Month: May 2024

It’s almost May the 4th, which means it’s Star Wars Day, and Gentle Giant LTD is celebrating with two new website-exclusive items, exclusively available through gentlegiantltd.com starting on May the 4th! One is a 1/6 scale resin mini-bust of Nik Sant, the white-bearded Rebel Trooper who took on the forces of the Empire in Return of the Jedi.
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It’s been a rough few weeks for indies but May is here with a handful of hopefuls looking to rev up the market — from A24’s buzzy I Saw The TV Glow to Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Venice award-winning Evil Does Not Exist. A documentary about Anita Pallenberg featuring Scarlett Johansson hits theaters, with a French animated
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What Do College Campuses Have to Do With It? By Howard Bloom The standard story in the Western media right now is that Israel has proposed a ceasefire deal that American Secretary of State Anthony Blinken calls “extraordinarily generous.”  And that is true.  The Israeli deal proposes to give up over a thousand Palestinian prisoners—in many
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Welcome to Today in Books, where we report on literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Brag is Coming From Inside the House Book Riot’s Kelly Jensen has spent the last few years becoming a leading name in book banning coverage, and we couldn’t be prouder to see her named as one
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Vivo’s ‘e’-branded smartphones under its V series are positioned right below its vanilla V series. New smartphones are launched each year with sub-Rs. 30,000 pricing and slightly watered-down specifications, but aim to offer impressive cameras for its selling price. For 2024, after launching the Vivo V30 Pro and Vivo V30, the brand has launched the
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Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the advertisement for a movie’s longevity in subsequent home entertainment windows. Entering the conversation
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Recent comments from producer Jason Blum suggested that a retool was in order when last year’s The Exorcist: Believer wasn’t as successful as Blumhouse and Universal hoped. That certainly seems to be the case, as Deadline reports tonight that Mike Flanagan is in talks to direct the next Exorcist movie. Director David Gordon Green was initially on
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Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) needs no introduction. The state-owned telecom operator is one of the oldest in the country and offers its services to millions of customers. Although the advent of 5G services and private players like Reliance Jio and Airtel are taking an unprecedented lead, BSNL still has a loyal customer base across
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Updated 7:25 p.m. Eastern with Lockheed Martin statement. WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin has abandoned plans to acquire the portion of satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital it does not own for more than $500 million. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after the markets closed May 2, Terran Orbital said it was notified
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Amazon’s Road House remake may have shown Jake Gyllenhaal slapping dudes and kicking ass as a bouncer, but his mighty opponent in the film, Conor McGregor, threw some very realistic blows as his character Knox. Their fight scenes together were such a highlight of the movie that you’d think what you watched was real. Well,
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Stephen King, (c)Laurel Entertainment Inc./courtesy Everett Collection Stephen King fans rejoice. A documentary celebrating the author’s storied career and creative output has landed. The picture is called Stephen King: A Necessary Evil and it features a collection of archival interviews, clips from various screen adaptations of King’s work, footage from book readings, and content from
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Are you planning to elevate your smartphone game? The Flipkart Big Saving Days sale is your golden opportunity to own the impressive Galaxy S23 FE and Galaxy S23 at unbelievably low starting prices of just Rs. 33,999 and Rs. 44,999! These devices are not merely smartphones; they represent a leap into a cutting-edge digital era,
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