds one of the most powerful gavels in Congress. But any committee chair “who…
El icónico carro de Britney Spears, en el que siempre fue vista conduciendo durante 2007, está a la venta, lo que significa que alguien puede tener las llaves de uno de los carros más documentados de la celebridad en la historia. El auto negro de Britney de 2006 es un Mercedes-Benz CLK350, y ha estado en exhibición en el Museo del Automóvil Volo en Illinois desde 2011. Pero ahora tiene un precio de $70k. El deportivo descapotable fue conocido como el vehículo más peligroso de Los Ángeles en su momento, porque es el que Brit conducía en 2007 cuando su…
In this article9868-HK2015-HKRIVN9866-HKTSLAFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTA new exchange-traded fund is zeroing in on electric vehicle manufacturers.Defiance ETFs runs the Solactive Pure U.S. Electric Vehicle ETF — which is also known as the Pure EV Index fund. It’s designed to give investors a way to make a concentrated bet on the space.”We realized that investors are buying a lot of ETFs for electric vehicle exposure. But if you break down what is in those ETFs because of the diversification role, they hold stocks like Apple, Microsoft, [and] Nvidia,” Defiance ETFs’ Sylvia Jablonski told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” on Monday. “So…
You may just be getting into the latest fall 2023 fashion trends—and honestly, why shouldn’t you? The time has come for proper transitional dressing: cute fall boots, apple cider donuts, and pumpkin spice lattes abound. And while I don’t want to take away from the best trench coats or cute fall boots to wear right now, a new season will be here before you know it. And if you, like me, have that sartorial state of mind, you’ve likely been tracking the latest looks from fashion month—which often showcases the trends that will be everywhere next season. Yes, I’m fully…
It has been exactly five years since Prodigal Son premiered on FOX. This bold concept emerged from a sea of reality television series, reboots, and revivals, carving its own unique place in the television landscape. Sadly, nothing has been able to replicate the specialness of this crime, police, and family dramedy that stole our hearts nor fill the void it left behind. Network television is still begging for everything a series like Prodigal Son provides. In honor of the anniversary of Prodigal Son Season 1 Episode 1 dropping and changing our lives, we’re discussing everything we still miss about this…
A few years back, Mona Awad found herself in the grips of a skincare addiction. Hauling her laptop with her wherever she went, she watched video after video about Retinol and exfoliants, spellbound by the soothing voices and gently glowing faces of the skinfluencers on her screen. And she bought; she bought; she bought, whatever it was they were selling, whatever the price. This endless diet of Youtube tutorials and impulse buys left her “totally enchanted, but also suspicious and filled with dread,” Awad told me by phone from her home in Boston. “Which is always a good sign for…
In this articleMCDFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTA McDonald’s golden arches logo is seen at a franchise restaurant owned by Rippon Family Restaurants.Paul Weaver | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesMcDonald’s franchisees who add new restaurants will soon have to pay higher royalty fees.The fast-food giant is raising those fees from 4% to 5%, starting Jan. 1. It’s the first time in nearly three decades that McDonald’s is hiking its royalty fees.The change will not affect existing franchisees who are maintaining their current footprint or who buy a franchised location from another operator. It will also not apply to rebuilt existing locations…
UPDATED, 4:49 PM: In the wake of notching a shiny 82% fresh Rotten Tomatoes score with critics coming out of its Telluride Film Festival premiere, Saltburn from Oscar winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell is going a week earlier on Nov. 17, limited. MGM will then expand the film on Nov. 22 to take advantage of holiday moviegoers. The wild ride film is a deconstruction of British upper-class society in which Barry Keoghan plays a young nerdy Oxford university student who befriends a much popular, and wealthier colleague, played by Jacob Elordi. Keoghan’s character is obsessed by him, and eventually spends a…
WAIMEA, Hawaii — After a slow start, the Commerce Department says it is making progress on establishing a civil space traffic coordination system that will rely on both commercial and government data. During a panel discussion at the AMOS Conference here Sept. 21, Richard DalBello, director of the Office of Space Commerce, emphasized the progress the office has made on creating the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) that will take over civil space safety responsibilities currently held by the Defense Department. TraCSS is slated to begin initial services in the fourth quarter of 2024. Much of that has been…
Samsung Galaxy A54 5G debuted in India in March this year with 8GB of RAM and up to 256GB of onboard storage. Now, Samsung is reportedly working on Galaxy A55, as a follow-up to the Galaxy A54 5G. Ahead of any official announcement, key specifications of the purported smartphone have been leaked online. The South Korean smartphone brand is said to pack an Exynos 1480 SoC on the Galaxy A55. It is tipped to come with a 50-megapixel primary rear camera. Internal testing of the Galaxy A55 5G has reportedly begun.As per a report by GalaxyClub, Samsung is testing the…
Thousands of healthcare workers march down Vermont to call for the urgent need for improved working conditions, better support systems and increased investment in the healthcare workforce at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Hollywood on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA.Dania Maxwell | Los Angeles Times | Getty ImagesMore than 75,000 workers at the largest nonprofit health-care provider in the United States threatened Friday to strike if an agreement is not reached to resolve a staffing crisis by the end of next week.A union coalition warned Kaiser Permanente that its members will walk out for three…
NewsAre MGMT Teasing a New Album?The duo’s follow-up to 2018’s Little Dark Age may be around the cornerBy Jazz MonroeSeptember 22, 2023FacebookXMGMT, photo by Jamie DutcherFacebookXMGMT may be gearing up to return with new music, as Stereogum notes. The duo’s Andrew VanWyngarden posted a photo of a test pressing on the band’s subreddit yesterday, accompanied by a banana and the text “elf of soils.” Redditors speculate that it is an anagram (or bananagram) of the title of a new album, possibly Loss of Life, based on two earlier posts by VanWyngarden: one suggesting a new MGMT album is likely to…
In this articleBRDSFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTWoman rides a Bird e-scooter in southern California.Bird, a provider of electric scooters that consumers can rent in cities, said the New York Stock Exchange will suspend trading of its stock after the company failed to keep its market capitalization above $15 million for 30 consecutive days. The company’s shares will trade on the over-the-counter exchange starting Monday, according to a statement.Electric scooter and bike rentals became a trendy alternative to public transit and ride sharing prior to the pandemic, when venture capitalists were pumping money into all sorts of growth areas regardless…
Spoilers below.The fifth season of Love Is Blind has finally arrived, and new episodes are juicier than ever. As usual, some couples find love in the pods, but a prior relationship also threatens to wreck one of the new romances.ICU travel nurse Aaliyah seemingly finds love with lawyer Uche in the pods. However, an emotional revelation from Uche completely throws Aaliyah off, making her question the burgeoning romance. Here’s what you need to know about the surprising love triangle between Aaliyah, Uche, and Lydia on Love Is Blind season 5.Uche revealed he’d previously dated another contestant.At the end of season…
Combining Irish music, charisma, and a ghost’s unfinished business made it feel like Fall. Many ghosts have unfinished business. It’s a well-known trope in murder mysteries, and Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Murder in G Major expanded on it with detailed characters and picturesque Irish charm. I was as captivated by the Irish scenery and music as I was trying to solve the mystery, and I love murder mysteries. Tamera Mowry-Housley was delightful as the lead character, a former orchestra conductor Gethsemane Brown. She’s easily charmed by Ireland and the tales surrounding Orla and Eamon’s deaths, but she insists that ghosts don’t…