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Month: November 2024
During the course of a record Thanksgiving weekend, Universal’s Wicked: Part One has become the highest grossing movie ever at the domestic box office based on a Broadway musical. Through yesterday, the Jon M. Chu-directed, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande-starring feature counts $214.3M in the midst of its second weekend, defeating the lifetime gross of
Image courtesy of ‘The Today Show’ NBC Stephen King might no longer be on Twitter, though there’s little doubt he will continue to use social media to share the movies, shows, and books he’s loving the most at the moment. The vocal champion of such 2024 titles as Night Swim and his own Salem’s Lot (not to mention Evil, the
Chappell Roan has celebrated the fact that her song ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ has reached one billion streams on Spotify. The single was first released in April this year, written by Roan alongside Justin Tranter and Dan Nigro. It became Roan’s breakout hit, hitting Number Two in the UK and Number Four in the US, and
Oppo is working on three smartphone models that could be equipped with considerably large batteries — at least by today’s standards. While we’ve started to see handsets with 6,000mAh batteries in 2024 alongside a shift towards using silicon carbon batteries, a tipster claims that the Chinese phone maker is already developing two smartphones that could
A bird’s-eye-view of South America’s Yucatán Peninsula has revealed a massive 4,000-year-old fishery in Belize’s largest inland wetland. The long, zigzagging network of human-made canals and ponds re-engineers the watery landscape into what some researchers describe as a massive fish trap, covering 42 square kilometers (16 square miles) in total. Excavations on the ground have
Light of Motiram, which has gained some critical ire due to its clear and ample “inspiration” of the Horizon series, is coming to PS5 and mobile platforms. Also, there’s a 16 minute gameplay trailer out too! You can watch it yourself, and see just how far the comparisons go. Shocker, it’s a lot like Horizon,
I’ve always been a huge fan of scary movies, and I’ve seen most of the best horror movies. However, one area that I feel I’m sorely lacking in is with old, Universal horror movies. I’ve seen Frankenstein and Dracula, but I’m sad to say that I’ve never seen The Mummy, The Invisible Man, or Creature
Like it or not, the holiday season is upon us. Between the cooking, family visits and finding the funds for Christmas gifts, you may be tempted to find an escape in some bloody horror. Have no fear dear ready, we have cultivated a list of some of the best holiday horror films you can stream
Kesha is following July’s “Joyride” with the new song “Delusional.” She co-produced the new track with Zhone, and she co-wrote it with Zhone and Madison Love. Listen to the single below. “Joyride” and “Delusional” are Kesha’s first two singles on her own Kesha Records. She released her final album with Kemosabe Records, Gag Order, in
Telecom service providers have been advised to take various measures, including establishing safety and buffer zones, while placing 5G towers in the vicinity of airports to minimise interference of 5G services in aircraft operations, the government said on Monday. Minister of State for Civil Aviation V K Singh told the Rajya Sabha that the Directorate
Popular media love talking about asteroid mining using big numbers. Many articles talk about a mission to Psyche, the largest metallic asteroid in the asteroid belt, as visiting a body worth US$10,000,000,000,000,000,000, assumedly because their authors like hitting the ‘0’ key on their keyboards a lot. But how realistic is that valuation? And what does
The Samsung 34″ Odyssey G85SB QD-OLED Gaming Monitor is currently available at a huge Black Friday discount. It’s normally priced at $1,199.99, but it’s now offered at just $629, which means you’ll save a massive $571—nearly half off list price. This 34-inch Ultra WQHD screen offers a resolution of 3,440 by 1,440. It’s a curved
My Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. “King Conan: The Ensorcelled – Part One” It is a time of unrest between two kingdoms. As Conan, now king of all Aquilonia, arrives in the Borderlands to negotiate peace with the Brythunians, witches have reaped havoc on their local villages. Or, so King Fabiano claims. Now,
Black Friday typically is one of the highest-grossing box office days on the calendar, but this year it’s coursing to an all-time record with around $107M+ for all movies, led by Disney’s Moana 2. Friday also has a shot at being the highest-grossing day of 2024 to date, outstripping the $118.3M on Friday, July 26,
