Whoever wrote that the theatrical business is dead may want to run a correction as Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 is potentially headed to a historic second weekend for an animated movie, topping Illumination/Universal’s Super Mario Bros Movie‘s $92.3M. Rival projections see $95 million for the second frame of the Kelsey Mann-directed sequel, while insiders see
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Taylor Wily — an actor and former sumo wrestler best known for his recurring role on “Hawaii Five-0” — has died. According to an anchor for local Hawaii outlet KITV — who described Taylor as a family friend … Taylor died Thursday. KITV did not provide a cause of death. Waiting for your permission to
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10 Nebula Award Winners You Should Put on Your TBR Early June marks the latest round of Nebula Award winners. I’m writing this post before the awards, so by the time this goes live, the winners will have been announced. Congratulations to them all! As both an admiring reader and aspiring writer in the science
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McDreamy is about to enter much more nightmarish terrain. Yes, according to a new report from Variety, Patrick Dempsey has joined the cast of Dexter: Original Sin. The prequel series, which focuses on the titular antihero’s origin story, began production in Miami earlier this month. Dempsey will play Aaron Spencer, a captain for the Miami
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Norwegian pop singer Dagny has dropped the first of her trilogy of mini albums called ELLE. The latest single from the record Strawberry Dream was built alongside production duo Cato Sundberg and Kent Sundberg, who previously worked on Dagny’s ‘Strangers / Lovers’. [embedded content] Speaking on the new single with bestlinefit.com, Dagny says: “If we were in a romantic
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Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos wowed audiences in 2023 with the help of Emma Stone in Poor Things, and the duo are back sooner than many expected for their third overall collaboration. Kinds of Kindness premieres June 21, and it sounds like moviegoers are in for a truly unique theatrical experience. Critics have had the opportunity to
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Wilson’s “Out of Oklahoma” follows previous Twisters singles from Luke Combs, Megan Moroney, and Bailey Zimmerman Lainey Wilson released her song “Out Of Oklahoma” as well as an accompanying music video on Thursday, the latest single tied to the stacked soundtrack for the upcoming Lee Isaac Chung-directed Twisters, the sequel to 1996’s Twister. On “Out
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Libro.fm, the independently owned audiobook service that lets you choose which indie bookstores receive a portion of your audiobook sales, has released a list of top 10 bestselling audiobooks of all time to commemorate their 10th anniversary. The list is based on sales reported to Libro.fm from over 3,000 indie bookstores and includes thought-provoking nonfiction,
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The post-pandemic recovery of some brick-and-mortar restaurants has been an uphill battle. Lately, some of the biggest restaurant chains in America have had to shutter locations across America. Pizza Hut Abruptly Closes Locations Across America Pizza Hut has abruptly closed 15 locations in the Midwest, and more than 120 locations are at risk of closing
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Lunar luck. After concluding May with a discussion of Lisa Brühlmann’s female coming-of-age tale Blue My Mind (listen) and kicking off June reevaluating the unfairly maligned third act of Danny Boyle’s Sunshine (listen), we’re…..staying in outer space to marvel at the wacky antics of Lubdan the Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) in Brian Trenchard-Smith‘s 1997 sequel Leprechaun 4: In Space!
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Refresh for latest…: Wednesday was yet another joyous day for Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 as the sequel set opening benchmarks in new overseas releasing markets. The full offshore day was $29M (22% of the weekend), lifting the international box office cume to $203.3M in 42 markets, and global to $438.7M. The half a billion worldwide
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