Lucasfilm/Disney’s first Star Wars movie in seven years, The Mandalorian and Grogu, arrived on tracking in what looks to be an $80 million-plus four-day start over the U.S. Memorial Day weekend. While that’s not the $100M+ opening to which we’re accustomed for a Star Wars movie, duly note that it’s still early in the campaign,
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Tales from the Crypt’s “Lower Berth” turns into a surprising look at the Cryptkeeper’s origins, setting up a prescient formula for franchise storytelling Tales from the Crypt is a revered pillar of the horror industry, representing a real turning point for anthology storytelling that, in many ways, still hasn’t been topped. The no-holds-barred HBO series
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The fantastical meets the personal in Sunyi Dean’s highly anticipated second novel, The Girl With a Thousand Faces. Dean’s worldbuilding remains as rich and vivid as in her debut, The Book Eaters, but this time she takes readers to 20th-century Hong Kong, and into an alternate reality where ghosts walk among the living. In the
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Jpegmafia is back with a bruising new single called “Babygirl,” the first offering from the rapper’s forthcoming album Experimental Rap. You can check out the song’s music video and album cover art below, alongside dates for a fall North American tour. The solo LP, his sixth, drops May 21 on AWAL. Experimental Rap—which an accompanying
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TAMPA, Fla. — While European space startups are attracting more venture capital, their private-led growth rounds remain anchored by U.S. investors rather than regional investment firms. The amount of venture capital invested in European space ventures in 2025 jumped 13% year-over-year to 1.2 billion euros ($1.4 billion), according to the European Space Policy Institute’s latest
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Little Simz has announced a brand-new EP, ‘Sugar Girl’, set for release next week. Check out the teasers below. The North London rapper will drop the project on Friday May 8, following on from her acclaimed 2025 album, ‘Lotus’. You can pre-save/pre-add it here. A black-and-white preview video for the forthcoming collection shows Simz delivering
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Developer OtherSide Entertainment, the studio led by Deus Ex and Thief: The Dark Project creator Warren Spector, has revealed that its upcoming stealth adventure game, Thick As Thieves, will only cost $4.99 when it launches on Steam on May 20. Alongside this pricing news, OtherSide has detailed its plans for the game, highlighting that the
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New gacha RPG Neverness to Everness is upping its launch rewards following a wave of feedback from early players, handing out free currency and characters to tide players over until fixes arrive. In a Twitter post, the official NTE account sends “a heartfelt thank you for being with us through launch day” to the game’s
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Lionsgate‘s Michael is continuing its dance party, ringing up $11.1M on Tuesday. That’s the fourth best Tuesday for a live-action movie in April ever, behind only Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame ($33.1M, April 30, 2019), Universal’s Furious 7 ($13.3M, April 7, 2015) and last year’s A Minecraft Movie from Warner Bros and Legendary ($12.7M, April 8, 2025).
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Previews of New Books Out May 2026 April is coming to an end and previews of next month’s
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Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) The idea of an indie Metroidvania exploring mental illness has become a bit of a cliche. The past decade has seen successes in the genre like the Hollow Knight and Ori games, as well as titles like Celeste that manifest their main character’s mental journey through their mechanics. Constance owes
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Cornelius, the project of Japanese composer Keigo Oyamada, is launching a new phase. Off the back of a burst of TikTok virality, Oyamada has signed to Eat Your Own Ears and released a cover of a Japanese Balearic classic: Yosui Inoue’s 1990 song “Yumenemi” (or “Yume Ne Mi”). Check it out below. The new music
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