Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Reporter’s note: Before we get into this, thank you to the Startups Weekly readers who pointed out that last week’s link to my column was
News Roof Collapses at Morbid Angel Concert, Killing One and Injuring Dozens The disaster at the Apollo Theater in Belvidere, Illinois, was one of several as storms swept the Midwest and South By Jazz Monroe April 1, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter The roof of an Illinois concert venue collapsed in a heavy storm last
Saturday AM: Refresh for more updates and chart Though Friday was $15.3M, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is still looking at a $40M opening. This is the high end of tracking, and that is to be commended for the Paramount/eOne $150M production which the former studio was careful to lay off risk on. Though
We all have those games. You know, the ones you played growing up that you absolutely loved and defended fanatically, only to find out years later that the game you cherished when you were younger wasn’t actually that good? It’s probably not the way you’d want to start off talking about Trilobyte’s The 7th Guest,
The first chapter of Videoverse took me right back to the early 00s last night. I can still remember sitting at the family PC in our living room, begging my parents for more internet time because I wanted chat to my friend on MSN Messenger. We had to buy hours of internet in those days,
Tyrannosaurus rex might not have been puckering up for a good ol’ snog, but the dinosaur‘s teeth were not exposed like a ‘gator’s; instead, they protected behind a pair of lizardy lips. That’s the result of work investigating the teeth and bones of reptiles and dinosaurs, present and past, finally resolving a long-standing debate in
Play video content A death metal concert became a calamity Friday night after a vicious storm ripped through an Illinois auditorium, killing one person and injuring 28 others. The packed show at the Apollo Theater in Belvidere, IL, kicked off about 30 minutes before the massive storm rolled into town, causing the roof to collapse
Bill Maher wants his day … a day he will share with 100 million Americans — Atheist’s Day. The ‘Real Time’ host chose the Easter egg roll up to one of the holiest of religious days to push for a national day where 1/3 of the American population can “recommit ourselves to observable reality.” Bill
This month’s installment of Deep Cuts Rising features a variety of horror movies. Some selections reflect a specific day or event in April, and others were chosen at random. Regardless of how they came to be here, or what they’re about, these past movies can generally be considered overlooked, forgotten or unknown. This month’s offerings include
Paramount and eOne’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves has made $5.6M in previews. That’s not all from Thursday showtimes (which began at 3PM), but includes advance Amazon sneaks among other pre-screenings. Before Thursday, we’re told Dungeons & Dragons made $1.5M. While the feature take of the popular role-playing game has been hot in word
Vampire Survivors is getting another big DLC drop next month in the form of Tides of the Foscari. New characters, weapons, and more await those who step into this high-fantasy-themed adventure. [embedded content] Tides of Foscari takes on a decidedly more whimsical tone and introduces eight new heroes. Three of them include the mage Eleanor,
A group of mathematicians has unveiled a brand new 13-sided shape they’ve simply called ‘the hat’. Don’t let the rather mundane description fool you though. This hat (which looks a bit like a fedora) is next season’s must-have fashion item, able to be tiled across a plane to create patterns that never repeat. Shapes like
It’s estimated that about a third of all food produced worldwide every year, which is approximately 1.3 billion tons, is estimated to be wasted. Aravita, a Brazilian artificial intelligence startup, thinks that supermarkets are the best place to start fixing this problem. Marco Perlman, co-founder and CEO, started the company with Aline Azevedo and Bruno
“I could see why so many stories were set in lighthouses,” thinks Julia, the titular narrator of Julia and the Shark, upon reaching her family’s unusual new home for the summer. “It’s a good place for adventures even before you go inside.” In this illustrated middle grade novel, award-winning British writer Kiran Millwood Hargrave (The
Tekashi 6ix9ine is addressing his gym beatdown for the first time … ripping his attackers as “nothing but cowardly.” The rainbow-haired rapper broke his silence Friday with a social media post saying, “what happen here was nothing but cowardly.” Play video content Tekashi says he’s not mad about being jumped at an LA Fitness in
