Warner Bros’ CineEurope show here in Barcelona was a starry, jam-packed affair featuring Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet who talked up Dune: Part Two, as well as their respective upcoming titles Challengers and Wonka. The proceedings kicked off with a pre-taped intro video featuring President of International Theatrical Distribution Andrew Cripps zipping along the 405 in the Barbie car, and with Margot Robbie putting in an appearance. Helen Mirren, who narrates Barbie, also narrated the presentation in a voice over. On stage, Cripps was sporting The Flash branded sneakers from Puma, rather than the pink Barbie suit he wore at CinemaCon.…
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by Trevor Kimball, June 25, 2023(Photo by: Paramount+) What a drag. Paramount+ has cancelled the Queen of the Universe TV series, so the streamer won’t be making a third season. Not only that, the show is being pulled from the service less than two weeks after the last batch of episodes were released. Hosted Graham Norton, Queen of the Universe features the world’s fiercest drag performers as they sing live and debut new musical performances before a studio audience and the Pop Diva Panel of judges. Their hope is to be crowned the “Queen of the Universe.” Judges for season…
WASHINGTON — The Senate Armed Services Committee on June 23 advanced its version of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by a vote of 24-1 after closed deliberations. The bill authorizes $844 billion for the Department of Defense, or $2 billion more than the Biden administration’s request. The committee on Friday released an executive summary of its version of the NDAA. The bill now heads to the Senate floor for consideration. Changes to NSSL Phase 3 The SASC strategic forces subcommittee included a provision to add more competitors to the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3, a multibillion-dollar…
OnePlus Nord Buds 2R are expected to. be launched in India soon. The device’s microsite has gone live on Amazon, hinting the timeline for revealing of various information regarding the earbuds. OnePlus Nord Buds 2R could debut in India on July 5, alongside OnePlus Nord 3. The earbuds’ design and colour specifications have already been revealed via the Amazon product listing page. The earbuds are teased to come in two colour options and sport an in-canal design. There were unofficial reports about the earbuds arriving in India in June, but this seems to have been delayed for July.Amazon has made…
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin delivers a video address, on June 24, 2023, as Wagner fighters stage rebellion.Gavriil Grigorov | AFP | Getty ImagesU.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said much remains unknown about the chaos that unfolded in Russia on Saturday, but that the internal clash exposed “cracks” in the nation that “weren’t there before.”Russian President Vladimir Putin faced a violent, attempted insurrection Saturday by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a longtime Putin ally who led private mercenary fighters called the Wagner Group. But less than 24 hours after Wagner mercenaries seemingly took control of the strategic southern city of Rostov and began…
Play video content Taylor Swift did something super interesting during her performance Saturday night in Minneapolis … she urged fans to lay off one of her exes. Taylor has one song which is a surprise to her fans each night at her “Eras” concerts, and Saturday’s was “Dear John”– a biting song about ex-flame John Mayer. Taylor clearly had bad feelings about John when she wrote the tune, but on Saturday her tune changed. She told the crowd, “I’m 33 years old. I don’t care about anything that happened to me when I was 19. I’m not putting this album…
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence gestures during the “National Celebrate Life Day Rally” commemorating the first anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Dobbs v Women’s Health Organization case, overturning the landmark Roe v Wade abortion decision, in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersTwo Republican 2024 presidential hopefuls talked up their opposition to abortion on Sunday on the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, the decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.Presidential candidate and former Vice President Mike Pence described last year’s landmark decision as “a historic victory” that…
Just one week after Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker announced their first pregnancy together, they are now publicly sharing the baby’s sex. The couple posted a video on their Instagrams where Barker literally did a drumroll with his pregnant wife on his lap before confetti shot out. It was blue: They are having a boy.This will be Kardashian’s third son. She has three children with her ex-boyfriend Scott Disick, two of whom are boys: Mason, 13, and Reign, 8. She and Disick also have daughter Penelope, 10. Barker, meanwhile, has one son, 19-year-old Landon, with his ex-wife Shanna Moakler. They…
Maggie vowed revenge on Alex. Bonnie struggled to keep Sarah’s secret, while Chad and Stephanie made plans to move in together this week in Salem. Our TV Fanatics, Jack and Christine, are joined by Mikey, from MyHourglass, a Days of Our Lives fan forum, to debate Talia’s sentence, if Jada and Rafe should take the risk, Dimitri’s proposal to Gwen, and more! And who gives the best advice in Salem? Read on to see what our round table thinks. Is Stephanie worrying too much about Alex? Is it the right time for her and Chad to move in together? Mikey:…
