Warner Bros’ DC pic The Flash, despite tumbling down with a $55M start, will remain atop the box office with a $16.5M-$24.7M second-weekend take as the marketplace largely takes a breath sans tentpoles before Disney/Lucasfilm’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny arrives for the Independence Day stretch. That Weekend 2 slide for The Flash reps a 55%-70% decline. A lot of déjà vu here for Warner Bros when it comes to The Flash. Remember Ryan Reynolds’ Green Lantern back in 2011? That also was an attempt to start a DC franchise off a deep-universe character. There’s nothing wrong with…
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by Regina Avalos, June 20, 2023(Photo: Paramount Pictures) Metropolis is not headed to Apple TV+ after all. The streaming service has dropped its plans for the series based on the classic film and book of the same name. Sam Esmail is behind the adaptation of the 1927 film by Fritz Lang. He had been working on the project for the last seven years, and Apple TV+ ordered the series in March 2022. The delay in production caused by the current Writer’s Strike is the cause of the cancellation of the high-profile project, per Deadline. Not all the scripts for Metropolis…
Brendan Curry is a space policy consultant with 25 years of experience in Washington operations for the Planetary Society, Space Foundation and former Florida congressman Dave Weldon. With the loss of the submersible Titan and her five passengers garnering round-the-clock media attention since it went missing June 18, those working in the emergent private space travel industry should pay close attention. The final assessment and adjudication of this mishap in regulatory and legal spheres will clearly impact the direction of how private space calamities will be handled. While the Titan, privately owned and operated by OceanGate Expeditions, was designed for…
Apple on Wednesday released the visionOS SDK, a set of tools that will enable developers to build apps for the Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset. The Cupertino company’s first spatial computer will go on sale in the US next year and Apple is providing app developers with the tools required to build apps for the device. Unlike other Apple products, the company’s upcoming mixed reality headset will use a combination of three different modes of interaction using a person’s eyes, hands, and voice. The visionOS SDK will allow developers to tailor their apps around this functionality while making use…
China’s Premier Li Qiang waves as he walks back with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.John Macdougall | Afp | Getty ImagesEurope is charting a new way forward for its relations with China, but officials in the region say they are wary about the risk of retaliation if they get it wrong.There has been growing momentum behind the idea of de-risking from China. At a G7 meeting in late May, both the U.S. and Europe agreed to reduce their dependency on Beijing — rather than completely cut ties.The U.S. has become increasingly more vocal about China’s threat to national security in recent…
NewsQueen Latifah, Dionne Warwick, and Barry Gibb to Receive Kennedy Center HonorsThey join Billy Crystal and opera star Renée Fleming in this year’s celebratory classBy Allison HusseyJune 22, 2023FacebookTwitterQueen Latifah, Dionne Warwick, Barry Gibb (Getty Images)FacebookTwitterThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced that Queen Latifah, Dionne Warwick, and the Bee Gees’ Barry Gibb will be celebrated at the 46th Kennedy Center Honors later this year. Billy Crystal and opera singer Renée Fleming join them in this year’s awards class, which honors exceptional lifetime contributions to the arts. The Washington, D.C. ceremony airs on CBS and Paramount+…
Russell Westbrook, who played for the Washington Wizards in the 2020-21 NBA season, reacts prior to playing against the Denver Nuggets at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., February 17, 2021.Will Newton | Getty ImagesQatar’s sovereign wealth fund has offered to buy a minority stake in Monumental Sports & Entertainment, the parent company of the Washington Wizards and other Washington, D.C., sports teams, the National Basketball Association said Thursday.The NBA is still reviewing the deal with the Qatar Investment Authority, league spokesperson Mike Bass said in a statement to CNBC.The fund offered to buy a roughly 5% stake in Monumental…
Welcome to Same Same But Different. As Gen Z and millennial fashion editors, respectively, we know a thing or two about shopping—for all ages, and especially our demographics. As we find the best products for you, we can’t help but do a little shopping for ourselves and build our personal (age-appropriate) wish lists. And now, we’re sharing them with you. Ahead, check out what’s in our hearts and in our carts lately.Dale Chong: As someone who isn’t a die-hard Swiftie, it was nice to see what our colleagues wore to the Taylor Swift Eras Tour. But now that we’re back…
