Month: November 2024

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Voting Opens for the 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards Voting is now open for the bookish internet’s annual popularity contest: the Goodreads choice awards. I have never done this, but you could probably win your theoretical
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EXCLUSIVE: 3D exhibition tech corp RealD has appointed Shauna Kent as VP of Marketing. Kent is a RealD marketing vet who has risen through the ranks since joining the company more than 12 years ago. She will work closely with studio partners and exhibitors to guide RealD’s marketing campaigns on such upcoming films as Moana 2,
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Apple was notified by the European Union that its geo-blocking practices are potentially in breach of consumer protection rules, adding to the iPhone maker’s regulatory issues in the bloc. Apple’s App Store, iTunes Store and other media services unlawfully discriminate against European customers based on their place of residence, according to a European Commission statement
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Almost every Mel Brooks movie is hilarious, but the comedian’s greatest work is probably his Star Wars parody, Spaceballs. Unfortunately, despite a joke in the movie about a sequel, the biggest way the 1987 film would end up different from Star Wars is that no sequel would come in the short term. But Josh Gad
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Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have announced a joint tour in support of their new Grammy-nominated album, Woodland. The folk duo will head across the U.S. next spring for a run of shows beginning in Santa Fe on February 28, and lasting through May 22 in Nashville. Find the complete list of dates, including the
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When it comes to the box office battle between Universal’s Wicked, in which Jeff Goldblum plays the Wizard, and Paramount’s Gladiator II, it will not be a survival of the fittest. Deadline’s Natalie Sitek asked him at Saturday night’s Wicked LA premiere about the Glicked effect that’s expected to take place at the box office
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We recently celebrated the 22-year anniversary of Neil Marshall’s Dog Soldiers here on Bloody Disgusting, a fan-favorite werewolf movie that’s still without a sequel. While a promising update on the anticipated sequel would soon follow, the filmmaker took to Instagram this afternoon with disappointing news. Dog Soldiers pit soldiers up against werewolves in the Scotland wilderness, and a trilogy
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My Chemical Romance have begun teasing something on social media, sending fans into a frenzy – check it out below. READ MORE: My Chemical Romance’s ‘The Foundations of Decay’ is a fierce, fearless return Late on Monday night (November 11), the band shared an image of a hazy city skyline with confetti falling and Russian letters
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Mina’s Matchbox (8.5 hours), by award-winning author Yoko Ogawa, is a magical coming-of-age story centered on two girls on the brink of adolescence: sturdy, pragmatic Tomoko and her fragile, artistic cousin, Mina. Told from Tomoko’s point of view and set in Ashiya, Japan, in 1972, Mina’s Matchbox is touched with fairy-tale enchantment, depicting a family in
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Imagine that love at first sight was real, a disorder with such force that it could replay across multiple lifetimes. This is the premise at the heart of Timestalker, a hybrid horror/comedy/fantasy film that explores the power of love to transcend time and space. The catch, however, is that if you find a soulmate, something
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Being Dead have shared a new video for “Dragons II,” from their new album Eels. Directed and edited by Alex Winker, the visual shows the Austin, Texas, rock artists performing the song live in a tunnel, capturing what they describe as “writing the track in their rumpus room.” Watch it below. Eels, Being Dead’s follow-up
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NASA is hunting for a partner capable of equipping Mars with steady internet connectivity, and SpaceX is convinced it’s the right company for the job. A presentation shared Thursday reveals that SpaceX is working on a Mars iteration of Starlink called “Marslink,” which would use dedicated satellites to relay information to and from the Red
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