Paramount/Skydance/Hasbro’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is on the prowl overseas with $43.3M through Friday in 68 markets. This portends a $100M+ international box office debut, in line with projections. The domestic three-day is looking at $60M. China, a key market for the franchise, released the Autobots and Maximals at No. 1 on Friday with $11.8M, 70% market share and a 9.2 score from audiences on Maoyan (on par with 2014’s Age of Extinction). It has since, as is often the case with fluctuating reactions, dropped a skosh to a 9.1 today which is far better than 2017’s The Last Knight…
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by Trevor Kimball, June 9, 2023(Photo by: Jordin Althaus/NBC) This group of friends isn’t coming back for a third season — NBC has cancelled Grand Crew. The show’s second season of 10 episodes finished in April. A comedy series, the Grand Crew TV show stars Echo Kellum, Nicole Byer, Aaron Jennings, Justin Cunningham, Carl Tart, and Grasie Mercedes. The story revolves around a group of young professionals in Los Angeles who are all trying to navigate the ups and downs of life and love. One way or the other, they always find time to gather at their favorite bar to…
Dale Skran is the National Space Society’s chief operating officer and senior vice president. Dale worked at Bell Labs for 17 years and held executive positions at Ascend Communications, Sonus Networks, and CMware, Inc. David Huntsman is a Space Frontier Foundation member who serves on the Alliance for Space Development’s board of directors. The Outer Space Treaty (OST) requires nation-states to provide “authorization and continuing supervision” of the activities of their nationals in space. In recent months the National Space Council (NSpC), chaired by Vice President Kamala Harris, has asked federal agencies for their opinions on which agencies or departments…
Twitter will soon begin paying verified content creators for ads in their replies, with the first payment block of around $5 million (roughly Rs. 41 crore), company owner Elon Musk said on Friday.”Note, the creator must be verified and only ads served to verified users count,” Musk, the billionaire who bought Twitter last October, said in a tweet.Since Tesla CEO Musk acquired Twitter, the platform has struggled to retain advertisers, who have been wary about the placement of their ads after the company laid off thousands of employees.The move comes as Twitter’s newly named CEO, Linda Yaccarino, an advertising veteran…
James Trusty, attorney for Donald Trump, appears on “Meet the Press” in Washington, D.C. Sunday, April 9, 2023.William B. Plowman: Nbc | Getty ImagesTwo lawyers who represented Donald Trump in the months before the former president was indicted on federal charges over his handling of classified documents quit working for him Friday morning.The attorneys, Jim Trusty and John Rowley, did not explain in detail why they had resigned, other than to say that “this is a logical moment” to do so given his indictment Thursday in U.S. District Court in Miami.Trusty and Rowley also said they will no longer represent…
NewsNeil Young Announces First Tour Since 2019Young is lining up solo acoustic shows where he plans to perform songs he’s never played liveBy Evan MinskerJune 9, 2023FacebookTwitterNeil Young, photo by Daryl HannahFacebookTwitterNeil Young has announced a tour—his first since 2019. Earlier this week, Young told paid subscribers of Neil Young Archives that the solo acoustic shows will feature songs that he’s never performed live before. Check out the tour dates, featuring special guest Chris Pierce, below.“I don’t want to come back and do the same songs again,” Young said (according to Rolling Stone). “I’ll feel like I was on some…
Shipping containers at the Port of Seattle.Patti Domm | CNBCThe labor strife continues on the west coast with the announcement of the Port of Seattle shutting down due to ILWU refusing to dispatch labor to work at the container terminals. This is according to an announcement by the Pacific Maritime Association which represents the terminals at the ports.The West Coast ports have faced continuous worker slowdowns and stoppages all week where an estimated $5.2b of trade is floating off the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Oakland. The Port of Seattle and its twin port, The Port of Tacoma, make…
Copenhagen Fashion Week has been steadily gaining traction among the next generation of fashion lovers looking to up their sartorial game, especially when it comes to street style—but, as insiders know, it’s what’s on the runways that really matters.Today, CPHFW announced this year’s lineup of 31 designers who will showcase their spring/summer 2024 collections come August. With a highly selective screening process that examines both fashion design and sustainability criteria, the roster is a unique and progressive look at the future of fashion and sustainability.Favorites like Ganni, Stine Goya, and Saks Potts are making their triumphant return, along with newcomers…
The Law & Order shows have evolved along with society. Back in the 1990s, Law & Order Season 3 Episode 21, featuring a gay cop whose brothers in blue let him die because of his sexual orientation, was an unusual, controversial story. And Law & Order: SVU wasn’t always respectful toward trans people or cross-dressers; in early episodes, the detectives referred to a potentially cross-dressing victim using derogatory language. But in 2023, gay and trans people are more visible, and in recent years, the Law & Order shows have voiced support for the LGBTQ+ community through their stories. Check out…