That was very emotional. The Blacklist Season 10 Episode 18 took us back to the regular blacklist with a case about an elusive blacklister who targeted Raymond and his associates. Events took place on two fronts as Raymond tried to get to warring families to declare peace while Arthur Hudson recruited someone unexpected and expected at the same time. Raymond’s campaign for doing good continued, and it wasn’t a surprise that he would offer to mediate talks between two families where he stood to gain nothing significant in return. The best that could happen was that the two sides would stop…
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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. Greg Marshall’s memoir Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It is a brave and hilarious tour de force, taking us through his journey of self-acceptance as he grapples with…
In this articleABI-BETGTFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTIllustration by Gene KimAttacks against businesses for their inclusion of the LGBTQ+ community have forced companies to try to strike a balance between expressing values or risking backlash — and even violence — from a small but vocal part of their customer bases.As boycotts move beyond social-media-fueled outrage, companies like Anheuser-Busch, Target and Disney are facing monthslong public relations fiascos that have resulted in market share losses, C-suite shake-ups, legal battles and even threats to employees. In some cases, corporations have drawn the ire of conservative customers for marketing to LGBTQ+ consumers or…
André 3000 is poised to release his debut solo album … according to Killer Mike, who also says he’s expected to hear a super sneak peek very soon. KM was making his promo rounds yesterday, including an appearance on “TMZ Live,” and popped up on Sway’s Universe, who quizzed his knowledge about the 3 Stacks album rumors. The Run the Jewels rapper confirmed Andre’s project and revealed he’ll be meeting with him to hear the project in its entirety, having previously heard around 9 tracks. Andre has a blistering verse on Mike’s new self-titled album and pulling the trigger on…
Disney was the final studio to present here at CineEurope in Barcelona, highlighting 17 upcoming films and bringing A Haunting in Venice star/director Kenneth Branagh to town, as well as a live performance of “This Wish” from animated adventure Wish which releases in November. Head of Global Theatrical Distribution, Tony Chambers, started off the show, thanking exhibition for the success of Avatar: The Way of Water before introducing a pre-taped message from James Cameron. The filmmaker said to the crowd, “I’m thankful to have had you as our partners. Bravo to all of you.” The Avatar films are “a labor…
WASHINGTON — Cybersecurity specialist SpiderOak reported successful on-orbit testing June 22 of its OrbitSecure software running on a Ball Aerospace payload. “This is the first time a zero-trust application has been performed in space,” Charles Beames, SpiderOak executive chairman, told SpaceNews. Zero-trust is important, Beames said, because it offers security at the data level. Each data record is encrypted and stored in a digital ledger. Only someone with the appropriate encryption key can access a specific record. What’s more, if a hacker breaks the encryption, the breach will be detected and new encryption keys will be issued immediately, Beames said.…
Apple launched its first spatial computer — the Apple Vision Pro — at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this month. The mixed reality headset supports both virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) content, and uses a feature called EyeSight to allow users to view their surroundings using the sensors surrounding the battery-powered device. Users can switch between AR and VR modes with the help of the dial on the right edge of the wearable. The company also released the visionOS SDK on Wednesday to help developers build apps specifically for the headset, which will reportedly feature a “guest”…
U.S. Rep. George Santos leaves the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Central Islip, New York, May 10, 2023.Barry Williams | New York Daily News | Getty ImagesThe secret identities of Republican Rep. George Santos’ bail backers in his federal criminal case are set to be revealed Thursday at noon ET.Santos, the scandal-plagued freshman congressman from New York, was arrested last month and charged with numerous crimes including money laundering and wire fraud. After pleading not guilty to all 13 counts against him, Santos was released on a $500,000 bond backed by multiple guarantors, whose…
A general view of atmosphere at the VICE Kills TX Music Showcase during the 2013 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival at Viceland on March 16, 2013 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Hutton Supancic/Getty Images for SXSW)Hutton Supancic | Getty ImagesVice Media has declared Fortress Investment Group’s stalking horse bid of $225 million the winning offer for the company as it emerges from bankruptcy.Vice received multiple bids for the company, but none of them “rose to the level of being deemed a superior bid,” according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC. Closely held GoDigital submitted one of the bids…