“You’re not actually going to allow them to do that, are you?” Such are the gripes across the City of Angels from rival distributors about Sony’s public-facing acknowledgment that they’ve previewed Gran Turismo over the last two weekends, lagniappe box office which will be included in Friday’s total. Yesterday starting from 2PM showtimes, the feature take of the Sony Playstation game earned $1.4M at 3,156 theaters, including PLF and Imax monies. The Neill Blomkamp directed movie has a shot at No. 1 this weekend making $12M-$15M at 3,800 theaters. Sony at the end of July decided at the last minute…
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SAN FRANCISCO – With funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, MyRadar will develop and launch cubesats to validate technology for its future weather and environmental data constellation. MyRadar announced a NOAA Phase 2 SBIR grant Aug. 18 for a pair of Orbital Wildfire Resilience cubesats. The cubesats, measuring 10 centimeters on a side, will be equipped with high-resolution optical cameras, thermal infrared imagers and near infrared hyperspectral imagers that observes 16 bands between 600 and 900 nanometers. “This spectral-band density allows us to characterize fuel loads and aerosol loading,” Sarvesh Garimella, chief scientist and chief technology officer for…
Sony Xperia 5 V, said to be a successor to last year’s flagship offering Sony Xperia 5 IV, has started making a buzz a few days ago with its promo video. The company has now announced the launch date of the smartphone. After the launch of Xperia 1 V and Xperia 10 V, this will be the company’s third smartphone launch this year. Earlier report suggests that the Xperia 5 V will debut with a dual rear camera unit, while it is likely to be powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC.The Japanese tech giant posted an announcement video…
Russian President Vladimir Putin enters the St. George Hall at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow.Mikhail Klimentyev | AFP | Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Friday requiring all mercenaries to swear allegiance to Russia, a revelation that comes on the heels of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s reported death.The fate of the Wagner Group – a private Russian military company with ties to conflicts in Africa, Syria and Ukraine – has been uncertain since a short-lived revolt in June.Prigozhin marched his Wagner mercenaries on Moscow following months of frustrations stemming from a lack of Russian battlefield successes in…
Play video content Oliver Anthony — the singer whose “Rich Men North of Richmond” currently sits at the top of the charts — says his message has been clouded, and despite what many may want to think, he’s not a political pawn to be used by conservatives. The Virginia native got candid in a self-taped video just a couple days after the GOP played his song during the first debate for Presidential hopefuls. Anthony says it’s funny because he wrote his hit song about the very people on stage and how they’ve lost their care and consideration for the common,…
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket with the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft on top is seen after sunset at Launch Complex 39A ahead of the launch of the Crew-7 mission.Joel Kowsky / NASASpaceX launched four people to the International Space Station from Florida as Elon Musk’s company begins its 11th human spaceflight mission to date.Known as Crew-7, the mission for NASA will bring the group up to the space station for a six-month stay in orbit. The mission is SpaceX’s sixth operational crew launch for NASA to date, and the first of the additional missions the agency awarded SpaceX.Crew-7 launched in the early hours…
Ryan Reynolds pulled a move he doesn’t often do for his wife Blake Lively: share an Instagram post with essentially no trolling in it. For her 36th birthday, Reynolds posted a carousel of romantic shots of the couple together and, in his caption, reflected on the depth of his love for his wife of more than 10 years.“The only thing irrevocably mine in the world is the love and appreciation and awe I feel for this person,” he wrote. “Witnessing her life is something I couldn’t take for granted if I tried. And believe me, I try. Happy Birthday, @blakelively.…
I’m not sure what it says about this season that the best installment thus far had everyone paired up and scattered around. It’s clear that the objective for this second effort has been to show the next step in Minx’s evolution: its success. And it’s been hard for some, while nearly everyone and every relationship has changed now that Minx has become a household name. As we barrel toward the finale Minx Season 2 Episode 6, was a slap in the face for many as they realized how much things were changing, including themselves. I’ve lamented the lack of Doug…
There’s nothing more gut-wrenching than ruining a pair of new suede shoes (just ask Elvis). Whether you find yourself stepping into a crater-sized puddle or fall victim to an overly-crowded train, footwear fatalities happen. Good news is, there are plenty of ways to keep your treads box-fresh.I find the most cost-effective (and sensible) method is prevention. In other words, plan your defense in advance by investing in one of the best suede protectors on the market—of which I have listed your top seven options below. Keep reading for your fast-track ticket to fresh kicks. You’ll find a variety of products…
