Two of the most successful specialty films of the year expand this weekend and a handful of others jump into an arthouse market that’s seen few new entrants in recent weeks as wide release piled on wide release. Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City jumps from a blockbuster six-theater opening ($800k over three days) last weekend for Focus Features to 1,675 locations today. A24’s Past Lives by Celine Song, which debuted in early June on four screens, expands to 296. They’re joined by a documentary on epic cyclist Greg LeMond ahead of the Tour De France, and the first theatrical release by…
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by Trevor Kimball, June 23, 2023(Photo by: Paramount+) Paramount+ has changed course. The streaming service has cancelled the Star Trek: Prodigy TV series despite having already renewed it for a second season. An animated adventure series aimed at younger viewers, the Star Trek: Prodigy TV show was created by Kevin & Dan Hageman. The series features the voices of Brett Gray, Ella Purnell, Jason Mantzoukas, Angus Imrie, Rylee Alazraqui, Dee Bradley Baker, Jimmi Simpson, John Noble, and Kate Mulgrew. The story takes place in 2383, five years after the conclusion of the events seen in the Star Trek: Voyager series.…
WASHINGTON — An orbital transfer vehicle that was part of a SpaceX rideshare mission malfunctioned shortly after deployment, putting into jeopardy a technology demonstration spacecraft for a satellite servicing startup. Among the payloads on SpaceX’s Transporter-8 rideshare mission, which launched on a Falcon 9 June 12 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, was the Orbiter SN3 tug developed by Launcher. The vehicle caried several spacecraft intended to be deployed later. However, in a June 21 statement, Launcher said that when it first made contact with Orbiter SN3 within an hour of separation, the vehicle “was experiencing an anomaly” where…
Microsoft believes the next generation of gaming consoles should be out in 2028, court documents in the ingoing FTC trial over the Xbox parent’s attempt to acquire Activision Blizzard revealed. The documents, as reviewed by IGN, detailed that the next Xbox and PlayStation 6 will potentially be out eight years after the current ones launched in 2020. The timeline coincides with Sony’s statement from 2022, which alluded that the next console generation won’t be here until 2027. The dates are important, considering Microsoft is trying to convince the court that it is willing to commit to making Activision’s biggest franchise…
Former president Donald J. Trump outside Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York, prior to his departure to a two-day trip to Des Moines, Iowa, May 31, 2023.Kyle Mazza | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesDonald Trump put up $5.6 million as security while the former president appeals a civil verdict that he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s and defamed her decades later, a court filing Friday revealed.If Trump loses the appeal, Carroll will collect the $5 million a jury awarded her in the case in May, or any adjusted judgment, according to a joint stipulation submitted by…
NewsDraag Me Announce Album, Share New Videos: WatchSpirit of the Beehive bandmates Zack Schwartz and Corey Wichlin will release Lord of the Shithouse in AugustBy Matthew StraussJune 23, 2023FacebookTwitterDraag Me’s Corey Wichlin and Zack Schwartz, photo by Peggy FiorettiFacebookTwitterDraag Me—the duo of Spirit of the Beehive bandmates Zack Schwartz and Corey Wichlin—have announced the new album Lord of the Shithouse. The follow-up to 2020’s I Am Gambling With My Life is out August 18 via Doom Trip. Below, watch music videos for two new songs, “Blade in the View” and “Death Cult.”Schwartz and Wichlin began work on Lord of the…
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 23: XBOX CEO Phil Spencer arrives at federal court on June 23, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Top executives from Microsoft and Activision/Blizzard will be testifying during a five day hearing against the FTC to determine the fate of a $68.7B merger of the two companies. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesAs Microsoft attempts to convince regulators to approve its $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the company is revealing some of the other ways it’s looked to expand in the video game industry.Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer…
Say hello to rooftop happy hours and weekend trips to the shore; summer has officially arrived. Though many of us look forward to basking under the sun, we tend to spend more time ruminating on what to wear before stepping outside. Sultry temperatures place several limitations on the fabrics we can wear and the number of garments we can layer, so it’s understandable that you might find dressing for warm weather tricky, to say the least. If you find yourself defaulting to your go-to outfit formulas, you’re not alone.Luckily, one of the best ways to reignite your passion for summer…
Tom Christie gave his life for Claire’s, but that doesn’t mean it’s all roses from here on out. Outlander Season 7 Episode 2 brought children to the forefront, and not all stories have such similarly happy endings. And not all have the gift of time travel to ensure safe outcomes, even in the most dire circumstances. Claire is home, and she has to reconcile another chance to live with her beloved Jamie, with Tom confessing to a murder he did not commit. What do we learn from the dead, if not the lessons of life? What had Tom Christie taught…
