Friday afternoon: We’re hearing that New Line’s Shazam! Fury of the Gods is currently on its way to an $11M Friday, inclusive of last night’s $3.4M, for what’s looking like a $30M opening at 4,071 theaters. The pic cost $125M before P&A, $25M more than the first Shazam! While that’s nothing to scream “Shazam!” about
There was a time when I personally believed that Resident Evil 4 never needed a remake. The original game that was released in 2005 has held up fantastically over the years and become such an influence on third-person action and horror games. Hell, we’re still seeing that influence in the series today as the exceptional
Courtney Love, September 2022 (Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images) News Courtney Love Criticizes Rock Hall’s “Sexist Gatekeeping” in Guardian Op-Ed “The Rock Hall’s canon-making doesn’t just reek of sexist gatekeeping, but also purposeful ignorance and hostility,” the Hole musician argues By Matthew Strauss March 17, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter For the past week, Courtney Love
Countless shelves line the walls of a basement at Denmark’s University of Odense, holding what is thought to be the world’s largest collection of brains. There are 9,479 of the organs, all removed from the corpses of mental health patients over the course of four decades until the 1980s. Preserved in formalin in large white
By Howard Bloom Early in the morning of Tuesday, March 14th, two Russian Su-27 jets harassed a $32 million American MQ-9 Reaper surveillance drone that was gathering information on the nearby Ukraine War from the air above the international waters of the Black Sea 75 miles from Russian-held Crimea. The two Russian jets reportedly toyed
Update: Google tells TechCrunch that it remains committed to augmented reality, stating, “For years, we’ve been building AR into many Google products and we’ll continue to look at ways to bring new, innovative AR experiences across our product portfolio.” I know at least one TC staffer who is gutted by the inevitable second death of
Veteran TV and movie actor Lance Reddick has died. The body of the star, best known for his work on The Wire and John Wick, was reportedly discovered at his Studio City home on Friday morning. He was 60 years old. Law enforcement sources told TMZ that the cause of death is currently unclear, but
[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Publisher Playtonic Friends has today revealed a new trailer for its upcoming neon-drenched roguelike, Elsie, and it is looking set to be a pretty one — ‘pretty’ in its visuals, and ‘pretty challenging’ in its gameplay. Developed by Knight Shift Games, Elsie will see you taking on the
Two icons are back in action this weekend as Roadside Attractions presents the comedy Moving On with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin on close to 800 screens, hoping it will connect with female audiences.Focus Features also opens Willem Dafoe-starring Inside from Vasilis Katsoupis on 350+ screens. It’s been relatively quiet on the specialty front. “There’s
I’m going to come clean and admit that Dead Cells missed my radar entirely when it first released back in 2018. The “MetroidVania” style roguelike challenges players with zipping through an ever changing environment while progressively growing stronger with each run, facing challenging bosses along the way. Where Dead Cells stands out from the crowd
Taylor Swift‘s building anticipation for her tour … releasing new songs, and while she’s known for breakup tunes, one of her new ones is a love song for her longtime boyfriend. Taylor gave fans a “Taylor’s Version” re-recording of 3 songs — “Eyes Open,” “Safe & Sound” and “If This Was a Movie” — exactly
Earth, currently, is our only blueprint for planetary habitability. There may be life elsewhere out there in the big, wide galaxy, but ours is the only world on which we know, for a certainty, that it has emerged. The problem is that we’ve found nothing out there that’s exactly like our own planet: of the
MindGeek — owner of several adult entertainment sites, including Pornhub, Brazzers and Redtube — was acquired by a Canadian private equity firm, Ethical Capital Partners (ECP). ECP, which was formed last year, did not disclose the terms of the deal. “In MindGeek, we have identified a dynamic tech brand that is built upon a foundation
The official Gothic game account has teased that the original Gothic game will be coming to the Nintendo Switch. The lengthy RPG was originally released on the PC back in 2001 and became a cult classic, so it is great to hear that German developer, Piranha Bytes, is remastering it and porting it over to the
In another sign of the return to China for Marvel after a long drought, Disney/Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 has been set for a day-and-date release on May 5. The James Gunn-directed finale in the series is due to hit North American cinemas that same day while international rollout will begin on May
