News Arcade Fire’s Win Butler Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Multiple Women; Frontman Responds Allegations of inappropriate behavior in his life offstage contrast with Butler’s virtuous public reputation. In lengthy comments, the frontman claims his extramarital relationships were consensual. By Marc Hogan August 27, 2022 Facebook Twitter Graphic by Marina Kozak, photo by Daniel Knighton/Getty
SATURDAY AM UPDATE: The bowels of the summer box office have been reached, with Sony’s new C CinemaScore horror movie The Invitation leading with $6M-$7M at 3,114 theaters. Like the late Andy Rooney, I get a lot of mail from sources. But in this instance, it’s about why it’s important to be gentle when covering the
Hello, hello! We’re back with another edition of Week in Review, the newsletter where we quickly break down the top stories to hit TC in the last seven days. Want it in your inbox? Sign up here. Our most read story this week was about Stable Diffusion, a “new open source AI image generator capable
The Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA will honor composer Fabio Frizzi with its Coolidge After Midnite Award on Saturday, September 17. The Italian maestro will be joined by his Frizzi 2 Fulci band for a live concert of his chilling compositions, followed by the award ceremony and a special screening of Zombie. Frizzi is
Image: Konami Dotemu and Tribute Games’ excellent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge recently fired up our passion for the heroes in a half-shell in a way we haven’t felt for a long time. With the imminent release of Konami’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection, we’re getting ready to drown in another wave
SAN FRANCISCO – With recent grants from government agencies, Dawn Aerospace is refining its nitrous-based satellite propulsion technology. Dawn, based in New Zealand and the Netherlands, announced in May the first in-orbit demonstration of its B20 thrusters on a D-Orbit ION Satellite Carrier. Since reaching that milestone, the company has been signing up new propulsion
Play video content @dredog1911 Tiffany Haddish got up close and personal with Usher this weekend — receiving the serenade treatment that also teetered into touchy-feely territory. The actress/comedian was in attendance for Usher’s Vegas residency show Friday night, where she had a great seat toward the front … but which got a whole lot better
It has been a rough few years for Shia LaBeouf as he has faced numerous allegations and claims about his behavior on and off set. While his acting career has remained steady, his latest role as the real-life friar-turned-saint Padre Pio in an upcoming biopic may have been a turning point for him. Being a
UPDATE 4:08 PM PT — Sydney has addressed the controversy, writing … “You guys this is wild. An innocent celebration for my moms milestone 60th birthday has turned into an absurd political statement, which was not the intention. Please stop making assumptions. Much love to everyone ❤️ and Happy Birthday Mom!” Sydney Sweeney did a
Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Central and Eastern Europe have had less venture capital at their disposal than their GDP or population could warrant. But with new funds lured
A big budget Thai/Chinese co-production, this year’s brand new monster movie The Lake has now unleashed a brand new trailer, this one equipped with English subtitles. It’s also a much better trailer all around, giving us several clear shots of the incredible practical monster designed by artist Jordu Schell (Cloverfield, The Thing, Starship Troopers, The Mist, Feast, Avatar,
Sonic Frontiers has been one of the biggest playable games this year at Gamescom with fans, and those who have gown up with the spiky blue hedgehog in their youth, all eager to see whether or not we are finally guaranteed a good new Sonic the Hedgehog 3D platformer. Sonic Frontiers has been one of
Changing the number of chromosomes an animal has can take millions of generations to happen in nature through the course of evolution – and now, scientists have been able to make these same changes in lab mice in a relative blink of an eye. The new technique using stem cells and gene editing is a
News LCD Soundsystem Returning With First New Song in 5 Years for Netflix Movie White Noise James Murphy and the band made “New Body Rhumba” for Noah Baumbach’s new film By Rob Arcand August 26, 2022 Facebook Twitter LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, May 2017 (Scott Legato/FilmMagic) Facebook Twitter A new LCD Soundsystem song will be
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Warner Bros is making a slew of release-date changes next year. First of all, James Wan’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom needs more time in postproduction, so it’s moving from March 17, 2023 to December 25, 2023. You’ll remember the first Aquaman was released during Christmas 2018 and made $335.1 million domestic
