Month: February 2023

In November, Penguin Random House’s acquisition of Simon & Schuster was blocked by a federal court ruling. PRH decided not to appeal the decision. Since then, the fate of the publisher has been up in the air, especially since Paramount Global, its parent company, has stated it “does not fit strategically within Paramount’s broader portfolio”
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Dambuster Studios has announced its long-awaited zombie slaying sequel, Dead Island 2, will be released one week earlier than previously announced. The game will now be released on Friday, April 21 after originally set for February before it was delayed to April 28. Dead Island gameplay trailer Announced last year, the game is set in
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Ishana Night Shyamalan (“Servant”), the daughter of M. Night Shyamalan, is set to make her feature debut with New Line’s The Watchers, Deadline is reporting this afternoon. Filming kicks off on the hot project later this year, Deadline notes in their exclusive report today, with the movie already dated for theatrical release on June 7,
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Subway Screaming. After closing out January with a revisit of the Dark Castle slasher remake House of Wax, Joe and I settled into our birthday month with Videodrome, kicking off four weeks of ‘Weird Sex’ films! Next up is Andrzej Żuławski‘s 1981 classic Possession, which is finally available to stream on Shudder again! In the film, Anna (Isabelle Adjani)
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In a turnabout, China is handing out release dates for Hollywood movies at a clip these days — and with a fair bit of notice. Yesterday, we learned that Paramount/eOne’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves will go day-and-date on March 31, and today comes news that Universal/Blumhouse/Atomic Monster’s hit M3GAN has been granted a
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Canadian vertical farming startup Adapt AgTech is partnering with Reef Technology to bring its mushroom-growing shipping containers to major cities across the United States, starting with Austin. Reef transforms urban real estate like parking lots into mobility and logistical hubs and currently operates over 8,000 locations across hundreds of cities. The partnership will help Adapt
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Netflix has released the very first images from their upcoming A24 series titled “Beef” this afternoon, the Steven Yeun-starring series premiering globally on April 6, 2023. The series is being described as a dark comedy, with drama, action, and thriller elements. Ten episodes are headed our way, and the episodes will be 30-minutes each. “Beef”
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In Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez, the titular character, who’s a successful wedding planner, and her brother, Prieto, who’s a congressman, are both prominent members of their Puerto Rican community in Brooklyn, New York. The two were brought up by their grandmother after their mother, Blanca, deserted them to become a political activist. Their
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Love is in the air this week, and we’re celebrating romance in horror ahead of Valentine’s Day. For horror fans, nothing says romance quite like Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive (aka Braindead outside the U.S.), a twisted love story between meek mama’s boy Lionel Cosgrove (Timothy Balme) and hungry-for-love shopgirl Paquita Maria Sánchez (Diana Peñalver). The film also happens
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What’s the collective noun for escape rooms? A lock-in of escape rooms? A Hellraiser? Whatever it is, we’ve been getting them on the Xbox Store recently. And that’s been down to one developer: OnSkull Development IKE have been porting their long list of PC escape rooms to the black box, and they’ve got yet more
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Paramount/eOne’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves has become the latest Hollywood film to be granted access to China. The studio’s Weibo account posted the news early Monday local time, noting the adaptation of the iconic Hasbro role-playing game will debut March 31, day-and-date with North America.  Paramount on Friday revealed its 30-second Super Bowl
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The possibility that communication networks of fungi exist connecting forest ecosystems in a ‘wood-wide web‘ has increasingly gained attention among researchers in recent decades. Yet it might be more hype than hyphae, according to a perspective recently published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Three biologists from the University of Alberta and University of British Columbia
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A joint venture (JV) between four big European carriers to build cross-network ad-targeting infrastructure — which they claim will rely on “affirmative” consent to target mobile and/or fixed network subscribers with “personalized” ads across participating brands/publishers’ sites — has been given the green light to proceed by the European Commission’s antitrust division in a decision
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