Warning: This article includes Scream VI spoilers. I love going to the theater. I mean, who doesn’t? The chance to see a great horror movie up on the biggest screen possible is one of the simplest pleasures in life. And now there’s a bevy of options to see your movie in such as RealD 3D,
The United States Postal Service unveiled the new Toni Morrison forever stamp last Tuesday at a ceremony held at Princeton University. Morrison, one of the most influential modern American writers, was a professor at Princeton for almost 20 years, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Nobel Prize in Literature before she passed away
De La Soul and the Roots perform on The Tonight Show (Todd Owyoung/NBC) News De La Soul Honor Trugoy, Chat and Perform With the Roots on Fallon: Watch Maseo and Posdnuos sat down with Fallon to discuss the recent belated arrival of their discography to streaming platforms By Evan Minsker March 17, 2023 Facebook Twitter
An enormous stretch of seaweed measuring 5,000 miles (8,047 kilometers) wide is set to bring stench, pests, and bacteria to the beaches of Florida and Mexico. The “Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt” is a massive bloom of brown algae that stretches from the coast of West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico. It is the largest
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Thursday, Crunchers! An agreement among a group of the nation’s largest banks to deposit some $30 billion with First Republic Bank could save its bacon, Christine reports, and over on TC+,
Play video content TMZ.com L.A.’s new “mansion tax” is about to go into effect, forcing sellers to cough up a ton of cash if their property sells for at least $5 million … and Josh Altman is one of many real estate agents who think it’s absurd. Josh joined us Thursday on “TMZ Live,” and
It is Winter in Mexico, and while it feels pretty Baltic here in merry old England, at least it isn’t currently snowing. But in Forza Horizon 5 land the main focus is on the latest set of Festival Playlist Weekly Challenges, and the best cars and fastest tunes you’ll need in order to compete. Care
Grab a White Russian and head to theater as Fathom Events is bringing back The Big Lebowski to the big screen for its 25th Anniversary on April 16 (4pm and 7pm local times) and 20 (7pm). The Joel and Ethan Coen cult classic, starring Jeff Bridges and John Goodman, opened back in March 1998 and
Few titles have redefined the horror genre like Scream. Wes Craven’s original film premiered in 1996 and promptly unleashed a wave of teen meta-slashers that would dominate the genre for the remainder of the decade. From the filmmaking collective Radio Silence, Scream VI manages to strike the perfect balance of homage to the past while
Play video content Instagram / @slimthug Slim Thug’s key to staying rich is avoiding spending sprees on fancy clothes — the Houston Boss Hogg admits he has no issue rocking discount threads … even in da club. Slim gave his fans a masterclass — with more than a dash of homophobia, though — as he
The company behind the ChatGPT app that churns out essays, poems or computing code on command released Tuesday a long-awaited update of its artificial intelligence (AI) technology that it said would be safer and more accurate than its predecessor. GPT-4 has been widely awaited ever since ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late November, wowing
Sidechat, the anonymous posting platform that began blowing up last year on college campuses, appears to have acquired a rival anonymous social platform, Yik Yak. While you may recall Yik Yak’s troubles from earlier years, where bullying and harassment ultimately led to an ignominious exit in the form of an acquihire by Square, the gossip
Whether you are creating your own cities during the industrial age, kick flipping your way into the weekend, or autonomizing your own colony, you’ll have plenty to play during Free Play Days! Anno 1800, Session: Skate Sim, and Autonauts are available this weekend for Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members to play
The fate of All Rise is, once again, up in the air. Deadline reported Thursday that Warner Bros. Television has released the cast of the legal drama. OWN, which picked up the show from CBS after the network canceled it after two seasons, has yet to schedule the second half of All Rise Season 3.
EXCLUSIVE: Illumination/Universal/Nintendo’s The Super Mario Bros Movie just landed on tracking this morning ahead of its Easter weekend release, and the animated film is shaping up to make at least $85M-$90M+ over its Wednesday through Sunday launch — and that’s on the conservative side. Given the fervent response by fans to trailers, it would not