Our experts give their biggest takeaways from every Game 1 of the 2024 NBA playoffs.
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Although film company A24 has built up a pretty remarkable reputation for itself over its 12 years of existence—winning 16 Oscars, including the sweep executed by Everything Everywhere All At Once last year—it’s still pretty niche, as far as money-making goes. (Even EEAAO only ended up clearing $144 million at the global box office, despite what could be roughly described as the maximum amount of word of mouth possible.) Now, though, the studio is set to have its biggest opening weekend since...
A VOTE on their coalition pact will be the Greens’ biggest decision ever, it was claimed yesterday. But Patrick Harvie said he hopes his party backs the power-sharing deal with the SNP — as they ca
Alex Garland's "Civil War" fended off incursions from new movies to retain its box office title for the second weekend in a row. The provocative film, from independent A24, is expected to generate about $11.1 million in ticket sales in the U.S. and Canada through Sunday, bringing its total domestic box gross to $44.9 million, according to Comscore. The R-rated dystopian thriller, also written by Garland, stars Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny and Wagner Moura as journalists in a near-future time...
The universal advice for all things Coachella is simple: Arrive early. All three days, I made my way to the festival shortly after gates opened at 1 p.m. Yes, this is the hottest part of the day and the sun was especially punishing on Day 1, but it's also when the grounds are at their most peaceful. You'll come to appreciate this calm before the storm. As the sun sets, the fields crowd with hordes of festival-goers who get progressively more clumsy as each night wears on. The grounds have also...
Researchers in 2022 discovered the brightest GRB ever recorded. The event, labeled GRB 221009A, has been dubbed the "biggest of all time," or BOAT. Newly published research confirms that this unprecedented burst of electromagnetic energy originated from a star collapsing into a supernova.Read Entire Article
Creating a 28-minute episode was a wildly risky move for this all-time great TV show – but the epic, moving results are everything viewers have come to expect from this show and moreThis piece contains spoilers for Bluey’s 28-minute episode, The SignYou get nervous watching an all-time great show try something different. Too many sitcoms have dented their rep with a dud feature-length special; too many dramas have that extra season where the formula changed, it didn’t really work, and now...
Germany’s Sebastian Steudtner may have surfed the biggest ever wave in Nazaré, Portugal earlier this season. The wave, calculated using drone technology, was measured at 28.57 metres. If officially ratified by the sport, it will surpass Steudtner's current world record of 26.21 metres which he also set in Nazaré back in 2020. Continue reading
Under orders from the EU, tech giants have launched 11 advertising transparency tools. None of them are fit for purpose, according to a new study from Mozilla. The tools provide libraries of data about online adverts. By exploring the repositories, researchers can identify the funders and techniques behind the ads. At least, that's the idea. The libraries are obligatory under the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), a law designed to safeguard online environments. By shining a light on ad...
The $60 million for Democracy PAC is the second-biggest campaign donation in the 2024 election cycle, after an $82.5 million sum to Ron DeSantis' doomed presidential bid.
Thursday night in Los Angeles one of the most eclectic groups of celebrities to ever be assembled met at the Hollywood Bowl for a tribute to the late great Jimmy Buffett. Social media was flooded with several clips from the evening including one video posted by MattBerry05 with the caption “at no point in this […]