Month: May 2023

Yellow Veil Pictures, the New-York and L.A.-based arthouse genre distribution company, has acquired U.S. distribution rights for two features from Polish director Jagoda Szelc, Bloody Disgusting can exclusively report this afternoon. We’ve also got poster art for both. Tower. A Bright Day (2017) and Monument (2018) will both be released May 30 on Digital from
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Welcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. This week, I look into three topics that don’t have to be an “either/or” situation: France or the U.K.; product-led or sales-led; psychedelics medicine
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Image: Nintendo Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Lowell ruminates on the perfect end to a glorious Nintendo generation… When looking back at a console’s lifespan, there’s always a game that heralded The End before the successor arrived.
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The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not immediately bring World War II to an end. Bestselling author Evan Thomas (Ike’s Bluff) explains why in his superbly crafted military and diplomatic history Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II. “This book is a narrative of how the
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Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior reporter Natasha Mascarenhas.  Startups Weekly readers know I love a pivot story, and now I have one of my own: I’m leaving TechCrunch! This is my last Startups Weekly issue, a newsletter that I’ve written every week for over
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Bashar Jackson aka Pop Smoke, January 2020 (Claudio Lavenia/Getty Images) News 18-Year-Old Confesses to Killing Pop Smoke He was one of five people arrested in connection with the 2020 home invasion, and because he was 15 years old at the time, faced juvenile charges By Allison Hussey May 12, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter An
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This weekend is all about the Moms, so what better way to kick things off by guessing the moms who always look bomb! Look alive with these 23 Hot Hollywood Moms for Mother’s Day 2023 … they ain’t playing! Moms like Rihanna and Emily Ratajkowski always take a mom-ent to display their assets and Gabrielle
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Marvel’s Midnight Suns Blood Storm content Previously only available on PC and new-gen Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 consoles, Firaxis’ Marvel’s Midnight Suns is now compatible with older-gen consoles too, with Xbox One and PlayStation 4 folk gaining access to the base game and everything else that accompanies it, including the newly released Blood
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Episode seven of “Yellowjackets” Season 2, “Burial,” offers a temporary calm after episode six’s tempestuous storm. As the season faces its final few episodes, “Burial” dials back the turbulent intensity just enough to develop individual character arcs further as the Yellowjackets finally reunite. Episode seven explores the fallout of “Qui,” forcing its characters to confront truths, grapple with
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A beloved ballplayer and an iconic consumer device join a Hollywood satire by Charlie Day, an Emanuele Crialese film with Penelope Cruz and debuts from Sundance and Venice in a potentially strong specialty weekend that will test the appetite for indie film with no new franchise wide releases. Sony Pictures Classics opens Sean Mullin’s Yogi
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Kylie Minogue, photo by Edward Cooke News Kylie Minogue Announces New Album Tension The Australian superstar’s first studio LP since 2020 lands in September By Matthew Strauss May 12, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter Kylie Minogue has announced a new album: Tension, the follow-up to 2020’s Disco, is out September 22 via BMG. The Australian
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By Howard Bloom Two weeks ago, on March 30th, the Atlantic magazine published a story headlined “Why People Are Acting so Weird.”  The article claimed that “Crime, “unruly passenger” incidents [on airplanes], and other types of strange behavior have all soared recently.”   Peculiarly, the first example it gave was of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock
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Refresh for updates...The box office and the industry is in need of counterprogramming working after several non-tentpoles were squashed by Super Mario Bros Movie and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and hopefully that will be Focus Features’ Book Club: The Next Chapter. With $500K in Thursday previews, the movie is looking at a $7M-$10M
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