“Doom Patrol” and “Cloak & Dagger” actor Miles Mussenden is set to co-lead alongside Britt Bankhead (“Winchester”) in mystery thriller Croatoan, Variety reports today. The thriller also marks the feature directorial debut by Bankhead. Nico Tirozzi (Monster Summer), Grace Patterson (Slotherhouse), and Mike Markoff (Hit Man)also star in Croatoan. Mussenden stars as “a father whose family
Kylie Minogue braved the rain at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this week to play some of her biggest hits. The pop icon played ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’, ‘Slow’ and ‘Padam Padam’ at the annual event, her first appearance there since 2010. Persevering through adverse, drenched conditions, she took to TikTok after
One UI 7 — Samsung’s Android 15-based operating system (OS) — was unveiled at the Samsung Developer Conference (SDC) 2024 last month and is scheduled to be released early next year. While the rumour mill has been providing more information about the update in bits and pieces, the official marketing material of One UI 7
Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and even in our food. Researchers in South China recently found tire-derived chemicals in most human urine
Image: Nintendo Remember earlier this year when Nintendo revealed its range of controller button fidget toys, sold exclusively in the gacha machines of its Japan stores? Well, it looks like there’s a new collection in town to get us envious all over again. As spotted by a whole host of people today on Twitter and
Artist and poet Douglas Florian has created numerous award-winning picture books over the years, including Dinothesaurus and Insectlopedia. A book by Florian is often destined to become part of family lore, lovingly passed down from child to child to grandchild. And that’s certainly true of his newest title, Windsongs: Poems about Weather. Each poem in
There’s nothing quite like sinking into a comfy movie theater seat and immersing yourself into a big screen adventure, preferably with a bucket of popcorn in tow. Of course, sometimes the theatrical experience can be sullied by inconsiderate seat neighbors chomping on snacks, talking, or pulling out their cell phones and giving us weird blue
Coming soon from Titan Books is Secret Lives of the Dead by Tim Lebbon, author of The Silence. His latest novel is a dark folk horror tale of a deadly family curse, crime, and murder. Dread Central is excited to exclusively reveal the cover for the upcoming novel, as well as an excerpt to give you
MIKE is coming back in January with a new album. The rapper and producer will drop Showbiz! on January 31 via his own 10k label. Leading the album is “You’re the Only One Watching,” which comes with a music video that MIKE co-directed with longtime collaborator Ryosuke Tanzawa. Find the new video below. MIKE released
WhatsApp recently began rolling out a new feature to beta testers that allows users to share a sticker pack installed on their device. A month after it was spotted, users who have downloaded the latest beta versions of WhatsApp on iOS and Android will be able to choose a sticker pack that share it with
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force awarded Raytheon a $196.7 million contract extension for the Global Positioning System Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX), a critical upgrade to the GPS infrastructure that is years behind schedule. The contract, announced Nov. 27 by Space Systems Command, targets the next software upgrade to be delivered by November
Nintendo UK has uploaded a new trailer today highlighting the classic Donkey Kong Country series which is available on the Nintendo Switch Online subscription service along with the Nintendo Switch re-releases of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze and the soon-to-be-released Donkey Kong Country Returns HD. Check out the platforming action in the video down below.
Here’s a box office benchmark you don’t see often, if at all: A major Hollywood star has two No. 1 theatrical release openings in the same calendar month, that accomplishment going to Dwayne Johnson. For the month of November, Johnson saw a No. 1 opening in the Amazon MGM Studios Red One on Nov. 15
Like it or not, the holiday season is upon us. Between the cooking, family visits and finding the funds for Christmas gifts, you may be tempted to find an escape in some bloody horror. Have no fear dear ready, we have cultivated a list of some of the best holiday horror films you can stream
A court has ruled that the UK government acted illegally with a last-minute block of funding for Kneecap. READ MORE: Kneecap: giving peace, protest and partying a chance The Belfast trio originally accused the government of attempting to “silence” them, following a last-minute block in February of funds from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) funding award –
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