When Venus Williams is executive producing a romantic movie set around tennis, you know it’s going to be good. Even better for leading man Richard Harmon is his sister, Jessica Harmon, directs, allowing Richard room to breathe as he enters a new arena as a romantic lead. Starring with Davida Williams as tennis players getting
The first pitching machine dates back well over 100 years. Obviously things have come a long way since that injury-inducing, gunpowder-fueled machine made its debut at Princeton University, but most modern systems are more or less the same. A ball is manually or mechanically dropped into a spinning wheel or wheels, which propel it toward
A big budget Thai/Chinese co-production, this year’s brand new monster movie The Lake has now unleashed a brand new trailer, this one equipped with English subtitles. It’s also a much better trailer all around, giving us several clear shots of the incredible practical monster designed by artist Jordu Schell (Cloverfield, The Thing, Starship Troopers, The Mist, Feast, Avatar,
Nothing. Gold. Nothing. Item. Gold. These are the words that pop into my head whenever I search for something in a set of drawers. Looking for nail clippers? Nothing. Nothing. Item. Even my wife is in on the act. She was in the room for a large proportion of my 100-hour stint on Blue Dragon,
Getting atoms to do what you want isn’t easy – but it’s at the heart of a lot of groundbreaking research in physics. Creating and controlling the behavior of new forms of matter is of particular interest and an active area of research. Our new study, published in Physical Review Letters, has uncovered a brand
Britney Spears and Elton John have hit #1 on the streaming charts in more than 40 countries, but next, they’ll have their sights set on smashing music video records too … cuz they’ve got one in the works. Sources close to Britney and Elton tell TMZ … a music video for “Hold Me Closer” is
Spoilers for Bullet Train ahead! It’s become par for the course that if you are going to see a David Leitch movie, you should expect some sort of massive A-List celebrity cameo. With Brad Pitt showing up for .2 seconds in Deadpool 2 and Ryan Reynolds popping up in Hobbs & Shaw, audiences were left
Netflix is developing features that would allow members to play its mobile games with one another and competitively rank themselves on gaming leaderboards. The company, starting last month, quietly launched the ability for users to create unique “game handles” in a subset of its mobile games, including Into The Breach, followed by Bowling Ballers, Mahjong
After just one season that premiered this past July, Netflix has already made the decision to cancel their live action “Resident Evil” series, Deadline reports this afternoon. Deadline notes, “The news, which comes a month and a half after the series’ July 14 release, is not entirely surprising as the drama did not have a
The superpowers have been scrapped and the sex toys have been safely stowed back in the sock drawer – the new Saints Row has shed its shark-jumping silliness and smutty tendencies in favour of a return to its open-world gangland roots. However, this back-to-basics approach has borne out a fairly primitive kind of crime spree,
Three skeletons uncovered in a rock shelter adorned with red pigment rock art reveal burial rituals of early humans who followed well-trodden paths through Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands, albeit thousands of years apart. Aside from deepening our understanding of the evolution and diversification of burial practices, the finds – from Alor Island in southeast Indonesia
News The Casual Dots Announce First Album in 18 Years, Share New Song: Listen “The Frequency of Fear” opens the indie rock group’s Sanguine Truth By Eric Torres August 26, 2022 Facebook Twitter Photo courtesy of the Casual Dots Facebook Twitter The Casual Dots have announced their first new album in 18 years. The indie
Cohen Media Group hopes a Spanish film can dent the tough market for foreign language fare, Bleecker Street is out with a hostage drama and A24 presents Owen Kline’s directorial debut about a teenage cartoonist as the arthouse market flexes more muscle than it has in weeks. The dearth of new releases itself nudged some
Everyone’s favorite reality series set in the Florida Panhandle is no more … because MTV has pulled the plug on “Floribama Shore.” Sources tell TMZ … the cast was told about the show’s cancelation Friday morning — they weren’t given a reason as to why the show was coming to an end. Waiting for your
Argyle, which wants to help companies and institutions get access to employment records, has laid off a number of employees across all departments, TechCrunch has learned from sources. A spokesperson for the company confirmed the workforce reduction to TechCrunch, saying that it let go of 6.5% of the team, or 20 people. The figure provided