Social media influencers have been known to promote events around the world for the right price — decisions that sometimes prove to be mistakes. Bella Hadid, who’d promoted the failed Fyre Festival with a gaggle of other models who’d vacationed in the Bahamas for a video designed to help sell tickets, later apologized for her
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Season 17 of Top Chef returns on March 19, 2020 for a brand new all-stars season. Fan favorites, front-runners, and finalists from the past 16 seasons risk it all for the Top Chef title. There will be 15 of the best contestants competing to prove why they deserved to win the first time, or even the second time. Everyone
Almost since the beginning, Star Wars has been a story of redemption from darkness. So, in an ironic sort of way, Battlefront 2 is a better Star Wars game because of its initial fall to the dark side and subsequent journey back to the light. After over two years of updates and changes, EA and
Also joining the Aerospace board are former DoD official Kathleen Hicks and former NASA official Dava Newman. WASHINGTON — The Aerospace Corp. announced Dec. 23 that former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, retired Air Force Gen. Paul Selva, has been elected to the company’s board of trustees. Also joining the Aerospace board
Exclusive Details TMZ.com Lil Wayne is being held up at an airport in Miami right now as federal agents search a plane he was a passenger on, but he’s got legal help at the ready … TMZ has confirmed. Miami Herald broke the story … Weezy was one of a few different people aboard a
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We’re down to a single digit number of days remaining in 2019, and since I’m not expecting too much more Marvel toy news before 2020 arrives (prove me wrong, collectibles companies!) I’ve lined up toy reviews for each day through the end of the year! And first up, it’s an appropriately long overdue review of
Breaking News TMZ.com NBC has suspended Jeremy Roenick indefinitely without pay … after the pro-turned-analyst went on a podcast and made sexual comments about his coworkers. The 20-year vet — who played for a number of NHL teams including the Blackhawks, Coyotes and Flyers — appeared on the Barstool Sports “Spittin’ Chiclets” podcast when he
Broadway’s West Side Story and A Christmas Carol broke house records at their respective theaters last week as holiday business kept overall box office very sturdy. From the previous week, the 34 Broadway productions climbed 5% to a $40,645,773 box office total. The figure pushes Broadway’s season-to-date total past $1 billion. Total attendance of 302,372
If you’re looking for a brand-new PlayStation 4 theme, look no further. Sucker Punch and Sony are currently offering a free dynamic theme for Ghost of Tsushima, complete with stunning imagery. Thankfully, the dynamic theme is available to download across multiple territories. All fans need to do is enter in a code on their respective
With Thor #1 debuting January 1, Marvel have begun releasing the copious variant covers. In addition to the main cover by veteran Thor artist Olivier Coipel, there are blank variants, premiere variants, as well as art by Jack Kirby (a ‘Hidden Gem’), Ryan Brown (a ‘Marvels X’ variant), Matteo Scalera, Mr. Garcin, Nic Klein (‘Party’
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Kate was in SF, Alex was in Providence, and there was a mountain of news to shovel through. If you’re here because we mentioned linking to a certain story in the show notes, that’s here. For
MAD Event Management LLC — experienced host of diverse and inclusive pop culture conventions — is thrilled to announce the 2020 return of their annual comics-first show, Long Beach Comic Expo (#LBCE2020)! Packed to the brim with panels, activities, and special guests, LBCE 2020 is the #1 pop culture event where fans in the Greater Los Angeles area
If you thought the Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker frenzy would end after the holiday season, you clearly don’t understand how the Force works. As if Saturday Night Live would ever miss out on the opportunity to keep the galaxy’s buzziest new film front and center when it returns in the new year? The
36 minutes ago Warning: SPOILERS for Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker ahead! Although Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker answered many of the Skywalker Saga’s big questions, the film did leave a few loose ends for fans to speculate about. Among them is what Finn was going to tell Rey. Throughout the film, John
It’s the week of Christmas, which means new notable game releases are hard to come by. In fact, unless you’re on Nintendo Switch, there’s hardly anything to look forward to this week. In other words, it’s a great time to take a stab at that backlog. As always, if you’re looking for what games are
As someone familiar with FromSoftware’s prior works, I approached Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice with (what I believed to be) earned confidence. After all, surely those who’ve conquered the Souls series and acquired Bloodborne’s Platinum Trophy would be adequately prepared for a stealthy shinobi adventure through 15th Century Japan. For the first several enemy encounters, this
Eddy Travels, an AI-powered travel assistant bot which can understand text and voice messages, has closed a pre-seed round of around $500,000 led by Techstars Toronto, Practica Capital and Open Circle Capital VC funds from Lithuania, with angel investors from the US, Canada, UK. Launched a year ago in November 2018, Eddy Travels claims to
Ariana Grande has released a new live album from her 2019 Sweetener world tour. It’s called k bye for now (swt live)—give it a listen below. Grande announced the record earlier this month. The tour behind Sweetener, released in summer 2018, ended up spanning the campaign behind thank u, next, which arrived five months later.