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The late Anthony Bourdain died in 2018, but his Twitter account is still up and viewable. The way he describes himself in the bio, to his 6.4 million followers? A single word: Enthusiast. It’s certainly the way he lived his life, rising from the culinary underbelly of New York City to become a celebrity after the publication of his memoir, Kitchen Confidential, and then using that fame to turn himself into an Emmy Award-winning documentarian and travel journalist. I quickly shifted my focus to entertainment and storytelling: movies and television, books, journalism, and everything in-between. I grew up in the…
Fintech executives descend on Amsterdam for the annual Money2020 conference.MacKenzie SigalosAMSTERDAM, Netherlands — At last year’s Money 20/20 — Europe’s marquee event for the financial technology industry — investors and industry insiders were abuzz with talk about embedded finance, open banking, and banking-as-a-service.As nebulous as these terms may be, they reflected a very real push from tech startups, including the biggest names in the business such as Stripe and Starling Bank, to allow businesses of all stripes to develop their own financial services, or integrate other firms’ products into their platforms.This year, with fintechs and their mainly venture capital and…
In this articleNFLXFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTNetflix sign in page displayed on a laptop sscreen and Netflix logo displayed on a phone screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on January 2, 2023.Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesThe Netflix crackdown on password sharing is in its early days in the U.S., but it appears to be having the effect the streamer was looking for – a boost to its subscriber base.Since alerting its members in late May of its new password sharing policy, Netflix had its four single largest days of signing up U.S.…
Comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan will do a four-arena tour together this fall. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. The upcoming dates include Friday, November 3, at the Chase Center in San Francisco; Saturday, November 4, at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles; Friday, November 10, in Chicago; and Saturday, November 11, at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis. No details were provided on which comedian will go on first or if they will trade slots. “Jim and I met doing Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and have been talking about doing this for years,” said Seinfeld. “We…
by Trevor Kimball, June 9, 2023(Photo by: Katherine Bomboy/NBC) Viewers won’t get further insights into the formative years of The Rock. NBC has cancelled the Young Rock TV series, so there won’t be a fourth season. The third season of 13 episodes finished airing in February. A coming-of-age comedy series, the Young Rock stars Dwayne Johnson, Joseph Lee Anderson, Stacey Leilua, Adrian Groulx, Bradley Constant, Uli Latukefu, Ana Tuisila, Fasitua Amosa and John Tui. The TV show is based upon the life of Johnson, a professional wrestler and actor. In addition to the real Johnson talking about his lifetime of…
WASHINGTON — A bill introduced June 9 by a group of Republican House members would turn the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration into an independent agency, but keep its commercial space responsibilities in the Commerce Department. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Act of 2023, introduced by Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) and 13 other Republican members, would formally establish NOAA into law and create it as an independent agency, rather than as part of the Commerce Department as it is today. Lucas, chair of the House Science Committee, has been pushing for months on an “organic act” for NOAA, noting…
Apple Vision Pro was unveiled by Apple at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference as the first mixed reality headset from the company. During the keynote event, Apple announced that the new headset sports two high-resolution micro-OLED displays housed in a curved aluminium and glass body. While the company hadn’t revealed detailed specifications, new details about the displays on the Apple Vision Pro emerged during one of Apple’s WWDC 2023 sessions. The headset will be available in the US in early 2024, according to the company.During a developer session on optimising app power and performance for visionOS, the company revealed that the Apple…
A 37-count criminal indictment against Donald Trump over his handling of classified government records was unsealed Friday.The charging document was made public a day after the former president was indicted by a grand jury in U.S. District Court in Miami.Among other allegations, the indictment says Trump showed classified documents to other people in the summer of 2021, after leaving office.One of those documents was a “plan of attack” that he said was prepared by the Pentagon, while the other was a classified map related to a military operation, the indictment alleges. The FBI raid of Trump’s Florida home last August…