Month: November 2023

After many 2023 new movie releases from famous franchises like The Hunger Games, Saw and Transformers have explored the origins of famous characters, the trend continues this holiday season with Warner Bros’ Wonka. The family movie imagines the life of Willy Wonka before his chocolate factory was built as told in Roald Dahl’s best selling
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Thanksgiving proved plentiful for Broadway last week, with box office – and ticket prices – up by nearly 30% over the previous week. With tourists packing New York City, theatergoers splurging on higher priced holiday seats and the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade trumpeting Broadway’s bounty, the 26 shows on the boards grossed a combined
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News Bleachers Announce 2024 U.S. Tour Dates Jack Antonoff and his band will also perform in the United Kingdom next year in support of their new album By Matthew Strauss November 28, 2023 Facebook X Bleachers’ Jack Antonoff, photo by Alex Lockett Facebook X Bleachers have announced a 2024 tour of the United States. Beginning
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After decades of being a largely underserved area of scientific study, fungi are finally having their moment. The phenomenon feels not unlike the overnight appearance of a mushroom; all it took were the right conditions for the right fruiting body. The conditions: a reading public amid COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020, aching for connection. The
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With its seventh weekend numbers tallied, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour has topped the $250M global benchmark. At $250.01M per AMC, the split is a little over $178.2M domestic with $71.8M coming from the international box office. The highest-grossing concert film ever domestically began worldwide rollout in mid-October, opening to $92.8M in North America for
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Did you see that coming? Because I certainly didn’t with these excellent plot twists.  There comes a time in everyone’s life when we watch a movie, and it’s going all fine and dandy, and then suddenly a twist happens so suddenly that it’s something we would never expect. Perhaps it’s someone’s true origins that finally
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EXCLUSIVE: Barbie may have beat her late-summer rival, Oppenheimer, at the box office but in a face-off in homes, the man in the soft-brimmed hat wins — as far as premiere weekends go. Samba TV, which measures viewership from 3M opted-in Smart TVs for at least five-minutes, reports that the Live+5D window for the Universal
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Whether you’re looking for a new occasion shoe or something you can wear to run errands in, so many brands and retailers are offering wild Cyber Monday deals this year. You can pick up a new marathoner-approved running shoe or a designer boot that’s 50 percent off, just in time for gift-giving season. From must-shop
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Despite Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick differing creatively, The Shining, adapted from King’s 1977 novel of the same name, stands as a cinematic masterpiece and a landmark in the pantheon of great horror movies. While the film is rife with chilling scenes that have etched themselves into the collective memory of audiences, one particular sequence
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Yesterday, it was announced that 2023’s Booker Prize winner was Irish writer Paul Lynch. His book that won, Prophet Song, is a Dublin-set dystopian novel in which a mother struggles with her country’s totalitarianism. On writing the book, Lynch said, “This was not an easy book to write. The rational part of me believed I
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Blue Ivy Carter will never let critics take her power. ICYMI, a ton of celebs and fans got in formation for the premiere of Beyoncé’s Renaissance documentary concert film in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Nov. 25.  And while the movie showcased jaw-dropping looks and plenty of behind-the-scenes content from the Renaissance World Tour, according to the
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Happy Singh Soni is not, well, happy: He is longing for more. And, given his condition at the outset of Celina Baljeet Basra’s debut novel, why wouldn’t he be? His home, a Punjabi farming village that is being steadily encroached upon by an expanding theme park, is no place for a young man with ambition—of
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Linda Evangelista is single—and she’s OK with remaining so for the foreseeable future. The 58-year-old, one of the most iconic supermodels in the world who rose to fame in the ’90s, says in a new interview that she is “not interested” in dating. “I don’t want to sleep with anybody anymore,” the fashion icon told the U.K.’s Sunday Times in
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News Killing Joke Guitarist Geordie Walker Dies at 64 A founding member of the band that helped define industrial and goth records for years to come By Evan Minsker November 26, 2023 Facebook X Killing Joke’s Geordie Walker in 2015 (Lorne Thomson/Redferns) Facebook X Geordie Walker, a founding member and guitarist of the post-punk band
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Elisa Shoenberger has been building a library since she was 13. She loves writing about all aspects of books from author interviews, antiquarian books, archives, and everything in between. She also writes regularly for Murder & Mayhem and Library Journal. She’s also written articles for Huffington Post, Boston Globe, WIRED, Slate, and many other publications.
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Amazon/MGM’s Saltburn, the dark-comedy sendoff of British upper class, expanded nicely in a big jump from seven screens to 1,566, nabbing a spot in the top ten. The film by Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) grossed $1.73 million for the three-day weekend and $2.7 million for the five-day Thanksgiving frame thanks to a strong core group
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