Month: May 2023

James Gunn’s MCU threequel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, came in even higher than Disney was anticipating. We had a sense it was $116M on Saturday night. The pic is now at $118.4M per Disney this morning after a $31.4M Sunday (yesterday was forecasted at $27M). That’s the 12th highest opening of all-time during
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The advent of machine learning algorithms in publishing ushered the era of online book recommendations. First there was Goodreads, and then came Amazon. And now, there’s Tertulia, which scrapes an excessive amount of public data to recommend books to its users. There are also others out there that function similarly, be it an app or
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How to Not Be Afraid of Everything At a reading in 2022, I heard poet Jane Wong describe her obsession with time-lapse videos of rotting fruit. Her poetry collection, How to Not Be Afraid of Everything, is full of the physicality of food, informed by Wong’s research into the Great Leap Forward, which was a
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Vanessa Hudgens may not stick to the status quo when it comes to her nuptials. The High School Musical alum—who got engaged to fiancé Cole Tucker in February—recently shared insight into her wedding planning process, joking that she’s thought about taking an alternative route after running into some roadblocks. “It’s hard…finding a venue is tough,”
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Sharon Van Etten, Michael Imperioli (Getty Images) News Sharon Van Etten and Michael Imperioli Cover “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire”: Listen They took on the Ink Spots classic for National Geographic’s new series A Small Light By Madison Bloom May 9, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter Sharon Van Etten has covered
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With Universal pushing R-rated comedy Please Don’t Destroy from Aug. 18 to Peacock, another R-rated movie, Strays, featuring the voices of Will Ferrell & Jamie Foxx is back-filling that date. Originally, Strays was to open on June 9, a month from now. The WGA Strike is partly the reason for Strays‘ movie; an original bawdy
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Sum 41, August 2016 (David Wolff – Patrick/Redferns) News Sum 41 to Break Up The pop-punk group will embark on a farewell tour and release one more album before disbanding By Madison Bloom May 8, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter Ontario pop-punk outfit Sum 41 are breaking up. The band announced the news on social
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Most Frightened Performance Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus) Best Duo Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey (The Last Of Us)  Best Kick-Ass Cast Stranger Things  Best Song Taylor Swift, “Carolina” (Where The Crawdads Sing)  Best Docu-Reality Series The Kardashians  Best Competition Series RuPaul’s Drag Race: All-Stars  Best Host Drew Barrymore (The Drew Barrymore Show) Best Reality
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Squire is the brainy sidekick to the brawny Sir Kelton, a knight whose reputation precedes him but never quite seems to prove itself. Regardless, while Sir Kelton is heralded as a hero, Squire stands quietly by, more interested in books and knowledge than sword fighting and rescuing. When the two come across a desolate village
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Indian films are a box office mainstay and one, Jodi, from Rhythm Boyz Entertainment, hit big this weekend Stateside, grossing $734,000 on just 125 screens. In April, the film set a record as the most viewed Punjabi trailer in 24 hours (over 12 million views on YouTube). “This has been happening more and more —
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Giant theater chain AMC Entertainment saw sales blow past Wall Street forecasts for the March quarter, rising 20% to $954 million. Losses narrowed by $102 million to $235 million, for an adjusted EPS of 17 cents a share, a also ahead of expectations. “It will take a few more years for the industry box office
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What is literary fiction? I’ve been trying to figure it out, and I’m stumped. (Let me just say this up front: this essay is about 750 words, and I absolutely do not give a definitive definition anywhere in those words.) Like any genre or age category, “literary fiction” is a designation that is primarily a
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“When I love a song, there is almost always a moment that sounds like how I imagine truth to sound,” writes poet Amy Key in Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone. “It’s the moment in the song that touches the bruise you didn’t know you had, the aching, denied part of you.
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