Ever tried on an XL T-shirt in Zara so tight it came up like a crop top? Or attempted to pull on a pair of Topman jeans you couldn’t get past your calves?If the answer is ‘yes’, you’re probably not alone. And it’s probably not because you’re “fat” either. You could be six foot tall, weigh 209 pounds and have a healthy BMI of just under 20 per cent and still find an XL shirt strains like a sports bra. Still, according to society, if you can’t squeeze into certain brands’ size ranges, then “fat” is exactly what you are.…
Bob Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Company, left; David Zaslav, CEO and president of Warner Bros. Discovery, center; and Bob Bakish, president and CEO of Paramount Global.Getty ImagesCompanies and industries have ups and downs. The legacy media industry is in a valley.The first half of 2023 has been a colossal disappointment for media executives who wanted this year to be a rebound from a terrible 2022, when a slowdown in streaming subscribers cut valuations for Netflix, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global roughly in half.Instead, investors have once again become excited by Netflix’s future prospects as it’s cracked…
A new ETF is making a big bet on real estate and other hard assets.CBRE’s Investment Management launched the IQ CBRE Real Assets ETF in May with the idea that it will deliver inflation protection in a rising interest rate environment.”The ETF market is lacking options in this space,” the ETF’s portfolio manager, Dan Foley, told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” on Thursday. “There’s a lot of opportunity here with secular changes in things like digital transformation, decarbonization, and then, just frankly, mispricing in the market.”Foley pointed out that global financial institutions are already in the space and said he believes retail…
Developments in AI are moving fast but Matin Durrani is not convinced that top-down regulation is the best approach Courtesy: iStock/metamorworks “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.†That was the terrifying-sounding statement signed by more than 350 business leaders and researchers at the end of May. Released by the non-profit Center for AI Safety, signatories included the astronomer Martin Rees, who is known for his deep thoughts about the future of humanity. Rees later explained he was less worried about “some super-intelligent ‘takeover’†and…
A week of studio presentations and discussions, as well as chatter in the halls, at the CineEurope exhibition conference in Barcelona provided some interesting takeaways about the state of cinema and its future. The mood was generally optimistic, but concerns, and room for improvement, remain. Main talking points included the need for movie theater operators to continue upgrading and providing the best experience possible for patrons as a means to encouraging them out of the house, as well as the strength of PLF screens. A diverse and broad offering is key while there’s still concern about dating with some lulls…
by Trevor Kimball, June 23, 2023(Photo by: Freemantle) Well, that was quick. The CW has apparently cancelled the Barons TV show already. The import has been pulled from the network’s schedule with four episodes remaining. A dramatic TV series from Australia, the Barons TV show stars Sean Keenan, Ben O’Toole, Jillian Nguyen, Hunter Page-Lochard, George Pullar, Lincoln Younes, Sophia Forrest, Vivienne Awosoga, Nicholas Burton, Karina Banno, Megan MacKenzie, Kick Gurry, Catherine Van-Davies, Alexander England, Ione Skye, Sandy Winton, Sebastian Tang, Hafedh Dakhlaoui, and Meg Fraser. The story is set in the 1970s, a time of sexual liberation, social disruption, protest,…
WASHINGTON — SpaceX is changing the approach for separating the two stages of its Starship vehicle to increase payload performance before its next test flight, Elon Musk said June 24. In an online discussion with Bloomberg journalist Ashlee Vance on Twitter, the social media company Musk owns, he said that SpaceX had recently decided to switch to a “hot-staging” approach where the Starship upper stage will ignite its engines while still attached to the Super Heavy booster. “We made sort of a late-breaking change that’s really quite significant to the way that stage separation works,” Musk said, describing the switch…
YouTube is internally testing a product for playing online games, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday citing an email sent to employees at parent company Google.The company invited its employees to begin testing the new YouTube product called ‘Playables’, the report said, adding that games available for testing included titles such as arcade game Stack Bounce.The games can be played on YouTube’s site on web browsers or via devices running Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS mobile systems, the report added.A spokeperson for YouTube said that gaming has long been a focus, adding that the company was experimenting with new…
Steven Schwartz, who used ChatGPT to write a legal brief, is pictured outside federal court in Manhattan on Thursday, June 8, 2023, in New York.Molly Crane-Newman | New York Daily News | Getty ImagesA New York federal judge on Thursday sanctioned lawyers who submitted a legal brief written by the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT, which included citations of non-existent court opinions and fake quotes.Judge P. Kevin Castel said that the attorneys, Peter LoDuca and Steven Schwartz, “abandoned their responsibilities” when they submitted the A.I.-written brief in their client’s lawsuit against the Avianca airline in March, and “then continued to stand…