We have another winner in our hands! The identity of the infamous arsonist was revealed on Fire Country Season 1 Episode 17 while Jake, after feeling the pressure of being wrongly accused, confronted his demons. To say this was a packed episode would be a huge understatement. It served a twist with a storyline we thought we
Don’t. Sit. On the furniture. Horror movies have turned all sorts of inanimate objects into sadistic killers over the years and up next it’s a seemingly harmless sofa that becomes a monster in Killer Sofa! From director Bernardo Rao, Killer Sofa is now streaming on SCREAMBOX. “Electric Dreams meets Christine in the heart-warmingly horrific chronicle of a killer Lazy Boy that
National CineMedia said today it’s negotiated a second extension of the grace period on interest payments originally due Feb. 15. A one-month grace period for a payment said to be about $6.6 million ended March 15, when the company announced lenders had agreed to another 17 days. Big ratings agencies Moody’s and S&P Global declared
Welcome to VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 44: The best game where you’d swap places with the main character. Video games are very long-form pieces of entertainment, and as such, they have to work hard to hold our attention. Statistically, most single-player games are left unfinished by a staggering majority of the people who
The way a person speaks is an intrinsic part of their identity. It’s tribal, marking a speaker as being from one social group or another. Accents are a sign of belonging as much as something that separates communities. Yet we can probably all think of examples of people who seem to have “lost” their regional
Tekashi 6ix9ine is wasting no time seizing the moment now that his attackers are behind bars … with the rollout of a new music video and dishing out a ton of cash. The rainbow-haired rapper dropped “Bori” Friday, along with a music video — shot in Cuba — which features images of 6ix9ine receiving medical
One of the highest figures in the American military called it the most disturbing thing he’d seen in his 52 year career. In 2022, China announced that Beijing would triple its number of nuclear weapons by 2035. The Department of Defense took that announcement seriously. In a recent report on “Military and Security Developments”[i] in China,
Don’t. Sit. On the furniture. Horror movies have turned all sorts of inanimate objects into sadistic killers over the years and up next it’s a seemingly harmless sofa that becomes a monster in Killer Sofa! From director Bernardo Rao, Killer Sofa is now streaming on SCREAMBOX. “Electric Dreams meets Christine in the heart-warmingly horrific chronicle of a killer Lazy Boy that
As the new crop of 2023 festival favorites roll out, Focus Features presents A Thousand And One in over 900 carefully curated theaters, testing the appetite for specialty fare at a challenging moment. Short film and video director A.V. Rockwell’s feature-length debut stars Teyana Taylor as free-spirited Inez, who kidnaps her six-year-old son Terry from
During SDCC last year NECA showed off two more of their upcoming Dungeons & Dragons Ultimate figures with them being Strongheart & Zarak which I did get a good look at during my visit there and these galleries showcase these figures very well. Just like Warduke & Grimsword, these two figures look amazing and incredibly
Image: LucasArts It’s 2023 and there’s a brand-new Indiana Jones film coming out in a matter of months. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, really. Is there a cinematic or televisual icon that hasn’t returned in a surprise sequel, multiverse cameo, or limited streaming series in the last few years? Not all of them have
An explosion that took place in a galaxy 180 million light-years away is challenging our understanding of how stars die, appearing to represent the flattest explosion of its kind on record. The monumental kaboom named AT2018cow belonged to an extremely rare class of cosmic blasts known as fast blue optical transients, or FBOTs. Unlike the
We’re an impatient bunch here at TechCrunch+, so while we await tidied quarterly venture reports from major startup databases, we’re also running our own queries to get early looks at the state of the fundraising world. As it’s the last day of the first quarter, we’re too antsy to wait any longer to see what’s
A$AP Rocky and Tyler, the Creator in “Wharf Talk,” directed by Tyler Okonma News Watch Tyler, the Creator and A$AP Rocky’s New “Wharf Talk” Video Tyler seduces an invisible date in a pastoral short marking the release of Call Me If You Get Lost: The Estate Sale By Jazz Monroe March 31, 2023 Facebook Twitter
Dean Cain, who famously played Superman in the ’90s, is selling his super snazzy Malibu pad … TMZ has learned. The 3,302-sq-ft. home has been listed with a $7.25 million price tag … and by L.A. standards it’s well worth the price. The single-level 4-bedroom, 5-bathroom pad sits along the Malibu coastline and has an