Maintenance workers in front of a housing development sign near new homes in Fairfax, Virginia, on August 22, 2023.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty ImagesBeing able to buy a home keeps getting harder.The National Association of Realtors said earlier this month that its housing affordability index fell during the second quarter to its lowest level on record. The reading came in at 92.7 compared with 101.8 in the first quarter. It’s also well below a 180.4 level reached in 2021.A reading of 100 signals that families earning the median income have the amount of money needed to buy a median-priced…
In this articleNOVO.B-DKFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTA selection of injector pens for the Wegovy weight loss drug are shown in this photo illustration in Chicago, Illinois, March 31, 2023.Jim Vondruska | ReutersWegovy, the popular weight loss drug from Novo Nordisk, significantly reduced symptoms of a common type of heart failure in patients with obesity, according to a late-stage clinical trial released Friday. Wegovy helped alleviate symptoms like shortness of breath, fatigue, swelling in the legs and irregular heart beat. It also resulted in lower blood pressure and reductions in inflammation – two important markers of heart health. The results add to…
“What might this be?” had been a question that, in the course of my thirty-five-year career as a clinical psychologist, I’d posed to clients hundreds of times. It was, in fact, the customary prompt used when administering the “Rorschach,” which is a type of personality measure that calls for asking a patient to look at ambiguous images on a set of ten “cards,” each one resembling an inkblot, and then spontaneously offer up what it looks like to them. Considered by many in the field to be useful in gaining access to the unconscious, it is typically used by clinicians…
It’s an unusual theatrical weekend as the second National Cinema Day rolls out Sunday with $4 tickets for all shows and formats at participating theaters — the bulk of the nation’s circuits big and small. The event was announced Monday with a dedicated clip of new openings, recent returning (The Super Mario Bros. Movie) and re-releases (Jurassic Park, America Graffiti, Lady Bird). Angelika said all its theaters in New York Washington, D.C., California, Virginia and Texas are leaning in, and throwing in $4 sodas of any size. Cinergy Dine-In Cinemas, with nine locations in Texas, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Illinois,…
WASHINGTON — A new Inmarsat communications satellite has suffered an “unexpected anomaly,” the second in as many months for a Viasat-owned spacecraft that could create bigger headaches for the space insurance sector. Viasat, which completed its acquisition of Inmarsat in May, announced Aug. 24 that the Inmarsat-6 (I-6) F2 spacecraft encountered a problem with its power subsystem while raising its orbit after its February launch. The company didn’t elaborate on the nature of the problem or when it took place, but noted the similar I-6 F1 satellite, launched in late 2021, is working normally. “At this stage, Viasat and Airbus,…
Baldur’s Gate III will be coming to Xbox consoles this year after all. In a tweet, Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke confirmed that he and Xbox head Phil Spencer had found a solution to bring the critically acclaimed CRPG to Microsoft’s current-gen consoles. There’s one catch though: the game won’t support split-screen co-op on the less-expensive Xbox Series S — a feature the developer has been struggling to enable for months now, thanks to the technical limitations of the console. In fact, to maintain parity of features between Baldur’s Gate 3 on the Xbox Series S and X, Microsoft even…
Supplies for Lahaina fire victims are gathered and delivered by Hawaiians sailing on a large catamaran who often sail around the world together to Lahaina neighborhoods.Robert Gauthier | Los Angeles Times | Getty ImagesOfficials in Hawaii are encouraging tourists to visit Maui to help support the economy as unemployment claims surge on the island in the wake of deadly wildfires in the western region.West Maui is off limits to visitors through at least Oct. 17 as search and recovery efforts continue in the devastated town of Lahaina, according to Gov. Josh Green’s latest emergency proclamation.But the governor and the Hawaii…
NewsToro y Moi Drops New Sandhills EP and Film: WatchBoth themed around his recent South Carolina homecomingBy Jazz MonroeAugust 25, 2023FacebookTwitterToro y Moi, photo by Chris MaggioFacebookTwitterToro y Moi has released a new EP, Sandhills, with a short film that documents his recent homecoming to South Carolina. Watch the Steve Daniels–directed short below. The EP is out now via Dead Oceans.Chaz Bear made the Toro y Moi EP with producer Katherine Perry, his high school photography teacher; Steve Daniels, too, is an old acquaintance from Bear’s South Carolina youth. Local artist Ernest Lee made the EP art, and the high-school…
Fidji Simo, chief executive officer of Instacart Inc., speaks during an interview in San Francisco, California, on Thursday, March 3, 2022.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesInstacart, the grocery delivery company that slashed its valuation during last year’s market slide, filed its paperwork to go public on Friday in what’s poised to be the first significant venture-backed tech IPO since December 2021.The stock will be listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “CART.” In its prospectus, the company said net income totaled $114 million, while revenue in the latest quarter hit $716 million, a 15% increase from the…