Never mind how it got that name. Never mind that it’s not much to look at on a hanger. Never mind even that Steve McQueen wore one. Once a Harrington jacket is on, it almost always wins a new fan – for its carefully considered detailing, its simplicity, versatility and, let’s face it, for its super cool.That will explain why Harrington jackets became a staple of not one but four seminal style cultures, and why the latest versions still look as fresh as the first one did more than 80 years ago. Just as easy to wear now as it…
Electric Literature recently launched a new creative nonfiction program, and received 500 submissions in just 36 hours! Now we need your help to grow our team, carefully and efficiently review submitted work, and further establish EL as a home for artful and urgent nonfiction. We’ve set a goal of raising $10,000 by the end of June. We’re almost there! Please give what you can today. Stories are built on journeys. The best characters start in one place and end in another. They face obstacles, experience setbacks. Sometimes they lose hope. But, in the end, they reach somewhere new. This is…
In this articleJCIKRTSNFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTA robot plays the piano at the Apsara Conference, a cloud computing and artificial intelligence conference, in China, on Oct. 19, 2021. While China revamps its rulebook for tech, the European Union is thrashing out its own regulatory framework to rein in AI but has yet to pass the finish line.Str | Afp | Getty ImagesThe artificial intelligence craze has consumed Wall Street in 2023.The madness found its roots in November of last year, when OpenAI launched the now infamous large-language model (LLM) ChatGPT. The tool touts some impressive capabilities, and spurred an…
Refresh for more….Sony’s mission to return comedy to the big screen with the R-Rated Jennifer Lawrence movie, No Hard Feelings, grossed $2.15M last night from showtimes that began at 4PM at 2,745 locations. The movie hopes to do around $12M this weekend in what will be second session where Warner Bros.’ misfire, The Flash, hopes not to sink to a -70% tumble. There are no comps post-pandemic really for No Hard Feelings since we haven’t had a raunchy comedy for a while. The pic did best Universal’s female leaning romcom Ticket to Paradise which made $1.1M off Thursday showtimes that…
TAMPA, Fla. — Ovzon will likely need another deadline extension to keep priority spectrum rights for Ovzon 3, the Swedish satcom service provider’s first broadband satellite now slated to launch no earlier than late 2023. The company said June 22 that Ovzon 3 will miss a July-September launch window because of final assembly and testing delays, in addition to work taking longer than expected to change launch providers from Arianespace to SpaceX. Ovzon 3 was already at risk of missing a Dec. 31 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) deadline to start providing services from its designated geostationary orbit slot if it…
TikTok Chief Operating Officer V. Pappas is stepping down after five years with the short-video company owned by China’s ByteDance, according to an email seen by Reuters on Thursday.In an email to staff, Pappas said they would be taking on an advisory role for the company during the transition.”Given all the successes reached at TikTok, I finally feel the time is right to move on and refocus on my entrepreneurial passions,” said Pappas, who uses the pronoun they.ByteDance Chief Executive Shou Chew also announced Thursday in a memo to employees shared with Reuters that Zenia Mucha, previously a 20-year veteran…
U.S. President Joe Biden India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi toast during a state dinner at the White House in Washington, DC on Thursday, June 22, 2023.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesU.S.-India relations entered a new chapter as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Joe Biden announced a slew of technology and defense deals. ”When India and the U.S. work together on semiconductors and critical minerals, it helps the world in making supply chains more diverse, resilient and reliable,” Modi said during a speech to the joint session of the U.S. Congress. “We were strangers in defense cooperation at the turn of…
Some of the Louis Tomlinson fans pulverized in a hail storm are revealing the gnarly injuries they suffered … and it ain’t pretty!!! Videos/photos of concertgoers’ painful wounds were posted to social media after Tomlinson’s Wednesday night performance came to a screeching halt due to the brutal weather conditions. One fan’s back was covered with massive welts. 😱 Nearly 100 attendees suffered injuries as they were rushed out of the Red Rocks Amphitheater. Play video content 6/22/23 Newsflare The footage shows one fan with golf-ball size red blotches on her back…another person with gashes to her fingers and a third…
President Joe Biden signs an executive order in support of Joining Forces, the initiative to support military and veteran families, caregivers, and survivors on June 9, 2023 at Fort Liberty, North Carolina.Eros Hoagland | Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden on Friday will sign a wide-ranging executive order aimed at protecting and increasing access to contraception, his administration’s latest attempt to shore up reproductive rights as abortion restrictions rise in many states. The White House announced the order one day shy of the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, which established the constitutional right…