Saying goodbye to Mr. Robot was not going to be easy. For four seasons, we’ve witnessed several hacks and moments that have shaped the hero at the wheel of the story for better or worse. The most surprising part of Mr. Robot Season 4 Episode 12 and Mr. Robot Season 4 Episode 13 was that the Elliot
While many know Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks for his work on movies like Big, Forrest Gump, and the Toy Story franchise, he first got his start in the 1980 slasher flick He Knows You’re Alone. Hanks has since played a number of iconic roles. From starring as the eponymous lead in thriller-drama Captain Phillips to
Only months buying LucasFilm, Disney announced a deal granting Electronic Arts (EA) a 10-year license to publish Star Wars games. Video game enthusiasts were understandably skeptical since the news was reported in 2013, the second year in a row EA was voted the Worst Company in America. EA lived up to that title with the
Though everyone has their HMD cameras trained on Half-Life: Alyx as VR’s killer app, I’ve been staring creepily at Boneworks’ gif-rammed Steam page and saying “soon” over and over. Having spent a few hours working my way through its meta game-within-a-game world, I’m not quite in the position to review it as a whole. It’s
The CDC has issued a set of reports showing that the lung disease associated with vaping seems to be declining from peak rates, and that Vitamin E acetate seems — as speculated early on — to be the prime suspect for the epidemic. The affliction has cost at least 54 lives and affected 2,506 people
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Pete Wentz gives the third in the ‘Star Wars’ trilogy his stamp of approval, but after a 42-year journey amassing millions of fans and billions of dollars … he doesn’t expect everyone to agree. The Fall Out Boy bassist was out in Studio City, and we got him shortly after
As we enter the holiday week, A24’s Uncut Gems starring Adam Sandler has a solid weekend in its second limited weekend on five screens in New York and Los Angeles. The Safdie Brothers crime thriller was the biggest per-screen average opening ever for A24 and, despite dropping from its limited opening last week, the film earned an
Saturday Night Live had quite the task on its hands this weekend as Eddie Murphy was on hand to host. Buckwheat is one of many characters the legendary comedian brought back for this holiday episode and the crowd absolutely loved it. The sketch ended up being a send-up of The Masked Singer. For those who
It’s Star Wars week, and there are a lot of reasons to be excited about our favorite space opera. One of those reasons is TT Games’ upcoming release of Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. The new trailer doesn’t add much, but when we saw the game during E3, we were really hot on it. May
Facebook doesn’t want its hardware like Oculus and Portal to be at the mercy of Google because they rely on its Android operating system. That’s why Facebook has tasked a co-author of Microsoft’s Windows NT named Mark Lucovsky with building the social network an operating system from scratch, according the The Information’s Alex Heath. “We
From Jubilee and Boom Boom to Beast and Gambit, Hasbro fulfilled a record number of X-Men collectors’ dreams in 2019. And I’ve got one more left to talk about–of a figure I’ve been wanting for 27 years! The X-Men Arcade Game hit arcades in 1992, featuring five of the most iconic team members ever… and