Month: February 2021

FINNEAS, Billie Eilish’s older brother and primary collaborator, is scoring the forthcoming movie The Fallout, Variety reports and his representatives confirmed to Pitchfork. The movie, directed by Megan Park, stars Jenna Ortega as Vada, a teenager who “navigates the emotional fallout she experiences in the wake of a school tragedy.” Peymon Maskan, the film’s music
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Ah, hello again. It’s good to see you. Come, join us, we were just getting started. The world of Little Nightmares is quite like exploring a child’s bad dream about the realm of grownups, but with all the distortions and misunderstanding made completely real. Adults tower over you menacingly. They are utterly powerful and full
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HELSINKI — China’s first interplanetary mission, Tianwen-1, successfully entered Mars orbit Feb. 10 following a 202-day journey through deep space. Tianwen-1 initiated a near 15-minute burn of its 3000N main engine at 6:52 a.m. Eastern allowing the five-ton spacecraft to slow down and be gravitationally captured by Mars.  The Mars orbit insertion maneuver was designed
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Regardless of how the titular fight in Godzilla vs. Kong turns out, Kong should take over the Monsterverse. Starting out with Godzilla back in 2014, and continued with the release of Kong: Skull Island, and Godzilla: King of the Monsters thereafter, the Monsterverse has been building to a natural climax with the clash of the
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Disney/Pixar’s Soul continues to shine overseas with a $96.2M cume after seven frames. In 11 markets this session, the Pete Docter-helmed original added $6.9M to its international box office kitty with No. 1s again in Russia and Korea. In China, it has surpassed Incredibles 2 to become the market’s 2nd highest-grossing Pixar title ever. China
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SAN FRANCISCO – Money will continue flowing into the space industry from government agencies, private equity firms and public markets, according to panelists at the 2021 SmallSat Symposium. “It has never been a better time to raise money for ventures in and around space,” said James Murray, a partner at investment bank PJT Partners. While
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The 2021 Pokémon World Championships have been cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns. The Pokémon Company made the tough call today stating “the safety and well-being of our competitors, organizers, employees, local communities, and partners continues to be our top priority and is the primary consideration with every decision we make.” This marks the second year straight
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Global toy company Jazwares, and UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization, are teaming up again to bring the world of UFC and mixed martial arts into homes everywhere with a new line of UFC action figures and role play collectibles. Available for preorder now from Ringside Collectibles, the new wave of collectible figures includes Conor
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JOHANNESBURG — The European GNSS Agency, GSA, has awarded a €100 million ($121 million) contract to Eutelsat Communications to develop and operate the agency’s next-generation EGNOS satellite navigation overlay service.  The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) is used to improve the performance and accuracy of U.S. GPS signals. These signals can then be utilized
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Los Angeles local Erin Sanders was only 14 years old when she scored the life-changing role of the brainy best friend Quinn Pensky — who shows her smarts with the other students at Pacific Coast Academy — in the Nickelodeon kids show “Zoey 101.” Erin Sanders was cast alongside some pretty stand-out actors including Victoria
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Mary Wilson, the Supremes co-founder who sang in the group until its split, has died suddenly at home in Las Vegas, Associated Press reports. No cause of death was given. She was 76 years old.  Born in Greenville, Mississippi, in 1944, Wilson grew up in Chicago and later Detroit. She formed the Primettes, a vocal
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“The cloud services that are now available to startups are phenomenal,” said Spencer Ziegler, CEO of Orbital Wave. WASHINGTON — The cloud computing industry is developing new products and services that will help space companies monetize data without having to invest in infrastructure, executives said Feb. 8 at the SmallSat Symposium. Steve Terry, business development
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