Month: December 2019

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Uber founder Travis Kalanick is leaving the company’s board of directors Uber founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick will officially resign
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Burna Boy has shared a new single, “Money Play.” The song arrives after African Giant’s recent Grammy nomination for Best World Music Album. Check out the track below. He describes the single in a press release: “I’m highlighting the importance of moving with the ‘cheese’ at all times. ‘No dey carry money play’ is a
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Warning: SPOILERS ahead for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Kevin Smith finally reveals his cameo in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Smith is most known for his View Askewniverse, many of which he also starred in, including Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Mallrats. And of course, Smith is a comic book fanatic and a die-hard Star Wars fan.
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Japanese video game publisher Flyhigh Express has announced this morning that they will be holding a special video presentation on 27th December. The event is expected to reveal the release dates for the physical versions of Celeste, Shovel Knight and Human Resource Machine, and will presumably contain some surprises. You can tune into the event
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Christmas Eve Update: Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker took in $29.3M on Monday, -27% from Sunday for a 4-day + previews total of $206.7M. The film will remain undefeated with a second weekend in the $70M-$80M range, and the wide entries opening on Christmas Day won’t siphon off any grosses including Sony/Regency’s Little Women ($18M-$22M
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There are times when you get told about distant relatives; usually as families come together whilst at weddings or funerals with things going just a few generations back, normally involving some incident that the family is a bit embarrassed by. But what about the other ancestors? The ones that go way back… about a million
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26 minutes ago Who doesn’t love a good action movie? We all do, right? A well-done action sequence can make a good movie great, and a mediocre movie at least worth watching. Action movies are one of the major reasons that we like to go to the theater in the first place. Sometimes, to fully
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We know you’re busy and might miss out on all the exciting things we’re talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you’ve got a few minutes, we can help remedy that. We’ve pared down the past week’s news into one easy-to-digest article for all things Xbox! Or, if you’d rather watch than read, you
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Social media influencers have been known to promote events around the world for the right price — decisions that sometimes prove to be mistakes. Bella Hadid, who’d promoted the failed Fyre Festival with a gaggle of other models who’d vacationed in the Bahamas for a video designed to help sell tickets, later apologized for her
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Frank Ocean’s “blonded RADIO” is back with a special new Christmas Eve installment. It features a mix of Christmas music (including Mariah Carey) and non-Christmas songs by Solange, Octo Octa, and more. Listen to it live here on Beats 1. blonded Xmas: Mariah Carey: Miss You Most (At Christmas Time)Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: ElectricityOcto
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Season 17 of Top Chef returns on March 19, 2020 for a brand new all-stars season. Fan favorites, front-runners, and finalists from the past 16 seasons risk it all for the Top Chef title. There will be 15 of the best contestants competing to prove why they deserved to win the first time, or even the second time. Everyone
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Almost since the beginning, Star Wars has been a story of redemption from darkness. So, in an ironic sort of way, Battlefront 2 is a better Star Wars game because of its initial fall to the dark side and subsequent journey back to the light. After over two years of updates and changes, EA and
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Broadway’s West Side Story and A Christmas Carol broke house records at their respective theaters last week as holiday business kept overall box office very sturdy. From the previous week, the 34 Broadway productions climbed 5% to a $40,645,773 box office total. The figure pushes Broadway’s season-to-date total past $1 billion. Total attendance of 302,372
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With Thor #1 debuting January 1, Marvel have begun releasing the copious variant covers. In addition to the main cover by veteran Thor artist Olivier Coipel, there are blank variants, premiere variants, as well as art by Jack Kirby (a ‘Hidden Gem’), Ryan Brown (a ‘Marvels X’ variant), Matteo Scalera, Mr. Garcin, Nic Klein (‘Party’
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